Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "HMS Rodney - Guide 146" video.

Yes, I definitely agree that in a truly different world HMS Rodney, HMS Warspite & USS Enterprise(CV-6) should have been preserved as museum ships. HOWEVER, I read a little piece written by a sailor that wad aboard "the Grey Ghost" and he thought that having kids running around the deck laughing and eating ice cream & such would have been disrespectful to the sailors that fought & died on that deck. And he felt it was more appropriate for the "old girl" to go to the breakers so that other ships could sport the name of Enterprise IN HONOR of those sailors & the sailors that fought & lived as well!
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I like the way the conning tower sits way back on Rodney. Rodney & Warspite both should have been museum ships. It's a shame no British BB were preserved. BUT I especially enjoy the story of HMS Revenge pulling off the first stealth battleship attack. Hey, what's that over there?
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Might as well say that Miss Rodney was highly pissed off about being otw to the states to get looked after and had to turn around to deal with the German bitch!!! German bitch is gonna get slapped around from start to finish! Those sailors were lucky that smaller ships were around to grab up some of the survivors or Bismarck may have lost all hands. Even though Hood went down with only 3 survivors that wasn't totally the Bismarks fault.
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I thought Warspite had done that as well. But I wasn't there so.....
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@loficampingguy9664 Yeah, I've heard that one too about the "temper, temper". Signal. For some reason I thought it was the Missouri instead. But, my memory is shit anyway. I also remember a story about one of the Iowa's, maybe Wisconsin or Massachusetts was using a drone to spot for it. And the Iraqi's seen the drone, knew what it was for, & "surrendered" to the drone. Must admit ""them Arabs are NOT STUPID!!!"
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Although, the USA has preserved some of the fast battleships, I tend to like HMS Rodney best because of the all 3 main gun turrets being forward. Even though it gives it a different profile than most ships it's unique & with all 9 guns being so close together, once the fire control gets the right solution those 9 guns will make 16" shells rain on target. I so pity the sailors that were aboard Bismarck, for they got to see the devastation those guns can cause at length. I've always thought that the Germans should have waited and unleashed Bismarck & Tirpitz at the same time. Then they would have been double hard to deal with. In a lot of ways the Germans made decisions that helped with their defeat, like attacking Russia, & declaring war on the US. They couldn't invade England because of the Channel so they invade Russia. Hitler could have conquered the world if he had had some patience. Scary but true.
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@jacktattis Just in case you didn't know, a large part of the people & knowledge behind "the Manhattan Project" came from certain people fleeing from persecution in Germany & Europe. And if Hitler had not been so racist those people may have remained & Germany may have been the first with nuclear weapons and with the V-1 & V-2 Projects he would have also had a delivery system as well. Argue about a Navy all you want but that kind of devastation in Hitlers hands, who can say what exactly would have happened. But it would have been very horrific for the entire world, I'm sure. I'm not one to argue, don't care if people think I'm right or wrong. You have your opinion and I'll listen. And I may change my mind even. No closed mind here is what I'm trying to say I guess. But I'm glad things went the way they did. However, I really don't like all the present day tensions with China & Russia. Especially Russia invading their neighbors! And because the USA is a superpower everyone looks to us when something happens. It's like we are now the world police. I do understand that with great power comes great responsibility. But I really don't want the US in a war with Russia or China or anyone else for that matter.
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