Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "The Drydock - Episode 060" video.

  1.  @nickboy3024  Depends how you mean it. On one hand, he is just just a old school surface warfare guy. The other hand meaning? Reader was a Navy guy and not a huge Nazi guy.
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  2.  @mattblom3990  Until the UK gets a long term leader, there is not going to be any big increase in defense spending. There's dream shopping with a American Express Black card. And then there's economic and political reality.
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  3.  Neysha  The basic answer, yes. US forces on occasion did commit war crimes like shooting men in the Water. Most noteworthy was Captain Dudley Morton of the USS Wahoo.
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  4.  @lloydknighten5071  Great, only 999 more missing planes and ships left to explain.
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  5. 😎Drach, on the subject 💰.... Remember, these words. "No Bucks, No Buck Rodgers." https://youtu.be/a7rGA0Zv8R4
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  6. Wrong... "Greed is Good." -Gordon Gekko🤑🤑🤑 https://youtu.be/VVxYOQS6ggk
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  7.  @mattmopar440  The USN kinda thought the Zumwalt DDG 1000 class would do that. Not working out so hot.....
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  8.  @biscuit4705  Huge... You sink the transports, the Marines have no support.
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  9.  @kemarisite  They had off loaded some supplies. But for months they were short of needed items. Had the shipping been sunk. Quick replacement ships may have taken critical time.
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  10.  @andyjim1734  Is this a real question?
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  11.  @wulfie1199  Dead or alive, not much changes.
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  12.  @Shaun_Jones  nope.
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  13.  @dustykiser1  Vessels of the Asiatic Fleet and the 16th Naval District: 8 December 1941Edit The Asiatic Fleet and the 16th Naval District possessed: 1 heavy cruiser Houston 1 light cruiser Marblehead 13 Clemson-class destroyers: Paul Jones John D. Edwards Alden Whipple Edsall Stewart Barker Parrott Bulmer John D. Ford Pope Peary Pillsbury 1 destroyer tender Black Hawk 5 gunboats: Asheville Tulsa Oahu Luzon Mindanao 1 yacht Isabel 29 submarines: Porpoise Pike Shark Tarpon Perch Pickerel Permit Salmon Seal Skipjack Sargo Saury Spearfish Snapper Stingray Sturgeon Sculpin Sailfish Swordfish S-36 S-37 S-38 S-39 S-40 S-41 Seadragon Sealion Searaven Seawolf[19] 6 minesweepers: Finch Bittern Tanager Quail Lark Whippoorwill 2 tankers: Pecos Trinity 1 ocean-going tugboat Napa 4 seaplane tenders: Langley Childs William B. Preston Heron in support of Patrol Wing 10 (VP 101 and VP 102) with 28 Consolidated PBY-4 flying boats 1 submarine rescue vessel Pigeon 3 submarine tenders: Holland Canopus Otus various other ships, including 6 motor torpedo boatsthat formed Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three 1 two-masted schooner Lanikai Also stationed at Cavite Naval Base was the Offshore Patrol. Aircraft of the Asiatic Fleet: 8 December 1941Edit The aviation elements of the Asiatic Fleet comprised Patrol Wing 10,[20] with two patrol squadrons (VPs or PatRons), a utility unit, and the aviation units aboard the Fleet's two cruisers and the large seaplane tender Langley. Patrol Wing 10 had been commissioned in December 1940, and included Patrol Squadrons 101 (VP 101) and 102 (VP 102), each equipped with fourteen Consolidated PBY-4 Catalina flying boats. By Mid-1941, these 28 PBYs were numbered 1 through 14 for VP 101, 16 through 29 for VP 102. The Utility Unit included Grumman J2F Duckamphibians (1 J2F-2 and 4 J2F-4s), as well as five new Vought OS2U-2 Kingfisher floatplanes, delivered in the late summer. Also, a number of Curtiss SOC Seagullfloatplanes were present. Houston carried four, Marblehead two, and Langley two or three, and two more were under repair or in storage at the Aircraft Overhaul