Youtube comments of Geordiedog (@geordiedog1749).

  1. Shows how much they were scared of what JC stood for.
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  2. A man who genuinely threatened the establishment and took the consequences. What they did to him was terrifying. Utterly terrifying.
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  3. Great work. Very courageous too. It takes real guts to challenge a system as monolithic as the British military.
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  4. Original voice is hard to beat but I’d give this one some slack and time to fit in.
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  5. “Help! Help! We’re being attacked!!” “No we’re not. Ow! Oh yeah, yes we are being attacked!”
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  6. My grandads mate - a tanker - said to me (many years ago) that they switched to firing HE at range over 400yds as the AP would bounce off the big cats but the HE was create “a bloody mess”. This was in Italy. He’d also mentioned constantly passing burning/burnt out German panthers and sometimes a tiger and when they’d looked to see what killed it they found that it was usually abandoned and set on fire by its crew ie no holes in it or blown tracks.
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  7. I think it’s worth pointing out that there were no examples of Carrier warfare prior to WW2 and that the allies and Japanese where essentially learning on the job.
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  8. His early comments reminded me of ‘Suicide in the trenches’ by Siegfried Sassoon. You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer as soldier lads march by Sneak home and pray you never know The hell where youth and laughter go.
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  9. I have a lazy body problem.
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  10. Surely the North Korea’s best chance was just now during the recent demonstrations. Also, saying ‘he would have to be mad to invade the South’ isn’t reassuring anyone. At all. In any way. Remotely.
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  11. Thunderchild. Dreadnought. All good. But I do like ‘Warspite’. Makes me always think of ABC.
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  12. What made me rather cross was the end of the film and them not mentioning that most of the men involved lost their lives in the war. Hardly a minor point!
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  13. Roger Hill, Captain if HMS Ledbury - one of the escort destroyers - was so appalled at the Royal Navy abandoning the merchant Navy do PQ-17 that he swore never to do it again, even if it meant breaking orders. It was Hill and Ledbury along with HMS Penn that hauled the crippled Ohio into Valletta a few months later thus saving Malta, the Mediterranean and arguably the whole shebang.
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  14. Can someone tell me - serious question - when austerity actually stopped because you talk about this new budget and reintroducing austerity and I don’t ever remember it not being economically shite since the mid naughties? Cheers, NHS Staff Nurse (since 1988).
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  15. I love listening to Eddie Howe. He took such a sensible honest and actually quite brave approach to improving himself. A lot of football managers are simply no where near having the perspicacity to match EH. I have a huge respect and faith in him. I trust him to get things right. After the Aston Villa game you just knew he would put things right. And he did. I honestly think we - Nufc - are lucky to have him and I hope he stays for a long time and shapes the club.
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  16. I had a vision of some guy docking his fishing boat in Sydney Harbour and nipping ashore for some bait and finding a 40mm Bofors on his boat by the time he got back!
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  17. During the miners strike in GB police officers breaking picket lines would wave their pay packets - swelled by overtime - to striking miners who had been on strike for six months and are utterly broke.
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  18. I remember this clearly. The ‘wake up’ value of it was quite astounding. What happened to the second of the Exocets?
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  19. Dave face when he has to listen to the guys opening remarks is just priceless. How he has the patience to debate with these cult leader wannabes I don’t know. Well done Dave.
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  20. My grandad who fought with the RHA said that the Berretas were top prizes in North Africa and much sought after. Anyone who got one either held onto it or traded it for a lot of kit.
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  21. I reckon the Russians and French got it right.
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  22. It’s not complicated. Not at all complicated. Pretty bloody straightforward, I reckon. If those rockets had been coming down on New York or Baltimore then I very much doubt he’d have been recruited and lauded, somehow. It’s an insult to those in Europe who were killed by Brauns work. I’m very much with Tom Lehrer on this one.
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  23. My grandfather was in the Desert War and he told me that the Berreta SMGs were the most valuable ‘finds’ on the field for the Desert Rats and were either kept and used or sold/bartered for large sums.
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  24. Outstanding work.
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  25. Lt Com. Roger Hill describes the loss of this ship in his book and he really puts the boot in. He had personally warned the COs that they were making a grave error in tactics and planning but he was waved off. Only thing worse than a cluster fuck like this is a totally avoidable cluster fuck!
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  26. The fact that anyone is involved with Johnson’s ethics is funny/tragic
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  27. “I’m not self medicating....” Actually did ‘laugh out loud’.
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  28. A much maligned weapon. Try firing a Panzerfaust from an upstairs room and see how you get on?
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  29. Roger Hill, captain of the Ledbury was so appalled at the RNs abandonment of the Red Dusters during PQ17 he swore he would never do it again, no matter what his orders were. This had very important consequences as Ledbury was one of the destroyers that carried Ohio into Valletta harbour in August ‘42.
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  30. Brave girl. Well done, flower. If you were my daughter I’d be very proud of you.
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  31. That poor man is not well. Personality disorder is horrible.
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  32. A friend of mine went on a blind date with Hunt. She said he was astoundingly “dull” and “bland”. Anyway, “forgetting” to declare that ownership means he’s either incompetent or deceitful? I think he’s actually both. As well as dull and bland.
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  33. There’s a Pucara on display in the Air Museum near Sunderland (a small grubby village near Newcastle). A chap next to me pointed out to me where he had shot at it during the Falklands Conflict. I think he was on the level.
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  34. Nail Head! Work harder, faster for less. These people see the work force not as actual people but as an element in a process by which they get more money. Left without constraints what extremes would they go to? How far would they exploit us? Pretty bloody far, I’d say.
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  35. There’s a great interview with a Luftwaffe navigator who spent most of the war in Scotland and Canada in a pow camps. He described being attacked by a Hurricane witha French tricolour mini flag. Next op he got shot up by a hurri with a Polish mini flag. Shortly afterwards he was shot down by a hurricane with a Czech flag. His comments about this state of affairs were understandable. Great vid. Never heard of this kite - which is exactly what I’m looking forward in this sort of channel.
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  36. The face on Truss! Wonderful.
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  37. I’m going stop watching this channel. I just feel so angry and frustrated. How did our country get so bent out of shape?! It’s always been crooked but now!! Jesus! Awful. Just awful. I was looking forward to mellowing at this age but I’m even more vehement and left wing now than when I was 19!
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  38. The Turret fighter concept produced two main planes / the BP Defiant and the Blackburn Roc. Roc were adapted from the Skua which wasn’t nearly as awful as a dive bomber and fighter. The Defiant was actually a good plane but a terrible concept. The Roc was a bad plane and a bad concept. However, comparing with a 262 is silly thing. Like comparing a musket to an assault rifle.
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  39. I’m proud that people chose to come here for safety. I’m disgusted that these people exist and open their vile sewers and embarrass humanity.
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  40. “Well, with a name like Tiger Shark it’d better be good!!”
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  41. As a socialist of forty five years I still find this question an interesting and viable one. Good work.
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  42. What I never understand is why the Labour Party never tries to do anything about the real power the tories have. Are they scared?
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  43. Mossies had ‘tsetse’ variant that had a 57mm gun.... just sayin’
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  44. Do CEOs like this individual and those from Amazon uk go to special classes on how to ‘spout utter bullshit’ when asked difficult questions? If they do they need to get their money back ‘cos it isn’t working. Fair shout to the committees who pin them down and not allow them to squirm out of the difficult questions. Perhaps if we, the people of the UK, focused on issues like Union Membership instead of things like ‘pronouns’ we might get somewhere. I think pronouns ARE important but personally I think we have our priorities wrong. Let’s get the meaningful stuff that effects millions of us right first? Chomsky said we are only ever allowed to debate the things that don’t threaten the establishment. Maybe he’s right?
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  45.  @weediestbroom  I have say I think you’re probably right. Maybe not killed but assassinated some other way. A set up scandal or similar. Which is basically what they did anyway, thinking about it.
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  46. This country is just rotten to the core.....
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  47. Seems the new norm for political leaders is to make subordinates do all the work (also because they actually have a clue) while you go on your jollies and skive. Dodge unpleasant meetings like The House Of Commons for eg and party. Party party party. At least the Finnish pm puts pictures of her doing it on line.
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  48. NHS nurse. Just retired after 35 (Working part time now because I have to, alas). Just watched the NHS get worse and worse, year after year. The ‘clapping affair’ was the final insult. Voted to strike.
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  49. Love Bernie
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  50. “You glibfaced crowds with kindling eye Who cheers as soldier lad match by Sneak home and pray you never know The hell where youth and laughter go.”
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  51. Bit disappointed with the pop history slant this channel is taking. The title is just click bait
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  52. As a mental health professional I am sceptical of cod diagnosis of personality disorders made by laypersons but I now do genuinely believe that Johnson is a narcissistic personality disorder.
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  53. Winkle could land Concorde on a lifeboat.
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  54. Yes, exactly this.
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  55. There is something to be gained by awarding VCs in a political sense. At Rorkes Drift for example several VCs were issued that might not have been had the army not have been utterly humiliated (and wiped out) the day before at Isandlwana. Thatchers political career was on the line. Bigging up the conflict with some top gongs would only help politically. Had things gone very wrong at GG Jones may well have been scapegoated instead of lauded. My personal and very amateur opinion is that it was a bloody stupid thing to do. He put personal glory over the bigger picture. Not good leadership. But then paras are all pretty mental!
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  56. Putting pressure on your enemy by opening another front or starting an offensive in a new part of the line is an age old tactic. The Somme, Anzio, British commandos etc. just some examples.
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  57. Absolutely fascinating. I think the left need to rock this idea of the Tory party being bought by a few super rich oligarchs. Even the likes of my mum - bless her - would balk at the idea of the tories being owned by the super rich.
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  58. The really scary thing is that Liz Truss actually thinks she’s intelligent. Seriously!! She does.
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  59. Minor mention in the Malta Story. I think if the crew had been American we’d have had a film (or three). I actually did a. Treatment for a film about it. Problem was a/ what to leave out and b/ what to do with it when I finished it! Don’t suppose you know any film producers, do you?
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  60. Well done LBD. You are ledge as is this lovely man sharing his story.
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  61. Skeptically excited I iz...
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  62. They just preach to the choir, these people. And when I say “preach” I do, in fact, mean blatantly lie!
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  63. The Welshman was the saviour of Malta on many occasions
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  64. New video. Shoot, shoot, shoot! (Remember - “Fire” only means one thing on a ship!)
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  65. I like the scouse lads point but I’d say that the tortes absolutely have the political will to put profit before people.
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  66. Shocking description of Catapult. Awful. (Didn’t mention how impressed the Americans were either).
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  67. Anyone I follow who has the slightest expertise just laughs at the ‘tank is dead!’ Statement.
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  68.  @xavierhucklenbruch1798  Win by standing for what? Tony Blair II?
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  69. Definition of the word ‘Ego’: That little bit of Argentinian in all of us. (South American humour:)
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  70. Reading Patrick Gibbs ‘Torpedo Leader’ it sounds like any torpedo attack, no matter what the aircraft utilised, was extremely hazardous.
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  71. I worked as a CBT in IAPTS for ten years and I can completely concur with what they are saying about well being and mental heath. It’s spot on. We were just papering over the cracks. One of the best summations of the current state of the world/country I’ve heard. Excellent
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  72. Another aircraft I knew bugger all about. Cheers mate.
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  73. “We’ll call it……. ASDIC!” “Great name! What’s it stand for, then?” “Er……… dunno. We’ll figure that out later.”
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  74. When I saw ‘Spitfire’ I did think “oh, ok. Going for the Yankee Dollar are we”.Yea of little etc etc. My bad:)
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  75. Marvellous. And Warspite looks great on Red, too. The German Navy really does like to scuttle it’s ships. Not being jingoistic but the Andrew would have attempted to ram the opposition. Nothing the RN like more than a good ramming! Link to your Glowworm vid should really go here!
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  76. All the way through I was saying to myself... Martin Baker, Martin Baker.... why do I know that name??
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  77. Great work. Although it’s just so depressing.
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  78. Keep up the fantastic work!
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  79. They’ll be sat trying to think of a good excuse (not reason - excuse) of how to get around the finding that the sun is up there and visible for the whole 24hrs.
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  80.  @stevehicks8944  Not VERY bright are you? Or do you joust get a kick out of pointing out what you think is wrong? Have a look at yourself,mate! Of course it was before the American war started. It impressed the Americans because they thought the UK would fold once France fell. The fact that they clearly indicted that the UK were in for the long term by taking such drastic action impressed the then neutral Americans that Britain was prepared to fight on and might therefore be worth backing. Understand?
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  81. Let’s not forget that hindsight is a wonderful thing. With a few different factors in the allies favour it would be heralded as the best manoeuvre ever.
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  82. The advantage the tories have always had is the fact that they are defending the status quo so they can just take one great big caltrop type approach because that way nothing will change. This has been so astonishingly depressing.
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  83. The seagulls would also shite all over the periscope and render it opaque.
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  84. Well done for this. Shows class mate! Being able to calmly reassess. Nice one.
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  85. Love you guys. Hate the Tories.
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  86. “…………..Professionals study logistics”
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  87. Very well stated, Mr C. This won’t go away. They’ll try and get it in the stealth way. The same way they are trying to stealthily sell of the NHS. They’ll fugue out a way to get this done incrementally and on the quiet. But they’ll get their way - or at least they’ll still be trying to.
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  88. Failure to take Malta in 1940 or early 1941 (axis operation Herkules). Failure to force Malta surrender in August 1942 (allied operation pedestal).
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  89. Any old iron any old iron Any any any old iron Talk about a treat Chasing ‘round the fleet Any old eyetie or hun you meet Ways 6 tonnes No rear gun Sod all to rely on You know what you can do With your Fulmar II Old iron old iron. (From a nailed on Fulmar fan)
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  90. I’d agree but I’m just a history enthusiast. However, I did work with a bunch of prison officers detached from Preston jail who were all 2 Para Falklands vets. They said that Jones was “stupid” and a ‘glory hunter”. Their words. They said that he should never have done what he did and that it jeopardised the whole attack. They said he was brave and all but they were privates and NCOs and they felt let down. They said the “Rupert’s” were all over excited by the chance of an actual battle. On the way down they constantly worried that a diplomatic solution would be found before they got there. There was also a deep morbid fear that the RM would get the glory and they”d miss out. They said that they were all up for it but the squaddies were quietly apprehensive in private - the experienced NCOs especially talked amongst themselves of the potential clusterf+ck that awaited them. Once all together they were ubiquitously confident and aggressive.
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  91. Computers have made my job worse so I’ve no doubt AI won’t add more misery. As a nurse I’ve just got more bureaucracy to complete and more micro management by computer as a result of our being ‘computerised’. It should - should - make things easier but it doesn’t if I’m honest.
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  92. Spain wasn’t going to join the axis on the basis of this mission. They had weighed up the pros and cons and decided to stay out of it. Pretty major stab in the back for the axis I think. Huge bribes by the UK had a large effect on the Spanish decision to stay out of it. That said, they did a lot to help and sent many thousands of volunteers (to die horrible on the eastern front…….shame, not).
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  93. The fact that they suddenly lost contact then heard nowt suggest a catastrophic failure.
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  94. Outstanding if also very depressing.
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  95. The Middle East is to the early 21st century what the Balkans was to the early 20th century.
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  96.  @doug6500  I think what got the British through the conflict was 400 years of naval tradition. I realise that it sounds like some wildly jingoistic flag waving banter but it’s not meant to be. When Cunningham was asked about loses at the evacuation of Crete his much quoted reply wasn’t bravado. It was about asserting moral supremacy over your enemy - something the RN has done successfully for the length of its existence. The Falklands was just another - possibly the last - instance of this. Why did the AAF artificers set the bombs incorrectly? - because they were stressed. Why were they stressed? - because they were facing the RN. Why was that an issue? - because the RN has beaten every opponent it’s had in 400 years pretty much! Now, I’m not a rabid British patriot - I’m what a lot of folk on here would call a ‘pinko fag commie subversive’ but despite being a raving Trot I can still see the factual side of an argument. And that’s the way I’ve interpreted the outcome of the conflict in the Falklands. (Yes, I know there were two…..:)
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  97. Great stuff. I actually really like donkeys. But other than that, this is just brilliant.
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  98. Cheers. Was about to say same thing. Saved me the job:)
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  99. Great work. JC is a legend.
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  100.  @martincopeland8153  Yeah. It was going to benefit someone somewhere. He was probably laughing all the way to the (off shore) bank afterwards.
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  101. I read recently that by this stage of the Pacific war the Japanese had found standard tactics to have become suicidal so, instead, took up suicidal tactics. This actually proved less costly and more effective. I don’t know if that’s true or not but I think it’s worth exploring.
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  102.  @gildor8866  Absolutely and they all came to different conclusions due to differing areas of conflict plus different theories . None envisaged that carriers would surpass battleships for example. The fact that No capital ship had been sunk by air power while under way at sea until Force Z is also interesting .
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  103. Terrible, chauvinistic nonsense. Alas, it did make me literally - not figuratively - LOL.
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  104. Very good point.
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  105. It’s that headmasters report again, isn’t it. Considering people churlish for not making him important.
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  106. Few people scare me like Elon Musk. He is a dangerous fantasist and a clever narcissist
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  107. My old boss asked her a question when she visited his work (a hospital in her constituency). She asked if her family used private health care and Braverman said “what’s that got to do with anything?” So my boss said to her (and I quote:) “That’s a worrying answer. Either you’re lying to my face or you’re stupid. Which is it?”
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  108. I worked as a CBT in the NHS. Saw a lot of PTSD/Trauma. Heartbreaking because they are so let down.
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  109. Never knew about this. Very interesting. Creepy about the fog finally getting its man.
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  110. Maybe we should just privatise the Police? People could buy different levels of protection and justice. The very wealthy could afford the best justice. The poor would get what they pay for. And another thing, what about all this Air that people are breathing free of charge…..
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  111. Listening to this just rams home how utterly, utterly awful the recent film is.
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  112. Never heard of the one foot too many Dornier. I reckon the ‘total mess’ theory is probably true - Occams Razor and all that.
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  113. Oh Jesus! That’s grim! Imagine that.
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  114. “Bi-pedal attack dogs” - never a truer word.
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  115. I’ve a mate who’s a quietly famous musician and he shared a flight with JP. He called Peterson a ‘Verbose’ C U next Tuesday and the told him that he was “fooling no one with a brain!” Love my mate I do.
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  116. That made me actually lol. Not figuratively but actually. Cheers. It’s also true btw.
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  117. The BEF was the most mechanised military units in the world at the time. So they had a lot of kit to leave behind.
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  118. The two waist 303’s fired much slower than those on the wing as they were synchronised with the prop so couldn’t cycle as quickly as wing mounted guns which could fire at 1150 rpm. SA pilots who were used to Gladiators in Africa and the Med found that when they switched to 8 gun Hurricanes their Italian opponents planes “melted” when they engaged them.
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  119. Thanks for at least mentioning the coastal convoys. You also did a good job in your phoney war vid. I’m always appalled at total lack of appreciation of the poor colliers getting slaughtered just a mile off our coast. I’ve put in a proposal for my MA to do the coastal convoys arguing that Churchill sold the colliers down the bog just to keep ‘the home (counties) fires (literally) burning. London required 700,000 tonnes of coal a week and any reduction would have looked very bad to the ‘folks back home (in the SE). Thus the coastal convoys in their ‘dirty British steamers with their salt caked smoke stack’ where hammered by the Luftwaffe and kriegsmarine schnellboots. Sorry….. I’m ranting now. I’ll stop. Great vid. Looking forward to the next bit:)
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  120.  @sarp688 yes, same exactly. It was irresponsible and smelt of personal aggrandisement. Being critical of someone who was killed doing something like that and getting a VC feels very wrong to me but when I try and look at it through cold eyes I always come to the same conclusion.
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  121. Vile awful people. That advert they put on the TV a while back was just worst example of how utterly amoral they are.
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  122. Hail Master Cthulhu.
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  123.  @SimonPlowman  socio path is a mainly an American term - in terms of actual diagnosis - and is equivalent to a psychopath or a antisocial personality disorder which he could be but NPD fits better, I think. Nasty bit of work suits nicely, too.
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  124. Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun A man whose allegiance Is ruled by expedience Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown "Nazi, Schmazi!" says Wernher von Braun Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun Some have harsh words for this man of renown But some think our attitude Should be one of gratitude Like the widows and cripples in old London town Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun You too may be a big hero Once you've learned to count backwards to zero "In German, und Englisch, I know how to count down Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun
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  125. Great video. One wee point. The French are called French and the Vietnamese are called communist. Sounds odd.
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  126.  @voidwalker9223  Your point about the USN is kind of daft, though. It sounds jingoistic and I don’t see how stating the point that “if a bigger navy with better ships more suited to the conflict was there they’d have been better” is even worth making.
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  127.  @theawesomeman9821  Rommel was actually a lot worse than is often presented.
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  128. See, a few years ago I’d have said straight away “no fkcuing chance!” But since Brexit and Boris I don’t trust our voter as far as I can throw them. I mean, it could happen. I reckon someone would go full Luigi on him though. Throwing Molotov not milkshakes type thing.
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  129. You often get these comments that are essentially saying ‘if Hitler just stopped being Hitler he’d have been victorious!’
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  130. Well done, Ed - great video. I’d rather be doing somethings than sitting on my arse watching it unfold. I’ve been checking for any agencies looking for medical staff. If I find anything I’ll post it. I know a lot of medical trainee folk would like to do stuff rather than just seeing the suffering on a screen. (Time listen to 5:45 by ‘Gang of Four’). Anyway, well done again.
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  131.  @nowthenzen  Yeah...... but also blow yours ears inside out and toast Everything not just the marshmallows.......mmmmmmh....marshmallows....
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  132. Very true. Farage dealt with his one way better (unfortunately).
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  133. I would NOT have looked forward to landing that chin in a carrier deck heaving up and down!
