Youtube comments of Big Blue (@bigblue6917).

  1. How can a supposed politician not understand what political science means.
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  2. Just a thought. Some of the crew members for these aircraft could be grandchildren or great-grandchildren of the original 1950s crews. Same applies to the B52.
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  3. A bit of film trivia. The actor who played the captain of the Prince of Wales in the film Sink The Bismarck, Esmond Knight, was a gunnery offices aboard the Prince of Wales and saw Hood explode. Just after that he was wounded by shrapnel which resulted in the permanent lose of sight in one eye but he received a series of treatments from Dr Vincent Nesfield designed to restore sight to his remaining eye. The treatment was a great success, restoring much of Knight's sight in that eye.
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  4. Interesting that both Chile and Argentina have had close links with Germany and its army, but at this time they usually bought British warships. I seem to remember Japan did the same at this time.
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  5. So like the Mosquito its stealth capability was a byproduct rather then something that was aimed for.
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  6. Arriving in Japan just after war has ended and with many Japanese very unhappy about it and an abundance of weaponry still available. That has got to be a buttock clenching moment.
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  7. Actually there is evidence that Shakespeare did write his own plays. Ben Jonson, a contemporary dramatist of Shakespeare's, was a close friend and great admirer of Shakespeare and his work. And wrote about his admiration. So, yes he did write his own plays. The problem with these people is just out and out snobbery. They cannot believe that anyone but the well to do with a university education could be the author of these plays. But this snobbery extended to more modern times. During the 60s one British music teacher said that that John Lennon and Paul McCartney could not have written their songs because their level of education was not high enough and therefore Brian Epstein their manager must have written the music because he went to a public school. This idea collapse in 1967 when Epstein died but Lennon and McCartney still wrote songs.
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  8. So they did not fly a rocket out of a volcanic crater in Japan and capture it in space. Instead they just borrowed a truck for a few hours. Loses a bit the drama I'd say.
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  9. Bet they did not send the Libyans a Christmas card that year.
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  10. I did a degree in archaeology and you can image how disappointed I was when I realised that not one module covered the used of firearms and not once did they even mention how to use a whip. I even had to supply my own hat.
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  11. In an age of modern navigation we forget what is was like before GPS.
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  12. Finally someone in the US who understands irony. A weather report outside telling people not to go outside.😃👍
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  13. The Churchill's climbing ability would prove itself again in Italy.
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  14. The Soviets did send a lunar lander to collect samples and bring them back to earth which was launched about the same time as Apollo 11. The idea was to steal some of the Americans thunder by getting those samples back to earth before Apollo 11 did. The problem was the lander smashed into the moon and was destroyed.
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  15. I thought at first it was a trailer for the new Grand Theft Auou: Tank Devision. You can imagine his wife when he gets home. 'Do anything interesting today dear,' says his wife. 'No not really, ' he replies. 'There seems to have been something going on in the city centre, she adds. 'Someone driving around in one of those old WW 2 tanks like you used to drive.' I'm surprised you didn't see it'. 'No I was inside most of the time.'
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  16. A WW2 veteran who served four years in the Pacific would on average see 40 days of combat. A Vietnam veteran saw on average 240 days of combat in a one year tour. A WW2 veteran would have had to serve 24 years to see the same amount of combat. I think that goes a long way to explain why many did what they did.
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  17. It could be worse. The was a case of a farmer who was so disgruntled about the way his local council was treating him so he turned up at their offices and gave them a demonstration of how his manure spreader worked. Lets just say it was a close up view. Did I mention it was in liquid form. All up the walls. All over the windows, not all of which were closed.
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  18. When dial up meant what it said.
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  19. Some years ago the Royal Navy and the US Navy were taking part in a joint exercise when one RN ship went to refuel with a US ship. The captain of the RN ship got a message from his admiral as to why he was using a US ship and replied that they gave Green Shield Stamps.
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  20. The Wright brothers first flight was 1902. the Zeppelin-Straaken R Series first flight 1915. The XB-70 first flight 1964. Hard to think just how far aircraft have come in such a short time
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  21. Sunak keeps talking about British values yet did not want to show respect to those who sacrificed their lives for Britain.
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  22. The body guards who don't guard. Interesting concept.
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  23. Sonic booms can be used as an ersatz weapon. I did come across a reference to and incidence in the one of the Gulf Wars were a US pilot used a sonic boom to help some British Special Air Service (SAS) troopers who were in close contact with a force of Iraqis. The firefight was at night and with low cloud the US pilot was finding it very difficult to launch an attack in support of the SAS. It was obvious from the radio that things were getting extremely deadly but though he felt he knew where the Iraqis where he did not feel he could attack them without putting the SAS troopers in danger. So out of desperation he came up with a plan. He dived his aircraft towards the ground where he believed the Iraqis were, going supersonic as he did so. At last minute he pulled up but the sonic boom traveled on, as he knew it would, and hit the ground sounding like an explosion. The Iraqis knowing that there was an aircraft above them believed they were being attacked by the aircraft and withdrew. It was not until sometime later that the US pilot was told that his plan had worked and it had allowed the troopers to withdraw.
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  24. The British man and his shed. Wife: what did you do today, dear. Husband: I was in the shed and I just knocked up a couple of monitors for the Royal Navy. Wife: that's nice dear. Husband: got one up to 8 knots. Surprised all them who were sailing their little boats in the boating pond.
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  25. There is a rumour that the Japanese were preparing to launch a kitchen sink at the Birmingham, the only thing they had not thrown at her, when the Birmingham herself blew up Japan's only remaining kitchen sink before the plan could be carried out.
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  26. If it went into Luxembourg the barrel would be in Germany while the rear of the tank was still in Belgium. You wouldn't want to hit the brakes to hard as there is nothing to stop it tipping forward.
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  27. Something often missed with units like this was the psychological effects on such troops. Many of the British Home Guard who had fought on the Great War suffered from PTSD while out on patrol. But they felt that they had to 'get on with things' because what they were doing meant relieving regular troops from such tasks. In the early days patrols were going out with just a couple of rounds each.
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  28. These long range strikes against Russian assets have shaken Russia to the extent that they have placed surface to air missiles on top of buildings in Moscow.
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  29. Just watched a video of a Russian tank driver captured in Ukraine. Looks like his training was minimal, just a couple of week, before getting shipped to Ukraine. One of the problems was that several of the training vehicles broke down which left them with just two for them to train on. This meant he was getting enough time to do the basics but that was it. Then they were off to Ukraine. Something else which was interesting was that he was only on a three month contract. Which means he was never going to get the five months training the west would get. Anyway, he is now a POW of Ukraine. Which is probably the best thing that has happened to him for some time.
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  30. Who ever stands against Hawley in his next election should show him running away with a sound track of a chicken clucking in panic.
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  31. Antony Preston should have outlined his criteria and then measured his choices against it. Imagine if this had been a thesis he had done for his university. They would have thrown it out so fast it would have burst into flames from the friction with the air.
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  32. As I mentioned in the previous video, Shermans were the Tiger tank of the Pacific and it was the Japanese were having to adopt the Shermans tactics. One thing I did wonder is how much experience the US Marines have supporting tanks and did they support those Shermans as they advanced?
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  33. Not only was it a false flag it was totally amateurish.
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  34. Not only do you get an education about naval ships and warfare you get an education about the British sense of humour
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  35. Propeller driven aircraft. It's a bit like fashion. If you wait long enough it will come back into vogue.
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  36. Ironically Capone's son was also in the US Navy under an assumed name to protect him.
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  37. Nearly forty years after WW2 Horton: did I mention it was stealthy? Aviation industry: Sorry. Who are you again?
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  38. Just to put this in context. We are looking at a period of history were we have air combat with aircraft like the Spitfire, the Mustang and the Focke-Wulf 190, some of the finest piston engined aircraft of that time and capable of 400 plus MPH, not to mention the first jet fighters. And to contrast that we have an example of the sort of aerial duel first seen in 1915. What's more the aircraft in 1915 probably flew just as fast. All I can say is hats off to them both. Also were they credited with half a kill or a kill each. 👍
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  39. The Italian navy and the Italian airforce were not on speaking terms. The German navy struggled to get anything out of the German airforce and the Japanese airforce and navy were openly hostile to each other. Makes you wonder why they needed to involve anyone else.
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  40. As soon as I heard it was for the Baltic Fleet I realised she was being up armoured to make her binocular proof.
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  41. They did learn Korean but in the middle of a battle you tend to return to your native language.
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  42. Catherine Hayes was given the worst form of execution when it comes to being burnt at the stake. Where the wood was placed low down so that the person was actually burnt to death. The version used more often was where the wood was stacked up above the condemned persons head so they actually died on smoke inhalation rather then the fire. There were variations added in. In this one they unsuccessfully tried to straggle her with a rope before the fire took her. But more usually they would have the condemned person stand on a stool and they would tie a cord around around neck and the stake. Once the fire was started the stool would be pulled with a rope and the person died of strangulation. In the case of Catherine Murphy her execution was the same as this Catherine but she had the cord around her neck and stood on a stool. She was not supposed to have the cord around her neck but the executioner took it on himself to do so as a protest at this form of execution. And this was the last time it happened.
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  43. If Russia is unhappy about this all they have to do is go home.
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  44. Nelson and Rodney always looked to me like very aggressive supertankers.
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  45. One of my late fathers brothers was one of the crew aboard the Norland. Not the first time he'd gone to war as he also served in the merchant navy in WW2 on the Arctic convoys.
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  46. I wonder if they considered a shore bombardment version calling it HMS Trebuchet. Now that would be old school.
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  47. Hit by a torpedo. Captain: Anyone hear anything. First Officer: No sir. Just our guns firing. Captain: Good. Well keep shooting then. Later First Officer: I say, sir we seem to be taking on water and it means we can no longer hit the enemy. Captain: Can we not sail a bit closer. First Officer: Not really, Sir Captain: Well we had better head for home then.
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  48. 40 years later the SAS did the same thing against the Argentinean Pucara aircraft in the Falklands. Paddy Mayne, Stirling's second in command and later leader of the SAS, destroyed more enemy aircraft then any Allied fighter pilot. He is credited with the destruction of over 240 aircraft. All the same way they did here.
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  49. There was a growing concern during the 1980s that in the event of a war between the Warsaw Pact and NATO that the Soviets would be able to land a very large force of troops support by attack helicopter behind NATO lines so that NATO forces would be caught in a pincer movement between the two. One proposal put forward was for a very agile aircraft which would fly at very low level which would hunt down these helicopters. It would be of canard configuration to improve agility with a turboprop engine mounted at the rear and possibly carrying the M61 Vulcan rotary cannon and a number of air to air missiles. The project was halted when the Soviet Union collapsed.
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  50. Considering what happened when McDonald Douglas took over running Boeing, Airbus must have felt they dodged a bullet
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  51. Even Donny senior thinks Donny junior is an idiot. And considering the family that takes some doing.
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  52. The Irish government and Irish Army refused to acknowledge what these men had achieved. Yet Commandant Quinlan's action is cited in military textbooks worldwide as the best example of the use of the so-called perimeter defence. Is this an example of "a prophet has no honour in his own country" perhaps.
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  53. As a quick guess this is old footage cut in or they've done the old Soviet trick of a look-a-like.
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  54. A Russian warship that escaped the Japanese. Worth preserving just for that
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  55. Cattlemen who are also rustlers, sheriffs who may be wanted men in other states. You could make a lot of money selling grey hats.
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  56. Ironically once Charles II was dead and his brother James chased off we ended up with the Dutch William of Orange as king. One of Britains better periods of history.
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  57. We often forget that when you are at the cutting edge that edge can cut both way. A suggestion for a future edition. The Memphis Belle is always quoted as being the first USAF heavy bomber to complete 25 mission. But I knew that another B17, Hell's Angel completed its 25 missions before Memphis belle. I know this because I knew they were filming both aircraft at the same time in case either one did not get to 25 missions. But researching this recnetly I discovered that B-24 Liberator Hot Stuff had completed its 25 missions before either of the two B17s. Hot Stuff completed its 25th mission on February 7, 1943, three and a half months before the B-17 Memphis Belle. It had completed 30 missions before flying back to America, but on its way home crashed into the side of 1,600-foot-tall Mount Fagradalsfjall, near Grindavik, Iceland while attempting to land. It is usually only noted because one of those who was killed in the crash was Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews, Commander of the European Theater of Operations. He had been summoned to Washington DC by the General of the Army, George Marshall. Of the 15 on board only the tail gunner survived. And the fate of the aircraft was soon forgotten. As it is one of those episodes history has forgotten I thought it would appeal to you.
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  58. Interestingly the destruction of HMS Sheffield was down to fires started by the missiles engine rather then the warhead which did not explode. In fact if it was not for the fact that the sea water fire main was knocked out the ship could well have been saved. In the case of the Atlantic Conveyor there is no conclusive evidence that the warhead exploded and again it is possible the missiles engine caused a fire in the fuel and ammunition aboard the Atlantic Conveyor which burnt the ship out. So it is possible that even if the carriers had been hit, and assuming the fire control worked well, the may not have been knocked out. Argentina did try to obtain more missiles but the British Secret Service did set up a number of fake arms dealers to diverted Argentina from pursuing sources which could genuinely supply a few missiles. France, to its credit, stopped a supply of missiles going to Peru which they thought could have been diverted to Argentina. Though how much that was influenced by the fact that British intelligence knew what was going on would be interesting to know.
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  59. I understand they are still looking for you. They plan to climb your wall and throw garbage at you while shout see how you like it 😁
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  60. Trump: Don't worry McConnell. I've got your back. McConnell: Why have you got a knife.
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  61. Well at least he was constant.
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  62. Germany seems to have decided that not upsetting Russia is more important than doing the right thing by Ukraine. This despite Russia showing itself to be not even a shadow of its former Soviet self. They also appear to have decided that not upsetting Russia is more important selling its tanks because who would want to buy them now. You would think that the mess they got themselves into over Russian gas would have taught them something about dealing with Russia, but apparently not.
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  63. For some time now Russia has had a problem with declining population. Losing hundreds of men in combat and people leaving Russia, many of whom will not return, has just accelerated that problem.
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  64. How do you get into a fight with a destroyer and it ends up absconding with a large piece of your armour?
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  65. Nice to get the details normally missed out in the big picture histories.
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  66. I have read something of these pirate slavers. For many piracy was a side issue with slavery being the main reason for the attacks. Apparently they raided as far north as Iceland, enslaving an entire village. They did the same in Ireland taking most of the population of a village into slavery. Only two of those taken made it back home. In the 16th century slave ships in the English Channel were taken with attempts to raid towns and villages on the English coast. And, of course the Mediterranean islands such as Malta were frequently raided along with European countries with a Mediterranean coastline. None of this was new. Piracy in the Mediterranean had been a huge problem for the Romans and remained so until they sent out their navy to kill, capture or drive off the pirates. The irony here is that many of the slaves taken by the pirates were actually sold in Roman slave markets.
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  67. Interesting that he is an environmentalist about birds but had no problem with the environmental damage his golf course did.
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  68. I do know about this incident and another similar event where a French pilot shot his own aircraft down during a test of an air-to-air missile. As with the F-11 the plot had fired the missile and then dived below it. The missile then locked onto the French aircraft and shot it down.
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  69. The Chechens fighting for Ukraine are much better fighters than those fighting for Russia. Those Chechens seem to be anywhere the fighting isn't
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  70. Pretty safe bet most of the time. I read that up to one million men were tied up in defending Germany for USAAF and RAF bombers. Not to mention all of the AA guns and aircraft needed.
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  71. On 4 July, Roosevelt told the French ambassador that he would have done the same as Churchill.
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  72. He'd make a great witness, for his own prosecution.
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  73. What is needed is for Russians to know what real democracy is about.
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  74. I have said this before but I will say it again. The emotion you put into your videos would have raised a smile from Charles Dickens. Himself no slouch when it came to giving emotional renditions of his stories. Well done, the Fanning. Right place right time and then, importantly, made the most of it. Convoy duty was always a difficult task and many never even got that chance. But as they say, they also serve who stand and wait. And without them things would have been much worse.
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  75. "Good news, Hans. You've been promoted." "Thank you Heir Capitan." "What is my new rank?" "You are Head Toilet Flusher." "You are Head of the Heads."
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  76. Poor old Putin is sat in the Kremlin watching footage of Biden in Kyiv thinking that should have been me.
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  77. Unless your Japanese in which case it's a small torpedo firing a smaller torpedo. Then they and the Germans just dispensed with the submarine and sat in the torpedo. I mean. I have heard of simplifying things but next step is a dingy, a paddle and a very stern letter.
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  78. The equivalent British missile had a silver body and a red warhead which made it look like a giant lipstick. That would have confused the Russians. You can just imagine it. Comrade chairman. The British have just launched a missile and it looks like a giant lipstick. You been at the vodka again Demetre?
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  79. History is full of people put in positions of power by people who thought they could control that person. It never ends well.
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  80. Their new general was there less than 24 hours before he was wounded. Just imagine if you are a Russian soldier on the ground in Ukraine and you see that your side cannot even protect your own generals. How safe are you going to feel.
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  81. Whittle's jet engine could have been available much earlier but for the fact it had to be accepted by an RAF officer who mistakenly believed his own ideas about jet engines were better the Whittle's. It was he who held Whittle back. With out that officer then Whittle's jet engine could have been used much earlier. Just imagine a combat version of the Gloster E.26 during the Battle of Britain. Old Herman Goring claimed the Mosquito made him yellow and green with envy. You can only imagine how many other colours he would have turned if his Luftwaffe had to face jets.
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  82.  @AdamMGTF  In the UK and America when you bought petrol, gas in the US, you were giving stamps which could be exchanged for items in a catalogue. Things like drinking glasses and such. In the US the were called Green Stamps and when the idea came to the UK the were called Green Shield stamps. They were normally given out with each gallon of petrol, so you can imagine how many you would get if you filled a warships fuel tanks.
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  83. You forgot to mention it was still radioactive.
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  84. Brings a whole new meaning to just taking it out for a spin.
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  85. 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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  86. Rudy is tested positive. It's the only positive result he's had since the election
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  87. Trump complaining about mail in voter fraud after having sent in his man to stop the mail in vote.
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  88. Is it just me or is everyone else thinking we are listening in on a private conversation.
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  89. T-35 asked for and delivered. Thanks for that. T-35. A great tank to go to war in. On account you know i was never going to get there.
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  90. I can just imagine the scene in the shipyard. Foreman: Boss I think there is a problem with these guns. The're a bit big. Boss: Just hit it with a hammer. Foreman: We did that. Boss:And Foreman:We broke the hammer. Boss: Oh. Well it's the navies problem now. We did all we could.
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  91. The last Tzar of Russia, Tzar Nicholas II, took personal control of the fighting in WW1. That did not end well for him. Someone should remind Putin that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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  92. No one mention that Trump Tower kills more birds the the wind turbines.
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  93. There is a rumour that at one point they put the captain in front of a firing squad and missed.
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  94. Your luck. That year i bought a Sony Betamax. Talk about disaster.
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  95. I have always wondered about the pistol grip as, compared to others, it is a rather odd angle. Then while watching this video I realised that is about where you would hold it if it had a stock as with a rifle. So the question is why would you do that? It's not like pistol grips were unknown. It seems an odd thing to do.
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  96. You've got to think another captain got to hand in his uniform.
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  97. Unfortunately John Nott the then minister for defence was a complete wimp and had been running around like a wet hen during the invasion. By all accounts Thatcher was no better. Needed a salty old admiral to give them both some backbone.
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  98. These videos are like British buses. You what for ages and then three turn up at once. 😄
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  99. Many fish were extremely pleased by the none appearance of the binoculars of doom.
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  100. According to his fellow GOP member this man pants should be on fire at this point.
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  101. During the Battle of Britain Goring decided that his fighter pilots were not pulling their weight so went to remonstrate with them. When the 'discussions' came to an end he wanted to be consistory so asked his fighter pilots what they wanted. The reply was a squadron of Spitfires. He was, as you can imagine, not happy with that reply.
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  102. Interesting how he struggles when forced to tell the truth
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  103. That little girl will be about 70 by now. My late father told me about sweets coming off ration. There was such a rush for them that they had to be temporarily put back on ration. The other problem was that people overindulged resulting in many suffering from stomach acres being sick.
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  104. I remember the adverts. Have you ended up in a warzone which wasn't your fault. Call us and we'll sue Hitler.
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  105. The much vaunted Wagner Group, the ones who thought attacking US forces in Syria was a smart idea, is mostly made up of middle aged men whose military training was some twenty years ago when they were conscripts in the Russian army. Most of them come from little villages where jobs are scarce and they are desperate for work. The leader of the Sparta Battalion mercenaries is dead. Last I read about the Chechens sent to Ukraine was that they ended up behind Russian lines and would not fight. And having seen what happened to the Russian the Belarusians decided to stay at home. And it turns out that the best of the best of the Russian army, the 331st Guards Airborne Regiment, was defeated by local troops and reservists. That battle claimed the life of the regimental commander Colonel Sergey Sukharev. So far for Russia this invasion has not been a roaring success.
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  106. Considering how much men and equipment Russia has lost it, and its inability to replacements either, is hard to see how Russia could win a war of attrition.
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  107. as is often said, don't all good stories include pirates.
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  108. An idea for a book. The role of the shed in human history. That's got to be a book worth reading.
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  109. Hitler declaring war on America is a little bit different from what many people think. Because of America's involvement with supplying Britain with military equipment and clashes between the USN and Germany's U-Boats Hitler believed that America and Germany were already in an undeclared war. So as far as he was concerned all he was doing was formalising something which already existed. Germany certainly had a confused relationship as far as long range bombers were concerned. They did not think they were needed in Europe because for them the Luftwaffe was there to serve the German army. But they then did need them for bombing the US. They then had to cobble together the Mistel because they belatedly realised there were targets in Russia they needed to bomb but they did not have the long range bombers they needed to carry out the task. Meanwhile Britain and America where building long range bombers because both countries knew that they were needed to reach targets which were well beyond their own borders.
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  110. We've all heard of something being a bullet magnet, but, with the possible exception of Admiral Halsey, you don't usually get a storm magnet.
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  111. Thanks for the video. I have seen photographs of German tanks after the D-Day bombardment. Sixty ton Tiger tanks laying upside down like they had been thrown around by some giant toddler. Not a place you would have wanted to be at the time.
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  112. The Indian troops were second to none. Not just in this battle but elsewhere. They fought with great valour in North Africa as well, often winning battles which no one else thought winnable. Many Allied troops had no sympathy for the Japanese, especially after they murdered patients and medical staff when they took the hospital. Not the first time such a crime had been committed by them.
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  113. War is hell. Cake or no cake.
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  114. How about Graf Spee. The admiral was killed at the Battle of the Falkland Islands while his namesake ship sank in the River Plate. Not far from the Falklands. Interestingly one of the German ships sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands was called Scharnhorst.
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  115. A. J. P. Taylor had long argued Hitler was not a mad man for the same reasons you have said. If Hitler had been captured and put on trial his lawyers could have pleaded the Mad Man defence claiming he was not responsible for his actions.
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  116. This is why you never let an accountant run a business.
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  117. One interesting point is that the Russian pilots were, to the best of my knowledge, WW2 veterans. Yet despite this the did not fair very well against the Sabre pilots many of whom were not WW2 veterans. I think this may be because their combat experience was against Germans who were no longer of the quality seen earlier in the war.
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  118. Trump becoming House speaker. He will spend all his time on one of his golf courses with everyone else having to follow him around in golf buggies which he will rent out at $100000 each.
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  119.  @hendrikvanleeuwen9110  We are not restarting WW2 just so you can get the Americans to build a motorway.😀
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  120.  @JohnSmith-qv6hp  I am wondering if these are there full names. Some German names could take up several lines in an average hardback book. In fact Germany passed a law several years ago restricting the length of a persons name for official documents.
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  121. Not only was she in many of the battles of WW1 she survived with barely a scratch, metaphorically, when others around her were lost. If any ship deserved the epithet 'Lucky' it was certainly HMS New Zealand.
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  122. So Russia cleverly intercepted the drone with a building. Smart
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  123. If this next aircraft has even more wings, is flown by a mottle crew which includes a sniggering dog and the are chasing a pigeon then I've seen it already.
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  124. Some of the guns used by the Storm Troopers in the first Star Wars were replica MG34 so why not have these as well. Having said that they look more steampunk then Star Wars. Or that hunter Van Pelt in the original Jumanji.
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  125. Never underestimate A Bloke In A Shed.
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  126. That was smart weasel.
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  127. On the 10th May 1933 Nazi-dominated student groups carried out public burnings of books they claimed were “un-German.” Amongst those works burned were the writings of beloved nineteenth-century German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. In his 1820–1821 play Almansor he wrote "Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people." It is somewhat ironic that Savonarola was the one who was burnt.
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  128. I'm just surprised that the Russians did not use it as target practise. It's not that they didn't need the practise.
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  129. With speed like that you half expect a photograph of the ships captain water-skiing behind her. It would be interesting to do a counterfactual special were France and Italy fight each other in the Mediterranean unsupported by any allies set in the mid to late 1930s.
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  130. does make you wonder what was going on. And why was the German tank crew hiding in the ditch.
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  131. Who's been making snowmen on the bows, Hans? Hans? Someone defrost Hans.
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  132. People may be intelligent but mobs are not. In a mob even the best of people can commit the worst of acts.
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  133. The kings father served in the Royal Navy and was the youngest person to reach the rank of first lieutenant. His grandfather was also in the Royal Navy and took part the Battle of Jutland serving in one of the turrets in a battleship. At one point during the battle a German shell just missed the turret he was in. His brother Edward served in the British Army during WW1 and despite being told to keep away from the frontline he did make a number of visits there and was awarded at least two medals if memory serves me right.
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  134. A ship designed by a committee. Avoided WW1 then sunk by both sides in WW2. All things considered maybe the new name should have been the Prodigal Son
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  135. I used to know someone who was the missile operator in the British Armies Westland Scout helicopter. He said that to operate the anti-tank missiles he had to lay down and look through small window below the main window. The helicopter would be flying around at below treetop hight before popping up to fire it's missile and then back down again to fly to the next fire point. All was fine until he had to return to his seat and suddenly the motion sickness kicked in. Sometime ago I was looking at a number of photograph which showed a number of Soviet Mil Mi-24 Hind helicopters in Afghanistan. They all had the camouflage and markings of the Soviet armed forces, except for one. It had the camouflage and marking of the East German military. How and why it was there I do not know as the text and caption did not even mention this helicopters, just the they were Russian helicopters. One possibility is that losses were such that they had to get helicopters from East Germany and had not had time to change them.
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  136. I have often thought that there must have been Germans who would rather fight it out then surrender to the Soviets. So it is interesting to know such things did happen. Thanks, Mark
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  137. I bet their ears were ringing for a week.
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  138. So what's this lever. Oops You've done it again skipper.
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  139. Throwing sticks while carrying an AK. Must be one of those who went straight from the recruitment office to the frontline.
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  140. Sunak has lost all credibility with his lies. So anything he says is seen seen in that light.
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  141. I think the fact that there was a discrepancy between his dead reckoning and the navigation beacons should have alerted him to the fact that there was a possible problem. And, like squadron 12, he should have slowed down to assess the situation. The fact that he dismissed the beacons information because he believed it was unproven technology was, I believe, the wrong decision. For one thing he could have provided useful information to help prove that either the technology worked or that it needed further work. As it turned out it did work and men died because of poor decision making.
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  142. I long realised that Hitler would not want the return of the Kaiser. Last thing he needed was a rival.
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  143. With you all the way on this. When you get to this stage you have gone passed anything sane. This is what you get when you have a military government with no regard for anything the civilians are facing or the country they are fighting for.
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  144. You are going to need one hell of a shovel to dig that one up. 😊
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  145. To drop back a generation, Italian biplanes, along with the likes of the Gloster Gladiator, were at the pinnacle for that type of aircraft and with the right pilots could hold their own at the beginning of the war
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  146. If you successfully eject using a Martin Baker seat then you are entitled to own a tie commemorating the fact.
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  147. My predictions about these tanks being used by Russia in Ukraine may be closer to the mark than I thought.
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  148. Actually not the first nor last time. An American pilot shot down a Japanese pilot during WW2 while he, the American pilot, was floating down to earth in his parachute. This was the same Japanese pilot who had had shot him down and was intent on finishing the job. The Japanese pilot flew up next to the US pilot and was hanging in midair so he could take a look at the man he was about to kill. The US pilot pulled out his pistol and fired at the Japanese pilot and killed him. When taken prisoner the US pilot was given the opportunity to take his own life by his captors because they had a good idea what would happen to the pilot but turned it down. As it turned out he did survive being a POW and went back to the US. So I see your balloon and raise you a parachute.
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  149. It seems there are Belarusian's who know which is the side to be on. Good for them
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  150. If you look at Russian forces little is hidden from the Ukrainians. We see drones flying over Russian armoured vehicles and there has been no attempt to camouflage them. Tracks on the ground so that you can follow to where they are. And the training of the Russians leaves much to be desired.
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  151. If things go terribly wrong for Putin? Oh, I think we have passed that point a long time ago,
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  152. This was typical for both Germany and Japan. The longer the war went on the lower the standards of training and experience. And what made it worse was the fact that whose with experience rarely got involved in training.
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  153. Trump should say something to unite the country. How about 'I resign.' That should do it.
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  154. To be fair the big names were matched with big ships. You could hardly have a minesweeper called Iron Duke while having a battleship called Sweet Pea.
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  155.  @longdonglarry  Just under 66 years from the Wright Brothers to the first moon landing. Now that is one giant leap.
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  156. At Jutland. Every captain on both side. 'So, how do we get hold of the Maori kit then.
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  157. Only journalists are surprised by these things which leaves you wondering what sort of training and education journalists get.
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  158. One group which seems never to get a mention is the Combined Operations Pilotage Party. It was their job to go in at night and survey all of the beaches so that each could be assessed for there suitability for the landing of troops and tanks. The had to do this on beaches guarded by the Germans and without leaving a trace of what the did because it could alert the Germans. So effectively they were the first troops on the beaches used for D-Day. On D-Day itself they sat in their kayaks with torches forming lanes to guide the landing crafts in. In several case some of these men lost their lives when hit by these landing crafts.
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  159. Actually not that unique as Britain had already done the same. Which is possibly where the Russians got the idea from.
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  160. Those missiles used in Crimea were British Storm Shadows
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  161. The fact that the explosives failed to go off when they should have done had a much greater impact than Britain could have hoped for. Then there is the drain on German resources which were much needed elsewhere.
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  162. Someone said she is intelligent. I believe that person should be receiving treatment.
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  163. You have to wonder why the Russians did not shoot it down. Last thing you want is your lastest aircraft coming down in the west where NATO experts could check it out. There was an incident a year or two earlier where the latest Russian fighter, possibly a Mig 23, was flying along the border between East and West Germany when a US aircraft suddenly appeared out of the clouds on the West German side flying along side the Russian aircraft. The US aircraft rolled over on its side as if to fly away from the Russian aircraft. What the Russian pilot was not aware of was that the US aircraft was on a reconnaissance training mission and the reason for him rolling his aircraft on its side was so that he could use his cameras on this new Russian aircraft. Apparently the US pilot got some very detailed photographs of the Russian aircraft's cockpit. What's the Russian for "smile please."
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  164. I had read about the battle before and I seem to remember watching a documentary about it. But I very much enjoyed hearing about it again. Two of my late fathers old brothers sailed on those Arctic convoys. Not a place I'd choose to be. To the best of my knowledge neither of them was torpedoed. The irony here is that my fathers eldest brother was and he was in the army on a troop ship.
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  165. Napoleon stopped the use of balloons when he discovered that some of the manoeuvres carried out in the basket by some of his officers when accompanied by young ladies and were distinctly of a nonmilitary kind. I remember seeing a photograph of an armoured train which towed a balloon behind it so that the observer could spot any enemy attacks. A bit like helicopters would do later. It must have rather exciting being the observer if, for no other reason, there was a good chance you would probably be the first thing the enemy would shoot at.
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  166. The highest scoring RAF squadron in the Battle of Britain was 303 squadron which was manned by Polish pilots.
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  167. Looking at Trump climbing the steps to Airforce one I think we've found out how he got all those classified documents.
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  168. Nice to see that an English eccentric can find a home in San Francisco. I do hope the bridge is renamed in his honour. Considering how many get such things, despite them having a the very least a somewhat checked past, it would be nice for someone to receive the honour who actually wanted only the best for his fellow citizens. I did know about Norton but not in any great depth so it is nice to get a fuller biography of him. I have often said if I learn something new I have had a good day. Today was a very good day.
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  169. I subscribe to a naval history channel and just before this video i watched a video about the Battle of the North Cape and the sinking of the Scharnhorst. I think the words of Admiral Fraser led the British in the battle and who briefed his officers on board Duke of York after the battle are appropriate here. He said "Gentlemen, the battle against Scharnhorst has ended in victory for us. I hope that if any of you are ever called upon to lead a ship into action against an opponent many times superior, you will command your ship as gallantly as Scharnhorst was commanded today" I think that those words definitely apply here.
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  170. Sounds like he'd do well today.
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  171. There were plans for a passenger version of the Handley Page Victor. And the Lockheed Galaxy originally started out as a rival to the Jumbo Jet. And there a number of others. The Avro York was a civilian version of the famous Lancaster.
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  172. It does have a safety of sorts. If you look at the instructions it says 1) Pull the trigger 2) Be no where near it when it goes off. 3) After the battle come back and reload. 4) If it does not fire leave it about a week before returning. So the same instruction as you get with fireworks really
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  173. I know about this incident and I remember watching it on the news. The claim filed by the captain was for much more then was paid out, I seem to remember it went into millions, but there was an intervention by the Spanish government which brought it right down. Ironically the Argentinians could have bought the Sea Harrier back in the 70s but underestimated its abilities. That underestimation cost them dearly.
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  174. There are further links in this chain. Eddie Cochran was friends with Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and of course Richie Valens. Their deaths effected him so badly he stopped touring as he had developed a morbid premonition that he also would die young. However because of financial responsibilities he was required that he continue to perform live, and that led to his acceptance of an offer to tour the United Kingdom in 1960. On Saturday 16 April just before midnight he was involved in a traffic accident. Cochran died of his injuries in hospital four hours later, they others in the car all surviving, though others were injured including Gene Vincent and Cochran's fiancée Sharon Sheeley. As a couple of follow ups, after the accident the car and other items from the crash were impounded at the local police station until a coroner's inquest could be held. A police cadet at the station, David Harman, taught himself to play guitar on Cochran's impounded Gretsch. He would later become known as Dave Dee of the band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich. Two of their songs sold over one million copies each. Gene Vincent tour the UK again in 1961 and moved to the UK in 1963. When touring the UK in 1963 one member of the backing band was Ritchie Blackmore who, in 1968, would be a founding member of Deep Purple.
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  175. The trawler was manned by trawlermen from Hull. There is a monument on Hessle Road in Hull to those who died on the trawler. Hessle Road was where most trawlermen came from.
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  176. Well that is a new one to me. I knew that U-Boats had taken part in supplying Japan, but I was not aware they had taken part in operations while out there. Thanks for that.
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  177. I once heard someone on the radio say that no small dog thinks it's a small dog and that they all think they are big dogs. Turns out the same applies to small warships.
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  178. Nice of Nelson to support HMS Africa's battle with the Franco-Spanish fleet.
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  179. With a top speed of 78 MPH that means that WW1 biplanes could shoot them down.
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  180. That would be very interesting.
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  181. Not really. Their losses were not far below those of the Americas. And by that time the Allies could make them up quickly, unlike the Italians. No more then a pyrrhic victory.
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  182. Amongst the photographs taken in Normandy there is one I particularly remember. It was a 60 ton Tiger tank resting upside down on its turret like a discarded toy. This was curtasy of one of the battleships taking part in the shore bombardment.
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  183. I did know about Charles Fryatt as I have long had an interest in the Great Eastern Railways. German claims of 'unlawful combatant' was used widely during the Franco Prussian War and would be used again during both world wars. This would include the British nurse Edith Cavell who was also executed by the Germans because she helped 200 Allied soldiers escape. This despite the fact that she is known for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination. Amongst those ships sunk by German U-Boats were two Red Cross ships carrying the wounded back to Britain. Despite the fact that they clearly displayed the markings of such ships. The Germans had claimed they were carrying contraband such as weapons and ammunition but the Red Cross had investigated such claims and decided they were unfounded. But that did not stop the Germans torpedoing two of them. In both cases without warning.
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  184. Just imagine flying off the G6 and losing power just as you came off the end and landing on the turret with your full bombload.
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  185. How long should the period of silence be for Johnson and Truss. How about permanently.
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  186. Well the best tank in the world was about to make its appearance. The Centurion. The worlds first main battle tank.
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  187. I think the term 'A colourful character' is rather apt here. His life may not have been blameless but it certainly was very interesting.
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  188. She does not want nuclear weapons in Europe. No one told her that both Britain and France have nuclear weapons.
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  189. That was excellent. It filled in a number of gaps in my knowledge of the Royal Navy in the 19th century. I knew the first steam ship predated the Battle of Trafalgar. It was built in Scotland and was used on a canal I seem to remember. It's effect was such that there was talk of Richard Trevithick building number of steam ships to tow fireships which would be used to attack the Franco-Spanish fleet. The plan was stopped because Trevithick did not think it was viable at that time. I remember reading about an incident which happened in 1821 when a ship approaching the Isle of Mann was spotted with smoke billowing skyward. Realising there was a fire onboard a number of ships set sail to go to the rescue only to have it sail straight passed them. The smoke was from a steam engine.
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  190. Somewhat ironically it was the threat of a invasion of Norway in 1944, led by the British 4th Army, that tied up a quarter of a million Germans, many of whom could otherwise have been used in France. But in 1944 the 4th Army did not exist. Except as part of a planned deception to make the Germans think the Allies were going to invade Norway.
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  191.  @srg2872  No one poked the bear. Russia attacked Ukraine. Not the other way around. Or did you sleep through that bit
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  192. Many British WW1 veterans suffered the same. My late father once told me about about seeing the Home Guard, many of whom suffered from PTSD, and they had flashbacks while out on patrol. Interestingly my grandfather was also an artilleryman with the British Army at the Somme and Passchendaele. He was with the big 60 pounders.
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  193. A couple more Mogami's and the US Navy could have stayed at home.
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  194. In WW2 the British Sherman Firefly used the 17 pounder gun instead of the 75 mm gun on a normal Serman. Because of its length it was easier for the Germans to spot the the more deadly Firefly because of the 17 pounder compared to the shorter standard 75 mm gun. So to make it harder for the Germans the 17 pounder gun the tanks crew often camouflaged the end of barrel using countershading to hide its true length.
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  195. They tend to leave the old bearskin hats off which helps. Though thinking about it now you have to wonder what the Germans would have made of it. Hans, I can see the British tanks and it look like they are being driven by bears. Good job the guards of Frederick the Great did not fight there. they would have had difficulty getting inside the Maus.
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  196. On the upside you can catch your supper and wash your laundry at the same time.
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  197. This may have meant he was elected by a board of directors or, more likely, just some fancy way of saying he works for us now.
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  198. This guys next job is manure sales man. He has all his own product.
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  199. It's interesting how many ships make this last break for freedom, looking at you Warspite.
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  200. Ukraine cannot attack Russian aircraft on the ground according to US. You'd have thought the US would have learned from Viet Nam about not attack airfields
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  201. He wants to remove Obama Care, something his followers now rely one. And they are the people most vulnerable to Covid-19 and will need aftercare. Does he wonder why they will not vote for him.
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  202. You just wish they had kept it in the family and left the rest of us out of it.
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  203. Interesting about pre WW1 colour schemes. Prior to WW1 the Great Eastern Railway, which covered East Anglia, painted its passenger locomotives royal blue. But when war broke out this colour was no longer available because it was being used by the Royal Navy. So all locomotive were painted what could be described as battleship grey. You would have thought that is the colour the navy would have used to camouflage their ships but no. Having said that there is no record of a German warship firing on an Great Eastern locomotive, so as a camouflage scheme it did work.
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  204. A whole new meaning to 'we use cookies.' Mentioning the backblast reminded me of the ISIS video footage of the guy firing an RPG from in side a room through a hole in the wall. Killed by his own backblast.
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  205. Depth charges on a battleship? I bet the crew who manned were not over worked.
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  206. She was the model for the Königin Luise, in the film The African Queen. The actor Peter Bull, who played the captain of the Königin Luise, had actually served as an officer in the British Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in WW2 where he had achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Commander and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
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  207. What with the Poles and the Bismark and the Norwegians and the Scharnhorst, it's like having nautical terrors snapping at Germany's heals.
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  208. I was thinking the same thing. It's not like there were plenty of them left.
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  209. I have met people like Humeston. Amazingly talented people. Interestingly when people talk about why they cannot build engines like they used on the Saturn rockets it's because they had people like him building them. It's not that we cannot build those engines any more, it's because when they left the knowledge of how they were built went with them.
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  210. How to distract your opponent. Lesson one. Kick him in the balls. Lesson two. See lesson one.
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  211. Bit of an upgrade from a 6 pounder on the back of a truck in North Africa in WW2.
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  212. You have to wonder what a difference all these men and the equipment would have made if they had been used to defend the Rhine instead of being wasted like this. Interesting coincidence that the last big push in both World Wars came from troops who had fought in the east.
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  213. So what hold does Putin hold over Trump.
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  214. On the 10th anniversary of the battle my late father, being in the Royal Artillery, was present when the British Army restaged the artillery barrage from the start of the battle. Though they only had half the number of guns my father said it was still very impressive.
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  215. A battleship designed for a war which was over before they were built. And decision making which would make the late 19th century early 20th century French look quite decisive.
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  216. They say never hit a man when he's down. Kicking him is so much easier. As we see here.
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  217. We had the same problem with the Vanguard. Keel laid in 1941 but not completed until 1946. All dressed up and no where to go.
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  218. I had heard of Corrigan and his "wrong way" flight. And as a typical Irishman he had a good story, well worth retelling.
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  219. You may not realise this but we could hear the voice in your head during this recording.
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  220. Well he did want to get Russian across the border. Not the border we was thinking of, granted.
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  221. I've long had a soft spot for the F-5. Not big and flashy, or expensive, like many of its contemporaries, but a great little workhorse.
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  222. We could all see that what was happening in Belorussia with the combined Belorussian Russian manoeuvres was to draw off Ukrainian forces from the south to weaken them for the southern offensive. But Ukraine had the help of NATO's intel and could see what was happening and did not fall for it. Apparently the only help Putin got from Belorussia was some 140 Belarusian tanks. Which, at the rate Russia is losing them will last about two weeks
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  223. I'm sure he could have done with Warspite that night
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  224. Charles McGill Thanks for the extra information. The difference between disaster and survival is a very fine line and can be down to the skill and expertise of just a few people.
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  225. I wonder how long it took them to dispose of their ill gotten gains.😀🥂
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  226. In 2016 the Russians said that Trump was 'impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced.' There aim in supporting Trump was, amongst other things, to cause 'social turmoil.' Mission accomplished.
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  227. When the Japanese were advancing in the Malaysian jungle during WW2 many of their soldiers were on bicycles. Because they were having problems with flat tyres and no possibility of making repairs they would ride on the metal rims. It is said that because of all the noise from the bicycle rims the British thought the Japanese were advancing with tanks and not infantry on bicycles. If this is true the the Japanese must have had the quietest tank engines of any army in WW2
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  228. During WW2 some new pilots thought that if you had an enemy aircraft behind you then doing a barrel roll would stop them shooting you down. Of course this would work. But only if the pilot behind you realised you are an idiot and his sudden burst of laughter threw off his aim.
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  229. Indication of the poor quality of Argentinian maintenance and training.
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  230. In the trial Elaine Bredehoft came across as someone very much out of her depth and rather bewildered as to what was going on. So many of the objections upheld against her seemed to me like something she should have known. And I think these interviews have more to do with making excuses for her own poor performance rather than any belief in her clients innocence.
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  231. Interesting that when Hawley gave his speech he was looking at the camera and not the other senators. A speech made to the TV for his future campaign.
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  232. We should remember that post WW2 the main threat was Russian bombers. So getting to the intercept point as quickly as possible was imperative. And for this missiles were they preferred weapon. Which is why the original F-4 Phantom II did not have guns. Then the USA got into a war where shooting down enemy bombers was not needed but air combat was. So combat became subsonic and the gun made its welcome return.
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  233. I think it's good idea. You use the right tools for the job. Interesting that they brought back the Bronco as it served in a similar role in Vietnam. Back in the 80's the British looked at making a turboprop aircraft to deal with the huge fleets of helicopters used by the Russians. The Russians planned to use them to drop troops and light attack vehicles behind NATO lines so this aircraft would have dealt with them. It would have been a canard configuration for manoeuvrability with a rear mounted engine. It would have carried a gatling gun in the nose and a number of short range air-to-air missiles under the wings. One interesting point was that they planned to use the same wing shape as the Spitfire.
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  234. Thanks for that. I had no idea it went back so far.
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  235. This is why some people should not be left unsupervised. They get all giddy and start doing silly things. That's when the adults have to take their crayons off them.
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  236. So Italy supplied a warship to the Soviets just before the Germans, Italy's ally, invaded the Soviet Union. That's got to be an interesting conversation. Germany: You did what? Italy: We just delivered a warship to the Soviet Union. Germany: But we are just about to invade the Soviet Union. Italy: Well you never mentioned you were going to invade the soviet Union. Germany: Yes. Well. We wanted it to be a surprise. Italy: What. It was the Soviet Unions birthday or something.
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  237.  @garymcdermott7458  The GOP is Trump's enablers. They need to be removed otherwise it will never change
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  238. The dad joke has hit the big time. Actually I did read a couple of weeks ago that, though the dad joke has a certain groan factor to it, it has been shown that it helps children understand how words work
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  239. And can we look at your nice warships as we have had to transfer some to the U-Boat service. What do you mean there in Scapa Flow.
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  240. The story reminded me of something I read some years ago about a rear gunner on a bomber which got hit coming back from a raid. He was told to stay in his turret as they were not sure where they were and did not want to get jumped by German nightfighters. This he did while others in the crew fought the fire. Then there was a sudden explosion and the aircraft disintegrated. Sometime later the rear gunner woke up still in his turret which was wedged up in a tree. He managed to get out onto the ground but had no idea where he was. He found a road and was walking down it when he heard voices, so he got off the road where he would wait until the people went passed. When they got closer he realised they were speaking English. It turned out the bomber was over England when it exploded and he was the only survivor.
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  241. Yes it would have made a difference. Even if the infection had been there sooner then it was thought taking steps early would have made a difference as it would not have spread as it did. If a fire starts in your house the sooner you do something to tackle it the less damage it will do. Wait and your house burns down.
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  242. How about the US Dough Boys in Russia in 1919.
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  243. I knew about the Dreadnought hoax but I was only vaguely aware of the earlier one. You have to admire anyone who had the nerve to pull something like that off.
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  244. Capitan, iceberg ahead. And it's launching aircraft. What!
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  245. Interestingly Putin's ex boss said that Putin was nothing more that a middle management interpreter and that but for the fall of the Soviet Union that's all he would ever have been.
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  246. As its covering several hundred years I think that's not bad.
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  247. Charybdis and Scylla. You would not want to get caught between them two. Unless, of course, you were sailing on HMS Argon
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  248.  @T.S.Birkby  A fellow Futurama fan. I knew there was something I liked about you.👍
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  249. Given a choice I think he would have preferred to have died with a gun in one hand and the other round a dead enemies throat.
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  250. The Oreshnik. The S-400s bigger and stupider brother.
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  251. He sends in thousands of untrained men who get mowed down and having wasted all of their lives he says it's not his fault. Well he's the one in charge so yes it s his fault.
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  252. Well you've done it again. Not heard of this one, so well done. Unlike the Japanese attempt this had a much better chance of success and was very cost effective. Speaking of the Japanese. It does make you wonder if their embassy in Berlin had reported it back to Tokyo which made Japan try it for themselves. Having seen how successful it could be on Germany.
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  253. See, YouTube money isn't what it used to be.
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  254. The ships on being shelled and on fire. They just missed a rocket exploding. And the men sort out the stereo system. Sounds about right.
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  255. A quick note about the Luddites. Their complaint was based on the fact that as skilled weavers they were being replaced by low paid unskilled workers, sound familiar. But there are a couple of points which are often missed. Firstly many of them were self employed, business men not workers. And they realised that the big factories were taking away their businesses by undercutting them on cost wise. Secondly some of them were actual factory owners who had were not happy with this choice of running a large factory, but only took that direction because they saw the alternative of losing their businesses as had happened to others. Britain, at the time, was a very patriarchal society and a man running a business saw himself as father to his workers. This meant constantly watching over them and controlling their every move as a father would with a child. They believed that having such a large workforce would dilute if not break that patriarchal link with their workers and were not happy about it. For them the factories spelled disaster, not just for business but for the country and their way of life. This actually led to them getting their own factories attacked. A law was introduced making it illegal for people to band together which would be used to fight the Luddites. Though the fact that the factory owners were also banding together was ignored.
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  256. I remember when I was at school seeing a photograph of Mussolini's body and mentioned to the history the teacher about the fact that whereas you could see the area around the bodies was wet there was no sign it had rained. The teacher did mention they had been spat on to which I said that was a lot of spit. What the teacher did not mention was the urination.
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  257. Turns out even those in her own party are turning against her.
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  258. It has to have been an interesting time for naval ship building. USN: the good news is we've built our new warship. The bad news is the RN have just built Dreadnaught
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  259.  @freedfree7933  She's probably hoping for a large bottle of Champaign🍾🥂
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  260.  @waterstone-w1f  Having watched this I would say he was being laughed at not laughed with. And judging by the other comments then many others feel the same. So if this was a joke then it backfired on him. And please do not suggest I have not got a sense of humour. I have a very keen sense of humour. My humour is normally puckish but I am quite capably of using satire and its two main components.
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  261. You have to wonder what would have happened had not the runway been clear. The pilots would probably never even seen it. As so often it is the little things which can make such a difference. Thanks for the video.
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  262. I remember watching a Shackleton flying over the North Sea when I was a kid. A fisherman had fallen overboard and it had been sent to search for him. Unfortunately they never found him. And yes it was very noisy. I was stood on the beach watching it flying around and though it was some distance away I could still hear it.
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  263. This would, of course, explain McConnell's reaction to the text messages between Mark Meadows and various GOP members.The long game looks like many of Trump's supporters are going to be very busy defending themselves and this could leave McConnell in position to take the GOP back from Trump. And if all of this leaves a bad taste in everyone mouths about Trump it could mean many of his supporters will be in trouble.
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  264. Research was carried out by the US Navy to look at which was the best, most efficient shape for a submarine. They looked at various sea creatures with many thinking it would be the shark or the dolphin which would be the best. It turned that the best shape for traveling underwater was that of the penguin. And if you've ever seen penguins underwater then you would probably agree. The problem with the Comet was not the windows. It was the way they made the holes for the rivets. Like many aircraft up to that time the holes were punched through. The problem was this caused microfractures in the fuselage skin. Not a problem with an unpressurised aircraft but with a pressurised body this caused the fractures to grow until they reached the window when it popped like a balloon. The solution was simple. The holes were drilled as this did not stress the skin.
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  265. In the world of the Internet we often do not realise the impact of the invention of the telegraph. During the Crimean War, 1853 to 1856, the telegraph allowed the British Army command to send ad receive messages in a matter of hour. Whereas the Russians, without the telegraph and very poor roads, assuming there was a road, it could take days or even weeks for the Russian commander to get and receive messages from Moscow. The British newspaper, The Telegraph, came about because it could get stories from anywhere in the world into the paper within 24 hours of it happening. Some parts of London had telegram deliveries of 13 times a day, letter where 12 times a day. And for some it had a huge social impact. Middle class women with a good education would be employed because they proved better telegraphists then most men. Prior to that options were limited. Interesting that you showed a picture of the old Commodore 64 as its return has just been announced. Even more interesting is that it was reputed to have the same computing power as the Apollo Lunar Lander. Wonder if the plans are on Wikipedia.
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  266. Mincemeat was an adaptation of a much simpler deception. The original deception was a messenger would attempt to ride through enemy lines. He would be wounded by the enemy shooting at him whereupon he would drop his dispatches and then ride back through his own lines. The enemy would then send men out to retrieve the dispatches which would then be read by the enemies senior officers. The messages were fake, set to deceive the enemy and the messenger was not even wounded. Was it the greatest deception of WW2. I would say it was one of a series of great deceptions. The greatest deception has got to be D-Day which was so successful that even at the end of the war senior German officers were convinced that Normandy itself was part of a deception plan which had worked so well that the Allies had been taken advantage of it.
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  267. I have a feeling it cheered up the Japanese Navy as well
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  268. Looks like it's Trump and the Republicans who are going to be the only thing repealed come November
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  269. Dmitry Medvedev has said that the invasion was to take advantage of Ukrainian assets which are worth $3.7 trillion. The question is how much has it cost Russia.
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  270.  @BigHenFor  I am sure you will know, but others may not be aware, of the significance of this medal. The George Cross is the second highest award and is the civilian equivalent of the Victoria Cross, Britains highest military honour. It instituted on 24 September 1940 by King George VI. Malta was awarded to the island of Malta in a letter dated 15 April 1942. The king wrote that it was, 'To honour her brave people, I award the George Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta to bear witness to a heroism and devotion that will long be famous in history.'
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  271. Russia is trying to do to Ukraine what Ukraine did to them. Russians may have been idiotic enough to fall for what Ukraine did to them but the idea that Ukraine will fall for what Russia is doing is laughable.
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  272. Have I missed something here. Do polls count when they are written in black sharpie?
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  273. Considering the poor state of the Russian economy is part of the problem that Russia has not been able to train up their troops to a high enough degree to fight this war.
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  274. Well they wanted to leave the Empire. You can't have everything.
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  275. One of my favourite sandwiches is smoked bacon, brie and cranberry sauce. Now, fond as I am of this sandwich, I have a feeling I am never going to eat enough for of them for the cranberry sauce to be a problem.
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  276. Trump thinks of himself as a fortunate son but has no idea what the songs about.
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  277. Only if they could catch a really, really really big wave.
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  278. You have to wonder where the world would be without a man and his shed.
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  279. As I understand it the Storm Shadow's Ukraine is using is an older model which was due to be decommissioned by the British. Giving them to Ukraine not only helps them but has saved Britain the cost of decommissioning the missile. I believe that counts as a Win-Win for Ukraine and Britain
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  280. I have heard this story before, recently in fact, but it rarely has the same intensity of emotion as you get with The History Guy.
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  281. Does this mean that Germans really do have a sense of humour
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  282. Before the start of the 100 Days Campaign the Royal Artillery had used sound location devices to find the positions of the German artillery. So when the artillery opened up on the first day only a few positions of the German artillery were not hit. My paternal grandfather served with the Royal Garrison Artillery 60 pounder guns in WW1. So when I see the film footage of the 60 pounders I often wonder if he is amongst those in the film.
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  283. If his nuclear missiles are up to the same standards as the rest of his armed forces how big a threat is this. Remember is cost billions to maintain these weapons and the Russian military does find ways of spending that money on other things.
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  284. Several years ago a Rome police chief came up with the theory that Caesar, in effect, committed suicide. According to this theory Caesar was suffering from a degeneration of the mind and not wanting to be seen in such a way he decided to goad the conspirators into murdering him. This would have several outcomes. The first is that he would still be seen as strong and powerful at the time of his death. Secondly it would mean that those he saw as his enemies did not prosper after his death. And three it would mean that he would be remembered. Watching a documentary given by this senior Italian police officer I did come to the conclusion that there was something to this idea and it would be perfectly possible that this is what Caesar wanted.
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  285.  @jwenting  Torpedoes are like fine wine. Need to mature awhile before using them.
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  286. Your description of the pilot being buffeted about in the cockpit and striking his head reminded me about the incident which brought about the death of the test pilot Geoffrey de Havillend jr while flying the de Havillend DH 108, an aircraft similar to the Me 163 in shape but with a jet engine. While flying the aircraft he experienced buffeting and then the aircraft broke up in midair. The body of de Havillend was found and the parachute had not been opened. He also had a broken neck. It is thought that because of his height, well over six feet tall, he had struck his head on the top of the canopy and was either killed immediately or had been knocked unconscious before sustaining his fatal injury. He had been wearing the old fashioned leather flying helmet which gave very limited protection. Interestingly not long after this incident the de Havillend company received a package from America. A box with two of the new helmets which were being issued to the US Army Air Force. Apparently test pilots in the US had heard about the death of Geoffrey de Havillend jr and had sent the new helmets in order to help the other test pilots. An act of kindness which, I am sure, was much appreciated.
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  287. I do remember this incident. And I remember seeing the photographs and wondering, like everyone else, how it had stayed together. It can be quite amazing what damage an aircraft can survive. I have seen a photograph of an aircraft, I think it was a Douglas C-54 Skymaster, which had a very large hole in the top of the aircraft just in front of the tail where a Japanese aircraft deliberately rammed the aircraft. It looked like something had taken a huge bite out of the aircraft. The aircraft survived the encounter and managed to get back to an airfield where it landed. The Japanese pilot was less fortunate and was killed in the collision.
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  288. Just to be fair Americans have now learnt how to make tea.
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  289. What ever you put up in the video about what they would have looked like we all know they would have been changed umpteen times before the French navy got them. Interesting ships though
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  290. Looking at the model of Queen Elizabeth I think most of us can only dream that we could build something like that.
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  291. sirrliv Thanks for your contribution here. I did know about the ships being built in France and Britain though I had forgotten about the flaws in the French warships. Not only were the Japanese ships built here in Britain but the British Royal Navy also trained the Japanese Navy here in Britain. The highlight of the visit by the Japanese was a visit to Fred Jane and taking part in his navel wargames using models and a set of rule he devised. Fred Jane was the founding editor of Jane's authoritative military reference books which are still being produced today. I live in Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire and we have a connection with this war. When the Russian Baltic Fleet was passing through the North Sea they came across some of Hull trawlers. The Russians panicked and thinking they had come under attack by Japanese torpedo boats opened fire upon the trawlers, killing and wounding several trawlermen. Apparently, because Russia knew that Britain was supplying the Japanese Navy with its ships they thought that the Japanese had sent torpedo boats out from British ports in order to attack the Baltic Fleet. There was a huge outcry about the attack and calls for the Royal Navy to attack the Russian fleet, but it was allowed to go on its way. They probably had a good idea of the Baltic Fleets fate anyway and decided to let the Japanese deal with them. This incident makes you think about the state of mind of the Russians. They know their Pacific Fleet has been destroyed, that they now face an epic voyage to the other side of the world and they are sailing ships which they know are inferior to those of the Japanese Navy. Because of the closeness of the British and Japanese navy's the British had unparalleled access to the Japanese Navy and all of the information about how the Japanese Navy and its ships had performed. This would have helped the Royal Navy when it decided to build the Dreadnought. There is a local museum in Hull which includes photographs of the trawlers on return to Hull and also parts of the trawlers which had received damage.
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  292. I have a feeling he will be wanting to keep a low profile for some time.
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  293. I remember watching an episode of Thunderbirds where they had a walking machine. Obviously influenced by this idea.
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  294. Hitler in Paris. Sounds like a musical.
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  295. You get the feeling his biggest disappointment was running out of ammo.
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  296. Makes you wonder why they didn't make more use of it.😄👍
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  297. No fish were struck by pairs of binoculars during the making of this video.
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  298. What the Sten could have been given more time. Now Ian's mentioned Terry Pratchett I could imagine him wandering round the Unseen University dressed as a wizard
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  299. If his analysis of the upcoming of these by-elections is as good as his abilities on brexit they are in for a massive, and well deserved, kicking.
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  300. The F-4 Phantom definitely in my top 5 Cold War jets. Always looked like it meant business.
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  301. I think it was a cunning plan to confuse the Russian.
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  302. The biggest leaving the White House crowd ever. Period.
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  303. Somewhat ironic as many of the Icelanders ancestors were Vikings and not above piracy.
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  304. Politics. He was well connected politically
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  305. The German ships were obviously confused by what the New Zealand's captain was wearing which resulted in them failing to take her on.
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  306. Boris Johnson. The train wreck that just keeps giving.
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  307. These stories of people or machines going through a war without so much as a scratch are always amazing. It's like the various Gods of War pick one out to always be in the thick of the fighting but never touched by it.
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  308. Like the question about the washing. You can just imagine on the bridge of a warship. "Captain sir. A signal from the flagship." "What does it read," says the captain. "England expects every man to do his laundry."
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  309. It certainly is an interesting period in aviation history. The biplane reached its peak in the 30s but was already being superseded by the piston engined monoplane. And just as it reached its peak in the mid 1940s it was quickly bypassed by the jet. The change was so quick that Gloster's went from the Gladiator to the Meteor.
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  310. For a country where security is paramount you would think the Russians would make sure these soldiers did not have their phones with them.
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  311. Just imagine what damage eight or ten of them would have done in those night actions at Guadalcanal.
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  312. America was the same with machine guns on tanks. For them any space needed a machine gun. And if you can fit one you can fit three. At one point even the driver had two.
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  313. There are several stories about what happened with the two MiG-31s. One of them is that there was a hanger fire which destroyed one or both of them. Another is that one of them was destroyed in a mock dogfight when a missile was accidentally deployed through the mind reading device, which is why it was never used again, and the second one is said to have lost control and crashed because it was too close to first one when it exploded. Something not often reported was the death of a Soviet airforce general soon after this event. It has been said that he was in someway involved in the loss of both aircraft. The second one is, of course, at Area 51. Where else would you put it. I say is. There is a rumour that it was actually lost over the North Pole because an alien from Area 51 was bored one day took it for a ride. Apparently it could not read his mind and fired the ejection seat. But that would be silly.
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  314. All things considered an economic boycott would hit China worse than it would Taiwan. China is heavily reliant on Taiwanese chips as its own efforts to produce them has been a disaster and subject to fraud. Without Taiwan chips the Chinese economy would suffer very badly and China has enough problems with its economy without adding to them.
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  315. As the tanks were delivered to the frontlines uncoated with Zimmerit this meant the tank had to spend two days being coated in the rear area before being released to the tank crews. Just what you need in the middle of a war.
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  316. Well I would like to say, from this side of The Pond, as the Atlantic is sometimes referred to, to all those the other of The Pond, Happy Thanks Giving. And to everyone in the rest of the world have a great weekend. Thanks Giving. The day to give thanks for all the things you have. Followed by Black Friday when you go out and buy more things. How do Americans not understand irony?
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  317. I knew of this aircraft but not much on the detail. So thanks for that.
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  318. The Pine and Coffin families date back a long way. One came over with William the Conqueror while the other family was on King Harold's side. One of the officers who served under Pine-Coffin was a captain by the name of blood. Imagine, as one young lieutenant did, that your immediate superior officer was called Blood and above him was a man by the name of Pine-Coffin. As it happened he and the rest of his glider troops got through the D-Day with barely a scratch.
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  319. Sometimes the wrong aircraft is the right aircraft it just needs placing in the right roles.
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  320. The fact that Putin has had to make up with Prigozhin shows just how weak he is.
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  321. I love the idea that someone thought George Harrison was trying out for the local band. I have to wonder what he said when he saw the Beetles on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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  322. I did read that it was the King who persuaded Churchill not to go to Normandy on D-Day. Wanting to go there himself he told Churchill that if Churchill could go on D-Day then so would he. Churchill relented so neither went. King George, himself, was no stranger to military action as he was on HMS Collingwood at the Battle of Jutland. He served in one of the turrets and during the battle a shell just missed the turret he was in.
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  323. If it was a compass it was probably scratched out because either the photographer did not know it was a compass or because he did not want people assuming it was a watch.
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  324.  @duncandl910  No. Even after the supposed decontamination it was still radioactive and was for years. It looks like it effected several crew members as some died of cancer.
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  325.  @Electricalphil  Hi Phil. I did know about that. Did you know that a British sergeant who was captured during the Battle of France and was told to sit on the ground next to a German office mounted on a horse. While there he noticed the markings on the horse hoof were British. When the British Army sold off their horses a number of them went to Germany and this horse was one of them.
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  326. Guys we all know you are not complaining. You are, like me, thinking "oh good two hours of Drachinifel ." I'll get the coffee started. 😄👍
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  327. Now we await the Tory right wing manifesto
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  328. Boris Johnson took them to where they are now and they have happily joined in.
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  329. You get the feeling a bit more time on vehicle recognition would have helped
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  330. Good job they did not check the loft. There are a couple of Tiger tanks and a Sturmgeschütz III up there.
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  331. Dean Stuart, I have had occasion to correct The history Guy on British pronunciation in the past. But as he is such a Nice Guy as well as The History Guy I think it is only fair to forgive his short comings. :) Charles putnam 1982 Italy's poor reputation, as you probably know, stems from their mass surrender early in the war in North Africa. In the same situation, and bearing in mind their total lack of water, any other troops would have also surrendered. But it was felt by those who fought against them that the Italians surrendered to quickly and that the British and Commonwealth troops would have held out for longer before doing so as a show of defiance. But having said that they did fight bravely to the point where they had lost many of their tanks in battle in North Africa. Despite their equipment being the poorest of either side. And I understand that on the Eastern Front they were regarded as Germany best allies. Here they did use German equipment which helped, but that begs the question of how much more of a threat they would have been if they were better equipped and led. Apparently when picking the next Italian tank to go into production Mussolini stared at to pictures of the two possible tanks and after 15 minutes pointed to one and that is the one that went into production. That was it. Nothing about which was the better of the two. Which had the best armour, or gun, or reliability. just point to a picture and say "that on." Mind boggled.
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  332.  @davidrenton  She was still getting a refit at the time.
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  333. Should the Torys be limited to how much money the get from Russian oligarchs
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  334. If they are so concerned about corruption maybe they should start with themselves
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  335. The US Navy was told were the bomb had hit the water off Spain by the local but they thought they knew better so ignored him. But eventually they had to get him to show them where it had landed and sure enough there it was. As a child I used to watch the British Royal Air force's Vulcan bombers fly over, they were based in Lincolnshire to the south. I used to watch these huge white triangles fly to and from their bases. I sometimes heard them fly over at night time when I was in bed and, oddly enough when you realised what they would be carrying if we went to war, I always felt safe knowing they were there.
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  336. Often the problem.
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  337. I read Heinz Knoke's book I Flew For The Fuhrer and he mentions about himself going for his first solo flight in the Me-109 which was also his first flight in the 109. He was watching the pilot who was doing his first solo just before Knoke's did his and as the aircraft came in to land it crashed killing the pilot. Having seen his fellow pilot die he was immediately told to take his flight. You can just imagine how nerve wracking that must have been. It does make you wonder why trainer aircraft were not introduced sooner.
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  338. Two of my uncles faced the same conditions on the Arctic convoys when they were in the merchant navy during the war. The trips were in winter to avoid the worst of the Luftwaffe's attention. Brutal hardly covers it.
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  339. What happened in Paris happened in various degrees elsewhere. The census for England in 1801 shows that some 80% of the population was rural while the 1901 census shows that the total opposite. By the middle of the century overcrowding was such a problem that it was not unusual for several families to share just one room. So the second half of the century saw huge building projects where thousands of terraced houses were built. New schools were added after the education act and things slowly improved. Interestingly many of these terraced houses were themselves removed in the 60s and 70s when new housing was built.
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  340. It's their own fault. We all know you need at least an 11 inch or bigger for Venus. When the comedian Spike Milligan was on a troopship to North Africa in WW2 they came under air attack which lasted until it was pointed out that the local seagulls were actually neutral.
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  341. I must admit I was suspicious of the two men from the start, so I was not surprised when it turned out to be fake. But having said that the others thought they were conning these two men out of their claim. And lets face it, who does not like it when the underdogs win through. If these two men had gone out and cheated ordinary people then that is one thing, but these were people who were defeated by their own greed and stupidity. The con men got conned.
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  342. Ukraine is attacking Russia? I thought that was Wagner's job.
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  343. So this is the result of David Cameron cutting back without thinking things through.
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  344. A bit harsh. The Germans did have more time as they were leading not trying to play catch up. But considering what the USAAF was flying at that time with the P-51 and the P-38 you would expect something a little more sleek.
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  345. Christianity is in decline in the US and this is desperation on their part.
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  346. I was surprised with the idea of a surface to air missile as this would be obvious and would limit what Putin could say about what happened.
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  347. Actually the British 4th Army was planned it invade Norway and the German spy network in Britain knew about this and informed the Germans. As you will probably know the German spy network in Britain was being run by Britain who had totally taken it over. And the 4th Army did not actually exist in reality. This ruse kept about 200,000 Germans in Norway.
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  348. You have to admire anyone who took part in these battles knowing what the Japanese were like. And each battle started with a landing.I think they all deserved bravery medals. And when you ask them their reply was usually 'I was just doing my job'
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  349. Been there, done that😄👍
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  350. They've seen all of them so not quite
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  351. Stringing it out as long as possible was what John Major did and that just made it worse because people had had enough of them and wanted them out.
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  352. Well although he did not get to see it he did eventually provide for his family. Thanks for the video. It is interesting how often the pioneers are not the ones to benefit from their discoveries. During the DotCom boom I remember reading about a US business were you could order your grocers online and they would deliver them to you. They even had software developed especially for their business. It failed because at that time no one was interested in ordering their groceries online. Now all the major supermarkets do just that. Even Amazon are now doing it.
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  353. He must have influenced the US somewhat as their early tanks such as the M-3 where covered in machine guns. Even the driver had two hull mounted 30 calibre MGs which he aimed by rotating the tank. Must have been fun for the gun crew when they were about to fire the 75 millimetre gun only to find the driver swing the hull around because he had a target.
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  354.  @ijg4427  All things considered you have to admire them. Serving in two world wars many suffering from the first.
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  355. A business with its own army. I'd hate to have to visit their complaints department
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  356. No one ever said that either the British or the Americans were lions led by donkeys. This is a quote which is said to have originated from the First World War by the Germans about the British. But the author of the book later admitted that he had made the quote up.
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  357. If you are Japanese I think you call them something to be avoided.
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  358. Secretary Dobbin: We have seventy ships Congress: Good Dobbin: But only forty are seaworthy. Congress: Not so good. Dobbin: And that forty will need three month to get ready. Congress: Oh... Dear
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  359. I think you missed out the fact that when the London Mayor has his parade it include 17th century Pikemen.
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  360. The problems with quality control during wartime can be huge headache, especially when everything seems to be needed yesterday. And the more complex the project the harder it is to keep on top of things.
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  361. She sounds part horse and part goat. Part goat not just for her climbing ability but her goat like desire to eat anything.
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  362. Damn the stealth fighter jets. Where's my beer.
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  363. Baron Georg von Trapp, of The Sound of Music fame, was a successful U-Boat commander in the Austro Hungarian navy of WW1. Somewhat ironically his first wife was Agatha Whitehead, the granddaughter of Robert Whitehead the inventor of the modern torpedo. The same torpedoes which would be used to sink British ships, amongst others, during the war. Trapp's first command was the U-boat U-6 which was launched by Agatha.
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  364. Blaming the civil service for the incompetence of this government is just dodging the truth that his party was never up to the job.
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  365. He should have been a manure salesman. He is full of his own product.
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  366. The man who painted names on the sides of ships must have been pleased they used initials for that bit.
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  367.  MrRikersBeard  Bit of a surprise for the Somali pirates
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  368. As you said the British Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey amongst the kings. He is unique in that, unlike the other burials in Westminster, you cannot stand on his tomb. You can stand on the tomb of a king but not his. One tradition with regards the tomb is that after getting married a royal bride visits the tomb and leaves her wedding bouquet on the tomb. This was started by the Queens mother who had lost her brother during the war and decided she would leave her bouquet in his memory. Since that day all royal brides have left their bouquets as well. Not all who were buried were unknown. In one country a boy, whose father was killed in the Great War, was given the task of choosing who should represent his country's dead. He made his choice but he did so knowing it was his father who was in the coffin. At 11 am this Sunday I will be at our city's Cenotaph where the two minutes silence will be observed. Just as i did in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2917. My paternal grandfather was on of Kitchener's Mob. He was in the 128th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery and was at the Somme and Passchendeale. He survived the war and came home. How it effected him mentally I do not know, though I think I can have a good guess. One thing I do know is that it effected his hearing, firing those big 60 pounders day after day.
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  369. Sunak going to a beer festival. But he does not drink alcohol.
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  370. Looks like the plans for at least three different aircraft which got mixed up.
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  371. If you were in charge of an enemy ship and came across Decoy wouldn't you be worried what you were being decoyed in to.
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  372. Belorussia is saying they have moved troops to the border with Ukraine because they claim Ukraine may invade. Meanwhile they are having to defend themselves against their Russia ally.
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  373. Trump kicked his ball into the rough again
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  374. Sometimes if you stop and think you catch yourself thinking that a young person could have been watching two men at Kitty Hawk and live long enough to watch two men at Tranquility Base. As far as technology goes that is one giant leap for mankind. Another thought for you. The Battle of Trafalgar, one of the greatest battles of the age of sail, took place after the first steam powered boat had sailed on a canal in Scotland. In fact there was a proposal to use steam powered ships to tow fireships to attack the Franco-Spanish fleet before Nelson's action. Which, if successful, could have resulted in the Battle of Trafalgar never having taken place.
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  375. Interesting that it was a Maryland which first reported the deparcher of the Bismarck. When the British Royal Navy lost contact with her later it was a Catalina which found her again. This time the American connection was even closer as the man who spotted the Bismarck, the pilot of the Catalina, was an American. As America was still technically neutral at this time this was not mentioned until much later.
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  376. Ukrainians can think for themselves and this shows this.
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  377. When you are watching a Russian crewman using a slide rule you know how far behind the west the are.
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  378. The estimated half a million troops either dead or wounded. From what I've read this could have been much higher because a typhoon hit the area where the allied fleet would have been if the invasion had gone ahead.
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  379. Typical British awkward squad. You've got to love him
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  380. Having seen the French navy with their pre-dreadnought floating hotels, the French airforce went one better with flying apartment blocks. You get the feeling it was a bad idea to have the design team right next to a vineyard.
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  381. If you take on James in a battle of wits don't come unarmed.
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  382. Actually I do have evidence. It is a well known fact that Wayne did not serve in the army. John Ford used to humiliate him about it. In one film Wayne was the only actor in the film who had not served so Ford gave the military rank as well as their name to all those who had served in the end credits. Wayne was Mr. John Wayne. Wayne was exempted because he was 34 at the time of Pearl Harbour. But at that time the age limit was 36 year and six months. So he would be eligible to serve. And in early 1942 this was changed to the duration of the war plus a six-month. As he had a family he was classified as 3-A - family deferment. This, I understand, would be something Wayne himself would need to claim for. Henry Fonda was 36 and also had children but served anyway. The story of him being booed came from a highly regarded documentary series about WW2 where one of the US marines who was there related the story of what happened. The documentary series, I believe, was The World at War. It may possibly have been episode 23, The Pacific. None of what I wrote is anecdotal. I studied at university where I was awarded a degree in archaeology so I know the importance of facts.
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  383. One of the interesting things with a transitional period is all the ideas tried out. One of the downsides for those trying these ideas is how quickly the are surpassed.
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  384. Interesting that the quality of the U-Boat was not up to those of British and American submarines. Especially as it was to take on such and important role during the war. I suppose this is one of the penalties for rushing to produce more boats. One of the things that surprised me when I first came across it was the fact that for every three submarines the Germans had only one would be out on patrol. Of the other two one would be in bock for repairs and refits while the third was taking part in training to bring new crew members up to readiness. A fact which shocked me until I thought about it was that the U-Boats lost more people then any other branch of service in any other other country. And that includes the Japanese Kamikazes. I bet they never put on the recruitment posters.
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  385. LVTs were used by British troops during the Suez Crisis. The troops in one such craft found their LVT was moving ahead of the others and wondered why. It was not until the LVT got on land and came under fire that they discovered why it moved so fast. It turned out the crew had removed the LVTs armour in order to get ashore quicker. So once on land thoughts and prayers and hopes and dreams was all the armour they had.
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  386. Five GRU operatives were caught in the Netherland's in 2018. One of the operatives actually had on him a taxis receipt from his home to the GRU headquarters in Moscow.
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  387.  @nickgaskell6743  Yep. I knew about that one.👍😊 Got to have been a bit odd for both of them. The actor Jon Pertwee served onboard Hood but and was transferred off the ship for officer training shortly before she was sunk. He Later, he was attached to the highly-secretive Naval Intelligence Division working alongside future James Bond author Ian Fleming.
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  388. I like the fact that the British tank commander, having just faced the Tiger II, becides to put two AP rounds into the Tiger just in case. Having faced it once he's not keen on a repeat performance.
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  389. This is what you get from a party the feels entitled
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  390. John Wayne managed to to dodge combat in WW 2. All the enemies he faced were extras in Hollywood. There was an incident during the war where he was part of a group entertaining the troops. The curtain opened to find him stood there dressed as a cowboy. The audience, wounded US Marines who had been fighting the Japanese on all the various islands booed him off the stage. Wayne was in favour of the US fighting various wars as long as he was not asked to do the fighting. Laurence Olivier was a fighter pilot in the Royal Navy in WW 2. I understand that when he asked to be granted leave to film Henry V the Navy was happy to oblige. Apparently he had crashed so many aircraft he was in danger of becoming a German Air Ace.
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  391. I'm old enough to remember the older version of the children being whipped soundly and sent off to bed. In 18th century it was not unheard of for middle-class parents to foster out their children from a few month old until they were toddlers. Jane Austen and her siblings went through this and it did cause emotional distancing. If someone was looking after fostered children it may well be an older woman who was doing it to earn a living in her old age. Of course in the 19th century these same middleclass parents would have a nanny to bring up their children, which, again, caused emotional distancing.
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  392. There was, of course, the incident in the 80s when an image from a Russian satellite looked like an American ICBM had been launched. Fortunately the Russian officer viewing the image hesitated and then realised it was not a ICBM being launched. It was actually the Sun striking a cloud but looked like a missile launch. As it happened he was the only one on duty who had a civilian education before joining up. He said if it had been one of his colleges they would not have waited and would have informed their superior of the launch. The thing is the Russians were expecting an attack. Because of the heightened rhetoric of President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher the Russian leader Yuri Andropov was convinced the West was going to launch a preemptive attack on Russia. So if the had received the information about the supposed ICBM launched they would not have waited. So WW3 would have been caused by the Sun hitting a cloud. When Reagan finally heard about how close we came to total destruction he did have enough sense to dial back the rhetoric.
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  393. Having sunk the only US warship lost in WW1 by use of a mine she herself is lost to a mine. Well. Turnabout is fair play.
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  394. I have seen the Lightning a number of times. In fact it was the last aircraft, apart from the air sea rescue Sea Kings, to be stationed at RAF Leconfield, not far from where I live. It was so fast that it went supersonic while climbing just after takeoff for its very first flight. And despite the claims of others it was the first aircraft to use supercruise, the ability to go supersonic without the use of the afterburner. Saw it give a display at the BAE factory at Brough. It flow past just and the noise from it was awesome.
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  395.  @BazilRat  Setting aside the fact that the British were bombing at night, always much harder to do, once the RAF started with pathfinder Mosquito aircraft accuracy was very high. And, unlike the USAAF they did not kill their own general in Normandy. The Canadians were not that enamoured with the USAAF as the called the 8th and 9th Airforce the 8th and 9th Luftwaffe. Not good if your Allie is a bigger threat then the enemy
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  396. No that's just a sailing seagull. You can tell by the fact that it just flew away.
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  397. Just like the declaration of war the flight plan paperwork was delayed.
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  398. Looking at the armored trains of this time I was struck by the cross over between the armour on river boats and the armour on the trains. So you will see the use of cotton bales to protect some Confederate trains and railroad rails one some Federal trains.
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  399.  @Kevin-mx1vi  My late father's eldest brother was in the commandos. Him and a few others popped over to France one night and he got into a fight with a German officer after both their weapons jammed. My uncle survived the war. The German officer didn't.
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  400.  @markhorton3994  So what's the criteria for a complete failure. No survivors?
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  401. Imagine having that job. Chasing a U-2 in a muscle car. Talk about bragging rights.
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  402. I believe the pick up method of returning gliders used here was similar to a system which had been used in the past to allow biplanes to receive messages from ground forces. It has been some time since I came across this but I believe that during WW1, before aircraft were fitted with radios, aircraft which were spotting for the ground forces would pick up messages using this method. Any messages coming from the aircraft were usually put inside a small container with a flag attached. It would be dropped out of the aircraft near to the command position where it would be picked up and read.
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  403. It was the explosion aboard the French flag ship Orient which led to the poem Casabianca, more usually know by the first line 'The boy stood on the burning deck.' The boy, Giocante de Casabianca, being the 12 year old son of the ships captain, Louis de Casabianca. The father had to attend to a problem below deck and told his son to wait on deck until he returned. After the explosion and fire many sailors were abandoning the ship but young Giocante refused to join them because his father had told him to wait there until his return. Unfortunately this led to his death. the author of the poem, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, was herself only only five at the time of the battle but it made such an impression on her that she later wrote the poem.
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  404. I had read about the USS England but a story well worth repeating. Got its war sorted out early. It would be interesting to do a video on Captain Fredric John 'Johnnie' Walker and his exploits as a sub hunter. He came up with a rather clever plan to get around the limitations of the depth charge and losing contact with the enemy submarine when the ship passed over it. He would use one stationary ship to illuminate the submarine with its sonar while two more slow moving ships were directed to the spot where the submarine was. The fact that they moved slowly meant that the first time the submarines crew were aware of the ships presence was when they heard the depth charges hitting the water. And even if the submarine escaped damage it was still being tracked by the stationary ship, so contact was never lost.
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  405. Horizontally challenged I think the phrase is.
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  406. Not believing whatever comes out of Sunak's mouth. Who says that's the end he's talking out of.
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  407.  @LP-ct9nk  $2 million from what I've read. But there must come a time when there is just not enough money to deal with Trump
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  408. A bit rich for a newspaper caught phone tapping.
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  409. Craig Dillion I think Mr Shakespeare, amongst many others, may disagree with you about the Irish showing us how to use our language. What it did do was allow a nation of natural story tellers access to a much bigger market then they would have. To my knowledge Ireland has provided the world with no fewer then nine winners of the Nobel prize for literature. "The British either cannot spell or do not know how to pronounce their own language" are you sure you do not mean the French. It's our language and we will speak it as we choose.
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  410. Leave it to Joe Stalin. he'll sort it out.
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  411. It's interesting how often some of the most important roles are carried out by people who are not there to fight, such as in this example or the medic/corpsman. I remember watching an American documentary about the US Coast Guard in Viet Nam. Many dismissed the coast guards involvement because they did not understand what they were doing and thought they were just covering things like making sure dangerous stores, such as artillery shells, were handled properly when being unloaded from the ships. What the people back home did not know was that when they watched film footage of airmen being rescued by helicopters in North Viet Nam was that many of the helicopter crews were coast guards. And when you watched the films of landing craft in the Delta region working with the special forces they were also coast guard. The special forces preferred working with them. They were also tasked with stopping North Viet Nam's supplies being shipped into the Delta. More supplies were sent to the Delta then down the Ho Chi Min Trail. I did knew something about the US Coast Guards involvement in Viet Nam, such as the helicopters and the landing craft with the special forces, but much of it I did not know. Nor the extent of their involvement in the things I did know about. Ironically I did not know about their involvement in health and safety in the posts, the one thing most Americans know about the coast guards involvement in Viet Nam. Have you ever come across the British Commando unit the Combined Operations Pilotage parties. One of their roles was to survey the beaches in Normandy to make sure they could take all the vehicles coming ashore, as well as surveying the beach defences. It was because of them the landings took place when the tide was out as the landing craft would have had to deal with all the booby trapped beach obstacles. They also served on D-Day itself as they were tasked with guiding in the landing crafts. More then one of them lost their lives doing that.
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  412. True. But we are talking of a period of English history which was extremely repressive towards the poor. As an example there is a record of a young girl hanged for stealing a gentleman's handkerchief. While at the same time a chimneysweep whose brutal actions caused the death of his young apprentice was only deported to Australia. So a gentleman handkerchief had more value than that of a young boy. There is also a record from the early 19th century of two young girls being hung, or more accurately slowly choked to death, for being in possession of forged banknotes. Their only crime being that they were sent by some person to take these fake banknotes to another person. So as far as the poor were concerned these were people striking back at their repressors.
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  413. It's hard to see him winning when his popularity amongst non-MAGE voters has gone down.
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  414. We know Operation Sealion would have failed, as research and wargaming the different scenarios after the war have shown. So all it would have done would have crippled a large part of Germany's armed forces and handed them a defeat. This would have pushed back Operation Barbarossa by several years and probably lead to the end of the Nazis. I have read about the notion that Canaris was some how a hero secretly fighting against Hitler but the evidence does not support it. There is a reason his career was so lackluster before he met Hitler and there is no evidence that, but for Hitler, he would have advanced any higher. As it was the prelude to Sealion, the Battle of Britain, was Germany's first defeat. It's aim was to destroy the Royal Air Force and gain air superiority over the south coast. Something it never did.
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  415. Suchomimus did report on the other ship being sunk at the time along with the latest one today. I did notice during the latest drone attack on St, Petersburg that the Russian protected cruiser Aurora was still afloat. The way things are going the 123 year old ship may see service again.
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  416. Remember he projects so that means he is evil
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  417. A true story for you which chimes with this video and the previous one on chickens. In England in, I believe, in the 18th century a man was having a problem with one of his servants stealing from him, so he came up with a scheme to find the culprit. First he placed a large black cockrol in the middle of a darkened room. He then told his servants that they must each take it in turns to go into the room where they must stroke the cockrol before leaving by another door. By doing this the cockrol would be able to tell who was guilt. So each one of the servants went into the room and sure enough the culprit was found with the help of the cockrol. You see the cockrol, which as I said was black, was covered in soot. So when you touched it you got soot on your hands. The guilty person fearing he would be caught had not touched the bird so had clean hands. Ironic about the clean hands. Usually this refers to someone who is innocent.
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  418. A very big thanks for this video. I had heard of him but only as the man who came second to Jesse Owen and as the other black athlete. So it is nice to hear more about him. You have to wonder what he would have achieved if the 1940 Olympics had taken place. With training and better equipment he would have given Owen a run for his money, literally.
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  419. Pirates. That would make a good story
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  420. So while the NHS is so badly underfunded his first instinct is to cut taxes.
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  421. Sunak has made dodging difficult situations a way of life.
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  422. Two carrier videos. And it's only Saturday. Couldn't get the aircraft to land because of the fog. Bet you could get a fleet of London taxi cabs in there thought.
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  423. You've got the makings of a whole new YouTube channel. Or should that be YouTuber channel
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  424. To convince NATO they could carry more than eight aircraft the Russians would change the numbers on the aircraft each night. So that NATO would be convinced the carrier had more aircraft than it really had. The Royal Navy actually saved the life of one the Forgers pilots. HMS Coventry was shadowing one of the carriers when a Forger flew passed while coming in to land. Just at that moment the Forger got into difficulty and the pilot had to eject. As he hit the water he became tangled up in his chute and was in danger of drowning. The Coventry sent out a boat to rescue him as they were much closer than the carriers escort and then took him to the Russians. As the boats crew was not sure of their reception this could have left them feeling somewhat nervous but all went well and the boat returned to the Coventry. If the Buccaneer had attacked the carriers the first they would have known was when the missiles hit them
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  425. Probably best to do the maths before you drink the beer.😊
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  426. Dumped the Greens just at the wrong time.
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  427. It is known that the Germans used captured Allied aircraft but kept the Allied markings. It would be interesting to know what they were doing with them. A P51 was challenged over Berlin late in the war which flew off. And a B17 was also challenged when it tried to join a group of B17s. The odd think is the marking were correct but they were for a group which had yet to fly combat missions.
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  428. I think you would need an entire fleet of Porters to match the Russian 2nd Pacific fleets.
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  429. Flamethrowers catching fire. Is that what they call ironic?😃
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  430. Everyone thinks of the big ships but it is always the small ships which see the most action. The attack on the submarine by USS Ward is depicted in the film Tora, Tora, Tora. It was not realised until recently that a photograph taken by a Japanese aircrewman taken during the attack actually shows a torpedo track from a submarine which got into the harbour.
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  431. Ye-8 sounds like something made in Newcastle. Interesting idea. It did remind me of what they did to the North American F-100. The North American F-107. But in that case the air intakes were on top rather than underneath. The F-107 also did not make it into service either.
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  432. Well ar least he was not coveting his neighbours ox.
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  433. In the Manchester Airport Disaster on 22nd August 1985 a British Airtours had a problem when the port, left, engine caught fire during takeoff. The crew managed to abort the takeoff and when they got to the end of the runways turned to the right to clear it before stopping to allow the evacuation to begin. Unfortunately this meant that the wind blew straight along the wing and set the cabin on fire where 54 people died, with one more dying in hospital. If the pilot had turned left instead of right the wind would have blown away from the cabin and most, if not all, could have survived.
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  434.  @jamesdeery5377  And not gotten any better. Remember the British soldiers killed in the first Gulf War because a couple of trigger happy A-10 pilots was so set on getting kills they attacked a British column claiming the were Iraqis. And they were supposed to be experts at vehicle recognition. An RAF Jaguar pilot sent to check flew at a higher altitude and recognised them as British.
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  435. I thought prisons rather then hotels. Hotels at this time tended to be a bit more ornate whereas prisons were more functional. And remembering that some warship hulks ended up as prison ships maybe they were built with that future in mind. The Marceau was named after the great French naval hero Marcel Marceau and had the reputation of being the quietest ship to go to sea. Unfortunately she was lost at sea with all hands when it turned out they were actually drowning and not just waving. Having said that she did get a standing ovation from the rest of the fleet. The Gauloises is the only example of a French Navy ship being sponsored by a tobacco company. Looking at the early ships it was like they were being designed by a committee, or several committees, who had heard a warship described to them but never actually seen one. Then when they finally get the hang of it up pops the Dreadnought. Not a case of better late then never.
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  436. The British offered to help the US with a strategy to fight the U-Boats but the American admiral in charged refused that help. He said he did not need help from the British. Echos of WW1 when Pershing refused help from the British and French as he knew how to win the war. Apparently bayonet charging German machinegun positions was how it should be done.
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  437. Cometh the hour cometh the man. And Walker was that man.
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  438. I knew about the disappearing guns but this is the first time I have seen film footage of them in use, which was fascinating and shows it be be a rather clever device. The dynamite guns I had seen before as the YouTube channel Drachinifel had produced a video on their use on a US Navy ship. In this case the guns were in a fixed position and the amount of pressure was varied to increase or decrease the range. There is an old coastal defence position near me which had something similar to the disappearing guns but this was a hidden searchlight. Used during WW1 the searchlight was placed in a pit and shone upwards onto a mirror which would deflect the light out over the river. The idea was that if fired on and damaged the mirror was easier to replace then the searchlight. It was positioned in such a way it could shine just above the river and illuminate any ships passing along it.
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  439. Thanks for that. The Essex had quiet a long service history which says much for its design. I know about the F11F Tigar shooting itself down. A French pilot did something similar doing a missile test. He fired his missile then dived down before levelling out. At this point he had overtaken his missile which locked onto his aircraft and shot it down. As far as I remember he did eject safely.
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  440. I'm the same. Maybe the three of use should start our on YouTube channel. Useless Information You Didn't Know about. Kinda catchy don't you think :)
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  441. Germany 1945. Sir we are running out of rocks
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  442. You know that thing we normally avoid. The spray from the battleship. Let's use it to put out the fire.
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  443. Crashed and burned by all accounts.
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  444. They sent in a clean up team after.😜
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  445. This, apparently, is the might of the Russian Pacific Fleet.
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  446. Thanks, Ed. The Dutch airforce tends to be one of those which ends up in the sort of reference book which is a follow on to the one which covers all the main protagonists. As it includes all the 'also rans' it means they do not get the same attention as the main contenders. So it is good to learn a bit more about them.
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  447. Highly volatile fuels on a submarine. Which is also the cause of the Kursk explosion 14 years later. And the same old excuse of collision with a NATO submarine was trotted out for both accidents. The British had been experimenting with a similar torpedo to those on the Kursk back in the 1950s and also had an explosion through a leak of the torpedoes fuel. This was on HMS Sidon on 16 June 1955. 13 crew were killed but because the Sidon was in the harbour at the time the rest of the grew escaped. Britain had enough sense to cancel the torpedo research programme, which make you wonder why the Russians thought it was a good idea. The British had, what I believe, is the worlds first attack submarine. It was the R-class submarine, of which 10 were built with the first being commissioned in 1918. They were designed to hunt German submarines using hydrophones to locate and track them. It was very streamlined for its day, with no deck gun or external ballast tanks. She could do 14 knots submerged and 9 knots on the surface.
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  448. I have seen that documentary as well but I have to agree with you about this being more nitty gritty. I did feel the History Channel documentary was being a bit smug about it all and did not really convey the danger the crew were in nor how their skills helped them achieve success. With this telling of the story you actually felt that they deserved their medals.
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  449. And let's not forget that the pilot flying the PBY aircraft which spotted Bismarck was American. He was part of a group in Britain helping to train up British crews. In the past, before being banned from Icelandic waters, British trawlers would tune into the US base radio station in Iceland and listen to the music. This would be played through the ships tannoy system for the trawlermen working on deck at night. Having spoken to many local trawlermen who worked out there in wintertime they said it made working at night in the snow and freezing rain much more manageable. It also gave them a love for country and western music as that was what was usually playing at night.
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  450. Self inflicted burial at sea. 😊
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  451. Ted Heath did something like this. Five union members went to prison, despite Heath believing this would not happen, and the law was repealed.
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  452. Can't wait for the USS Stewart's biography. USS Stewart: Life as a Double Agent.
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  453. It is somewhat ironic that the fact it has a troop carrying capacity is highlighted as the Soviet Russian military wanted a dedicated attack helicopter similar to US Cobra. It was the Soviet government which insisted on the troop compartment.
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  454. First question from the recruitment officer, how's your bladder control. Thanks, Drach. At 6-2 I have a feeling we would spend most of our time in the infirmary with concussion.
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  455. You would have to make damn sure you were pointing it at the right people. Once you pull that trigger there's no going back.
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  456. Sorry but he has said on a number of occasions he doesn't do cold war ships because much of it is still classified.
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  457. You can tell when someone is lying when they insist on talking over others and not letting them speak.
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  458. Love the idea that the ships used on this expedition were named after birds.
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  459. A British sculptor cause a scandal during the Victorian period with a discovery about Roman marble figures which he decided to incorporate in his next work. For many years is was thought that the Romans displayed the figures in the natural marble. But then it was discovered they did, in fact, paint the figures. So this sculptor made a marble figure of a woman in the Roman style and then painted her as the Romans would have. Seeing a naked woman in marble was acceptable because it was regarded as artistic. But to see her naked and painted to represent skin colour was, in the minds of some, a scandal and deffinatelly not art. The sculptor was quickly removed from display and, I believe, was sold. Hopefully to someone who appreciated art.
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  460. What is forgotten is that Putin's part in the KGB was not as some secret agent but as an interpreter. And he was station in East Germany. So, not the Soviet answer to James Bond. Or even a Bond super villain.
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  461. It has been reported that Russia is having problems with artillery shells provided by North Korean. Amongst the problems these shell are having is the fact that some are exploding inside the barrels. That has got to have a huge effect on the artillery crews. It's hard enough when they are being targeted by the Ukrainians but when there is a possibility of the shell exploding inside the gun with the possibility of casualties that's bad for moral. China had a problem with something Australia said about Chinese human right, so China cancelled their import of Australian coal. The result was that China suffered a shortage of coal which meant the kept having blackouts in throughout China when they could not produce electricity by burning the coal. These resulted in China buying coal on the open market, which was more expensive, and worse still it was Australian coal they were buy.
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  462. There is an intercepted conversation between a Russian soldier and a family member where the soldier mentions that their commander had been arrested and was in prison for selling off the units personnel carriers. Apparently this was not unusual.
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  463. You mentioned that the Jaguar car had disc brakes which were obviously better. I remember seeing British cars having a little notice on the back of the car warning that it had disc brakes. This was to let other drivers know that this car could brake in a shorter distance so you should allow more space between your car and it. James Dean originally wanted a British car with disc brakes but at that time they could not be exported. So he bought a Porsche 550 Spyder instead. Makes you wonder what would have happened if he had the British car with disc brakes. I did read an article published some years ago by an expert who used photographic evidence when studying road traffic accidents. He said that despite claims to the contrary Dean was not speeding at the time of the accident.
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  464. Seeing how Ukraine has wrong footed so many commentators the notion that Ukraine would slow down for winter was yet another example of them getting it wrong. Russia is on the run so what Ukraine needs to do is keep up the pressure and not give Putin time to catch his breath and divide the west.
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  465. Of course it would have been a simple job. Couple of days tops. Is it just me or do you get the feeling that the person behind the plan had no idea what was involved.
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  466. I am always fascinated by stories like these. How hugely important events can be triggered by such tiny events. "for want of a nail" as the saying goes.
