Comments by "" (@BobSmith-dk8nw) on "HNLMS De Ruyter - Guide 258" video.

  1. Yeah ... there are a lot of sad stories about the men trying to defend against the Japanese at the beginning of WWII but then there are a lot of sad stories about Japanese trying to defend their homes against us at the end of it. These of course being bookends to all the sad stories occurring in between. As Yamamoto said "I shall run wild considerably for the first six months or a year, but I have utterly no confidence for the second and third years." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto He did run wild for the first half of 1942 but the second half turned into a slug fest between Japan and the Western Allies. At the end of that year both Japan and the Allies had lost a lot of men and machines - but - the Allies could replace them - and Japan could not. .
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