Comments by "Tom in Iowa" (@tominiowa2513) on "The Development of US Navy Tactics (1939-1945) - ...to Global Domination" video.

  1. 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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  2. Need a lot of rum for 297K subscribers.
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  3. 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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  4. 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in the US military in WW2 would have called the island "Formosa" - Hone is probably used to seeing it that way in historical documents.
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  5. That was last week's Rum Ration video.
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  6.  @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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  7. 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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  8.  @scottgiles7546  - That would be for American Civil War era monitors.
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  9.  @hydrodrift  - If Operation Sea Lion was a no go, how would a cross-Atlantic amphibious invasion be pulled off?
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  10.  @hydrodrift  - The Russians lost the war from 1918-1923, and did not regain control until Khrushchev and Zhukov had Beria executed (in the meanwhile non-Russian Bolsheviks sent 66 million mostly Orthodox Christian Russians to their deaths in the Gulag - more than twice as many as died from German attacks in WW2). Of course the Bolsheviks were financially backed by the same bankers as the NSDAP - classic case of "let's you and him fight".
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  11.  @Alsadius  - This channel basically ends at the Truman administration.
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  12.  @thehandoftheking3314  - What about a Grand Slam bomb versus a Floaty Log?
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  13.  @somethinglikethat2176  - Drach got 2K more subs since I posted. Karl Dönitz could only dream of getting new subs at that rate. 😉
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  14. The general that did the most to help the USA in WW2 was General Motors.
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  15. Did Japan have a private central bank prior to WW2?
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  16. They had rather fishy naming practices. 😉
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  17. The original Big Stick is USS Iowa (BB-61, not BB-4).
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  18.  @hydrodrift  - Imperial Russia was defeated by Germany in WW1.
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  19. You will be made to sit under the Comfy Kotatsu for that comment.
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  20.  @Alsadius  - We will see if U-Toob deletes your post since it has a link in it.
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  21. Have to disagree with Drach's comment about the technologies being unforeseen; rather that they were unforeseen outside of a few "skunkworks". Radar, code breaking computers, homing torpedoes, SONAR, jet engines, cruise missiles, guided bombs, ballistic missiles, jet engines, and nuclear weapons were all in research or even development as far back as WW1, but kept tightly under wraps (so tightly that even senior military officers would mostly be unaware of them) until hostilities broke out. More than 5 years is needed to go from basic concept to deployed in service, but at the same time development is limited by the need for secrecy.
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