Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1.  @rogerhwerner6997  Exactly. I may have expressed myself properly, but I wholeheartedly agree.
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  2.  @montecarlo1651  Unless you include the sound of bullets flying and artillery rounds impacting the ground.
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  3.  @montecarlo1651  However, the question is one of timing. No major wars were looming in the 1920s when Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Also, many of the Royal Navy ships that went to the breakers were already obsolete and would have cost enormous sums of money to man that Britain could not afford at the time. The situation in the mid- to late 1930s was a completely different matter, with a belligerent Italy and rising Third Reich.
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  4.  @robertewing3114  This reply makes no sense. Czechoslovakia has no ocean access. Rather like the Hungarian navy.
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  5. I was rather surprised that you didn't have some sort of armor-piercing ranking system, since part of the testing for these guns was usually firing shells against armor plate at testing ranges to check their ability to penetrate armor at various ranges or amounts of propellant. Is this information really difficult to get hold of? I do agree that gun accuracy is difficult to gauge, because a really good gun crew can make the best of a mediocre gun, while a poorly trained crew can mess up with even the best equipment. And since you don't have one group of people checking the accuracy of all these guns, there can be no consistency in tests for accuracy.
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  6. Admiral Whitehead forgot about the land carriers, which might present a problem to any aircraft carriers operating on the Great Lakes. One of these certainly presented problems to the pilots of Area 88.
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  7. Regarding the loss of Tunisia to the Axis Forces in November 1943, it really came back to bite the Germans. When you think that 1) the Germans showed the Allies the Tiger tank for the first time, giving them advance warning of its existence, 2) gave the Americans a relatively safe theatre to learn how the Germans fought and how to defeat them, and 3) the Axis ended up losing over 250,000 troops captured by the Allies at the end of the campaign (a loss equal to Stalingrad, I might add), can you really say it was a defeat? A setback to be sure, but accomplishing #2 and #3 certainly paid handsome dividends to the Allies later in the war.
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  8. This has to be one of the strangest looking warships I have ever seen. Rather like the Russian monitor Novgorod.
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  9. Yes, finally, a video on the Turret-Farm class light cruisers.
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  10. I always liked the story in "Make Another Signal", where a flotilla of British and French destroyers were chasing some German destroyers. One of the French destroyers had a breakdown, and when asked what happened, they replied something to the effect of, "Boiler go boom, can go no more".
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  11. I notice for references he never mentioned Samuel Eliot Morrison's "History of US Naval Operations in World War II; Volume 2: Operations in North African Waters". Excellent examination of the US Navy's activities during Torch.
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  12.  @Driver-ur9mf  Just looked up the ship specs, and Cleveland has one more turret than Helena (fewer 6" guns, but more 5" guns). What makes the Cleveland look like a turret farm are the 5" turrets placed down the sides of the ship. From the bow it looks like a porcupine.
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  13. Ward's attack on the Japanese midget sub makes Roosevelt's comment back in October at the Naval Academy (it was about German subs attacking US destroyers) slightly ironic. When you think about it, the US became involved in WW2 because of Pearl Harbor, and it was the US Navy that fired the first shot there.
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