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  1. Because of his background, I absolutely love it when Drach does these kinds of episodes. They are most enjoyable.
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  2. Drachisms Of The Day: "And her crew's gunnery was downright terrible. Even by Beatty's standards." 6:30 "Up ahead, Queen Mary was somewhat more performance-impaired, as it exploded." 8:14
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  3. There is documentey following the raising of the sub. One of the German sailors who was on the boat when it sunk was there when they raised it, he even got his old comb back!
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  4. You thought it was Merrimac, but it was I, Virginia!
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  5. Very impressive “human voice” fellow computer. The humans have no idea. Beepboop.
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  6. "it is recommended that these guns be installed in every available space on board all ships." American AA defense ww2 manual.
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  7. Before your channel, I had no idea how sophisticated these systems were.
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  8. "having failed to either sink or arouse the wrath of an offended sea god that possessed a sense of aesthetics.." Absolutely beautiful line USS Shaw guide, when?
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  9. I was a USN engineer serving on 1200 and 600 lb boilers. I never experienced a 1200 lbs steam leak which is invisible. To search for such a steam leak a chief told me you use brooms. Waving the broom slowly forward till the bristles get cut off. Far better than loosing an engineer from the neck up.
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  10. They didn't steal it. They strategically transferred it to an alternate location. 😎
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  11. „They had us in the first half not gonna lie.“ - Jellicoe to the press after the Battle of Jutland, 1916, probably.
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  12. “Ok so we took a guy from Kentucky” Yes “And he’s really good at shooting” Yeah “Like really, really good” Ok “And we put him on a battleship” Fuck yes, how’d that go? “Pretty great honestly” Superb
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  13. Optically: I see that we'll definitely hit that target Depression: We'll never hit that target
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  14. "aircraft aren't ships" - Drach, 2020
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  15. You have outdone yourself, that was so filled with Drachisms that I kept having to rewind due to me laughing too hard.
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  16. A now I understand why she hammered the Bismarck so hard, she was going on a nice vacation, relax have herself looked after for a while and this inconsiderable German lady shows up and starts making all sorts of noise and trouble forcing poor old in need of vacation Rodney to deal with it. So logically frustrated and annoyed she wastes no time nor effort to dispatch with this trouble, not wanting to risk her vacation being totally cancelled.
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  17. I love the idea of a load of destroyers milling around whispering “can we board him, is that taking it a bit too far” Warspite turns up and is like “what are you doing?” “Debating whether to go and invite that cruiser to join His Majesty’s navy?” “What an interesting idea... no, stop being silly! You had me thinking that for a moment” “Ah shucks, fine then”
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  18. Naming a new ship class rolling out after a battle from the same war is one hell of a flex.
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  19. The really impressive thing about Eastern Solomons, IMO, is VAdm Fletcher's learning curve. Fletcher had commanded at every CV vs CV battle in the history of the world up to that point, and you can see his progression from Coral Sea to Midway, and from Midway to here, as he identified mistakes made in his earlier battles and worked to avoid repeating them. All of this in under 4 months, while commanding a CV task force which was on active operations for the bulk of that period. It's really a shame that Morison decided (for whatever reason) that he didn't like Fletcher, so that a lot of people to this day think of Fletcher as "an American Nagumo."
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  20. Thanks for having me on! Was fun to talk about this flying barrel of a plane :D (Hopefully youtube doesn't break this one lol)
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  21. "And they responded particularly badly to having holes poked in them by high velocity metal projectiles, like, say, cannon-fire." By the way. This type of video, tracing the evolution of a particular technology, is my favorite. Well done and thank you Drach. And Merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) to you and all of your listeners.
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  22. So the officer from the Enterprise who recommended putting 20mm everywhere finally got his way ..?
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  23. "Hey a new friend" (EXPLOSIONS)
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  24. Most people: hood sunk because of its thin deck armour Drach: and thats were you're wrong kiddo
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  25. I’m sorry to say Drach, you have opened Pandora’s box here. We need the USN, IJN, French and Italian fleets, but I’d be most interested in the Soviet fleet of 1946 if war had not broke out.
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  26. Germans: You are being defended from the British. Please do not resist. Norwegians: Press X to doubt
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  27. "Really the only thing you can do is just build an even bigger gun" Orks: I LIKE DIS PLAN, 'UMMIE
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  28. My uncle was a stoker on the Hood when it went down. My mother, his sister, told me he was so proud to be a member of the crew.
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  29. Not much sadder than hearing the words 'Sank with all hands'.
