Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Warships vs The Atlantic Wall | Naval warfare on D-Day" video.

  1. 'Utter defeat of Empire forces in Asia?' Read about XIV Army and the defeat of the U-Go Offensive. Then read about the Bengal Famine, but the facts, not the revisionist myth. 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. I appreciate, of course, that revisionists won't accept any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda. It is, however, factually accurate.
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  2. You don't perhaps consider that the arrival of eight Panzer Divisions and three independent Tiger Battalions in the immediate area of Caen, which the British and Canadians fought to a standstill, might have been relevant, then? No, of course you don't.
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  3. The last two lines of trhe poem, 'The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna' seem to apply to the victor of Dynamo & Neptune :- 'We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But left him alone with his glory.'
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  4. Two were sunk in June, 1944. One by an S boat and one by a mine. There were no communications problems.
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