Shop (Shop X 34) at Cavite Navy Yard. As of 8 December, PBYs of Patrol Wing 10 patrolled the northwest and northeast of Luzon daily. These flights were based at either NAS Sangley Point, the Navy's auxiliary seaplane station at Olongapo on Subic Bay, or seaplane tender Childs in Manila Bay. Trios of PBYs rotated down to the southern islands to base on William B. Preston at Malalag Bay on Davao Gulf, Mindanao. These patrols over the Philippine Sea to the east bordered with similar patrols flown by Royal Netherlands Naval Air Service flying boats based in the Netherlands East Indies. Seaplane tender Heron, with a detachment of four OS2U-2s from the Utility Unit, ran morning and evening patrols from Port Ciego, Balabac Island, over the strategically important Balabac Straits from 4–13 December. Early in the morning of 8 December, Preston dispatched one aircraft on patrol and a short time later was attacked by aircraft from the small Japanese carrier Ryūjō, and her other two PBYs were sunk on the water. Patrol Wing 10 was ordered south into the Netherlands East Indies on 12 December, when the collapsing defenses of the islands made further operations untenable. Within the first 90 days of the war, Patrol Wing 10 had fallen back to Perth, Western Australia, being reinforced by VP 22 from Hawaii but losing 43 of 45 PBYs—all but four lost to enemy action—together with Langley. PBY-4 (28. Added: 12 PBY-5s from VP 22 and 5 ex-Dutch Catalinas in January) J2F-2 or -4 (4) OS2U-2 (5) SOC-1 or -2 / SON (10-12) Asiatic Fleet components: 8 December 1941Edit Asiatic Fleet Headquarters, ashore from mid-1941 at the Marsman Building on the Manila waterfront. The Fleet flagship, Houston, was assigned to lead Task Force 5 (TF 5). TF 4, Asiatic Fleet: Patrol Wing 10, seaplane tenders, and aviation resources. TF 5, Asiatic Fleet: surface strike forces, including cruisers and Destroyer Squadron 29 (DesRon 29). TF 6, Asiatic Fleet: submarines force, including all submarines, tenders and rescue ships. TF 7, Asiatic Fleet: patrol force, including gunboats Tulsaand Asheville. 4th Marine Regiment Commandant 16th Naval District (COM16): The Cavite Navy Yard and all the shore establishment on Luzon, including the radio station, ammunition depot, hospital, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron THREE, naval air station, mine depot, and similar facilities on Corregidor,at Mariveles, Bataan, and Olongpago, on Subic Bay. The historic Yangtze Patrol was concluded in early December 1941. Of the five remaining gunboats, Tutuilaremained at Chungking, Wake was in reduced commission at Shanghai as a radio station for the U.S. State Department, and ComYangPat sailed in Luzon with Oahu for Manila, joined by Mindanao.
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  14.  @leomartin8497  Subs had assigned areas of operation. They had code challenges that could be sent by light or radio.
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  15.  @USS_Grey_Ghost  You missed the special last week on the USS Franklin and the damage control effort?
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  16.  @bkjeong4302  Easily?? Your talking about ships that stood up to nuclear blasts and did not sink. Like the USS Nevada and USS Pennsylvania.
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  17.  @craighagenbruch3800  They were Battleships.
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  18.  @kemarisite  Even that is level of damage is questionable with a ship being conpartmentalized. You may go through armor, but are you hitting vital things? A tank has crew and ammunition in one space.
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  19.  @bkjeong4302  It's a nuke blast. You don't need barn door accuracy. Even modern Sink Ex tests are done on modern ships without armor. And they take many hits and no damage control to sink.
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  20.  @lloydknighten5071  Well you might like to see the sad story of the most recent Triangle loss, the El Faro disaster. https://youtu.be/XaA0Kg_bUtI
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  21.  @Cpt_Boony_Hat  It did.
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