Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The Drydock - Episode 025" video.

When it comes to submarines, Gato as in GA-To. is how I'm fairly certain is how it's pronounced. However, us Americans are not really picky, if you say Got-to & follow it up with submarine then either way we know what you are talking about. Unless it's someone that doesn't know there are Gato submarines and in that case they don't know either. Just like Louisiana is pronounced 2 different ways but most don't kick up a fuss about either. If/when you come to Washington DC, most that have lived here all there life say "Warshington". And where the hell the r comes from I have no idea!!! But hey, far be it from me to go around kicking up a fuss about pronunciations! Also, ie I use to live near Toccoa, GA where the first Airborne divisions trained. Also near there is a certain Tugaloo river. However, people there pronounce it as though it is Ta-gu-la. By the way its written I thought tug-a-loo would be how it's pronounced but what the hell do I know? A Cherokee Indian name but trying to conform to English. Makes me think of a joke I once read in a book called "Silverlock" by John Myers Myers. Why is an angleworm like a parallelogram? Idk why? Well, I can't really say that it is. But if you don't think about it, it won't bother you. Yes, I will admit it is rather dry but what do you expect for free. If I was a real comedian I'd get paid for telling dumb jokes.
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Yeah, I personally don't think that the Royal Navy would have been able to win against Japan. Maybe, just maybe if the war had lasted until 1944 then maybe by then the UK would maybe start gaining the upper hand. But, one of the major factors in the Pacific War was the US taking out 4 of Japan's fleet carriers at Midway. If that doesn't happen then Japan remains a major juggernaut for quite sometime. Maybe long enough for a peace treaty. With Japan having the main bulk of their carrier force, armored carriers or not, they would realize bombs are having no affect & when they send 100 Betty's in for a torpedo strike you can almost guarantee they will eventually set up pincer attacks to where it won't matter which way a carrier turns. And those "long lances" ain't no joke!"! >】⁵Main reason no peace treaty happened with US & Japan is that cuz of Pearl Harbor attack US would not settle for anything less than a Japanese Unconditional Surrender. And Japanese were too proud to accept such a thing until they weren't. And an atomic weapon could have that affect on any society. And you happened to mention the US Navy's "Devastator" airplanes. They were only "devastating" to the pilots flying them, unfortunately. And after almost a whole squadron goes down, the few planes that actually got to launch torpedoes, get to see the torpedoes hit but not detonate on the hull of whatever lucky ship they were attacking. I personally feel that the Devastator being such a poor airplane and the torpedoes not exploding is why we had the "flight to no where" during the battle o Midway. The squadron leader didn't want to get his pilots killed knowing that they could accomplish very little in the way of damaging enemy ships. Everyone knew it was a poor plane for the job and I'm fairly certain they knew that the torpedoes were not functioning properly either. Makes you wonder why they were even sent. It's not like they could know that these planes would pull all the zeros down to sea level & make them use all of their ammo. Or did they know?
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