Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1.  @richardm3023  There is some evidence as I understand that the Spanish Flu may have originated in Kansas iirc. I happen to agree about the over reaction. There are of course certain common place precautions that make sense. The same ones we should do during every flu season. But COVID-19 has been compounded by stupid decisions on all levels of government. Given the average mortality rate of approximately 8,000 deaths per day in the US on today August 19th we should have seen 1, 856,000 deaths from all causes. I would like to know just how many we have seen total. So far this about the craziest year I can remember since the 1960s. All we need now is a major impact or Yellostone to erupt.
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  2. The US Navy has carried on Mahan's habit of running into things in recent years
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  3. One former German vessel is still in service withthe US Coast Guard. The Eagle of course.
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  4. I suspect the F Class proponents were avid water skiers
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  5.  @MravacKid  The two Yamato class battleships are shrapnel
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  6. He probably later went on to have a hand in the design of the Ford Expolder, err Pinto.
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  7. And her escort. USS Second Amendment.
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  8.  @calebdoty9090  If any of the standards was considered the US Navy's flagship I think it would have been one of the West Viginia's or Colorado's. Heavier armament and better armor. Arizona as she existed on Dec 7th was in no position to engage in a gunnery duel with any fairly modern opponent. Nor were any of the other older standards. In a way the US Navy was lucky that the Japenese had not been spotted. If the battleships had sorties to try and engage the Japanese any of the battleships sunk would have been in deep water.
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  9.  @PandaMan-xy1he  But in which Circle of Hell?
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  10. There are probably a number of fairly pristine MK 14 torpedoes littering the western Pacific
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  11. "What knockers"
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  12. As an example, HMS Hood. The damage caused by the 308mm shell hit was structurally rather minor. The secondary damage on the other hand. 💥💥💥 Seconded by USS Arizona or USS Shaw
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  13. It just wouldn't be memes without the it's got to be aliens guy. And I think that was the retouched photo of Admiral King meeting with Ordandace. There just had to be fire coming out of his mouth and 40mm Bofors from his eyes.
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  14. Of course the battleship had to carry them. Just a bit heavy for the crew to lug around.
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  15.  @kemarisite  Hence the AA shells for Yamato and Musashi
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  16. The USS Tenth Amendment suffers from continued lack of power as the Department of the Navy insists that as it is the 10th Amendment it is up to the individual States to supply the needed power
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  17.  @magisterrleth3129  If it bleeds, it leads
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  18. HMS Vanguard. A rather ironic name for a ship that's the last of her line. But better than HMS Finis
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  19.  @Bird_Dog00  It's the naval version of geometric progression. 1gun, need 2, 2 guns, need 4 ect
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  20. The Royal Navy also had a two years headstart unfortunately. In 1939 and 1940 there was no great support in the US to get involved in Europes "problems". Remember Lend Lease only got through Congress by one vote. Now as to whether or not the US Navy and its officers corps could over come it's own inate prejudices and actually learn from others at the time is another question. The graduates of Canoe U (Annapolis) are Naval officers serving the interests of the United States. They are not supposed to be serving the interests of their own career advancement or personal egos. The same can be said of any service academy worldwide. Besides what really set the table for victory in Western Europe and the Pacific in my opinion was the Two Ocean Navy appropriations bill. While FDR sometimes gets accused of intentionally dragging the US into WWII I personally don't buy it. The US was not going to go out of it's way to provoke either Japane or Nazi Germany into war*. But once the US was officially engaged it was all in. *One could say certain as actions did provoke Japan into war. The embargoes on steel and oil certainly were a push in that direction. And with Germany Lend Lease and fighting an undeclared war against the Kreigsmarine were two factors. One thing I think might have provoked a US declaration of war with Germany is if (an admittedly big if) during Rhein Maiden KMS Bismarck had encounted USS Texas while she was on patrol in the Western Atlantic. At one time iirc they were about 200 miles from each other. The Texas would have been sunk in all likelihood. And her escorts probably badly mishandled. The would have in all likelihood caused the US to declare war on Germany. A destroyer getting sunk with major loss of life (Rueben James) is one thing. A major asset like a battleship is another.
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  21. I would not be surprised if Hoel, Gambier Bay or St Lo are at deeper depths when found. And if any of them went into the Trench they may not be found for a long time if ever.
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  22.  @tomdolan9761  As part of the whole Marshall's campaign there were also landing on Guam and Tinian. WWll saw US amphibious landings in Northwest Africa, the Mediterranean, Western Europe, numerous islands in the South and Central Pacific and the Southwest Pacific from New Guinea to the Philippines. I wonder just how many landing craft and amphibious ships that participated in D-day were then sent back across the Atlantic, thru the Canal and west to be used in the Western Pacific.
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  23. The one thing that was absolutely guaranteed with the Mk14 (and the Mk13 plus the Mk15) was that something would sink. Usually the tordedo.
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  24. Imagine the gun is trained port. The gun is fired. The sub rolls to starboard and floods.
