Youtube comments of josh thomas-moore (@joshthomas-moore2656).

  1. I think its fair to say SMS Seydlitz was the German version of HMS Warspite and USS Enterprise.
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  2. 14:28 "Making the Adriatic sea the Kamchatka's favourite place in the world, as it was a place where she would always be right." I wonder what that conversation would be like... Kamchatka: "Do you see torpedo boats?" Everyone else: "Yes. we heard you the first 100 times!" Kamchaka: "Do you see torpedo boats?" Ghost of Admiral Rozhestvensky: (Rises up and throws another pair of binoculars he'd thrown into the sea early)
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  3. See i have a bit of a personal history with U-534, i lived in Birkenhead and when i was a young boy my family drove past the sub and it started my love with history which got me to this channel and i did go and see it after it got cut up and placed next to the docks and it always made me quite sad that the ship ended up in that state and now my favourite youtubers involved with bringing her back, the little boy who saw her all those years ago is happy now.
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  4. See these Frogmen just prove the memes about the Italians are wrong and they were very deadly and brave.
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  5. "Hans i have a great idea, we put a 109 on a carrier." "You've been drinking again haven't you Gruber?" "Maybe, but it's still a good idea" "With that under carrage, no one will go for it." KMS high command "I love it let's do it." "Told you Hans." "I should have volunteered for the eastern front."
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  6. Queen Elizabeth class damage history "Oh boy this will be a long list."
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  7. HMS Warpsite: "What are you doing your a carrier get back!" HMS Formidable: "I am a ship of his majiesties Royal Navy i must fire at least once on my enemies if i can." HMS Warspite: "Well spoken, ok but just one volley then back." HMS Formidable: (Happy noises)
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  8. Wouldn't painting it purple so its invisible be better?
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  9. Vestal: "Right Enterprise, thats you fixed up again, can you please try and not get hit for a bit longer this time?" Enterprise: "No promises." Vestal: "At least try and not fight the whole Japanse Navy yourself this time." Enterprise: "Again no promisies." Vestal (Sighing heavily): "What am i going to do with you?"
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  10. To that person who's a relative to DR Ray Leonard, thank you for the oppertunity to hear his story and my condolences for his passing.
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  11. She looks a bit like someone lopped of the front two turrets of the Nelson class, but damn does so look good she also looks like she'd fit into a bit of a steampunk universe i love it :)
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  12. Those volunteers sound like they went through what the US Navy went through with Congress, with having to do and wanting to do a lot of work but none of the budget to do it, so well done to them for keeping the old girl alive this long.
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  13. USS Shaw "Is that all you got, this was but a scratch?"
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  14. Great Drachisim "There is a method to his madness, though madness it remains"
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  15. US Navy to admiral King: "We need more AA guns" Amiral Kings responce while looming over the poor guy responceable for getting AA guns: "Get me all the guns, NOW!"
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  16. 27:40 I think we all know whats going to happen if Drach wins the lottery, build a full size version of his HMS Thunderchild.
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  17. @The 225677th Fragment of the Man-Emperor of Mankind you promise a British ship crew rum if they fix the ship you'll be amazed what can be achieved in record time
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  18. Boo! have a like but still Boo!
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  19. Kind of sad this one wasn't just ten minutes of russian swearing i'm sure admiral Rozhestvensky would have loved that
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  20. How would the crew of A turret have fired off the famous last salvo, i would have thought the whole gun crew would have been thrown to side of the turret or been slid down to the side of the turret?
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  21. It says a lot that the Captian of the Sub that sank him came to his defence and his two direct superors objected to the trail and yet the US Navy still set him up.
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  22. HMS Malta "Sir were surrounded and out numbered five to one." "Then fire in all directions, for it is a even fight."
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  23. US cruisers: "Do we look like the Bismarck to you?"
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  24. Cape Matterpan the Royal Navy bringing battleship and a carrier to a cruiser fight
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  25. 57:18 "All hail this random parrot i picked up on a port visit" I often wonder how Rozhestvensky didn't have a mental breakdown to be honest.
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  26.  @Big_E_Soul_Fragment  Sadly not soon enough.
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  27. 54:36 Swordfish ignoring physics sounds about right. Honestly this thing is an anime hero at this point and we should just declare it a god.
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  28. USS Enterpirse captian: "Stop blowing holes in my ship!"
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  29. Battle of Guadalcanal "Seconds out round three"
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  30. Can't wait for the Royal Navy and US Navy Paint schemes :)
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  31. SMS Emden the last great, gentlemanly and occasionally cheeky pirate ship.
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  32. US Navy: Congress is giving us money, quick spend the cash before they ask for it back
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  33. Poland proving that though they might been one of the smaller navies in World War Two they can and will punch above their weight to fight just as hard as the major Navies.
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  34. Which Navy the German Japanese and Italian navies posed the biggest threat for the Allies for the longest time.
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  35. HMS Berwick to her captian: "Did someone break a mirror?"
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  36. I love how black cats are seen as unlucky on land yet on ships they seen as good luck
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  37. Tanaka: "Release the Long Lance!"
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  38. Long term series huzzah boys!
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  39. I have heard a few people call the Bismarck a failure of a design i know she had design flaws but she was able to sink or help sink HMS Hood and heavily damage Prince of Wales plus was taking lot to put on the bottom and she was considered a threat so was she really a failure or was it more she was a good ship build for a nation without the resources to use the good ship?
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  40. If you worked on the mark 14 torpedo exit stage left now
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  41.  @barbararice6650  The German fleet's mutiny was because the German High Command was sending them to fight the entire Royal Navy, a fight they knew they couldn't win, their entire stratagy in WW1 for the Germans was to avoid this very fight and try and take out chunkcs of the Royal Navy and then fight a weakened Royal Navy because they would lose in a head on fight, Jutland only happened because the Germans fleet didn't know the entire British Fleet was out. And then in 1918 the Germans high command wanted to send them to do as much damage as possible to try and strenghern the Germans hands in negotiation. They were sending the men and ships into a fight they couldn't hope to win or likely survive just to save face (Operation Ten-Go style) thats not a reason to fight or die for.
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  42. Germans: That ship has plot armour its cheating. Warspite: I don't need plot armour, i am a Queen Elizabeth class.
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  43.  @jbepsilon I did, but Release the Long Lance sounds better than release the Type 93.
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  44. The worst call to hear at a US Navy admiral "Its Congress here, we need to have a word about your funding, do you really need this much money, we think you need less."
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  45. You can tell Drach loves efficiency, hes a model of it, he always has a back up video just in case.
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  46. "Is it ok to see it several different places sir?"
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  47. So i think Drach's next rantish video will be the laconia incident
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  48. What would you name the other two ships of your Thunderchild class?
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  49. 38:58 Wow, i thought the Bismarck fan boys were bad but that historian (Not the person asking the question to be clear) takes the cake and table to be honest and i'm now trying to avoid a mental image of him hugging a body pillow of Prinz Eugen. (Take that in anyway you wish to)
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  50. I would love to see a serise of these videos of what some ships would be like if they had a refit or different refit (Like actually upping the armour on the Kongo's)
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  51. Which is worse for a Navy to have in posistions like the First Lord of the Admiralty, an inexperienced civilian politician or someone who has military experience but its in a completely diffirent branch like the army?
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  52. I see Drach is practicing for the fights at the Q archives
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  53. Japan does not have the Polish luck
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  54. "Denpends how predatory you want to get with the Q archives" another good Drachisim also now have a mental image of Drach going to the archives in his full armour
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  55. 00:18:15 See i think the British would have just done what they did with the rebuilt HMS President and just sailed her around Spain just to troll the Spannish.
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  56. Its always suprising how much technology crosses over from military to non-military and vise-versa.
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  57. Is Kings opinion on Beaty recorded and if so where, also were their any WW2 Royal Navy Officers he liked?
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  58. HMS Manxman: "What took you so long?" US Fleet: "Trolling Royal Navy." HMS Manxman: "Oh we haven't started sir, we got all kinds of jokes for you." US Fleet: "Help!"
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  59.  @theleva7  "But a fleash wound."
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  60. If Urban combat is the nightmare for Generals, what's an Admirals nightmare?
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  61.  @obelic71  Sadly the Warspite was no where the Japanese, she nearly got to fight the Kongo's which would have been glorious to see if excessinvely short lived for the Kongo's, i love them but 9 inch armours not going stop Warspites wrath. It would be a case of: R-Class: "Warspite come back your out numbered four to one." Warpspite: "Then it is an even fight."
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  62.  @sr71blackbirddr  whish is basically pistols
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  63. Illustrious: "You dare try and sink me, sink me? You sir shall rue this day!"
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  64. Could we make the "53 degree in the sun" a TIK meme? maybe have it on t-shirts?
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  65. "Realease the Johnston!"
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  66. 5:27 that german crewman was having a real bad day
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  67. I would pay good money to have seen a Dunkerque in the hands of the Free Polish Navy, because the results would have been spectacular, plus given how hard it was to get De Gaulle to do anything useful with the Free French Navy it would have lot more useful. Besides the "De Gaulle doing anything other then going apoplectic" is all the more reason to give the Free Polish navy a Dunkerque.
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  68. What is your opinion on the the battlecruiser? on one hand we have the Battle of the Falklands which shows the ships strenghts, then then we have Jutland and Denmark striat which shows thieir weaknesses, it seems they are good in anything that doesn't involve other capital ships personally i'm conflicted and what like to hear your views.
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  69. Their was a Canadian documentary called "Dieppe uncovered" which said that Ian Fleming the writer of James Bond made a unit called 30th Assault Unit to go in with the landing to steal an enigma machine.
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  70. Japanese Navy: "We must find the man who thought this 25mm was a good idea and remove him from his job at once."
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  71. If Seydlitz is the German version of Warspite and Enterprise, i.e. ships to stubborn to die, who are the Japanese and Italian versions of Warspite and Enterprise?
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  72. That shot at 7:07 of USS Texas listing like that is both sad and incredabily frustrating seriously how can a group who's sole job is to keep the warship intact fail so badly.
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  73. "Need more 20mm's"
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  74. The Kreigsmarine decide to pause construction on the Bismarck and Tripitz and up gun the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in time for the Norway campaign how would the pair have done against Renown and later Scharnhorst vs Duke of York at the battle of the North Cape?
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  75. Personally i would say the Japanese Naval High Command could also be Khorne considering how much time they spend trying to fight the Japanese Army and each other
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  76. Lieutenant: "Sir the enemy have taken our idea for an Ice Carrier." Captian: "Well then Lieutenant what are you waiting for?" Lieutenant: "Sir?" Captain: "If the enemy has taken our idea its only proper we take it back." Lieutenant "Yes sir, marines prepare to board!" Captian: "Helmsman get me as close as you can i wish to hit them with my sword." Helmsman: "Aye Sir!"
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  77. Thats not an even fight thats massacre for them
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  78. It is like thousands of voice have cried out in terror
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  79. Drach does the Royal Navy have an Equal to the US navies NCIS also are you aware that the third ship of the Kongo class the Haruna isn't pronounced (HA-RUNA) the Japanese was is all one word no space between the A and the R (Sorry had to put this as my cousin who speaks japanese was moaning at me to add this)
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  80. HMS Warspite with 16 inch guns, oh lord thats rather terrifying.
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  81. Or rum lots of lovely rum
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  82. Whose 18 inch gun's that were actually built were better and more powerful the British or the Japanese?
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  83. Has there ever been a naval version of the Christmas Truce in World War One?
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  84. Before your channel most of what i heard about the Carriers of WW2 was on the Yorktowns esspecially Enterprise and in the odd occasion i'd find a note on the Shoukaku's in the margin somewhere, do you think the Illustrious class and Shoukaku's deserve a bit more limelight, esspecially the Illustrious class given they poundings they took in the Med?
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  85. Could you give us your top 5 or 10 best and worst First Lords of the Admiralty and why?
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  86.  @ussenterprise3156  Yes it was surely you could ask Belfast about her.
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  87.  @GaldirEonai  As i'm sure the binoculars can testify to.
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  88. I know this might be out your zone of research but I was watching a seconds from disaster documentary about the USS Forrestal fire and it said the official report on the fire spoke of the crew not knowing damage control (The main damage control crew were all taken out in one blast) very well like they didn't know which to use put out the fire foam or water yet US damage control was very good in World War Two but by the Vietnam it seems to have changed to a more Japanese style system, why was this?
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  89. The Orks approve this idea
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  90. Would it be fair to say that the Norway Campaign was a mistake for the German Navy given their losses especially in Destroyers
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  91. How useful would HMS Dreadnought have been had it fought in Jutland
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  92. Given their larger size, better construction and historical toughness, could the Shoukaku's have weathered the Damage taken by Soryuu and Hiryuu at Midway? And would the Japanese have been in a better situation if the Soryuu and Hiryuu were deployed to Coral Sea and the Shoukaku's were sent to Midway? (I don't think the Japanese could have won Midway with the Shoukaku's, but they might have been able to recover the 5th carrier division at least and bring them back to action later)
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  93. If the domestic enemy for the Imperial Japanese Navy was the Japanese Army and US Navies main Enemy was US Congress what was the Royal Navy's main enemy that wasn't a foregin power?
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  94. Illustrious just after being hit: "Haha, thats adorable, now how are you actually going to try and sink me." Germans: (Crying) "No fair!"
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  95. 00:56:00 I imagine HMS Warspite looking a lot like Adrian Carton De Wiart, or Captian Fredrickson from the Sharpe series, quite calm and respectful usually while also covered in scares, but if she gets a wiff of a fight she's front and center fighting people like you see in the Kingsman films though with a smile and slight glee in her eyes.
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  96. Given that the ships used were either their designs or iterations on their designs what was Britain's and France's reactions to the Battle of Tsushima, did it lead to a massive need to redesign their ships and their doctrine given how much damage both the Russians and Japanese ships took in the battle and how most of the features which were meant to be safe failed?
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  97. Liam Neeson: "Release the Kraken!" Drach: "Release the Johnston!"
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  98. What are your 5 best "Are you taking this seriously?" moments in naval history?
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  99. I was rewatching your Kamchatka video and it got thinking: 1) Can you think of any other ship's or officers that were so bad they were a greater help to the enemy then their own side? 2) Language and doctrine aside if Rozhestvensky had command of the Royal Navy, French Navy or US Navy could he have won against the Japanese? 3) Why did Rozhestvensky not use the Kamchatka as target practice after its incident in the storm or after it said it was sinking while he stood on the bow with his parrot and Megaphone hurling insults and Binoculars at the ship or if he was feeling merciful send it home with some of the members of the fleet who were sent home?
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  100. Of all the Axis Navies which would you say was the most effective as i know the Italian Navy didn't sink the same amount of ships as the Japanese and German Navies but they were still a threat to the Allies till they surrendered holding down a big part of the Royal Navy and the French Navy till France surrendered also in Drydock 43 you were talking about the Italian Navy attacking the landings at Salerno landings any chance that will be the next war-gamed battle
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  101. Of the two ships lost in Force Z which was the bigger loss Repulse or Prince of Wales? I know Wales was the newer and better protected ship but Repulse is faster and has bigger guns.
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  102. If this had happen i can only see Admiral Rozhestvensky screaming incoherantly a volly of the harshest Russian curses.
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  103. Ironic Belfast turns up in a video that mentions the name Enterprise.
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  104. Assuming Hiei managed to limp home from her knife fight at Guadalcanal and that Mutsu doesn't explode and both ships are with there respective sisters in the Center Force at Layte Gulf, could the extra ships, assuming they don't sink in the air attacks with Musashi, have made Halsey consider leaving Task Force 34 behind to cover the San Bernardino Strait or at least made Lee press the case to leave Task Force 34 behind stronger? And what do you think Lee's reaction would be at fighting this new Centre Force with Task Force 34?
