【RNVR Hanagumi】An Inconvenient Battlefield: A Story of Discrepancies and Failures in War

As war is a human activity, the battlefield is just as unreasonable and shameful as your everyday life. A short story collection of shameful stories about war.

Chapter 1 [Chasing an Illusion: The German Navy and the [Methox] Riot]

In the summer of 1943, the German Navy was troubled by frequent nighttime surprise attacks on U-boats. It seems that the radar warning system, the so-called reverse search system, which had been effective in warning of approaching Allied patrol aircraft and avoiding attacks, had suddenly begun to lose its effectiveness. The leaders of the German Navy immediately began to consider countermeasures, but they were led astray by the deceptive information provided by the Allied forces, and their suspicions and distrust led them to an imaginary [cause] that never existed.

Chapter 2 [Captain’s Voyage: The Phantom Battle Results of the Italian Submarine Barbarigo]. [

Among the Italian Navy’s generally lackluster performance in World War II, the submarine force that was sent to the Atlantic to fight alongside U-boats was one of the few exceptions. Among them, the [Barbarigo], whose captain received the Knight’s Cross, the highest decoration of the German military, is probably the most highly decorated ship. However, after the war, when the historical documents of the Allied forces and the [results of the war] are compared, some puzzling facts come to light. Does this military service really exist?

Chapter 3 [Ships Divided Do Not Stand [Race Riots at Kitty Hawk]]

The U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers, which can be likened to a city, are filled with people of various origins and races, just like the cities back home. And just like the residents of American cities, racial tensions existed. These wounds, usually buried under a sense of discipline and community, sometimes come to the surface.
These wounds erupted in their worst form on board an aircraft carrier that had been deployed for an extended period of time to fight in the unpopular war in Vietnam.

Chapter 4 [A Trivial Tragedy: The Sinking of the Aircraft Carrier [Glorious]]

The Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier [Glorious], which was ambushed and sunk by a German battleship during a retreat operation from Norway, was known as an [unfortunate accident] in which it accidentally encountered the enemy’s main ship, but there was actually a certain shameful and very trivial situation behind it. What happened was a story of incompetence, arrogance, self-preservation, and cover-up.