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  30. Drach is like a small child who goes to Disney world for the first time
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  31. "Almost everyone in the entirety of Europe know what the Spanish plan were" They won't expect the Spanish Inquisition, but they totally expect the Spanish Armada
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  32. I see the Egyptians followed the Pokemon school of naming things. "What is it?" "It says 'meow'." "We'll call it that, then." :D
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  33. As a proud navy pilot I can say with out a shadow of a doubt that I would have spent every dollar I have to preserve the Enterprise. The fact that the ship that inspired our tactics, our training, and our spirits was allowed to be turned into beer cans is a disgrace.
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  34. 41:02 Lee's recommendation against a night surface action at Philippine Sea is one of my favorite moments of the Pacific War history, and says so much about Lee's intelligence and character. There's so much to unpack in Lee's brief communication to Spruance: "Do not - repeat not - believe we should seek night engagement. Possible advantages of radar more than offset by difficulties in communications and lack of training in fleet tactics at night." Lee was getting the chance to conduct exactly the sort of action a surface commander would dream of, and he was unquestionably the most qualified U.S. admiral to lead such an action at the time. However, that intelligence and experience told him that such night actions were chaotic, unpredictable, and tended to offer many chances for a supposedly weaker force to turn the tables on its notionally superior counterpart. He knew firsthand the skill of the Japanese Navy in night actions, and recognized that his own ships would have at best a minimal advantage over them in training and capabilities. Thus, he recommended that the USN avoid playing to the IJN's greatest remaining strength, foregoing the chance at a victory exclusively for his own ships. Instead he recommended (in effect) that Spruance fight an exclusively carrier-based battle, which would minimize the role of his own ships but play to the overall fleet's greatest strengths and give the best chance for overall victory. This was a commander who could be brilliant in his particular sphere of naval warfare while still clearly understanding the overall picture, and acting accordingly.
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  35. The shocking commentary in this video was that a us submarine actually torpedoed and sunk a ship in 1942, given the terrible performance of our torpedoes.
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  36. I choose to believe the crane ship was built to steal the guns from the Japanese Navy's battleships. It's the only sensible explanation.
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  37. My Uncle, a Canadian soldier, did garrison duty in Jamaica during the war. There he met my Aunt. They married and moved to Canada. My Mother partly decided to study at a 🇨🇦University partly because her sister was in 🇨🇦. There she met my Father. They recently celebrated 70 years of marriage. So yes an important theatre of the war as far as I am concerned.
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  38. The Americans didn't want to build the ships, but could have afforded to do so. The Japanese did want to build the ships, but couldn't have afforded to do so. The French wanted other people to think that they wanted to build the ships and could afford to do so, but in fact they didn't want to and couldn't have afforded to do so. The Italians did not want the French to build the ships, and thought they had prevented them from doing so, but in fact see above. The Italians themselves could not afford to build the ships any more than the French could. The British sort of wanted to build the ships, and could sort of have afforded to do so, but would rather everyone just restrained themselves as that would leave the Royal Navy in a better position than they could have paid for in the event of another naval arms race.
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  39. Polish Destroyer: Fight me you over glorifyed tub!
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  40. "A ship always undergoes a certain degree of roll" image of half sinking ship never change Drachinifel, never change
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  41. It seems Drach quite enjoys saying 'Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine'.
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  42. RIP cheese, you will be missed
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  43. Lee made the right call. He had little to gain by trying to go toe-to-toe with the Japanese in a night fight, and a lot to lose. At that point in the war, American air power was so dominant that it may well have seemed the Navy wasn't going to take meaningful casualties for the rest of the war, with the exception of the occasional sub attack. Why gamble away a winning advantage by playing into your enemy's few remaining strengths? The only thing that made the IJN relevant again was the kamikaze, and they didn't adopt that until the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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  44. Took a nautical archeology class from Dr. Hocker in the late 90s at Texas A&M - it's good to see he's still at it! Thanks for the age of sail content Drach!
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  45. The day is rapidly approaching when the last WWII veteran will be gone. These interviews are priceless. Thank you so very much for doing this.
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  46. Someone: asking Drach a ship vs ship question Drach: throwing his binoculars
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  47. I am ever impressed how you manage to sneak that much humor into the discription of utter obliteration even into the tongue of the imperial truth.
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  48. The history of interwar CVs look like a constant struggle between lads who wanted or didn't want 8 inch guns on their carriers ngl
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  49. HMS Warspite: refuses to be scrapped and sinks herself instead All succeeding HMS Warspite ships: are submarines Coincidence, or British humor?
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  50. Glad to see a local hero getting some coverage!
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