Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "Timeline - World History Documentaries" channel.

  1. "Unsolved" is not quite accurate. There are some unknown details, of course, but we know what happened and we know who did it.
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  2. The Allies weren’t ready to invade western Europe.
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  3. Service? She needs to knock some heads together in Parliament, but can do nothing. Some people even worry that the Queen might say something with a political edge. I think that’s exactly what they need. I’ve read that the Queen is literally above the law. If that’s true, she should be able to remove some heads. That would get the attention of Parliament.
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  4. Chris Britt — Exactly. Canadians seem to think it was a war of expansion, but the only reason for being in Canada was that, as a dominion of Great Britain, it was a haven for the British army.
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  5. Kevin Parratt — The war of 1812 was instigated by the British, who attacked American shipping on the high seas.
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  6. They said the Saturn V was perfect. The failure of Apollo 13 was not in the Saturn V.
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  7. Wagner Rocha — Charles knows nothing about architecture. He thinks it is about how it looks. Primarily, architecture is about how the space is arranged.
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  8. Jamie Behun — Washington was a staunch advocate of republican government. I don’t know where you would get such a goofy idea.
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  9. No, even had Japan destroyed the US carriers in December, 1941, and had they then taken Midway easily, they still would have been crushed by the industrial capacity of the United States and the setermination of the US people for revenge. It would have taken a little longer.
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  10. Imperfect execution.
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  11. It used to be that both the Chinese in Taiwan and the Chinese on the mainland agreed that Taiwan was a part of China. Native Taiwanese might beg to differ, but from any point of view, it’s complicated.
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  12. ANNO DOMINI — You should thank France, our first ally.
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  13. We use both. In fact, the Apollo Guidance Computers used Metric units for calculation, but Customary units were displayed to the astronauts.
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  14. The Saturn V burned kerosene.
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  15. People of all colors are the same species. We are all related.
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  16. The Poles are mentioned in this documentary.
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  17. Why do you want a Saturn V instead of a newer rocket?
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  18. The Apollo 13 astronauts returned safely.
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  19. Such comparisons are meaningless.
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  20. magburner — Not really. The Soviet Army was the biggest factor in defeating the Axis. It is impossible to know the war would have developed had Britain fallen. Certainly, the successful defense of Britain made D-day possible.
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  21. In a piece about WW II? No.
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  22. Julio Cesar Pereira — People may call it whichever they prefer. Like Germany/Deutschland, Burma/Myannmar, etc.
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  23. There were plenty of US engineers in the Apollo program as well.
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  24. Wayne Lee — Portugal.
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  25. be serious
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  26. The person demanding that was a stalker who was harassing Aldrin, and who even called him a liar and a coward to his face. Aldrin put his life on the line for the country more than once, and he gave the punk an appropriate response.
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  27. Biggest miscalculation, I would say.
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  28. The vietnam War should not have been won by the United States, so the outcome was good.
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  29. Apollo was supported by computers on the ground.
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  30. Perhaps the reigning monarch should not be “defender of the faith.”
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  31. Yes, they turned into the wind to launch.
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  32. The USA has never controlled world resources. Japan sought to take control of the natural resources of the western Pacific by force in the mid-20th century.
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  33. Both.
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  34. There were computers in the 1960s.
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  35. Bebechen — Not a chance.
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  36. There were British participants in the Manhattan Project.
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  37. Tojo and six other war criminals were hung. Several others were imprisoned.
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  38.  @ralphjohnson8973  — “Saturn V” never was applied to the whole system, except perhaps by a few people who didn’t know what they were talking about.
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  39. A few hundred thousand people did this. A handful were German.
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  40. The US did not know where an attack would take place or what form it would take. We should have deduced it would be at Pearl, but we did not.
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  41. It's true the Poles deserve first credit for cracking Enigma. Still, Turing is a seminal figure in Computing Science and in decrypting codes during the war.
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  42. The whole comprises the parts. Most people get it wrong.
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  43. Yes, but Tsiolkovsky and Oberth were equally important in the development of rocket theory. In his otherwise excellent book “Carrying the Fire,” Michael Collins names Tsiolkovsky, Godddard, and Von Braun as the seminal rocket scientists. He should have named Oberth instead of Von Braun. Oberth was Von Braun’s mentor.
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  44. We (in the USA) know that, but this documentary is about the codebreaking, which was done in England.
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