Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "The Drydock - Episode 134" video.

  1.  @AtParmentier  Those pilots take a year to 2 years to train. Japan lacks time and oil.
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  2. That is why they replace barrels on ships.
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  3.  @Cbabilon675  That's a bit too, "Force 10 from Navarone." How do they get home? 🤔
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  4.  @Cbabilon675  Your question is a little confusing but basically you're talking about the invention of the LPH. That requires about 10 years and the development of large Helicopters.
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  5. More MacArthur bashing. Patton couldn't manage a damn thing.
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  6.  @TraditionalAnglican  After hours in the air the CAP came down. They were caught refueling, And the weather delay was there. Sending 30 B-17's vs. Zeros would have done Little. Again, the pile on of MacArthur is popular yet unfair.
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  7.  @AtParmentier  You don't have pilots for more carriers or the escorts.
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  8.  @calvingreene90  Nope.
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  9.  @bkjeong4302  Exactly. A bit like Obamacare. You added users. Not a single hospital or doctor to treat them. Making more carriers is not doing much. Not to mention a lack of fuel for them.
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  10.  @johnshepherd8687  On paper. Battles are fought by people and tactical action. Capable does not mean able.
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  11. @Stuart Aaron Trying to play MacGyver in the North Atlantic was never a great option. He needs a Drydock.
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  12.  @bkjeong4302  Yes and no. Aviators and crews are specialists. They take time to train and form effective units. Not even talking planes worth a damn. Surface ships and sailors are cheaper and easier.
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  13.  @awokennightmare4075  18 inches. Bigger is not better. Just harder to handle and slower to load
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  14.  @TheOhgodineedaname  Your building a pipe bomb. If the barrel is obstructed, shooting is just going to force the explosion to take path or least resistance.
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  15.  @propyne5460  USCG Cutter Eagle has sails. ⛵
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  16.  @AtParmentier  The US fuel embargo over the war in China led to the whole War with the USA. And led to taking the Dutch oil fields.
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  17.  @johnshepherd8687  South Dakota still lost the fight. They were made combst ineffective. Saying they can take a punch only goes so far.
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  18.  @mostevil1082  The old way: USN carrier pilots were generally pretty skilled at navigation. One took into account the mission parameters - - - go so far at such and so speed and on such and so bearing, do whatever you supposed to do, then go back on this or that bearing to find the ship. Each pilot had a plotting board for keeping track of where he was based on the mission parameters. Before taking off, with some notable historical exceptions, he would be given the location of "Point Option" - the location of where the ship expected to be at the end of the time allotted for the mission. So starting from a known point, time, bearing, and distance navigation to another point, do your business, and time, bearing, and distance to a pre-plotted point. The new way, as DA noted, was utilization of the YE-ZB homing system, developed by Frank Akers, which all USN carriers had at the start of the war. Without going into the boring details, this system used a morse code transmission of a particular letter for a particular bearing, a different letter for each 15 degree sector. This was a UHF line-of-sight system, so the higher you were the better. If the letter you were receiving changed, then you knew you were moving tangentially to the transmission point. You simply found the strongest signal and followed it back to the ship. In the early days of the war it was a fairly new system and some pilots were more proficient with it than others and those less proficient tended to be less believing. For example on the 4 May 42 Yorktown strike on Tulagi, there were 4 F4Fs very hurriedly sent off to deal with some F1Ms that were bothering the SBD and TBD strike planes. After performing their mission, shooting down 3 of the F1Ms, and shooting up a destroyer they happened upon, they started to head back to the ship. The division leader signaled for an increase in altitude to pick up the YE-ZB signal, but his section leader did not see the signal (although the section leader's wingman did). So the division leader and his wingman pulled up through the cloud layer, picked up the signal, and, after milling about a bit waiting for the other two, proceeded back to the ship. The section leader left behind had a problem, his radio did not work. His wingman's did. Eventually they came up through the clouds and the wingman picked up the YE-ZB signal. He also made radio contact with the ship and started flying a box pattern so the ship could get a good radio fix so to tell him which letter he should be listening for. Well, as far as the section leader was concerned, his wingman was flying in all sorts of odd directions for no apparent reason and finally signaled him to knock it off and then led the way back to Guadalcanal where they bellied in on Cape Henslow - - - with the wingman keeping a running commentary with the ship the whole time. Result was two of the ship's 18 F4Fs were lost for no apparent reason. The two pilots were rescued the next day through some extraordinary efforts by the crew of USS Hammann. Apropos of nothing else, I have the original flight instructions for this mission carried by the division leader. It clearly indicates the ship's location relative to Tulagi and the Point Option for the return. The division leader was clear in his recounting that the instructions would have gotten him back to the ship, but the YE-ZB was easier. Even worse happened at Midway when the VF-8 strike escort improperly used their YE-ZB and all 10 of them ended up ditched at various locations. Fortunately for some of them some rather diligent PBY crews managed to find and rescue 8 as I recall. This was a combination screw up in that the flight was not given a Point Option and their own unfamiliarity with the YE-ZB system sealed their fate. They actually saw the smoke of the US task group off to their north as they headed off into the expanse of the Pacific, but were so screwed up in their navigation that the leader presumed he was looking at the Japanese. http://ww2f.com/threads/carrier-aircraft-navigation-how-did-they-do-it.21172/
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  19.  @Shenaldrac  🤨 Defense spending and planning turned into a 🍆 size contest? Rarely impresses ladies or the IJN.
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  20.  @SirDamned  The change to oil was in progress. That is why the USN sent coal burning Battleships to the Home Fleet.
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  21.  @tuxedoederminenaswall3751  Would you call a Torpedo with a nuclear warhead, super? Then yeah... 🤔 As for the sub carrier idea? Sort of... Think drones; not manned aircraft. One of the main roles of subs is reconnaissance and special operations. The ability to carry droness that can go inland under the radar and do photo or signals Intel would expan their reach. In theory, a drone could even do ASW work. Dropping Sonobuoys for example.
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  22.  @peterchampagney4990  actually the USS New Jersey YouTube channel has just done a bunch of videos about battleship cove.
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  23. Claim Based on?
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  24. Not true. Reinforcement was in progress. Planes were enroute. PT boats were in Hawaii waiting to go. The 4th Marines left China for the Philippines days before. National Guard units were shipped there in the months before. Reinforcement like Wake Island was done. Just late...
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  25.  @johnshepherd8687  Theoretical ability goes only so far. Superior tactics, bravado and skills win over machines. Savo Island is a example.
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  26.  @RedXlV  Garbage. He retired from the US Army and took a Job running the Philippine Army. He was recalled to service by FDR.
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  27. go to you tube settings
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  28.  @griffigt  You try under the settings/general/ dark theme.
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  29. 1. Air Command was not his responsibility. That was the Commander of the Far East Air Force; Lewis Hyde Brereton. 2. Air Units were on the ground refueling. They were up for hours after the alert came.They planning a raid on bases on Formosa, but it got delayed. The claim they were not prepared is false. 3. They had no radar and few working P-40's to counter a attack even if they wanted to.
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  30.  @TraditionalAnglican  The strike was delayed by weather. And less than 60 operational planes. Not mention outnumbered 3 to1.
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  31.  @tokiri485  https://youtu.be/o3E80CRKcPg
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