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  134. At some point in one’s life you looked at people less fortunate and you made a decision. These people are either to be feared, avoided and blamed OR they are pitied, engaged with and helped. It’s a kind of spectrum but it’s also got a ‘one or other’ aspect to it. The political decisions made by this choice is - I think - pretty obvious.
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  135. It’s common for the incoming gov to exaggerate the extent of the problem left to them but the current situation is just criminal. And I say “criminal” without hyperbole.
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  136. Good point. The kaiser was obsessed with defeating the RN.
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  137. Fascinating. Kill the messengers. While they’ve air in their lungs they can relay the info. But probably just plain murder.
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  138. There is a doc on it. It’s good. An hour but it’s informative. Like how they picked the man for the suicide mission.
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  139. Mbappe was probably thinking “I wish I played here!” Well, on that performance you wouldn’t get a start, mate!
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  140. I very nearly got all seven kinds of shite kicked out of me in an Irish bar in Chicago for mentioning that the IRA stated “a United Ireland under a Marxist government” as a goal. Despite being quite sympathetic to Irish republicanism and very well read on the history I found that impressions and facts were quite some way apart in the opinions of the patrons of this establishment. Fortunately, I decided on the discretion/valour/run! tactic otherwise it may have ugly. Also, as a side note, can someone please do a piece on why the PIAT is a bandwagonesque maligned weapon?
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  141. I’m pretty sure that the Bermuda Triangle actually has no more disappearing vessels and planes than any other similar area.
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  142.  @Barwasser  Yes, that’s true. But I’m thinking more a long the lines of Cunningham’s quote “It takes two years to build a ship. It takes two hundred to build a tradition!.” The RN were able to impose a moral superiority on their adversaries. They did this by being very aggressive, looking for fights, and, if outnumbered and outgunned fighting anyway and creating the occasional pyrrhic victory for the opponents and always sending a signal that it won’t ever be easy when you fight us! It worked against the French and Spanish. It worked against the IGN who ended up demoralised and mutinous after being boxed in. The most heroic painting of the German First World War navy was a sailor on a sinking bit of battle cruiser waving a flag. And at the end of it all the IGNs only aggressive act was the passive aggressive one of sinking their own ships. Again, in WW2, the RM in the Mediterranean wouldn’t engage the ‘Andrew’ unless they had massive advantage and Royal Navy aggression had them nervous and timid at least in the senior ranks. It must really affect you if you’re told we can’t take theses guys on in a fair fight. The Kreigsmarine I think were the same. They made a bigger noise but the KM surface fleet where just as worried. Standing orders where always ‘stay away from a fight with the RN” Yes, the RN could absorb loses more but that’s not the real reason. Commerce raiding doesn’t give you a great sense of moral superiority. That’s why Langsdorf got into a fight. He was sick of sinking defenceless merchant ships. He was embarrassed. Ashamed even. The KM surface fleet where just depressed as the Second World War progressed culminating in the Barents Sea. I think the KM had a deep feeling of inadequacy re the RN and frequently scuttled their ships in a passive aggressive rage quit. It’s like the Bismarck. Saying that they scuttled her and that the RN didn’t sink her. Right. That’s all you have left when facing off against the RN? Sinking your own ships! (I’m not some jingoistic Brit btw. I just really like naval history).
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  143. Sharp metallic rasp, a sharp cutting noise then a loud dull thunk. One less ……
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  144. Very clever. And very interesting. Cheers. One often unknown down side of the ‘back blast’ type launchers was that, in confined spaces, the sudden injection of expanding hot gas would increase the air pressure in the area to the extent that it could cause severe injury to the launcher crew - usually ear and brain injuries. PIAT anyone?
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  145. That’s very true and a really fucking long sentence. Do you have gills?:)
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  146. Hatchet job of the worst kind. I’m not a fan of conspiracy theory but when a guy actually starts genuinely threatening the establishment he is quickly silenced it makes you think about how the establishment can snuff out a threat.
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  147.  @michaelhearn3052  Ah. Cheers.
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  148. Excellent work. The RN and it’s tradition of “Yeah? C’mon, then!” at its finest!
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  149. Great video. Here in the UK we have an historic tendency to massively under dx ADHD and other neuro - divergent conditions. I was dx with ADHD in 1975 aged 9 (non attentive type) but my father basically was embarrassed so just forbid it ever be mentioned again. I became a psychiatric nurse then a CBT and started noticing a lot of ADHD spectrum sufferers coming in without a dx as well as a lot of Asperger’s spectrum as well. Fast forward ten years and suddenly everyone has it. And I get really, really pissed off with people who just trot out “oh I have ADHD” because they feel like it. One of the worst offenders was a woman I knew who has - in my opinion - health anxiety traits and she came out with “oh I have that, too!” when I had just talked about a quite serious issue. “No, Ellen! No you fucking don’t!!” I told her she undermines and belittles genuine painful, difficult issues of people by doing that thing. We haven’t spoken again. So - bonus!
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  150. While I think this is a very poor video in general I can’t bring myself to agree with that tact Max Hastings. Beevor is just as bad, TBH.
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  151.  @duggiebader1798  I think it was just nuts that they still thought the Bristols success would be replicated twenty years and much technical improvements later. The Bristol rear gunner was able to engage an attacking plane with a least if not more firepower than the attacker (x2 Lewis guns) plus he could aim independently rather than having to line up the whole kite. This was probably true of the turreted fighter up to the mid 30’s but after that it was obviously rapidly falling behind attacking firepower. Plus faster fighters required quicker cooperation between pilot and gunner to the degree of needing telepathy to work effectively. What baffles me is how was this not identified before the war? Did they not run mock dog fights? Did hurricane pilots not tell them they were dog meat up there? Was there no such thing as ‘aggressor squadrons’? In wonderful hind site they should have scrapped the Fairy Battle completely and taken the turret off the Defiant and shoved a couple of bombs on the wing and a Vickers K or GO on the back. As for the the Roc - just convert them all to Skuas as a stop gap. The worlds greatest plane ever - the Fairey Fulmar - was in its way so no panic needed. …… What? That’s one of my good ideas. My mad idea is this - in the Far East the best planes on the inventory at the time of hostilities commencing with the Japanese - with exception of the Spit - were the Defiant and the Gladiator. No, don’t be rude, let me explain first! You’re fighting A6Ms. Very manoeuvrable etc. Defiant doesn’t even try to dog fight it. Just turns in a circle and shoots back against notoriously vulnerable Zeros. The Gladiator idea came from a friends great uncle who was in the RAAF. They had Gladiators in Malaya but were promised a modern monoplane with retractable undercarriage type fighter. They got Buffalos! Within a week they had asked for their Gladiators back. Probably the only plane we had that could dog fight a zero. Like I said, a mad idea. But kinda fun to imagine. Hope the legs are ok, btw!
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  152.  @drinksnapple8997  Yeah, totally agree but ‘Phyllis’ was a bad tempered bugger (active service since the Abyssinian Crisis will do that to you I suppose) and he pissed a few people off. The Waimarrama rescue alone should have got him the VC. Paint bubbling on the walls inside the ship!, jeez.
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  153. Chomsky says that we are only allowed to discuss things that won’t really make a difference. We talk about stuff that we think is important like gender politics and the like but are they as important as Trade Union membership, Gaza or 20 years of economic hardship and a lost generation of our youth.
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  154. Lol:)
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  155. I think the word ‘temazepam’ says it all with DT.
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  156. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I’m quite similar. Vey similar. There’s a meme going about saying ‘either I’m a good worker or I fail the drug test?” Well, that’s me generally. I’m just a much better and more productive individual on tramadol. Other people, alas, have spoilt this for me by behaving badly on drugs. Me? Much better guy all around.
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  157. Brilliant piece. Thank you.
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  158. My grandfather loved them. He was with them in India prior to WW2. He said that they were quite disdainful of the Indians in general which helped to keep them in line/oppressed. In WW2 itself he served with them in North Africa. I remember he said that once he was in a fire position (RHA) and he ‘d asked his co who was covering the flanks? The reply was that the Yarpies were on the right and the Gurkhas on the left. “Oh good. We can relax then” he said.
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  159. Such catchy names for these exoplanets!
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  160. Sealion was finished at Narvik. Discuss (20pts).
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  161.  @bigblue6917  it’s because they aaarrrr!!
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  162. Concerning the accusation of anti-semitism……. So, I oppose the Russian invasion of the Ukraine - does this make me an anti - Slavic racist, then?
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  163. The BoA is often forgotten but no where near the extent that the coastal convoy war was forgotten. Please consider doing a video on the coastal war to spread the word on the RNPS.
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  164. It would be nice to hear just once that we didn’t tuck up the indigenous people we ‘used’ once hostilities/war was over.
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  165. Great work Ed. Your enthusiasm comes through on your narrative and is infectious!
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  166. Right side of history?
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  167. Had it made it into combat the gun camera footage would have been brutal. Great vid again Edd.
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  168. I’m all for the regulation of finances but the current system is clearly unfair. You have the ‘big six’ who pulled up the ladder after them and then tried to claim there was never a ladder in the first place and they were just better at jumping than the other teams. The rest of the prem isn’t interested in letting rivals buy a load of new players so it’s a case of democracy being two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.
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  169. I can see Keir Starmer making a total bollix of this. Just sayin’……
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  170. Italy in WW2 is a very nuanced subject. Well equipped and motivated units did well.
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  171. There was very little actual danger from the shore batteries. The main problem came when escorts started dropping random depth charges to ward off subs. The vibrations stated to cause OH10s plating to come apart.
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  172.  @omarbradley6807  That would mess it up pretty good. Cheers
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  173.  @omarbradley6807  I wonder if they got their money back? Seriously, I wonder if they complained ?
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  174. I wonder what the eight guns sounded like when firing together? 1150 cyclic rate. .153 rounds/explosions a sec. Also, the Gloucester Gladiator had the synchroniser mech. I know this reduced the rpm.
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  175. A very wise man is our Andrew.
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  176.  @Boppy-B-B  Well, funny you say that because I was just thinking how sometimes you get that bandwagonesque thinking. Ok, sure, the Russians used their tanks poorly but maybe they would have suffered the same anti armour problems if they had? The argument is that the Ukrainians are using tanks properly and so there! But maybe there’s another factor at work and maybe tanks really re going to have to change or evolve or get massacred. They did say the same about air power and armour tbh.
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  177. Why did he think the US and U.K. alliance fall apart I wonder?
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  178. “Hey buddy! You can’t change the Second Amendment!!” “Then why’s it called an ‘amendment’?”
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  179. Had the thatcher gov seen a defeat the incoming Labour government were committed to nuclear disarmament. Worth contemplating.A very important conflict. I remember at the time being against the conflict because Thatcher but in retrospect I think we did the right thing - probably for the wrong reasons. It was important to not let military dictators go around invading willynilly to shaw up their poor ratings, not that Thatcher would do such a thing. During the war the British public had no doubts of a victory (mainly due to racism alas) but I remember reading afterwards just how close we were to a military disaster. Had Galtieri waited and prepared better (or even just waited for the extra Exocets) the outcome would have been very different, I think.
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  180. Great work
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  181. Saying Taranto but the RM out of action for the rest of the war is just inaccurate.
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  182. Dunning-Krueger-tastic, she is……
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  183. I doubt that, to be honest. The RN would have obsessed about them. They would have been a primary target.
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  184. There are some stories of mid air collisions with Jugs where the German plane fell apart and the forty seven be like ‘what was that bump?”
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  185. What a circus!
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  186. How many hits did Bismarck score when fighting for her life? How many of the attacking aircraft did she shoot down? How utterly flukey was the shell that sank the Hood? How easily was she incapacitated? And I don’t think you mean chauvinistic I think you mean jingoistic. Bismarck couldn’t even hit Poiron while she was signalled “I am Pole” over and over at her. Bismarck Schmismarck!
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  187.  @benholroyd5221  lol:) Brexit is a joke. And that’s it. (Probably regret mentioning the ‘B’ word now:)
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  188. Time for that to fade away now I think. He kinda did it a bit. But it would have been a bit inappropriate. This shit is real, remember!
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  189. Mr Nash. I owe you an apology. I had penned you in the wrong pigeon hole. While I’ve loved your work genuinely I’ve though of it as the usual type of ‘superficial’ overview of the world. This has shown me wrong. Well done. And all done on this video. Although it has scared the living shite out of m, it’s very very well presented scripted and thoughtful. Good man!
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  190. I did my MA on WS21 and it’s pretty much always stated that it’s an American ship with a British crew. You’ll get a spikey response from any Brits with remarks like this as we”ve endured decades of misinformation about WWII from US sources. From ‘Objective Burma’ to ‘Masters of the Air’ it’s been the USA all the way. I’m sure you’re not like that but from our point of view it’s pretty bloody galling.
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  191.  @権兵衛-e8u  I think you need to get your history in chronological order for your argument to make more sense.
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  192. “All you fascist bound to lose!”
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  193. A Fleet in Being pretty much all by herself.
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  194. Well, fair play for fessing up. Too many people just ignore their failings and carry on regardless.
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  195. Well done chaps. The addition of the animation certainly moves this into new territory. Very pro, dude!
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  196. Listening to the comprehensive AA suite I always feel sorry for the RNPS ships in ‘39 with their two Savage guns.
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  197. Great analysis - I can’t keep an eye on politics as much as I’d want/like to (or as much as I can understand stuff) but it’s great that you do it instead so I can at least keep abreast of the key issues.
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  198. Nice to see this crate get a mention. A very decent bit of kit. Great that the Fulmar gets a mention. Great planes, Fulmars.
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  199. First casualty of any battle is your plan. So well done for improvised content!:)
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  200.  @martindione386  Thank you. That’s very interesting and I didn’t know any of that. Well, not as specifically as you point out so cheers for. Learning stuff is good:) I’m not completely wrong, though. Just about the reason why the bombs didn’t explode. I still think the intimidation factor played its part.
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  201. God this was just angry personalisation and hard to listen to.
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  202.  @petergaskin1811  Quite a few inanimate objects gave making their way around our front room of late. Usually accompanied by me roaring and shouting “The Tory bastards!!” Or words to that effect.
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  203. Lost more merchant mariners than RN.
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  204. I was told by an American airforce general that the US had copied British tactics in Malaya but the that war was very different to Vietnam.
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  205.  @zoiders  probably something to do with thinking they were ‘the best’. The sort of person who thinks they ‘would have made a really good SAS trooper’ because they’ve watched the Omaha beach scene on Saving Private Ryan five times now and basically that makes them a hardened war veteran!
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  206. Well, that’s buggered my day up nicely!
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  207. Eddie Howe will develop a midfield that has players that will be no 6, no 8 and even no 11 when they need to be. They will lose the positional restraints and be all things to all midfielders. They”ll all be expected to link with a false 9 (probably our other ‘new signing’ Gordon) as well as being press busters and pivots.
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  208. Kill cam is just ghoulish. End of!
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  209. As much as I don’t like Dom Cummings he has certainly shown he was concerned about the country to some degree. He obviously likes to be the ‘cleverest man in the room’ however but he had at least a modicum of concern for the population although he might just be thinking of his own legacy. Hmmmmmm……..?
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  210. Lovely man. Great video. Here’s hoping……
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  211.  @borismuller86  …..but would they have started it in the first place?
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  212. Walker was a legend. Definitely a good one for the list.
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  213. Me too. Exact same thing. Now I’m paranoid about other bleedin’ obvious stuff I might have missed:)
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  214. Good point.
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  215. I almost wish the Germans had succeeded given the carnage and suffering that followed.
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  216. A certain pundit went on and on about the City team changes until they were interrupted to tell them the Toon made ten changes to their starting line up. They really should do better imo.
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  217.  @jameselliott8203  Alas I think you might be right!
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  218.  @catherinehall4862  So it would seem.
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  219. Yeah, it’s a good point. After what they did pre and during the war was dreadful. No sympathy. I’m a pretty soppy sort of guy and not vindictive but they asked for what they got and then some!
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  220.  @joesoy9185  well yes. But you get what I mean.
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  221. So, my theory is this. Germany was dominated by Prussia and Prussia was obsessed with two things (other than war, obviously) hunting and duelling. For hunting and duelling the need for good kit is very important and this is why the Germans were obsessed with things like Tiger and Panther Tanks, MG42s, 262s and V weapons when they really should have been looking at logistics and reliability. As for Von Braun……. We’ll, the Tom Lehrer song says it all!
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  222. I get the impression that USN staff would often concoct any excuse to get over to a RN vessel in order to get utterly shitfaced as an adjuvant.
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  223. It is the greatest goal of any Royal Navy Captain to RAM something! Anything! Engage the Enemy More Closely is still the defining tactic. The advent of the missile has caused major depression in the Andrew.
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  224.  @andrewyoung8703  We had the excellent American Marlet (Wildcat - a bespoke naval fighter with a very decent performance and excellent carrier landing capabilities) in 1941 (late) and let’s not forget the FAAs most successful fighter of WW2 the venerable Fairey Fulmar! I love Fulmars - they’re like me me in that they’re big and long and out of date but strangely effective in what they were tasked with.
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  225. Italys declaration of war wasn’t a disaster - it was expected. The disaster was the capitulation of the French meaning the Andrew were on their own. All their plans had been in cooperation with the French Navy who’d do the main lifting in the Mediterranean.
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  226. I remember everyone buying one in the uk and then getting them taken off them.
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  227. A torpedoes salvo more devastating than that of Axum during Operation Pedestal?
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  228. It sounds like ‘combat’ saw the Avro Manchester.
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  229. Churchill used British Atomic secrets to persuade Roosevelt to lend Britain the M.V. Ohio for Operation Pedestal as the US had already lent her sister ship the M.V. Kentucky to the Brits and we'd......... sunk it. (Source: Ohio:The Ship ha Saved Malta).
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  230. The Hurricane was a terrible aircraft to ditch in due to its air intake under its belly as this would flip the plane arse over tit which was bad. Very bad. Fulmars where better as they had longer range and much more ammo but were very heavy and had a crew of two. Plus the FAA needed its Fulmars. Much maligned aircraft the Fulmar. Most successful FAA fighter of the war. True dat...
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  231. Yeah, this is true. She was hit by an unbelievably jammy shot from Bismarck that detonated her aft secondary armament powder store. Struck under the armour belt. Plunging fire is cobblers. Hood was in the “safe zone’ and was turning to fire a broadside when she blew up.
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  232. Total War.
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  233. Looking across the pond here. Terrifying.
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  234.  @METan-fw2cg  Doesn’t make it a shit scene though. This is about a PIAT op. Not a ATG. That said it would have been good to have had a scene of Baskeyfields VC action. But in another scene..... not about PIATs.
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  235. “Hitler could have liberated the Soviet Union if he’d just stopped being Hitler and dropped his entire raison d’etre for being him!”
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  236.  @G-Mastah-Fash  Nothing wrong with Stens, sir. You will apologise or I will demand satisfaction.
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  237. The OSS were so secret that they had their own film about what they do! Hmmmm…
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  238. Dog whistling cult leader wannabe prick.
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  239. Er ..... Whittle??
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  240. “Soft Launch” - one reason why PIATs were such great weapons back in the day…..innit. Great job Ed.
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  241.  @petersouthernboy6327  … and age maybe. It’s certainly making me less reliable.
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  242. I think the U Boat campaign which very nearly took the British out of the war is one that should be mentioned. It was probably the closest the Germans came to taking Britain out of the war. There was also a small battle at the start that bought the British time to fall back in order but I’m buggered if I can remember it’s name. If that had been lost then the British would have had to fight a ‘broken back’ retreat and would have lost most of the BEF.
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  243. I worked on a ward where the consultant and the senior nurse where from the opposite sides of the Argentine political spectrum. It was a bit tense sometimes.
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  244. Don’t forget Jack Aubrey was captured as well.
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  245. There were a couple of exceptions to the large cannon in the nose theory. Airocobra comes to mind.
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  246. We, sir, are the Royal Navy, and We will Rule the Waves and we will NOT Waive the Rules!! (Hey, see what I did there, eh? Eh?)
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  247. And bendy steam pipes! Don’t forget the bendy steam pipes.
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  248. I listen to some of your earlier work and compared the presentation - very much more professional and fluent. Great stuff, mate!
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  249. Good point but I’d argue that a major European war was inevitable at some point because the German military industrial complex (the worlds first? Rome, maybe?) was always going to go to war at some point as war was it’s reason d’être. The kaiser was utterly obsessed with defeating the RN for one thing.
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  250. “What did you do at work today, darling?” “Oh I flew about in a Swordfish for a while.” Bastard:)
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  251. They are shit scared of Mick? Legend!
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  252. You couldn’t make it up!
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  253.  @daikayll1897  That final face at the end of the opening credits from WAW still haunts me !!
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  254. Imagine if we’d (the U.K.) just done a bit better in 1776. Instead of they USA there’d be a really big Canada and Mexico.
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  255. Not familiar with this guy but I’m very impressed by him. Sounds like a very decent man and an excellent officer.
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  256. Sometimes people don’t get the movie because it’s badly made ie they screw up the way the main point is supposed to be interpreted. Saying this film is A doesn’t make it A if all it does is promote B. 99% of ‘anti’ war films do this.
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  257. Good version on Audible if you’ve a long journey coming up.
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  258.  @captainchaos4896  I remember them ..... just trying to forget them is all...:)
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  259.  @thegeneralist7527  The point was not about us having the oil - it was about the Axis NOT having it. If they had got the Mid. East oil we'd all be wearing lederhausen now.
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  260. What sort of Tosser leaves their pet behind??!!
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  261.  @lawrencewestby9229  Yes. Good point. Doesn’t take quite as much to train a body to ram his plane into a big old ship. They say landing is the hardest part of learning to fly and they can skip that bit.