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  105. Those reactions to the Yamato and the super carrier oh those were funny. Personally i think i trick was missed with the Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff his reaction would have been hillarious with him trying to think up how to ram the thing
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  106. In the 2017 Dunkirk Movie their is a shot of a British sailor firing at a German Aircraft from an AA mount that holds twin Bren guns, i'm aware single Lewis guns were mounted to ships but never twin Bren's, was this ever done or are the Brens being used in place of something else that sould be in the mount and if so what?
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  107. I think a good point on weather the Kongo's are Battleships or Battlecruisers, is HMS Repulse, the two in WW2 are very simular and comparible, they had simular speed, simular firepower (Kongo might have more but Repulse has heavier) and they have simular armour. Yet the Repulse was called a battlecrusier her whole live and was never modified like her sister Renown, so given that Repulse is accpeted as Battlecrusier by everyone and the Knogo's are in the same ball park i think that makes them a Battlecrusier, a good Battlecrusier no doubt, but a still battlecrusier. And just to throw my hat in another ring i would call Hood a Fast Battleship because shes effectively a Queen Elizabeth with more speed, same guns, simular protection Hoods just faster and we accpet the QE's as Battleships so i think we have to call Hood a Battleship to.
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  108. Drach once again preserving history before its sadly lost.
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  109. Message to the Japanese Navy, stop using the Kongo's in the battleline, they are battlecruisers good battlecruisers yes but they are not meant to be in the battleline stop putting them there
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  110. Was their any attempts to mount a flamethrower like device on an Age of Sail ship or was it just seen as easier and simpler to just use fireships?
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  111. When Nelson got home he had all those swords melted into an throne for him to sit in
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  112.  @kaymish6178  Phoned in?
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  113.  @Yaivenov  Love the thinking, why don't we paint the captians cabin blue so she has extra luck too.
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  114. Which was the worse The Dauntless Devestator or the Albacore?
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  115. How did the Japanese Navy behave with enemy crews that they captured the way soldiers were treated is quite well documented but there is the unwritten rule of every sailor’s enemy is the sea so were they treated well or bad or was it that on the ship they were treated fairly but once on land it was Geneva Convention is the “cowards code” to quote Bridge on the River Kiwi.
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  116. I thought that came under logistics?
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  117.  @sr71blackbirddr  We just need the high speed bording cats and were done...Oh look :)
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  118. 1) What Ships pets stories do you like the most? 2) Which animals made the worst ships pets? 3) And in a previous drydock you mentioned one british ship had an elephant on board how just how?
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  119. 00:54:38 I want to see ORP Piorun, i think that would be hillarious.
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  120. What would have happened if the Cumberland had taken part in the battle of the river plate as if i'm not mistaken she was meant to be with force H but was refitting i imagine that Exeter would be quite happy to have another cruiser to help her if only because shes not going to be the only one being shot at quite so much
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  121.  @ahmedrazick4946  That is believeable, hillarious and some what terrifying.
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  122. The one ship class in World of Warships made out of Stormtrooper armour
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  123. Thunderchild is meant to be the warship that shoots the tripods though they are forgetting the point of Thunderchilds scene it's meant to show that Humanities best weapons at that the time navel warships today it would be Nuc's are nothing more then stalling weapons at best to useless at worst
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  124. Admiral King makes an unkind comment about the Royal Navy and Jackie Fisher is in the room and hears the comment, who wins the fist fight and how much destruction will be caused? Both men are in their prime and no weapons like pistols and swords are allowed though the occasional chair, cup and bottle are allowed.
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  125. A friend of mine went to see HMS Vicotry and ever since he makes the joke that if HMS Victory was destroyed the Royal Navy would have found a way to sail the Nelson class to Berlin and deliver 16 inch anger do you think they would try and failing that what would the Royal Navies reaction have been if the Victory had been Destroyed i imagine the Kriegsmarine and Regia Marina words upon hearing this would be "Mummy"
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  126. An alternate history question for you Drachinifel. Assuming that the Amagi and Akagi (not Atago and Takao) were not damaged in the earthquakes and they had been finished as planned battlecruisers and in their place the Kongo and Hiei had been made into carrier conversions how would both groups of ships have done? Assuming Kongo and Hiei had a similar style conversion as Akagi and the two Amagi's have been modernized to be fast battleships along with the Haruna and Kirishima with the latter two being done as they were historically?
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  127. Your opinions on Beatty and Gensoul are clear, but which of them was worse? Also my apologies to your blood preasure and Mrs Drach if this question puts you in a bad mood for the rest of the day
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  128. "We hit Warp factor 11 sir!"
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  129. I've heard a few claims that the Death Star's alarm/siren is a naval one. Is this true and if so which ship is donating its alarm?
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  130. Drach: "If I ever have an actual punching bag I will name it Königsberg." Harsh but fair those ships are just awful, i'm pretty sure a tank could kill those things.
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  131. Would it have been a mercy if the Royal Navy had sunk the second pacific squadron or at least the Kamchatka i mean it would have saved some of Rozhestvensky's binoculars
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  132. Tumble weeds for the first two minutes ah technology truly you are a mystery and a troll
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  133. Was there much difference between other nations foods at the time and Royal Navy foods?
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  134. In your opinion who were the five best Japanese commanders in the Pacific war?
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  135. In the battle of the Java sea which nation on the allied side had the best force in the fleet
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  136. Inspired by a question from drydock 64 what would have happened during the fight of the bismarck if the free polish navy had HMS Rodney
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  137. I'm a little curious, these modified 16 inch shells where did the Japanese get them from, were they from the stockpile meant for Tosa and Kaga and what was the thinking behind developing them, were the Japanese trying to make the closest thing to flying the Nagato's in the air and having them fire on to enemy battleship decks?
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  138. How would you rank the three Villians of Jutland? (Betty, Chatfield and Seymour) and which would you take outside and hit with the stupid bat to increase their intelligence?
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  139. With all these historic heros Nelson, Cunningham, Admiral Yi etc would you serve with any of them if you had the chance and if so who? Also was Nelson burried in the coffin made for him by the captian of the Swiftsure?
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  140. 2:15 machine gun replaced with a mortor. that just shows how good at fireing over hills the Vikers was which was a party trick the gun had. So say you were on a hill and on next hill on the far side you had some enemy troops, just call up the Vikers so long as its in ranger you can litralliy rain bullets down on the enemy.
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  141. Which navies had the worst secret codes in World War One and World War Two
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  142. Who was the better commander of their nations cruiser forces Gunichi Mikawea or Norman Scott?
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  143.  @jlvfr  History Division move out
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  144. Why did ships with an odd number of guns leading to them having a single gun in one turret such as De Ruyter and Blyskawica have the single gun in the front, i would have thought it would go astern to maximise the forward firepower?
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  145. The Imperial Japanese Navy and Army's treatment of prisoners in the Second World War is famous for their mistreatment, yet the Japanese gave the Russians at Tsushima seem to have been treated fairly well, what changed?
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  146. How much authority does an admiral have over their flagship as i have read a couple of captains over ruling their admirals orders like the Bismark captain so is it a case that the captain is responsible for the fleet while the captain is responsible for the ship so if a group of battleships are ordered to move in a battle but the captain of the flagship feels his ship can't do it he can over rule the admiral
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  147.  @highjumpstudios2384  No you should read Polish military history most of its just them out numbered and out gunned yet winning
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  148. What do you thing of the scattering of PQ17 and the reasons not to reform it after they found out tirpitz was not out
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  149.  @smokejaguarsix7757  You are aware that in responce for the raid the Japanese butchered 250,000 Chinese civilians, i'm not sure i'd call that a success.
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  150. Inspired by a previous question if they did a Trafalgar and/or Jutland film (properly) and you could play anyone in ether film who would you play and why?
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  151. Was using the Kongo's to fight cruisers in Guadicanal a good or bad idea? as they were battlecrusiers and thats waht they were and while Hiei was taken out by cruisers i believe this was more due to the fact she had got to close not helped by her belt armour thinkness.
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  152. What could have happened had the US not gone with the Doolittle Raid meaning Hornet and Enterprise going with Lexington and Yorktown to fight at Coral Sea?
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  153. In Master and Commander Captain Jack Aubrey makes HMS Surprise look like a whaler to lure in the enemy, but did a ship ever make itself look like it was badly damaged or crippled to lure in the enemy and if so can you think of any notable examples in both the age of sail and the age steam?
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  154. Given their number of cruisers and their doctrine for smashing through US Navy cruiser squadrons, would the Japanese have got more effective results out of the Kongo's if they used them in the original battlecruiser role as cruiser killers then trying to use them as battleships?
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  155. Was Malta's value to the allies in its ability to intercept Axis convoys or its ablity to keep Allied convoys safe?
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  156. In 1942 the S.S. Normandie burned in port how common and easy was it to happen?
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  157. I recently saw a picture of what was said to be HMS Leander in Malta just after the war, but her superfiring rear turret was missing all the other parts of the ship line up as a Leander class, so could this have been Achilles instead or were the Leanders used to test some strange post war ideas?
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  158. Drach what do you think of Admiral François Darlan (Mers El Kebir aside obviously)
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  159. What are some of your favourite getting a "Natural 20" moments of naval deception in history?
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  160. Which ships would you recommend taking inspiration from for a steampunk fantasy set between the Victorian era to WW1?
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  161. Its not the Bismarck that should be worried it the Scharnhorst suddenly finding a Revenge class battleship chasing them while somehow going at 35 knots powered purely on Polish anger and agression
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  162. I've seen a lot of documentaries on Bismarck's last stand saying all the British officers were worried Rodney would blow up like Hood if she was hit, was this a real fear by the British or creative licensing on the part of the documentary makers and whether the fears were true or not was this a legitimate possibility given Rodney's capabilities or was it a case "Hood was so powerful if she could go up so could Rodney"?
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  163. Will you cover other ships pets such as the Norwegien dog Bamse?
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  164. Aren't they a mix of China and Japan as some of their ships are named after Japanese classes like one of their battleships are called the "Kongo Heavy Battleships"?
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  165. Thank you for answering my Death Star question Drach and you sold me on the altered Corvette alarm. As for the Drydock questions the issue with skipping a year is we'll be right back in the same situation by the end of the next year so it wouldn't really solve the issue, you could try a new year special Drydock where you just answer a few months worth of Drydock questions to try and lessen the scale of the list.
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  166. Could you tell us about the sinking of USS Panay?
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  167. To me the first and second Kotluban are justifiable and seem to have had an effect, the third and esspecially the forth seem pointless i get the deception angle, but the Soviets had attacked twice so it wouldn't be unreasonable that they would be thinking if another attack came it would come from that area
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  168. ORP Piorun is rightly remembered for showing a level of agression that Admiral Nelson would approve of, but had she rammed the Bismarck and then presumably tried a boarding action acompanied by lots of Polish insults, slurs and vast amounts of violence, who would win? (And yes as i write this the mental image of KGV and Rodney turning up and seeing Bismarck flying the Polish navy ensign while the singal man is flashing "I am a Pole" has entered my head will never leave it)
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  169. You've been sent back to the US in 1920's America and the head of BuOrd has come down ill and needs to be replaced and by chance you get to pick, who would you pick?
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  170. Did the Polish Navy ever have plans to make a Coastal Battleships like the Finnish Ilmarinen, also how would the Ilmarinen have done in a battle against the Pre Dreadnought Schleswig-Holstein?
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  171. We have "Ace's" for Tanks and Planes but is there a Naval Ace or term for an Ace for sinking or capturing ships?
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  172.  @GaldirEonai  What witchcraft are you using to get the two to get along thats must be some strong magic
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  173. I suspect a German ship called Bismarck parked next to a Royal Navy ship today would result in some intresting times in port.
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  174. Kongo-san HIEI!
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  175. To go on the other side i think the Kongo's are great looking ships, but (And as much as it pains me as i do like them) they didn't do well in the war.
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  176. Can anyone else hear Parrot swearing in Russian?
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  177. Which type of cruiser either light or heavy was the most useful for the navies of world war two?
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  178. Top Ten Admirals and/or officers who were underrated and/or wrongly over looked
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  179. As someone who originally hails from Merseyside i'm wondering what if any modifications were done to the ferrys Daffodil and Iris?
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  180. How did Navy's feel about sailing ships named after Army Generals and units such as HMS Iron Duke and HMS Gurkha?
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  181. What is the difference between Fast Battleships and Battlecruisers they seem to basically be the same thing with different names
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  182.  @scottgiles7546  Well when we get to it we'll use it again. Also Python is for all.
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  183.  @ChristianSlotHolck  For your first question Drach actually did a survival at sea video so i'd recommend that for your first question Also the Bismarck was out of Luftwaffe support when she was sunk it would have been the U-boats that the Navy was worried about and even they weren't i doubt it the Navy went to great efforts to put the Bismarck under as revenge for Hood so she was going to be put under the minute the KGV and Rodeny were in shooting range.
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  184. Would you say that the fast battleship was the evolution of the battlecruiers or were they the counter to the battlecruiser?
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  185. Why was USS Saratoga not at Coral Sea and Midway, i've heard conflicting reasons ranging from not back in time, to damage to the the ship and was she either incredibly lucky or unlucky also did she deserve the nickname "Sara Maru"?
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  186. I was watching your video on the Admiral Hipper class and i thought came to me, would they have been better served being shorter 20 meters shorter?
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  187.  @quentintin1  Thats true but if the Luftwaffe hadn't been fighting the Kregsmarine for aircraft production they might have got one. Also while i love the 109 its actually my favourite aircraft from WW2 i still wouldn't want to land it on a carrier
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  188. The mosquito was a very fast and tough aircraft and it was given an anti-tank gun to attack ships and ground targets. Could it have been made into a carrier aircraft? and if so how effective could it have been?
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  189.  @dantreadwell7421  When you get to the Admiral Callagahan Quesntion you'll understand.
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  190. Would the American torpedo bomber crews at midway have been better served with the fairy swordfish
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  191. Didn't USS Shaw (DD-373) surivie a magazine explosion at Pearl Harbour.
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  192. How do you actually rate the Leanders? I've heard you make a couple of comments on the Leanders like when talking about the Duquesne class of heavy cruisers you said "Even a flipping Leander" and this was after you said "The Good Light Cruisers", I know they weren't the best light cruisers and weren't going to win a battle against something like a Town or Cleveland but they seem to have been fairly capable ships and they did seem to get some decent success in the Med and i'm pretty sure the collender of Graf Spees superstructure has more than a few 6 inch holes from a pair of Leanders.
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  193. As someone who played the console version WOWS which doesn't have the carriers (Or fun police and jingles calls them) i can say it is some much more fun the PC version
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  194. Are there any examples of Admirals realising they were or would be out of their depth and either refused promotion or requested to be demoted?
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  195.  @Drachinifel  it would be interesting to see at the least
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  196.  @snupjeve  Oh no have Piorun and Johnston in the same room together and then sit back and watch the fireworks.
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  197. Given the IJN's impressive skill at night fighting like at Savo Island did they ever give any thought to using their carriers at night and if so what plans and tactics did they have and if not why not as it would seem a bit odd for a fleet so good and not a tiny bit obsessed with night fighting would leave one part of that navy wanting?
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  198. How did the woodern fin's on the Japanese torpedo bombers torpedo's help them from burying themselves into the sea floor at Pearl Harbour and did the Japanese keep using the woodren fin's after Pearl Harbour or were they a one time use idea?
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  199. Which class of ship that only had a single ship would you have liked to have seen have expanded in numbers?
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  200. Or employ a man who can do it properly
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  201.  @Ragefps  I think its more accurate to say Warspite was the deity.