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  467. He was buying a train ticket. The man in the ticket office said sorry this train goes to Perth 😀
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  468. The sad thing is they had just fitted it with two new tyres.
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  469. Actually I thought he would have a Texan accent because with that moustache he reminds me of an old town sheriff.
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  470. I did read about a USAAF aircrewman who escaped from a POW camp then disappeared. As an NCO he was part of a work detail at a local farm. The farm was owned by the widow of a soldier who died on the Eastern Front and she needed help to bring in the crops. So the men helped bring in the crops. One night there was an escape and this airman was part of it. They all split up and that was the last anyone saw of him. There had been an air raid on the nearby city and it was thought he had died in that raid. That was until some years after the war when the truth finally came out. It turned out instead of trying to get back to Britain he had made his way back to the farm where the widow had hid until after the war and they carried on living there together. Apparently during his time working on the farm he and the widow fell in love. So when he escaped she helped keep him hidden until after the war was over. She had no love for the Third Reich and blamed Hitler for the loss of her husband who she thought, as a farmer, should have stayed at home running his farm.
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  471.  AGENT 007  He missed the history class which mention FDR was elected four times.
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  472. Gun maker: which type of guns do you want. French: All of them.
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  473. Well, as we have just seen, the Bearn was not the swiftest ship in the French navy
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  474. Okay. I knew about this one as I used to work at the Blackburn factory, though by then it was Britsh Aerospace, and they had a model of it on display in the reception area. If those hangers behind are at Blackburn's then I worked in one of them.
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  475. In WW1 the Royal Navy mounted some of their guns on railway carriages and used them on the Western Front. But after a while they were "gifted" to the British Army, much to their displeasure as they did not wont them either. In 1918 two 14 inch guns were mounted on rail carriages to be used in the 100 Days campaign which would see Germany surrender. The two guns were operated by 471 Siege Battery and were known as "HM Gun Boche Buster", operating near Arras with First Army, and "HM Gun Scene Shifter", operating near Bethune with Fifth Army. King George V personally oversaw the firing of the first shell by Boche Buster and the first shell fired from it heavily damaged a railway junction at Douai and became known as "The King's Shot"
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  476. Up to 1914 the British railway company Great Eastern Railway (GER), which served Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, painted their passenger locomotives royal blue. But when war broke out the Royal Navy requisitioned is paint which meant that the passenger locomotive were left in their undercoat paint scheme which, oddly, was battleship grey. To the best of my knowledge the Germans never fired on a GER locomotive believing it to be a Royal Navy warship. Nor, I believe, was any Royal Navy warship not fired on in the mistaken belief that for some reason a GER locomotive was out in the middle of the North Sea.
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  477. More Russian Shortages.
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  478. The Blackburn factory was right next to the River Humber. So to protect the site there was a bank built around it between it and the river. To test the Firebrand's guns the tail was raised to sit the aircraft in a level position. The guns could then be fired at a target to make sure the were grouped correctly. This was done with the bank as a backstop for safety reasons. One day while testing the guns Blackburn got a telephone call from an irate ships captain wanting to know what he was being shot at. It turned out that because the same position had been used for so long the shells had drilled a hole through the bank. Whatever people may say about Blackburn they built the Buccaneer. The finest low level attack aircraft of its time. When flying at Red Flag the USAF could not get anywhere near it. Even when the fighters tried to catch them flying over the ridge to exit from the site the Buccaneer pilots just flipped it on its back and flew over the ridge upside down so the fighters could not get a shot.
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  479. The problem with reliance on stealth is that once they find a way to defeat it, and they will, the aircraft such as the F-35 is vulnerable. The British Royal Air Force flew Typhoons against F-35s in visual range and the Typhoon won every dogfight.
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  480. It's like they get so dazzled by the thought of being Prime Minister that they give no thought as to what's involved and even less thought as to whether they are up to it.
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  481. For years people struggled to climb Everest, now the have people queuing to get there.
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  482. Interesting how well informed they are about these things. It's almost as if they are the people doing all of this. Here's a thought. Are they the Deep State they keep talking about.
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  483. Trump is the school bully. The one they all thought they had left behind. And despite all their powers they still wet themselves because of him.
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  484. When a US hospital charges a mother $40 to hold her own newborn child you know there is something wrong with your health care.
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  485. I thought for a minute you had slipped up and you was about to tell use about an episode of Stop That Pigeon.
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  486. The Russians are losing tank at a rate of 150 per month but an only build 20 per month. That means that it will take over 11 years to replace the loses. So they are refurbishing some 90 old tanks per month as replacements.
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  487. From 1966 to 1967 I used to listen to Radio 270 of the coast near Scarborough. I was very young at the time but it was great fun. Interesting you mentioned the bombing of Liverpool which often claims to be the most bombed city other then London. This is not correct. My home town of Kingston upon Hull on the East Coast was the most bombed, other then London, with over 90% of its buildings receiving some damage from bombing. One of the reasons for this is that being on the East Coast Hull is easier to find then Liverpool, which required the Germans to fly over England and navigation was very primitive. They did have a navigation aid which used two radio beams to guide their bombers but we found a way to effect the signal so it lost accuracy. And the further it had to fly the less accurate is became. Later during the war a number of very seccessful decoy schemes were introduced around the country which made it even harder to find their target at night.
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  488. Also, you will note, a lack of aliens.
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  489. One of the surprising things about the attack on Pearl Harbor is the fact the general MacArthur in the Philippians saw that and did absolutely nothing. So when the Japanese attacked they were just as unprepared as Hawaii.
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  490.  @thatsnodildo1974  Many regular army units took part in war crimes as did many individual. There was an incident in Poland just after the invasion when a German soldier was shot. Many locals were rounded up and executed but it was an accidental shooting by a fellow German soldier. The same thing happened in WW1 during the invasion of Belgium. The usual excuse was that they were ordered to it and were afraid of what would happen if they refused. One German soldier who did refuse was returned to his unit and nothing happened to him. In another incident a German tank commander stopped an SS man who was assaulting a civilian. It did effect his promotions and medals but that's all.
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  491.  @nicholasconder4703  I saw another video which pointed out the the rubber was there to hold the explosives in place and that the explosive was removed so it can be used elsewhere.
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  492. One of the ships in the convoy was the San Demetrio which was damaged and abandoned by its crew. She was then reboarded by its crew the fires were put out and sailed home. The story of what happened to her saw made into a film in 1943 called San Demetrio London
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  493.  @colingibson8018  They same thing happened with the end of steam locomotive in Britain. One local scrap merchant bought a large number of them which he cut up. Then the enthusiast started buying them. He later said if he had known what would happen he would have kept them as they were worth much more whole then the scrap value.
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  494. There is untreatable pain. It's called Tucker Carlson.
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  495. Interesting to hear the other half of a famous couple. Thanks for that.
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  496. The Japanese admiral must have thought he'd kicked a hornets nest. He must have wondered what he had gotten himself into. And it's interesting how often it's the smaller ships which see the most action. I have a feeling that when they are looking for people to crew them the word pugnacious come up a lot.
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  497. Well, it's not like Sunak is sending his kids to a state school.
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  498. The Belgorod mortuary has only five bodies from the crash. The same number as the crew of the Il-76. Apparently the FSB told several VIPs not to get on the aircraft. So this brings up questions such as what did they know, were they aware of the threat from Ukraine and if so why did they allow it to fly. Or was there someone elses finger on the launch button. One who spoke Russian.
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  499. The fact that Jim Jordan is your friend is not a good thing
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  500. Well, you know how it is. You start off with twin turrets. Then you think if I can have twins I can have triple turrets. Then it's quads. Just be thankful it doesn't look like a floating hotel
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  501. Rather a nice looking revolver. I can see why the Russians liked it.
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  502. I found what you said about the German view with regards to the courage of the Italian aircrews interesting. The Italians do not have the best of reputations when it comes to fighting, but when fighting along side the Germans in North Africa they fought with their tanks until most were destroyed. And I seem to remember that they were Germany's best allies on the Eastern Front. I understand they used German equipment in Russia, probably to help with logistics, and this seems to have helped. Their main problem was that, having rearmed first, their equipment was obsolete by 1940. So it was usually outclassed by the newer equipment they faced. There is the story, told by one of his generals, about how Mussolini picked the Italian armies tank. Having been presented by the general of illustrations of two tanks, Mussolini, after twenty minutes of staring at them and not asking a single question about them, picked one. That was it. That tank was the Italian armies new tank. It could have been the best, or worst, of the two. But that was never tested.
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  503. France decided that it wanted to sell military equipment to the Arabs rather then Israel. No it was nothing to do with the Arabs having all the oil. Honest.
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  504. The British singer Tommy Steele claimed that his late father was used as a sort of unofficial body double as he look like Churchill. From what Steele said from time to time his father would be invited out to a big restaurant in London for a meal with someone who was known to be part of Churchill's circle. This would happen when Churchill wanted to keep his movements secret. From what Tommy Steele said his father was one of about six people who resembled Churchill.
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  505. It also looks like a nearby warehouse also got flattened and the cranes next to the Novocherkassk were also damaged.
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  506.  @Macedonia270  You've got to stop drinking Putin's coolaid. That stuff rots your brain.
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  507. Micheal Gove. Not exactly note for his honesty.
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  508. It will be Boris and Bust. He has too much baggage and we have all seen it. Let's not forget he was partying during lockdown and while the Queen was mourning the death of her husband. Then he stood up in parliament and denied the parties happened.
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  509. When it comes to aircraft Russia never quite gets a handle on it.
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  510. Actually the Romans hated puns while the Carthaginians love them. This drove the into two wars. The Frist and Second Pun-ic Wars. Okay. I'll stop now.
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  511. Late Japanese rifles were so poor that with the bayonet attached they were basically a spear. Which was what they were going for.
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  512. You can have the biggest gun and the thickest armour. But you lose a track and that's it.
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  513. If it had been a French cheese it would bring a whole new meaning to "shooting the Brie's"
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  514. I did know about the the first two but not the B17. Interesting that they were trying to get rid of excess weight for it to fly better. Trouble is they were the excess weight.
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  515. A great display of Russian airmanship. 🙄
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  516. Having read about Gettysburg I knew about Sickles and his temporary insanity plea, so it is nice to get a fuller explanation of the incident.
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  517. The German Starfighter pilot was lucky as the original version had a downward firing ejector seat.
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  518.  @princeofcupspoc9073  yes but the Baltic fleet struggled with imaginary torpedo boats. Just think of what would happen against a real one.
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  519. One of the interesting things about King Alfred and the bible is that because he was having difficulty learning Latin he had made notes in old English. The interesting part is that he wrote using runes which had previously been thought to have been only used for inscriptions and not everyday use.
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  520. When the Soviet Union came to an end MiG tried to sell the MiG 29 to the international market and brought it to the UK. Some British RAF test pilots flew it and was very impressed by how easy it was to fly. The MiG representative said that this was because Soviet pilots were getting so little flying time they had to make it easy.
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  521. Having watched this video I was interested in how hangings in the US matched those in the UK. When, in 1845, a notorious killer was to be hanged in Manchester, England, excursion trains were run from various parts of the county. Some 250,000 people watched the execution. The condemned were also given the right to their last words. One highwayman, John Rann known as Sixteen String Jack because he had sixteen colour strings hanging from the bottom of his britches, went further then that. Known for his quick wit and kept the crowd entertained all the way to the gallows where he then danced a gig before being hung. At a hanging broadsides would be sold. This was a large sheet of paper which on one side would be printed such things like the last words or a final confession of the killer. Ballads about the killer would also be sold on broadsides and the seller would constantly sing the ballad so that people could learn the tune. So not so different from Britain.
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  522. I learned quite a bit of history at school, especially as the last two years covered the 20th century. And I carried on my interests after leaving, so I have quite a good knowledge base. Having said that like you I greatly enjoy this channel. And he has on the odd occasion come up with something I knew nothing about. Always fun
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  523.  @pauly5421  True, but nowadays we want to know about the other side as well. So I think this does not apply in the way it once did.
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  524. I knew very little about Kate but you have to admire her for being her own person. You also have to wonder what she could achieve today with much more opportunities for women.
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  525. Or a blacksmith if you play Skyrim.
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  526.  @Loweko1170  that's always possible and happens more times then you think. Problem is that in the long run his reputation suffers and it effects future sales.
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  527. Ukrainian Supply Logistics: What! Their sending what!? When's the WW1 biplanes arriving?
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  528. One of the problems of the Korean War was that many of the veterans of WW2 were those who got sent in first. I can understand why but you would think having gone through WW2 the would be excuse any more fighting.
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  529. When Gordon was asked to go out to Africa one of his aims was to abolish slavery. With this in mind he approached a good friend of his Sir Samuel Baker, who had spent much time in Africa and was well know for successes at stopping slavery in Africa. Gorgon asked Sir Samuel to take his place as Gordon thought Sir Samuel would be more successful on the mission. Sir Samuel had to turn Gordon down as his wife, lady Florence Baker, who had accompanied him on all his expeditions, now just wanted to stay at home having had her fill of travel. So Gordon went as planned. I have read Sir Samuel's biography and it reads like a true life boys own adventure.
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  530. I had thought the casualty rate would have been higher as well
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  531. Or bikers are Vikings without Longship
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  532. Better manners in them days😊
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  533. Germany bought many British horses before the war as Britain army stopped using them. So there is a good possibility these saddles were bought at the same time.
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  534. I did read about this raid though that was some time ago. So it is good to hear the details again. I first came to know about Sir Fitzroy Maclean through his book Eastern Approaches. An excellent book and well worth a read. He was part of the British Embassy in Moscow before the war and he would explore parts of the Soviet Union by dint of the fact that those who were following to so terrified of Stalin that no one would stop him. When war broke out he was not allowed to leave the diplomatic corp to enlist so he became an MP which now meant he could no longer be a diplomat. But it did mean he could join the British Army. He served in North Africa, Persia and then as liaison to Tito. If you get a chance then this book should be on your reading list.
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  535. You would have thought the Panther would have been a better tank to study, considering the fact that it would make a better starting point if you wanted to build your own tanks.
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  536. I think we should remember that D-Day was talked about for so long. Yet it succeeded
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  537. One thing with mines is that when you sink one ship it delays many others, especially if the ship sinks in a choke point. And stopping ships stops industry which starves armies.
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  538.  @bodygraber  For some reason the US Marine Corp decided that the best people to fly Harriers at low level were helicopter pilots. The fact that helicopter pilots suddenly finding themselves flying a low level jet at 500 plus kts would be more then a little problematic seemed not to have been a factor taken into account.
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  539. This man was useless as a minister and he has not got any better
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  540. I did know about Lake Nyasa and the naval battle. Also the connection with the Germans sister ship and the film The Africa Queen. But it is still very enjoyable to watch your video about what happened. I do hope you follow this up with the Battle for Lake Tanganyika. One of the ships involved in that, the Graf von Goetzen, is still in service as the MV Liemba. Which means as a WW1 German warship she has faired better the the High Seas Fleet. The British naval forces was commanded by one Captain Geoffrey Spicer-Simson who was known for his idiosyncrasies. and would probably make an interesting video in his own right. An eccentric in the finest of English traditions.
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  541. Suggesting Sunak is desperate is is one of the biggest underestimates in British politics. He has absolutely no idea what to do but meanwhile it is one blunder after another. What he is doing is what John Major did in that he is hanging on for as long as possible in the deluded hope that something will turn up. While at the same time the people have had enough of him and want him to go.
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  542.  @jonsouth1545  I think you may be referring to the actor Peter Butterworth and the film was The Wooden Horse. He was at the camp but was not deemed suitable to be in the film. Interestingly the Germans never had any problem with him being there.
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  543. To be fair that was their own fault. And they had done the same to France after the Franco-Prussian War.
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  544. I was trying to find the military records of my paternal grandfather who fought at the Somme and Passchendaele but they were also destroyed during the Blitz.
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  545. Trump is like a cushion. He bears the imprint of the last person who sat on him.
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  546. Some of these aircraft look like they are from an episode of Dastardly and Muttley with their multiple wings. This one looks like it was in a Disney film. Flown by Baron von Razor-Strop. Interestingly the name floh, flea, would make a return. The motto for one of the German squadrons which flew the Me 163 was 'Only a flea but oh what a flea' (I am paraphrasing here somewhat).
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  547. I know there has been various disputes between Britain, Scotland, and Ireland about ownership of the rock. I may be wrong but I seem to remember the BBC was going to send out reporters to the rock to support Britains claim and made a big thing out of it. Only to find a team of Irish reporters got there first. Should have kept their plans quiet.
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  548. If the Kommuna could talk Drac could have a whole new series of videos because once again it's the little ships who have the most interesting stories.
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  549. So there I am busy doing important work. Up pops a video from Drach. Well. it's only a couple of minutes long. Not like it's his Sunday Drydock which often means me taking a lunch break half way through. Okay then. I'll watch it. Having watched it, back to work. No wait. Another video from Drach. Well I can take another few minutes off. Then up pops a third and fourth video. Again only a mater of moments so why not. So having watched them I am now sat here trying to remember what the hell it was I was doing.
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  550. The way drones are progressing it is starting to look like all the military people will end up working from home.
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  551. I get the feeling we will not see the T-34 at the victory day this year.
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  552. You have to think Paddy Mayne was looking down on them and cheering them on. It must have felt like old times to him.
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  553. Hitting the wrong target is nothing new as we know. At the start of the Battle of France the first place the Germans bombed was one of their own towns. And they should have known it was there but due to a navigational error bombed. So, unless there was other evidence, I would go on the idea of it being a navigational error. As for the casualties then it would rely on what was happening at the base. It could well be possible to do two strafing runs with minimal casualties if any.
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  554. Learn something new and you've had a good day, I always say.
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  555. For the Monitor with it's revolving turret firing as the target came into view I thought Pop goes the Weasel would be a good theme to play.
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  556. Interestingly I was thinking just the other day how back in the 60s and 70s being in the commercial letting business was the place to be. Now seeing so many shops and offices that are empty commercial letting must be a nightmare.
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  557. Actually one of the main problems with the Comet was that the holes for riveting were punched rather that drilled. This caused fractures which were made worse by the pressurisation of the aircraft and led to failures. Many aircraft before this period flew at lower levels and therefore did not need pressurising. It was only with jet passenger aircraft flying much higher that this became a problem.
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  558. Funnily enough I came across this story recently so it is interesting to get Mark's take on it. I know that there was another submarine sent to French Frigate Shoals but saw the USN ship there and after a brief stop it left. They obviously realised that the US was onto them.
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  559. Wrong navy. That was the Russian navy who only passed through the North Sea on the way to its doom against the Japanese.
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  560. The F-5 is something of an unsung hero, give many airforces a capability it would not normally be able to afford. The F107 would be one I would have liked to have seen. By all accounts it was an excellent aircraft. I understood it lost out to internal USAF politics. Pity really. F-23 was a much better aircraft than the F-22. I did read one of the reason the F-22 won through was because it used manufacturers from some 40 states and those in congress who represented those states wanted the jobs. The F-22 has paid for that because quality control is so poor that many parts have to be finished off before they can be used. And who didn't want to see the F-14 still flying
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  561. As a warship she was terrible but as a hotel she was in the Michelin Guide with two stars.
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  562. I have a feeling it could be a holiday in Russia with any luck
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  563. They take literary criticism seriously in Russia.
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  564. When the HMRC tells you they don't fine people for simple mistakes. So on that basis alone he should be fired.
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  565. Actually the English Electric Lightning could supercruise and it was a contemporary of the F-4 Phantom II
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  566. I understand that Americans tend to be very much by-the-book, so it may be a case of if it's not in the book we don't do it.
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  567. Ambushing Tiger tanks and attacking from the rear was often the only way to kill them. That's how they got Michael Wittmann. Interesting that the final throw of the dice for Germany in the west in both world wars involved German troops from the Eastern Front. The trouble for those troops is that in both cases they were used to fighting in the open space of the Eastern Front, as opposed to the more confined space of the fighting in the west. This was illustrated perfectly by the fact that the Bulge attack was across the direction of the landscape making their task more fraught then it needed to be. The attack was south east to north west while the ridges and valleys were north east to south west. The attack should not have been the surprise it was. US military intelligence, through the Ritchie Boys, had warned the top brass about the build up in the Ardennes. But they just dismissed the idea. Ironically a number of Ritchie Boys were captured by the SS and summarily executed.
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  568. The people at Interpol probably didn't realise just how exciting there lives are.
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  569. What about all those who turned up carrying garbage then had to take it home again because it was not as bad as they thought it would be.
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  570. There is a rumour he has been known to do rap as well. Scary 😱
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  571. This reminds me of John Major's government. No matter how hard Spitting Image tried to satirise them his government was so bad they just made Spitting Image look like they were just not trying.
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  572. Do you think they sruck to naval tradition and gave it a burial as sea.
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  573. Not just Belarus but all the other parts of the Russian Federation who are only held in check by the Russian military.
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  574. Some of these old girls are to stubborn to sink. 'Listen, I survive the Japanese I can survive you.'
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  575. Did nobody mention to the Soviets that it's supposed to be bad luck to change a ships name.
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  576. 'Are you people insane?' Rhetorical, obviously.
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  577. Actually the the Americans, not the Russians, looked at ejecting from helicopters during the Vietnam War. They had lost a number of crew from helicopters crashes and realised that having an ejection seat would have meant the crews could have survived. They also decided on using explosive bolts as a way of detaching the rotor blades before ejection. There were several reasons why they did not go ahead with the idea. For one thing many of those in helicopters would not be seated in an ejection seat, such as other crew members, passengers such as troops or the wounded. Also having come under ground fire they realised that if one of the explosive bolts was hit it could mean the lose of a rotor blade which would bring the helicopter down. It was Germany who used the first ejection seats towards the end of the war in Europe. I remember watching an interview of a German pilot who successfully used his ejection seat and stated that he had been wounded and without it he would not have been able to get out of his aircraft.
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  578. Can I just say that I love all of the Kelly's Heroes comment here. Nice to know I'm not alone here. Now had anyone seen the Graves Registration people. They want in on this.
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  579. He's finally done something popular
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  580. All things considered would you want to have that evidence if you were the pilot.
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  581. You get the feeling Putin is going to be very very jealous of Zelensky
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  582. You say that but we all know he will find something from somewhere. I'm no slouch when it comes to WW2 history and even I have times when I think well that's a new one on me.
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  583. When you mentioned about them going to North Africa I was rather hoping they had to face the Gloster Gladiator. Loses to a biplane which it was supposed to be faster than has got to be a humiliation.
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  584. Apparently this only happened when they were going down hill. 😄
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  585. Before WW2 the Germans wanted to know what the line of tall masts along the English coast were for. Thinking they may be being used for radar they flew their Zeppelin out into the English Channel and north into the North Sea. The Zeppelin was carrying equipment which was to check out whether these masts were being used for radar or not. At no point did they pick up anything from these masts and it was not until they flew over land that the RAF finally scrambled aircraft to intercept the Zeppelin. The Germans concluded that whatever these masts were for it was not radar. What they did not realise was the entire flight into the English Channel and up the North Sea had been seen by the British who had decided no to respond to it so as not to show its hand with regards to the radar. It was only after they crossed the coast that aircraft were scrambled on the basis that by that point the Zeppelin would have been seen from the ground. The reason they did not pick up the British radar was it was being operated on a wave length and the Germans could not detect that wave length. I have wondered if this was the first use of electronic intelligence gathering.
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  586. I did know about Magellan and the fact that he did not make it back. But how he died was something I did not know. How many leaders have died by underestimating their enemy. Sir Frances Drake's circumnavigation of the world affected English law. When he sailed around the world the problem for the sailors families was that they did not know if the sailors were alive or dead. So wives did not know if they were married or widows. When Drake arrived back after three years it was determined that three years would be the requirement for deciding if the men were dead or not and therefore their wives could be declared widows. This also meant she was free to remarry. Just imagine if the husband was not dead and walked in on his wife with her new husband. "Look at you" he declares, "I'm away for three years and a day and you jump into bed with anther man." :)
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  587. I was trying to think of the Japanese word which means horse and rider are as one. In this case Nelson and frigate are as one.
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  588. I think one factor you have missed is that for some time Russia has not had the funding to build all these missiles. This is why the have been trying to sell aircraft and helicopter because it is not until they sell them will they get the funding to build the next generation of aircraft. They have needed to update their radar for years now but cannot afford to. Same with there jet engines. The Russian army should have had 2,300 T-14 Armata tanks by 2020. Fiscal shortfalls, i.e. no money, has delayed that to 2025. You can image how much difference there would have been if Ukraine had to face T-14s instead of beat up old T72s. So I think you may have to revise down your estimates for Russian guided missile numbers. they just cannot afford them. Putin does have a $700,000,000 yacht. Wonder how many T-14s you could have bought for that.
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  589. There was a similar problem in Britain with girls painting watch and clock dials suffering from the radiation. In a similar vein girls working at match factories in London in the 1880's suffered from the white phosphorous used in the making of the matches destroying their jaw bones. The problem was that the safer red phosphorous was much more expensive. Eventually through pressure and others using the more expensive red phosphorous the main producer of matches using white phosphorous changed over to red. The denials by the company reminded me of the tobacco companies doing the same things with regards the connection between smoking and cancer. This despite the connection being proven back in the 1930's.
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  590. I second that as I also asked for it a couple of weeks ago. I seem to remember some other former elite German troops such as paratroopers served in the Legion as well. I think they would claim to be Swiss Germans.
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  591. This shows just how much Russia is failing when people feel they can openly talk about these things without fear about what Moscow will do.
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  592. As she has a reputation for doing such things and is known to be totally opposed to what Hancock did during covid with lockdown. So it make you wonder why Hancock thought she could be trusted. And as a freelancer for News UK she also stiffed Rupert Murdoch by going to the Telegraph.
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  593. Helium Road Don't tell me you did a "Wargames" with a Titan II missile.
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  594. I think the last tory who resigned as a matter of honour was Lord Carrington over the Falklands, even though Margaret Thatcher said he did not need to. Interestingly the then defence minister John Nott also offered his resignation but when Margaret Thatcher also told him he did not have to did not resign. Apparently he was fine with living in abject humiliation as long as he kept his job.
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  595. ​ @535tony  If you've seen The Chieftain's videos on the Sherman tank you will remember that for for some time there was a lack of a loaders hatch. You have to wonder how many loaders died because of that omission. All in all I think I'd sooner be in the infantry. I do agree with you about the T-34. The Soviets worked on the assumption that the tank would last about 10 engagements. You have to wonder if they thought the same to the crews.
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  596. Yes well. I don't see them trying that again.
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  597. @Cj wattsup This is true. My partners grandfather had a natural talent for playing music on the piano. He only every had to hear a piece once and was able to play it back perfectly.
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  598. I have found the way many of the top Germans behaved at this time more then a little interesting. It's as if they had no understanding of what was happening nor how the rest of the world viewed them. They seemed to think that they should be given the same standing they had always had. Whereas the Allies, Russia in particular, had different ideas.
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  599. It's like everyday is Christmas
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  600. Prigozhin is paying the price for bragging about his troops compared to the Russian army, doing so knowing how much he relied on that army for supplies. He thought Putin could push the army into supporting him but the army thought otherwise.
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  601.  @ko_mhe_ha_bbi5354  You've got to stop swallowing that crap. It's not good for you.
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  602. Well that was definitely history that need to be remembered as I had never read of the fire. It did remind me of something which happened here in Britain. Many of the records of those who served in the British armed forces in WW1 were stored in a warehouse in London. Unfortunately the warehouse was destroyed by the Germans in the Blitz in WW2. Though many important documents had been removed from London these were not amongst them. You mentioning about preserving documents from the 1890 census reminded me of something I came across several years ago. During excavations at Pompeii a number of piece of what was thought to be charcoal were found. The would have been used for cooking. Then someone looked at them and realised they were in fact rolls of paper, the type the Romans would have used for documents. They had been burnt by the fires caused by the volcanic eruptions. When they were examined in a laboratory it was realised that though they had been burnt that, under the right conditions, they could be read. Light acts differently to the ink to then it does to the burnt material they were made from and some of the text could be read. Unfortunately this would not have been available back then but if they had preserved the documents who knows what they could have found.
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  603. I was somewhat confused by the psychedelic Zebras
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  604. Something for your next Alternative History. I have a scenarios with regards Midway and Hawaii. Firstly Attack Pearl Harbour as before, this time making sure they destroy the fuel storage tanks. Then fall back on Midway to support the invasion forces. The advantage of this is that the US Navy is going to have to sort out its ships before it can intervene and without fuel it is not going to be able to go very far. You could put a submarine screen between Midway and Hawaii to act as an early warning for the carriers ind any ships trying to intervene. Then after the Japanese take Midway it can then be used it as a jumping off point for Hawaii. This would have put Hawaii in range for an invasion fleet and with many US Navy ships out of commission or possibly having to pull back to the mainland there would be less opposition. Japanese submarines positioned to the east of Hawaii could deal with any warship coming or going with a priority in sinking tankers. Then the third stage would be the invasion of Hawaii. The advantage with this scenario is you will not need to split your forces as at the Battle of Midway. Yes it will be in two parts initially but the attack on Midway will involve all of the forces as no diversion would be needed. Done quickly enough there would be little time for the US forces to recover from the attack on Pearl Harbour. Though it would be a major commitment from Japanese forces it would prove much harder for America to be the threat it became to Japan.
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  605. 50 schools. What about the hundreds of others. He was told some 300 to 400 schools needed rebuilding. He gave funding for 100 schools then cut it to 50. As chancellor he cut the school rebuild funding from £765 million to £416 million. A 45% cut. but as this will not affect his kids.
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  606. Typical of this government. Too little too late.
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  607. The lads were just passing so we thought we'd pop in and see how things were going.
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  608. Patton never did give Rommel his book back
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  609. The Russians survived but not their underwear which was beyond saving
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  610. How does Michael Gove keep saying integrity without bursting into flames.
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  611. The problem at Coronel was that Cradock ship could not reach its top speed. It later transpired that the problem did not lay with the ship but with the chief engineer who was having a breakdown. Once he was relieved of duty the ships performance improved.
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  612. Thanks for that. Very enjoyable. I found the sinking interesting and it shows how often it is not just one thing but a series of steps which can lead to disaster. Yes the torpedo running low caused the initial problem, but other things such as not being able to contact the engine room, lack of auxiliary power and so forth made the situation worse. Anyone of those things not happening cold have made a big difference. It is a pity the one of the new carriers was not called Arc Royal. It's a very long established name in the Royal Navy and it would have been nice to see it return.
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  613. Actually some of their best Marx-men were Marx-women
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  614. You get the feeling Orion and Neptune loved chasing the Italians around the Med. They must have been very disappointed when Italy surrendered.
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  615. When you look at people like Martin Luther King Jr you realise that one of the reasons they stand so tall is because they are stood on the shoulders of others, such as Galloway. This is not to detract from what Martin Luther King did, but it does show that the path people like him followed was one that others had also walked.
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  616. It's been sometime since I watched the History Channel. Nice to know I've not missed anything.
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  617. My thoughts as well.
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  618. It's called commerce. Been around for some time now.
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  619.  @susannagarlitz792  Interestingly during WW2 many Americans stationed in England had difficulty understanding many local dialectics with the reverse also being true. There is a shop near an American airforce base in England which has a sign in the window which read, English Spoken American Understood.
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  620. See. You thought you were here to learn about naval history. But there is the added bonus of learning British humour.
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  621.  @mattteee2973  He must have heard you as he stopped himself.
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  622. Hungary has enough problems. Hungary has been accused of violating the European Treaty. The European Union Boycotting Hungary's Viktor Orban for his recent meetings with Putin. Hungary recently assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union but the other members of the EU are holding meeting which exclude Orban. So Hungary is not getting support from the rest of the EU.
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  623. I knew most of this, I've long been a student of WW2, but there are always details I may not have come across. Plus Mark has a way of presenting his videos which is excellent.
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  624. I have known people where that would have been a help. At least for us on the outside.
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  625. You hear of people who talk the talk but can't walk the walk. Hawley can run the run.
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  626. You can have lots of guns or lots of armour but not both. And we are having a special on guns. Guns it is then.😄
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  627.  @greymarket6834  Actually the narrator does have a habit of getting things wrong, such as calling the P-40 a jet
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  628. Surely that would be a horse drawn sleight chase. Now that has got to be worth watching. One of the pursuing sleights doing a sliding turn taking out a row of snow men. Carrots and coal all over the place. 😊
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  629. True. Didn't the US do the same? It's been awhile but seem to remember reading that when some of the older US ICBMs were replaced they were used to launch satellites. Which makes good sense. Why waste a perfectly good rocket.
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  630. The One Trick Pony has found himself in the wrong race.
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  631. Hi. Yes. You know all the things we tell you about not having fires onboard your tar-coated wood and canvas ships, especially with all that gun powder. Well we've been thinking and we now think it could be a good idea. I can go do what with the rudder.
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  632. Well need to know about their pirate adventures
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  633. They look fresh from the factory
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  634. History according to Hollywood rarely has more then a passing resemblance to reality.
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  635. Not the only ones Javier 86. US pilots for the Korean War have been said to have ended up in Russia and some aircrew from the Vietnam War, such as F4 radar operators are said to have ended up there.
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  636.  @TheFirstCalled.60.A.D  NATO is purely defensive. A fact you'd know if you knew anything about NATO. So, unlike Russia, they do not take over other countries.
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  637. A very deadly game of cat and mouse. These sort of flights could be a series on their own.
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  638.  @RCAvhstape  Thanks for that. Air America worked with the CIA but was not part of the CIA. Lots of people assume that they were part of the CIA, myself included, but the were civilian contractors. Interestingly their aircraft belonged to the USAF.
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  639. If that's the cost to Ukraine just imagine what the cost to Russia is. They have lost contracts to sell oil and gas to Europe. No one want their military equipment and the Rubel is worth about 1cent.
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  640. That's probably because she has not got superpowers. They do not know how to write about people who can only fly by using an aircraft. Sad state of affairs.
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  641. Somewhat ironic the King Donald I is on his throne courtesy of a party called the Republicans.
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  642. I forgot to mention about the statue to commemorate those who died or were injured. It is in an area of Hull called Hessle Road nearby to where the dock, known as Fish Dock, was located. And where many of those who went to sea or worked on in the dock lived. And it would not be the last time Hull trawlermen was involved on combat. During both world wars many served in the Royal Navy some on the very same trawlers they would have been on in peacetime. They often acted as convoy escort to convoys sailing around Britain, a job which was very dangerous. Especially during the Second World War as Hull is on the East Coast which is closest to German. Hull, in fact, was the second most bombed city in Britain, the first being London.
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  643. When were are told someone invented this or that what we are often actually saying is someone took existing ideas and found a new way of using them. Back in 1978 the was a BBC television series, appropriately, called Connections, created, written, and presented by science historian James Burke. The shows demonstrated how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events were built from one another successively and this interconnectivity brought about modern technology. The BBC was producing television programmes before WW2 and when war was declared on 3rd September 1939 they were broadcasting of a Disney cartoon. The cartoon was halted part way through and when broadcasting was resumed after the war ended the rest of the cartoon was shown. No mention of a caption card saying 'Sorry for the delay but there were technical difficulties what with the war and everything.' I forgot to mention we had cable locally from a company called Rediffusion which began broadcasting 22 September 1955. As well as renting out the cable they also ran a rental chain for TVs and radios and later VCRs and hi-fi systems. They were bought out in 1984. Just last week as I walked down the street I came across a small manhole cover which said Rediffusion on it.
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  644.  @andrewgause6971  I must admit that writing that all men are born equal while keeping slaves has led me to the same conclusion
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  645. As we know this was something of a trend with America at that time. As you probably know that one US ship even throw potatoes at a Japanese submarine that got to close. So giving them more dakka made them more effective. And also stopped them getting hungry while watched their next meal float away.
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  646. I had vague idea there was more to him then his reputation would have us believe. Definitely well worth remembering. Thanks
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  647. One of the things with employing servants was that it was against the law for them to go on strike, which made it difficult to get better pay and working conditions. Interestingly railway employees were also classed as servants to the railway companies for the same reason. But in this case it did not have the same results as railway employees did go on strike and the railways did not invoke the notion that as servants what they were doing was illegal in case it inflamed the situation and would make thinks worse. After WW1 many of them left service to get better jobs. This meant many households were struggling to find servants. A situation made worse by the fact that they could not match the increase in pay many former servants were now receiving. They even tried to get the government of the day to force unemployed servants to return to service, but to no avail.
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  648. Pilot: whatever you do don't press that button until I tell you. Co=pilot: What this button.
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  649. The spirit of Christmas 1914 twenty years later.
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  650. To be fair the Skyraider only stayed as long as it did because of the Viet Nam War. Having said that it now looks like propeller driven aircraft are making a comeback as it has been realised that using the A-10 in counterinsurgency is a lot like using a Rolls-Royce for pizza delivery.
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  651. Like the Mosquito the Ho 229 was glued together. Unlike the Mosquito the 229s glue kept coming unstuck. But then again the Horton's were using slave labour to make the glue and they had no incentive for Germany to win
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  652. We should all be given T-Shirt which says 'I Survived The Patreon Drydock' 😀
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  653. I think the fact that he talked about them being sunk and nothing about the people getting out may be connected.
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  654. I was aware of this operation but not of the details so many thanks for that. The Vichy forces may have held out longer then those of France in 1940 but the forces in France were very much hamstrung by political interference. This came about before the war when the French government was in fear of a military coup and because of this had put an excessive constants on the French Army. This resulted in commanding officers not carrying out orders until they had a copy of those orders in hand. Because of this the Germans were able to exploit situations much quicker then the French. A couple of quick corrections. Quay is pronounced key. I dare say quay was originally pronounced as you did but over time it has changed to key. And HMS Ramillies is pronounced Ram i lees. I hope you do not mind me correcting them, after all we are all here to learn. And I am sure there are American placenames I would get wrong.
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  655. The story of these tanks and what happened to them, their crews and the rest of the Germans and the failed offensive has a modern ring to it.
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  656. That Su 25 was definitely shot down by the other aircraft. The question is who was flying the other aircraft. When the following aircraft locked up the Su 25 you would have expected the Su 25 to have been using chaff and flares. The fact that the Su 25 pilots did not do that is odd.
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  657. Gazprom, Russia's biggest business, has just reported huge losses. Oil to China and India, which is heavily discounted, has to be shipped by sea because there is no pipeline. Russia is on a war economy and it is the production of arms and equipment for the military which is the only thing keeping the economy afloat.
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  658. That description sums up the Tory party
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  659. So the work experience boy is finally leaving
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  660. I have in the past read about Panzer IVs fighting for Syria but it was always a case of having no proof and some doubt as to whether or not it was true. Then a couple of years ago I came across an article about the Golan Heights and there was a Panzer IV. And now, thanks to this video, I see it was much more extensive then I thought. Well done
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  661. You mentioned the speed of the Albacores being so slow that a destroyer passed them. Well this reminded me of something I read about British aircraft in the early part of WW1. They were so slow that on occasion while flying westward to return to their airfields they would be flying into a head wind which could be anything up to 10 MPH faster then they could fly. So in effect they were flying backwards. The only way they could make any headway was to tack across the wind like a sailing ship.
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  662. We all know about the big warships, but it is usually the smaller ships like destroyers and submarines which see the most action.
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  663. Thanks, Ed. I did come across this helicopter some years ago and my first thoughts were surely this is just one big flying target. But after reading about its use in Viet Nam I did wonder why many more were not used. A couple of years ago I came across some interesting statistics with regards to the use of helicopters in Viet Nam with regards to combat time seen by US troops. In WW2 the average marine saw 40 days of combat while fighting in the Pacific. In Viet Nam a soldier would see 315 days of combat. Being able to move troops into and out of the field very quickly making the difference.
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  664. You can just imagine the reaction of the crew when it turns out the new owner is now the old owner. Captain. Guess what men. Crew. Oh, not again. The again, imagine your a captain of a French ship during the Franco-Prussian War realising have familiar that Prussian ship is.
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  665. These raids led the UK to set up a series of observation post, initially manned by British Army personnel but later by Special Constables (volunteer police officers). They became an important part of the defence against air attack being coordinated with the anti-aircraft guns. In 1925 they became the Royal Observer Corps and again served a similar role in WW2. The Royal Observer Corps was finally disbanded in 1996. I once met someone who served in the Royal Observer Corps and we talked about the history of the unit to which he was quite knowledgeable. I was in the position of being able to add to his knowledge of the period from WW1 until the Corps formation as he was not aware of this part of its history.
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  666. Talking about the North Korean infantry swarming over the tanks reminded me of something I read about British Centurion tanks fighting out there. The British tank crews were swatting them off the same way with MG fire when the crews noticed that the North Korean infantry which were trying to get to the tanks were marching in formation. Not running as you might expect but marching. If they got close to a tank the tank just drove away hosing the infantry down as they did so.
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  667. The problem for Putin is that the Russian economy could collapse before the West's willingness to support Ukraine does. Afterall the West did the same with the Soviet Union.
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  668. I must admit that for some time I have been of the opinion that Prigozhin was being hung out to dry by the Russian army. To be fair he did bring this on himself by making exaggerated claims about his own forces while belittling the Russian army. Prigozhin and his Wagner group are now paying the price for his arrogance.
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  669. As a Frenchman it's the way he wanted to go.
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  670. The fact that back before WW2 they looked at making a flying tank really should have warned us about this.
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  671. Think that's most of us
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  672. Back in the 60s Australia wanted to encourage people to migrate to Australia. To help with this they had something called assisted passage whereby most of the cost of moving to Australia was borne by the Australian government. This was aimed mostly Britain as Australia only wanted white people to migrate there.
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  673. I knew bout both Chad and Kilroy but it was interesting to be reminded of it. Thanks.
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  674. Education about warships and the Britsh sense of humour. What more could you want
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  675. This is one of three history channels I subscribe too. The other two are Mark Felton who covers tanks and The History Guy who does some really good videos on forgotten history. Having a great day today as all three posted.
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  676. The risk of hanging on is not that you can narrow the gap. The risk is that you just make it worse at the polls because people just want rid of you, they've had enough. Just like in 97 with John Major.
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  677.  @TheWilferch  My thoughts exactly
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  678. The Lib Dems could end up the biggest party without an election
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  679. Well it is not unusual for soldiers to want to take a local treasure home with him. And after 70 years together they both made a good choice.
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  680. Definitely unusual behaviour for people in the armed forces. Fitting out with unofficial equipment and weapons. Nope. No one else would do that.
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  681. In other countries government, judges and prosecutors are all separate from each other. Politicians have no say in who can be a judge or a prosecutors. Otherwise how can governments be held to account.
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  682. Very interesting. Thanks for that. Everyone knows about places like Chicago and New York but you don't the smaller places are rarely heard of. I am not sure why they thought prohibition would be a success. It looks to me like it had not been thought it through. Banning the production and sale of alcohol was not going to stop people wanting to have a drink. And as we all know where there's a will there's a way. We did have a temperece movement here in the UK which date back to the 19th century but to many people's livelihood were tied up in it for it to have succeeded in banning the sale of alcohol.
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  683. I have read about this event and the mystery of the missing crew. I had wondered if, while they were examining the oil slick, one of them had opened the door to take a better look while it was doing a low level pass. Then, whilst doing so, he had over balanced and fell out but was hanging on to part of the airship. His crewmate had tried to pull him back in but then they both fell out into the ocean.
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  684. Thanks, Ed. I came across the P-43 many years ago but there was very little in the way of in formation given at the time. So it was great to have the blanks filled in.
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  685. And in the Spanish Me-109.
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  686. So Russia fires a supersonic anti-ship missile. And then went back to port to wait for the next one to be built.
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  687. Fighter jets. I think not. And yes we already knew that one of the midget submarines had launched torpedoes.
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  688. Boris Johnson delivered Brexit says the man whose job it was to do just that, and failed miserably, then he bottled out on the flimsiest of excuses.
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  689. I was thinking about French warships a few weeks ago when I found a YouTube video about a floating hotel that was originally sat over the Great Barrier Reef some years ago. You have to wonder what they would have finally looked like once they were finished.
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  690. Russia may be on a war footing but considering the huge number of shortages Russia is facing that is not what it seems. The Russians are so short of artillery shells they are having to buy them from North Korea. Russia is not building any new tanks. In fact Russia's efforts are directed towards repairing their existing T-72, T-80 and T-90 tanks. The problem is that Ukraine is killing these tanks faster that Russia can bring the repaired tanks bank into action. They are now so short of tanks they are having to scour their stocks for T-62 tanks which first saw service with the USSR back in 1961 and went out of service with them in 1975 to put back into service. Ben Wallace may want the job as much for the fact his old job has now got a limited life span.
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  691.  @askedkedeldeif  As some 40% of Russia's tank loses in Ukraine are the latest and most up to date version of the T-72, despite making up only some 20% of the Russian tank force, the evidence does not support that idea. They have sent in their best and it has done little good for them. Besides who would send in their weakest forces to lead an invasion. That would not make any sense militarily. And let's not forget that they used the 331st Guards Parachute Regiment at the beginning of the war. And they are supposed to be the best of the best. That is the regiment which not only failed to take their assigned target, a Ukrainian airfield, but also lost their colonel as well. We all looked at them and thought of the old Soviet Union military. But Russia has been in economic decline even before the Soviet Union collapsed. And it has been going downhill ever since. Economic cutbacks have led to a steep decline in all areas of Russian life. Where is the much vaunted T-14. There should have been 2,300 in service by now. They are now saying they will not enter service until 2025. There are a number of reasons why they are not in service and will not be for some time, if ever. One is simply the Russia's economy cannot afford them. Another reason is that cutbacks in education means they are having to buy most of the parts from abroad because they have no more engineers to make the parts themselves. They have had to shut down the tank factory where they are made because they do not have anything to make new ones. Not even the T70s. And let's not forget the sales of Russian aircraft have fallen through because things like the engines are very poor and the radar is about 30 years out of date. Turns out the Russian military is not, as we thought, ten feet tall. In fact they are struggling to look four feet tall. It turns out that the Russian bear is a paper tiger.
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  692. Now have a vision of Ancient Greek philosophers having a knock down drag out fight about how to say the name of a mythical Greek hero
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  693. Interesting that MI6 is so feared by the Russians.
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  694. One thing the film probably got wrong was Cassidy's accent. His father came from Lancashire in England and as Butch was raised on their farm he picked up his father's accent. In fact Butch's family have said he sounded like the late Lancastrian actor, singer-songwriter and comedian, George Formby. And another connection is the Formby's early career was as a stable boy and jockey. Formby's catchphrase was 'it's turned out nice again' and I did wonder if Butch ever used it after a successful bank raid.😊
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  695. We have already seen one man set fire to his local recruitment office. It help that they still keep paper records. And many of those who have left are young enough to serve. So, as they say, they are voting with their feet.
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  696. I know how you feel. Who would have thought Hollywood would get history so wrong. Makes you doubt other historical films they have made.
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  697. I knew about the Werewolf units. They were supposed to have been issued with a belt buckle which looked like a standard issue buckle but had four short pistol barrels behind it inside each with a round. The idea was that when they were captured the Werewolf soldier would place his hands on his belt as if surrendering. Then when the Allied soldier was close enough the Werewolf pressed a button on the buckle and the front of the buckle dropped down on a hinge and fired all four shots. Not sure if it was ever used but it was possibly as dangerous to the Werewolf as it was to the Allied soldier. And if it failed the Germans would have been shot out of hand. And once news got around then the slightest resistance would have resulted in more Germans dead.
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  698.  @spitefulwar  As long as something more substantial then a cuckoo pops out.🐤
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  699. Not what you would call an exclusive club. Membership of millions.
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  700. You thought the Chieftain trying to climb out of a tank was exciting. I think we now know why they invented the ejector seat.
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  701. The entire border between Russia and NATO is guarded on the Russian side by an old man on a bicycle while carrying a stick. Except on Tuesdays when he has to go get his wife's prescription.
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  702. You know when your hide is good when someone pisses into you hide and not know your there.
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  703.  @justinmorales6342  Considering what happens when airships crash I think it would be safer if we just kept that one to our imaginations.
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  704. So when the Germans had already taken France in 1940 why did they continue building these guns? Especially when you consider the fact that the German economy was not it the best of shape even before the war.
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  705. Obviously the watermelon was more of a match lighting the powder keg. If it had not been that it could well have been something else. The Arab Spring started when a young street vendor committed suicide over constant police harassment. But that young mans death was, as with this cast, the catalyst. And again if it had not been him it may well have been something else.
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  706. They did most of their preparation on the way to the Falklands while onboard the ships. Many of the troops had to work up their fitness levels before they were ready for combat. Also they did not have to coordinate with other countries.
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  707. The British engine was superior by the simple expedient of actually existing. The axial flow was known about by Sir Frank Whittle but he went ahead with his engine because at that time the metals needed for the axial flow engines did not exist. His engine could be built as it made better use of the metals available and it was more reliable than that of Germany. The German engine was axial flow but because they also lacked the metals needed it had a very short life span of some 25 hours before it needed to be rebuilt. So, no the American engine would not have been superior because at the time metallurgy would not be advanced enough to build it.
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  708. Well at that age they would not be expected to drive a vehicle or operate heavy machinery. So no real harm done.
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  709. I always thought the F-5/F-20 was much underrated. And considering how long they lasted and how many were built they should be better known.
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  710. Must admit when you said 'one problem with French Naval design' my eyebrows were raised somewhat. 31 naval ministers in thirty years. Having said that that is about the same number of Italian governments in the last thirty years.
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  711. Yes but not as good as a T-72 turret
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  712. Where would we be without the man in his shed.
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  713. You get the feeling someone is about to have the worst day of their lives. Fortunately it will only be a short lived problem.
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  714. With my first car I had, on occasion, to start it by hand. Not a fun thing to do at the best of times. On a cold wet and windy night it's surprising how many swear words you remember.
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  715. Locked and loaded. Haven't we been here before?
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  716.  @jamestheotherone742  Surely both were rejecting a culture they disapproved of. And considering what the Nazi's did to others shows that they held the lives of other cheaply as well. There may be detailed differences but over all they are very similar.
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  717. I think we can agree that Russia is well beyond embarrassed. The old Soviet army would have had tanks in the middle of Kyve within days if not hours of the invasion starting. Having said that the standard Russian soldier is no brighter that his Soviet counterpart. During the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 Czech students would go up to Soviet Russian tank crews and ask them why they had invaded a fellow Warsaw Pact country, the Russians were just as clueless then as their modern peers are today as to why they were there, and while the students were talking to the tank crew one of their number would go to the back of the tank and set fire to the external fuel tank.
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  718. At the same time Braverman is attacking Sunak about the immigration figures while at the same time forgetting the fact that she was the one in charge during that period.
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  719. Still the same feeling of an enjoyable Saturday morning but with ships.
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  720. Well as he was not from the moon then yes he was an alien
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  721. Somewhat ironic that the first prototypes used British engines as that is what Spain did to keep its Messerschmits flying
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  722. That's one thought. But I had wondered if China would not have been a better choice. They've been trying to breakaway from Russia's offering so they may have been more open to his ideas'
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  723. Paddy Mayne , Sterling's second in command, accounted for more aircraft destroyed then any Allied fighter pilot. This raid alone brought him a tally of 40 aircraft.
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  724. It looks like the reason Russia has had to dig out the old T-62s is because those in command of the various tank parks were selling off the better T-72s on the black market. So not only are Russian troops having to use older and very much outdated tanks they even cheated the Russian state the money it would have received from those sales.
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  725. All his years of experience. Has he started shaving yet? Maybe the FBI will give them some pointers, or just teach them a lesson they'll never forget.
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  726. I had heard of these submarines but I knew nothing of what they did. So it is good to find out more about them. I noticed some of the photographs show U-155 near Tower Bridge. Obviously post war. The British R Class submarine was built specifically to hunt German submarines in WW1. It could run at 14 knots submerged and had six torpedo tubes but no deck gun. The inclusion of a deck gun would have reduced her submerged speed. She also included a hydrophone array in her bow which would allow her to track German submarines while the British submarine was submerged. Though they did not come into service until the end of the war one did successfully hunt and fire on a German submarine but unfortunately they only hit failed to go off. It was not until 1945 that a British submarine succeeded in sinking another submerged submarine.
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  727. Okay swapping channels here but that is History That Deserves To Be Remembered. Thanks
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  728. For Trump to cry he'd need to have feelings. My toasters got more feelings then Trump.
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  729. Mostly because she is a walking disaster. She said that the gun she gave Alec Baldwin was safe when it had the live round in it and then walked off the set rather than stay there as she should have. Guns were left all around the set when she should have had control of them. She watched actors walking around with guns which she should have taken off them. She was reprimanded by Nicholas Cage on her previous film for firing guns while they were filming. These were just some of her many faults. She only got the job because her father, also an armourer and well known in Hollywood talked Alec Baldwin into taking her.
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  730. A very interesting story and very typical of such situations where the law can be monopolised and manipulated by a powerful group. It reminded me of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers of the 16th century. There were various powerful local families controlling the border between England and Scotland, many of whom used the law to enhance their power. Interestingly there were some so powerful the just ignored the law and did what they wanted to. And jail breaks were not uncommon. The The Hatfield–McCoy feud was a school yard dust up compared to what these families got up to. A bit of Anglo-Scottish-American history for you. When Nixon first became president at his inauguration there was Lyndon Johnson and Billy Graham. If you went to the western end of the Anglo-Scottish border and then draw a circle with a 15 mile radius then within the radius you would find the Johnson's, the Nixon's and the Graham's. Their ancestors. All powerful border reivers. And Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, is a descendent of the most powerful and feared of these families.
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  731. Submarine come cruiser come carrier. It's a one ship navy. One theory is she was sunk by one of her crew who was a Vichy supporter. Though how you would prove that without any proof I don't know. And no one has put forward any evidence, such as one of the crew telling his loved ones what he intended, it will just remain a 'man in the pub' claim.
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  732. On the upside these sort of people are in decline. Another generation and they will be gone as a political party.
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  733. Thanks, Ed. I knew very little about the YC-14 and even less about the YC-15. So, thanks to you, that is no longer the case. I know the Soviets took to the YC-14 design for the Antonov An 72/74 but as they have so many grass and dirty airstrips you can see why. Maybe take a look at their version at some point.
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  734. Sorry. We are looking to Sunak to stop being a wimp and suddenly finding his long lost spine.
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  735. 'Silly student politics.' Alex Salmond
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  736.  @Josh-oy7zp  His education came a great expense and he was bested at PMQs by someone who went to a comprehensive school. Not a great ad for private education
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  737. Thanks, Mark. I'm pleased some of these old warhorses are going back home I wonder if there will be a future episode with T-34s and BT-7s are found in Crimea when the Russian finally leave.
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  738. And you thought brown nosing was bad enough. And yes I also laugh each time kissing Trump's ring is mentioned.
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  739. I've long thought that the Conway's are playing a game here. Once Trump's gone there will be book deals and TV interviews for the two of them.
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  740. @michael Dinneweth So he was not the military genius he claimed to be.
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  741. Personally I'm not surprised. Giving such delightful news just before Christmas is not uncommon. Happy Christmas, your fired.
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  742. In the paining it looks to me like the woman is holding a book of matches. This would go with the fact that the man next to her is holding an unlit cigarette. Possibly this shows that she has what he needs but she is not providing it.
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  743.  @juanausensi499  There is a story of a saint who, while sailing across the Atlantic, saw an island. Having climbed onto the island he started a fire only to have the island swim away. It looks like he mistook a whale for an island. I am not sure what he was the saint of but short-sightedness would be a good start.
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  744. Better then some drum solos I've heard.
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  745. We've started believing the Russians now have we.
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  746. It's a shame that those who coined the phrase decided not to include Porto Rico. You can fight and die for America but if your Porto Rican you do not get a vote about going to war.
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  747. Just as the captains of these ships thought there was a chance of surviving the war suddenly there appears a very large fan and a mountain of manure. USN: An early Christmas present for you boys. IJN: But we don't celebrate Christmas USN: You will this year.
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  748. Somewhat ironically Russia has been withdrawing troops from the various republics because of the need to replace those lost in Ukraine. Much to the pleasure of the local population who cheered the Russians leaving. Apparently there is a report based on a couple of Ukrainian pilots who flow F-16 simulators in the US which surprised the instructors as to how well they did. The report states that they thought the Ukrainian pilots would only need four months training to complete the conversion.
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  749. Great video. Because many of us no longer face animals such as wolves or bears we forget what it's for them and use to live next to each other. The nearest large carnivora near me is an urban fox. I have only seen it once but finding the remains of the odd pigeon shows it's still about. I knew about the two Kenyan lions as I saw a dramatised documentary about them some years ago. Interestingly the Maasai Mara of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania have a way of dealing with lions which teaches the lions not to attack them. The Maasai Mara carry a long staff to protect themselves if the lions get to close. But it is the stones they carry and how they use them that is the most effective method of dealing with lions. If the Maasai Mara sees a lion they will use the stones to drive it away, even if the lions are not being a threat. The Maasai Mara will even change their route just to throw stones at the lions and drive them off. This may seem cruel but it teaches the lions to stay away from the Maasai Mara. This helps keep both safe as the Maasai Mara will not be attacked by the lions and that means the lions in turn will not become man eaters and then be hunted.
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  750. I always thought they were designed by people who never actually saw a battleship.
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  751. It did remind me of something I came across with fighter pilots in the days before missiles about being greatly out numbered. It did not matter how many there were only one could get behind you.
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  752. Just because your a pirate does not mean you can't look good.
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  753. Plus an old London double decker bus. Don't ask.
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  754. A partial mobilisation. That means whoever turns up are those who were mobilised. That way it does not look like the failure it is.
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  755. Did they have YouTube 40 years ago 🤨
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  756. That's what it's always needed.
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  757. Unused with the plastic cover still on it
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  758. Once again you present us with a nugget of history to which I thank you. You have to wonder how people like him and Thomas Jefferson can proclaim all men are born equal yet at the same time keep slaves. And not just them. If you go back several hundred years even the pope kept slaves. But there is an old northern English saying that "there's nowt as queer as folk (there is nothing as strange as people) sums it up.
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  759. rpl palacio My late father, a British army NCO, would definitely agree with you here. The generals may dream up the battleplans, and get all the glory when it goes right, but it is the NCOs who make it work. And I put my vote on this little Mexican getting the Medal of Honor for your next video, History Guy. Knowing the Japanese view of surrendering I am now intrigued as to how he did it.
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  760. Goes down to about 15-20 French revolutions on Sundays and Holy Days
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  761. knye Just make sure it isn't loaded first.
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  762. Thanks for that. I always say if I've learnt something new I've had a good day and today I have definatelly learnt something new.
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  763. I knew about the idea to use a nuclear weapon on the moon for seismic research. Apparently some piece of a rocket, or something, crashed into the moon and it was suggested that the moon may be hollow. Personally I think that person and been smoking something exotic while watching the film First Men on the Moon, based on the story by HG Wells
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  764. I think Chris is his cover name
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  765. Well if they are getting rid of things which are unpopular Liz Truss should start packing
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  766. He'd not read the memo
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  767. I think even Napoleon would not believe how bad the Russians are.
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  768. If he really believes they are there for the good of the country then they should go now.
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  769. A bit harsh on the Togolese Coast Guard aren't we.😀
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  770. All of them cleverly disguised as ordinary YouTube viewers.
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  771. Cheers to Canada
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  772. I have read that the infantry was disappointed when they were out of range of the battleships guns. Being able to neutralise the enemy with a 15 inch shell
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  773. I have seen a documentary on the K19, but not the film, so I knew what happened to the boat and its crew. Yes, at the time they were our undeclared enemies, but you have to admire their courage. Especially those who went into the reactor knowing what it would do to them.
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  774. The Belarussian military is small and poorly trained so from that stand point it is highly unlikely that Putin would rely on Belarussian pilots to carry out any attacks even if their loyalty could be guaranteed. And he cannot spare any aircraft or pilots to do it himself so Putin is probably moving them to Belarus for storage because he does not have the troops to guard his border and will rely on Lukashenko to do that for him. The Belarussian economy is having huge problems and Lukashenko is heavily reliant on money from Putin which is why he does Putin's bidding.
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  775. The American scientist used a time machine. I have seen a documentary about it. It has a seat with a spinning umbrella on the back and when you move the lever it travels forward and backwards in time. It was on the History channel. Come to thing about it may have been a movie channel. Has Rod Taylor ever narrated a documentary?
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  776. Anything can put the history channel to shame.
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  777. At this point we hope Starmer does get rid of the House of Lords
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  778. So this time round it could be the entire party who have a Portillo moment. Something to look forward too.
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  779.  @steveb6103  Of course. Interesting how you bump into like minded people on the better history channels
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  780. We know how well they'd fight.
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  781. Pick the right channels and you can get a very good educations here,
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  782. Must have been most upsetting to him. Him being a winner and all. Or was that whiner.
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  783. Another enjoyable and informative video. Thanks. I did read about some non Russian Soviet military supply drivers who got drunk drinking the antifreeze used in their trucks. Some of them actually got their eyesight back.
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  784. Why send a warship instead of a tug? Being how the tug was designed for such things and the crew was more experienced in such matters.
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  785. Weddings must have been an interesting, if somewhat dangerous, affair. I think one vital stipulation would be no balloons. Last thing you'd need would be one of those bursting.
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  786. I think the guardian angel was reassigned to other duties.
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  787. As the Russian population is very much in decline it will be impossible to ever replace their loses from this war which will obviously have a knock-on effect to the Russian economy. Combine this with so many people who could set up their own businesses in Russia leaving at the start of the war it has left Russia doomed to fail. Ironically yet one more thing Putin was trying to avoid with the invasion.
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  788.  @GBDanner96  The Russian fleet is even more nervous if the Kamchatka is with them.
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  789. Trouble if Trump ends up in prison. They'll not know if he has his orange jump suit on or if he's naked. It's orange either way. His next TV reality show. Orange Is The New Orange.
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  790. It now looks like one of the tankers Russia uses to ship aviation fuel to Syria has been hit and has had to be towed into port with a flooded engine room. That's going to make supplying Russia's jets in Syria something of a problem. Also one more headache for Putin and the Russian navy.
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  791. Considering the kit coming Ukraine's way with tanks and Bradleys Putin's waiting for the west to get bored is not going to work. Especially as all these AFVs mean that Ukraine can put together a battle group and Russia is struggling as it is. The people behind Putin at 1:07 are not soldiers but his bodyguard. Everytime you see Putin in a shot like this no matter what the occasion or how they are dress they are the people behind him.
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  792. I think it missed its calling as it would have made an excellent lawn mower. Hole football fields mown in a matter of minutes. I believe the Germans were working on such a project during the war. Though whether or not they got passed the drawing board stage I do not know.
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  793. Either way if would definatelly ruin your day.
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  794. Actually half your fellow countrymen, and women, are tea drinkers. Once they got the hang of it, and realised you did not need to throw it into Boston Harbour to get the best flavour, they quite took to drinking tea. Me. I am British but I am with you on the coffee. Unless it's Earl Grey tea of course. 👍😄
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  795. The commander later admitted that he thought they had survived because he was carrying his lucky bullet magnet. 😃💥
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  796. Setting aside the fact that this person does not want to give his life to the glory Czar Vladimir the Impaler, kudos on that, I find it more than a little interesting that in a time of computers, tablets and smartphones Russia is still keeping paper records.
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  797.  @larryg3326  It may seem odd but the shipwrights were looking for curved trees. If you look at the old sailing ships the ribs are curved. So they looked for curved tree trunks. The reason they were looking for curved trees is that they had a natural strength to them. Where as if you had to make these ribs it would have involved attaching two or more parts together. The joints would have been a source of weakness. Long straight trunks would have been used for the keel. England had run out of such suitable trees in the Middle Ages and most of the wood came from the Baltic region. Much of it came through the post of Kingston upon Hull. During the Napoleonic War one man, sorry I have forgotten his name, would carry acorns with him and wherever he went he would plant them. He knew that it would take two hundred years for them to grow to the point they could be used but he wanted the Royal Navy to have a British source of oak tree. To the best of my knowledge none of them have been used in the construction of the Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers.
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  798. Most people would settle for pizza. But we're not most people
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  799. I too wondered about the propeller being at the rear when it came to landing. I also wondered about the arrester hook as there did not seem to be a good place to put it.
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  800. By rotating RAF and USAAF pilots out they would be sent to pass on their experiences to the new pilots, which gave them more of a chance when they went into action. This, as we know, was not done by the Germans and the Japanese. Which meant their new pilots had a much lower chance of surviving long enough to gain the experience they needed.
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  801. Mathematics was the work of the devil. Explains much of what they tried to teach me when I was at school. especially as many maths teacher cannot explain why we needed to learn it.
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  802. When you see news reports it is always one thing which caused the disaster. Then when you look into it you find there is always other things which went wrong before that.
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  803.  @lomax343  So true.
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  804.  @eottoe2001  Interestingly at the start of WW1 there was little animosity towards Germans in the UK. But as the war progressed this changed and German owned shops would be attacked in some areas. Some shops with foreign sounding names had to put up notices stating they were not German.
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  805. Well we know him. And you have to wonder how things would have been had he, as his more famous brother had said, been the general instead.
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  806. The actor Jon Pertwee served on HMS Hood and was transferred off the ship for officer training shortly before she was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck. He must have known many of those who died when she was sunk.
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  807. The Conservatives. Leaving no iceberg unrammed.
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  808. The R Boat had a less glamorous life than the S Boat but but being the workhorse of the German small naval vessels probably saw more action as they carried out a variety of roles from convoy escort, coastal patrol, minelaying and air-sea rescue as well as in every theatre including the Baltic, Mediterranean, the Arctic and the Black Sea. Like others here I hope she can be saved.
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  809.  keith moore  I was going to suggest Rust Bill got a hobby but I think this is it.
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  810. When your only support is from Matt Gaetz then you are in trouble.
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  811. Considering that the Germans and Japanese each believed that that they were racially superior to all other races that has got to be interesting. Especially in the confined space of a submarine.
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  812. He's going to find that his phrase "commoners are revolting," may have a different meaning.
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  813. The 159 always looked to me like they forgot to add the bottom wing to a biplane. Other that the fact it looks like the trainer I do wonder what advantage having the wing on the top would give, especially when you consider the how much sky it blocks out.
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  814.  @Antiteshmis  Not sure where those figures came from but it looks like they are wrong. Russia is churning out 125 tanks a month. But about 114 are old models, such as the T-55s and T-60s, which have been refurbished. They are manufacturing some 11 T-90s a month. In contrast Russia lost 352 tanks in June. So for every one they are bring into service approximately 2.8 tanks per month are being destroyed.
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  815.  @ubb262s  That sounds more like an excuse. Why did he botch the hangings of US troops then.
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  816. When you hear about air accidents where an aircraft crashes because of a series of events it is great to come across one where a little bit of luck made all the difference.
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  817. She was very fortunate. There were families with more sons then that and none came back.
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  818. I have known about many things he has covered, I have been studying much of this era since I was at school, but he always manages to bring some little gem to light or adds detail to what I already know. And I have to agree with you about him teaching at school. When you have someone who loves a subject as much as him it makes you want to listen.
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  819.  @mordicuspb  Well it's not like the French had colonies, such as French Algeria or French Indochina, or setting up an Emperor in Mexico with the French Army, or French West Africa. Otherwise they would have a dirty colonial past. And we would not want that would we.
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  820. When he was talking about a lair I thought he was talking about Trump.
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  821. As so often with Russia it is all flash and no bang.
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  822.  @pmvaldez1  Did make takeoff a bit tricky.
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  823. Thanks for that. I did know about the use of bazookas on the Piper Cub and the German aircraft brought down by pistol fire as the channel run by Mark Felton had covered both events but it is good to hear about them again and the background to the aircraft itself. I found the bringing down of the German aircraft by the use of pistols interesting because the very first air to air combat in WW1 involved the use of pistols. Contrast that with the fact that by this time both the British and the Germans were using 20 mm cannons, one shell from them would have destroyed either aircraft. The use of civilian aircraft was carried on during the Viet Nam War as well with the Cessna O-1 Bird Dog used by forward air controllers, which would later be replaced by the twin engined Cessna O-2 Skymaster. Many a soldiers life was saved by both of these aircraft.
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  824.  @jamesbrown4092  I think that only applies to dogs and submarines
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  825. Thanks for the info on the hotel. I was not aware of that. Shame it is to be demolished. We had something similar after the war but most Victorian buildings. That and the fact that one Adolf Hitler got into town planning.
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  826. As Russia is using T-72s, T-80s and T-90s all of which are from the Soviet era, technically you could call them Soviet tanks. Or Soviet era tanks.
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  827.  @redrumtm3435  I think the radio waves you refer to were part of the guidance method they had for their bomber during night attacks. It was originally used to help aircraft land at night or in poor weather. These could and were effected so that the bombers could be well off target. Counter intelligence operations by both the British and Germans were very good. British intelligence did have its bad spots but for the most part was very effective. Unfortunately for Germany Canaris was useless. Have you read 'Fields of Deception: Britain's Bombing Decoys of World War II (Monuments of War)' by Colin Dobinson. Excellent book about how decoys were used to lure German bomber away from their target. I have seen parts of the decoy used locally to convince the Germans they were bombing the local docks which were in fact several miles away. Some of the things they did were a stroke of genius. Well worth a read.
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  828. I do get the feeling that when aircraft like this one is the subject of the video it should be accompanied by theme for Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machine. As there were several perfectly flyable biplane bomber what made them think this would work. I understand they had a lack of experience, not that we needed telling, but at least take a look at what everyone else was doing. When I say everyone else I took it as read that excludes anything by Caproni.
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  829.  @rring44  I get the feeling that the machinery in a Nelson would sink the La Fantasque by shear weight alone.
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  830. I had the Airfix model of this when I was a kid. Then, to my great delight, I later I saw the real thing. Quite a day to remember. During the Battle of Narvik, which included HMS Warspite, a Swordfish was used as a dive bomber.
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  831. There is an extremely simple reason why Ukraine is not saying anything. So as it keeps the Russians guessing.
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  832. I've long said if you want excitement in the navy go for a small ship. Them big ones look good but the small one a like terriers nipping at the heels of the enemy. I wonder if the dockyard had a new bow on standby just in case.
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  833. I did read that by the 1870s British hangmen had a formula which set out the length of the rope compared to the weight of the prisoner. So once you knew the prisoners weight you measured out the rope and the drop would kill them. The formula was revised several times but by the time Pierrepoint became a hangman it had been set.
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  834.  @ogedaykhan9909  Historically that may be true. But not any more. Where are the T-14 Armata we were told about. They should have had 2,300 by 2020 but they are struggling to make the 100 for the test batch. Which was also supposed to be arriving by 2020. They next date is now 2025. Russia does not have the funding to pay for these tanks. Nor do they have the ability to produce all the parts for the tank. Russia cut back on education funding some years ago so no new engineers, the people needed to build the new tanks. The engineers they do have are in their late fifties and older. So they are having to buy what they need from abroad. And after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 they can no longer buy those parts. Russia's tank factory has had to shut because of the lack of materials so they can no longer build or maintain the tanks they have. Their aircraft are no better. They have just had several orders for aircraft cancelled because the engines and radar are just so out of date. Interestingly these are the same engines China has in their aircraft. Yes they can sell gas and oil. But they are reliant on gas and oil companies coming in to extract it as they are just not capable of doing it themselves. I think may of use thought like you. But now were are seeing the real Russia. And it's not a pretty sight
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  835. Nope. Just the usual lame troll.
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  836. Sunk by your own sides mine. Not their finest hour.
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  837. Looking forward to the Portillo moment when Rees-Mogg gets kicked out.
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  838. The one time the torpedoes not exploding was a blessing not a curse.
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  839. The doctor asked the sailor what happened. The sailor said the blast effected his a*sehole and testicles . Rectum, said the doctor. Rectum, said the sailor. It nearly blew them off.
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  840.  Kabuki Kitsune  Not sure why they were investigating Hoffa. Seems like a solid citizen.
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  841. Makes you wonder who else they got. America was not alone in any of these conflicts. I know there was a suspicion for a long time that a British pilot who had been flying an F86 in Korea had the same fate. Turns out he had died in the crash but who else survived and ended up in Moscow.
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  842. Japanese pilots. The original one trick ponies
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  843.  @zakofrx  Even the cute ones kill you if annoyed. Are we still talking about the wildlife or the people
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  844. Watching a Mark Felton video while drinking coffee. I like your style
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  845. The future Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill owned one of these. Now that one would be worth some money.
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  846. No sense of humour, Goring. Which is surprising when you see how he dressed.
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  847. Not heard of that encounter. Thought it is not the last US aircraft lost to the Warsaw Pact. There was a US aircraft, I think it was a C130, which used to fly reconnaissance just outside the Russian border. It always flew as close as it could to the border which meant it would occasionally clip it and momentarily pass into Russian airspace. It was flying a mission one day and it was being followed by Russian jets when, sure enough it clipped the edge of Russian airspace. As soon as that happened one Russian jet fired a missile and brought the US plane down killing all on board. A suggestion for a future video. RAF aircrew flying secret US reconnaissance missions in American aircraft. Eisenhower has stopped the CIA flying reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union. I believe they had been using USAF RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft flying from Mildenhall. So when Eisenhower banned the flights they made arrangements with the British RAF to crew them instead. This lasted until the RAF started using the reconnaissance version of the Canberra. The Canberra was a much better aircraft then the RB-47.
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  848. It more like ejected
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  849. The Manchester also brought down the Hawker Tornado which used the same Vulture engine. The irony here was that the Vulture engine was virtually trouble free on the Tornado. You have to wonder what would have happened if the Tornado kept flying and the Typhoon was dropped.
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  850. Jacob Zodag I think he has a note saying he is excused warfare because he has a bone in his foot. But on the upside it is the "greatest bone ever to be in anyone's foot." "Like no other president has ever had a bone as great as his." Then he goes off to find out when the War of 1812 was. Pity he doesn't have a general on his staff who could tell him.
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  851. So Boris Johnson, the man who said there was no parties at number 10 but was fined for being at a party at number 10, has said that there was no conflict of interest when Richard Sharp was made BBC Chairman after helping Johnson get a £800,000 loan guarantee. Guilty as charged I'd say.
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  852. Somewhat ironic that faced with the real thing he was just as disappointed as everyone else. I wonder if it was because he was so used to being a trickster that he could not appreciate the real article when he had it.
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  853. You van just imagine them cooking a meal. Darling, there's something floating in my soup.
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  854. Turns out Braverman is just a tainted as the old torys
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  855. So the Russian navy has just received it's new submarine, I see. And so kind of Ukraine helped with its first dive.
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  856. When the chairman of the party is dodging whether or not he's standing you know they are in trouble.
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  857. The reverse is also true. Manilla is on the opposite side of the world to Europe. I have met people who fought the Japanese in India and Malaya None of my family were out there. I saw aware of what happened in the Philippians but never to this detail.
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  858. Johnson wanted to be PM again and wanted to get Mordent and then Sunak to drop out. When neither did that and Johnson probably did not get the 100 MPs he realised he was beaten.
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  859. You grab the Lewis Gun
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  860. I thought the same when I saw it. I have seen the Comet tank up close and you do wonder how anything could knock one out. And then you see the photographs of them knocked out and wonder why would go into battle in one of them.
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  861.  @stephanfritz2933  I had the very same thought. Drink it first, then fight.
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  862.  @thurin84  I've driven worse then that.
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  863. British misinformation convinced the Germans that there was a planned invasion of Norway by the British 4th Army, which helped to keep German soldiers if Norway instead of Normandy. In reality the 4th Army had not existed since 1918 when it took part in the 100 days campaign which led to the defeat of Germany.
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  864. I'm more surprised that you still have milkmen. Poor mite is not going to be able to follow in daddy's foot steps. Reminds me of the old joke about a couple who have just moved to a different city. One morning just after they had moved the husband comes back into the kitchen, having just picked the milk bottles up of the doorstep, when he turns to his wife and says. 'that milkman must have one hell of a milk round.' 'Why do you say that,' asked his wife. 'Well,' said her husband. 'That's the same milkman we had where we used to live.' 'And that's 90 miles away.'
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  865. There are mayflies with a longer life.
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  866.  @jacquesstrapp3219  True. India is the same. They also have a multilingual population but use English as a universal language.
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  867. And they are the ones who won't go back as they have the skills needed world wide. Better pay, better conditions and a better life and all without Mother Russia.
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  868. Thanks for the video. I had not realised how far back the torpedo boats and destroyers went. Older then you think. I found the fact that some boats used railway engines very interesting as the London North Eastern Railway built the experimental locomotive W1 class in 1929 using two Yarrow boilers which were built by the John Brown shipyard. Whatever its benefits as a ships engine they did not translate into a locomotive engine and she was taken into the LNER's Doncaster Works in 1936 and rebuilt with a conventional boiler.
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  869. As all the men seem to be from the same unit this would suggest that this man was also from that unit.
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  870. One of my first jobs was working in the stockroom at the top of a department store. This included using a lift with the metal scissor gate which I hated as I had come close to trapping my fingers in on more then one occasion. Especially when opening it. So I used to slam it open or shut as hard as I can moving my fingers out of the way as I did so. And I was not alone in doing this. Even the stockroom manager used to do it, roundly cursing it as he did so.
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  871. I did read that there was a theory that the Hs 293 could be jammed by the use of an electric razor. Apparently an electric razor was supposed to gave off a signal which was able to jam the radio signal for the Hs 293. This dos not seem to be true. But you can imagine a captains dilemma. Do I get the crews to man the AA guns or do I get them all to go and have a shave.
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  872. I have often found that Mark covers subjects I already knew about, I have been studying much of this for some time now, but he is always able to find a gem or two to add to what I already knew about. And even though I pride myself on my extensive knowledge of military history he has at times brought us something I have not seen before. Like this one.
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  873. I have wondered whatever happened to the Shermans used in Kelly's Heroes as that was shot in Yugoslavia.
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  874. We know that a number of Nazis fled to Argentina after the war so my guess is this was part of that. The supplies would have been used to keep them fed until they could get themselves in contact with the Germans living there. To do this they would have needed help, not just from the Germans living there but also from some Argentinians. I think the other submarine in the previous video was probably transporting people, probably with a number of other U-Boats. I do wonder if some of the missing U-Boats may have taken others elsewhere. Juan Pujol García, the British spy known as Garbo, came across his old boss in Spain. Is it possible that other Nazis had done the same and moved by U-Boat to Spain. By the end of the war there would have been little chance of a safe passage over land.
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  875. The problem for the Royal Navy was that aircraft and aircraft design was put in the hands of the Royal Air Force. Which meant that their requirements were not properly catered for. Though they did get control back they were having to play catch-up during WW2. The German Kriegsmarine in WW2 had the same problem in that the aircraft they wanted for their carrier but Herman Goring refused to let them have any. I once read an autobiography of a Royal Air Force pilot who served between the wars. It was suddenly decided that RAF pilots should learn to fly from carriers. It was not a decision welcomed by the RAF pilots, as you can imagine.
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  876. I am aware of these bombing missions but, as so often Mark has added some much needed detail
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  877. This is true. Before the invasion the average Russian pilot was getting about one third to one half the annual flying hours of his western counterpart. And he could be flying air defence with wild weasel the next. If you are not getting the hours, training or practise you cannot build up the required skills to the levels you need to do what is required.
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  878. Considering what China is planning with regards to Taiwan I would think that the idea of a negotiated outcome is not always China's first choice.
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  879. There is a move to ban stories about pirates unless the'res an R in the month. 😊👍
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  880. Does what it says on the tin
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  881. You would think so, but hearing him lie you have to think he lies to himself as well.
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  882. When the Stovepipe hat was introduced one man was convicted of scaring the horses with his hat. Bet you didn't know horses were fashion conscious.
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  883. I would love to see that story as well. Though we know about people like the gallant Poles and others fighting along side British Forces we should also remember those who crossed the Irish Sea to fight along side us. Many of whom faced difficulties when they returned home.
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  884. I'm confused. I thought Trump liked walls.
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  885. Can you make Trump look like a bigger idiot then he is. That would be mission impossible.
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  886. Apart from exploding guns they seem to have led a somewhat charmed life. Except that bit at the end when they came to the attention of the USN aircraft.
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  887. I do wonder why they did not keep the BOAC colour scheme rather then having them camouflaged. It would have made it easier to identify them as civilian.
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  888. The Valiant was used during the Suez Crisis where the Egyptians used the MiG 17s to try to intercept it. But as the service ceiling for the Valiant was 2,000 feet higher than that of the MiG they never got close.
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  889. So the tories think Boris Johnson is the answer. The question must be 'this death spiral is taking to long, should we go for the power dive into oblivion?'
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  890. You have to wonder about Trump and Putin having a Royal Hunt. At least Putin could ride a horse and shot a gun, as well as being shirtless.
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  891. What can be better then sitting in a warm room. In a warm house. Drinking hot coffee. And watch a guy from Arizona crawling around in the snows of Finland. And can I just point out that laying there in the snow your fingers getting frostbite is the least of your worries. There are other appendages where frostbite would be more of a worry.
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  892.  @CSSVirginia  Britain had been fighting ethnic Chinese communists in the jungles of Malaya for 12 years, in the Malayan Emergency, which came to an end in 1960. So they did have some experience of jungle warfare through senior NCO's, officers and long term enlistment soldiers still available. Also jungle warfare would still be part of the training offered to many soldier. And the British Army had the excellent Centurion which had also been supplied to Australia. The extra manpower would also have been a great help as well obviously. As for the airforce the Canberra bombers, which were also supplied to the Australians fighting in Vietnam, would have been greatly appreciated. I have read that American Forward Air Controllers loved working with them. It would have been interesting to have seen what the Blackburn Buccaneer would have done there. Look out for film of them flying at Red Flag here on YouTube. They normally flew between 5 and 20 feet above the ground. Of course there was the Special Forces, the SAS and SBS as well as other elite groups. Hope that helps. 👍
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  893. Actually research shows that snipers deal with this much better then the ordinary soldier as there are less incidences of post traumatic stress disorder amongst snipers. This will be to do with assessing their mental balance.
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  894. As the British Royal Navy had divisions of Royal Marines fighting in France during WW1 it would be interesting to know if they carried on with the Mk1** or changed to the Mk3 as used by the British Army, as this would make supplying ammunition easier.
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  895. It is thought that one of the reasons the Neanderthals died out was because after the end of the last ice age they could not get the same amount of calories as before. They were ambush hunter, as shown be the fact they were only capable of short powerful sprints. But after the last ice age the land was more open until the forests moved north, which meant they had difficulty getting within striking range of their prey. Our ancestor used lighter throwing spear along with the spear thrower which meant they could hit their prey animals from a distance. Another thing with the Neanderthals was they tended to be in smaller groups with much less contact between them, unlike our ancestors. This meant that there was little chance of new ideas being passed between the groups, again unlike our ancestors. So the tools they used did not change over time. In fact it was not until they had contact with our ancestors that their tools finally changed.
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  896.  @saxyrep1  My thoughts as well
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  897. European leaders are backing Zelensky not Trump. And the fact that Trump has already messed up with the import tax/tariffs threat has just made him even more isolated.
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  898. They say that in war you don't hear the bullet that kills you. Apparently the same applies to SAM systems and drones.
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  899.  Alien_isolationist  No need to estimate when we can see how weak they are.
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  900. Blowing up those gun positions. Tough war. But you get the stealth armour which goes well with the suppressed assault rifle
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  901. From what I've read this is a long running problem with Russia. Russian troops have been complaining since early in the war about being hit by their own artillery, mortars and airforce. You have to wonder what percentage of Russian casualties are down to friendly fire.
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  902.  @billdyke9745  As you have just confessed to wearing flares on YouTube I think your task of destroying the evidence may not be as successful as you believe 🤔
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  903. Does this mean we have to split the profits four ways.
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  904. I seem to remember reading that many of the Soviet pilots used to fly the harassing attack during WW2 were women who seemed to have developed quite a flair for the task. There was a British tank crew which shot down a MiG-15 in Korea using its main gun. By that time of the war in Korea the tanks were being used more as self-propelled artillery as there was little in the way of opposition from the North Korean tanks. To carry out the task of shelling North Korean positions the tanks were sat on specially constructed ramps to give them more elevation. While they were firing on the enemies lines the MiG flew down the valley the tanks were in passing in front of the tank in question just as it fired. The tank shell hit to MiG blowing it up killing the pilot. Not sure if they were credited with this kill but it has got to be something to boast about.
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  905. The first time I came across Cochrane my thoughts was he would be a fantastic special forces commander. His raids on Spanish fortifications in the Mediterranean was stuff of legends. It got to the point where on sighting his ship he was followed along the coast by a formation of cavalry waiting to pounce the minute his men stepped ashore. What the cavalry did not know was that his raiding party had already been dropped in the ships boats leaving them behind to mount the raid once he had drawn off the Spanish.
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  906. Travelling instantly in all directions. Rather detrimental to moral.
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  907. Originally, yes. But during tests the wine kept floating off and the mistress said "you'll not get me in one of those things," but in French, and went home to her husband.
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  908. @Mazinblaster Zetto Xi was not a happy bunny when Russia invaded Ukraine because they wanted to keep the west quite. Now he can see what China can expect if they invade Taiwan. More importantly Xi's enemies in China can see that as well.
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  909. I always thought the only rule in a knife fight was to make sure you are the one carrying the gun.👍
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  910. The reason for the losses at Christmas during Linebacker II was because the crews were ordered to turn at an angle which greatly reduced the effects of the aircrafts missile jammers. Before they flew these missions the crews warn that this would cause those losses but were told to do it anyway. Once the losses started to build they were told not to turn so tightly.
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  911. I saw one some years ago and I was surprised how big the Swordfish is in real life. I was so impressed I went out and bought the Airfix model.
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  912. If ever there was an example of something someone said which came back to haunt the speaker.
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  913.  @firepower7017  They were looking at turbo props at this time so it would have been possible to get something more powerful
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  914. Another fine video History Guy. I know Sikorsky's envisioned role for the helicopter was to be one of rescue and that one of his helicopters had already been used for that purpose when some crewmen were rescued from a barge I believe. It was planned for a German helicopter to be used to rescue Mussolini when he was being held as a prisoner but the helicopter was not available as it was being used elsewhere.
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  915. What. Only twice a week. I'll have reached that limit by Tuesday.
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  916. Change of title I think. Mark Felton. The Real History Channel.
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  917.  @flaviosalatino8192  It was a development of the Blacker Bomber which led to the PIAT and also the Hedgehog so within the timescale.
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  918.  @chrisneedham5803  A tiger with a Tiger Tank. Now that is scary.
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  919. Tell the truth. You saw Mark Felton and clicked. Then you read what the video was about. I know this because that's what we all do.😄👍
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  920. Kurt. What's that coming down the street. A Panther Herr Kapitan. Who's Panther Kurt. Well as it's just fired at us, theirs Herr Kapitan.
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  921. True. But in its day it was the best
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  922. That line drawn under the Anglo German race looks like it was a bit squiggly in places.
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  923. As far as I remember the damage to the submarine was due to it being attacked by the RN's Wasp helicopters firing anti-ship missiles at it. First time the missiles had been used in a conflict and it was hit with the first missile fired. The problem was the outer skin of the conning tower was fibreglass so it took several missiles to do any real damage.
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  924. I second that.
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  925. Just as all those fine people were lined up to make all those conflicting changes to the design of these ships someone, quite inconsiderately, started a world war. Have these warmongers no thought for the feelings of others who are trying to produce the finest warship come floating hotels in the world. I see you have been doing your somewhat adequate impression of Isambard Kingdom Brunel again. Well, I can understand the stresses and strains of being in lockdown can be a bit much on a fellow but what about the effects on your good lady wife. What about the ma'am sahib. How do you think she will feel walking into a room and finding that instead of her doting husband she see a man with disillusions of grandeur dressed as a long dead 19th century half Frenchman. So be a good chap and save all the dressing up nonsense for the office party where people will be to drunk to notice.
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  926. Same here. One thing I will do is raise my hand to the driver in thanks. I like them to know that what the did is appreciated.
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  927. Come on. We've all done one and thought it looks like a torpedo.
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  928. After the Hungarian leader got his wrist slapped, I noticed.
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  929. Interesting thoughts there, machaman13. But if the relationship between the US and UK is strained there is the possibility that the UK would renew its relationship with Japan, which was only ended at the insistence of the US. This would leave the UK to concentrate on Germany and Italy and Japan could carry on in the Western Pacific knowing that the UK will not intervene and with no need to stretch their resources all the way down to Australia. They take the Dutch East Indies and get the oil they need. And as we both now see the losers here will the US as the one thing they feared was a strong Japan in the Western Pacific. And that is the one thing they now have.
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  930. One of Napoleon's reforms which did not sit well with the people of France was changing from a seven to a ten day week. This meant that instead of working six days and resting on the seventh they had to work nine days and rest on the tenth. We must remember that France, like any other country at this time, was an agrarian economy and working for those three extra days before a rest day was to much for many of them. Napoleon, thankfully, realised his mistake and returned to the seven day week. On the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, which was a navel battle between the British Royal Navy and combined French and Spanish Fleets, a number of French officers were invited to visit Britain and were taken to see HMS Victory. Whilst on board the ship one French officer, seeing a number of cannonballs, asked if these were the ones fired at the French Navy. No, quipped a British officer, you've still got those.
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  931. The Su-25 pilots are not that keen on the idea. The're having enough trouble with Ukrainian SAMs without Russian turrets as well.
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  932. Not like you can get out and push.
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  933.  @jonsouth1545  I think you mean Peter Butterworth and the film was The Wooden Horse😊👍
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  934. That and the British. 👍
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  935. When your own army treats you like this it tells you how bad things are in that army.
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  936. Was Johnson a winner or was Corbin a loser. That's is the question which is often missed.
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  937.  @hawkeyescoffee6399  Until I read your remarks I was under the impression see was just not very good at what she does. Now I wonder if her problem was that she just could not rise to the occasion. We have all seen people who were the best in their little corner but once the bright lights hit them they crash and burn. Maybe knowing that her every move was being analysed just proved to much for her and her remarks about the social media were directed more at how she was portrayed rather than Amber Heard.
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  938. Considering the pounding she took I have a feeling there would be not much aircraft left.
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  939. I believe he is what is referred to s a "colourful character". Thanks for the video. Very entertaining.
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  940. Actually after WW2 some army surplus tank hulls were used in the UK as replacements for tractors. So not the first time farmers have had tanks.
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  941. And we are also not going to help Hitler in Berlin
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  942. China has long desired the return of Vladivostok. So something for them to look forward too.
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  943.  @damianleah6744  She wants to be a martyr. That way it looks like she was fired for her beliefs.
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  944. Tell her it's the history hub not the porn hub
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  945. Does that make Mark Felton the Drach of the land?
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  946. McConnell should go old school and point out to his detractor 'you smelt it, you dealt it.'
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  947. Interestingly though some British police forces have stopped using the custodian hat many still have it. And if you get into a vehicle you just remove it. I forgot to mention that the shape of the British Battle Bowler goes all the way back to the Medieval period as many infantry used something similar. Many archers at Agincourt wore it.
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  948. Now that would have been a good time to be a fly on the wall. More importantly what they talked about when they were not with each other. I think to be fair the average Russian citizen is no different to those from other countries, it's the governments we always seem to have problems with.
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  949. Like it. I knew maths was dangerous
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  950. Interestingly Senator John McCain spoke recently but Vietnam being a war where the rich could afford to avoid the draft whereas the poor could not. Obviously aimed at Donald Trump. I actually know about these riots. Some clips from the film The Gangs of New York came up on YouTube and being curious I decided to read up about New York at that time and came across the riot. I was actually aware of the riots before then but up until that point I had not researched what had happened. Interesting how many people think a war will be over quickly, especially large wars such as the American Civil War or WW1. I think the shortest major war in the last 200 years is the Franco-Prussian which lasted six months, though for the most part the campaign over in the first 30 days with the rest being the siege of Paris. Anyway, another very interesting piece of history. Thanks
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  951. I have often said timing is everything. If they had met a couple of hour later or war had been declared sooner the Goeben's history would have been much shorter.
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  952.  @sarjim4381  The had some well trained pigeons.
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  953. If the turn had been made just 30 seconds sooner the result would have been totally different.
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  954. Decisions. Decisions. You could always tell your boss you are not feeling to well.
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  955. Well the much anticipated return of Ms History Guy brought us a story very much worth remembering, and I thank her a great deal for relating such an interesting story to us all. It's interesting that until recently many armed forces around the world have not wanted women to serve in combat roles, forgetting how many women had already, unofficially, done so. Do you each have a bow tie or is it just the one and is shared. I am saddened by the lose of Penny, the History Cat. She seemed to enjoy her brief visit in front of the camera and I had hoped for further appearances. I hope her passing was without pain.
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  956. That would be interesting. It was during what is referred to as The Little Ice Age which ran from 1300 through to 1850. When Charles Dickens described snow laden winters in his novels he was remembering the past as such scenes had become rarer as the century went on. It would also be interesting to look at the early part of that period. 1315 to 1321 which are often referred to as 'Years Without Summer' because of the almost continuous rain for those year which caused widespread famine through crops failing to ripen. It was so wet that in 1315 a French army was stopped in its tracks when their horse sank up to their bellies in mud. This was in the middle of summer.
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  957. Christmas has long be celebrated in England but in Scotland it was New Years Day. But in more recent times both are now a national holiday north both and south of the border. To Mr and Ms History Guy and all those who watch their video I wish you a Merry Christmas. And to all who are keeping out countries safe I hope you all all back home soon and are safe and sound.
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  958. This is Putin's madness.
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  959. Look on the bright side. If this was China you would have been probed in a different part of your body. Which would mean you would have recorded this standing up.
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  960.  @lordsummerisle87  The British Army bought about 10,000 AR15/M16's with many of them going to the Gurkhas. Because of the Gurkhas smaller stature it was a better weapon for them to use rather then the much longer and heavier FN SLR. And yes the British did buy them before the US Army. In fact I believe the US Airforce issued the M16 before the US army did.
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  961. That was the most interesting 'show and tell' ever
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  962. No idea being a florist could be so dangerous. I thought the worst problem would be Greenfly
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  963. The US Marine Corp did buy the Harrier instead.
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  964. Not that he had many to lose before the concussions
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  965. Both my late parents, born in Britain in the 1930s, came from big families. My father was one of eight children and my mother was one of 10. Myself and my cousins all came from smaller families. One of the blessing of the TV.
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  966. Sunak has been told by the Gabling Commission that there was nothing to stop him taking action against those under investigation
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  967. Drawing lines for anything like this can be a problem and fraught with danger. You only have to look at the Middle East and the boundaries drawn up after WW1 when the Turks were driven out. When I studied archaeology one thing that did surprise me is that many boundaries where not just old but were ancient. There are English village townships today where parts of the boundary date back to the Bronze Age which is 2200 BCE to 700 BCE.
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  968. I remember that incident. If the pilot had been a cat he would have had considerably less lives then before he started that flight.
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  969. "If the “birdie” is old, bent or slightly damaged the damn thing will often oscillate in a figure eight pattern" Happens to the best of us.
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  970. I have read about experienced tank crews just sitting it out when under air attack. It was only if there was a less experienced crewman would there be a problem, to which they would respond by trying to reassure that crewman that it was safer in the tank than outside.
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  971. Getting the hang of Portuguese there, Drach. You're becoming multilingual.
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  972.  @KorianHUN  back to the panzerfaust 👍
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  973. There being no pirates in this story is true. But we all know that those who served on destroyers are part pirate at heart.
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  974. Here's bragging rights for you. My partners dad went to school with Darth Vader. Well Dave Prose anyway.
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  975. Whiteheads daughter was the first wife of Baron von Trapp, of the Sound of Music fame. He became famous in WW1 as a submarine captain for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, where he sank a number of ships including some British ones.
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  976.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Laughed out loud reading this. Sounds like a comedy sketch. At this point I can hear the tune Yakety Sax which is better known as the theme to Benny Hill. 😄
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  977. If it is so 'Bleeding Obvious' you have to ask why she needed to be told it again.
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  978. I had wondered why the Western Allies gave the Russians the unfinished German aircraft carrier. They obviously realised that it only realistically value it had was as scrape. This also explains why the Russians never got the hang of carriers. You do have to wonder why they were trying for a High Seas Fleet Mk2. Even with Plan Z they were never going to be in a position to seriously threaten anyone else. And with the airstrike capability from carriers and land based aircraft they could no longer expect to hide in port. U-Boats and Commerce raiders would have been a far better bet for taking on the Allies. This was recognised in WW1. Some of the most effective German commerce raiders of WW2 were the disguised armed merchant ships. And it would have been much more cost effective. You could build a fleet of converted merchant ship raiders from those you captured. Just have a couple of supply ships carrying some guns and other equipment. Capture a ship. Refit it and then send it out to raid. Plan Z was a wishlist vanity project.
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  979. Be interesting using that line when you travel abroad. Why are you visiting our country? I am just an insurrectionist on vacation. Nope. Can't see any problems there.
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  980. Considering that in the early days of this invasion Times Radio was advocating making concessions to Putin to get hm to leave, like that would work, and are now complaining that Ukraine is not driving all before them maybe they should just sit quietly and let those who know what they are doing deal with it. Afterall they are just mere journalists with less combat experience that Putin.
