Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "The Drydock - Episode 054B (2/3)" video.

  1. "Four legs good! Eight legs better!" Octopus lobby.
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  2. Seems it might be simpler and more effective to drop magnetic mines in the path of an oncoming battlegroup or convoy. Your plane doesn't need to approach too close . . . remember--a lot of USN and allied planes were shot down by the "crappiest AA gun ever" before the introduction of better wave tactics. The free floating minefields so formed would present a lingering danger to all subsequent traffic, of course, but that sort of thinking wasn't much in anyone's minds at the time. I think the US Navy put it best when one iof its wags observed: "What's mined is yours and what's your is mined." I'll let myself out through the SMA mine shafts just aft of the conning tower of my Typ VIID.
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  3. Consider Admiral King . . . His reactions seem easy to interpret from my perspective. My spin? He caught the clap from a whore . . . in England. That made him mad in general and mad at England-- and the English (especially if his wife was the recipient of this cross the pond gift)-- in specific. Everything sucks to a guy with the clap . . . but, to Ernest J King the British would suck worse. Totally unsupported by any histories I am familiar with . . . but . . .
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