Comments by "Ben Wilson" (@benwilson6145) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. Winkle’ Brown described the Griffon-engined Seafire as “sheer magic”.
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  2. The 51st Highland Division managed to send there 25 pounders back as they were not with the BEF, but fighting alongside the French, The retreated to St Valerie but had sent the guns to Le Harve as they no longer had any ammunition for them. The 51st were captured at St Valerie.
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  3. An ex RN destroyer pursued and captured by two ex RN destroyers
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  4. During WW2 a teacher had invited a pilot to talk to her class, the Pilot was saying I had a Fokker on my tail. The teacher hurriedly interrupts to say Fokker was a type of aircraft. The Pilot says this fokker was a Messerschmitt.
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  5. You do not need to love politics, you just need to accept that like birth, taxes and death its part of life.
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  6. Maybe Argintina should stop making threats to invade the Falkland Islands. The Islanders had a vote in 2013 that returned a 99.8 % vote to remain British.
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  7.  @jorgechichiri5792  The Argintinian Goverment is still sword rattling ang threatning the islands, please go and read your own newspapers. The Islanders do not want one way trips across the bay, or to be kidnapped and disappeared. Kidnapping pregnant wome, locking them up until they give birth, steal the baby and give to a murderer, then throwing the women out of a helicopter over the sea must make you so proud to be an Argintinian!
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  8. Who supported the USA in Afghanistan? The only time NATO has been called for help.
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  9. Sir Amos Ayre, the Director of Merchant Shipbuilding, credits Douglas Thomson of Ben Line Steamers of Edinburgh as the originator of the MAC concept. The first MAC ship delivered was in April 1943. The Empire Macalpine was built in Burntisland and manned by Ben Line Steamers. The vessel remained owned by the Controller of Shipping and manned by Ben Line until 1946 when she was sold to McCowan and Cross and converted into a cargo ship the Derryanne. The vessel had many names and was finaly scrapped as the Pacific Endeavour in Hong Kong in 1970. This vessel was followed by a sister the Empire MacKendrick built at Burntisland and was operated by William Thomson & Co (the Ben Line Steamers). She was broken up in Split in 1973.
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  10. Minor correction, in Britain it is the Merchant Navy, not Merchant Marine.
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  11.  @pcka12  HMS Trincomalee at Hartlepool.
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  12. Great video , thank you.
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  13. I can add another to your "Hit with a shovel tour" is the idiots at San Francisco Maritime Museum. The sailing ship Champigny was built at Nantes in 1902, a steel four masted barque of 3200 tons, In 1921 she was taken over by Aktiebolaget Finska Skolskeppsrediet which sailed her as a cadet traing ship the Fennia. In 1927 she was sailing through the Straits of Lemaire near Cape Horn. She was demasted in a storm and made her way to Port Stanley. Here she was used as a storage hulk by the Falklands Island Company, during WW2 used as to accomadate German POW and internees. In 1967 she was purchased by the San Francisco Maritime Museum for restoration and towed to Uruguay. There there was a dispute about unpaid towage fees and she was scrapped before anyone could save her.
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  14.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Boris Johnston may disagree?
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  15. The Azerbaijan Airforce now have excellent large drones that the Armenia will not shoot down.
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  16. Large brown envelopes
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  17. It was a training flight! The Soviets also attacked Civilian aircraft.
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  18. Looks like Lockheed failed to "sponsor" Ed.
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  19. Flat pack from MFI was a thing in the UK until 2010
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  20. Did like Clarksons description of the attack, He said the bomber no doubt not worked out what could go wrong, but missed the actual result The Taxi Driver kicked him so hard between the legs that he damaged the tendons in his ankle. I guess the bomber had difficulty walking for awhile and found a couple of lumps in his throat.
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  21. Gloster Meteor?
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  22. It was licence-built in Australia during World War Two. In the video
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  23. Thank you
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  24.  @CaptainLumpyDog  Yes you are a greater expert than Winkle Brown!
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  25. The reason was explained in the video
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  26. Instructional airframe! One of the many many fantastic exhibits in the Science Museum London is a Spitfire taken apart during WW2 as an instructional airframe, 80 years later it is still an instructional airframe and I find it fascinating.
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  27. Good theory
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  28.  @michaelguerin56  Strange how you blame the BBC. No news, or film was transmitted without the the approval of the Ministry of Defence, mare you need to do some research?
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  29.  @michaelguerin56  The Ministry of Defence agreed to the broadcast. I expect they knew more about the situation than you do, but keep your prejudices going.
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  30. Also the time lunatics are at their worst
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  31.  @mpetersen6  No the SS Great Britain
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  32. First flight was Gustav Whitehead.
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  33. No its definitely the USA getting rid of Abrahams for a better tank!
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  34. That was the Empire MacKendrick
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  35. Thank you
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  36. The Beardmore Glacier is named after William Beardmore, he was a supporter of Shackleton's Expedition..
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  37. They did, sinking U Boats off Norway including the first underwater to underwater kill.
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  38.  @ross.venner  I think that new solutions had appeared mainly in the form of aircraft and radar? My opinion only. Sitting in a submarine off an an enemy coast could be hazardous to your health.
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  39.  @markbowen3638  Funny, you would think the retreating troops would have kept a full inventory, they had sooo much time to do it!
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  40. Montgomery had two Captured Italian HQ trucks which he used through the campaigns. They are now property of the Imperial War Museum. He slept in one staying close to the front often ahead of his Generals.
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  41. Thank you
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  42. Now there are three steps to heaven, Just listen and you will plainly see (three steps to heaven, three steps to heaven)
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  43. Thank you
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  44. Says the country who spreads war over the entire world demanding help, Vietnam, Afghanistan as prime example's. Though they did beat Grenada without assistance.
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  45.  @AbelMcTalisker  The information is from the History of the 51st Highland Division. I and no one has the knowledge to question it. If the official history says they were shipped back then they were. If they were random ships landing equipment at Le Harve then its a shame that they did not embark the 51st.
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  46.  @AbelMcTalisker  I accept the facts from the 51 st Highland Division history, they said they put the guns on a ship. It may be some sort of conspiracy theory that the Army would turn around a ship full of used and possibly damaged guns and send them back. My theory would be they sent in new guns and ammunition, but fill your boots.
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  47. Thank you
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  48. Imagine any one mispronouncing Scottish names!
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  49. Thank you
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  50. And in Russia, the clothes of the backs of the civilians.
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