Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Paper Skies" channel.

by all rights, Old 666 should be as well known and famous as the Memphis Belle and Enola Gay. The crew is finally getting the recognition they deserve though. Better late than never.
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ironic too, since after the US won WW2, Vietnam asked the US for help to liberate them from France, since we were liberating so many other countries from teh Axis powers.
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@ArtjomKoslow the west had already opened fronts against Germany in Britain, Atlantic, Baltics, med, North Africa, and Italy prior to 1944. Not to mention supporting underground efforts in multiple countries, namely France.
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@GlenLossie "The US was supporting and bankrolling the French against the Vietnamese. " the vietnamese asked the US for help at teh end fo WW2. US opted Not to help, as France was a US ally. the vietnamese eventually got rid of the french later themselves and we stupidly got involved just so LBJ could get elected. The US didn't seek to be imperialist, nor to colonize. we never declared war and were officially defending south veitnam. but it was all BS just to get LBJ elected president.
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@aleksazunjic9672 it consumed personnel and LOTS of material and manufacturing resources and manpower. Submarines, battleships, and destroyers aren't cheap.
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@darthdooku6246 yes, you are wrong. the Northrop bomber predates the Russian designs by Many years and tens were made. Starship was also in short run production and still fly today. Others a well. you fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the problem though. For propeller driven aircraft, swept wings is not important. it is less efficient and not needed unless you intend to fly close to mach 1, which is incredibly inefficient. And the Tu-95 is so LOUD trying to fly that fast, other militaries don't even need radar to detect the bombers coming over the horizon, they can literally Hear them coming. Ask yourself, why do so few people use swept wings with turboprops? becasue it doesn't make sense to do it. Only the russians were dumb enough to think it was a good idea. The US equivalent has swept wings, but used jet engines instead.
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@aleksazunjic9672 "Actually, German U-boat consumed lots of British and American resources, not the other way around. Thus Germans pursued it to the end." drop in the bucket compared to Germany. US could afford those resources, Germany could not. Imagine how many tanks and aircraft could have been made with that, not to mention the thousands of personnel it would have freed up. The German Battleships largely accomplished nothing in the war anyways. and U-boats were being sunk so fast that the odds of surviving the war as a U-boat crewman were basically 0. Germany could ill afford the oil and other raw material consumed. America had 6k ships by wars end, including 16 fleet carriers just in the invasion fleet for Japan alone. US built so much stuff in WW2, we're still using up the last of it in recent years. Weapons, engine parts, explosives, and more from WW2 are finally being consumed, even after much of it was scrapped post-war.
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@darthdooku6246 XF-88, XF-84, Starship, XFY-1, Northrop flying wing bombers, and others were swept wing turboprops.
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The Lancaster flew without a co-pilot and without dual controls. It was most certainly a heavy bomber. Could the B-58 not also be considered a heavy bomber (20,000lb or nukes)? It had no copilot. And there are of course many single pilot light/medium bombers such as the A-20, Mosquito, and later jet designs. But they are not heavy bombers.
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1946 Largest Army? USSR 1946 most powerful Army? not the USSR
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@PaperSkiesAviation Wow you are nitpicky. like a little school girl. "do as I say, not as I do", how about you keep your opinions to yourself instead. since you can't count, 1946 was mere weeks after the end of WW2, but it was a lot simpler than listing some arbitrary date in 1945. But I understand this is hard for you to comprehend. The most powerful land army at the time was the US. Had the most equipment, best combat record, could ride its Navy to anywhere in the world, had fought all over the globe and won in WW2 (same cannot be said of the USSR who lost 24mil people in WW2 and required massive amounts of Lend Lease to survive and got all of their technology from the US/UK/Germany).
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Takeoff, fly in straight line really fast, fire missiles, RTB.
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Soviet Top Gun: "Let's at least pretend we're as good as the West."
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@aleksazunjic9672 not remotely true. the Total shipping tonnage sunk by U-boats was only a small fraction of the new tonnage produced by the UK alone during WW2, not even counting the US tonnage produced. Many strategists including Mahan warned that winning a w3war against a superpower using shipping interdiction is a failed naval strategy, and they were right. You cannot win a war fighting like this for numerous reasons, but Germany wasted so many resources on it anyways. US and UK used light frigates, escorts, and escort carriers that weren't needed on the other fronts to escort convoys effectively. Germany could have put even more resources on teh eastern front with all that freed up resources and manpower.
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@aleksazunjic9672 "what was sunk on those ships is. " not true either. Both teh US and UK shifted to wartime production, and so they were producing more of everything than normal, and what the U-boats sunk didn't even come remotely close to sinking a small fraction of that increase in production. The US was producing so much stuff they were literally throwing away damaged but repairable aircraft and vehicles and just replacing them with new ones instead. US and UK had overwhelming numbers and Germany well knew it. Cope harder. you're far to desperate to prove something true that simply isn't true.
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@aleksazunjic9672 " Thus, U-boat campaign slowed down significantly US troop deployment in Europe, " False. very few US soldiers were lost crossing the Atlantic. and the total tonnage sunk by every U-boat in WW2 amounted to only 1/4 of the new tonnage produced by the UK alone. They didn't even slow down UK production, and thus had literally 0 impact on US production in WW2 if we say for the sake of argument that every ship and its cargo sunk by a U-boat was made in the UK. "Thus, U-boat campaign slowed down significantly US troop deployment in Europe, and only in second half of 1943 they managed to partially solve this problem. " Wrong again. the US was planning to invade France in 192, but the British convinced the US to invade Africa instead and save them in Egypt. US conducted a large scale invasion of North Africa already in 1942, and landed almost unimpeded. We then spent a lot of time delivering supplies to Africa and the Med. I know a US Merchant Marine who is 105yrs old who crossed the Atlantic in WW2 8 times and did most of his trips to the Med. We talked for hours on his WW2 experiences. And in 1943 most US troops were still stateside training while we sent airplanes across to prepare Europe for invasion by first destroying the Luftwaffe. " Meanwhile, USSR was fighting practically alone. I'm sorry if truth hurts your feelings, but the truth is simple - Soviet Union won WW2 in Europe, Americans and British were just helpers." HAHAHAHA! knew it, you're a communist bot. drinking that communist koolaid. Stalin admitted the Soviets only held on due to US Lend Lease. And it took Russia HOW long to reach Berlin? 24mil dead Soviets? And the US reached Berlin by the same time and with less than 1yr of fighting, and losing only a few tens of thousands of troops to do it? US also defeated Japan single handedly. Soviets almost lost fighting on a single front. US won on every front, and had at least about 9 distinct fronts it was engaging in simultaneously around the globe, while supplying all the Western Allies with stuff at the same time. US finished WW2 with a 6,000 ship navy and more aircraft than it knew what to do with. US went on to become the world's only superpower and a wealthy and prosperous nation. Soviet Union languished in poverty, famine, and ultimately collapsed. And Russia remains poor to this day, with few exports on the global economy outside of energy and raw material. No real tech exports, and they aren't even exporting military equipment anymore. It took the Soviets 30yrs to reverse engineer the AIM9 missile into a reliable and functional missile. Acquired an AIM9 in the 1950s and they didn't get it working reliably and in large production until the 1980s. Meanwhile copying British jet engines, US B-29, and more. Elon Musk has already launched more rockets with SpaceX than all the Soyuz rockets ever launched by Russia.
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Corrigan was America personified. gov is an impediment to progress, and the Founders knew this too.
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