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  981. I came across a YouTube video several months ago which was made by one of the officers who worked on righting the Oklahoma. He was serving on the ship when the attack happened and he mentions the fact that on the Saturday the captain had ordered all portholes and bulkhead doors opened ready to work on her on the Monday. So when she was hit the ship had no way of controlling, let alone, stopping the flooding. I found it an excellent video and well worth watching.
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  982. Ukraine has competition
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  983.  @calvinr.johnsonjr.9076  My thoughts exactly. What finer part of the day can you have then drinking coffee and watch a History Guy video. Big AL we are counting on you. Get that coffee then watch the video. You know it makes sense.
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  984. The Pterodactyl was on its wat to Farnborough when it was involved in an accident when it was hit by a comet rendering the Pterodactyl extinct. It's a pity he did not stick with the one shown 0:22 as that does look a better design. Leave it a single seater with the twin vertical fins and mount four machineguns in the nose.
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  985. Ukraine needs to do what's best for them. NATO has been doing what they do for years so we cannot expect Ukraine to do the same in a fraction of the time.
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  986. Yes. We know there was attempted fraud. We all heard Trump's phone call
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  987.  @michaeldunne338  This is something often missed. Panzer Mark 4s and the Sturmgeschutz were both proven in battle and would have been much more useful the the German army.
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  988. Soon it will be raining Russian tank turrets
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  989. Mutiny? I assume you are using a mild reference here.
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  990. Hi Indy. With regards to amphibious landings, the British had planned a beach landing which was to flank the Germans trenches on the Belgian coast. For that they designed, built and successful tested a tank with floats on either side. It was the WW1 equivalent of the Duplex Drive Shermans used on D-Day. Though Gallipoli was a failure it did prove valuable in planning D-Day, including small raiding craft used to get troops ashore.
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  991. Like Braveman and Sunak's parents 90% of immigrants came through Heathrow airport not by boat to Kent.
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  992. Cuirass de croissant. i'd like to see them dip that in their coffee.
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  993.  @TheReaper569  In the UK and America when you bought petrol, gas in the US, you were giving stamps which could be exchanged for items in a catalogue. Things like drinking glasses and such. In the US the were called Green Stamps and when the idea came to the UK the were called Green Shield stamps. They were normally given out with each gallon of petrol, so you can imagine how many you would get if you filled a warships fuel tanks.
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  994. It's amazing how many things started by two or three men in a shed.
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  995.  @Edax_Royeaux  wasn't he using the mark one self loading rock thrower. Known as the arm.
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  996. You could say that, yes.👍😊
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  997. By WW1 standards that was a huge advance for the French. And they were fighting as if it was still WW1.
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  998.  @iatsd  What hind sight. This is what the 12 squadron did. And Drach did ask us to give our own thoughts which is what I did. Maybe instead of trying to rush to you 'smart' retort you should have listened to what he asked.
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  999.  @bluemountain4181  This is true. In fact I was thinking how we accept new technology rather more readily then in the past. British troops in the First Gulf War were told not to rely on GPS but that is exactly what they dd. Travelling at high speed in fog when you are using dead reckoning is never a good idea.
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  1000. I used to know someone who's parents got married on the 3 September 1939. When he told me about it my reply was that he could not blame his parents for WW2. 😊
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  1001. I thought that as well. Then again looking at his facial hair he may be one of those who fought with the French.
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  1002. You burn down one White House and they just wont shut up about it.
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  1003. The first thing they did was fire the man in charge of the treasury, the man they needed to do what they wanted to do, and then wonder why the treasury could not do what they wanted. Someone should remind Minford that the buck stops at Truss.
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  1004. The famous 'Stuka Party.' where each Stuka was followed down by a Spitfire with only the Spitfire coming back up.
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  1005. My thoughts exactly.
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  1006. Looking at the crack across the stern of that carrier making a heavy landing may cause more problems than just the arrester cable failing.
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  1007. Never upset a pensioner. They are feisty, probably know more then you and have nothing to lose. Oh, and they enjoy teaching you whippersnappers a lesson.
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  1008. Just imagine the Bantams facing the Prussian Guards. How would you feel fighting someone who is the same height as you nether region. That's one place you would not want to be attacked.
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  1009. Somewhat ironic that the US ended up supporting Israel and the Egyptians ended up with the Soviets. And it was the Soviets pulling the Egyptian chain that tricked them into the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur by feeding them false information about Israel's intentions against them. Friends like that who needs enemies.
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  1010. The renaissance brought us some of the greatest art and some of the brutalist wars. Definitely a time of great contrasts. Can I suggest a future you look at James Murrey the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and Wiilam Minor one of the OEDs greatest contributor and where he was living at the time. Also the involvement of the then Home Secretary Winston Churchill, a noted man of words. Murrey himself would make an interesting story, but then again so would Minor.
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  1011. Thanks for that. Interesting to see how this aspect of forensic science came about. History Guy. Watch out for your other half. I think she may be in the Purple Gang. 😮
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  1012. Star Wars and Star Trek is going to have some casting problems. Not many aliens in Hollywood
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  1013. I do know of Beardmore, mostly through their involvement in locomotives for the Great Eastern Railway in East Anglia. They built GER S69 4-6-0 locomotives.
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  1014.  keith moore  You have begged for British help on more then one occasion. Vietnam for example.
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  1015. Real terrorists are using it for training. What not to do.
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  1016.  @tisFrancesfault  You mean it saw a number of useful words and decided to use them. Sounds like smart thinking to me.
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  1017. 2-0 to him I think
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  1018.  @casinodelonge  Not sure about the Italians as they would have viewed it as not having enough wings.
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  1019. The accused to not get to decide which evidence should be looked at.
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  1020. Assuming they were going in to attack then their aim would be to get into position to mount that attack. The different types of aircraft such as torpedo bombers would come in low, while dive bomber would come in at high level. It was not unusually to attack at the same time so as to split the fire from the antiaircraft guns. You don't see attacks like that today because with modern technology it is not needed. The WW2 1000 bomber raid would today be one aircraft and usually just one guided bomb or missile. ~And that aircraft would hit the target. Hope that helps
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  1021. Having read about both the voyage of the Emden and the escape of part of her crew then I would definitely say both events are worth a video each.
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  1022. Along with the aircraft the west has, for some time, been sending military instructors and advisors to Ukraine. Yes Britain did send some troops to teach the Ukrainians to use the Javelin missiles just before the invasion, but that is part of a long running project by a number of western countries to help Ukraine improve its armed forces. Considering the poor state of the Russian economy even before this all happened you have to wonder about the standards of Russian training.
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  1023. It also shows that being a much warmer climate there was not reason to have a chamber pot under the bed as they could use the outhouse any time of the year. During WW2 a popular image printed at the bottom of the chamber pot, or Gazunda (because it 'goes under' the bed), was a photograph of Adolf Hitler. I'll leave the reason why it appeared there to you.
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  1024. His best quote after realising the mess he has gotten into is "Oh sh1t." "We are so f*cked."
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  1025. You get the feeling it will either clear any blockage or bung you up.
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  1026. If Russia really had all those troops and equipment they would be in Ukraine.
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  1027. There was that clash between two of these countries during a televised meeting while Putin was there. In the past we'd have heard little about it and then not for years. But we all saw the video. I also wonder how much of Russia will survive. Most of the population is in the west but the resources are in the east.
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  1028. These people may have been the same ones who, some 50 years before, had designed the French navies battleships which looked like floating hotels
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  1029. I know the fashion industry is cutthroat but I had not realised they needed squad support weapons.
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  1030. How long you been saving that joke. 😄
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  1031. I assume you mean before they got to the drawing board. 🍷🍷🍷
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  1032. You can tell he has a passion for history, PhiloYT1
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  1033. Well that was one story I had not heard before. Unfortunately, for the Japanese, the attack was very much to little to late. By that time American forces would not have been stopped. In fact the raid barely made a dent in the American war machine.
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  1034. Violet Jessop and Arthur John Priest were also aboard the Olympic on her fifth voyage on 20 September 1911 when she turned across the bow of the British cruiser HMS Hawke. Hawke had a ram bow which was designed to sink enemy warships by ramming. So when she collided with Olympic's starboard side near the stern she tore two large holes in Olympic's hull, above and below the waterline, resulting in the flooding of two of her watertight compartments and a twisted propeller shaft. In command of the Olympic that day was captain Edward John Smith who was captain of the Titanic.
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  1035. True. It show you how poorly maintained Russian equipment is and how much Russia relies on foreign imports of parts. Night vision equipment used in their tanks came from France. And the reason they cannot build more of their much vaunted T-14s is because it is heavily reliant on imported specialist parts that Russia cannot make themselves. Even the engines used by those very same Russian aircraft that dropped those bombs are made in Ukraine. As for the Russian nukes that Putin keeps threatening to use they are now probably useless. Some parts need maintenance every seven years or so while other parts must be maintained every ten years. This is very expensive and when you consider how many warheads Russia has that cost must be prohibitively huge. And why spend money on something you don't plan to use. So Putin can rattle his sabre all he likes but that is all he can do.
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  1036. Should we amend the famous say ' Behind every great man is a woman' to 'behind every great man is a cat' 😊
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  1037.  @SaintCergue  You only do that once.
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  1038. Polikarpov in the US in the lead up to WW2. Now that would have been interesting.
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  1039.  @tehbonehead  my thoughts as well. Many of the Bond stories are based on true events. Goldfinger was based on a plan by Imperial Germany to blow up the Bank of England before WW1 this destroying the gold inside.
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  1040. He's going for the record
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  1041. The mans a leg end in his own lunchtime. I think I may have gotten that wrong.😮
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  1042.  @neilsailing  We all know that is not going to happen. Him and his family are going to be busy in court
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  1043. mom2wyatt And when we look at Trump we see how little it has changed.
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  1044. There was a cartoon in a Soviet newspaper of a button manufacturing factory which achieved its fiver year plan for button production by producing one giant button. I assume they had to produce a certain weight in buttons. The fact that it was printed in a newspaper tells you much of what was happening in Soviet Russia. The fact that the cartoonist could do this cartoon; and that it was printed by the newspaper; and that it got passed the censors, none of which should have happened. Even more interesting is that the authorities in these Eastern European countries never caught on the what was happening. There were a number of very popular cartoon series on TV in Eastern European countries which were very subversive but because of what seems to have been a total lack of a sense of humour amongst these authoritarian governments they rarely realised they were being mocked. Because western goods were so popular westerners in Soviet Russia were mugged for their jeans.
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  1045. I was involved in the making of a number of videos about the history of the local fishing industry which included Royal Navy signallers replacing the radio operator on some trip in order to take photographs of the Soviet Northern Fleet. In these cases they were real trawler, unlike the Soviet trawlers, which did fish often in the area where the Soviet fleet sailed. If a trawler got a bit close to the fleet it would be chased off but usually they kept their distance. And as the only equipment carried on these trips was the camera and a long lens dropping it overboard before being boarded was simple.
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  1046. For some time Libya's main export was the metal from WW2 Allied and Axis vehicle left over after the war. Then they found oil and that became their main export. The irony here is that the reason for the Axis forces in Libya was to gain access to the oil fields in the Middle East. Was there any Allied country which did not, either during or after the war, use German tanks. Idea for a future video. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War the Israeli Airforce flew the Avia S-199 which was the Czechoslovakian version of the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Interestingly, unlike Spain, they used the Daimler-Benz DB 605 engine and then the Junkers Jumo 211.
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  1047. Rock Apes is the less then flattering name given to the RAF Regiment and I believe is taken from the Rock Apes of Gibraltar.
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  1048. I did know about this idea and the test in the Canadian lake. I seem to remember someone has found the remains of the test "ship". A very interesting idea but an example of not taking the obvious route of building escort carriers and having longer ranged aircraft.
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  1049. How many did Sunak kill with his 'eat out to help out'
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  1050. Thanks once more for filling in the details.
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  1051. Actually I would draw an Avro Vulcan. For one thing as it is a delta wing it would be easier to draw.
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  1052.  @brianensign7638  to paraphrase one man's privateer is another man's pirate
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  1053.  @steventhompson399  I did read that some one million Europeans were taken into slavery
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  1054. The one that seem to get Americans is Worcestershire. Especially when coupled with the word sauce. I get the feeling Americans think we did it on purpose. But as we pronounce it wustashur it is no problem for us.
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  1055. That is a little known phenomenon called Daja View. That feeling you mat have seen this before.
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  1056.  @Шарнхорст  Thanks for that. I do remember they suffer losses of helicopters and jets in Afghanistan. One of the problems of fighting in mountainous regions. Looks like they are still "borrowing" someone elses equipment which is probably why those the "borrowed" from are making other arrangements.
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  1057. As he has over 1.48 million subscribers I think we would both agree that thousands may well be an underestimate.
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  1058. My thoughts as well
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  1059. I knew about animals going into space, though no idea there was so many of them. I do remember having a Sputnik toy when I was very young. It was a small wooden ball with four short wooden dowels sticking out of it and a piece of sting so I could whorl it around. Kids today. They don't know their born. 😂
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  1060.  @LazyTestudines  That's why Congress keeps cutting the funding. Those imaginary torpedo boats can't sink any American warships if the USN doesn't build them.
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  1061. Is there no end to Tom's talent as a voice over actor. I had no idea that General Custer came from the North of England. If you ever decided to tell the story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Tom, Butch's family have said his voice sounded a lot like George Formby, if it helps. Though there is no truth to the rumour that after a successful train robbery he was once heard to say "It's turned out nice again."
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  1062. I think the phrase you are looking for is 'she's a tough old bird.'
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  1063. I assume he is talking about prison terms here. As a thought, when they do a documentary about Trumps presidency should it be narrated by Samuel L Jackson. I say this because there are going to be so many WFTs and motherf*ckers he would make the best choice.
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  1064. Fisher to parliament. Oh come on. Just one little tiny battleship. Please, please please please please. Parliament. All right. But just the one. Fisher. Just popping out to see the Australians and New Zealanders.
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  1065. Not long after the Chechens arrived there were there was clashes between Russians and Chechens. Apparently the Chechens refused to fight, they only fight unarmed civilians it seems, so they were put behind Russian troops to stop the Russians moving to the rear. This then caused the Russian troops to attack the Chechens resulting with many of them being killed or wounded.
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  1066. When you attack the messenger rather then the message you have lost the argument.
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  1067. The crash is really only known for the general who died in the crash. Shame really as it means that Hot Stuffs story gets lost. And when you think of what that means because it represents all those men who, despite knowing the odds, still made all those flights.
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  1068. @Kmw W Thanks for that. I had forgotten about the Black Prince.
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  1069. Boot in the pants is what they got.
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  1070. Let's not forget that Cameron said the he was sure Johnson would make a good PM.
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  1071. Not just at sea. Many people thought the American Civil War would be won with just one battle. What they failed to realise was that there would be many other battle before that one was reached. WW1 and WW2 would be over by Christmas, was the thought at the start of those two wars. Problem was that was Christmas 1918 and 1945.
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  1072.  @sirmalus5153  Esmond Knight was a highly regarded actor of both stage and screen, which is obviously what you saw shining through.
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  1073.  @RR-uj2vx  Leave his shovel! He's looking to get himself a metal detector. He's hoping Mark does a sequel to this one and he gets a mention. 😊👍
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  1074.  @ussenterprise3156  that definitely had a machine spirit.
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  1075. That's the early Merlin's. The later ones were changed.
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  1076. Samuel L. Jackson voicing the Dutch admiral. That has got to be different. The word f*ck is said to be of Dutch origin so its use would be quite plausible to have Mr Jackson doing the voice. What's the Dutch for mother? 😊👍
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  1077. The problems with hypersonic missiles is that they have to slow down to mach 3 to detect and attack a target at which point they can be shot down.
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  1078. Now it is normal.
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  1079. Real friends should be truthful with each other. Unlike Dalan who got caught flat out lying to the British
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  1080. Depends. If you are looking for someone to go partying then he's your man.
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  1081. I think they've used the gates for spear for when they've run out of muskets
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  1082. I am surprised they did not try and sell the helicopter to the army. A fleet of them landing anything up to a regimental size group where ever they were needed would be of huge importance. The autogiro you show at 1:35, the Avro Rota C-30A, was one of those unsung heroes of the Battle of Britain. They were used to calibrate the radar so they could work out the hight of the incoming German bomber raid. The radar operators needed something which could fly as slowly as possible at the same altitude as the raiders. I believe one thing the would do to reduce their speed was fly into the wind which could bring them virtually to a stop as far as ground speed is is concerned. All this while being unarmed and with German fighters about.
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  1083. Not as big a discovery as people think. Between the discovery of how to make fire, then how to make bread and finally how to make beer, it was 200,000 years before we could have a BBQ
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  1084. Actually research carried out by the USAAF has shown that the ball turret was the second safest position in a B-17 with the co-pilot position being the safest place to be. This was based on the positions of the casualties in the aircraft. During interrogation of captured Luftwaffe pilots they said the would avoid the ball turret because it proved to difficult to attack because of it position. Most attacks would be on other parts of the bomber.
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  1085. Just a quick note for those who have not seen it yet. One of the USN's new carriers is to be named USS Doris Miller after the black American sailor who was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions at Pearl Harbour.
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  1086.  @nathanbrown8680  There was a troopship in the Med and the AA guns were manned by the troops being transported. Unfortunately they were a bit trigger happy and the captain had to announce over the tannoy that the local seagull population was in fact neutral.
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  1087. Johnson has no idea what he is doing. For him becoming prime minister was his goal but at no point did he have any idea what he was going to do once he got there. Nor does he have the ability to deal with anything. He is a man of meaningless slogans.
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  1088. Trump is a cult. Was that a typo?
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  1089. Churchill said the same thing. He wanted to use nuclear bombs on Russia before they got their own.
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  1090. Beats all those New Year resolutions which we all know we are never going to keep. Such as I am not getting drunk like that again.
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  1091. I believe the first air raid on German soil was October 1914 when some Royal Navy float planes bombed the Zeppelin base. Less then three months into the war.
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  1092. It's okay everybody. It is just a Russian technician who struck a match to find a gas leak.
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  1093. I'd come across that as well. Apparently he went to a meeting thinking he was going to negotiate with the other people but quickly realised he was going to get nothing and backed down.
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  1094. Having already watched the next video with the German mortar I have to say that this one was designed by someone who had the end user in mind. Light and simple to use, just what your average soldier wants.
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  1095. I do know about this accident but your narration of the incident is well worth hearing. You are the Charles Dickens of history. The twenty years after WW2 saw some remarkable leaps in aviation technologies, many of which are still regarded as cutting edge. The way the flow of air into the SR71's engines and similarly that air intakes for the Concorde controlled the air into those engines are examples of that. And the wing shapes for both the British bombers the Vulcan and the Victor to name but a few. And all without the aid of modern computers. Truly remarkable. I understand that the U2 had to be flown at a set speed within a range of just 10 knots. Considering the length of many of the flights that is a remarkable feat of airmanship.
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  1096. Probably been drinking the antifreeze from the truck
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  1097. I always think if you have learnt something new you have had a good day.
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  1098. I did read about this sometime ago and I believe they were just a small group of people trying to make the best of a situation they were in.
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  1099. Can someone remind Putin what happened to the last Czar. Or should we leave it as a surprise.
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  1100. Better than giving it a push start.
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  1101. It's surprising the history right under your feet.
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  1102. We have seen his record of investing in communities. We have all seen the video of him bragging about taking money destined for a poorer community and giving it to one which votes for him.
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  1103. The recovery of the wreck brought a new innovation. The archaeologist diving on the wreck would have to surface in order to talk to each other, this is in the days before divers could use radios. So they would surface, discuss any ideas or problems they had encountered et cetera and then dive down again back to the wreck. To get around this they had something like a miniature diving bell which was near the wreck and which big enough for three or four people to get their heads inside. That way they could pop their heads inside, talk to each other then back to the wreck. I believe it was called the telephone box, or something similar.
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  1104. I know the Japanese were very strict on sticking to orders. I have come across references to Japan attacking Russian, Soviet, positions using an artillery barrage and infantry attack even though the Russians had moved out of those positions before the attack started. The were ordered to attack those positions so they did so. During WW2 a clash between a British and Japanese patrol resulted in the Japanese patrol being whipped out. Captured documents revealed not only the route of the patrol and its objectives, but also that if they failed to complete all of their objectives then other patrols would be sent out on the same route at the same time until all the objectives were achieved. So the following night British set up an ambush along the route and sure enough along came the Japanese and again the patrol was whipped out. This happened on a number of nights until someone higher up asked why they had not received a report from the patrol. It was only now having found out no one was returning from the patrols were they finally stopped.
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  1105. That was not the first time he was away from the frontline at a crucial moment of the war.
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  1106. Looking at the way the Russian army has performed I thing it has been sometime since the were any good as a military force.
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  1107. Ghost in the machine
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  1108. Next Drydock is the film Raise the SMS Scharnhorst. It's a sequel to Raise the Titanic.
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  1109. Let's not forget that Ukraine has struck St. Petersburg before
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  1110. The T34 no longer what it used to be. Towards the end of the war it was struggling to knock out the later German tanks like the Tiger IIs. Which is why the Russians were looking at the new tank with a 100 mm gun. This would be the T54/55 tanks. So this is not really a fair comparison. During the Korean war a British tank shot down a Mig 15 with its main gun. The tank was firing high explosive shells on the enemy when a Mig 15 flew down the valley it was in and was hit by a shell from the tanks. You can imagine that being hit by a HE round was really going to put a kink in your day.
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  1111.  @MultiAogA  Well it has long been described as a kleptocracy.
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  1112. The one time you wanted the damn thing to live up to its reputation and it failed to do so.
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  1113.  @RedOrm68  Technical term. It mean the excrement and the fan have made contact.
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  1114. I remember watching a television documentary some years ago about Audubon and his book. And you have to admire anyone who would go to such lengths to achieve his goal. And seeing the illustrations shown on the documentary I have to say I can understand why his books go for such prices. Though I personally think they are priceless in the truest sense of the word. And I to believe that somewhere out there is Washington's Eagle. And knowing what my fellow humans can be like I hope it has enough sense to keep out of the way. Look what happened to the Passenger Pigeon.
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  1115. I may be wrong but I thought we were supposed to have been given free will. How free can it be when all these priests keep telling you what to do. To use a sporting metaphor. I may not play on your team but you have every right to play for your team and I support you on that.
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  1116.  @photomukund  Interesting that we all think it has to be done by Mark Felton. Otherwise it lacks something
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  1117. The difference is he will not be hanging around in the background trying to influence things and looking to come back
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  1118. Interesting that this man thinks he's smarter than Jack Smith.
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  1119. Because of the lack of superstructure I got the impression there had been some confusion in the drawing office and someone had mistakenly picked up plans for a destroyer.
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  1120. Between Stalingrad and the final surrender of Axis forces in North Africa Germany lost some half a million men. Not a good year for the Axis. Merry Christmas Mark and everyone else here😀🎅
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  1121.  @jammer3618  The opposite effect to what the Japanese hoped for.
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  1122. It may well be that the Russian troops have not intervened as they are hoping this will mean a chance to go home.
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  1123. Well as the French sailors spent most of their time ashore it's not like they were using them.
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  1124. He missed his calling. He should have been a manure salesman. He has all his own product
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  1125. I think they took that as a challenge rather then a warning.
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  1126. The RAF left one Tallboy behind. Just in case Lutzow made a return. Soviet pilots pretending to be Spanish. Then North Korean and possibly North Vietnamese. It would be interesting to see their passports.
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  1127. I have read that the spigoted mortar, which was the basis for the Hedgehog used in WW2, was used by the Germans as a trench mortar in WW1. Blacker, who came up with the Blacker Bomber spigoted mortar which led to the Hedgehog, may have known about the German spigoted mortar and if so then Germany was indirectly for the Axis submarine losses to the Hedgehog.
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  1128. Poland has rather an unfortunate history with its neighbour to the east.
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  1129. My uncle was one of the crew on the Norland. As he had served in the merchant navy during WW2, including artic convoys to Russia, this was nothing new to him.
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  1130. We should remember that Sunak was part of Johnson's government until he resigned hoping to get Johnson's job only to find Truss got it. And then became the, self anointing, PM. So his "suffering" was all self inflicted
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  1131. Another excellent video. Thanks. I must admit that I find the notion that aircraft from different wings cannot serve on the same carrier is frankly ridiculous. It's like the Japanese were trying to sabotage themselves.
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  1132. The reason you never hear Drachinifel say it is because even he goes not know how to.
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  1133. Destroyers seem to be the Swiss Army Knife of many navies
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  1134.  @paulhope3401  I think I'll skip that bit if you don't mind. I think in the middle of a pandemic I have enough reality to deal with without adding the drug induced kind.😮
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  1135. Having something of an interest in British railway I did know about this accident. I will say that even in peacetime signalmen often had a very difficult job. On some branchlines it was not unusual for them to work a fourteen hour day, or even longer. And it was equally not unusual for them to work anything up to ten or twelve days at a time without a break. And if an accident did occur then they would be taken to court where they were more often then not found guilty and have served a prison sentence would be out of work. This could be made worse if you lived in a railway house as you and your family would now be homeless. I did notice a Great Eastern Railway (GER) 4=4=0 Claud Hamilton in there (8:15) The GER covered East Anglia and Essex and East London north of the Thames. During the Great War their normal royal blue livery was replace by grey, though fully lined in red as it was in peacetime. The royal blue paint was used by the Royal Navy as part of their dazzle camouflage paint scheme. So, ironically GER locomotives were battleship grey. In there day they ran the most intensive steam operated commutator service in the world and their main London engine shed was the largest with over 500 locomotives sheded there.
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  1136. True. The engines were longer that Messersmith anticipated so they had to sweep the wings back to move the centre of gravity to its correct position.
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  1137. If running away from drones becomes an Olympic event I thing we may have found the winner of the gold medal.
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  1138. I am aware of the Robber Barons but not the details. So I thank you for that. I must admit I found it all very exciting, what with all the dirty dealing and double crosses. Not to mention a three day battle. Gettysburg in miniature, almost. I was starting to think it would make an excellent television series it would make. Your reference to the railway share bubble caught my attention. We had something similar in 1845 which is referred to as the Railway Mania. The effects of the collapse in the share price was such that in August of that year the shares of the biggest railway, the Great Western Railway, lost 40% of its value in that one month. The effects of this collapse meant that for several years many businesses went bankrupt and ruined many middle class families who had invested in them. Something which may interest you. You in the US predominately refer to railroads whereas in the UK we call them railways. In Britain in the early says both words were in common use and it seems to be down to a matter of personal preference as to which one you used. Railway has eclipse railroad in Britain, though it did linger on for sometime. So I do wonder if when the railway went to America they picked up the word railroad as well.
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  1139. As they say, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
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  1140. that't about two and a half months production of the T-34
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  1141.  @mor4y  Half of Americans drink tea and many of those own guns. So you may need a different starting point for your idea
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  1142. I love the idea of the cavalry, or its equivalent, turning up in the nick of time, but by train.
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  1143. Fully agree with you.
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  1144. I believe one use was to attach a condom over the end of the barrel to stop sand and salt water getting in. Same as the original use.
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  1145. Was that Japanese ship just very lucky and was she a luck vampire draining every other ships luck? I say this because she seems to be a curse for everyone else.
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  1146. I used to know a man who was a keen football player and started his own team so he could get a game. Unfortunately his skills did not match his enthusiasm and the team dropped him
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  1147.  @Historyguy-xu5ht  Something often missed is the fact that between Denmark and Norway Germany had lost half its navy, something followers of this channel would have know. So trying to protect the invasion fleet would have been an impossible task.
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  1148. I did know about the S.S. Ohio and I have long thought it had more then its share of luck on that trip. It is as if it had taken all the luck it would have had over its normal lifetime and had it all in one go. To give you an indication of how short of aviation fuel the RAF was, ground crews had to push the fighters to the end of the runway before the pilot could start his engine. That way the save fuel. Air attacks on Malta were so frequent that when one group of Spitfires arrived they had just enough time to refuel before they had to take off to face the next attack. Gave the German Stukas something of a shock though as they were not expecting the Spitfires, their arrival had been missed, and the RAF pilots had what was referred to as a Stuka party. That is a each Stuka dived down a Spitfire followed it. All the Stukas were shot down. And the Me 109s flying topcover never had a chance to intervene. Their problem was if they dived down to intercept the Spitfires they were flying to fast and just ended up passing the Spitfires, which would then leave the 109s open to being shot down. At various points during any war you look at decisions and wonder why those decisions were made or not made. Why the Axis forces did not take Malta has got to be one of those decisions has got to be one of those. I know other things were going on, such as the invasion of Russia, but the fact that the Germans had to send forces to North Africa anyway just shows how important taking Malta should have been.
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  1149. I did know about the Jaguar being shot down. As I understand it the Phantom had a jack plug socket in which a jack plug would in inserted before going into combat. This would complete a circuit and allow the missiles to be fired. Because of the closeness the border between West and East Germany it had become standard practice to have the jack plug resting in the socket. So in the event of a sudden attack by the Warsaw Pact the plug could be quickly pushed in to complete the circuit and make the aircraft ready for combat. What was supposed to happen was that the Phantom would intercept the Jaguar and do a mock firing of the missile. But what actually happened was the plug was in far enough for the circuit to be completed and the missile was launched. Fortunately the pilot of the Jaguar managed to eject from the Jaguar. After that the jack plug would no longer be placed into the socket until it was needed. Not sure if the Jaguar pilot got his tie from Martin Baker, the people who made the ejection seat. You are entitles to join an exclusive club of those who had successfully used the ejection seat. This was not the last time the Jaguar pilot ejected from an aircraft as he had to do it again. As I am writing this a thought has occurred to me. In the British military if you are awarded the same medal more then once instead of wearing two medals you would wear a bar across the ribbon of the first medal. So if you are awarded the Military Cross twice it would be the Military Cross and Bar. So having ejected twice was the unfortunate Jaguar pilot awarded the Tie and Bar.
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  1150. It looks like Johnson was third and struggling race. Which is why he wanted Mordent to drop out with the hope he could pick up votes from her supporters. When that did not work it looks like he tried the same with Sunak who was having none of it. He's now yesterday's man.
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  1151. Bo Dan I always thought a combination of the two but I have recently discovered that it is the aircraft alone. Apparently the Memphis Belle's crew for the 25 flight was a new crew.
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  1152. The sound of whistling in the dark
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  1153. Interesting that the East German uniform was so close to the German WW2 uniform and the helmets are late WW2 German pattern.
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  1154. I mentioned about those early handguns being used at the Battle of Agincourt. some genius thought I meant a modern style handgun.
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  1155. It's the Trumpian way
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  1156. Well she now has more reason to clap, when Trump leaves the White House in the New Year.
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  1157. I get the feeling that the Russians may have more incentive in this advance than the Ukrainians.
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  1158. And not to forget Drachenfel for the navy stuff. The History Triumvirate.
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  1159.  @anthonybanchero3072  It could not have been easy. Especially as it was one of the last things he saw of the battle
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  1160. A man of many talents.
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  1161. 'how do you know you made contact with a submarine?' 'Well bits of it are still stuck in the ships hull'
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  1162.  @john-paulsilke893  May be best not to mention that in the ads. Keep it to the small print. You know. The one where you need a microscope.
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  1163.  @lowereducation6631  There are claims that towards the end one or two Allied aircraft were shot down by mistake by Soviet pilots. Having said that it is also possible the one or two Soviet aircraft suffered the same fate.
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  1164. Definitely someone who stands out in a crowd.
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  1165. You could be onto something there.
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  1166.  @bkjeong4302  As the British had more ships at sea the following day then in the battle that was obvious a failure for the Germans
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  1167. Apparently if convicted of a federal offence this would bar him from holding office. The problem is this has never been tested in the courts so it could be years before they would know the outcome.
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  1168. Ukraine tankers are about to get god mode.
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  1169. That was the one who supports a certain Dutch football team
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  1170. We should not be surprised that Kadyrov's ran away in Kursk. When Kadyrov's men first arrived in Ukraine and were useless and wouldn't fight. So Putin put his men behind the Russian troops to stop running away. Then the Russian troops clashed with Kadyrov's men and drove them off. So to see them run off again is what we should expect.
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  1171. More like a one night stand.
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  1172. This is what happens when you spend all your time placating the grazes in your party.
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  1173. It looks like some sort of prehistoric bat. Or something designed on a Friday afternoon when the liquid lunch was decidedly more liquid then usual. Still. It would have been interesting to see it over Berlin in 1944.
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  1174. I came across this some years ago. The version I saw would have been flown by the Royal Air Force and was aimed at dealing with the huge Soviet helicopter fleets which would have been used to drop thousands of troops behind NATO lines. As jet aircraft are not much use against low flying helicopters the idea was to have these aircraft deal with them. I think they were to have flown behind the NATO front line and dealt with the helicopters once they had crossed over. Interestingly the RAF version would see the return of the Spitfire wing. The end to the Cold War meant there was no longer a need for such an aircraft.
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  1175. Talk about going full circle. The man who commanded the first ship to sink a Japanese vessel had to sink that very ship himself.
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  1176. Love the computer. And I laughed at someone still using Windows XP.
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  1177. Firstly I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and I wish everyone a very Happy New Year. Secondly I wish to thank The History Guy for this seasonal history which deserves to be remembered. I had often wondered about the origins of the nutcracker, especially the decorated version. So I especially enjoyed this video. Thanks for that.
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  1178. I would have said that killing from a distance is more detached for the ordinary soldier. You shoot at someone in the distance during combat and that person falls down. Did you do it or did someone else?
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  1179. There has been talk, on and off, of bringing back the OV-10 Bronco for COIN use. Got to be better then using the A-10 for COIN which is like using a Rolls-Royce for pizza delivery. Great aircraft though it is the A-10 it's wasted on COIN missions.
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  1180. True
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  1181. A foreign minister in the old Soviet mould. They are living abroad because they do not want to live under Tzar Vlad the Impaler.
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  1182. It's not like no one had heard of the famous General Winter. Just ask the French in 1812.
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  1183. As, I assume like you, I have neither the knowledge nor the inclination to learn anything about Pokemon. I'll stick to SMLE's.
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  1184. All this shows the world is just how weak and desperate Putin is. He knows he is losing. He knows how badly his military is performing. And all he can do is commit acts like this.
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  1185. Comes under claimed but did not actually control. And still doesn't
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  1186.  @mateusbragarezende725  in Monty Python's The Life of Brian Jesus was misheard by someone when he said blessed are the peace makers. It was thought he said blessed are the cheese makers.
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  1187. I'm not saying things are bad in the Russian military but one guy didn't even have boots.
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  1188. Let's not forget that when Putin offered Wagner officers a chance to transfer to the regular army they were in favour while Prigozhin was angrily against the idea. Now Prigozhin out of the way I am sure they will now join the Russian army, especially with the example of what has just happened to Prigozhin as an incentive.
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  1189. Thanks for the video. Another one off my list of obscure aircraft I'd like to know more about.
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  1190. I have come across this battle before. I was not surprised when I read that the Austrians were fighting the SS. Sort of fits in with the various videos about each side using each others vehicles. I was surprised with the SS deciding they needed to take the castle and kill the prisoners. You would have thought that at this point in the war they would have other more important things to do. Like fight Americans.
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  1191. We know how the Russian army feels about the Wagner group from Syria we the group tried to attack the US special forces base and were all but wiped out. The Russian high command claimed no knowledge about what the group was doing and who sent them there but would eventually admit a mistake.
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  1192. Actually the original Argentinian plan was for the invasion to be later in the year because Margaret Thatcher was getting rid of the carriers Britain had. But things were turning from bad to worse for the Argentinian government at home so, out of what can only be described as a blind panic, the invasion was brought forward. So they invaded with Britain still owning the carriers. And if it was not for the British admiral telling Thatcher that she had to do something, her and John Nott the defense minister were running around like a couple of wet hens, they would have gotten away with it.
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  1193.  @onewhosaysgoose4831  I could not have said it better myself.
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  1194. Can they run away any faster. I guess we'll find out
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  1195. I found this extremely interesting. Putin has found out what happens when you sit a bubble with only your own voice, your own thoughts and no one to point out when something is not a good idea. Of course people with any skills will leave. I did recently read that some 100 million Russians already live abroad. That is two out of five Russians. And they will be the ones Russia needs for its economy. Which is why Russia's economy is the size of Italy. Even with all its resources.
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  1196.  @MegaBanne  NATO is kicking Russia's ass and they are not even in the fight
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  1197. The way it is going Sunak will be luck to have a seat in parliament after the election never mind party leader.
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  1198. If a constituency can recall an MP the country should be able to recall a government
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  1199. The problem usually emerges when they meet the tank. Well the tanks tracks actually.
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  1200.  @BattleManiac7  In WW1 one Zeppelin came down in the North Sea after a raid and a trawler from the fishing town of Grimsby came across it. It came down because of the lose of gas so many of the crew survived and were hanging onto what remained of the airship. The skipper had the dilemma of rescuing the airship crew, which greatly outnumbered and would have taken over his trawler and that would have resulted in him and his crew being taken back to Germany, or leaving them to their fate. After some half hour he decided he did not wish to risk his crew and ship and to leave the airship crew to their fate. With the recent catenary of WW1 a descendent of the trawlers skipper met up with one of the airship crews descendents and explained what happened and why the skipper did not rescue the airships crew. He feared for the worse but the crewman's descendent was very understanding an the parted on good terms.
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  1201. My clients defense is that he was to stupid to know what he was doing.
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  1202.  @Taistelukalkkuna  I think your confusing things with the present day. 😊
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  1203.  @ringowunderlich2241  Well as it's Norway Winter there was as cold as the Russian Front. Plus the Norwegians did have their own resistance just in case the Germans felt they were missing out. But compared to Russia it was not what you would call a difficult posting.
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  1204.  @stephenrickstrew7237  I'll have to tell my partner that one. She loves puns. Ok, I laughed as well.😁 Just came across a photograph of a black Jeep. Licence plate is BAABAA. Thought you'd like that one.
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  1205.  @dinoperedetout7464  Some did but many were brought back when the French press got hold of the story
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  1206. She says it was a draft letter. But it is still her letter. Or will she now claim that someone else wrote it. If that is the case one can only assume this person would not have written it knowing that these were not her views.
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  1207.  @detachsoup6061  Actually Goring always underestimated the RAF's strength and the ability of the Luftwaffe. On one raid during the Battle of Britain they bomber a British airfield and claimed to have wiped out all three squadrons based there. The problem was none of the aircraft from those three squadrons were there at the time as they had already been scrambled. In fact the casualties amongst the bombers on that raid were caused by those same aircraft they claimed they had destroyed on the ground. And many of the changes in strategy were down to Goring. When he sent fighter sweeps across southern England they were mostly ignored by the RAF because they were only a threat to British fighters, which the British were trying to preserve for Sealion. Bomber raids were opposed but they were sent as bait for the British fighters. When the bomber started complaining about the fighters not guarding them close enough Goring ordered the fighters to get closer to the bombers. This meant they now lost both speed and maneuverability. So the aim of bringing the British fighter into combat was lost and the aim now was to guard the bomber, whose role was to be no more then bait. And that was all Goring's doing The Germans always greatly underestimated British aircraft production, helped in no small part through a British double agent who had been recruited by Canaris. Canaris at no time knew this man worked for the British. All in all one thing you could say about German intelligence during WW2 is that, with some exceptions, it lacked intelligence.
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  1208. Actually the army was using railway guns with ex navy battleship barrels on them. Having said that they did originally belong to the Royal Navy. But the total lack of ocean got to much for the navy and they left them for the army to play with. 'Oh thanks.' Said the army. 'Just what we wanted.'
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  1209. The problem for Trump is that the number of independent voters is growing in the US. People who do not register as voters for one party or the other. So even if all of the Republicans vote for him there are not enough independents who will also vote for him.
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  1210. Not as many dragons though.
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  1211. Now that was a Five Minute Guide. Definitely top of my list.
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  1212. Thanks for the video. I knew she has sunk at Pearl Harbour then refloated but not what happened to her subsequently. So it was very interesting to find out what a big part she played during the war.
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  1213. As you will probably know the dummy tanks and trucks were only a small part of the deception. That is a story in itself.
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  1214. He was busy watching a squadron of pigs fly passed in an aerobatic display.
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  1215. They were very resourceful.
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  1216. When I first came across the Albacore I had wondered why they had just enclosed the cockpit. It was not until I looked into its history I realised that there was more to it and its reputation was not deserved. Taranto may have had a bigger impact if the second carrier had been available as was supposed to happen. One or two more of the larger warships damaged or sunk would have made it harder to make a show of force.
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  1217. This was one of a number of blackmail attempts at this time by the publisher who tried this same idea with many prominent people. Looking at claims made about the National Enquirer in the US you could say it looks to be alive and well in this day and age.
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  1218. So John Paul Jones, the missing sixth Beetle, was never up for a Mister Popularity Award. You know you have problems when your own side is taking potshots at you.
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  1219. I have wondered why the B17 was at Midway and Pearl Harbour, I assumed they were in transit to a different base. I did know about their attacks on the Japanese fleet at Midway, but I thought this was because they were there and so were the Japanese. So thanks for clearing that up. I know about the B24s being used by the RAF's Coastal Command but these tended to be used against single ships, submarines or small groups.
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  1220.  @Cid1758  this can be said of any historian no matter which country they come from or what language they speak
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  1221. I got one as well. When I was 14 I got the usual booster jab. When the nurse took hold of my arm and I flinch and called out ouch. I've not injected you yet. she exclaimed. I know, I replied. But your hands are bloody cold.
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  1222. British railways also preferred South Wales coal for the same reasons.
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  1223. To be fair to wallace she did not want to marry Edward and if given the chance she would have remarried her second husband. But she was emotionally blackmailed by Edward into marrying him instead. Makes you wonder how different history would have been had she returned to her ex.
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  1224. I must admit this is definatelly one I'd missed. Shame the could not fly the aircraft to Britain before the Battle for France ended.
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  1225.  @hemanshuchudasama3535  Well this is true. But we in the West didn't do to bad ourselves. We were way ahead of the Germans in many areas such as radar. Especially airborne radar.
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  1226. Actually the reason for the German Me-262 having swept wings was because the engines they ended up using was longer then those originally planned, with the engine much further forward of the leading edge.. This left the aircraft somewhat nose heavy. So to counter this problem they swept the wings back which moved the centre of gravity back.
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  1227. Only five bodies found out of the 74 who were supposed to be onboard. Another mystery from the Belgorod Triangle.
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  1228. He ran out of Iron Bru
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  1229. David Cameron once said he thought Boris Johnson would make a good PM. Got that wrong as well.
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  1230.  @petersouthernboy6327  I was thinking of all those long lance torpedoes hitting to water in the opening of the attack. That's got to cause some major headaches.
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  1231. That's not far. Even Homer would not be this bad.
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  1232. Watching the man being asked if he had the time on him relates to something I did yesterday. There was a busker playing his electric guitar rather loudly and as several of us passed by a turned to her family and the said 'that was rather loud.' I turned to her and said 'What.' She was about to repeat he statement when she realised what I'd down and laughed.
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  1233. The late Peter Ustinov used to do a cabaret act before the war where he mocked Ribbentrop, being an excellent mimic. One day Ribbentrop was in the audience and on seeing Ustinov's act stormed out. Ustinov used to muse with the idea that he may have caused WW2 because it was on Ribbentrop's advice that Hitler should ignored the the British ultimatum for Germany to leave Poland. Ustinov said he thought it was Ribbentrop's way of getting his on back on Ustinov for mocking him. It should be noted that Peter Ustinov was known for his sense of humour.
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  1234. One of the reasons for the delay was that the if the cannon were used the cannon balls would just sink into the ground rather then bounce into the enemies troops, rather like lethal bowling balls. So they had to wait until the ground had time to dry. As for the notion that there would be some glorious renaissance if Napoleon had won I find hard to believe. Fighting would have continued and considering how stretched France was at getting good quality recruits France would have been slowly bled to death. Far from a great period in European history France could have collapsed leaving it open to being dismantled as a country.
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  1235. I understand what you are saying but it would be better the let the History Channel die the death it so richly deserves.
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  1236. At 3:42 there is a group of figures in the bottom right corner. I believe the figure on the left raising his right hand in greeting to the man with his back to us is Edward, Prince of Wales. Interestingly, many of the people in the photograph are wearing black arm bands which would indicate they are in mourning. So I do wonder if this was taken in January 1936 after George V had died. Which would make Edward King Edward VIII. First time I saw the Wellesley I was very much put in mind of a flying cloths peg. One which hung the Italian out to dry.
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  1237. You've upset him and his done nine more thumbs down
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  1238. Knowing what Putin is like Prigozhin should keep away from third floor windows.
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  1239. Being supplied with F-16s is one thing but the Eurofighter is a step beyond.
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  1240. Pleased you mentioned the People Dispensary for Sick Animals, the PDSA, and their Dickin Medal, which I had mentioned in a previous video of yours. During WW2 these pigeons had become so important, especially to rescuing downed aircrews, that people were sent out to hunt hawks to stop them killing the pigeons. I did know that Olga of Kiev and her fire pigeons. Interestingly the US planned to do something similar against Japan and their wooden houses but this time using bats. They did decide against it, but not before burning down some of their own wooden buildings. And I also knew about the pigeon guidance system. Imagine someone trying to find out about why one of their ships had blown up and wondering about all the singed feathers. I have seen the photograph of the pigeon being launched out of the British tank in WW1 before. Another form of communication they used was a little set of semaphore arms on top of the tank so they could send signals to other tanks and any troops in the area. You can imagine how long they lasted in battle.
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  1241.  @carbonara2144  There was a performer whose act involved the use of roller skates. When he joined the Home Guard he used to put on a show where he would attack the enemy while using his roller skates. It was filmed and shown at the cinema. Bit of fun and boosted moral.
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  1242.  @greentriumph1643  it has been a long standing problem. Many who fought in the American Civil War suffered from it. But because the had no physical signs of injury it was ignored. Worse still they were looked down on as some sort of cheat for even mentioning it. Many took their own lives. If you read the 12 tasks of Hercules he attacks and kills several children believing them to be enemies who had come to kill him. This is not uncommon with PTSD sufferers.
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  1243. Considering how poorly everything else that Russians has is performing should we be surprised.
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  1244. We also get tornadoes in the UK but for the most part it just rips a few tiles of some roofs or uproots a few small trees. I think if something like the super-outbreak came through there would be a lot more devastation because our towns and cities are much closer together.
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  1245.  @cfmcguire  Life was so much easier when trolls lived under bridges. As long as you had your great big billy goat with you you were fine. These people just go around doing thumbs down because, as they say, small things amuse small minds. Some minds are so small they had to invent the electron microscope to see them.
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  1246. I , like many others watching this video, thought how sad he got that far, finally got the the fighting, only to die so soon. But no. That was not to be. The gods of war looked down and decided it was not his time yet. So taking that as a challenge he joined the army to become a paratrooper. Because he has a fear of heights. And the gods of war looked down once more upon him and said, no. Leave him a bit longer. Still too feisty. Am I the only one who thinks that when the gods of war finally took him the first thing he did was he started a fight. Knowing his reputation for getting into trouble fighting you have to think that when he got back there someone in Hawaii looked at him and wondered what the other guy looked like. I am pleased they are naming a ship after him. Well deserved.
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  1247. SC 1000 to the knee. Are you sure that's not Skyrim
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  1248. Obviously one to avoid. Who'd want to clash with Granny?😊
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  1249.  @christerlarsson5232  I thought the Magic Puppet Dolls Show was what the Russian TV show was doing.
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  1250. Harold Ellis Do you think the have a scale for these things. Starts off with vexing, goes onto problematical and then its troubling. The End of the World is Nigh. Really? Well that's a bit vexing. I have two tickets for the Bolshoi Ballet for this evening. It's my wife's birthday. She loves the ballet.
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  1251. He's giving the Russian grain away free but no one wants it.
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  1252. For future reference the term roundhead was only used in part of London and then only for a brief time. So if you turned up outside of London during the civil war no one would know what you are talking about. If they did know what you were talking about and were part of the parliamentarian army then do not be surprised if they decided to show you the business end of whatever weapons they were carrying as it was a derisory term. In the same vain do not call the royalists cavaliers as this would also be met with anger. The term cavalier referred to the Spanish cavalry which had a reputation for what we today would call war crime. I did read of one warship which was steering to the fall of shot. Unfortunately it just so happened that one of the turrets on the enemy ship had not adjusted to the new position so the ship was hit. Interestingly during the Battle of Britain the idea came about that if your caught out in the open during a bombing raid the best place to be was inside one of the bomb craters as the chances of a bomb landing in the same crater is very small. Unfortunately more than one crater was hit a second time, or near enough to be deadly. Also jumping into a hole were high explosives have just detonated is not a good idea. Especially in areas where there is chalk just below the surface such as in Kent. A number of people suffered from very bad burns until it was stopped.
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  1253.  @billywoods3337  That was it. Thanks I was trying to remember that. Well at least the missile made it to service. It would have made a great ground attack aircraft in Afghanistan instead of the A-10. Nothing against the A-10 but it was like using a Rolls Royce for pizza delivery
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  1254. I think they should have shoved Beatty into one of those guns with his flag officer in the other and fired them at the Germans.
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  1255. I remember watching a television programme some years ago and it mention the use of gun cotton in the manufacture of billiard balls. It occurred in a saloon out west. What triggered the event is not know. Whether it was something to do with the hot weather or the balls being poorly made is unsure. But what they are sure about is that when one player took his shot and the cue ball hit on of the other balls it caused a loud explosion. Similar to a gun shot. But that was not the end of it. On hearing the explosion, and this being in a saloon, it was supposed by some that someone had 'commenced a-shooting' as they say, and many of those inside the saloon decided to join in on the basis that the person being shot at was them. The fight was brief, and I believe there were some casualties, but once everyone realised there was no drunken shooter the firing stopped. Who know a game like billiards could be so dangerous.
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  1256. Well, at least enough to fit a cup holder in the cockpit.
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  1257.  Some Person  How about giving them each a big pair of heavy boots and dropping them in the middle of a minefield. What's more it would make great TV
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  1258. I don't know about you but I'd settle for less awesome and more getting it right when they are supposed to.
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  1259.  @Realist-sh3dg  Russia has a population 2.5 times that of France but its economy is less then that of Italy. It relies on gas and oil exports but needs western companies to build the processing plant. Orders for its military jets are being cancelled because they are so out of date. And I wonder why you think Moscow is telling the truth
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  1260. During the Battle of Britain Three British pilots each claimed to have shot down a German Bomber. They were each credited with a third of a kill as it was the same bomber.
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  1261. Actually they have won quite a few wars. Trouble was in the 20th century they kept making some very bad decisions. Which included twice bringing America into both wars and not on their side.
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  1262. Well lets not forget that America was happy trading with both side during WW1. In fact when America did finally join the war they ended up supplying their own army with rebarreled Lee Enfield rifles rather then stop production to make the Springfield rifles.
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  1263. I'm the same.
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  1264. Back in the 80s there were senior generals in the US who thought nuclear war with the Soviet Union was winnable. This despite one third of the US population would die. They thought it was a sacrifice worth making. And yes some senior Soviets had people with the same thoughts.
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  1265. I think it was something a little stronger then Red Bull
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  1266. I cannot fault him on that.
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  1267. I had wondered what happened to Blondi. i did think she may have escaped her master fate. Sad really.
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  1268. The gaslight ran out of gas
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  1269. I very much enjoy these short videos. History in a nutshell. And I have to add that I think you should have used your own voice from the start. Sounds very much like you know what your talking about. Much better then the ZX81 voice.
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  1270. Me too.
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  1271. Turns out there was a sale on funnels and they bought more then they intended. We all do it. Well not on funnels, obviously.
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  1272. Carden Loyd universal carrier were exported to many countries. Some 450 in total were built. Ironically that the Japanese Type 92 Tankette was based on the Carden Loyd as well as the Type 92 Heavy Armoured Car, also known as the Type 92 cavalry tank (which retained its tracks, work that one out). The Italian C3/33 and the C3/35 were also based on the Carden Loyd. As was the Panzer I. They picked up the idea while working with the Russians before the war. I seem to remember the Australians did a version with either the 2 pounder or the 6 pounder in an anti tank role which would have been used against the Japanese if they had invaded Australia. It was also influenced for the Universal Carrier better known as the Bren Carrier.
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  1273. Isn't that one of the reasons you know it's a fact.
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  1274. The only blue water is that flooding over the torys as they sink out of office
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  1275. If you think about it one shell killed the equivalent to one and a half battalions/regiments
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  1276. Makes you wonder about the standards of training for British and German crews.
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  1277. Corbyn saved us from Corbyn
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  1278. Oh, the old bluff and bluster misdirect. Much more subtle then Trump but with the same aim in mind.
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  1279. Junkers Ju 287. Why you should not design an aircraft when you have a hangover. Some have said that the Horten HO 229 was a stealth aircraft. The problem with this idea is that this claim did not come about until the 80s when people were looking at stealth technology. One of the Horton brothers saw a chance to get in on it all and made the claim. No such claim existed when the brothers were question just after WW2. The other problem was that one of the components of the glue being used on the aircraft actually increased the radar signature making it easier to be seen by radar.
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  1280.  @johncrowerdoe5527  You get the feeling they knew what they were doing back then.
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  1281. The Quiet Man who was going to get louder. Barely heard him
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  1282. I love the idea of the test pilot coming up with the solution to dropping the landing speed. I cannot imagine the same happening today.
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  1283. As they have not enough supplies for the troops they have now it makes you wonder what these new conscripts will get.
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  1284. The Argentinian pilots get 10/10 for courage but were never a match for their British counterparts.
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  1285.  @IanSinclair77  I think you will find one of two Australian truck drivers will dispute the notion that they don't go backwards
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  1286.  @theoonyoutube  I understand what you are saying but still it would have been good to have at least restored it and preserved it for the future.
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  1287. Rex's Hangar and Drachinifel. And it's not yet Christmas.
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  1288. The problems with the Sherman was actually down to poor operational management with rounds inside the turret. They were left exposed inside the turret so a penetration of the turret would set them off. Once this was understood and steps taken to deal with it greatly reduced the chance of a fire in the Sherman tank. With Russian tanks the placing of the rounds for the autoloader means that they are exposed and subject to all of them exploding.
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  1289. Apparently the US has just removed Wakanda from their list of countries they will trade with.
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  1290. Didn't listen to his own advice.
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  1291. I think we all now have an image in our minds of these two trying to climb onto the top bunk.
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  1292. Several years ago the Poles released the Warsaw Pact plans in case war broke out. Apparently there was a defensive line stretching across Poland, presumably north to south, which the Polish military would defend against NATO, while the Russians sat in eastern Poland from where they would counter attack. So Polish troops would be sacrificed to the NATO attack leaving the Russian troops untouched. Obviously when I Russian say he has your back you now know what he means.
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  1293. The F-15EX would make a better choice. Ticks all the right boxes and with the two seater version would make it ideal for ground attack and long patrols on the Canadian border. I did come across the idea that one of the reasons the F-18E/F was not picked was because of the Boeing causing all that trouble for the Canadian owned company Bombardier. Something which was seen as totally unnecessary on the part of Boeing as Bombardier was in no way a rival for any of Boeing's market. If true, and I am not saying for one moment it is, then would the same apply to the F-15EX Anyway. CF-15EX Would make the better bet.
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  1294. Wait. Didn't someone once say that only the guilty pleads the 5th.
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  1295. One thing which is often the case is that when you strip everything back we are all so much alike.
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  1296. What no wings. Slackers. Definitely a sure sign of running around like headless chickens
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  1297. By the sounds of it she certainly had her share of spinach.
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  1298.  @brianjob3018  Patton's son, George Patton IV, served in Vietnam. Served three tours. He was promoted to brigadier general in June 1970 before becoming the commanding general of the 2nd Armored Division, in 1975, as a major general. This was a unit his father had commanded just before the United States had entered World War II, making this the first time in United States Army history that a father and a son had both commanded the same division
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  1299.  @DeliciousDogMeat  He drank that on the way to school. One in four Russian men will not reach the 65 birthday because of alcohol abuse.
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  1300.  @mg_claymore8611  I think it was a case of the US saying we don't need a British hangman as we have our own. Pierrepoint did hang the majority of those condemned to death.
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  1301. The Calotte helmet reminds me of those warn by the landsknechts under their hats during the Renaissance and were known as secrets. Can I just point out that the US copied the kepi from the French. I know that is not what you intended to say but I just want to clarify. Before the American Civil War at least one French unit toured America giving a matching display and many people were so impressed by it that local troops were given similar uniforms to those warn by the French. The uniform itself was a copy of the Algerian Zouave's
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  1302. As Britain and the USA had spent time between Crimea and the invasion of Ukraine training Ukrainian troops they had some idea of what the Ukrainians were capable of.
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  1303. As I've often said. If you want an eventful life in the navy pick one of the smaller ships.
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  1304. To be fair they got it spot on with the Buccaneer. It flew so damn low it did not need guns to kill infantry. And at that hight not even the fastest jets could catch it.
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  1305.  @therealunclevanya  if you think either of them were socialist you were not paying attention
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  1306.  @andrewgause6971  defend the the military. Don't you have to fund it first
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  1307. Thanks for the video, Ed. I had heard of this Lanc, if you hang around long enough it's amazing what you come across, but I have to admit I had forgotten all about it. As I don't remember much about it I'm assuming I had read a brief mention about it in one of those articles or books which seeks to list all the variants no matter how obscure. So thanks for the research.
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  1308.  @czzted99  Firstly an American would have served just under for years 7th December 1941 to 2nd September, 1945. So my maths are correct. Secondly you are totally wrong about me being an American. A British veteran, such as my late uncle, would have served one day short of six years. 3rd September 1939 to 2nd September 1945. So, three clues for you about my nationality. I say maths, not math. My dates are day, month and year, not month, day and year as American show it. And my late uncle was British. Bet you feel so foolish now don't you. i notice you also say math not maths. Which would indicate your country was not at war for six year, unless you are German pretending to be an American.
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  1309. Look, they tried their hardest. Okay. But they changed the plans so many times the perfectly fine ridiculousness got lost in the process. I mean it can happen to anybody. Well anyone who was French between 1880 and 1910. Give or take.
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  1310. Okay. Team name. How about we call ourselves The Professors. Having just read that I feel there is something missing. Something to express our wealth of useless information. Maybe something like "The Professors of the Nonfunctional" perhaps.
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  1311. @JZ's BFF I think you may have mistaken love for Russia with that for Putin.
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  1312.  @SlocketSeven  Kevin was his identical twin brother which is where the confusion comes from. Of course with a name like Bruce he was clearly Australian
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  1313. The torys are way passed their sell by date and should go
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  1314. Obviously her idea about being very good at something differs from the rest of us.
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  1315. You were married to Hitler! Didn't you wonder about the German accent and the moustache?
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  1316.  @larryclemens1850  Plus the very explosive content. Double win
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  1317. What makes it worse is that the fact that she had such difficulty reading a prepared speech. Which means they were not her words but those written for her. They do not trust her enough to let her speak for herself.
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  1318. I have seen a few of them over the years. I remember some years ago when I took my family on holiday I drove up to a junction and as I waited for the traffic to clear about fifteen to twenty different types of bubble car went passed. One of those rare occasions when you don't mind waiting for the traffic to clear.
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  1319. Actually a number of P-39s and later P-63s were flown by US pilots who thought they were a very good aircraft and liked them a lot. You have to wonder what they could have achieved after D-Day with a 37 mm and a couple of 20 mm cannons in the wings taking part in the staffing of German vehicles on the roads in France.
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  1320. Many people shared your thoughts on Hitler
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  1321.  @DERP_Squad  Same with the Normandy/Calais deception. Interesting that they chose the 4th Army for the Norway deception. The Germans would have known this was the army that defeated them in France in 1918.
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  1322.  @derchozenvun83  Birds do have a tendency to evacuate their bowels on takeoff. So I'd hate to be the guy who has to mop the deck.
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  1323. He's being punished for lying and the rest of us are happy that he's gone. Also the majority on the committee came from his own party. So even members of his own party thought he was guilty.
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  1324. In Russian ships
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  1325. The success at Taranto would have been even greater if the second carrier had been available.
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  1326. I'm starting to think that Ukraine is only using debris as it is more effective at getting through than the drones are.
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  1327. Interest video. Especially with regards to influence in the design. Started off Italian but ended up with a Warspite look to it. They were a bit like that with their tanks during this time.
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  1328. Different requirements. Not many kamikaze attacks in the Med.
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  1329.  keith moore  Bit of a side hustle going on there.
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  1330.  @d5m2t2k41  or a couple of panzerfausts. Bet no one thought of that. 😊👍
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  1331. No one will take him so no where to go
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  1332. Prison Personality of the Year. He'd still put the picture on the wall.
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  1333.  @RD-ce6bb  You mean they had a plan!
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  1334.  @FallenPhoenix86  As there are still several months to go you may want to hold off on that
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  1335. I thought the idea of peace being negotiated in 1919 interesting as there was an international peace movement which had gained the backing of US President Wilson. If the Germans had not returned to unrestricted U-Boat warfare and brought America into the war then there is every possibility that peace talks would have brought about an end to the war, which means no Hitler and possibly no Soviet Union. Now that is an alternative history.
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  1336. I did read that the Egyptian airforce looked to using their new MiG-15s against the Valiant but as there was over three thousand feet between the service ceiling of the Mig and that of the Valiant this was never going to happen.
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  1337.  @TheIzroda  Even the Russian pilots do not dispute that the US pilots got more kills.
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  1338. It should fly with that much hot air.
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  1339. Oh, the joys of having a shed. Or, in the US, the joys of having a garage. You can make things like this. Looking at the quality of the woodwork it struck me that it has been adapted from an existing gun. Also at the beginning of the video I did wonder about it having curved barrels unless there was something I missed. It would be interesting if the maker could be found, who knows with the Internet, as it would be fascinating to learn more about it.
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  1340. Do you think their popularity is waning.
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  1341. I think a mention of something called Benefits of Clergy should be brought up. The church had its courts to deal with anything involving members of the church rather then going through the civil courts. This meant that anything involving a monk or a priest or any other member of the clergy had to go through the church courts rather then the local courts. The problem with this is that the church could be and often was slow to react, if at all, to any complaint. And even then would often rule in favour of the the member of the clergy. So they were literally getting away with murder, and nothing was done about it. This abuse, as you can imaging, was often a course of unrest between the church and the people and probably an important factor in this event. The reverse of this was that anyone could claim Benefits of Clergy as long as they could prove they could read, as clergy could. So even just a small amount of reading could be used in evidence. In one case it led to a man who had claimed Benefits of Clergy being branded to show that he had claimed once but would not be allowed to do so again. One think that may surprise many is that the average Medieval person had quite a good knowledge of the law. The reason for this is that it would often relate to the work they did as well as local laws. If they did end up in court they would have to defend themselves, so a good working knowledge of the law was essential.
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  1342. Thanks for this video. I knew something about what happened but not the details which you have provided.
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  1343. No one tell the Dutch navy that timing is everything.
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  1344. A little bird told me that there is some talk of something called the 'Inta net's ' or somet. It's where people can go on a line and send messages, a bit like telegrams,. What next I ask. People putting videos in this net thing. Sounds too far fetched for me. I prefer reading. You'll always find me with my face in a book.
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  1345. From what I have read by 1944 the German economy may well have collapsed leaving Germany not being able to go to war. This could well have left Hitler as a footnote in history.
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  1346. One thing they are not thinking about is taking a flight anytime soon.
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  1347. Do you think it's possible that the next step for drones is aerial combat with each other and that Digital Combat Simulator is being used like in The Last Starfighter to recruit virtual pilots. Or do you think it's time I had another coffee. And before anyone says it there is no such thing as too much coffee.
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  1348.  @Karottenbrot1  Well if that doesn't make it shellproof I don't know what will.
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  1349. Not unusual for them.
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  1350. They would not have built jets because they had no need to. Propeller driven aircraft was a technology that worked and there was no incentive to change. They may have turned to jets after war started in 1945 but they would still have been in the same place as they were in 1939. The same applies to the idea that by 1945 the Germans would have had Tiger and Panther tanks. Again these came about because of the war and there was no incentive to build them before the war. The T34, on the other hand, would have been a different matter. That came about through clashes with the Japanese in 1938. So the Soviet army would have had more of them by 1945. Would Hitler have been better served if he used diplomacy to deal with the West and Poland and then attacked Russia is a more interesting question. The West may well have been more open to the idea of Germany fighting Russia, especially as communism was causing such problems in their own countries. And as Poland had fought off an invasion from Russia in 1919-1920 they may well have been more open to having some sort of defence pact with Germany. The next part of this is if Hitler had gone into the Soviet Union as a liberator rather then an invader would he have been more successful. Many parts of the Soviet Union had suffered extremely badly under the communists and would have been glad to be rid of them. In fact many from the Soviet Union had joined the Germans in fighting the communists. So coming as a liberator would have made life for the German Army much easier.
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  1351. There would be the slight problem of suddenly stopping in the middle of a fight to attach a barrel. It would be somewhat problematic as well as being inconvenient. Besides which if you are standing toe to toe with someone I think the lack of a barrel would not be a worry.
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  1352. I think you will find that Britain had a major part in the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, especially at Waterloo.
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  1353.  @ashcarrier6606  the problem with a false flag attack like that is that Russia is notorious for it so e every one expects it. If you remember back to before the invasion a false flag attack was being talked about as to how the invasion would start.
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  1354. Been done by Mark Felton recently
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  1355. True. Pity that fact was missed in the video
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  1356. I shouldn't think so. After all the captain being the man-on-the-spot must make the final decision. That is what he is trained to do. Besides, they gave him a medal for what he accomplished.
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  1357. An oasis for the thinker Dennis
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  1358. Plans for 1919 would have been very interesting indeed. Combined arms with a dedicated ground attack aircraft and paratroopers would have been a huge step forward militarily. Something which would not happen until the invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. And then by the Germans. Now that's history changing.
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  1359. So the country which did so much to stop slavery is now the country who will ignore slavery
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  1360.  @RictusMetallicus  For a nation which came up with the phrase 'more bang for a buck the US took their eye of the ball for that one.
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  1361. The bread was not indicted
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  1362. Was this from the crew of the Memphis Belle recorded when they were sent back to the US after 25 missions. I know they did such a recording to add to the film footage.
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  1363. See, that's why they told you not to undo that big nut on the bow.
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  1364. Some must have realised what a missed opportunity the Junkers Ju 89 was when they were having to build the Mistel to do the job which the Ju 89 could have done. Some 250 Mistels were built with limited success. Operation Iron Hammer was to knock out Soviet power stations around Moscow and Gorky. But these were never attacked because the Red Army had entered German and the Mistels no longer had the range. The Ju 89 could have carried out these raids. When looking at the Allied bomber raids one thing which is often overlooked is that they tried up some 5,000 aircraft, about the same number of AAA guns and one million men. Stalin may have dismissed the idea that this was the second front but just imagine have having all of that to send to the east.
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  1365.  @rogersmith7396  Bit like being called Karen in America
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  1366. Two faced! If that's the one he shows the world you have to wonder how bad the other one is.
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  1367.  @hkfoo3333  Mobilise away. The men you've got are running away and even your Spetsnaz are refusing to fight. If you think it will happen then go for it. Just for future reference we know a hollow threat when we hear them.
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  1368. Dodge that one twice. Interestingly it was the US Army Top Brass who wanted us to join them. If you see Mark's video on the British in Viet Nam after WW2 then you have to say they only had themselves to blame. If they had left Britain to it in the first place they would not have had to be there in the second place.
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  1369. The Germans originally viewed the Operation Sea Lion as nothing more than a river crossing but on a larger scale. Once they realised that there was more more to crossing the English Channel then they first imagined more was added but I could not see how the Germans ever thought it would work. Especially when compared to what the Allies had to do four years later with the various types of craft needed. I suppose this is what happens when when you are only used to land based warfare.
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  1370. Well all good pirate stories should be told when they're an Arrr in the month.
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  1371. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend, The man who shot Liberty Valance
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  1372. Bomb? What bomb?
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  1373. The fluorescent jackets the Just Stop Oil people wear are made using oil.
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  1374.  @Otokichi786  I read the same thing about the worn out Spitfire Vs. 7.62 and .303 are the same calibre so no real difference, though the lack of 20 mm cannons would have been felt.
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  1375. Thanks for the video, Ed. I seem to remember coming across this aircraft in the dim and distant past where, I seem to remember, it was claimed to have been the bomber version of the Bf 110. The Ju 88 was a much better aircraft.
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  1376.  @SterileNeutrino  Since when did Putin bestow the title of lawyer on himself. He was an interpreter for the KGB. A middle ranking pen pusher.
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  1377. It got crazier as he was later in charge of the Viet Nam War and came up with that fantastic idea the body count. Counting the enemy dead. The idea was that once you've killed enough of the enemy then they would stop fighting. Body count became such a big part of the war that artillery units who fired in support of infantry would insist on that very same infantry did a body count for them. So they would have to go out and count all the enemy dead. If not no more artillery support. What happens when wars are run by accountants.
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  1378.  @teeanahera8949  Yet we keep seeing Russian tanks, APCs and troops being blown up by these very systems you claim the Russians are jamming.
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  1379. The Dirty Dozen but with aircraft. I like the idea that in the middle of dinner the Germans ran outside to see where the RAF were attacking. Turned out they had more then a front row seat. I had read about this attack but it was just a sentence or two in a story where the focus of the main story was elsewhere. So it's good to get more detail. Thanks. It's interesting that the Germans believed the Enigma machines were so secure that no one thought that there could be another explanation for the Allies knowing where the headquarters could be.
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  1380. I was not aware that the Japanese jets even entered service
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  1381. Are you absolutely sure about that.😊
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  1382. How about an episode on the man who was supposed to have been Lincoln's bodyguard the night he died.
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  1383. I did read some years ago that the V2's reentry vehicle was effected by London smog in the upper atmosphere which triggered its reentry earlier then it should have done. Unfortunately the effect was so small, and the target so big, that it made little difference to where it came down. How many guesses do we get as to what happened the pilot after he'd landed. 'Kamerade!? I'll give you f*cking kamerade you bastard.' Or words to that effect. Interesting about delayed projects. Something fairly common with the Germans. I did read that the Germans were working on surface to air missiles, but, along with a number of other defence projects, they were cancelled because they did not feel they needed them what with the war going so well for Germany. One, the Enzian, was a smaller unmanned version of the Me 163 with a a 500 kg (1,100 lb) warhead. It's launcher was based on the pedestal for an 88 mm AA gun which would have made it suitable for mounting on a tank chassis. The launcher could carry the missile and then a command vehicle would guide it in. Just imagine the devastation wrought on the B-17 formations with a 1,100 lb warhead going off between them.
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  1384. How about a couple who fell off a roof while having sex.
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  1385. Is she working for China? Because that's what they would love to know. Sometimes it's best to leave the other side guessing.
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  1386. We now that farm workers 800 and more years ago would go barefoot if they were working in the wet or snow because they would only have one pair of shoes and did not want to ruin them. And remember this would be wintertime.
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  1387. They didn't look like they were dressed for the conditions. Looked a lot like Korea would a few years later
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  1388. I have read several accounts of this battle and watched at least one documentary on it and I have to say this version is definatelly the best I've come across by far.
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  1389. I have sometimes wondered what happened to the old robot voice. Is it in a cupboard somewhere next to a rather battered old Commodore 64 and a ZX 80 who's rubber keyboard is worn out. It will be on an antiques show in about twenty years time. This was owned by that Drach guy. You know. The one who bought out YouTube before disappearing into the virtual Bermuda Triangle on World of Warship. To busy talking and not watching where his ship was going.
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  1390.  @luisnunes2010  The victor does not leave the battlefield to the loser. The Germans failed in their aims an then ran for home.
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  1391.  @ronaldwright2310  my condolences at the loss of they ☕️ coffee
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  1392. Well I have heard of the term 'fashion police' but never fashion rioters, so that's a new one on me. More the sort of thing you would expect in Paris, though. I have heard of the 'fashion mafia' . When they do a hit they come round and ridicule your fashion sense and you die of embarrassment.
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  1393.  @raypurchase801  That film came to mind watching this.
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  1394. The carry torpedoes but are below the waterline.
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  1395. Despite the claims for the Memphis Belle it was a B24 which was first to complete its 25 missions. In fact Hells Angel, another B17 completed its 25 missions before the Memphis Belle.
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  1396. (Insert puzzlement and then the exclamation 'Oh.' 'You mean __________.')
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  1397. Good job the Royal Navy didn't turn up with Warspite. That would have changed history😀
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  1398. The Heinkel He-111 was obsolescent at the time of the Battle of Britain yet they were never full replaced by the end of the war, five years later. This means that by the time the Spanish finally retired them it was more then 30 years after the Battle of Britain. Imagine being a Spanish bomber crew in the 60's. While people were flying the likes of the Canberra and the Hustler they are flying around in the Heinkel He-111. Must have been embarrassing.
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  1399. That was a typing pool. Something which did not make it to the future. And the secretary got replaced by a virtual assistant who live miles away and probably works from home.
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  1400. The Swiss Army Knife of street fighting. Looking at the quality I'd have to say it does not look like the sort of thing you would expect to see owned by someone from a street gang. It looks more like the sort of thing a gentleman might carry in his pocket to defend himself while out at night. Especially in the more rougher neighborhoods which were frequented by 'women of negotiable affection' shall we say. As an afterthought. I wonder why he does not test these on the range?
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  1401. Is Prigozhin going to get to look at the view from a third floor window?
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  1402. Just shows what can be achieved if you have the will to succeed. As for speaking Finnish, I understand even other Nord struggle with the language. Anywhere damp or humid is never good for wooden aircraft. Even the otherwise excellent Mosquito had to be withdrawn from the Far East because of the effects of damp.
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  1403. A nice rolling sea swell just for that added interest.
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  1404. The problem with the idea of freeing up what can be said is that the EU has told him to he has to keep to their rules.
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  1405. Just when you thought Cruz could not sink any lower he defies expectations
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  1406.  @cyndrynn  Nearly?
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  1407. I do know something about the Operation so it was not new to me, I seem to have the same interest in history as you do. But I am pleased to write that you did manage to find a number of details I had not come across before and that your telling of the story of Operation Masterdom was very well done.
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  1408. It's just like his special on Thunderchild. You listen to it and half of your brain knows its fictional but because it Drach the other half is thinking this sounds so real.
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  1409. The three groups the British least trust are journalist, politicians and used car sales people. As a journalist Johnson was fired from the Times newspaper for lying to the readership. As a politician he was fired by the then leader of the Conservative party for Micheal Howard for lying to Micheal Howard. Do I need to mention you should not buy a used car from this man.
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  1410. I know there are a lot of shortages in North Korea but surely someone has a hammer.
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  1411.  @terrycoontz  We talk of generational differences but this has got to be so much more pronounced in Russia. All the young Russian soldiers, sailors and airmen in the armed forces today were born some twenty to twenty-five years ago, after the collapse of the USSR. So they are part of today's world. Whereas many of the senior officers were born either in the Soviet Union or just after when the old Soviet system was still present. So each has a very different outlook on the world. Which is why were are seeing soldiers deserting or refusing to fight. Even members of the much vaunted Spetsnaz are refusing to fight. Now we can see that whatever the generals were trying it has not worked.
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  1412. And he thinks it's because not everyone love him. If that was the case hos would be the only vote he'd get.
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  1413. People from Interpol are probably sat there saying this looks way more exciting then what I do.
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  1414. There was a thing some years ago where kites were sold with the string being one mile long which was causing danger to low flying aircraft.
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  1415. Putin's gone full Stalin.
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  1416.  @psikogeek  I doubt it. As it says in the song "anything you can do I can do better." So everyone else would have been building their own, better, version. But the other problem was that naval air power was the big thing is WW2. You can have as many big guns as you like and as much belt armour as you want but a bomb dropping through your deck was going to ruin your day. Yes they could have thickened the deck armour, but improving bombs was easier then then constantly upgrading the deck armour. And acoustic torpedoes like those used by the Germans would have stopped it dead in the water. The problem then is that having built the ship there is a tendency to keep it out of harms way. It has cost you much in time, effort, money and resources and you are loathed to put it at risk. So it just sits there unused. And remember what happened to the Tirpitz.
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  1417. So often the case
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  1418. Sunak is so bereft of an ideas he's having to steal Johnson's
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  1419. A five minute guide which takes just under one hour nine minutes. Well you have to admit value for money. Interesting about the problems with Room 40. In order to protect the fact the British had cracked the Enigma Codes during WW2 information passed on to commanders in the field could not be too precise. The problem was that it was often so vague as to be useless and therefore ignored.
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  1420. Looks more like it's disbanding
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  1421. There is a sound recording made on the 11 November 1918 of the final moments before the armistice started at 11 am. In the recording you can hear artillery fire right up to the hour when it promptly stopped. One German soldier was firing a heavy machine gun right up until the signal was given to stop fighting. At that moment he got up, throw his helmet to the ground and walked away.
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  1422. Just shows you that with the right equipment Italy was just as innovative and Italians could be just as courageous as everyone else.
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  1423. Just hoping it gets televised live
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  1424. A suggestion for a future video. During WW1 there was a peace group, to which Woodrow Wilson had become involved, and it came very close to succeeding. The problem was that Germany started unrestricted submarine warfare and Wilson could no longer support the peace group. I think it would make an excellent video.
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  1425. Well this channel is a lot more likely to succeed the Sealion.
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  1426. There are reports of Western Allied aircraft being shot down over Germany by Russian aircraft. The claim is they did not recognise them so assumed they were German. Now this is possible, except you would think they would have taken note of the marking. How would they mistake the blue circle and white star of a P51 as being German.
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  1427. Time to take the dust covers off the Victor and Vulcan. Interesting using acronym BUFF as I seem to remember it was originally used with the F-4 Phantom II
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  1428. Can I just point out that I do not think you are giving the French enough respect for their ships. It is difficult to fire on a ship if you keep averting your eyes or suffer bouts of hysterical laughter, which is obviously what happened everytime you saw a French warship. So maybe they are boxing clear with there designs.😊
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  1429.  @herbertgearing1702  I think the Japanese know all about Australia. Especially as they now also play rugby
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  1430.  @William-Morey-Baker  I have read about it. Maybe we should have all stayed home and sent the Emus to the Western Front in WW1. Looks like they would have done a better job
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  1431. Surprise on both sides as neither tank had faced the other before. Lucky for the Pershing's crew as I think if the Nashorn may have fired a bit higher with the possibility of some fatalities amongst the Pershing's crew. So what happened to the Nashorn and its crew? You have to hope their fate was equally without fatalities.
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  1432. and then they tell everyone they don't have a king.
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  1433. I remember watching film footage in the 1970's of Soviet fighters simultaneously firing a heatseeking and radar guided missile at a target. The claim for doing this was that the NATO pilot would not be able to deal with both at the same time. What I did notice was how often the second missile shot across in front of the fighter as it locked onto the first missile before acquiring the target. Must have been a few nervous moments for the pilot when he pressed the fire button.
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  1434. Another great video. Having read something of airships I have to say I am not sure why anyone thought they were a good idea. Once caught in bad weather they could be tossed all around the sky, as described in this video, and as was seen they were just to fragile to survive such weather. Interesting that you mentioned the R38. The anniversary of its crash was less then two weeks ago. The airship crashed just off Victoria Pier which was then used by the Humber Ferry. Though the ferry is now long gone the pier is still there and is only a few minutes away from where I live. My late father knew one of the people who went out to help with the rescue. I hope this may be of interest to those watching this video. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-14649308
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  1435. One of those aircraft you'd have loved to see in service. It may have proven itself as a dogfighter but Robin Olds showed that the Phantom was quite capable of dealing with MiG21s with the right planning. And as a mud mover it was very capable in that role. In fact that is what the Royal Air Force bought them for. And the Vought F8 proved itself as a dogfighter. Maybe not as quickly as its sibling. Here's a thought. If it had won out against the F-4 would this video have a what if for the Phantom and how it had more potential than the Vought F8U-3
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  1436. No worries. those of us who watch Drachinifel 's navel vidoes have a good idea how much they weigh.
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  1437.  @Welshman2008  I like your style
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  1438. The T-14 will be sent into Ukraine as soon as they work out how to take the parking brake off. Russia was very much reliant on imports and thanks to the sanctions imposed since the invasion of Crimea that has stopped. So now they have to look to other sources for the needed equipment. They are not say what these sources are but the turret will now only revolve when set to the spin cycle
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  1439. It was starting to look like Forgotten Weapons for a minute there. Then again Forgotten Weapons has covered tanks, just like the Chieftain, And Chieftain has also talked about weapons as well. Is anyone else starting to feel confused.
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  1440.  @aussiedonaldduck2854  On the up side you are still here. Others, in the mean time, have disappeared.
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  1441. Thanks for the reminder.👍
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  1442. The problem with emphasis on the Ho Chi Minh trail is that the majority of the supplies came by sea. The most effective force against these supplies was the US Coast Guard. The Australian airforce flew the Canberra in Viet Nam. The Australians were so accurate that if forward air controllers knew they were available the Canberras would be used first. If just one bomb was not within the target area the crew would have to go step by step with other officers from the squadron to find out why.
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  1443.  @FallenPhoenix86  they were in the Engish Channel and the Argentinians and were asked to throw the carrier about so that they could see that no matter the weather conditions the aircraft could land. So they started throwing the ship about and the pilot brought the aircraft in and landed it. But the Argetinians carried on throwing the ship about until they were told to stop doing it. Not sure why they carried on doing it after the aircraft had landed but you get the feeling the were not the sharpest tool I'm the box
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  1444.  @46bovine  Drach mentions that one of the battleships got hitby a torpedo but dispite having a 90 ft hile in its side they carry on fighting until the list becomes so bad the no longer get the range.
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  1445.  @magnus7857  I must admit I had wondered if your grandfather was there as well. My grandfather spent his 30th birthday there.
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  1446. Interesting idea. Just don't stand outside the FBI headquarters giving them out. They may not share your sense of humour 😊
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  1447.  @oldfart3137  I did say days of combat rather then being in a campaign. And I did say on average, so some will be higher while other will be low. The big difference in Vietnam was the helicopter. In the past in could be days before troops reached the combat zone but with helicopters that would be reduced to a few hours at most. They would fly in, make contact with the enemy, fight the enemy and then fly out again. So whereas a marine in WW2 may have only seen 40 days of combat on average throughout the entire war, his son fighting in Vietnam would, on average would have seen that amount of combat in two month. The "on average" can be a problem. I have seen figures where British WW1 soldiers would spend one day in the front line trench, the next day in the support trench just behind the front trench, then the next eight days in the rear. So an average of three days a month in the front line trench. But I am aware of troops in one sector in continuous fighting for over 120 days. I hope that helps.
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  1448. Considering Russia is down to bringing T62s back into service in Ukraine is there anything left to attack Lithuania with.
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  1449.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Wrangler flares and a Ben Sherman shirt. Those were the days. They had Sweet playing Ballroom Blitz on the film Suicide Squad, the only good thing in the film, so maybe time for flare to return.
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  1450. Turns out the Russian Goliath is nothing more that a paper tiger.
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  1451. Surely Farage should bank with Deutsche Bank to go with his German passport.
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  1452. There is the story, related by an Italian general of the time, about the time Mussolini had to decide on which tank the Italian army would adopt. Apparently Mussolini was given a picture of each of the two tanks and after a short time pointed at one and said that one. No discussion about the pros and cons of each relating of the two tanks such as the armour, gun or engine power. Just that one.
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  1453. How many times is it that he's captured Bakhmut. I lost count. Did he sell out the Russian army again or is this part of the same deal.
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  1454.  @wumpusthehunted2628  And now they literally are driving into the ground. This is why companies should not be run by bean counters.
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  1455. I never LOL unless I did Laugh Out Loud. But in this case LOL
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  1456. Well he managed both. His destroyer was swift and the bow got broke
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  1457. That journalist had a good pair of lungs on him. He screamed none stop from leaving the aircraft all the way down until he hit the ground. And for a good ten minutes after that.
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  1458. There was only one successful escape and that was by a German pilot, Franz von Werra. He is the only known Axis prisoner who managed to get back to Germany. He was being held in Canada at the time at the time of his escape though he did make other attempts before then. Werra's story was told in the book The One That Got Away by Kendall Burt and James Leasor, which was made into a film of the same name, starring Hardy Kruger. On 25 October 1941 Franz von Werra took off in Bf 109F-4 on a practice flight when his aircraft suffered a complete engine failure and crashed into the sea north of Vlissingen. Werra was presumed killed, though his body was never found. Hope that helps Roller Ghoster
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  1459. He had to sway his hips to steer around corners.
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  1460.  @phillmckill5562  You've seen how fast the Russians can run from Ukrainian troops, well just imaging how fast the Belarussian troops will run from Polish troops. Also the Belarussian army is about 15,000 in total so it would not take many Polish troops to defeat them.
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  1461. I seem to remember reading that hypersonic missiles need to slow down once they reach the target area in order to manoeuvre. Which then makes it vulnerable to being shot down.
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  1462. Great looking aircraft. Watching the video I did think that the Royal Navy could have used it. But as they had the Buccaneer the Jaguar would not really have a role.
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  1463. I once met someone who was born before Karl Benz built his first car and lived long enough, she was 100 at the time, to see the first man on the Moon. So in her lifetime we went from the horse and cart to Saturn V.
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  1464. I did read of a British tank in WW2, a Churchill I seem to remember, which went through a building only to find it had a basement. They required the assistance of the engineers to remove it.
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  1465. That would make for a very interesting video
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  1466. Thanks for that. I thought it would make a good story when I mentioned it. The US Navy called their submarines Pig Boats. I'm sure I do not need to explain why. Obviously the lose of the submarine in this way was to much for Hitler and he took the only way out of this national embarrassment he could with any honour, which in turn, of course, then led to Germany's surrender.
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  1467. Even the wounded get left behind.
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  1468. McCarthy found he had a backbone but had no idea what to do with it.
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  1469. I have a feeling that was never said in German.
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  1470. Or in Ireland where he moved his business after Brixet
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  1471. One of those people who parachuted in to capture Pegasus Bridge was one Richard Todd. There he met Major John Howard on the bridge and later, when he returned to acting, he would play Howard in the film The Longest Day. Interestingly another actor played Todd.
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  1472. She would be asked to leave, what with her nonstop laughter.
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  1473. The .22 calibre rifles would have been for training purposes
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  1474. Well as he's now being dragged back into court for repeating what he said that got him in court the first time I'm sure this time he'll get his chance to finally reveal that evidence. I think as a matter of safety we should not all hold our collective breaths while we wait for this evidence to be provided.
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  1475.  @paoloadam  I think if you manage to castrate yourself with an RPG then death must surely be part of the process. But he's young so let's give him another chance.
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  1476. I get the feeling he will start a lock her up chant given half a chance. On the up side, and if all goes well, he will finally get his wall. Well four of them
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  1477. Well if it stops you blowing things up. :-)
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  1478. Needs a reset to factory setting
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  1479.  @propellhatt  The Kamchatka. The only ship both sides wanted to sink
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  1480. Welshman2008 So true
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  1481. The Home Office is against immigration whereas other departments know we need migrants to fill in the jobs gap.
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  1482.  @clavichord  I too am also a specialist in something. Hardest part if finding out what
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  1483. The Bonesaw Many rules and regulations are written in blood, and not just in the military. When there was a big ad campaign about wearing seatbelts here in the UK many ignored it but it when the statistics came out about the reduced number of deaths and serious injuries because of them opinions changed. Now it is the law.
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  1484. irgski I was referring to those who did not wear a seatbelt as these were more likely to die or suffer serious injury rather then those who did not. A simple statistic to count.
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  1485. I like the one, "I've got to stop asking how stupid can these people get. Some of them are taking it as a challenge."
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  1486.  @quint2885  Actually Russian pilots who took part in Korea admit they did not get as many kills as the US
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  1487. Something never change.
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  1488. So why was I not surprised when that Russian soldier did a backward cartwheel. It's like if you want to know how not to do something get a Russian to do it. And not what you'd call stealthy. What with the noise from the rocket. And the Russian spinning in mid air.
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  1489. Yes. I see where you went wrong there. You should have gone with what she was expecting. And once she is full sated then mention the Airmodels. Hopefully, if you'd done your part and fully indulged her desires, she would have had less cause, and strength, to object.
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  1490. That is one a a large number of various operations designed to deceive the Germans. Many of which were very successful.
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  1491. Aircraft Irritating Units. Sounds like they needed to see the MO.
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  1492. Well the US has his twin. Must be the first case of both twins being evil.
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  1493. And we all know what happens when you get hit by a brick
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  1494.  @anzaca1  British sailors serving aboard USS Robin, HMS Victorious when it was loaned to the US Navy, did mention that the USN sailors indulged in a bit of home brew. Where there's a will, or thirst, where's a way.
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  1495. I have but it is usually the S Boats which get the limelight.
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  1496. I think they took most of the blast.
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  1497. On the up side when the MiG-15 faced the Valiant bomber the Valiant flew to high for it to reach.
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  1498. I read about that. Apparently the real Gant looks nothing like Eastwood. The photographs were a ruse to allow the pilot to return to civilian life.
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  1499.  @lamwen03  Rationing did not finally come to an end until the summer of 1954. When sweets, candy, came off rationing there was a rush to buy them. This resulted in them being put back on ration again and a large number of people feeling decidedly queasy.
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  1500. You know that bad smell you just cannot get rid of. Well he's still there.
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  1501. I knew they had their own mint but little of the details, so thanks for the video. The history of money is a huge subject, as I am sure you know. When Rome invaded Britain they had no small denomination coins. So a Roman soldier was giving his pay in large denominations only. Imagine receiving your monthly pay in just one or two coins and then trying to buy a beer. Frustrating for both sides.
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  1502. Probably.
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  1503. Thanks for the video. Definitely a part of the war usually overlooked. I was always told that bananas were not imported because they were banned rather than because they were not a priority crop.
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  1504. The good old pork pie. Still eating them. I hope you all get a taste for them. As for not eating the crust that was because the pastry was there to protect the meat. The crust as a form of packaging. When you wanted to send the cooked meat to someone it was cooked inside the pastry and then sent to the other person. Once it arrived the pastry was removed and the meat was eaten. But often the outer layer of the pastry would be removed and the rest eaten along with the meat. Waste not want not as they say. Bit of a history buff so I am enjoying your videos. :)
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  1505. Who said you have to pick. Just sit back and enjoy. 👍
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  1506.  @briannewton3535  The problem with that is that it makes for a very good target for the Ukrainian artillery as we have seen so often. And it does not help when tank crews remove the mine ploughs.
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  1507. I have read that with the largest dinosaurs the difference in size of a new born hatchling and a full grown adult was such that the adult was some 28,000 bigger than the hatchling. That's a lot of vegetation it needs to eat.
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  1508. Triple stack gun pyramid. That's got to be interesting when it fires broadside. Try keeping that stable.
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  1509. The Fighting Captain. That is how I became aware of Walker
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  1510. I've seen the film several times, usually on a Saturday afternoon when there was nothing worth watching on the other channels. This was long before YouTube where I am now spending time watching a video about the San Demetrio,
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  1511. They never ever had air superiority over Britain and as Britain is part of Europe then your statement needs some qualification
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  1512. The migration theory is the most likely as it was a common practise during this period. The feelings of tragedy may well be because, unlike today, those that left would often never be seen again. So people may have been expressing their lose of loved ones. When people started migrating from Europe to America similar feeling were felt by both sides as there was every likelihood neither would see the other ever again. So parting was often felt more like a bereavement. So it is quite possible that this concentration on the loss has grown out of proportion and distorted what actually happened.
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  1513. Ironically combined arms dates from 1918 when the British 4th Army drove the German army back in the campaign which ended the war.
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  1514. Riding in your tank across the open Steppes. The wind whistling through you hair. Only to discover that it was shrapnel whistling through you hair.
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  1515. Knowing what they had already bought from the Germans I am not surprised they were interesting in the German tanks. But all things considered I would have thought they would have been better served by technical information, as well as the plans for the various tanks in use by Germany.
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  1516. Just imagine a battle between all those behemoths.
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  1517.  @Emdiggydog  That may be to do with the fact that he ordered Australian troops under his command to defeat the Japanese troops they were fighting at whatever cost. They were fighting in a fetted swamp attacking well built defenses while he was sat in a nice clean office in Australia.
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  1518. It does make you wonder what would have happened if the Soviets had come through the Fulda Gap and the A-10s were sent to deal with them. Just how effective would they have been. Plus despite the claims made about the A-10 crews they do not seem to be that hot on vehicle recognition as was claimed. We only need to remember what happened to the British troops in the First Gulf War who were killed by A-10s.
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  1519. The reason for the bomb was that there was no third floor window nearby.
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  1520. I thought Dwarven Bread was more of a weapon then a food. Plus if you are hungry it does encourage you to try other things before you eat it. Such as the corpse which has been rotting in the sun for several days and covered in flies.
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  1521.  Pommy Pie  You have to wonder why they built the Black Prince. The Churchill had gone as far as it ever would.
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  1522. It's not the cigar that was the problem. It was the flamethrower he lit it with.
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  1523. The English use of the longbow goes back much further and were in use long before they met the Welsh. Archery training included hitting a target laid flat on the ground at a distance which was achieved by using the curved flight of the arrow with the arrow dropping onto the target. This simulated hitting a man on a castle wall.
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  1524.  @turbomunch  Even the mob gets whacked by the mob
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  1525. That sounds like a video in itself. I hope we get to see it
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  1526. Not heard of the Antebellum period before so it was interesting to to hear about it. Though thinking on you may have mentioned it when you covered the New York riots. Nor had I heard of the Shakespear riot before now. So thanks for that. From what I know about Victorian London I could see similar things happening here if it was reversed. People like the costermongers where noted for their loudness and flashy dress and for being ready to do battle with anyone. Not much different from New Yorkers I should think. In fact several costermonger comedians toured America and at least one made a big success of it. Obviously they had something in common.
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  1527. Jacob Rees-Mogg. Lord Snooty's dumber brother.
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  1528.  @Kalaswalia  many of them were still in service from WW2. Also the UK still had national service back then so getting the man power was not a problem
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  1529. This is one of several channels I follow which takes the intriguing footnotes of history and fills in the missing information.
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  1530.  @catjudo1  no, but I can write my name in the snow.🤣
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  1531. Just imagine the effect of those downward pointing engines of the flightdeck of a carrier. The heat they would of created. As if carrier flightdecks were not dangerous enough.
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  1532. I agree but it is not like we were unaware of the power of navel aviation as we invented the aircraft carrier during WW 1 and was one of the two leading nations, along with Japan, in the evaluation of the carrier. Much of what you see one WW 2 carriers, the steam power catapult, angled flight deck et cetara, was invented by the British. And Britain understood the importance of the carrier as part of the fleet. With all that you would have thought we would have had at least a decent fighter.
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  1533. That may have been true at first but now they just do it like it's a trick they have learnt.
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  1534.  Some Person  True. They hate smart people
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  1535.  Sean M  John Ford, who became an admiral, would often humiliate Wayne about that. In fact the credits to one film listed everyone's service rank except Wayne who was listed as Mr.
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  1536.  @biko9824  I was just thinking the same thing. What would make any history lover to perk up like that. I suppose it will remain a mystery.
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  1537. Oddly enough they have a soot spirit. Left over from the days of steam possibly
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  1538. I'd like to be there when this all gets explained to the insurance company.
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  1539. Trump attacks Americas allies then wonders why they don't support him. For a guy who says he's smart he sure act dumb. Then again that's not an act.
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  1540. I think its called a confused outcome
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  1541. Interesting that as everything in Germany is collapsing and unity is required they turn on each other. In the mean time Germany is being destroyed and German people are dying. Hitler's will actually blamed German for the failure and not himself. I do not wish to bring politics into this but it does sounds eerily familiar.
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  1542. You can imagine the interview between Putin and Surovikin. Putin. Sergei. You'll commit war crimes for me. Surovikin. Sure. I'm already packed.
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  1543. A-10s are very good at what they do but fly alone. They need support from other aircraft to protect them from enemy aircraft, SAMs et cetera. This would mean that Ukraine would need all these extra aircraft with all the trained pilots and other crew, something they are not ready for.
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  1544. If he had paid using his own money nothing would have happened. But because he's go to mode is grifting he had to use other money to pay for it.
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  1545. I watched this cross examination and if and I'd have to say that if the lawyer had heard of the phrase belabouring the point he probably never understood it.
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  1546.  @brianreddeman951  or a picture of the bow of the Dreadnought
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  1547. He's now living in Mexico selling walls that will fry eggs
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  1548. Well. It's less messy then goat entrails.
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  1549.  @Calum_S  Me too.
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  1550. You and everyone else
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  1551. Uses a hidden periscope.
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  1552. I remember reading about the Firebrand test firing its guns during WW2. As Blackburn's factory is right next to the River Humber there is a bank between it and the river to protect the factory from flooding. To test fire the four 20 mm cannons they would lift the Firebrand's tail up to get the aircraft level then, fire at a target which was in front of the bank. After test firing one day they got a message from a rather irate barge skipper complaining about being fired on from the factory as he sailed up the river. It turned out that they had fired at the same spot so often that the cannon shells had dug a hole through the bank.