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  202.  @bluedemon2174  Everyone :)
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  203. In Drydock 71 you mentioned a Town class concept, covered in twin 5.25 inch turrets what was the idea behind this idea, Anti aircraft fortress?
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  204. Which class was worse for being over hyped the Bismarck Class or Yamato class? Personally i think the Bismarck class but would like your opninon. Second question which class of capital ship of the major nations is the most underated classes?
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  205. Going through the German Navy which ships in your opinion would you say are Excellent, Good, Mediocre, Bad, Out right awful and which ones would you go "Burn those plans right now stop it"?
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  206.  @scottgiles7546  Medieval armour because cool points
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  207. What did the French Navy do in World War One i've heard a lot on the German and British navies but other then Gallipoli the french seem conspicuous by their absence
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  208. I have finished rewatching the Guadalcanal series in full again and it struck me that US intelligence seems to not be as good as it was at Midway, was Midway just a lucky one off or had something changed between Midway and Guadalcanal?
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  209. Would the Kongo Class have been better by upping the armour belt to 12 inchs in the 1940's and would it have changed the fates of the Hiei and Kirishima with the upped armour
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  210. How much of a help or hinderence was Queen Elizabeth during the Spannish Armarda?
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  211. Question inspired by Admiral YI but how would a Navy in the age of sail and in the age of steam fight a guerilla campaign?
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  212. Why did the Germans never use their light cruisers to bombard Leningrad, considering they were used later in the war in the Baltic and their limited use through the war it seems odd the Germans wouldn't try to get more use out of them?
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  213. You've mentioned Iron Duke being very accurate how accurate was she and how did she compare to other ships?
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  214. During the 1991 Mt. Unzen volcanic disaster the JSDF sent three tanks into a pyroclastic flow (which sounds fun), i was wondering did a Navy ever send ships into simular natural disasters?
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  215. Could you tell use about the Naval units that helped the Belgium army at the Battle of the Yser?
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  216. 1) HMS Hood vs one of the Kongo's as built and in 1941 in a open ocean and no magic BB's to make either go bang? 2) How do the four Kongo's compare to Beatty's and Hippers squadrons at Jutland? 3) In a Previous Drydock you said the Kongo's would have been a great help for the British BattleCruisers had they been there but how would they have effected the battle if they had been helping the German Battlecruisers? 4) Which class was the most useful for the Japanese the Kongo's Nagato's or Yamato's? 5) Was their anyway to get more use or a better way to use the Kongo class?
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  217. Hiei!
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  218. Kongo nee-san
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  219.  @scotiadragoon5974  Thunderchild, Thundercloud and Stormchild love them, though i feel those three names really were missing for Destroyers i mean they fit so well
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  220. Are there any ships that when you started the channel that you liked or found intresting that you subsequently come to hate or dislike because they cause such an argument or controversy?
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  221. In your 2nd Pacific Squadron video in between Kamchatka's constant antics that made poor Admiral Rozhestvensky rethink his stance on humanity, you mentioned a Captain Klydo, the officer the Admiral off loaded after the fleet nearly kicked off a war with the UK and who had criticised Rozhestvensky's command beforehand and nearly made the long suffering Admiral beat the ever living daylights out of the Captain, (Something i imagine he wished he had after the Admiral heard Klaydo had sent the "sink by themselves squadron" as reinforcement), my question is what was Klaydo doing that made the Admiral want to go "I cast fist", was he being Captain hindsight all the time, did he think the Admiral was inferior to him because of family standing and was being obtuse because of it?
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  222. How many escorts were supposed to escort capital ships in World War 2?
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  223. Which 20th century Naval commander's career would you change either slowing them down or fast tracking them so they are either not in the command role they are in as they are too low in rank to command in the role they did or increase their rank so they were higher up? Picking them to improve the outcomes of the major events that they took part in (An example being increasing Jisaburō Ozawa's rank so he's in command of Pearl Harbour and Midway)
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  224. (HMS Warspite pelted with coal) HMS Warspite; "Oh really you want a legend do you fine, hold my tea!"
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  225. i think that natural justice comment would be a good drachisim
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  226. If you were in Jellicoe's position who would you have had in charge of the battlecruisers over Beatty
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  227. Could you tell us about the Evacuation of Sørøya island by the Royal Navy in 1945?
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  228. Drach In Drydock 140, you answered a question of mine about the domestic enemy of the Royal Navy and you showed us a picture of a cancelled aircraft design. What was it called?
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  229. Assuming the Italians stay out the war after taking the piece of France they wanted and then bowed out, how much of an impact could the Meditiranian Forces have had in the Pacific Theater (Assuming Cunningham still in charge) For example could we have seen Japan trying the decisive battle with the Royal Navy in 41-42 instead of the US Navy?
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  230. BK Jeong i would argue against that whole battleship were totally pointless during the Second World War. The Meditaranian and Atlantic had a good numbers of surface action between capital ships Cape Matapan as an example, and the Scharnhorsts proved what happens if a carrier gets suprised by battleships or battlecruisers. The Pacific is much larger and open by comparison so like all battlefeild terrain is important. Now the issue the Kongo's have is they are in the Pacific which is really a Carrier battleground being so open by comparison to the Med so they have that problem to begin with, then the Japanese appalling application of them which just exacerbated the problems. Now i'm not saying the Kongo's were perfect, far from it, personally i would really have up armoured the poor things and try and turn them into something like the Renown, but they were the only capital ships the Japanese had that could counter American Battleships (As bad an idea as that was) the Fuso's and Ise's were to slow and the Yamato's were far to big and expensive to risk at Guadalcanal (all that armour on the Yamato's would have really been useful on the Kongo's). But they could do a fair amount of damage if they got the chance USS South Dakota and as you said Henderson field as examples. For me if i was going to use them, i'd try and use them as a hit and run force, targeting cruiser forces and landing areas so like the British in the Atlantic force the US to put battleships to guard them and then use the light carriers to hit the US Battleships do damage and then the Kongo's can turn up and finish the job (Which i believe was the plan for them in the Kido Buti) i accept this is not perfect, but its a better use. Also if i was going with my plan i would have dropped the speed from over 30 to 29 knots and up the armour and i'd maybe upped the speed of either the Nagato's or Fuso's to try and get more use out of them. I will accpet i am slightly biased on the Kongo's as they we're orignially British design and i am British but i do genually feel they could have been useful if used smartly and not how they were actually used.
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  231. So the Japanese are making this excellent Torpedo, by comparison BuOrd was making the Mark 14, enough said.
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  232. An odd thought came to mind recently, why was the force at Gibraltar called "Force H" I would have thought they would be called "Force G" the G being Gibraltar so how were forces like Force H given their name, was it random or was it order of importance?
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  233. A number of British ships seem to have a habit of escaping. Do you think this was a call from the battleship gods that the UK should have kept at least one also if Warspite had been saved where she should have gone regardless of the logistics of getting her there?
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  234.  @silverhost9782  Oh no the 28 knots is a good speed for the Pacific i agree, but if you're chasing cruisers who are in the 30 knot range, it feels a bit too slow to me, Repulse who can also reach that speed range is better suited to that role and that was the opponant the two ships would have mostly likely faced historically. I will grant you if you are getting into a gun fight with another battleship you want Pince of Wales, she is better protected and decently armed, but the cruisers could easly out run her and disengage if they wanted to. The area of oparation the two ships sank never had a battleship or Kongo in the area, they only had the cruisers and both ships protection and firepower could easily outmatch the cruisers, so it comes down to could they catch the cruisers and Repulse is the better ship in that regard, Prince of Wales is a good ship i just don't think she's got the legs for the opponant she could face.
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  235. In Drydock 64 you answered a question about the Free Polish Navy in that light this question came to mind. You are Admiral Angelo Iachino on the bridge Vittorio Veneto just before Cape Matapan and you are told you are facing HMS Warspite and her sisters, as you consider your options on facing a ship which is legend for not sinking you are told Warspite is flying an unusual flag and not the white ensign you ask to confirm this and are told the flag is not that of the white ensign but the Free Polish Navy what is your response, Also change the Itlaians for the german Destroyers in Narvik?
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  236. How were forces like Force Z given their name, was it random or was it order of importance?
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  237. The frying pan mounts on the QE's and Illustrious, what are their official names?
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  238. If you were in charge when the mark 14 torpedo flaws were fully reviled what would your action have been anything goes?
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  239. What were the pros and cons of the Torpedo ram ships i'm guessing the two roles of torpedoing and ramming counteract as to ram you want straight-line speed which means long and narrow hulls like the Hood but to torpedo you want manoeuvrability which the long narrow hulls make difficult.
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  240. What would happen if the Japanese sent the Fuso’s or the Ise’s instead of Hiei and Kirishima during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
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  241. Would it be fair to say that the Second Battle of Narvik in which the Warspite and her escorts destroyed the German Destroyers that were there was a loss that badly crippled the German Navy as i have read a few accounts that said that the losses were about half of the German Navies Destroyers
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  242. In 1968 an RAF Hawker Hunter flew over the Houses of Parliament in protest, did the Royal Navy ever pull off a protest liek this and if so when and why?
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  243.  @robertf3479  I know Pirate isn't the correct world its just the closest i could come up with
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  244. 42:49 Assuming Youtube isn't guilty here. Maybe the youtube review thing still read your channel as having the mark on the video even after it was removed and the system messed up and didn't recommend you, assuming innocent till proven guilty.
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  245. Two Questions Drach one why did battleship gun turrets not have an escape door in the for situations like hoods sinking and its forward turret i know it would be a weakness but i think if a ships turrets are being shot in the back or like with one of Bismarck's turrets with back exiting stage left its all gone wrong anyway and how do you think the gun crew of the hoods forward turret could have fired its last salvo
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  246.  @99IronDuke  thhank you for the video link it is appreciated
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  247. Ignoring the resource and time issues which ships that Germans made as battleships would have made decent carrier conversions? Also why was HMS Formidable in the surface action of Cape Matapan?
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  248. Assuming the Graf Zepplin was in a port that the allies capture in late 1944 what would they have done with it, try and use it in the pacific or in operation crossroads?
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  249. Has anyone tried or thought about trying to parachute troops on to a ship?
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  250. Who was the worst officer these three the unnamed commander of the Kamchatka, Seymour or Beatty
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  251. I remember reading their was a Royal Navy rating who also got a Victoria Cross during the St Nazaire raid for performing a simular act to Sergeant Durrant, is this true and if so can you please name him for us?
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  252. Modern ships use helicopters and in the Surcouf video you mentioned the sub had an Autogyro did any other ships use or had plans to use early helicopters or autogyro's instead of planes and how many navies were looking into them?
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  253. What do you think are the top 5 most criminal actions, decisions or people in all navies in the 20th century
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  254. Your stance on the Japanese Pagoda masts is well known but what do you think of the towers found on the Yamato and Musashi and the prototype found on Hiei, also i've heard those towers called the Pagoda towers is this the correct name?
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  255. Assuming that somehow the UK through trade had kept Japan out the war or managed to get them to join the allies how would have that effected the Royal Navy
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  256. Was their any attempts to use Balloons attached to age of sail ships for recon?
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  257.  @Drachinifel  Thank you sir.
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  258. Ignoring fuel and other such handicaps, which two fleets of WW2 would you have liked to have seen go for a Jutland style big battle with their whole fleet in a no holds bar battle to the death?
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  259.  @sillypuppy5940  That would be quite an amusing thing to see someone try.
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  260. If Shigure wasn't sunk by USS Blackfin could we have seen her at Operation Crossroads and just for fun what do you think might have happened to her?
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  261. 2:45:12 I'm going to go with Seydlitz activated "Second Wind" ablitiy.
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  262. Please tell us about Cunningham's "Sink Burn Destroy" order, when did he give it and was he especially angry at the time and if so why, were the commanders he was going up against someone who had particularly vexed him in the past and was it true he renamed the operation to Retribution?
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  263. Prepare for ramming speed
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  264. I was reading a Book by Angus Konstam titled "Jutland 1916 Tweleve hours to win the war" and in it when the writer gets to British Battle-cruisers the chapter is called "Fishers Follies" and it go me wondering Where the Battle-cruiser idea a flawed one as we have the British Squadron at Jutland and HMS Hood Being blown up but then we have the Germans Battle-cruiser's like Seydlitz which took a pounding that would make Warspite proud so what is your opinion on the matter and have you read the book
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  265. Do you think their ever could be a way for ramming could be a viable tactic again?
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  266. Using their historic crews and airgroups around the time of the Phillapine Sea how would the Shokaku class vs the Illustrious class look?
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  267. Just after the Second World War you've been given an Island and can have up to three ships (So fifteen in total if you want) from the Royal Navy, US Navy, Regia Marina, Imperial Japanese Navy and Kriegsmarine to be made into museum ships, which ships would you pick?  Additionally they must have survived the war or been in a position to be salvaged so sunk at drydock etc. and they can't have been made museum ships in our timeline like USS Texas or HMS Belfast.
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  268.  @bkjeong4302  Given that soldiers, sports and stuntmen have ended up at deaths door and come back for more maybe.
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  269. The Townclass cruisers (1936) are all considered the same class dispite the fact that Edinburgh and Belfast are significantly larger then the others, yet the Shiratsuyu-class destroyers were heavily modified versions of the Hatsuharu class but are considered a seprate classes, so is their an agreed upon line between modified and new class?
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  270. I recently saw a video titled "The Most Feared Battleships from the Major Fighting Nations of WW2" and it got me thinking, were certain ships actually feared in WW1 and WW2? Like was the Japanese Navy scared of USS Washington appearing in the dark and the Germans scared of a little destroyer flashing "I am a Pole" turning up.
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  271. I wasn't aware Bad luck was an Obi Wan fan
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  272. In previous drydock you mentioned that USS Enterprise might have angered a very low powered but extremely vengeful deity, could HMS Warspite have angered it to and can you think of any other ship that seemed to have angered this seemingly spiteful deity of failure to sink warships
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  273. Inspired by a previous question about pearl harbour you wake up and find you are in charge of the russian 2nd pacific squadren the day they set out how do you try and fix the issues anything goes
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  274. This is what happens when you annoy the Royal Navy, they just apply the principal of need more firepower. The battle of the Falklands after smashing cruiers the Royal Navy applied battlecrusiers to the issue and here at Narvik beaten off destroyers well clearly its time send in Warspite just to be absolutley sure no ones left standing.
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  275. When would have been the best time for the Italian Navy to have tried to take on the Briitsh Mediterranean Fleet to control the Med?
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  276. Would you ever work as a historic advisor for a movie or TV series and if so what would be your terms to work as one?
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  277. Its a clearly ridiculous tin hat idea but what do you think was the cause for the start of the USS Eldridge conspiracy theory i mean most stories i've read like this do have something to kick it off even if it is a few to many in the pub
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  278. Kamchatka was only a threat to the Admiral Rozhestvensky's sanity.
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  279. If your facing the Kamchatka it might be
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  280. After Pearl Harbour and Midway Congress decides to ignore the Navies request for Carriers and want more battleships how would this have effected the Pacific war and how would the US Navy after head-slapping at Congress interfering in their affairs again respond to these suggestions and how long will it be before they go fetch the mountain lions to get Congress in line
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  281. What ships crews could legitimately use the line "Stop blowing holes in my ship"?
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  282. Admiral Yi vs Admiral Nelson who would win in a fair navel battle
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  283. Which arm of each of the major Navies of WW2 was the most useful for them and gained them their biggest results? For example Destroyers for the Japanese, submarines for the Italians etc.
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  284. The answers to your questions are 1) Yes love them. 2) And yes i would please, i think they'd be quite fun.
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  285.  @Balmung60  True but i still think not increasing the belt was a mistake but thats personal
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  286. Raizō Tanaka vs Philip Vian who was the most effective Destroyer commander?
