Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "Last Men Standing - Last Known Survivors of Famous Battles" video.

  1.  @XxBloggs  In Australia, one of the airlines hired in someone from the USA who started a practice of thanking veterans for their service at the beginning of each flight. Clearly this person hadn't consulted anyone who had lived in Australia about this beforehand. The veterans didn't like it, their families didn't like it, the other passengers felt embarrassed for the veterans, and the airline cabin crew didn't like doing it. Thankfully the practice was dropped after it was reported in the media. But certain commentators living in the USA have reacted negatively to that decision - obviously they think their way of doing things is the only way of doing things ... and who gives a damn about what the local people think.
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  2.  @AccessDenied20078  The people living in Carnarvon, Western Australia, during WW2 would've thought similarly on the day HMAS Sydney fought HSK Kormoran. They reported seeing an S-shaped column of smoke, but the source of it was way over the horizon, somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
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  3. The Royal Australian Navy named the Bay-class landing ship HMAS Choules after CPO Claude Choules.
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  4. Mark is British ... I suspect he would have a straightfaced look that might be betrayed by his eyes ... 😁
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