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  25. USS Muskallunge. A salt water boat named for a fresh water fish.
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  26. Just what is involved in replacing a major warships machinery. In terms of underwater protection one factor the US faced was transit through the Panama Canal. There are armor piercing bombs and there are armor piercing bombs. The converted 16" AP shells from the Nagato come to mind.
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  27. ​ @ronaldgray5707  The US Navy river monitors of Vietnam have an IJA analog in some of their patrol craft built to operate on rivers in support of ground troops. The USN ones were based on landing craft iirc. The US was also using the late WWll rocket bombardment ships in Vietnam. The ones with the launchers based on the 40mm Bofors mount with fire control directors.
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  28. US WWII Bombers has a video on the US rocket assisted bombs. Code named Disney
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  29.  @Ushio01  The US did drop test radio guided T-10s. Also bombing missions over Germany did not end with VE day. Later test drop missions were flown against a "bomb proof" U-boat factory. With mixed results.
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  30.  Eric da' MAJ  I don't think that the Depression was any bad of roses. But at the same time Gm, Ford, Chrysler, Hudson, Nash and Studebaker all kept building vehicles. Somebody was buying them. Nash for instance had a profit all through the 30s. Homes were being built. The railroads were starting to switch to diesels. There was more money floating around than you would think. More people became real millionaires in the 30s than all the paper millionaires created by the Stock Market in the 20s. Yes the various federal programs aimed at the unemployed and underemployed were geared towards public works. And there was nothing wrong with that. But also in the 30s the US military invested in technological development. The Army in the automotive side of armored vehicles. The Navy in aviation. Lack of income due to tariffs can largely be blamed on the Smoot-Halley Act.
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  31. Imagine if the Western Allies were planning Overlord the way th things are done today. Some one on the planning staff suggests the concept of the Mulberries. Immediately it would go off to have an environmental impact study done. This would involve all concerned. Including the Germans. Circa 1955 the concept would be scrapped.
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  32. One problem with car ferries on the Great Lakes is they do not operate year round. We've taken the Lake Express between Milwaukee and Muskegon. Not cheap but l hate driving through Chicago. Muskegon is also home to USS Silversides
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  33. We know why all of them sank. They lost buoyancy for one reason or another and sank. What caused the loss of buoyancy is another matter entirely. May they rest in peace. All of them. Of the U-boats that have not been found how many where lost in deep water where their remains are sitting on the Abassyl Plain of the Atlantic Ocean or in the deep basins of the Mediterranean.
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  34. I think the myth about firing the guns at 90° to the centerline moving the ship comes from blast effect on the surface of the water.
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  35.  @farmerned6  I would say that there had also been physical effect on the crew from being basically on battle stations for several days.
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  36. ​ @TheCsel  The yard build the Freedom Class LCS (1) in Marinette is switching over to the new frigate class 1) The building yard has little to do with uow suitable the design is. That's the BuShips responsibility.
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  37.  @BothandNether  Most of the wrecks still on the bottom of Lake Michigan are SNJs, F-4-Fs and SBDs. Plus the wrecks are still officially owned by the US Navy. I really doubt that there are any F-4-Us off of the beaches of Illinios or Southeast Wisconsin
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  38.  @florida5135  I doubt anyone would complain. And if they do. Keelhual the lubbers.
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  39. Yoda standing on a RN destroyer holding up his light saber, er make that Electric Razor or Doom. "Jam it, it does"
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  40. The lead image is the USS Shaw blowing up ofcourse. I'm surprised she did not take the floating drydock with her. Shaw her self was put back into service after having a temporary bow installed (practice for putting temporary bows 9n ships which would come in handy) and being sent back to the West Coast. Mare Island or Brementon I would think. I actually have an inbuilt 1/250th scale model of the Arizona from Digital Navy. Doesn't take up much space though as it is a card stock model. By using the scaling function on a printer it can easily scaled up to a larger scale.
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  41.  @shatara42  I used to tell the welders at work that they worked with the metal hot glue gun
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  42. Once you get below the anaerobic layer the Black Sea also preserves wreck quite well.
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  43. In World of Warships the Erie is one of the entry level "cruisers".
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  44. It's nice he had the time to squeeze this into the hectic schedule he must have had on the trip.
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  45. If it involves a United States Man of War, most likely Royal Navy fanboys with a man crush on Lord Nelson
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  46. The ballistic tables for artillery (land or naval) in the US at least were calculated by groups of people by hand. In their job description they were called "computers". least
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  47. In the future all US battleships will be equipped with Red Ryder BB guns. Let's hope they do not shoot their eyes out.
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  48.  @IanSinclair77  One oarsman to the next, "Oh crap the Captain wants go waterskiing!"
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  49.  @ONECOUNT  It's ironic that the only surviving "British" battleship in in Japan
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  50. And if two have a bounty it was the one with the highest bounty. During WWI or II did the Royal Navy award prize money to any ships that may have captured German or any of their allied vessels
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