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  287. What would have happened if the Italians had worked out that HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant had been sunk by the mini-subs
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  288. Admiral King to Admiral Halsey "Stop sailing your ships into Typhoons!"
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  289. Video that stuns me into silence is the sinking of HMS Barham which every time i look at it just makes stop for like five seconds and the Yamato explosion and the other story that sticks with me was a group of Hitler youth in Normandy that the Canadians captured and by chance were captured by the one group that didn't know that this unit had killed POW's that hit me in the gut as the germans were just kids they likely didn't know what they were really doing (Also TIK youtube is ok with the sinking of HMS Barham and a videos showing the drowning of piolet whos plane crashed off a carrier i mean you can see him struggling to get out and everything but people like you can't show the concentration camps seems a bit daft to me)
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  290. Tik question in your video you mention the mailita not having enough rifles could this be where the story of "first men in line get a rifle" comes from, if not could you say where it comes from as it is my knowledge that the Sovit army did have enough rifles go around.
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  291. 23:26 On that note with the Japanese, the reinforcements that helped save Moscow in 1941, came from the East where they were facing Japan, if the Japanese had decided to invade Russia (Again), then those forces would have been tied down and were unable to help save Moscow. The reason the Russians could move those forces was because a Soviet spy found out the Japanese would be heading to fight the US, Dutch and British Empire forces not the Soviet Union, if they had gone for the Soviets it would be Stalin fighting on two fronts not Hitlar. I do also wish to point out that the Polish lost the highest percent (16%) of their populace, fighting the Axis during the war which is more then the Soviet Union. Also wish to point out the Chinese lost the second most troops in the War and Chinese commanders themselves said many times their units were not as good as the Japanese one for one, they did have some limited successes where they could mass their forces but more often then not the Japanese could easily counter them before long (Not helped by politicing from higher up), so much like the Soviets the Chinese suffered heavy losses due to being out classed.
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  292. One of Britians best and most heroic soldiers Paddy Mayne, turned into a drunk suicidal berserker with none of the character that made him so beloved by his men. I can understand why his family don't like this series and i hope to the gods this series gets canceled as its an insult to the real mens legacy and deeds.
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  293. What do you think of the Royal Navies Great Panjandrum
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  294. How hard was it to identify targets for aircraft at sea such as with HMS Sheffield being misidentified as the Bismarck and the Japanese not realising the hit USS Yorktown twice
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  295.  @PalleRasmussen  Ooh thats a hard pick.
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  296. Would the Japanese have been better served at Guadalcanal with their light carriers over Hiei and Kirishima and if so what carriers would have available to them
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  297. What would have happened if the Renown and Repulse replaced Hiei and Kirishima at Guadalcanal respectively
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  298.  @bkjeong4302  Yes the Iowa's are to focused on far to much. The Kongo's are less guity as when they had their role given to them it made sense at the time and you could use them to lead crusier squadrons as they are battlecruises and if the Japanese were lacking cruisers they are better then nothing and they actually did go into an actual fight it didn't go well i admit but at least they did actually go into battle.
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  299.  @bkjeong4302  And yes the Illustrious class to they do need more time in the spotlight, i mean they were reinforceing the US Navy for bit (Like USS Robin) so they were fighting in two Navies technically.
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  300.  @bkjeong4302  That is true Zuikaku and Enterprise's rivalry does need more attention and i do agree with you the Shoukaku's are underated their the quite ignored work horses of the Japanese carrier forces.
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  301.  @bkjeong4302  What about the Soryuu and Hiryu, they aren't bad carriers, ok their not as good as the "Big Three" carrier classes, but they are older and they aren't that far behind them they are of comparible speed and their air groups are good. And they were more active they did Pearl and Midway with CARDIV1 but they were also in a Indian ocean raid. Also most of the damage done at Pearl was the bombs not the Torpedos and Dive bombing was their air groups specialty. Also compareing them to CARDIV1 they are much better, their faster then Kaga and i believe they had more planes then Akagi, and they were certianly hit a lot harder then Akagi who took one bomb and was out Soryuu and Hiryuu took three or four bombs each and i'd say in Hiryuu's case if the Damage control was better she could have survived. So i'd say they are best of the rest when it comes to carriers before the Essex's come into action.
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  302. What do you think happened to Flight 19?
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  303. When did the Japanese start adding Radar to their capitol ships and which Japanese ship was the first to given Radar?
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  304. Finally the Royal Navy has arrived Huzzah!
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  305. Given its size how by Nelson was the crew of a Habakkuk meant to communicate internally with each other? i wouldn't have thought the voice pipes would have worked.
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  306. As someone who was from Liverpool could you perhaps go over what sank the HMS Thetis and go over the disasterous escape?
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  307. Picture of HMS Hood shows an RAF like Randall like on top of "A" Turret, what is it's meaning, was it a hold over as her time as the pride of the Royal Navy?
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  308. We've seen planes, tanks and other military machines found in odd locations such as gardens and sheds, do you know of any ships found in the naval version of the Garden shed?
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  309. Will museum ships ever have their ship names reused for new ships like HMS Belfast and HMCS Haida?
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  310. If the Japanese had taken some of the refits to the Kongo's to make them faster to some of the other battleships which battleships would have benifited the most from the increase to speed?
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  311.  @bkjeong4302  i don't disagree with the first one its just i saw someone trying to argue that Bismarck could easily beat Yamato something i think is only likely if the Yamato's crew pull a Billy Mitchell (Which is basically if Yamato did nothing and left all her doors open) As for the second well i admit that radar and fire control wise the German ships are better but Yamato was meant to go up against such odds with ships like Bismarck and Tirpitz and Yamato's guns are just way more powerful so i think Yamato could easily sink one before sinking the other but she would be badly damaged from the fight, but i'm no expert but i do think the second will be more fun.
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  312. I suspect i know the answer will be but i shall ask: Yamato vs Bismarck and Yamato vs Bismarck and Tirpitz
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  313. Assuming that through somekind of twist of fate, perhaps guided by the ghost of Nelson, Admiral Sturdy was in charge of 5th Battle Squadron at Jutland how do you think things might change for the British?
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  314. What was the thinking (If their was) behind Billy Mitcheals bombings of USS Alabama, Virginia and New Jersy with White Phosphorus and Tear Gas and what was the reactions at the time, did they actually help his case about air power or did people go "Mitcheals launched another biased test again." and largely ignore him and downplay what happened?
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  315.  @Drachinifel  yeah sorry should have warned you on that too my bad.
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  316. Drach the Rei Asuka question seems to be a anime question Neon Evangelion if your intrested.
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  317. 02:04:30 that is the music for the death of HMS Thunderchild
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  318. Its 1915 and the High Seas Fleet comes up with a daring plan, the first stage of the plan is for mine-layers to deploy mines around Scapa Flow with the Battlecruisers and any Battleships that can keep up following close behind to ambush the minesweepers. For security the captains are given written orders but the British discover through radio intercepts that the Germans are told to open the orders so they know something is up, how effective would this have been?
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  319. What was the thinking behind using battleships and battlecruisers as carrier escorts?
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  320. I have a sneaking suspicion the Japanese Army and Navy codebreaking units were also trying to spy on each other to try and one up each other.
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  321. Do you find that video games have given some incorrect ideas of some ships, for example HMS Vanguard is good ship on paper, yet in World of Warships, shes quite bad?
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  322. If Renown and Repulse replaced Hiei in the night battle of Guadalcanal could they have made it out and could they have done more damage?
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  323. After the Invasion of Sicily could the Italian Navy done anything to counter the invasion as they seem strangely inactive, i would have thought they would have tried to do more to try and stop the invasion like they had planed for the Italian mainland?
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  324. Seeing as the two ships have effectively the same in terms of protection and firepower and it would be a very brave individual to say the Grand Old Lady was a bad ship, is HMS Warspite the perfect counter to the argument that HMS Hood was a bad design?
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  325.  @bkjeong4302  i will need to check into the Shiden Kai then
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  326.  @bkjeong4302  Almost sounds like the perfect carrier aircraft and from your discription that does sound intresting to see.
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  327. Which aircraft that made to or plan to be made to be carrier aircraft should never have been made also which aircraft would have made intresting carrier aircraft?
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  328. Who do you think the worst Royal Navy officer of World War One is
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  329.  @bkjeong4302  Pretty much and yeah i agree
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  330.  @bkjeong4302  i agree with you on this all navies who had carriers were all guilty of putting Battleships and Battlecruisers to escort carriers, but the Kongo's have few actions to distinguish themselves in comparisons to ships like Warspite with her battle record and Yamato and the Kongo's were the main non-carrier capital ships who did something in WW2 for Japan so i think people are using that argument because of a lack other things distinguish them. Which personally i do feel is a shame they were good ships just misused, i mean Krishima did do a number on South Dekota and Hiei did do a lot of damage so they were a force to be reckoned with when they were around.
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  331.  @thanakonpraepanich4284  But Kongo-san
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  332.  @MisterApol  Thor works could have the ship emblem of a hammer hitting a ship
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  333. Just a bit of a laugh question but a few times in Star Wars i've seen Imperial Star Destroyers and Venators landing on oceans given their in lore weight and dimensions could they actually float on an ocean?
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  334. I was watching the World of Warships live stream you were on and you mentioned backwards flying ALbacores please expand?
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  335. While searching online i found a picture of USS California and USS Tennessee parked together in the same drydock, why did they do this and was it a one off or was it common practice?
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  336. Never bet against the Polish never
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  337. Could you tell us about HMS Stock Force and her captian Harold Auten?
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  338. What are some of the most notable lauch failures or disasters and how did they happen?
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  339. In your video on the free nations video you mentioned polish sailors serving on british ships like the four that were on Hood, how often was this and how did they overcome things such as language?
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  340. Have to admit i was looking for the picture of the Dutch ship in island form and i kept getting The Finnish Battleship its quite annoying.
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  341. We all know how the Army treated those that we now know had shell shock, but was their any difference in the Navy or was it the same?
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  342.  @seafodder6129  It can also mean "His/Her Majesty's Stone frigate"
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  343. ​ @seafodder6129  The "S" still stands for Ship for example the Sea Cadets T.S. Seahawk is Training Ship Seahawk even though its not a ship the sames true for a training school using the HMS.
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  344.  @mills9402  If you mean the Town class Cruiser no that HMS Sheffield was scrapped in 1967. The WW2 Sheffield has the pennent number C24 the Falklands War Sheffield was D80.
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  345.  @smokejaguarsix7757  That is not what i said or my logic at all, my logic is that we should look at the conciqunces of the action.
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  346.  @robertf3479  Aye they want the ship but not to do the work to keep the ship.
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  347. @Katyusha which just goes back to the point that Japan didn't have the resources to fight the war they were in.
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  348.  @bkjeong4302  Well i was going off the historical situation they were in with my plan and i was trying eek out more use for them then anything and sinking something is more useful then sitting in a port for me at least. As for the carriers well the Kido Buti was gutted at Midway and the Shokaku's are needed to try and fight and the Essex's (Even if it is doomed). So you can't really raid with carriers if the carriers are either not there or tasked for other duties and i would argue if you got them there might as well try and get something out of them and using them to raid landing ships is better then charging into other battleships which they don't have the armour to fight.
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  349. @Katyusha as i said the plan is not perfect its trying to use them better not win the war, also i was trying to off set the waves of US planes by that by using the light carriers again not perfect but the Kido Buti being gutted at Midway kind limits the number of Japanese carriers avaliable and using the Shokaku's i ruled out as they are the last big carrier units left to the Japanese and their needed for fighting the other carriers.
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  350. What happened to Rear Admiral H. Evan-Thomas after Jutland and what is you opinion of him?
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  351. What are some of your most infamous examples of officers that make you go "Whose side are you on?"
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  352. In a previous drydock you showed a picture of a Kamikaze attack on HMS Sussex and the plane is a ZERO but it actually isn't, what aircraft is it as to me it looks like a VAL with the fixed landing gear?
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  353. The Royal Navy is making a new class of ten new Destroyers and five Carriers. What would name the classes and the ships
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  354.  @Yaivenov  Lol
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  355.  @RT-rx2sj  The Black Library
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  356. With the exception of the Atago's most Japanese cruisers from the Aboa class onwards seems to have ther Torpedo launchers to the rear, why is this, i'm assuming it doctrinal but i can't think of the reason?
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  357.  Uncle Joe  Sounds messy
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  358. Which gun has had the longer active service life the British 15 inch/42 or the American 16 inch/50?
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  359. The French Navy has decided they don’t want the British to have all the fun for World War One and want to follow in the path of their forefathers and want to donate ships to the Royal Navy to make a “French 6th Battle Squadron” what ships would be best and would you choose if you had the option if there are any differences between best and your own preference.
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  360. Was Warburton-Lee over confident when he went into Narvik after he was informed by the Norwegian pilots he was facing six German destroyers not the four he originally thought and that the weather was closing in, couldn't he have waited for HMS Penelope or more destroyers to arrive?
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  361. "Drachs American Naval Discoveries"
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  362. What was the plan for the Palmerston Forts and how effective do you think they could have been had they seen action?
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  363.  @GaldirEonai  I was expecting that the US navy would have had a staggering number of volunteers for a Drach suicide squad
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  364. Which ships in your opinion had the best ships motto and who had the worst?
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  365. Jingles? when did you arrive?
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  366.  @Cbabilon675  Thank you
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  367. Was their ever a naval unit that was tasked with sneaking behind enemy lines and raising hell, or was this job ever given to which ever ship was avaliable?
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  368. What do you think of Thunderchild speed boats that apparently can't be capsized
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  369. HMS Thunderchild proving that even in the darkest of times and impossibility of the task humanity and the Royal Navy will not go quietly into that dark abyss but with both fists swinging and guns firing
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  370. I was rewatching your survival at sea episode and a thought occured to me in films and in real life when ships end up with holes in the hulls the ships stop is this to stop water flooding in like a vacum or something of that ilk? Also when should a ship keep going?
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  371. Do you give any of these model ships names?
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  372. You have been made head of the Royal Navies procurement and planing in 1938 and someone has smuggled you a copy of Plan Z and war holds off till 1948 how would you counter the plan assuming of course that no one notices the plans have been copied and handed off to you
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  373. Which shorebombardment story do you find the most intresting in your research and why?
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  374. Given her record would it be fair to say that Prince of Wales was the unlucky sister of the KGV class?
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  375. In the film Longest Day features a rather strange scene of nuns walking through a gun battle to help wounded French commando's, whats the most strange events you can think of in naval history?
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  376.  Israel Hands  No it acutally was, the Germans attacked on the 1st of September the Soviets attacked on the 17th of September the Polish forces were still fighting at the time infact the Poles were still fighting to keep Warsaw when the Soviets attacked on the 17th, the Poles didn't stop fighting till the 6th of October, so they were enveloped in fact on the 21st of September, the Soviets and Germans signed a formal agreement co-ordinating their attacks in Poland.
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  377.  Israel Hands  Forces the Poles could have used to fight the Germans were stuck facing the Soviets incase of an attack weakening their capabilities in fighting the Germans, thiss became even worse when they got into a two front war with the Soviets in the east and the Germans in the west, the Poles were put in the same posistion as the Germans would find themselves in 1944 and 1945.
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  378. HMS Warpsite vs USS Enterprise in a all out slugging match who would win and how much would pay to see it?
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  379. Assuming the Germans didn't declare war on the US, much like how the Japanese didn't declare war on the USSR, how would this have affected the balance of power in the Atlantic and Pacific sides of the conflict?
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  380. Was there ever an agreed place to put ships spotting planes, as some ships have them in the middle of the ship, some went for the back and on some Italian ones I've seen them on the front ahead of the forward turrets, also what is your personal favorite for the position of the aircraft?
