Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "The Drydock - Episode 179" video.

  1. 2:24:22 Apart from fighters, US employed its long range land-based bombers as maritime patrol aircraft (starting with B-17s) and sometimes, when they met their Japanese H6K or H8K flying boat counterparts, they attacked them (US planes being land-based having the speed advantage). There is an interesting testimony from the Japanese side of one such encounter at j-aircraft website titled "Shootout Between an H6K and a B-17".
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  2. I always wondered about age of sail magazine fire prevention measures. Great to learn about it!
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  3. 5:53:13 A notable example is burning of the 84-gun Ottoman flagship Mansur Al-Liwa off Chios 1821. during the Greek War of Independence. Apart from that: attack on the Spanish Armada at anchor, Action at Cherbourg (1692), and Raid on Medway.
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