Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Imperial War Museums" channel.

  1. 'This video may be inappropriate for some users.' Oooh, isn't history scary? Best not to read about it.
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  2. Oh. and here's me thinking that the Ottoman Empire was an ally of the Central Powers. I must have got that wrong, I suppose.
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  3. She was no longer regarded as fit for service with the Grand Fleet. She was refitting at Portsmouth at the time of Jutland, and then, from July, 1916, became flagsahip of the 3rd Battle Squadron, based at Sheerness. The rest of the squadron were pre-dreadnoughts. She did return to the Grand Fleet briefly from March, 1918.
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  4.  @garyseeseverything8615  The British & Canadians won the Battle of the Atlantic. The Royal Navy won the war in the Arctic & the Mediterranean. At D-Day, British and Canadian troops outnumbered American ones by two to one, most of the warships were British, most of the landing craft were British crewed, and most of the aircraft were British. The American became the dominant partner in Europe for about the last six months of the war, but the victory in the west was undoubtedly an Allied one.
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  5.  @seanredmond3112  Lucky? How were they lucky?
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  6. Because Pedestal was a naval operation intended to force through sufficient supplies to enable Malta to continue as an operational Allied base. It could be argued that, whilst a tactical success for the axis, it was a major strategic victory for the allies.
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  7. Basically, Churchill had nothing to do with any of the planning of the campaign.
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  8. Nonsense. There was no conscription in India.
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  9.  @JohnSmith-bx8zb  Whether he was a Soviet agent or not, he certainly lied through his teeth to the workers in the Preston area who were building the TSR 2.
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  10.  @JohnSmith-bx8zb  Perhaps you should read my comment again. I was simply stating a fact, not making an overtly political post. Harold did come to Preston, and did make such a speech. You can even read it in back copies of the 'Lancashire Evening Post.'
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  11.  @folksinger2100  You seem determined to make political points. Why not try to prove that what I posted was false, instead?
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  12. The Germans called her a battleship, and she had thicker belt armour than the Bismarck.
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  13. Canada, like Australia, New Zealand, & South Africa, were self-governing independent dominions in 1939, and made their own decisions. Churchill, by the way, held no government position between 1929 & 1939, when he joined the cabinet of a nation already at war. Don't let that affect your ill-informed prejudice, however.
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  14. The Germans never came close. Doenitz worked on a calculation that, in order to bring Britain to terms, 600,000 tons of shipping per month needed to be sunk. By the end of 1941, the Germans on only exceeded 300,000 tons on three occasions. Usually, they were below 200,000 tons. After December, 1941, even 600,000 was a serious underestimation.
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  15.  @Inkling777  TheBismarcks were not built to challenge the Royal Navy, but in response to the French Richelieus, as part of the Franco-German naval race which began in the days of the Weimar Republic.
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  16. Try 'The War at Sea, 1939 - 1945' by Captain Roskill. The total number of troops brought back to Britain by 'Small Craft' was 6,029, with a further 4,726 by lighters and barges. The Whitehall Histories, Naval Staff Histories, 'The Evacuation from Dunkirk' has a broadly similar number. Despite the legend, perpetrated in the recent disappointing movie, the Little ships were there to ferry troops from the open beaches to larger ships waiting offshore. A typical destroyer of the period rarely had more than a couple of whalers and a motor boat.
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  17.  @andyrob3259  Unfortunately, this particular video seems to have a fairly obvious 'agenda.'
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  18.  @anthonyeaton5153  Germany, of course, rarely declared war on anyone. The first warning given was generally the arrival of German tanks, troops, and aircraft.
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  19.  @nukni4225  Churchill, like many great men in history, had a sense of humour. So what? You write as if Churchill was the only person who has ever written about WW2. You are the liar, and you haven't challenged anything I wrote in my previous post.
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  20. There were also long periods during which, as an inevitable result of Park's Squadron Patrol policy, there was no air cover.
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  21. Doubtless, from your comfy chair in front of your lap top, pontificating sagely 80 years after the event, you would have done far better?
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  22. Nonsense. You will not find many references to Indian troops where Operation Sealion is confirmed, because there were no Indian military units in Britain. The nearest at the time was a division in North Africa. The role of Indian & African units in the campaigns in North African, Italy, and Burma is well documented, and was equally well documented at the time. Of course, you won't easily read about it if you prefer not to look.
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  23.  @lubey_lu  Perhaps you should investigate the difference between serious academic historians, and museum curators with 'opinions?'
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  24.  @Hshs726sjyz  Trust me. As someone who lives in Great Britain, I can confirm that we really do speak English.
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  25.  @nomorewar4189  Which natives?