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  381. Your transported back to 1914 and you are the head of the Royal Navy and you have the knowledge you do now what would you do with Beatty and Ralph Seymour to stop their rather poor effects on the Navy maybe make Seymour your secretary or something
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  382.  @bkjeong4302  Yeah the Dunquenes are terrible ships to.
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  383.  @bkjeong4302  Don't forget the Königsberg's Drach's punching bag.
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  384. We all know of some bad plans in military history weather tactical or building and you've given us some great examples yourself, but could you give us the 5 plans tactical or building that made you go "What by Nelsons one good eye were you thinking?"
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  385.  @czarfore  Those looked like merchent ships but were actual warships, i was going for an actual warship looking like it was K.O'd but was actually fine.
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  386. What was your opinion on admiral jellico he seems to have acted decently at jutland withdrawing the fleet to keep them intact as aposed to ramming torpedos knowing that the UK need the fleet a draw even a bad one was better then lossing the whole fleet just for glory
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  387. Did the FAA have any land based air bases around ports like Portmouth and Plymouth for air defence or was it a case of relying on the RAF and if they did have bases around these ports did they take part in the Battle of Britian?
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  388. What are your favorite examples of ships that "Died as they lived"?
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  389. 28:00 haha oh that made my day, thanks for that Drach
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  390.  @paul6026  More than likely it was the former idea as with the best will in the world one battleship agaisnt six carrir four Kongos and dozens of cruisers and destroyers isn't going to do much. Thats not to call the crew cowards its just sense theirs no point in going on a solo suicide mission for nothing. I mean yes in a one on one Nevada would beat a Kongo but one she isn't in a one on one the four Kongo's will likely incircle Nevada like Bismarck or slplit in to two groups like Grap Spee and thats assumeing is survives the attacks of six carrier groups. So i would say she was trying to get out to maneuver or something simular.
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  391.  @LiveErrors  But thats what i mean Battlecruisers are kind of confussing for me. which is really annoying as two of my favorate classes of ships the Renowns and Kongos are Battlecruisers but i just don't know on the idea that made their design.
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  392.  @bkjeong4302  Thank you and i have to say i like Hiei's better the other Kongo's Pogoda's.
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  393. Could Admiral Kings hatred of the Royal Navy have been because he saw Seymour and Beatty?
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  394. Assuming all other events remained up till the setting sail for the battle how would midway have been affected if HMS Indomitable or one of her sisters was in Pearl Harbour and in a need for numbers Nimitz brought it along Admiral King be damned. I imagine the British might not be able to do as much as the American carriers but they would at least even the number of carrier hulls and at the end of the day something is better than nothing.
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  395. When were the Royal Marines turned into the Royal Marine Commando's as I've heard them referred to as both in the same battle but I've also read of the battles on Crete were we have the Royal Marines in the rear guard only called Royal Marines and an actual force of Commando's who are also only called Commando's
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  396. What was the thinking behind the Imperial German Navies scuttling heavily damaged ships?
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  397. Its 1945 and its the end of World War Two and you've been given enough money and space to save one British capital ship and as much as it pains me to say it can't be the Grand Old Lady, which ship do you pick?
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  398. What would have happened if one of the British Battle Cruisers had fought the Graf Spee at the battle of the River Plate over the Cruisers? Also in a previous video you said their was nothing wrong with Kongo class other then how they were used so why rib on them?
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  399. In the TV series "Deep Wreak Mysteries" they mention the actions of Able Seaman Malone and how instead of immediately jumping off the HMCS Regina when she was struck a Torpedo but stayed to make depth charges safe, does he deserve the Victoria Cross also can you think of anyone else in the Royal Navy or Commonwealth Navies that should have earned it but didn't?
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  400. Who was worse for Sailors Health Bureau of Ordnance or Beatty and would be then facing the angry Grizzily Bears you used to keep American Congress in line until the repent for their sins
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  401.  @bkjeong4302  Sorry your right i missed her and while true the bed story is likely not as its been told its still a rather amusing story.
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  402.  @KMCA779  Agreed HMS Warspite and USS Enterprise both earned it
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  403. While doing my searching through navel history i have found a few ships that for one reason or another i have found a bit of a soft spot for even if the ships themselves weren't necessarily that impressive, one example being Tenryuu being an old ship at the time of salvo island and still putting up a decent fight do you have have any examples of ships that even if they weren't that impressive or did anything glorious you have a soft spot for?
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  404. 2:45:33 How about "The Phoenix" as a nickname for Seydlitz.
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  405. You find yourself in 1915 and the new commander of Home Fleet how would you personally get rid of Beatty anything goes even have him smoke in a magazine with no one on the ship.
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  406. I've noticed on a few ships like the Queen Elizabeth Class and Iron Duke this sort of balcony/promenade like construction on the stern of the ships what is it and why is it there as i can't seem to find a reason for it being there other then to give the crew a place to smoke away from the ammo, Beatty!
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  407. I was watching a video on youtube about Yamato in operation Ten-Go and it showed the Sick Bay being hit and it got me wondering, where did the Sick Bay's go on warships, i imagine you don't want it in the bottom in case of evacuation and getting the wounded down that far, but i imagine you did want the thing with decent protection so its not turned into an abattoir?
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  408. Has their ever been a ship design, that could be discribed as designed by someone with way to much time on their hands?
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  409.  @magisterrleth3129  NNNNOOOO its better with out them, if they want to add them put them in their own game mode
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  410. Of the ships that received a modernization between the wars, which ships were the biggest missed opportunity for a great modernization? I would expect the Kongos are high up on the list as they had decent firepower and good speed for the time, but their protection was lacking, especially given how the the Japanese used them as battleships but still had battlecruiser armour and as you've said a few times, three of the class could well have survived the blows that sank them.
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  411. Please tell us about Cunningham's "Sink Burn Destroy" order, when did he give it and was he especially angry at the time and if so why, were the commanders he was going up against someone who had particularly vexed him in the past and was it true he renamed the operation to Retribution?
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  412.  @bkjeong4302  Not a bad idea but surely Beatty is higher on the list then the Treasury.
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  413.  @bkjeong4302  Man German ships had some real issues with inefficiency.
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  414.  @bkjeong4302  Ok yeah when you put it that way yeah they are worse.
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  415.  @bkjeong4302  ​ @Bk Jeong well i think the Hippers could have been better if they took the unneeded length off (I think its 20 meters, but don't quote me) they kind of got bitten by the same issue the Bismarcks got which was inefficient designing though it wasn't as bad as the Bismarcks.
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  416. Which of Axis powers had the best Light and Heavy cruisers and which would you be taking a blowtorch to?
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  417.  @bkjeong4302  First that Three way battle would be intresting to sea. And i went for the Philippine sea time as i beleive the Shokaku's had stronger decks at that point and yes i couldn't call it with competent crews for both which is what makes it so intresting.
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  418. America had plans for war with Britain could we see a battle of the texel like video using the ships that would have been out out at the time the plans were made
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  419. Two part question for you what is your opinion on the Kongo class after their refit to battleships and how good were "Destroyer Leader" type ships like the Tenryuu light cruiser and HMS Valhalla destroyer
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  420. This is less gunfight and more bar room brawl.
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  421. Deutschland at launch: "I want to swim in the water!"
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  422. On paper should a Swordfish be able to dive bomb and given this feat and other feats in previous videos would it be fair to say that the Swordfish was blessed by the heavens and the nearist thing to an anime character as we'll ever see?
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  423. Which is your personal favourite carrier aircraft, also what happened to Beatty after the scuttling of the high seas fleet and should he have had a meeting with a court marshal for the scuttling
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  424. Following on from a question on Drydock 213 (Part 2) about the Navy taking over from the Army out of exasperation, has their ever been a war where the Navy has had to "Strap on the carry pants" and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat after the Army was doing so badly that the war was almost lost?
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  425.  @longinogiorda149  I would also put a case for Gunichi Mikawa he did well in Savo Island and yes he did miss a chance to cripple the US force on land but he did have good reasons to turn back when he did.
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  426.  @WALTERBROADDUS  While true it would have been lets say intresting to try. Its not impossible the Birtish were able to do it in 1940 so it was possible, yes it wouldn't have been plesent to do but still i would have thought they came up with some ideas.
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  427.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Ok yeah that really is different in terms of vison
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  428. Why were the Lexington's in their battlecrusier form have such a thin belt? they have about the same as the Invincible and Indefatigable but those ships were never meant to fight ships with simular firepower and when they did it didn't end well, so did the US not pay attention to Jutland or was something else playing a role.
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  429. Assuming they had been built and survived till peral harbour and were there what would the lexington class as battlecruisers fates have been also how would they have stacked up against the three british battle cruisers and Kongo's if they met in a battle
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  430. Boiler explosions: what was the most common reason for them to explode and how powerful could they be?
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  431. There are plenty of reports that were written to cover someones failings and people suffering as a result, but are there any reports that were written in good faith but was totally inaccurate and these reports leading to disaster for the navies in question?
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  432. The Armies that fought in the Far East like Burma and the at the time Dutch East Indies are often called the forgotten Armies. Do you think this is true for the Naval forces?
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  433. Where their any thoughts or plans to make the Fulmars into a fighter/bomber aircraft like the Skua?
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  434. 2:50:00 Huh i wasn't aware that the "Promethus School of Running Away From Things" had a classes of the military.
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  435. Eagle 56 was originally listed as lost from a boiler explosion but was then reclassified as a sunk by a U-Boat believed to be U-583. Why did the US Navy consider the ship lost by a boiler explosion over a U-Boat, as i can sort of understand the reasoning as the blast was in that area of the ship and U-Boats seemed to be tasked with targeting merchant ships over warships? And why would the captain of the U-Boat attack an escort over a merchant ship it seems to run counter to what the U-Boats were meant to target?
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  436. Should HMS Devonshire have gone to help HMS Glorious and her escorts considering she had the Norwegian Government and Royal Family and assuming she did go to help with or without the royal family could the HMS Devonshire have saved HMS Glorious from the Scharnhorst class
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  437. 5:03 yeah i can see that happening honestly.
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  438. "Drachinifel 500-500" that sounds like a decent warship name.
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  439. What is the heatray in war of the worlds it can't be a flamethrower as that couldn't penatrate the armour of a ship but while a lazer could i've not heard of lazer igniting people so what is it and could we mount it on a ship in real life?
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  440. The historian Corelli Barnett believes that the Operation Pedestal convoy that saved Malta was unnecessary is this true?
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  441. Oh please make this the UK's christmas number one song please this was to good :)
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  442. What is your favorite naval near miss? (Or as i heard one old sailor put it, "Close enought to spill the tea"), can be combat, eviromental or political and their can be damage but not lethal.
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  443. Did the Japanese have an equal the German E-boats and any chance of a video on operation Pedestal
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  444. How does the guns of HMS Vanguard compare to the guns of the Iowa's?
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  445. If Enterprise had been caught up in the attack at Pearl Harbour and was damaged, would the US have prioritised her for repair and how would her removal from fleet action have hampered US naval actions, for instance if she wasn't able to escort Hornet and Yorktown had to go instead how would Coral Sea have played out with only Lexington around?
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  446.  @Balmung60  Thats also true, but it could have kept Hiei alive at least, when she got in the fight with the cruisers.
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  447.  @Balmung60  Yes you are correct but it was only on the deck, not the belt armour.
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  448.  @Balmung60  No i'm not complaining about the ships themselves i think they are good ships just being misused and i think they could have made very good fast Battleships like Renown but they needed the armour to do it and they don't have it. My complaint is if Japan wants to put them in the line of battle put some armour on the poor things, the belts the Kongos have is only good for activating the fuses on incoming shells. The Japanese called them Fast Battleships and used them as such but didn't armour them up to make them Battleships, they were still Battlecruisers armourwise and so when they got into fights with a battleship it ended badly for them.
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  449. 46:00 Drach has become the god of helfire
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  450. I found a picture online of an explosion in Cherbourg in August 1944 with no explanation as to what happened, given the explosion happened after Germans surrender what happened?
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  451. HMS Warspite second rate ship HERESY! fetch me a Commissar right now!
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  452.  @Ragefps  The UK lost the Warspite and the old woodern Implacable, because the politicians were wasting money on things that went no where, that if not wasted could have saved them both and possibily another ship, but politicians...thanks (Sarcasim)
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  453. 8:04 Please tell me the sniper isn't using the hole in the magazine release to aim.
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  454. "Please don't tell Brandon" come on we had no choice.
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  455. If Browning was at fault or Gavin was at fault its not worth getting this railed up over, personally i think its both but i'm not going to lose my rag if its only one, we are all adults and can admit when we are wrong.
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  456. Just noticed that in Italy Bradly is under Pattons command but in France Patton is under Bradly's
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  457. Tik there was a british unit during Normandy that was fighting for hill 112 i believe and they ended up cut off and the went around and picked up the BREN's left around so they increased their firepower and managed to hold on.
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  458. I'm actually a little relieved for the pause on Stalingrad, as i've kind of fallen behind since episode 39 so this gives me a chance to catch up.
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  459. Thank you for the hard work Terri
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  460. Condolences TIK
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  461. Your welcome
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  462. tik at 22:17 te number of british tanks are obscured by the calendar
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  463.  @dragosstanciu9866  I never said that everyone wanted war at any point. Mearly that a lot of people were prepared to got to war and supported the idea of going to war in support of Czechoslovakia a lot more then people think. Your misinterpreting what i said.
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  464.  @dragosstanciu9866  I would actually argue he was in a vacum, the protests in support of Czechoslovakia, the stand by the Lewis director against the Germans and the support he got, the calls from the cabinet for war and lack of support for Chambalin from those on his side tell me that their was support for war and a lot of support at that. And Hitler actually gave him an excuse to go to war, after the first deal was reject by Hitler (The one that made Chamberlain go to Munich) Chamberlain could have used that to build a case but he didn't, their was support the UK from the Public and Parliment and France, their was a case and he didn't take it, because he wanted to be seen as the magic peacemaker.
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  465.  @dragosstanciu9866  Some people did treat him as a hero yes, others also saw this deal for what it was and hated it and said so at the time. The King was Chamberlains friend so he was biased to begin with. Also we already knew Hitlar couldn't be trust he even went back on the deal he and Chamberlain had agreed before Munich, so he knew he couldn't trust Hitlar when he made the deal at Munich and when he got off the plane with his peice of paper.
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  466.  @dragosstanciu9866  I can't beleive that the UK didn't have the will to fight for Czechoslovakian in 1938 yet around a year later in 1939 they had the will to fight for Poland, also at 15:10 in the video TIK says that ten thousand people marched in the UK demanding Chamberlain stand with Czechoslovakia, their was clearly a will to fight from the people and at 15:29 Tik also said that those in the cabinet on Chamberlain's side remained quite, if they knew the public and parliament wouldn't have supported them surely they would have been pointing this out to those calling for war, but they didn't, which reinforces to me that Chamberlain could have got the support to go to war but didn't bother. Finally one mans political career is not worth the suffering and hardship that Czechoslovakia was going to suffer as a result of the deal he made.
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  467.  @dragosstanciu9866  That is true, but he doesn't seemed to have tried to get their support, the most i've seen him do was making speechs lamenting the idea of going to war, he only really seems to be talking about getting out of war and if the cabinet were pushing for war they must have thought their was at least a chance to convince them, but he didn't try, now if he had tired and didn't convince them that would be another matter, but i haven't seen anything to say he did try, so i can only go with what i've researched and its indicated to me that he left Czechoslovakia alone for his own reasons.
