Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "The Drydock - Episode 080" video.

  1.  @charlesdewitt8087  As was I
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  2.  @TonboIV  Aside from the major cities a lot of the Eastern seaboard states are pretty sparsely settled. Farm kids from the midwest and the plains states most of them had been around machinery all their lives. Farms had been using machinery in the US for generations by WWII. A lot of it might have been horse drawn and almost all was pre internal combustion. The McCormick Reaper was the North's secret weapon in the American Civil War. All of this stuff had to be fixed if it broke. Which it would. And it generally broke when it was really needed. Types of machines in use on American farms (not all but alot) by 1940 included tractors, early combines, conveyors for moving feed, early potato planting machines etc.
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  3. Hopefully of the high ranking officers that may have been responsible for the poor quality of the ship involved.
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  4.  @falcovg2  But do Tulip and other ornamental bulbs qualify really
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  5.  @TonboIV  And just where do you think most of the latest technology in production aside from aircraft engines came from. The Northeast had lost its hold on the machine tool industry to companies in the area between Cincinnati and Rockford for the most part. As to the Midwest. It depends on just where you place the deviding line between the Midwest and the Great Lakes Basin industrial region. Let's just put this to rest
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  6.  @TonboIV  Oh, like the Quad Cities, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St Paul, Cinncinatti, St Louis. Not to mention Flint, Saginaw, Jackson, Racine, Kenosha, Gary, Joliet, Elgin, Green Bay, Duluth-Superior, the Copper and Iron region of the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin, Manitowoc, La Crosse, Janesville, Rockford and probably around 100 other cities.
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  7. Could the center prop on say the German ships have been ducted. This might increase performance along with adding strength. OnUS cruisers. The bow weakness also bit the Belgrano
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