Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Last Stand of Japanese Heavy Cruiser - Battle of the Malacca Strait Documentary" video.

@zeitgeistx5239 Presumably, you mean after the Royal Navy had won the naval campaigns in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the Mediterranean? What US naval resources in the Atlantic, by the way? The US navy was almost entirely concentrated in the Pacific.
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@Mika Perhaps you might explain how that is relevant to anything at all?
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@Mika 'Most of the American naval forces would have been flying under other flags.' What do you mean by this comment? American Naval Forces served under the US flag. US warships supplied under lend-lease were British crewed, as were aircraft.
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@NewsRedial The action took place at night in the Malacca Strait, well within the range of Japanese aircraft. Captain Power wisely put the interest of his own ships and crews first. At the time of the sinking, dawn was about 3.5 hours away, which left little time to leave the area.
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Nimitz was a very fine commander, and an Anglophile. Please do not descend to the level of some of the ill-educated types who post derogatory comments about their allies on here.
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I wonder how many battles at sea you have experienced?
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Try the Battle of the Bay of Biscay in December, 1943, Two RN cruisers, HMS Glasgow & HMS Enterprise, engaged a German force of 4 destroyers and 6 torpedo boats, which were effectively small destroyers akin to the US DEs or British Hunt class. Two torpedo boats were sunk, one damaged, and a destroyer sunk. HMS Glasgow received one hit. The action was, rather unfairly, overshadowed by the sinking of Scharnhorst which happened at almost the same time.
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Perhaps the desire to get out of aircraft range as quickly as possible? I do enjoy reading the pious comments of those who make them from a comfy chair, almost 80 years after the event.
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Perhaps the desire to get out of aircraft range as quickly as possible? I do enjoy reading the pious comments of those who make them from a comfy chair, almost 80 years after the event.
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The German and Japanese navies didn't seem to think so. The US & British did, unless by so doin g their own ships were placed at risk.
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@GermanShepherd1983 You don't seem to know what a 'war crime' really is, do you? Pehaps you might consider reading the war diary of U74, which would correct your lack of knowledge about the U-boat threat.
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One of the cruisers accompanying Richelieu was HMS Cumberland. After the pair failed to reach Haguro before she was sunk, an anonymous notice appeared on one of the ship's notice boards :- TOO LATE, FOR THE PLATE. TOO SLOW, FOR HAGURO.
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How did a nation with a population of 10 million according to the first census of 1801, manage to 'rape, murder, and loot' half of the world (India, for example, had a population of around 169 million in 1800) whilst fighting a protracted war against the greatest military power in Europe at the same time? Either you are a fool, or you have been subjected to the indoctrination which has replaced education in recent years. If the latter, you have my pity.
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What makes you write that?
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@adambrande Have you actually seen what a WW2 Type VII or Type IX was like? The movie 'Das Boot' gives some idea. There was barely room for the crew, let alone survivors. The occasion to which you are referring involved a liner, Laconia, torpedoed by U156 in September, 1942, when carrying around 2,500 Italian PoWs. around 1,500 of whom died. The Japanese rarely tried to pick up allied survivors. The very fact that 'Ikazuchi's' actions were so noteworthy is simply an exception which proves a more general rule. She was, by the way, under no particular risk as the Allied force at the Java Sea had largely ceased to exist. On 8 June, 1940, after sinking HMS Glorious and her two escorting destroyers off Norway, the German battleships Gneisenau & Scharnhorst left around 2,000 men in the water, by the way.
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It really doesn't compare to the way Scharnhorst & Gneisenau left around 2000 men to die off Norway after sinkin HMS Glorious & her escorts in 1940.
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The Soviet Union didn't declare war until August, 1945.
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Perhaps you are unaware of the fact that Scharnhorst & Gneisenau left some 2,000 men to die in the waters off Norway after sinking HMS Glorious and her escorts? Or perhaps you do not apply the same standards to German warships?
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