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  468.  @dragosstanciu9866  I've found contrading views on wheater or not the peoples of Britian and France were against war, but the British cabinet was against peace on these terms and when Hitler rejected the proposals they called for war and Mobalization also stabbing the Czechoslovakians in the back hurt the allies in the long run the Free Czechoslovakian forces in WW2 had major trust issues with the British because the British had abandoned them, plus all the other allies would have been looking at the British and French cutting their allie Czechoslovakia up and thinking "well if they can do that to Czechoslovakia they might do it to use" and this also convinced Stalin that the British and France didn't have the resolve to stand up Hitler and so Stalin went looking for his own way to protect himself.
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  469. I can believe the argument that Chamberlin didn't want to go to war after the horrors of WW1, but i feel that argument can only be done so far, ignoring hindsight here a moment, Chamberlins decided to break up a country, an allied country, that didn't want to broken up just so he could get peace, this is strikes me more as his ego talking with him thinking "When all others see war i will find peace" now yes striving for peace is good thing and should be the go to but their are red lines that shouldn't be crosses and just stabbing an allie in the back is one of them.
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  470. Maybe you redo the part of the video with the numbers, still keeping the numbers but say something like "these were the orignal numbers but after making the video i have found a discrepency" and then link to this video. Even so keep up the good work TIK its nice to see people holding there hands up to things they got wrong and trying to correct them it shows good integrity.
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  471. TIK question would the 2 pdr guns have had the little john adaptor on them yet or were they not added yet?
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  472. Tik at 28:19 the text on the official numbers needs to be pushed right a little as the "O" is cut off
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  473. "Jeschonnek would you like the phone a friend?"
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  474. 35:18 In hindsight it likely was a missed oppertunity, however we don't know what information Raus had at the time he made his decision, plus their might have been three thoughts playing on his mind at the time. First not all the forces that were meant to arrive yet, Raus might have thought it better to not waste their limited strengh to try and gain a possible advantage only to find themselves with a massive Soviet attack coming down on top of them that they might not be able to hold off resulting in the loss of the train yard they were using to deply forces and may have made the attempted relief of the city harder. Second Raus may have feared that if they did make a push towards the city the Soviets might have pulled forces away to counter his attack again making the actual attempt to rescue of the 6th Army harder. Third the Soviets were looking the wrong way for the German rescue attempt at the time and Raus may have wanted to try and not over play his hand in case the rescue effort was to be acompanied by a diversion attack to draw Soviet forces away and then the real rescue effort would also have the element of suprise, an attack in that location at that time might have been a give away of the location of the attack.
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  475. 6:42 Have you met Fabius Bile?
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  476. Dispenser "is tried by people who hate him" you mean someone other then Edward liked him bet that person was very quiet. Also Isabelle eating with that execution man she had a strong stomach.
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  477. How do the Mogami's with their original turret armament compare to other nations light cruisers?
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  478. If you had to work on one of the small submarine which would you go for and which would you bring a note from your doctor for the day of operation
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  479. On a few dreadnought ships i've noticed this tower like structure on top of some of the turrets like on picturea of the Kongo class they have one on the rearmost turret with said towers being connected by cables to the ships masts, what are the towers for and how did the cables not snap off when the guns turned?
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  480. I'm kind of suprised the 14 inch didn't rip the ship apart
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  481. Given the combat records of the R class which would have benefited more from Royal Oaks refit instead?
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  482.  @Drachinifel  Thank you sir
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  483. In your first of your Battle of Jutland video you mentioned U-Boats being or nearly being thrown from the depths, how would this happen and was their any other times this was recorded or was 1916 a unique time for U-Boat throwing?
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  484. I have finished rewatching the Guadalcanal series in full again and it struck me that US intelligence seems to not be as good as it was at Midway, was Midway just a lucky one off or had something changed between Midway and Guadalcanal?
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  485. Would the Bismarck have had a better chance if you put the appalling Japanese 25mm AA gun's on instead of its equivalent German gun as i seem to remember the swordfish's slow speed was a factor and as you've pointed out the 25mm has a rather slow rate of fire also who has more battle honours the grand old lady HMS Warspite or the Grey Ghost USS Enterprise
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  486. Did the crew of HMS Campbeltown get the same option as the commandos the option to op out or was it a case that for the crew of the ship it was you got volunteered and thanks for volunteering
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  487.  @bkjeong4302  I can see the logic behind the idea that put the Kongo's and Iowa's in that posistion. But yes when it came to actual battle is didn't work.
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  488. How do the Mogami's with their original turret armament compare to other nations light cruisers?
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  489. Was their ever a plan to give the Kongo's more armour then the 9 inch belt
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  490. So which ones HMS Warpsite Lord Drach?
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  491. If you could pick a flagship from any of the ships in ww1 that were built in any of navies which would you pick and which would you never use
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  492. Assuming everything else remains the same during the day should the Japanese have carried on attacking pearl harbour or did they break off at the right time
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  493. Will you do a video on Jellico and would you say he was an unsung hero for the Royal Navy?
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  494. Was Harvey's comments on Admiral Gambier correct?
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  495. Was their anything Karl Doorman could have done differently to make Java Sea less terrible or was he doomed to disaster the moment he set off?
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  496.  @kemarisite  well that is a tactical headache
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  497.  @kemarisite  Thank you for the comment i was more wondering if they should have up armoured the Kongo's full stop i was just curious on how it could have effected Hiei and Kirishima's fate my personal opinion with the Knogo's in Guadicanal is they shouldn't have been there the Fuso's or Ise's would have been better
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  498. You've made jokes on the Vikers 14 inch but why did Vikers have such trouble selling the guns, they don't seem to be bad guns and there were some very distinctive 14 inch shaped holes in the South Dakota and Samueal B. Roberts?
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  499. During the age of sail did anyone try and put some kind of rocket or Katyusha rocket battery like device onto a ships boat for landings, i'm thinking in place of the swivel guns like shown in the show Hornblower where the crew of the Hotspur use the swivel guns to blast French Troops on the beach to save Hornblower. And if they didn't would it have been theoretically possible?
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  500. In my room is a picture frame with a collection of Will's Cigarette cards showing the ship badges of fifty warships among them are Repulse, Revenge, Queen Elizabeth and Hood but one stands out Verdun, a quick check on the back of the card showed she was a British Destroyer (The Card says Torpedo Boat Destroyer) Why did the Royal Navy call a ship Verdun it seems a bit odd for a British ship to be named after a French battle in which Britain didn't have any involvement in and are their other ships named after events or people that the ship the nation belonged to had no involvement with such as the Americans having a ship called Waterloo and the Dutch having a ship called Hastings etc?
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  501. HMS Hood replaces HMS Renown for the battle with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, how would the engagement go?
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  502. Was their any point to keeping cutless pistols and submachine guns for boardin action in world war one and two and even the victorian era like the russian baltic fleet and their hijinks
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  503. Using any ship in World War Two which ship would you use in place of the Thunderchild to fight the Tripods and which would you never use
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  504. Using the ships that were available between the world wars how would you conduct a war against the US using the Royal navy and Royal Marines no other allies except empire forces
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  505.  @WALTERBROADDUS  But what changed is what i'm wondering?
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  506. Could you explain how so many died on HMS Gloucester and why James Duke of York seems to get so much of the blaime?
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  507. HMS Revenge: "Ok you lot take a number!"
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  508.  thel vadamee  thank you for the information
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  509. Which two Second World War British capital ships would you preserve as a museum ship ignoring cost, struggles to where to place them so long as they survived the war?
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  510. For D-Day how was the combined forces of the allied navies hidden or placed so as not to give away the target was Normandy, we've heard a lot on how the Army was hidden but nothing on the Navies side i imagine if a German scout plane few by and saw Warspite, Texas, Nelson etc building up in a port in front of Normandy it might have given the game away?
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  511. In the film Grey Hound the ship that Tom Hanks is on turns and leans a rather strong degree almost the point the deck is touching the water and it got me thinking how far could ships lean without capsizing?
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  512.  @bloodrave9578  i never once thought Beatty was a good officer i agree with you wholly on that, i'm just not sure he is the worst he's certainly one of them, no argument there.
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  513.  @bloodrave9578  I'd argue Geoffrey Spicer- Simpson was worse
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  514. Of the Three Carrier Nations the Royal Navy, US Navy and Japanese Navy what were each best at when it came to carrier aircraft such as Fighters, Dive Bombers, Torpedo Bombers
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  515. In a couple of your episodes you mentioned that Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had to back off from a few convoys because the had a Revenge or Queen Elizabeth battleships what would have happened if the Bismark and Prinz Eugen had got out undamaged some how (say the Navy pulled a flag officer Seymour from your battle of the Texel video and sent the fleet the wrong way) could the Revenge or Queen Elizabeth have fought them off or just delayed the inevitable destruction and what if the British had put 18 inch guns on the nelson class in response to the Yamato class
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  516.  @bkjeong4302  Sorry Glory was wrong word but i couldn't come up with a better one at the time. What i mean is the times they were in the most action and most useful (weather they won or not), as while with the carriers they kind of just sat around and battleships and battlecruiers should be using the guns its what they are for.
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  517.  @Justin-rv7oy  In a previous Drydock (Sorry can't remember the number) Drach did say his real criticism was in how they were used not on the ships, they were used more like the Warpsite and they really shouldn't have, they didn't have the armour for the tasks they were given. And i believe in either the last Drydock or one before Drach said the Renown and Kongo's were the posters for the WW1 era ships in WW2 in doing well.
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  518.  @bkjeong4302  I'm not saying it wasn't flawed but the Japanese were thinking before and even during the war that carriers were useful but battleships were still the kings of the seas, by Toronto and Pearl Harbour this was clearly not the case but when they refitted the ships and came up with the ideas on what to use the Kongo's for the carriers was still untested in a major war and everyone had their own ideas how to organise the fleet. The need for big gun escort for carriers was an untested theory and like all untested theories it was based on what they knew at the time, its just technology had moved on since then that made the theory debunked and they did prove good service for Japan and their moments of real action was when they weren't near the carriers like Guadalcanal and Samar.
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  519.  @bkjeong4302  a defence for this might be the Japanese might have been thinking what if a cruiser or destroyer group got close to the carriers (Its unlikely but not impossible) a battle-cruiser would blow them out the water as Kongo did to the Samuel B. Roberts when they swapped to HE rounds.
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  520. HMS Thunderchild: "Is that all you brought?"
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  521.  @goldenager59  Those are great, HMS Swordfish esspecially :)
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  522.  @bwcdevices3028  Ooh i like those
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  523. Which ships rivalries storeis do you like the most? Such as USS Enterprise and the Shoukaku class and HMS Victorius and Tirpitz.
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  524. What are some of your best examples of Naval battles that were more lost by one side then won by the other?
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  525. 31:12 "To give him at least some credit, Beaty..." who are you and what you done with the real Drach?
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  526. If Hms Repulse is a battlecruiser and HMS Hood is a Fast Battleship, where does HMS Renown fit in?
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  527. If the British had used "Highball" on Tirpitz when they hoped to use it in 1943 what do you think the result could have been?
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  528. Assuming that Admiral Somerville wasn't put on the clock with "Settle matters quickly" message plus other pressures do you think that like him he could have got away with not having to open fire all other factors remain the same
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  529. 20:45 i'm sure i've head that line before, from the US sub campaign series when the US tired to give the Mark 6 exploder to the UK.
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  530. What are some of the worst examples of officers and navies either underestimating their enemy or their own potantial?
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  531. We all know of ships with inspiring and heroic names such as Enterprise and Warspite and those named after mythical heroes or Admirals such as Achilles and Nelson but are were there any ships named after demons or malevolent beings?
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  532. What was the Yamato equivalent for the Age of Sail, Ironclads and Pre-Dreadnoughts? i.e. the pinical these types of ships reached before dying off.
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  533. What is your opinion on Lieutenant Robert Maynard?
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  534. I know this is a subject for a much larger video but could you do a quick overview on the Italian ships that were in China and Japan?
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  535. How much training to fire small arms and fight without the ship armaments did sailors and marines have?
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  536.  @johnshepherd9676  I wasn't saying they needed an excuse, the Japanese commited crimes like that daily, its just the Japanese took their anger at the raid out on the Chinese and launched another offensive into China to make sure that such a raid couldn't be repeated. An offensive that came at a bad time as the Japanese were still pushing to Australia at the time and the Chinese, British and Americans were trying to stop the bleeding in Burma and stop a push at India which saw a good lot of the best Chinese troops wiped out the last thing the allies and Chinese esspecially need at the time was another offensive to deal with and the Doolittle raid brought that on.
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  537.  @robertf3479  The idea of using a ship for centre like that would be intresting and does make some sense the C and C area of the ship would work very nicely or that.
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  538. @John Doe It could be the picture is of the Hiei which for treaty reasons had one of its turrets and armour removed for a period of time
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  539.  @bkjeong4302  I believe that was an issue the Japanese had lost 4 of their large carriers and those that were left were tied down trying to hold down the US carriers and the Destroyers were busy escorting the carriers or were busy running the Tokyo express for Guadicanal. Yes they had cruisers and they did very well but they didn't have enough so in that case using the Kongo's makes sense they have the speed to keep up with the cruisers.
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  540. @Katyusha Well if i'm honest i've heard people suggest making them carrier conversions like Kaga or Akagi i wounder how that would have gone.
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  541.  @bkjeong4302  I think you miss understood i was not planing to try pull multiple Glorious incidents i was more going for a Scharnhorst raiding approch with my plan. As i said with the plan its not perfect and honestly i was just trying eek a tiny bit more out of them then what really happend to them while still keeping them Battlecruisers. If i had the chance i would have before the war done a conversion on them like Kaga and Akagi which would have been intresting to see ten carriers turning up for Pearl Harbour they wouldn't be the best carriers but they might have done better then what actually happened to them.
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  542.  @ibbi32  No problem
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  543.  @ibbi32  He has one link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8ppT7TYrg
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  544. Was their any advantages to the Jeune École doctrine?
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  545. How effective were the Merchant raider's that Germany used during the world wars
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  546. Was their a reason world war 2 destroyer captains seemed to take on much bigger ships like taffy 3 and HMS Ardent, Acasta and Glowworm and could the Ardent ,Acasta and Glorious have escaped and survived the battle with the Scharnhorst's
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  547. Did anyone ever make or plan for a 17 inch gun i've seen 11 12 13 14 15 16 and 18 inch guns but no 17 why is that?
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  548. How do you rate Admiral Fletcher seeing as he was in all early major pacific carrier battles he must have been doing something right?
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  549. 47:27 "The Battle of Prides fall" or "The Battle to start all arguments".
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  550.  @silverhost9782  (I did reply to this but seems to have gone) You do raise a fair argument, however i think Repulse can do the same, she has the firepower and protection to deal with anything the invasion forces have that are covering the landings at Malaya, however with the added option of being able to run them down if the Japanese do run for it. Now i will grant you Prince of Wales can handle any single battleship or Kongo (I say those are Battlcrusiers not Battleships) the Japanese have with the exception of the Yamato, though Repulse can outrun the Japanese battleships so they would still need to tie the battleships to the invasion in order to make sure Repulse doesn't attack them so she could still tie major resources, the only ships the Japanese have that can catch Repulse are the Kongo's and in that situation i'd say its a coin toss who wins, Repulse as few guns but hers are bigger and its only 8 to 6 so not to big a gap and Repulse does have a marginal advantage over a Kongo in protection but both ships guns can penetrate the other, were as Prince of Wales can comfortabily take on a Kongo or two. Now i will agree Prince of Wales has much better AA defence then Repulse so if the Japanse Carriers arrive Prince of Wales is in a much better posistion than Repulse. However i feel regradless of which of the two ships is holding Malaya, if the Japanese are in the posistion of thinking of sending Kongo's, Battleships and Carriers, they would be using at least part of the Kido Butai to bring overwhemling firepower to sweep the seas clear and in that situation either ship would have to retreat as i don't think either ship could stand up to that. I think it comes down to weather want you a ship to scare and/or fight off what the Japanese had at the time (Which i think is Repulse given she can fight and catch them if they do run) or what they might bring in reponce to that ship attacking the invasion fleet (Which i think is Prince of Wales due to better AA and better protection).
