Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "Ships of the Imperial Japanese Army - Much Maru About Something" video.

@Hamish Banish The concept of team play was an advantage the US and British armed forces possesed
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@pablosturm6640 No - From Yamato, an ancient name for Japan. It can also refer to the Yamato period in Japanese history, which lasted into the 8th century. The individual kanji are 大 meaning "great" and 和 meaning "harmony". More than you ever wanted to know about Yamato Yamato (Japanese: 大和) was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan. Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan. Japanese history Yamato people, the dominant ethnic group of Japan Yamato period, when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from Yamato Province Yamato clan, clan active in Japan since the Kofun period Yamato-damashii, the "Japanese spirit", or Yamato-gokoro, the "Japanese heart/mind" Yamato nadeshiko, the ideology of the perfect Japanese woman Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty Yamato-e, classical Japanese painting Yamato-uta, alternative term for waka (poetry) Yamatai, ancient geographical term that may be associated with Yamato Daiwa (disambiguation) is spelled using the same kanji as Yamato Geography Japan Yamato Province, Japan, former province, present-day Nara Prefecture Yamato, Fukuoka, a town in Fukuoka Prefecture Yamato, Fukushima, a town in Fukushima Prefecture Yamato, Gifu, former town now part of Gujo City, Japan Yamato, Ibaraki, a village in Ibaraki Prefecture Yamato, Kagoshima, a village in Kagoshima Prefecture Yamato, Kanagawa, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture Yamato, Kumamoto, a town in Kumamoto Prefecture Yamato, Niigata, former town now part of the city of Minamiuonuma Yamato, Saga, a town in Saga Prefecture Yamato, Yamaguchi, former town now part of Hikari Yamato, Yamanashi, a village in Yamanashi Prefecture Yamato River, a river in Nara and Osaka Prefecture Yamato Town, later renamed Wakō, Saitama Yamato Village, later renamed Higashiyamato, Tokyo United States Yamato Colony, California, Japanese-American agricultural community Yamato Colony, Florida, former Japanese farm settlement Antarctica Yamato Glacier Yamato Mountains Meteorites Yamato 691, 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite Yamato 791197, lunar meteorite found on Earth Yamato 000593, Martian meteorite found on Earth Ships Yamato (ship), several Japanese ships of this name Yamato-class battleship Japanese battleship Yamato Japanese corvette Yamato Yamato 1 Companies Yamato Life Insurance Company, Japan Yamato Transport, Japan, delivery service Animals Caridina multidentata (Yamato shrimp) Language Yamato kotoba, native Japanese language vocabulary
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@neurofiedyamato8763 The US Army had a destroyer. The Corps of Engineers operated a "Hyacinth Destroyer" on the Mississippi and in Florida. The Army also had a flotilla of Mine Planters ("planting" controlled mines instead of "laying" uncontrolled ones - a neat technical distinction) operated by the Coast Artillery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_planter. The Engineers deployed some of their dredges overseas to keep captured ports operational and to develop new ones. They also operated Port Repair Ships to put captured ports back in operation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Engineer_Port_Repair_ship. The Signal Corps operated Cable Layers and Radio Ships - as a matter of fact, the USAS Apache broadcast MacArthur's "I have returned" speech to the world http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/1217991405.jpg The Army also operated many more hospital ships and earlier in the war than the Navy Want more info (more than just hospital ships despite title)? https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_United_States_Army#Hospital_ships
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@jalpat2272 Japanese DD's were named for meteorological phenomena, Cruisers for rivers, BB's for the ancient provinces of Japan (exceptions Yamato and Shinano) and Carriers for dragons
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@drewdederer8965 The destroyer given the name that translates as "Dawn" in Japanese is "Still the Moon Remains in the Sky"
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@nerd1000ify And the USS Quenfish torpedoed the AwA Maru which had been guaranteed safe passage
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ScottyFox The USN court martialed a US sub skipper who came close to that by sinking a ship guaranteed safe passage by Washington, the Awa Maru. If you had deliberately sunk a Japanese hospital ship, you would have been tried as a war criminal, cashiered and either spent a long time in Portsmouth Naval Prison or been hung. The US took and takes it responsibilities under the Laws of War quite seriously. If it didn't try you for war crimes, that would be a signal that in this war and any future ones, US hospital ships and medical facilities were fair game
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@jayadkisson2075 They were called Engineer Special Brigades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer_Special_Brigade The British equivalent were the Brigade Bricks/Beach Groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_groups#No.31_Beach_Brick
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Teamed up the Chieftain and the Moustache of Knowledge
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@francoistombe Shinano was at sea for less than 24 hours
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@francoistombe And when was Blucher commissioned? It wasn't at midnight
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@francoistombe "Shortest lifespan in a war" wasn't what the OP mentioned. Go back and reread it - it says "lifespan" Period. Full Stop. No qualifications.
