Originally Posted by
Chugalug2
By the same token I am not suggesting that Pound's order should have been disobeyed. Why should it have been? Those receiving it assumed that Tirpitz was out and close by.
Agree. Never suggested any difference.
The only people who knew enough about it to know different were at the Admiralty. If the only person senior to Pound was Churchill, then he should have been told of their concerns about Pound. Instead the RN closed ranks and PQ17 was fed to the wolves.
Agree.
Nor am I suggesting that Pound deserved punishment of any kind. On the contrary he had served his country well to this point, but he should have been retired on health grounds.
Agree, but even retirement on health grounds, a well known Soviet euphemism may have been misconstrued.
As to his CV, what is the point that you are making? None of it suggests that he was FSL because of his birth, rather it was because of his ability.
I am suggesting that he was Navy through and through and so were his subordinated.
What is wrong with that? Are you suggesting that a wavy navy hostilities only FSL would have been better?
No, that they were not Navy through and through like the Admiralty Board; they were different.
PQ17's scatter was not because of Pound's birth but rather because of his health. We keep coming back to that and why it meant that others should have stepped in.
Neither statement is proven.