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  551.  @silverhost9782  i'm not so sure it is so clean cut, as i might appear. Because looks at what the ships they would likely be facing, its mostly Cruisers, which both can kill very easy if they get into fight but Prince of Wales would struggle to get into a fight, she's not slow but she is slower then the cruisers the Japanese have so the Japanese can refuse the battle if they don't want to. Repulse as a Battlecrusier is much faster and if i remember correctly she's a bit faster then most of the possible crusiers she'd face so she could just run them down. Now if the Japanese decide to send a Kongo or two that would be intresting as Kongo has more guns but Repulse has bigger guns and Repulse is slightly better armoured then a Kongo so it'd be close. Prince of Wales i'll give you she can easy kill a Kongo or two, but given the Japanese doctrine with their carriers and their want to give them a surface escort all the time i'm not to sure the Japanese would detach them unless they felt it was absolutely nessecery, but even in the worst case for Repulse where she goes down in a fight with Kongo she'd put it in dock for a while for repair and given how intwined the Kongo's are for Kido Butai, that would still do a lot of hurt.
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  552.  @bread3114  This might help you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyzWoGizTiQ
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  553. I was kind of expecting a video defending Beatty and Seymor
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  554. To explain what the Manxman did to the US navy and to borrow a quote from Rosehip from Girls Und Panzer: "I'm removing the speed limiter!!"
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  555. Was any thought given to making the Fulmar a fighter Dive bomber like how they used the Skua ?
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  556.  @bryansavage5056  I thought that was South Dakota
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  557.  @johnshepherd8687  The question was more on the shakedown cruise which was meant to find issues like the radar sets failing and the other issue of the fire control cables being interupted by the guns firing
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  558. I was watching a video reacting to the Sabaton History video on Bismarck and when the video mentioned the Bismarcks Radar had a sudden life failure when the Bismarck fired her main guns and the reactor asked "Did they not test that?" and it did make me think the ship did have trails so how did they not know the Radar could have this sudden heart attack when the guns fired?
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  559. Was their any doctrines for destroyers firing torpedos against other destroyers?
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  560. Which of the Pre-dreadnoughts would you have liked to have seen in action that didn't fight?
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  561. The Japanese Tenryuu class were used as training ships between the wars would this have helped them in their actions like the Savo as they would presumably been well maintained for training also how likely was it that the IJN Yuudachi could escape with her bedding sails
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  562. If the Japanese had decided to ignore the risk to large ships they thought there was and sent the actual battleships in the two parts of fifth battle of Guadalcanal not just the two Kongo battlecruisers which of the battleships would have been most useful to them?
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  563. Instead of attacking the UK's towns the German Zepplins focused on Bombing Scapa Flow how much of an effect would this have in World War One esspecially give the fact that early war the Zepplin was hard to bring down and even if they didn't sink any ships the Grand Fleet couldn't counter the High Sea's fleet if their infrastructure is being redistrabuted over a wide area?
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  564. In a previous video you said you would cancel HMS Hood and the Royal Navy might have got a third Nelson Class how would this have changed the Royal Navy in World War Two if they had three Nelson class the third ship being called HMS Hood obviously
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  565. The console versoin of world or warship has a different system for the captains, you get a selection of famous admirals from the nations respective navies, in the British selection we have Vein, Jellico, Cunningham, Tyrwitt, Fraiser, Tennent and Madden who else would you like to see and what should in your opinion be the abilities for Beaty if he is ever introduced?
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  566. The British destroyers like the J and Tribal classes have two turrets to the front while the Japanese and Germans tend to have two to the stern of the ship what was the thinking behind these designs and which set up do you prefer?
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  567.  Israel Hands  The Original attack was to be the 26th not the 24th of August and they stopped that attack after the signing of the Polish-British Common Defence Pact on the 25th, this ruined the German plans so they delayed till the 1st of September. Also on the night of the 25th and 26th of August, a German sabotage group that didn't know of the delay attacked Jablunkov Pass and Mosty railway stations. Also the Germans didn't ask about the Polish corridor till the 29th of August.
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  568.  Israel Hands  Right now i see your talking about the Polish "Plan West" which was hold the boarders and then fall back to the rivers. This plan was horrid from the start and lots officers actually said so at the time. Also the Polish Army was handicapped by the UK and France telling them not to mobalize the army to avoid provoking the Germans by the time the Poles did it was to late and while they would be able to mobalize more men the it was pretty much over bar the singing, if they had ignored the UK and France and mobalized when they did while not saving them but they could have held for longer. Also the Saar offensive stopped as they reached the Siegfried Line and a belief that the Poles were about to be defeated, this on top of a very defensive mindset by General Gamelin meant it pettered out. I recommend you watch these videos they might give you a different insight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17NArJ6wQqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKTbhC0s5xg
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  569.  Israel Hands  I'm not sure where you heard that the Soviets didn't meet much resistance, the only cases i know of something like that happening is some towns that thought the Soviets were there to save them only to find out that the Soviets were not there as liberators but conquerors. Not sure what you mean by the Vistula front. As for Danzig i think war was always coming reguardless, the corridor and Danzig were just an excuse.
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  570.  Israel Hands  Polish capabilities were hampered by the Molotov Ribbentrop pact which meant the Polish had to send forces to keep an eye on and guard against the Soviets.
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  571. You have mentioned that Jelicoe was on Tryons flagship when she was rammed, but how much of an effect did Tryon have on Jellicoe for instance did Jelicoe realise Tryon was right and tried to do the same thing as Tryon and promote free thinking or did the experience make Jelicoe distance himself from the teachings at leat until Jutland?
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  572. We all know of the Japanese Navy and Army infighting, but their was also factions within the Navy like those who were Pro-Carrier and Pro-Battleship, what were some of these factions and what were their relations to each other, was it good, tense or was it another case of "This person who was my opponent accidently cut himself while shaving with a Katana honest gov"?
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  573. Would you consider doing a battle of the Texal like video but for midway with the coral sea battle not happening
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  574. Of all the Royal Navy Warships at the end of WW2 why was HMS Belfast picked to be made a museum ship why not HMS Warspite or HMS Jervis or even one of the KG's which were scrapped well after
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  575. Ok so personally for me i would rather survivability over strike power, now i can certainly see the argument for strike power but i would rather keep the ships and crew alive then put them more at risk for greater strike potential. (Note: i am British so do take that into account) Taking coral sea as an example, yes the British carriers would likely not have done some much damage to Zuikaku and might have done less damage to Shoukaku then the Americans but i would still have the carriers and the air group can be replaced or replenished much quicker then a carrier would. Remember Lexington and Yorktown were sunk and heavily damaged respectively, now if they were British carriers they might not have been so heavily damaged (I am assuming one is still sunk and i have the same number available at Midway as the Americans have historically) and when Midway comes about i have three active full working carriers rather then two full and one functional but still damaged carriers. But i can see the counter argument that if i have more striking power i could sink more, say two or three more ships and this i do concede, but i would rather keep my ships afloat, so i feel it needs mentioning that the US could much more easily replace a lost carrier then the British could have done as the British were being bombed day and night while the Americans not so much. And i do think Drach has it right over all the best is the middle ground but if i was forced to pick one or the other i would pick surviving.
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  576. If you could thanos snap three ship classes from exsitance and three naval officers out of service, which would you pick?
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  577. If HMS Campbelltown was so bad at turning how the did she pull of the rapid turn for Operation Chariot skills of lieutenant tibits or was one of those moments all vehicals can have
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  578. Bit of a spiritual question but do you think ships have souls as i've heard a fair few sailors even to this day that they do whats your opinion?
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  579.  @davidknowles2491  i would agree they were horridly misused and i will admit i do have a little soft spot for them especially the Hiei
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  580. Which ship class in ww2 do you think were the most misused i.e. put in completely wrong situations they were designed for
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  581. We all know of Akagi's crew having to give up there beds or Futons to provide extra protection to the bridge crew, did the crew of Kaga ever have to give up their beds too?
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  582. You've mentioned US Navy ships limits based on the Panama canal, what do you think was the most reasonable restrictions of designs for ships and which was the most unreasonable?
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  583.  @josephaskins1996  True but their a differance between liked and respected like he respected Cunningham and while they did get to a working realationship the two did not get on
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  584. I know its a bit outside the channels time period but I've read that while in Korea HMS Unicorn conducted shore bombardment at Chopekki Point, is this true and if so why, was she trying to follow HMS Formidable's example at Matapan?
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  585. I would not have thought that Glowworms last stand would have such implications just goes to show how a small thing in the grand picture of the Norway campaign (NO Offence intend to the Glowowrm or her crew by saying their battle was small) would effectively lose the Norway campaign.
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  586. Could you tell us about the German seaplane launching ships Bussard and Falke?
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  587. HMS Warspite sporting new scares battered all over but still combat capable, yeah you don't sink the grand old lady, not that easy anyhow.
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  588. Ah its truely christmas as we have a Drach video, also Merry Christmas Drach and to Mrs Drach to.
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  589.  @bkjeong4302  Well their were some very good reasons to do the raid, first the British didn't know Tirpitz wasn't going to sail out and even if they had the Germans could very quickly change their mind and Tirpitz did pose a major risk to convoy's if she got out even a small amount of time running around could have done a lot of damage. Also it has to be born in mind that the situation had got worse for the UK when Chariot was launched in march 1942, first losses, the British had lost HMS Hood during Bismarcks sortie and while in need or repair Hood was still a significant loss in terms of fast capital units also later in 1941 the British had lost the Carrier Ark Royal so the Royal Navy was down two major capital units right off and they were keeping the fast units in the Home Fleet for exact theis reason to stop a major sortie byt the Germans. Second was geography, when Bismarck sailed in 1941 the British had their fleets concentrated in the Med and Home Fleet now while stretched they could support each other as seen with Force H going out to hunt Bismarck, but in December 1941 and early 1942 the Med campaign was getting quite heated so pulling forces from there was a non-option and the Pacific war had kicked off which had taken two more of the Royal Navies fast Capital units and for a while one of its carriers so Royal Navy force were stretched even thiner, plus the US Navy was still smarting after Pearl Harbour and had yet to fight Midway so the US was fleet was worrying more a about the Japanese fleet and early successes the Japanese were having so support from the US would be tricky. Also going back to point one the Royal Navy lost both Repulse and Prince of Wales soon after they were sent and a carrier was damaged before that, also in mid December 1941 the Italians sank HMS Valient and Queen Elizabeth in Alexanderia taking them out of the fight for a while stretching the Med forces even thiner, so they were now down four capital ships sunk permanently and two temporary and all of the permemant ones had been mustered to counter Bismarcks sailing in 1941 as they were the fast capitol unit. So all it took was a bit of luck and maybe something pulling more Royal Navy forces to the Med or far east allowing the Tirpitz to get out and cause havoc and yes the British had and could have got the forces to deal with her quickly but that would mean either waiting till they had the forces freed to deal with her which wasn't an option if she was playing merry hell with the convoy's so they would have to risk weakening areas that really couldn't afford it. So given that i would say yes Cariot was needed, yes a lot of this is hypothetical but its not outside the releams of possibility, but if St Nazaire was out of action the Germans wouldn't have sent her out which meant the Royal Navy didn't need to worry about her, but if they had risked it and Tirpitz had sailed and got out she could have been an almighty headache a short temporary one yes, but the force needed to put her down could have a negative impact on more vital fronts.
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  590.  @jonathonloughridge9191  hello jon
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  591. 33:05 sad mine is sad poor mine don't worry Scharnhorst we be around soon
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  592.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  Thank you.
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  593.  @GeneralKenobiSIYE  i have now edited the question based in what you have said thank you for the infomation
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  594.  @GeneralKenobiSIYE  i was aware of the Nelsons issues i can't remember where i read it but i did read that the Yamato's were extend to provent capzising though i accept i could be wrong
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  595. (edited) Assuming a Tillman battleship was built what would happened had it fired a full broardside as if i remember the Yamato's needed to have its width extended so ass to be morre stable the Tillmans look like with the number and caliber of guns they would be horrid for hitting a broadside of a barn in a town of broadsided barns
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  596. Why has a ship never been called Thunderchild as it would be a good name for one
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  597. Did Hiei have a better or worse superstructure layout then the rest of the Kongo's as she didn't have the Pagoda mast like her sisters?
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  598. In the opening of the Midway movie we see the character of Layton in Japan talking to a British officer who says he hopes so see the Japanese down the sights of a 14 inch gun, who is this British officer meant to be?
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  599. Since you've mentiond him a few times which naval officer is most like Hector Barbossa?
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  600. What happened to the Navel Brigade it seems to disappear about half way through world war one why was this and what was its duties
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  601. Drach in your USS Alaska question you didn't mention the Kongo's i mean we have Haruna for an example for a 1945 example now while they are inferior to Renown they are a contender surely unless i'm missing something
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  602. What would have happened if the Bismark and Prinz Euguen had broken out and run in to one of the convoy's that were escoted by a Revenge or Queen Elizabeth class battleship
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  603. I've noticed on a few ships like the Queen Elizabeth Class and Iron Duke this sort of balcony/promenade like construction on the stern of the ships what is it and why is it there as i can't seem to find a reason for it being there other then to give the crew a place to smoke away from the ammo, Beatty!
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  604. Assuming that through some sort webway or warp gate technology the Royal Navy was transported to the battle instead of the US Navy how good or bad would the Royal Navy have done at the battles of Layette Gulf. Assuming the Japanese didn't change their plans. With the R-class and Queen Elizabeth's facing the southern force. The Nelson Rodney Renown and KG5's escorting the Carriers with the Towns the Crown Colony and Dido classes to face the Northern Force and Centre Forces.
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  605. HMS Victory VS SMS Kaiser (From Lissa) HMS Victory VS USS Constitution
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  606. Assuming the British and Japanese didn't want to give up the Anglo-Japanese treaty would that have started a war, who would have won and which ships would be the key for each nations fleet at the time
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  607. Sorry but can someone translate 33:57 i don't speak German but i must know
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  608. The Zumwalt class has been canceled due to it being too expensive to fire the guns, has this or something like this ever happened before in naval design?
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  609.  @trooperdgb9722  Drach was asked about Sheean and i agree that Sheean easily earned it and how he didn't is baffling but as he was covered i did not include him but yes i would like to see him to given the award i believe Drach summed Sheen's actions tus "When it comes our time to die most of us can hope to pass with half as much dignity at the end."
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  610. What made getting convoy ONS5 through the turning point in the Atlantic?
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  611.  @bkjeong4302  I was more thinking of the whole trying to sail out the combat area with the crews beds incident. Also the Amatsukaze wasn't on your list.
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  612.  @bkjeong4302  You forgot the Yuudachi.
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  613. next year can we have video on worst navy officers for april fools day
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  614. Get well soon Drach
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  615. What if for what ever reason one of the Kongo's replaced the british cruisers at river plate how would thigs have played differently
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  616. I remember hearing about an incident in the Med where 6 Fulmars from a carrier held off a major air attack by the axis, I remember the ship was an Illustrious class but can't remember which ship it was, can you please help, also how did the Fulmars pull this off, it sounds like a story worth hearing?
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  617. Given the two forces on paper how would the French Navy have done against the Italians in the Mediterranean theater after 1940 assuming that somehow the French Navy is still fighting and on the allies side?
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  618. The chieftain tank used a lets say temperamental engine because of a treaty can you think of a Navel equivalent
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  619. In 1905 the Russian 2nd pacific Squadron set sail a year later the HMS Dreadnought was launched what would have happened if the Royal Navy and the Pacific Squadron had fought but the Royal Navy had HMS Dreadnought?
