Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "USS England's Twelve Days" video.

I do know about the USS England and her fantastic success as a submarine hunter. Thought I was unaware of how she got her name. She obviously did her namesake proud. The Hedgehog was one of a number of weapons based on the Blacker Bombard Spigot Mortar, which was named after it inventor Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart Blacker. The mortar was also used in the PIAT anti tank weapon and when you see all of those rockets being fired onto the beaches on D-Day from the landing craft, those are spigot mortars. You may wish to look at Captain Frederic John 'Johnnie' Walker' the most successful anti-submarine warfare commander during the Battle of the Atlantic, who tragically died on 7 July 1944 at the age of 48. His death was attributed to overwork and exhaustion because he was so much in demand he never got any R&R.
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