Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 045" video.

  1. 14:00 What about whoever kept buying Mk14 torpedoes without ensuring any of them would actually work? Imagine if the US submarine fleet had had properly effective torpedoes in early 1942 … how much sooner might the war have ended?
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  2. 3:20 There is also the reality that, once WW1 started, many nations that provided “stuff needed for shipbuilding” to Germany reduced or suspended trade with Germany, whether because they actively supported the Allies’ cause or because they decided which side looked likely to win and shunned the other.
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  3. 14:00 What about whoever kept buying Mk14 torpedoes without ensuring any of them would actually work? Imagine if the US submarine fleet had had properly effective torpedoes in early 1942 … how much sooner might the war have ended?
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  4. 22:00 The USN hurt IJN badly with just two carriers. Having two more carriers’ worth of strike power and CAP and their escort forces’ AA would have kept Yorktown afloat. As for “morale boost,” headlines of “Navy fliers smash Jap fleet at Coral Sea, take no losses. Navy brass say we beat the best they have” would have been at least as effective. I imagine Nimitz was quite upset that a politically opportunistic operation halved the forces available for Coral Sea, which directly cost the Lexington, and probably Yorktown.
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  5. 11:00 You get a platform! And YOU get a platform!! EVERYONE GETS A PLATFORM!!
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  6. 17:50 But they would have fewer ships and / or less armor to compensate for higher weight of larger guns.
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