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  262.  @philiphumphrey1548  I think he wanted a fight with warships and not being a ‘pirate’ and taking merchant ships. He was an old school German navy man. He wanted a victory against the RN. What better than in the south Atlantic in a ship called Graf Spee. Revenge for the Falklands. He reckoned , I think, that if he was victorious he would be forgiven. He hadn’t really thought it through properly though. He was in a North Sea/Baltic frame of mind with a friendly port near by. Any damage 1000s of miles from home would be disastrous. And this was the case with his diesel processing system being destroyed. He was screwed.
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  263. Mick Lynch for President!!
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  264. There was a fight in our local pub during WW2 when a number of black Americans erks were told to get out by a group of white American soldiers. The landlady rounded on them and told them it wasn’t up to them who drank in her pub and bought the black guys all a drink. Not exactly sure what happened next but it all kicked off with the locals fighting the white Americans. MPs broke it up. My grandads best man was in the FAA (as a TAG) and he went to the USA with his carrier after it was bombed in the med (HMS Indom). He was appalled at the racism he saw. He was a fairly conservative type of bloke yet he was stilll gobsmacked by the overt nature of the prejudice.
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  265. As one of the aforementioned ‘men’ I’d be very happy for women to take over sooner rather than later.
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  266. I’m sure they’ve missed the boat. They could have found the Messi had an English grandparent 15 years ago and we’d have let them have anything they wanted.
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  267. Great stuff. Such a nuanced subject. Over simplified good small ships and bad bug ones.
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  268.  @zoiders  well, obviously!! he was in the SAS as well!:) Good point though. Why do people make crap up?!
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  269.  @zoiders  I shall look out for that book. I like the stories of the ‘Other guys’. Ones you never hear about. And I agree with your point, too. I just read a book on the Royal Navy patrol service. They were amazing! Grubby fishermen in trawlers painted grey with WW1 guns bolted onto them. Keeping the coastal convoys of coal going. Corelli Barnett doesn’t even mention them in ‘Engage the Enemy More Closely”.
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  270.  @jansmith286  ‘Lions Led by Donkeys’ is from an alleged statement by an Imperial German Army general concerning British soldiers in WW1.
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  271. I am soooooo hung over.
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  272. I’m a psychiatric nurse. I see people talk like this all the time. Seriously. Not joking.
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  273. They don’t stand a chance!
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  274. Sorry, what? How many on food stamps.??? The Fuck!!!!!????
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  275. Finally! An axis tank big enough for the Typhoon to actually hit with its rockets (probably while it was stationary - broken down somewhere, stuck in mud or out of fuel).
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  276. KIA - not a great name for a military unit.
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  277. I bloody love PIATs. PIATs and Fairey Fulmars. They get so much lazy historiography that it boils my pish. My father in law was in the Black Watch in the 1959’s and his job was loader/#2 in a Bazooka (super?) team. His instructor said he’d rather have a PIAT because the WDS (weapon discharge signature which I just made up as a thing) was so great that you could expect immediate fatal counter fire. The PIAT could be fired from enclosed spaces like rooms or bunkers which rocket weapons could not for two reasons. One, the sudden and violent increased air pressure caused by expanding exhaust gases could be fatal or at least cause severe deafness. Two, the whole setting shit on fire thing. PIAT history is a lot of bandwagon lazy sourceless crap. Sew and sew said it’s rubbish so I’ll say the same. There’s one particularly galling rotund guy on a history channel pile of Shite who slags it off and clearly was asked an opinion and just bumped his gums. Actual historical reports seem pretty favourable. Yes, it kicked like a bastard and yes it didn’t always cycle properly like in the clip from BTF. But it was decent and had some clear advantages and battle reports seem to bear out its efficacy. Great vid by the way:)
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  278. I haven’t met an American in person who has been able to tell me what actually ‘socialism’ means. I haven’t met a lot mind you and there are some great American socialism. But the ones I’ve spoken to about it haven’t the first clue what socialism is. They just say it’s bad and it’s communism and it’s against freedom or some shit. But actually describe a policy or philosophy of socialism? Nada
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  279. Crete kind of saved Malta. Operation Herkules was never given much impetus following the massive losses the falljaeger took in Crete. Oberkommando just didn’t fancy it and thought they’d let the RA and Luftwaffe do the job instead.
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  280. Great story.
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  281. I live just around the corner from the first V2 rocket strike.
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  282.  @iansadler4309  indeed. Bit of a ‘rookie error’ though, really. The idea of some idiot Rupert sending me off to be put in grave danger through stupidity or carelessness is the most terrifying aspect of war to me.
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  283. My mums next door neighbour was a mid-upper gunner on a HH Halifax. He was a ‘caterpillar club’ member and was captured in Holland. He gave me a very interesting talk on defensive fire and how it was done. USAAF gunners tried to damage or destroy attacking planes but RAF doctrine was to drive the attacker off or cause their fire to miss. It was fascinating. Great vid btw (again:)
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  284. Poor aircraft, poor payload, poor sights, poor defensive armaments and poor tactics and strategy. Poor bastards.
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  285. Not the easiest of tasks - making torpedoes. Nazis had issues initially, too.
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  286.  @robertmatch6550  The auto correct did it. It annoys me too.
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  287. I really look forward to your work. I like the mix of media. I learn best with this kind of mix. Your narrative style and voice are very good and pro sounding which is definitely a good thing.
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  288.  @carsonm7292  Indeed. Stens main advantage was that it went from drawing board to front line in three months.
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  289. Bloody awful book! Don’t read it. Full of errors! Read C S Smiths book on it instead if you want a proper history book. I cannot stand Hastings. He’s an awful historian and his pedestal book proves it.
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  290. ........ and so it begins. Uzi nine mm anyone?
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  291. I spoke with a geezer at a festival in Oxfordshire who said that his step father had flown WW’s and they had been trying to get the go ahead for ‘intruder missions’ (his term) during the B of B. They wanted to follow the bombers back to their aerodromes and hit them as they landed. However, the brass “fucked about too much” ( his words again) and by the time it was green lighted the battle had essentially ended. The only other thing I’d heard was the WWs were being looked at by the FAA. They wanted a navalised version but got bogged down with whether to have an extra crewman or not.
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  292. Not mentioned in this video (very remiss imho) was that the British had tricked him into thinking a large force awaited him. There was no such thing. British heavy units were still several days away. When he learned this he shot himself. Not good that the video neglected this hugely important part of the story.
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  293. Holy shit. Literally.
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  294. Hastings book is cobblers. Read Smith instead. Roger Hill, Ledburys captain had been on PQ17 and was never going to ‘abandon the merchant navy again”. His book Destroyer Captain is a good one. His crew called him ‘Phyllis’ owing to his hissy fits. Understandably really as he’d been on the go since the Abyssinian crisis.
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  295. When I think of the Red Tails I always imagine the face on some nazi airman as he’s shot down by some black geezer! Quality image!
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  296. Excellent work, comrade.
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  297. Bismarck was scuttled. Because it was doomed. It was doomed because it was utterly wrecked. Or maybe they just decided to sink a perfectly sound ship for fun.
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  298. Was just about to mention that but thought I’d better check other posts first. The Lewis a s Savage guns they replaced were given to the Coal Scuttle brigade.
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  299. As depicted in ‘Come and See’.
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  300. You mention the younger generation and I think that they are the only hope here.
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  301. Chilling …… that someone should invent such cobblers. To quote Carl ‘Hail’ Sagan “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. Nice one, though. :)
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  302. I’m in a union and I don’t see any rewards?
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  303. I think the creepiest thing in the Vatican is most probably the list of nonce priest that they’ve moved out of the way instead of actually dealing with the issue.
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  304. “Why have you done this?” To know your enemy, obviously!!
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  305. Just read a decent book about him. It’s a bit of a ‘got there in the end!’ type of story. Very decent officer and mariner.
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  306. Mrs Geordiedog and I wanted to help one of the boys with a deposit. Oh how naive we were!
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  307. If your script isn’t long enough write some more. Don’t just leave big gaps between sentences.
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  308. “Dove”…….”Dove”!!!!!! Told you this would happen!!
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  309. To be fair the Fulmars were good at their job. Cos of the nature of carrier warfare the planes had to be able to do several jobs. They couldn’t be out n out fighters. Also, they weren’t expected to be duelling with other fighters (no Italian or German carriers in operation - only half built ones). Finally, losses from ..... well getting lost ... were very serious over the featureless ocean so a bespoke navigator was stipulated for the plane. Experience changed the doctrine somewhat but the basic idea was sound. The Fulmars replacement the Firefly was a very good bit of kit.
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  310. Er…. Gurkhas?
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  311. Good analogy.
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  312. What a confused video. But thanks for shout out to the Fulmar (even though you mainly show Fireflies - even in the thumbnail)
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  313.  @DangerB0ne Such a great story.
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  314. What a legend.
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  315. Churchill used British atomic research to barter for the use of the SS Ohio for Operation Pedestal.
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  316. Interestingly, had the Falklands gone the other way, the Labour Party were committed to nuclear disarmament and they would have got in once Thatcher was out. We might have also avoided decades of neoliberalism. I worked in prison health care for a while and several Falklands vets had joined HMPS. I had a bunch of detached officers from Preston nick and they were Ex Paras. All had been in The Falklands. So interesting. One thing they all agreed on was that Jones was “a fookin’ idiot!” They said that the ‘Ruperts’ were all “mad for it” as this was an actual battle and they had always thought they’d miss any actual fighting in the modern world. They said, and I’m only repeating what they told me, was that Jones was essentially a vainglorious idiot. They said he should have never ever have done what he did. It was selfish and an attempt at getting his own glory at the expense of the regiment. His VC is part of a history of politically charged VC awards - think Rorkes Drift. Sorry to be controversial and I’d never detract from the sacrifice made.
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  317. Sorry, but Pedestal did not fail!
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  318. Dear God……….
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  319. Great video!! - although I’m not sure about the comment re. Bolshevism and imperialism as it involves ‘internationalist’ Trotsky and the British Empire . “Assist British interest in the Baltic” was our motivation as you stated and that was more about status quo and geopolitics etc. That and the fact that the RN will do anything to get into a battle. But an excellent vid as usual. Especially, as your uncle was involved in it. My family, although very military, are as dull as dishwater.
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  320. Lying toe wragg.
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  321. That made me literally LOL.
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  322. Funny how history repeats itself.
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  323. Good question! Germany would have been a Soviet (radioactive?) wasteland. The allied (conventional) bombing would have continued and so would Stalin from the east. The question would have been would uncle Joe have stopped in Germany and just pushed on into, well, everywhere?
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  324. Mick is a ledge. (When will these hacks learn not to treat him with such disdain? It always ends badly for them!).
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  325.  @theawesomeman9821  the Front, Mark Feltham and Military history visualised have good videos on this topic. Search for ‘Rommel myth’. They’ll do a better and more interesting job of answering than I can. But the Rommel myth was mainly due to post war politics wanting to bug him up for various reasons.
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  326. Explosive bolts on the rear prop for emergency exits.
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  327. “Ding, ding of the fire Gong” not “ fire going”. If you watch the ‘Battle of the River Plate’ you can hear the fire gongs going before each RN salvo.
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  328.  @dovetonsturdee7033  I’ve seen them given for less.
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  329. Topic suggestion: Operation Pedestal?
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  330. A bit more venom like that, mr Starmer, sir! Show you’re a socialists please.
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  331. If it wasn’t for Crete we’d have possibly lost Malta. Their paras got so badly chopped up that further airborne mass attacks were discouraged. Thus knackering Operation Herkules.
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  332. Every time I see i Mirage I think ‘Saturday mornings and ‘The Aeronauts’’. (Showing my age or what?).
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  333. Take a British Hurricane. Add a Polish fighter pilot. Result: most effective fighters of the B Of B.
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  334. Quite right too
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  335. Great video. Also, as well as a fascinating topic, excellently researched and written, your presentation, diction etc is really good, too! nice one:)
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  336. Well said. MG42 enthusiasts often have no idea about local logistics ie ammo and barrels.
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  337.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  that’s great. My father in law was in the Black Watch as a loader in a Bazooka (super) team. His instructor said he’d have rather had a PIAT - bear in mind this is the 1950’s. The reason he said was that shooting a bazooka had such a large WDS weapon discharge signature (I made that up:) that you would be instantly counter batteried. Also you could fire a PIAT from inside a room or bunker. Firing a rocket from an enclosed space caused such sudden increase in air pressure due to expanding exhaust gas that it could kill or at least deafen. Then there’s the whole setting stuff on fire thing. I think there’s a good tale of a typical British military death cult type guy at Arnhem who took out a load of Tigers by firing his PIAT from upstairs and roof tops. I get miffed about this topic because of the lazy and bandwagon history. Every report was just a rehash of a previous report etc and non had an actual source. Yes it kicked like a bastard and yes it didn’t always cycle but actually it was ok and as mentioned had some very useful advantages over rocket projectiles. Rant over, ta.
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  338. Mr Bonhoeffer….. please meet messers Dunning and Krueger.
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  339. The navigator of the Fulmar recon. crew who survived the night action against Bismarck was John Hoare. He describes his ordeal in his autobiography’Tumult in the Clouds’. Has anyone else read this book? I’m asking as I thought a better title would have been ‘Tumult in the Bar’ as he really seems to have just been permanently pissed throughout the war as he chronicles his war pub by pub and bar by bar. Can’t say I blame him, mind!
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  340. The passive aggressive PotUS trying to look bored. …… unbelievable.
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  341. During the Omaha scene in SPR my mate next to me says half way though “it’s only a flesh wound” a la python. Ruined it it did.
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  342. Konigsberg was the first ship sunk by aircraft in war. Albeit in harbour, stationary and damaged at the time.
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  343. The ‘Non TaxPayers Alliance’
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  344.  @smellysam  Vety Italian, then! I had an Italian motorbike once. Beautiful, Powerful and fast. And no fecking use at all if it was damp or cold.
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  345.  @genericpersonx333 That’s a very interesting take on it. I think you”ve made a good point. I’d probably say it was a bit of both. The fate of post war France was certainly a potential mess with a very strong communist element all set for Uncle Joes expected push from the East. That said………. It’s De Gaulle we’re talking about! A man who wrote a book on French military history and ‘somehow neglected’ to include the battle of Waterloo. Waterloo!!! The man was unbearable in his pride.
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  346.  @fandangobrandango7864  aye, some of it. The Northumberland AOONB not so much I think.
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  347.  @UncleJoeJoe  Heaven with a Hangover. Sounds like a good song title.
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  348. Great work Edwardo. Your narration is so good now. Very pro, mate. Well done etc etc :)
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  349. Brisbane Star could have a film all to herself. Her story is amazing but gets (understandably) overshadowed by OH10.
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  350. What a beast. Convair next? Incidentally, I was reading a book about the atom bomb development and I found that the B29 had so many teething issues that there was a contingency for RAF Lancasters to drop the Bombs. In fact, it was only politics that pushed the B52s into the final attack as it was thought it wouldn’t be ready in time.
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  351. Great vid, matey - Very informative. SAAB say don’t cash the check until payday:) One of the things the (much maligned) PIAT was good for was firing from enclosed spaces. The rapid expansion of gases in a confined space can deafen and concuss or even kill the user. Then there’s the whole burny burny thing. Also, pretty sure the price is gonna be well below the Javlin $$$$$
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  352. Ledge.
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  353. Russia failed to take the Ukraine so I don’t think Europe has much to worry about.
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  354.  @bighands69  well, I did and that’s why I came up a bit baffled by his high rep. Basically, to get the accolades he got I’d have expected more evidence of stunning victories. I’m not saying he was a bad general. No. But he seems over rated. So, at no point did he face an opponent equal or superior numerically. His rapid drive through Normandy was good but he didn’t have much opposition thanks to Montys bugling of the Caen operations drawing in the best of the German units. (This is Niall Ferguson not me btw). Also, Patton made some serious howlers like getting a lot of his men killed in blue/blue incidents over Sicily. Obvious, he could only fight what was in front of him but he was only ever up against German forces collapsing backwards. He pressed them well but does that make him the “best?” A meta analysis of what makes a good general also rated caring for men in your command and operating well with other leaders as essential where as Patton was clearly a self promoting egotistical arse. This egoism doesn’t mean he’s not a good general, just not a ‘great’ one. It’s the statement that’s he’s ‘the best’ that I just don’t get.
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  355. One thing about the Italians post war was that they had just sided with a group who turned out to be genocidally evil and therefore played down their contributions to that evil. “Yes we were in the war but we didn’t do any harm. We just surrendered or crashed or sank. No harm done! Alora “
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  356. As an RMN of 37 years I think she has a very ‘difficult’ personality’ dominated by a very intense sense of entitlement. Her ‘entitlement schema’ led to her being extraordinarily paranoid - the dissonance created by her entitled expectations collided reality exploded in a massive burst of paranoia and indignation. She has a most proud external locus of control as well - it’s never her fault!
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  357. Ten gun terror. It had six .303 in the wings as well as the cannon (two one side with a nav light and four on the other wing).
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  358. I’ve always thought that the British bombing campaign was a mistake - or at least it was badly managed. This video shows very clearly how it could have gone astoundingly wrong fir the British in that theatre. Lucky escape, we had!
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  359. It was armed and reinforced in Glasgow. Lessons learned by the fate of her sister ship.
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  360. Can anyone confirm the existence of a British gull winged naval interceptor plan circa 1940? I’m sure I saw one recently on a video but I can’t remember where). It was basically a very close copy of the Spit but heavily navalised.
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  361. She did also try to be a pop star as well. Always a red flag that one.
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  362.  @randalpumpkin2788  In his book AJP Taylor says that once the major powers had begun to move their armies by train they had to continue or else they would totally screw up their mobilisation if they called a halt. The movement of their armies was all done by train and the whole thing was set to a strict timetable in order to get hundreds of thousand s of men plus equipment to the border/starting positions. Once they started they had to keep going or risk having their army half deployed against an opponent who was fully deployed. So all major powers - once started- had to go through with the deployment. They couldn’t stop it without making themselves totally vulnerable and weeks behind schedule. Of course, once the army was deployed to the starting lines on the border then the other nation had their army deployed also facing it on the other side of the border. This situation was so volatile, so threatening that war was inevitable. They almost HAD to go through with it.
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  363. Bloody crabs made a bollocks of WW2. Glad the FAA got shot of them!:) Great video. Needs more unconditional love for the Fulmar, though. ( Fullies v German LBF ratio of kill:loss was 1:1 although the cohort is tiny weeny).
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  364. Point One: Artillery. Very good point. A Bridge Too Far has an excellent rolling barrage scene. Point Two: Also a good point. Good scene in Blackhawk Down where soldiers are defended. Point Three: Tanks. Not really seen a good tank film yet. Some excellent books. Point Four. Ammo. Yeah. Most films seem to have their hero’s blasting away then suddenly running out as opposed to disciplined fire. Or just blazing away indefinitely. So, a good war film would go, start lines, blasted by artillery, everyone deaf and shocked then squashed by tanks with the survivors falling back to reload and restock. I like it!!
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  365. I think Ive seen these before a lot but I just thought them to be Wimpies. Nice touch at the end. A few hours in a tiny dingy in the North Sea and the sight of a Warwick would be very, very welcome. I think I read somewhere that the Beaufort and mossie squadrons attacking Norway would regularly have the Warwick crews over for a thank you bash. Anyone confirm this?
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  366.  @Mini13Mini  Well, if they dropped me a boat in the middle of Dogger Bank while I was in nowt but my Mae West I’d certainly buy them a pint of ten.
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  367. God help us all! Thank God them Geordie lasses were ok. Ish.
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  368. Yay! Cool Worlds video!!
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  369. There are a lot of conflicting accounts of Soviets shooting their own men. Seems that it was generally hugely exaggerated by western sources. However, I have to agree with a certain somewhat controversial historian that the only way to beat a monster like Hitler was to have a monster like Stalin.
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  370. Ray Shoesmith has one.
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  371. Training ?.?
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  372. I wonder what they did with my granddads motorbike. He put sand in the tank.
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  373. Good old Janus. Doing what the RN was made for. Fighting the French.
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  374. This idea that pilots are these infallible witnesses is such bollocks.
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  375. It’s an absolute disgrace that he ended up where he did. This is such a dark episode of history. I mean, in Japan there wasn’t even a Nuremberg equivalent. It disgusting. Love NASA but this is whitewashing and to try to say any different is disingenuous.
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  376. You really can’t stand that guy, can you? Well good ‘cos he’s an utter nob.
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  377. Why are Pirates called Pirates….?
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  378. Soccer?? Football!!
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  379. The days of the conventional soldier really are fast becoming a thing of the past.
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  380. I have a hell hound. She’s called Ruby and is a rescued racing greyhound and can open any door or cupboard in the house including the fridge.
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  381. Wow. Look at me! On the right side of history AGAIN! Well, well.
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  382. Capitalism has an other victim: Science
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  383.  Sakkra1993  …..and the Lanchester was a direct copy of the MP 18. (Or was it the MP28?)
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  384. Kamikaze issue? You need ‘Royal Navy Armoured Carriers”.
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  385. You have, sir, what Ivor Cutler called a “for goodness sake cut it off moustache.
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  386. Not sure how I feel about Monty. Seems more like a clever politician than a brilliant general. A bit like Patton, he was given a rep through propaganda rather than actual achievement. That said, he clearly understood the old adage “amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics”.
