Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "USS England - Guide 173 (Extended)" video.

  1. The first four classes of DE's - Evarts, Buckley, Cannon and Edsall - were armed with 3 inchers as limited 5 inch production had to go to destroyers, cruisers, battleships and carriers. So, the majority of DE's mounted 3 inch guns. The last two classes - Rudderow and John C Butler - carried 5 inchers as the supply situation eased. The USN planned to rebuild all the 3 inch gunned ships except the Evarts class with two 5 inch guns, but only did a few prior to the end of WW2 and cancellation of the project. It should be remembered that DE's were Destroyer ESCORTS and designed to swat down pesky airplanes, for which 3 inchers might have been superior to 5 inch, and kill submarines, not (Samar to the contrary) fight surface actions. Note that the British Hunt class DDE's, which inspired the DE's, mounted 4 inch AA guns, while RN fleet destroyers mounted 4.7 inch low angle guns.
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  2. Who wants to serve on a ship built to deliberately sink
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  3.  @AudieHolland  "Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.” ― Winston S. Churchill
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  4. The book pitted the RN H class destroyer HMS Hecate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_and_H-class_destroyer (converted to an escort destroyer by removing A gun in favor of Hedgehog, retaining B gun, mounting 20mm port and starboard in the bridge wings, between the stacks and replacing the searchlight (remounted aft of the stacks), retaining X gun and removing the after torpedo mount and Y gun in favor of depth charges) versus U-121 which in real life was a coastal sub used for training. Given the location in the Central Atlantic, it was probably an ocean going type IXB in the book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_IX_submarine. The time is September 1943. The author states that it came out of an intellectual question that he had, what if a lone destroyer and a U-boat met mano a mano md-ocean with no distractions (ie convoy to defend or attack). So far as he knew, it never happened. Frankly, I preferred the book to the film
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  5.  @francoistombe  Detecting them by their radar interference on her SJ set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SJ_radar
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  6. That's the reason they got sub pay
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  7. "There will always be an England - in the US Navy" - Chester Nimitz
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