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  1553. The British did hide its submarines in Malta during WW2 by simply submerging them in the harbour during daylight hours and then bringing them back to the surface after dark. They were tied up to the harbour wall during the night and would submerge in the same spot during daylight.
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  1554. The city of Bristol in the UK has a building called the Exchange. On the outside wall is a clock which was installed in 1822. The clock has two minute hands. One, painted red, shows GMT while the other, in black, shows Bristol time. Bristol time is ten minutes ahead of GMT. So when it's twelve noon GMT it is 12.10 Bristol time.
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  1555. The name was given to one of the remote autonomous underwater vehicles instead. You would think someone would have pointed out the perils of underestimating British humour. They should have just given them a choice of three or four names to pick from.
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  1556. Nice to be able to know something about the original user of such an item. The 1919 offensive. From the information I have read this foreshadowed many aspects of WW2 with a the additional use of paratroopers being dropped into the rear of the German lines. That would have changed the face of future combat immensely.
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  1557. See what happens when you steal Ukrainians WiFi
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  1558.  @GR46404  he does know his subject.
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  1559.  @Macca17  She was seeing torpedoes while still in harbour.
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  1560. I was think how useless he was in Yugoslavia. He'd get a peace deal and they would be back to fighting five minutes after he'd gone. And all his SDP did was split the opposition vote and keep the Torys in power.
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  1561. The earlier version had a problem with Uranus. Have you thought of seeing your doctor.🤔👍😁
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  1562. Russian air defence could not shoot down their own aircraft. Really. But Russia claimed the A-50 shot down recently was friendly fire. And if it was carrying 74 people onboard why is there only five bodies in the Belgorod mortuary. Same number as the crew. The bigger question is why did the FSB tell several VIPs not to fly on the aircraft. What did they know.
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  1563. We should remember that Thatcher's government would run from boom to bust every couple of years.
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  1564. I did know about this crash but, as always, it's good to hear it related by The History Guy. Somewhat ironic that having flown in combat the pilot was killed in an accident and, for all three of them, just under two weeks before the war ended.
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  1565. The torpedo used by the Conqueror was based on a WW2 design.
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  1566. The Shorts Seamew also seems to have beaten the Il-20 to the punch.
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  1567. You could replay it speeded up to the Benny Hill theme.
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  1568. You think Bismarck may have been right. He said a war with Britain would lose them their overseas possessions.
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  1569. Not sure if that mean they are international or just very confused.
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  1570. The XH-59 was unfortunate in that it came about just before the 1970s energy crisis which meant that the cost of flying it shot through the roof. If the Fairey Rotodyne had received the funding it needed the next planned stage would have seen the rotor being folded way and stowed in the roof once it was travelling fast enough and use the engines on the wings to fly it.
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  1571. If you watched the TV series Due South then you would know how to pronounce it.
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  1572. He cannot get a bond. It's not like he doesn't pay what he owes.
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  1573. Not something you would personally want to test.
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  1574. The British did not deploy any horse cavalry unit to the fighting. All horse cavalry units were for ceremonial use only. In fact the British Army was the first fully mechanised army in the world and that was before WW2.
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  1575. Lincoln Frost. As I mention elsewhere there is evidence that snipers are less prone to PTSD. I will qualify that by saying the research was based on British snipers. Now whether it is something with the selection and or training carried out by the British armed forces, or possibly because of mental conditioning or something specific to the British I do not know.
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  1576. Fear of U-Boat attacks while attempting rescues was widespread during both world wars. The first losses for the British Royal Navy involved two cruisers being sunk by torpedoes from a German U-Boat while stopping to pick up survivors from the first cruiser to be hit. That sets the tone. Why risk your life to help those who's comrades were quite happy to use survivors as bait when those survivors are on the same side as the U-Boat crew. As for attacking a possible U-Boat while survivors are near the attack point, what else can you do. If you do not make sure it is no longer a threat then you run the risk of it escaping and killing others. In which case those deaths are on you because you failed to stop the enemy.
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  1577. Now we know why the smart one left at the beginning of the war.
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  1578. Wonder what happened to the ones bought by the UK.
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  1579. Everyone's a tough guy when the others don't have guns.
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  1580. It could have been a Latin American Vietnam.
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  1581. Dave Druid you cannot blame the entire continent of Europe for mistakes made by one person. \Many others would not have made that mistake.
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  1582. @Austin Han You have to remember that A Man for All Seasons was in effect written by More himself through his son-in-law. So it has to be regarded as propaganda.
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  1583. True
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  1584. I assume you are now settling in your new abode and have so far remained squirrel free.
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  1585.  @rocketguardian2001  Do you think you cat may contain the returned spirit of John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham. The famed RAF nightfighter pilot.
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  1586. He has it on timeshare with Michael Fabricant
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  1587. I read an article last year which talked about a Russian speaking Ukrainian who was born and raised in Ukraine but who thought of himself as Russian and not Ukrainian. As such he would only speak in Russian felt that he was better than the Ukrainians. Before the invasion he went to university in Moscow but there he was looked down on for not being a true Russian and therefore inferior to a true Russian. It reached a point where he left Moscow, learned Ukrainian and now feels himself a Ukrainian and not a Russian.
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  1588. I knew there was resistance to the Japanese in the Philippines but I did not know how effective it was. Thanks for that.
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  1589. As we all know anyone can be brave blogging from their mother's basement hundreds of miles from the fighting. Meanwhile his granddad has been called up to fight.
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  1590.  @notyou8716  He is part of an evangelical group which believes the ends justifies the means. So lying is not a problem as long as it brings America closer to their ends.
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  1591. Me too.
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  1592. This channel is better then many gun encyclopedias. I have read about the MG 13 but it was one photograph and a sentence or two.
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  1593. The first Viking raid on Lindisfarne, which the Christians all shouted about, was in retaliation for a raid by Christians on a Viking settlement.
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  1594. It not like he had much to spare.
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  1595. While he has four children and a ministers pay.
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  1596.  @USSAnimeNCC-  Not quite but the First Americans did originally come from the same region, though not actually related.
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  1597. I think he died in Berlin. It does not matter how skilled you are or what resources you have if your luck runs out that's it. And by the time Hitler shot himself his chances of escape had long gone. I had to laugh at Müller's description of Hitler as the unemployed house painter. The late Peter Sellers appeared on the Micheal Parkinson talk show. He came out wearing a German WW2 helmet and a leather German trench coat. Talking with a German accent he derided Churchill's skills as a painter, something Churchill shared with Hitler but unlike Hitler he had no pretensions about his skills. 'Churchill was a painter?' said Sellers. 'Hitler,' he said. 'Now there was a painter.' 'One apartment, two coats, one afternoon.' Maybe Sellers knew something.
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  1598.  @UltraJ3t  The problem with building the newer tanks is that Ukraine is knocking them out fast than Putin can build them. As I'm sure you know.
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  1599.  @chilbiyito  As Russia no longer has the capacity to build tanks like the old Soviet Union did they have no other choice than to dig out the T-55 and refurbish them.
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  1600. Could be interesting if that happens. If it thaws then refreezes they will be locked into the ground. Sitting targets. And as they are softskins if the Ukrainians can get some artillery up there they will be able to blast them to pieces.
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  1601. Little Donny Jr has done something illegal. Surely not.
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  1602. Interesting story but as but ships are shes I doubt if the resulting ship can be regarded as hermaphrodite as this would mean one had to be male and one female.
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  1603. History does have these evolutionary technological outbursts which can set your head spinning.
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  1604.  @jgates63  No he was there but trapped in one of the aircraft where the fire was. I think the aircraft which fired the missile was an F4 Phantom.
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  1605. Republicans behaving like Republicans. Who would have thought.
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  1606. Naval use of the Bouncing Bomb. Barnes Wallis Developed an anti ship version of the Bouncing Bomb called the Highball which was fitted as a pair underneath a Mosquito bomber. He even developed a bomb sight for it. You put in the length of the ship kept to a set speed and height and when the two markers on the sight lined up with the bow and stern you dropped your bomb. One advantage was it could skip over anti torpedo netting. It was to be used against the Tirpitz but by the time it was ready for use the Tallboy had sunk the Tirpitz and the other proposed targets were either no longer available or were considered impractical. America did test the Highball, which they called the Speedee bombs but stopped testing when the A 26C being used dropped the bomb to low which caused it to take the tail off the A 26 killing the crew.
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  1607. The very first tanks used by the British in WW1 had sloped frontal armour. So by the time the T-34 arrived the idea was not new. In fact if you look back to the American Civil War armoured trains and river boats they had sloped armour.
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  1608.  dan j  How often does an invention start as one thing only to find its real use lays elsewhere
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  1609. The Kentucky Terrapin. Bit harsh isn't it. Feel sorry for the terrapin now. 🙁
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  1610.  @AFloridaSon  No chocolate was harmed, or even used, in the production of white chocolate. Though it contains cocoa butter it does not contain chocolate solids. It is a blend of sugar, cocoa butter, milk products, vanilla, and a fatty substance called lecithin, sounds yummy.
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  1611. I have a feeling that is not a role he's keen to take up
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  1612.  @Chunky246  That's one hell of a pot hole
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  1613. So true.
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  1614. I understand after 1905 that the admiral of the Baltic Fleet has an automatic binocular launcher fitted to his ship in case of the sighting of torpedo boats.
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  1615.  @melchiorvonsternberg844  Things have moved on since 1978
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  1616. Like it 👍
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  1617. I have a feeling the fate of The History Guy will be somewhat different to that of Gordon Gekko.
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  1618.  @Peace-Love-And-Freedom-For-All  Except they are doing it to themselves.
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  1619. A very interesting timeline very thoughtfully presented. One biproduct would be that America would not get the huge boost to its economy and industry it did in WW1 as suppling military equipment and financial help would not have happened. This could also mean that they Wall Street crash would not have happen as the circumstances would be changed. I have come across another alternative timeline which kept the Triple Alliance but instead of sending troops to France, Britain, still using its navy as in WW1, provides financial help to France. France would probably go the same was as they did in 1870, and also probably in the same time scale, but it would mean Britain would not suffer the loses in men, material and money as they did in WW1.
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  1620. If you put this in with all of his other wayward statements it can be seen for what it is. Michell was correct by accident rather than design and therefore he gets no credit for what he said. As for the battleship we should remember that the US, British and Japanese navies were all ready involved in it replacement with the aircraft carrier. Which was nothing to do with Michell. In fact if Michell had his way there would have been no US Navy carriers.
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  1621. I think we know what the 'black water' was. I makes you lose all control of your speech, your legs and finally your balance before falling over. A terrible infliction
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  1622. Different times
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  1623. A very interesting story of a very accomplished woman. You have to wonder how different things would have been if she had appealed to the women's vote earlier and was reelected as the state Governor. How much more different the changes to the US Mint would have been.
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  1624. coffin dodger This is true. Unfortunately the fact that he saved us from war did not stop him being fired. They did not like the idea of other people thinking for themselves. I suppose it could have been worse. Imagine what Stalin would have done to him.
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  1625.  @77thTrombone  That I understand. What shows them to be rank amateurs is the fact that they did not leave such incriminating evidence behind. And remember they have taken over the duties of FSB because the FSB were not up to the job.
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  1626. As the M4 Sherman used aircraft engines you have to wonder what the Wasp Major would have done with it. June 6th 1944. Lands on the beach at Normandy. June 7th 1944 takes Berlin. They would have arrived sooner but the driver likes to get his seven hours sleep or he gets really cranky.
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  1627. The Wanberer looks a lot more capable car then the Kublewagon. That always looked to flimsy to me. I believe in the film Where Eagles Dare the Kublewagons are converted Citroen 2CV's.
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  1628. I thing the hardest thing the Russian generals did was to staffle their sniggering when they let him do it.
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  1629. I think we all know why he's changing his pants so often.
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  1630. Interesting that no one puts Johnson's success in 2019 down to Corbyn.
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  1631. Neil Anderson This is true but we are talking about quality control which is a different kettle of fish. This requires training and the appropriate equipment, such as gauges, to check each part. I understand quality control is a big problem with the F22 Raptor. Parts are arriving for assembly and are having to be worked on before the can be used. The problem seems to be related to the fact that there are so many factories around America making these parts that quality control has suffered.
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  1632. The Ukrainians have a soft spot for all Russian tanks. It's called the turret.
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  1633.  @michaelpatish7248  That mat be true but even the lone T-34 has stopped making an appearance.
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  1634. What's happening to Sunak reminds me of the last days of John Major's government. Just when you thought it could not get any worse up pops another crazy to sink the party even lower.
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  1635. I'm wondering with name plates that long did they add to the thickness of the ships armour.
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  1636. Thanks, Drach, for an excellent video. All things considered this does look like the most plausible scenario.
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  1637. Well Ukraine didn't miss one of them
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  1638. Normally I would not do anything to help him but if he wants a hand packing...
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  1639. @Karl Dubhe This is true but submarines are still called boats despite the fact many are now bigger then heavy cruisers. 😊
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  1640. In that case we are expecting a full report of what happened. And no you can't use Wikipedia as there was no internet back then.
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  1641. Attacking Hawaii on a Sunday. Not very sporting. Good job no one else thought of that. Imagine the effect it would have had.
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  1642. There are rumours that some of it is still out there somewhere even today.
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  1643. Not sure where you got your information about what it was like in a Medieval house but it was nothing like as you have describe. Houses which have been excavated show no sign of what you describe. Floors were regularly swept and we know this because marks have been left in the floors by the use of stiff brooms they used. And if it was how you described with layers of rushes they would have been found but there is no sign of them. Not even so much as a piece of broken pottery has been found. The reason I know this is because I studied archaeology which included lectures about Medieval houses.
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  1644. Russia may be getting more money for its gas but with so many people out of work because of western businesses pulling out it will need that money to give to the unemployed. There is also evidence that troops in Ukraine are not getting their pay and compensation given to those who have been wounded has been reduced or stopped. So maybe the Russian war chest is not as full as we think.
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  1645. Didn't Kaliningrad just vote to leave Russia
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  1646. Talking about Scottish Labour, back in the 50s half of the voters in Scotland were conservatives. Now look at them.
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  1647. Finally. Someone who had a good word for the US bureau of audience.
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  1648. I had heard about these trips but once again you have provided the missing details. Thanks. How about looking at the Royal Navy's contributions to this. I know they did a few trips in MTB/MGBs and I seem to remember something about the silent service getting involved.
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  1649. And Don is so trust worthy
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  1650. There are those who wish to learn, or be reminded, and there are those who find it difficult to learn but should look anyway. Because, as we know, history has a habit of repeating itself.
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  1651. As he is a chain smoker I would have thought he was double teamed by Malboro
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  1652. Did you now when he was a war correspondent during WW2 he briefly led a resistance group until he was told of what cod happen to him if he did not stop.
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  1653. Actually, as with all these things, it has to pass through Greenwich before it is official. This is why London was the first city to see the new millennium
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  1654.  @jimdavis8391  I have seen the Canberra flying. Excellent aircraft. Even the USAF were impressed by it. The Gloster E.26 did very well for itself and it was a prototype so with a bit of time improving it would have made it some difference to its performance. Also as the Battle of Britain was a defensive battle for Britain so its lack of range was less important. Getting up to altitude fast was what was needed.
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  1655. In the early days of flying in WW1 pilots were unarmed. They thought flying was dangerous enough without shooting at each other. When they did start using weapons they used hand guns and, if it was a two man crew, rifles. Interesting that they went old school on these aircraft.
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  1656.  @andrewfanner2245  Some interesting ideas. I was thinking more of a war just between the French and Italians rather than include others. That way I think it would exclude Germany. You could possibly have the war starting in 1936 while German is still fighting in Spain and not in a position to intervene on land. Isn't war complicated. I just wanted to see how the two respective navies would fair. And now we have to change the whole of history.
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  1657. This is very thoughtful of the Russians. Ukraine was running out of ammo dumps to blow up. One thing we now know about Russia is how much of a paper tiger it is.
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  1658. And I thought I was the only one thinking that. Is it worrying when the voice in your head has a lisp? Just asking for a friend.
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  1659. Interesting fact but the ones you missed was that they were younger, fitter and better trained then we are. So I think the Germans can sleep easy tonight.
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  1660. I have watched a video of someone who flew the the Spitfire at air shows and when he sat inside the Bf 109 he also found is rather claustrophobic.
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  1661. Does look suspicious, doesn't it.
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  1662. What a delightful and interesting story. It reminded me of the Yorkshire Giant, William Bradley, who was born in the town of Market Weighton in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He lived between 10 February 1787 and 30 May 1820 and stood at 7 feet 9 inches. He was even presented before King George III at Windsor who gave him a large golden watch on a chain, which he wore for the rest of his life. As with Robert Wadlow fears of graverobbing led to him being buried inside the church in Market Weighton. Every May since 1996 Market Weighton holds a festival, the Giant Community Day, in memory of William Bradley. It is a family-oriented event with games, amusement rides, stalls and other attractions.
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  1663.  @crisleroi299  That and keep your cheeks clenched at all times.
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  1664. Some years ago Fosters was being brewed in the UK under licence. Then they bought out the UK brewery only for them in turn to be bought out by another British brewery. And you thought it would just be the beer that made your head spin. 😄👍
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  1665. This is true but often the name was given to anyone who had even the most modest of ability to write. Oddly enough many people in the Medieval period had a very good grasp of the workings of the law, especially as it related to their work such as farming. This, despite, not being able to read. The law would be explained to them, especially if they had infringed it, and they would then in turn explain it to others.
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  1666. I understand that Farage's ancestry is French so it looks like that's he's the immigrant they are having trouble with.
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  1667. Loading up with pigeons. You get the feeling this lacked ambition. And the poor old crew suffering from Bombja ve. That feeling you've been bombed before.
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  1668.  @neiloflongbeck5705  Sometimes even on the first date.
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  1669.  @lamwen03  According to Charles de Gaulle France liberated itself. So I'm not sure what everyone else was doing. Standing back in admiration and amazement probably.
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  1670. What does count as a kill does seem to have a wide interpretation. I seem to remember that the Germans had no problem counting aircraft strafed on the ground as a kill in WW2. And America will allow a kill if an enemy aircraft flies into the ground while in combat with an American aircraft as a maneuver kill. So why not.
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  1671. Well thaat was worth every minute. Well done and many thanks.
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  1672. Okay. I've binge watched all of the Drydock and I am now up to speed. You may proceed from here.👍😊
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  1673.  @dennisstreatfield9012  Putin is finally getting his comeuppance
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  1674. When it does not pay to advertise
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  1675. I often find it interesting how people justify things. He is so poor he needs his car to get to the Gym. If he is in fact poor then how does he pay to go to the gym.
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  1676. I have a feeling rocket science is a lot easier.
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  1677. Never over Britain though
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  1678. Looks like someone got the Mosquito and the Beaufighter mixed up
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  1679. Oh, to be a child again. Yeehaw! Pew pew pew. 👍😄
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  1680. When Blunt got there he was talking to the Russians and on discovering they were short on rations the British shared theirs with the Russians. I believe Clark went to see Jackson because Jackson questioned Clark's orders. You can understand why Jackson did that as it was not going to be American lives put at risk.
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  1681. Yes but they got a good deal on funnels.
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  1682. I have a feeling there had already been at least one explosion and what was being videoed was subsequent explosions.
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  1683. That can't be Trump telling the truth. Ne'd burst into flames if that happens.
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  1684. I'd have thought dodging an incoming aircraft when things didn't go quite to plan during landing would have been higher. But then again you've probable got more experience of these things than most of us.
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  1685. I remember that film. My son kept running around shouting Slash the Zeros. 😊
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  1686. On the 22 August 1992 I took my family for a meal at a local pub called Ye Old White Hart. 350 years ago in that same pub on that same day the towns leaders decided to rebel against Charles I and the English Civil War started.
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  1687. I wonder which own is the most quietly satisfied. Starmer for Johnson's scalp or or Sunak not having to deal with Johnson being found guilty of lying to parliament.
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  1688. The post war US Army was regarded as the best dressed. You can see why.
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  1689. You would have thought by now someone would have mentioned to them to stop doing that. Having said that I think we can agree that we're not going to tell them.
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  1690. Are you keeping up with all the designations he asks. It's a Saturday. I am in need of refreshments, coffee specifically. And then I find there is an exam. Pretty damn sneaky if you ask me.
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  1691. most days it's just easier to start with Plan B
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  1692. Boris thought lying to Parliament acceptable. But then again he has spent his whole life lying to everyone else so why not Parliament.
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  1693.  @joelrodriguez9661  That reminds me of Italy's navy in the Mediterranean in WW2. They could show themselves quite capable of giving excellent performances, especially with their gunnery. But were then let down by such things as poor quality of the ammunition charges which could mean the same gun fires two shots and land a half mile apart.
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  1694. He hasn't got a clue what he is doing. Same clown car, just different clowns.
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  1695. Interesting what you mentioned about tank rounds and why they would be less effective on battleships. I had recently wondered about them and I did think the would be less effective then on a tank. So thanks for confirming that. I note that shaped charges are used on torpedoes but as these would strike a ship below the waterline I assume there main effect was flooding rather then destruction and the purpose of the shaped charge was to punch a hole in the ship.
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  1696. The RAF had an agreement with regards to these donated Shakletons that they would sometimes have to remove parts to keep those in service still flying.
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  1697. Oddly enough some German aircraft designers ended up working for the Allies. The designer of the Me-163 ended up in the US
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  1698. Bob Springer I do wonder if before his now famous charge he was thinking life was easier when it was just pigs he had to worry about.
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  1699. You start to think that this government is now beyond embarrassment. Anyway, he was arrested at 11am.
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  1700. One I'd love to hear
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  1701. I knew about the first Richard Parker as there was a dramatised reconstruction of the mutiny some years ago. During WW1 parts of the French Army mutinied and some of the ringleaders were executed or imprisoned despite the fact many of the grievances were recognised as genuine and were addressed.
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  1702. She's AI
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  1703. Smaller bouncing bombs carried by the Mosquito were tested in an attempt to use them against the Tirpitz. As with the dams they would have skipped over the torpedo nets.
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  1704. Well that's cleared up many misconceptions about this song. I had not realised how old it was nor the fact that two people were involved. From the version I had come across, with the mouse, it was the Joseph Mohr who wrote both the music and the lyrics as well as playing the guitar. And that the music and lyrics were written on Christmas Eve. And in the version of the carol I had heard about, when the Germans sang the carol in 1914 the British had known the carol but in English and some of whom had joined in. This part may have been true to some degree as many Germans had settled in Britain before the war. So it was possible that they had shared it with British friends. There is at least one story of British soldiers talking to a German speaking English with a East London cockney accent. He has been raised in London but had gone to fight for Germany at the behest of his German parents. Another song which gained popularity during WW1 was It's a Long Way to Tipperary by Jack Judge. Judge, songwriter and music-hall entertainer, was supposed to have written the song in a very short period of time, some ten or so minutes I seem to remember, as part of a five shilling bet. But others, including members of his family, have disputed this. Though is may be the five shilling bet is a myth there is always the possibility Judge actually did write it on the spare of the moment as part of a bet. There is another possibility and that is he already had the song but managed to persuade someone to bet against him. The bet was he could write a song in some ten minutes or so. He wonders off, supposedly writes the song and get his five shillings. Then sings it the following night at The Grand Theatre", Stalybridge, Cheshire, performs the song. Nice bit of PR and he enhances his reputation as a songwriter. The song itself became popular when a newspaper reporter wrote that it was being sung by the Irish regiment the Connaught Rangers while marching through France in August of 1914. It was then quickly picked up by other British regiments.
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  1705. Boris Johnson. Trump with a posh accent.
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  1706. I have read about the defusing of the first parachute mine. One of those involved was a British Army bomb disposal officer who had more that his share of luck and then some. When he was ordered to defuse his first bomb they were short of vehicles and equipment, and more importantly experience, and he had to walk to the bombsite and after assessing the situation return to the base to collect his men and whatever equipment he could then return to the bomb to defuse it. On the way back to the bomb it exploded. If he had been onsite he would have been killed. His luck held and he eventually reached the rank of colonel.
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  1707. Bill H. I think you are being a bit unkind to the old Flying String Bag. They made quite a mess of the Italian Navy at Taranto, Putting half of their capital ships out of action. A disaster which would have been so much worse if they had been at sea rather then in the harbour. And without them damaging the rudder the pursuing force would never have caught up with the Bismark (the ship not our host). But yes, they had reached their sell by date early in the war. I did see one years ago when I worked for British Aerospace at Brough, East Yorkshire. I was surprised how big it was. A couple of years ago I did read that the pilot of the Catalina aircraft which found the Bismark was a USAAF pilot who was involved in training the RAF. The article said they kept it quite because the US was not yet in the war. I wonder if anyone else can verify this.
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  1708. Russia is suffering badly from sanctions and they have taken steps to lessen the effects of those sanctions. China is not like Russia and does rely on trading with the rest of the world. So China is now seeing what sanctions would do to them.
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  1709. Actually my archaeology tutor did find such a boat and it now resides in our local museum.
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  1710.  @dbodesign6494  we could also include those who's interference with the French Army before and during the Battle of France which gave victory to the Germans in WW2. I have a feeling you you would need a very large fleet of them.
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  1711. That moment when you stop counting your money and start weighing it instead.
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  1712.  @Trek001  Thanks Trek. I did know about Ludovic Kennedy and his father, but it's good to be reminded of it.
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  1713. Their aircraft carrier has a crane onboard for when the bits drop off.
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  1714. Here in Britain we also have lost many of our apple varieties. In the 18th century there were villages where each orchard had a different variety of apple. And that could be forty or fifty orchard per village. Though not as many as America it is a pity so few have survived. Many of our reasons for losing them are similar to those of America, though we did not have Prohibition. Having said that we still have many apple orchards around the country growing different varieties of cider apple.
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  1715. Brexit was oven ready. If you like something which was half baked.
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  1716.  Josef James  interesting that you have to resort to abuse. Says a lot about you that you cannot express yourself without it. Obviously your a prime example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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  1717. Yes but does not include the football scores.
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  1718. During the war Niven made the film The Way Ahead in he starred. Working on the film was one Sergeant Peter Ustinov. When there was no other officers about their relationship was very relaxed despite their difference in rank, they were fellow actors after all. But Niven was pulled up on this and was told that they had to observe military protocols. I understand that in todays modern British Army it is not unusual for the men to refer to any officer up to the rank of captain by their first name, Seem like Niven and Ustinov were ahead of their time.
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  1719. Well as we know there were not enough of them. Also they would want them at home fighting the Americans. Plus that would mean their agreement with the Soviets was no longer in play. Having said that you have to wonder how their division would perform. Especially in Normandy.
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  1720. I can see why they wanted to keep quiet about what happened during this battle. It's bad enough a family losing its son, or sons, without the fact it was possibly due to your own side mistakenly shooting at the ship they were on. The voice to text was very good for the most part. As to any mispronunciations yesterday I was watching a man mispronounce Hebrides. So even us humans need help.
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  1721.  @elpatron7916  Why. What difference does their religion make. Americans were Christian but also bought, sold and kept slaves.
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  1722.  @MarkFeltonProductions  I think to be fair many of the German tank aces were not known about until after the war, unlike the fighter aces.
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  1723. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
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  1724. The swivel gun, which was also mounted in the tops masts, was much more reliable as it was a proven technology, was easily reloaded and was already in use already working fine. And a whiff of grapeshot onto the enemies deck would have proven just as devastating. Having said that it was well ahead of its time as area denial weapons which work on the same principle of multiple rounds inside a barrel are in use today. It was just ahead of its time.
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  1725. It looks like the the Russian Federation is falling apart so it's Russia that's being partitioned
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  1726. Well technically they now run Boeing. So now it's Boeing which is failing
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  1727. Looking at all this infighting we are reminded that they are the party of good government. Otherwise they'd be in a right old mess.
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  1728. Make some interesting Five Minute Guides
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  1729. This true R Mack. Then it just becomes a pillbox. I thought the same thing when I first saw photographs of the Swedish S Tank. Looks great but once a track is hit that is it. You cannot even carry on fighting because you cannot use the gun without the tracks.
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  1730. From what I have read the problem with the engines in the Manchester, including engine fires, did not appear with the Tornado. This would mean that the problem was with the Manchester rather than the engine.
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  1731. I have heard of getting your retaliation in first but this was a case of getting you Revenge in first. And considering all of the damage she caused and those ships she sank or left in too bad a condition to survive the storm I think any victory the Spanish claimed over the Revenge was somewhat pyrrhic.
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  1732. Interesting about the limitations of the radars look down shoot down capabilities. Earlier today I was watching a YouTube video of an F-15 pilot up against the Mig-29 in the First Gulf War. He was in danger of being shot down so dived towards the ground so the the Mig lost him. While the Iraqi pilot was distracted the F-15 pilots wingman shot the Iraqi down.
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  1733. That was very enjoyable. I hope you can find many more such stories.
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  1734. Sorry Guys. I'm just late. Been one of those days. 🙁
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  1735. I knew there was clashes between Red and White Russians after the war and the Royal Navy was involved but I did not know the details. I know British and American troops were sent there. I also knew that there was a problem with some British troops not wanting to fight in Russia. Partly because they had had enough and wanted to go home and partly because they did not want to die fighting to help businesses who were owed money get it back. A small number of British troops did destert
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  1736. Talking about Audie Murphy appearing in his autobiographic film I was reading about the British actor Richard Todd. appearing In the film The Longest Day. He plays Major John Howard the commander of the British glider troops who capture Pegasus Bridge on D-Day. On D-Day itself these glider troops were re-enforced by some paratroopers. These paratroopers were led in real life by Captain Richard Todd. It must have seemed odd for Richard Todd playing the man who was his commanding officer and watch another actor play himself.
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  1737.  @kpadmirer  oh how the have fallen.
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  1738. It gets worse if the engine is on.
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  1739.  @Thirdbase9  He's not sure
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  1740. Considering how bad he was as leader what value should we place on anything he says
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  1741. It normally takes about two years to full train a soldier. So expecting Ukraine to do the same in a few months is asking a lot.
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  1742.  @kittyhawk9707  well I did pay attention. They were used as bombers as well as transports. In fact Spain used them as bombers in Africa. If you wasn't trying to be such a smart arse you would have heard him say they used them as bombers as well as transports. There were still in service as bombers until the late 60s. So if you want to see an idiot find a mirror
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  1743. Misread the title I thought it was SMS Mackeson which sailed with her sister ship SMS Guinness.
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  1744. I second that
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  1745. Surely that can't be true because Big Daddy D said only the mafia takes the fifth.
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  1746. You have to feel sorry for the Afghan refugees. They thought they were leaving the Taliban behind. Then the saw the GOPs
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  1747. The first Ta-Go looks like a design from the early 30's. Japan had something of a Catch 22 as far as Kamikaze attacks were concerned. They needed good pilots for the aircraft they intended to use for those attacks but at the same time they could not afford to use their best pilots as these were needed to defended Japan. So, many of the pilots they used were given the bare minimum of training. This in turn caused problems because they needed to get passed the US pilots who by this time were highly experienced. And even if they did that their lack of experience often led to failure. When you see film footage of a Zero crashing into the sea instead of a ship it could well be because the pilot could not control the aircraft while in a dive. Something experienced pilots knew about.
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  1748. The word come from the Latin Pirata, pirate, corsair, sea robber. This in turn comes from the Greek peiratēs which literally means one who attacks (ships).
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  1749. True
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  1750. So was Guto Harri lying then or lying now?
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  1751.  @beecee2205  I would not disagree with any of that.
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  1752.  @SovietBelka  But the source of that info is not Ukrainian.
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  1753. Many of them have seen the writing on the wall and have got themselves new jobs
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  1754. Both her and the Queen Elizabeth had sad ending.
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  1755. It was a moping up operation.💩
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  1756.  @acchaladka  Just looked up the etymology of this phrase and it dates back to the sports section of the San Francisco Examiner of 8 February 1942 and basically means I'm in. To quote the newspaper, “Answer these questions correctly and your name is Flynn, meaning you’re in, provided you have two left feet and the written consent of your parents”. So no traitorous and morally lost former US generals need apply. With or without two left feet.
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  1757.  @hoyks1  Don't we all🤨
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  1758. So gutless rang brainless to get the okay to do the job he's there to do
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  1759. You have to remember this is The History Guy and not Gun Jesus. Though as Gun Jesus has taken to cos-play and is wearing hats I can see how that can get confused.
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  1760. The major difference between Johnson and Churchill is that Churchill would never have been partying while the Queen mourned her dead husband.
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  1761. R.J. Michell did something similar to this but decided against it because he feared that if the wings got steam hitting cold water would be rather explosive. Martin Baker of course produce the MB 5 aircraft with a gearing system to produce contrarotating propellers but with only one engine.
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  1762. Russia has long been like this. first the Tzar and then the communists and after a brief period Putin.
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  1763.  @hdlkm1145  Actually Russia's economy is much worse than Germany's. Russia's economy was worse than Italia's but has a population two and a half times that of France. And the French economy is much better than Russia's. If run properly there is no reason for it to be a very good economy. But with rampant corruption, very poor levels of education and some of the highest levels of alcoholism of any country, one in four Russians will die of alcohol related health problems before they are 60, that is not going to happen.
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  1764.  keith moore  So true
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  1765. I was just thinking of mounting a sniper scope on a 17 pr. It would certainly ruin someones day. 😀
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  1766. The toga was not usually an everyday item of clothing worn by the masses, they usually wore tunics. In some conquered nations some of the locals would wear a toga to show how Romanized they had become. Ironically the Romans themselves often laughed at such people. You will, I am sure, have seen photographs and paintings of men with their hand inside their jacket, waistcoat, pocket et cetera. This goes back to Aeschines, founder of the rhetoric who suggested that speaking with an arm outside one's toga was bad manners. Later in eighteenth century British portraiture as a sign of the sitter's breeding and the pose denoted "manly boldness tempered with modesty."
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  1767. I understand he had a conveyor belt on the bridge which was full of binoculars so he was ready to launch a fresh pair at any time.
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  1768. You have to wonder what he was going to do with it if he had salvaged it.
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  1769. Matt Boggs Now you would probably stick it on eBay or Craigslist.
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  1770. Definitely agree with you here.
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  1771. Did America look at France for inspiration here.
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  1772.  keith moore  American on at least two occasions asked Britain to supply soldiers to fight in Vietnam. This was because US generals wanted British troops fighting there. Johnson even came to the UK to ask. So whether it was you personally who was asked is irrelevant. America did ask Britain to send troops.
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  1773.  @Niinsa62  Thanks for that. That is interesting. When the Anglo-Saxons came to Britain they built houses like they did back home. This included the Grubenhaus which was a small structure partially sunk into the ground. Back in Europe they had used to keep their cattle in in winter. But as British winters are not usually as harsh as those on the continent they started using them for other things instead of cows, such as the weaving frame. The grubenhaus became what would later be called the shed. Interestingly in the 10th century there was a change in the way weaving was done and it went from being something the wife did to keep the family clothed to something the husband did as a job. I like to think that whoever came up with the change did so in the grubenhaus.
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  1774. That's what I always pronounced it. If you keep saying dee-do it sounds like a Greek police car.
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  1775.  @22NF2  Only if the Kamchatka is nearby. Or if you are a fish with a fear of the sudden arrival of the binoculars of doom.
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  1776. Ah, the good old days when Ukraine wasn't invading Russia.
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  1777.  @clothar23  I think those who served under Admiral Halsey in the Third Fleet may disagree somewhat. They discover how breezy it could get in the Pacific.
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  1778. Wilson was sidelined because he was ill-informed as to European conditions. John Maynard Keynes said of him "There can seldom have been a statesman of the first rank more incompetent than the President in the agilities of the council chamber," which was the prevailing judgement of the Treaty of Versailles conference. At Tehran FDR told Stalin that the US and the Soviet Union should work together and exclude Britain as it was an old colonial power. You would think that FDR would know that the Soviet Union was just another name for the old Russian Empire and that Stalin was its defacto Tzar. Also America is itself a colonial power. Just look at Puerto Rico. The US can require Puerto Rican's to fight in America war but the do not get a member of congress to have a say in that war. And the US capital also has no member of congress, though congress can, and does, interfere in local government in Washington. So what happened to no taxation without representation?
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  1779. This guy needs locking up for everyone else's safety
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  1780.  @Dave_Sisson  On more then one occasion during the Crimean War Lord Raglan, who had served in the Napoleonic War, sounded the alarm upon seeing French troops thinking they were attacking. Old habit die hard. And if Britain had not declared war on Germany in WW1 they were going to blame Britain for any defeat by the Germans. And after their defeat in WW2 they did blame Britain. Despite them being in charge. So blowing up their navy is just part of the fun. On the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar some senior French officers were taken around HMS Victory. On seeing some cannon balls one French officer asked if those were the ones used at the battle. A British Royal Navy officers said no you've still got those.
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  1781. Africa has some almost forgotten kingdoms and great trading cities long since disappeared.
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  1782. I did read that it was thought that electric razors would jam German radio guided weapons. It was thought they gave off a signal which would cause the jamming. You could just imagine the captain ordering his men to start shaving the minute a German bomber was spotted. Whether it would have worked I very much doubt. But they would have been the most clean shaven shipwrecked mariners in history.
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  1783. That will be all of us.
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  1784. The idea that the Americans did not know the attack was coming is not true. There was a US Army intelligence unit who had realised what was about to happen and that an attack was due. But their warnings were dismissed. If their warning had been acted on then the German attack would have been stopped much earlier and many American lives would have been saved. As it was some members of this intelligence unit were captured and being as they were originally from Germany and Jewish they were shot rather then taken prisoner.
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  1785. To me it suggests that actually operating a carrier was beyond them and this was the best use they could come up with. Short sighted to say the least considering the problems they have with their aircraft carriers
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  1786. He bangs on about British values but like everything else to him its just words.
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  1787. I was thinking the same thing. In his book Full Circle: The Story of Air fighting. Group Captain J.E. Johnnie Johnson talks about the early part of air combat in WW1. He mentions that the top speed for these early aircraft was around 50 MPH. If the wind was westerly, which if often was, and around 60 MPH the pilot got a good tailwind and would get to his target much quicker. The problem was coming back as the tailwind was now a headwind. To get back they had to use a method usually seen on sailing ships of tacking across the wind.
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  1788. Also his former allies went off and joined his then enemy, Britain. Thus greatly increasing his problems in Spain.
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  1789. That's Germany's fault. They will hang around in the cold North Sea instead of the Med where it's warmer.
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  1790. That is definitely a video to watch. Poland released Warsaw Pact plans several years ago, after the end of the Soviet Union, and according to those plans the Soviets were to pull back into Eastern Poland while the Poles held a defensive line which stretched across Poland. The idea was that the Poles would stop NATO, and suffer the casualties, then the Soviets would counter attack. Russia tried to block the plans release but Poland went ahead and released them. I don't remember reading if this Soviet/Warsaw Pact plan was a counter to NATO's counter attack or a plan in its own right. NATO had made it clear that what their plans were so it is possible the Soviets thought it was a bluff and that NATO would be the ones to attack. This could have left NATO sat in West Germany waiting for the Warsaw Pact forces to attack while Soviet forces were in Eastern Poland waiting for the NATO attack.
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  1791.  @SupesMe  well the Bear first flew in 1952 so I think there is a good possibility there may be some. Forgot about the old C130 work horse. Thanks for reminding me.
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  1792. brady  actually Britain has nothing that old.
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  1793.  @solidsteel3634  If Prigozhin ran his mercs like he did his mouth he;d be a winner. But as it is he's only a whiner.
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  1794.  @fyreantz2555  Sometimes it's best to give your coffee a moment before you start anything.☕
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  1795.  @wbnc66  Well, as I said. They also serve who stand and wait. And standing and waiting can include making the enemy think of trying their luck elsewhere. 👍
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  1796. Thanks for that. You have definitely filled a gap in my knowledge. As with aircraft submarines came along in leaps and bounds, as did anti-submarine warfare. You have to wonder how long all this would have taken during peace time.
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  1797.  @longi625  If it works why change it
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  1798. I first came across reference to this raid when I read about the Luftwaffe being put on standby for the Ardennes offensive, though the senior Luftwaffe officers were not aware of this offensive at the time. Many of them were puzzled as to why Bodenplatte went ahead after Ardennes. I know the Ardennes offensive was timed the way it was so it would coincide with the overcast weather, a common feature of the area at that time, so as to keep the Allied aircraft out of the sky. In fact much effort was put into checking that the weather condition would occur. But you have to wonder why no one said anything about it keeping their own aircraft grounded as well. Then again, knowing what Goring was like they probably decided it was better to say nothing. Though the figure has been disputed it is estimated up to one in three German aircraft was lost to German flak. Anyway, Mark. Another excellent video. Thanks.
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  1799.  @Missusri  True. But that's to his face, not what she says behind his back.
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  1800. A few brass pipes on the outside with some very large cogs and and we are set for Steampunk.
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  1801. From what I know the biggest problem with the Schlieffen plan was that he took no account in the troops becoming exhausted and unable to keep to the timetable. So as they advance German troops we less and less able to keep to the timetable. The problem with the German Spring Offensive of Erich Ludendorff was that they he was an excellent tactician he he had no ideas about strategy. He planned battles with great insight but these battles did not lead to an end goal because he had no idea what the end goal was or how to get there, The British 4th Army which took part in the 100 Days Campaign was made up of four division with each division made up of two corps. That is two British corps, two Canadian corps, two ANZAC corps and two American corps. The American troops were taught how to fight like the British and Commonwealth troops to help them fit in better. The army was led by Australian General Montash who was the one came up with the All Armies idea of fighting. Part of the Royal Air Force was dedicated to ground attack and their aircraft were fitted with armour to help them to survive better. When Kaiser Wilhelm II dismissed Bismarck, Bismarck's last words to Wilhelm was never fight England (Britain) as he would lose. Those words came back to haunt Wilhelm.
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  1802. I forgot to mention about ramming. I seem to remember video of a Russian ship ramming a US Navy ship back in the 80s. I am sure I have seen the video on YouTube.
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  1803. Trump, the draft dodger, complaining that the military can't fight
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  1804.  @Kabup2  So true. But that can help because no ones expecting to much from you. And it can make the big reveal more spectacular.
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  1805. There are some doubts about him player checker. He doesn't know where the checkers go
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  1806. It's amazing how your sales are improved by a suitcase full of cash. Just ask Lockheed. Wasn't Lockheed the ones caught charging the US government $50 for a hammer about this time. If there was any justice then the Super Tiger was the one to pick. But as so often happens it is not the one to win. I can see why the British never bought it. They still had plenty of Hawker Hunters in service and the Lightning went supersonic climbing to altitude on its first flight. But still. The Tiger sounds like an excellent allrounder.
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  1807.  @glenchapman3899  No that's what I call a good shot.
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  1808. I just Googled the Bell XP-77 and first impression was it looks good. And then I thought oh, look. A tricycle undercarriage and a cannon firing through the propeller hub. Reminds me of another aircraft. In my defence it is late evening here and it's been a long day.😒
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  1809. Somewhat ironic that China has suffered more that most.
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  1810. Trump. Not a man for self reflection.
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  1811. The number of people killed or wounded by a bayonet is tiny. Something like 0.01% of all casualties are caused by bayonets. And that has not changed since the American Civil War. Soldier prefer to shoot the enemy because it's safer then trying to stab them with a bayonet. For one thing they may well be trying to kill you at the same time. In WW1 when the British Troops were ordered to fix bayonets and charge the enemy but most would sooner shoot them instead.
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  1812.  @javiergilvidal1558  Went from the FW-159 to the FW-190. Quite a leap.
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  1813. Another one from the book of what may have beens. Thanks Ed
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  1814. I do know about the Year of Four Emperors and I very much enjoyed its retelling. Thanks for that.
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  1815. Bring out the comfy chair.
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  1816.  @billdyke9745  Sometimes you just have to face your fate. My problem is that last time I wore a pair of flares I had a much smaller waste. This may take some time
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  1817. There are many websites selling courses, many of which would be regarded as basic knowledge in their area of interest. In fact many YouTube channels run on that.
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  1818. A man more interested in his back account then the truth.
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  1819. Some interesting thoughts there, Sar Jim
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  1820. Thanks for giving us the story of the British contribution to the Battle of the Bulge. I knew they were involved but it is the American side which we usually hear about. I say this, not to take anything form the US troops, but because I think it is important to remember that the British were there fighting alongside the US troop.
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  1821.  @thornyturtleranch4u  He will say that there may be some pictures of the two of them together. You know. Birthdays, Christmas's, that sort o thing. But he has his photograph taken with lot's of kids.
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  1822. And Russia is still using armoured trains.
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  1823. The second, and less well know, victory involving Trafalgar.
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  1824. Who would have thought that killing equipment could be killed.
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  1825.  @mafinalmessagechangedaworl7131  The way this is going that record may be beaten
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  1826. I think we can all appreciate the irony of Russians who tried to trap Ukrainian fighters at Bakhmut now being the ones who are trapped.
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  1827. Like you I've been interested in aircraft since I was a boy. I have heard of many of these aircraft but usually in an A6 size book which had a line drawing of the aircraft on one page and some brief information on the other page, usually covering dimensions, speed armament and weapon load. But apart from that much of what Ed covers is as new to me as it is to you.
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  1828. You have to wonder what she sailed like in rough seas.
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  1829. There are a lot of us about.👍
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  1830.  @sarjim4381  I was thinking more along the lines of Iwo Jima. Having said that though much of Germany equipment was better then the Japanese they never had the chance to prepare in advance. A counter proposal for you. Germany uses diplomacy to get Poland on its side, remember Russia attacked Poland in 1919, and then they attack the Soviet Union as liberators. Many in the Soviet Union hated Stalin as much as Hitler did, in fact many did join the Germans viewing them as liberators. So proclaiming themselves liberators would have made life much easier for his armed forces. Many countries would have supported Germany, if only indirectly, because the communist had a foothold in their countries. Many would have flocked to Germany to fight alongside them while any communists would probably been arrested. I would be interested to know your thoughts.
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  1831. Prigozhin seems rather overdress for a hotdog sell. Anyone would think he knows something about warfare.
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  1832.  @matchrocket1702  Trouble is with his skin being orange he'll look naked. And even Melania avoids that.
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  1833. Well known fact that God is an Englishman.😊
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  1834. That moment you wish you'd packed a change in underwear.
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  1835.  Smith-Mundts Modernization Act (Look into it)  The fact that these ships were only carrying wounded was verified by the Red Cross. And Germans atrocities have also been independently verified. Including the crucifying of a Canadian sergeant to a barn door while he was still alive. Also this was not new. Atrocities were also carried out by Prussia, Germany, during the Franco-Prussian War. Germany viewed the use of terror as legitimate against both other combatants and civilians.
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  1836. The designer of the Heinkel 219 Uhu flew it himself on three missions where he claimed a total of three kills against the Mosquito. This would have proven the worth of the aircraft if it was not for the fact that no Mosquitoes were lost in the area he flow in.
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  1837. Why histriographer rather then the usual historiographer. While I'm here I would like to say how much I enjoy your videos. Always very interesting, informative and witty. Also, since you have gone human, spoken with a great deal of authority.
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  1838. Some years ago a British Royal Navy ship was shadowing a fleet of Soviet ships when a Yak-38 came up behind getting read to land on its carrier. Suddenly a problem developed and the Soviet pilot ejected. But his problems were not over as after he hit the water he became tangled in the cords of his parachute and looked like he would drown. With the Soviet fleet to far away to respond quickly enough the Royal Navy ship sent out a boat and saved the pilot before he drowned and then handed him over back to his own shipmates. Got to be one of the few times the Soviets did not mind being shadowed.
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  1839. @Charles Yuditsky who would say anything. America wouldn't want to admit they had it and Russia wouldn't want to admit they lost it. Did anyone see a small ad in the lost and found. Lost. One Salut spacecraft. Answers to the name ZB113. If found please return to the Kremlin.😄
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  1840. Famous but didn't know it.
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  1841. I have seen video footage of the Russian trenches and I have to say that they would struggle to stop a WW1 attack let alone what can be done today. Those dragon teeth they are using are sat on the surface so a tank with a dozer blad could just push them into the trench behind them. And you get the feeling that when the Ukrainian tanks get that close you are going to see a lot of Russians running away.
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  1842. Funnily enough I watched a video about the attempted assignation of Roosevelt earlier today and I possed the question as to what would happen if he had won the 1912 election with regards to WW1. Interestingly if WW1 had ended in 1916 then all the problems of 1917, the French Army mutinying , the uprisings in Russia, fighting by the Italians grinding to a halt and the Austro-Hungarian Empire heading for collapse, would never have happened. One of the outcomes may well have been that there was no communist take over in Russia and the effects and problems that caused for most of the 20th century. thanks for your insights
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  1843. If Russian nukes are in the same poor state as the rest of its equipment there is no guarantee they would even leave the launcher.
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  1844.  @TheJrr71  That feeling we've been here before
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  1845. This vagueness when passing on information carried on into WW2. Montgomery had this problem in North Africa and he decided to just ignore any information passed on to him from Bletchley Park. Crete was lost for the same reason as the information passed to those involved was so meaningless that it was of no help. If sufficient information had been given to those in charge the Germans would have been defeated. It makes you wonder why, between the wars, people from intelligence and the armed forces did not sit down and work this out.
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  1846. This is why every night he is placed inside a high security vault.
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  1847. I am looking forward to the USS TЯUMP. The problem could be secure communications for the Twitter account.
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  1848. One of the criteria is to not have passed on his genes to any children. Otherwise yes he has a chance
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  1849. It has been awhile but I believe it is an eagle which was featured in a previous video. I think the story is that it is possibly extinct as there were never many of them. It would be worth looking through the videos to check it out. I hope your son is enjoying the videos.
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  1850.  @2384SKIPPER  You get the feeling someone was stood there with a box full of nuts thinking it's like building flatpack furniture. There's always something left over.
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  1851. Thanks for reminding about this event. I saw a BBC TV programme about this some years ago. It was really the first time I had heard the word tsunami. I was both shocked and surprised about how powerful they are. And how far reaching.
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  1852. If we are comparing states to countries then California has more people the Canada. Though Canada can claim to be bigger then America.
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  1853. Certainly looks somewhat sporty. There does seem to have been a thing about sitting the pilot as far back as possible. It's like being the tail gunner on your own aircraft.
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  1854. Definitely sums up the Third Reich
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  1855. Well it doesn't happen to often. And you can always re-watch it a later.
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  1856.  @philipcoffman4372  Remember that this winter when you have no heating and Putin has his multimillion dollar Dacha
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  1857.  @nathanl7018  I must have missed something here, Nathan L, because I was under the impression those pawnshop programmes were not cheap. What with having to shut the shop down for filming and the cost of all those experts. Easier to make, I'll grant you. Especially as it, along with the likes of storage wars and American pickers, has been shown to be fake. But if you look at the quality of some of the history videos on YouTube how much harder could it be to make decent programmes for the History Channel.
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  1858. When it come to submariners bragging rights having a train on your list of kills will take some beating.
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  1859. On a Saturday I like them to be about 30 minutes. Gives you enough time to drink your coffee at leasurely pace.
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  1860. Considering how often France and Germany were on opposite sides in various wars strange bedfellows indeed.
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  1861.  @virginiatyree6705  Well they do say A Fool And His, or her, Money Are Soon Parted. On the upside Covid 19 Delta seems hell bent on thinning the herd.
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  1862. I think the US should be concerned as Russia could soon surpass it as Ukraine's biggest donator of equipment.
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  1863. Thank you for the video. Very enjoyable and informative as always. One idea put forward for Johnny only earning a penny a day was that he was on a piece-rate and so he only earned a penny because, as it says, he could not work any fast.
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  1864.  @Solus94  Because in the US hospitals are a business and are there to make money
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  1865.  @simonwaldock9689  True. That's why they first thing his army did when they took the capital city was head straight for the national bank and take all the money. You do realise that this makes WW2 the worlds biggest bank heist
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  1866. No one can accuse you of not appreciating some of the better things in life.
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  1867.  @ryanovski  The Luftwaffe had enough trouble dealing with Spitfires and Hurricanes without having to deal with jets as well.
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  1868. Johnson was born in the US so who knows
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  1869.  @TimoDyer  I was thinking the same
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  1870. That's not a euphemism by any chance.
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  1871. I like it.
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  1872. Bit excessive for clearing a few leaves off the line.
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  1873.  @Activated_Complex  That's what happens when you park in a bad neighbourhood. Surprised it it wasn't up on bricks with the tracks gone.
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  1874. With this government being an ethics advisor has got to be a thankless task.
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  1875. Why would anyone want to come here on a short term basis. We have already seen this fail with truck drivers who did not take up this offer. If we are not going to make the commitment to them why would they make any commitment to us. As for Zahawi why wait. As the HMRC said, they don't fine people for making mistakes. Sunka should fire him or look weak.
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  1876. Drach's US Navy's Fleet Problems. There's too many bloody fleet problems.
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  1877. Now it all makes sense
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  1878.  @quedtion_marks_kirby_modding  I think that was more to do with politics than technology. NASA my feel like they are hard done to at times but compared to what the Soviet scientists went through it was barely an inconvenience
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  1879. I was aware of Deserter but I knew nothing of the details, so many thank for that.
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  1880.  @chrisneedham5803  Yes but will they take a bullet for you?
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  1881. Another one of those little corners of aviation history which usually came up a one photograph and a short description in a book of also rans. But still worth a look.
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  1882.  @bkjeong4302  somewhat ironic that it was the Russians who were on a suicide mission against the Japaese.
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  1883. Sounds a bit like the Spartans except without the dressing like a woman. I did read about one occasion where one Indian was about to claim coup when another Indian grasped the coup stick so they were both given coup.
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  1884.  @brianmonks8657  It is, Brian, our birthright. 😄👍
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  1885. And trolls are trolls. Preferred it when they lived under bridges, with no wi-fi
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  1886. It's interesting how fertile some peoples imagination can be.
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  1887. Dear, oh dear. She back again
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  1888.  @kamilomar9134  I'll have some of that as well 😃
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  1889.  @hekatoncheiros208  I have read about him. Raided parts of Ireland's cough Coast ass well as England's Wwst Country. Ironic that Robert Newton used a West Country accent when he played Longjohn Silver
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  1890. Not heard it like the first Jeff Stanley but as the second. And the pronunciation of Gloucester as Gloster is in the old rhythm Doctor Foster went to Gloucester. So it has been around for some time.
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  1891. vincent lefebvre English is, as you will know, the most widely used language in the world, as either a primary or secondary language. One in five of the earths population speak English. That's 1.5 billion people. Not bad for a language that is hard to learn.😊 One language which people think exists but does not is Chinese. There re several languages in China of which Mandarin is the official one but not Chinese.
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  1892. Watching this guy if your an oath keeper I would plead guilty and hope for a reduced sentence.
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  1893. I was wondering the same thing
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  1894. Definitely a tale of daring do. One of Germany's most feared weapons went from hunter to hunted. I did read that the casualty rate amongst U-Boat crews was higher the Japans Kamikaze pilots.
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  1895.  @ziepex7009  True
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  1896. Has Ukraine got a surprise for Putin on the 9th during his parade
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  1897. I think they shouldn't use orange for him. That will just make him look naked. And that is not a sight we want to see.
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  1898. That's where little drones come from.
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  1899.  @donjones4719  That's Three of us.
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  1900. Good news. I still have use of my legs. Though other parts of me, that bit I sit upon, have gone numb. I may be mistaken but I seem to remember Drach being concerned because he original planned these to be only 30 minutes and they had climbed up to 40 minutes. Little did we know at the time that this was just training for the endurance we would face in the months to come.
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  1901. Along with the railway the British invented to steam shovel. It didn't see much use in Britain as there was more then enough railway navvies build the railways. Also if a navvie didn't work he didn't get paid, whereas if the steam shovel didn't work it still cost the railway money. Where there steam shovel did do well was in America because there was not a big enough manpower to build the railways. You do have to wonder what the history of America would have been without the railway to unite the states together.
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  1902. Those pilots are running a civilian pilot training school in China which the British government knows all about. The pilots have said that if the UK government had any concerns about what they are doing they would stop the training courses.
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  1903. You are causing pundemonium here
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  1904.  @MrMattumbo  Well zigzagging will throw off the Japanese subs.
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  1905.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  You usually expect raids like that from people like JEB Stuart. Just goes to show, the north had its moments as well.
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  1906. Good business people should carry out due diligence.
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  1907. I forgot to mention that many Neolithic longbarrow burial mounds had a large bowl placed inside them. When the residue in the bowl was tested they found it had been full of mead
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  1908.  @dimwitsixtytwelve  Well the Russian army claimed they forgot to take the handbrake off.🙄 Either way it was not a good look,
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  1909. Maybe it should be featured when we have a ships dog video.
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  1910. Interestingly one of his fellow countrymen, also as a child, was so impressed by the sight of all those B-17s and B-24s that after the war he ended up joining the USN and flew attack aircraft over Viet Nam. An A-4 I think. He was shot down over North Viet Nam but managed to successfully escape. Not only that but found his carrier was still on station and was reunited with it. They gave him a room but that night they found that he had gone missing. They found him fast asleep in the cockpit of an A-4, where he felt safe.
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  1911.  @milferdjones2573  Hi Milfredjones, sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Yes they scouted the beaches with one of their tasks being to check whether or not the beaches were suitable for vehicles to use it. This is one of the reasons some Churchill tanks, as well as some trucks, were used to deploy the carpet roll type D to make sure vehicles did not get bogged down. They also took samples from the beach to take back for analysis as part of this process. I came across a book about this group at my local library some years ago which was the first time I had heard about them and even now very little if anything is even mentioned about them. But but it does go to show how extensive and thorough the planning for D-Day was and what lessons were learned from the Dieppe raid.
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  1912. Always said it was ahead of its time
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  1913. They are well rested now.
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  1914. Ironically back in the 20s America had the best public transport system in the world.
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  1915. von Trapp's first wife was Agathe Whitehead. Agathe's grandfather was Robert Whitehead of Whitehead torpedo fame.
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  1916. Two of my late fathers brothers were in the British merchant navy and sailed up to Archangel in Russia on more then on occasion, braving the arctic storms in winter and the German submarines and aircraft in summer. Ironically their eldest brother, who spent the entire war in the army, looks like the only one of the three who was on a ship which was sunk by a torpedo. He was on a troopship heading through the Mediterranean when it was hit. He was rescued and later went on to join the Commandos.
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  1917. It would make a good movie but it may be too far fetched even for Hollywood.
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  1918.  @VladislavDrac  Actually to be fair to the Italians they were badly equipped and poorly led, But yes their frogmen were excellent and highly regarded by the British Royal Navy
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  1919. I was thinking about that as well. As the approval for the list has not been given the final stamp of approval I hope not.
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  1920. If she take the leadership of her party Labour is in for the next ten year. Great use of emojis
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  1921.  @josephkarl2061  It is rumoured that they invented the catwalk. Though some say this is just some confusion about walking the plank
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  1922. It's interesting what old references we still use. When was the last time you decided a game of chess was 'not worth the candle'.
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  1923. Thankfully a dwindling number of old farts.
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  1924. I see he is already moving his business to Ireland. Nice to know he is so confident of a post Brexit Britain.
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  1925. And what would 500 plus British nuclear warheads do to Russia.
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  1926.  @robertdewar1752  Health care is prepaid by taxes. So we all do. And before you say anything you should note that the US system of buying your own health care is twice as expensive as any other county but US health care is not even in the top twenty in the world.
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  1927. My mistake. You should cut the red wire first. Sorry? What do you mean it doesn't matter now?
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  1928. Now you mention it yes you are right. Robespierre went from being against the death penalty to being one of the leading figures in the Reign of Terror. Then get guillotined. Does that count as Karma?
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  1929.  @seed_drill7135  They suffer a very high casualty rate but even to the end he refused to acknowledge what he'd done
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  1930.  @Graymenn  I was trying to not use the term paternal uncle in case people did not know what paternal was.
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  1931. Strapping a new engine to a new airframe has enough problems. But strapping a new unproven type of engine to a new airframe really ups the difficulty levels.
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  1932. I noticed that as well.
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  1933. Sunak is faced with the chance to get rid of Johnson while still having to deal with Johnson's supporters.
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  1934.  @Piddel  A marriage of convenience. Each had something the other wanted.
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  1935. It is going to be hugely interesting to see what else they find.
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  1936.  @cardwitch91  Special Operation Strategic Repositioning I think you'll find.
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  1937.  @krakhedd  You get the feeling these untrained conscripts are going to surrender the first chance they get.
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  1938. Nadine Dorries has also stepped down. It looks like she has stepped aside to allow Johnson to get back into parliament.
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  1939. Well one of the first things the Anglo Saxons did when the got here over 1,500 years about was set up sheds.
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  1940. I did know of this aircraft but again missing details have been added here. I did read that the early prototype did have a problem with porpoising at speed but this was later corrected. You have to wonder what the Germans could have achieved had they been better organised and gotten the Dornier 335 into service and in large numbers. Imagine trying to defend B17 bombers while they come hurtling in some 40 MPH faster then you could.
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  1941.  @nitsu2947  A mess room is where the crew ate their meals.
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  1942. We can see just how much confidence his own party has in Sunak by the number of his MPs who are doing a runner.
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  1943. That is the big problem with the F-22. I understand that the quality control is so bad that parts have to be corrected before they can be fitted.
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  1944. A message to Putin
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  1945. i was going to say I don't remember Robert Newton doing that. Was it better then the cleaning bill for having parrot poop all down the back of his coat. Or did they make the parrot use the poop deck. And Newton still influences pirate films today in the form of Geoffrey Rush. Actually there seems to be so many pirates with West Country accents Cornwall must have been empty.
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  1946. And Scylla
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  1947. There is always much discussion as to which Allied general was the best in WW2. My vote goes to Hitler. With those surrounded at Stalingrad and those captured at the end of the North Africa campaign those two alone cost German half a million men.
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  1948. Well he's nothing if not polite.
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  1949. One of the joys of the internet.
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  1950. Black pudding is frivolous spending. What next, bacon? 😒
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  1951.  @hollister2320  I understand that but as a kid at that time we expected that space would be out future. I had a Sputnik toy someone bought for me. I built models or the Saturn 5 rocket. A lunar lander which sat on a base that represented part of the moon. And the famous Sikorski Seaking helicopter with the number 66 on the side. She was the one most often used to pick up returning astronauts. We also had Star Trek on TV. There was even plans to fly to the moon for holidays. Though the man behind that was later convicted of fraud. So you can see why for many of us space looked like our future and why we would be disappointed when it wasn't.
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  1952. Damn you, Mark Felton? You know you don't mean it.
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  1953. We all do that at some point 🐶
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  1954. I think he is taking advantage of us all being stuck inside our homes.
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  1955. Bremner's Ghost I have to second that. Reading about his actions during the Napoleonic War I thought he would have made a great commando leader in WW2 the way he raided places. He later helped Brazil defeat Portugal and harassed it much larger Portuguese fleet all the way across the Atlantic. He was a combination of Nelson and Wellington.
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  1956. This is one of those aircraft I was aware of but knew very little about. So thanks for the video. One thing which can said about this period is that what was ordered yesterday would be out of date tomorrow.
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  1957. Congratulation's on reaching 40K It is very well deserved. You listened to your audience and gave us what we asked for. What more can we do but watch your excellent videos. I think one of the other factors here is that there is a very good audience all willing to chip in and add what they know. It feels like a group of like minded people. Always enjoyable to read the comments.
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  1958. The fact that the title starts off with The Douglas got me, along with the thumb nail didn't help.
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  1959.  @brianreddeman951  at that time it would only work on Italian submarines 👍
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  1960. When I first watched Kelly's Heroes I did wonder if anything like that had ever happened in real life.
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  1961. They would be better off leaving her as the PM. She now has little in the way of power and she would act as a lightning rod for what's to come.
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  1962. I had read something about these tanks but not much. So it was interesting to find out more. The Elephant I did know a bit more about, though that is the usual about not having a machine gun and how badly they fared at the Battle of Kursk. So thanks for the video. Knowledge increased
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  1963.  @Assassinus2  Don't worry. You will be. At a place called Bovington
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  1964. I saw a video which talked about Russian drones. Apparently though the body of the drone was Russian made all the internal components, controls sensors et cetera, where just parts taken from elsewhere and used to operate the drone. This included parts taken from two different brands of phone. So if these drones are suffering from malfunctions it may well be because of how they are made.
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  1965. Well you have to keep warm somehow.
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  1966. Look on the up side. He'll finally get his wall. Well four of them. And his new suit will match his skin. Of cause it will mean no one will know when grandpa is walking around naked.
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  1967.  @DiggingForFacts  Many of those who died drowned because they had attach their life preservers around their wastes instead of around their chests. Result was they were turned upside down when in the water and could not right themselves. All because no one thought to give them some simple instructions about how to wear them.
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  1968. Lack of resources is one thing but knowing what you need and how to use it is another. With that knowledge he could have been making decisions about how best to use what he had and what he would need. Instead people died and vital ships and supplies were lost. And bare in mind these ships had been escorted across the Atlantic under constant threat, at great expense and the danger to life and limb of the British Royal Navy and the merchant navy. All that only to find they were sunk so close to the coast of America that some German torpedoes were found on the beach. As personal interest. Two of those merchant navy sailors were paternal uncles.
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  1969. They had not been doing that for four years. Tactics had been evolving all the time. By the time of the 100 Days Campaign the British 4th Army in 1918, of which one corps was American troops, they had reached the stage of what we now call combined arms, where tanks, artillery and aircraft were being used to support the infantry. The British had developed self- propelled artillery and had taken the early steps for an infantry carrier. The French had perfected using artillery in a rolling barrage giving close support of the infantry so they were following just behind the rolling barrage. When being attacked and there was a chance of a breakthrough the Germans would reinforce that area. So the British would then attack elsewhere leaving the Germans with troops in the wrong place. The British campaign at Passchendaele in 1917 came close to defeating the Germans in France. The only thing that saved them was the unseasonably wet weather which made movement nearly impossible. The thing to remember here is this was a type of warfare no one had fought before, so there was no playbook anyone could go to and say this is what they needed to do. But the British and the French had been developing effective tactics to fight the battles throughout the war. And into this comes Pershing who has no idea about all of the advances in tactics telling everyone he knew how to win the war. I should say something about the American soldiers. They were excellent. I know reading about those sent for sniper training with the British that the instructor were all very impressed by them. Given the right training they fought well. And the same can be said of their officers. And I will say that once forced into making changes Pershing did the right thing. But he was still sending in attacks right up to the last minute. Attacks which cost American soldiers lives. Attacks which were not needed.
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  1970. Two burning. Well everyone likes a good BBQ.
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  1971.  @ThugShakers4Christ  Do we mention the what America did to the Indians
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  1972. So the supply depots will be moving around every ten to twelve hours. Knowing how poor Russian logistics are that is going to make it worse.
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  1973. You would not want to be on the angry end of that would you.
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  1974. Doubt it. There are those inside Russia who know how weak he is and are already jockeying for his job.
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  1975. I have heard of the Eureka Stockade though it was sometime ago so it is nice to be reminded of it. Anther great vidoe
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  1976. In WW2 the Allies experimented with air fuel bombs using coal dust. The dust was released before the explosive was detonated. But it turned out it was not as easy to detonate the coal dust as you might expect, what with needing the right mixture of air and coal dust.
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  1977. Should the accused have the right to decide what evidence should be seen and which should not.
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  1978. Because he was convinced he knew better then his generals.
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  1979.  @vic5015  America should be praised for keeping some of their ships but the choice does at times leave something to be desired.
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  1980. This tech bro rep didn't go so well when his people Photoshopped him into a photograph of himself with three students from the University of Kentucky.
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  1981. We all thought it was the US president
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  1982. Makes you look at party balloons in a different way.
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  1983. Shame "liar liar pants on fire" does not work.
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  1984.  @jimduffield7822  It looks at the moment like this may be delayed as the weather has slowed down the movement of Russia's reinforcements. There is a lot of heavy rain in the area which will make if very difficult for Russia's armoured vehicles to move.
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  1985. Just think of everything passed five minutes as a bonus.
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  1986. This fixation with armour piercing has excluding the fact that an arrow does not need to pierce the armour to be disabling or even fatal wound a knight. The very act of being struck by an arrow with enough force can cause blunt force trauma which can kill. Post WW2 the French army did a study into the use of body armour and came to the conclusion that a force of 80 joules on the human body would be fatal. A bodkin arrow has shown it can exert a force of 128 joules. So even without penetrating a knights armour there was enough force exerted to cause serious injury or even death if the knight was struck on the head or over the heart. And English archers were trained to shoot at the head and the heart. So the arrow does not need to penetrate the armour to kill
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  1987. Yet he lost to an umbrella and a piece of toilet paper stuck to his shoe.
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  1988. For our American visitors there is lots of free cups of tea. And only $300 to use the bathroom. We get them everytime on that one.
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  1989. It makes you think what stories it could tell.
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  1990. A very interesting video. I must admit I could not see how the decisive battle was going to be a war winner. Especially against the US. It was a bit like a lion taking on an elephant. Whatever the lion thought it could do you know that at some point the elephant would win.
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  1991.  @Taistelukalkkuna  anyone who tells you they saw the ninja parade was drunk😄😄
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  1992. 8 views, 12 comments and 102 likes. Well we all know how good his videos are. Even people who haven't seen it like it and will say so.
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  1993. Never saw the Valiant fly. The one and only time I saw the Victor was in Norfolk when one suddenly flew just over my car. Fortunately I was parked at the side of the road at the time so I was able to watch it fly to its airfield. Years ago I worked for British Aerospace's airfield at Holme on Spalding Moor in East Yorkshire and one day we had a Vulcan doing circuit and bumps. I was stood some distance from the runway but each time it powered up to takeoff again I could feel not only the air around me vibrate but my entire body vibrated. I think the power to weight ratio was something like three to one which is why it could do acrobatics.
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  1994. As far as I remember he was positively ID'd by someone who knew him. Unless someone has seen him in Bolivia after the fact.
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  1995. I knew about this crash, as well as that of the B25, but it is still interesting to hear about it again.
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  1996.  @georgebuller1914  Well whatever they said it was the RAF who added the Merlin engine
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  1997. Interesting that the period she gives as low growth, the 80s and 90s, was under her party. And here we are again. Highest inflation since the 80s.
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  1998.  @Zarcondeegrissom  Didn't they try the diesel-electric engines on the elephant, I seem to remember. Not what you would call a roaring success.
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  1999. Finally. A French bomber that actually looked good. Rather then something which had had a number of extensions added.
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  2000. I had forgotten about John Ericsson. He designed one of the locomotives entered into the Rainhill Trials for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829. He was obviously more successful at ships then he was at railway locomotives.
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  2001. It is surprising how somethings can focus the mind.
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  2002.  @Philip271828  Actually yellow was for the 'go faster stripe' down the side.
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  2003.  @peteralderson1483  I used to work for British Aerospace at a former WW2 bomber bases used by an Australian squadron. Many of the buildings and hangers were still there including one hanger which was shot up by the Germans. In fact the bullet holes could still be seen. It was rather eerie to think of how many aircrew flew off from there never to return
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  2004. Melania has enough trouble with Trump waving his tail without a dog.
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  2005. @JZ's Best Friend Why do you think they had all those nuclear submarines up there. Of course they were 'on an exercise.' And all that thing with the Russians planting there flag at the North Pole. They were also after the Firefox. (I think I'll stop now as even as I'm starting to believe what I've written🤪)
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  2006. It is easier to find a virgin in a brothel then someone who isn't up to no good in the Trump administration.
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  2007. Johnson was not originally going to be there but thought taking on Ed Miliband would be easy. Yet another unforced error from Johnson.
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  2008. Skip bombing was not without its risks to the aircraft. More then one aircraft was destroyed because the bomb bounce back up and hit the aircraft that had dropped it. I remember reading of the surprised and shock of a tail gunner who suddenly saw the bomb they had just dropped shoot passed his turret, so close he said he could almost touch it.
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  2009. I originally also thought that but part of the aim is to get in quick, hopefully without being detected, launch torpedoes, then get the hell out of there. Wiggling about while trying to aim at your target without the enemy firing back is definatelly not something you'd want to do. So being able to have some control over the torpedo is a great advantage. I have read several accounts by people who fought in MTB/PT boats and it was harder to hit a target then you might think. So being able to just point and shoot is a big advantage. A little side note I hope you may find interesting. Captain Peter Dickens, the great grandson of the author Charles Dickens, served on British Royal Navy MTBs during WW2.
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  2010.  @rexfrommn3316  I see that though you buy Chinese garbage they have declared no backsies and you now have to keep it. As for future archaeologist I think I have a good idea what they'll say. There is nothing an archaeologist love more then digging up ancient landfills. My degree is in archaeology so I know of what I speak.
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  2011. It's a shame the painting no longer exists as it would have been something worth seeing. Interestingly we have something similar such as the Bronze Age Uffington White Horse and the Cerne Abbas Giant. The in the case of the Cerne Abbas Giant, a 180 foot (55 metre) nude man seems to date from the 17th century. In these cases the hill figures were made by removing the grass to expose the chalk underneath rather then painting on them. The reason for their existence is unknown but many look to have been territorial makers. There are some more modern and temporary examples such as Homer Simpson carrying a giant donut was made for the Simpsons Movie. Also a cartoon version of the then British Prime Minister John Major, depicted like Superman with his underwear on the outside, also appeared briefly. The middle of the 13th century saw a drop in world wide temperatures which meant that summers were colder and wetter. So a society which was reliant on agricultural would see crops suffering from damp, causing fungus to grow on their crops, and the lack of sunshine meant that crops did not ripen. This, in turn, would have caused famine and was probably one of the reasons the local culture to disappear.
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  2012.  @IrishMike22  I have suspected this as it is very light on detail.
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  2013. Now this one I knew about. My thoughts when I first came across it was that before being folded the wigs did add extra lift. Whereas once folded away the wing had just become dead weight.
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  2014. Almost continually I would have thought.
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  2015. Do we have enough police to do that.
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  2016. Me too.
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  2017.  @artificialintelligence8328  Depends on how often you plan to throw grenades up hill.
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  2018. I think that is what you call "turning the tables" 👍
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  2019.  @FeherMate  They may be called precision missiles but their accuracy is about 30%. In one case a precision missile hit a beach miles from its target.
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  2020. Somewhat ironically the made a single seat version of the Mosquito called the Hornet. Excellent aircraft but it also had a limited service life.
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  2021. A number of European Jews were used by US Army intelligence during WW2 and were captured by the SS during the Battle of the Bulge and just shot them all. Ironically they had warned the US Army about the Battle of the Bulge before it happened but they were ignored and then paid with their lives.
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  2022. I may have missed something but I thought the parasol wing had been around for sometime. As for Gloster their next aircraft was a jet. Bypassed the piston engined monoplane entirely. Just shows how warfare speeds up technology.
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  2023. A group of leading GOP intellectual thinkers. How could she hold out.
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  2024.  @RhysapGrug  thinking of how many people serve in the military because their parents did it may be more likely then not.
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  2025.  @ChicoTheMutant  He probably would. And the way things are going for Russian weapon supplies they'd probably turn up with muskets.
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  2026. Sounds like a knife fight in a barrel in the dark.
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  2027.  @allangibson8494  Nice of Russia to help with that, if only indirectly
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  2028. You have to remember that it was not long before them that it was under British control because of WW2.
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  2029. Me too. I remember my late father dragging me out of bed to watch Neil Armstrong step onto the moon. History worth remembering, if somewhat bleary eyed.
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  2030.  @Phaaschh  we should have gotten together. I built the Airfix Swordfish. We could have set something up with some hooks and some cord to recreate the fateful attack which jammed the steering 👍
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  2031. If that's what they do then I think we could all qualify for that job. Just remember you're a confined space so nothing too spicy
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  2032. Actually they were US volunteer pilots flying in RAF squadrons, rather then anything like the Flying Tigers. There were also Australian, New Zealand, Polish and other squadrons, but all came under the Royal Air Force. It was not the first time American volunteers flew in the RAF. During WW1 one squadron commander was American. He even learnt to play cricket.
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  2033. It was supposed to have been replaced by the A-100 but because of Putin's seazing of Crimea all the vital parts Russia imported from abroad for that aircraft were stopped. This is why were are not seeing Russia's new tank the M-14 Armata or the Sukhoi Su-57.
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  2034. There is a faux Chinese saying "May you be born in interesting time." Well the USS Boston was definitely born in interesting times, and was involved in many of them. Your post came up just as one from the naval historian Drachinifel. His is on HMS Victory which has been in service with the Royal Navy for 254 years. On the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar a number of French officers were invited to have a tour around HMS Victory by the British Royal Navy, just to show there was no hard feelings. One of the French officers, on sighting some cannon balls, asked if they were the ones fired at the French Navy during the battle. "No", came the reply. "You've still got them."
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  2035. Definitely want to her that one.
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  2036. Definitely have to agree with you there. It's a period of much experimentation where new ideas were constantly being tried out. Yes the P-51 and Spitfire were great aircraft, but aircraft like these could have a beauty all of their own.
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  2037. Looking at the training of some crews today and the speed they are put into the job with so little knowledge of flying many would struggle with the new school.
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  2038. Jacob Zondag Adding "Believe me" would have added to the authenticity. :)
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  2039. Nice to see some of the less well known aircraft getting some time in front of the camera
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  2040. That would be worth a look.
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  2041. So being on the Eastern Front in winter wasn't bad enough they cover the armour in ice.
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  2042. Still are. The late Admiral Sandy Woodward took on an entire USN carrier group by pretending his warship was a merchant ship. He sailed up to the group at night with all the ships lights on. By the time the USN challenged him it was too late as he had all his weapons locked onto the carrier.
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  2043.  @HEDGE1011  The best propeller driven aircraft came just at the end of WW2 at the very same time jets were coming into service. I am subscribed to Ed Nash's channel and many of his videos cover this very subject. I should take a look if you haven't already done so as I think you will enjoy it.
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  2044. That's got to be interesting. 👍
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  2045. That had me wondering as well. The whole thing has a look of someone with little understanding of naval aircraft design.
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  2046. A task they seem to relish
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  2047. I have no doubt that the Russian warship was hit by Ukrainian missiles. But knowing what the Russia navy is like, remembering their carrier, an onboard fire which was out of control is actually quite feasible. I was going to ask what this missile strike says about the state of Russia's military intelligence that allowed this to happen. Surely they must have known, or at least suspected, that Ukraine had anti ship missiles. If not then they should have worked on the principle that it was a possibility. The reason I have not asked that question is that we know that any form of Russian intelligence, be it military or state intelligence, is a joke. And the Russian military is the punchline.
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  2048.  @WagnerGroup2025  Is the why Russia has had to put T62 tanks back into service?
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  2049.  @feedyourmind6713  Except they do not want to fight in Ukraine
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  2050. It's hard not to think they got the wrong aircraft.
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  2051. The Spartacus of painting
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  2052. He's gone to join so many great airman in the sky. R.I.P.
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  2053.  @suchatragedy7360  I believe there is a group in Argentina who origins are Welsh. So quite a collection of Europeans
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  2054. Definitely a destroyer captain.
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  2055. Ironically if Trump wants to stop DeSantis then is best way of stopping DeSantis is to endorse him.
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  2056. Couple of quick points. Gillingham has a soft G and Samuel Pepys name is pronounced Peeps. For a time many thought the Great Fire of London was started by the Dutch in retaliation for the English burning of the Dutch town. The English did not fare well under the Stuarts. The behaviour of James 1 triggered the Gunpowder Plot. He would have been on the #metoo list alongside Kevin Spacey. His son Charles I triggered three civil wars which included his son Charles who would become Charles II. James II tried to place Catholics into positions of power which led to his overthrow. He did lead a rebellion in the north of Ireland which is still having repercussions even today. And then the final act was the man known as Bonnie Prince Charlie with his invasion of England. So we have never done well with the Stuarts.
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  2057. Over the years I have learnt quite a bit about WW2, but I must admit this is a new one on me. Of all the books I have read I do not remember ever coming across any reference to British firemen being used alongside the fighting forces. One thing I loved to know is how long has Mark known about it.
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  2058. That's what I thought as well
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  2059.  @PHlophe  No, he's the one digging it
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  2060. Mines working fine
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  2061. I did know about Ada Lovelace and her involvement and design of the first computer programme. But it is a story well worth retelling and I very much enjoyed hearing it. Maybe you could also cover Babbage as well, the other half of the story of computers. I have long thought what Babbage needed was a good project manager in charge. Someone who could keep him on track but at the same time could be diplomatic enough to keep him happy.
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  2062. Andy Lord Whatever they called it we British knew we were fighting next to some great men. Just as we did in 1918 when Canadians were part of the British 4th Army, along with the Anzac's as well as the Americans when we all chased the Germans across France in the 100 Day Campaign.
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  2063. lee Maxwell They actually fought as Allied troops, the same as the British and Americans were. Hence they had their own beach and objectives, just like the British and Americans.
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  2064. ptonpc Thanks for your reply. Though I remembered seeing a photograph of the rocket with the red fairing on it I could not remember the name of the rocket. So thanks for that.
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  2065.  @notyourroad  Good job he's got such tiny feet
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  2066.  @Downloadguy1995  And how are they about not using a capital letter at the beginning of the name.😮
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  2067. I had forgotten about the term "All Sir Garnet". Not really used any more, if at all. Interestingly we do use Gordon Bennett, though usually as an exclamation. It, too, went out of fashion for some time, but was brought back by one of the characters in a British TV comedy series called "Only Fools and Horse".
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  2068. I did know about this war but it had been sometime since I read about so I was not fully up to speed on it, though I did remember about the siege of Warsaw and how it led to stopping Russia. Lenin falling to reach his goals but claiming victory by changing them reminded me of Khrushchev and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Khrushchev's aim was to get America's missiles out of Turkey and off Russia's doorstep, but because he never stated this as his goal and the missiles in Turkey were removed without anyone being aware of, Khrushchev came across as a loser. He had player chicken and blinked first. As for the "what ifs", long been a favourite of mine, we could have seen France and Great Britain now being an ally of Germany against Soviet Russia in order to stop it moving west? Would America have stepped forward to help, seeing that it could be a problem for them as well as France and Great Britain? And what of other European countries? And what of the communists and socialists in each of these countries? one thing is sure, history and the world would have been very different.
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  2069. The fact that it cannot manoeuvre at that speed is so often missed.
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  2070. Typical tory. Run away from your responsibilities.
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  2071. Thanks for the video. This is another one on my list of aircraft I'd like to know more about I can tick off.
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  2072. As a thought, I think we should be awarded a medal for surviving Drydock 088. And in the tradition of such things we should all be given survivors leave.
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  2073. You would have thought they had run out of rats by now.
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  2074.  @thezman07able  True but I was trying to show it from an American perspective.
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  2075. REgameplayer, single engine interceptors were the norm at that time. Aircraft like the Me 110 only worked when facing unescorted bombers, otherwise the escorts just shot them out of the sky,
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  2076. Harold Weaver Smith. Thanks for that. I had forgotten about the fighter version. I suppose one of the other factors was that they wanted the engines for the Spitfire, Hurricane and the new Mosquito. I have wondered what would have happened to Westland Whirlwind if it had been given Merlins instead of Peregrines. Two Merlins with an extra 300 hp each. Even with the Perigrines it could do 360 mph. And the merlin was much more reliable.
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  2077. The expensive way to shoot yourself in the foot. And the wing. And the engine. Et cetera
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  2078. The GOP are totally Bamboozled as to why they lost. It sure couldn't have been because the people didn't want Trump. Could it.
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  2079. The answer is to name Wager a terrorist group and therefore can be dealt with like any other terrorist group. Not just in Europe but elsewhere. Any country harbouring them can face sanctions which puts more pressure on them to remove Wagner
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  2080.  @MARGATEorcMAULER  Waiting for your contribution😂
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  2081. Considering what the Catholic church has been involved with over the centuries being gay has sure to be very low on the list.
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  2082. That is an interesting incident for several reason. Firstly it looks like all the firefighting training and procedures the USN had mastered in WW2 seem to have been lost. Secondly it was a lapse in safety procedures which set up the missile from the F4 being launched. Thirdly sending out poor quality and out of date munitions in the form of the bombs they were supplied with added to the disaster. Also why did none of the navy pilots trapped in their aircraft on the flight deck simply eject. At least one pilot lost his life while trapped inside his A4.
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  2083. I was about the say the same. Well you know what they say about great minds thinking alike.
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  2084.  @Jermster_91  It was some time ago but I think I have read that book.
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  2085. Thanks for that. I had heard about the monitors but i did not know any real details. Many of those spare guns were used as rail guns in WW1 by the Royal Navy who were trying to find a use for them. Then they generously gave them to the British Army, who really did not want them either. I think some survived until WW2 when, out of complete desperation post Dunkirk, they were brought back into service until equipment levels were brought back up again.
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  2086. Nicely put.
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  2087. I did come across a reference to the incident where the Firefox accidentally flew low over a Soviet helicopter cruiser bringing down a Kamov Ka-27 which had just taken off. Apparently the helicopter hit the deck of the cruiser where it exploded. The list of casualties was never released but it is though to have included the helicopter crew and several of the sailors who were on deck at the time. This may be the Soviet naval crews you mention.
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  2088. I was just thinking the very same thing. They really need to step up on their safety protocols otherwise there could be more accidents like this.
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  2089. So the choice is Sunak who has no experience in politics or Truss who has no idea what she's doing or Johnson who has no moral compass. Can we vote none of the above.
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  2090. Once again, Mark, I have to thank you for putting meat on the bones of the knowledge I already had. That is why I always look forward to your videos
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  2091. There's always one. 😀
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  2092. Think you find that is no unique around here. 👍
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  2093. I understand that the original design for the Titanic did have many more life boats. In fact enough for all aboard plus the crew of another ship if there had been a collision. But it was decided to reduce the number as they did not want people to think there was any possibility she might sink. Also if, instead of turning to avoid a collision, they had run straight into the iceberg the damage would have been survivable and the Titanic would not have sunk. A crushed bow would have resulted but that would have been all it suffered. But in this situation the natural instinct is to want to try to turn away from the iceberg.
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  2094. Surprise to all of us.🤨
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  2095. When your own brother has seen enough clowns it's time to take down the tent and leave
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  2096. mom2wyatt history is full of such incidents, as you no doubt know. Mary Robinette Kowal's "Want Of A Nail" springs to mind.
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  2097.  @jeffmisch1485  He did have his own jet, I believe.
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  2098. That's why were here. 👍
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  2099. Well. That was new to me. I had forgotten about the Italian's being involved in the Boxer Rebellion and would have people in China during WW2. And it is interesting how the Japanese treat their former allies, which would suggest they had little regard for them.
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  2100.  @Rimrock300  They'll never see it.
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  2101. In 1870 the French received a telegram purporting to be from one of its own officials which led them to declare on Prussia. This led to the Franco-Prussian War and was one of the factors which led to both world wars. If the French had checked with their own people they would have discovered the truth about the telegram, that it was in fact from Prussia, and the whole of world history could have been different. Just because they decided not to check on that telegram.
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  2102.  @dannygroom3327  Not sure the pilot would be in a position to get a refund in that case.
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  2103.  @kleinweichkleinweich  Ah. Kamchatka and fleet of ghost torpedo boats. Tricky things are ghost torpedo boats.
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  2104. You're drooling on your keyboard again.😛
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  2105. If you've ever seen French pre-dreadnought battleships you'll know this is nothing. I'd swear that on them they had a solarium instead of a bridge'
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  2106. I have the feeling that Halsey did a Mark Clarke and went for the glory rather then following orders. In both cases it led to the deaths of many Allied soldiers and sailors.
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  2107. It was supposed to draw US forces away from defending Midway. That didn't work so well.
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  2108. Me too. But there is often information they did not cover. Plus I have found that the Dogfights series tended to be a bit to Gung-ho at times . I saw the one about the F111 Raven in the Gulf War being chased by an Iraqi jet. and how the Raven dealt with it until another aircraft shot the Iraqi aircraft down. It wasn't until I saw Mark's video that I fully appreciated the skill of the Raven's crew. and the peril they were actually in.
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  2109.  @freeze1625  Better then an airship would
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  2110. Back in the 60s, 70s and 80s they were the big powerhouse of the Middle East. The present leaders father, Hafez al-Assad, was in control for much of that time. It was Bashar al-Assad's brother who was supposed to have taken control from his father but he died so Bashar took control. The problem was Bashar was not trained to the job which is why Syria in no the way it is. When the Arab Spring happened in Syria he totally over reacted and that is why it is now falling apart.
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  2111. I love the sight of a flying boat but, like airships, flying boats they were of their time. Once conditions changed their days were numbered.
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  2112.  @aerialcat1  As you say the whole wing tilted up for landing but the wing tips folded up for storage. So wing tips rather then the whole wing. I will say, though, that the narrator does speak so fast which has caused problems in understanding what has been said as well as accuracy of his statements, such as claiming the P-40 was a jet.
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  2113.  @BucketBucket275  I've seen that bank. That will have taken some doing.
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  2114. God bless her and all whose bowels and bladders held out.
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  2115. And I'm sure we all wish him well
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  2116. Definitely more fitting
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  2117. You would just hope you remembered the spare underwear when you saw that.
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  2118. I read that one of the terminals destroyed by Ukrainian drones produced jet fuel. So could well mean a reduction if flights by Russia.
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  2119. Another tory party two footed tackle. Time they got the red card.
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  2120. I feel you have underplayed what happened to the Hull trawler fleet. The British trawler Crane was sunk, and its captain and first mate were killed. Four other trawlers were damaged, and six other fishermen were wounded, one of whom died a few months later. The Hull Town Docks Museum does have part of one of the trawlers which was hit and there is a statue on Hessle Road in Hull were many of the trawlermen lived. The statue is modelled on the dead fisherman George Henry Smith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident
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  2121. Nothing worse then having wall erectile dysfunction. Even the little blue pills can't raise that one.
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  2122.  @meilinchan7314  He's also threatened Poland. As yet he has not mentioned what with.
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  2123. The new rules of engagement are thanks to NATO for training the Ukrainian army. Some 20 of those Battalion Tactical Groups have been destroyed or devastated to the extent that they no longer function. So one fifth of the Russian ground forces in Ukraine no longer exists.
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  2124.  @samholdsworth3957  said Nelson
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  2125.  @obelic71  Only on a diet of strong beer and fish and chip
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  2126.  @truckerallikatuk  the crew could as well. Though how emotional you can get with you body disintegrated is hard to establish
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  2127. Can he even spell sarcasm
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  2128. There is the joke about the man found drunk in a gutter with a pig. Someone looking down at the man and said you can tell a man be the company that he keeps. At that point the pig got up and left.
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  2129. Well the very definition of a thief is to carry out dishonourable acts.
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  2130. Russia seems to have a problem with aircraft carriers.
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  2131. There was some thought that the Soviets had come across the US prototype design through satellite images. The same has been said about the Sukhoi Su-25. The USAF was looking for a dedicated ground attack aircraft and an aircraft like the Su-25 was one of the two prototypes the USAF were looking at. But they went with what would become the A-10 instead. If this is true then the USAF got the much better aircraft.
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  2132.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  I was starting to think you didn't love us anymore
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  2133. i see here dancing is just as pathetic as her leadership.
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  2134.  @flashbacks4186  And they got to screw Greece's economy before the Greeks did
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  2135. As it is British I assume we are talking about using surface to air missiles rather than having it for anti tank use.
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  2136. Are we counting her service with the Russian navy once, twice or three times. Once for her original service. Second when she was returned and third when she went from the Russian Imperial service to the Soviet navy.🤔 For a small ship life can get very confusing.
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  2137. The incident with the Colombian destroyer reminded me of the last broadside fired by a Royal Navy ship. The ship, sorry I have forgotten its name, was due to come out of service, and being the last ship capable of firing a broadside she sailed out into the English Channel to do just that. So there she is out in the English Channel and just as she fired her last broadside a Russian warship sailed out of a nearby fogbank. The Russian captain must have wondered what was going on, serves them right for skulking about in fogbanks, but obviously realising it was not a good place to start an incident and decided discretion was the better part of valour and left the British to their own devises. One for the Q&A. Did the navy use super heated steam like they did on locomotives. Super heated steam, for those who have not heard of it, is where the steam is heated up by sending it through pipes back through the boiler to increase its temperature and therefore its power.
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  2138. This is the same man who went missing when he heard about Covid-19. So should we be surprised when he's missing again.
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  2139. Brave men putting themselves in harms way. Interestingly von Ribbentrop has to bear a great deal of responsibility for the start of WW2. Hitler wanted to invade Poland but did not want to face Britain and France. As the German Ambassador to the United Kingdom he convinced Hitler that Britain would not follow through on its threat to declare war on Germany if it did not pull out of Poland. Apparently when Britain did in fact declare war he was looking daggers at von Ribbentrop.
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  2140.  @MediumRareOpinions  That was at Arnhem
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  2141. You do get the feeling that the History Channels programmes leave much to be desired.
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  2142. Volkswagen was saved after the war by a British army office. He realised the importance of Germany getting back on its feet again and got the factory working to produce cars. It got people working again and helped the German economy.
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  2143. German Empires 4, German Reichs 3. German Empire goes through to the Knock out stage.
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  2144.  @FirstDagger  Still early technology
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  2145. @Charles Yuditsky Yes. I saw something about that. They wanted the cosmonauts to do a test firing of the cannons but fearing the damage it may cause to the spacecraft the cosmonauts refused. So they ran a remote test once the cosmonauts had left. The spacecraft survived but you can imagine the effect it had. Set up quite a shock wave in the ship. Anyway, the seem to have desided not to try it again.
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  2146.  @trevorroberts9584  Ironically his aim was to make Russia bigger.
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  2147. I assume there will be one on the Emden. The German Navy did better at raiding during both world wars.
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  2148.  @edgarcook9607  The British used a number of deceptions to fool the Germans including interfering with their radio guidance system and having some very elaborate tricks which had them bombing decoy sites. A number of German night interdiction aircraft were shot down thinking they were attacking an airfield when it was actually a trap to get them.
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  2149. My maternal grandfather had to deal with an incendiary bomb when it landed on the house next door. Fortunately he had a bucket of wet sand to cover it.
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  2150. A French aircraft with a moustache. Getting a bit stereotyped here. But I shall refrain from asking about the beret and hooped top.
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  2151.  @razor1962  Well we both know that the deep state is more to do with Hannity
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  2152. No translation needed
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  2153.  @RCAvhstape  The History Guy is the one. Mark is also another one I follow.
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  2154. They also did trips to North Africa and back. The Germans realised this when they found fresh figs onboard one of the downed bombers.
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  2155. Interestingly because of fighting in places like Afghanistan they are now reassessing the 5.56 because it lacks the range needed to engage the Taliban fully.
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  2156. Have you taken a look at the circular runway concept. The idea is that you have a banked circular runway which means that it does not have problems with the likes of cross winds. There does seem to be quite a debate about it and it would be interesting to get your take.
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  2157.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Oh, that one. I enjoyed that video, as always.
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  2158.  @Anacronian  Someone stolen his sweetroll. 😊
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  2159. Many thanks for this video. I knew something of the Passenger Pigeons fate and how it came about but not in such detail. A fate similar to the buffalo but at least some of them survived. It reminded me of the British oyster. If I said that last night I was eating oysters you may think I am well to do. But 200 years ago that was the diet of the very poorest of the poor. It was so common that in many country houses every meal for the servants would have been oysters, morning, noon and night. Apprentices had a clause in their contracts stating you could only feed them oysters for so many meals in a week. Now it is regarded as a luxury food. Another point which may interest you. 200 years ago your oysters would been accompanied by claret, then a poor mans drinks. How times have changed.
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  2160. There are worse ways of dying but death by stupidity has got to be one of the most embarrassing.
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  2161.  @daveh3997  I think you mean ride through. And their answer to the usually asked question was "what are fries?"
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  2162. Okay, I know this is a bit late but I just remembered this. Going back to your video on asbestos, the actor Steve McQueen died from cancer caused by asbestos which he believed came from his time in the US Marines. He worked in a US naval shipyard stripping asbestos which had been used to lag pipes. I think he was only there for about two weeks.
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  2163. Charles Dickens great grandson commanded a squadron of MTB during the war.
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  2164.  @davydovua  It may be dark but it is true. Several of them did go blind.
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  2165. Not sure about that. Not big and complex enough for them.
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  2166. Died drinking the water of life. Made me laugh. In September we are going on holiday which will include a trip to Holy Island where I plan to make a small detour to Lindisfarne Mead. And as it is my birthday a week later I am sure some of the mead will be consumed in celebration.
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  2167. I wouldn't mind seeing that one myself.
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  2168. As many men still did not have the vote they may have received more sympathy if they had pressed for universal suffrage.
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  2169. With BoJo in charge he does not need help frustrating brexit.
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  2170. As the supposed list of Ukrainian POWs has been shown to be fake, it included names of men who had already been returned, I think it's safe to say there was no Ukrainian POWs on board.
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  2171.  @jeffreyskoritowski4114  Actually piss warm beer if you were lucky. Much of it could have been at sea for some time before the crew got to it. It made tequila with a worm in it look like they were not really trying.