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@kimmoj2570 They tried. Arnold wanted airborne troops to be part of the USAA sating they were equivalent to the Marines. Army Ground Forces and Fort Benning said "Hell no!", convincing Marshall that they fought as ground troops one they jumped. And of course the Fallschirmjaeger were Goering's fair haired boys. And you had the Herman Goering Airborne Panzer Korps which had the HG Airborne Panzer Division (larger than any Army or SS Panzer Division) and the HG Airborne Panzer Grenadier Division (In fairness, I was an airborne qualified tanker, although I never saw a chute after Airborne School). And, Gott help us, there were the Luftwaffe Field Divisions.
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@gregorywright4918 No, the US Army has fixed wing aircraft (Light Cargo/Transport and VIP transport) but they are limited in weight by the Key West Agreement. Page down to US Army in this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_States_military_aircraft#Army
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Curiobill In the US Army the licensed personnel on large ships are warrant officers. Boats are run by non-commissioned officers.
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The IJN officer class was from the old samurai families, while the IJA was officered by men who came from what had been peasant families
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@Right-Is-Right The RAF had several hundred High Speed Launches that looked like MTB's without torpedo tubes and the Navy and Army operated crash boats into the Fifties. The USN rated them as AVR's - Auxiliary Ship - Fixed Wing Aircraft - Rescue. I knew an ex-USAF enlisted man who had the rating of "seaman" during his tour in the Air Force. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=raf+high+speed+launch&view=detail&mid=F25E7E191D989F9EE8CCF25E7E191D989F9EE8CC&FORM=VIRE&msclkid=62950a05c4d811ecae598f1bbfcb892b https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDsS9BgYV1A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_boats_of_World_War_II?msclkid=022a77bdc4d811ecb2f83c7d72bab76d https://uscrashboats.org/?msclkid=02285b92c4d811ecb4594adc40c34429
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@TheTutch Anyine know the German word for Schadenfreude?
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@MikeLabauve As is the America's great wooden fleet of WW1
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@Norkans5 No the first letter designates the basic type of vessel and the original carriers were considered a form of cruiser carrying heavier than air aircraft. V does NOT mean "vessel". V is the US Navy designation for a heavier than air aircraft . Z is the designator for lighter than air ie: kite balloons, barrage balloons (the USMC fielded some barrage balloon units), blimps and zeppelins. In the case of blimps and zeps, they were considered commissioned vessels, so they were given hull numbers ZR 1-3 and ZRS 3-4 for the zeppelins and the USN's primary blimp of WW2, the K class, was the ZNP-K series. A seaplane tender was rated as an AV or AVP and a blimp or zeppelin tender would have been rated as an AZ. The USS Patoka (AO-9) was used in that role but never re-rated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Patoka_(AO-9)#/media/File:Uss_Patoka_AO9.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Patoka_(AO-9)#/media/File:ZR3_USS_Los_Angeles_an_Kriegsschiff.jpg And, according to Bureau of Ships, ship type designations were NOT acronyms. Case in point, PT was not "Patrol Torpedo" but "Motor Torpedo Boat" in the USN's rating system
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@themightynanto3158 Well, there WAS the Battle of May Island
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