Comments by "Colorme Dubious" (@colormedubious4747) on "Repairing a Damaged Warship - Ship Triage and Treatment" video.

"Men and women" -- seriously? There were NO women killed (nor even serving) aboard the ships at that time. The six women who were awarded various commendations were nurses at the hospital. Those who died during the cleanup and salvage operation were all men. I'm not saying that the contributions of the nurses weren't critical, or that they didn't witness some horrible shit, but let's not pretend that the horrible shit happened TO anyone but the men.
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@sadwingsraging3044 Thank you for the recommendation.
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@usauk3605 None of your points are wrong, sir. Dead is, in fact, dead, but my original point was that the video is about WARSHIPS and their CREWS. Collateral damage and casualties are a worthy topic for an entirely different (and quite depressing) video.
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@usauk3605 No inconvenience whatsoever. I've enjoyed our exchange. Which book(s) have you been reading? I recently finished reading "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" and "Shattered Sword" and highly recommend both.
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@usauk3605 Thank you for the recommendations! I just found a used paperback copy of "Screaming Eagle" and ordered it. "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" is about the Battle Off Samar. "Shattered Sword" is about Midway, with a deep dive into various Japanese sources and well-thought-out and thoroughly evidenced challenges to much of the conventional wisdom surrounding that battle. Be advised that both are extremely detailed works containing harrowing accounts by survivors and not lightweight "beach reads." 😀
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@usauk3605 My pleasure! 😀
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@kennethdeanmiller7324 The most weighted factor in selecting the targets was the MASSIVE military-industrial presence in those regions. Hiroshima had a major port, enormous IJN presence, an IJA headquarters, and munitions production, storage, and distribution facilities. Nagasaki wasn't even the primary target of the second bomb. It was hit because Kokura (the primary target, selected due to the large number of factories producing aircraft and other military assets) was obscured by cloud cover. Nagasaki was originally chosen to be the primary target of the third bomb due to its own concentration of factories producing war materiel but, as we all know, the third bomb was never even assembled, much less deployed. Now, nearly 80 years later, it is long past time for historical revisionists to stop pretending that these targets were anything other than huge concentrations of military-industrial power feeding Imperial Japan's massive war machine and just shut the hell up, already. #FAFO
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@johnniewoodard648 It does not, sir, but they were not intentionally targeted and the topic of this video (and Drach's 3-part series about the salvage op) is damaged warships that were.
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Please work to improve your reading comprehension. Not only did I NOT say nor imply any such thing, but I literally said the opposite of such. I had said: "I'm not saying that the contributions of the nurses weren't critical, or that they didn't witness some horrible shit, but let's not pretend that the horrible shit happened TO anyone but the men."
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