Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Last Stand in the East Indies - Battle of the Java Sea 1942 Animated" video.

  1. Let's see. Over 100 Belgian & French divisions either capitulated or surrendered in 1940. Thirteen British divisions were evacuated (along with 120,000 French troops). The French did better? The British & Canadians then fought & won the Battle of the Atlantic, the Royal Navy won the war in the Mediterranean, the Royal Navy maintained the supply lines to the Soviets in the Arctic, The Royal Navy planned and executed every major Allied assault landing in the west, The British provided 892 0f the 1213 warships at D-Day, 3261 of the 4127 landing craft, two thirds of the allied aircraft, and the British & Canadians provided two of every three men who landed on the beaches on 6 June. The RAF maintained a constant air offensive against Germany, the Western Desert Force defeated the Italians in North Africa, and were the dominant partner in the Tunisian campaign. The British & Commonwealth armies fought and won the war against Japan in Burma, inflecting the greatest single defeat on Japanese land forces in the whole of the war, Operation U-Go. You are an ignoramus or a simpleton. Go away.
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  2. They had more pressing things to concern them.
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  3. Absolutely. Of course the noble Japanese were neither imperialist nor racist. I am sure the good citizens of Nanking will concur with this opinion.
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  4. The Java Sea was hardly an action fought on level terms. The Japanese were a coherent force of organised fleet units, well used to working together. The Allies were a hotchpotch of separate individual, tired, units, with no established command system, no common signals system, and no common tactical philosophy. There were even the obvious problems of different languages. Only basic orders could even be passed from one unit to another.
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  5. Hitler always saw the Soviet Union as his ultimate enemy, but could not move until France had been neutralised. Why did Australia need to bolster her defences? Was Australia ever under serious threat of invasion? You seem particularly skilled where hindsight is concerned.
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  6.  @DarkDutch007  Hardly surprising, since there were over 90 divisions in the French army, and 13 in the British. Do you know that the British lifted over 120,000 French troops out of Dunkirk?
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