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  387. An Italian SM79 did something similar in early 1941. It was attacked by a FFA Fulmar while shadowing a convoy in the Med and the pilot was hit and incapacitated. The co-pilot wasn’t trained to fly the damaged plane let alone land her with combat damage. He managed to get the plane on a homeward heading but it became apparent that he was not able to fly, let alone land the plane so the remaining crew dropped the wounded pilot near the RN ships and then all jumped themselves. All were picked up. The plane flew on. The crew had radioed their predicament and intentions so as the plane showed up on Italian radar they decided to shoot it down before it reached the toe of Italy where it might crash and cause harm/damage. Two Falco IIs were sent to shoot her down. Rather embarrassingly however they failed to shoot the Sparrow-hawk down and expended all their ammo. (I mean, that’s bad. I know there’s by this sometimes very unfair meme about wwII Italy but that’s fucking terrible!). Anyheeoooh. The SM79 was engaged by x3A but ploughed on and made a very decent wheels up in a vineyard. So much so that she was recovered and returned to her squadron. Now, everyone knows how superstitious military personnel are and Catholic military personnel are even more so. Italian Catholic airmen where ‘off-the-bloody-map’ superstitious!! Everyone wanted to fly the ‘lucky Sparrow-hawk’! However, the Wing -Co pulled rank and claimed it. (Yeah, I know. Fucking Ruperts, right!) Next raid - on Malta- it took an almost direct hit from flak over Grand Harbour and went straight down in a conflagration. Hey ho….
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  388. How very fair of you Andrew. Much more than the other lot would ever do.
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  389. Prof Dave. One of the good guys.
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  390. All that walking about with the air full of metal is quite remarkable!
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  391. If Germany had won the BoB it would have shortened the war by allied victory by four years.
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  392. Possibly because it affects the whole world?
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  393. The Italians performance in WWII is very nuanced - the meme of the surrendering and incompetent Eye - Tie was not just allied propaganda but also post war Italian propaganda designed to take away any hostility towards them and they played that part well. Poor little misguided Italy, well, at least we didn’t do any harm! This is seen in the almost complete lack of Italian war crime trials despite there having been several notable examples. The Italians were, for eg, notorious for shooting allied pilots in their parachutes. This story demonstrated the nuance well. SA pilots dropped gauntlets on Italian airfields with messages saying “stop shooting parachuting pilots or we’ll start doing it too - and there’s a lot more of you bailing out than there is us!” Consequently, there followed much internal threats amongst Italian air crews against any pilots continuing the practice with some being threaten with fragging should they carry out parachute shooting of allied airmen.
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  394. While I’m a supporter of Irish unity and no fan of our imperialist past there’s a staggering amount of mawkish shite talked about Irish history. The Irish paramilitary campaign failed because the Irish were constantly stabbing each other in the back. The counter insurgence intelligence (utterly ruthless bastards I might say) constantly turned ira and inla with blackmail and often good old fashioned greed and financial gain. Irishmen have killed far more Irishmen than anyone else. As for US support, my own experience was awful. Nothing short of utter ignorance from any one I spoke to. Shouting threats and falsehoods at me without even trying to understand that I was actually sympathetic and knowledgable.
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  395. Great work. Depressing but interesting!
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  396.  @thekinginyellow1744  That’s because it’s like the most badly represented bit of kit ever! Primary source info on them is really very positive. The ‘haters’ are generally just following a sheep or are Werhaboos spouting the usual cobblers. PIATs had lots of great advantages over rocket prop. kit. ‘King in Yellow’ is a great handle, by the way!:) I love that whole thing from the originals to TD season 1.
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  397. Good name for a band, though.
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  398. I actually knew about this one. Football War was what I knew it as. Still, great to see it in more detail. Any clues as to the type of 20mm? Hispano or Oerlikons ?
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  399. Great video. Bizarrely I don’t think you do it justice though but given the time allowed how could you. For example, the deception of fooling the Italian High Command over using their cruisers to finish off the convoy was stunning but omitted. Brisbane’s stars journey is an episode in itself as she avoided french and axis officials and subs. As for OH 10 (as her crew nicknamed her) that story is a whole series on its own. For example, fighting off air attacks in fancy dress outfits! Finally, HMS Ledbury story is one of redemption for a crew stung by the losses of the Russian Convoys. The list goes. Not a criticism in any way though. As I said - time constraints etc.
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  400. “And here’s the Blackburn Blackburn flying over Blackburn by Wing Cmdr Blackburn and Flight Sgt Schwartzfuer. It has a new paint which gives off very dark smoke if it catches fire”.
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  401. One day maybe someone will give a decent appraisal of the British PIAT instead of the lazy and bad history that’s usually attached to its description. “Bring up the PIAT!”
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  402. Is that a Danish Madsen MMG in the pic near the beginning anyone know? It’s not a Bren.
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  403. Hmmmmm ….. should have waited ‘til the end.
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  404. Some confusing shots of WW2 era tanks just randomly chucked in!
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  405.  @andrewdavy9921  bit of a wide sweep. My experience of primary care mental health suggests that every profession has my issues although (apart from musical theatre students ) we were massively over represented with teachers. I think people in the nhs are generally left wing. Perhaps not socialist. I’m one, obviously. My ward managers a fan of Boris Johnson.
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  406.  @allen5513  The people of Britain ain’t what I’m on about. The establishment saw policies aimed at their money and moved their ‘machinery’ to ensure he never got in or came close. Manipulative action against the voters is just the way in which it’s achieved. (No I’m not wearing a tin foil hat either:)
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  407. Does anyone know if you can get a transcript of the spotter plane comments mentioned at Calabria?
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  408. Drack.
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  409. My mates dad operated one of these on his collier on the coal scuttle run from the Tyne to Thames in 1939. It was stuck on the bridge and welded on. He was expected to shoot down JU87 and 88s and the like with it. Also fend off E-Boats. They also had a ‘Savage’ gun mounted which sounds like a Lewis derivative.
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  410.  @justforever96  Mate, obviously they didn’t weld the gun itself to the ship!
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  411. The deeply troubling personal issues that made her stronger was presumably when she was caught boning another Tory MP. Trustworthy lot, aren’t they.
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  412. My grandfather loved the Ghurkas.
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  413. I wouldn’t personally trust a word that comes out of Musks gob.
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  414. Bomber Command really were utterly incompetent, at least at the start of the war. Actually, the RAF was a mess. With the exception of fighter interception they got everything wrong. And fighter interception only ended up extending the war by four years (Sealion, Nazi disaster etc).
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  415. Bluddy moon spiders...... menace they are.
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  416.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Aye. Just compiling a wee list of them in my head. Incidentally, have you read ‘Quartered Safe Out Here’?
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  417. Patton and Monty were totally over-rated. Because of Hollywood we get more about Monty being over rated.
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  418.  @Boppy-B-B  interesting point. I hadn’t considered how they’d treated prisoners in the First World War. I imagine that they were looking to get a place at the wars end table as a result of their collaboration and didn’t want to be seen negatively although I’m guessing here.
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  419. I think the Royal Navy were a bit less respectfully Tirpitz and rather wanted her to sortie so they could have a good old fashioned punch up. Churchill, however, was obsessed with her and he drove a lot of the efforts to have her written off.
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  420. That made me literally not figuratively lol
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  421. Nice one!
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  422.  @anthonywilson4873  I thought that it was going to be a vid that was going for views rather than being of decent content. But I’m pleased to be wrong.
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  423. I’d go with that.
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  424. Who names a Military Vessel “Broke”?
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  425. But sureLy we’re not surprised. The military has a long and proud history of getting its assessments utterly wrong!
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  426. I had a company which was very rich but I walked away and left all the money. I had a huge acting career but I walked away to do my passionate work! OR I was a failure again so I ran away and tried another grift. I was bombing as an actor so I ran away and tried to be a cult leader.
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  427.  @AnthonyHandcock  well, of course he would!! He’s in on it!!
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  428. The whole concept of anti aircraft cruisers is fascinating.
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  429. Nice bit of kit.
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  430. I’m pretty sure you need a lot of energy to ‘drift off’ into the ether as suggested in this episode.
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  431. The last resort of this guy is to just claim Dave’s wrong with not basis.
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  432. Eh? We had commandos and the us copied with Rangers and now we’re copying Rangers? Huh?
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  433. Hey. I live around the corner from most of the Brunel campuses. Literally. If I can be of any help……
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  434. It was actually the Suomi SMG that saved the Finns in the Winter war. Well, that and way superior tactics and not having executed all its officers a couple of years before.
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  435. Great!
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  436. Nice one, Ed. I also heard (on Armoured Carriers’ channel) that the Grumman Martlet/Wildcat sold to the FAA was widely sabotaged at source, too.
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  437. This vid prompts so many jokes about Scousers it’s difficult to know where to start!!
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  438.  @johnshepherd8687  That’s not the pint I’m making..... apart from the bit about Buffaloes... nothing was as bad as them (except when Finns flew them for some reason). I’m not saying the Air superiority element was lacking. I’m saying the Fulmar was good plane for carrier duties. You can make a long list of bespoke dog fighters that out match the Fulmar. But the Zero wasn’t as good as the Fulmar in ASW. The Martlet wasnt as good at recon. The Corsair couldn’t navigate over sea as well etc etc. It wasn’t designed as an AirSup. aircraft. It’s air 2 air specs where to be able to interdict enemy recon., bombers and torpedo planes and not tangle with single seat fighters. It was good at that multi role job the proof being that they continued the concept with the Firefly which deserved into the ‘50’s. Good dog fighter? No. Good multi-purpose carrier aircraft? Yes.
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  439.  @johnshepherd8687  I’ll stick with boring then:)
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  440.  @RichardASalisbury1  I was going to say that your friend was ‘lucky’ to have survived the Somme offensive but then he would be pretty dumb unlucky to have been there in the first place.
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  441.  @avienated  It’s a good ‘in alright. I prefer him to Wilfred Owen. Owen seems a bit jingoistic at times. Like he was actually pro war sometimes. Sassoon was clearly utterly sickened by all aspects of it.
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  442. Bloody Washington and his bloody treaty. Could have some ace ships if it was for his meddling. What? Eh! ..... oh.
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  443. Did you spot the Gilbert and Sullivan reference?
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  444. Is this still the license plate thing?
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  445. Excellent work as always.
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  446. My grandfather (RHA) absolutely loved the Gurkhas. My mates grandfather who was also in the desert said he spent more time fighting ‘Yarpies’ than he did fighting the Axis. Oh and well done for using the correct term for the Kiwi First Nation (yes I know they aren’t indigenous but they got their first, ok:)
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  447.  andy morris  poor old ‘HMS Solent’ - she’s been sunk in more fictional circumstances than any other ship of the Royal Navy. There’s at least two I can think of straight off….
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  448. This was not an even fight. The German ship was actually more than a match for the three RN cruisers. It was designed to kill any ship smaller and out run any ship bigger.
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  449. Great work Drak. However, you’re wrong about the Fulmar. To be fair, a lot of people are but the Fulmar was actually very effective kite and had a one to one ratio against land based fighters. Most of its losses where against defensive fire from bombers due to them having to close to suicidal ranges to defeat the armour as they only had .303s.
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  450. Interesting when it’s a topic you can absolutely remember happening.
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  451. Great to do this episode some justice. The tradition of the navy of the Commonwealth is always the flag 16, Nelsonian “Engage the Enemy More Closely”. The Antipodeans certainly never were out done in that respect.
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  452. A lot of ‘These people’ have this pathetic mawkish love of the British military but would actually be utterly unable to be in the military for even an hour as someone would probably ‘tell them what to do’ and they’d totally lose their shit!
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  453.  @stephenhill8790  Yes! Exactly that!
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  454.  @brynleytalbot778  I grew up in the 1970s and this idea of rabid unionism gone mad is just another right wing media myth. Yeah, I suppose there were some strikes for the wrong reasons but not many. Most strikes for ‘ the wrong reasons’ weren’t about avarice anyway + they were usually because they had tanky leaders.
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  455. Wonderful video. Thank you
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  456. Destroyer captains seem to be an extraordinary bellicose bunch. Poirun, Glowworm, Ledbury, Vendetta etc
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  457. What do you think took down the helicopter?
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  458.  @吴-o8s  Ah! Oh....
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  459. Awful book. Gets so much plain wrong. There’s a great book by Smith on Pedestal. Much better source.
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  460. Another great video. Cheers.
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  461.  @davidmurphy8190  well, quite! Pretty bloody damn close, in fact. Pedestal was the classic example of tactical defeat and strategic victory although you can argue that it was a tactical victory too. If he’s going to argue that first and second Sitre we’re Italian victories then he can’t claim Pedestal was a British defeat.
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  462. Boooooooom.......er..........rang
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  463.  @billydumas9107  that made me actually LOL
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  464. There’s a new trend in WW1 history to portray the generals are more professional and competent. They were neither. Some of them may have been a bit less callous and detached and somewhat more effective in local actions but they were often removed through jealousy and nepotism. British generals were the antithesis of class snobbery and were tactically inept and slow to react to a new situation. French and German brass weren’t much better but this just extended the bloody stalemate. Generals cannot be expected to make battles without losses but to suggest that they weren’t “donkeys’ is only right in that donkeys were very useful.
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  465. Horrible, horrible person. Arrogant and dismissive of the ‘proles and their silly rules’. Clearly been hanging around with Jonson for too long.
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  466.  @bruce4890  Excellent. Just the job. Cheers
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  467. Not sure what your point is?
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  468.  @mikearmstrong8483  I know EXACTLY what you mean. Frankly I’m suspect of these people’s politics. If not that then an infatuation with uniforms. Either way they’re wrong!!
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  469.  @MosoKaiser  you could just attack from underneath. It wasn’t really a serious point. It just stimulates a bit of discussion. I got the idea from the fact that Zeros actually really struggled against defensive fire from ‘heavies’ because of the nature of defensive fire (ie deny the attacker a good line of fire - fly through or break off) The zero couldn’t use its advantages to the same extent and the lack of armour plate and SSFTs meant that even the rifle cal. weapons caused a lot of damage. Bottom line though is it’s just a speculative idea based on the lack of efficacy of the other options bar the Spits. (Defensive circles were quite effective tactics though and were often employed due to the interlocking fire they offered).
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  470.  @plymouth5714  Really. I thought it was a Fairey Battle rear gunner who got a one oh nine. I’ll check !! (Most if the Battles were, of course, shot down by the Bf’s)
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  471. Great video. Keep it up!!
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  472. Great video.
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  473.  @siogbeagbideach  I’m one of those (possibly sad:) people who likes my dog more than I do a lot of people. I realise not everyone is like that. And the others are wrong :)!
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  474.  @zhoufang996  Well, yes. Big picture and all that then yes. Good point.
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  475.  @thurin84  yeah, ones enough isn’t it!:)
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  476. Read a few accounts that mention submariners (sun - mariner) hearing the pistols going off first. This being very very very scary as it meant the damn thing was close.
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  477. I couldn’t have done what rayner did today. I’d have walked over and chinned the twat. Or just laughed at him.
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  478. “Dove!” Frickin’ “Dove” No!!!
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  479. Clever? Vulpine maybe (apologies to foxes everywhere,)
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  480. How accurate do you think the RM assertion that they couldn’t sail their capitals due to fuel shortages were given that the preceding actions had been a weapons grade cluster fuck for them?
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  481. Wouldn’t it just be easier to assume that the Japanese ship was sunk unless stated otherwise?
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  482. Pom-Poms. The Ledbury Pom Pom crew were ‘a particularly bloodthirsty lot’ (Roger Hill, Destroyer Captain). They wore football shirts and flat caps and were mental!
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  483.  @leonpaelinck  Isn’t the point though that they had already been detached before the battle of Tannenberg?
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  484. “However, Jervis had one slight advantage. The Royal Navy is essentially a Death Cult and is manned by total fucking mentalists who just want to ram everyone and fly flag 16 no matter what!!”
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  485. I’d agree with that. You can’t defend everywhere in force.
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  486. They sank really quickly because of the bomb bay doors.
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  487. A crack team of cows took control of Neuronic and re routed it to west Africa.
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  488.  @stevenread1676 while I’d agree with you I think it’s more nuanced. No one had fought carriers before the war and Britain was extremely stretched in its developmental requirements. Fulmars were a very good stop gap and the Firefly’s were excellent. As for tanks I’d just say that they at least didn’t cripple our logistics infrastructure like German tanks did.
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  489. I don’t think the RN under rated the Italian navy at all. They were supposed to be the responsibility of the French admittedly. Bismarck sank the Hood by the luckiest, flukey shot on the history of flukey shots. She also failed to hit any of the RN ships in the final battle. (And she didn’t sink HMS Solent, either)
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  490.  @neildecarteret6143  Yeah! He’s so unmotivated and it’s really obvious. L’Equippe gave him a 2 in their player ratings. He needs to leave for PSGs sake as much his own. Can’t see him at the Toon though. He’d wreck the pay structure and he’s not really a player for our system although really he’s good enough to play for anyone and make it work. Maybe in five years!
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  491.  @leandrocosta3709  That’s bad!
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  492. All very sad.
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  493. Winkle flew GGs during the B of B and almost got an HeIII but a flight of Hurries nipped in ahead of him.
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  494. Oh, if only it changed something!
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  495.  @alexanderd8740  A seaplane tender I think.
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  496.  @darin271  I don’t disagree with any of that. But the fact is that apart from one small attack by HMS furious in WW1 there was no evidence from actual carrier warfare prior to WW2.
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  497. “Machine guns?? Pah!! Charge!”
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  498. He speaks very eloquently I think. Thoughtful always. Quietly driven but not in an ‘at all costs” way. He would be a very good CO in the military. Glad he’s not though. Glad he’s our coach.
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  499. A totally new one on me. Great stuff Ed!
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  500. Could’ve saved yourselves a wee bit of time by just saying ‘Sunak is a cunt’?
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  501. Lilith rocks!
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  502.  @johngalt2506  bit difficult as you have to watch to know it was scare mongering. Just sayin’ again. .
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  503. Nadine Dorres seems to set off a particularly virulent level of hatred. I think it’s because I’m a nurse and she used to be one. I know some one who trained with her and said she was obsessed with Doctors and seemed to be very much in the wrong job.
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  504.  @Goulmy86  Agreed. But that small factor:) wouldn’t have stopped the hype.
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  505. The picture at 13:47 is amazing / horrifyingly. Took me a second to see exactly what’s going on. Some of the sailors look so nonchalant - clearly they do t know what’s about to occur.
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  506. Grow the economy = “more money for me and my mates”.
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  507.  @boddy2k  it’s quite a useful one I think.
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  508. Not surprising. You’d quite possibly be a US citizen if it wasn’t for 1812!
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  509.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  I’ll check it out. Defo. Keep up the good work btw:)
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  510. Roger Hill, captain of Ledbury swore to his crew before operation pedestal that after this convoy - PQ17 - they would never leave the Merchant Navy again. This attitude led to him standing by SS Ohio and eventually getting her into Valletta.
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  511.  @historigraph  I actually did a treatment for it.. But I don’t know what to do with now I’ve done it!,
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  512. Ukraine went for the House of Cards plan - kick in the Russian door and it’ll all collapse. Not an entirely daft idea. But they Russians just went for bunkers and mines. Lots of mines.
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  513. “I don’t believe in accidents” But I do believe in an invisible being in the sky who - if omnipotent - could have stopped the whole thing in the first place! Right……..
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  514. It’s never aliens.
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  515. Ah it’s always osteo isn’t it. Lost our girl to same. Left shoulder. Always the bloody left shoulder too. Thought to be something to do with the running around the track.
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  516. Elon Musk £The world’s biggest fraud. Him and Trump are a match made in hell. The darkest, smelliest bit of hell.
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  517.  @Dave-hu5hr  Always had a soft spot for Leeds. One of my boys went there to Uni. Loved it.
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  518. I liked the goalie analogy.
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  519. There’s clearly a difference between having a party and attending a funeral. She shouldn’t have gone abut at least she makes unreserved apology and says she was wrong. I don’t know this woman’s cred but she seems a lot better than the shower of c u next Tuesdays we had in England. Please correct me if I’m wrong, though. (About this witness -not about the twats in England).
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  520. Land of opportunity. Even a man with special educational needs can become president. (With enough money and BS).
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  521. Is t one of these supposed to be haunted - the one up in the NE? I know the curator tells a good tale of how a visitor once proudly pointed to the holes in the tail plane and shouted “I did that!”
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  522.  @gort8203  I see. The book I read was saying that the ‘sensible thing’ was to go with the Lancaster option as too many issues were outstanding with the ‘29’s and the possibility that it might not be ready in time was real. However, some US brass felt that it absolutely must be a US only show (despite all the non us allied boffins involved) and insisted they go with the B-29 option and basically crossed fingers (and toes) that I’d be ready.
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  523. So here’s my two pence worth - what if Bomber Command had gone for mass fleets of Mossies instead of the ‘Heavies’?? Accurate and fast. Serious question folks.
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  524. The Dunwich Horror, no less.
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  525. I remember being about five a wishing I’d never been born.
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  526. I grown man who lies about being good at video games. Yep……
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  527. Wait a sec..... they had 20 guys and they bought 280 guns?
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  528. Are they putting up flags every time someone’s argument is getting destroyed to get them out of the chair to avoid embarrassment.
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  529. Great work. Fight the power.
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  530. Well done Jonesy. 😊
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  531. I always thought that the RAF would have been better off concentrating on mosquitos and not Lancaster bombers. Not sure but it’s an idea.
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  532. Patton. I’m forever baffled by this man. He never fought a battle that really says he was a genius. I’m obviously missing something but to me he just sounds like a fraud. Same with Montgomery (not on the list).
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  533. I had a motorbike in that category once.
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  534. Toilet paper deficit caused a massive security leak. You get ten points if you can tell us why?
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  535. There’s an interesting aerial mine collection box outside the Park Hotel in Tynemouth, NE England.
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  536. Gas was the big fear. It was the atom bomb of the day.
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  537. Yeah, the Russians are just doing what the Russians do. We know they do it and we know they are good at it and have been good at it for nearly 3/4 of a century. So I agree. It’s the fault of Truss et al.
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  538. Fascinating! Just Fascinating! Although I’m a rational, materialist sort of a bloke I do think that ‘the wheels’ sound very extraterrestrial. That or a bloody wicked trip!
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  539. So, great idea, good planes, just turned out to be a BAD concept.
