Comments by "Geordiedog" (@geordiedog1749) on "Imperial War Museums" channel.

  1. Quick shout out to the RAF ….. who got pretty much everything wrong. Apart from fighter interception they got everything wrong. Everything. They left RAF Coastal Command in a woeful condition and when they should have been bombing the construction sites of the u boat pens they were bombing fields in Germany. Planes that would have been vital to the Atlantic were killing women and babies in German cities. Useless. .
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  2.  @captainpoppleton  Very good!:) Adolf getting slotted in battle opens a whole can of worms, doesn’t it…. So, Key word was “almost”. I think the quote “Prussia was hatched from a cannonball” sums up how things would have gone if the UK had not joined the French. The Kaisers obsession with defeating the Royal Navy would certainly have led to war between the British Empire and Germany eventually.
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  3.  @Mrstrangert392  Agreed.
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  4.  @kenstrumpf909  He does! Badly for him as he’s usually better at that sort of argument. I think he misses the essential fact about The German industrial military complex (the worlds first* yay!:) and where it would inevitably lead. The Kaisers utter consuming obsession with beating the Royal Navy would have meant war for Serbian for one thing. Personally, I can’t stand Ferguson but he does write some good history books. Well, his book on WW2 is the best single volume overall history of that conflict and “The Pity of War” is good. I think what I’m trying to say is his facts are good but his opinion stinks.
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  5. What sort of Defiants were they?
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  6. Is it “Fock” or “Fock- uh? Surely it’s the latter?
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  7. I think it’s an exaggeration to say the 262 was ‘years ahead” It wasn’t the first at much either.
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  8. Were some Mk 1 spits equipped with Cannons due to a supply problem with the 303 Brownings?
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  9. Small point. Sunderland’s were called Porcupines because of the radar ariels that stuck out across the top of them and not because of the armament.
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  10. Not the nicest person by all accounts. And by that I mean he was an utter twat.
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  11. “When the German attack the allies take cover. When the British attack the Germans take cover. When the Americans attack everyone takes cover”.
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  12. They should have just made them all watch Jojo Rabbit.
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  13. It’s all so very sad……
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  14.  @bkane573  I take your point but I don’t think that would have been ‘alliance breaking’ enough. Post war alliances survived selling the Soviets jet engines (used to power the Mig 15’s) and the Cambridge spy ring even if the US now saw us for what we were - an old empire falling down, like it or not. The US still needed us even if it was just as an unsinkable aircraft carrier. Don’t get me wrong though - you make an excellent point:). They just can’t shake off / get past 1776:)
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  15.  @WanderlustZero  Yes - that makes sense. Good point.
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  16. There’s a story that the first British’H’ Bomb was actually three ‘A’ Bombs exploded simultaneously to fool the USA into thinking we had the H Bomb so they would start to co-operate with the U.K. (The USA declined to share due to British nuclear research being a leaky as a sieve and U.K. being full of Soviet spies).
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  17. In WWII the British were actually aware that their conscript army could not take sustained hardship and casualties so they put a steel before skin policy ie blast the enemy with arty and air first to avoid massive losses.
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  18. You only discuss Haig here and I get that time is a factor but there’s ample evidence that many other generals were useless (I really like donkeys so I don’t like that phrase - yeah, I know:) For a start the fact that they were so unprepared for the war is damming. Why did they get it so wrong? The writing was on the wall in the 1850s in the US. Also, the machinations of the British class system and imperial arrogance led to a horrible detached and aloof officer class. Certain countries regiments were also used carelessly because they were t British. Along with the Serbs the Scots had the highest % casualty rate of the war. Why?
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  19.  @hardroaddavey5399  it was from ‘the Pity of War’ by what’s his face. The Scottish historian who wrote the book about how lush the British empire was.
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  20. This is very true, alas.
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  21. Great video. Love the Cat. Short S@#derlands were called Flying Porcupines because of the radio direction finding masts that stuck out of the back of some versions. Not ‘cos of the armament which wasn’t particularly formidable. It was pretty standard.
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  22. Yeah, it was way to rigid.
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  23. To quote a five star general in the USAAF who I just happen to know - “They’re like sitting ducks up there!” This was in response to my son’s comment about how cool the hogs are.
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  24. Among other unpleasant miasmas.
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  25.  @emilrydstrm3944  Ha! Yes, good point. It was something I was watching rather than reading I think. I can picture it but can’t remember, sorry. In my head it was a collision with a 210 and I can picture the old guy in his USAAC baseball cap.
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  26. Source?
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