Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Bismarck: How Britain Sunk The Infamous German Battleship | History Hit | Timeline" video.

  1. Drachfinel makes a compelling argument that Hood was hit below her armour belt where the wake dips exposing the hull below the static waterline. We know what happened next.
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  2. When Bismarck and Tirpitz were built, no nation could compete with the Royal Navy on its own terms. This made them little more than vanity projects. Had the effort which went into Bismarck and Tirpitz gone into U boats, the outcome of WW2 would have been very different.
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  3. The RN quickly dealt with Graf Spee, sank Italians battleships at Taranto and kept Sharnhorst & Gneisenau pretty much boxed up. They also had numerous radio listening stations so radio signals could be accurately plotted. Added to that, Ark Royal’s Swordfish were effectively all weather heavy lift STOL aircraft. They could fly and deliver ordnance when everyone else was locked down against storm conditions. Germany never had an operational carrier and Bismarck & Prinz Eugen were on their own. RN was weak against U-boats. Yet again Hitler’s megalomania played into Allied hands. A bigger U-boat fleet could have won the first Atlantic war.
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  4. Check out the film of Canada’s Lancaster flying to U.K. That cockpit is about the same size as a small car cabin.
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