Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "The Battle of Cape Matapan - +100 to Battleship Stealth" video.

  1. The 19 year old daughter of a postman and a seamstress. That has to be the most unlikely background for someone who changed the war so profoundly, but I guess in wartime, talent is often recognised regardless of someones age, class and gender. In later life she went on to be a gardening historian and lived to the age of 92.
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  2. They had the best optical range/target finder thingys in the war. But luckily for the British, they also had the worst shells and did not have radar.
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  3. Historograph has an excellent video on the battle with great maps that makes what happened where much clearer. It is a great compliment to Drach's video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV4lZJGsMm4
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