Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "HMS Canada / Almirante Latorre - Guide 389" video.

The Lost 52 Project has found another lost sub this Week. USS Harder was lost with all hands in 1944 in the South China Sea.
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@Paludion Off the top of my head, only maybe Sweden or Turkey.
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The need of South American countries to engage in a naval arms race is kind of curious. None of them have any colonial empires or huge Merchant fleets to protect.
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@augustosolari7721 you kind of expect them to have land territory tiffs. Like the current Venezuela vs Belize thing. Breaking out battlesships? not so much ...
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@candidmoe8741 large Capital ships are a rather heavy expense for Cash poor countries.
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@Johndoe-jd Pearl Harbor....
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@alantrevor3658 what do you picture them doing, that their newer ships could not already do better? Your still limited by access to fuel and access to the Sea. They are still outnumbered and outgunned in a fleet action versus the Royal Navy. And they no longer have overseas territories to protect, that require them to be on distant stations.
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@watt8867 the Great Depression probably would have had influence over any spending.
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@alantrevor3658 Your German surface Raider is going to spend most of the war; suck in port in France, a Fjord in Norway or stuck in the Baltic. Using men and fuel needed by the U-Boats.
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@gregorywright4918 3000 ft down off the Philippines.
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