Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The Drydock - Episode 197 (Part 2)" video.

  1. Yeah, Sheer talking about how the whole horizon lit up by the Grand Fleet firing it's gun's & Sheer called for the "180" which they had already practiced extensively. Pretty much answered the question. That they had already planned to fail & that's why they could do a "180" so easy is so that they all knew what to do WHEN the plan failed.
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  2. Did someone REALLY ask you which of the ships that broke it's chains & refused to go to the breakers was your favorite? THAT HAD TO BE A QUESTION EITHER BY SOMEONE NEW OR A FOUR YEAR OLD QUESTION THAT IS JUST NOW GETTING ANSWERED! You didn't even have to name the choices before I knew the answer was Warspite!!! Now Oregon making it halfway to Tahiti is cute but I think that was before Tahiti was really a nice place to go. AND considering Warspite's war records & the fact it did a donut in front of the High Seas fleet & survived to to tell the tale & in the process helped save the crew of another ship. And has probably shot up as many war ships as any other during the age of steel war ships. And anyone that has spent anytime listening to you would know your love of HMS Warspite!!! I DEARLY LOVED the fact that HMS Rodney had boilers that was on their last legs & was otw to the USA for a complete engine overhaul but Bismark hit HMS Hood with that lucky shot that turned it into a sinking Roman candle. And so HMS Rodney pulls a 180 and heads towards the coast of France basically ran down the Bismark running it's OLD engines at 3 to 4 knots faster than they were designed for, and once Bismark engage's Rodney, Rodney pulls the destroyer trick of chasing splashes. And starts beating Bismark into a floating wreck of fire & carnage. And to be honest, although I think that it was awesome that a ship in need of a major engine overhaul took on that brand new battleship and beat it. I'm sure the KGV helped. But from what I've heard, most of the first hits scored on Bismark, the one's that took out most of it's ability to fight back was from Rodney. But I actually feel pity for the men that were aboard Bismark. For one, their ability to fight back is quickly taken away. To jump into the freezing cold water is probably death. Fire, hot metal raining down, massive carnage & dead people & body parts lying around in heaps. The German that lasted 3 days in the water is amazing he didn't die of hypothermia. But living through that kind of hell, those that were rescued truly lived through hell on earth. It's really sad too that they left so many survivors in the water. Yes, I know there were U-boats otw & the threat of air attack too but they could have thrown out some life boats or whatever those float things are called. I know they were taking revenge for the crew of HMS Hood but at some point you need to stop & try to go back to being human again. Yeah, the HMS Hood basically went down with all hands. But it was over & done quickly. We, the USA & the UK were supposed to be fighting to save the world from tyranny. And the way to do that is to overcome your NEED FOR REVENGE and only kill when you need to & only fight towards winning the war. It's almost like by trying to stop this evil that you ALMOST became what you were trying to fight against. Or at least the way the Bismark survivors were treated. If that makes sense? I understand that the loss of the Hood was a tramatic blow to the Royal Navy but like Cunningham said "It only takes a couple of years to build a ship. It takes a few hundred years to build a tradition." And part of that tradition is to give mercy when a battle is over.
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  3. And I can't speak for all Americans. But I don't like the idea of war with China, Russia or anyone else for that matter. BUT with all the humans on this planet, how long before there are so many people we all suffocate from lack of oxygen? We have over 9 billion people in the world & populations everywhere are growing on a massive scale. I'm an old man and will probably die sooner rather than later. But I just wish that I could somehow wash all the evil from the world!, all the pollution from the air & waters and ease all the hostilities that people have & create towards each other. And cause anger & hatred to just disappear. I'm sure that will come soon enough for me in the form of death. But wouldn't it be really great if Jesus really did come back to earth and solved everything and made the world clean again and we are here to see it all happen? Although I do really wish for it. Idk. I just think of how we have totally trashed the earth. We should all be very ashamed of just how polluted we have let this world become.
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  4. Speaking of dye packs in the shells so that you can tell which splash belongs to what ship. I remember watching a documentary about Operation Torch where the US was going against the Vichy French & going to land near and invade Casablanca. And because the US & the French had usually been allies they were hoping that the French would just "stand down" & welcome the US Forces. But that was not to be BUT the documentary went on to say that a shell splash landed so close to General Patton that it covered him with yelllow dye. On one hand I wonder if that was really true or just some made up BS Propaganda? But they went on to say that some of his aids were trying to wipe the dye off of him but he kept pushing them aside so he could see or figure out what was going on. So with the extra added bs it makes it sound believable. But a shell splash THAT CLOSE needs return fire & quickly. I don't see aides being more worried about wiping dye off of Patton than maybe getting behind some armor where it might be a little safer. I always wondered if that was true or just propaganda. But he did survive combat during WW1 and was wounded but continued to command his troops after getting shot in the leg & hip. I guess he just didn't fear death would find him until after the war was over. It's a pity he was killed but I think he was assassinated! If he had run for President he would have won against Eisenhower & we would have been in an all out war with Russia as soon as he was elected! Patton was adamant about winning back Poland. When he saw the concentration camps he felt that was the least they deserved was their own country back. And if Stalin hadn't made the deal with Hitler to split Poland things may not have happened the way they did.
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