http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/navy-dead/ War - what _is_ it good for? Mon, 13 May 2013 15:46:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/navy-dead/#comment-8860 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:00:53 +0000 http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-8860 [...] started to post some of his research, which is very interesting. He has two post, the first is on Navy dead and the second is on Merchant Navy [...]

]]> http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/navy-dead/#comment-8855 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:22:11 +0000 http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-8855 A harrowing, thought, how many RN deaths were never definitely confirmed – it must have been a real torment to their next-of-kin during the war, never being able to completely dispel the (usually doomed) hope that their loved ones had been captured rather than lost.

]]> http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/navy-dead/#comment-8853 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:05:46 +0000 http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-8853 The implication that I need to sort out the graph so you can actually tell which month is which is taken fully to heart!
Yes, the May 41 blip is the Hood, but also the evacuation from Crete – as I’m sure the Navy would point out, it’s when they have to go and rescue the army that things get really hairy.

]]> http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/navy-dead/#comment-8851 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:13:05 +0000 http://trenchfever.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-8851 I guess the destruction of the Mighty ‘ood accounts for part of that spike in (I think) May 1941?

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