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In text: "Hel coastal batteries damaged a German destroyer on 3 September". Is it right? I found information, that on 3 September german destroyer "Lebereht Maass" was damaged by polish destroyer
ORP Wicher, not by coastal batteries.
Ingwar JR11:40, 11 March 2007 (UTC)reply
Hmmm... At first I was based on one book, where was information, that "Lebereht Maass" was damaged by ORP Wicher. But I found some new information
here (in russian). In short:
Gunther Lutjens (commander of german destroyers) thought, that "Leberecht Maass" was damaged by 150-mm gun of coastal battery (polish ships had no such calibre). But
de:Friedrich Ruge (in 1939 he was commander of minesweeper forces), visited "Leberecht Maass" after battle, confirm, that destroyer was damaged not more, then by 120-mm gun (ORP "Gryf"). So, I think, the best way is to write "Hel defenders...", as you did.
Ingwar JR02:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)reply
The article states: "Likewise the Region's air defense batteries were too few and too light to deter the enemy..." They nevertheless managed to knock down 46–53 German aircraft. Perhaps we should just delete the contradictory passage cited above?
Nihil novi (
talk)
12:36, 26 September 2019 (UTC)reply