Comments by "Tom in Iowa" (@tominiowa2513) on "Guadalcanal Campaign - The Battle of Tassafaronga: (IJN 4(?) : 3 USN)" video.

  1. Honolulu thinking? No unless you mean the Azur Lane Honolulu, and she would be thinking about her upcoming date with the Commander.
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  2.  @cogidubnus1953  - He was of course after the Battle of (off?) Jutland battlecruiser disaster and failure to perform assigned scouting functions promoted from Admiral Beatty to Admiral of the Fleet, then First Sea Lord, and finally rewarded by Parliament by being made 1st Earl Beatty.
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  3. There is an apocryphal story that during WW1 on a merchant ship/passenger liner, just after the ship's chaplain finished saying "For what we are about to receive we give thanks" at supper, a torpedo hit.
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  4.  @WraithMagus  - You forgot Mikasa. 😉
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  5. So that is why all the Japanese high schools use foreign tanks for Panzerfahren? 😉 (Girls und Panzer reference)
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  6.  @Deadxman616  - Except those torpedoes were what we now call mines.
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  7. We of course got one of the best quotes ever from an evacuation operation. "It takes the Navy three years to build a ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition. The evacuation will continue." - Admiral Cunningham
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  8. They could have followed the examples of Captain Howard Douglas Bode and Commander Ralph Frederick Seymour.
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  9. Coastwatchers - another Wednesday subject to add to Drach's backlog.
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  10. The UK grocery store chain Iceland?
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  11. Should have used HMCS Asbestos (after the WW2 era Flower-class corvette).
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  12. So the USN does not have garbage scows?
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  13. With things such as the 3M-54 Kalibr being in existence (not to mention beer can size tactical nuclear warheads with 0.1 to 0.5-kT yields), the Jeune École is making a return since large surface ships will not survive more than a few minutes in littoral zones.
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  14. Our four weapons are intel, radar, surprise....
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  15. When and where did the USN have Hawker Typhoon aircraft in service?
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  16. YouTube does auto subtitles/closed captions (click on the white rectangle with "cc" in it), but sometimes they come out odd, such as "Admiral Donuts" for "Admiral Dönitz".
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  17. As usual, the war profiteers were the real winners.
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  18. Both the L/60 and L/70 versions of the Bofors 40-mm autocannon have been used extensively on land, both as auxiliary guns on tanks and main guns on APCs and similar light armored vehicles (and of course as AA weapons). Drach is still accenting syllables (not done in the hundreds of hours of anime I have watched - always subbed, never dubbed), or as mentioned in his own guest narrated videos on how to pronounce Japanese warship names.
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  19. Check out "Hellstorm: The Death Of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947" by Thomas Goodrich. As JRR Tolkien said, "there are plenty of orcs on both sides".
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  20. Samuel Eliot Morison (makes it easier to find with a search engine).
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