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  540. That’s an impressive bomb load:)
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  541. You expect that sort of censorship in dictatorships. That sort of police intervention. What law were they breaking out of interest? Anyone know?
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  542. Trouble is, AI is not just going to destroy religion, it’s going to destroy all of us. Rushing to produce ‘powerful AI’ instead of ‘Safe AI’ because the powerful AI is going to be where the money is and that’s what’s going to fuck us all!
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  543. It reminds me of the cartoon with the two newly landed aliens standing outside a Christian church by a crucifix with JC on it. One alien is saying to the other “We need to get the fuck out of here…. That’s what we need to do!”
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  544.  @jamiengo2343  it’s a bit of a can of worms. ‘Cos I’m such a geek I’ve looked into it and it’s really complicated. I think…..think…….that it would have been better if thevRAF had concentrated on precision attacks by medium and light bombers like Mossies. But it’s all conjecture.
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  545.  @scottguy5452  This is true!
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  546.  @TheArmourersBench  I shall read your book. I was recently reading about the Merchant Marine in WWII and the weird and wonderful contraptions they were given to use against air attack. Rockets with cables and attached Mills bomb was a good one. We Brits love to fire a projectile, what?
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  547. One thing we have to accept that FTL ain’t going to happen. Anywhere. Once you factor that in the universe becomes inaccessible on a life time scale.
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  548.  @therespectedlex9794  Bastart spellchecker hates me, init.
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  549.  @therespectedlex9794  “innit” is a very Southall, West London word. I just wondered …..
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  550.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Armoired Carriers is the place to go. Can’t recommend his channel high enough. Nearly as good as yours, Ed:)
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  551.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Good point. In this case shot down the most enemy aircraft.
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  552. Braverman has a fishface. She’s also evil. Deeply evil.
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  553. What? Winkle? You’re Mr Winkle?
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  554. Ah. Finally a plane I have actually heard of:)
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  555. Great video. Thanks for tidying the loose end too which -for me - was ‘why had they released it?’ Very plausible explanations. Not the ones I was hoping for but the right ones, I think.
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  556. God. The Crab cream boys really bollocked things up in WW2, didn’t they!
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  557. If it’s a ‘No’ to the main question then what’s the new ‘oldest plane to get a kill’?
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  558. Jesus H Christ!!!!!! That’s absolutely terrible. I had no idea the bastards where so prolific. They think the laws just apply to the rest of us. Worse than vermin.
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  559. They will have called their bayonets “swords”, I think.
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  560. Never knew there was such a thing!
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  561. Ah…..the Andrew!
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  562.  @Happy11807  What plane in WW2 sank the highest tonnage of shipping?
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  563.  @Jon908584  yeah! What he said!;)
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  564. Boot ugly thing.!
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  565. Three planes often slated as ‘worst ever’ used by the U.K. at the beginning of WW2 are the Battle, the Roc and the Defiant. The Battle was not just obsolete in ‘39 but was just terrible from the start (slow, but not even boasting armour, large bomb load or substantial defensive armament in return - go figure?) The Roc’s are perfectly described here and beg the question “what fucktard thought this was a good idea?” The BP Defiant is at least a half decent plane capable of doing its job well but it was the concept which was fatally flawed. I didn’t realise quite how well they’d done to start with though. There was a plan to enable the turret to ‘click’ into a forward firing position and connect to interrupter gears thus enabling it to fire forwards but nowt came of it. Here’s an interesting thought though (interesting in my addled brain obviously - not normal brains). Defiants would have been one of the best available - available! - planes at the time to have tackled the A6Ms (Spitfires aside and they weren’t really available in the Far East). They most likely would have been slaughtered along with everyone else but there’s some method in my madness. Honest.
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  566. I love you guys. I hate the wankers you expose but I love you guys.
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  567.  @greggstrasser5791  yeah. Just jump in and start blasting away. Nee botha. :)
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  568. Productivity is a big stick that’s used to smash our lives to bits.
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  569. You missed the best story out. A Sunderland shot down several Ju88 ‘heavy fighters’ in the Bay of Biscay during an interception. I think maybe as many as five of them. The u boat crews we’re given a “stand and fight” order by Dornitz in ‘43 (I think) so instead of diving and giving the attacker a free shot they up gun the AAA and shoot it out. It resulted in a bloody time for both CC and the U boat crews. Great planes. Shame about the name, though. Sunderland’s a shite hole.
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  570.  @nathanstruble2177  And you’re right, of course, but I didn’t have the time or inclination to go into the whole thing of comparing the TT and Nuremberg (US bias/led etc etc) but you re correct and I was being lazy. I should have put that the TT were considerably more expedient regarding post war anti Soviet precautions.
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  571. Fascinating. Not what we’re taught to believe at all.😊
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  572. Fascinating.
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  573.  @frankmiller95  That’s just a bloody daft thing to say. Because I wasn’t there!!! So no one can make a judgement unless they set there? Cobblers. And, with respect to your relatives, I’ll take the historical data over a couple of tales from your family.
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  574. Underwater Torpedo Tubes v The other ones.
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  575. Feels like it’s going to be an other ‘fusion in 25 yrs’ type thing.
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  576.  @AtheistOrphan  Well, I’m half jock so I’m a bit more circumspect but I really like Southgate so fingers crossed. I hope your handle isn’t a result of being shunned by family because of your (very sensible) lack of faith?
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  577. Hmmmmmm…..
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  578.  @onenote6619  Maybe……. Maybe yore on to something!
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  579. Nice to look at the comments are not see a whole lot of cobblers from conspiracy nut jobs.
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  580. I wonder if any mules won the Dicken Medal?
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  581. “Fights among people with a naval i interest” only on the internet. Funny how polite they are in person.
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  582. Bad week for the Lizardy Ones. Screw them anyway.
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  583.  @Verminator4  I’ve heard it said that armour is now too vulnerable. This does seem to bear out what you’re saying.
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  584. Good! These people are just vile. I think at the end of each day they all meet up in private and piss themselves laughing at us all.
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  585. Ben Bryant served on one. Just happen to be reading his autobiography.
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  586. Geodesic is hard to say when shitfaced. Just saying…..
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  587. P39?
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  588. Oh my Gawd!! What the actual fuck is that???? All of them?
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  589. She had a go at being a pop star. Makes me think that there’s a need to be adored here. To be honest I didn’t really have her on my ‘concerned list’. I just found her a bit of a self promoter. The propensity to get the right hump because someone said “no” however, points to a few other things and all of a sudden there’s a picture formed. I wouldn’t call her ‘the enemy’ exactly. But I could totally see her drift off to the dark side of things don’t go her way.
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  590. Interesting if the Soviet Air Forces had adopted this type of approach rather than the ‘big heavy powerful’. I kinda T34 of the jets. Great vid. Again. Getting boring saying “great vid” every time . Why not do something shite for a change?:)
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  591. EVH is famous for the ‘Brown Sound’ which was considered a very good thing!
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  592. Something that very few people seem to be considering at the mo (for obvious reasons) is ‘what if the Russians win’?
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  593.  @nian60  I know. I was just being hypothetical - as in ‘what, in the unlikely scenario that the Russians won, would happen next?’
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  594.  @nian60  Scary stuff. Too many right wing / fascist about. Feels like the 1930s all over again!!
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  595.  @johngraham245  This is true. How much will the Russian public believe? Hmmmmm…..
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  596. Do you say “tab”?
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  597. Wonderful! Just..... no singing next time, eh!
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  598. Agreed.
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  599. Number 2 is just floundering with verbosity. He has that ‘I’m so clever look’ and he isn’t.
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  600. PLM
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  601. I’d like to see the impact between earth and that iron nickel asteroid + the name of which has just escaped me!
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  602. Great vi and a brave effort - well done. I think you hedge you bets a bit with some of the conclusions. Like in the problem of evil. The conclusion is that there simply is no god. This is even more the case if you apply the purpose of suffering to nature, to animals. All defences I’ve heard are caltrop arguments designed to reassure ‘the choir’.
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  603. I’m scared.
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  604. I just don’t get it. I’ve met Americans. I’ve been to America a few times. I went to school. And I watch reliable media. I watch you guys here talking sense and being witty. Non of it adds up. How is Trump happening? I get it that there might be like 15-20% of head bangers who do dumb stuff but how does he even come close to getting elected. The guy is thick - As fucking mince! He’s the very worst example of a spoilt, tantrum throwing man child dipshit. Although Musk is pushing him, I admit!
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  605. Fantastic. And GC+ should double their contribution too
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  606.  @the_local_bigamist  The clip of paras shooting at an image of Corbyn was really scary especially when framed with the general who said that they’d stage a coup if he was elected. These people have no idea of what they’re there for i.e. to serve the people - they see themselves as there to protect the status quo and the ruling class hegemony. A ex-patient of mine did ‘Peace Studies” at UCL. The only leftie in his whole course as far as he could make out. The rest were all ex military. They were “idiots from the worlds biggest echo chamber” who never ever gave a moments thought to the actual purpose of a military but just assumed it was to protect the vested interest of the Elite. That was his description of the other students.
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  607.  @mohamedsheik4589  Exactly. Good man.
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  608. I did my MA on Pedestal. So, no pressure with this one:)
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  609. Don McCullum was kicked off the Task Force just before it sailed. Literally, according to him.
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  610. I have tremendous respect for anyone who admits mistakes. It’s not very common but it shows character and confidence - which is are good traits. Innit:)
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  611. Operation Pedestal.
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  612. Wow! A actual proper reply with citations! Amazing. Good work, mate:) My overall impression from my reading of WW1 history is that many of the ruling elite in ever country just liked having a war and hd no idea how it was going to develop this time (eg parts of Europe are still no go areas today because of it). Sounds a bit ‘conspiracy theory’ but it’s not meant to be. They’d always had a war or two and nothing really bad happened (to them). So why not have another. Sort out this whole mess, eh? Tragic.
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  613. Nice work. Very interesting.
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  614. There’s a very interesting biography about a Beaufort pilot called ‘Torpedo Leader’ (not very imaginative) I actually grew to quite dislike the guy and wasn’t surprised when I spoke with a relative of a gunner in his squadron who described him very unfavourably as a glory seeking careerist madman. He made a big thing about going in first but it was actually safer being first.
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  615. D Day was a Tuesday.
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  616. Nice one:)
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  617. I have a marra (mate/pal/chum/amigo) who was in the Falklands - he was a jr officer in ‘the Green Slime’ (military intel.) One Xmas Eve I met him in the local and he told me (we were both shitfaced admittedly) that the Argentine POWs executed were US mercenaries and had been shot with Reagans blessing to avoid embarrassment. Personally, I think it was just a good story. He did tell me some other stuff which turned out to be true, mind. Stuff like British soldiers taking Argentine ammo as they were so short plus some other bits and bobs about just how lucky/close the British were to losing. I still think it’s BS to be honest. Just thought I’d share….
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  618. Fascinating!
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  619. It’s never Aliens….. until it is, I guess.
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  620. Quite depressing when you have to shout “stay off my side!”
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  621. Cocking an Oerlikon 20mm is a pain though.... also, always had first two rounds as solid shot as SOP. Anyone know why? No prize alas...... apart from my respect of course!
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  622.  @Kromaatikse  it was just that. Yay. Main problem was ice in the barrel if the covers where lost. You don’t want an explosive round hitting it. Not sure it would be a problem in the Med or most of the pacific though. But that was the drill. Cocking the gun was done by pointing it straight up and attaching a short rope from the bolt carrier handle to the deck then putting the gun barrels down. Thus going leverage to pull the bolt and cock the weapon
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  623.  @Kromaatikse  is there a name for these caps?
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  624. Imagine if this had happened in 1955?
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  625.  @Comm0ut  use your imagination. And don’t be so literal.
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  626. Rodney fired her main battery in AA defence during Operation Pedestal. True dat....
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  627. It’s a gay club now.... oh no.... wrong Astoria,
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  628. Great video. Makes you angry, though, the thought of the scumbags responsible getting away with it. Well, hopefully they’ ended up dead in a ditch following an air strike. Historical superlatives time! Greatest number of American troops surrendering in one battle.
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  629. Funny old company, Fairey. They managed to make some absolutely woeful planes as well as some corkers. Like most companies really only Fairey had good planes by accident. Great vid…. again. Keep in up Sgt. :)
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  630.  @johnreep263  That’s a good point. One of my favourite planes ever is actually the Fulmar. Not sure why. Probably to do with Pedestal. Most likely it’s because Fulmars were long and slow and outdated but strangely effective when it came down to it. So I guess they remind me of myself:)
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  631.  @johnreep263  Wings used to fall off apparently! Otherwise I totally agree! Pretty kites!
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  632.  @johnreep263  Yeah, they aren’t ugly kites at all. Bit boxy, maybe but I like them. I think they were rushed into service. If you look at the death rates amongst test pilots for the time you get a feel for just how rushed things were.
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  633. Same accept it was ‘Tender is the Night’.
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  634. For Gods sake don’t remove the ‘Most incredibly lucky shot ever control tower!’
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  635. 17lbs was better but too late.
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  636. Prawns! !
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  637. The First World War was circa 1776 and the Second World War started with the Franco Prussian War and ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is a widespread theory - with good evidence c of some boffins.
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  638.  @keighlancoe5933 not sure what you mean?
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  639. I'm very suspicious of revisionist history but this is a very decent piece of work which makes a whole lot of sense to me. Looking forward to the stat. heavy version. Well done, marra.
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  640. TIK I think the elephant in the room is here are the guys who prefer to dress up as the SS at the weekends upset because their heroes/masters are getting undermined.
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  641. TIK Absolutely mate. It's not rocket science. Cos that's physics and this is history. But seriously, the idea that western history came from the western German officers makes perfect sense to me. The resulting bias is therefore a no brainier. Also seriously pissed off at the US awarding that German officer that gong. FFS! The myth about "it was only the SS" who were the wrong 'uns is as shabby as it is just plain incorrect. Keep up the good work dude. I shall watch with interest.
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  642. On the basis of the most likely explanation being the case/Occams Razor etc it’s probably just him trying to get back into the limelight and Hitler good books with a ‘great move’. He knew the Nazis didn’t see the Brits their natural enemies - quite the opposite - and he knew that certain Saxe- Goldberg and Gothas family members were very sympathetic to the Nazi cause. He just needed to broker it and the stars leant a hand with some good omens. The extended D Notice is clearly to protect the Royal family from embarrassment - ‘ cos they’re not remotely embarrassing at the moment. What? Eh? ...... Oh!
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  643. Hateful nasty self regarding piece of work is Dorres.
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  644. Captain Roger Hill, HMS Ledbury. Just sayin’
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  645. Well said. Good man.
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  646. Quick shout out to the RAF ….. who got pretty much everything wrong. Apart from fighter interception they got everything wrong. Everything. They left RAF Coastal Command in a woeful condition and when they should have been bombing the construction sites of the u boat pens they were bombing fields in Germany. Planes that would have been vital to the Atlantic were killing women and babies in German cities. Useless. .
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  647. Yanks flew aPRU version of the spit as well.
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  648. When scientists say “singularity” it just means “we don’t know” mad “ it’s an infinity and we don’t like infinities in the real world!’
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  649. The Soviets simply didn’t shoot as many of their own men as the west likes to portray. Ugly men with pistols shirking at the back is just a poor history portrayal and plays into a narrative that’s just not accurate. Sure they were a lot of cases of blocking u it’s but this is just too much.
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  650. So she cost slightly less than my Ford Fiesta! Cool.
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  651. Ledge
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  652. Very thoughtful and very curious.
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  653.  @thekinginyellow1744  I think it stems from some shit show on the History Channel (nuff said ) which slagged it off. Their ‘experts’ were just wheeled out and told to speak about something for 30 secs even if they hadn’t a clue and they were big headed enough to do just that. “Morons! Fucking morons everywhere!”
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  654.  @garwhittaker3743  Sure you can. Roll and brace the foot rests. Straighten (with gritted teeth) Actually easier to do lying down if the mechanism doesn’t reload the spring after firing.
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  655.  @mebsrea  oh I don’t know. Our ones seemed to jam a fair bit as well. But cheers for that. Very helpful:)
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  656. It boils my piss to hear people like him talking this shite.
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  657. I’d be quite happy if it was just you doing it but well done for getting extra opinion.
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  658. This is terrible. It’s just wrong in several places. And contradictory , frequently.
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  659. This is very very annoying. I mean, unbelievable and horrendous. There’s a bit of intrigue around this in that the D notice is very long - ? Making sure all those involved have passed away? I’d like the Captain of Glorious to be brought to task. Not that it would really help those lost.
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  660.  @captainpoppleton  Very good!:) Adolf getting slotted in battle opens a whole can of worms, doesn’t it…. So, Key word was “almost”. I think the quote “Prussia was hatched from a cannonball” sums up how things would have gone if the UK had not joined the French. The Kaisers obsession with defeating the Royal Navy would certainly have led to war between the British Empire and Germany eventually.
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  661.  @Mrstrangert392  Agreed.
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  662.  @kenstrumpf909  He does! Badly for him as he’s usually better at that sort of argument. I think he misses the essential fact about The German industrial military complex (the worlds first* yay!:) and where it would inevitably lead. The Kaisers utter consuming obsession with beating the Royal Navy would have meant war for Serbian for one thing. Personally, I can’t stand Ferguson but he does write some good history books. Well, his book on WW2 is the best single volume overall history of that conflict and “The Pity of War” is good. I think what I’m trying to say is his facts are good but his opinion stinks.
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  663. You’re so patient. I admire you. I’d have lost my rag and screamed oceans razor way back.
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  664. People with that dot of upbringing are always confident. Even when they really ought not to be.
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  665. Does anyone else just love those clicks!?
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  666.  @LukeBunyip  Promotion! Wonderful, thank you.
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  667. Oh Aytch Ten.
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  668.  @stuboy13  I tried to pretend I was protecting his anonymity but I actually just didn’t know his name.
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  669. Great. Stuff I dint know cool!
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  670. BRING……………….UP…………THE ……………..PIAT!
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  671. I like this guy!
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  672. It’s a vile image. It suits him fine.
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  673. Even gov secret services don’t really do bump offs. Too risky.
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  674.  @AndrewGivens  I read somewhere that the ‘Projector’ did, in fact, shoot down an e/a! Just one though. Mainly it had its users running for cover. It seemed that the Crabs got first dibs on the best kit - especially the Bomber force. They replaced their Lewis guns with Vickers Ks then replaced them with .303 Brownings so they could bomb fields in the Ruhr Valley miles from anywhere and then get shot down on the way back without firing a single round. Meanwhile coastal forces and Harry Tates Navy were making do with Savage guns and five inch LA pieces marked 1892. They also got Madsden Guns? Potato Diggers they called them as they had a swinging cam along the barrel. WWI kit basically. Never a “Phoney War” for these guys. Mines and bombs and S Boats from day one. A school friend of mine had an uncle (one of the Tyne river pilots) who was on a collier in 1939 aged 17. He told us (impressionable young kids) that he was saved several times by a lad from Morpeth (who was a known poacher) on a Savage gun (first time I heard that name variant of the Lewis gun). He drove off a few Do17s with his very accurate shooting, apparently.
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  675.  @robshirewood5060  Didn’t they also get the turrets off Blackburn Rocs? Or was it from BP Defiants?
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  676. I think the Californians would love some Canadian cold wet weather.
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  677. Cool!!!
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  678.  Hydin Biden  yawn....
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  679. I read the citations for the Dicken Medal the other day. Seemed to continually get something in my eye while I was reading. Very odd.
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  680. What was it they used to say……..? When the German planes come the British hide, when the Brits come the Germans hide and when the American planes come everyone hides.
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  681. Interesting winter war fact was that Fins had an abundance of SMGs and this effectively influenced tactics and made them dry effectively give in CQ engagements. The Soviets learned from this and developed SMG teams for their own units. The reason for this was that the British had no SMG prior to WWII and tested various foreign models to adopt. It came down to the Suomi and Berreta (pretty decent choices) and they went with the Suomi. The UK ordered 20,000 of them which were about to be delivered when Uncle Joe came a’calling. Shame in many ways including it did us Brits out of having a very decent bit of kit to use. Still, we got the Sten instead......What?!
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  682.  @ScottKenny1978  very true but too late, alas!
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  683.  @yulusleonard985  Never thought of that but it makes sense.
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  684.  @BluntofHwicce  I know. I actually totally agree. The fact the nazis copied it in 1945 bears that out.
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  685. Ah ha. I was wondering if you were going to mention the Germany incident. Next time? Coolio:) Well done, once again. Cheers:)
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  686. Yes.
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  687. Er.........Malta?
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  688.  @christianzilla  well exactly.
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  689. Your description of mer-el-Kabir is utterly shocking. Terrible. And just wrong. Badly.
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  690.  @dovetonsturdee7033  well, exactly. It’s all over the place. And it misses the most important factor which was how ‘impressed’ the Americans were. It showed them we were in it for the long run. If we’d been thinking about negotiations we wouldn’t have bothered. I don’t know why I watch these things sometimes;)
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  691. Good video. Well stated. And I agree totally on this occasion. Actually, I think I probably always agree if I think about it!
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  692. So, science doesn’t like ‘infinites’ or so I’m told. So what does that mean that really mean for the statements about the centre of these things. Could it just be a really very small, rather dense planet?
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  693. Imagine that in full auto!!
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  694. Forza!
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  695.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Ok so here’s a thought .... so sometimes war and killing harden and empty a person out do it becomes blasé to them - I’m sure you’ve personally come across this - so maybe AI might avoid this? ‘Clutching at straws’ or ‘onto something’?
