Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "The Drydock - Episode 204 (Part 1)" video.

  1. 57:18 24. 10. 1944. At 10AM - a lone IJN D4Y carrier-capable dive bomber from Nichols Field manages to sneak up to the USN light carrier USS Princeton and hit it with a bomb which leads to her loss. 19. 3. 1945. a lone IJN D4Y carrier-capable but this time land-based dive bomber manages to sneak up to the USN fleet carrier USS Franklin and hit it with a bomb which knocks her out of active service for the rest of the war.
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  2. 30:10 Anglo-Japanese Alliance deterred Russia from asking for French help. Hope for deterrence like that is why both sides in 1914. thought the other will refrain from escallation (Austria-Hungary hoped its alliance with Germany would deter Russia from intervening on behalf of Serbia when they declared war on it, and Russia thought that the Franco-Russian alliance would deter Germany from intervening on behalf of Austria-Hungary...)
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