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  2172. Can smell it right over here.
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  2173. With all those changes in ownership there must have been a lot of flags in her flag locker.
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  2174. Xi is not answering his phone.
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  2175. Michael Gove is sad that Johnson has left without Gove having a hand in it.
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  2176.  @barrysimmons4724  For me the P 38 is my other favourite twin engined aircraft.
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  2177. Entered with a bang
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  2178. In the early part of the war German U-Boats were also slow in submerging as they were not expecting to meet aircraft. It was only after they started to be subject to air attacks in the Atlantic did the realise they needed to dive more quickly.
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  2179. That is definatelly on my list of 'I would have liked to see that in action.' Unless, of course, I was German.
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  2180. that moment Prigozhin had to put his money where his mouth is.
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  2181. History is full of these predictions which turns out to be wrong. Twenty years before they were saying 'the bomber will always get through.' Turns out that was not true either.
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  2182. There is an English proverb 'Opportunity makes the man.' Well it did make the man and he took the opportunity to make his mark.
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  2183. Royal Navy guns were used as railguns in WW1. In fact at first they were usually manned by the navy until they decided to go back to sea when they bequeathed the guns to the army. Though the army was not as enthused by the receiving of this gift as as the navy was in the giving of it.
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  2184.  @ayejay5603  Picture book
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  2185.  @bluemarlin8138  Thanks. I did know about the Japanese using mattresses on their carriers. I felt sorry for the poor sailors whose mattress came back full of bullet holes and bomb splinters.
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  2186. The late TV presenter Raymond Baxter was RAF fighter pilot during WW2 and one of the missions he and his squadron flew was to hunt for the mobile launchers and destroy the V2 rocket. He said the only time he saw one was when it took off just missing his aircraft as he flew passed.
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  2187. I think we have to be very careful about what lessons we learn from the Russian Ukraine war. For one thing the Russian armed forces seem to have been caught out by the invasion as much as Ukraine. There are Russian air defences to take on drones. But the botched invasion has left the Russian armed forces in such a complete shambles that they were rarely used. And the average Russian pilot gets between one third and one half of the flying hours his NATO counterpart does. And, unlike the west, he does not specialise. So he may be flying air defence one day and attacking SAM sites the next. NATO has squadrons dedicated to dealing with SAMS. The pilots will fly an average of 200 hours per year on training and exercises. They will take part in things like Red Flag or Top Gun which is probably two of the most comprehensive exercises for pilots to fly in. Yes, there may well be lessons to learn, as you said. Though I have a feeling most of those will need to be learnt by the Russians. I think the first lesson they need to learn is that the surprise in surprise attack is for the enemies forces and not your own.
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  2188. I'd like to know that as well.
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  2189. I would not be surprised if he stepped down next year ready to go back to the US.
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  2190. You'd think not. Especially with the latest revelations about one of its banks.
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  2191. Johnson was partying while the Queen sat alone mourning the death of her husband. He then lied about it. And when found out he ran away. Say much about him and those who support him.
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  2192. Seconded.
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  2193.  @raymondcoventry1221  actually there is at least one case of the praetorian guards defending the emperor. They came up against the 10th Legion all of whom were Germans. The praetorian's were supposed to be made up of veterans who had served at least 20 years with exemplary records and as such would have been a match for the 10th. But many wealthy families got their sons in the guards because they were based at Rome and it helped to boast about serving in the army for elections. So for the 10th it was more like a bit of light exercise.
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  2194. Birthday balloons often have a number on them to show how old the person is. This begs the question how old this person is to need a balloon that size. Probably knew Confucius when he was a lad.
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  2195.  @lonelystrategos  That's what that stands for. Well you live and learn.👍
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  2196.  @Alex-cw3rz  Looked good but went to seed so very quickly. But it was the salad days of the Japanese Navy.
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  2197.  @hernerweisenberg7052  That was my reference to Halsey, Herner. I think he went through two Typhoons. The British warships were better at seakeeping then many of their US counterparts. The Royal Navy having to deal with the North Atlantic. There was a storm on night in the Pacific which the Royal Navy and the US Navy fleets sailed through together. In there morning the US Navy asked the Royal Navy how they had faired with the storm. The reply was what storm.
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  2198.  @waynek805  The RAF and USAAF bombers were keeping one million Germans plus thousands of aircraft and AAA guns in Germany protecting it. Imagine if they had been let loose on the Eastern Front. When this was mentioned to 'Uncle Joe' he just dismissed it because as far as he was concerned only the Soviets were bearing the brut of the war.
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  2199. One thing you can say about these five minute videos, you certainly get your monies-worth
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  2200. Definite LOL for that one. As much as anything because I always take my tablet with me for something to read. In someways appropriate as well. The Germans complained about RAAF aircrews flushing their toilets during the bombing. Feel sorry for the Berlin firemen. They were getting enough things dropping on them without the contents of an Aussie toilet as well.
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  2201. He has friends! Who are they? Ted Cruz's castoffs.
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  2202.  @shawnr771  Thanks for that, Shawn. Just shows that it does not matter how long ago something happened there is always the possibility of new evidence adding to what we know.
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  2203.  @shawnr771  I am pretty much the same as you. When I did my archaeology degree I did a history module which was about the English king King Stephen during the civil war in the 12th century. There was a famine during the war which some had put down as being caused by the war. But reading through various descriptions of what was happening I realised that the famine was not caused by the war. Between 1315 and 1321 there were what was referred to as years without summers. Meaning it was cold and wet. I knew that there had been a dip in the yearly temperature for those years all that rain had caused crops to rot in the fields, which in turn had caused several famines in them years. I happened to have a chart in one of my archaeology books which covered the annual temperature for the last 2000 years. And there I saw that the yearly temperature during King Stephen's civil war was only just a fraction higher then the later 14th century famines. So I was able to show through this new evidence that the weather and not the war had caused the famine. The history tutor remarked that he had never thought of that. I already knew about the 14th century famine and it was the similarity between the descriptions for both that led me to believe what was happening then and what had happened during Stephen's reign looked pretty much the same.
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  2204. Looking at the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier it is nice to know the old pre WW2 Soviet standards are still maintained. What with it's setting fire to itself and needed to be escorted by a flotilla of tugboats. Plus having its own crane on the flight deck, just in case. And the only floating dock big enough to take her has sunk. And she is back in dock again for more repairs. Apparently the cost of repairs is the same as its scrap value. Though there would be a saving in tugs and cranes and floating docks.
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  2205. We should remember that when Putin was not a KGB agent. He was only an interpreter who was stationed in East German. He was not some rising star destined for great things in the KGB. In fact his boss in East Germany looked on him as middle management only.
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  2206. I seem to remember the same excuses from his party back in the 90s before the 1997 election. Didn't go well for the Torys that time.
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  2207. Did anyone think otherwise
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  2208.  @jakehilderbrand6890  NATO is not going to escalate. NATO is a defensive force. Anyway the average NATO pilot flies about twice as many hours per year as the average Russian pilot. Which means even the best Russian pilots would not last long against NATO pilots. Also the fact that Russia totally failed to destroy the Ukrainian air defence, the penalty for having poorly trained pilots, is the real reason they are hiding in Russia.
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  2209. Judging by this video there is probably not the time or the manpower to cover all their mistakes.
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  2210. You could tell that as something else was added to the plan then that was something else which could go wrong. Had they thought what about what would happen if they ever got to the supply boat? It's not like the authorities would not be able to stop them. Thanks for the video, History Guy
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  2211. You didn't fall into trap of calling them Welsh castles like many do. Welsh castles are somewhat smaller. One of my tutors helped excavate one of them and I found here talk on the excavation very informative.
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  2212. @Aqua Fyre You wouldn't be the first to go into battle with a brolly. And let's not forget that the original purpose of the bowler was as a hard hat. You're going to be the best dressed soldier on the battlefield.
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  2213.  @karlvongazenberg8398  Thanks. I had forgotten about that. And I thought the Swiss had problems with four official languages.
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  2214.  @robertdragoff6909  A Dorito which twice breached US airspace and bombed the US during exercises conducted by the USAF. Something the B-52 failed to do. And it could out fly the BUFF. I have actually seen it doing barrel rolls and even loops because its power to weight ratio was so high.
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  2215. I see he's made sure his kids have their German passports. Got his Plan B worked out. And Boris still has his US passport, despite threatening to give it up. And Rees-Mogg is moving his business to Ireland. So while sinking the British ship the rats have a planned exit.
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  2216. I think ne thing we can agree. Despite what the sang in the song we all say potato. :-)
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  2217. Because he knows it will not be used with Russia suffering
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  2218. What a clever, well designed and excellently engineered piece of equipment. Thank you for showing it to us.
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  2219. Q&A I do wonder why the pre WW2 Russians and Germans did not have an agreement about building warships like the did with tanks. Both would have benefited and the Germans could have started building their ships sooner. I would be interested in your thoughts on the matter.
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  2220. The way things are going with the Russian army we could see these in use in Ukraine.
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  2221. Never understood the thinking behind the ram. It's not like they went the whole hog and included oars instead of steam engines. If you're close enough to ram the other ship then you are better off just shooting them.
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  2222. Interestingly the Germans called the British paratroopers the Red Devils.
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  2223. Another very interesting video. And yes you could definitely do an entire channel based on actors who went to war. I thought of Victor Mclaughlin who fought in the Irish Fusiliers in WW 1 and went on to win the Oscar for the part of Gypo Nolan in The Informant. Fighting in the Irish Fusiliers is the closest he came to being Irish, despite his claims. He was actually English, born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Lee Marvin who won the Oscar for Cat Ballou was in the US Marines where he was almost killed on Saipan. Am I right in thinking the highest ranking people from Hollywood were James Stewart, Brigadier General. John Ford, Rear Admiral and Ronald Reagan who, as president, became Commander in Chief.
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  2224. Are you sure about that. Because to me it always sounds Putin is talking out his arse.
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  2225. So Russia is going to defeat all the NATO troops in Ukraine. I don't think we should hold our breaths on that one.
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  2226.  @s.31.l50  worth the wait though
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  2227. With your own air defence competing with the Ukrainian air defence who'd want to be a Russian military pilot.
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  2228. Could you look at the part played by the Soviet Union in starting both the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War. Apparently in both wars the Soviets were feeding false information to the Arabs that Israel was on the verge of attacking its Arab neighbours which pushed the Arabs into attacking Israel. Israeli intelligence did know about the planned attack in the Six Day War which helped them mount a preemptive attack. But the fact that Israel was surprised by the Yom Kippur War would suggest that the notion Israel was about to attack their Arab neighbours was false.
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  2229.  @philvanderlaan5942  Fits that gap between Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Art I don't Know what they were thinking.
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  2230. Not sure why you would think this. Considering one of his staff had no problem packing a suitcase.
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  2231. This video is from some time ago. I saw a lecture By Sue Bridgeford back in the 90s after she had done these experiments so the computer was correct for the time.
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  2232. I enjoy watching this channel because so often Mark fills in details to events I was aware of but not in detail. But now and again he brings out a little gem, like this one, to which I am very pleasantly surprised. I am aware that the Germans managed to get various groups, sometimes antagonistic to each other, to fight for them. But I was not aware of them mutinying against the Germans. So definitely a first today. Thanks.
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  2233. Actually quarantining people was used in many parts of Europe. In fact there are many recorded cases of towns and villages throughout history trying to quarantine themselves or parts of their towns but not always with success. And Christianity was often the problem. Medical knowledge during the Medieval period was often more advanced in Muslim countries but this was often rejected in Christian countries because Muslims were not Christians, and Muslim medical practises were seen by many as the work of the Devil. It is made even worse when, as with the Black Death in the mid 14th century, the Christian church claimed it was a judgement of God on the wicked ways of the people. How do you deal with something sent by God. Surely to do so would incur more wrath. It did backfire badly on the church, though, when priests, nuns, bishops and others of the church also died of the plague. If it was sent by God as a punishment for peoples wickedness then what had the church been doing.
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  2234.  @dpelpal  Is it too late to ask for their money back on the HIMARS jammer?
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  2235. The Torys have been in power for 12 years. So if it's broken it happened under them.
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  2236. Russian attempts to take some of it back. As they have left all their equipment behind the question is what with? The Ukrainians have it all. Let's not forget that the Russians have had to bring T-62s back into service. These were designed to take on British Centurion and America M-60 tanks. So the chances of the Russians returning has to be low.
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  2237. And how much of that expenditure is going into the pockets of senior officers and the weapons and equipment suppliers
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  2238. I know two stories about bird strike testing. One was where no matter how they did the test it always went through the canopy. Then it was pointed out to them that the chickens should be defrosted first. That made all the difference. Second was at a USAF base in America. were the base commander would order a chicken from a nearby store when needed. The owner of the store would lovingly hand pick chicken as it was for the base commander. He finally had a chance to talk to the base commander where he asked about the chickens and during the course of the conversation discovered that they were being used for bird strike test.
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  2239. The photograph at 2:52 was the Beverley over its namesake of Beverley with Beverley Minster just below the aircraft. I saw the Beverley in Beverley when she was there. In fact I saw here during her last flight. I would have thought the Yorkshire Air Museum would have given her a home.
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  2240. The title was awarded after he was no longer in parliament. Though why it was awarded at all in unclear as he never did anything worthwhile.
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  2241. Storm Shadow missiles were used
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  2242. I think we are all fascinated by what might have been.
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  2243. I am sat here, reading your comments and a coffee at hand. No picture of Admiral Horthy though there is a Wikipedia article with his picture.
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  2244. I love the name Aztec Eagles. Very appropriate as US pilots flying for the British in WW2 flew in the Eagle Squadron. Maybe next time Trump of Fox News talks about building a border wall with Mexico they should be reminded of the huge contribution Mexico made to the US during WW2.
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  2245. I was waiting for you to mention cutlasses. What's the German for away all boarders? Now that is close quarters fighting. It's interesting how, in most naval warfare, it is the smaller ships which often see the most action. Even in the big battles they are there like terriers nipping at the heels of the enemy. Taffy 3 at Leyte Gulf is an excellent example of what they can achieve when aggressively led. I did read that the only service arm to suffer more casualties then the U-Boats in WW2 was the Japanese kamikaze squadrons. Gives you an idea of how tough things got once the Allies got to grips with the U-Boat menace. Have you looked at Captain Frederic John "Johnny" Walker. He sank more U-Boats then any other Allied commander during WW2 and was responsible for many innovations when it came to hunting and attacking U-Boats.
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  2246.  @Historyguy-xu5ht  Those German barges sat so low in the water even a moderate sea state would have sunk many of them. Half a dozen destroyers traveling at high speed would have caused havoc without even firing a shot.
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  2247. The way they kept changing the specs was almost French. I was waiting for a floating hotel to turn up with a couple of 4.5 inch guns and some Bofors
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  2248.  @MeditationSoothingRelaxation  Labour never made the level of cuts the tories did. Remember it was cuts to the RN which made Argentina invade to Falkland. If they could have delayed the invasion just a few month longer we would not have had the carriers. I don't need to think that the decisions taken in the last 12 years have made things worse. They evidence is all there. Some years ago someone said about the tories that they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. These cuts prove that. Also when Johnson claimed he was increasing the number of police this would have still left the numbers lower than they were when the tories took office. All cost no value.
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  2249. Interesting new music. Thought for a minute I was in an American speakeasy at three in the morning. 😄👍 The Russians seem to be very hit and miss with their ships, what with these circular ships and their aircraft carriers. While at the same time building some decent warships. You have to wonder what Peter the Great would have made of them.
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  2250. Sounds human.
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  2251. Definitely 👍
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  2252. Read all the comments and all I can say is lockdown is not your friend. Okay, not mine either.
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  2253. That was the Soviet Union at its hight, not the Russia of today. Russia in the last couple of years has had eight of their agents identities revealed with five arrested and deported and one sleeper agent sent back to Brasil. What we are seeing now would never have made it into the old KGB.
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  2254. Them centipedes are trick to catch
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  2255. Looking at how these things worked I think he would have ran out on deck and found three AA gun mounts where he should have stood.👍
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  2256. I knew of X Troop and that they had they highest casualty rate of any British Army unit. I know they were often used to infiltrate German lines during 44/45, hence the high casualty rate, but very little else. I am surprised about their being involved in scouting out German mines as beach reconnaissance was carried out by the British unit the Combined Operation Pilotage Party. Obviously some parts of these operations were given to other units.
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  2257. I remember reading that the senior officers at this time were mostly ex-bomber crew which was one of the reasons the USAF became fixated with using missiles to bring down aircraft rather than guns. Not being experienced fighter pilots they did not think guns were needed any more.
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  2258. Physics. Isn't that about putting all them bubbles in your coke.
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  2259.  @colbypupgaming1962  Barbering is a cutthroat business
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  2260. Isn't that true of all assassinations.
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  2261. We all have them on occasion.
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  2262. You have to ask did Rome conquer Greece or did Greece conquer Rome. Greek was more often spoken then Latin in Rome. And Greek doctors were thought to be so superior the Roman doctors to the point where Roman doctors would speak Greek even when speaking to Romans.
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  2263. Pleased you said that as I was just thinking the same. Did Corporal Jones have a branch of his family living in Russia. The Joneskis. What's the Russian for 'Don't panic chaps'
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  2264. I have long wondered how different WW2 would have been if the R class submarine had been developed further. Being able to hunt German U-Boats transiting though the Bat of Biscay would have changed the Battle of the Atlantic.
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  2265. No other country wants him.
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  2266.  @theblackprince1346  Definitely not there for the sunbathing.
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  2267. Sealion would have failed. It was wargamed a number of times after the war and each time it failed. This information is available so I do wonder about the poor level of your research
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  2268. Something of a nod towards the North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco. Looks good.
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  2269. Vance is complaining about Europeans being out of touch. Does he know who the 47th president is
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  2270. I did know about the crash, though not in this detail. So thanks for that. One thing they did have, and went on for many years, was that each driver had to run to their car, which was parked at the side of the road at the start of the race. The driver then had to jump into his car start his engine and then join the race. You can imagine how much commotion that caused and also several accidents as drive tried to join the race track. Many driver complained about this. You can imagine how many never got further then the start because of a shunt with another car in all that chaos. How did a woman change motor racing and air combat? You will notice that in the early races there was a second person in the car. His job was to watch what the other drivers were doing in the cars behind them and report that to the driver. Then one day a driver saw a woman looking into her hand mirror and realised with a mirror in his car he did not need the second person to report what was happening behind him as a mirror would do the same thing. Fighter pilots then added mirrors to their aircraft so they could see if an enemy aircraft was behind them, And today, with all the high tech kit used in an aircraft they still use mirrors.
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  2271. Tom Dean Thanks for that. And I am sure Tom Wood will thank you as well. It has been some time since I read about it but I did think it was an excellent idea given what the Russians had in helicopter numbers and how they would have used them to drop troops and equipment behind NATO lines. It would have definitely put the NATO cat amongst the Soviet pigeons. I had read that they were looking at using the Spitfire wing but some have a closer resemblance to the P51, not that it would have been a bad thing. The jet version does put me a little bit in mind of the Jet Provost. Anyway, thanks again Tom.
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  2272. Our politics doesn't feel like a box set drama any more. Spoken too soon.
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  2273. Russia has not had the second best army for decades now. Even back to Soviet times they were struggling. It has all been smoke and mirrors.
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  2274. Sunak's biggest problem is that he has absolutely no idea what he's doing and never has had any idea. The fact that he has dropped HS2 and delayed net zero shows this.
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  2275. One Italian general mentioned about Mussolini selecting of the Italian armies next tank. Mussolini spent about 15 minute looking at images of the two tanks up for selection and then just picked one. No discussion about the capabilities of the two tanks, or any short comings. Just point a finger and say that one.
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  2276. I think that may be classed as cruel and unusual punishment. They question is for whom would that be the case.
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  2277. Considering we had aircraft like the Spitfire Typhoon and Tempest it is more then odd that we could not build a half decent navy fighter.
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  2278. I would like to wish everyone in the US of A a Happy 4th of July. For one thing it's the only time you lot get the date right way round. But in wishing you a Happy 4th of July I do ask for something in return. You have to take back your damn pumpkin spice this autumn. I cannot go into any coffeeshop without everything tasting of pumpkin spice. I mean, it's bad enough we have Big Macs without pumpkin spice as well. And if you can take the pumpkins back as well that would help. You lot have a good day. Happy trails
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  2279. Always more Dakka Dakka
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  2280. True about the days of innovation. But the C-130 is still out the and looks like it will be fore sometime to come.
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  2281. To me Leyte was a campaign not a battle and the same with the Battle of France. Waterloo was a battle and part of the 100 Days Campaign. As for America joining WW1 on the German side. The Germans were on the edge of collapse during the Passchendaele campaign and if was not for the unseasonable bad weather the war would have ended in 1917.
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  2282. It's a shame about the reporter. It's a pity they had to destroy his reputation as he was only doing his job and doing it well.
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  2283.  Niek Vels  difficult to duck anything that size
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  2284.  Sean M  Sean. Ford filmed on Midway Island during the Japanese attack. Footage you see of Midway was his.
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  2285. Now if we can only get someone to hack into the jets computer and put in the co-ordinates for Putin's bunker
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  2286.  @Desperado070  Also called gallows humour
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  2287. Having the black heart of a pirate was a usually requirement for joining destroyer. Which is what made them so good. And not just the Royal Navy. The US navies Taffy 3 had their share as the Japanese found out.
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  2288. There is a supposed curse which starts with 'may you be born in interesting times.' The second line is 'may you come to the attention of the authorities.' Looks like Prigozhin as done that.
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  2289.  @Jaymark-gk4li  Thanks. Yes and most of them used to suppress the poor.
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  2290. As the saying goes 'they also serve who stand and wait.' So though they themselves may not be in combat they aid those who are.
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  2291. This seems to be a quite common lament. Well you have channels like this to nourish your history soul.
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  2292. You get the feeling he still is
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  2293. Next time the USAF should send a couple of F-22s to guard the drone like they did against Iran.
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  2294. I knew the Japanese submarines had attacked America at least once but they do seem to have under appreciated how useful the submarine could be in war. If they had then the attack on Pearl Harbour would have been very different. They did plan to attack the submarine facilities at Pearl Harbour, as well as the naval repair and fuel storage facilities, but that was in the cancelled second attack. The balloon bombs, which I knew about, used the Jet Stream, the existence of which was unknown in the west at that time. The balloons were made by school girls but I understand they stopped making them once they discovered what they were being used for. I have to agree with the sentiments of the Japanese pilot. I sometimes wonder if all the money and material expended in warfare, not to mention the lives lost had been put to better use how much better the world would be.
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  2295.  Charles McCarron  The war criminal is the French admiral who was lying to his own government
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  2296.  @Silver_Prussian  You are too late. The sanctions are already there and getting worse. We can do without Russian resources but, thanks to Russia's failing education, Russia cannot do without the rest of the world. If Russia finds a new oil field they have to get someone else to extract the oil because Russia does not have anyone anyone who can do it in Russia. That same failing education is why the Russian army is still using T-72s and not T-14s. Many of the parts needed for the T-14 have to come from abroad because Russia no longer has all those engineers it was famed for. And After Putin invaded Crimea in 2014 sanctions were put on Russia which means it cannot buy what it needs for the T-14 from abroad. Putin tried to retaliate against the sanctions by banning the sale of Russian rocket engines to the West. We have better, cheaper, more efficient and more powerful engines to replace them. And they are reusable.
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  2297. I think that may be fear. They are in fear of Trump.
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  2298. Marathon? That's for lightweights. Fastest marathon runners do it in about two and a half hours. Drach was talking about how the lack of war in Europe would effect the Japanese attacking America at that point.
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  2299.  @benspeedschannel888  Anyone six feet tall back then was usually an exception. So you can see why she could be a force to be reckoned with.
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  2300.  @rudolfpeterudo3100  Thanks, Rudolf. 👍😊
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  2301. Jet packs and lazer rifles. Where do I sign up
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  2302. Yes they were changing the environment. Star Carr is interesting because it looks like at one point in the past the reeds were being burnt back in mid summer and this was possibly done by the people living there. There are several reasons why this was done. The reeds would have time to grow back again and because the primary shoot had gone the secondary shoots, five in total, would start growing to replace the primary shoot. Because there was now five shoots growing instead of the original one it meant the reeds were much denser making a very good thatch for any shelter the people would use over winter. The new shoots now had an increased sugar content the smell of which would attract game to the lake. You get the same effect with grass which when new mown grass smells sweet. The native populations of Australia and America would also burn back grass to attract animals. This is why there are so few trees on the American prairies. The reeds are edible by humans as well so would have been a good source of sugar. Roasting Hazelnuts would preserve them and they would last for six months. While studying archaeology I noticed that the hazelnut tree was the most widespread of all trees which had me think that this could have been done deliberately by the people living there. People would naturally become lactose intolerant at the age of two when the stopped being feed by their mothers. But the keeping of cows changed that as they would drink the milk and became more tolerant of the lactose. But this did not happen in all the places where they kept cows. This is why the people of southern Italy will only drink one milky coffee a day while those of northern Italy can drink more. The first recipe for bread was probably similar to what we now know today as Poolish. This is a simple recipe of flour and water which would be mixed together and baked on one of the hot stones which was next to the fire. You have to wonder how long it was before someone crushed a few hazelnuts and added them to the bread, or maybe a few berries. Good for carrying during the day when you are busy and needed something to eat. I recently read an article about hunter gatherers which pointed out that they only needed to work 15 hours a week to get all that they needed. You can see why ancient peoples regretted becoming farmers.
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  2303. If Sunak goes soft on Johnson the optics would be bad for him as it would show him not being as ethical as he claims. Jeremy Quinn is quoting from rules about civil service personnel joining a business not a political party.
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  2304. The nomadic people who dominated Central Asia, parts of Eastern Europe east of the Vistula River, and parts of South Asia. Their culture flourished from around 900 BC to around 200 BC, by which time they had extended their influence all over Central Asia – from China to the northern Black Sea.
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  2305. Another aircraft I am aware of but, as happens so often here, much added to what I already knew.
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  2306. I heard that too
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  2307. I thought that just the eerm should have been kept in. Sums up 'The Quite Man' succinctly.
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  2308. Considering what effort went into Normandy, not counting the US Island Hopping, does China have the ability to invade Taiwan.
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  2309. You let your pizza burn! Just as we were starting to like you as well.😄
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  2310. Seems to have quiet a few with you on that.
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  2311. As we know the Lightening was so quick that on its maiden flight it went supersonic on its first climb to altitude.
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  2312. Actually there is an American archaeologist Roy Chapman Andrews who would be the real Indiana Jones.
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  2313. This goes back to Stalin. One man found himself in a gulag from not clapping long enough at a Stalin speech.
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  2314. I did mention Johnnie Walker on the USS England video. He trained in antisubmarine warfare before the war so he hit the ground running once they finally let him loose. He'd be worth a five hour video on his own.
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  2315. Seems only fair. The rest of us do.
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  2316. Nimori Kandara It depends on your definition of backwards. They have over twice the population of France yet its GDP is less then half that of France. So economically that may be true. But they have a rich culture and many Russians would be able to recognise pictures of their famous poets, artists, musical composers and writers such as Leo Tolstoy. So in that respect they are not backwards. Their biggest problem is that they have rarely been led by decent political leaders who can being out the best in their country and its people. And their present leader is no exception to this.
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  2317. I thought Putin was keen on Ukrainians taking part in this referendum. Now that Ukrainians are rushing to get there they have changed their minds. Makes you think that Putin was not being honest about this referendum of his.
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  2318. R Mack I'd forgotten Audie Murphy was from Texas. Just looked him up on Wikipedia. I think it is just the way the photograph is shown but I would swear he is leaning over from the weight of all them well deserved medals. Sad end.
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  2319.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Yes it is quite possibly a dud. I had wondered if they automatically loaded up with AP shells as a matter of course until told to change shell types. I know that Japanese ships were very regimented, and quite brutally so, so there was no room for initiative.
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  2320. I knew about some of this but there are other details which I did not know. The Germans were very adept at playing one group off against another. In some cases they had people from both sides of these old disputes fighting for them.
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  2321. They all wear running shoes.
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  2322. I have read about these two ships but that was some time ago and no more that a paragraph I seem to remember. The mention of the paddle wheels is what reminded me of them. As an idea for a future video or two what about remote controlled vehicles of WW2
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  2323. David Marquardt I had not heard of that. Thanks for that. After WW2 the British did some research into the fuel used in the Messerschmidt me 163 and found it could be stabilised by using passing it through a mesh coated in silver. They planned to use it on a proposed interceptor but the project fell through when the Germans pulled out.
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  2324. So who got his grog ration.
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  2325. I realised that because the photograph prior to that one clear showed a British soldier, or possibly a Royal Marine, on the deck.
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  2326. In situations like this someone would take the person a glass of whiskey and a gun. I assume with Johnson you'd drink the whiskey and then shoot Johnson.
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  2327. Maybe Nostradamus was right. History is cyclical and not linear.
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  2328. Just something you may find interesting. There is a British film called The Ship Which Died Of Shame (1955) which is about people using a WW2 MTB to run smuggling trips to the continent post war. Back in the late 60s there were two brothers who ran a caravan site on the Norfolk Broads and they owned a WW2 MTB which was kept on Oulton Broad. And, as you've probably guessed, they were using it to smuggle goods from France. They were eventually caught and sent to prison. I knew about this because my parents had a caravan on the site and one day received a letter telling them the site had been closed and they had to move the caravan. Interestingly the fact that they were smugglers suddenly explained a lot, such as how come the small bar was always so well stocked.
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  2329.  @vitabricksnailslime8273  Sorry Vitabrick. My mistake. I meant sold the sculpture. 😄 Thanks for that. 👍
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  2330. NAZI Germany was not led by the best and the brightest. In the spring of 1943 they held a meeting in which they decided that any project to be used for the defence of Germany and would not be completed in 12 months was to be halted as they were winning the war. Amongst projects which were stopped were those surface-to-air missiles they tried to rush into service later on. Even more shortsighted was the fact that many of the scientists and engineers on those cancelled project rather than being used on other projects were sent to the Eastern Front. Then in mid 1944 when they discovered that Lancaster bombers where being fitted with radar to improve bomb aiming they decided to reenstat many of those projects , including the surface-to-air missiles; and bring back those scientists and engineers who were still alive from the Eastern Front. All too late
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  2331. One can but hope
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  2332. This is only a problem if we let her back into the country.
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  2333. My ex boss once asked me the date WW2 started. So I told him and out of curiosity asked why he needed to know. That was the day his parents were married, he replied. So I said I don't think you can blame your parents for the start of WW2. Not a man with a great sense of humour he looked somewhat perplexed at my answer.
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  2334. I have heard of built in obsolescence but these ship were obsolete by the time they were built. Interestingly while watching this video Shirley Bassey's song 'Wrong Way To Do It, kept running through my mind. I wonder why.
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  2335. That's not true. He keeps it in the freezer.
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  2336. Yes but Russia is not the Soviet Union, as we are seeing in Ukraine.
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  2337. It worked for Nadine Dorries. Look how brilliantly she did.
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  2338. Interesting thought but I get the feeling Prigozhin has not even heard of Von Falkenhayn let alone Verdun. Not required reading for a hotdog seller.
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  2339. Andrew Allen Actually one of the main problems was inflation dues to the prices sky rocketing. Oats went from £2 a ton to £20 a ton. Do we mention the fact that some Irish Catholic farmers did very well selling oats.
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  2340. I did watch a documentary about the raising of the Maine and they thought it was a fired which had caused the explosion.
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  2341. They even had large wedge shaped ramps to get over the sea wall. The ramp would attached to the front of the tank and was to be dropped into place before the tanks climbed up them.
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  2342.  @GT-ox3pe  Please check out my reply to AB as I have made a few points as to why I do not think Russia is keeping their best for later. I would be interested to know your thoughts. I think China has enough troubles of their own at the moment as their economy is facing many problems. Also as Russia has stirred up quite a hornets nest it is not looking good for China's invasion of Taiwan which they planned to carry out in the next five years. And they will be less than happy that all of this has caused the US send Patriot missiles to Taiwan. The other thing to remember is that, unlike Russia, China is a world economy and so they would have a lot to lose if they get hit by sanctions. You only have to look at how hard Huawei has been hit by sanctions.
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  2343. I have a feeling it is all a show. Ready for their after Trump book deals.
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  2344.  @piotrd.4850  You have to feel a little sorry for the Coast Guard cutter. All those big battleships about. Not a place to be when the shooting starts. Having said that they did a sterling job.
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  2345.  @sillypuppy5940  Do you think they could get one of those ROV's to follow the trail.
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  2346. I think your about right. At one time it was said that the Belarusian forces were worse than the Russian forces. Now I think the Russian forces are as bad as the Belarusian forces.
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  2347. I understood that one of the reasons colds and flu are more common in winter was because people tend to stay at home more in winter. This would mean more contact with others and therefore increase the likelihood of catching colds and flu.
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  2348. A five minute guide which is nearly five minutes. What is the world coming to
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  2349. Court cases must have been interesting. One defendant turns up 999 lawyers. Courts adjourned to a sports stadium.
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  2350. A long a varied career for the class.
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  2351. @Jeremy Jones Usually a bit more rough and tumble when we get to chatting.
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  2352. He left the password next to his comb
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  2353.  @MrDgwphotos  From what I have read and seen in documentaries US pilots in the Vietnam era were not taught dogfighting at all. They were not supposed to face fighters as they were there role was to intercept bombers. Which is the reason they carried missiles and no guns. What training they did get was against each other and even that was unofficial. Hence the reason they only trained against each other.
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  2354. Just imagine two or three thousand of them drop troops and guns and supported by fighters and helicopter gunships behind Soviet lines. That would certainly put a dent in you day.
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  2355. Am I right in thinking these were better then the German battleships?
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  2356. The Typhoon is so powerful that it can takeoff with a full load and not need the afterburners.
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  2357. Hi everyone. Well just back from the Cenotaph. There was a massive crowd there. Normally it would be a few hundred but today there were thousands. As the Cenotaph is just next to a major road people tend to get penned in by the barriers next to it. But the police had diverted all the traffic. So there was people standing on the road as well as on the pavement, sidewalk for our American friends. I do not mind admitting I got rather emotional remembering those of my family who had served. I also thought of all of you here and any one of you who had served or had family who had. The one thing I wished is that my late father had been there. He was an army man through and through and I know he would have been there. I would have loved to have shared the moment with him.
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  2358. Douglas: We've got this great new jet. The Skylancer. US Navy: Nice. Just put it at the end of that line of other great new jets, will you. Talk about right aircraft wrong time.
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  2359. Having a passing interest in etymology I happened to look up the word bloke, where I discovered that it was used by WW1 Royal Navy crews in reference to the ships captain, though with a capital B. The Bloke. I wondered if you had ever come across such a reference to RN WW1 captains
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  2360.  @angrydoggy9170  thanks for adding that. There are reports that the tyres a cheap ones bought from China. Probably bought from Alibaba with 3000 five Star reviews
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  2361.  @angrydoggy9170  Da. Good for a year or 10,000 miles. Oh. Sorry. Mistranslation Good for a year if you don't move the truck and then just 10 miles.
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  2362. Curious Droid. Reaction Engines Limited are, as you know, looking to use the SABRE engine for space launches and hypersonic commercial air travel. The big advantages for space use, especially initially, is that it will be so much cheaper then conventional rockets so getting payloads will prove it is commercially viable. It will also be able to use them much more often, possibly on a daily basis, as with a conventional aircraft. I think the other thing to remember is that it will probably be better in the early stages to let the technology prove itself before taking on air travel. One thing I do wonder is whether they will have aircrew when it take on air travel as I understand the space flights will be unmanned. REL is more interested in building the engines while others, Boeing possibly, build Skylon. Rolls Royce will be looking to build the engine commercially. Is the airospike engine going to be one of those what ifs. Will someone, in say twenty or thirty years time, be producing a video about how they could have built the aerospike but the built the Skylon instead. You will, of course, get someone saying that aerospike was great granddads favourite band, only for someone pointing out they probably mean Aerosmith. :)
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  2363. Moore sometimes Britsh humour can escape others. The reference, as you have probably now realised, is a comment on the number of AA guns cared on the ship.
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  2364.  @efnissien  That was the RAF. They also added the bubble canopy. Also the P-51 was originally built for the RAF.
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  2365. It would be nice to find an America who can say Canberra correctly. Also the ministers name was pronounced Sands
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  2366. If not I think I know of some people who will help you in the court case.
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  2367. E-unicycles. That's got to be different. Ukrainian troops are being trained by British forces to use e-bikes on the battlefield. The British Army uses them with their scouts as it allows them to move quickly and silently around the battlefield.
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  2368. You look at this story and then as the Kursk. Just shows what can be achieved when those at the top have the will to take action
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  2369. Declaring marshal law is one thing. Getting anyone to act on it is another. One the up side they will finally have the evidence to have him declared unfit for office.
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  2370.  @108grog  a test it almost failed.
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  2371. A good idea but they are beyond Ukraines capabilities at the moment. The Typhoon is a highly sophisticated aircraft and works with many other systems such as AWACS. That would require involvement of NATO.
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  2372. Stalin himself is thought to have been poisoned by Beria. And Beria himself would be executed by Field Marshal Zhukov. Which, in many ways, was revenge for Beria humiliating Zhukov over a number of war trophies Zhukov had. Happy families Soviet style.
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  2373. Oh to have been a fly on the wall.
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  2374. The Russians did this all the time with their Aeroflot aircraft. Have you ever wondered why only their aircraft had a glazed nose. Not used on any other civilian airline.
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  2375. We all know about Russian pilots flying for North Korea, but how many flew for North Vietnam?
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  2376. Andrew Emery I remember reading about one of North Vietnam's top pilots and from what I read he seemed to be much better then his fellow countrymen. So, remembering the Korean War you do start to think that maybe his "fellow countrymen" were from a different country. Having said that I know that when Eisenhower stopped the USAF/CIA reconnaissance flights over Russia they were taken over by the British Royal Airforce. They even used USAF aircraft though I think they put RAF markings on them. Once the English Electric Canberra bomber started flying with the RAF these were used for reconnaissance instead. They were such a good aircraft America built them as the B47.
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  2377.  @lewisirwin5363  As always there has to be compromises.
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  2378.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  I have just thought of a problem these guns could have faced. They British Army were quite adept at using air burst shells against infantry at this time. So what would have happened if the same technology was used by the British Navy. It would not have taken many such shells to knock out the gun crews.
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  2379.  @isihernandez9752  Ironically Ukraine now has more tanks than the started with.
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  2380.  @theman2017inc  There must be a lot of self loathing going on the the tory party at the moment, then.
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  2381.  colin minhinnick  I wholeheartedly agree. During the Battle of France in 1940 the French had decided not to use their radios because he Germans could pick up the signal from the radio and bomb the radio. So a motorcycle dispatch rider would be sent back from the battlefield to the headquarters just outside of Paris. All to often the general in command of the French Army would not be at his headquarters but at a little hunting lodge some five miles away. By the time the dispatcher rider had returned to the combat area it was three days later and the situation had totally changed. The French soldiers fought well but, as you say, they were poorly led. Mentioning Waterloo. Did you see the irony of them forming squares to face the cavalry, British style.
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  2382.  @MoA-Reload...  Thanks. I'd not come across that before. Definitely a buttock clenching moment.
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  2383. Considering what we used to do to traitors in the past and what ISIS has done to others I think she got off easily.
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  2384. I knew about the engines being the other way up on the Spanish He-111, same as on the Spanish Me-109, as I had seen them on the film The Battle of Britain. Both aircraft, ironically, using the Merlin engine. If you have ever seen the film then you may know that the aerial shots were filmed using a North American B-25 Mitchell with the camera placed where the upper turret would have been.
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  2385. Well as it was Hollywood, never known to let the facts get in the way of a good story, or even a bad story if it come to it, I took it as read that it was not factual. The clips came up and I was curious to see what really which is why I looked it up.
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  2386. Well many strange things happen in war and that one has got to be high on the list.
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  2387. I must admit I have a soft spot for all of these tanks. The Valentine II was definatelly better than any German tank in the Battle of France.
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  2388. They always made me think of those old Sci Fi magazine illustrations.
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  2389. I think we are just pleased the robot voice was having the day off.
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  2390. At lot of noise but we all know that it is all it is.
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  2391. That tory donor was defended for what he said about black people. Can anyone tell me what the Home Secretary had to say about that.
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  2392. Somewhat ironic that the B-32 bomber went ahead incase the B-29 was a failure
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  2393. Suicide statues. That's new.
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  2394.  @NickHchaos  People who shut have nothing worth listening too.
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  2395. You're going to have to get some sleep you know. 😴👍
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  2396. First up.
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  2397. So all these naval officers were responsible for their own deaths. Shame others had to die with them.
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  2398. I'm pleased to see you have taken up my suggestion and you are covering Captain Noel Chavasse. A remarkably brave man. Interestingly of the three men who received the the VC twice two were doctors and only Chavasse won both in the same war. My paternal grandfather served with the Royal Garrison Artillery at both the Somme and Passchendaele.
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  2399.  @SJ2ride  That is interesting because I had thought it had been banned by that time. Obviously not. It is what was used to make the green colour seen on the wallpaper.
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  2400. I have always thought it was a mistake to release film footage of the Panjandrum. Imagine if it was kept a secret and and information of it had been feed back to the Germans. The amount of time, materials and money the Germans would have wasted trying to come up a counter to them only to find they were not used.
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  2401. Probably trying to launch a missile at a particularly large rat it's seen.
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  2402. Some time ago I came to the conclusion that the Japanese should have left America alone and not attack Pearl Harbour. They had enough to do elsewhere without adding America to its list.
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  2403.  @anthroderick5383  That would have been the time when I read about it as well.
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  2404. I have a feeling Putin does not read the casualty figures
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  2405. So there I am watching Tank Chats and at the end up pops The History Guy telling us to subscriber to the channel. Now I'm waiting for David Fletcher to do one of The History Guy's Hat Chats. Preferably the one he wore when he was part of the general staff in WW1. Anyway watched the Tank Chat and up pops The History Guy video on stainless steel. Hello. I thought, their doing a double act. As double history was my favourite way to spend a couple of hours at school I am, as our American friend might say, in hog heaven. Interestingly in the UK there is the Angel of the North which is also made out of steel but was designed to rust as this caused a protective layer on the surface. And in typical British humour is also known as the "Gateshead Flasher", after the local town of Gateshead.
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  2406.  @maxros8102  Actually I was thinking more Dark Helmet from Spaceballs. There both about the same height. Though Rick Moranis is funnier.
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  2407. Me too.
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  2408. There was a film made in 1943 called San Demetrio London which was based on the story of the ship taking part in this convoy and how they got themselves home again. It is available on DVD from Amazon UK
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  2409. Revenge of the Lib Dems. Truss, a former Lib Dem, could end up doing to the tories what Cameron did to the Lib Dems
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  2410. This is true. And they should be kept away from drawing boards at all costs.
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  2411. the National Guard is doing well. They ran back to the Russian border much faster than anyone else.
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  2412.  Matthew Roeser  My thoughts exactly
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  2413. Not exactly a star studded group.
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  2414. I saw the other day someone say that Liz Truss is very intelligent. Whatsmore they had a straight face when they said is.
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  2415. I heard he had paid off the squirrels. It turns out that they are happy to be paid peanuts.
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  2416. I had heard of the Salamander but because it never saw active service little was written about it.
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  2417. The French pulling out of a project became a theme. They pulled out of being involved in the Eurofighter because the other countries refused to delay it so as the French could build and sell their aircraft.
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  2418. Musk: Good news Mr. Trump you're back on Twitter. Musk: Bad news Mr. Trump there is no more Twitter
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  2419.  @DerDop  Close. Barbarossa did not start until 1941
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  2420.  @markfryer9880  I was being humorous Mark.😊
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  2421. Well if you want a batshit crazy looking plane this is the place to be. Let them others do the boring normal ones
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  2422. Braverman is also anti-Muslim and Sunak has done nothing about her either.
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  2423. Some very interesting aircraft here. Looking at the R-42 I could F-82 in it but my first thought was of the P-38 Lightning. Sitting the cockpit between the two fuselages with four 303s and four 20 mm would have been something of a surprise for the Germans.
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  2424. He dialled with his butt. Well he talks out of it so why not. Rudy is a great crime fighter. As for being a great criminal, not so much.
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  2425.  @jesuschristlovesyouandyour5755  I think the motivations in both populations were different. In the case of the US, and there were similar cases in the UK, they wanted to join in and support their country. In German's case it was the last desperate throw of the dice. It also shows the mindset of those governing German. They must have realised that no matter what they had lost. All they were doing was killing off their own population.
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  2426.  @JohnRodriguesPhotographer  Having just been through a long protracted war you would have thought Germany would have known better. German's problem was they did not expect Britain and France to go through with their threat of war in 1939. von Ribbentrop, having been Germany's ambassador to Britain, assured Hitler that Britain would not have gone through with the threat. Having totally misunderestimated Britain's resolve they ended up in a war they were not ready for. von Ribbentrop was not the only one to get it wrong about Britain's resolve to fight. Joe Kennedy when he was US ambassador to Britain also said Britain would not fight on when she very much did. But then again he was prejudiced against the British and wanted to see them fail.
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  2427.  @MalxaAza  How do you think the Germans always first get their towels on the sunbeds.
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  2428. But not Britain.
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  2429. The Germans actually wore captured French underwear in Russia. There were huge storerooms full of it when France fell. Stacked at least ten feet high I seem to remember.
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  2430.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  I think he was going for humour rather then historical fact.
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  2431. Not sure that needs translating. Works just fine as it is👍
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  2432. A partial role reversal during WW1 was the Royal Naval Division which fought at Antwerp in 1914 and at Gallipoli in 1915. It was made up of Royal Navy and Royal Marine reservist and volunteers who were not needed for service at sea. On the 19th July 1916, following many losses among the original naval volunteers, itwas transferred to the British Army as the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division and fought as part of the British Army on the Western Front for the rest of the war. The Royal Navy mounted a number of heavy guns on railway gun carriages for use in France during WW1. These were later 'gifted' to the British Army. Gifted means the Royal Navy wanted rid of them and the British Army got them even though they did not want them. I believe in this case the operation of the guns was transferred to the army and no naval personnel went with them. And not forgetting aviation. When the Royal Air Force came into being in April 1918 all Naval Air Service was transferred to the Royal Air Force.
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  2433. So it wasn't used by U-Boat crews when they were submerged. Can't wait for him to shoot this on the range. 'Cause if he doesn't we're all going to be very disappointed.😞
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  2434. It has been claimed that Mussolini, who was anti Arab, may himself have Arab ancestry. Though that is something the family have denied.
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  2435. I'd like to think that he died being the hero he always wanted to be.
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  2436. Interesting how time and again it is Europe who are leading and the US who are dragging their feet. Europe wanted to send tanks but the US dragged their feet. Then the UK said well we'll send Challenger tanks and suddenly there are Abram tanks being sent. Europe wanted to send F-16s and now the US say they will send F-16s. As the US would say 'America has got to get with the program.'
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  2437. If she wants to serve the nation she should call an election as that is what the nation wants.
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  2438. We would be happy to see the back of Neil Hamilton and his corruption. We remember his brown envelope full of cash.
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  2439.  @bonsummers2657  Badly.
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  2440. I'd seen him on an earlier video and at first I just thought it was a modern helmet which looked like an old German helmet from the angle it was at. Then when he turned around and you could see the SS markings on the side I thought "no, that's the real deal."
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  2441. Just inform Putin that whatever happens the sanctions stay. Because that way we will know he will not be able to do this to any other country.
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  2442. China is not doing too well out of all this. Because of a dispute with Australia China stopped buying Australian wheat. And now with their special friend Putin they cannot get Ukrainian wheat. Russia has wheat but Russia may not want to sell their wheat because it's value has dropped. With friends like Russia...
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  2443. Somethings you just know are going to be good.
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  2444.  @terryboyer1342  You did not actually learn anything. It was not a teaching moment. What you had was a discovery. You just discovered something about your wife.
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  2445. Sounds like that game show. Scrape Heap Challenge
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  2446.  @benlzicar7628  I am reminded of the remarks of a German officer who praised the Britsh Army when he said they were the best in the world at fighting colonial wars whereas the German Army was the best at fighting the French. This was pre WW1
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  2447.  @JamesSmith-ui2hv  that's the Soviets. But then when you see how the Germans dealt with Soviet POW's you realise they were no better.
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  2448. they have gambled some £300 million on us falling out and the economy crashing. Our economy goes down the toilet so that his mates get a big payday. Nice to know Boris has out best interests at heart.
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  2449. I did a module on vernacular buildings when I studied archaeology so I always find it extremely interesting when I see buildings like that.
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  2450. So is Boeing. Unfortunately it happens on reentry.
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  2451. Now you mention it, yes.
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  2452. I would think the Royal Naval Reserve as RFA is Royal Fleet Auxiliary which acts as support for the Royal Navy.
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  2453.  @obelic71  That will clear your headache.💥
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  2454. My money is on the T-7. They need something to dodge them ATGMs
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  2455. There is no excuse for what he said. And Sunak has done what he always does and has doubled down and blamed Starmer for his own stupidity
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  2456. He'll get four all to himself
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  2457.  @johnmcmickle5685  The problem there is that everyone else would be going the other way
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  2458. Interesting piece of history never the less. And I note that Miss Ferguson does not get her full name recorded but Mr Hope does. Somewhat ironic that whereas many of my local clocks still use this tune our municipal clock has been replaced by a German style clock which plays various tunes during the day.
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  2459. That would definatelly be worth a look. After all it went through to then have the plug pulled on it. Interestingly I have seen some video footage of a new reconnaissance helicopter and it does have definite overtones of the Comanche.
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  2460. Was this some guy smoking near a fuel supply again? You'd think someone would have mention that smoking next to a fuel source is bad for your health.
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  2461.  @airplanemaster1  revenge for not rolling over and surrounding in WW1.
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  2462. You would have to go back a very long way to find when it wasn't
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  2463.  @BenHafford  Don't worry. one or two others now appreciate the comment. When I saw one or two others I mean 1.8K.
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  2464. As we know there was a purpose built supressed version
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  2465. I think you expect to much from his supporters. Narcissism and derangement are long words and too long for them
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  2466.  @marklucca3044  the fact that you feel the need to be abusive when we are trying to have an intelligent conversation say more about you then me. At no point have I tried to demean WW 2 veterans. I have nothing but the greatest admiration for them. Looking at 8th Army aircrew going off on a mission over Germany and them knowing the odds are they may not come back. How can you not admire them. As one veteran said, he did not complete his tour he survived it. What I was clearly stating was that because of the use of helicopters someone serving in Vietnam saw much more combat then his WW 2 father would have. And I clearly stated Veterens of the Pacific not Europe. I know US units in Europe did not get rotated out. If you can explain why they did that I would be interested to know. If you want to put forward your arguments then please do. But there is no need for abuse.
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  2467. Sounds like a typical tory
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  2468. Harold Weaver Smith. Yes that's a good idea and that could do it. Or just say "that Frank Whittle is really onto something, go with it" Then come the Battle of Britain the sky is full of de Havilland Vampire jets. :) I must admit I love historical what ifs. Imagine if the Typhoon did not have the engine and structural problems and had gone into production just before the Battle of Britain. It would have been faster then any thing else in the air at 410 mph and carrying six MGs in each wing would have caused havoc to the Luftwaffe.
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  2469. Harold Weaver Smith. Some years ago there was a TV docudrama about Frank Whittles trails and tribulations in trying to get his ideas for a jet engine advanced within the RAF. His problem was he could not get his ideas passed the officer he had to deal. This, it turns out, was because this officer himself was working on plans for a jet engine so wanted to advance them rather then Whittles. The problem was his ideas did not work and Whittle did. So my thought was if you go back far enough you could bypass this officer and get the jet engine research done sooner. A thought for you. A what if. You will have heard of Hero's engine. What if Hero's engine had been taken seriously. It is the basis of the steam engine. And using heated air for a propulsion system is also the principle of the jet engine. So what if the Romans had invented the steam engine? Being able to rapidly move materials and people around quickly from one place to another is what brought us the industrial revolution. Another thought for you. Some years ago a model maker was making models of several of Hero's devises. He looked at plans for a carousel. One which Hero never built. The reason it was never built is because it was beyond Hero's ability to do so. You see, to build it would need a jet engine. So who did invent the jet engine?
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  2470. Harold Weaver Smith. Okay, I'll have to point out that the docudrama was sometime ago, and is nothing to do with me getting old a senile. :) Interesting about the idea of a turboprop before the turbojet. It would make good sense and would have been quite a boost to aircraft's speed. It would also make a huge boost to the development of the helicopter, not having to use piston engines. I remember the old Westland Wessex and Whirlwind helicopters with the piston engine in the nose. I must admit I thought it came about because someone thought, well we could do with something with a bit more power and smaller then a piston engine and saw the potential. Romans lasting into modern times. You been watching old episodes of Star Trek again. Okay, taking the Israeli tank the Merkiva, Herbew for chariot, then you can call your Roman tank the sinum currus which is Latin for chariot. I Googled it. Interestingly in WW2 the French had a tank called the Char B and in Old French char meant cart. And the Latin word currus, or carrus, is a loan word from Gaul. So the Sinum Currus B. Of cause if it was WW 2 and German it could well be a cart.
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  2471.  keith moore  One of my favourite jets is the F4 Phantom. It also did not have graceful lines but it was extremely capable of dealing with the enemy,
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  2472.  @sircashew1097  Seems to be sadly lacking of late
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  2473. If this means they have to be organised then no. They are just individual wankers
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  2474.  @rogerwhittle2078  I did read that the official language for India is a form of Sanskrit which is rarely if ever used. The unofficial language is English.
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  2475.  @scribejackhammar  I think he has in the past, though that was some time ago.
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  2476. I did pick that one up. I thought to myself that he must have been a fair old age by then. Unfortunately they still had hanging in 1950.
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  2477.  @stevesullivan9752  Keeping them is one thing. Getting into them is quite another. On the upside I could still fit into the same shoes.
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  2478. Someone's been watching Fireball XL5. Well you're not 'Fooling' me. Anyway, great fun Ed. Thanks
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  2479.  @johnladuke6475  All they need now is computers and electricity
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  2480.  @hobbyhermit66  They moved. Said they didn't like being talked about.
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  2481.  @markfrench8892  So there is a place called Billings in Montana. That explains it. I wondered why Montana was being billed for everything
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  2482. The Chechen troops did fight in Ukraine very briefly but they were easily defeated. They were then made barrier troops behind the Russians but when the Russians found out the Chechen troops were just killing Russian troops without finding out why they were there they turned on the Chechen troops killing many of them.
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  2483. It is somewhat ironic that they were living the American Dream
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  2484. At this rate we may get a change of government before an election.
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  2485. It's interesting that the East German helmet and uniform is that of the late war Nazi helmet and uniform. All you would have to do is just swap out the AK-47 for the MP-44 and they would fit right in with the late war German army.
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  2486. He cannot just wave his hand and say these documents are declassified. It take much more than that. Trump is working on a book. He's almost coloured in the picture of the cow.
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  2487. His grandfather made his money running a brothel and little Donny gets convicted covering up for paying for sex. How's that being a stable genius
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  2488. Well, definatelly not the Japanese
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  2489. It was a very difficult time for both jets and carriers. I did read that back in the 50s one USN admiral had so much trouble with the latest jets landing on his carrier that he sent them all back to their shore base.
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  2490. While he was a junior officer King was part of the USNs force sent to fight alongside the British Royal Navy in WW1. King had disobeyed orders and he was reprimanded by his superior officer who was in the Royal Navy. King went into a major sulk for the rest of his life as far as Britain was concerned. An act which cost the lives of many Allied sailors, including Americans.
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  2491. Johnson was fired years ago by both the Times and Michael Howard for lying. So it's nothing new.
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  2492. Okay. You've got me this time. Often I have some existing knowledge of the subjects of your videos, though you always seem to be able that something extra. In this case I was vaguely aware of Japanese submarines travelling to Europe but not this early in the war. And so close to being a success.
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  2493. Merry Christmas Gunslinger
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  2494. Diplomacy. Two men who loathe each other pretending to be the best of friends.
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  2495.  @jwenting  To get into a position to to take over from Boeing would take Lockheed decades. Even Airbus, which is now bigger then Boeing, would have difficulty doing that. Any airline wanting to change to Airbus would have to invest millions retraining aircrews, engineers et cetera. And unless they are forced to change they are not willing to spend that kind of money.
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  2496. Nice idea. But I think they are going to need more than two helicopters.
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  2497. You have found yourself in good company. Welcome.
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  2498. Here's the twist. It's the same cologne Rudy wears.
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  2499. A Russian mine. If you check the road behind the tank it looks like about seven mines went off.
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  2500.  Chris_Wooden_Eye  If you look at the actions of both Germany and Japan in the last six to twelve month of the war most of it was a waste of lives.
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  2501. When Israel faced the BMP-1 they discovered the fact that the doors had fuel in them. So what they did was allow the BMP-1s to pass them and then shoot up the doors which meant they caught fire. This then forced those inside out and allowed the Israelis to deal with any troops trying to escape.
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  2502.  @sterlingarcher8924  No you were entitled to buy the tie
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  2503.  @andrewbranch4918  Not always your fault.
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  2504.  @eamonnclabby7067  thanks, much appreciated
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  2505.  @Noel-ji8nm  Prigozhin doing his juggling with live grenades again
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  2506.  @robertlopez9347  That is still a subject of speculation. And the aircraft which exploded was being followed by another one of his jets which turned back when it saw what happened to the first one.
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  2507.  that guy with the stye  Please, no photographs 😱
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  2508.  @terraflow__bryanburdo4547  They're French so nothing British.
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  2509. A bit Freudian
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  2510. All things considered you may have to add some sort of designation to distinguish between the various aircraft given that sobriquet.
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  2511. ​ @DERP_Squad  True but by putting that number to this "planned" invasion many senior German officers would have faced the real 4th Army in 1918. It would have a psychological effect. I am not sure which army you think is unlucky. The German soldiers in Norway would have known about what was happening on the Eastern Front and were probably glad to be out of it. The British 4th Army is the one which led the 100 Days Campaign in 1918 which led to the end of the war. That was unlucky for the Germans and left them in such disarray that they could not organise an armistice for two days. Otherwise the war would have ended on the 9th November instead of the 11th.
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  2512. When he was captain of a warship Admiral Sandy Woodward was given the task of simulating the destruction of a US aircraft carrier which was surrounded by the usually plethora of support ships. During the night the US fleet was approached by a ship with every light on shining away. By the time they challenged the ship Woodward radioed back that he had every weapon locked onto the carrier and that all he had to do would be give the command to fire. If it had been for real the RN ship would have been lost. But so would the carrier.
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  2513. Well, it's not like they were using them for anything useful.
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  2514.  @MangoPuree  I think the airship aircraft carrier fulfils that role all ready.
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  2515. War declared does sound like a cricket game. War was declared and both teams went for lunch. Actually there is some dispute as to whether war was declared by Britain and if so by whom. Though the British government decided that Britain was going to war no one can remember making a formal declaration, or who did declare it. There is some thought that Sir Edward Grey, Bt Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs may have been the one who did it, but he may have just told the press. To put this into some sort of context Germany's Hamburg Shipping Line was still advertising trips to Germany in the British press for sometime after war was declared, and there were newspaper advertisements for British people to apply to a German music academy. No one at that time actually thought it would end in fighting.
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  2516.  @chaowingchinghongfingshong3109  Mark Felton and morning coffee. Great way to start your day 😀
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  2517. As soon as the Americans do. :)
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  2518. And then came the Cultural Revolution. This made it look like what happened to the sparrows was just a warm up to what he was going to do to the Chinese.
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  2519. China buys Russian aircraft then reverse engineers it to make their own aircraft. Which China then sells to other countries. This in turn reduces Russian sales to them countries. Russia complains about China reverse engineering their aircraft. But then sells more aircraft to China because they need the sales. China has, of course, promised not to reverse engineer these new aircraft. Of course we believe them. Russia's population is twice that of France but its economy is only as big as Italy. Many educated Russians have left for a better life elsewhere. Meanwhile in Russia the problem will alcoholism is so bad that one in four Russian men will die before they are sixty.
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  2520. Interesting idea and I can see your logic here. But all they need to do is refloat the ship, move it into a drydock and the port is back working. Probably no more that a couple of weeks to move it out of the way as a guess. Whereas if you sink the ship in deeper water it is gone. And as they are struggling to get ships as it is its loose would have a greater impact.
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  2521.  @richardowens9061  I saw that interview. I seems they are fine with others suffering but not themselves. Says everything you need to know about Trump supporters.
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  2522.  @DarkCriimes  Recently installed. Upgrade the old tech to a Commadore 64
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  2523. There was a case of a British Spitfire pilot with his squadron in France at the end of the Battle of France who brought another pilot, French I believe, back with him to England.
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  2524. Trolling Putin more like.
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  2525. In WW2 the British Special Air Service would use the Lewis gun mounted in pairs on their jeeps. They would use them when attacking airfields.
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  2526. Talk about interesting timing. We are having a nautical festival tomorrow which includes pirates. Interesting that 13 became an unlucky number as in the past it was believed to have been a luck number because Jesus had twelve disciples. When a new priory was being set up by monks it was usually twelve monks plus the person in charge. Thirteen people.
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  2527.  @venator5  I understand what you are saying but I don't think they would have them record there. They would be kept elsewhere and probably at some military facility. This looks more like a local office where they would have the records for people being coscripted.
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  2528. Heisenburg had totally overestimated how much uranium was needed to build a nuclear bomb, but claimed this was not so and that he was trying to stop Germany getting the bomb first. There is a problem about his claim. When he was being held by the British they secretly recording him and his men. So when he was told of the Americas dropping the bomb on Japan and he then past that onto this men they realised the had made a mistake because according to his estimates no aircraft could have carried such a bomb as it would have been to big.
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  2529.  @andrewp8284  I see where you're coming from here but we both agree Drach said it with a touch more finesse
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  2530.  @ottovonbismarck2443  spilled your coffee. Being blown up by a Japanese torpedo would have been less distressing
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  2531.  @petermortimer6303  I know many Germans were kept by Stalin and those that did return were several years after his death. I have read a little about those French left behind and obviously the same with Americans when they fought there. It is a difficult subject because many would be classed as MIA and families would still hope they are still alive. And having seen a number of Japanese who survived WW2 and were left behind that adds to the hope. I am a little weary of the story of a French NCO as there is a similar story of an America NCO who was supposed to have sent a radio message some years after the Vietnam War had ended. That does not mean that one or the other is not true, but, as I say, it does make me weary.
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  2532. I vaguely knew about this event but I had no idea of the full story. So thank you for adding the details. It is somewhat ironic that Patton's only involvement here was to let the mission go ahead when he was so involved in the attempted rescue his son-in-law which not only failed but cost American lives. It is also ironic that Germany, known for its armoured Blitzkrieg, was so heavily dependent on horses. And they were taking steps to introduce a breeding programme at a time when the British were looking to go fully mechanised. Indivative of their wrongheaded muddled thinking.
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  2533. It's the Swiss Army Knife of personal weapons
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  2534.  @ferdinandsiegel4470  Not true.
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  2535.  @inspectorcal  It came close during WW-2. Germany had been either a threat to or at war with the rest of Europe for nearly 50 years.
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  2536. Somewhat ironic when you realise how many words in Western European languages have their origins in Latin And Greek
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  2537.  @UCN2027  It was usually the high ranking ones who ended in Argentina, though some went to the Middle East to sell their expertise. Those that joined such groups such as the French Foreign Legion were usually soldiers and NCOs. Ex SS and paratroopers mostly but also some regular troops. The French seem to have known about this but kept quiet until the French press found out.
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  2538. He had two tests today in parliament. Failed them both
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  2539. I have also come across a reference to the cages being used to deal with RPGs after Russian loses in Grozny. It looks like a secondary us is to add material to break up the outline in the hope the anti tank missile teams will not recognise them at tanks. I have not seen figures for other missiles but the kill rate for the NLAW is 90%. I should imagine other missiles such as the Javelin will be something similar. So cage or no cage they are going to get that tank. You can see why the Russian tank crews would sooner hide out in the woods.
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  2540. Back in the 1960 many taxi drivers where I live drove Moscvite's seen at 11:45. I fact there were so many of them the local council banned them. There was a problem getting spare parts so they kept breaking down and could not be repaired. So the taxi drivers just bought another.
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  2541. Looking at the Russian trenches they are not as deep or as sophisticated as those faced by Britain in WW1 and the tank has come on some distance since that time.
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  2542. If they are going to interview someone they should at the very least have an interviewer who knows the subject and what questions to ask. That way they do not look foolish when they open their mouths.
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  2543. You sure it was not a Fokker Dr1 😊👍
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  2544. JamtlandRC channel Thanks for mentioning about subscribers as I have just click the button. Odd thing is I thought I had already subscribed. Anyway, better late then never.
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  2545. Another interesting moment in history. Odd that the award could be back dated. Was there a limit to how far back they could go? I did come across something about an American Soldier who served in Vietnam and who had won the Medal of Honor. But his actions during four other events would have also resulted in his being awarded the medal four more times except the award was restricted to just the one. Is this correct?
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  2546. Like me I think you would be better with something bigger. The German Maus may be what we want.😄
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  2547. Yesterday I saw a Supermarine Spitflre flying over head. The aircraft you claimed was outdated at the beginning of the war. It, along with the Hawker Hurricane, were a match for anything the Axix had to offer. As many of their pilots found out to their cost. Both aircraft were in service before WW2 started. The Spitfire was still in service by the end of the war. Though much of your subject matter is interesting I find your research and claims extremely shoddy and not worth my time. So I will not be watching any more of your videos
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  2548. We can start a support group. Just no sniffing the gun oil
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  2549. Designed by a plumber.
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  2550. Looking at the Wandering Albatross I was reminded of the fact that it uses ground effect to travel long distances. It made me wonder if Hatzegopteryx did the same thing. By riding on the cushion of air generated using ground effect it would save energy allowing it to fly long distances.
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  2551. Actually I am surprised no one questioned why this cannon was allowed to be used. The problems with this method of construction had been known about for centuries. I seem to remember that they usually surrounded it by steel bars placed length ways and held in place with steel straps which were then wrapped around the barrel. I am sure that sort of build had been superseded long before this incident. So why was it allowed to be used? Speaking of guns. The Battle of Agincourt was 25 October 1415. This is where the English archers defeated the French knights. But some of the French wounded, and possibly even dead, were shot with a very early handgun. It was basically a metal tube with a touch hole at the breach end which was attached to a long steel spike. There was not many but here at the height of the archers fame were the seeds of what would replace the bow. And one more thing I hope you will find interesting. The Battle of Trafalgar was 21 October 1805. One of the most important sea battles in history. Fought under sail. But on March 28 1803 the steam powered boat, the Charlotte Dundas, sailed on a canal in Scotland. Again the new there at the height of the old. In fact this event nearly changed history a lot sooner then it did. There was a plan to use steam ships to tow fire ships which would have been used to attack the combines French and Spanish fleets, but it was judge that the technology was not ready. So the plan was abandoned and Nelson had his day.
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  2552. Explains a lot 😄
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  2553. Can you just let them know not to put so many guns so high up
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  2554. Well no surprises for me on this one as I already knew all the points covered here. Having said that I still very much enjoyed the video. A couple of other points about this fantastic aircraft. She was so fast that she went supersonic just after takeoff while climbing on her maiden flight. And she was the first aircraft capable of supercruise. At various times several squadrons were based either locally or regionally so I did get to see quite a few of them over the years. Along with the Avro Vulcan which was based in Lincolnshire. And now, two generations on, we get the Typhoon flying from what was once a Vulcan airbase. And in my opinion that is the one which should have been the Lightning II, This not to say anything against the capabilities of the F-35, it's just that I think the Typhoon is more lick the original Lightning in its capabilities.
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  2555.  @worldofdoom995 During the Battle of France the Germans managed to bomb one of their own towns. This was in daylight. Goebbels tried to make out the British had done it but the townsfolk said the aircraft had crosses on them.
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  2556. Trump complaining that his allies are not supporting him. I wonder why.
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  2557. Our troops are not retreating. They are just redeploying. Also, and totally unrelated, we are deploying troops to Vladivostok.
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  2558. Same with the TSR2 in Britain. They also destroyed everything to do with the aircraft. There was a report issued in 1959 about future AA missiles making it to dangerous for aircraft to survive in combat and this was used as the reason for the TSR2 being cancelled. I thing the fact that it was becoming very expensive was more the reason why it was cancelled.
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  2559.  @jamesyeh364  I'm pleased someone appreciated them. Our government certainly didn't.
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  2560.  @Paerigos  It has been estimated the Russia will need a ratio of 7:1 to make up for all its shortcomings.
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  2561.  @CharlesSmith-io9fp  I thought it would kick off when they end up in court. Especially as none of them can keep their lies from clashing
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  2562. In an age when everything is recorded why would they think no one would check what they said and they can lie with impunity
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  2563. The early railways also had guards sat up on the top of the coach. You can imagine what it must have been like sat up there with all all the smoke and ash blowing back into the guards face. I read of one guard new to the job who almost choked to death from inhaling the smoke and ash while traveling some four times the speed a mail coach would. When they reached their destination they had to delay the train until the guard had recovered sufficiently for him to make the return trip. The solution was for the guard to cover his face with one or more scarves only leaving his eyes exposed. These would be covered by pulling the brim of his hat down and keeping his head down as well. This meant if anything went wrong with the train he would not be able to react immediately.
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  2564. Actually there are older democracies. What's more, unlike the Greeks, in those democracies everyone got the vote.
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  2565. 818K YouTube subscriber suddenly booking holidays to the Philippines. Filipino Customs: What's with the bucket and spade? Me: I'm going to the beach to build a sandcastle. Filipino Customs: That's a rather big bucket and spade Me: I'm building a big sandcastle. Filipino Customs: and the other 818K with the buckets and spades. Me: It's a very big sandcastle and I thought I'd need help. Okay
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  2566.  @patrickmcleod111  there would have been a greater emphasis on anti aircraft guns in order to deal with this threat.
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  2567. America used to practice eugenics. Just saying
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  2568. An idea for a future video. I read an autobiography of someone who operated the radar in British nightfighters during WW2. While flying over Germany one night they found a German nightfighter who was flying around a beacon well away from the RAF bomber stream. They assumed he was hiding away from the action and was therefore a coward. But I later found out that he was there for a different reason. The RAF had been using fluent German speakers to misdirect German aircrew and send them away from the bombers, hence the reason why the German nightfighter was in the wrong place. It worked by the RAF person calling up a nightfighter and redirecting away from the bomber stream. When the Luftwaffe realised what was happening they would try to redirect the aircraft back to the area it was supposed to be. Only for the RAF to say not that person is British do not listen to them, go to this area. At which point the German would try to convince the pilot he was genuine and the other person was fake. It got so bad that nightfighter pilots did not know who to believe. Then one night the Germans had a masterplan. Now it has been awhile since I came across this story but I believe all the Germans controllers directing the nightfighters at that time were men. So the plan was that once the British started to confuse the pilots at a given signal all the men would be replaced by women. And sure enough that happened. One up to the Germans, yes? No. The RAF also changed all their ground controllers as well. And then the British controllers told the German pilots that the change over was a plot by the British to confuse them. And as no one had informed the pilots what was to happen they were just as confused as before. As one of those interesting twists. The British aircrewman who's autobiography I had read had been an actor before the war and played a Nazi in the film "Pimpernel" Smith. A Britain masquerading as a German. Almost prophetic
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  2569. What is it with Germany trying to build the biggest war machines. Had Hitler invented the Top Trumps card game but could not sell it until Germany had the biggest aircraft, ships, tanks, guns et cetera. Or was Hitler compensating for something. I must admit to being staggered when I first read that German scientists and engineers would be sent to the Eastern Front when projects were cancelled. It's like no one was thinking about the countries future needs. There was a high ranking meeting in the spring of 1943 where defence projects which would not be finished within a year were cancelled and many of the scientists and engineers were shipped off to the Eastern Front. Then a year later there was this realisation that many of the projects they cancelled were after all needed. Such as the surface to air missiles needed to take on the waves of USAAF B17s and B25s.
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  2570. I get the feeling Ukraine would say all of them.
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  2571. This is all true. But we have reached the stage were we would not be surprised if it did happen.
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  2572. Is it true that half the storage on the Kamchatka was taken up with binoculars which is why the rest of the fleet didn't just sink her.
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  2573.  eclemensen  I truly hope it all ends well for you.
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  2574.  @-cali-gbpacker559  He got it. Just never read it
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  2575. The Iraq Iran War, when Iraq was the good guys. Oh, how things changed. When the Iraqis invaded Iran they headed straight for the oil fields and once captured Saddam basically told the Iranians that's it. We got what we want. You can stop fighting now. For some reason the Iranians decided otherwise.
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  2576. There is a new version arrive now so it may well be still flying passed that date. And let's not forget the US Marine corps Cobra.
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  2577. I had to stop and think for a minute. They have battleships in the World Of Warcraft. My partner is pleased when she gets a new mount. Wait 'til she gets a warship.😮
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  2578. The Germans found out about dive time. When they designed their pre-war U-Boats because they did not envision them facing aircraft. So the dive time was something like two minutes. If you spot an aircraft and it's seen you then two minutes meant there was a good chance you would be bombed.
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  2579. I also thought the Empire was about to Strike Back.
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  2580. It's okay the Chechen leader criticising the Russians. After a couple of days on the frontline his men all hid behind the Russians.
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  2581. I do believe reunified got some from former East Germany. Along with the latest tanks and a number of the latest MiGs.
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  2582. The British Royal Marines gave the Argentinians a blood nose taking South Georgia while the Argentinians gave the Royal Marines a white flag. Says it all really.
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  2583.  @goldenaye3  these missiles were due to be decommissioned so Ukraine has saved Britain the expense of doing so
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  2584. I knew quite a bit of the information here but there was lots I did not know, so thanks. Along with the list of things taxed was a window tax. Yes they taxed daylight. There are building from that period which had some of the windows bricked up to save money. And others which had the windows bricked up when built with the view to the windows being added when the tax was repealed. Some, though, have had bricked up windows included for aesthetic reasons rather then because of the tax as many of these were built long after the tax was repealed.
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  2585.  @alecblunden8615  three Italian fighter squadrons took part in the Battle of Britain. All biplanes I seem to remember. After three week they went back home. The three squadrons were reduced to the point were they had enough aircraft for one squadron.
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  2586. They did build a large clinker built ship. They took it out on a sea trial and it flexed so much that everyone on board was terrified it would fall apart and sink. They got it back to port where it never sailed again.
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  2587. Went to the Med and melted
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  2588.  @aussiviking604  That's right. Everything was in canisters. But as many things were still new with regards paratroopers it is possible that they originally planned to do that and changed it later. I thought that was odd that they did not carry weapons with them as surely if you are parachuting into a battle the last thing you want to do is then scramble around looking for your weapon. They did suffer badly in Crete when parachuting onto the British airfields.
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  2589.  @terryboyer1342  Aren't you related Ralph of the Simpsons 😄
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  2590. Polish people that's you? I thought there was more of you. 😄
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  2591. The term stone, which is 14 pounds, comes from the simple fact that they used stones as weights. Sometimes the answers are simpler then we think.
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  2592. I was just going to post something similar but you got there first. Well done
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  2593. I seem to remember a huge outcry about the executions as the original intention was that it would be done by garroting the prisoners. An extremely barbaric form of killing. It was this outcry that stopped the garroting at the last minute.
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  2594. Just to show willing the Ukrainians are knocking out T-62s just as fast as they knock out T-72s. As a joke I recently mentioned that I was sure the old Soviet BT-7 tank was being put back into service. I am now starting to wonder if I was being prophetic
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  2595.  @DIREWOLFx75  There was a lot of muddled thinking back then
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  2596. I think this was all started by the Russians because we all laughed at the Kamchatka.
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  2597. Trump's upset because he did not get his cut.
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  2598. When your biggest enemy is your own fellow countrymen then why take on the Allies. You've got enough to do without bringing in outsiders.
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  2599. Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men. Watched them as a kid. I knew about the claim that the industrial revolution was fuelled by the potato which did surprise me at the time. Like many such things there was more to it then that. How much has the humble potato become part of out lives? I have a recipe book with over 200 potato based recipes in it. Including potato chocolate cake. Must admit I've not tried that one.
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  2600. The only pivet he's trying to do is away from the courts
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  2601.  @chrisneedham5803  Do they take Bitcoins?
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  2602. In the spring of 43 the Germans believing that they were on the way to winning the war cancelled many military projects. Especially those which were for the defence of Germany. Amongst those projects cancelled was the Enzian. It was a smaller pilotless version of the Me-163 but was a radioguided ground launched anti-aircraft missile with a 500 kg, 1,100 lb, warhead. You can imagine what that would do if one or two of those had exploded in formation of USAAF B-17s. If it had gone into production then maybe the XB-28 would have been looked at again.
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  2603. Right kit, right place but wrong time.
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  2604.  @duncanmcgee13  Hitler seemed to be better with tanks then aircraft. Many of the improvements in things like using the 50 mm and then the 75 mm tank guns were at his insistence.
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  2605.  @bfc3057  I have come across the reference many times, but as we both know that is no guarantee he actually said it. I do know that he was very impressed by the Mosquito and even more impressed by the fact that is could be built by parts made by people who had previously made things like furniture
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  2606. Surely all them civilians are already fighting. For the other side.
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  2607. I share your view that the Electra is a beautiful aircraft, especially in its all aluminium state.
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  2608. strangers death by custard pie.
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  2609. Did they have Google 'ratings' back. For those of you who don't know Royal Navy sailors are referred to s ratings.
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  2610. You could be the first person on the moon who would feel right at home. 👍
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  2611.  @B.D.E.  I keep hearing commentator talking about how good the Russian FSB is like it was the old KGB. I read an article which included comments by someone forced to work for them as an informant and he said they rely entirely on informants for everything but they do not have the ability to investigate anything.
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  2612. I bet there would have been days you would have loved some of that ice.
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  2613. Pick the right channels on YouTube and you can learn much. 👍
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  2614.  @chrisebert7307  he often goes into the details in more depth whereas the History Guy often gives the larger picture. Both very interesting in there own way
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  2615.  Dave Ad  She's a good runner.
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  2616. Can't argue with that.
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  2617. History, as in life, nothing is as simple as it seem.
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  2618.  @Mishn0  I was more looking at the connection between the way both ships and trains were similarly armoured. I had not known about the use of cotton bales in New Orleans so thanks for that.
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  2619. The things you can say when you know the boss dare not sack you. On the upside the people can.
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  2620. One of the things often missed about the V1 attacks is that many that did get through overshot London. The Germans needed to make sure they had the range so asked their spies in London to report where they came down. The reports came back that the V1s were landing short of London so the range was extended. What the Germans didn't know was that their spies were now working for the British and the V1s were on target. So by extending the range they overflew much of London and came down to the north west. Mosquito nightfighters also flew these interception mission against night attacks. They were not told what they were intercepting only that the V1s were referred to as divers. Because the AA guns were in London they did not have time to shoot down the V1s so it was decided that the guns needed moving to the coast. They decided to move them all in one night but the problem was this would leave London vulnerable if the Germans mounted a night raid. As it turned out on the night chosen for the move the Luftwaffe did not attack and the guns were all in place by morning.
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  2621. I do remember this incident. One of the things it changed was the Royal Protection group finally got to replace the PPK which, as we see here, was prone to jamming. In the past vehicle number plates were registered locally and a number of the Queens cars were registered in Kingston upon Hull were I live. This is because it could be registered as HRH.
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  2622.  @civis.revixit  Elected judges? Have you seen the mess America is in. That would also put us alongside Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Not a group anyone should want to be part of.
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  2623.  @Baribrotzer  Problem here is that there are now too much information and too many people chasing him. He's run out of road.
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  2624. His priority has to be to put the country ahead of his himself.
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  2625.  @tonyhemingway7980  Well as we saw with the trial he was his own worst enemy
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  2626. Well, we all know how it ended.
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  2627.  @danharold3087  I do know about that one but thanks for the reminder of the landers name. As I say I think the Soviets rushed it when it was not ready but kudos to them for getting it right the second time. One thing that did surprise me at the time with the Lunokhod 0 was how so many commentators had no idea what the Soviets were doing with it. To me it was obvious that they were trying to be the first to get samples back to earth. And the second one proved it.
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  2628. For a religion supposedly based on brotherly love they were very brutal. And if you think this was bad the 30 Years War is still regarded as the most brutal war in Europe in the last 1000 years.
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  2629. I am not sure what my partners feelings towards the rest of the US are be she does have a soft spot for Reese's peanut butter chocolate.
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  2630.  @CtrlAltRetreat  My mother told me about people like you. She said watch out for them. They're really funny.
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  2631. Of course the RNC want to play this all down. Because many of them know they are involved and they are going have to answer some very serious questions.
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  2632. There was a British artist who hired a photographer to take some photographs for her and then she tried claimed copyright over the photographs. The photographer sued her for breach of copyright and won. She failed to get the photographer to sign over the copyright before taking the photographs.
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  2633. In the UK there is the PDSA Dickin Medal which is the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. It is awarded to animals that have displayed "conspicuous gallantry or devotion to duty while serving or associated with any branch of the Armed Forces or Civil Defence Units"
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  2634. Definitely a success story.
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  2635. Over the years I have read many accounts of various raids during WW2 and from what I have learned I would class this one as a success. Yes there were problems but as the say about military plans they do not survive contact with the enemy. And the important thing is they adapted to the situation and carried on. And equally as important lessons were learned for the next time. During WW2 the US armies Rangers were originally trained by the British armies commandos and part of that training was to cross a river using a rope suspended above it. While doing this an NCO throw grenades into the river to simulate being under fire. A US Ranger said they would not use this method as the river they planned to use was full of alligators. How to incentives your troops.
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  2636. Once there you wont want to leave. In fact they insist you stay.
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  2637.  JoyDivision1976  Definitely
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  2638. He's not waving he's drowning.
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  2639. I thought they were minions in sheepskin coats.
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  2640. It turns the aircrafts IFF did not work and the air defence mistook it for an enemy aircraft.
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  2641.  @johngreen-sk4yk  Interesting phraseology. I don't want to worry you but that's the sort of phrasing you get from crazy dictators.
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  2642.  @AdamosDad  To the best of my knowledge Britain is the only country to pay off its debts for WW2.
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  2643.  @FirstMetalHamster  So true
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  2644. Thanks, Neutron Alchemist. My source must have overstated this. I know here was some technology exchanged between the Germans and the Japanese towards the end of the war, regarding jet and nuclear technology, but they all went their own way. For the most part allies in name only.
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  2645. Who would want to be tory party leader after the next election. Short of a major disaster Labour will be set for the next 10 years so the next tory PM is probably not even an MP at the moment.
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  2646.  @everTriumph  I read that it's now so bad that the body double is sending a body double
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  2647. The irony is that Putin wanted to to freeze Europe and Ukraine, with the wests help, is freezing Russia.
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  2648.  @grahamstrouse1165  Not an export version, Graham. As glynnwright1699 say they are from a different era. They were due to be scrapped but it was decided that Ukraine would make better use of them.
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  2649.  @gregs7562  We should send him some flowers, or a wreath do you think.
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  2650. Now you mention it I can see what you mean.
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  2651. The torys should be reminded of the kicking John Major got when he stayed to long.
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  2652.  @johnladuke6475  judging by some of the cookie list he'd either give up or forget what he was there for.
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  2653. Sorry I'm a bit late and there is bad news about your Tiger II
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  2654. Not heard of Mary Edwards Walker but she sounds like someone I would have liked to have met. I find it odd that she had her Medal of Honor was removed because she was a civilian in a combat situation, while a US Navy officer received one for helping rescue people involved in a hotel fire and not in a combat situation. Have you come across Noel Chavasse. He was a surgeon who served in the First World War and one of only three people to have won the Victoria Cross twice and both in the same war. Like Mary he would go out into no-mans-land to help the wounded. He was wounded himself a number of times while rescuing the wounded, the last time fatally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Godfrey_Chavasse Interestingly of the other two who won two Victoria Crosses twice one was Lt. Col. Arthur Martin-Leake, also a doctor. He won his first in the Boer and his second in WW 1. Here's a quiz for you. In the 1920s a British soldier received the Medal of Honor, posthumously. While an American soldier received the Victoria Cross. Also posthumously and also in the 20s. Can you name either of them?
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  2655. I did read somewhere there are plans to name something after Trump. But who want to live next to the Trump Memorial cesspit.
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  2656.  @Dave5843-d9m  very true. Apparently ee even as they were upgrading to the 75mm they had introduced an APDS round for the 6 pounder
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  2657.  Joel Smith  We had something similar with light and narrow gauge railways some years ago. They would advertise a service to be run once a week and then it would be cancelled at last minute. Mostly it was because they just did not have enough traffic to make it worth while running the train. Ironic as most of these are now tourist attractions and run full in the summer time.
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  2658. I would have been surprised if NATO personnel were not in Ukraine. There will, of course, be those guarding their countries embassy but there will be some giving training on any new weapons sent to Ukraine. And there are NATO troops who specialise in winter warfare which would be very useful to Ukraine. Also it looks like the Ukrainians are operating behind Russian lines and there are NATO forces which specialise in performing such tasks.
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  2659. Yes. Covid. That's the reason Europe doesn't want Trump visiting. What other reason could there be.
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  2660. The big giveaway was when the dog tried podcasting
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  2661. Sorry, Sir. The list was the only casualty
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  2662.  @DraftySatyr  True but it could be quite drafty. The most dangerous job in the world at that time was that of the man that had to wash the windows.
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  2663. It's interesting what you remember with the right prompts. And in Sondland's case the right prompt was the word perjury.
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  2664. The early days of motor vehicle travel was no different to those before cars, just a lot faster. I have seen film footage back in the 20's in Britain of one car overtaking another only for it in turn to be overtaken during the process. That's got to be exciting if your in the oncoming car. Travelling on the left goes back to the Romans. Archaeologists excavated a Roman quarry in England and it was noticed that the side of the road leaving the quarry showed more wear then on the side entering the quarry. This could only have been caused by laden carts leaving the quarry, as those entering would be travelling light, and as it on the left side then Romans travelled on the left. Ford's any colour as long as it is black was actually a myth as other colours were available but black was the most used colour. I have a feeling it had something to do with costs as black paint was cheaper. The myth is one which Ford perpetuated themselves as in the 70's they brought out a car which could only be bought in black. As part of its advertising they included the slogan 'any colour as long as it is black', claiming it was used on the original Model T. But they later had to relent and sell them in other colours. Anyway research has shown the the Model T was available in other colours. You may want to look at a man called Percy Shaw who invented the Cat's Eye or Road Stud. I believe you call them Dott's Dots. Percy was in the finest tradition of the English eccentric who smoked cigars in a pipe, well he enjoyed both so why not. I may be wring but I believe a shed was involved.
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  2665. I thought you would have been a shoe in. The electrician who once came in to change her lightbulb got and honour as did the person who once gave her an extra toilet roll.
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  2666. This may be true. But which one would you sooner be in if they faced off with each other.
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  2667. As wooden aircraft go I don't think the Mosquito has anything to worry about.
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  2668. Funny I was thinking about this flight while watching one of your recent video's and I wondered if you would make video of it. The US Admiral's claim to be the first to the North Pole has long been dismissed as false as he could not have reached it in the time he was away.
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  2669. There has been talk of the return of Q-Ships in the fight against modern pirates.
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  2670. I found it interesting that nutritionists say that potatoes are not part of your five portions of fruit and vegetables per day. I think it's to stop us going around to the fish and chip shop and ordering five bags of chips.
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  2671.  @davidhimmelsbach557  If they'd gone for the 107 instead of the Tuhd it makes you wonder what would have followed.
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  2672.  @AudieHolland  It took me awhile to realise them and the Me-109 had their engines the wrong way up.
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  2673. They may be orange but they look like they prefare lemon
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  2674. christosvoskresye You would think so wouldn't you.
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  2675. A free funeral of his choice
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  2676. It's good to hear so much more about these aircraft. I had wondered about how well it would fly so it is interesting to know that despite how it looked it would fly well.
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  2677. I am aware they had rockets on Iwo Jima but as always it is interesting to hear about their history and how they were used. I have read and seen a number of documentaries about the fighting on Iwo Jima. The one thing that has puzzled me was how they decided who got which medals. Medals are supposed to be awarded for those who went above and beyond that call of duty. From what I have read that has to be everyone who served there.
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  2678. Considering that in his previous job landing an aircraft with failures like that would not have been an option I think he did pretty well.
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  2679.  @copferthat  During WW1 artillery batteries went from four guns to six and many of those extra guns came from batteries that had suffered casualties. Partly it was realised that bigger batteries were needed but it was easier to transfer trained soldiers to an existing batteries then take them out if the line to train up the replacements. My grandfather was, as I said, one of Kitchener's Mob. Originally he went to join the Hull Pals but they were looking for men with a certain skill set and he was asked to join the Royal Artillery instead. Like the Hull Pals, his battery was one of two raised locally in Hull and the surrounding area. But later during the war replacements came from other areas. I came across one replacement who came from Bradford. My fathers eldest brother went the other way. During WW2 he started out in the Royal Artillery, he was in the Territorial Army before the war, and was transferred to the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry to bring it back up to full strength after it had been devastated during battle. He later went on to join the Commando's.
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  2680. Mitch McConnell thought he was the leader of the GOP. Turns out the GOP is a three ring circus which is being run by the clowns. The poor befuddled fool is now stuck in a disaster of his own making with no idea how to get out.
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  2681. Interesting that he fires those who say no. The rest of the 'great people' are the ones who are busy stealing from America.
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  2682.  @vaclav_fejt  You know he's going to take that as a challenge, don't you.
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  2683. When the Maine was raised a not long ago it showed signs of there being an undetected fire and it is thought that it was this which caused the explosion.
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  2684. I believe the first use of low level extraction was during the Vietnam War and was used to supply bases, such as Khe Sanh, which were under attack. At Khe Sanh the North Vietnamese were shelling aircraft before they had finished unloading so it was becoming too dangerous to carry on supplying the base. This is when the low level extraction came about.
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  2685.  @darthhamo7568  Without the west Russian today would have been speaking German
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  2686.  @MagnoliaNox  This is so very true. Talent means having a natural ability, but that still means they have to learn all the same skills as everyone else.
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  2687. Intense3295 is correct. People are confused what the word talent means. It means having a natural ability at something, but they have to learn the same skills as you will. So I urge you to carry on with your struggles with USS New Jersey because as your skill level increases so will you confidence. Good luck
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  2688. Looks quite a useful fighter. You have to wonder what it would have been like in combat.
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  2689. For any who study history we know the value of the original material. So we understand what a lose such fires can be. I know that here in the UK great care is taken with regards to the preservation of nitrate film, obviously influenced by incidents like this.
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  2690. You'd think so but I bet he's never even heard about. And if he had he's never read it.
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  2691. Trump should not wear a mask. Gag, yes. Mask no.
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  2692. The light trigger for nightfighters could be as dangerous the the nightfighter as it was the bomber. There are reports from British bomber crews of the nightfighter shooting down a bomber from underneath only to have the bomber crash down on it.
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  2693.  @comentedonakeyboard  Really trips of the tongue that one.
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  2694. Pissing people of does not win your argument
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  2695. The rumour is he walks on water. This means that not only does he not swim but he also gets to dodge the Japanese Long Lance torpedoes.
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  2696. I think it may be broken. When he turned the handle there was no music. And where's the monkey with the tin mug for the money.
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  2697.  @dovidell  Over time it has absorbed many words from around the world. I once got the better of someone trying to show off while we were discussing something. He said 'well the French have a word' for that to which I replied 'just the one?'
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  2698. Can he spell agenda
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  2699.  @robertl6196  Just in case they had to fight them.
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  2700. A five minute guide which take 2 hours and 33 minutes. And the Dry Dock which was supposed to be less the and hour now takes over four hours. I am not complaining about the subject matter but maybe we should have an interlude like they used to have at the Cinema. So we can relieve our bladders and take in nourishment. Failing that anyone know where I can buy a commode. 🤔 Anyway. I really enjoyed this video and I look forward to more of them.
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  2701. Not the first time I have heard it but, yes, it's still funny. And so apt
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  2702. In 1914 German troops came under fire at long range, often up to 1,000 yards. The Germans were convinced that they were coming under fire from machine guns but they were actually being fired on by infantry with the SMLE. Range, accuracy and rapid fire was the big changes from the Boer War. One of the big advantages of the SMLE was that the bolt traveled a much shorter distance then any of its contemporaries which greatly helped with rapid fire.
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  2703.  @tholmes2169  That I agree with you on. Especially Warspite.
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  2704.  @andrewfanner2245  That would have added a whole new problem with air-fuel explosions.
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  2705. Interesting to think of not just the ships but what use was planned for them and how they were used
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  2706. Had to reread that. I thought you'd misspelt cult.
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  2707. Sometime ago I read about a Bf-109 pilot being shot down over Britain during the war. When questioned he insisted that he was shot down by a Spitfire because being such a great pilot in a 109 only a Spitfire could have shot him down. One sleight problem. There was no Spitfire within 200 miles of him. It was a good old Hurricane.
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  2708. Someone did fall off. His nickname was stumpy
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  2709.  @johnhagan8775  resign and make the whole world happy
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  2710. You have to wonder how many Japanese crewed them know them from WW2
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  2711. Not sure how I missed this one. When the Royal Air Force approached North American to build some of Curtiss's aircraft for them North American showed the RAF their ideas for a fighter. The RAF said yes but found it to be underpowered. So they took out the Alison engine and but in the Merlin in its place. So the aircraft went from being the A-36 to the P-51. And we all know what happened next.
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  2712. Most people want to increase tax because they can see the cuts have had on the NHS
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  2713.  @cat7688  That's how it often is
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  2714.  mark bushnell  Israel did have some Spitfires so they could have reenacted the Battle of Britain
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  2715.  @Leon_der_Luftschiffer  Really. One of the things most noted about the Merlin is the sound. Stil. Each to their own
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  2716.  @Lucas-vn5hz  I am British not American. We celebrated Chrstmas long before America existed. I know Muslims and they do not hate Christmas, they just don't celebrate it. And leftist do celebrate Christmas, at least here they do.
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  2717. I had read about the fire on USS Forrestal some time ago so it has been interesting to hear you talk about WW2 fire control by the USN. One of the things that surprised me was that one of the pilots died in his aircraft which caught fire. I wondered why he did not use his ejection seat to get away from the fire. I know it would have meant him going into the sea but he surely had a better chance there in he did in his aircraft.
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  2718. I should remind the torys they did they same thing in the 90s when people wanted rid of John Major and because he hung on the torys we punished even harder at the polls.
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  2719. As always it will be countered by something else.
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  2720.  @PNurmi  Looking at her I would have thought the death and injuries toll would have been much higher. So thankful for that mercy
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  2721. My thoughts as well.
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  2722. I read an autobiography of one of the pilots who flew the 163. He related a story of an incident when he was coming in to land but because he had lost so much height he ended up flying between the large tanks where the fuels for these aircraft was stored. He said that just before he flew between the tanks he closed his eyes and hoped for the best. A few seconds later, and without hitting any of the tanks, he opened his eyes and made a landing. After the war the British worked on the engines used in the 163 because they wanted to put it in an aircraft which could be used in West Germany and needed to get to altitude fast i case of a Soviet attack. The idea was the rocket engine would get the aircraft up to altitude where the normal jet engines would take over. They resolved the explosive issue of mixing the fuel by passing it through a mesh coated with silver.
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  2723.  @mnxs  thanks. I meant to write not just the windows.
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  2724.  @trollmcclure1884  They have plenty of trees. Maybe we'll see a return to the good old trust trebuchet.
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  2725. I think I could have done about 1 in 4 at a pinch.
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  2726. You have to be seriously impressed.
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  2727. You mean he's not a deep thinking genius.😕 I think we are all surprised at that.😮
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  2728. One idea that was going around was that the use of an electric razor could set up interference which would jam the signal to the bomb. When I first read about this I did get a vision of a ship's crew going to action stations where half manned the AAA guns and the other half manned the razors. This could, of course, have been one of those things the Allies did to hide the fact that a jammer was being used. Or one of those things someone said to pull his shipmates legs. Or a cunning ploy to sell more razors.
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  2729. Well definatelly deluded.
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  2730. When he was in the KGB he worked with the NAZIs in post war Germany.
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  2731. Made the Airfix kit when I was a kid then when I grew up I had the great pleasure of seeing one, this one, in real life. Much bigger than I imagined it to be.
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  2732. You do realise they are Kadyrov's hareem. His Lady's of Pleasure.
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  2733. Not what you'd call a luck class. At least not when it involved aircraft and torpedoes.
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  2734. Your little friend is very loud
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  2735. Lauren Boebert fighting for her own honor. Isn't that the classic definition of a lost cause. Even Tom Cruise said that Mission was Impossible
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  2736. Obviously geography is not your strong point. Otherwise you would know that Dogger Bank was in the North Sea off the Yorkshire coast and not in the English Channel.
