Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "'Billy' Mitchell - Insufferably Right or just Insufferable?" video.

  1. ​ @ZIGSVIDS yes.
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  2. ​ @UnfollowYourDreams I don't understand your question. Other than escaping a sinking ship, it's not really relevant.
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  3.  @coldwarrior78  actually, the B-26 was a torpedo bomber.
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  4.  @rocksteadychampion  ship museums are not Disneyland. None of them attract huge crowds.
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  5.  @lonjohnson5161  Nope.... Mitchell changes nothing actually. Not for the Japanese and not for the Americans.
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  6.  @Niels_Larsen  long-range missiles and rocketry take another few decades to be practical. You see early use in World War II. It is not till the 1960s do they get viable. But that is largely in the role of surface to air or air to air. It takes a little longer for ship-based surface-to-surface missiles to dominate.
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  7.  @user-gv4zb9rc6u  I think you are thinking of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales? And they got torpedo hit.
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  8.  @joshthomasmoorenew  Again, not much more. The Navy already does their own ballistics tests. And the ships are basically Idle. With no crew or damage control.
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  9.  @scottgiles7546  Actually, the B-26 was designed to carry torpedoes.
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  10.  @nowthenzen  It's a training issue. It has zero to do with recruitment. Swimming and survival training is taught as part of basic training whether or not you have any skills prior. From personal experience, most recruits Navy and Marine have very little swim skills.🏊‍♂️
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  11. @user-gv4zb9rc6u  they were level bombed. But it's the Torpedoes that did the real killing damage.
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  12. @Niels_Larsen  Not exactly.🤔 The guns stay. Big ships fade... The lack of big ships, mean you don't need big guns. Aircraft remained the more flexible tool into the 1960s.
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  13. @user-gv4zb9rc6u  based on Wikipedia reports on the battle. There was only minor bomb damage. Torpedoes did the majority of the killing. Both ships only receive like maybe less than three hits by bombs.
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  14. @Niels_Larsen  ships still have Naval guns for fire support. Very few targets require anything bigger than 155 mm. Destroyers manage to do the mission. Large heavy manpower intensive ships with very little use otherwise became irrelevant. Which is why they are all gone.
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  15. @arpkahn670  pretty sure there's a control ship running the operation. And to preclude friendly fire, the target ship is painted something other than grey.
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  16. @TimInertiatic  it would have made the king and the Czar very unpleased.
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