Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. And hamburgers are not made from ham.....
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  2. Actually , it was a World War II ship. Cv-16 was Commissioned in Feb, 1943.
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  3.  @Drachinifel  the British Invasion part 2 . Electric boogaloo! 🤔 Operation Market and small Garden supply store.
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  4. Mens Room on the 2nd floor tour is a bit of a let down. 😎
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  5.  @88porpoise  United States Army Air Force is an organization. With several numbered Air forces. You are just posting, just to post something...
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  6. As someone who works with Kids the age of Midshipman Farragut. It is crazy to think of a 11 year old POW.
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  7. I doubt it? They had different home ports.
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  8.  @williamcote4208  horses like K9s are useful, but expendable.
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  9. I was about to kind of say the same thing. This channel has been on how many years?
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  10. Agreed, great book and details the battle well.
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  11. Before you get to that, there is sourcing. As I recall, most of the large deposits are in Russia? Just getting enough to build an airplane out of titanium like the SR-71 required making special deals. There is no way in heck you're going to get enough to build an entire armor belt of a ship.
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  12.  @QuizmasterLaw  Hardly ever. Not really a fighter.
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  13. The M1917 Lewis gun was in 30-06 in USN and USMC use and made by Savage Arms.
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  14. So true. French design from clothes to ships is just well... French.
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  15.  @erichammer2751  oh....😮 That is quirky....
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  16. Defense spending is a balance of priorities.
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  17. ​ @tonymanero5544 the better way to look at it is that weapons had downsized by the time of the A5. And by this time, the Polaris program was in full scale. Thus the aircraft became a Recon bird.
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  18. Raise the Yorktown?😏💉💊 Just Say no to drugs...
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  19. With ship size, you do have to Consider the Panama Canal. Also access to the Naval Yards like Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Mare Island. You have bridges and shallow river channels to navigate.
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  20. By Douglas Reeman.....😉 on my book shelf.
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  21. It is not Navy property anymore. And they have trouble keeping the current fleet in service......
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  22. Using main guns for AA is silly.
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  23.  @xaenon  Well... Fresh water is useful. Just perhaps in the wrong location. At US possession like Midway or Wake Island it could be really useful.
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  24. As anti shipping weapons, they work. Remember the rules of Commerce warfare were that you ID ships. Search cargoes. Let the crew take to the boats, and use the deck guns. Once you adapt unrestricted sub warfare, they can torpedo ships on sight.
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  25. In your travels to Australia did you find the, "Great Barrier Reef " to be great? Or just a kind of a..... reasonably satisfactory Reef?😏
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  26. Folks.... the name is John D. BULKELEY. Vice Admiral and awardee of the Medal of Honor. VADM. Bulkeley passed away April 6 1996 at age 84. He rests in Arlington Cemetery. The DDG-84 is named in his honor.
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  27. It just so happens I have that DVD. HMS Jamaica plays the role of HMS Exeter.
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  28. Torpedo nets. They are booms that swing out and hold the nets.
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  29. It's not like they are taking wallets and wedding rings.
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  30. IN ship news..... The Ex Soviet Carrier Minsk is on fire in China. The Former Kiev class ship looks like a total loss this morning. Cause unknown....
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  31. ​ @Pilotmario General Dynamics was incorporated in 1952.
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  32.  @stevevalley7835  He would complain the oars in "Ben Hur" were not the right color wood or something....😏
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  33. A lot of time and effort better spent making tanks.
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  34. I swear, the stupidity of the Thatcher haters is just off the charts.
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  35.  @calvingreene90  Nobody is crying for another carrier museum. Nuke or not.
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  36.  @cvproj  Ship museums have different levels of support. The Intrepid and Midway have great locations and tons of visitors. While the USS Olympia sits in need here in Philadelphia. The Seaport Museum gets little City support and one of the State Senator on the board milked the museum fund as his personal bank.... USS JFK has been on Museum hold here at the Navy yard for 10 years. No takers....😪 https://youtu.be/CUwPfKXzdDY
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  37. Rodney vs Bismarck.
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  38.  @ldnstan2454  If I take 90% your earnings, how much spending would you do?
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  39. No, actually worse is that he did it a second time.
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  40. I will second a request for a Rickover video.
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  41. Missiles are better As a Air defense tool. Most of the ships of the era really needed guns for surface action and gunfire support.
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  42. design decision and treaty limits on size.
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  43. How do I put this kindly? 🤨 Admiral Popov is a bloody Looney!
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  44. That's a lot of, "what if?"
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  45.  @c_o_n_t_e_n_t3420  Yeah, dark as in there are men in there. And yeah, you going to drown them to keep the ammo exploding.
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  46. For firing, the tubes are hand cranked to a angle and ejected by a black power charge on top of the tube. Gyro on the torpedo then correct the angle to aim straight ahead.
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  47.  @Kim-the-Dane-1952  Sour grapes are universal. As for the film, actually it is a team effort film. He is not the lead, Robert Montgomery is.....
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  48.  Steve Ala  Look at it differently. The World is buying USA made products. Just not from the smoke industries of old. The want US made drugs and medical equipment. Not TV sets. They want films and music. Not washing machines. They want weapons from Boeing and not Mack trucks. Apple Iphones over Bethleham Steel.
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  49. Where are you going to put hangers with all that machinery space?
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  50. The Carfax 🦊on this ship was a long one.
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