Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "How Allied Submarines Crippled Japan in WW2" video.

@NWE The Kriegsmarine in the North Atlantic, however, found itself faced with RN & RCN Escort Groups which were able to provide a degree of professionalism and technical resources far beyond the capabilities of the Japanese.
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@constantinexi6489 Actually, based on Admiral von Holtzendorff's WW1 calculation that it would be necessary to sink 600,000 tons of Allied shipping each month in order to starve Britain into submission, a calculation followed by Doenitz in WW2, the Kreigsmarine never came anywhere near that target.
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@Subpac_ww2 I agree with you. The big, long range US boats were ideal for Pacific operations, just as they would probably have had problems in the Med. The reverse, of course, applied to the RN submarine fleet.
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US submarines sank 201 Japanese Naval Vessels, and 1114 merchant vessels. The comparative figures for the other Allies were:- RN/RAN/RNZN 21 & 50. Netherlands 7 & 15. RN submarines successes were overwhelming in the Atlantic & Mediterranean theatres. Just over 400 sinkings of German & Italian merchantmen by August, 1943. Unlike Japan, the German merchant fleet (such as it was) was deployed more or less entirely in the Baltic. The Italian one had been more or less annihilated by September, 1943, losing 2,018,616 tons of merchant shipping.
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On September 7th, 1815, during the Gallipoli campaign, HMS E2’s Lt Lyon swam with ashore explosives to two dhows and destroyed both. The next day – 8 September - he again swam from the boat with a bag of gun cotton on a raft. His objective was to destroy a railway bridge near Küçükçekmece. Lyon was successful, but died in the attempt.
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@hourlardnsaver Do a search for 'Submarine operations at Gallipoli in 1915' and the information is on there. Not much detail, because Lyons fate didn't become known until later.
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With Ernie King the answer was a simple one. He was enthusiastically Anglophobic, and refused to set up a convoy system off the US East Coast because the goddam limeys had advised him to set one up. His own commander in the area, Adolphus Andrews, begged him to release some of the seventy of so modern fleet destroyers with the US Atlantic Fleet at the time, but King stood firm and refused. I suppose it could have been worse. Only just over 600 merchantmen and several thousand US merchant seamen were lost as a result.
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Absolutely. After all, it isn't as if Great Britain or the Soviet Union played any significant roles in WW2. Although not present at the time, I am not aware of the United States 'rebuilding' the UK. Nor, comer to that, is anyone else.
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