Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "USS England's Twelve Days" video.

  1. You see the rings in the water in some images? A hedgehog was like a mortar used against submarines, it would fire up to 20 projectiles into the air that would then fall in a circular pattern, each projectile containing an explosive and a trigger in the nose - if any of them landed on a sub they would explode. They were much more effective than depth charges as they could be fired in front of or to the side of a ship where the sonar has a much better chance of locating a submarine. They were only around for a decade or so as subs would soon be able to dive much deeper and the smaller charges of a hedgehog attack would barely dent the stronger hulls so although they made the depth charge obsolete the depth charge would later make them obsolete but they were very effective during the anti-submarine warfare of WW2.
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  2. When you said 'accidental' for a moment there I thought also of the 'accidental' Israeli attack on USS Liberty but the casualties there were 34.
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  3. Revenge makes you no better than your enemy though, especially if aimed at innocents, if someone raped your daughter would you rape theirs in revenge? The US could have dropped Little Boy in Tokyo Bay where every general, politician and royal would have seen it's power firsthand and knew the Americans wielded a city destroyer, instead the Pentagon wanted to see what effect a nuke would have on real people and real buildings. The proof is in the thousands of pictures, film reels, samples and dosimeter readings that US scientists took of Hiroshima and Nagasaki within hours of occupying the country. That's just plain fucking evil.
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  4. The thumbs down could easily be from four-year olds who got this in their recommended while looking for cartoons. Anti-Americans and patriots are not the only two groups that use YouTube.
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  5. They're just a bunch of pricks!
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