Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The Drydock - Episode 022" video.

  1. Yeah, but if you have anything else to do, I'd say do that instead! Definitely NOT an exciting thing to be doing! At least 50 shades of grey.
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  2. I know it was 5 years ago but any tank, no matter whether it was a Tiger 2 or even a modern Abrams or whatever, any tank taking a 16" AP shell to the face is simply going to be a 70 ton piece of junk afterwards. Impression of the largest paper weight ever imagined. I'm sure their were some very unlucky German Panzers that suffered this fate on & following D-Day in Normandy. And I'm very sure that the tanks that remained undamaged enough to withdraw from the area were very grateful to survive such a ghastly onslaught of power. Land artillery is bad enough to kill tanks. Battleship artillery turns tanks into unknown lumps of metal. I'm also thinking that any of the German tankers that witnessed other tanks getting hit by Battleship shells were very keen to make sure to get out of range of those guns asap despite what any of their commanders tried to order. I know that if I had seen such a thing... "Nope, I'm outta here just as fast as I can go! If tank runs outta gas, I'm walking or running if I have to!!!"
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  3. Yeah, the only problem with that is people are lazy & don't think about checking life boats. And if they have started to rott good luck convincing a Captain to go through the expense of replacing them. And sometimes if the sea was calm a boat may be serviceable but rough seas can slam a smaller boat up against a ship & tear it to pieces. I've never been at sea. But if I ever do go I'll bring my own little inflatable raft, something like the pilots used in WW2. Cuz if the water is freezing cold it can kill you quickly. But yeah, that was very smart of them to realize that the woman & children should go first. I'm sure that one or two guys had to deal with rowing the boats away from the ships. And if all 8 horses made it to the shore. Idk, maybe they should have followed the horses.
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