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  2737. Iskandartaib, thanks for your thoughts. Interestingly the RAF saw its potential which is why they brought in Rolls Royce to look at adding the Merlin. Okay, I was being somewhat provocative here. But if you mention the P51 you think of the high altitude escort, to tend not to think of the journey it went on to get there. How many saw the early P51 and thought here, potentially, is a war winning aircraft.
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  2738. The amount of detail the BBC and the writers went to for this character is fantastic. The Home Guard Disbanded on the 31 December 1945 but became inactive 3 December 1944. Ironically the German equivalent, the Volksgrenadier, became active in the autumn of 1944. When the Home Guard was made active 14 May 1940 many of the men were WW1 veterans and as such may have had the most combat experience of any British unit. One of the things not depicted in the show was the fact that many WW1 veterans suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and found it very difficult when out on patrol. Despite the newspaper headlines Britain did not issue a formal declaration of war in 1914. I believe the Foreign Office Minister told the press that Britain was at war but there was no formal announcement. Interestingly Private Godfrey who was played by Arnold Ridley was depicted as a WW1 conscientious object whereas the actor suffered so many wounds in combat during WW1, including the Somme, he was discharged on health grounds. He did serve in the Home Guard at Caterham.
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  2739. Apparently former members of the Japanese Self Defence Force are going to fight for Ukraine. Old scores being settled, possibly.
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  2740. Actually Russian anti tank rifles could penetrate the side armour of many German tanks, including the Panther, which is why the side armour plates were added.
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  2741.  E Clouston  Well how would we know if they didn't tell us. 😮
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  2742.  @jimtaylor294  Trebuchet's sister ship
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  2743.  @colormedubious4747  Third in the Trebuchet class
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  2744. Deja View. That feeling you've watched this before
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  2745. The French came up with an idea during WW1 of having an armoured car with an aircraft engine and a propeller mounted at the rear of the car. The idea was to use the propeller to push the car along over the battlefield. It was not, as will have guessed, a huge success. Having said that America did power their M3 Lee/Grant tanks and the M4 Sherman using aircraft engines. Not to mention the M3 and M5 Stuart tanks. Just not with a propeller.
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  2746. When we look at warships our eye is always drawn to the battleships and aircraft carriers. But if you are looking for action then look to the smaller warships as they will often see more fighting then any other ship.
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  2747. Here's a thought. How about Harris with Obama as VP
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  2748. I am with you here. You do the same to a dog you will be prosecuted for cruelty.
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  2749. Same old weasley from this government
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  2750. Thatcher's time in office was one of boom followed by bust
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  2751. Part of the problem was that the prosecutor was somewhat out of his depth in this trial. He tried to depict Henriette Caillaux as not holding the right values for someone in her position such as spending her afternoons being involved in charity work instead of being at home running the household. The problem was that this was perfectly normal for someone of her class. And even the prosecutors own wife was involved in charity work in the afternoon.
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  2752. You weird person you 😊👍
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  2753. The way they are always running they think they are track stars now.
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  2754.  @jameswilliams3241  The problem for Putin is that they are also realising Russia is not the threat it once was.
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  2755. Too much Bovington! We really don't need that sort of negativity in our lives.
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  2756. @88Gibson LesPaul You know when you've graduated when you successfully sue Trump and get your money back.
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  2757.  @vitabricksnailslime8273  Me too. You probably know this already but Stalin was also training for the priesthood. Imagine what he would have done to the birds and the animals
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  2758. The problem faced by the Duplex Drive Shermans was they were drifting to far down the coast and the sea was rougher then anticipated. So when they turned to move towards the beach the water started coming over the side flooding the tanks. Ironically if they had been given some training about this, or even had a sailor with them, they would have reached the beach. Even if they had been further down the coast then planned. There was another British unit which had been on all of the beaches sometime before the invasion. There was a unit called the Combined Operations Pilotage Party. Their job was to survey all of the beaches to see which was the best for landing tanks. et cetera. And they had to do so without leaving any trace of them having been there. They had another role on D-Day in that they had to sit in kayaks just off the beaches and use lights to guide the landing crafts in to the beach area. It was dangerous work and a number killed when run over by some of the landing craft.
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  2759.  @dragonsword7370  Thanks. I am subscribed the the Tank Museum but sometimes I miss one. 👍😊 It's interesting how many of use follow the same YouTube channels. Good taste obviously
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  2760.  @astrayadventurer4450  You could only shoot torpedo boats with it. 😄
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  2761.  @TJH1  Yet it was the Germans who ran away.
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  2762. I remember watching a Vulcan coming in to do circuit and bumps as the airfield. I must have been a couple of hundred yards from the runway but everytime they put the power on to get back in the air you could feel your entire body vibrate. There was a joke in the early days of its service about the Vulcan taking on Russian fighters by having a gun in the nose of the aircraft. Apparently at its service ceiling with that wing it meant it could out turn Russian Migs.
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  2763. My thoughts exactly
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  2764. It is somewhat ironic that the US ended up buying Soviet technology, the Yakovlev Yak-141, so they could make the F-35 The US and UK should have gotten together on this. Hawker Siddeley and British Aerospace had put forward plans for a supersonic VSTOL and STOVL aircraft which could have been excellent for the job but the finance was not there. Whereas the two countries working together could have shared the cost.
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  2765.  @ogedaykhan9909  Your very welcome. It's only recently I got a fuller story on the T-14 myself. And that was through putting various bits of information myself.
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  2766. I think something similar was available much earlier.
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  2767.  @markfryer9880  I have read of a few. One man ended driving around the English countryside and almost ended up crashing onto railway line, To be fair though it was a smart device just that the drive was not.
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  2768. So how come you've not shown your boss The History Guys videos. People can be very understanding. Having said that there will be no chance to mention you went the wrong way.
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  2769. I watched the Highball video and you have got to wonder the effect it would have had on an enemy warship. Not only could the Mosquito come in fast, 365 MPH was given for the first film clip, but trying to shoot at a fast moving aircraft when you can see that bomb coming your way would need nerves of steal.
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  2770. This Russian ship plus one other tried to sail down the Irish Sea recently. A Royal Navy ship locked them both up with missiles so the both decided on a different route. Having tried, and failed, shoot down a Royal Air force aircraft the Russian navy decided to to risk it as they know the Royal Navy's equipment is better.
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  2771.  @CarlWheatley-wi2cl  You think that and your fooling yourself and no one else
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  2772.  @alloallo1977  You Russian trolls are so well informed 🤪
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  2773. Well he's sorted out a nice little earner for his wife with his India deal.
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  2774.  @knightowl3577  I've seen some of their guard towers on Hadrian's Wall and they used those items. They also had fire at night time.
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  2775. Johnson admires Trump. A bigoted racist who does not tell the truth. And Trump. What can they have in common.
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  2776. I some years ago remember reading Michael Howard's book on the Franco Prussian War and I was stuck by the utter mess the French had gotten themselves into with their mobilisation. Despite the fact that they were at war it was decided that civilians could travel be train as normal which meant the military had work their way around the civilians. Soldiers had to make their own way to their units, often finding that the regiment was no longer where they thought it was. They would then set off to the regiments next known location. Many men never did reach their regiments and ended up in ad hoc units cobbled together from whoever was on hand. The French cavalry attacks you mentioned were a complete disaster as the Germans were inside the buildings while the French were out on the roads. Result was that many of the French were simply shot off their horses. And both sides were using rifles so this added to the folly of sending cavalry into urban areas. You would think that soldiers would learn lessons from all this, but no. There was a cavalry charge against a unit of artillery. I forget the details but I think it was Prussians cavalry and French artillery. The charge was over 800 yards and as far as the Prussians were concerned it was successful as they took the guns. Proof, said many cavalrymen, that cavalry still had a place on the battlefield. Details omitted were that though the cavalry had to attack the guns which were 800 yards away, 400 of those yards were in dead ground. In other words they were only under fire for the last 400 yards. And the other detail missed was that half the cavalry died in the attack. You have to think that if not for the dead ground the rest of the regiment would have suffered the same fate.
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  2777. Yes you would. Probably with a shot of whisky
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  2778.  Mycel  Do not be too hard on Carl. Not everyone understands or appreciates the joys of being a hard core coffee drinker.
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  2779.  @dbmail545  Pratchett does mention in an earlier book the it was fashionable to be much thinner at various times. May have been in The Colour of Magic
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  2780. They shot two helicopters and two jets down in one day. Same they were Russian but you can't have everythng.
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  2781. Next you'll be telling me all good stories include pirates 🚣‍♀️(trainee pirate)
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  2782.  @540Baseball  Ron. Calm down. Your getting confused with female sheep. Drink your tea and you'll be fine.
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  2783. DeSantis has too much baggage and he's adding to it with his book banning and attacks on Disney.
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  2784. I forgot to mention that there was talk, not sure if it was French or British, of a tunnel being dug under the English Channel for the French to invade Britain. Considering how long the real one took to dig you have to conclude that the war would have been over long before the tunnel was completed.
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  2785. You have to wonder what would have happened if Poland had been more evenly match with Germany. The war could well have been over by Christmas. And not in German's favour.
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  2786. I did read that when the US was looking to build their own ground attack aircraft they had two ideas put forward. One became the A-10 Thunderbolt II and went into service with the USAF. The other one was photographed by a Soviet spy satellite and this was used as the basis for the Su-25. For some reason the Soviets never saw the A-10 but they did see the one the went on to build as the Su-25. It has been suggested that this may have been deliberate on the US side to throw them off the scent of the A-10. Another Soviet aircraft which originated in the US was the Antonov An72. The one with the engines above the wings. Again it looks like the Soviet spy satellites photographed the prototype US aircraft but in this case the USAF did not go ahead with theirs.
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  2787. Not exactly forgotten considering there have been a number of documentaries have been made about this incident. In fact The History Guy did a video recently about the incident with regards to finding the bodies of those missing officers. Many of those who drown did so because they had put their life preservers on around their wastes instead of around their chests. This resulted in them being forced upside down by their life preservers when they were in the water and caused them to drown. A simple bit of advice with regards to how to use the life preserver could have saved many lives.
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  2788. I'd love to see Braverman gets the job. If only to see the humiliation as she fails badly.
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  2789. First
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  2790. Judging by some of the videos I've seen I'd say very much so. Some of the tracks left in the mud it looks like they are some 12 to 18 inches deep, 30 to 45 cm. It does look like quite a few trucks and APCs bottomed out in it. One thing I do find odd is this has caught the Russians out as this is well known to them. Remember all the film footage from WW2 of the Germans trying to move through it. The only thing I can think of is this was not part of the decision to invade. So now they are paying for it. Hope that helps
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  2791. Sleeps for the weak and uneducated. Now put the coffee on and enjoy the video.😊
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  2792.  @OldDeadMan  Always was. And it seems for some times are getting very interesting.
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  2793.  @notreallydavid  No problem. I tend to just write my thoughts down and then edit them afterwards. But sometimes I miss something. And thanks P.S. I just noticed I had written after instead of afterward. So I changed it before I get another correction.👍
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  2794. We all know you are going to look at it the same way as the rest of us. A knife in one hand, a fork in the other and trying not to drool. 🤤🍴
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  2795. BippityboppityBOO Spices? Not sure Canada is noted for its spices. India and the Far East yes, but I am sure not about Canada. Still, if that's what you want to trade. It's just that you are going to have to paddle your canoe really fast between India and Canada.
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  2796.  @deadfreightwest5956  Always better then the other way round 👍😄😄😄
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  2797. The trawlers in the incident came from the city of Kingston upon Hull. The Hull Docks Museum actually has a damaged piece of one of the trawler which was hit by the Russians. The Russians apparently mistook them for Japanese torpedo boats.
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  2798. Luis Aldamiz Many of Japans warships at this time were built in British shipyards. So it could have been possible for the Japanese to have been out in the North Sea if they had been there to pick up a new batch of torpedo boats. But for them to do so it would mean the British would have allowed the Japanese to leave port, something which would have been highly unlikely. The quality of the Russian ships was very bad, as was the seamanship of the Russian sailors. And having to sail around the world, the Russians were not allowed to use the British run Suez Canal because of the Dogger Bank incident, meant that the Russian ships were now not fit for battle and the Russian crews were in need of extended R&R. Also the Russian admiral in charge had died during the voyage which was kept from everybody, even senior officers. This meant that the second in command had no idea he was actually now in command. Murphy's Law is if it can go wrong it will go wrong. Sods Law, is it goes wrong in the worst possible way. I think this is a good example of Sods Law.
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  2799. He's a known liar so why should we trust his word
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  2800. I always thought the Halifax did not get the attention it deserved. It was doing much of the heavy lifting before the Lancaster even turned up.
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  2801. Designers. We need to to take the quart known as the Town Class and put it in the pint pot known as the Crown Colony Class. Should be easy enough.
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  2802. At the moment we have the sunshine but the wind does have an arctic touch to it still. So still somewhat appropriate.
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  2803. He now thinks he is that higher power. The chosen one.
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  2804. Was that the first time they used them or when the Japanese used them in WW2
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  2805. Sounds about right for Hollywood, rpl palacio. These are the same people who though John Wayne could be a Mongol warrior. I mean there is only some ten inches difference in height. And the fact he looks European. But who noticed.
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  2806. R Mack That is so true. I has taken some people a long time to learn that. Did you see in the news about the young black man from Mali who scaled the 18 floors of the outside of a building in France to rescue a young child. He was not supposed to be in France but they have acknowledge his bravery by giving him French citizenship and offered him a job as a fireman. French firemen are held in very high regard so you can imagine how big an honour this is. And today he has met the French President who gave him an award for bravery. Even the French Right, who are very much against immigrant, have had to acknowledge his bravery. In France he is a hero and no one questioned his race or ethnicity. Lesson learned. As for little people. My partner told me about her late grandfather who got into a fight with a little guy. Now her grandfather was quite good a fighting but that was no help here as he did the old "waking up with a crowd around you." He said it was the worst fight he had ever had and would avoid small men in the future.
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  2807. Was it ever thus. Call him centurion instead of sergeant and what's changed. We have mentioned that brave soldiers do not have to be tall. I remember reading about a British soldier in the trenches in WW1 who was what was referred to as a bantam soldier because of his height. Slightest mention of Germans attacking the British front line and he was off like a ferret up a drainpipe. I remember thinking if we had a division like him they would have been in Berlin in three days.
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  2808. Some memorials to the fallen of WW1 are both simpler and more local. The Pals Battalions would be raised locally. It may have been men from the same factory, or local sports team or even people from the same street. I grew up in a Street called Ella Street just off Newland Avenue. Four streets away is a street called Sharp Street. On the wall at the end of Sharp Street is a plaque dedicated to all those who died during WW1 who came from that street. This is one of a number of such plaques around the city. Some are now lost, ironically destroyed during air raids during WW2. Others have been removed and now reside in the Hull Street Life Museum. The Royal Mail has an office not five minutes from where I live and it has two plaques dedicated to postmen who died during WW1. When I have had occasion to visit the office I have taken time to red the names on the plaque. The plaque in Sharp Street is still there and I understand one or two others are still in our near their original position. Where I have found them I have taken the time to read the names. And like anyone interested in history I have wondered what happened to them. A more recent addition to the street plaques is in the railway station. In 2014 a number of plaques was put on display carrying the names of all those passed through the station but did not return. Over the years I have taken time to read their names as well. Just seems fitting that for even a brief moment someone thinks of them. For all those who think that people in prison should do something fitting with their time. These plaques were made by the inmates of Her Majesty's Prison Hull. I understand that those who worked on the project did so voluntarily.
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  2809. France. Building strange and ridiculous warships, so you don't have to. I would have liked to have seen the four quad turret version. Just to have seen how quickly it could spin on itself when a broadside was fired.
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  2810.  @timmmahhhh  In 1958 the British entertainer Max Bygraves had a hit with the song Tulips From Amsterdam. Unfortunately no pirates were involved, Tiptoe Through the Tulips dates from 1929 but again no pirates.
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  2811. Sailor Malan would later command 56 squadron who's Hurricanes had been shot down. Frank Rose was still at the squadron and there was no love lost with his new commander. Interestingly when Douglas Bader was taken prisoner he claimed he and a German aircraft had collided in midair while flying over France. The problem here is that the Germans said they did not loose any aircraft to midair collision. So was he shot down by the Germans? Adolf Galland went through every report, even those of German pilots killed in the action, to determine Bader's victor. But each case was dismissed It turns out he may have been shot down by a fellow pilot who had mistaken Bader's aircraft for one of the new Messerschmitt Me 109's which looked similar to the Spitfire. RAF combat records indicate Bader may have been shot down by Flight Lieutenant "Buck" Casson of No. 616 Squadron RAF, who claimed a Bf 109 whose tail came off and the pilot baled out, before he himself was shot down and captured.
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  2812. Oh, I think we are well passed making a mistake.
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  2813. Velcro
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  2814. If you want action and excitement go for small boats and ships. I had to chuckle with your remark about listing to port as I was thinking the same thing as you read the list of awards.
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  2815. Timing was not on their side.
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  2816. True RonJohn63 At the end of the day what matters is getting the job done with the minimum causalities to your own side in both men and materials. Sinking a U-Boat or two helps as well. They had a similar problem in WW1 in that Pershing thought he knew better then the French and British, and that got a lot of very brave Americans killed. When the armistice came into effect on 11th November he was still sending in attacks against the Germans, attacks which cost American lives. Many of his senior officers thought he should have been charged with murder for those action.
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  2817. I remember reading that the Roman barbers used to dry shave their customers, so being cut while shaving was a daily occurrence. One Roman said that after visiting his barber he looked like a gladiator fresh from the arena. Something I can sympathise with when I took up shaving with a straight edge razor. When the Roman general Hadrian became emperor he wore a beard, as was the fashion in the army. You can imagine how quickly Roman men followed that fashion.
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  2818. |Well once out of office he will finally get his wall. Well, walls. Four of them
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  2819. i'n trying to work out if that dog was a jockey in a previous life or hopes to be one in the next life.
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  2820. One in four soldiers in the British Army fighting Napoleon were Irish. And I for one am very greatful
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  2821. True. But it was helpful if it was the right bit of ground. Such as not the ground owned by the Swiss, which both Britain and America would occasionally do. Or ground owned by Germany when you are German, as during the Battle of France. Hitting the ground 100%. Hitting the right ground. Not 100%
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  2822. Josh Geiger I thought the same thing.
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  2823. I do wonder if, like Taffy 3, the Japanese fired armour piercing shells rather then HE. If it was HE then you would expect the bow of the submarine to have been blown off. Well at least the Japanese captain did not have to sail backwards which seemed to be a speciality of the US Navy at that time.
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  2824. True, but very accurately missing the target.
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  2825.  @PxThucydides  Even if the idea already existed the fact that the US were using the drones may have given the idea the impetuous Japan needed to go ahead with it.
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  2826.  @nathanieldrake6658  For the pilot. He gets to go home. Definitely a win win situation.
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  2827. In the film Zulu Micheal Caine playing Bromhead states that head never fought in a battle before. This is not true as he had already fought in several previous engagement. Stanley Baker who played Chard owned Chard's Victoria Cross but it was not discovered until after Baker's death that he actually owned the original VC. And Baker's jacket should have been blue and not red as he was in the engineers.
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  2828. Turns out the only one close to tears was Trump
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  2829. Sam Sadowitz I had assumed that was what you were referring to. Problem was the Royal Navy, or anyone else's for that matter, did not fully appreciate the full capabilities of the R Class, so they were never fully developed and we had to wait for more recent times to see their full potential. I have read that the shape of modern submarines is based on that of the airship as it was more streamlined then conventional submarines shape.
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  2830. The US Navy did some research looking into improving the shape of the submarine to make it faster and sleeker. So they looked at the likes of the sharks, dolphins et cetera and discovered the best shape was the penguin. You do get the feeling they would have preferred something like the shark rather then a penguin, just for the look of it if nothing else.
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  2831. You have to wonder how many pilots looked behind themselves, saw the shark mouth and thought "well that looks scary." I have a feeling not as many as looked behind and thought "shit, he's shooting at me."😊
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  2832. so the famous, or infamous, Football War was not about football but was about bananas. Is that better, worse, or just a step sideways.
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  2833. No translation need thanks.👍
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  2834. Definitely history worth remembering. That battle cut short the lives of some very talented soldiers. I remember watching a documentary "Custer's Last Stand Battlefield Detectives" which used archaeology to give clearer understanding of what happened that day on the battlefield. I thought was very interesting. As I have taken part in field walks for archaeology I can appreciate the value this gave to a better understanding of what happened.
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  2835. Love this. Though the forgotten guns videos are great, as are the range firing videos, it's good to see how they would have performed closer how they were meant to be used.
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  2836. So Manchin is a RPTBAD. A Republican Pretending To Be A Democrat.
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  2837.  @Noisy_Cricket  There are other UK missiles systems the US is interested in which they plan to make under license.
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  2838. It's been awhile but I also remember that one. I think South Korea has made a number of films about the war but not many in the west.
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  2839. Interesting about the way Rickenbacker behaved in the life rafts. I read about a ship which sank several years ago in which half the crew went into one raft with the captain while the first officer took the rest of the crew in the other raft. The had a rope tying the two rafts together but not closely. The first officer behaved as Rickenbacker did, keep the men busy with various tasks and keeping their moral up. After several days the first officer decided to check how those in the other raft were fairing so hauled their raft closer to that of the captain. Those in this raft were in a very bad way. The captain had made no attempt to keep up moral or to give the crew activities to help them. The results was several of the men had died and the rest were not much better. They did get rescued and the first officer received praise for the way he performed. Unfortunately I cannot remember the fate of the captain but his actions, or lack of them, were condemned.
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  2840. Let's not forget that this has long been a practice of Russian armed forces. It has not only been tolerated by Russia but expected as a way of causing fear to Russia's enemies. So why should we be surprised when they do it to their own people.
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  2841. I did read that the problem with the USAF not having guns on their fighter jets was due to the Top Brass being ex WW2 bomber crewmen with no understanding about dogfighting. This was also why fighter pilots were allotted such little time for training in dogfighting. And why, despite having an F for fighter designation, the F-105 is nothing more then a glorified high speed bomber. I understand that the late General Robin Olds had a number of run-ins with the Top Brass because they thought the days of the dogfighter were over.
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  2842. “You’re in England and it’s constantly raining” Well on the upside at least we don't have a power outage when it snows.
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  2843. Washed his hands in the flames
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  2844. I thing the word we are looking for with this man is deluded.
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  2845. I have heard of James Clerk Maxwell and I did know of his achievements. But, as always, it is enjoyable to hear your retelling of his life and its accomplishments. You have to wonder how much more he would have achieved if his life span had been longer.
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  2846. Always had a soft spot for the Counties.
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  2847. The old 'keep it simple' idea. Okay in wartime but considering what others were doing then maybe something with a little finesse was required
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  2848.  @vitabricksnailslime8273  Well the Victorians were also against slavery so he would not have been for sale.
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  2849. People keep talking about the Russian winter forgetting that it is also a Ukrainian winter.
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  2850.  @maemorri  Those ideas only work with hindsight.
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  2851.  @michaeldunne338  It's more a case that MacArthur knew of the attack on Pearl Harbor and did nothing. So these aircraft in the Philippines were destroyed on the ground just like those in Hawaii. You would think Pearl Harbor had not happened. And none of the defenses were manned either.
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  2852. So the sooner you start booing the better. Start early enough and he may not turn up
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  2853. I love Simon Evens, just been rewatching some f his stand up on YouTube. Watching this video I was struck by how much he reminds me of Leonard Rossiter.
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  2854. It was bigger then the British Churchill and the Cromwell tanks. Great tank but as big as a house.
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  2855. Only the best pilots flew the Mosquito which meant that every squadron was an elite squadron.
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  2856. The outer engines are in the RAF Hawk
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  2857. I'd seen that as well.
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  2858. There was an incident during the Suez Crisis when a pilot of a Canberra deliberately damaged his own aircraft because he did not agree with what the government was doing. He had made his feeling known but was ordered to fly his aircraft in support of the invasion of Egypt. He was sat in the cockpit on the airfield and in protest he suddenly retracted the undercarriage which resulted in his aircraft crashing to the floor. This nearly had an unfortunate effect as there happened to have been a member of the ground crew stood in the weapons bay at the time and just missed injury. The pilot was court marshalled and, I believe, left the RAF. The RAF had switched to all pilots being officers because they believed officers would be more likely to carry out their orders, especially with the use of nuclear weapons. The problem was officers were more likely to be better educated and have their own opinions.
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  2859. A number of Americans were killed in live fire training before D-Day and this was kept quiet for the same reason.
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  2860. As someone who is a pathological liar why would we expect her to live up to her supposed standards Great example to her kids don't you think
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  2861.  @sylviahutchison5203  Apparently there has been big cuts in these payments, so many will not see that money.
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  2862. Saw this some time ago. Johnson is Trump with a posh accent.
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  2863. Others have done less and been given jail time. Looking at Trump it's hard not to think it is they who were unfairly treated. And if this guy thinks we believe this bull manure when we wont believe Johnson then he is beyond deluded.
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  2864. Are miracles scheduled 👍
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  2865. Definitely one for the list of 'we'd like to have seen that one in service.' One of the things I've wondered about with this sort of configuration is how do you protect the engine as this is the rear of the aircraft is the area most likely to be hit. I think I read in Air Vice Marshal James Edgar 'Johnnie' Johnson's book Full Circle that he mentions that many Italian pilots did not want enclosed cockpits because stunt pilots did not use them. It was a case of if they don't use them I don't use them.
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  2866. I seem to remember a photograph of a C-46 used in Burma. There was a big chunk missing out of the top of the aircraft, about one third of the way from the tail. Apparently a Japanese fighter pilot had rammed to C-46 after he had run out of ammo but the C-46 survived and got back to its base, which is more that can be said for the Japanese pilot.
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  2867. You do have to wonder what would have happened if he had faced the Indian forces. Had he'd won then what next. Obviously his men had thought the same and had decided enough was enough.
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  2868. Let slip that Ukraine is going to target Russia and the Russians have to keep men and equipment out of Ukraine and in Russia.
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  2869. Not the first time this has happened with the cameras seem to remember.
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  2870. The Great Eastern would have been excellent as a supply/troop transporter as she was designed to travel non-stop from Britain to Australia. So as long as you could sort out the escort she would have been a one ship convoy.
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  2871. In voice only.
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  2872.  @Foxttellio  Of, I don't know. Not sure I'd want to go to America for the cricket. And they seem to have totally confused rugby and football. Actually one of the best laughs I've ever had was during an American football game. The kicker for one team came on the field to kick the ball down the field which was caught and returned by a running back on the other team. With only the kicker to beat he all but ignored him. But that was his biggest mistake as the kicker came across and floored him. The running back, from his position on the ground, looked at the kicker in total disbelief. That should not have happened. Of course the running back had never heard of Australia rules football otherwise he'd have played more attention.
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  2873.  @massimo625  40% of Russia's tank loses are their latest T-72s and they only make up some 20% of the tanks being used. And militarily not using your best troops would not be a good idea if your aim is to get a quick victory
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  2874. True. But let's not forget that he was not there alone. Sunak was there with him.
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  2875. Putin is not being badly advised. He is surrounded by people who know that saying no to Putin is not good for your future. The answer about being sued by the banks is simple. Stand up in Parliament and name all the banks and their lawyers. Let the public know who they are and what they are doing. Shame them into backing down.
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  2876.  @sladd78  That was earlier, before the Royal Navy found he north of Iceland. After Bismarck sank HMS Hood the lost contact but the PBY found her again.
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  2877.  @jamesrather7170  I know it used to be that powered ships had to give way to sailing ship. But I cannot see one of the big carriers getting out of the way of a little sailing ship.
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  2878. Interestingly both the Gestapo and the Stasi worked by getting a huge number of ordinary people to inform on each other.
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  2879.  @hshs5756  interesting that John Ford never mention that sort of thing.
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  2880. Argus and Enterprise are both well traveled names
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  2881. And where's Putin's Marshal Zhukov.
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  2882.  @stephenpickering8063  Thanks for reminding me. I had forgotten about that. I remember some years ago there was a documentary about Room 40 which mentioned that. You can just imagine if that was real. The fog clears to find your ship on top of a mountain in Norway. The captain looks round and says' Oh, schitt.' 'Hans.' 'Check that chart again will you.'😀
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  2883. It is hard not to think there is a connection but that has been deigned. Though personally I also think it is based on the F-104.
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  2884. I understand the Russians had a secure phone called Era. This would help them talk to each other without being listened in on. The reason it is not working is because they destroyed the Ukrainian phone masts which they needed for their phones. The latest death of a Russian general was discovered on an expletive laden call between two people from the FSB. Which was not secure. Do they have a WhatsApp group do you think. A US expert has been looking at photographs and footage of the Russian trucks which have flat tyres. From what he has said the problem comes about because the trucks have not been moved for a long time which means that with the heat from the Sun and other weather factors has made the tyres fragile and subject to splitting. He believes these trucks have not been moved for a year.
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  2885.  @JanBruunAndersen  that brought up a smile. The Chinese military have the ability to do just that because it is so corrupt. So both sides will be adding their percentage
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  2886. It will be interesting to see what happens with the aerospike. If ARCA Space Corporation can start using it commercially then as a proven concept others could possibly look to adding it to the SABRE engine. Alternatively one or more of the rocket manufacturers may get involved with aerospike engines, so as not to be left behind.
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  2887.  @Crosshair84  Now ou tell him.😮
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  2888. Was Boebert taking the piss
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  2889. I was going to mention the spelling mistake but I couldn't fault it.
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  2890.  @dhowe5180  His uncle also saw combat
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  2891.  @trooperdgb9722  True, we tend to forget that.
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  2892. When he says he's a stable genius does that mean he's smarter then the other donkeys in the stable. How about someone gets him to say banana. Bananananananana.
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  2893.  @Wallyworld30  I think we are all surprised they didn't do just that.
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  2894.  @Zarcondeegrissom  Not sure how be a threat something you can out walk would be.
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  2895. I do vaguely remember this story but mostly because when there was a television programme about the trial. We had a number of three wheel cars built by a company called Reliant between 1952 with the final production in 2002. It was reasonably cheap to buy and as it had a motorcycle engine cheap to run. It was seen as a motorcycle so insurance, road tax and driving licence were for a motorcycle, again making it cheaper and easier to get in the road. It originally had an aluminium body but over time this was replaced with a fibreglass body. The downside is that it had the two wheels at the back and only one at the front, which meant it had a tendency to roll over if you took a corner too fast. Some have claimed this is a myth but I used to know someone who owned one and he had mentioned it had rolled over on several occasions. And the fibreglass body, though making the car lighter and easier to repair, could be a problem. I personally saw an accident when the driver of a Reliant pulled away from the curb without looking and was struck a glancing by a passing car. Though the other car took minimal damage, mostly scratched paintwork, the Reliant had a piece about a foot long knocked out of it. And I know of another accident were the entire bodywork disintegrated leaving the car with no bodywork at all. The only thing that save to family in the car from serious injury was the fact they were all wearing seat belts. Oddly enough those who drove these three wheeled Reliant cars were, for the most part, devoted to them and were not too happy when production finally ended. It one claim to fame was in an extremely popular British comedy series Only Fools And Horses as the main character drove Reliant Regal Supervan III.
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  2896.  @VersusARCH  Shared honours
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  2897. Take Kyiv? With what? They have an army which cannot fight nor does it want to. A navy which is hiding because it dare not come out in the face of Ukrainian anti ship missile. An airforce which bombs their own troops as often as they bomb the Ukrainians. And their artillery, when it is also not shelling its own troops, is now being targeted by Ukrainian missile batteries. Meanwhile Ukraine is, thanks to NATO, better trained and armed.
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  2898. The explanation of the difference is simple. Whereas you may be happy for a barrister to make your coffee for you, you would not want to be up in court on a serious charge and be represented by a barista.
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  2899. I did know about this aircraft but this fills in much of the missing details. Thanks.
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  2900. For a country that prides itself on its panache it sort of took a nose dive with ship designs around this period. Something which stuck me was the similarity here with the ship token from the game Monopoly, Maybe the next ship to be designed was an aircraft carrier based on the Top Hat. Maybe for the Russian Navy and based on the Russian circular hull design.
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  2901. I did read a few months ago about the British coming up with the idea for special forces prior to WW1 but they did not follow it through. Having said that WW2 saw the SAS, the SBS, Army and Royal Marine commandos along with the paratroopers, as well as other specialist groups. So when we got there we did not mess about. Also many British regiments were elite forces, such as the Highlanders. The Highlanders were one of the few that the German Prussian regiments did not like to face.
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  2902.  @michaelbizon444  I supposed we'd have to do back the the flying apartment to do Art Deco.
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  2903.  @virusguy5611  Yes but it was not his idea to send it to sea. You have to wonder what was in the mind of the person who decided to send it to sea.
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  2904. Firstly they are wind turbines not wind mills. They are used to produce electricity not grind wheat for floor. And the UK is the European leader in producing wind turbines, none of which makes those stupid noises Trump makes and not causing cancer. The UK now produces more electricity through renewables then any other form of generation. Including "clean" coal.
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  2905. One way around that would be to still keep it at the end but include a time stamp to show when it started.
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  2906. Well, I thought, if it's a Pastry War then that's got to be France and Austria fighting over who does the best pastries to serve with their coffee. And lets be frank here. There are no other countries who take pasty as seriously as the French and the Austrians. I was almost there when it turns out the French were fighting the Mexicans and brought on an Austrian just to add to the confusion.
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  2907. One navy pilot who flew the Cutlass got a place with the Blue Angels display team. At the first meeting where he was told he had a place with the team he asked what aircraft they would be flying. On being told it was the Cutlass he promptly resigned, got up and walked out.
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  2908. He'll probably invite Putin to a cheese and wine party.
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  2909. So Hitler invaded France just so he could visit Paris as a tourist. No one tell him he could do that without getting all those people killed.
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  2910. I would not be surprised.
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  2911. Interesting thought but as Iraq had been fighting Iran I am sure they had many experienced pilots. And I am sure the Allied intel would have picked up on it if they did. Plus when they did that stupid stunt of flying their best aircraft to Iran you would expect their best pilots to be flying them.
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  2912. As we know the Mig 25's only purpose was to catch the XB70 Valkyrie. It was a flying brick.
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  2913. As gardeners are want to say a weed is just a flower in the wrong place. Personally I do enjoy seeing the dandelion, as well as the daisy, and who has not done the dandelion clock. But then again I am not someone who is into gardening in a big way so maybe my view is coloured in different hues.
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  2914. We should also note that the US military has had high level talks with their Russian counterparts where I am sure it would have been spelled out by the US the consequences of the use of any nuclear weapons. Remember also that Russia's economy is hurting very badly and they will want any sanctions lifted as quickly as possible. That will not happen if nuclear weapons are used.
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  2915. There are a number of houses which have had their gardens restored. Interesting because it not only includes horticulturists but also historians and archaeologists.
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  2916.  @ChiefAUS  They were originally at Fort Paull on the River Humber. The fort had been there for sometime and I believe the lights were used from before WW1. I actually knew about them before the archaeologist did as I had come across a description about them. They were situated just above the high tide level and could sweep just above and parallel to the rivers surface which meant that no ship coming in could hide. As we are on cannons. Some old ships cannons from the age of sail were recycled as bollards around the old town docks.
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  2917. The average smartphone has way more computing power then they had on the Apollo. Maybe they should have the smartphone fly the next one for Boeing
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  2918.  @craigwall9536  So instead of just trying to enlighten me you decided to be abusive. I suppose you think that makes a big man by doing that but truth is is just make you small and petty
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  2919. Many guard were just shot out of hand. Not that I am complaining.
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  2920. The Mixmaster. Think I've got one of those in the kitchen. Actually I do know about Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster. Looks a handy aircraft for speed and range. But, as always, timing is everything. Pity it did not turn up in1942. Also I think if they lost the turrets and relied on speed like the Mosquito the top speed could mean only German jets could have caught her.
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  2921. I understand that in 2015 the Thai air force held an exercise with the Chinese air force with the Thai's flying the Gripen. Though the Thai's did come out on top, especially with beyond visual range combat, they did have problems withing visual range. So they may have decided that rather then upgrade to a newer Gripen they would take advantage of the F-35.
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  2922. I have long thought that Ukrainian hits in the past on Russian and Wagner barracks were because some Russians had wanted to make a few Roubles or had scores they wanted to settle. If that is correct this hit may be a follow on to what had already happened before.
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  2923. @JZ's Best Friend It's classified.
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  2924. When Apollo 11 was on its way to the Moon the Soviet Union tried to beat them by sending a Lunar lander to get Moon rock samples to bring them back before the US could. It also crash landed on the Moon. History repeating itself.
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  2925.  @AnonNomad  Just a tad.
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  2926. Vodka and potato bread.
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  2927. I know that many Germans joined the French Foreign Legion post WW2, either because they felt Germany had nothing for them or that their past would catch up with them. And that many of them were supposedly from elite units such as the SS, paratroopers and Gross Deutschland, although this has been disputed by a number on sources. Personally I would not be surprised if they did.
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  2928. This is true
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  2929. The very origin of the destroyer was to deal with just such attacks from small boats.
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  2930. Mother Pence won't allow Little Mikie to do that because she hates Trump. And Little Mikie does what Mother tells him.
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  2931. This is one of three history channels I subscribe too. The other two are Drachinifel who covers warships and The History Guy who does some really good videos on forgotten history. Having a great day today as all three posted.
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  2932. Apparently he knows all the best people. So be thankful for that. You would hate it if all those running the government was a group of self serving grifters. And, of course, you have the Republican Party keeping him on the old straight and narrow. So you can all have a Happy Holiday knowing the best people are running America.
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  2933.  @excitedbox5705  They have actually been talking about having seats which will mean you will be almost standing. during takeoff and landing. Sounds fun.
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  2934. I has heard of the USS Carl Vinson but I had not heard of who it was named after. So now I do know. And you have to ask yourself how much different things would have been but for people like him.
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  2935. So at 50 MPH for the Hood. So fast enough for the crew to go water skying.
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  2936.  @georgebizos944  Bullet proof Emus
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  2937. Growlers would be a good addition but I was under the impression that they take time to get the dedicated crews trained up. I know the Russians just treat it as another mission, like flying ground attack or as escort, which is one f the reasons they lost so many aircraft to SAMs
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  2938. True. They've been hit so many times by Ukrainian drones they would sooner shoot down one of their own aircraft then let a drone through. Ironically the drones are still getting through.
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  2939. Sunak should be reminded that we are worse off than when they took over in 2010. So back to square one would be an improvement.
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  2940.  @nickmadigan2824  Home made for preference
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  2941.  @mytech6779  Not sure where you are but in the UK we have back bacon which can be smoked or non smoked. We have belly pork bacon as well which is called streaky bacon. This can also be smoked. Hope that helps.
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  2942. That sounds fine to me.
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  2943. There is some suggestions that some of the Ukrainian teams working inside Russia are in fact Russians who hate Putin. Whether or not this is true it could mean that Russia has even more problems.
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  2944. Looking back at this Russian carrier then what is happening in Ukraine is less of a surprise.
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  2945. I think you'll find it's a WNIP meeting. We're Not In Prison
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  2946.  @crystalquintero8059  As one door closes it opens for someone else
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  2947. So the person who made the least contribution to the actual raid gets the medal. Sounds about right.
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  2948. He can always get a job selling male cow manure. He has his own supply. In fact he's full of it.
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  2949. He was not even an intelligence officer. He was a translator working in East Germany. He had risen to the dizzy heights of lieutenant colonel. And his old boss seemed to think that was as far as he was going.
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  2950. A holloway is a medieval lane which has been worn down below the level of the surrounding land. So if her name has any significance then it is possibly that she was worn down by life. But as with any lane it has a destination.
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  2951. Just shows what a few determined people can achieve. Hat's off to them. And Germany also faced British AA who's guncrews were women. They were not only dealing with the usual bombers and fighters of the Luftwaffe. They also had to deal with the V-1 Doodlebug. So, never upset a woman in charge of an AA gun. You will suffer the consequences
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  2952.  @richardfulcher6203  Remember that Trump projects his worst traits onto others. So when he calls Republicans RINOs he's talking about himself.
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  2953.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  we know of several others from that time which are, unfortunately long gone.
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  2954. Thanks, History Chap. It's interesting how these three men have similar traits as well as connections between them.
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  2955. Just helping dad with the crash testing he did not know he needed.
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  2956. That is nothing compared to what you would hear from the Poles. As to how they would perform, what's the polish for 'Ramming Speed'.
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  2957. He should not wear a mask. A gag yes.
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  2958. It should be but with the conservatives it has never been what's best for the country.
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  2959. Please stop this reporter doing these interviews. She has no idea what she is talking about. Let's not forget she wanted Ukraine to hand over land for peace earlier in the war as if that would have stopped Putin.
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  2960. Thanks Ed. Another aircraft brought out from the mists of time. It would have been interesting to have seen the B-534 as a monoplane with a retractable undercarriage. It would have been rather racy and it does look somewhat like the Hawker Hurricane with a longer nose.
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  2961. Actually no. different system. He just needed a majority of his party members. The rest of us knew what a lying piece of crap he is.
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  2962. There has been the sound of some serious back peddling there. It now turns out they can stay in service. But they are also buying some two seater turboprop aircraft for fighting in places like Afghanistan instead of using the A-10
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  2963. So that would have been 1915 then
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  2964. Firstly, Medvedev an idiot. Putin's little puppet boy. So nothing he says is worth your time. Secondly, Russia has lost 500,000 men in just two years of fighting. If they fight on for another ten years and their loses remain at that level that is going to cost them another 2,500,000 men. 3 million in total. They do not have the population to lose that number of men without it crippling Russia. And Russia is struggling even now with equipment loses. As Forbes pointed out the T-62 is now Russia's main battle tank. So how are they going the replace all that lost equipment.
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  2965. As suicide attacks go that one was definitely a winner. Not only did it destroy the lock gate it took a number of Germans with it.
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  2966. If you think of how much material was involved you could probably wear one better then a thin person.
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  2967. I seem to remember Boris backed Liz. And in his farewell speech Boris mentioned Cincinnatus who having been dictator before returned to power again. Though I have a feeling Boris wants more than the 21 days of Cincinnatus's second dictatorship.
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  2968.  @milanprica7513  I have come across a reference to a German fighter pilot who was shot down and claimed the other aircraft was a Spitfire. Nearest Spitfire squadron to the fight was 200 miles away. You have to wonder about the poor German pilot shot down by a machine gunner on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. Did he also claim it was a Spitfire.
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  2969.  @milanprica7513  The Soviets were less enamored about the Spitfire but they had been sent older models which were passed their best by that time.
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  2970.  @krishnagondhea7428  He originally intended not to go and only changed his mind a week before
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  2971.  @jbepsilon  How to get yourself banned from an entire planet.
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  2972. The only thing we want to hear from this government is they are calling an election
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  2973. I think there is a very good chance Germany would have suffered an economic implosion before the mid forties. Remember their economy was so shaky that after the fall of France many trucks were sold off and the army was told to use horse drawn vehicles. And during Operation Barbarossa parts of the German advance was halted because of fuel shortage. They were so short of money that one of Germany's priorities during an invasion of a country was to get hold of any gold and foreign currency held by the state bank. So Plan Z would never have been completed even without war starting in 1939.
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  2974. I love the 1930s aviation industry. Another day, another aircraft. Or three.
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  2975. When I saw the photograph I thought it was some sort of flying radar for the fleet
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  2976. One rumour was that electric razors could jam the signal from the bombers to the Fritz X. You can just imagine sailors rushing to get their razors as soon as a German bomber was seen. I have wondered if this was started by the British as a piece of propaganda knowing it would get back to the Germans with the aim of causing confusion amongst their scientists. The Allies did introduce jamming countermeasures to the bomb, which didn't include the ships crew rushing off to get shaved. And once they knew what was happening the ships would start extreme maneuvering similar to what would be done against any air attack. Actually radio countermeasures were not new and had been used from early in the war to counter signals used by the Luftwaffe to help guide their bombers.
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  2977.  @RP-dy5mu  whatever is telling you that is wrong. All the signs are there if you look.
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  2978.  @waelfaraj6705  What is there to underestimate. For the fifth time in six months they've made the same mistake.
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  2979.  @ronhall3686  Nice to see him carrying on the family tradition
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  2980. The Devastator was good for its time but as sometime happens its time was quickly gone. You have to wonder, as often in these cases, what would have happened if the US had had more time. Could the Devastator have been upgraded, giving it a better chance in combat. Whilst watching this video with the discussion of its top speed I was thinking of the old Swordfish up against the Bismark. There its slow speed was an advantage as the German AA guns had difficulty with anything that slow.
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  2981. In both world wars many more of the smaller ships were needed, rather then the bigger ships such as battleships, so they received priority, with many of the larger ships either not being built or delayed. So it would make sense to utilise the hulls of the two damaged ships rather then scrap them. Interestingly Jacky Fisher gave the world HMS Dreadnought, the worlds first true battleship. The most powerful ship afloat at that time and making all other big ships obsolete. Yet by the end of the century it was gone. Replaced by the likes of the carrier and the submarine. But of which served in WW1. Ironically HMS Dreadnought is the only battleship credited with sinking a submarine by ramming.
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  2982. I have come across this aircraft before so it is good to get further details about it. When I first saw it I looked at the nose and thought it was designed by Junker as it does have something of the Stuka about it. The German navy seems to have made the same mistakes about its composition that were made by the Kaiser before WW1 in trying to compete against the Royal Navy with surface ships. Back then the submarine was an unknown entity but after WW1 they had a better understanding of how to use them. And it's not like Hitler planned to take on Britain anyway.
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  2983. Thank you for this video. I had heard of Memorial Day, and I assumed it was to remember those who died for others. But I knew little of the detail behind it. So, thanks to you, I now have a much greater understanding of it significance. And I believe your uncle George would be have appreciated what you did to tell everyone of the significance of Memorial Day.
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  2984. The US pays 20% more then any other country on healthcare. Yet can only manage 37th in the world ranking for healthcare. That is one place below Costa Rica and two places above Cuba. You re paying a lot of money for a very poor service. Meanwhile the UK which does have a national health service is ranked at 18.
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  2985.  @stevefowler2112  You have to wonder how many more of these incidents happened.
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  2986. Isn't he noted for the saying 'follow the money' when he was working as a lawyer defending Sextus Roscius on a charge of patricide. The real culprit was Chrysogonus a favourite of the dictator Sulla. Because of Cicero Roscius was acquitted and shortly after that Chrysogonus disappeared.
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  2987.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Though by this time England did not have slavery, some slave owners maintained the freed slaves would go insane. So keeping them as slaves was good for their mental wellbeing. We know this because one Church of England clergyman, who claimed to be against slavery, wrote about it and believed what he had been told. Not sure which was worse. That people would stoop so low as to justify slavery or that others believed such obvious falsehoods. But as Lincoln said, you can fool some of the people all of the time.
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  2988. Thanks for the reminder. I must admit this one had slipped my mind.
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  2989.  @SMarkGee  I think the're safe there. Besides which we just don't have the room if they all decide to come back.
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  2990. I remember all the excitement about the Hitler Diary's and the subsequent court case. A number august people and institutions failing to cover themselves in glory.
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  2991. One of the victims of Covid-19 was a 108 year old woman Hilda Churchill. The oldest person in the UK to die from it. Hild was just seven years old when her entire family caught Spanish Flu. All survived except her one year old sister Beryl. She later married and had four children, 11 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
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  2992. Not the first to suffer such a fate. On the other hand considering how bad the Russian generals have been it would not take much to achieve either in comparison.
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  2993. I have a feeling Benny Hill would not want to be associated with Trump
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  2994. It had been speculated about for sometime. But there was no photographic evidence which could be used to back it up. Until now.
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  2995. I take it we quite like Dr Felton. Well who am I to say otherwise.👍
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  2996. I did read of a German nightfighter pilot who claimed to have shot down 25 Mosquitoes. After the war the British checked these claims and found that in 23 of these claims no Mosquito was even in the area. And of the remaining two there was no evidence he was the one who shot them down. Verifying kills during the Battle of Britain was somewhat easier as the aircraft often crashed in Britain.
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  2997.  @memirandawong  True. And the way things are going Russian oil will stop flowing into Belorussia so he's going to need oil from the west.
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  2998. I think we've all had this problem.
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  2999. And this is before the F-16 sees action.
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  3000.  @mikehall4121  The ultimate fait of so many U-Boats.
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  3001. A number of these and the Panther were built and shipped back to Britain after the war. The were run on the tank testing ground were British tanks were tested and it was found at they struggled to deal with the course, unlike the British tanks. The French used both Panther and Sherman tanks after the war but the Panthers did not last long before being taken out of service.
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  3002. I live just a few minutes walk from his home.
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  3003. During the American Civil War when they came to a river Northern troops learned not urinate or defecate up stream of where they were filling canteens so as not to pollute the drinking water as this would lead to an outbreaks of disease within the army. Southern troops did not have the same restrictions so while someone was filling canteens with water for the troops others could be upriver urinating or defecating into the water, This is why Southern troops were so often ill on campaign and was one of the major reason why losses were so high.
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  3004.  @Hi-vo9ku  I think he is refereeing to a type of bread roll. Popular in Austria I believe.
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  3005. Back in the early 60s the West was shocked to see the first Tupolev TU-22. The supersonic bomber. Turns out the biggest threat was to the crew as of the 311 they built 70 of the crashed. On the up side the air conditioning ran on what was effectively vodka.
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  3006. I am not sure where Elaine studied law but I was distinctly left with the feeling it was not one of the more reputable seats of learning. My abiding image of her was that she seem very confused, especially when her questioning of witnesses was objected to.
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  3007. Doesn't watching Fox count as running the country
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  3008. I thought the Eurofighter was replacing the Tornado for the strike role. The British RAF is doing just that. In fact they have been used for that very role in Syria. So if you are buying new Eurofighters why not just include the strike role as part of its remit.
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  3009. It'll be interesting if the USAF does to Russia what they did to Iran and support the next drone with a couple of F-22s.
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  3010. Up next. How to make an M-4 look like a crossbow.
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  3011.  @NickPoeschek  Thanks. I have built kits in the past but my talent never quite reaches my expectations
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  3012. The state takes less money off people. As Foreign Secretary Liz Truss spent over £4000 on a meal with wine and used our money to pay for it. That's more than many people will spend for food over several months. The restaurant belonged to a tory supporter. And this man is fine with her. Thinks she will make a good Prime Minister.
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  3013. It would be very difficult for the submarine to sneak up on anybody with the support ship following it around.
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  3014. Not to worry. The crab people will get them. Tried to add an emoji but for some reason there is no half human and half crab emoji. You don't think the sea otter people got to them do you.😮
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  3015. With friends like that, who needs a prosecutor.
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  3016. I had wondered what happened to the Fairey Delta as she showed such promise. So it is good to finally find out. Thanks Ed. Of course the best and most famous delta wing aircraft has got to be the Avro Vulcan. It had a phenomenal power to weight ratio which meant that at 60,000 feet it could out turn many fighters aircraft of its day. There was a joke that if it had a gun it could dogfight any Soviet fighter of the 50s or 60s.
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  3017.  @20chocsaday  One of the things with the TSR 2 was that they wanted it all singing and all dancing. Whereas something more realistic, and much less expensive, could well have worked for the role it was to be used for. The plus side is that many lessons learned from the TSR 2 were carried forward with the Tornado.
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  3018. oldmwr100rs As I mention elsewhere we know it was not the speed. The speeding idea seems to have come along later. One of those urban myths. Though Hollywood myth would seem more appropriate considering all the actors who claim to have had premonitions about his death. What I was mentioning here was an historical fact about cars with disc brakes in the UK were carrying a notice on the back of the car to warn others.
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  3019. His threat to go nuclear is an empty one because it relies on others carrying it out and there is no evidence that will happen.
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  3020. I had wondered why the flying wing, or flying wing type, had not become reality yet, so that has helped explain much. Thanks I see the Boeing 737 Max has yet another problem. Debris has been found in the fuel tanks of some aircraft. It will, apparently, take three days to inspect each aircraft because they will need to drain the fuel tanks and dissipate the vapours before the fuel tank can be opened.
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  3021. Warships, military aircraft, tanks and steam locomotives. I knew there was something, somethings, I like about you. 👍
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  3022. They watched The Wizard of Oz but found they could not train the monkey to fly.
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  3023. If America decides to go entirely to wind power it will finally have a use for Trump
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  3024. It's a miracle. Hallelujah
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  3025. Can he use a phone?
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  3026.  @tomdolan9761  This is true. To be fair though everyone was unaware what the Royal Navy was doing. And, of course, there long lead time to building a ship. So when Dreadnought turned up they would have been stuck with the choice of finishing their ship of scrapping it.
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  3027.  @xmeda  And watching you undercarriage fall off.
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  3028. Interestingly there was a cholera epidemic of 1832 which hit New York and also hit the City of York, amongst many other places. It caused 185 deaths in York and a separate burial ground had to be set up to take the extra burials. There is still a monument to the dead there today.
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  3029.  @clonejones7955  👍😀
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  3030. It is somewhat ironic how WW2 advanced some aircraft designs such as jets. while others like this one came to an end. I think we'd all like to have seen it fly. Without the wings collapsing. A couple of insect related aircraft stories for you. There is a story that Dr. Ernst Heinkel, the German aircraft designer, once told Hitler that the it was impossible for the bee to fly, but because as the bee did not know this it could fly. When I first came across this my thoughts were that the fact that the bee flies would suggest the Heikel was wrong. Turns out Heinkel was wrong, yes there's a surpise. High speed video has shown that not only does the bee fly but that it's method of flying is so advanced that we are not likely to replicate it anytime soon. Story number two. And here's one you may be able to make a video on. Post WW2 Britain built a research aircraft using something taken from some flying insects. In the past some insects had four wings but today only have two. A short stub of the original wing is still there and acts as a counterbalance to the remaining wing. So when the remaining wings beats down the wing stubs move up as a counter balance. This helped that insect with stability. So with the idea in mind it was thought that this could help with keeping aircraft stable when they fly. So they tried it out. The aircraft took off and once in the air the test pilot switch them on. Now it has been some time since a read about this so some of it is a bit sketchy. But as I remember it the stabilisers immediately cause great difficulties for the test pilot which left him struggling to fly the aircraft as the stabiliser was causing a lot of vibration. What's more he could not switch the stabiliser off so all he could do was extremely carefully fly the aircraft in a circuit until he could land it. He said it was the most terrifying experience he's ever had in his life. And no it was never flown again.
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  3031. I think he's confused. He probably thinks it's a new pizza place. The Nobel Pizza Prize
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  3032. Actually this was worse than useless. There were three of them built at a cost which would have paid for 250 Stug IIIs.
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  3033.  @SlowhandGreg  I can imagine it is as I have long stopped being surprised by Boris Johnson.
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  3034. UK's Donald Trump.
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  3035. And you didn't think of letting them know. You were obviously to giddy at being that early
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  3036.  @Vractis  I thing the word you're looking for is delusional.
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  3037. Thanks for that, Jack. I'd forgotten about the Confederates fighting in the US Army in the West.
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  3038. Because he failed to do anything about Covid it is destroying his business. I think that is poetic justice.
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  3039. When you look at it this is no different to land based aircraft flying from different airfields to attack the same target.
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  3040. Not sure where you got your info from but I bet they never used TVs nor radar either. Definitely no jets or stealth aircraft.
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  3041. Sometime ago earlier in the invasion the Ukrainians got the wingtip ECM pods off an Su-34 which they passed onto Britain and the US. Information recovered from those pods is being used to jam the Russian ECMs which is why Ukraine is now able to shoot down Russian aircraft.
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  3042. Kewan Ali The three groups the British trust least are journalists, politicians and used car salesman. As a journalist Boris was fired by The Times for lying to it readership. As a politician he was fired by Michael Howard for lying to Michael Howard. So a piece of advice. Don't buy a used car from Boris Johnson.
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  3043. He was already annoyed because the wind was from the wrong direction.
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  3044. Apparently the on last strike the German aircraft arrived to late to attack the bombers, this despite the fact the Germans had radar set up for just such an event. It later transpired that the radar had indeed spotted the bombers and well within time to intercept them. But the operator had delayed sending the warning so as to allow the British attack to succeed. He had decided he had had enough of the Nazis and wanted them to be defeated. And this was his way of helping to ensure that defeat.
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  3045. As one in four Russians were already dying of alcohol abuse before their 60th birthday prior to the invasion of Ukraine this is not news.
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  3046. Your mention of the cost of repairs for the road reminded me of a local turnpike road the repair of which was much complained about. Apparently the most damage caused by any vehicle using the road was actually caused by the cart used to carry the material to repair the road. Of course part of the reason for paying to use a road was to cover the costs of repair. So something of a paradoxical problem. Your mentioning the use of existing Indian roads was also interesting. When I studied archaeology I discovered that many English roads in use today followed property bounders dating back to the Bronze Age. So over two and a half thousand years old. In fact many boundaries for village townships date from prehistoric times. Well, another of your interesting little gems.
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  3047. I was looking at the Wikipedia page for the Mogami which mentions the Battle of Sundra Strait. The Magami sank some four Japanese transports and a minesweeper. One of the transports, the Ryujo Maru, was carrying Lt. Gen. Imamura, who had to jump overboard. He was later rescued by the crew of a small boat and taken ashore. He, unlike the Mogami, survived the war. I think I now see why the Japanese Navy and Army did not get on so well.
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  3048. The Russians did have some problems with admirals dying at inconvenient times. Having lost its Pacific Fleet to the Japanese the Russians sent their Baltic Fleet to replace it. The problem was on the trip out there the admiral in charge died. It was decided for reasons of moral not to tell anyone. The problem was that amongst those they did not tell was the second in command. Who was blissfully unaware that he was now in charge. I am sure you can guess what happened. The Russians lots all eight battleships and over 5000 men while the Japanese post three torpedo boats and 116 men.
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  3049. They did tend to stick to sailing around the coast rather then crossing the Med because if there was a storm you had a better chance of either finding a sheltered harbour or, failing that, running your ships ashore and waiting for the storm to pass. As the Romans were new to being a naval power the did not understand about sticking to the coast and just thought they could sail across the Med like they would march their army across the land. Interestingly when Julius Caesar tried to invade Britain many of his ships were hit by the Autumn Equinox storms which often happen at that time of year. He managed to get enough ships together to get back to Gaul before trying again the following year. He landed at the same spot as the year before, got hit by the equinox storms yet again and then had to evacuate his troops yet again. For someone often fated as a great general he was a slow learner.
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  3050. Facelift, fresh makeup and she out on the town again. It's the Hollywood look.
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  3051.  Weedus  I think the Brithish ship yards could also build them quicker then anyone else
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  3052. I have come across Eugene Bullard's story before so I did know about him. Personal link here. My paternal grandfather served in the 124th Battery Royal Garrison and he fought at the Somme. So not far from Bullard. I think your figure for the number of black pilots is incorrect as I do know of at least one British pilot who was black. He was one of an unknown number of Black personnel who joined the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), the Royal Naval Air Service and, from 1 April 1918, the Royal Air Force. He was Sergeant Robbie Clarke and was accepted to undergo pilot training in England in December 1916 and having completed the course, Robbie qualified on 26 April 1917. in July 1918 he came under attack will flying conducting a photographic mission aboard R.E.8 when they were attacked by five enemy fighters. He was shot through the spine but later recovered. His observer survived unscathed. Interestingly he mentioned before becoming a pilot that he would like to transfer to another squadron to serve alongside a friend. A total of 15,600 Black volunteers joined the British West Indies Regiment, so was his friend in this squadron also like Robbie and came originally from this regiment. And if so did he also become a pilot. The British Army had at least one black officer, Walter Tull. Before the war he had been a professional footballer and with the outbreak of war joined the British Army as an enlisted man before eventually becoming a second lieutenant. Tull served in Italy and he was praised for his "gallantry and coolness" by Major-General Sydney Lawford, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 41st Division. He had led 26 men on a night-raiding party, crossing the fast-flowing rapids of the Piave River into enemy territory and returning them unharmed. He died in France on the 25th March during the First Battle of Bapaume, during the German Spring Offence. Despite the efforts of a number of people, and while under fire, his body was never recovered. He was greatly mourned by his men.
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  3053. I know NATO aircraft practice landings and takeoffs from motorways and such, in fact Sweden use them instead of airfields, but these are much wider and the traffic has been stopped for the occasion. And definitely devoid of buses.
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  3054. Definitely a beautiful piece of art.
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  3055.  @deanstuart8012  The Gillingham in Kent is a soft G. We have entertained their football team on more then one occasion. As for the Stuarts, well there is always part of the family no one likes to talk about, the blacksheep as they are referred to. The rest are fine, nice people who you'd be happy to meet. Just do not stand outside Kingston upon Hull and demand entry. We had a Charles Stuart who did that and it ended badly for him.😊
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  3056. Thanks for that. I had heard about this but I did not know any details.
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  3057. So a ship that was supposed to have a very short carrier ended up lasting into the 21st century. But we all know that happens more often then you would think.
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  3058. I guessed it would be the Japanese because I knew the Japanese navy did the very same thing to their sailors. They were also taught that they should not think for themselves. So when one of their aircraft carriers was hit and caught fire none of sailors did anything to save the ship because there was no one to give them orders.
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  3059. To paraphrase 'he (she) also serves who stands and repairs others.'
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  3060. Last you thing you need is to bring in a JCB
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  3061. Japan's Africa Raid. When Satnavs go wrong.😯 I have read about these raids but they do bear repeating because where their actions in the Pacific or the Far East are better known these Japanese attacks tend to get missed.
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  3062. News from the future. Having an autoloader means when to turret gets penetrated by a Javelin, NLAW or one of the other ATGMs the ammunition, which is not protected, explodes. Being in that separate compartment is not going to help the crew much when all those rounds blow up.
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  3063. The US Army ordered uniforms which were designed to reduce the heat signature of the soldier wearing it. The one problem was that the US Army had ordered the wrong sizes and they would not fit.
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  3064. Karma is having a field day with the Russian army.
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  3065.  @bachelorchownowwithflavor3712  The greater the organisation the less detail seen by those at the top
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  3066.  @mbryson2899  I think he gets a lot of practise judging by the comments.
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  3067.  @Crazed-oi3bs  That's because we're more classy 😄😄
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  3068. Turning their own weapons against them. Classic
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  3069. Ed does have a knack of finding these little gems to present to us.
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  3070. Thatcher's idiot children. That's how I see the tory leaders since John Major.
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  3071. Well the Germans would have been pleased to capture that.
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  3072. A show trial. Just like in the old Soviet Union. Well. what did we expect from Moscow Mitch.
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  3073.  @SatansAnus  We've all seen the video of new Chinese troops crying their eyes out on the bus taking them to the border with India because they fear being killed.
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  3074. Nelson's accent would be interesting. Lady Hamilton, despite how she was portrayed in the film 'That Hamilton Woman,' had a Lancashire accent. So should Nelson have been given a Norfolk accent.
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  3075. Putin says the sanctions are hurting the world more then they are hurting Russia. If that's the case then he'll be happy if those sanctions are increased as, according to his logic, the world will loose even sooner.
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  3076. The Roman scout ships which sailed the Irish Sea looking for raiders were painted blue and had blue sails. This was to camouflage the ships making them less visible to the raiders which would make it easier to track them.
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  3077. Actually saw them live.
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  3078. That has got to be difficult to deal with. On the one hand relieved it was not you and on the other saddened at the deaths.
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  3079. There does seem to be a lot of rumours and even conspiracy theories about this crash. There was one which went on for years that Big Bopper had survived the crash but because there was no rescue attempt until the storm died down he shot himself. In the end Big Bopper's son had to have his body exhumed for an autopsy which proved he died in the crash.
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  3080. Tom C Thanks for that. I remember Telstar, and Mike Berry. Though I have to admit remembering Telstar but nothing by Mike Berry's music. To use a British phrase, not my cup of tea. I do remember him when he replaced Trevor Bannister in Are you being served but only vaguely. He lacked the stand out presence of the other actors.
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  3081. If he gets gets it moved to federal court and he gets elected he can pardon himself. Even if he's in prison. But if it remains in the state court neither he nor anyone else cab pardon him. But he can still be president.
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  3082. Well there was some interesting things here but I already had a good idea what the barber surgeon did. Did you ever wonder haw the barbershop quartet came about. When the barber was carrying out surgery it could get quite noisy, because of the amount of pain involved for the patient and the lack of painkillers not given to the said patient. So the barber would leave out sheet music and musical instruments for his other customers so that their singing and music playing would drown out the patients cries. From this came the barbershop quartet. Though having heard four men dress as barbers from the start of the 20th century singing in close harmony some of use prefare the screams.
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  3083. That is true about the Soviets being in poor shape themselves. Of course Germany was not in a much better shape at this time either. What with the various factions vying for power.
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  3084. Ars they the fast ones or the slow ones. I never remember
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  3085. Your looking good for your age.😄
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  3086.  @karllieck9064  Thanks. I wish the same for you and your family
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  3087.  @empiregeof  Having that sort of imagination my thoughts were that the observer jumps out of the balloons basket just before it goes through the tunnel, runs over the top of the hill and jumps back into the basket just as it emerges from the tunnel. Then pretend nothing happened. 'Tunnel' 'What tunnel?'
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  3088. Someone looked at the flightpath for this aircraft and it started off in Iran, which means it was not carrying Ukrainian POWs and probably was ,as Ukraine claimed, carrying missiles.
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  3089. USS Monitor was state of the art. I must have missed that day.
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  3090. Well someone didn't do his homework. That's and F- for the senator.
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  3091. You can tell when they are getting desperate when they have to bring god into it. You have a feeling that even the devil would not be behind Trump.
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  3092. McConnell wanted to be the senate majority leader because he thought that's were the power lay. You think he may be reassessing that notion.
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  3093. He went out to pick up the pizza
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  3094. As we are enjoying the inclusion of naval aircraft how about a Wednesday Special on Captain Eric Brown. As a test pilot he flew more types and variants of aircraft than any other pilot. And also did 2500 deck landings, again higher then any other pilots. These records will now never be surpassed
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  3095. When you look at the casualty figures it worth remembering that the Russian population has been in decline since WW2 and is now only about 50% bigger than the population of France. So you can imagine what an impact these loses will have. And before the invasion of Ukraine its economy was the same size as that of Italy. What with all the sanctions and the end of the gas and oil exports to Europe Russia's economy will be well below that of Italy.
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  3096. I had the same kit
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  3097. Having read something about these missiles in the past I have wondered why the Enzian, or something like it, was not thought of earlier. Germany had used guided anti ship missiles in 1943, So being able to guide the missile towards a wing box of some 36 USAAF aircraft would have been feasible. The missile could have been wire guided so there was no need for any sophisticated on board guidance system. It would have been launched from a modified 88 mm AA gun base, and as the 88 could be mounted on a tank hull this would have made them mobile. If the guidance system had been separate from the launcher this would mean the launcher could have launched the missile from a concealed then moved before any marauding allied aircraft turned up. The missile exploding within a USAAF bomber formation could have caused havoc. In his book "I Flew for the Fuhrer" the author, Heinz Knoke, mentions that his squadron did drop bombs into USAAF formations and did damage and destroy a number of aircraft this way. So launching a battery of four missiles within a formation could have caused serious disruption. In 1942 Germany decided that as the war was going so well all funding to defence projects with would not come into service within 12 months would be stopped. You have to wonder how much that decision was regretted when they saw British Lancaster bombers carrying navigation radar. Does "not counting your chickens before they're hatched" translate into German? And so we see them scrambling around trying desperately to come up with solutions like this.
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  3098.  @Crashed131963  I had long thought that the turning point for the Japanese was when they decided to attack Pearl Harbour. They definatelly misread America as to the effects of Japans attack on Hawaii would have, as well as the the idea America was about to go to war with Japan. Worse still was the fact that Yamamoto told them but they ignore him.
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  3099. You would have thought by now they'd have done something about all of these Russians smoking near petrol tanks.
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  3100. REgamersplayer. As the Romans said, if you want peace prepare for war. But this must be seen in context. There had been four years of very bloody war and people really did not want to go through that again. Coupled with this was the Great Depression which meant for the most part there was just not the money or the inclination to pay for all the research and new equipment. As for the Germans, I understand where you are coming from on that but the Germans seemed to be in two minds about financing their military. The Heinkel He 111 was used up to the end of the war, but had reached obsolescence in 1940. Many German aircraft used on the Eastern Front were worn out and should have been replaced but were made to carry on because they could not replace them. At the same time they were spending millions on railway guns, some 7 million Reichsmark per gun, but the results were less then impressive. One more thought for you. When you think of Germany in WW2 you may think of the German army in their tanks and armoured personnel carriers. But there was not a single moment of time during WW2 the Germans were not using horses. The British army was the first to be fully mechanised. And who bought their surplus horses? Yes, you've guessed it. The German army.
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  3101. REgamesplayer. I do not think you can lump all commanding officers together with regards their competence or intelligence. Germany had many excellent senior officers but the Luftwaffe was led by Goring who seemed to have little understanding of how best to use his forces or what they were capable of. Hence the failed attempt to resupply the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. But this should not reflect on other Luftwaffe officers. It was Hugh Dowding's brilliantly detailed preparation of Britain's air defences for the German assault which led to Britain's victory in the Battle of Britain. Many fighter pilots knew he cared for them and had their best interests at heart. One of those pilots, or dear fighter boys as he called them, was his own son Derek. If France had not fallen and the Luftwaffe had to fly from Germany then the Defiant may haves had a better career.
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  3102. Clarke should have been çourt martialed for what he did. His stupidity cost the lives of many Allied soldiers
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  3103. Thanks for the reminder. I remembered seeing a photograph of this event and I did wonder why it was not taken further. Just imagine something like the Doolittle Raid but with mid-air refueling.
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  3104. I have heard of the Pirate but it usually came up in the ones that never made it chapter.
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  3105.  @kemarisite  You have to wonder what difference all these men would have made if they had been involved int the invasion.
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  3106.  @auntiepha8343  Both interesting and so true. We so often vote for the lesser of two evils. Fortunately Trump makes that chose so much more easier.
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  3107.  @joeschmalhofer6109  Not sure that is possible even now
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  3108.  @patrick764  Pleased you could make it 👍
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  3109.  @foo219  Well now's your chance to shine.
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  3110. It is interesting how many grow into the job. Unlike the Torys
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  3111. You must be new to British politics otherwise you'd know she's a labour MP. Just like Boris Johnson is a conservative MP
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  3112. That's got to be a big selling point
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  3113.  @billdyke9745  Trouble is the rest has followed.
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  3114. Thinking of all the things the Allies did during the war you don't think it was something we thought up. Save us a lot of time if they sink themselves.
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  3115. Actually we now know that Americas did clash with Russians during the Cold War over North Korea as some of the Migs were flown by Russians. Interesting that the US pilots so often got the better of these encounters. As many Russian pilots were veterans of WW2 it tells you a lot about what they learned and how good, or not, the Germans they had faced were.
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  3116. So the population of Montana
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  3117.  @xgford94  Nope. That would make them way to close.
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  3118.  @skepticalbadger  That's rather confusing. Are they a singing group or is that a reference to they do not bathe very often. Or possibly a mention of the fact they are not noted for being deep thinkers. Or is that all of the above plus several more which cannot be mentioned in polite company.
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  3119.  @nowthenzen  I thought that was the Welsh
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  3120.  @jaxxmadine  It didn't but they count those passing through.
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  3121. No just politics.And they play way dirtier then anyone else.
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  3122. Russian soldier. Sarg. You sure this job is safe. Sergeant. Yes, of course is safe. Russian soldier. Well, okay then. BOOM. Russian soldier. I hate you sarg
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  3123. How would the war have been different if, for one reason or another, Britain and Japan had remained allies before and during WW2
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  3124.  @cvproj  It's all that zen stuff. It still exists but in another reality. 😊
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  3125. My late father left the army just before before all this kicked off. He was a Sergeant Major in the Royal Artillery. In fact we were on the train going back home when it all started. We arrived at my grandmothers only to find two Millinery Police waiting for my father to tell him to get back to his unit. As it was he was back home not long after having never left the country.
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  3126. There is a fish called the Hagfish. If you hold it it produces a very slippery slime. The longer you hold it the more slimier it gets. A bit like Lindsey Graham.
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  3127.  @circleofsorrow4583  Check out the SABRE engines which was developed by, yes you've guessed it, two guys in a shed. Well almost a shed.
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  3128.  @jaykolinsky6020  Putin tried to do to Ukraine what Ukraine did to him. Llike that was going to work
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  3129. Rommel may have caught the British out in North Africa when they thought he would hold his position rather than attack, but they did the same thing to him with Tobruk. He was fooled into thinking the attack was some time off so he went back to Germany, only to have to rush back to North Africa when the attack started. He would misread the Allies again just before D-Day when he thought the Allies would not attack and went home for his wife's birthday, despite the fact that he himself thought that was the best time to attack. Which goes to show how little he knew about the Allies. So for two very important events of the war he was not there.
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  3130. It also starts by people knowing what they are doing.
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  3131. They way the specs kept changing was almost French. I was waiting for a floating hotel with a couple of 4.5 inch guns and some Bofors
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  3132. Tell the truth. What you actually said was Oh great. Drachinifel 👍😊
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  3133. Thanks for the report. The Royal National Lifeboat Institute's vessel is based on the south bank of the Humber River not far from the accident so would have been on the scene very quickly
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  3134. Rozhestvensky did not fire on the British trawlers. That was down to many of hist incompetent captains who would fire on anything. Even when there was nothing there.
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  3135. Conservatives do fiscal responsibility well? Last time inflation was this high was under Thatcher and the last time we had good growth was under Labour. If that is fiscal responsibility then maybe we should look elsewhere.
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  3136. The two Ukrainian pilots have shown that it would take only four months to be ready to fly the F-16 as many of them already have combat experience.
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  3137. Not just you
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  3138. Putin also said he was pushing NATO back. That worked well
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  3139. If you don't learn from history you end up repeating it. And shows that Russia is a very slow learner.
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  3140. Interestingly Churchill's son was to replace Chamberlain's son and Prime Minister in 1940. May I suggest two men for future biographies. One is Captain William Henry Shakespear. Like Burnaby he was a linguist and explorer. He had close friendship with ibn Saud who would later go on to become the king of Saudi Arabia. and like Burnaby was to die in battle. I also wish to put forward Sir Samuel Baker who, like Barnaby, was also an Victorian adventurer who did much to stop the slave trade and was a close friend of General Gordon. In fact Gordon had asked Baker tp go to Khartoum in his stead. Baker turned him down saying that his wife was against it, but you have to see how much history would have been changed if he and not Gordon had been at Khartoum.
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  3141. I suppose now that Trump is not running for a third term he no longer needs Musk's money nor Musk's drug fueled craziness.
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  3142. There is, of course, the Neolithic couple who died some 6,000 years ago and were buried at what is now Mantua, Italy, 25 miles south of Verona. They were buried in each others arms, the original Romeo and Juliet perhaps. They are being described as young at the time of death but I seem to remember that life expectancy was around 32 at this time so that would not be unusual.
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  3143. Sounds like one of those sales offers Get Three Tsarevich Dmitry's for the price of one. Most must have known that none was the true Tsarevich Dmitry but it shows that the obviously had there own agenda. It reminded of year 69 CE when there was a Civil War in Rome between four people who claimed to be the next Emperor after the death of Nero. It is called the Year of Four Emperors and Vespasian became the winner. Of the one hundred plus Roman emperors only a handful were not assassinated. I once suggested that for Roman emperors death by assassination should counts as natural causes. It is a shame about Anastasia. From what I have read she was very bright and vary brave. If she had survived she could have made an excellent contribution to the world. She would certainly have made a better leader then her father.
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  3144. first
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  3145. writerconsidered I understand what you are saying but I was referring more to the fact that no formal declaration of war was made which resulted in open conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries. No T62s, T64s or T72s came charging through the Fulda Gap at any time. For the most part sanity prevailed, though there were points were it came pretty close. And you are so right about it being the last war. Considering the effect it would have had on the planet the unlucky ones would have been the survivors. One thing I did find interesting was the Russian plans for such a war. Apparently they had a defensive line across Poland which would have been occupied by the Poles with the Russians in the rear. The idea was that the Poles would be sacrificed to NATO and then the Russians would counter attack and drive back NATO. It's nice to know who your friends are.
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  3146. Back in the 19th century the French came up with the idea of using fast torpedo boats to attack large fleet, such as that of the Royal Navy. The answer was the Torpedo Boat Destroyer, or destroyer as it became know. So we know that anything can be countered.
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  3147. What is needed is a legal requirement to have all reporting to be fair and balanced. You have someone from the GOP you also need someone from the Democrats and each given equal time.
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  3148. Not sure why I did not mention it at the time but I think one of those floaty logs was discovered by my archaeology tutor.
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  3149. Al Drach'sl pretence at gravitas lost in an instant.😊
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  3150. I understand the barrage balloon joke was used by King George VI, though not sure if he was the first. Amongst those who parachuted into Normandy with the British Paratroopers was the regimental padre. Apparently this was a great moral boost.
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  3151. Only three people won the Victoria Cross twice. Two of them were doctors.
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  3152. Ironically Chinese subs are so noisy that even Vietnamese fishermen knew where they are.
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  3153.  @IvorMektin1701  it wasn't a case of Britain not adapting more a case of different tactics. Over Britain the RAF were intercepting the Luftwaffe at much higher altitudes than the Soviets were. As the P-39 was no good at that hight it was of no use.
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  3154.  @daisyelmir1289  Actually it looks like he was involved in his own little scheme which is now the focus of the law.
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  3155. Nobody talks about? Drachinifel did two full episodes on the subject. And he knows his subject
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  3156.  @5cloudwalker  I must admit that did cross my mind when I first saw the video. But let's not forget he had a number of apartments bombed in Moscow just so he could restart the Chechen war
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  3157. Actually it simulates the sorts of things the Royal Navy used to do when working ashore in support of the British Army. I understand parts of it related to real events. Shame the ended it as it was hugely popular
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  3158. There has got to be many Trumpisters having problems keeping their pants clean
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  3159. I have a feeling they well be sent back very quickly. A big return to sender sticker on him.
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  3160.  @NoName-ds5uq  As I said. Once you've found its niche just stand back and leave them to it. It would have been interesting to have seen the CA-15 in action.
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  3161.  @LucioFercho  Well thanks for that mental image. 😮 If you have any more of them do keep them to yourself wont you. 😨
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  3162. I had come across the Blake but knew little about her. Bit of a game changer
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  3163. Sometime ago I watched a video about an incident which happened in Poland after a huge Warsaw Pact exercise before the collapse of the Soviet Union and is a reference to the shortages in Russia at that time. The incident happened at a Polish railways station when Russian troops were getting ready to go home. A number of Poles started to talk to the Russians giving them things like chewing gum, things the Russians could not get at home. They started taking pictures of each other with the Russian troops, being very comradely. What the Russians were not aware of at the time was that the Poles, who did not suffer the same shortages as the Russians, were in fact mocking the Russians by giving them items they could not get at home but the Poles could. They were in effect saying that your country may be bigger then ours and you thing you are in charge but we are better off then you.
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  3164.  @derchozenvun83  Like it👍😄
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  3165.  @TheUntoldPast  One man was executed for burning coal.
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  3166. That was excellent. I had not realised how short lived the class was.
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  3167. Was the captain called Herman?
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  3168. Quick note about pronouncing British place-names. When pronouncing Woolwich do not use the second W. It should be pronounced Woolich. Though Wulich is closer. For those interested the word wich comes from the Old English wick meaning trading place, in this case wool.
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  3169. I think that's the French your thinking of. :D
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  3170. It does when they are teasing you about them speaking English backwards. :-)
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  3171. As those who are in school are getting Covid-19 I am not sure which scientists they are listening too.
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  3172. These tactics may have worked in WW2 but they are the reason the Russian population is in decline. So Putin's idea is more of the same.
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  3173. From the video I got the impression they were the ones on the top floors.
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  3174. Will he actually resign or will it just be a puppet for Putin.
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  3175. I always thought that claim was wrong headed.
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  3176. Denmark was one of the areas the English originally came from.
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  3177. To be fair the previous government had overcooked the economy in a desperate attempt to win the election. The railways were run into the ground is WW2 and in dire need for money which was not there. The government used Dr Robert Beeching's report as the excuse they needed to make close many lines in a desperate attempt to sort out the mess the economy was in.
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  3178. What ever you do change your signals officer.
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  3179. You have king Trump
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  3180. The old wigs would be bought by the barber who would sell them on, often including the head lice, to his customers. Imagine the well-to-do man man riding in his coach seeing the local tavern landlord walking past wearing the the rich man's old wig.
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  3181.  @simonmorris4226  Thanks for the reminder. An interesting character but you have to take many of his claims with a rather large grain of salt.
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  3182. Sometimes mother knows best.
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  3183.  @georgec4917  You look at something like that and think that should not happen. But if you roll the dice enough times then it will turn up.
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  3184. I have read about this engagement but not to this amount of detail, so thanks for that. I know some of the Churchill's with the Petard Mortar had tried attacking German tanks so it would interesting if any were successful. As it was capable of knocking a hole in a concrete wall some five feet thick it would probably have made quite a mess of most German tanks.
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  3185.  @TheLoxxxton  I think it's the Funnel Web Spider for under the toilet seat. Not a place you want to be bitten.
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  3186.  @kl2894  The people are fine, but it's the wild life you have to watch out for.
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  3187. Yes I also did a double take and wondered what had happened. Having done a one hour plus you went all giddy and tried to repeat this feat. Pity you ran out of steam at the end, need of a boiler refit I think. Having said that another 43 seconds would have given you a double ton. 👍
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  3188. Interesting that the reaction to them now is the same as when the first flew. Something akin to awestruck
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  3189.  @davedarling4316  Thanks Dave. That's an interesting description of what happens.
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  3190. I did know about the K-Wagon but lacked the details you have so kindly provided. So thanks for that. It is somewhat ironic that modern Leopard tank was inspired by tank destroyers such as the US M-10 and M-36. One of the other problems with the German A7V tanks was that it was crewed by men from different branches of the German Army. So the guns were manned by artillerymen, the machine guns by infantrymen, transport operated the engines et cetera. Because of that the prejudices each branch held for the other branches was often brought with them. This made it hard for them to fight as a cohesive unit. And the tank had the ability to fall over on the slightest of inclines. Makes it sound more like something out of Wacky Races. So the Germans thought that the tank was dishonourable. But gassing your enemy was fine. Interesting standards of honour some people had.
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  3191. Maybe that is what was on Trump's shoe when he boarded Air Force One.
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  3192. Better your pleased you no longer use the robot voice anymore.
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  3193. Rather appropriate really
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  3194. I've also noticed a few aircraft from this period where without the markings you'd be hard pushed to tell which navy it flew for.
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  3195. They look like the hull was upside down before they added the superstructure.
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  3196. To paraphrase the Ford motor car myth, You can have any colour submarine you like as long as it's black
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  3197. They did tax cuts before the 1997 election. That did not help them and they lost big time.
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  3198.  @theduck3876 Unlike their navy they are definatelly in the big league when it comes to blowing shit up. 👍😄
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  3199. Looking at the 'pool boy' she probably had her prayers answered
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  3200.  @edwhitson9873  considering how much this war is costing Russia then no he is not smart.
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  3201. Just thinking the same thing.
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  3202. I did read that a wife could legally have her husband declared dead if she had not seen or heard from him for three years and three months. Once that time period was up then she was free to remarry. It was something to do with how long Drake and his crew had been away before returning home. The French have won more wars then they lost.
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  3203. I know of the Bantam Battalions and their reputation for being scrappy fighter. Even the Prussians, usually six foot and over, found them hard to deal with. I have read of one man, I think he was about five foot two, who at the slightest hint there were Germans about would rush off to the trenches hoping for a fight. As for the firing step in the front line trench they got around that by raising it up before use. This did cause some problems for the next battalion to serve there if they were taller with it being to high for safety so the Bantams had to take it down again before they left the front line. One problem here is that they would serve just one day in ten in the front line, so the Bantams had to build it up and bring it down in the same day. For those who are wondering what a battalion is it is the British Armies equivalent to a regiment. So at full strength a battalion was about 1000 men. A regiment would be made up of a number of battalions and was more for administration. One of the Pals Battalions which served in France in WW1 was the 10th Battalion, the East Yorkshire Regiment.
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  3204.  @Drachinifel  sorry I'm late in replaying, just catching up. I have seen both spellings but the shorter one only a couple of times and then connected with some sort of title. So I was curious as to why you were using that version. Anyway thanks for the reply
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  3205. Interesting thought but would it be worth doing. What with the RN being in that area and the RAF could get some Beaufighters doing patrols with their 20 mm cannons and carrying rockets. That would really ruin your day.
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  3206. Another peep behind the hanger doors of aviation history and those might-have-beens. They are now getting their 15 minutes of fame. I would be worth your while taking a look at many of the post war projects, many of which are quite astounding.
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  3207.  John Fallon  The first defeat for the Axis forces was the Battle of Britain. And if you think El Alamein was the only victory the British had you have missed much. It was the British who freed Malaya from the Japanese.
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  3208.  Old Iron  NATO is a two way street and America and always was. When Eisenhower stopped the CIA flying spying missions over the Soviet Union it was the British who took them over to help the CIA. At first using USAF jets and then Canberra reconnaissance aircraft. In fact US and British intelligence gathering has always been close.
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  3209. Whatever the rest of his party may think Sunak will be pleased to be rid of Johnson.
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  3210. It is something of a wonder. Worthy of any aviation bucket list.
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  3211. Not heard of the Black Tom Explosion, though knowing what Germany got up to in WW2 it does not surprise me.
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  3212. I, like you, are one of the few who have also heard of it.
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  3213. Just a tad
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  3214. I knew about Cuckoo. Apparently another Panther was captured by the British in Italy and used against its former owners.
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  3215. What we need now is a story of a German unit using captured Allied equipment fighting an Allied unit fitting with German equipment.
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  3216.  @DarkCriimes  Well, that settles it then.
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  3217. I did know about this incident but as always very enjoyable to hear it recounted again. It just goes to show what superior training can achieve. The F 111 did have a somewhat shaky start to its career with several of them suffering unexplained losses over Viet Nam. But once the problem was discovered and fixed, the tail fin was prone to breaking away I seem to remember, they went on to give excellent service.
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  3218. Interesting that the Fury got 20 mm cannons while the Sabre still used the 50. calibre machineguns. This despite the fact that towards the end on WW2 the USAAF recognising that the machinegun no longer had the stopping power it once had.
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  3219. As they say, what goes around comes around. And this time with a vengeance.
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  3220. I must admit I was surprised that there was a limit as it did not make any sense. I came across it on YouTube, not always the most accurate of sources, with exception of your good self, but as this was originally a television programme I thought more care would have been take with regards to accuracy. Obviously not.
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  3221. the world needs more Yip Harburg's and less Joe McCarthy's. People who bring happiness to the world, not miseries like McCarthy.
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  3222. That's being rather unkind to Mr Giuliani. Surely he must hold that title.
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  3223.  @lloydknighten5071  Maybe there is a sailors afterlife where they are all having a beer together along with the Arizona
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  3224. The down side of in-depth research is is you get too in depth with the research. The downside you ask. Okay. You've got me there.
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  3225. A very stunning looking aircraft. It was a while ago but I seem to remember reading that its method of delivering its nuclear weapon was to fly over the target then once it passed it to do a loop and tossed the bomb over its should just as the aircraft reached the top of the loop. The aircraft would complete the loop before flying off at high speed just as the bomb landed. Just imagine being on the ground at the target and watch the aircraft fly passed, then just as you thought you were safe you watch it do a loop and lob the bomb back your way.
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  3226. The Late Great Planet Earth and The Man Who Saw Tomorrow probably influenced the writers of the British TV comedy Whoops Apocalypses which starred, amongst others, John Cleese.
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  3227. You can just imagine an interview with the dog afterwards in the style of of a boxer after a fight. Dog. Well I lets Ricky lull him into thinking he was the only dog around then when the time was right I leapt in there going for his legs. And I'd like to thank my manager and my trainer for believing in me...
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  3228. So Putin has cut off the flow of money he needs to pay for the war. And he is supposed to be the cunning one.
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  3229. I seem to remember that the F-102 was built before the area rule and the F-106 after. The area rule is a design technique used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic and supersonic speeds. It basically keeps the aircraft's cross section to a minimum. The British Blackburn Buccaneer is an excellent example of the area rule.
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  3230.  @mikeb.5039  Thanks for that, Mike. Interestingly if you look at the English Electric Lightning, a contemporary of the F-102, in plan view you can see the wing is a delta but with a notch cut out of each wing. It even has the ailerons moved to the wingtips where they would be on a delta wing.
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  3231.  @rogerwhittle2078  Just looked at the line drawings of both on Wikipedia and apart from the F-106 having a pinched waste halfway down then it is difficult to tell them apart. And if you were looking out of a cockpit in a dogfight then I think it would be nearly impossible.
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  3232. True. Interesting that the first thing Truss did when she became PM was have Kwarteng sack the man they most needed in the chancellor's office.
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  3233. Trump's waxwork being attacked is nothing new. Many years ago Madam Tussauds in London had the same problem with one of it's waxworks of Adolf Hitler. It tended to be little old ladies many of who had lived through the Blitz.
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  3234. Trump is so childish
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  3235. Saw the logo and clicked on the video. Just as it was about to go to the video I had a brief glance at the ship name. Then had to wait to find out why the ship was named Roller Skate. Next time read first then click.
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  3236.  @silkyz68  I had wonderec
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  3237.  David Parry  I think all sides have done that.
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  3238.  @dks13827  I seem to remember that Smersh actually existed which is why Ian Fleming used the name.
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  3239.  @duradim1  Nesting, probably
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  3240.  @sundhaug92 Sorry your right. For some reason I was thinking the two were rivals for passenger transport rather than military transport. I think it is probably because the 747 was such a success in the passenger role that in my own mind I was thinking that is what it was designed for. It's somewhat ironic that the 747 is now being contracted to transport military supplies.
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  3241.  @pickeljarsforhillary102  Sure that would be a problem for air traffic control
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  3242. Indian is looking to the US for military sales as they have seen just how bad the Russian equipment is.
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  3243. The people of Taiwan may be Chinese in origin but they are now saying the feel more Taiwanese. And having seen what China did to Hong Kong they do not wish to suffer the same fate. China has shown that it cannot be trusted. So why would the Taiwanese want to become part of China. Historically lots of parts of the world belonged to other parts of the world but are now independent. No one is suggesting they return to the countries they were once part of. It is time china did the right and recognise that Taiwan does not want to be part of China and as an independent country.
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  3244.  @paulmazan4909  One Polish pilot was shot and killed by a member of the Home Guard because he thought the pilot was German
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  3245.  @paulmazan4909  I can understand why they did what they did, and if the situation was reversed I am sure many British pilots would have done the same.
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  3246. I always felt sorry for the astronaut who was left in the command module in space. All that way and did not get to the moon. And worst still if anything had happened and the other two astronauts had died on the moon he would have had to make the return journey alone.
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  3247. One man who survived Hiroshima was evacuated to Nagasaki just before it was hit by the second bomb.
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  3248. I do know about the Welkin but it was a fairly brief mention which lacked your details.
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  3249. Firstly I want to say how saddened I am by the loss of the people in this crash and my condolences go to their families, friends and colleagues. Especially on a day where we commemorate those who fought and in many cases gave their lives for their country so that we may have a better future. As I have said elsewhere I do not think this is anything other that a tragic accident. A few slight variation here or there could have made all the difference to a close call and tragedy. And we all know that even the best pilots flying the most advanced aircraft can something get things wrong. And these aircraft are ae some 70 years old. So a tragic error is what happened. Amd nothing else.
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  3250.  @magaareinbredhillbillies  it looks like the present owner may be away for awhile so why not
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  3251. Super Constellation is definatelly one of, if not the, most beautiful aircraft ever built. The problem with pilots back then was that they were the ones in command, something left over from the fact that many were ex-military pilot, and that they would brook no interference from anyone. It took many years, and deaths, before this attitude would change.
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  3252. It's taken him 70 years to work out that no one likes him. Even Melania is voting Biden.
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  3253. They run like diarrhea down their legs
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  3254. Remember when he was unexpectedly rushed to hospital. Well they scanned his foot and it was not a bone spur. It turns out it was his spine
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  3255. As well as Royal Marine and Naval Divisions fighting in France in WW1, many of the railguns were manned by the Royal Navy. The heavy calibre guns used, mostly various marks of the 9.2 inch, were usually supplied by the navy. The guns were later handed over to the British Army when the navy decided being on land this long was just not for them. The army was rather underwhelmed by the navies generosity.
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  3256. You're pure evil and not a scientist. Meanwhile in the real world... When you are in a hole the first thing to do is stop digging, not hire one of the giant excavators.
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  3257. I knew about the Cuban marathon runner and what happened to him. Had a sleep and still came fourth. What's that say about the rest of the field? As for the winner being helped over the line I seem to remember another Olympics in the same era when this happened but this time the runner was disqualified. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder the International Olympic Committee, was inspired by the by a visit by him to the Wenlock Olympian Games in 1890 and was regarded by him as part of the Olympics. It would be interesting to revive some of the original sports. The 'Old Women's Race' with the prize of a pound of tea could be one of the events brought back. But the blindfolded wheelbarrow race has got to be in the next Olympics. I think in this case maybe a time limit for how long each race should be and, possibly no longer then an hour. And, in the circumstances, a prize for everyone who actually gets over the line.
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  3258.  @TEHSTONEDPUMPKIN  Nice to see you too
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  3259. Never tried this, though I have tried something similar, and I would have to say it was certainly filling. I thing the only change I would make would be to leave some of that bacon with it.👍
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  3260. These things did happen on occasion, so the bomber crews just put it down to being unlucky. Interestingly the USAAF did believe these were deliberate rammings but stuck to the story that the Germans were inexperienced pilots, figuring they had enough problems without having to worry about such attacks.
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  3261. So not the famed Football War.
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  3262. I'm getting into the right mood by drinking dark French coffee and eating croissants.
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  3263. We have to remember that the Allied deception plans had a huge effect of Hitler. Thanks to that deception plan many Germans became convinced that the Normandy Landings were a faint and even much later still thought it had been a faint but that because it had been successful the Allies had followed the old maxim of reinforcing success. If it had in fact been a diversion then the Germans may well have been correct in keeping their tanks ready for the real attack. Though getting to the real attack would have proven equally as dangerous.
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  3264. I did read that the casualty rate on U-Boat crews was higher then amongst Japanese kamikaze pilots. At something like 90%.
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  3265. Are they embarrassing McCarthy or is it self inflicted
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  3266. I think that was always the backup plan in case taking over the whole country failed. But as his aim has always been to bring the Russian empire back to life this would only be a temporary measure.
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  3267. Not what you'd call a great selling point.
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  3268. Not sure if I want to know the answer. Somethings are more enjoyable not knowing the answer.
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  3269. Apparently the style you see in The Weeping Woman was influenced by an incident which happened when he was younger. A girl was stuck by lightning and a local doctor carried out an autopsy on her. Having no experience of autopsies he started by cutting her face open to examine her, not the usually practice, and Picasso, along with several others, watched what the doctor did. This is what influenced this style of painting. I knew about Picasso's reputation with women and his objectifying of them. Not a nice person, to put it mildly.
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  3270. Civilians should not be subject to shelling. Not when he has missiles to do that
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  3271. Interesting to hear your thoughts on what would have happened if Britain had not joined WW1. One thing to remember is America was selling arms to both side for most of WW1. But without Britain needing to buy weapons from America the US would not have to money from them sales and Britain would have been in a much better position. As for Jutland. What victor runs away from the battlefield leaving it to there enemy if they had won. The Royal Navy was still there the following day ready to fight again, whereas the Germans had run back to port. As I say, no victor runs away from the battlefield leaving it to there enemy if they had won. The London North Western was big on double cylinders were used on its steam locomotives.
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  3272. What was your first clue 😊👍
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  3273. I was named after Carl Gustaf who was born in 1946, the same year the weapon was designed, and who is now the reigning King of Sweden.
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  3274.  @emergencylowmaneuvering7350  Back then, as you know, such aircraft needed a four man crew. Pilot, copilot, a flight engineer and a navigator. Same as a four engined bomber of that period. And it took all four of them to fly it.
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  3275. Firstly there were no Celts in Britain. That was a romantic notion which has no evidence to support it. The supposed Celtic book of Kells is actually a mixture of Irish and English art. Referred to as Hiberno-Saxon art. The nearest Celts were in what is now Portugal and Spain. Understanding the causes of disease can take some time to grasp. Many deaths during the American Civil War were caused by soldiers drinking river water which was down river from other soldiers who were up river using the same river as a toilet. I seem to remember reading that disease was a major cause of death during this war. The British army had realised the connection sometime before and took greater care to avoid contaminating drinking water.
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  3276. I think we can all see which one's which
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  3277. I forgot to mention HMS Dreadnought. Not only was it the first in a new type of warship it is the biggest ship ever to sink a submarine by ramming. Unlike the Buckley there was no attempt at boarding by the Germans.
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  3278.  LagiNaLangAko23  No. I think that one covered three different vaccines in one go.
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  3279. I wonder what Mr Wells would make of it.