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  620.  @michaelsullivan6127  my deepest apology to to toothless
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  621.  @faeembrugh  This has not been my experience i have a black cat and the first thing i get asked when i say this is "Aren't they unlucky?" I'm not saying your wrong it's just that's the first thing i get asked and i do live in the UK so maybe it's just different where you live to where i live.
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  622. What are your personal top five examples of pefectly good ships being forced into roles they never designed for and as a result doing very badly? I'm thinking of ships like the Battlecruiser HMS Invincible being forced into the battleline when she had no real place being there.
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  623. Has their ever been a ship design, that could be discribed as designed by someone with way to much time on their hands?
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  624.  @bloodrave9578  See this is probloatic as a good destroyer captian should be going and either takeing or contesting caps or going and hunting down enemy destoryers, they are the best for capturing after all with their speed and stealth and they are the natural counter to another destroyers. This means they are either being spotted in a gun fight or have been spotted because they got to close or whatever reason and the carrier can just keep them spotted for the team to shoot them while lending a hand to. Or they are basically sending a telegram to a carrier where to look, i'm sure you've seen a cap circle being capped went and looked and seen a destoryer in there, now yes they can use smoke but if you have torpedeo planes they can flush them out or drop a fighter squadron nearby to spot them when either smoke the clears or the destoryer moves on. So if i play like this i either have no choice but to give a carrier an idea where to look by capping or i've got pinged by another destroyer and the carrier can rush over and keep the spot going as no matter how fast a destroyer is a plane is faster. The looking at the minimap to avoid the planes works very well till you have to go to a place the carrier will look, usually the cap or near where you got pinged by another destroyer because your trying to hold or stop a cap being taken, also if i am in a gunfight in a destoryer the last thing i will be looking at is a minimap i'm either dodging shells or torps they will be taking up my attention to much, two destoryers fighting it out is a knife fight everytime (Unless the destoryers doing something very out the ordinary) and they tend to be very fast pace and attention absorbing you don't have the time to look at the map till your out and thats usually enough time for a decent carrier player to have got a squadron over there which can usually finish off the usually damaged destroyer if not got over there in the middle of the fight. This is where i would like better AA on destoryers esspecially in the Destoryer fights (As i'm likely damaged and can only take one maybe two good strike and i might have modjules damaged etc.) as it would give the destoryer a better chance, i'm not saying make it impossiable for a carrier to take out the destoryer just harder.
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  625.  @bloodrave9578  I have seen some carriers do that this is true and those games do tend to be intresting at least, but a depressing number aren't those players, in fact in one extreme case i saw a carrier keep dropping his fighers consumable on himself dispite his whole team begging him for help claiming to be under constant attack and needing them. He wasn't under attack, he was the only one to survive and he took no damage and while he is an extreme example not everyone are these good CV captians. I wish they were believe me. But carriers are such a powerful force in a game that's more suited in gun lines, theirs a lot of issues with ship AA some and really powerful mechanics for carriers that need to be toned down like the planes not being shot down while on the way back to the carrier. I don't think carrier players are evil its just the tools they have are to strong. For example say non-carrier players are using muskets while carriers are using assault rifles thats the power gap, yes the muskets can still do damage but not as well as assault rifles and that the problem carriers as they play are very powerful and other ships classes were not give suitable counters by themsleves to survive against carriers, the other ships need a buff to AA or the carriers need to have some aspects changed or toned down.
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  626.  @bloodrave9578  That kind of negates the point of being in a destroyer they want to be up front scouting taking points and attacking enemy destroyers if their stuck the cruisers and battleships they're usless might as well not be there
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  627.  @bloodrave9578  If your getting shot for one direction and planes coming from the other then how and where do you dodge?
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  628.  @magisterrleth3129  Same for me i do the exact same thing and i find it just as fun but some people just want to one shot Battleships
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  629.  @lordredlead2336  See as a destroyer player the way to beat that is for the teams destoryers to hunt the enemy destoryers you will be amazed how many times enemy destroyers have paniced when i charge them down instread of running away. Or maybe they should add a bit more radar into the game to make it harder for destroyers. But because the destroyer captians want the big points they just hunt the battleships who are the ones moaning the most i find, adding carriers won't solve their woes it will just add to them.
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  630. The 25mm is well known as the worst AA gun of world war two but how effective was the 12.7 cm/40 Type 89 gun in comparison to its contemparies?
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  631. Can you give us examples of punching bags in classes? By this i mean the ships in classes that kept catching an unfair amount of ordnance compared to the rest of the class?
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  632.  @kemarisite  i was more meaning the third turret in the N3 class the third turret on that ship was pointing at the super structure and i've seen others like that it just seemed weird to me
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  633. Why do some ships have turrets pointing backwards at the superstructure is their a practical reason for this or is it just in case of a mutiny so you can blow that part away?
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  634. How do you think the later battles in the pacific could have been effected had admiral yamamoto not died
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  635. Will you ever do a video on flag officer Seymore beatty flag officer at jutland or on the battle of jutland altogether
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  636. Was the Imperial German Navies plan to draw out small parts of the Royal Navy and destroy it a plan that could have succeeded or was it just the best plan in a bad situation
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  637. You've been sent to a alternate universe, were in the 1920's the breeze of insanity has blown through America and the US Navy has been given four Tillman battleships the Tillman 4-2 designs and you've been picked to name the ships what would you name the fours ships? (Serious names and/or humorous names take your pick)
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  638. 0:27 Custodes? Drachinifel is the Emperor of Man confirmed
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  639. Assuming that historically ships were given a machine spirit, AI or you are able to summon their spirits to you, which ones would you like to talk to pick between 5 to 10 at your own discretion?
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  640. During the Yangtze Incident HMS London and Black Swan tried to rescue HMS Amethyst, yet were driven off by Chinese field guns, but why was London driven off, i could understand a Frigate or a Destroyer being driven off by field gun, but i would have thought a cruiser's armour could at worst tank the hits long enough to help, esspessially against field guns so what am i missing?
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  641.  @WALTERBROADDUS  oh right ok thank you
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  642. Assuming they could have been with out being attacked were any of the Japanese Carriers at midway salvageable although needing lots o work to fix or were they just flouting fireballs at that point and how volatile was the fuel that caused the fires on board as it seem like nitroglycerine according to what i've read
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  643. Drachinfel i have seen on a couple of mercheant ships in World War One carrying cargo called "Governement Materials" what does this mean?
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  644. In World War 2 were the convoys escorts good at dealing with the U-Boats or were they more just to scare them away with depth charges so they lost the contact and the U-Boat couldn't then wolf pack the Convoy
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  645.  @73Trident  Your going to have explain that phrase is it like if "pigs had wings"?
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  646.  @packr72  Battlecruiser i know the Japanese called them Battleships but they don't have the armour of a Battleship their a Battlecruiser. And yes even with that its still a bad trade but i would say thats more due to bad tactics then a fault of the ship.
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  647.  @packr72  If she had the AP loaded she would have got more.
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  648. Poor Hiei being turned into a punching bag, still she did give a good account for herself, if it wasn't for those bombardment shells she could have got two cruiser kill and maybe more.
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  649. Would the Japanese have gotten better use out of the Kongo's using them as cruiser killers, given their lack of cruisers, over battleship escorts and how would you change them to make them more effective for the Japanese?
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  650.  @marcusfranconium3392  Ah thank you for clarification
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  651.  @marcusfranconium3392  You lost me
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  652.  @bkjeong4302  true i will conceded that though give that its Halsey i'm leaning more to him going for a fight then not
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  653.  @bkjeong4302  the plan i had and i admit its a stretch is that the us carriers will be busy attacking the japanese carriers so their air groups won't be there to protect the carriers or at least delayed getting back
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  654. Based on the sinking of hms Glorious and a wargame i played would the japanese have been better not sending southern force the way they went and instead sent them following centre force while swapped the Kongo's for the Fuso's and then send northern force off to attack Halsey while he's attacking northern force in a sort of pincer attack as the planes will be busy attacking northern force and then the new southern force goes for the landing admittedly most of the fleets will be lost but would it have gotten a better result
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  655. I'm not sure which video makes the patrons look worse the French Hotels or this
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  656. I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End and i got to the bit were the Endeavour is being hit from both sides and the ship detonates and you've mentioned ships from the age of sail exploding how common was it and was it more common then the age of steam and steel?
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  657. Operation Sea Lion has begun as it would have historically and you've been given command of a Royal Navy strike force and will be the vanguard of the counter attack after the initial fighting has been concluded, you've been given Warspite as your flagship with Royal Sovereign, Edinburgh and Sheffield and two dozen destroyers, you'll be alone for twenty four hours and Churchill has impressed upon you the need to attack, whats your plan?
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  658. Any chance we could see a video of the song you wrote with pictures in relation to the things you mention?
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  659. Are there any examples of naval officers giving orders along the lines of "All guns keep firing till they glow" (In the words of one un-named Imperial Guardsman)?
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  660. So the comments think its the Shoukaku, Yukikaze and Shigureas the Japanese too stubborn to die ship.
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  661. Can we blame her?
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  662.  @simonwaldock9689  i could well believe it
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  663.  @JohnSmith-kg2rt  I agree it would be more 20
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  664. Was Seymour (Beatty's signals officer) a relative of the ill fated Admiral Seymour in the Boxer rebellion?
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  665. Why is their so much space between the superstructure and the rear turret on the La Galissonniere class it seems a bit odd that they wouldn't cut that down to make the cruiser a smaller target, was is it a machinery issue or was it meant to hold something but then wasn't fitted and they didn't change the design?
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  666. 360 degree turning turrets, they were fitted to some destroyers but did anyone fit them to anything larger or any plans to?
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  667.  @5peciesunkn0wn  Thank you kindly :)
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  668. Which Navy had the most confusing and irritating ranl structure
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  669. Two part question for you what is your opinion on the Kongo class after their refit to battleships and how good were "Destroyer Leader" type ships like the Tenryuu light cruiser and HMS Valhalla destroyer
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  670.  @gusty9053  So if your right the you could fit that in where the ships magazine is
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  671. You've said that if you had command of the Grand Fleet you would rather have Admiral Sturdee over Beatty in charge of the Battlecruisers, yet Jellicoe kept Sturdee on a short leash as he was given to some rather interesting flights of fancy, if your reason for having Sturdee of Beatty because the battlecruisers were a more independent force or is Beatty's flag officer to blame?
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  672.  @Kwolfx  i was not aware of this information could you pass on the source or let me know where to look please would be appreciated
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  673. I have read a lot on the Lusitania recently and i've heard a lot of stories that i can't confirm (I can't find another story saying the same thing) about weather or not the ship was carrying munitions the most credible looking was a claim the ship had three hundred shell in one part of the ship is there any of these true from your research and regardless of weather they are true if the Lusitania was carrying Ordnance would this have made the ship a legal target
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  674. What do you think happened to The Ourang Medan
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  675. By god did Taffy 3 do the USN honour
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  676. The Japanese removed the Armour and one of the Gun turrets off the Hiei what was the logic behind this as it seems highly impractical based on the question you you had in a drydock
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  677. What would weapon would you use in a boarding action the Napoleonic. World War 1 and World War 2 Era's only using the weapons you could have used at the time? (No ray guns sadly)
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  678. Will you do a video on the Laconia incident? Also is their not a rule that says that a ship rendering aid can not be sunk?
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  679. Attack Battlewagons Attack!
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  680.  @DidMyGrandfatherMakeThis  First my comments were for the unit and Itlian Navy as a whole. Yes the manned Torpedo pilot and the man piloting the boat did commit Kamikaze attacks , but that wasn't the plan it was the situation that caused those, the former was a personal one and is questionable i grant, but the latter was a sacrifice to allow his comrades to try and continue the mission which has been shown many times, the men who mined the British Battleships didn't commit to Kamikaze acts they followed the plan which was what the other two groups did which was place the mines then swim to shore and try walking, back the two men on the Valient were actually very brave they held their nerve till just before the mine went off before requesting to get out from below decks meaning the British couldn't do anything to stop the mine going off. The use of small boats and minisubs was because they could do the job and gave the Italians the best chance to success, the British did the same thing with the X-craft on Tirpitz using a battleship to attack down a fjord was sucide, so the British plan was to use the X-craft to sneak in place the mines then sneak out again, the same was true with the Italians sneak in to the place the explosives and ideaily get out, but the plans went wrong which led to the wiping out or capture of the of the units involved. Also both of these attacks took place in 1941 and in 1941 the Italian Navy was a very potent and effective force, minus the commanders, the Roma's were easily able to beat a QE and R class which is what the Royal Navy had, in fact right up to the moment of the Italian surrender the Italian Navy was still a threat, in fact they possed a much bigger threat to the Allies than the Germans ever did, the Royal Navy had Furious, Ark Royal, Eagle and at least three of their armoured carriers in the Med to hold the Italians back the Armoured carriers took a heck of pasteing during their time there.
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  681.  @DidMyGrandfatherMakeThis  Erm could you perhaps expand on that, i'm not sure how the Kamikaze Pilots fit in here.
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  682. I once described a General as "About as moveable as a slug and about five times unhelpful" can you think of any Admirals that this could fit this discription?
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  683. Its May 1942 and the Allies have decided to try a "Kantai Kessen" style battle on one of the Axis navies to try and shut down one of the three Naval theaters (Atlantic, Pacific and Med), assuming the Axis could be convinced to come out, which Axis Navy and Theater would the Allies have been best served by closeing down?
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  684. The thing that is quite a smack is Admiral Gensoul said to his men "if their is a a stain on your flag today it is not on your's" and i would agree the stain of having to do the shooting is on the British but the stain of forcing them is on his flag and that frankly is worse the British didn't want to do this but they felt they had to
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  685. If the belgrano had entered port stanley what threat could it have posed to british task force, the british land forces and how could the british counter it
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  686. Oh boy this is going to be ugly whichever way look at this incident
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  687. What ships in the royal navy could have fought the Yamato and Nagato class
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  688. Why did some ships get the name maid of such and such a place?
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  689. If your going in to a grand battle (In world war two era) but you can pick your dream enemy officers (who will make it easier for you) who would you pick anyone from any navy and any era you want (All officers you pick have the knowledge of the ships they will command)
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  690. Which nation of the Free Navies had the best names for their warships?
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  691. Could Jelicoe not have used his connections to send or just sent Beatty to take command of forces in Australia after Dogger Bank and make it slound like a promotion?
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  692. Where would Thunderchild have rammed the Martian fighting machine? In art of the scene Thunderchild is hitting about halfway up the leg, yet the chapter says the fighting machines supports are almost submerged, so is the Thunderchild ramming into the cockpit of the machine.
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  693.  @DJHurd  Agreed fetch them immediately
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  694. HMS Bristol going to be scrapped why? i was on that ship as a cadet and while my time wasn't the best mostly due to the poor company i was stuck with i enjoyed being on the ship. Oh well guess we're fighting to save this ship now to, we can't save all the ships that should be saved in the world but we can try damn it!
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  695. i was doing a reading of Seymor and Beatty (The head desks were many) and then i was was re-watching a Drydock were you mention what you'd do with Seymor and you mentioned Seymors death is it fair to say that both men were incompetent at their roles but Seymor cared and carried the weight of his actions were as Beatty didn't care and wanted to shift as much of the weight as he could
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  696. Whose Navies from which ever era you chose had the worst looking uniforms?
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  697. Ah congress and the presidents office they seem to have a real knack for annoying Drach from history and today
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  698.  @scottgiles7546  No HMS Dancer, but theirs been two HMS Morrise Dance
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  699. What happened to the carrier HMS Dasher?
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  700. I've heard it said that the thunderchild is only battle that a torpedo ram took part in why is this and is it true
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