Talk:Equipment losses in World War II

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Germany had only 2 Battleships, the Bismarck and the Tirpiz The Scharenhorts and Gneisenau were rather battlecruisers and even the so-called "pocket battleships" were reclassified as "schwere Kreuzer", (heavy cruisers). not to speak about the pre-dreadnoughts which are definetly not battleships, not even by 1906 standards. the official german classification was "Linienschiff" (ship of the line).

I know very little about this myself, but I've seen that what to classify Scharnhorst and Gneinsenau as is somewhat disputed. There was a long discussion over this on Talk:Gneisenau class battlecruiser. Do you suggest moving 7 of the listed sinked battleships to the cruiser collumn? Or maybe a footnote stating the disputed classification is suficient.

But this article (or stub, rather) could do with a lot of expanding and explanations. Not to say missing references we should cite for the various figures. It would be great if someone with sources and expertise on this subject could work on it. Shanes 13:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

The correct number is 4. Germany officialy classified the Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau as battleships. The "pocket battleships" were classified as heavy cruisers. (User: Merlin)

[edit] Vehicle Losses

Any chance someone could compile a list of ground vehicle losses to include here? (tanks, tank destroyers, armored cars, etc.) Although such numbers would be difficult to verify, estimates would suffice, at least for the time being. Antimatter 01:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

So far, I haven't found any info about the ground losses, but I'll keep looking. --John Lunney 12:48, 24 November 2006 (UTC)