| Royal Navy had a thing for monitors, specially since in the battleship age (pre-Pearl, that is), it was kind of a sin to use them behemoths in the shore-bombarment role, away from the battleline. Gallipoli, you might ask? It was a case of the enemy fleet too close to the beachhead for comfort; big ships went in to cover the landings and cover themselves in case of attack by enemy surface units, something monitors just couldnīt do.
As for the DDīs, obsolescent as they were, just ask the Jap at Balikpapan about their perfomance...
__________________ If I go forward, follow me; if I stop, hurry me; if I retreat, kill me. Guatemalan special forces motto Picture shows an Israeli Avia downing an Egyptian Spitfire in ī48. Guatemala gave the deciding vote at the UN that year for Israel to become a nation. |