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  696.  @Bravohalo  yes absolutely. But they also won’t play football with people heads after they killed them to zero their gun like a patient of mine told me his unit had done. I think I’m probably just clutching at straws really, though. It’s just so scary. The ‘Great Filter’ and all that stuff.......the technological singularity may happen in my lifetime, very likely in my kids, and after that no one knows what the fuck will happen (which is what ‘singularity means of course:) It’s not a Sci Fi anymore. Is this the answers the Fermi Paradox. (Gawd strewth! - I do sound very tin foil hat today:)
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  697. Except it wasn’t like that. They had enough resources ie pilots and Erks and replaceable stores like ammo, fuel, filters etc to keep a max of three GGs up at any one time. Other Gladiators were cannibalised for parts. Malta: The Hurricane Years is the definitive read on this. The best bit I think is that the Hal Far fighter flight didn’t have a single fighter pilot in it. They were all seaplane and transport and swordfish pilots.
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  698.  @johnladuke6475  yeah, landing with your feet off the floor!:)
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  699. Well, I think he’s way more genuine that most.
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  700. Er……..1920 and the origin of blitzkrieg?
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  701.  @emmabrooker166  Which is (as long as it’s behaviour demonstrated over a long period of time which it is in his case) pretty much what a NPD is.
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  702. “Administration administrators”! I bet you’re a David Graeber fan? (That’s a good think, btw:)
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  703. Tumblehome?
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  704. What sort of Defiants were they?
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  705.  @mcdinkity  sorry - I’m not sure what you mean. (Apologies if I’m being a bit thick).
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  706.  @susanpatricialewis5862  correct you as you not think.
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  707.  @hadror13  I’d love to.
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  708. I think someone was at the mouldy bread back then!
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  709. I read the Hispano armed Spits were done due to a scarcity of the browning. Some Fulmars got .50s for the same reason.
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  710. Bart and the bear. Familiarity breeds etc etc.
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  711. Octopodes
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  712. Great work! I thought I knew my narcotic history but this was new to me!
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  713. Some quite notable historians argue that WW2 ran from the Franco Prussian war to the fall of the Berlin Wall (WW1 being circa 1776). This definition of WW2 includes all conflicts of the period (pretty much).
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  714. Good work
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  715. Wow. Just…..wow!
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  716. My neighbour was a Halifax navigator. He liked it. He was also shot down mind. Bailed out over Holland. Got taken in by a friendly family but their neighbours grassed them up. He was made a pow and the Dutch who helped him were shot. The family who betrayed him had their house burnt down repeatedly after the war.
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  717. Don’t get neo-liberalism and liberalism mixed up.
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  718. Such a shame we (U.K.) couldn’t have just said “slavery bad etc…..”
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  719. Science. I’ll listen. Not to anything else.
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  720. Amazing story. Her captain had to get the French coast guard officers drunk to avoid being interned.
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  721. Should have had ‘5:45’ the Gang of Four as the soundtrack to this video.
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  722. Brave lad
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  723. Was that you on the drums, then? :)
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  724. Not one mention of the fact that it was only the RN FAA that initially could land them on carriers and proved its effectiveness as a carrier aircraft fighter. They ironed out the problems so the US navy could use them which dropped the FAA in the dung as they wouldn’t give us spares once they employed them. See the Armoured Carriers channel for details. See it anyway as it’s a good channel.
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  725. Armoured Carriers is mint!
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  726. There’s a memorial to the young lad who went on board a u boat and retrieved an enigma machine as it sank in my home town of North Shields.
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  727. In one of the Aubrey - Maturin books Stephen Maturin comes across two Irish children in a North African market who he buys to free them. As the books were historically very accurate I believed it to be factually based - which it was of course. The two Irish children were taken from off the coast of Cork.
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  728.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  I actually envy you being able to read that for the first time. I only mention it as it’s often cited in historical books about Burma campaign. Japans heaviest defeat of the war.
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  729.  @MrSensible2  very true, alas.
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  730. Isn’t ‘protesting’ ‘doing’ then?
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  731. If you own a gun like that you don’t need a cleaning kit because you have a servant who cleans it for you.
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  732. ‘A fake sun’ ? Right…….a fake sun. OK………,
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  733. C’mon guys - slack research on the Russian B-29s. C+ must do better.
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  734. I love how you get smashed before doing videos. It’s definitely what I’d do.
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  735. The Ukrainians are very worried that Trump will get in next year and pull the plug on their defence of the country in terms of support and probably force them into a disadvantageous peace with Putin. (Remember the water bed anyone!) Anyway, Ukrainians are trying to up the ante so they can be in as strong a position as possible to negotiate with Putin if it comes to that.
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  736. I wondered when the ‘begging for money’ bit would come in.
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  737. Terrifying.
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  738.  @wayhip yeah. “Doh-ve” not dived. Criminal!
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  739. Wonderful stuff as always from you guys. Don’t get locked up though!
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  740. That was a hedgehog.
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  741. It was supposed to have been able to have the turret ‘snap’ into interrupter gear when facing forward and level and the be operated by the pilot thus enabling forward fire but nothing came if it.
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  742. Very…….. very………Big.
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  743. Lusty is a pretty girl.
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  744. You can’t call the Panther better. It’s far too nuanced a subject. We’re not playing‘top trumps’ here.
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  745.  @Dave_Sisson  Ha. Yes. Good point:)
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  746. The Myths are actually myths. No one thinks those things anymore.
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  747. Aw x1000
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  748. You - ran - us. Operation You-ran-us/Uranus. Not You- r - Anus. Just sayin’ Saves the schoolboy sniggers, too.
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  749. @@johnashtone7167i absolutely cannot stand clarkson but he made a decent effort of that one. Wasn’t his great uncle at the raid or similar?
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  750. My God!!
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  751.  @colbeausabre8842  you can delete and edit posts. Thank god you can !!! Jeez, some of the bollocks I’ve typed in a hurry. And auto-correct doesn’t help either. Anyway, thanks for that. I’ll look that stuff up.
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  752. I just thought of a good project/next video ! Seaplane related! Or rather flying boat related as it’s about a Short Sund#%*!nd. One of them shot down a load of JU88 over the bay of Biscay. Food dtrting place us the Wikipedia Short Sund#%^*nd page. Just an idea but I reckon you’d do a very decent job (as always).
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  753. Only Hitler has just stopped being Hitler…….
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  754. Appalling nay criminal behaviour between two parts of a countries army.
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  755.  @gregorywright4918  Eh?
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  756.  @gregorywright4918  ah, I see. Gotcha. That incident is seen by many as the actual start of WW2. Then again some see the start as being 1914. Some see it as the start of the Franco-Prussian War. Some also think it didn’t end until the Berlin Wall came down. Can of worms?!
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  757. Snowball earth?
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  758. That woman………… words fail me but no of the options are good.
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  759. Gladiators fighting in Malta were crewed by seaplane, TB and bomber pilots. One Malta GG had 6 Borrowings fitted. On a standard GG the two guns firing through the prop were useless as they had to synchronise and this defeated their main plus point of a very high cyclic rate. In North Africa the Gladiators were usually massively out numbered. Italian pilots made extraordinary claims of kills, often claiming 5or 6 kills when records show all RAF planes returned with barely a scratch. However, this wasn’t always what it seemed. Some Italian pilots made claims because the were very reticent about the war and Mussolini and didn’t want to look like they were fighting half heartedly on purpose so they claimed kills but knew they hadn’t touched a soul. Others, mind, just made bloody stupid claims. As did all pilots tbh.
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  760. The story of HMS New Zealand is a good one. A bit of colonial rivalry. I’ve spent the morning trying to work out how Agincourt could have worked. Was is called thus because of the whole ‘loads of arrows” thing ?
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  761. Force Z was such a cluster f+=k. Should have had a carrier with them but it picked up damage in the windies.
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  762. I wish I could think of an experiment where by I could say on a flat earther if you do this you won’t fall and buckle yourself if your flat Earth theory is correct. Or something similar. How many would actually do it? Some would, of course and some would even do it knowing they hurt themselves. The cult leaders would just argue the experiment is flawed somehow.
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  763. lol. Just lol.
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  764. Nice one. Very interesting. Even if they were sneaky fookin’ prawns.
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  765. A light in the dark.
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  766. Excellent piece of original history. Very well done, Mark!
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  767.  @fotonomad69 did they change it?
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  768. “……. Could have caused the Allies problems had they been brought in earlier and in more sufficient numbers in the war”. Any historian of WWII might as well have that on permanent ‘paste’. I blame the German love of duelling and hunting. Two things were your ‘kit’ is very important. More important than ease of production, logistics and service lines and re-supply. And of course, time.
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  769. Is it “Fock” or “Fock- uh? Surely it’s the latter?
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  770. With this pile of shite and the buffalo the Brewster Chief Executive clearly had some good pictures of the secretary for war with his girl/boyfriend!
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  771. HMS “Trollope”? Strewth. Who gave her that handle?
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  772. Gramsci 101
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  773. Was Pedestal a success? I don’t get the confusion here. Along with the other major summer ‘42 supply efforts it’s quite easy to see what did abs didn’t work! Harpoon: Success. Vigorous: Failure. Pedestal: Success. Simples!
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  774. Not sure about WW3, but in WW4 I’m on the side of the guy with the biggest rock.
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  775. This is true. They dropped the fifties because of poor cold weather performance.
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  776. Are they, like, really tall Imperial Stormtroopers at the start, then?
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  777. Congrats. But remember, you get that many subs ‘cos you are doing a good job.
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  778. Wrong wrong wrong this is propaganda worthy of the regime you’re slagging off. Very poor content. Biased and just wrong about stuff.
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  779. Shame the RN wasn’t about then. All of that ramming would have been utter bliss to your average madman in charge of a British naval vessel.
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  780.  @johnshepherd8687  I disagree. Hey ho...
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  781. If chewsi win anything it will just prove that football is broken.
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  782. There’s a version that lands on Stilettos so it can land in the Bigg Market.
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  783. It’s like that fella pushing the boulder up the hill - I forget his name.
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  784. Brilliant but depressing as always.
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  785. Morning aliens - please have our existential horror. You’re welcome. Bye. To be honest, I don’t think we’d do this in reality, at least not unintentionally.
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  786. Surely the issues around Hoods demise are all sorted now?
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  787. So, I’d heard about this but I’d thought it was a myth. They just wouldn’t do that. We’re civilised and have rights and freedom. That sort of thing only happens under totalitarianism and oppressive regimes. Doesn’t it…….? As for the statement that Japan surrendered because of the A Bomb attacks it is quite easy to make a case that it didn’t. In fact, the Japanese at the time were quite prepared to have the Sun dropped on all their cities as long as the emperor god was saved. The threat of invasion by Stalins USSR - the guys who shoot emperors - was far more of a motivation and even then many in the army opposed surrender with force. Another interesting factoid of the WW2 A bomb story is that Churchill bribed Roosevelt with all the UKs Atomic research (allegedly more advanced than the US effort) in order to get the use of the MV Ohio for the upcoming Operation Pedestal effort.
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  788. Excellent as always and worth waiting for. Small point though. When the British and Canadians (and Free French) moved forward it was “The Allies” and when the Americans moved forward it was “The Americans”. Not all the time but enough to be noticed. Hollywood is re-wring history enough without the rest of us helping too. But otherwise fantastic!
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  789.  @lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre  Yeah! Imagine that:).
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  790.  @lemonstealinghorsdoeuvre  Good analysis. You’re probably right. France is the secret to what happens I think. .
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  791. Great work.
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  792. So, taking back control has done exactly the opposite. Great. Thanks.
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  793. The concept of an NHS is a thorn in side of the tories # always has been. They tried to prevent its conception and they’ve busily tried to destroy it ever since. I’ve been working as a nurse in the nhs for 34 years and it’s been down hill the whole time. If we don’t listen to guys like this we will wake up one morning and the nhs will be gone.
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  794. I now own the T-shirt and love boring the arse of people who ask me about it!!
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  795. Is it a good idea to send out a constant stream of info about our technological progress? Not for our benefit. Imagine if we detected such a stream and the last message we got from them was “were very excited - tomorrow we turn on our first cold fusion device!” ??
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  796. Just watch…….. it’ll be side walks and elevators next!
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  797. It was a Tuesday I think?
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  798. Master!
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  799. Science works.
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  800. Would have done a better job than the Avro Ansen in ASW duties at the start of the war. Much longer range.
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  801.  @jameslawrie3807  Totally agree. I always ask when in a discussion about the Italians in WW2 “would you have fought for Mussolini?” I think the long noses had German engines if memory serves.
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  802. Just under 20 rounds a second per gun. 1150 per minute cyclic rate. (Maths not a strong point with me:)
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  803. I think it’s an exaggeration to say the 262 was ‘years ahead” It wasn’t the first at much either.
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  804. Excellent work as always guys.
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  805. So, basically A great big, f*+k off, game of ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’.
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  806. The fact you have to show this video at all is just soooo damming.
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  807.  andy morris  Not sure if any films but she was sunk in the book ‘The Destroyers’.
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  808. Singularity is a science hippy word for “we don’t fucking know!”
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  809.  @Cailus3542  If it could only do 28 then it was kind of not fit for purpose, surely? Although if memory serves weren’t the French ships designed specifically to counter the panzerschiffe?
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  810. “Big Archeology” is just “Proper Archeology”. Sorry. They can’t be jumping onto every radical interpretation without proper evidence. I’m sure there’s some influences of funding ‘cos capitalism but evidence needs to be interpreted properly and in a scholarly manner. Interesting video though. Could even be true etc.
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  811. What a wonderful guy. :)
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  812. A bunch of Argentine rifles came home post Falklands. The ammo was much harder to come by thankfully.
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  813. Terrifying.
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  814. Jimmy Webb is a ledge!
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  815. I often wonder if Bomber Command had decided to go for thousands and thousands of Mossies instead of heavies they’d have been less shite?
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  816. I wonder if all those guys who made modern war video games are busy re doing them with different alliances?
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  817. Rewriting the history records again, then.? Hmmmmmm.....
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  818. As George Orwell said Britain is like a family sat around a table eating but know one asks where the money came from.
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  819. Excellent analysis
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  820. Were some Mk 1 spits equipped with Cannons due to a supply problem with the 303 Brownings?
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  821. Fascinating. You’d have more chance of seeing God than getting me in one of those things.
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  822. Why a film (other than the Malta Story) hasn't been made about Pedestal, M.V. 'Oh Aytch Ten' (O.H.10 - the name her Brit crew gave her) and M.V. Brisbane Star I will never know but I reckon there's Oscars in it for the first one who does.
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  823. Good work Ed. You’ve actually got my head out of Max Hastings ‘Operation Pedestal’ which is a great as I needed to get a New Red Pencil anyway as my last one has worn out! Great stuff. Do you think the ‘state of the art’ pre-war was for rifle caliber guns or .50/20mm weapons?
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  824. I kept hearing the Dam Busters music through out the video
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  825. Alex - disappointing.
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  826.  @johnburns8660  very powerful story.
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  827. Small point. Sunderland’s were called Porcupines because of the radar ariels that stuck out across the top of them and not because of the armament.
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  828. Ha! Finally - he admits to form over function!!:)
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  829. They’ll all suddenly arrive here in NZ.
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  830. First use was late 1918
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  831. We should bring back Duelling. It would stop all this ‘keyboard warriors’ insults and sh*# stirring on here. “Your talking rubbish. You don’t know what you’re talking about, you idiot!” “Right. Pistols at dawn! I demand satisfaction.” “What? Wait! No. I’m sorry, really. Sorry!!”
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  832.  @TheEthanEdge  You are, of course, quite right - in my little fantasy world there’d be some law that made it happen!
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  833. It doesn’t look like it was “wasted” it looks like it was pinched.
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  834.  @swenhtet2861  ah! I see. They would certainly do the trick.
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  835. Good evidence for the rare Earth theory.
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  836. Love to hear them in a debate against someone with an actual brain.
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  837.  @slightlyagricultural  Ah yes. See, that’s exactly what made me think as seeing that and knowing that the RoF was slower on a Gimpy compared to the Browning by a significant amount. I imagine it’s probably more of a tearing sound than the boom-boom-boom.
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  838. Once again we see that these people are only ever doing this to reassure the ‘choir’. They have no intention of ever debating anyone because they know they’ll have their arses handed to them. They’ll avoid any actual debate like the plague. Their tactics are just disposable. And they know it which makes them vile people. But if you do come to London you’re welcome to stay at our house. We’re quite posh. We have knives AND forks.
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  839. Yeah ! Screw you MG42!!
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  840. So how do you have black holes inside a black hole?
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  841. So, with the dying on your birthday thing…….could that not be children dying during childbirth?
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  842. See, I read it as a man coming across a revaluation (or lack of as it’s covered in fog). He had BEEN travelling and not about to embark. He has got to this place and this is what he then sees before him!
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  843. Thank you for your heartfelt words. Peace.
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  844. Morgan is a deeply vile individual and a profoundly flawed person.
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  845. So, basically, it’s all Eric ‘Winkle’ Browns fault, then?
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  846. Reading history about the Mediterranean war you’ll see refs to the type come up time and time again.
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  847. Stuff like this makes me think ‘Revolutionary War!’
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  848. HMS Barham caused the last ever trial for witchcraft in the uk.
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  849. I love the whole narrative. Buy an electric car to save the environment that isn’t in danger from global warming.
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  850. Never knew about this - nice one!
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  851. It’s an old trick. Call for unity - but only on your terms - and then attack the opposition for not being interested in unity.
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  852. “Better understanding of the terrain……” etc etc Its not the fucking D-Day Landings!!
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  853. See, you can’t keep blaming the past because eventually some asks “well why isn’t it getting better?” If you say “oh! But it is getting better!” Then people ask “well, where’s our improved standard of living, then?” So you reply “But it is getting better under this conservative gov just it’s not quite better enough yet for you to get anything extra but just hang in a bit and you’ll see. It’ll be great!” Lower than vermin.
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  854. Trump is only the lesser of two evils because he’s thick where as Putin is not.
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  855. Is it tough? It’s canard!! (Ok ok I’m going…)
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  856. Much maligned weapon the PIAT. Also, not a rocket launcher. A spigot mortar technically.
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  857. Swordfish were very easy to hit. They just soaked up a lot of damage. Also, TBs all had to fly slowly to launch torpedoes at the start to middle of the war. Unforgivable error re. Bismarck.
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  858. I wonder if he walked away afterwards and just laughed and had a look at his bank balance to make himself feel better?
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  859. We are so doomed. Capitalism will kill us all. The search for powerful AI ias it will give the first finder the most cash is prioritised rather than ‘safe’ AI. We are screwed. Because of gtreed.
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  860. The point about under utilisation of occupied areas is daft. It basically saying if the only Nazis had just stopped being Nazis. I know they were opportunists but it was a fundamental part of nazism.
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  861.  @neutronalchemist3241  I think you need to go back and check your timeline. You’ll find your a bit out on what you’re saying.
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  862.  @neutronalchemist3241  it’s opinion of facts so I disagree with your summation. That said, I don’t understand the first bit at all. After Pedestal Malta was resupplied by convoy not by submarine. It was operational by September although the Beauforts plus some FAA Applecores and Stringbags had 2 squadrons there already and just needed Ohios fuel to recommence offensive ops. Your points about Sirte 1&2 are lost in the fact that the RN had and absolute moral supremacy over the Italian navy from start to finish. Same as they did over the Kreigsmarine. The Regina Marina expected to lose every time they set sail. And generally did. Nothing proved this more than Vians actions at the 2nd Sirte which was an abject failure on the Italians part on a par with Barents Sea. 1st Sirte was a two convoys avoiding each other until the RN lost a couple of ships after choosing to run into a minefield which reduced the MSF which then went back to Gib but it would have had to anyway once Fleigerkorp X returned to Sicily later that year. Cherry picking this proves nothing. I like history to be reviewed but revisionism for its own sake is silly. I happen to really like Italians but trying to rewrite history to give a completely wrong narrative is daft. For eg…The Germans didn’t like or rate the Italians, including Rommel and cherry picking a quote won’t change anything. The Italian military occasionally (very) doing in a war what was expected isn’t cause for praise, it just meant they weren’t abject for once. There were a lot of good reasons for this but the outcome is the same. The Regina Marine were bossed from start to finish by the RN. Save a few wee submarine with limpet mines they were too anxious to fight. I’m no jingoistic patriot for the uk. But history is occasionally obvious. And this is such an occasion. Faced with the Death Cult that is the British Royal Navy they were cowed. In my opinion etc etc etc
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  863.  @neutronalchemist3241  I’m sorry that this is proving so problematic for you, emotionally. I’m sorry you’ve decided to get patronising and I can see where this is going and frankly I can’t be bothered. When people start using “YOU” - in capitals in any argument my own ‘moral supremacy’ kicks in. I suggest you look up ‘reaction formation’. It might have been interesting to look at your viewpoints but I think we’re clearly both too far apart - when you can’t agree on basic facts it’s pretty pointless going on. All I’d say is there are tactical and strategic victories. Maybe have a look at what the differences are? Facts are indeed stubborn. As are interpretations of those facts. I can’t find any decent history book that agrees with you and as I did my History MA on Pedestal I’ve read a fair few. And yes Pedestal and PQ17 are both tragedy and disaster. One was a strategic and tactical one and one was wasn’t. Hell and death! Be nice if just once I didn’t end up with this cobblers. What is wrong with people? Why can’t people just discuss stuff? Always getting radgy from their keyboard a thousand miles away……. There’s people who want to discuss stuff and then there’s people who want to ‘win an argument’. Probably don’t have the assertiveness skills to ever do it f2f so they do it on the electricity thingy. Hey ho……………
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  864. Are there any ‘moderate’ Death Metal bands then?
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  865. Great work. RMN MSc CBT.
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  866. We tried to buy 35,000 Suomi ‘machine carbines’ pre war but just as they were about to deliver the Russians invaded and they kept them. This had a major influence on their tactics.
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  867. At least he was being honest about how he feels about ‘the rest of us’. The others try (badly) to pretend they don’t regard us as scum/charvas/dupes/not like us. Lower than vermin, the lot of ‘em.