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  3280. Here's a thought for Russia. Give up the thugs life and live in peace with your neighbours. That way they would not need to join NATO.
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  3281. Between Ukraine and Putin it's not a good time to be a Russian military officer.
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  3282. Sort of thing I would have done.
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  3283. A pot of coffee and Drach. Always a good way to start your day.
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  3284. Some countries, especially some small islands, got quite a bit of their revenue from stamps. They did some beautiful stamps, often rectangular in shape
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  3285.  @grahamstrouse1165 True, but they were supplied by Britain. They were due to be decommissioned as the are to be replaced by a newer version, so they were given to Ukraine instead as it was a cheaper option.
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  3286. I am surprised America did not buy the Lewis Gun which was being manufactured in the US by the Savage Arms Company for Britain. The only reason I can think of is the fact that General William Crozier, the chief of the Ordnance Department, was not a great admirer of colonel Isaac Newton Lewis. They had clashed to such an extent Lewis resigned his commision and went to work in Belgium. So America missed out on an excellent LMG because of Crozier.
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  3287. You beat me too it. Though I think that barrels got a long way to go yet. Still falling.
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  3288. I have a feeling this was not what they had in mind.
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  3289.  @Nobody___  Yes, I have this feeling that California may not have been aware of it.😊
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  3290.  @holgerharmuss1207  Just had a thought of them spinning around like a merry-go-round. Unlike British or American paratrooper German paratroopers had no control of their chutes. The basically just hung there beneath them, a very odd setup. Their main aim was to make sure they faced the way they were going to land by twisting their bodies around. So anything which was going to interfere with that was probably to be avoided. Especially as up to 25% could end up injured with a bad landing.
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  3291. I have heard of that but that art teacher classes must have been great fun.
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  3292. Bet that's the first time anyone felt sorry for Bernie Maddoff 😊
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  3293. Do you think they were inhaling some sort of 'Herbal Substance,' when they made this.
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  3294.  @CODRD  Apparently after their reception over LA They went home
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  3295. The Hurricane was libel to water damage. So they thought it would be better to build the Hawker Sea Hurricane instead. This interesting because, as we know, the Japanese did a floatplane version of the Zero with some 327 being made.
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  3296.  @virginiatyree6705  I have heard of people in hospitals dying of Covid but they would not believe they had Covid. They say the truth will set you free. In their case the truth could have saved their lives.
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  3297. Again😄👍
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  3298. We sense a prequel in the offing
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  3299. I had a model of this aircraft when I was a kid. So I have long has a soft spot for the Sea Vixen.
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  3300. From what I understand his style of art was outdated which was why he was not accepted.
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  3301. This aircraft, along with the Italian Caproni Ca.60, make it look like an unaired episode of Dastardly and Muttley. Actually we should remember that though referred to as a triplane the Fokker Dr.1 was, in effect, also a quadplane as the Nighthawk was. This was because it had a wing between the wheels. Both the Fokker Dr.1 and the earlier Sopwith Triplane had big problems with wing loading for the top wing. In 1929 the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) investigations found that the upper wing of the Dr.1 carried a higher lift coefficient than the lower wing. At high speeds it could be 2.55 times as much. So I do wonder if the Nighthawk had the same problem.
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  3302.  @sarjim4381  I know there was a lot of complaints from the airforce in Viet Nam about the number of fixed wing aircraft the army was using and the army had to give many of them up.
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  3303.  @biller2000  One who lost a billion dollars
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  3304. Somethings they did get right. In the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey while on the space station on of the characters is using a tablet.
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  3305. If the Heinkel He 178 had been taken more seriously in 1939 all of this would have been irrelevant. And bombing German would have been even more dangerous then it was.
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  3306. Is it true that Sunak's election theme music is Shirley Bassey's, if there's a wrong way to do it, "Nobody Doe's It Like Me."
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  3307. He'd struggle to find America
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  3308. Russia may have all that oil be the rely on non Russian oil companies to extract it. And with a number of the oil fields shutting down it will take some 20 years to get them running again.
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  3309. The guy on the button uses his fingers to do the countdown. Big hand there for Jimmy Threefingers
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  3310. Comparing it to the torys are we?
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  3311. You Russian trolls aren't fooling anyone. Putin's army is dying in Ukraine by the thousands and their bodies are being left to rot there.
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  3312. Elegant in its simplicity. Australia does have a problem with rabbit so I can see why the gun would be popular.
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  3313. You have to wonder what the Germans thought about having to drag their poor relatives about with them.
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  3314. Surely Vlad the War Criminal would be more appropriate.
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  3315.  @waterstone-w1f  Thanks
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  3316. Well, she may have been small but she was made of sterner stuff then some of her big sisters. I did know about the Laffey but I would like to know why so many aircraft were sent to sink her. It does look like someone got tunnel vision on this one.
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  3317.  @jhfdhgvnbjm75  I think there may be a cue for that trip.
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  3318.  @tachikomakusanagi3744  Alan Griffith had forgotten Newton's third law
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  3319.  @roboticus71  The very one. 👍
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  3320.  @CSSVirginia  Yes. But why he did so is a mystery.
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  3321. Actually I can understand why he did the robo voice as not everyone is that confident about how they will sound. Launching yourself out onto the Internet can be somewhat daunting. But, having heard him I think we can all agree he does come across well. He is authoritative but at the same time does have a sense of humour and, if you like, human. By that I mean there are times when he is just as baffled by something as the rest of us. Anyway, I think we have probably encroached enough on The History Guys channel.
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  3322. I think the Japanese would second that.
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  3323.  @ledichang9708  Interesting idea.
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  3324.  @ennio-cr  Enrico. We seem to have been on the same page here as my posting was also a joke in reply to yours. 👍😊
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  3325. You now see so many dogs doing so many things today, even with modern technology, that you wonder what we would do without them.
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  3326. Let's not forget the Torys refused to accept EU money for food banks.
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  3327. Mike Pence. Asleep on the job.
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  3328.  @arnobenter  Slightly used. One careful owner. Only used to go to church on Sundays
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  3329.  Xgdzd Fhxh  That'll just go right back on there. It happens all the time.
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  3330. Thanks for the video. It does shed an interesting, and different, light on events. I wonder how much this helps explain Paulus fatalism towards the end. A feeling that he had been let down by others.
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  3331. Thanks, Ed. One thing I love about this site is that it fills in the blanks on aircraft I have heard about but would love to know more. Part of the problem with the French was that much of the aircraft earmarked for supporting Dien bien Phu were suddenly taken away for another operation, which meant they were not available for support at Dien bien Phu which was so desperately needed. A case of French muddled thinking. America did not make that mistake with Khe Sanh. The Soviet Su-25 looks very similar to the failed rival to the American A-10. It's thought that a Soviet spy satellite photographed that aircraft but missed the A-10.
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  3332.  @EricIrl  It's been all down hill since Eric Bloodaxe. Eric got something of a bad reputation for other Eric's after him.
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  3333.  @bluemarlin8138  That's probably why they only gave him the one pair.
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  3334. Excellent educational quality
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  3335.  @helenchristman2950  Me too
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  3336. Suetonius is another Roman historian who is unreliable. The Twelve Caesars reads more like a tabloid journalism.
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  3337.  @Blasted2Oblivion  Amber heard and Donald Trump spring to mind.
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  3338. It now seems that the people of the Neolithic were wiped out by the black death as several bodies from that period show signs of infection. Researchers have discovered that people in a village in England who survived the plague in the 17th century had ancestors who survived the 14th century plagued.
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  3339. Sometimes
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  3340.  @estellemelodimitchell8259  The captain was fuming? Of course not. He's British. But I get the feeling one or two Japanese tea houses did feel the brunt of his discontent.
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  3341.  @andreasmartin7942  Seen video shot from inside the bomb bay and it looks full of rust.
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  3342. I did come across some information that prize money can still be paid out by the navy but the number of people who would receive a payment has expanded to include a large number of the naval personnel.
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  3343. It's a pity Anna Eskamani, the woman they were trolling, isn't older. looks like a vacancy for the senate is coming up
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  3344. To paraphrase if you can't stand the fire get out of the battlefield
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  3345. The US Marines involved in D-Day and wore disruptive pattern camouflage uniforms. Unfortunately the pattern used was similar to that worn by the Germans, especially SS units, and no one had told other US units what the marines were wearing. So this led to a number of friendly fire incidents which in turn led to casualties amongst the marines.
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  3346. It's know that the British Royal Air Force was operating a to the south of the Moskva before she was hit. I understand they were flying an aircraft similar to that seen at 3:50 As we know about Russia's bounty on the heads of US and UK troops then Russia can hardly complain if we help the Ukrainians against Russia.
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  3347. Interestingly there was a peace movement which was growing and involved US President Wilson. He was about to announce his involvement in it when the German telegram turned up along with the Germans saying they were going to use unrestricted submarine warfare. There is every likelihood that the peace process would have succeeded as by 1917 Britain and Germany were the only two countries still fighting. Because of the mutinies in the French Army the French would not attack the Germans, though they would defend themselves if attacked. And with the Americans declaring for the peace process the French could no expect help from the US. The US may have even stopped selling arms to both sides. The war would have ground to a halt and peace would have come about in 1918.
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  3348. What's Russia going to do about it. Invade?
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  3349. Actually using fast MTB's and MGB's for clandestine work was not new and had been done during the war by the Royal Navy. They were used to drop off and pick up spies as well has transporting special forces on raids. I know this because my late uncle was one of the special forces used on these raids. They were also involved in getting ball bearings from Sweden during the war as this was the only way of getting passed the Germans.
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  3350.  @Hirohito_iLoveYou  not really because it was being tracked by the west. We had all that radar checking for ICBM launches so it would have been picked up by that. I believe the Soviets had to tell the US about the lander because the US were concerned about the safety of Apollo 11
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  3351.  @danharold3087  ran and crashed
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  3352.  @jacobhamselv  Considering how few true history videos are on YouTube it is bound to attract the attention of those with a genuine interest in history. So now you have been joined by 42K like minded people.👍
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  3353. That sort of special where you exaggerate the word and include air quotes.
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  3354.  @chrisneedham5803  I have a feeling you do not want to put it to the test.😯😊
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  3355. I had come across bits and piece with regards to the AH-56 so it is good to get a fuller picture. I got the feeling that no matter what the AH-56 was not going into production. Too many vested interests to overcome.
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  3356. I watched a documentary where a pilot said that the reason you turned left because it was a natural instinct to push left rather then pull right. This applied to dog fighting as much as aborted carrier landings. The engines torque would also assist in this but that seems to have been a helpful advantage rather then anything else. Interestingly fighter pilots flying in Europe were told that if you had a Messerschmitt Bf 109 on your tail then turning right was better then turning left. The torque on the Bf 109's engine meant it did not react as quickly when turning right as Allied aircraft did.
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  3357. Discretion is the better part of valour. as the saying goes. Besides which Russian general wanted to tell Stalin WW2 has ended and WW3 has just begun.
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  3358.  @Mis73rRand0m  I sometime wonder if we put as much effort into making alcoholic drinks into everything else. At this point may head hurts and I have a drink
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  3359. How about a look at the T-35 if we are looking at behemoths
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  3360.  @Drachinifel  My partner is very fond of a biscuit with nut butter between the two biscuit. I had bought her a box of them and sent her a message letting he know. I had sent the message before realising that instead of nut butter it said but butter. She was highly amused.
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  3361.  @Alex-cw3rz  I think you'll find that this just happens when it's curry night. A ships full of sailors after curry night and it has the same effect as nine 16 inch guns fired in a broadside.
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  3362.  @luisnunes3863  maybe he's the god of rain but didn't know it.
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  3363.  @stamfordly6463  That is entirely possible. As we know Bismarck was fitted with turtle back armoire which was well out of date by then. Which would suggest their skills were lacking
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  3364. The next PM should be the cat. If nothing else he's been there longer that she has.
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  3365. Okay, two stories for you. my sister worked in a bank that got robbed. The robbers were arrested within 20 minutes. The getaway driver used his own car and someone took the number. And someone broke into a house and stole a TV. They caught him in less the 30 minutes because it had been snowing and they followed his tracks in the snow. Now that's old school.
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  3366. That's why it was such a fantastic aircraft. It had to get the two crew, the bombload and all that brass into the air.
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  3367. No mention as to what happened to them
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  3368. And the rum ration. That will confuse the USN as I understand they are dry ships.
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  3369. So barbaric that Rishi's wife almost stop taking money from her investment in Russia.
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  3370. Ironically if you want these NFTs all you need to do is right click then copy and paste.
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  3371. Or you could subscribe and click on the Bell icon and YouTube lets you know when the next gem is ready. 😊
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  3372. I do remember this story though it was good to be reminded of some of the details.
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  3373. They have cut back funding to the armed forces for the last 14 years but now suddenly they can find funding to bring back national service. And let us not forget that it was the armed forces themselves who wanted an end to national service because they considered themselves as professionals. Just give the funding back to the military.
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  3374. I have seen an illustration of a British Fairmile D class MGB with what looks like the turret of an early WW2 tank with a 6 pr gun. This would make it the small boat version of a battlecruiser. America also looked at using the bouncing bomb. I have seen film footage of an American B-25 doing a test drop of a bouncing bomb. I was shown as part of a documentary about the raid on the German dams. Even before the bomb was dropped I could tell it would end badly as it was flying too low and sure enough the bomb bounced back up an took the tail of the B-25 off killing all on board.
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  3375.  @waynesimpson2074  Thanks for setting the record straight👍
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  3376. Whitehead's granddaughter, Agathe Whitehead, married an Austrian navel officer who, during the war, captained a two submarines which sank a number of ships as well as a French armoured cruiser and an Italian submarine. He was Georg von Trapp. Yes, the von Trapp from the Sound of Music.
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  3377.  @Roller_Ghoster  I also prefer land warfare but enjoy naval history. If your into irony here's one for you. My late father was too young for WW2 but had three old brother who did serve. The eldest in the army while the other two were in the merchant navy. To the best of my knowledge the eldest was the only one who was on a ship which was torpedoed and he got to have a nice swim in the Med.
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  3378. I was thinking $20 million for the rubber band and $10 million for the giant forked stick. The problem is trying to find someone with very big hands to hold it.
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  3379. They have IFF just like everyone else. But the Russian air defence is being run by people who have to take their boots off if they want to count higher than ten.
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  3380. The delights you get with time zones and sleep. Just a quick heads up, guys. We change to British Summer Time on the 31 March which means the clocks go forward an hour. Not sure if that effect the postings but I thought I'd let you know.
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  3381. Can we get someone else to do these reports. She does not have a clue what she's talking about.
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  3382. And he would finally get the wall he wants. Four of them.
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  3383.  @michaelrief4424  I agree on the paper tiger. Something I have, like you I should image, realised already. Considering they have just come of exercises you would think they would be better coordinated. But that is definitely not the case. Which makes me think these exercises are just some that has been choreographed to a timetable rather then actual used to hone an army ready for battle. This is probably because the Russian economy is in such a poor state they cannot afford to do the real thing. The other thing is the reliance on conscripts. Which modern army can afford to do that. It takes about two years to take a civilian and turn them into something useful. Waste of money.
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  3384. Sorge's information about the immanent invasion by the Germans, even giving the date, was ignored by Stalin. As was corroborating information by other Soviet spies. Later, when he was captured by the Japanese Stalin had opportunity to exchange Sorge for a Japanese spy but refused. He did so because he did not want Sorge to return and tell the truth about Stalin's failure to act on the warnings of the invasion. This was why the Japanese took so long to execute Sorge Of the several Soviet spies who warned Stalin about the date of the German invasion only one survived and that was by defecting to the west. Garcia actually sent the Germans message that the attack on Normandy was underway which arrived just before the landings took place. But this was part of the deception to convince the Germans that Normandy was itself a deception. After the war Garcia had an unplanned encounter with his former German controller. Garcia feared the German knew he was a spy for the Allies and the the German would kill him. But instead the German was tearful because he thought they had both let down Hitler.
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  3385.  @arachnonixon  I was the same. Now I use one of those hand scanners, so much easier. Plus I rarely have to wait. In fact just once in over a year.
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  3386. So the accused gets to decide what the inquiry should see.
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  3387. Tls papa As you say he may have been just coming on but how many days had he done before then without a break. And just arriving, being late, he would probably been rushing to take over so the man he was replacing and on top of all of that they were in the middle the troop movement. And then they were also short of people because of those who had left to join up.
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  3388. I think my choice would be the M26 and the Panther with the Comet for Britain. Ironic that the two iconic German tanks of WW2 are the Panther and the Tiger. One is the German version of the T34 and the other was a design cobbled together to take on the T34. You have to wonder what would have happened if the Germans had just gone for a simplified version of these two tanks and concentrated on numbers and less on quality. We found them difficult enough. Imagine if the production numbers had been between 20,000 and 30,000.
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  3389. I knew the Cherbourg nut took quite some cracking but it either gets little attention, usually concentrating on what was happening elsewhere, or if it does receive any it is usually lacking in detail. So it is good to get a better understanding of what happened. I understand that American troops had little if any combat experience on landing in Normandy. I would say that was very much not the case by the time Cherbourg had been taken.
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  3390. I remember this being on the news as well as the Turkish crash. The crash of United Airlines Flight 232 DC10 at Sioux City, Iowa, came about when the number two (tail) engine suffered an uncontained fan disk failure in flight, which damaged all three hydraulic systems and rendered the hydraulic flight controls inoperable. Just as with American Airlines Fight 96 the lack of a cable backup system meant that the flight crew had to use the engines to control the aircraft. The crash at Sioux City led to 111 of the 296 people onboard dying. I remember watching a documentary about it which mentioned how the pilot Captain Al Haynes felt about the lose of those people. But watching the documentary my thoughts were 185 people survived because of what he and the flight crew had done.
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  3391.  @murderouskitten2577  but we all know about casement guns and rough seas. Great way tp get your boots wet
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  3392. I am sure there are American place-names which for you will trip of the tongue but we would trip over.
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  3393. I was thinking about all of you people across the pond today. I was looking at a recipe which included Worcestershire sauce. You will be happy to know it is optional.😊
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  3394. Well I had wondered where the name Cadillac had come from and now I know. It's interesting how often people of vision have their detractors yapping at their heels, jealous at their successes and wanting to steal what they could not earn for themselves.
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  3395.  dimapez  y that time they could have bought them from Britain.
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  3396.  @WALTERBROADDUS  They've obviously not told you. Everyday is National Coffee Day ☕☕☕☕☕☕☕
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  3397. Poor Thomas Selfridge. I am sure when he became involved with aviation it was not to be the first person to die in an aviation accident. We sometimes forget how the Wright brothers tried to monopolise aviation which is at odds with the fact that even they had to admit they had relied on other peoples discoveries.
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  3398. That's where I'd seen it before.😊👍
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  3399. Like that would ever happen
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  3400. I should have added that in Ancient Rome they had one day a year where people would visit their relatives in the cemetery and have a picnic which included food for the departed. So the dead could join them. In Medieval England the Church did not have to pay taxes so markets were held in the cemetery so that tax did not have to be paid. Different times different traditions.
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  3401. No
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  3402. There was an episode of the US TV series Dog Fight which covered part of the airbattle which included interviews with some of those who took part. Last time I looked it was available on YouTube.
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  3403.  @Caseytify  the German navy did want to use airdropped mines but as the navy had to rely heavily on the airforce, and Goring was not going to oblige the navy, the pilots were untrained and dropped them without regards to their proper placement. This is what you get when you don't foster cooperation between people.
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  3404.  @Systemscai  that is how it works
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  3405.  @ReelHooking  of course America could. It just needs coordinating at a federal level. Problem is Trump and Bolton took away what was needed
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  3406. Thanks Mark. You are definatelly on a roll, tankwise. As if life in combat is not difficult enough you have to wonder if what you are seeing is actually what you are seeing. I know that the Germans used captured T34s in a raid behind Russian lines. I believe that kept the original marking but added radios, something most Russian tanks did not have at the time. Once they had infiltrated Russian lines they suddenly started attacking Russian units before making a withdrawal. This was not the only time the Germans used Allied equipment in combat with the original markings still on them. There was a B17 which tried to approach a groups of USAAF B17s but was warned off. It turned out the markings for this aircraft were genuine and belonged to a unit which was based in England, but as yet it had not carrying out raids. It is also known that some P51s were also used by the Germans in their original marking. So Americans would think they were friendly until they opened fire.
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  3407. Hey. We'd like to open the border again. No we're not going let the Russia's to use it to invade your country again. We promise. Why are you laughing and shaking you head.
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  3408. A first by Johnson. Pulled out before he he got there.
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  3409. In the UK polio vaccination was introduced in the mid 1950s, and I was born after its launch. I had heard of people catching it and the Iron Lung used to help people breath but by the time I had an understanding of its existence death from polio was something in the past.
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  3410.  @dennisp.2147  Ironically the M113 was in service when the Warsaw Pact thought the T-62 was a new tank. Still out there doing its job, though.
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  3411. As they say. Ignorance is bliss.
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  3412. What?
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  3413. Yet more proof of the total irrelevance the C of E has to the real world.
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  3414. Definitely comes into the unsung hero category.
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  3415.  Kevin Mcneil  well as long as it's not wind turbines
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  3416. Tory MPs didn't want her in the first place. It was 170,000 old men with fantasies to feed.
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  3417. True but his real aim is to help Trump.
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  3418. Told you he was going for the French look. There was a British comedy sometime ago called 'Allo, Allo. A send up of all the French resistance TV shows of the past, though not the real resistance. In it there was some very odd French Accents, including one which was very reminiscent of Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther. Fro a momentI thought I was watching a lost episode.😊
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  3419. Well done. :)
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  3420. Having read about Poe I can only say how unlucky he was. Talk about suffering for your art. I have found peoples various interpretations of his poem The Raven interesting. To me it is not some dark Gothic style story but a love story. He has lost someone dear to him and he is hoping that the raven is a messenger and has come to tell him she has passed onto a better place. I do not know if he was aware of it but one of Americas native people used to believe that ravens were a messenger from the afterlife. As for his drinking. I am reminded of the actor Sterling Hayden who once said during an TV interview he would drink when he was writing. He never understood why but he found he could write better when he did. I do wonder in Poe's case whether writing brought so much emotion out of him it was his way of dealing with it.
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  3421. Most who were sentenced to be burnt at the stake were actually dead before the fire burnt them. They either choked to death from a cord wrapped around their neck which was attached to the stake. Or the wood was built up above their head so they died of smoke inhalation. Either way they were dead before the fire reached them. Mary followed the Spanish Inquisition method of burning people which was to have the would placed much lower down so that the person actually burnt to death.
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  3422. Sorry but I find this all totally unbelievable. The Kaiser had been pushing to build up his armed forces for years. He even told the Austro-Hungarian Empire that if they went to war with Russia Germany would back them. Having pushed for war then lost Wilhelm was looking to move the blame to others to cover for the fact that he had led his country to devastation and defeat. As for the idea that the British had built up stores in Europe there is no evidence for this. In fact Britain declared war on the 4th August while the others declared war on the 1st August. And all the evidence shows that Britain was not rushing to war. And even at that point, despite Germany pushing for war, many hoped it would not come to fighting. This is borne out by the fact that at first no country actually mobilised their armed force. It was not until hot heads in the Russian court pushed the Tzar to mobilise in the belief that they could defeat Germany that the other countries followed them. Otherwise there would have been no war.
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  3423. Think you may have mixed up two different events here. It happens to us ancient ones. U-113 was SM U-113 and surrendered to France 20th November 1918. The first Enigma machine did not appear until 1923. I wonder if you were referring to Sub-Lieutenant David Balme of HMS Bulldog who led a boarding party that removed the Enigma coding machine and various codebooks from U-110. This was May 1941. Sub-Lieutenant, later Lieutenant Commander, David Balme survived to the grand old age of 95 dying in 2016. I agree with you about U-boats being a deathtrap. I did read that they had the highest casualty rate of any branch of service during the war. Higher then the Japanese kamikaze casualty rates.
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  3424. The biggest breakthrough in antisubmarine warfare went unnoticed because it came about at the end of the war and never saw action. It was the British R-class submarine. It was what would later have been called a hunter-killer or attack submarine. It was designed to hunt German submarines while they were on the surface. It carried five hydrophones to help detect them. Unfortunately its potential was never realised.
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  3425. No, sorry but I disagree.Anything good is worth waiting for.
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  3426. Thanks for that. They say an artist must suffer for his art. Well Kipling certainly did that. I did know something of Kipling's life, though not the early part. And as with Charles Dickens it very much effected his writing. As for him being a jingoistic imperialist, he was a product of his time. His son John should never have served at the front. Without his glasses he was all but blind. The last reported sighting of him was on the battlefield, he was wounded and had lost his glasses. He was seen heading towards the German lines where he was probably killed. I have heard his song Barrack-Room Ballads being sung by officer cadets. He would not have been pleased as this was never what he wanted. A gentleman ranker was a gentleman who served as a common soldier and as such was disliked by both the officers, who thought he was betraying his class, and soldier who viewed him as a spy for the officers in their midst. The only time a ranker, a British term for a soldier, was away from the officers was when he was in the barracks. So the last thing that wanted was one living with them. So it should be sung by common soldiers, as intended, and not by would be officers. And with a lot of irony.
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  3427. Mark Draper We also have towns and cities which came into existence solely because of the railways,such as Crewe, Swindon and Didcot.. Many of our seaside resorts were nothing more then little villages until the railways arrived. Even some of our football teams such as Manchester United have railway roots. The original team was made up men from the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. They are one of a number of football teams with ties to the railway, such as Crewe Alexandra. Crewe's nickname is The Railwaymen..
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  3428.  @TillyOrifice  I was going to say don't tempt them but they are beyond that now
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  3429. He's playing the long game. Mike Pence for President 2044
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  3430. Your mention of the congressman who had one son fighting for the north and one for the south. This reminded me of two brothers who were fighting in a Confederate infantry regiment. One of the brothers suddenly called out for the other brother to stop shooting as he had just realised that the Union regiment they were fighting was the one their father was in. I also remember reading of a naval battle during the civil war in which the confederate ship surrendered. One of the Union officers quickly jumped aboard the confederate ship looking for his brother only to find him dying of his wounds. What made it worse was that the Union officer was the ships doctor, but even so he could not save his brothers life. Civil war. Brother against brother, father against sons.
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  3431. Always had a soft spot for Swedish postwar aircraft. Especially the Saab 35 Draken. Interestingly you can now buy the Draken. I'm going to need a much bigger piggy bank for that one. The British BAC/English Electric Lightning was also capable of intercepting the SR-71. Even, on one occasion, passing above the Blackbird.
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  3432. As one of those who live on the other side of the pond I found your explanation very interesting. I did watch something about the lead up to prohibition on YouTube and they mentioned that farms would have a barrel of what you call hard cider outside the farmhouse. Anyone leaving the farmhouse would get themselves a mug of cider when they left. You have to wonder how many farmhands would find any excuse to go to the farmhouse just to get a drink of cider. And also how drunk must they have been by the end of the day.
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  3433. I think you are out by 1000 years. Actually many of the legionnaires were not Roman by birth but obtained Roman citizenship just before joining the legion. This was partly because of a lack of recruits amongst Roman citizens and partly because those who did join were of such poor quality they ended up in the auxiliaries. When the 10th passed through Rome it was noted that they were taller then the local citizens and many were blond. Also many were having difficulty with the hot Roman summer. In Scotland on the Roman Antonine Wall there is evidence the Legionnaires were eating couscous from some of the pottery found there. This would suggest they could have been North African by birth. The reason for such poor levels of recruitment with natural Roman citizens is because many would only join when no other options were available to them. Apparently the US Army had the same problem in the 19th century.
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  3434. I think you mixed up elite forces with special forces. The US Marines were undoubtedly elite but they did not act like special forces. I would have thought the the problem for the US Canadian 1st Special Service Force was that the the US 10th Mountain Division was following a pretty much similar path. As for special forces how about the SBS the Royal Marines answer to the SAS. They became quite a problem for the Germans in the Aegean.
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  3435.  @sarjim4381  Didn't Stanley Kubrick show the execution of Eddie Slovak in one of his films? I think it was one of his early ones.
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  3436. I did know about the Harlem Hellfighters as I has read about them. Interesting that despite what their own country thought about them the forged such a reputation for their fighting ability. Reminds me of the Tuskegee airman of WW2 who were often praised by the bomber groups they escorted.
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  3437. Putin receiving bad new. That's a surprise.
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  3438.  @LordDragon1965  Interestingly Wicca should be pronounced Wicha. And as a woman it would be Wicce as Wicca is the male form.
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  3439. Chris Dykstra Me too
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  3440.  @justonecornetto80  The way to a Russian heart.
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  3441. Actually even the trolls are losing. Apparently they are being swamped by western trolls. Fun isn't it.
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  3442. They have to talk louder when seated otherwise they are muffled
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  3443. The Russians have never got that NATO is for the defence of the West. During the Cold War the Soviets/Russians became convinced that this was all a bluff and that NATO was going do the attacking. So their plans changed and they set up a defensive line in Poland to stop NATO, sacrificing East German and Polish forces, and then they would counter attack.
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  3444. Just waiting for them to try and punch their way through an M-1 Abrams. That's got to be worth a watch. A lot of sore knuckles there.
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  3445.  @feereel  You must be confusing things here. The British led the way on the abolition of slavery. At a huge expense to the country.
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  3446.  @gringogreen4719  Thank you for your kind words, very much appreciated. One of the things that WW1 did bring about was the beginnings of the study of "shell shock" what we now call post traumatic stress disorder. So at least now it is recognised and treatments are available. I did read that many of those who fought in the Battle of Rorke's Drift would suffer from PTSD but it was of those things you did not talk about. Maybe one of the things that should be taught to all children through the world is the after effects of warfare, both the mental and physical effects. The true costs of war. When they became adults how many would be so keen to fight then.
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  3447.  @drfill9210  If that's the case I think I'd sooner walk.
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  3448. Interesting that no one thought he had been followed home by someone from High Prairie who had seen him with his basket of money.
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  3449.  @artnull13  I think they're reading that plan backward
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  3450.  @USS-SNAKE-ISLAND  That's because it has been a long slow decline. If it had happened suddenly we would have all noticed. If you looked at video of them bombing in Syria they only used dumb bombs. There are claims these were left over from WW2. They showed some footage claiming they were dropping smart bombs and they hit the target. They actually missed the target and were using dumb bombs.
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  3451.  @michaeldunne338  With you on that. They got fixated with their 'Wonder Weapons' idea which is something that, by then, they were just not in a position to work with.
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  3452.  @michaeldunne338  Actually the assembly line predates Ford. The British traction engine company Fosters used a simpler earlier version of it, though I don't think Ford was aware of that. And there was not the same demand for traction engines as there was for cars.
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  3453. Define 'best'.
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  3454. Yes to Albert Ball. Spanish Flu actually originated in the US but because of reporting restrictions only the flu raging in Spain could be mentioned.
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  3455.  @RMJTOOLS  An aircraft that definatelly has its place in history
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  3456. Step up their game. Do they know what their game is yet.
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  3457. I had at one time wondered about the B-29 and it not being used against Germany. But I realised that by the time they entered service there was no part of Germany which could not be reached by either airforce, and that they were better used against Japan.
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  3458. Trump has a smart phone. Well there is something smart about him.
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  3459.  @JeradBenge  The entire Russian army is only 850,000. And most of them are not front line troops.
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  3460.  @jasl7358  Let's just hope the generals have had enough of Mr Crazy
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  3461.  @Tippy2forU  Ukraine is getting supplies fast the Russian troops. But it is hard to shoot anyone running away that fast.
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  3462.  @huwzebediahthomas9193  We may laugh but Russia brought the T-62 back into action and that was based on the T-54/55 which dates from 1948.
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  3463. One of the capabilities of the de Havilland Sea Vixen used by the Royal Navy was to refuel other Sea Vixen's and that was back in the 60s
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  3464.  @carbonara2144  time saving method
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  3465.  @cameronwixcey9692  I remember seeing film footage of that. Looks good but like any wheeled vehicle it comes a cropper once it goes of road
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  3466. I have read about this incident but it is a story well worth retelling. It would be hard to imagine two people with such diverse background becoming such close friends, but war does bring people together in a way that you would not normally expect. Amongst those fighting in Korea was one Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr. from London. Better known as Sir Micheal Caine.
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  3467. If you're Russian a tank which doesn't work is a good one to go to war in.
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  3468. Well the XC-99 is not just a forgotten aircraft but one I've never heard of. And as I have been interested in aircraft for many years that takes some doing.
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  3469. I was just wondering if convicted felons could run for president
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  3470.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Interesting about the drop in cirrhosis. It would be helpful to know how much the consumption of alcohol had changed during this period. Also how deaths are recorded. I know that one problem in the past here in the UK was that the cause of death may be attributed to one cause when there could well be an underlying one. As an example someone may be recorded as dying on pneumonia while the underlying problem was cancer. So cancer was under reported as contributing to the cause of death.
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  3471. I understand why they do it but it is a bit hard to think of it in the present tense when your talking about a battle fought 2000 years ago. It's not like they are checking out the battle field on Google Earth.
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  3472. I knew that St. Patrick was British and went over to Ireland to convert the Irish and about the snakes never having arrived in Ireland. But did you know that later the Irish sent priests to Britain to help keep Christianity alive when the Romans left. It had long been thought that Christianity left with the Romans and did not return until much later on. But we now know that it did not disappear entirely and that priests were sent over from Ireland to help keep it alive. The book of Kells is supposed to represent Celtic art. But if you look at Irish art, similar to pre-Roman British art, and look also at Anglo-Saxon art you will see that the Book of Kells is a mixture of the two. It is, in fact, Hiberno-Saxon art. It is now thought that the Book of Kells was supposed to have been sent as a gift to British Christians. The notion that the Celts were in the British Isles was a 19th century romantic idea and the real Celts never got any closer then Spain and Portugal.
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  3473. True. But not something I'd want to see in closeup. 😵‍💫
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  3474. Sad end to a man who lead a boys own adventure life.
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  3475. Well we all have those days
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  3476. With regard to various airforces being involved in their own countries naval airforce, I did read a book sometime ago by an RAF pilot who flew in the 20s and 30s as well as WW2 and he spent some time flying with the Royal Navy. Because carrier landings required specialist training he did find it difficult and was of a mind that the Royal Navy should have its own aircraft and pilots. Unfortunately I cannot remember the books name nor that of the author, but I did find his observations interesting because at that time I assumed that because as the navy had its own carriers they also had their own pilots. I did know about the RAF being made up of the Royal Flying Corp and the Royal Navy Air Service in 1918 but I had assumed that the Fleet Air Arm had been set up for carrier based aircraft and was not part of the RAF still. I then learnt through this book that the Fleet Air Arm did not become independent until 1937. All of this did effect the Royal Navy's aircraft choices up until that time.
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  3477.  @TonyRule  Just tried scraping a fly of my screen. 😊
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  3478. How about the world blackmails Putin and tell him the sanctions carry on and get worse unless he gives in and leaves Ukraine.
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  3479. Well the aim was to bring down the enemy aircraft and not share its fate. And though there was always a danger from flying debris it was not until later in the war that suicide attack were tried by the Germans.
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  3480. Wait until we all get our own Die Glocke. Then you can all click before it's been posted.
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  3481. The problem is. Mark, that we all know he is capable of taking it lower. 😄👍
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  3482. What's with the hats. You planning to do a special with The History Guy.
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  3483. It comes to something when you're saying your side did it rather than admit that is was the enemy. And having seen the incompetence of the Russians it is believable. The Russians are saying they only lost one man dead. Though there is a rumour it is the same man who was dead on the Moskva. It's starting to sound like Operation Mincemeat but with a weird twist.
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  3484.  @A._is_for  Oh. Legends. Makes sense now.
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  3485. Putin. A leg end in his own lunch time.
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  3486. Okay, Never heard of the Fire Horse before do that is a first. Interestingly 1966 is also the year of the horse for the Chinese zodiac. I know there was a connection between China and Japan in the past as one of the three writing systems used by the Japanese, the logographic kanji, is based on Chinese characters. I did not realise they shared the same zodiac s well. Reading the title I had thought it was some odd event where a fire department horse had won some horse race, possibly against another fire department horse, because of some discussion about who had the fastest horse. Sad about the death of this young girl. it is a pity that here parents did not step forward and mention that she had made a mistake.
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  3487. The Altmark's captain complained about British military aircraft flying inside Norwegian airspace while the Altmark was carrying British prisoners of war inside Norwegian waters. Not many people realise the coincidence here. Admiral Graf Spee, the man, died on 8 December 1014 during Battle of the Falkland Islands which is not far from where his namesake ship was sunk. He was attempting to make a surprise attack on the British radio station on the Falkland Islands. But he was the one who was surprised because a British squadron, including the battlecruisers HMS Invincible and Inflexible, had arrived there the day before. All four ships in his squadron were sunk.
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  3488. There wasn't much of a Plan A
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  3489. And unlike Trump he's smart enough to get away with it.
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  3490. When cooking or baking I use the metric system because it is easier to use. Also many liquid measuring jugs can lack accuracy. One way around that problem is to weight the liquid because in the metric system one litre of liquid weighs one kilo. Two things I find strange about America is why is it still using Fahrenheit when everyone else uses centigrade and why do cooks measure in cups? A cup of bread crumbs will not weigh the same as a cup of sugar. This, of course, beg the question do you measure in buckets and bathtubs for catering. Though I suppose bathtubs are for liquid measurements. Something which came in in the 20's apparently. A fact of historical interest. In Medieval England wine often came in butts which contained 1008 pints of wine. The wine would be kept on the round floor usually on the side furthest away from the sun. The room was called the buttery and the senior servant who was in charge of the buttery was called the butler. A furlong comes from the Old English furlang, from furh ‘furrow’ + lang ‘long’ and was the distance covered when ridge and furrow ploughing. Some can still be seen to this day.
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  3491. Seeing that there was another excellent video of Ed's coming up I was suddenly reminded of a book I had years ago. It was a small book full of aircraft like these. Aircraft that were just a little bit late, or never made it to production or were very limited in number. Always found it an enjoyable book. One thing we can see in all of these videos is the importance of timing. If the Woomera had just been a few years early it could have been a very useful aircraft to have if it was working properly. I do wonder about using it as a torpedo bomber as the external fuel tanks do look a bit close together. Was the Woomera the first aircraft to use remote turrets? I know the B-29 used them but was it the first?
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  3492. But they are often the most interesting of people
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  3493. It's the one time self medicating is okay. 😄🥃
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  3494.  @RCAvhstape  I forget which ship it was but one of those sunk at Pearl Harbor was refloated but sank on the way back to the US.
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  3495.  @rob5944  Funny you should mention the head wind blowing the aircraft backwards. The earliest British and French WW1 aircraft were very slow and did have this problem while returning from flying over German lines. The only way the could return to their own lines was to tack across the wind like a sailing boat. The Luftwaffe was to all intents and purposes as tactical arm of the German army with a limited strategic role. I have to agree with you about the effect of strategic bombing on civilians. Actually this was known much earlier from the Zeppelin and later Gotha bomber raids on Britain in WW1. Something often missed about the raids on Britain in WW1 was that much of what was put in place to deal with them meant that Britain was much better prepared for the Battle of Britain
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  3496.  @kentl7228  True but once one was shot down and the realisation that the monster could be slain set in the level of fear was not the same. Also the Zeppelins were never as effective as it was thought they would be. For one thing most nights the wind came from the west which made it a headwind for Zeppelins flying towards England. And if it was a strong headwind this would often mean they would be diverted to other lesser targets. This made them less effective as far as Germany was concerned. And as soon as the Gotha bombers were available in sufficient numbers Zeppelin raids were stopped. Interestingly one of those involved in the fight against these raids was General Hugh Dowding who as Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding would lead the Royal air Force during the Battle of Britain.
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  3497.  @houseslippers7732  Like the paratroopers in the Britain , America and Germany. The US Army Rangers were originally trained by the British Commandos. Part of the training involve commandos sliding along a rope over a river while live grenades were through into the river. When this was mentioned to the US officer who was there to observe the training he said they would not use grenades. They planned to use a river full of alligators. Always good to know how best to motivate your men.
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  3498. Not come across this one before, so all new to me. On the first test flight for the Lightning it went supersonic while climbing from the runway. And it was the first aircraft to achieve supercruise.
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  3499. The previous Chechens turned up in Ukraine and after a couple of days went and hid behind the Russian lines. The only real fighting was against the Russian troops when the Chechens were tasked with stopping Russian troops from running away. That resulted in the Russian troops giving the Chechens a good old fashioned killing. Putin's Chechen troops are good at fighting the defenceless but that's all.
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  3500.  @Drachinifel  I would have though the effects of a HESH round on armour would have been devastating on a warship. What with all the splinters from the shattered armour. But as you say unless it hits something vital then its damage would be absorbed by the ship.
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  3501. Did you pinch yourself to make sure you're not dreaming 😴 👍
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  3502. You had a question from a hotel. Wouldn't be French by any chance. Also was it based near, or possibly in, a French naval port. Just asking
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  3503. Considering how much difficulty they have had arming the first lot do they have enough weapons for all of them. Judging by how it's gone so far I'm expecting to see them Russians carrying muskets.
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  3504. In some "member" countries of the Russian Federation they cheered when Russian troops were pulled out to go to Ukraine. So no love lost there
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  3505. Did no one tell these two that no on likes clowns anymore
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  3506. Can the last one to leave please turn the lights out.
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  3507. Alexander Lukashenko is not going to use nuclear missiles. For one thing he has been told that the US has deployed tactical nukes to Europe.
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  3508. A man for whom the phrase 'Happy-Go-Lucky' was never used. I think the notion that he haunted the village because he died unrepentant was wishful thinking. It was not in his nature and he would never have repented even if he had the chance. I wold have buried him face-down. Give him a good view of where he was going. Interesting about not letting his dead lover be buried. During the Medieval Period there was a French queen who would not let the king be buried when he died. He died in bed laid next to her during the night. She was so distraught that she would remain in bed with him for two years before she was finally persuaded the let him be buried.
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  3509.  @TheLastCrumb.  You can have as may aircraft as you like but with their standard of training all they are is targets. Three carries they do not know how to operate properly let alone fight with. The fourth one is useless as the catapults don't work.
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  3510.  @ShadowebEB  I very much agree. What my remarks were aimed at, and something I am sure you picked up on, was the hypocrisy of China's position with regards to Russian and Ukraine negotiating a settlement. We all know what it took to carry out the D-Day landings in Normandy. And we had the advantage over the Germans because we convinced them that Normandy was a faint and the real landing would be Calais. China has no chance of taking Taiwan.
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  3511. So Russia's war is being run by a former middle ranking interpreter, Putin, and an ex-con hot dog seller Prigozhin. What could go wrong. It looks like he is talking to his recruits. Interesting about the notion that his 'lads' are going to him, very Trumpian, asking him to explain to the Russian people about the hardships. Obviously he's not getting the airtime on Russian TV he had hoped for. Can't help but think Putin has a hand in that as Putin thinks he can see that Prigozhin is lining himself up to take over as president. And Putin is the one who can authorise more recruiting from the prisons. The reason for the lack of supplies is simple. Prigozhin has made enemies of the Russian military to make himself look good. So now they are restricting access to supplies. He's right about one thing. He is grinding troops down. Trouble is those forces speak Russian.
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  3512. The most produce. Yes I do know that. It looks like it was the first to make the famed 25 sorties.
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  3513. Interesting about design Y. How different things could have been.
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  3514. Unfortunately history is full of such misleading events.
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  3515.  @Joshua-fi4ji  Your right, Joshua. I meant the army and navy. And the Samaria clans were the origin of the rivalry which went as far as the assassination of the political leaders from each clan. As a country with so little in the way of natural resources the fact that they wasted so much on duplicating everything shows what can happen when stupidity overcomes common sense You have to wonder what Japan could have achieved were it not for these rivalries and had worked together. But I suppose this is what you get when you don't have anyone prepared to say no.
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  3516. @Aqua Fyre The trick is that someone, usually the government, steps on and knock heads together. The only one capable of doing that was the emperor and even when he finally stepped in to end the war there were army officers prepared to defy him.
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  3517.  @xsu-is7vq  This is true but with the lack of independent leadership there is no one to deal with the problem.
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  3518.  @ottovonbismarck2443  I had to laugh at your remarks about the airforce and Germany not winning a war. Here's a thought for you. During the Franco-Prussian the French did use balloons and they lost. Whatever jinx France seems to have jinxed Germany. The Reggia Marina did have some very good officers but was to often hampered by the poor ones. They did not take up radar as early as others but their rangefinders were very good and each ship had plenty of them. The problem was quality control of the propellants. So an Italian warship could have shells exploding all around a Royal Navy ship very quickly but some shell from the same salvo dropped short while other overshot. And none hit the ship.
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  3519.  @ottovonbismarck2443  At that point the RAF could do with all the help they could get and the Royal Navy's task was to use their ships to deal with the invasion. So the navy pilots flying with the RAF was a better use of their skill.
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  3520.  @thewingedhussars459  famous last words, obviously 👍
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  3521.  @calvingreene90  I think it was meant as a joke
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  3522. Made me think of a tall drunk. Good field of view but libel to roll around a lot.
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  3523. I think they should sue the Devil. It says in the contract that he is supposed to help his own.
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  3524. He did better then a poor Polish pilot who was shot dead by a Home Guard soldier after bailing out of his aircraft
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  3525. During the Copper and later Bronze Age British copper was seen as being not of a high enough quality for the making tools and weapons. So the copper used in Britain during that period was from places like France. And this is why we had enough copper for the Royal Navy to use on their ships.
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  3526.  @Qingeaton  Last flying model I made was a balsa wood model of the Comet passenger aircraft. Good thought it was I am not sure hanging a heavy camera underneath would have been useful.
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  3527. I have a feeling that is a record he could have done without.
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  3528. The middle class would eat a lot of mutton because it was cheap. In fact the Victorian middle class was often referred to as mutton eaters.
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  3529. You all heard him deny saying what he just said. Sound legit to me.
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  3530. I think we all do that Corey👍
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  3531. I used to work for British Aerospace and they were involved with the British version of the Phantom. I watch one fly off one day with someone from Marconi in the back seat. They were testing some new equipment. Anyway when they came back the test pilot decided to put on a bit of a show, including flying at tree top height down one side of the runway, then climbing vertically before looping over to the other side of the runway, diving down before pulling out at tree top height again then landing. The man from Marconi looked distinctly green around the gills. Unfortunately I do not remember the name of the test pilot but I was told he was the first to land the Blackburn Buccaneer onto an aircraft carrier. This was in conditions which the other three test pilots, who flew other Buccaneers that day, made landing to difficult. I believe he would now be referred to as old school.
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  3532.  @hughgordon6435  Sounds about right. I did come across something on YouTube about there being a special pipeline which runs from a nearby port which is supposed to supply they fuel for a hypersonic aircraft. I think it's hypersonic.
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  3533. The Israelis discovered about the fuel in the doors of the BMP-1 and would let them passed before ambushing them from behind. We should not forget that the Russians have had to bring their T-62 tanks back into service because they have lost so many of their more modern tanks. And if we are talking about old kit still in use both the US Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 are still in service.
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  3534. Looking at many of them I think they would welcome it.
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  3535. When I first saw the video of the bridge explosion my thoughts were that is was a truck exploding. And knowing what the Russians are like I did think it was an accident rather than an attack.
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  3536.  @NefariousKoel  It is a hugely important period in European history as well but again most of it is missed. Shame really as it had such an important impact on our lives.
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  3537. The more complext it is the more there is to go wrong.
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  3538. Franco Andres The British only lost one helicopter to the Pucará and that was the Scout. Not sure what influence the Pucará had on the proposed design as the Pucará was essentially a ground attack aircraft whereas the proposed P1238 was designed to be a very agile fighter aircraft capable of turning 180 degrees on five seconds. Excellent though the Pucará may be in asymmetrical warfare the Falklands War did show the vulnerability of such aircraft when facing conventional forces. Argentina losing some 16 Pucará's to raids, air combat and surface to air weaponry. This was a lesson missed by America using the AV10 Bronco in the First Gulf War. Again, excellent though it was in its normal environment, facing a conventional force it proved itself susceptible. As you mentioned the Pucará could be a tough old bird. One Royal Navy Sea Harrier pilot said it took 20 rounds of 30 mm cannon fir to shoot one down. Interestingly the British could have faced the Pucará a second time if a contract with the Iraqi Air Force had gone through.
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  3539. Franco Andres No problems. I can see how you could have made that connection between the Pucará and the SABA but I think they were looking back to WW2. We all know that your average jet pilot does not like flying low level, except for BAe Buccaneer pilots who thought nothing of flying five to ten feet above the ground, so returning to the slower but more manoeuvrable propeller driven aircraft was the ideal solution. I had wondered if you had been thinking about the Wessex helicopter which crashed on South Georgia in a storm and thought it was shot down in the Falklands instead. I knew about the attempt to add torpedoes though it does smack of desperate measures. Especially considering all the training they needed to do. Six Pucará's were destroyed on the ground in a raid by the SAS, which shows the lack of preparedness of the Argentinians for not thinking such a thing could happen. For the SAS this was old school as the did the same to the Germans in North Africa in WW2. They irony is that the Argentinians could have been flying the Harrier themselves.
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  3540. Toby Wood I told Tom Dean you'd thank him as well.👍
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  3541.  @Vespuchian  I should be careful with the old 'palm to forehead'. The way things are going you could be brain damage within a few hours.
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  3542. It was for the planned invasion of British beaches. By the time they had realised it was a Panther tank and not a giant humbug it would be too late. The horse drawn transport would not be out of place either. There is no truth to the rumours about plans to add a sweet sticky Zimmermit like paste to the tank to attract people to come and lick the tank. And how this would be used to capture them.
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  3543. I have seen Lady butler's The Return From Inkerman as it is in the Ferens Art Gallery near where I live.
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  3544. I think they were probably as big but I think their flying characteristics left much to be desired.😊
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  3545.  @dannynicastro3207  Old fashioned firing squad. Military not civilian.
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  3546. To out fight your enemy you must out think your enemy. That's not just on the battlefield but also the tools you use on the battlefield. It's interesting that Russia is so heavily reliant on Soviet era equipment. Back in the days of the Soviet engineers. People who are no longer there because of cutbacks in Russian education. This has left Russia totally dependent on imports of thing they cannot make themselves. So Russia is running on the computer maxim, garbage in garbage out.
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  3547. That's one. How many's left
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  3548.  @rudboypaintbrawl  Thanks. I'd forgotten about the Skorpion. It reminds me somewhat of the Sukhoi Su-35 which first flew about the same time.
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  3549. I like the inclusion of Moscow Mitch
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  3550. Criminals sent to work in aa warehouse in St. Petersburg and then there's a huge fire at a warehouse in St. Petersburg. Not saying there's a connection but it does make you wonder.
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  3551. King George could have told him about that. He was at Jutland and a large calibre AP shell just missed his turret.
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  3552. During WW2 the Russians came up with the Ratio of attackers to defenders of 3/1, a ratio which is still in use today. So you will need 3000 attackers if your enemy has 1000 defenders in order to win. This means that if Ukrainian defenders have 100,000 casualties and the Russia's have over 300,000 casualties then something is very wrong with the way Russia is fighting this war.
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  3553. So it is not Johnson's fault he had bad advisors. His, advisors. His choice. If he's blaming them for giving him bad advise then he must take the blame for picking them.
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  3554. This was Japans navel strategy. The decisive clash between capital ships. Interesting when you remember that Japan was one of the early proponents of aircraft carriers. And even after carriers had shown their worth the battleship to battleship encounter was still such an important strategy for them.
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  3555. If we are including dive bombers then the Stuka has to be included here. It was fine when unopposed but once it came up against opposition it was just cannon fodder. Hence the RAF's Stuka Parties.
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  3556. I think many British pilots said the same thing. Actually the Skua had an important part to play if Operation Sealion had come about. There was a number of pipelines on the coast which, in the event of an invasion, would have pumped oil onto the sea. The Skua pilots job was to set it on fire. Not sure how as that was not explained but possibly it carried some sort of incendiary devise which he would drop.
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  3557. Don Felipe, I just checked on Wikipedia and it says a Fairy Battle is credited with the first kill just six days earlier on the 20th September. I think both count as a WTF moment. I think we may have to withdraw the Skua from the list of The Worst Aircraft of WW2. On the 10th April 1940 16 Skuas from 800 and 803 NAS sank the German cruiser Konigsberg. Königsberg was the first major warship ever sunk in war by air attack and the first major warship ever to be sunk by dive bombing. The attack was led by Lieutenant Commander William Lucy who became fighter ace flying the Skua. I think we will have to withdraw the Skua don't you.
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  3558. Huge crowds of people in London have been boarding trains to head north hours before the new tier 4 starts. Well done Boris. Great example of how not to run a country
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  3559. People often forget that many of those who joined the Home Guard in 1940 could well be in his early 40s
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  3560. While the rest of us.🤨
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  3561. I knew about the Dover Calais duel but I had not realised so many guns were involved. Interesting that the British were using ex-WW1 railway guns as the last time they were used was also against the Germans in France. Of course the shells got to France a lot quicker then they did in WW1.
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  3562.  @nurseSean  Very True.
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  3563. Turning somewhat curmudgeonly I could point out that they don't make them like that anymore. You will be pleased to note I have refrained from calling anyone a 'young whippersnapper.' The Allies also built wartime locomotives and I know plenty of them were in service for many years after WW2. It would be interesting to know if any are still in service around the world. Also, it could be worth looking in the Middle East. I seem to remember seeing a documentary of an old British WW1 locomotive still in service, possible in Jordan. Sorry for being a bit vague but it has been sometime since I saw the film.
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  3564. Or even at the beginning.
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  3565. Refreshed their image. They may have a different clown in charge but it's still the same clown car.
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  3566. That is an example of a Freudian slip. The truth came out instead of the lie.
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  3567. You may enjoy Ed talking about paint drying but thing of it from his point of view. He has to watch the paint dry without the benefit of his narration.
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  3568. We had similar incidents in the UK but usually on a smaller scale. One pub fight started because some white GI's were causing trouble for a black GI and a British soldier stepped in on behalf of the black soldier. One of the White soldiers decided to hit the British soldier which was a big mistake. You see if he had bothered to read the shoulder flash of this soldier's shoulder he would have read the word Commando. That would have saved him the severe beating he received. If you are wondering how tough the commandos were, fighting the Germans was an easier option.
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  3569. Spending other peoples money is not is trick. Over £4K of our money for food and wine at a restaurant owned by a tory supporter.
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  3570. Putin has got this wrong from the start.
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  3571. The Merlin engine from the Hurricane which rammed the German bomber was finally recovered a couple of years ago. It was actually buried under a major road in London. Quite a disruption to traffic. It is interesting about the possible use of unguided rockets for the Zeppelin ramming aircraft as, after the war, America had the idea of using such rockets on one of their jets to shoot down enemy aircraft. It did not go to well and was soon dropped.
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  3572. I look at those cage masts and wonder how many sailors lost their lunch, and any other meals, on a particularly windy day. Bad enough on a tripod but at least they did not add to the swaying.
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  3573. The thought of all those buckets. Brings a new meaning to getting your sh1t together.
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  3574. It's interesting how the best piston engined aircraft ever produced came right at the end of the war but were just as piston engines were being superseded by the jet engine.
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  3575. No. But I did. Coffee with a Hobnob please
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  3576. Gods Skypig1 You have to admire any group who go out into sea in conditions which make the rest of us glad we don't have to. And I have seen what it is like at Spurn Point in winter so I have a good idea what it's like. Just for the record the River Humber is the second most difficult river in the world to navigate. I think the Amazon is supposed to be the worst, but I think it's something to do with them having piranhas. The sand banks change from tide to tide and if a Humber Pilot is away from the river for more then eight to ten days they have to relearn where they all are. In the past even the Humber Ferry would occasionally get caught out, and they cross the Humber several time a day.
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  3577. I did my archaeology decree at Hull University so I know about the lost towns. I also believe there may have been a Roman Villa up near Spurn Point a very large Roman rubbish pit was found near there. And to be that size would suggest a large villa would be an obvious choice. In the Medieval period the Plain of Holderness was more often called the Isle of Holderness. This is because the River Hull flooded so extensively in the winter that it was cut off. If you stand in Hull where the old pier used to be and look across the Humber to the other side, now imagine it three times that width then you will understand how wide the Hull was in winter. The only thing crossing it was ferry boats. It is thought that William the Conqueror's Harrowing of the North did not get to Holderness because they could not cross the river as all the ferries stayed on the other bank.
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  3578. Some years ago I was researching a local village and I came across a reference to a Medieval the lord of the manor for that village by the Sayer de Sutton. Much of the land near the river was waterlogged for most of the year so he set about draining the land and giving it to the villages so that they could improve there lives. Then the Catholic church sent its people to the village and promising the villagers a place in heaven if they donated the land to the church. So they took control of the land Sayer had spent so much time, energy and money reclaiming. Relations with the church went down hill from there.
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  3579. That British reporter has more brains in her little finger them Greene has on he entire head.
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  3580.  @christineparis5607  It was a parapet wall surrounding the roof. They obviously thought it was okay to do it there and they were obviously wrong. You should look at the Darwin Awards. It's for people who, through their own actions, died without having children. The idea is these peoples contribution to the gene pool stopped with them.
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  3581.  @colinp2238  Well they wanted to be the best experience ever. And for them it was.
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  3582. Must say I like the new format.
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  3583. Well your set up was good but I think you need to work on the punchline. 🤡🤠 You mentioned circuses not having a fixed site. In the UK there are still a number of building which uses the name Hippodrome, Birmingham and Great Yarmouth are two which spring to mind, which were places were circuses performed in the past. Some of them are still places of entertainment today.
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  3584. The raid was in retaliation for an attack by Christians on a Scandinavian settlement.
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  3585. Keep an eye on your Germans
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  3586. The original Buck Rogers would have look at home in it
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  3587. Excellent analysis
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  3588. She is U-Turning so fast this would make a Whirling Dervish dizzy.
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  3589. The problem with people just not understand how things had changed between the battleship and the aircraft carrier is shown by the aims of the Japanese Navy at the Battle of the Philippine Sea. They wanted to use their carriers to destroy the American carriers so this would allow their battleships to fight the American battleships. You do wonder if when the US carrier-based aircraft sank the battleship Yamato some Japanese Admiral suddenly thought "Oh, that's what we should have done at the Battle of the Philippine Sea." And we all know that when it came to submarine warfare the Germans led the way. But they also fell for the big ship syndrome. They had plans to build battleships and aircraft carriers. five of the first and two of the second I seem to remember. And they were not prepared for the fact that though they had the lead the Allies would catch up. More then one German submarine was sunk because it took to long to crashdive and they did not think they would face aircraft out at sea. And though they did try and innovate the Allies did it faster, with better ships, better weapons and tactics along with radar and High-frequency direction finding and better training. Not to mention the improvements in areas such as sonar and extended air cover. It did come across some figures about casualty rates for German submariners for WW2. They were second highest to only to one other. That other group was the Japanese Kamikaze.
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  3590. As we know even the geography was against the Germans. They needed to advance north west but the hills, ridges and valleys went north east to south west. Many of the German troops had fought on the Eastern Front which was more open. And they had little or no experience of fighting in the west which had different terrain. And once the likes of the Royal Air Force's Typhoons, USAAF P-47 Thunderbolts got in amongst them all they could do was dive for cover. And even if the Germans had reached Antwerp the Allies would have just crushed them.
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  3591. Me too.
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  3592. Not sure what Ukrainian War you've been watching but it was nothing like what you said. Russia thought they could just walk in and take over. Instead they have lost thousands of tanks and hundreds of thousands of men dead. Even Russia's 'elite' paratroopers had to retreat because their attack failed so miserably. Putin totally misread Ukraines fighting ability and the the much better standard of training of Ukrainian troops compared to the poor standard of Russian training. As such Russia's armed forces have paid a heavy price for this incompetence and corruption. Meanwhile Ukraine is on the verge of splitting the Russian forces in two which will probably result in thousands of Russian troops either surrendering or running away while at the same time Ukraine will be within striking distance of Crimea. I suggest you find something else to do because you are not very good at this.
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  3593. Listening to Trump you now realise that we did misunderestimate Bush. He is not the dumbest person to be president. Maybe there should be some sort of intelligence test for future presidents. Such as can you close an umbrella before going through a door. Or remove toilet paper from your shoe. And for that last point two things to note. Firstly, how long was that stuck to his shoe. Obviously since he last used the bathroom at the very least. Secondly, did no one tell him, or is it now a case of the staff getting their own back on a bad boss.
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  3594. I remember watching a documentary about one of the Russian space stations. Apparently it was armed with a couple of cannons in case there was a clash with an American spacecraft. The Russians wanted the cosmonauts to test fire the cannons but the cosmonauts were died set against that idea. They were fearful of what might happen when the guns fired because of any potential damage it may cause to the space station from the recoil. They rigged it up so the guns could be fired remotely from earth. The guns were fired and the station was shaken about but it survived the test. I do not think this placated the cosmonauts though.
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  3595. The wing mounted guns could, on occasion, shoot down an enemy aircraft. While attacking Malta six Stukas dived down to their target. As there was a number of Spitfires in the area they decided to have a Stuka Party. This meant that as a Stuka dived down it was followed by a Spitfire which proceeded to shoot down the Stuka. One Spitfire pilot became so fixated by the Stuka in front of him he forgot the one following behind. So that pilot got a rare air to air combat kill for a Stuka. The RAF pilot did survive. But then had to face his fellow pilots, whom, I assume, were not going to let him forget about it in a hurry. There was an incident before the war where where there was to be a demonstration by a squadron of Stukas in front of a number of high ranking officers. When they got to the area where the demonstration was to take place it was discovered that the area was covered in cloud. There was talk of calling off the demonstration because of the cloud, but it was decided to go ahead anyway. So the Stukas flew to where the demonstration was to take place and proceeded to dive down through the cloud. The problem was that the cloud layer was lower then it was thought and once the aircraft broke through the cloud it was realised that they were to close to the ground. There was frantic efforts made to call off the demonstration but without success. One after the other each aircraft crashed into the ground killing each of the crews on board. One time when the automatic recovery system would have helped. The German S-Boats was referred to by their crews as the Stuka of the sea. Interestingly the British gunboat crews referred to their boats as the Spitfire of the sea.
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  3596.  @PassportToPimlico  19 of the 20 SS divisions involved face Monty because they rated the British higher then the Americans.
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  3597.  @JohnSmith-qv6hp  Maybe the Allies should have left them to the ever so caring Nazis then.
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  3598. I don't thing anyone would be too surprised that NATO troops are in Ukraine. It would be more of a surprise if they were not.
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  3599. Recognised the quote.👍
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  3600.  @tricap1542  You look after yourself. Up to 16,000 subscribers now. We don't want it falling to 15,999 do we. And I want to wish a Merry Christmas to you in return. And that also applies to Drachinfel, his family and all this rest of you whoever and wherever you are.
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  3601. When I first saw the video footage of the downed drone my first thought was that it looked like a standard aircraft wing. In fact I thought it was an aircraft wing. Russia and China are good a making knockoff copies but who'd want to bet their lives on them.
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  3602. Thanks for that. With so little evidence showing the accused could have commit the murder you have to wonder why it went to court.
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  3603. His fellow Frenchmen proved that with the The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. And we all saw the gallows for Mike Pence
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  3604. Odds have just improved
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  3605.  @erhardbaehni1832  Thanks for the reminder. And that was when it was the old Soviet Union. I wonder how many heads rolled over that.
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  3606.  @grahamstevenson1740  Yes but it was under the old Soviet Union when they should have a better air defence.
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  3607. The UK has no bail bond system. Defendants are assess by a judge and if there is no problem with the defendant not showing up then that person is out on bail. I am not saying the system is flawless, no system like this is, but it works. And if the defendant is held in prison because they cannot afford bail you have to ask how much it costs to keep a defendant in prison. More then the amount the Lederman brothers have paid to kill the pilot scheme.
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  3608.  @dennis2966  Holy mackerel. Nice for breakfast with some fresh baked bread and a cup of coffee.
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  3609. Johnson gave him a knighthood
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  3610. Russia realised a list which included names of Ukrainians they had already returned to Ukraine.
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  3611.  Mycel  Sounds good to me. Especially now the colder weather is upon us. It's interesting how many people like a shot of something in their coffee. Hat's off to those fine people.
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  3612. Yes, Nadine Dorries, the Tory party is behind Boris. Their all thinking one big push and they can get rid of him.
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  3613. Actually the film was shot in Italy and is their latest pasta. Just need to get the size right.
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  3614. I did read that the US Army had more aircraft than the US Air Force. I think it was during Vietnam.
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  3615.  @ArchelausH  Ponber was in my mind when I wrote my comment 👍
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  3616. I remember something about the Luftwaffe sending suicide attacks on the bridge just like the Japanese Kamikaze attacks in the Pacific. So I wonder how many of those shot down at Remagen were such attacker. I seem to also remember that some of the Germans pilots bailed out rather then go through with the attacks.
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  3617. Up date. Yes it can. That is unless you're a Russian pilot in which case no
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  3618. I think part of us would like to know what happened to them, but the other part doesn't want to spoil the mystery. Personally I like to think they finally had a chance to go straight and ended their lives as, somewhat, honest citizens. So don't solve the mystery as so far I am right.
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  3619. I thought he was. He's just subtle about it.
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  3620. I thought the same. And the chrysanthemum is the imperial symbol as seen on the bow of the Yamato. Maybe the Germans mixed the two up.
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  3621.  BoomerLemon  I have seen both spellings but I believed Americans spelt it doughnuts. After all the US troops in WW1 were called doughboys and not doboys.
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  3622.  @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917  It would actually be do nuts which makes no sense.
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  3623. It never caught on. Who would want to walk around with a 'mobile phone.'
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  3624. Also, apparently, the sky is green and the grass is blue. Meanwhile in the real world...
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  3625. You have to admire those involved in all of this. Now that is playing the long game. Hats off to them all. At one time this would have made a great film but today Hollywood would include a huge shoot out at the end.
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  3626. Don't the Russians have something called 'useful idiots'. Wonder who that could apply to.
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  3627.  @mimimimeow  The French wanted to delay sales of the Eurofighter so that they could sell their own aircraft. Not surprisingly the others did not agree, especially as they would be in the same market.
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  3628.  @heavyizthacrown-5842  Dogfighting it would go to the Eurofighter. But the F-15s use of BVR would give it the edge.
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  3629.  @viridianacortes9642  Thanks, Viridiana. I'd forgotten about him.
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  3630. Interesting about the costs of government contracts. Some years ago I read about a documentary film maker who early in his career made a film for the then British government. But when he submitted his bill he was payed only half of it. When he asked about the full payment he was told that this was standard procedure pay only half because the government wanted to cut costs. By the time his next contract came around he had learned something from other film makers and submitted a bill which was twice what it cost to make. They again only paid half which meant he got this time he was paid in full.
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  3631. Also include timestamps.
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  3632. The SAS is in Ukraine while the Spetsnaz are refusing to go. Tells you everything.
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  3633. Well you hope it's true. Even if it is all based on things we have invented. I remember all the excitement about the last change over to the new millennium. Some island out on the edge telling everyone they should go there to be the first to welcome in the new millennium. Then someone pointed out the the new millennium started at the Meridian line so everyone on that island would be the last to cross not the first.
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  3634. It's interesting how often the smallest of things can shape the world. If Arch Duke Ferdinand of Austria had been taken on a different route after the failed first assassination attempt there would have been no WW1. Similarly if Yamamoto had lost one more finger how much more different world history would have been.
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  3635. Definitely ahead of its time. And it shows why politicians and the military should not make judgement calls about industry. The US aircraft industry it littered with failed interferences by both. And I'm not just saying this about America. Other countries are just as bad as America.
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  3636. I very much found the photograph at 11:45 very interesting. In the early days of the railway one of the people who spoke against the railway did so because he said it would encourage people to move away from the coast which would mean they would not serve in the Royal Navy. But as your photograph shows the reverse is true. Many of those who served in the navy did not live near the cost.
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  3637. So the man who has people who displease him poisoned has discovered that he is being lied too.
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  3638. What's that saying about people who play with matches?
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  3639. So true R Mack A lesson learned in WW1. Having said that something like a 30 mm cannon could take out a track from just about any tank and we are back to the pillbox again.
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  3640. It may not be an ideal platform to stand on but it's not going to get any better. And like with John Major in 1997 it will only get worse the longer he leaves it because the people want rid of him.
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  3641. When he was Prime Minister David Cameron praised the East India Company. This is like the President of Columbia praising the drugs cartels. Literally.
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  3642. Of course Trump's playing golf. It's the only place he can cheat and getaway with it.
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  3643. Am I the only one who looks at submarines and thinks electricity, water and a ship that is designed to sink and thinks 'maybe not, thanks.'
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  3644. You waited all those years until the invented computers and the internet. Now that's dedication
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  3645. He keeps trying to but people keep remembering.
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  3646.  Ambrose Burnside  Exactly, Ambrose 👍
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  3647. As an absinthe drinker none of this is new to me. But I have to complement you on your research. Absinthe was never banned in Britain as it was never as popular as it was on the the continent. The thing with setting the absinthe sugar alight is more recent. But as it was absinthe flavoured vodka and not real absinthe setting fire to it is a kindness. Degas's painting Absinthe was originally called In A Café but somehow the name was changed in England to Absinthe.
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  3648.  @BobSmith-dk8nw  I think Tora Tora Tora is an excellent film. Closer to a drama documentary then a movie. You would have thought with all that was going on in the rest of the world they would have at least had a more, as you observed, 'ready to go' attitude. It looks more like they believed that the war would never happen to them. Having said that once they got themselves into gear the US armed forces made a good job of it.
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  3649. I think Cruz could serve in the military. Someone has to empty the latrines. And could there be anyone better qualified.
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  3650.  @markjwedel  Trouble is he is better at making mountain out of molehills. Which, I believe, is the opposite requirement of a CCu
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  3651.  @pjani14  I've seen it there. I thought it was interesting game.
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  3652. It's not just a question of money. This jet requires components bought from abroad and thanks to sanctions after Russia seized Crimea they are no longer available. This is also why there are no T-14 Amata's fighting in Ukraine. And with the collapse of the Russian economy they cannot afford to build this aircraft.
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  3653. Well if and when Putin does a runner it looks like he may end up in China.
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  3654. Even at the end she was not going down without a fight. Love it.👍😊
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  3655. Russians are getting better treatment from Ukraine than from Russia.
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  3656. A brave man.
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  3657. Not sure where you live but its still Saturday in this part of the world. And will be for just under the next twelve hours. On the upside you've got Drydock to look forward to on Monday. 😊
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  3658. Sunak is an accountant. So everything to him is numbers. This is why you don't put accountants in charge of anything.
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  3659. Thanks R Mack. Well whatever his origins I definitely still think he deserves a mention.
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  3660.  @dpelpal  Considering the value of the ruble them stars must be plastic
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  3661. It looks like many are ahead of you here, judging by the number already surrendering. But I am sure your advice will help the others.
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  3662. It is often not fully understood or appreciated what the British faced in Normandy. As well as the Tigers they also faced 19 of the 20 SS divisions fighting in Normandy. Which is one of the reasons American troops were able to breakout of Normandy. So why did the Germans send their best troops and equipment against the British in Normandy. It looks like it may have been a culture misunderstanding on the part of the Germans. While interrogating US POWs many of them complained about various things such as the food and this included the fact that they did not believe they were being paid enough for what they were having to do. The Germans viewed the US troops as not being on the same level as their own. But they looked on the British as they did their own troops. There is a job to do so just get on and do it. So this being underrated gave the Americans an advantage because the Germans were eyeing the British as being the main threat. And, of course, people like General Patton was quite helpful in showing the Germans of the errors of their ways. But by then it was too late.
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  3663.  @the_undead  As some have been longer than that possibly the 'it end when it end' video.
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  3664. I see the Tory right wants to bring back Boris. As if they have not made themselves look rediculas enough.
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  3665. I did read that Seagal got shipped out to Siberia. Putin may be one of the most hated dictators in the world but even he has his limits.
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  3666.  @stephenarling1667  In case it come across differently I will state now that I am not trying to disparage the sacrifices made by aircrews of the B17. I have nothing but the greatest admiration for what they did. Especially with them knowing that their odds of completing the 25 missions were very much against them. I was merely trying to set the record straight about which aircraft was first to achieve the 25 missions. B-24 Liberator Hot Stuff and her crew flew their 25th mission on February 7, 1943. In fact she went on to fly five more missions before being sent home. On the way home they tried to land at Reykjavik, Iceland, but because of the difficulty weather conditions she crashed into the side of 1,600-foot-tall Mount Fagradalsfjall, near Grindavik, Iceland. Of the 15 aboard 14 died, the except being the tail-gunner who, though injured, survived the crash. One of those killed was US Army Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews, Commander of the European Theatre of Operations. The death of the general somewhat overshadowed the lose of the aircraft. I personally did not lose any family during the war, though it did come close on several occasions. But I have nothing but respect for those, including your uncle, who made the ultimate sacrifice.
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  3667.  @choulo9909  Adjoining cells.
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  3668. Wrong Indians. The term came about through a misunderstanding between early European settlers in America and the natives. The American Indians would exchange gifts before trading but the settlers didn't do that, they just traded and thought the Indians just did the gift giving as a way to get back what they had just given. Ironically if you go back in history Europeans would also give gifts before trading.
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  3669. It's all to make Sunak look tough on crime. Instead it just makes him look like a very weak prime minister look even weaker.
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  3670.  @jjsmallpiece9234  Good point.
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  3671. Considering the bark of an MG42 that bite is still going to ruin your day.
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  3672. "What religion are you sit." I'm not telling you."
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  3673. You could test the idea that in space they cannot hear you scream.
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  3674. Elijah Hartman. The USS Maine was raised and the evidence is that the explosion was caused by an unseen fire. So that supports what you said here.
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  3675. In Anglo Saxon England they had a problem with wolves and bear digging up the dead because the graves where only shallow. So they started digging them deeper to stop them detecting the bodies.
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  3676. Jon South. I saw that documentary as well. It painted a whole new picture as to what really happened at Jutland.
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  3677. I discovered in my thirties I was having trouble focusing at a distant object. So I did the usual of closing one eye then the other to see whether it was both eyes or just the one. Turns out it was just the right eye. And like most people I am right eye dominant. Interestingly at about the same time I noticed I was having trouble focusing at close range with my left eye. So I quickly trained myself and now if I look at something close up my my right eye is dominant and at a distance my left eye is dominant. It is now so natural to me I do not even notice I am doing it. I even forget which eye is dominant at which distance. About ten feet is the optimum distance for both being in focus.
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  3678. You'd think so wouldn't you.
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  3679. Viking rarely used berserkers. Partly because there was so few of them, most because those who claimed to be berserkers were not, and partly because once they went berserk they were as much a danger to their own side as they were to the enemy. What they preferred were wolves. These were groups of warriors who fought together as a team and as such were much more effective.
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  3680. Letting judges be selected by politicians is an abuse of power. As is letting politicians decide on who get prosecuted. Unless your in Russia, China, Iran or North Korea in which case it's fine
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  3681. The Stingray was originally a drone aimed at replacing manned naval aircraft used in the attack and fleet defence role. Only later did the idea of making it instead an unmanned tanker come about. I do wonder if there was to much opposition to the original role and rather then having an expensive white elephant on it hands the US Navy opted for the change in role. But drones will take over from manned aircraft and as these are smaller and lighter, no crew means no need for the other paraphernalia needed such as ejection seat, survival equipment et cetera. This could mean more drones per carrier or, more likely, smaller carriers. For one thing with no aircrews needed then there will be a smaller number of people per carrier. Not just the lack of aircrew but all that it would involve such as accommodation, supplies and so forth. So smaller carriers. There is another possibility and that is we would get a multi role ships with drones, anti ship and surface to surface missiles, air defence and other roles.
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  3682.  @NoName-sb9tp  Thanks
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  3683.  @alerossi8564  Thanks
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  3684. F. Spencer Chapman wrote a book called The Jungle Is Natural. Clearly the jungle had its own rules. Yes I know he was referring to the fact that it favoured neither side, but many who fought in the jungles during WW2 also felt it had its own rules.
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  3685.  @soulboygabicci5681  I did tht but spellchecker changed it.
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  3686. Do the Russians, and Yevgeny Prigozhin in particular, understand the concept of a Pyrrhic Victory
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  3687. You rather hope so.
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  3688.  @unaffiliated0437  does he realise that by commenting on CNN video he is also supporting CNN.
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  3689. We can all agree that the torys are beyond all hope. And with just one day to go there is nothing they can change that will make a difference
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  3690. WW2 did not end by diplomatic means. Also assurances were given to Ukraine after they gave up nuclear weapons and we have all seen how much that was worth.
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  3691. As a Yorkshireman I recognise those as pikelets, a local food.
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  3692. Two spies were landed by submarine and once ashore headed to a local pub. When they got there they were quickly arrested as, despite in not having rained for sometime, the bottoms of their trousers were wet after wadding ashore. I did read that because the German paratroopers had next to no control of their parachutes casualty rates could be as high as 25%
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  3693. Well the crew of the USS Forrestal had to learn that lesson during the Vietnam War.
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  3694. The fine would not be a problem. He can just take it from his build the wall scam.
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  3695. I'm assuming this is a comedy
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  3696. Testing so much in one project was dooming it to failure. Testing one new concept at a time gives you a chance to concentrate on that problem and make sure it works properly. Then you move on to the next one. Interesting that Dick Chaney would not let the project move over to the air force because it was Al Gores. in the UK they would they would take credit for what the other person had started.
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  3697. At 5:52 the photograph shows the U-155 with a British soldier in cap and greatcoat stood next to the conning tower. The U-155 surrender on 24 November 1918 and was then put on display in London, hence the greatcoat. The submarine you show at 10:50 is, as can clearly be seen, R3 and is one of the one I mentioned which was designed to hunt German submarines. As you can see from her clean lines she was built for speed. And, of course, this would reduce any noise she made while submerged. It would make it more difficult for enemies to hear her will underwater.
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  3698. Tellgryn I understand what you are saying but still much can be discovered. I have walked a Roman site which later became an Anglo-Saxon village and has been in continuous occupation since. Which means there has been 2000 years of people on the site. But still we were able to reveal much about the original Roman town from 2000 years ago. Short of taking bulldozers to the site of the battle much would still be in place. Yes some cartridges may have been picked up but bullets would more then likely been buried in the soil through force of impact. Short of time travel I think they gave a much better understanding of what went on that day and a somewhat clearer understanding of how the battle unfolded.
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  3699. Maybe they would have been better off with something which was not all-singing-all-dancing to start with. Get something that works and upgrade it when the new technology is proven rather then before it works.
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  3700. So Johnson lied to the committee who was looking into him lying to parliament.
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  3701. Trump. The Stone Cold Loser
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  3702. Should there be a place for everyone, including an anti-semite.
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  3703. I have to say how much I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Mrs Sherlock Homes obviously meant a great deal to you and I would very much like to thank you for bringing her story to us. As to what happened to her in later life I have seen this before. You can only carry such a weight on your shoulders for so long before it becomes to much. There comes a breaking point and she had reached it. Thank you again for sharing. ❤ History Guy. If your delightful wife can correctly pronounce English placenames then you are history. 😱
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  3704.  @rutabagasteu  why would I be cheated. That is simple arithmetic.
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  3705.  @WALTERBROADDUS  It's the will to live.
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  3706. When I first saw the crash my thoughts were this aircraft was too high and then that it came in to land too fast. This caused the aircraft to bounce and that caused the pilot to lose control. So pilot error.
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  3707. I love the fact that the church blamed the people for how they behaved and said it was a punishment from god. And then monks and nuns and priest and others in the church all started dying. So then the people asked what those in the church were doing that made god punish them.
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  3708. Both myself and my partner take this drug and here in the UK it cost us nothing as we have a national health service. For those who do not know this is because we have contributed to the cost already so it is free at the point of use. In other words we have prepaid.
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  3709. Some years ago I did read about a rogue wave event which happened at the end of the 19th century. The crew of the passenger ship saw the wave coming towards them but instead of turning into the wave the captain turned away from it. So rather than smashing into the wave the ships stern rose up the wave until it reached the top and like a surfer sat on top of the wave before sliding down the back.
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  3710. Not sure if it ever made it passed the drawing board but at one point what was then the West Germany government considered using the CH-54 for civil use. They had a problem with high speed accidents on autobahns and they planned to use the CH-54 with a mobile hospital surgery in a cabin slung beneath it. The idea was to fly the helicopter to the scene of the accident where emergency surgery could be carried out if needed.
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  3711. That China visit has been postponed. The US secretary of state has decided to delay the trip. Interestingly China has claimed it is a weather balloon which was blown off course. So a learning experience for the Chinese. The wind blows things around. This follows on from their last experiment where a man stood outside and discovered that when it rains you get wet. There next experiment looks at what is said about brass monkeys and cold weather. Do they really lose their bearings. No GPS jokes please.
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  3712. If Bolton is looking for regime change why not start at home. If you want to get rid of someone who got elected through a rigged election the White House would be a good place to start.
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  3713. The problem was simply that because the Conservatives had mismanaged the economy this meant Britain could not afford the aircraft. This is why Britain started looking at sharing with other countries in Europe. It had also become a one trick pony. Interesting that the F-4 Phantom was bought instead. Much more capable of taking on various tasks.
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  3714. Well we will not miss Rees-Mogg
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  3715. After that blast he'd certainly look like a Picasso painting. Nose here an ear there.
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  3716. Sunak has given up on winning the next election. He's just hanging on like John Major hoping that the electorate will 'come to their senses.' If Braverman does become leader of her party after the next election Labour can look forward to the next ten years in power
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  3717. Should have copyrighted that as it predates Star Trek😄👍
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  3718. Well that story I had not heard before. Thanks, Mark. And all things considered, I bet the Japanese were pleased not to have met any Australian crocodiles.
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  3719. So he is in the White House waiting for people who aren't even in Washington to back down. Meanwhile the two who goaded him into it are at home with their families. We know of people who do not have enough sense to come in out of the rain but he does not even know it raining.
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  3720. Despite what many people think duelling is not and never was legal and it could lead to being prosecuted for murder. As some people found out Also as the United States of America has no monarch then it also means it has no realm to be the guardian of. Though I am now curious as to what his costume would have looked like. Also if you cannot go to a Hemmingway look-a-like competition then what is the world coming to.
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  3721. He was in such a rush to get away from the Ukrainian HIMARS that he could not take his eyes off the rearview mirror.
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  3722. Cat? What cat?
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  3723.  @thisismagacountry1318  They had straight edged razors long before then.
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  3724. In ancient Rome all men shaved. The two problems were that they were dryshaved, i.e. no water and shaving soap. And the blades were not at all sharp. So they were not so much shaved as scraped. One Roman claimed that after coming out of the barbers he looked more like a gladiator fresh from the arena. I believe one of the reason the emperor Hadrian was so popular was that he had been a general in the army and that it was the fashion for those in the legions to grow beards. Having said that you have to think that he was less popular with barbers.
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  3725. Medieval people did have a good working knowledge of the manorial courts. They needed to now how the law worked and how it pertained to themselves and the lord of the manor as heavy fines could be leaved for things such as ploughing more land than they were entitled to. The village priest would also have land to work to keep himself feed. If this was work he was not used to it was not unusual for the priest to ask ask one of the people of the village to work it for him for which that person would receive payment. If this was someone whose land was next to that of the priest it was not unheard of for that person so slowly shave of some of the priest land for himself. The fact that they are stealing from a priest gives you some idea of how they viewed Christianity.
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  3726. Hague is and always was an idiot. How can someone who was in charge of the Justice Department try to rig the system after breaking the law.
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  3727. Looking at the way the Russians are performing it is hard to see them being able to take part in house to house fighting. If they cannot do the basics how can they do the more advanced fighting.
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  3728.  @mathewkelly9968  The Romans also sculpted statues out of marble and painted them. Hope that helps.
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  3729. I do know of the Kingdom of Aksum and its importance in the region but it is good to hear of further details of the kingdom and those that lived there. I wonder if the term 'King of Kings' follows the ancient use, from the time of Ancient Egypt, whereby if you capture land from another kingdom you could claim to be a king of kings. I did read of one king in the ancient middle east capturing land from the neighbouring kingdom. He then sent a message to the defeated king saying am I now a king of kings. Obviously not someone to be goaded. You mentioned Rome and China. They were not only aware of each other but also had diplomatic relations with each other. Having said that China did invade the eastern part of the Roman Empire during the reign of Hadrian. A Chinese army was sent west to drive off a group who was causing trouble for the Chinese Empire on its western border. Having achieved that goal, and with no orders to return, the army carried on west. Eventually they defeated the Parthians and were told by some prisoners there was a greater prize to the west. So the army carried on west. But after several days, and with the prisoners giving further information, the Chinese realised they had accidentally invaded the Roman Empire and withdrew. Interestingly with an army of some 50,000 strong, and many of them elite troops, if the Chinese general had decided to continue into the Roman Empire Rome would have been in series trouble. At that time the Roman Army was scattered all over the empire. And even if all could be grouped together they may well have been out numbered. You have to wonder what the result would have been for the empire. Even if they had defeated the Chinese army, or at least driven them back, with too few troops to return it to Roman control, many having to stay on the border, it could mean the end of the Roman Empire. Alternatively it could mean the Middle East and parts if not the whole of Europe and North Africa coming under Chinese control. How about that for a complete change in word history.
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  3730.  @briant5685  Two aircraft carriers that don't keep trying to sink themselves. How's your these days
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  3731. Great looking aircraft. Pity it wasn't ready in 1939. Imagine the Battle of Britain with squadrons of MB.5s over Kent. You really do not have time to be a perfectionist in wartime. Which is why the whole production run of German Panther tanks was less then three months worth of T-34s. Having said that when it comes to ejector seats you do want something a little bit better then good enough.
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  3732. Well Trump wanted walls. Now he's got them. And not a Mexican peso was spent
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  3733. No complaints when the Yanks got theirs though
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  3734. I'm with you here. Especially the similarity to Leonard Rossiter.
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  3735. Putin has his own problems at the moment
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  3736. I doubt if the Wagner group is as good as is made out. Remember these are the same people who attacked US troops in Syria and got obliterated. The Chechens are just the same in that they are only good at fighting those who cannot defend themselves.
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  3737. Hasn't the GOP killed enough people that they now have to kill children
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  3738.  @empath69  That can be said about any government with a navy. Or any other force
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  3739.  @bevpotter9938  True. But preserving Mary Rose and Warrior was a rather roundabout route.
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  3740. There is no one so blind as those who will not to see. And the Republicans are blind
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  3741. Deutsche Bank have just decided he is too toxic. They've not been paying attention.
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  3742.  @Karpo1986  Them's my thoughts. 😊
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  3743. So you would be trying to land onto this platform in rough weather when not only would the ship be moving around with the sea swell but the aircraft would be severally buffeted about by the wind. We saw how the Lynx helicopter struggled with that so we can see the difficulty these aircraft would have.
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  3744. I believe so
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  3745. Yet another delusional tory
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  3746. If she went for a cross party consensus two years ago she could have gotten the deal she wanted and won the vote. Trying to change things now by sticking to the same failed ideas that just got her the biggest defeat in 100 years is not going to work.
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  3747.  @roxannemccoy4329  That's an image I could have done without
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  3748. There was a man in London who ordered a taxi and asked the driver to take him to a city in German. The taxi driver was not sure about this so called his boss. His boss told the driver if he was ok with it then he should driver him there. So he drove the passenger to Germany using the Channel Tunnel. When the got to where they were going passenger paid the driver and got out the taxi. At this point British man approached the taxi driver and asked him to drive him to London. The same address they had set out from. The driver burst out laughing as he realised he'd been pranked.
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  3749. So why can't Trump's pass as president be revoked.
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  3750. During a battle in WW1 the British wanted to benign an area 2000 yards from their positions in order to stop the Germans counter attacking. They set up ten Vickers machine guns from the 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps and fired continually for 12 hours. They had a team there doing the loading of the rounds into the belts and they went through so much water that they even used the contents of the latrine buckets. I love the smell of hot urine in the morning, to paraphrase Col Kilgore. And in that 12 hour period the ten guns used one hundred new barrels and one million rounds were fired. I believe they had one stoppage but all guns were still firing after 12 hours. It may well be that when they later did the five million round test they may have known about the event I mentioned above and wanted to see the effects on the gun. The belts used on the Vickers were nine yards long and when a machine gunner asked how many rounds to fire was often told give them the whole nine yards. Now you know where that came from.
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  3751. Whole new meaning to Bog Body.
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  3752. You think about how anti Russian the GOP was and you then you look Leningrad Lindsay and Moscow Mitch. Not sure who is making the most noise. All those Cold War Republicans spinning in their graves or Putin laughing in the Kremlin.
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  3753. Think it already has been by the looks of it. Be fun watching Trump try slamming the revoling door shut.
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  3754.  @patverum9051  That sounds about right. All hype no sonic
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  3755. That's the real good stuff right their
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  3756. Well as he likes to think of himself as a mafia don it looks like they all get the kiss of death
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  3757. Well at least she did not go naked like some of them did in the Victorian times. Many seances from the Victorian period included partially robed, or is that disrobed, young women, which I suppose was nothing to do with the popularity of the the mediums concerned. I think they should have gone for the fraud charges instead. It was obviously fake, cheesecloth being very commonly used for ectoplasm. Druidism made a big hit in the Victorian times and is still quite popular today. It was originally claimed to be an older, and therefore purer, version of Christianity. Popular with the middle class. Though unlike the original there were no sacrifices carried out. Human or otherwise.
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  3758. So why was she made culture secretary. Just how far down the barrel were they scraping.
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  3759.  @VenatorPaleo  Doesn't quite have the same impact.
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  3760. Ford has been selling cars in Europe for decades. They make cars for the European market. They don't sell US vehicles in Europe because Europe doesn't want them
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  3761. Interesting that it was planned that the US Space Shuttle would have had 60 flights a year. I seem to remember that it was later revelled that the odds of a Shuttle failure would have meant one of those would have been a disaster. It is a pity we did not see more of the Buran. It would have made a big impact on space flight, as would the Energia rocket. In many was the old Soviet Union was behind the West. But in others they could do some quite brilliant things. I write this and just to my right is a video of the Ekranoplan aircraft. An aircraft designed to take advantage of ground-effect. Makes you wonder what we could have achieved as partners rather then rivals if the same effort had been applied.
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  3762. Not sure if it is still done but the SAS used wax bullets for when doing personal protection training. Though they didn't use all that protection.
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  3763. Ejection seats in helicopters is not a new idea as it was earlier proposed by the US during the Viet Nam War. But US helicopter pilots did not like the idea as it involved explosive bolts to remove rotor blades before ejection and they were concerned a bullet hitting on one of these bolts could cause the loss of a rotor bringing the helicopter down. Also if they were used it would leave the crew chief and door gunner still in the helicopter with no chance of survival. The biggest problem for the Ka-52 is the seating arrangement for the crew. With the tandem seating for the Apache it gives the pilot and weapons operator a good all-round view out of the cockpit. But with the side-by-side seating of the Ka-52 this leaves the pilot sat on the left with restricted view to his right and this means if a MANPAD is fired at that side he may not be able to see the missile in order to evade it.
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  3764. I have a feeling the posies did not really help
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  3765. Looks like it was built by a plumber.
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  3766. Well, that was a new one to me. I did read of a pilot flying his military jet reporting a bird strike but as he was near the airfield he landed okay. The ground crew check his aircraft out and reported that if there was a bird strike it must have been in its nest because all they found was bits of twig.
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  3767. At times some German fighters crossing the channel were so low that they clipped the waves with their propeller tips which bent the tips of the propellers backwards.
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  3768. There is nothing wrong with the tank. What is wrong is some mutton headed former KGB interpreter who thinks he's a military genius but in reality could not find his ass with both hands.
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  3769. Goring thought the after his death they would put up statues to him. Hitler got stamps
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  3770. Well he talks out of his butt
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  3771. Another little know aircraft to tickle my interest. Always a good day when one of your videos pops up.
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  3772. The Allies did the same with getting Germans to remove landmines. Technically illegal but no one wanted to lose Allied soldiers lives removing German mines.
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  3773. Trump announces to the world he wants to put America first. Then suddenly he wants the world to help against China. If he wants a partnership to deal with China he should have thought of that before excluding the rest of the world.
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  3774. British special forces against a bunch of half arsed untrained Russians. A bit one sided.
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  3775. Typical Australia. What's not getting rained on is on fire and what's not on fire is getting rained on. The things you'll do for fun. Stay dry
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  3776. Considering the reaction to those Russians who are leaving Russia rather that being called up Putin can have as many referenda as he wants it will not help him. It's all a delusional fantasy on his part.
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  3777. Makes you wonder how differently things could have been. In many ways it could have resembled Medieval Europe with its small kingdoms and dukedoms. If this was the case then what is now America could have ended up a number of larger countries similar to Spain, France and Germany are now. The possiblities are many and varied. When Texas gained independence Britain was the first country to recognise it.
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  3778. The fake backpack was the basis of Operation Mincemeat in WW 2. Also you should check out about deception by the British in WW 2. Whole towns and cities were hidden against German night attacks.
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  3779. I actually did know about it but I am pleased you have learned something new. 👍
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  3780. Putin's problem is that those countries who were under Russian control or influence now see Russia as a paper tiger and no longer fear Russia. And Putin is the author of his own downfall.
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  3781. Put in charge of Brexit. Had no idea of what he was doing so left it to his underlings. Then weaseled his way out by resigning on a jumped up pretext. Shoe in for the next Tory leader.
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  3782. Good timing
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  3783. I remember watching them in their first year when I was just 8
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  3784. Kodak tried to take on Polaroid with their own instant camera. Problem was it was not their camera. They had copied the Polaroid camera so closely that Polaroid sued them and won. As well as being fined Kodak had to remove it's camera from sale and give their customers the choice of either a refund or replace it with a Polaroid camera. Cost them a great deal of money and not a little in lost face.
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  3785. Great video. Rocket science for none rocket scientists. The claim with the Shuttle was that it would be making frequent flights into space, at least one every six days. But then you read that after each flight the three engines had to be remove to be checked which took months to do. So assuming they were flying once every 90 days there would have been a need for at least 15 Shuttles plus probably at least another 5 in reserve. They built six. Is this an example of over promising and under performing. Or was the original idea so compromised they just took what they could to keep flying.
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  3786. I am surprised this has not been done already. Designs were drawn up years ago which would have both underwater turbines and wind turbines used together on the same structure.
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  3787. Interesting history of the 190's origins.
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  3788. Johnson will not leave. He will have to be dragged out, probably with his fingers broken, as that is the only way. There is no evidence, nor has there ever been any evidence, that Johnson will change. For his entire life he has had a view of how the world runs and it runs around him. This has been self evident his entire life. So why Conservative MPs, supposedly the most sophisticated electorate in the country, did not see these problems with Johnson?
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  3789. Instead of expanding to the borders of the old Soviet Union we are seeing the junior partners realising that Russia is a spent force. Putin is an ex-KGB interpreter with no knowledge of accounting or the military
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  3790. So when he goes to prison will he wear an orange jumpsuit. Only with his skin colour he will look naked.
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  3791. You have to think that with so many admirers he could have made himself a much better life without being a criminal.
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  3792. Out of the worlds population one in three of those infected are Americans and under one in four deaths are Americans. If that is a great success I think America could do to be less successful.
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  3793.  @richmcgee434  the five minute videos yes. Last week's 5 plus hours Drydock. Not so much.😮
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  3794. Actually she is the Queen and that's her job.
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  3795. This is the Soviet Union of old. And Putin is a child of the Soviet Union.
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  3796. Nothing new here. I heard about this sort of thing years ago.
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  3797. The return of Agent Orange
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  3798. Next week it's feeding the 5000. So who's up for fish in breadcrumb.
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  3799.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  I came across the story of these two people in a book called The Etymologicon, though I did see a documentary about the origins of the OED some time ago. As I said the story of either one of these two people is fascinating in itself, but the two combined adds greatly to the story.
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  3800.  @Hawkzblade  So would all the others
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  3801. If Margaret Thatcher had got it right and allowed Westland to teamed up with Sikorsky instead of Augusta the British Armed Forces would have been flying British built Black Hawks. After all Westland had a long history with Sikorsky dating back to the 50s with the H-34 and the H-19. I did read that Westland built more Sea Kings then Sikorsky, we liked them so much.
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  3802. I did read that Stalin was in such a panic when the Germans got so close to Moscow that he sent one of his generals and an interpreter to negotiate a peace treaty which would have left Germany with all the territory they had already captured. But Hitler turned it down. Later the Russian general and interpreter were both shot as supposed traitors. Makes you wonder what would have happened if they had decided to sign a peace treaty.
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  3803. Good one
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  3804.  @Terribly_Grimm  Well it's not got any better that's for sure.
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  3805.  @khiem1939  Definitely.
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  3806.  @chrisgoldie5577  That should be more worrying than what is happening in Ukraine at the moment. But we can understand why Ukraine is the priority.
