Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Historigraph" channel.

  1.  @MrNicoJac  The Knock Nevis aka Seawise Giant, the largest ship ever built was sunk by Iraqi jets as it left Iran, it had a displacement of around 650,000 tonnes when fully loaded so think of it as 6 and a half Nimitz or Ford class aircraft carriers tied together.
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  2. It was only done out of Pearl Harbor after the allies had cracked the code, which was done at Bletchley Park by Brits to begin with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_naval_codes
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  3.  @magiccarpetmadeofsteel4564  The furious American reaction to Pearl Harbor was because they saw it as a sneak attack, which was not Japan's intention - in fact when the Japanese found out that the declaration of war didn't arrive until after the attack they were mortified because to attack an enemy without warning was as dishonourable as you can be.
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  4. You can clearly hear that he was talking about the then present.
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  5.  @robruss62  You're a fool.
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  6. Ultra was the overall name of all code breaking at Bletchley Park and it was there that JN-25 was figured out and eventually broken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_naval_codes
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  7. Hedgehogs were the best.
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  8.  @MarcStjames-rq1dm  Both were offensive, they were trying to do the exact same thing - cripple the supply lines of an island nation.
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  9. Getting 1500 men killed just so you could hurry home to get someone jailed for perceived cowardice? John Heath may or may not have been guilty of cowardice but I'm satisfied that Guy D'oyly-Hughes shall forever be remembered as incompetent and in all honesty I'd rather be known as cowardly but competent than brave but stupid.
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  10.  @sztypettto  Nazi Germany wanted to be an empire with colonies in Africa and they knew that the UK and France would never tolerate Germans on the African continent. Hitler wanted to make peace with the British in the same way he wanted to make peace with the Russians... to bide time until he had the forces to defeat them. A five year old could have told you that. Did you think the Afrika Corps were just sightseeing in Africa?
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  11. You're only 16 inches tall?
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  12.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Unless she lives outside the US then the military backgrounds of foreign leaders would not be that important.
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  13. She had a flat top, a tower and a hangar deck, that was all she needed in WW2 to be used as a CV considering just about every WW2 navy had at least one CV-conversion from a BB or CC hull already. Even Germany I believe, though it was only 85% finished at war's end.
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  14. German U-boats had predators all around them, US subs had none.
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  15. No, they just have to stay aboard until it is 100% certain there is nothing they can do to stop the flooding, which would likely lead to huge loss of life so a captain who loves his crew will dismiss them rather than ordering them to fix a ship that is hopeless.
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  16.  @jeffdege4786  You should update Wikipedia then, remembering to include your sources... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_naval_codes
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  17.  @sirboomsalot4902  Any radio can detect a radar so if there was a radio on Shinano they knew they were being tracked.
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  18. Not by the current definition that Shinano is being attributed to but every new class of carrier that became the largest in the world was referred to as a supercarrier, starting with the Ark Royal in 1938.
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  19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_naval_codes Says otherwise so remember to state your sources when you "correct" the page...
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  20.  @jonnyblayze5149  Have you lot still not mastered english?
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  21.  @looinrims  I remember my first beer.
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  22. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_naval_codes Remember to include your sources when you "correct" this entry...
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  23. A carrier over 65,000 tonnes fulfilling the definition of the word?
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  24. Japan had no option but to attack the US since Japan had less than 6 months of fuel left and the US had put a fuel embargo on them, their choices were to steal fuel from the Dutch East Indies and be attacked by the USA for doing it or attack the USA first and then steal the fuel. They went for the second option because it was more likely to succeed, and it did succeed for around a year.
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  25. And the 30's, though Shinano fits the current definition of anything above 65,000t. But every new class of carrier was a supercarrier if it was the biggest on the planet though it never really became an official thing until the Forrestal class in the 1960's when the phrase was used regularly to describe them and it stuck in the public lexicon. The first supercarrier was 1938's HMS Ark Royal at 22,000t where the phrase was used for the first time by the New York Times when she sailed into New York.
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  26. You do know how a radio works, yeah?
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  27.  @smurfyday  And if that's what you got from reading what they wrote then you are clearly a schizophrenic or suffer some other neurological condition that alters your perception of the world.
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  28. At 5,000 tonnes heavier than the two we just built I'd be careful what I laugh at. The Japanese of today probably think it's cute that we built smaller carriers in 2015 than they managed to build in 1944.
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  29. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_naval_codes States that it was the other way around.
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  30. Yep, Shinano actually displaced more water than either of our new QE-class carriers in the UK by 5,000 tonnes. That's a whole attack sub.
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  31. If no compass is included you can generally assume that up is north.
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  32. Incorrect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_naval_codes
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  33. You can hear radar, you just need a radio or anything else that picks up EM.
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  34. You didn't recognise the name JFK?
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  35. Well obviously.
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  36. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_naval_codes Do remember to state your sources when you update the page...
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  37. What did the two that missed the Shinano hit?
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  38.  @kristoffermangila  The larger your target the more likely you are to hit it.
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  39. Actually it started with the 22,000t Ark Royal in 1938 and was then attributed to every new, bigger class since then. Though the current, seemingly final definition is anything over 65,000t and that would put Shinano in there.
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  40. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_naval_codes Ultra was responsible for breaking ALL codes, the basis of the Japanese cypher would later be handed over to Pearl Harbor to take over.
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  41. This channel says it's located in the UK but all dates are in US format...
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  42. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_naval_codes Remember to state your sources when you update the page...
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  43. Brits had bases much closer to Japan than the US did so why would they not also have access to the raw data?
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  44.  @hhjhj393  4chan and other 'clicks' like that are full of degenerates, if someone on 4chan laughed at me I think the irony would actually brighten my mood.
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