Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The Drydock - Episode 236 (Part 1)" video.

  1. Concerning the Japanese Night fighting capabilities at around 1:40:30 you talk about how they had binoculars with wider angle lenses & filters that also helped pull in extra light from the moon & stars. However, what you fail to mention is that the Japanese trained obsessively for night battles because they knew that they needed every edge that they could get when going to war with the USA & Great Britain cuz as far as numbers of capital ships they were hopelessly outnumbered. And it was basically because of air power combined with Japanese Naval assets & Army's that made them such a formidable opponent. And furthermore, if the Japanese Army & Navy had better coordination & cooperation together they would have been much deadlier than they were. Unfortunately for the Japanese, they didn't realize that America NOT wanting to go war was a completely different animal after Pearl Harbor. America felt like they WERE FORCED into war by Japan & that they were going to make sure that Japan totally regretted doing so & therefore an UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER IS the only option America would agree to terms of peace. And so the idea of grabbing what they could & then trying to negotiate a peace settlement was out of the question as soon as 2500 Americans were killed at Pearl Harbor. And then they upped the ante in the Philippines by 1000%. Because by then, way too many Americans had died in the Pacific to even try to negotiate peace. After that America 🇺🇸 was in it to win it! And wanted to crush Japan like an ugly roach scurrying across our kitchen floor! And most every American felt that it was their duty to do everything they could for the war effort. Like some guys training for a year or longer before being deployed, so that they would be capable to take on whatever the Germans or Japanese threw at them. Fight smarter & harder! And the fact that the USA could pull off a landing like D-Day in Normandy while also being fully engaged with the Japanese on the other side of the world was a major FLEX of power. However, with that being said, I seriously don't think it would have been successful if not for the Germans being fully engaged by the Russians which had been richly fortified by the Lend-Lease Act & arctic convoys taking massive amounts of war materials to Russia & the fact that America also had Great Britain, Canada & a massive amount of other Europeans reinforcing the invasion.
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  2. In your defense of the idea of "The K Class" submarines, you also forgot to include the fact that they were actually faster than the USA Battleship line & if any type of war had come about between Britain & the USA, after the Royal Navy had worked the kinks out of the K class they could have been a very potent weapon IF the war that the Washington/London Naval Treaty was designed to avoid had actually happened. And it also furthered submarine technology to a certain degree, the "does & don'ts" of designing subs if you will. It is a major shame that a lot of these lessons were hard won by the cost of a lot of lives. And I do hope that modern day submarine sailors recognize the sacrifice that was made by those that died in K class submarines! Cuz at the time, it was thought possible to make the scenario work. It wasn't until it was implemented that all the problems were encountered. And it wasn't JUST the problem of having boilers on a submarine.
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