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

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  20. OMG!!! The question that Peter Guy asks at about 2:06:00 minutes into this Drydock about a "common miscreant" visiting a "house of ill repute" & getting arrested at a "speakeasy" that got raided was probably not a common occurrence! While, like you mentioned, a bar fight & getting charged with being drunk & disorderly, was probably much more common. However, such things would usually have MP's placed around "strategic" areas to break up such "usual inter-service rivalries" & send them back to where ever they are being stationed. The "speakeasy" thing being raided was usually the local police (having not been paid off by a certain bar) breaking up that bar & arresting the people running the bar. The patrons were basically just asked or told to leave. Arresting the patrons was NOT a thing because that could get the local police in hot water come election time. Further more, the common service men in WW2 on shore leave, such a thing was a common problem. I do believe that at certain places "a house of ill repute" was even set up basically for service men on leave to "wet their whistle" so to speak. And a bar for them to relax at afterwards. And as long as the men paid the right people & treated the ladies with respect everything was ok. One thing that was a problem in "the LAND war" was not all US GI's were "good guys." And sometimes some guy would "rape" a girl local to where he was fighting. This type of charge was taken very seriously and if the man was found guilty he would be shot! I forget where I saw that but I remember Eisenhower making a remark about it. That we were there to rescue these people from the occupation of the German oppression. And not there to rape & pillage the countryside! And any soldier that crossed the line would be delt with very harshly.
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  25. Well actually the Germans came very close to winning the war with the USSR. What saved the USSR was the weather. They had previously lost a war with Finland cuz of the very cold winter. And they learned a lot by the loss. So when the Germans came calling they were not ready but by winter they began to get the edge. And thanks to a lot of supplies coming from Allied ships bringing ship convoys to Russia by spring time Russia had built a large number of tanks, planes & trains enough to fight back the Germans cuz the Allies had also landed at Normandy & created a second front. With Russia battling on one side & the USA & Brits on the other side Germany was under a pincers assault. Barbarosa can easily be pointed to as Hitler's biggest blunder. While he had peace with Stalin he could maybe have fought the Brits & USA long enough to get a peace treaty. And then attack Russia. But he was already at war with Britain & the USA, which were arguably 2 of the strongest nations in the world. But when he attacked Russia while already at war with the UK & USA that just showed how crazy he really was. If the Allies had stood by & let Russia fall, idk if they could have beat Germany afterwards cuz they would have had a lot more resources then. But because the Allies did what they could to help Russia the combination of the two fronts were just too much & Germany basically folded. And after seeing the death camps where the SS was having millions of jews killed we can also say that WW2 could also be classified as good vs evil. Cause those Jewish death camps were some really evil shit, no matter how hard anyone tries to claim it wasn't.
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  35. And at the risk of being redundant, it was a shame that lessons learned during these "fleet problems" would be learned yet again & again by US sailors at the very cost of their lives. And then, finally, changes would ever so painstakingly, slowly take place. And the US Navy would transform itself from what would seem like a blind man trying to cross a street during rush hour traffic at first & into a juggernaut of steel warships with a logistical train that spanned the globe bringing war supplies & men to not only it's war ships in the Pacific but also reinforcing Russia & Britain with badly needed food & war supplies. And also creating a huge stockpile in England to be used for & aft of the D-Day landings in Normandy. I know a lot of us here in the US mainly focus on the Pacific theatre of WW2. But A LOT of our Father's & Grandfather's were also lost in Africa, Sicily, Italy, Germany, Europe & in the Atlantic Ocean as well as the North Sea & in the skies of all of the above. There is a reason they called it a World War! And, although Russia is not a country that has been "a good neighbor" to other countries in its vicinity since WW2, I'm still proud of the fact that the USA helped the Russian people in their most desperate time of need & that they were able to overcome the German onslaught because of that. And I am also grateful to the British for their fine example of standing up to the Germans while they were trying to totally occupy Europe. And last but certainly not least, my heart aches for the millions of peoples that were tortured, murdered, worked to death & robbed by the Nazi Regime that made itself important by the racial discrimination of the Jewish peoples & communities & anyone & everyone else that it could discriminate against, so they could justify robbing & murdering them!!! And I know there are A LOT of "Patriotic Germans" that try to deny that these things took place. However, it is highly documented & "The Jewish Holocaust" is & was VERY REAL!!! And MILLIONS were murdered and made to starve by the Nazi war machine. And the Japanese treated the Chinese in a very similar fashion. The Japanese soldiers even being told to try to kill those they can with their swords so they didn't waste bullets. With Japanese soldiers having contests to see who could kill the most with their swords.
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  47. I really must agree that the order to scatter the Convoy should NOT have been given unless it was given by an officer aboard ship that was there & knew that action was near cuz the enemy battleship had been sighted bearing down on the Convoy. It was a very sad mistake and basically helped the enemy instead of making it more difficult for them. And then the Admiralty wasn't hip to the intelligence of Blechley Park. They could ask relevant questions but NOT always get the answers to the questions that matter most. The order to scatter the Convoy was given because it was thought Tirpitz was about to sail into the Convoy. But if the Convoy has 2 battleships in the Convoy then I really don't understand WHY the Admiralty was concerned when more than likely USS Washington & HMS Duke of York would have been able to take on Tirpitz. And scattering the Convoy was just going to make it easier for U-boats to get to the merchant vessels & sink them & in it also having the affect of the Convoy taking longer to reach safe harbor so more time for German aircraft to bomb them & more time for U-boats to gain favorable position for torpedo attacks. What a clusterfu@k!! Yeah, the British Admiralty screwed that one up royaly!! See, that is exactly the type of scenario that Admiral King had foreseen & why he didn't like the idea of convoys. I'll admit that he was wrong too, but it basically let the Germans sink 67% of the ships in the Convoy. Instead the convoy ships should have just kept sailing in the direction they were going instead of scattering. It's idiotic to make such decisions when you are not there to see the folly of your orders.
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