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  868. The Mig 15 had a British engine. You’re welcome.....
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  869.  @PaulLemars01  good point!
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  870. “When the German attack the allies take cover. When the British attack the Germans take cover. When the Americans attack everyone takes cover”.
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  871. I need to look into the North Vietnamese airforce fight against US and Allied Air Forces during the Vietnam War. I remember reading that the US pilots had to try and live up to the kill ration of Korean War standards and faced criticism for failing to do so. My impression was, though, that the NVAF generally “lost” the air war where as this suggests they were more successful, at least until ‘72. More reading to do!
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  872. I might disagree about certain elements not being rare. Those formed in super nova have to be, don’t they? Relative to others, obviously.
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  873. Bloody marvellous!
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  874. Greed and corruption - lower and vermin.
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  875. The schematic shows the pilots back rest is a 40 gallon fuel tank. That would have made it really popular!
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  876. I don’t have a problem with his language - maybe I should, I genuinely don’t know - but it is just so awful that he’s describing the people supposed to look after the country are so corrupt, feckless, incompetent and self serving.
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  877.  @andrewyoung8703  Great Planes. Not the fastest admittedly but you can’t have everything.
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  878.  @plymouth5714  https://juhansotahistoriasivut.weebly.com/the-first-aerial-victory-of-a-british-pilotair-gunner-during-the-ww-ii.html This would explain the confusion on my part and would demonstrate your account to be the correct one. It would also explain the near miracle of a Battle shooting down a One-Oh-Nine. Good stuff - the system works!:)
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  879. The first RAF kill was actually a Bf109 brought down by a Battle rear gunner operating a Vickers GO ( - Gas Operated) machine gun. Remarkable. But this was after the Skuas forced down the flying boat.
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  880.  @AndrewGivens  That sounds about right!
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  881. …..Tis a cool name!
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  882. See...... the RN would have left all those wrecks as a giant monument to the Huge Death Cult that is the British Military
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  883. They should have just made them all watch Jojo Rabbit.
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  884.  @Eleolius  That’s true. But then if losses were heavy anyway the same would be true if convention? Hmmmmmm…..
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  885.  @ronaldthompson4989  Ah. There you go, then. Cheers
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  886. We - the Brits - had no real reason to be there, really. How would you have felt to have lost a son or daughter in that war back then?
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  887. Good work, mate.
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  888. Spacey looking gadget.
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  889.  @petersouthernboy6327  my second favourite plane!
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  890.  @petersouthernboy6327  and that was the heat/humidity doing it, then?
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  891.  @petersouthernboy6327  Ha! You made me snort my tea out my nose! I just finished reading about the Malta siege and the Beaus ( I’ll include the forts as well as the fighters) played a big role. Nice kites.
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  892.  @thurin84  - semi-auto. Built by a vending machine company. Anything bigger would be just beastly, what!
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  893.  krvnjrcbs  prove what?
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  894.  krvnjrcbs  Oh......aye.
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  895. The Bitterness over Salerno where I’m from is very real. The army won’t pardon because they feel it will set a Precedent.
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  896. Great!
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  897. Are they both Shia?
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  898. @original king julien ~ that made me actually LoL.
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  899. I’m not going to able to sleep now.
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  900. No fighting in the war room!!
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  901. Does anyone know why the Australia was scuttled and not scrapped ?
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  902. Nasty piece of work
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  903. I’ve got ADD so this has an extra dimension for me.
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  904.  @gregorywright4918  That would do. Planes get a mention, subs get assumed.
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  905. Nothing wrong with Fairy Fulmars. Excellent planes.
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  906. They dropped the wrong type of bomb also. They used improvised oil bombs hoping to set the ship on fire. It didn’t work. Also, the stukas were often RA planes and not always Luftwaffe.
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  907. But the current system just does the same thing - it just maintains the status quo. The new system would protect the majority of ‘smaller’ clubs though from going bankrupt/insolvent.
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  908. What’s they craft shown just before the X craft? Looks lush!
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  909. Engage the Enemy More Closely
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  910. I tried reading the list of citations for Dicken medals but ended up constantly getting something in my damn eye.
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  911.  @robambrose4199  I saw them in a really small pub in Fulham. They were quite good.
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  912. “Shortly after the Big Bang” - Understatement of the week!
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  913. It’s all so very sad……
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  914. But I’ve always hated Tories! For, like, 57 years!
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  915. Oh that’s not remotely embarrassing at at all! Missing a stationary and half sunken ship at point blank range with a torpedo!
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  916. The Elonemisis!
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  917. Like most brits I’m most angered by the death of the dogs.
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  918. Boris Johnson’s - A Legacy of Ashes.
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  919. Nil illegitimus cabarundum!!
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  920. So, according to,my next door neighbours son in law who’s a Rupert in the Royal Logistics Corps, mules were being considered for certain ops in Afghanistan prior to the ‘pull out’. No references just his opinion. So make of it what you will. I’m sure if we did we ‘borrowed’ them from the yanks.
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  921. Bren gun every time. (Not that I’ve ever been in an actual battle and wasn’t in WW2 either).
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  922. We sight to send out a constant up date on our technology reached. If we received the same from an alien race who send constant updates but then go suddenly quiet after the signal “just about to turn on our first true AI” you’d get a good idea about what not to do.
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  923. Stupid video title for what was a great plane.
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  924.  @LancasterResponding  What! No!! The invasion was not real???
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  925.  @fus149hammer5  But there’s a whole song about it and every5ing?
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  926.  @bevtecdiving6853  That’s good to hear.
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  927. Bearing in mind that you couldn’t have both, how would the ‘Blitzkrieg’ have gone if the Luftwaffe had gone for strategic bombing and not tactical operations? Great video, though, Ed. Nice one:)
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  928. Well said.
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  929. Great stuff. Really I interesting and informative plus a fantastic overview of how to do ‘proper history’. Nice one :)
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  930. Great work. Thank you.
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  931.  @bkane573  I take your point but I don’t think that would have been ‘alliance breaking’ enough. Post war alliances survived selling the Soviets jet engines (used to power the Mig 15’s) and the Cambridge spy ring even if the US now saw us for what we were - an old empire falling down, like it or not. The US still needed us even if it was just as an unsinkable aircraft carrier. Don’t get me wrong though - you make an excellent point:). They just can’t shake off / get past 1776:)
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  932.  @WanderlustZero  Yes - that makes sense. Good point.
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  933. Defence wise it’s very similar to what he Kondor would later sport.
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  934. @@stiffgators4492 I suppose the analog would be ASM. (Or Ginola or Robert or etc etc). If Mbappe was able to set his ego aside and follow the coaching he’d be much happier. Currently, he’s setting himself up to fail. He feels he has to be the best player on the pitch every time he plays which, as demonstrated on Wednesday night, isn’t possible in a team game. Interestingly, Real may not even recruit him next year. They may balk at his wages and stick with the ‘best young players’ policy. At which point where does he go?
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  935. Great stuff. If your next collaboration could be Operation Pedestal that would be great. Ta:)
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  936. Turning your opponent into shite!
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  937. He was also a committed Nazi.
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  938.  @germandragon8136  Yes. Good point well made.
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  939. Cheers Mr S - you’re a legend. Fingers crossed over here in the UK.
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  940. It kind of sounds like they scuttled her with 250 crew still on board. Obviously that’s not what happened.
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  941.  @gregorywright4918  Well, I’d bloody hope so after all this time!
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  942. Tempest then Typhoon or the other way around?
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  943.  @minipup1  Yes, of course. Typhoon II was the Tempest. Ta:)
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  944. I was chatting to a guy last year and he was very critical of the ussr and, therefore, communism in a standard sort of western way. So I pointed out that communism had taken Russia from a backward and near feudal agricultural economy to the second most powerful country in the world that defeated nazism put a man in space etc etc. He wasn’t impressed. Dissonance, I think. It’s uncomfortable.
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  945.  @WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS  it was the salvo function. It was seen as full auto via the back door. Can’t remember wether it was pre or post Hungerford. .
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  946. A good one. Thanks.
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  947. Boney wasn’t small. It was English propaganda. Just saying......
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  948. I know, right. Same thing occurred to me!
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  949. Pretty gun.........give me pretty gun.........
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  950.  @benwilson6145  I did know about this. Thatcher knew and did it on purpose to save her gov? Wouldn’t surprise me tbh. She was innately evil.
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  951.  @stoobydootoo4098  indeed
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  952.  @miakeogh6844  I know. I hope my lot go out!
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  953. I really respect this chap.
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  954.  @alexanderd8740  Yes , my mistake - you’re right. From Furious. I needed to check though. I think there was a planned raid using seaplanes to attack the German fleet in harbour but it never happened. I got that in my head.
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  955.  @darin271  So what experience was it that led the IJN to adopt the tactics that they did?
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  956.  @hallmobility  I get all that, I really do. BUT you can train all you want and plan all you can but it is still the fact that there was no carrier warfare - apart from the small furious raid - prior to WW2. And the subsequent changes in doctrine that came about from RN, US and Japanese naval forces shows during the conflict that they were having to adapt to the new method of warfare that carriers demonstrated.
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  957.  @jehoiakimelidoronila5450  Aye - just send ‘em out and see how many come back! :)
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  958. Yeah, but you look cool! (I quit 25 years ago. Never looked cool since:)
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  959. Fulmars and their pilots are a wonderful breed of warrior.
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  960. The Blue Water strategy for Royal Navy was initially in coordination with the French Navy - but we all know how that turned out.
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  961. He writes his own script maybe?
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  962. The answer to the question in the title is ‘Yes’.
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  963. Only without any brains.
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  964. Great work again mate! Very interesting.
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  965. It’s not the 5th Force. It’s THE Force.
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  966. There’s a story that the first British’H’ Bomb was actually three ‘A’ Bombs exploded simultaneously to fool the USA into thinking we had the H Bomb so they would start to co-operate with the U.K. (The USA declined to share due to British nuclear research being a leaky as a sieve and U.K. being full of Soviet spies).
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  967. You only discuss Haig here and I get that time is a factor but there’s ample evidence that many other generals were useless (I really like donkeys so I don’t like that phrase - yeah, I know:) For a start the fact that they were so unprepared for the war is damming. Why did they get it so wrong? The writing was on the wall in the 1850s in the US. Also, the machinations of the British class system and imperial arrogance led to a horrible detached and aloof officer class. Certain countries regiments were also used carelessly because they were t British. Along with the Serbs the Scots had the highest % casualty rate of the war. Why?
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  968.  @hardroaddavey5399  it was from ‘the Pity of War’ by what’s his face. The Scottish historian who wrote the book about how lush the British empire was.
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  969. Great work. Very well told !
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  970. Karl urban calling everyone a ‘cunt’ constantly is worth it alone. But it’s so much more.
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  971. It’s a shocking indictment that world leaders need to ‘deal with ‘ trump by adopting the same approach you’d have with a spoilt toddler.
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  972. …… and our precious bodily fluids!
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  973. Great vid. Cheers mate.
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  974. I hate the fact that she, like me, was a nurse. And I cannot stand this women . Loathsome, vile piece of work.
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  975.  @Sea-la-canth  Yeah, agreed. I actually know someone who trained as a nurse with her. She said that Dorres was the ‘only in it to marry a doctor’ type nurse - which sounds about right.
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  976. It’s your Dunning-Krueger innit!
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  977. That took some balls. Good man Isidore.
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  978. Gotta start somewhere, innit!
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  979. The maths in this is so far over my head I hurt my neck looking at it.
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  980. Wow!! Such great work, LBD.
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  981. Thanks for saying “Dornier” and not “Dorn-nee-Ayr”
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  982. Debris fields are what you see in sci fi. Not ABs.
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  983. Great video ………… again.
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  984. Every Lie Obvious Nonsense. All by myself, too.
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  985. I was thinking the same thing exactly. Very elegant, innovative and totally over engineered, too late and made no impact at all. It’s like the Tiger (Teeeeger) tank. You get guys saying ‘it’s the best tank of WWII by far!” & “It could take out 5 allied tanks for each Tiger’. Yeah? When it was actually in action and not being over hauled again, or broken down or out of fuel or bogged down in mud or - most likely - lying in a factory unfinished as they had no more ball bearing to put in it.
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  986. I’m seeing a famous scene from ‘Apocalypse Now’ in my head here!
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  987. I thought exactly the same thing! Acid is used in cocaine and heroin so it could be a drugs thing but not mentioning the bleeding obvious? Odd. Poor?
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  988. Positive comment
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  989. Braverman is a disgrace.
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  990. Over rated weapon.
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  991. What does Sol smell like?
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  992. Ah. The fine art of being wrong!
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  993. Some possibility that the Val hits on the Armoured Carriers might be misinterpreted as mission kills for the carriers. Also, have you ever done a Force Z scenario with Lusty along rather than just the two capitals ?
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  994. Well said, Dave. Well said.
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  995. “What’s it like to be the second biggest navy in the world?” “It’s ok, mate. What’s it like to be the second best navy in the world?”
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  996. Thank you both for being grown ups here.
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  997. They didn’t really have a chance.
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  998. Basically, how the British aviation industry went from post war heroes to 1960s zeros.
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  999.  @user-xu5vl5th9n  Starmer is dull and f*&k too
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  1000. Ultimately, a video saying “ufo are real” is just more accessible than one that says they’re not and that you have to work and concentrate some to understand the science that proves they are not.
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  1001. He’s not inspiring me in anyway. He’s obviously a ‘company guy’ (ie part of the establishment) and therefore not a threat. And if he’s not a threat to the establishment then why are we bothering with him?
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  1002. You are a good person. Thank you.
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  1003. Nice
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  1004. Oooh! Right in the wine store!! Ouch!!!
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  1005. They’d have been massacred by AA. Let alone if a fighter came along.
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  1006. The Saar offensive was just weird.
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  1007. Losses among test pilots were as bad as those of combat pilots - during wartime that is.
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  1008. Scare mongering is irresponsible. Just sayin’.
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  1009.  @johngalt2506  oh, I see. Gotcha.
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  1010. I work in the NHS. Nurse. For 35 years. Theses people in the exec are vile cowards and slippery liars. They are at best anxious little mice and at worst mendacious greedy bacteria. This demonstrates this very well. They have the nerve to suggest they care. They don’t.
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  1011. My head blew a valve.
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  1012. Great vid. Shame EM is such a mendacious narcissist.
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  1013. Sick bloke. Pathetic individual.
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  1014. Trump and Farage - the absolute enemy of the working class. 100%
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  1015.  @rxfclaymore8782  well, I’m half jock so I’m bound to agree
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  1016. Haven’t these people read the ‘Art of War’ or studied Von Clausewitz? Leave the damn things alone!
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  1017. Hail Cthulhu!!
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  1018. Had Sealion gone ahead the prediction of what happens only really gets interesting when you consider what terms would have been reached between the UK and Nazi Germany for the Nazi surrender. Her troops would be in the same position as Britain at Dunkirk only without a navy and friendly little boats to help. They would be sexually intercoursed and then some. So, what would have been the outcome of the subsequent negotiations. The Nazis would have been “please sir can we have our soldiers back?” And Britain would have been “well, that depends....” At this juncture what does Uncle Joe do? Take advantage and invade Germany? It gets fascinating to think about!
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  1019.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Well, exactly....although if the German army was at the bottom of the channel we’d have nowt to barter with! We’d both be in the same boat..... or not in a boat more accurately.
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  1020. Astonishingly scary.
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  1021. British exceptionalism myth. Time we smelled the coffee. Brexit was the death rattle of British exceptionalism.
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  1022. Italian kit was either one or the other! Never in the middle. Either great or shite!
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  1023. Interesting social experiment - what happens in Russia now all their pettyish criminals are dead?
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  1024. According to ‘The Pity of War’ it was the Scots and the Serbs who lost the most men.
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  1025. Just sayin’ but Donkeys would do a much better job than theses fuckers!
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  1026. Great work Ed.
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  1027. Chelsea have to make sales like this to balance the books. It’s their financial strategy in a nutshell. Without these sales they’re in FFP doggy do.
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  1028.  @Turkleton2000  Good word. The other one I like is ‘egregious’. Means notoriously bad. Useful word also!
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  1029. I think at a ‘technical’ level the Abrahamic religions would be threatened. Great vid. BTW.
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  1030. The right side of history?
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  1031. Love this film. Repeat, please! The best scene in any film ever.
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  1032. Barham sparked the last witch craft trial in the uk.
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  1033. I think I’ve come to just view ‘singularities’ as meaning ‘stuff we don’t know’.
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  1034. Taxpayers money - that’s a whole other issue. The poorest are the only ones who pay taxes. We could have a ‘proper’ army if the top 1% paid any tax at all. We also have to think about what we need an army for. You keep mentioning the Cold War and Soviet threat. But that’s history. What is the modern threat and what do we need for it. Also, remember that the modern armed forces can’t recruit.
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  1035. Great video. I with you on the ‘lots of bugs, very little dolphins’ view of the universe.
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  1036. There are two explanations both unpleasant. One, they believe this utter shite that they spout and are therefore very unwell or two, they just spout shite and know it’s utter cobblers and are therefore a pair of absolute grifters.
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  1037. The plastic into grapheme thing just made me realise how damaging capitalism is. The whole profitable thing isn’t helpful here.
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  1038. Great work. Having had a shit worthless managers job I totally get it. I tell my kids this stuff. It gives me hope how they pick it up
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  1039. Trump is a silly little boy still trapped in an old man’s body.
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  1040. A lot of these ended up on British colliers along with Marlins and various Hotchkiss patterns in 1939 (.303). They would set them up anywhere where there was a bit of space and an arch of fire, usually the bridge. They were supposed to deal with German air attacks and E-Boats. Eventually, ie 1943/4, they were replaced with oerlikons and/or Browning 30s and 50s. Some old pre great war LA cannon was stuck n the poop deck in the early war and f’csle later (this was because fitting at the front was ‘offensive’ and made the ship a war ship and changed the RoEs).
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  1041. “Engage the Enemy More Closely.”
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  1042. So, Blackburn went bust in 5he end? Can’t think why?
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  1043. That never occurred to me. Scared.
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  1044. Great stuff Ed. War winning machines.
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  1045. This is very true, alas.
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  1046. Some guns just sound like guns!!!
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  1047. Please remember that if you think you know how quantum physics works then you don’t know how quantum physics works!
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  1048. Great work both!,
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  1049. Much better. Less errors than usual. Cool video.
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  1050. Ok, the Fairey Fulmar....... so, first thing anyone needs to know about the Fulmar was it was the MOST successful FAA fighter of WWII. This was because it mainly fought against exactly the type of aircraft it had been designed to fight against and also because it effectively operated with fledgling radar direction. One of the main reason it worked so well in the early days of Radar was because it was a two seater. Having an observer/navigator/radio operator in a naval aircraft is a dead good idea for many reasons. Firstly, if you get disoriented over the ocean looking down is surprisingly unhelpful (Things you don’t hear in a naval aircraft no. 421: “Ah! I know where we are now. I recognise that wave down there!”). Getting lost was a major issue for operations over water and caused a lot of loses. A bespoke navigator helped this to be avoided immeasurably. Secondly, it enabled the initially tricky, messy business of directing and vectoring fighters to their targets by radar to be done more effectively as the second crew member could do the liaising with the carriers radar operator and then tell his pilot where to go. No, not that sort of ‘tell where to go’. The vectoring type of where to go... Lastly, observation, a vital role of the carrier aircraft (which were expected to multi task especially in the limited hanger space of armoured carries) was obviously more effective with four mk1 eye balls than with just the one pair. One odd thing with the Fulmars 2nd crew member was the omission of a defensive weapon. The Fairey Battle from which the Fulmar was derived had a Vickers K or GO (Gas Operated) in the rear (not that it helped although it did claim the 1st RAF air to air kill of the war). However, rather like most of the later Beaufighters, the observer was left defenceless. Well, almost. Fulmar observers were sometimes given a “Tommy Gun’ -according to some sources - to shoot back with. This very likely would have not been an actual Thompson .45 SMG, the term being used in a generic way to mean any sub machine gun. It was more likely a Lanchester 9mm SMG. The RN was actually much better prepared for WWII than the army in this area of ordinance having ordered several thousand Lanchesters for its personnel pre-war. The army had taken its time and held a competition with the (both excellent) Beretta and Suomi being the winners and an order for 20,000 Suomis was placed with Finland who were about to ship them to England when Uncle Joe came a callin’ so they decided to hang on to them, instead.
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  1051. @Light Free will is a funny one….. Do we really have free will?
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  1052. Not true. At all. History is taught far better now than when I was a bairn. What’s your evidence?
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  1053. All together now……”All things bright and beautiful. All creatures etc etc”
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  1054. Poor Applecores. Nice to see your defence. I noticed the planned TB for the Graff Zeppelin looked very similar to the Applecores. Fiesler something? You have a video I think.
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  1055. Seconded. (And Harpoon was a success - don’t let anyone tell you otherwise).
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  1056. I thought that, too. Italian air engines were generally thought of as very poor. Certainly by the start of the war they were.
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  1057. The Elephant in the room for a lot of us is that Emily Maitlis is just incredibly hot. Sorry. Not sorry.
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  1058. In this day and age you’d think someone would have upgraded the puller-pusher concept with jet engines!, What? Eh!……oh
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  1059. Great work. Happy Saturnalia, Ed:)
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  1060. So, is she a socialist now, then?
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  1061. It’s a satellite. Shame though.
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  1062. Employing a Nazi responsible for slave labour and mass death and destruction is probably up there too, no?
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  1063. My favourite is the a great bit of trolling. The Germans constructed a fake wooden airfield in Holland to fool the allies into thinking they had more going on than they really did. They constructed it with typical German meticulously crafted time taking precision. The day it was made operational a solitary British plane flew over the fake airfield and dropped a single large wooden bomb on it.
