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

  1.  @sawyerawr5783  - All the real rail car ferries I have been on have had the trains below deck. Quite a few stairs to climb from the train deck to the passenger observation deck of the now scrapped F/S Theodor Heuss.
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  2. The Swedish U3 was cut into three pieces and rewelded to get it to its permanent home, the Technology and Maritime Museum in Malmö, Sweden. Of course, as a museum ship inland on concrete blocks, integrity of the pressure hull during a deep dive is no longer a concern.
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  3. Most civil engineering work in the USA is done in kips (kilo-pound or 1,000 pounds) instead of tons, but there are just enough exceptions to make our lives difficult.
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  4.  @Mishn0  - Does the plan include getting assistance from the Tall Whites to fight the Grays (and of course the Dracos)?
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  5.  @alwayscurious3357  - Or Graf Spee (who oddly in human form is portrayed to be about the same size and age as Z3, instead of an apparent late teen like the other cruisers).
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  6.  @andrewgause6971  - However, HMS Duke of York would find itself in trouble if attacked by an angry Fletcher swarm (to use a Drachism).
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  7. Or the Angel Sahaquiel.
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  8.  @PalleRasmussen  - Yes.
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  9. Sadly real naval war colleges are likely a lot less fun than depicted in Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin!, and certainly will lack the ecchi and kawaii aspects.
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  10.  @bradleyjames1340  - Non-Euclidian geometry is required to get around the square-cube law, as happens in the City of R'lyeh. 😉
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  11.  @archibaldlarid3587  - History in the proper use of the term is contemporary records of what happened.
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  12. Remember that economic warfare is also violence, and economic warfare was started against both Germany and Japan before WW2 broke out, and in the case of Germany right after the NSDAP won the 1933 elections and before they committed any crimes. But of course most historical accounts omit these facts since history is written by the victors.
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  13.  @Voron_Aggrav  - Not to mention USS Galena, USS Keokuk (OK, only people that live near those places know the correct pronunciation), and of course the vernacular for USS New Orleans (N'awlins), USS New Jersey (New Joisey - OK, that is fake vernacular), and USS Missouri (Mihsurah).
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  14. Rocky reenactment with a hoard of people following a running Drach through Philadelphia when going to visit USS Olympia (C-6).
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  15. The Lend Lease program basically transferred the wealth of the British Empire to the USA.
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  16.  @miamijules2149  - Especially people using touch screen devices instead of a keyboard and mouse.
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  17. Still better than Starbucks.
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  18.  @Hardcase_Kara  - Facetious comment for those who believe that the British Isles themselves were in danger of being sunk by KMS Bismarck.
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  19.  @WraithMagus  - You forgot Mikasa. 😉
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  20.  @hawkeye5955  - USS Texas during Overlord.
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  21. Omitted from the video is that Lübeck is in the State of Schleswig-Holstein. 😉
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  22. And little would be achieved in defeating Japan by capturing Formosa that could not be accomplished by cutting off merchant shipping between there and Japan.
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  23.  @thehandoftheking3314  - It would take dumb luck to hit even something the size of an Iowa class ship with an unguided bomb dropped from a level bomber at altitude, unless the ship was stationary in a harbor.
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  24. That was last week's Rum Ration video.
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  25. Everyone in the US military in WW2 would have called the island "Formosa" - Hone is probably used to seeing it that way in historical documents.
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  26. "Misery" is the pronunciation of BB-63's namesake state. 😉
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  27. @Hamish Banish - Credibility would take a hit if a video comparing the superstructures of "ships" in Azur Lane was posted (not to mention Ms. Drach might bring out her knife collection). 😜
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  28. Regarding declassified information, the really interesting stuff is likely from Operation Paperclip, which the USG has classified for 100 years (so not released to 2045 at the earliest, barring a high level executive branch decision to release it earlier).
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  29. Here in the USA, people like to refer to the Iowa class battlecruisers as battleships, while the real battleships (as in intended to be in the line of battle slugging it out with other battleships) were the never completed Montana class.
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  30.  @Uncle_Neil  - Even for some WW2 incidents and later incidents involving WW2 era ships the results of historical research are trumped by, um "other considerations"; therefore, the subjects are best not touched with the lever Archimedes would use to move the planets, much less a clipper ship main mast or a 10-foot barge pole.
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  31. Prinz Eugen looked good making chocolate confectionaries in Bisoku Zenshin! 😉
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  32.  @kemarisite  - The B-29 eventually had the capability to drop 20-kT bombs that would effectively destroy any ship with a near miss and cook the crew at much longer ranges.
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  33. Will there an IJN tank in a future cour of Girls und Panzer?
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  34.  @jonrolfson1686  - Sorry, but your post made me think of meeting up with the Azur Lane version of Warspite. 😳
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  35. "Sliders" because they slide in one end and out the other end of the GI tract. 🍔▶🚾🚽🧻
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  36.  @Fevebblefester  - When you know what G😬😬gle really is...
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  37. @kevin barker - Wait until Drach finally Comes to America and takes pictures of all the Iowa Class's "naughty bits".
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  38. Saloon = sedan, bonnet = hood, hood = convertible roof, boot = trunk.
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  39.  @jimtaylor294  - For me POS is "plat of survey".
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  40.  @aliemreazgn3634  - If the Montana class had been built, the Iowa class might be referred to as battlecruisers.
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  41. Manually swabbing out a muzzle-loading cannon was replaced by a blast of compressed air to clean out breach-loading guns (hot embers from the previous shot remaining would be a disaster when loading in new powder in silk bags). Of course this is not an issue in smaller guns that have single piece ammunition in brass casings.
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  42. There would naturally be fewer conflicts between services in the Soviet Union, since every unit of particular size or larger would have at least one Cheka/GPU/OGPU/NKVD/MVD/MGB/KGB officer that in certain areas had ultimate authority over the military officers.
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  43.  @rob5944  Yes, Ryan has been covering quite a few ships and naval topics other than BB-62 since the channel got enough subscribers to allow for making five videos per week. SARS-CoV-2 variants willing, we should see collaborative video of Drach and Ryan next summer.
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  44. Pre-heated bunker fuel is used on modern Clerk cycle 2-stroke marine diesel engines found in merchant shipping.
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  45. Miyazaki's ship design looks to be significantly more functional than the one by Robida that inspired it.
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  46. Hayao Miyazaki used a fantastical ship drawing from 1893 by Albert Robida as the basis for the ship designs in Howl's Castle .
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  47.  @bkjeong4302  At the time the USA fast battleships were approved, saving resources was the worst things, since the country had an excess of labor, unused raw materials, manufacturing capacity, and financial wealth (that had no place to go but market speculation). Putting all these underused resources into things such as battleships was exactly what was needed to end the Great Depression, and put the country on the course of overall average prosperity unequaled in history (until Reaganomics clawed much of the new working class prosperity back).
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  48.  @derekhieb7458  I would have watched the final episode of Love Boat if Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger and U-20 made an appearance.
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  49. Do you have someone to translate old Korean historical documents?
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  50. Only the Legolas from the ridiculous Peter Jackson fan fiction.
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