Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "The Drydock - Episode 315" video.

Have a look at a map of the time, almost all of the Indian Ocean was bordered by British territory, they also had all but one of the islands in the middle of the ocean. There is no way a ship that size would not be detected and hunted down by a bunch of British battleships and carriers.
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@markjames4951 I was replying to original post about the German battleship Tirpitz possibly relocating to Indo China by pointing out that it could never get there. I don't know how you got the idea that I was saying anything about the French (Vichy or otherwise) and their navy?
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