Comments by "josh thomas-moore" (@joshthomas-moore2656) on "10th Light Flotilla - Italian Underwater Operations at Malta and Alexandria" video.

  1. See these Frogmen just prove the memes about the Italians are wrong and they were very deadly and brave.
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  2. How would you rank the three Villians of Jutland? (Betty, Chatfield and Seymour) and which would you take outside and hit with the stupid bat to increase their intelligence?
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  3. Or employ a man who can do it properly
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  4.  @DidMyGrandfatherMakeThis  Erm could you perhaps expand on that, i'm not sure how the Kamikaze Pilots fit in here.
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  5.  @DidMyGrandfatherMakeThis  First my comments were for the unit and Itlian Navy as a whole. Yes the manned Torpedo pilot and the man piloting the boat did commit Kamikaze attacks , but that wasn't the plan it was the situation that caused those, the former was a personal one and is questionable i grant, but the latter was a sacrifice to allow his comrades to try and continue the mission which has been shown many times, the men who mined the British Battleships didn't commit to Kamikaze acts they followed the plan which was what the other two groups did which was place the mines then swim to shore and try walking, back the two men on the Valient were actually very brave they held their nerve till just before the mine went off before requesting to get out from below decks meaning the British couldn't do anything to stop the mine going off. The use of small boats and minisubs was because they could do the job and gave the Italians the best chance to success, the British did the same thing with the X-craft on Tirpitz using a battleship to attack down a fjord was sucide, so the British plan was to use the X-craft to sneak in place the mines then sneak out again, the same was true with the Italians sneak in to the place the explosives and ideaily get out, but the plans went wrong which led to the wiping out or capture of the of the units involved. Also both of these attacks took place in 1941 and in 1941 the Italian Navy was a very potent and effective force, minus the commanders, the Roma's were easily able to beat a QE and R class which is what the Royal Navy had, in fact right up to the moment of the Italian surrender the Italian Navy was still a threat, in fact they possed a much bigger threat to the Allies than the Germans ever did, the Royal Navy had Furious, Ark Royal, Eagle and at least three of their armoured carriers in the Med to hold the Italians back the Armoured carriers took a heck of pasteing during their time there.
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