Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "War Stories" channel.

  1. Very sorry for your loss. I lost my wife to COPD over 8 years ago & still miss her so much. It's like you see things or think of things that they would have liked & then the reality that they are gone & you can't share that with them hits. Sometimes it's just an empty place in your heart that they once occupied. But I wouldn't trade the pain of her loss for the memory of her that I still have. Nor the moments we shared. I hope the grief of your loss is minimal compared to memories you shared with who you lost. I thank you for his service since I can not thank him. God Bless you.
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  2. I always kind of find it funny & ironic at the same time that Bismarck( & Terpits)is thought to be the largest battleships in the world. However, over in the Pacific, the Japanese have constructed a pair of battleships almost twice the size & with 18 inch guns. The largest guns ever on warship. Yamato & Musachi weigh in at what 73k long tons each & Bismarck is 40k long tons. That does mean Yamato is the size of 2 battleships in one. Don't get me wrong, I know & understand full well how dangerous the German Battleships were to the shipping convoys bringing massive amounts of supplies for the war efforr.
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  3. Yes, I agree. Monty seemed to overthink things & make things way too complicated. When you have a really complicated plan too much can go wrong. Things go wrong & a lot of people get killed. If Eisenhower hadn't spent so much time holding Monty's hand & listened to Patton a little more, the Allied troops would have been rolling into Berlin before the Russians crossed into Germany.
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  4. ​ @sandykent978 People even still today recognized that the Polish people were screwed over. That the Allies should have demanded that Poland be reestablished at it's prewar borders. I sincerely believe that General Patton was loudly proclaiming that exact thing & wanted to keep troops in Europe until such demands were met. But Truman over ruled him & I believe he was assassinated because of being so vocal about it. But I guess at least the Jewish people of Poland & Europe were given the lands to establish the state of Israel. But the non-Jewish Pols were robbed of their country & nowadays people don't understand or realize how the new country of Isreal came to be. And now the Palestinians are robbed of their homeland because of Isreal. When if we had stood up to Stalin after Germany was defeated we could have forced him to give up Poland!!!
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  5. ​ @johnlawler4241 WOW. REALLY. My Great Grandma had BOTH of here brothers die as pilots in WW2. One died in Europe and the other in the Pacific. And yes, I'm 55 years old & I have always known that the Battle of Midway was a direct result of the Doolittle Raid. And if the two carriers that made the Doolittle Raid had been at Coral Sea instead then does USS Lexington still get sunk? And Yorktown damaged? Or does the Japanese lose 2 fleet carriers & a light carrier. I think the latter, however the morale boost given from the Doolittle Raid & the Battle of Midway made Americans think they were invulnerable. And then Guadal Canal showed them that the Japanese were not beaten yet & that they were still facing a very strong foe.
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  6. Key Battles of WW2??? Well, you seemed to have skipped all the way to the end without A LOT OF THE KEY BATTLES! Ya'll have the Battle of Iwo Jima but haven't mentioned the battle of Pearl Harbor. And that was the key battle that got the United States into the war. Coral Sea & Midway were very significant considering Coral Sea was the very first Carriers vs Carriers battle. And Midway was very decisive with 4 Japanese Fleet Carriers being sunk. And even the Doolittle Raid was very significant because it was a major boost for Americans morale & because of the Doolittle Raid the Japanese launched the Midway Raid which the Americans were able to take advantage.
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  7. Yeah, they were garbage after Eagle troop & Ghost troop finished with them especially. But you got to figure, up against Iran they did well. It was when they faced American & British tanks that they were outclassed & being taken out at ranges that they could not respond. Using the Bradley targeting system with the Abrams tank firing it's main armament they could take out T72's at 10 miles away. And the T72's just couldn't engage at such a range.
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  8. I don't understand why, all through history there have been people that wanted to "take over the world". And it always ended badly for them. I guess that the Axis Powers didn't study world history much. The Allies gave them a crash course in history repeating itself. Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. It is a shame that between 65 to 80 million people had to die in the process. I believe that China & Russia had more dead soldiers & civilians than the rest of the Allies combined. And the biggest reason the Japanese had such success was that with the Great Depression that military outposts in Asia were not being kept up to par cuz of the lack of funds from the UK & USA. And in 1940 we were just getting over the Depression but military funding hadn't had a chance to start reinforcing the much neglected military outposts in Asia. Which imo is why large troop concentrations of the USA & UK had to surrender to smaller Japanese forces. They just didn't have the appropriate equipment to keep fighting. And weren't fanatical enough to do bonzi charges like the Japanese.
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