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  1064. Great video. Love the Cat. Short S@#derlands were called Flying Porcupines because of the radio direction finding masts that stuck out of the back of some versions. Not ‘cos of the armament which wasn’t particularly formidable. It was pretty standard.
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  1065. Vanguards!
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  1066. Five gets you ten he’s lying about his past?
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  1067. Ed - have you been actively working on your delivery or have you just got more confident and comfortable? It is really very good these days, mate!
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  1068.  @stephenisom6089  eh?
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  1069. We are too timid. I’d agree.
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  1070. Poor man.
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  1071. Germany’s issue with rearmament goes back to the Prussian Industrial Military complex which got into top dear I the 1880’s. Old Adolfo just got on a horse that had been bolting for years. One of his biggest threats to his pose cane from the traditional officer class of Germany/Prussia.
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  1072. I first heard about Rockall from a ‘Gang of Four’ song. Do you think that there’s a pun in the name somewhere?
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  1073. This guys funny! I like him:) and he quotes Einstein.
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  1074. Lovely looking planes what’s wrong with ya!
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  1075. Takes a lot of skill to boil something that complicated down to a nice bite sized piece. Well done mate!
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  1076. Sneaky old helium
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  1077.  @gort8203  People seem so keen to take anything as a personal affront to their patriotism. As I clearly said - I’m quoting from a book I read. However, the possibility that some anti- Anglo sentiment effected somebody somewhere judgement isn’t “ridiculous”. Ask any Martlet pilot in the FAA.
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  1078.  @eugenemurray2940  Really!! Now I didn’t know that - nice one:)!
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  1079.  @eugenemurray2940  oh bloody Feltam is getting to big for his boots these days! Apart from the fact he’s about as tall as a milk bottle, bless. He does decent stuff though - tbh:)
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  1080. An amazing story. And ship envied by every other in the Royal Navy for the Glowworm got to ram an enemy ship.
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  1081. Hmmmm….. interesting but I disagree.
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  1082. Bader was a nasty piece of work. He had his head up his arse and if it wasn’t for his legs he’d have had a very different legacy. Lee Mallory and Bader nearly cost the BoB with the big wing rubbish. LeeMallory was a brown nosing wee shite and Bader was his wing man. This video is ridiculously biased.
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  1083. Comb jelly Cthulhu
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  1084. Would sprung decks have been effectively bomb proof?
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  1085. The people with the money ie the super rich, actually believe that they are entitled to their wealth because they “earned it”. But all of them know deep down that they are not entitled to the wealth that they have. They concoct stories and lies about the way they got their money but they know that the moral and fair thing to do distribute it fairly. But they are not moral people. They are disconnected from the world. They lose context over money. To them, there’s no point in having a big mansion if everyone can have a big house, too. To them, wealth is about exclusion and them having it all. But the masses scare them. Their worst nightmare is an organised working population.
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  1086. Neil Stephenson’s novel ‘Fall: Dodge in Hell’ is one of the best books I’ve read exploring this subject. (It also has the best description of what the speed of light means!)
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  1087. That was probably the best summation of the BoA Ive seen. Outstanding work.
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  1088. Coastal Command wanted to use them for ASW but were told no chance as they were too few and too valuable. CC ended up using Ansons which were really too short ranged for he job. To carry depth charges the Bombay would need a bigger…………… Bomb bay!! Gettit? I’ll get me coat…
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  1089. And the answer is………. Is not aliens. Sorry. Great vid though. Always love your stuff.
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  1090. Unbelievable. Except, it’s not, sadly. Not my king.
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  1091. Dunning-Kruger is becoming a really good example of Dunning-Kruger. This vid will help stop that….. or will it?
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  1092. Meanwhile, at Kent Hovinds ranch ……”Oh shit!”
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  1093. Best news I’ve heard ……. My whole life!!!!!!
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  1094.  @GordonDonaldson-v1c  I think the main area of difficulty would have been Goering. He wouldn’t have allowed the KM to operate the air fleet/FCX. Just look at how the crabs massacred the FAA before handing it back (broken) in ‘39.
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  1095. There’s five films. Just five. Alien. Aliens. Prometheus, Covenant, Romulus and that’s it. The other don’t count.
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  1096. That made me lol - literally not figuratively.
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  1097. Why would twenty guys want all those guns. Twenty guys...... 280 guns.....? Why?
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  1098. And it’s all true. That’s the unfunny bit.
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  1099. Oh no…… you said the thing. Oh dear.
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  1100. Very interesting and well presented. White slavers is interesting because it is the exception, though. The number of black African slaves utterly dwarfs the number of Europeans slaves. Just sayin’
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  1101. AI will break capitalism. No jobs for people means people with no spending power. No spending means no market and that means no capitalism!
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  1102. Yeah, it was way to rigid.
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  1103. The problem at the heart of the German military was the all pervasive Prussian obsession with duelling. They saw the heart of war as essentially a big feck off duel and therefor the desire for one on one type combat superiority. Hence the concentration on superior swords and pistols of the highest quality which then became tanks and planes etc when what they really needed was numbers and reliability.
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  1104. Ah! I thought it was. Cheers.
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  1105. SH has a decision to make now. Light or dark?
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  1106. Another great video. Well done.
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  1107. Dark Stars!! Yes!!
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  1108. Brilliant work about a total utter cock wobble!
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  1109. A very different world would be around us had this gone differently!!
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  1110. I still don’t like him though...
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  1111. What’s the netting slung under the turret of the RN destroyers, anyone?
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  1112. Never knew about this! Great work.
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  1113. I think the whole RAF were over rated. (Not sorry:)
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  1114.  @strongbrew9116  I agree. But all winning the BoB did, arguably, was extend the war by three years. Had the Nazis invaded the U.K. it would have ended in disaster for them - what happened next is anyones guess. I just think the RAF got a lot of (rightful) praise for the BoB victory but in every other aspect they came up short. With the exception of interceptors their aircraft at the beginning of the war were awful. Fairey Battlles, Bristol Blenheim, HP Hamtons to name a few were poor but at least they weren’t Vilderbeasts Bufalos or Gladiators which air units outside the U.K. had to use. Coastal command had no decent aircraft at all to do a very important job and had to nick Avro Ansons from Air Transport Command they were so unprepared. And ATC were barely capable of lifting a finger let alone an army. Army co-op used lysanders in a Ground Attack role (slaughtered) in France as well as Battles (ditto). What the RAF did to naval aviation in the late 1930’s was treasonable and it was only that the navy got control back just prior to the war stopped it being worse still. In any event the FAA was stuck with Swordfish, Skuas and Rocs. The latter two were not fit for purpose (Skua was ok dive bomber) and the Stringbag worked by luck not judgement. The RAF obsessed about stopping bombers in 1939/40 to the detriment of everything else (Trenchard etc) then obsessed about using bombers afterwards. The ASSF in France were terrible and they were left unprotected due to the above. Then the East coast and channel convoys were left to be slaughtered by the Luftwaffe while fighter command sat on its arses. Post BoB they just built heavy bombers that killed hundreds of thousands from both sides - civilians and crews - but didn’t give bang for buck value and would have achieved way more than they did if they built Mossies instead of Lancasters. Fighter sweeps in ‘42/43/44 just got a lot of pilots killed. Lastly, they dumped the Aerocobra and Whirlwind and were beaten to the first jet despite inventing the damn thing first. So, yeah. Over rated :)
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  1115.  @strongbrew9116  I agree with a lot of what you’re saying there! Which bit of mine where you not happy with, then? :)
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  1116.  @scooterdescooter4018 I mean, hey, if they’re giving them away, why not!
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  1117. Much maligned gun.
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  1118. To quote a five star general in the USAAF who I just happen to know - “They’re like sitting ducks up there!” This was in response to my son’s comment about how cool the hogs are.
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  1119.  Phoenix 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚢 PROFILE  Rommel “over -rated”. Interesting. He gets a lot of praise generally and the respect his opponents offered him I thought said a lot. But history is full of ideas that people attach themselves to without checking sources etc. I’m not a fan of revisionist history for the sake of it (like when historians just want their book to sell) but it’s good to revisit so called established facts sometimes.
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  1120.  Rita 25 y.o - check my vidéó  Very good shout. Cunningham was often described as the finest admiral since Nelson. He was also described as a bad tempered sod but, hey, he certainly got the job done.
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  1121. It’s just a massive case of incredulity fallacy gone mad!!
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  1122. She way better than her boss.
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  1123. Go Zarah
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  1124. At want point of saying “that’s not who I/we are” for the Nth does it really become obvious that that”s exactly who you are? A very good video.
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  1125. Maths. Mathsss
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  1126.  @TheAngelobarker  not sure I’m following you there, mate.
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  1127.  @PaperSkiesAviation  Welldone! 10 points clever clogs:) What a disgusting job for some poor bastard. I’ll bet people got threatened with it. “Make that mistake again, boy, and it’s Tamarisk for you!!” “No, no please! I’ll be good!!”
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  1128.  @vk2ig  oh since I was a bairn at least so more than 55 years. It moved from next to the Beacon Field to the Park Hotel Car Park.
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  1129. “Tempting to look away!” Very true.
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  1130. Why do people ring in and try it on with James ‘cos they inevitably get sodomised?
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  1131.  @mgytitanic1912  oooh straw man - tastic! - well, kind of….:) So…..I’m arguing that Churchill (who deserves bashing in my opinion but then I’m a damn Trot and have always bashed him so - not trendy:) chose to have the colliers continue to plod on down the coast without proper protection and part - Part - of his motivation was to keep the South East of England ticking over as if the lights/fires/cookers etc went out there it would be more injurious to his authority (that was precarious at the time) than say Exeter. It’s a myth (I admit) that it was solely about SE and Home Counties domestic coal as some colliers actually thought at the time and refused to risk the journey “to keep some posh git from Kensington warm” (Foynes, BotEC - Blyth colliers refused to sail believing this was why they were going) BUT I believe there was a degree of truth to it. Churchill’s lack of regard for the North and it’s workers was well documented. I also think that their lordships at the RN and also RAF planners badly screwed up in their preparations. I’d actually argue that the crabs messed pretty much everything up (this idea came from not reading an email properly for an on line debate during lock down where I thought I was supposed to be attacking the argument that the RAF were ineffective in WWII and realised with a day to go I was supposed to be doing the opposite. Yes, I’m that careless - just ask Mrs Geordiedog!)
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  1132.  @mgytitanic1912  There’s no victim mentality north of the Tyne. Just saying. Anger and stuff… sure. Sunderland…. On the other hand…… No need for being patronising thought. And no need for the attempt on the moral high ground either. If I was looking for that I’d talk to Mrs GD (ah….. casual chauvinism…..). Sorry…. Too many full stops. Must be the pink gins. I love pink gins. More interesting is - would the RAF still have triumphed* if they’d just had Hurricanes. *a chap on here once was convinced that the Luftwaffe won the Bof B. Utterly convinced. Argued like a possessed person that they’d won. Hey ho….
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  1133.  @mgytitanic1912  I’m somewhat less predisposed to pink gins this morning.
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  1134.  @mgytitanic1912  A wee bit. aye! I’m such a cheap date these days. But the new Armoured Carriers vid on The Skua with ‘Winkle’ Brown has made amends.
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  1135.  @mgytitanic1912  If you don’t know the Armoured Carriers stuff I genuinely envy you but I’d say clear away a couple of days as it’s full of content. I came across it while researching Operation Pedestal which is a good a place to start as any. Or maybe the bit on Winkle shooting down a Condor in a Martlet. Anyway, it’s my personal fave site on you toob. Bloke who runs it is from the colonies but he’s a very decent chap:) Hours of fun ahead! Never a bad thing.
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  1136.  @mgytitanic1912  Is that the book on naval aviation combat in WWII? To my absolute shame I haven’t read it. Yeah, yeah…….I know. But I defo will read it.
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  1137. When I think wwII tankers I default to Oh Aytch Ten.
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  1138. Interesting.
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  1139. Interesting!
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  1140. We’re the Nazi vessels firing into the wind? This helps the attacking ship as it causes the shells arc to steepen at the end of its approach as the wind blows against it and makes it drop more vertically. This would have meant shells falling onto Hoods weak spots with greater efficacy in terms of damage.
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  1141. Poor Albacores. No one loves them ......
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  1142. Council Pop!
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  1143. I thought Dan couldn’t make it? I hope he does go.
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  1144. Brilliant.
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  1145. Was that a Hecate .50?
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  1146. Looks a bit like one. Mind a lot of the BFGs look the same now.
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  1147. Space 1999
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  1148. Didn’t a Short Sund&£;and * once shoot down four Ju88s? Bay of Biscay I think it happened. *I’m from Newcastle and can’t say that word.
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  1149. It’s got an Airocobra look about it.
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  1150. Actually, science generally tells us we’re pretty amazing.
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  1151. He’s a very wise man. He oozes it.
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  1152. At least the German people prior to 1932 had some kind of ‘reasonable’ cause for the lurch into Nazism. You know, hyper inflation, war guilt clauses, the First World War etc - all that really bad stuff. Scared stuff. And it’ll empower the right wing all over the globe alas.
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  1153.  @Debbiebabe69  You’re quite right. That’s all very ‘sensible’. But knowing that you’re fighting madmen who won’t give in makes an enemy think about engagements. Neither the KM or the RM allowed their fleets to engage the Andrew on equal terms. There has to be. Reason for that. And that reason was a they were basically a death cult whose reputation struck fear onto its enemies!
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  1154.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  Pedant :)
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  1155. “She was the greatest battleship ever built and if you have another contender for that position……I’ll see you outside!”
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  1156. It’s like “Don’t Look Up” is real but about climate change.
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  1157. Great work - very interesting.
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  1158. Actually, I am a Marxist.
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  1159. Magnificent.
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  1160. Looks like something you strip paint with.
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  1161. Just finished the ‘We Are Legion (We Are Bob)’ books which discuss this sort of thing. (They start well but by the end the ‘Bob’ characters are such a bunch of smug self aggrandising twats I lost interest - that and the fact they fail to deal effectively with a post scarcity society and totally fudge FTL issues which for supposed Hard - Fi is just poor IMH).
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  1162. It confused the hell out of me but that’s not hard, to be honest.
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  1163. The real victor of the battle of Calabria was the side who learned the lessons best.
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  1164. Great park. Thank you.
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  1165. Great video. It doesn’t take much for a disaster to strike. So many killed……..
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  1166. Trump has a personality disorder or possibly some degree of neurodiversity. If you look at the history of such people they move from social group to social group as they will inevitably poison each group gain at them because of their inability to maintain relationships. In Trump’s case he has no friends and just hangers on and people who he wants stuff from. Thinking about it, trump would have been an absolute solid target for the Russian intel to compromise back in the day. He would have ben so easy to compromise. It would have been child’s play for them to get him so in the shit with hem that they’ve had him totally compromised. The fact that he’s now president was just the biggest bonus ever!
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  1167. What a wonderful educator you are, Ian.
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  1168. Great work, Ed. Take the wings off the 42db and the Machi and they’re very similar looking.
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  1169.  @therespectedlex9794  Southall?
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  1170. If you’re playing top trumps I suppose…..
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  1171. If you’re ever in Tynemouth, North East England you should have a wee walk up to Collingwoods Monument.
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  1172. I think they had it much earlier and the Nazis hadn’t much good to say about it.
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  1173. As a nurse I am disgusted that people from my profession helped the nazis. At least some of them seem to have seen sense.
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  1174. Sentient is what the cia was supposed to be. It was just suppose to be the eyes and ears and never the claws. Look how that turned out?
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  1175.  @mikepette4422  The fact that something good actually came out of the Fairey Battle airframe is remarkable in itself. I think naval radar direction helped massively and the fact the observer could handle that aspect in the early days was another big plus. You get some hateful comments from folks with Top Trump type arguments who’ve not actually read a grown up book about aviation. But you can dismiss the easy enough. They just see stats and not what they actually mean/meant in the real world. I really like Fulmars. They were big and clumsy but strangely effective. Reminds me of myself. :)
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  1176. Well, I like it. Hail Elbo!
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  1177. A metaphor for technology and capitalism.
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  1178. Love the tie die Nazi flag near the beginning!! (Well, I hate it but you know what I mean).
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  1179. HMS Glorious is one I’m interested in.
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  1180. Thank god for trade unions
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  1181. C’mon guys. If Kalashnikov are “infamous” the so are “Colt” or “H&K”.
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  1182. One thing they all have in common is capitalism. Just sayin’
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  1183. I spoke with Jay for 30 seconds and came away with the absolute impression that he was ASD/Aspergers.
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  1184. Regarding swearing birds.....there is a resident mascot on a Royal Navy ship (a macaw) that had to be hidden when the Queen visited as it shouts the most outrageous and offensive things! True dat!
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  1185.  @emilrydstrm3944  Ha! Yes, good point. It was something I was watching rather than reading I think. I can picture it but can’t remember, sorry. In my head it was a collision with a 210 and I can picture the old guy in his USAAC baseball cap.
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  1186. You have missed out the best theory as suggested by the great historian AJP Taylor in his book ‘War by Timetable’. Essentially, once initiated , each country had to go through with its mobilisation and couldn’t stop as this would totally screw its use of railways to get troops to the front. Very compelling.
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  1187. It’s a bald guy thing I reckon!
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  1188.  @vaclav_fejt  oh yeah. Totally.
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  1189. It’s……. It’s got a face on it!
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  1190. So….. Xmas trees are hotter and brighter than black holes?
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  1191. Snake Island is the new Stalingrad.
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  1192.  @badluck5647  Yeah, I got a bit carried away there. But it was a symbol leaders where expending prestige on. Hitler wanted Stalingrad ‘cos it was called Stalingrad and Stalin wanted to keep it for the same reason. Both would through their lot in to win with Uncle Joe having a trick up his sleeve and bloodied Adolfs Nazi nose big time. Snake island was a bit like that for Vlad the Bad Loser. Only, you know, not with the hundred thousand casualties.
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  1193. Put some water in that, mate. It’s all burn if it’s neat. Great work btw.
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  1194. Bit like our own Royal general!
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  1195. Great work
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  1196.  @SockyNoob  innit! Well, I’m going to call it ‘Steve’.
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  1197. Sunak is a sort of nice but dim character only without the nice bit. He more pit of his depth than Ocean Gate.
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  1198. I ended up in an awful argument with a younger comrade as I suggested that being under the British empire was probably the least bad. I hadn’t for one instant suggested that empires were a good thing but they seemed to think that was what I was suggesting and it got very silly. It pissed me off to be honest because had they been arguing with a right wing opponent they’d have been torn to bits with that kind of response. Empires were probably inevitable but that doesn’t make them good or right. A bit like catching the flu. Inevitable but not a good thing.
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  1199. Leadership. Modern football brains. Money/investment. In that order. No, really! That order.
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  1200. ABTF being an exception.
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  1201. Thank you for you work!! Hoorays.
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  1202. The Royal Navy. A very effective death cult. God bless them all. Balls the size of planets.
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  1203. Nice work mate. Well said.
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  1204. CC had Twenty eight planes in July 1942! Meanwhile Trafford Lee Malory and Arthur Harris were pissing aircraft all over France and Germany for virtually fuck all!
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  1205. I feel a song coming on…….
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  1206. Nice synchronicity with Armoured Carriers/Archivist.
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  1207. Nice one edd
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  1208. If not heard of this engagement. Thanks. Dud fish had a lot to answer for in WWII.
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  1209. Small point - Matapan was enabled by Applecores and not Stringbags .
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  1210. T’pitz?
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  1211. Jesus! This world we live in!
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  1212. Alt. history time. Post Dunkirk and Lord Halifax is locked in the Tower and the Peace deal between UK and Germany is a simple cease fire and nothing else. Mussolini goes mental insisting Hitler make the Brits give him ‘stuff’ in the Med. Hitler does what a ruthless opportunist would and shafts the Italians - pulling out of the war and leaving the Italian war with UK in the med. However, Hitler does promise material assistance to Il Duce. Il Duce decides that he can take on the UK with the French out of the way and the Brits having had a hiding in Europe. Thus, Med. theatre war between UK and Italian Fascist but this time the RM doesn’t have the limitation/excuse of ‘no oil’ for the battleships. How would it have played out? Obviously, looking at the RN v RM conflict more specifically. (Sorry if this has been already done - I must have missed it).
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  1213. Changing the bands name to “Christian Desert Mothers’.
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  1214. Not a huge fan of O’Hara if I’m absolutely honest. Obviously I love Drach so we’ll have to see what the third man is like.
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  1215. What ARE you talking about!?
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  1216. Now just you look here! The RN has a very long and distinguished tradition of having our heavy cruiser blow to pieces for seemingly little damage!
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  1217. It’s never aliens. INA.
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  1218. Very ‘Space 1999’.
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  1219. Source?
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  1220. If ABC liked you then it was praise in deed.
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  1221. O’Brian often mentioned “boarding axes” in his books. That just sounds nasty.
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  1222. Always thought the Swedes did the dirty (along with the Swizz) in WWII. They only got ‘anti - Nazi’ when it got obvious they were going to lose.
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  1223. So did Carter’s plan fail cos of USSR or ‘cos of France?
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  1224.  @neiloflongbeck5705  I was referring to the specific issue of the fighter arms race. The failure of Eagle Claw etc are the reasons he lost etc. I think he did ok in some areas but his rep went with the Iran debacle.
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  1225.  @neiloflongbeck5705  I see. Cheers for that. Carter did it!
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  1226. I try to stick up for coppers but they just don’t do themselves any favours. I looked after a couple when I worked in IAPTS as a CBT. Nice people, bright, balanced and thoughtful. But they were just having a terrible time with the majority of their colleagues. Now, this is just a couple of my patients but they both said the same thing ie the people I work with - other copper - are very difficult to get on with unless you are singing from the exact same page as them. But then this is just my ‘lived experience’ I guess, just like the caller said.
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  1227. White hat. Black hat. Grey hat. Very grey hat…… Dark Grey hats.
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