![]() The French forwarded planes and an agreement for the US to manufacture 380mm shells went through. The US initially didn't want to as it would tie up substantial resources to refit a ship of such size and scale, but Free French officials and the British government kept at it, and the US eventually did refit her. She even got USN paint scheme.Īnd Le Fantasque below after her refit in June 1943.īattleship Richelieu was refitted in the USA after her defection to the Western Allies. Le Terrible in May 1943, just as her refit in the US was complete. One is Destroyer Le Terrible, her and sister Le Fantasque went to Boston and got new air and surface radar, as well as revamped AA guns: A bunch of Bofors and 20mm Oerlikons, etc. The French? France had fallen but a few of the Free French ships did get worked on in the United States. The one good AA gun they had, the 100mm gun, were excruciatingly rare. The Italians were resource starved and an industry that was already pushed past its limits. Kriegsmarine AA was a joke, the pride of the KM was crippled by a few bi-planes. They weren't having the resources like the USN & RN to dump more and more into newer, better AA weaponry. It's just when those upgrades didn't work out the way they hoped they did, especially compared to how much stronger aircraft became. A bunch upgraded their AA weaponry in the years leading up to the war. ![]() It's not that all the navies failed to realize the increased threat of aircraft to their ships. So there was a tremendous amount of incentive for USN & RN to dump resources into AA. Lots of land based aircraft in Europe / Mediterranean theaters. ![]() Carriers and land based aircraft in the Pacific. This was all out of necessity: Both USN & RN had to deal with a lot of aerial threats. It should be "The reality of USN AA fire in WWII" because outside the USN, only the RN got anywhere close to that.
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