Comments by "Geordiedog" (@geordiedog1749) on "Historigraph" channel.

  1.  @jamiengo2343  it’s a bit of a can of worms. ‘Cos I’m such a geek I’ve looked into it and it’s really complicated. I think…..think…….that it would have been better if thevRAF had concentrated on precision attacks by medium and light bombers like Mossies. But it’s all conjecture.
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  2. I did my MA on Pedestal. So, no pressure with this one:)
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  3. This is very very annoying. I mean, unbelievable and horrendous. There’s a bit of intrigue around this in that the D notice is very long - ? Making sure all those involved have passed away? I’d like the Captain of Glorious to be brought to task. Not that it would really help those lost.
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  4. Oh Aytch Ten.
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  5. Amazing story. Her captain had to get the French coast guard officers drunk to avoid being interned.
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  6. The story of HMS New Zealand is a good one. A bit of colonial rivalry. I’ve spent the morning trying to work out how Agincourt could have worked. Was is called thus because of the whole ‘loads of arrows” thing ?
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  7. Never knew about this - nice one!
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  8. They dropped the wrong type of bomb also. They used improvised oil bombs hoping to set the ship on fire. It didn’t work. Also, the stukas were often RA planes and not always Luftwaffe.
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  9.  @LancasterResponding  What! No!! The invasion was not real???
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  10.  @fus149hammer5  But there’s a whole song about it and every5ing?
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  11.  @bevtecdiving6853  That’s good to hear.
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  12. Great work. Thank you.
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  13.  @benwilson6145  I did know about this. Thatcher knew and did it on purpose to save her gov? Wouldn’t surprise me tbh. She was innately evil.
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  14.  @stoobydootoo4098  indeed
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  15. Great work. Very well told !
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  16. They didn’t really have a chance.
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  17. Had Sealion gone ahead the prediction of what happens only really gets interesting when you consider what terms would have been reached between the UK and Nazi Germany for the Nazi surrender. Her troops would be in the same position as Britain at Dunkirk only without a navy and friendly little boats to help. They would be sexually intercoursed and then some. So, what would have been the outcome of the subsequent negotiations. The Nazis would have been “please sir can we have our soldiers back?” And Britain would have been “well, that depends....” At this juncture what does Uncle Joe do? Take advantage and invade Germany? It gets fascinating to think about!
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  18.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Well, exactly....although if the German army was at the bottom of the channel we’d have nowt to barter with! We’d both be in the same boat..... or not in a boat more accurately.
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  19. “Engage the Enemy More Closely.”
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  20. Seconded. (And Harpoon was a success - don’t let anyone tell you otherwise).
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  21. That was probably the best summation of the BoA Ive seen. Outstanding work.
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  22.  @mgytitanic1912  oooh straw man - tastic! - well, kind of….:) So…..I’m arguing that Churchill (who deserves bashing in my opinion but then I’m a damn Trot and have always bashed him so - not trendy:) chose to have the colliers continue to plod on down the coast without proper protection and part - Part - of his motivation was to keep the South East of England ticking over as if the lights/fires/cookers etc went out there it would be more injurious to his authority (that was precarious at the time) than say Exeter. It’s a myth (I admit) that it was solely about SE and Home Counties domestic coal as some colliers actually thought at the time and refused to risk the journey “to keep some posh git from Kensington warm” (Foynes, BotEC - Blyth colliers refused to sail believing this was why they were going) BUT I believe there was a degree of truth to it. Churchill’s lack of regard for the North and it’s workers was well documented. I also think that their lordships at the RN and also RAF planners badly screwed up in their preparations. I’d actually argue that the crabs messed pretty much everything up (this idea came from not reading an email properly for an on line debate during lock down where I thought I was supposed to be attacking the argument that the RAF were ineffective in WWII and realised with a day to go I was supposed to be doing the opposite. Yes, I’m that careless - just ask Mrs Geordiedog!)
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  23.  @mgytitanic1912  There’s no victim mentality north of the Tyne. Just saying. Anger and stuff… sure. Sunderland…. On the other hand…… No need for being patronising thought. And no need for the attempt on the moral high ground either. If I was looking for that I’d talk to Mrs GD (ah….. casual chauvinism…..). Sorry…. Too many full stops. Must be the pink gins. I love pink gins. More interesting is - would the RAF still have triumphed* if they’d just had Hurricanes. *a chap on here once was convinced that the Luftwaffe won the Bof B. Utterly convinced. Argued like a possessed person that they’d won. Hey ho….
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  24.  @mgytitanic1912  I’m somewhat less predisposed to pink gins this morning.
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  25.  @mgytitanic1912  A wee bit. aye! I’m such a cheap date these days. But the new Armoured Carriers vid on The Skua with ‘Winkle’ Brown has made amends.
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  26.  @mgytitanic1912  If you don’t know the Armoured Carriers stuff I genuinely envy you but I’d say clear away a couple of days as it’s full of content. I came across it while researching Operation Pedestal which is a good a place to start as any. Or maybe the bit on Winkle shooting down a Condor in a Martlet. Anyway, it’s my personal fave site on you toob. Bloke who runs it is from the colonies but he’s a very decent chap:) Hours of fun ahead! Never a bad thing.
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  27.  @mgytitanic1912  Is that the book on naval aviation combat in WWII? To my absolute shame I haven’t read it. Yeah, yeah…….I know. But I defo will read it.
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  28. Brilliant.
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  29.  @Debbiebabe69  You’re quite right. That’s all very ‘sensible’. But knowing that you’re fighting madmen who won’t give in makes an enemy think about engagements. Neither the KM or the RM allowed their fleets to engage the Andrew on equal terms. There has to be. Reason for that. And that reason was a they were basically a death cult whose reputation struck fear onto its enemies!
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  30.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  Pedant :)
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  31. “She was the greatest battleship ever built and if you have another contender for that position……I’ll see you outside!”
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  32. Great video. It doesn’t take much for a disaster to strike. So many killed……..
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  33. CC had Twenty eight planes in July 1942! Meanwhile Trafford Lee Malory and Arthur Harris were pissing aircraft all over France and Germany for virtually fuck all!
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  34. If not heard of this engagement. Thanks. Dud fish had a lot to answer for in WWII.
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