Comments by "Tom in Iowa" (@tominiowa2513) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. It is not true that Admiral Beatty was always a bad commander in surface engagements - he was the best when the enemy fleet was comprised of budget cutters. I will get my coat and hat. ;)
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  2. Her hull needs to be left intact enough to build a space battleship inside in secret.
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  3. Drach is only releasing 9:32:16 of content this weekend. What a slacker. 😉
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  4. Who drinks tea while firing guns except the members of St. Gloriana Girls' College Panzerfahren team?
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  5. There are four Yamato class battleships in High School Fleet. 😉
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  6. May we have a 5-Minute Guide for the Yamato after her 2199 retrofit? On April 1, or course.
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  7. The Drydock - Your Naval Questions Answered - 5 Hours, More or Less 😉
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  8.  @spider0804  - Isn't a defeat of the Japanese army a victory for the IJN? ;)
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  9. Honolulu thinking? No unless you mean the Azur Lane Honolulu, and she would be thinking about her upcoming date with the Commander.
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  10. "Shawn Horst" and "Admiral Donuts" in the Battle of North Cape video.
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  11. Q. When was the first Drydock? A. August 4, 2018, and was only 37:02 in length. 😉
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  12. One of the first proper diving helmets was designed by August Schrader, who went to design the pneumatic valve found on almost all motor vehicle rims.
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  13.  @cogidubnus1953  - He was of course after the Battle of (off?) Jutland battlecruiser disaster and failure to perform assigned scouting functions promoted from Admiral Beatty to Admiral of the Fleet, then First Sea Lord, and finally rewarded by Parliament by being made 1st Earl Beatty.
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  14. ​ @Alex-cw3rz  - The story of peasants in what is now Belarus not knowing the Tsar had been replaced by Bolsheviks is from "Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949" by Siegfried Knappe.
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  15. The pictured ship is BB-61 USS Iowa. The only reference I have come across for opposite rudder steering for an emergency stop was for BB-64 USS Wisconsin.
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  16. Mrs. Drach reportedly has quite the switchblade collection.
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  17. But if the Bureau of Ordinance had been in charge of Holy Hand Grenade development and production...
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  18.  @bkjeong4302  - Better than Kansas and Topeka. 😜
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  19.  @imjashingyou3461  The contentions of the Russian nationals seem odd since the Soviet Union was run by non-Russians from its inception up to the execution of Beria.
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  20.  @Davidsladky135  - Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe
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  21.  @TVMADoc  - Correction; there were also quite a few premature detonations of the Mark 14 torpedo.
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  22. Need a lot of rum for 297K subscribers.
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  23. Two radio masts have exceeded 2,000 feet (and one collapsed). 5,000 feet would be very challenging, and would require a trimaran ship for the guy anchors. Said trimaran would require dissembled into the three hulls for drydocking. Not to mention high winds would make the ship about as stable as HMS Captain.
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  24. Next time April 1 is on a Wednesday, we want the histories of the navies of Angora and Lichtenstein as the Rum Ration topic.
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  25.  @robertfrost1683  - Like the (never seen) Commander in Azur Lane - Slow Ahead?
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  26. The glaziers of Camden might see an economic benefit from USS New Jersey sending a salvo of dummy rounds out into the Atlantic.
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  27.  @khaelamensha3624  - Richard Bong (credited with 40 kills) also was nearsighted. In Wisconsin there is the Richard Bong State Recreation Area named after him, but the signs on I-94 have abbreviated that to "Bong State Recreation Area".
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  28.  @falklandsgamer9156  - The Falklands are important since the sheep are raised in wet conditions so their wool is shrinkage resistant (per the hypothesis of Mr. Lucas).
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  29. Does Mrs. Drach get the George medal?
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  30. Fun Fact: At flank narration speed, HMS Drachinifel consumes 1.2-L of Irn-Bru per hour. 😉
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  31. Impromptu performance of the Nutcracker?
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  32. Ryan Szimanski at Battleship New Jersey mentioned that since his ship is in fresh water, they have an easier time preserving metal parts than the other Iowas, but a harder time preserving the wooden deck.
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  33. There is an apocryphal story that during WW1 on a merchant ship/passenger liner, just after the ship's chaplain finished saying "For what we are about to receive we give thanks" at supper, a torpedo hit.
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  34. Very happy to see that Michael Lowrey is advocating review of all available original source documents to develop a historical narrative, rather than relying on second hand sources (e.g., books published after the events). Sadly, in many "western" academic history circles this is considered bad form, particularly contradicting an earlier historian and/or accepted views of history, the facts be damned.
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  35. Sadly USS Johnston vs. IJN Yamato would have the same result as High King Fingolfin vs. Morgoth outside the gates of Angband.
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  36. Why does YoųTųbe allow the crypto-currency/investment spam bots to post, but a reference to another video Drach posted in the past is deleted?
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  37. One of Hobart's Funnies would be appropriate.
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  38.  @jansix4287  - The real winners of WW1 and WW2 were the central bankers, and the resultant profiteering continues to this day.
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  39. One of the secondary 5-inch gun turrets on the Iowa class was traditionally manned by Marines.
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  40. For exceeding top heavy limits on ships, there are the cruisers and battleships in Azur Lane. 😉 (Cue Laffey trying out "pillows")
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  41. The correct terminology is "Floaty Logs". 😉
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  42. The "horrors inflicted by the Germans" pale when compared to the horrors inflicted by the Bolsheviks (and Communist in name only Bolsheviks) that murdered over 200 million persons in the 20th Century.
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  43. The Sarushima and Tenjin in HaiFuri ( High School Fleet ) are Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships.
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  44.  @davidtuttle7556  - And later on Russian Rear Admiral, then bass guitar player for a rock band. 😉
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  45. The Rodney Naval Treaty prohibits the used of main battery fire during beach barbeques other than for fishing purposes.
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  46. The Kongo class ships could be semi-automated and used as high school training vessels.
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  47.  @NesconProductions  - The USN needs to name a submarine after the capital of North Dakota.
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  48.  @Captain11890  - Iowa
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  49. Drach of course started the channel to provide content to listen to while using mass transit.
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  50.  @eric24567  - I doubt we will see The Operations Room use Azur Lane "ship images" in future video animations.
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