Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "The One Reason British Royal Navy Ships Were Invincible In World War 2" video.

  1. You mean King, the Anglophobe who allowed over 600 merchant ships to be sunk during Operation Rheinubung, rather than set up convoys, because they were a British idea. Admirals such as Nimitz, Spruance & Halsey, were happy to have the BPF with them.
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  2. Seafires were used aboard Implacable & Indefatigable. They were used to carry out CAPs over the fleet because of their short range, but were very successful in this role.
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  3.  @thepotato1178  Because they operated from aircraft carriers. A Seafire was simply a navalised Spitfire, with a strengthened rear fuselage to accommodate an arrestor hook.
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  4. They weren't actually slower, but the armoured flight deck meant that they carried less aircraft. An Essex carried 90-100, a Formidable around 60.
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  5. And if it wasn't for the scientists of many countries, Britain & Canada included, the US wouldn't have had the Atomic bomb as soon as they did.
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  6.  @nickdanger3802  Indeed. But you have stopped at half-time. You haven't mentioned the shattering defeat of the Japanese Operation U-Go, with 55,000 Japanese casualties.
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  7. The Swordfish wasn't used in the Pacific. This 'training plane, not a combat aircraft' as you describe it, sank a greater tonnage of axis shipping than any other allied aircraft of WW2.
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  8. 'They wanted to try president Roosevelt for treason after the war but for what ever reason did not.' No, they didn't. Firstly because he was dead, and secondly because neither he nor Churchill had any pre-warning of any attack.
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  9. How does it show that?
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  10. No, they didn't storm any beaches, although they did inflict 55,000 casualties on the Imperial Japanese Army when XIV army defeated Operation U-Go. The Japanese were in more areas that the Pacific alone, even if you didn't know that.
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  11.  @davidhackamack4143  Really? Then you should be aware of what Slim's XIV Army did to the the IJA in Burma.
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  12. Graf Spee, Bismarck, Scharnhorst, the U-Boat fleet.
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  13. HMAS Sydney only commissioned in 1948.
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  14.  @anthonyburke5656  Indeed, but she was a light cruiser, transferred to the RAN before completion, and renamed Sydney. She did not survive the war. The carrier of the same name was a Majestic class light fleet carrier, launched as HMS Terrible in 1944, but not commissioned, as HMAS Sydney, until 1948.
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  15.  @anthonyburke5656  Sorry. I replied to your first post before I read the second!
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  16. In point of fact, the US Navy was better in large scale carrier based fleet actions in the Pacific. The Royal Navy quickly dealt with the German surface fleet, neutralised the Italian fleet, and became the most proficient in the world in the field of convoy defence. The two navies had different objectives, and they both achieved them.
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  17. At Sakishima Gunto, Corsairs, Avengers, Hellcats, Fireflys & Seafires. Why should that be relevant? Were the Canadians, or the Poles, any less Canadian or Polish because they used British equipment?
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  18. Look up Operation U-Go, a Japanese offensive against Burma & India, which ended with 55,000 Japanese casualties, before you assume that the British & Commonwealth were not playing a significant role against Japan. Formidable, by the way, carried 51 aircraft at Okinawa, Implacable 81, Indomitable 60, & Victorious 51. None were withdrawn from the battle as a result of damage, or from shortage of aircraft. 'Um, the British weren't fighting in Europe, really.' Presumably, you mean, apart from North Africa/Tunisia, Italy, and NW Europe? The Royal Navy planned and executed all the major assault landings, and the British and Canadians provided two of every three men who landed on the Normandy beaches on 6 June, as well as 3261 of the 4127 landing craft, and 892 of 1213 warships. Us troops became numerically superior for around the last six or seven months of the German war. Prior to that, the RN & RCN fought and won the Battle of the Atlantic, kept control of the Mediterranean, prevented Japanese incursions into the Indian Ocean, and protected 78 Arctic convoys. The RN was overwhelmingly the dominant allied navy in the west, leaving the US navy to concentrate against Japan in the Pacific.
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  19.  @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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  20. 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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  21. 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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