Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "The Infographics Show" channel.

@nickdanger3802 US population in 1941 was 135 million. UK & Canada combined was 59.7 million. As I wrote, 'US troops became numerically superior for around the last six or seven months of the German war.' Glad you agree.
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Technically, they were 'Socket Signals.' White, with explosive heads.
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Other way round. Tiller Steering orders were still in use in Titanic, and in the British Royal & Merchant Navies until 1933. The first order was 'Hard a Starboard' which would swing the ship to port. As this would bring most of the starboard side of the ship into contact with the berg, a second order of 'Hard a Port' was given in an attempt to swing the after part of Titanic, and her propeller, clear.
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Who says that there was no alternative? Do you seriously think that any naval officer, then or now, would intentionally allow a collision, when an alteration of course might have avoided it completely? Isn't it fun being wise after the event? 'It does not help the captain was criminally inept to pilot such a ship, and the crews were untrained.' The captain was not on the bridge at the time of the collision, but his watchkeeping officers were all experienced, and some had previously served aboard Olympic.
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There was no 'raging fire,' simply a smouldering one caused by the spontaneous combustion of wet coal. This had been resolved around 24 hours before the collision. The 'raging' fire was the invention of a journalist/writer in 2017, to sell his book. If the rivets were sub-standard, how is it that Olympic was a successful liner for 23 years.
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The guns at Singapore didn't face the wrong way. Their problem was that they were intended to prevent a seaborne attack, and were supplied with AP rather than HE shells. As you didn't even know that, I suspect that you will never have heard of the 55,000 casualties suffered by the Imperial Japanese Army when XIV Army defeated Operation U-Go. Now you might learn something new as well?
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Smith didn't 'crash' Olympic. She was in the Solent at the time, and in the charge of a Solent Pilot.
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@officialflikz Olympic collided with HMS Hawke. Both ships were quickly repaired. That doesn't alter the fact that Smith was not in charge of Olympic at the time of the collision.
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Really? Olympic was agile enough to be able to ram and sink a U-boat in WW1. The 'small rudder' nonsense doesn't seem to apply to her.
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@Brammy007a There are a number of such books around. Every one is utterly convincing, and almost certainly wide of the mark. One minor problem here is that Sickert appears to have been in France when most of the murders took place, at least according to contemporary letters written by members of his family. Cornwell's claim that Sickert probably wrote some of the Ripper letters rather fades into irrelevance, even if true, when the opinion of the police at the time was that it was improbable that the actual murderer actually wrote any of them anyway.
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@Someguy4007 No, he didn't. You should read the testimony of Californian's operator, who said that he did not regard Phillips as being rude. Operators communicated by a form of Morse shorthand in those days. They did not talk to each other. The signal was probably simply DDD, a general request to clear the frequency. Badly informed people seem to have a need to invent a 'villain' and for some Phillips fits the bill.
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Read up about Operation U-Go, if you think the British & Commonwealth lost Burma. Australia, by the way, was never seriously threatened.
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