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  26. @The Stupendous Fabuloso Charisma Channel You mean like the 2.5 million Indians who volunteered to join the Allied armed forces?
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  27. You think so? Have you read how black American troops were treated when they arrived in Britain, when compared to the enforced segregation in the US army. Did you know that divisions in the Indian army usually consisted of British and Indian battalions serving alongside each other? Indeed, do you actually know anything other than the propaganda you have apparently absorbed?
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  28. Sadly, he didn't. His staff were almost unanimous in their opinion that Tirpitz and her squadron were not at sea. The probability is that his judgement was clouded by the brain tumour which eventually killed him.
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  29. Idiot. Churchill was not in charge at Gallipoli, which is why the video doesn't mention him.
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  30. Instead of posting what you did, why didn't you watch the presentation?
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  31. Nonsense.
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  32. The last British troops were evacuated on 25 June, from French Atlantic ports as part of Operation Aerial. The 'Reconstituted BEF' landed in Cherbourg from 7 June, and withdrawn after General Weygand had said that the French army was no longer able to offer organised resistance, is rarely mentioned as it doesn't meet the myth of 'Perfidious Albion' running away.
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  33. I'm sorry, but I was distracted by the postman. Could you repeat it please?
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  34. Much of what you say is correct, but it doesn't suit the agenda of those who have taken control of the IWM.
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  35.  @stevetaylor5933  Bamber Bridge, near Preston, in Lancashire. The locals actually supported black troops of a transport company who were being assaulted by white MPs, mainly from the Southern States. Sorry to be pedantic, but I live in Bamber Bridge, and heard the tales many years after the event from eye witnesses.
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  36. Apart from the 120,000 lifted at Dunkirk, you mean?
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  37. Sad, but true. I cancelled my membership after my last visit.
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  38. So, in your world, there was no Operation Dynamo, Battle of Britain, Battle of the Atlantic, or campaign in the Mediterranean?
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  39. He was born in 1874, so perhaps his world view didn't quite accord with yours. He was a child of his class, and regarded being British, in Rhodes' terms, as having 'consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.' That said, as you compare him to Hitler, please provide more details about the nations he invaded, or his establishment of euthanasia of certain selected groups as a policy of state, in order to justify your claims. How do you 'choose democracy to get your way?' Isn't that how democracy is supposed to work/ By the way, Hitler was a far better painter than Churchill. As it says in 'The Producers' ' Hitler could paint an entire apartment in a week-end. Two coats!'
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  40.  @drpoundsign  Quite the reverse. FDR was asked by Churchill for shipping resources. FDR refused them. The texts of telegrams which passed between to two leaders are available in the Churchill Papers are available for anyone to read. Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India.
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  41. It was more a reflection of the views of the Italian Air Strategist Guilio Douhet, who in the 1920s argued that civilian morale would collapse under bombing, and governments would be replaced by ones willing to surrender. Douhet died in 1930, and thus didn't see his theories exposed as false ones.
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  42.  @Bolstaf  I must have missed that lecture at University. The one about how the allies were forced to withdraw their troops from Anzio.
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  43. Congress leaders were fully aware of the way their Japanese 'liberators' treated the unfortunates they had conquered. I refer you to the compassionate way they behaved towards the people of Nanking.
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  44. Do you think the Free French, or Dutch and Belgian colonies, supplied much in the way of military resources? The US certainly supplied aid but, again, no military support.
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  45. WW1 was lost by the Germans after the gamble of the spring offensive of 1918 failed. Germany was already on the verge of revolution and starvation as a result of the effects of the Royal Navy's Northern Patrol. Simply read about the effects of the German 'Turnip Winter' for yourself. The arrival of US forces, in Macbeth's words, simply made 'assurance doubly sure' and accelerated the inevitable.
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  46.  @hakapeszimaki8369  Wrong. The troops Germany had transferred to the west following the neutralisation of Russia were those which carried out the Spring Offensive, and failed. The Hapsburg Empire and the Ottomans in the Middle East were on the verge of collapse, and Germany had become a military dictatorship under Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Germany was, as any historian will tell you, near to revolution. The British & French agreed to an armistice, whereas Pershing had wanted the allies to march into Berlin.
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  47.  @iansneddon2956  Quite, Scheer knew haw close his fleet had been to a catastrophe, and within days was warning the All Highest that it must not be risked again. Of course, it wasn't.
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  48. Really? Why didn't the Germans invade in 1940 then, when the United States was not involved?
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  49. How was it, then, that Scharnhorst had thicker belt armour than Bismarck, Tirpitz, North Carolina, South Dakota, or Iowa?
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  50. You evidently don't know the details of the allied casualty figures if you really believe that.
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