03-13-2007, 12:20 AM
Dear Phil
Thank you for the prompt delivery of your thoroughly comprehensive board game Airships At War 1914-1941. My thesis research argues for a new assessment of the Zeppelin's contribution during the Great War.
To-date historians have narrowly focused their inquires to the physical damage & deaths/injuries inflicted during the 305 (20%) zeppelin strategic aerial bombardment sorties Germany launch against England. There is a consensus among academics today that the Zeppelin was Germany's least cost efficient strategic aerial platform and failed to produce significant results.
My thesis documents the extent of the psychological and physical impact of the other 80% of Zeppelin combat sorties. As your game clearly demonstrates:
1. Zeppelin strategic aerial bombardment sorties were also launched against France, Italy and Russia which required them to divert significant assets.
2. And I argue more importantly that the Zeppelin's long-range maritime reconnaissance capability had a dramatic psychological effect upon the key commanders of the Royal Navy. Specifically Jellicoe/Seuter who both had flown aboard a Zeppelin prior to the war, as well as Fisher, Bacon, Scott and later after Jutland Beatty.
Their perception, as opposed the to reality, of the effectiveness of its long-range maritime recon capability caused them to falsely conclude that the Zeppelin denied the Grand Fleet the ability to ever achieving strategic as well as tactical surprise on the High Sea Fleet.
Their arguments convinced the Admiralty to divert massive amounts of critically limited resources to counter this threat
1. 18 rigid airships were ordered with sheds and logistical support facilities at a cost of 8,066,000 pounds.
2. 88 naval aviation vessels were constructed or modified to accommodate 322 land scouts, recon aircraft, flying boats and seaplanes.
3. 365 3inch. 20-cwt. High Angle Quick Firing anti-Zeppelin guns were deployed with the Fleet as opposed to 271 in Great Britain and 106 with the B.E.F.
Additionally the U.S. Navy deployed 863 3-inch.guns to its Fleet. The U.S Army responding to the perceived threat of long-range strategic aerial bombardment of the Continental U.S ordered 166 3-inch Seacoast Guns converted to 3-inch.
M 1917 guns and the conversion of 612 3-inch Seacoast M 1889 guns to mobile 3-inch M1918.
Philip please forgive my excessive exuberance but I rarely have the opportunity to converse with someone as knowledgeable as you are.
Would you be kind enough to sent me the add-on module mentioned above. You can charge it to the same Master Charge or I'll be happy send you cash.
Thank you for your kind interest in my thesis research which also encompasses the planning and execution of the strategic aerial operations by the French, RNAS, RFC, RAF, Italians and Americans:
1. 1915 Re-enforcing the Royal Navy's External Maritime Blockade with a joint Anglo-French-Russian Aerial Internal Blockade by Bio-Chemical Aerial Bombardment of German/Austrian food crops just prior to their various harvests.
2. 1915 & 1917 Fire bombing of the Black Forest.
3. 1915 Anglo-French manned free balloon strategic bombing of Germany.
4. Russian Seaplane Carrier Operations.
5. 1914-1918 Allied Strategic Aerial Dissemination of Propaganda Leaflets.
6. 1917 Towed sled RNAS raid against German submarine assemble plant on the
Adriatic.
7. 1918/19 American Unmanned Flying-Bomb Campaign.
8. 1918/19 Allied Chemical Bombing of German Industrial Targets.
9. 1918/19 Zeppelin raids against North America.
10.1916-19 British 'Super-Zeppelin' Operations.
.S. I forgot to also include French and Italian semi-rigid airship operations.
CHEERS! Allen Nugent
anugentii@yahoo.com
Thank you for the prompt delivery of your thoroughly comprehensive board game Airships At War 1914-1941. My thesis research argues for a new assessment of the Zeppelin's contribution during the Great War.
To-date historians have narrowly focused their inquires to the physical damage & deaths/injuries inflicted during the 305 (20%) zeppelin strategic aerial bombardment sorties Germany launch against England. There is a consensus among academics today that the Zeppelin was Germany's least cost efficient strategic aerial platform and failed to produce significant results.
My thesis documents the extent of the psychological and physical impact of the other 80% of Zeppelin combat sorties. As your game clearly demonstrates:
1. Zeppelin strategic aerial bombardment sorties were also launched against France, Italy and Russia which required them to divert significant assets.
2. And I argue more importantly that the Zeppelin's long-range maritime reconnaissance capability had a dramatic psychological effect upon the key commanders of the Royal Navy. Specifically Jellicoe/Seuter who both had flown aboard a Zeppelin prior to the war, as well as Fisher, Bacon, Scott and later after Jutland Beatty.
Their perception, as opposed the to reality, of the effectiveness of its long-range maritime recon capability caused them to falsely conclude that the Zeppelin denied the Grand Fleet the ability to ever achieving strategic as well as tactical surprise on the High Sea Fleet.
Their arguments convinced the Admiralty to divert massive amounts of critically limited resources to counter this threat
1. 18 rigid airships were ordered with sheds and logistical support facilities at a cost of 8,066,000 pounds.
2. 88 naval aviation vessels were constructed or modified to accommodate 322 land scouts, recon aircraft, flying boats and seaplanes.
3. 365 3inch. 20-cwt. High Angle Quick Firing anti-Zeppelin guns were deployed with the Fleet as opposed to 271 in Great Britain and 106 with the B.E.F.
Additionally the U.S. Navy deployed 863 3-inch.guns to its Fleet. The U.S Army responding to the perceived threat of long-range strategic aerial bombardment of the Continental U.S ordered 166 3-inch Seacoast Guns converted to 3-inch.
M 1917 guns and the conversion of 612 3-inch Seacoast M 1889 guns to mobile 3-inch M1918.
Philip please forgive my excessive exuberance but I rarely have the opportunity to converse with someone as knowledgeable as you are.
Would you be kind enough to sent me the add-on module mentioned above. You can charge it to the same Master Charge or I'll be happy send you cash.
Thank you for your kind interest in my thesis research which also encompasses the planning and execution of the strategic aerial operations by the French, RNAS, RFC, RAF, Italians and Americans:
1. 1915 Re-enforcing the Royal Navy's External Maritime Blockade with a joint Anglo-French-Russian Aerial Internal Blockade by Bio-Chemical Aerial Bombardment of German/Austrian food crops just prior to their various harvests.
2. 1915 & 1917 Fire bombing of the Black Forest.
3. 1915 Anglo-French manned free balloon strategic bombing of Germany.
4. Russian Seaplane Carrier Operations.
5. 1914-1918 Allied Strategic Aerial Dissemination of Propaganda Leaflets.
6. 1917 Towed sled RNAS raid against German submarine assemble plant on the
Adriatic.
7. 1918/19 American Unmanned Flying-Bomb Campaign.
8. 1918/19 Allied Chemical Bombing of German Industrial Targets.
9. 1918/19 Zeppelin raids against North America.
10.1916-19 British 'Super-Zeppelin' Operations.
.S. I forgot to also include French and Italian semi-rigid airship operations.
CHEERS! Allen Nugent
anugentii@yahoo.com