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  3807. The only thing Howard got right was to fire Boris Johnson for lying to him. Ironic considering how much Howard lied
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  3808. To help reduce wing warping the Germans planned to move the two wing mounted engines further toward the tip of the wings.
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  3809. In WW2 Germany used flying boats to rescue downed pilots from the English Channel. Some of these were attacked by RAF fighters. The Germans complained as their aircraft carried Red Cross marking and as such should not have been attacked. But the British pointed out that as the pilots were combatants they were not covered by the Red Cross. Yes some pilots may have been uninjured but not all of them. So those who were not injured should have been rescued by the military without Red Cross marking. Not sure how much sympathy Germany would have gotten when many would remember that in WW1 they deliberately sank two British Red Cross ships carrying wounded back to Britain.
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  3810. A plane hit by a train. Not an everyday occurrence. Hope the pilot makes a full recovery
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  3811. Soon to be ex home secretary
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  3812. Well it has to happen now and again and I am so very pleased when it does. Mark comes up with one I've not heard of before. And today's the day. Often I have some knowledge of the subject and Mark kindly fills in the missing details. But today it's the whole show. Thanks for that.
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  3813. I thought Putin had already gotten all the votes he needed to win. They're now just waiting for the election.
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  3814. That has always been how Putin operates.
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  3815. Windmills? So America has gone back to using windmills to grind wheat. Maybe they can use electricity to power the mill. Then you could use wind turbines like everyone else does. Just a thought.
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  3816.  @PHeMoX  Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I had forgotten that the seismic equipment did not turn up until later. Makes me think that the idea had reemerged after Apollo 12. I seem to remember it was someone, or some group, in the USAF who wanted to do it. Which makes me think it was someone who was from the 1969 project, or possibly from the earlier one. Remembering the precautions taken for the Apollo 11 on their return you can imagine what would happen if they had used a nuclear weapon on the moon. I feel that no astronaut would want to go up there knowing that all that nuclear contamination was there.
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  3817. I has no idea of what he will do because all the people who told him what to do were either fired or ended up doing time
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  3818. I have seen the footage at 03:17 and again at 07:32 of the German fighter aircraft attacking the B-17. I have seen many times over the years. I watched again a couple of years ago and I noticed something I had forgotten about. Not only was there no return fire from the B-17 but none of the guns are even moving. Waist gunners, tail gunner, ball gunner and dorsal gunner, none are moving. I saw an interview with someone who flew in the Eighth Army Air Force and when he was asked about him completing his tour he corrected the questioner by pointing out that he had survived his tour. Watching that footage you can see why he said that. The RAF's accuracy increased greatly when they started using Mosquitoes in Pathfinder Squadrons to drop marker flares before the bombing attacks went in. Interestingly Doolittle's strategy was the same as Goring's in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. Difference was that Doolittle stuck with it, Goring did not. Interesting about the Goring quote on the P-51 as he said something similar about the Mosquito. Well, he obviously recognised excellent aircraft when he saw them.
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  3819. As locomotives had been using water condensers for some time by this point I do wonder why they didn't use that.
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  3820. Trump is the ultimate RINO. He's real aim is the make the GOP unelectable.
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  3821. The Russian population has been in decline since WW2 so Putin's war has just made it just so much worse.
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  3822.  @psz5515  Sorry no. It was some time ago, I think back in the 90s, so I cannot remember the source. I do remember it partly because of the reuse of the Spitfire wing and partly because I found the concept of an aircraft designed to take on these huge fleets of Soviet helicopters fascinating. The Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy do have this thing about low level flying. I know when the RAF took over the RN's Buccaneers and flew them at Red Flag and they were so low, 15 to 20 feet off the ground, the US Airforce could not touch them. So hurtling around at tree top hight would mean nothing to them.
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  3823.  @sichere  Funnily enough I had the same thoughts. I know that it the chinook had to fly at top speed the Apache helicopters flying in support could not keep up.
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  3824.  @sailingbrewer  You'd think so but as helicopters use chaff and flares as well. So there are times when you just have to use guns. And that means flying low and slow.
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  3825. 2024 has got to be interesting for the Democrats what with Trump's base dying off. And what the hell is happening to Marj Taylor Greene. Someone running an electric current through that thing she's swinging from. She looks like one of those kids toys where the puppet is swinging on a crossbar.
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  3826. Back in the 50s half the voters in Scotland voted tory. Now they are a nonentity north of the border. Just need to do the same to them south of the border.
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  3827.  @chudthug  Almost
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  3828.  @garypulliam3740  Not true. All horse were gone before the war. At which time America still had horses
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  3829.  @georgepantazis141  If Plan 1919 had been used against Germany it would have included paratroopers.
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  3830. It's usually the Ukrainians who sink submarines while tied up in port
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  3831. talking of bombs. If brains were dynamite Boebert would not have enough explosives to blow her MAGA hat off
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  3832. Here's a thought. Instead of playing stupid tricks like this why doesn't Sunak actually govern.
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  3833. Putin has already said that the money went to the company Hunter Biden worked for and that Hunter Biden did not receive any of the money. All things considered should Trump be asking about corruption of a politicians children. Maybe he should ask Don Jr, Eric and Ivanka what they think.
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  3834. It would seem that if the Ukrainians can get some teams with some Stingers on the likely flight paths of these Russian helicopters you can cause chaos with the Russians and keep them even further away.
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  3835.  @christopherconard2831  I'm going to need considerably more coffee
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  3836. Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but is pronounced bo'son not boatswain. Hope that helps.
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  3837.  @JohnHollyoak-vx6pn  in his running shorts
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  3838. History is full of what looks like very good projects only for it to run out of time. You only have to look at all the aircraft projects which were shelved at the end of WW2
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  3839. I had read about soviet fighter pilots who would report problems with icing and were told to use the deicer to clear it. Then when the landed they would drain off the 'used' deicing fluid and took it to the officers mess for that evening consumption. Non-Russians in the army would drink the antifreeze used in the radiators t their trucks. Some even got their eyesight back.
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  3840. It is with some irony that we are half thinking this attack on the storage depot could be a Russian false flag. Yes it is more than likely a Ukrainian attack but when you play games like Putin does then he should expect this sort of thing.
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  3841. The Commander of the German troops in the East Africa campaign was celebrated as a hero when he returned to German as he was seen as the only successful German senior officer.
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  3842. Yet at the same time he's putting his own people in concentration camps
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  3843. wonder what General Patton would have thought about them. Were these the pistols of a pimp
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  3844.  @clivestainlesssteelwomble7665  This is true. And they also sold opium to China which got us into to wars with China.
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  3845. Compared to what was around at the time it was certainly different. Maybe too different for some. But then again before this the British had looked at using a bullpup rifle for the cavalry so who knows.
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  3846.  @Tom.J.O  As it was back then.
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  3847. There is a claim that three Russian attack helicopters were shot down by the Wagner group after they attacked the groups positions.
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  3848. I thought it was eels as I knew the local abbey at Wayne in East Yorkshire were paid eels as the churches tithe. In the Roman period British oysters were so popular that they were shipped to Rome as a delicacy.
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  3849. Killing off their own people to make Biden look bad. As Trumps base tends to be the older voter, which is a diminishing group, their idea is to speed up their demise. Well that's got to be a winning strategy.
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  3850. calvingreens I did think the same but I got the impression from the video that shortening the spike had resolved that issue. But having said that who knows, it could still be used for that. Having seen the linear version I do think that would be a better way to go, especially as it is just a case of adding combustion chambers to increase the power. It can also be used to vector the thrust.
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  3851. Okay, thanks calvingreene90 This may be why I never got that job as a rocket scientist. :)
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  3852. Hi bob dash. The aerospike engine is a rocket engine whereas the SABRE engine works as a hybrid jet/rocket engine. SABRE burns its fuel inside the engine, whereas the aerospike burns its fuel externally. So as far as I can see they are not compatible. As for the cooling system used by REL the question here is is it a system that can be used with the aerospike or is there better options. It would also depend on any patents held by REL and whether they were interested in a licence agreement with whoever is working on the aerospike. If you were running a company wanting to build the aerospike I think you would think long and hard about wanting to pay for a licence to use the cooling system, especially as it could be years before you got any return on your investment but you would still be paying for the licence. And there is no incentive for REL to help a rival engine. It would be like Google agreeing to help Apple with its iOS which would then allow Apple to get a bigger share of the market. Unless there was something in it for Google what is their incentive.
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  3853. Hi bob dash. Yep, your right. I should have checked first. I think the big thing is not to over complicate things. They are trying to prove the technology of the SABRE engine without then trying to add on other, as yet, partially unproven technology. Not to mention the added expense. Looking at the Wikipedia page it does mention about the bell nozzles and how inefficient they are but I feel I have missed something here, and there is a method of using the air coming into the engine to regulate the air pressure outside the nozzles, thus improving there efficiency. From what is said in this video and from what I have read about Skylon, Skylon would already be more cost effective. The narrator mentions getting the cost of launching a satellite at $1000 per pound. REL has stated in 2011 that Skylon would cost £650 per Kg. If we say $900 per Kg then aerospike would be $2200 per Kg. I think if aerospike becomes viable then who knows. But as things stand who is going to pay for it.
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  3854. calvingreene90 In my position as a none rocket scientist I assume from what you wrote that already having SABRE engine on the Skylon then having the aerospike as well would be pointless.
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  3855. Sorry, so you did. Been a long day.
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  3856. I have been looking at Flight of the Aerospike by ARCA Space Corporation and wondered about your thought on what they are doing.
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  3857. bob dash I think the Skylon defeats the need for VTOL as it flies like a conventional aircraft. One of the problems with rockets is that it needs to lift its entire weight off the ground from a standing start, which amongst other things, means you need extra fuel. This is why the VTOL version of the F35 has a much shorter range then the none VTOL version. Looking at the animation of the NASA spacecraft with the aerospike engines on this video my first thought was if you are building a flying wing why not just fly it like an aircraft. It would be a lot more efficient as the wing would give it lift and therefore use less fuel.
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  3858. I seem to remember that the biggest problem with Scramjets is the very poor thrust to weight ratio, which would suggest that the so called SR 72 will not be using it. If it actually ever existed. And this may explain DARPA's interest int the SABRE engine.
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  3859. One problem was that each country had its own agenda and was not averse to using these attacks to further that agenda rather then work with the others to stop the pirates.
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  3860. Ironic about Gene Wilder complaining about Johnny Depp because the author Roald Dahl did not want Wilder to play Willy Wonka. He wanted the comedian Spike Milligan.
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  3861. If you want to keep the numbers low then stay shut. For the sake of the children stay shut.
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  3862.  Michael Malloy  sorry I took that as read. Yes the Anzac, that Australia and New Zealand fought in Vietnam.
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  3863.  @BOORAGG  yes but we did not ask for help
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  3864. You.ve got to love a guy who flies into combat with his pipe
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  3865. They like Mexican food. Okay 😀👍
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  3866. Me too
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  3867.  @mouse454  There would be plenty of dust in summer.
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  3868.  @bashpr0mpt244  No need to check the accuracy on a Bren.
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  3869. The people who made this gun would notionally have made gun for the Royal Navy and they would have taken at least a year to make. In fact other similar guns used in France in WW1 were all naval guns which would have been used on the navy's battleships. The last gun used by the British Army in WW1 was called Sceneshifter. I am sure you can guess why.
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  3870. The Citroen DS, for me, epitomises French style
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  3871.  @Wallyworld30  Nice to know they had money to burn and material to waste. It's not like the German Airforce was flying around in clapped out aircraft that needed replacing or anything. Nor did the German Army need more Tigers or Panthers.
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  3872. Arnold Ridley suffered from the pain of those wounds throughout his life which may have been one of the reasons he became a playwright. Ridley had to sell the rights to The Ghost Train to cover the costs of a failed project he had worked on. He wanted to do the right thing by involved in the project and make sure everyone got what they were owed. But for that he could have retired and would have lived off the royalties of the play and would never have appeared in Dad's Army. Following the theme of medical people receiving high military awards in WW1 may I suggest you look into making a video on Captain Noel Chavasse. He was one of only three people to win the Victoria Cross twice and the only one to win both awards in the same war. World War One. He received the second award posthumously after dying of his wounds. Interestingly the first person to win the VC twice was Surgeon Captain Arthur Martin-Leake and it was he who had tried to save Captain Chavasse's life the night Chavasse died. Captain Martin-Leake had won his second VC earlier in the war. Like Captain Chavasse Captain Martin-Leake had won his VC saving a large number of wounded men.
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  3873. A very cleaver design but a lot of engineering just to remove one track. And that track already existed.
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  3874. Some years ago I read the autobiography of an RAF officer who was a radar operator in a nightfighter. While flying over Germany they came across a German nightfighter flying around a beacon some miles from where the RAF's bombers were attacking. They could not understand why the fighter was there miles from the bomber and came to the conclusion the pilot was a coward and was hiding from the bombers. There are a couple of reasons why this German was where he was. Firstly, he was flying in his designated box. Secondly, that he had been sent there by the British. The RAF was using people who spoke fluent German and were broadcasting on the same radio frequency and telling the pilots that the British were trying to trick them and not to listen to the other person. The other person being the real German. So German pilots were being told by German speaking RAF personnel to fly to a point away from where they should have been. This caused sufficient confusion amongst the German pilots that many would follow the instruction of the RAF personnel rather then their own people. One night the Germans did try and catch the RAF out. The German controllers were I believe all male, it has been some time since I read this so I may be wrong as to whether they were all male or all female. The Germans suddenly changing all their personnel to all female, or male, believing this would catch the British out. The British seem to have been aware of this, or at least the anticipated the possibility that this may happen, as they suddenly changed their personnel as well. So now the German pilots are having to deal with the added confusion of both sides suddenly changing their people and the same old arguments as to who was genuine and who was not. You get the feelimg they longed to be back on the Eastern Front.
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  3875. I did read of a man from London sentence to transportation to Australia and who managed to escape from the ship before it left. But instead of lying low or moving to a different part of the country he stayed in London. And while out one day who should he come across but the very judge who had sentenced him. So having been recaptured he was put on board the ship he had escaped from and this time he did not escape.
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  3876. I have long thought that the Conway's are playing a game with Trump as the pawn in between them. Once Trump's gone you can look for them trying to get book deals and TV interviews each playing off their position with Trump and making millions out of it.
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  3877.  @jwilsonhandmadeknives2760  As we both know this was standard for all such submarines no matter whose navy. Plus it is not like the rescuers would have got onboard and had a good look around. They would want to get everyone off as quickly as possible. It was more a case of the old Soviet rules applying of denying anything is wrong and if there was we can deal with it. I can understand it can be a point of pride but as they say 'pride comes before a fall.'
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  3878. Menelutorex. Most sniper shots at 300 to 400 metres or less.
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  3879. Alexane Rose. Even snipers will see dead and wounded. And snipers will act in support of attacking troops to make the enemy keep their heads down while their own troops advance. That tends to be much closer. That tactic was first developed in WW 1 then attacks over no mans land could be as short as 50 or 60 yards. So the sniper could definitely see who they shot.
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  3880. Russia is so great it cannot even get its own gas and oil out of the ground. It needs the 'evil' West to do it for them. And for the record Europe is already made up of countries. I know there has been cutbacks in Russian education, those super yachts don't pay for themselves, but you would think even Russians must know this
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  3881. Interesting little video. It's one of those where once you know about it you realise how obvious it would be. Clever though
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  3882. Thanks for this, it filled in a number of gaps in my knowledge of this attack. I knew about the problem of the speed of the aircraft flying below that to which the anti-aircraft could deal with, but, as always with these things, there is more to it then that. Some, such as the movement of the ship at sea, is an age old problem, which is why they used to fight so close to each other. Then when you bring in the weather and the aircraft's movement you do start to see why hitting a target could be so hard. I know there is this thing where an attacking aircraft should not make a second run because the gunners will have gotten their eye in, which is a good enough reason for the two which did not attack let discretion be the better part of valour.
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  3883. I forgot to mention that a saw a swordfish some years ago when I worked for British Aerospace. I believe it was one of the Royal Navy Historic Flight Swordfish's. It was much bigger then I thought it would be.
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  3884. An invasion which was reliant on inexperienced conscripts which would not be opposed by the US. This political decision quickly turns into a giant miscalculation. Sounds familiar
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  3885. Even Trump says his son is an idiot. And that's from Trump who is no genius. Stable or otherwise
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  3886. The thing with holding up the Me 262 product to convert them to fighter bombers that I always wonder about is why didn't they tell Hitler yes we'll do that but we will carry on building them to gain experience and have aircraft in hand ready to convert. Then fly it as a fighter until the fighter bomber aspect of it can be added. Then just ignore its use as a fighter bomber.
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  3887.  @chrisangus7078  Actually the French have won more wars then they have lost. The problem with WW2 was interference by politicians. As always
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  3888. Archers also used indirect fire, or indirect shooting as no chemical " fire" was involved. This allowed them to shoot on soldiers on castle battlements.
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  3889. He also needs to keep the senate otherwise he will be impeached again and this time Moscow Mich will not be able to save him
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  3890. Just watched a short Russian video which showed Russian troops complaining that they were being issued with WW2 weapons though part of the complaint was that some did not have any weapon at all. As for the truth of these claims I could not say. But the way things are going I would not be surprised.
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  3891. Rode off into the sunset with good will. Does this include his ex who found out Giuliani was divorcing her when Giuliani announced it at a press conference. The man is and has always been a complete and utter shit.
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  3892. To the best of my knowledge no RAF crews were lost and once the Canberra came into service it proved a much better aircraft.
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  3893. It's not like Republicans ever tried frightening people with things like Reds Under The Beds or some other crazy stuff by someone called Joe McCarthy with unfounded conspiracy theories about the officers in the US armed forces being communists. That would never happen.
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  3894. It was probably a Monday.
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  3895.  @SauloA333  We'll take your word for it as no one wants to get inside you head.😬
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  3896. May I suggest that the books are self published. There are a number publishers who would do this.
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  3897. Christmas came early
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  3898. Knowing a little bit about the problems of navigation during this period means that this does not a surprise to me. The smallest of errors can leave you miles away from where you think you target actually is. And I knew about the bombing of Switzerland by mistake. Long range navigation was still very rudimentary in those days. And it was compounded for the British because night bombing meant there was no points of reference. This is why the Royal Air Force Bomber Command introduced the Pathfinder Group. They were tasked with finding and marking the targets for the bombers. During the Battle of France in 1940 there was an air raid on a German town which was quickly blamed on the Allies, except that the locals all mention the markings on the aircraft were all German. A navigation error meant they had bombed one of their own towns by mistake.
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  3899. When you look at history it can often be a small event which can make all the difference.
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  3900. I seem to remember one of the major problems faced by the Germans was a failure to realise that the terrain was against them. The attack was to move south east to north west. But the steep valleys and ridges ran north east to south west. Across the line of advance. And in the end even if the Germans did reach Antwerp the Allies just had to much manpower and equipment and would have just crushed them. It was a battle the German were never going to win.
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  3901. I saw that video as well. Looking at Russia I was not that surprised at what was shown in the video. I also know about the tank factory being shut. And that the reason we have not seen the T-14 Armata is because it is also heavily reliant on imports which were sanctioned after Russia invaded Crimea.
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  3902. As the 'Chosen One' surely he walks across the water.
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  3903. It is interesting that without that trip to Italy Rodin would not have acquire the inspiration which so changed his life. The vital spark that changed everything.
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  3904.  @MoA-Reload...  thanks for reminding me. I have seen it and a couple of others as well as reading several accounts. But that was some time ago. Most accounts dealt more with the commandos whereas Drachs version concentrated more on the naval side which helped fill in the details from that aspect of the raid
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  3905.  @ibeatyoutubecircumventingy6344  Not sure where any of that came from but if you think it would be different now then you are very much mistaken. If you think that British special forces are not the same now as they were then then you are totally deluded. Let's not forget that recently the British Royal Marine Commandos not only beat the US Marines on an exercise in the US, the US Marines home ground, they forced many of the marines to surrender.
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  3906. The idea the torys are good on the economy makes you wonder why in the 80s and 90s they kept crashing the economy. Inflation is as high now as it was under John Major
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  3907. We need to do it now. But as always Boris, yet again, will not do what is needed.
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  3908. The more engineering involved the more it will cost and the longer it will take. Very few railway lines came in on time and on budget. Those that did had very little engineering. The Channel Tunnel was all engineering and was late and much more expensive than was originally thought. So if the government keeps adding in more tunnelling then the cost will go up.
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  3909. Interestingly during the Battle of Britain the Germans picked up the radio signals between the ground controllers and the fighters and the Germans assumed this was because the Royal Air Force pilots were under ground control. This would indicate the RAF pilots were not up to the same standards as Luftwaffe pilots. This was because the Germans had not discovered the British radar. And they did not realise that what was actually happening was the RAF fighters were being vectored in by ground control and were not being controlled by them.
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  3910.  @binaway  Thanks binaway. I remembered about the marines but I was not sure about the navy personal as well. They also mounted some of their big naval battleship/battlecruiser 12, 13.5 and 14 inch guns as railguns as well. No problems with the ammo there though. The two 14 inch guns, built for the army in 1918, were called "Boche Buster" and "Scene Shifter."
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  3911. I think he could catch a football. His mouth is big enough.
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  3912. If you wanted something different, aviation wise, you have to go Italian
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  3913. I have to say I love this. And I have to say I do share his sense of humour. I must admit as it's the 90th anniversary of the famous, or is that infamous, massacre I has expected a couple of Thomson submachine guns. That was also on a Thursday. I think we can all admire the classy way Iain inserted that penis into the but. I think, for obvious reasons, I'll stop there.😯
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  3914. First thing that came to mind
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  3915. Definitely history that needs to be remembered.
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  3916. Looks like it was designed by a plumber.
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  3917. So we took Bedlam, a hospital for the insane, and turned it into a war museum. Says it all really.
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  3918. The US trainers say it will take only 4 months not 6 to 8 months. We should not let Russia gain anything from this war. He needs stopping now.
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  3919. I do know of this aircraft and what they planned to do with it. And we all know about the Luftwaffe would later use fighter aircraft such as the 109 to ram US bombers. It's interesting that both Japan and Germany became so desperate that they thought suicide attacks were the solution. But in Germany when your boss is a sycophantic junkie should you expect clearheaded thinking
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  3920. start with a monoplane and end with a biplane. Or jets.
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  3921. Any regret she has is nothing we have to having her as leader.
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  3922. Being attacked by Mitt Romney is like being savaged by a dead sheep.
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  3923. The perseption that the civil service is left leaning. This from a right leaning newspaper.
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  3924. They were doing all of this but they were very much against building heavy bomber. Which is why they ended up with the Mistel project to attack targets no longer in range of their bombers.
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  3925. The fact that Trump is the Republicans only viable candidate must leave Biden feeling good about his chances.
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  3926. I think we take that as a figure of speech.
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  3927. When you have judges and prosecutors who are either selected by politicians or stand for election based on their political beliefs can you be surprised when that affects what they do.
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  3928. Johnson is a liar. He was fired by Michael Howard for lying to Michael Howard when Howard was the leader. And he was fired by The Times for lying to The Times readers. So why are we surprised that he lies.
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  3929. Ironically in a number of US states criminals do not have the vote
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  3930.  @alanmalcheski8882  Does your mother know your up this late. Slava Ukrainia Слава Украине
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  3931. Well if the US goes to war with North Korea they may have to dust off all of that research as the North Koreans still flies many MiG-17s
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  3932. Well America will be in a better place next year. I think we can guess why.
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  3933. When Trump and the kids are in prison who will be left with the bank accounts. Mrs Trump do you think
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  3934. I would check out this video by Drachinifel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AdcvDiA3lE If you are into naval history this is really excellent. In fact a number of those who subscribe to The History Guy also subscribe to him. Not only is he a naval historian he is also an engineer so he has an excellent knowledge things like ships armour and construction. So you get a more in depth explanation of various aspects of ship construction.
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  3935. And now, thanks to pandemic he failed to do anything about, his hotels are failing.
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  3936. He is delusional enough to try to become PM again. But his bolt is shot. And unlike Trump with the GOP in America, neither the party nor the country want him back.
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  3937.  @gerrynightingale9045  Something they were noted for. Imagine being on an enemy warship then suddenly seeing cannonballs skipping across the sea and hitting your ship and knowing your gunners could not do the same.
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  3938.  @alswann2702  in 1914 British generals were warned of an impending German attack by a pilot who had flown over the German positions only for the pilot to be told he'd got it wrong and did not see what he saw. Guess what happened next.
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  3939. So there was collusion and Trump knew. We can say this because we have gone from no collusion, to collusion was not a crime, to yes there was collusion but Trump did not know about it. So the next logical step has to be yes Trump knew about it with, probably, but it is not a crime. At least Nixon tried to keep his tapes secret. The fun part here is that if you played Giuliani's tapes in court Trump would probably get convicted on that alone. Beer drinking game for you, you'll probably need it at this stage. Everytime Giuliani contradicts himself you have a drink. Everytime he claims someone misinterprets what he said you have a drink. Probably two drinks there. And everytime he goes bug eyed because he just said something he should not have drink like it's your job. Down side is you will probably need a liver transplant. On the upside time you finally sober up it will all be over, or you'll be dead.
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  3940. The Chechens are all talk. When they first arrived in Ukraine the Chechens were useless and ended up being used as barrier troops behind the Russians. This resulted in a clash between Russian and Chechen troops which left many Chechens died. So the fact that they ran away again should not be a surprise.
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  3941. Somewhat ironic that at that time many in the US also thought the hippies were subversive
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  3942. Interestingly the the British equivalent of the Stinger supplied by the British to the Afghans was called the Javelin.
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  3943. I did watch the TV pictures as the Mary Rose was being lifted so I did see what happened to it. As I saw nothing fall off I assumed nothing tragic had happened to it. I play Skyrim on Steam and one of the mods I have is called Thunderchild. I helps your character with extra dragon shouts.
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  3944. The reply is simple. We have a whole submarine full of missiles with his name on and we know where he lives
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  3945.  @chrisebert7307  I make my own
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  3946.  @ttystikkrocks1042  You have good taste
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  3947. @Evan 1209 Taste as it sounds
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  3948.  @jerrybobteasdale  And one day your taste buds will thank you for it. 😀
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  3949.  @prometheusjackson8787  But Putin is a follower of Ivan Ilyin who was a Russian NAZI and a great admirer of Hitler. He even met Hitler. This at a time when the Soviet Union was fighting the NAZIs
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  3950.  @Philistine47  Ali Baba? Didn't he get caught trying to rob a bank? He was stood outside the vault door shouting 'Open Sesame.'
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  3951. I have also seen footage of a Russian jet flying down the road just above the traffic. Things you have to do when your GPS stops working.
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  3952. Surely Hague must know you cannot polish a turd
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  3953. Here's a thought. Trump looses the election and realising the Feds. or whoever, are after him he heads for the border only to be stopped by the only new stretch of wall he has built. Poetic justice you think?
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  3954. Just imagine if Trump had been president in December 1941 and he was trying to build a hotel in Tokyo.
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  3955. Ian is the Typical US WW2 tank designer. If you can put one machinegun in that space you can add three more. This is why some of the designs look like a weaponized hedgehog. Half the weight of some of these early designs was taken up by MGs. 😄
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  3956. The term Privy is still used when referring to the toilet. When telling someone where you are going you say 'I'm just of to the privy.' Someone did some research in the 16th century into wiping the 'nether region' and came to the conclusion that the best way to wipe the 'nock hole', as he called it, was with a gooses neck. Not only did is clean the the 'nock hole' but was very soft. This could make for an interesting advertising campaign. 'Next time you wipe your nock hole use our toilet paper. Better then a gooses neck.' There is a saying that something is the best thing since sliced bread. Meaning that a machine for slicing bread was the best invention. But the sliced bread machine was not a great success and it took another invention to make it the success it became. Definitely history that deserves to be remembered.
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  3957. Interesting that so many of the gun batteries were manned by sailors. It's not like they had anything else to do.
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  3958. Because of its similarity to the 109 they were sometime used in war films in place of the 109. For the 1960's film Battle of Britain real 109s, and Heinkel He 111s, were used because the Spanish Airforce was selling them off. Because they could no longer get the Daimler-Benz engines the Spanish, ironically, ended up using the British Merlin engines. If you watch the film they do not have the inverted V of the original 109. The aerial shots for the film used USAAF B 25 Mitchell. Almost contemporary.
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  3959. Okay, what happened? watched the video and gave it a thumbs up 👍. Went to write a comment. And gone. Tried refreshing the page a couple of times only to find it was removed.😒 The only thing I can think is the idea I wanted to congratulate Mark as he had found something I did not know about was to much and he went all giddy and removed the video.😊 Anyway Mark. Well done. Like most people I thought Hitler had stopped the parachutists being airdropped after Crete. So I was surprised to find their last drop was during the Ardenne offensive.
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  3960. I believe I am right in saying that the first and last casualties of WW1 fighting alongside the British were both Canadians.
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  3961. My grandfather, a Kitchener volunteer, was one of those firing one those 60 pounder guns. Unlike the infantry the artillery started firing seven days before the attack and, again unlike the infantry, would spend most if not all of their time at the front line.
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  3962. The gay mafia does not kill people but does some extremely cutting remarks about your dress sense.
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  3963. How about while they are in self quarantine how about it if no one tells them it's over.
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  3964. Looks like the League of the Damned.
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  3965.  @calripson  You mean AA gun crews never got attacked. Think again.
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  3966. What's the betting Johnson will not be there for the next election.
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  3967. I was going to say he also said he did not want to prorogue Parliament when we all knew he did and always planned to. But now the protests about it have hit the streets his election strategy of making it The People V Parliament is shot to pieces. So it may well be he is now realising that the Gove Cummings masterplan isn't worth the paper it was written on.
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  3968.  @igorminion9877  The Republicans have Sarah Palin. okay, bad example
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  3969. How many deaths are enough
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  3970. As both sides us the same kit saying the Russians are hitting the Ukrainians is not possible to verify. And knowing what the Russians are like then it is equally possible that this is training footage from Russia. To me it looks professionally produce rather then something from a battlefield.
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  3971. For something which is a senior officers weapon it does not look the part.
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  3972. Yet another example of Sunak's wrong footedness. If there's a wrong why to do it he'll find it. As for Johnson coming back, yes please. We need reminding how bad the torys are.
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  3973. Considering the trouble his lawyers are already in with the claim there was no more documents you can see why the are now not making any more of Trump's claims.
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  3974. The first USAAF aircraft to reach to 25 mission mark was the B-24 Hot Stuff of the 93rd Bombardment Group, 330th Bombardment Squadron. Her crew flew their 25th mission on February 7, 1943 dropping bombs on Naples, Italy, and went on to fly five additional missions thereafter, before Hot Stuff and her crew were recalled to the United States, where they were scheduled to go on a War Bonds Tour. On her way home she crashed into a mountain in Iceland and is now one of the Arctic Ghost Planes.
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  3975. It was the Troy's themselves who claimed they had won the London mayoral election before the count even started.
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  3976. The history of the Cornish pasty is both interesting and disputed. The old recipe actually came from Devon but the head of the Cornish tourist office claims there is a cave painting found in a cave in Cornwall showing the recipe. Which if true would make it the oldest recipe in the world. If true.
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  3977. Unlike Allied paratroopers the German paratroopers had no control over their parachutes. The best they could hope for was to twist themselves around to face the direction of travel just before impact. It has been estimated that each paratrooper had a 25% chance of injury to their feet and legs on landing.
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  3978.  @jaimedelgado7529  Well, no body who matters
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  3979.  @Robert-A-R  You're probably right
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  3980.  @gmanlee575  Turns out it is so full of holes it is totally unworkable
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  3981. I do know about the US and UK using various tank mounted rockets but not in this detail. So thanks for that. Those rockets have come a long way since the British Congreve rockets were used against the French during the Napoleonic War. And as the subject of this video includes tanks you should have gotten The Chieftain to explain the track tensioning for the T-34.
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  3982. I did know about this story but I came across it sometime ago so it is good to be reminded of the details.
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  3983. Kevin McCarthy got his spine from the same place Trump did
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  3984. There were plans to make a passenger version of Handley Page's Victor bomber, though this never came about. Interestingly the aircraft makes an appearance in the 1963 British comedy film The Iron Maiden where the promise of the films was an attempt to sell the passenger version to a US airline president. Talk about product placement.
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  3985. It is thought that the explosion of HMS Barham was actually caused by cold water from the ocean flooding down the funnel into the boilers superheating the water which then turned to superheated steam. Some of the massive volcanic eruptions have also been caused by water entering the volcano and turning into superheated steam. It has been noted that it looks like part of one of the boilers can be seen being blasted out of the ship.
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  3986.  @casinodelonge  If it isn't mint or something similar then you know not to trust them
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  3987. Both Trump and DeSantis have legal problems. DeSantis with the migrant stunt which is unlawful. Maybe they'll get to share a cell.
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  3988.  @direktorpresident  True. But it was the fact that they had to tack across the wind like they were in a sailing ship which struck me as being the most interesting.
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  3989. Definitely a missed opportunity
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  3990. Well despite what he says even Putin is not dumb enough to try taking on NATO. And the Russian generals are definatelly not dumb enough to try.
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  3991. You have to wonder why no one added the flint lock sooner
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  3992. US Navy submarines are manned by soldiers? You would think they would have used sailors instead.
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  3993. Nothing new here. The US had similar mines back in the 80s.
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  3994. @Ironmonkey103 how about being a crew member of a T72 knowing that will happen if you get hit by a Javelin. You can see why the crews abandon them.
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  3995.  @jonm1114  I must admit I have a soft spot for the Sherman. First King Tiger kill in France was a Firefly.
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  3996.  @warpartyattheoutpost4987  If that was good coffee then you have my deepest sympathy at your lose.😥
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  3997.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  Ironically an aircraft which needed the Merlin engine to make it shine.
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  3998.  @SirAntoniousBlock  Only just and with a lot of grease
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  3999. Interesting that the Hollywood WW2 films all have sub crews about twice as old as the real ones. When they referred to the skipper, in his mid 20s as the old man that was not to be taken literally.
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  4000. Interesting how many reporter don't want Sanders but do want the same old same old. What makes them think that a failed approach is the way to go. They should be reminded that the same old same old got them Trump.
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  4001. Don't Fox have Caller ID.
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  4002. Am I the only one hoping for a slow news day.
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  4003. So Trump is a seat which bears the imprint of the last person who sat on him
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  4004.  @silverhost9782  True.
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  4005. I can see why being on the wrong end of that would ruin your day.
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  4006. It seem to me to be both over complex and having to many ideas to work through. Usually a recipe for failure.
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  4007. The US had an agreement with Iran and then tore it up. So now they want Iran to sit down again with them for another agreement. Why would Iran believe a word the US says if they cannot be trusted to keep their word over the agreement they already had.
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  4008. I did know about these Shermans on Tarawa. It was on one of those programmes where they re-enacted tank battles with CGI. But well worth watching another take on it. It would take the US 100 years to take the island. It's been awhile since I have done any serious maths but I think he came up a bit short. Even without leap years that out by about 36,496. As for the one million men. That works out about 50 to a fox hole. You just have to hope the other 49 didn't go for the chilli option in their rations.
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  4009. You would not want to be on the receiving end of that lot coming down your ship. Really would ruin your day.
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  4010.  @ktkt1825  I'm really hoping you're referring to the top bunk.
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  4011. I see where the Germans went wrong with the Heinkel. They were designing the aircraft for the German Army instead of the German Airforce. How silly. Good job this channel noticed that.
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  4012. Pence's chances for being president died years ago. All he could have done was embarrass himself.
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  4013. Sometimes it is not good to toss a pancake
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  4014. Admiral Marschall did better then a German paratroop officer who was to take part in the attack of the Dutch forts in 1940. They were under extremely strict orders not to talk about what they were doing and when it was discovered he had disobeyed those orders he was court martialed and shot.
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  4015.  @politenessman3901  yet Putin's yacht is worth $100 million. His job pays well.
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  4016. Surely Denis Leary stealing Bill Hicks material should have been in there.
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  4017.  @None-zc5vg  Same thing happened to the Mosquito. The glue holding to laminations together came apart in the heat.
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  4018. Definitely a very interesting bit of kit. I had not realised how fast they could go, nor how top heavy they were. The British equivalent would have been the universal (Bren) carrier, which had been in service some years before the war. Not quite as fast, 30 MPH, but less likely to want to roll over and kill you.
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  4019. So the man who formally ran the Russian military, a civil engineer, is being replaced by an economist. You get the feeling Putin is not quite the genius people think he is.
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  4020. So the choice for 2024 is Ivanka, the interior designer. Or Don jr, a man who even Trump Sr thinks is an idiot. And did I miss something there? Don Jr is the son of a billionaire? So he is the son of a billionaire and ends up being adopted by Trump. That's got to hurt.
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  4021. I would not take advice from this man on anything. Mans an idiot
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  4022. A new Olympic sport. It's called First To The Border. So far Russians look like they will get the gold but Ukrainians may overtake them.
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  4023. Even the people who work in London would sooner not be in London.
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  4024. Thanks for that. I had asked in the previous videos on captured Panther tanks if the Russians used them so it is nice to get an answer. You must have some brilliant sources to find this information.
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  4025.  @bernardobiritiki  I was thinking about the originals rather then the later models.
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  4026. For a man who was such a great general the British sure fooled Rommel at El Alamein. Trucks faked to look like tanks, tanks faked to look like trucks. All to make him think the attack was coming from where it was not. Then it came from where he was not expecting it. A fake unfinished water pipeline even convinced him the attack was was not imminent, so when it came he was home in Germany.
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  4027. The fact that Ukraine now has more tanks than they had when the invasion started, thanks to Russia, makes the whole thing a lie. And the Russians in Donbas have also moved west because they don't want to be under Putin's rule.
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  4028. From Antonov, the people who gave you the Antonov A40 flying tank, we have the Antonov AN-14Sh flying hovercraft. Wait. didn't the hovercraft fly anyway. Yes it does fly very low. But it is counted as flying. Even had a pilot and everything. You get a feeling it should have been in a Bond movie.
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  4029. Bakhmut. Russia's very own Stalingrad.
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  4030. Britain has a submarine at sea at this moment which is armed with nuclear missiles pointed at Russia. The may not be as fast as the Russian missiles, assuming that the Russian missiles actually work, but they will still destroy large parts of Russia. And Russia knows this.
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  4031. Definitely horses for courses. British carriers would work well in the environment they were designed for as would the Americans. for where they were designed for. Having said that it would have been interesting to have seen an American carrier on an Arctic convoy.
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  4032. Best five minutes I have spent in a while.
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  4033.  @86thsamurai  No a bad thing.
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  4034. Many companies are now looking to keep their people at home because its cheaper for them with not paying rent. Also many of the staff prefer to work from home as they no longer have to spend a large part of their day travelling to work and back. And people starting their own businesses prefer to work from home so no need to rent office space. A trend which has been happening for some time now.
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  4035. we are spending billions on a railway so some business person can get from London to Birmingham 20 minutes earlier. Because no one has heard of Zoom.
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  4036. Nixon is the one who should complain about being compared to Trump
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  4037. I think if it did no one would do anything but shoot their own officers.
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  4038.  @davidolie8392  I would have thought so too. But it may be that the captain decided the aircraft had reached a point where abandoning it was the only option.
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  4039. they are attacking the UK because they dare not say this to the US, Though if he thinks the will cow the British it only shows how deluded he is
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  4040. What we need is the governing party to leave office and let someone else run the country as the conservatives clearly has no idea what it is doing.
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  4041. Putin is his own worst enemy. He attacks Ukrainian grain thinking they will now have to buy from him and not for one moment thinking he's just making it harder for himself because the cost of shipping has just gone up and no one wants to trade with him. Especially as no one wants Russian grain anyway. Even for free.
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  4042. As most of the Tory members are in the age group Johnson was happy to let die the results would have destroyed his party.
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  4043. The distinct wiff of German desperation.
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  4044. Motorball is the most imaginative fictional sports you've ever seen. Try Rollerball with James Caan 1975.
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  4045. I think he should invite Trump. In fact he should be allowed to dance on McCain's grave. And let's not forget as a former sailor he can be buried at sea. "Is that Trump waving or drowning?"
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  4046. Well, they would make good drones.
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  4047. One of the positive sides of the plague was that because there was more food available so the population of England was taller then they had been before the plague. Also there were new opportunities available for people to better themselves. A case of the silver lining to the plague cloud.
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  4048. Actually we all know that Trump should have been a manure salesman. He has all his own product.
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  4049. Sign of Theresa May's desperation.
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  4050. Smith made a very similar joke that Chris Rock did just before this incident. So Smith telling this joke is fine for him but wrong for Rock
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  4051. He was too busy planning his three day war.
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  4052. They are trying to resurrect Thatcherism and then claim it is the unions which are the dinosaurs. Well we have inflation back to the level of 40 years ago so they are partly there. We just need a boom in two years time followed by another bust followed by the chancellor singing in the bath. If ever there was a person promoted beyond his ability, and we are spoiled for choice with the Torys, it is Grant Shapps.
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  4053. You will need to wear a welders mask to deal with that flash.
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  4054. Another excellent video. I must admit this is the first time I have heard of NOAA but I have found it fascinating.
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  4055. Odd that he wants to keep criminals out. How else is he going to fill his cabinet.
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  4056. If anything Putin has made it harder for China. Putin's actions over his invasion of Ukraine have galvanize many countries into taking action over such invasions, something which is very much against China's interest. So now the world is watching China. The only thing China is going to get out of all this is cheaper energy and even that is some years off.
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  4057. I must admit I have wondered why there are not more flying wing types out there. There has been talk for some time about flying wing passenger planes which would mean they could carry many more passengers then conventional aircraft. This would mean either more people could fly or the number of aircraft could be reduced. But as yet we seem nowhere near getting them.
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  4058. Bris is already on a final warning from the back benches, so Csacrificed
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  4059. I had read about the use of electric razors as a way of jamming the German air to surface missiles but I must admit to being a bit skeptical about how useful it was. It would have been interesting to see the looks on the Germans faces when all those sailors suddenly decided to have a shave. Maybe what really happened was that the Germans were so stunned at the sight of all those sailors out on deck waving their electric razors that they just forgot to steer the missile.
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  4060. Death by stupidity
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  4061. The thing with the sand from the Sahara reaching the UK is not unusual. It happened a couple of months ago giving the sky a sepia tone.
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  4062.  @Krapfelapfen  I understand what you mean. I was thinking more that their behaviour was typical in that their actions were the same. Maybe I should have worded it better.
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  4063. Makes the Corsair look like a better aircraft for landing.
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  4064. As they are having a hard time getting their forces to fight the Ukrainians how is Russia going to get them to fight NATO.
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  4065.  @philvanderlaan5942  oops😄
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  4066.  @philvanderlaan5942  cheers from the 11 year olds
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  4067.  @martinondrus6344  Well there are some exceptions as I am sure you'll agree.
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  4068. Sounds like on of those TV shows from the 50s. Tune in next week for the next exciting episode. There were several of these strange missions at this time. There was two U-Boats sent to Japan. One taking jet parts, including engine parts I seem to remember, while the other was taking uranium for a nuclear weapon. I had wondered if when the first nuclear bomb was dropped whether Japan had realised what it was, being the first time one had been used. Well apparently they did. Before the war Japanese scientists offered the Japanese military the choice between a nuclear bomb and, believe it or not, a death ray. The went for death ray. Then after spending some time and a lot of money and resources they told the military that the amount of power needed for the death ray was more then the entire output for the whole of Japan.
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  4069. Oddly enough Edward, despite being denied a request to serve on the Western Front in WW1, did see action against the Germans on several occasions, even being awarded a medal.
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  4070. Erdohan has an election coming which he looks like loosing. So getting these people would boost his chances
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  4071.  @banksarenotyourfriends  I think this is why Americans don't travel much.
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  4072. Her own party never wanted her as leader and still don't. So yes she is done.
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  4073. What if indeed
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  4074. The Blackburn Buccaneer would be below you.
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  4075. You get a feeling in practice these things would be 'mislaid.' Like so many things did in order to reduce weight.
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  4076. Interesting that you said one was seen flying in January 2019. I saw one flying about that time over East Yorkshire in England. It looked like it was being escorted by an F-15. It was early in the morning not long after dawn and though I heard the F-15, which was heading south and passed above me, I saw what looked like a black arrowhead heading the same direction about 100 yards to the west of the F-15. Interestingly both were flying quite low and were easily visible. I must say I was more then a little surprised because I thought they had been withdrawn from service.
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  4077. Boris Johnson is a man of principle? As they say, it's a funny old world. Problem is if he does resign there could be a coalition from the other parties who step forward to take his place. And considering how many times he and Cummings have screwed it up should we be surprised.
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  4078. Love the idea of a U-Boats crew all suddenly having to rush to the bathroom. And they called USN submarines pig boats. Compared to the German U-Boats they would smell quite fragrant.💩
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  4079. When Tesco sells food at the end of its use by date they place the reduced price sticker over the use by sticker. Which means it could be out of date when you buy it but will not know. So this little ploy of their has cost them £7.5 million.
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  4080. Sunak played a blinder? He accused Starmer of being soft on crime. Starmer was head of the Crown Prosecution Service for five years. He prosecuted criminals. It was the usual smoke and mirrors we expect from the tories. Misdirect and never answer the question.
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  4081. On the death of Stalin Russia offered an olive branch to the West Eisenhower turned it down. John Foster Dulles stated that they had just gotten Europe frightened about Russia and they did not want them going back on that. Just imagine all the events since that time, all the Eastern European uprisings and all those who died because of Russian intervention. None of that would have happened. And also remember that the Korean and Vietnamese wars were backed by the Russians. How different would the world have been but for Eisenhower and Dulles intransigence with regards to Russia.
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  4082. Putin has found a way to make himself even weaker than he was.
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  4083. I believe that it is a requirement that you can only set fire to ships in a well ventilated space, such as the North Sea
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  4084. Same here. I have a copy of that film. Interestingly Akira Kurosawa had studied John Ford and his westerns while Ford came to be an admirer of Kurosawa's work. As with Ford Kurosawa had his group of actors he relied on. Some said Toshiro Mafuni was Kurosawa's John Wayne while Takashi Shimura was Kurosawa's Ward Bond. But I have to say I think Kurosawa had the better actors.
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  4085. It looks like Heard's problems are getting worse as Australia is taking a looking at her visit with her dogs. They are investigating Heard for perjury as to the excuse she told them about why her dogs were not declared, as well as the fact she may have persuaded others to commit perjury on her behalf.
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  4086. It looks like one of those self assembly beds you order only to find the parts come from three different beds.
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  4087. He has not been 'given' a tough hand. He willingly took this on. And Mr. Kenningham seems to have missed the fact under his party it has thrown the economy down the toilet. As for Labour's economic problems of 2008 were world wide and not just British.
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  4088. If the Russians are still using the old Soviet methods this could explain why they're doing so badly and why the Ukrainians are doing better. Interestingly the Soviet methods of top down command are those of the First World War. Something the rest of us stopped doing years ago.
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  4089. Another right wing politician who hoped to come to power in the same way as Anton Mussert had was Oswald Mosley. What he did not know was that if the Germans had tried to invade Britain there were orders that Mosley would have been killed along with others of his group.
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  4090. Is it not time to throw Russia off the UN Security Council. War criminals should not be there.
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  4091. Admiral Halsey does have a problem with decision making. It was his foul-up that left Taffy 3 to face the Japanese at the Battle of Samar while he chased Japanese ghosts. Not covering himself in glory by any means.
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  4092. If we are talking about dogfighting then it leaves much to be desired. Up against the Typhoon in close combat it lost.
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  4093.  @trentbyington5957  That is the figure given for those entering service this year, yes. As much of what is required to build the T-14 comes from abroad, cutbacks in education means they no longer have the engineers they once had to make these themselves, and sanctions on those imports means they are not likely getting many more for some time. This is probably why they have been updating their T-72s. Interestingly it is these updated T-72s which seem to be bearing the brunt of the of the offensive with them taking some 40% of those tanks destroyed or mission kills. Whereas I believe they only make some 20% of the invasion force.
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  4094. I did come across a reference to the original gullwing version of Spitfire. I understand there was a problem with the fact that the wings would have been part of the radiator. Hot water from the engine would enter the wing where it would cool done enough to be reused. From what I remember, and it is some time since I read this, two of the problems with that idea is that having hot water and steam hitting cold water would probably resulted in the wings being blown off. And secondly, any hits on the wings could result in water escaping and the engine seizing up.
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  4095. So a Doomsayer would be a judgement.
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  4096.  @bob_the_bomb4508  I did think of that but as a fighter the wing would make it easy to bounce from above, especially as the enemy is most likely to be ahead of you.
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  4097.  @mahbriggs  And the biplane had just reach its peak. Even so low mounted wings were very common by this time.
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  4098.  FlitzerFlash  Yep, your right. Still get to watch it happen though
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  4099.  FlitzerFlash  When you look at aviation history it is often surprising how much earlier things were. There was a British swept wing aircraft in the early 1920s. Over 20 years before the likes of the Me-262. And I am sure there was others before that.
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  4100. If you are a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan then you would know that the Pirates are in Penzance.
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  4101. So he is confusing movies with real life. Sounds like a stable genius. I do have an idea for who should have a duct tapped mouth.
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  4102.  @clonejones7955  That thesaurus you got is finally coming in handy.😂 How about him being a poltroon.
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  4103. If Fairey had received the funding for the next stage of the Fairey Rotodyne it would have been where the rotors would have folded away. This would have been ahead of the US helicopter. Fairey had reached the stage where they modeled and tested the mechanism to fold away the rotor.
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  4104. LBJ once said of one of his generals that he could not walk, talk and chew gum at the same time. Unlike Trump that general could get two out of three.
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  4105.  @admincpt  True. But an American report has stated that the Ukrainian pilots would need only 4 months to learn to fly the F-16.
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  4106.  @davincidreams832  True. But why train the Ukrainian pilots unless you intend to give Ukraine the jets.
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  4107.  @Animalignis  True but many of them already have combat experience. And they have experience using modern western weapons such Storm Shadow. And even the American trainers were impressed by the Ukrainian pilots abilities. At the moment they need aircraft with more capability than their old MiGs and the F-16 will give them that.
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  4108.  @Lupinthe3rd.  True
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  4109. A very good and concise summery
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  4110. When you consider the history between France and German what with the Franco-Prussian War and WW1, especially with Verdun still fresh in the French peoples minds, you have to ask why they would support and fight for Germany. In a reverse of this story some years ago I did read an autobiography of a German soldier, I forget if he was SS or a paratrooper, who claimed that he, along with a number of other Germans, joined the French Foreign Legion after the war and went to fight in the Indo-Chinese War. There is some doubt about the veracity this story but according to the author when it was discovered the Germans were fighting in the Legion they were brought back to France and dealt with there. Maybe this could be a future story for a video.
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  4111. You have a feeling that when all the U-Boat captains got together after the war Schlit was made to sit on his own. Too embarrassing.
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  4112. Casualties of war. Do you think Tatarsky, would have approved?
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  4113. kissing Trump's ring. Isn't that the next step down from brown nosing
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  4114. It has recently been discovered that the people who built Stonehenge died out some 4,000 years ago and there is evidence of them having the plague. When three skeletons from that period were examined, two from Somerset and one from Cumbria, it was discovered that there was Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, was in their dental pulp. 4,000 years ago is when the Neolithic ended and the Bronze Age began. There has for sometime been discussions as to whether or not the change to the Bronze Age was due to new ideas being passed on or an invasion of people with new technology, the making of items in bronze for example. It now looks like it was a migration of people from the continent moving into what had become empty lands in Britain. There was also evidence of the plague in England 1,500 years ago. Did anyone see when Covid started a young man who wandered around his village dressed as a plague doctor. Some people were upset by this and someone called the police but the police saw the funny side and he went home to get changed out of his costume.
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  4115. Picture books are fine. Does it come with crayons
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  4116. Putin's problem was that taking of Crimea was a massive blunder because the water needed for Crimea was from a river in Ukraine. Once Ukraine stopped that water flowing into Crimea Putin's choice was leave or invade Ukraine. So Putin's doom was sealed the moment he decided to invade Crimea without fully understanding what was involved.
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  4117. I did read that a Heinkel He 219 night fighter also landed in England by mistake. Again the pilot thought he was back over Germany. The man who designed the He 219 flew several missions to prove the aircraft's worth and claimed to have shot down three of the much feared Mosquitoes on three separate missions. After the war these claims were looked at and all proved false.
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  4118. At least someone has realised what Macron meant
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  4119. Actually it was the French admiral at Mirs El Kader who botched the negotiations. He refused to speak to the British negotiator because he was only a captain an not an admiral. The captain could speak French whereas the admiral could not. Besides would the British want to send their admiral into a port belonging to a government who was favouring Germany. Then when the French admiral reported back to the Vichy government he only sent back part of the terms offered which left the Vichy government with the belief that Britain had told them to either surrender or have their ships sunk. In actuality one of the terms was that the ships could sail to the US, at that time neutral, something the Vichy government had already decided was acceptable. Interesting FDR later told the French ambassador to Washington he would have also sunk the French ships at Mirs El Kader.
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  4120. Another great video. Thanks.
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  4121. Don't knock it. Them Vikings are not to be messed with.
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  4122.  @WagnerGroup2025  Why are you supporting the Russian war criminals
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  4123. Funnily enough I remember seeing a sandwich board man when I was a child. That must have been in the early 60s. I seem to remember he was advertising a local men's clothing business, though both are long gone.
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  4124.  @einwd  No just for grown ups. You five year olds have no sense of humour.
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  4125.  @RCAvhstape  How about Mitsubishi who made the Zero. They, amongst other things, also make cars.
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  4126.  @operkoi8954  Hands. Does that cruiser look familiar to you.
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  4127.  @markbecht1420  Well Britain did accept delivery of some of them. though they were, by that point, a little worse for wear.
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  4128.  @mjxw  A German pulled them over. 'Excuse me.' 'Can you point me in the direction of Stalingrad.'
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  4129.  @Robert53area  'Her, Josepi.' 'does that 11 in gun look familiar to you.
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  4130.  @markbecht1420  I did read that in the 1930s they would not have enclosed cockpits because they believed the best aerobatic aircraft did not have them.
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  4131.  @RCAvhstape  They did have so good looking aircraft.
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  4132. They say Trump is prolife. Over 100,000 Americas would disagree. But the dead don't get a vote
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  4133.  @MegaBanne  NATO is not just America. And if you noticed all them HIMAS hits on the Russians you'd realise that they are playing a part.
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  4134. Part of the design of the first tanks was an unditching log which could be attached to the tracks so when the tracks ran forward the log would pass under the tank and unditch it.
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  4135.  @michaelpiatkowskijr1045  true. Makes getting back a bit of a problem
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  4136. If you are paying more then any other country and the best you get is 37th in the WHO list then you are just not getting value for money. If you are paying twice as much as anyone else you should at least expect your healthcare to be better then anyone else not worse.
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  4137. Well his accommodation has been secured for sometime.
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  4138. Someone building an engine in his garage. Sound British. The first shed in space.
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  4139. As Sarah Huckabee Sanders could not tell the truth to save her life, excellent role model for her children, why do the reporters even bother to ask questions.
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  4140. Well. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving person
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  4141. DeSantis is Trump 2.0. As DeSantis is alienating more people than Trump did he his chances do not look good.
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  4142. The conservatives are not about Laissez-faire. Tell that to Margaret Thatcher, A society that gels together. From the party that brings you culture wars.
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  4143.  @THEGOVERNORFEELS  Well they are getting artillery shells from North Korea so who knows.
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  4144. Pity you can't play chicken noises when he walks off.
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  4145. Can I suggest you stick to Norwegian history as your knowledge of English history is terrible. Alfred the Great's grandson Athelstan simultaneously wiped out two great Viking/Scottish/Irish armies at Brunanburh which left him King of England. Or did you miss that bit.
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  4146.  @gregwasserman2635  As things are going how surprised would we be
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  4147.  @jaripukki267  Understandable in the circumstances.
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  4148. Sorry for the loss of your father. I think one of the saddest things when someone dies is that all they have thought, all they have known and all they have seen is lost with them. And as all of use who love history know, what we learn is a tiny fraction of what was there.
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  4149. Fun watching Trump slam the revolving door.
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  4150. The British Blackburn Buccaneer would fly its entire mission at that hight. It meant that even if a fighter could catch it, and they never could, they could not shoot it down. Check out the video of them at Red Flag. They flew so low neither the air defence or the USAF could get them.
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  4151. The torys will have at least five years of infighting after their inevitable lurch even further to the right post election. At that rate we are talking 2034 before they look like they are getting their act together.
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  4152. Barrow Alaska. Where you can have a one night stand and in the morning she's three months pregnant.
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  4153.  @mikepette4422  But true. Possibly.🤔
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  4154.  @sgtgiggles  Wouldn't take long. Ten minutes tops
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  4155. Actually hens do have teeth, or at least one tooth. When a chick is hatching it has one tooth at the front of the top beak which uses to help break the shell. After it is born the tooth is soon lost so its rarity may be to do with the fact that its existence is only brief. This does mean that rocking horse droppings are rarer. As a food source one of the big advantages of chicken is that it readily absorbs flavours from herbs and spices. You can see this by the number of countries which eat spicy chicken. Why did the chicken cross the road? For some fowl reason. 😊👍
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  4156. You've been working on the railroad.
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  4157. Interesting that Mitch McConnell is now backing away from Trump while Kevin McCarthy is still sucking up to Trump.
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  4158. I remember taking my family on holiday in East Anglia and coming to a T junction where about 10 to twelve of these types of car driving passed. Including several Bubble Cars. There was some huge get together nearby where many of these types of cars were on display.
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  4159. Well, on the upside all can now see that the NFT Emperor really was naked and NFTs have reached their true value of nothing
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  4160. There is a moved to get Trump banned from stand as he is an insurrectionist which means he is ineligible to hold office. What's more he does not even have to be convicted of insurrection to be banned for office.
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  4161. Funny how we all think of the Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik when it comes to tank busting. Turns out they were no great shakes and the best tank busters were the Typhoon, Tempest and the P-47. Of course were should have known the P-47 would make a good tank buster. After all it was the original Thunderbolt. The Germans and Italians were fighting the Allies in North Africa to get to the oil fields. They were fighting from Libya.
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  4162. Think that counts as an understatement.
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  4163.  Dana Chapin  I think she means Mike Pence.
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  4164. Interesting idea and ahead of its time
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  4165. Actually Gary Glitter does not sing on Rock and Roll part 2. That's just the Glitter Band. Ironically it charted higher then Rock and Roll with Glitter. My ex-wife was a big fan of Glitter and I took her to see him in concert. This was when he was at his height and before all the allegations about the under age sex came out. I was 19 and my ex was 18. Everyone else was no older the 13 with most being much younger. You know that feeling when something is not quite right. Well we both got that.
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  4166. The 1917 flu. Which was totally eclipsed by the 1918 flu which was so deadly it ended WW1. And not the British and Imperial forces along with the French and Americans who were on a site seeing tour of northeastern France.
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  4167. Not sure what use the Flying Wing aircraft would have been flying from the US to Europe during WW2. The German Luftwaffe would have been able to deal with them, especially as they were not protected by the P-51. Having a low radar signature may have helped but they would have had to fly over Spain and as Spain worked with the Germans they could have reported when the flying wings flew overhead. Still. I would have loved to see them flying.
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  4168. Wouldn't been so bad but the people booing Graham had never heard of him.They said it just seemed the right thing to do.
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  4169.  @sirdavidoftor3413  Thanks. And I will reply with Wes Hal which is Old English for Be Whole (Be Well). 👍👍
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  4170. What. No line up of all the naysayers eating humble pie.
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  4171.  @orlock20  If it all kicks off when Russia is finally defeated in Ukraine you can just see China sending troops into Siberia to "protect' the Chinese people living there.
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  4172. That's okay because no one wants you to go abroad anyway. Is that what they call a negative sum gain.
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  4173. I believe it was the French who first came up with the idea of photographing letters during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War. They would fly balloons out of Paris carrying mail and, as here, they turned to photographing the letter and shrinking them down to save weight. The hardest part was controlling where the balloon landed, especially making sure it was not in an area controlled by the Prussians.
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  4174. General Montgomery had sent for the British hangman Albert Pierrepoint, an experienced hangman, to carry out the hangings. But America wanted to use there own man. It would seem that they were not acquainted with the correct methods of hanging, such as how great the drop should be for the given weight of the condemned prisoner. Which is why they choked to death rather then having their necks snapped.
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  4175. Interestingly the gun stabilizer on the US M-4 Sherman tank was also classified. Which meant tank crews were not allowed to know how to use them. This did not stop the cleverer tank crewmen to work it out. And those that did said they were happy with the stabilizer. This rest who never learnt how to use them just belittled the devise claiming it was not good.
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  4176. As if the don't have enough problems
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  4177.  @terryboyer1342  Well there you go. Something new.
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  4178. Trump did the firing out of spite
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  4179. I know that a year or two before the war the Germans flew as Zeppelin out into the North Sea then headed north until they were off the Yorkshire coast. I aim of this flight was to find out if the British had radar, so this may have been the first elint, electronic intelligence, flight. Once off the Yorkshire coast the Zeppelin flew inland over Yorkshire where it was finally intercepted by, I believe, Hawker Hurricanes which were stationed there. As at no point did the Germans detect any radar and were not intercepted until over British soil they concluded that at that time the British were not using rader. What they did not know was that the British radar worked on a different frequency and the entire flight over the North Sea and then over Yorkshire was being watched. During the Battle of Britain German intelligence listened into RAF fighter radio messages. From this the concluded that the RAF pilots were not up to the same standards as the German Luftwaffe pilots and needed to be controlled from the ground. Much as North Vietnamese pilots during the Vietnam War were controlled. What they failed to realise was the ground controllers were not controlling the RAF fighter pilots but were, in fact, passing on information from the radar plots and the ROC. As for Germany not fully appreciating radar in the higher echelons of the Luftwaffe this may be born out by the fact that in the spring of 1943 many defencive projects which would not be ready within a year were cancelled. The folly of this decision was realised when in 1944 they find that RAF Lancaster bomber were all carrying radar to help the navigate and improving bombing.
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  4180. One of the factors in Russia selling off Alaska was incompetent mismanagement of its running
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  4181. Better a remoaner then a brexshiter
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  4182. 'Vice President Pence, what have you learnt from from Donald Trump.' Pence 'to lie fluently.'
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  4183. Some years ago when the French Army received their new uniforms they actually had a fashion show with soldiers on a catwalk. So hipsters indeed.
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  4184.  @sarttee  yes I did know that. My comment was me wondering why Germany did not also supply warships.
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  4185.  @fernandoscholzcambiaso1622  thanks. I did not realise it was so extensive, though I did know of the prewar connections.
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  4186.  @kingkeeper99  well the British army still uses the red coat for special parade, though it has been a while since the fought in them.
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  4187.  @tostie3110  I believe there was a falling out between Japan and Britain during the Washington Treaty.
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  4188.  @dinocanales8093  I suppose the fact that the British Admiral Thomas Cochrane played an important part in many of these countries gain independence from Spain would have had some influence as well.
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  4189.  @jevinliu4658  isn't that always the way.
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  4190.  @TheGreatLoco  you have to remember that the Royal Navy was set up to fight a different war. Which is why their carriers had armoured deck. If the US Navy had fought in the Atlanti or the Mediterranean their unarmed decks would have meant far higher losses. Also Japan viewed their carriers as a way to eliminate US carriers ready for the big battleship engagement. WW2 showed everyone that the era of the battleship was over. The irony here is that the US persisted with theirs, long after everyone else, yet they were one of the first to realise that the aircraft carrier had surpassed it.
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  4191.  Michael de Angeles  I think there are many quest6 about the quality of China's armed forces. So maybe quantity should not be the deciding factor here, but rather quality.
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  4192.  @Dwazedas  not sure if that would have helped if everyone else had made an issue of it. I think the real reason why they didn't was it was much easier to leave them there and just keep an eye on them.
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  4193.  @Armadurapersonal  they like a good bargain, as we all do.
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  4194.  XZDrake  Germany was more used to fighting in Eorope with large armies. Britain was better at small unit tactics
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  4195.  @kulgan18  reading about him I did think of him as being a forerunner of special forces they way he used his ships to mount raids against the French in Spain.
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  4196.  @duane8620  I have often wondered what would've happened if, before WW1, the British, French and Germans had worked together instead as rivals. What with French agriculture, German industry and British raw materials it would have been quite a force.
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  4197.  @matehavlik4559  As there was no war crimes committed then he cannot be a war criminal. You must be thinking about the Germans who sank at least two unarmed hospital ship full of wounded.
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  4198.  @matehavlik4559 If that was food for thought you would die of starvation. They were not prisoners of war but enemy combatants. And to stop to take them on board would put his own ship at risk. Let us not forget that a German U-Boat sank two British cruisers while they stopped to rescue British sailors from a ship that the U-boat had sunk. So you can see why they would not wish to suffer the same fate picking up enemy combatant. And how little they cared about rescuing sailors from the sea.
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  4199. I came across him in a book I read by someone who writes short biographies but unfortunately I cannot remember then name of the book. My local library has a copy so next time I am over there I will see what |I can find.
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  4200. You know if you put a translator on when Trump speaks it says "wha wha wha. Baby no like nasty man."
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  4201. Just before the sanctions of foreign currencies hit Russians were quing to get Dollars. When they were told the bank had no more Dollars half the que walked away saying who wants Rubles. And that was at the start. Now Putin it threatening to cut of oil and gas, like his economy isn't suffering enough, when everyone else is saying we are stopping the import of Russian oil and gas.
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  4202. Really? I must have missed that bit.
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  4203. It will get to the point where the war Ukraine will become a side issue to the civil war in Russia.
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  4204.  @karimdelakarim  We were City of Culture last year which was a huge success . When we applied five years ago hardy anyone applied and of those that did only Hull took it seriously. But because it had such a massive impact on the city with millions of people visiting nearly twice as many have applied for the new City of Culture title and all are taking it much more seriously this time. So if you want to come you are very welcome.
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  4205. Reading some of the comments I was reminded of a sign in a shop window on an English town near an American air base. it read English Spoken, American understood. Having said that I freely admit that the opposite is probably true and that there are America words I would struggle with.
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  4206. Looking forward to president Trump giving himself a pardon while in prison.
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  4207. Does 1440 teach you how to pronounce these names you keep getting so very wrong. Also not only did these aircraft not have stealth capability but the glue used actually increased its radar signature.
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  4208. Well that was unusual and rather clever design
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  4209. It's interesting how good disguising yourself could be for a highwayman. One highwayman stopped a man on horseback only to have the man exclaim that he was a fellow highwayman and therefore should not be robbed. Letting him go the highman retired to a nearby inn only to find the man he had stopped earlier telling everyone how he had fooled the highwayman. As the highwayman was no longer in disguise the man did not recognise him. The highwayman slipped out at dawn and waylaid the man a second time but this time he was wearing a different disguise. When the man again claimed to be a fellow highwayman he was told he would not get away with that a second time and was robbed.
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  4210. The BAE aircraft was not a ground attack aircraft, as it would have been used against the Soviet Union's large fleets of helicopters. It was realised that if the Soviet Union and NATO went to war the Soviets could use these large fleets of helicopters to land troops and even light troop carriers in NATO's rear areas attacking Headquarters, supplies et cetera. The idea was to use a highly agile aircraft with a rear mounted turboprop engine which would have flown at very low level to attack these fleets while they were still in the air. The aircraft would have had something like a 20 mm M61 Vulcan rotary cannon and a number of short range air-to-air missiles under each wing. The aim was to disrute these helicopter fleets before they got into NATOs rear and break up their attack.
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  4211. I think we can safely say he's trolling Putin for his wanting to "clean the NAZIs out of Ukraine."
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  4212. Sounds like an old man's laugh. He's obviously got his own take on life which he finds funny and I can relate to that.
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  4213. I am one of those people who have none of these problems. As for it keeping you awake I often drink coffee just before going to sleep and sleep like a baby.
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  4214. Is there any depths to which they will not sink.
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  4215. I will avoid that, if you don't mind. My partner originates from the West Country and she takes a dim view of me doing that accent.
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  4216. Interesting story. All this and he died at just 22. The name sounded familiar and then I remember that there was a 1969 film Where's Jack staring the singer turned actor Tommy Steel. In the film Wild, player by Stanley Baker, who is depicted as the 'Thief Taker General' rather then as a criminal. And Jack makes his final escape and goes to America.
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  4217. In Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series of books the sergeant in them is supposed to carry one of these. Problem is that the books are based 100 years later. And, considering the rarity of the gun, you have to wonder where he would find such a thing. Plus having just seen how they are used how did he go about firing it.
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  4218. People like tennis players are not the only ones to have asymmetric body development. People who greatly relied on the bow , such as hunters an military archers. have an asymmetric body development. This is because when using the bow the left arm is under compression when the bow is drawn while the right arm is under tension from pulling the bowstring back. Archaeologists have used this knowledge when excavating human skeletons.
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  4219. Looks very Buck Rogers
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  4220. Alex Crawford When you said Newcastle invented fast food I thought you meant a takeaway. Did you remember to take the saddles off this time.
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  4221. Wasn't there an Italian who built a steam powered floatplane back in the 1880s I think. He tried it out on a lake and claimed it did briefly fly though there were no witnesses
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  4222. At this rate if this wars lasts as long as Russia's did in Afghanistan it will cost Russia 1,620,000
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  4223. Live fast. Die young.
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  4224. Trump said he would be involved in a landslide. Trouble for Trump is he will be under it.
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  4225. You noticed that too
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  4226. At one time this sort of thing was kept quite. Now it seems to be a requirement to get the job. And the role models for republican women are Marjorie Greene Taylor and Lauren Boebert.
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  4227. Q&A Why Histriograher and not Historiographer. Also isn't Histriograher part of an official title. It would be interesting to know how you were given such a title
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  4228.  @khaelamensha3624  Your welcome
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  4229.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  This is true. I was just pointing out the American origins of its use in order to clarify the situation. As Algeria was under French control that is where they copied the style from.
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  4230. There are those in China who are looking at land lost to Russia in the past. It may bemand the return of that land.
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  4231. The cleverness is in its simplicity.
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  4232. The original P38 did not have counter rotating engines. It was the British that suggested it.
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  4233. Boyd Gilbreath Whereas I agree with most of what you write here I have to say that I do not think he has dementia. Dementia is defined as an overall term that describes a group of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities. I do not think there is a decline I just think this is how he has been all his life. He brags about how great the college he went to is. But that is now and not when he was there. I understand that back when he was there is was the college of last resort. The one you went to because you could not get into any other college. And even then he struggled. So I think what you see has always been there. Interestingly Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen went to a college which is rated the worst in America for lawyers. Birds of a feather do you think?
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  4234.  @phillip_iv_planetking6354  The English were supporting the Dutch because the Dutch wanted independence from Spain because of their treatment at the hands of the Spanish.
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  4235. Why should Ukraine be the one to give up land for peace. Especially as Putin will claim victory and be back up to his old tricks again. Russia must leave all Ukrainian territory.
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  4236. Toxicologist would examine the contents of the victims stomach when trying to ascertain if the victim was poisoned and which poison it may be. This could be very dangerous work as it would involve realising any toxic gases which had built up in the stomach. More than one toxicologist died from inhaling the gas.
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  4237. Mummy and daddy are sending him to bed because he has been a very naughty little boy.
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  4238. I do know about these vehicles but but it was nothing more that a photograph and a line or two. So it is nice to get a fuller picture. The French had trials with an aero car during WW1 which was a car with and aircraft engine and propeller at the back. For some reason they thought they could cross the battlefield better than a standard armoured car.
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  4239.  @Vagajammer  Not surprised.
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  4240. The between the wars period is one of odd design ideas and things which could have been very good if only.
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  4241. The same thing happened with the Italians in North Africa against the British. Despite the British forces being much smaller they captured the Italian army which invaded Egypt taking hundreds of thousands of prisoners. Italian supplies were so short they did not even have water
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  4242. The history of WW2 aviation is full of aircraft which arrived to late. Towards the end of WW2 there was some excellent piston engined aircraft but with the end of the war and the arrival of the jet they rarely got a chance.
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  4243. Could the Japanese have done a HMS Campbeltown on one or more Panama Canal lock gates on the 7th December 1941. I was thinking of them using merchant ships rather then warships and possibly under a false flag so as not to raise suspicions amongst the Americans on the canal.
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  4244. Viking coprolite, fossilised excrement, was found in York, England, when part of the town was archaeologically excavated some years ago. One of the things they found in the dig was the bones from a species of fish called the haddock. Interestingly haddock is still popular in northern England whereas in the south of England they prefer cod.
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  4245. What would Jesus say about the people who claim to follow him?
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  4246. The vehicle mounted version would have been without the clods of earth. Interestingly the side-skirting on German WW2 tanks was to deal with Soviet antitank rifles because even the side armour on Panther tanks was to thin and could be penetrated by the rifle.
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  4247. Thanks for reminding me about the Airfix model. I'd forgotten all about that.
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  4248. Definitely one of the better aircraft channels on YouTube
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  4249. American gun doctrine, they're cheaper by the dozen. Something which the still tried on they're early WW" tanks.
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  4250. And as soon as that war criminal Putin take his army out of Ukraine it will.
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  4251. One thing we forget today with modern travel is that for many people leaving for foreign lands they may never see their families again. Even if they lived a long life chances are they would never return.
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  4252. The Scylacis Periplus may well have been originally written by Scylacis with later additions included to bring it up to date. Julius Caesar was not a big fan of pirates, as we all know. Makes you wonder how he would have dealt with Antony's fleet.
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  4253. Penguin was saying, ' if sir would follow me to his table.' I must admit the April fools joke is something I would have done myself. Though not on April Fools Day. They knew me to well for that one.
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  4254. Me too.
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  4255. Boris Johnson denies something, everthing
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  4256. Gun Jesus does BBQ. Never knowingly under cooked.
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  4257. I knew of this incident as I had read of it in Group Captain Peter Townsend's book Duel of Eagles. When the Stuka came up against the British Royal Air Force they did struggle. One trick the Spitfires did was as each Stuka dived down a Spitfire would follow it shooting at it as it did so. These were called Stuka Parties. Over Malta one Spitfire pilot was so intent in shooting down his Stuka he forgot the one following and was himself shot down. Fortunately he did survive to fight another day. German E Boat crews, S boat to the Germans, called the boats the Stukas of the Sea. The British Royal Navy called theirs the Spitfire of the Sea.
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  4258. Am I the only one who thought the theme music to the Twilight Zone should have been played at the beginning. Bit late here. Should have posted this one on April 1st 😄👍
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  4259. This is not new. In the past this was common practise with the tories. Usually much more subtle and refined than this.
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  4260. If it was not Ukraine then the possibilities are this is a Russian false flag. Or this is Russian in the military doing it to stop supplies being sent to Ukraine so they do not have to fight.
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  4261.  @senianns9522  I would not be surprised if Russian casualties were more that 30%. The other thing to look at is how to assign the casualties from all those pointless failed attacks we see. As far as I can see they are all self inflicted.
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  4262.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Obviously a cut throat industry.
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  4263.  @dranderson6071  The UK does not have mass shootings of school children
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  4264. Should Trump be pointing out the possible misdemeanors of a politicians children
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  4265. The KV-1 was becoming outdated by then but it would have been interesting to see a T-34 with a 17 pounder in the turret. It would also have made the Korean War interesting with both sides using the T-34.
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  4266. China must be spitting feathers over Russia at the moment. They are all set to invade Taiwan in the next five years. They have even held joint exercises with Russia which included naval landings of troops. But now they have seen this mess the Russians are in and the world's reaction to Ukraine they they must be wonder about going through with it.
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  4267. I remember that at the time there was a lot in the news about why the Lockheed aircraft was chosen rather then the Boeing aircraft. Especially when the costs skyrocketed. There was also a lot of talk about problems with the aircraft, something which was not helped when, during it being shown the the press, part of its main undercarriage fell off. And there was talk back then about the wings. Further speculation about its choice was fueled when the airforce general in charge of the project retired to a job with Lockheed.
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  4268. Okay, so Trump can sue Cohen for a false claim with regards to rigging online polls in Trumps favour. Can all those who keep saying can this get any worse stop saying it. They don't need any encouragement.
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  4269. Getting the job of PM at this moment has got to be the most dangerous game of musical chairs going. Get is right and you may save the party and stay in power after 2024. Get it wrong and your party is condemned to oblivion, possibly for decades.
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  4270. First bubble canopy was on the Spitfire. The British then recommended it to the USAAF for the P-51
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  4271. Well, that explains much.
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  4272.  @SaugusZouave  In an actual combat situation during WW1 British soldiers would sooner shoot an enemy rather then stab him with a bayonet. Even with a bayonet fixed. Shooting someone is one thing. Actually stabbing that person is totally different. And there is a good possibility that you do not kill your opponent, or incapacitate them sufficiently to stop them being a threat. As for rifles being inefficient part of that is down to training such as not blazing away with you M16 over top of a wall while you remain hidden behind it. Instead use controlled fire and make sure your aiming at a target. This is why so much effort has been put in to making sure the rifle has better sights. And they also found that most of the killing is done by just a handful of people. The rest, as mentioned, were just shooting in the general direction of the enemy. Which is why training has changed in many armies. Your praise for the bayonet while pointing out how wasteful of rifles would suggest a return to using the spear. It would save a fortune in lead. 😊 Please take that last remark with the humour it was intended.
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  4273. You have to wonder why someone didn't just put a bullet in Hitler's head. They must all have wanted to do it.
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  4274. No. You leave it to me. I'll just take it into the shed. I fix it.
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  4275. And all those American forces in Japan? And then USAF bombers at Guam?
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  4276. This may be a surprise to some but pirates had a written constitution long before America did.
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  4277. China is not in a position to criticise others for being lazy as they have a huge problem with people taking part in the laying down protest. This protest is against employers requiring employees to work long hours six days a week. Others are leaving graduate jobs to work in the gig economy as delivery riders for food outlets. This is usually the younger generation.
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  4278. So Miss Obnoxious will not get a new seat and will be out of office. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
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  4279. I'd hate to be the person who had to explain to the insurance company about the trailer full of brand new cars getting hit by a train.
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  4280. Boris Johnson is a cult. Sorry, typo.
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  4281. Well it was a choice of two so he was close
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  4282. Xi: How's the invasion of Taiwan going. CCP Commander: Sunk without trace after launch.
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  4283. I have seen several videos about Taffy 3 and though the crews were Americans I have a feeling Nelson would have seen his doctrine and seen in Taffy 3 the finest naval warfare traditions of closing with the enemy. Heroes every one of them. As for Halsey. Here is a man looking for his own glory no matter what the expense to his own people. Not the first time his poor decision making had cost American lives.
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  4284. I think you will find this interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beating_the_bounds
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  4285. The Roman god Terminus is now the god of railway and bus stations. Well the ones at the end of the journey. And I see the good people Massachusetts and New Hampshire and of New Hampshire and Vermont enjoy this told custom as well.
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  4286.  @micecollective7555  He never said that.
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  4287. A thought about posters. Why not go through one of the sites such as Redbubble and get them to print and distribute them. It would be much easier and a lot cheaper as they are equipped to do this.
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  4288. As Russia is so corrupt why not just buy the Russian army.
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  4289. I know that in early movies people wore white gloves to make their hands stand out because of the low quality of the film at that time.
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  4290. I think the lizard men are taking over from the crab men.
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  4291. Ah, a case of Sod's Law. If it can go wrong it will go wrong and in a big way. The same think happened with German submarines. No one imagined they would be sailing from France. So basically we had an aircraft which was only any use if the bomber had no escort So why not just have a fighter. The prewar doctrine for RAF fighters attacking bombers was for them to overtake at about 10 knots to allow them to get a good shot in as they passed. Not sure what they thought the machine gunners would be doing while this happened.
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  4292. Ollimoore, I know what you mean but surely once you get to that stage you may as well just have a fighter.
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  4293. REgamesplayer. I have to agree with you with regards machine guns in the second half of WW 2. Cannons were a much better choice. Not sure why the US persisted with MGs into the Korean War. I think the sight of 23mm and 37mm cannon shells whistling past your canopy may have convinced them change was needed.
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  4294. REgamesplayer You seem to be generalising here. In the US army anyone who has been through basic training is ready for combat. I know this because I used to know someone who served as an officer in the British Royal Marines and he told me this. In the UK a soldier who has been through basic training is ready to go on to further training but is not deemed ready for combat. It takes two years in total for them to reach combat readiness. So when a British soldier or marine goes into combat they are much better prepared and much more competent with the weapons they will use. \I| did read that US troops are more prone to PTSD then British troops. Could this be because they have better training? Interestingly US troops and marines prefer to fight alongside British troops because they have such a good attitude to combat.
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  4295. I did know about the design being too tight but I do wonder why they did not start with the Merlin. They did have this thing about trying out new engines with new aircraft which does not make any sense. This means you have vastly increased your workload. Build the airframe and test it with an engine that works. You can do the same in reverse with the engine. This can lead to other problems. The Avro Manchester had problems with its Rolls Royce Vulture engines and was cancelled. The Hawker Tornado was cancelled as it had the same engine, but not the same problems. The problem was with the Vulture on the Manchester not on the Tornado.
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  4296. Alan Dicey. Thanks for that. You have to wonder what difference they could have made during the Battle of Britain if more had been available. What they would have done to the bombers with four 20mm cannon. Or with a couple of drop tanks and crossing the channel to disrupt the bombers while the assembled. Imagine the problems that would have caused for the Luftwaffe. They would need fighter top cover as well as fighter escort.
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  4297. Talking of smuggling during WW2 reminded me of the 1955 film The Ship That Died Of Shame about a former WW2 British motor torpedo boat being used for smuggling from the Continent. Well some people must have seen that film and thought that was a good idea because that is exactly what they did. As in the film they eventually got caught and they spent sometime as guest in one of Her Majesties prisons. The MTB was based at the time at Oulton Broad on the Norfolk Broads.
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  4298.  @LaReynedeNeige  I was never taking it seriously. I was just one of those things politicians say which no one believe. Frankly I never understand why they say it as even they don't believe it. That much salt would be fatal.
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  4299.  @tonupharry  If she can do any of this she'd keeping it well hidden
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  4300. China could gain from the collapse Russia. China has for some time looked at reclaiming Vladivostok which was once Chinese and called Yongmingcheng. With the end of Russia as it is now China would find regaining this land much easier.
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  4301. You should listen to what people do not say as well as what they do say. At no point did Mr. Rubio mention a wall. Border security yes, but at no time did he mention a wall. Yes everyone is in favour of border security but many are not for the wall. It did not help Trump's case for a wall when he was shown how people have tunnelled under the existing wall.
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  4302. Well they have been using transport aircraft to drop their biggest conventional bombs for sometime so this adds to their arsenal of weapons. Still it has got to make Putin sit up and notice
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  4303. She has to go for 2020 as Vice President. Things will have changed by 2024 and there is a good chance the Dems will take the top spot in 2024 if they did not take it in 2020. So the next likely chance will be 2028.
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  4304. Lindsey Graham. In case you want to know what a whipped dog looks like.
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  4305. One fact worth mentioning here is that Gordon was reluctant to go to Sudan. He had asked his close friend Sir Samuel White Baker if he would go to Sudan in his place. But Baker, an explorer and naturalist as well as an ardent opponent of African slavery, declined stating that he had promised his wife that his days of travelling to foreign lands were over.
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  4306. I had read about these boats but usually no more then a paragraph or two with a similar number of photographs, so it was very interesting to get more details and actual footage. You can see how desperate Germany had become at this point. It is somewhat ironic that, so sure were they of winning the war, many of the planned defensive projects were cancel in the spring of 1943. Then in 1944 they were looking at Lancaster bombers which was carrying radar to help with bombing and realised how wrong they were. If that was not bad enough many of the scientists and engineers from those projects ended up in the army on the Eastern Front. Obviously those making these decisions thought the scientist and engineers would be of better use there.
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  4307. So the Russians attacked down a route the Ukrainians expected them to follow. A route which was flanked from their right by the Ukrainians. The Russians play book seems to be missing many pages. Especially the one which says don't do this it's stupid.
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  4308.  @neilw.3012  We can see what is happening. A Russian crewman is using a slide rule. Can they get any more out of date.
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  4309. I forgot to mention about the British submarines based as Malta. So avoid being attacked during a raid they would submerge in the harbour during the hours of daylight and surface after dark. The were usually alongside the harbour wall when this happened. That way they could take on supplies et cetera before going back out on patrol and the Axis airforces did not even know they were there.
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  4310. Sometimes you don't realise just how complicated aircraft recognition can become. Pilot 1: Is that one of our Maryland's or one of theirs. Pilot 2: Not sure. Wait a minute and we'll find out if they start shooting at us.
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  4311. One of mine also.
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  4312.  @CaptainSloose  Cunningly disguised as trawlers.
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  4313.  @paulbocian5443  He's already doing that
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  4314. Boris is not dead in a ditch. Yet more disappointment from Boris.
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  4315. The USAF did fly tactical bombers in the ground support role in Vietnam. They flew the Martin B-57 Canberra, as did the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). I did read the that Canberra of the RAAF was so noted for its accuracy that US Forward Air Controllers preferred to use them if they were available. There is the possibility the the US Army and Airforce missed out on a much better solution in the form of the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne. A helicopter with the potential speed and firepower to have taken on the role of both the A-10 and the AH- 64 Apache. I believe one of the reasons the AH=56 was not accepted, besides it's speed making it too fast for the army airforce agreement, was its cost. But compared to the cost of both the AH-65 and the A-10 combined it was possibly a much better solution. And it would have meant it would have been under the control of the US Army rather than the US Airforce and would therefore have been under the armies budget.
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  4316.  @DraigBlackCat  Thanks. Some interesting thoughts
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  4317.  @rogerwhittle2078  Me too
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  4318. So which is bigger. His gone collection or his dressing up box.
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  4319. I have on occasion wondered what US Navy admirals from that time would think if they knew how much the Congress pays for the navy today. There now follows the ghostly sound of the jaws of US Navy topbrass hitting the floor.
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  4320. Which war?
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  4321. I think it was more a case of we were blissfully unaware of it's existence last time you were this early.
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  4322. Bombing the wrong town did not just happen in Switzerland. During the Battle of France a German town was bombed by the Germans because of navigational error. Nazi propaganda claimed it was the British but the towns people said the aircraft had crosses on the side.
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  4323. Well if it was left to Trump, the administration Bolton was part of, he would have done nothing and Ukraine would have been Russian. Moldavia would also be overrun by now.
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  4324. Sorry you'll have to be more specific. There are so many of them.
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  4325.  @willstand2514  This does seem to be more of a problem with getting things made in places like China which are not set up for western sizes. So it is more a case that your feet are the same size but the sizes shown are wrong.
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  4326. I have been reading recently about British hangmen in the 19th century. In the early part of the century many hangmen were themselves convicted murderers but were allowed to live if they took on the role of hangman. As it meant they would not be hung they accepted the job, but the only they could deal with it was by drinking before the hanging. Often heavily. Also the notoriety which was a difficult burden to bear. So I can see why such a devise would be appealing.
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  4327. I know that British snipers were always impressed by the standards of US snipers.
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  4328.  @johnp8131  We're showing our age John
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  4329. So who's word do you trust. John Bolton, who has been backed by others, or Donald Trump. A man who lies habitually.
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  4330. I have wondered about the idea of using something like this in Operation Market Garden using the universal carrier as the base. It would have been a lot more useful then the little tanks they were given. Though it never went into service the British Army was working on a man portable recoiless rifle which would have used the 25 pdr shell. It could be launched resting on your shoulder same way as a Bazooka. That would have been a surprise for the Germans.
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  4331.  @gabyboy12  They've also had British forces in there. They were teaching Ukrainians how to use NLAW before the Russians invaded.. The SAS are rumoured to be in there now. And if their in there who else is?
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  4332. Yep, I saw that one as well.
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  4333. Considering how much of a mess the Russian economy is in can it afford to rebuild its military. And Russia is so reliant on importing the technology it needs for its arms industry how does it get into a position where it can get hold of that technology. It's not like sanctions are going to be lifted any time soon. Its biggest export was oil and gas which Putin himself has cut off. Who's going to trust him again. This is not just Europe but also the companies in the industry who were partners with Russia because Russia is not capable of extracting the oil and gas themselves.
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  4334. How come complete strangers can walk up to the President of the United States and talk to him. What are the Secret Service doing? Any other president and the Secret Service would surely have stopped these people from getting anywhere near him. You would also think these incidents would be seen by at least someone, possibly recorded by the ever present film crews. No one from Fox seen these incidents. Makes you wonder if they really happened.
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  4335. Crap Russian Satnav
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  4336. Sad that the first pilot died practising for this flight, especially having survived combat during the war. Even sadder that the powers that be could not let the pilots have a fly past.
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  4337.  @watchman0062  Thanks. I could not remember if they were issued or not.
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  4338. Plum pudding, or plum duff, was boiled in muslin cloth and sold as a street food in the Victorian period
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  4339. @Edward109 K So they could launch rockets, possibly. 😊👍
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  4340. Not sure you got that bit right. The Tirpitz isn't hiding in the fjords now. Well most of it isn't anyway.😊
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  4341. Well, it's been awhile since anyone went balloon busting. Though the balloons were usually at a much lower altitude and were much better defended. And the USAF pilot who shot this one down has to get another 35 to beat the Belgian ace Willy Coppens.
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  4342. Donald J Trump. A pointless man doing pointless things. Says it all really.
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  4343. I very much believe this is a game the Conway's are playing here so they can make lots of money. Let's not forget that while Kelly-Ann is supposed to be defending Trump and often tangles with the press, she is also the biggest leaker to that very same press. I now believe this is why George decided not to join the Trump team so he could stay on the outside waiting for the Trump train wreck and pretends there is friction with his wife. When the Trump train finally comes of the rails there will be book deals for both of them and they will make millions out of it.
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  4344. Back in the 70s the Chinese got the nuclear bomb. But there was one small problem. They didn't have have a delivery system. No long range missile or bombers. So if you got an unexpected package from Chinese you just didn't sign for it. Just return to sender.
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  4345. Mussolini, Goebbels and Goring before but it is still very interesting to hear them all together.
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  4346. Drone Wars
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  4347. So Giuliani is working for the Russians. Just like his boss
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  4348. The Russian army will regroup. As soon as they stop running away. This might take awhile.
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  4349. Watching this I was thinking got jobs at Ford's. I thought that because I remembered about the Lockheed C-5 being accepted into the USAF despite its problems. There was a big show put on for the press with the C-5 going to do a demonstration of its capabilities, only to have part of the undercarriage fall off during takeoff. The airforce general there to meet the press made excuses for what happened and then went off to a nice job with Lockheed. Unfortunately the C-5 was chosen to help with the US leaving Viet Nam and one crashed just after takeoff killing all on board. Including some one hundred plus very young children.
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  4350. Can whoever keeps saying how much lower please stop asking that. It should be clear to everyone it is much lower than we all would think possible and they evidently have not reached the bottom yet.
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  4351. One way around the carburetor cut out when nosing over into the dive was to role it onto its back first and then pull back on the stick to get it to dive before straightening out again. This had two problems. One if you were in pursuit of a German aircraft the manoeuvre took time. Fractions of a second yes but this counts. Second problem is that if you are being pursued by a German aircraft it did giveaway the fact you were going into a dive. Interestingly fighter pilots today still roll onto their backs before diving because we now know that pushing the stick forward into a dive causes blood to go into the lungs and is a health hazard..
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  4352. Once again we see how great discoveries do not come from one person but from many. I hope you do a follow up to this to include Edward Jenner, as he is often called a pioneer of immunisation. Using a method valid in immunology before the discovery of germ theory, his work saved many lives. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived, as you mentioned, from Variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. It had long been noted that milk maids did not catch smallpox have already had cowpox. So Jenner used cowpox to immunise people against the related smallpox. In Jenner's time, smallpox killed around 10% of the British population, with the number as high as 20% in towns and cities where infection spread more easily. So it is easy to see how important his discovery was.
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  4353. I forgot to mention. In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world Middle-earth Ents are mentioned. Ent is the Old English word for a giant.
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  4354. Never taking McConnell at face value but could it be that he now sees a way of getting rid of Trump and the crazies.
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  4355. Russia did the exact same thing with Russians being held in Switzerland during their war in Afghanistan. So they really do not have any room to complain.
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  4356. Well, now we know why Donny Jr is the dumbest of the Trump's. And all things considered that's quite an achievement.
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  4357. The Lewis machinegun used by the British Army in WW1 had a seven man team, five of whom carried the the pan, drum, magazines. That's a lot of men for just one gun. You can imagine the relief when the Bren turned up
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  4358. As hie ancestors are German and Scottish they were on the other side.
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  4359. They destroyed several e-boats but missed all of the i-boats
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  4360. interesting that he was running an intelligence business. It seems to lack that certain something.
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  4361. There has been occasions when aircraft have shot themselves down. But never on such a regular basis.
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  4362. Churchill would refer to Hitler as Herr Schicklgruber during the war. So the information about his father original name was not new.
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  4363. Not so much the one that got away. More the one who did not want to go home. I did come across a story of an America POW, an airman, in Germany who escaped during the war but never made it back to Britain. At this time there were many Allied air raids on German cities and it was assumed he had died in one of them. But some years after the war was over he was found still in Germany still alive. Because he was not an officer he had been part of a work detail at a local farm. The farmer had been on the Eastern Front, though I think he had been killed out there. Anyway this airman and the widow started a relationship and when he escaped she hid him at her farm. After the war they lived together for sometime until it came to light who he really was. What happened to him I do not know, but I hope they managed to stay together.
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  4364. Don't forget he's a bigoted racist as well as someone fired twice for lying.
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  4365. Depends. Some of those deserts are quite big
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  4366. Russia is not pumping out missiles none stop. For one thing we know they haven't got the parts to operate them.
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  4367. So each drone costs $375,000 each. This at a time Russia's economy is being bankrupted and Russians cannot keep their homes warm. Not what you'd call value for money.
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  4368. It is interesting to remember here that research has shown most of the fighting in any army at this time was usually done by a handful of people like him. It's something like one in one hundred. So he is even more exceptional then you think.
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  4369.  @thecomputingchronicles  That is true. But then taking the story to the Telegraph when she's freelancing for Murdoch does look like a bad move careerwise.
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  4370. We all think of the battleship and what an important part it has played in naval history. But when you realise that HMS Dreadnought, the first true battleship, went into service in 1906 and the last battleship, HMS Vanguard, entered service in 1946, you realise what an impact they made to 20th century naval warfare in just their few short years. Interestingly the seeds of the battleships demise were sown in 1914 with HMS Ark Royal. The first ship in history designed and built as a seaplane carrier. In 1918, HMS Argus became the world's first carrier capable of launching and recovering naval aircraft.
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  4371.  @Maus5000  Not widely know but it was a B-24 which was first to get 25 missions in WW2. Unfortunately it was lost while trying to land in Iceland on its way back to the USA.
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  4372. I remember seeing these back in the 70s which makes me wonder if they are such a good idea why are the still not in widespread use
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  4373. Actually I think the British may have been the first to buy the M16. It was used by special forces, SAS, SBS and in jungle warfare. They ordered 10,000 of them. If the USAF was first then the British Army did get it before the US Army. Britain did adopt the FN SLR when America went for the M14 and I have seen a number of videos on YouTube explaining why the US should of but didn't adopt the FN SLR. Still could not shake off the M1. Both the M1 and M14 were very good weapons but from another era.
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  4374.  @silverfox575  As they were taking on the biggest battleship in the world I would think the last thing you could say was they had an inferiority complex.
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  4375. Isn't the answer to the question Are the Tories scared of a general election, are turkeys scared of Christmas?
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  4376. Trump is full of vitality? Biden had no trouble with that ramp Trump struggled with. And he can hold a glass to his lips
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  4377. I noticed Trump's lawyer always looking towards the Republicans. Is that because he's telling them what to think, or because he dare not look at the Democrats. Bit of both
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  4378.  @thomasflanders4153  My thought exactly. If you can think of it with Graham Chapman's voice you've got it.
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  4379. You failed to mention that King George had a Sten SMG which he carried with him in a small case.
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  4380. As Brexit secretary David Davis attended just two meeting with the EU but claimed his job was to keep his negotiation team calm. He was replaced with some scented candles and a box of camomile tea. We should remind David Davis that it was Margaret Thatcher who cut back on much of the training at the behest of business. They wanted other businesses to do the training so that they could then lure the people away.
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  4381. I wonder if Trump would get Roger Stone's old cell
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  4382. I knew the Russians were flying much less hours than NATO so 60 to 100 hours a year was not a surprise.
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  4383. That's a big piece of metal hurtling back and forward with the recoil.
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  4384. Even if the economy improves they are still the biggest clown show in British political history.
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  4385. Wagner is no longer a force to be reckoned with so it is probably little or no threat to Ukraine. So what we are seeing is yet another one of those Red Lines which disappear when you get near them.
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  4386. I would keep the admin at the end but time stamp it for those who wished to view it without waiting to reach the end of the video.
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  4387. Fortunately German spies had the habit of being detained very quickly so they never got the chance to steal the plans for the Spitfire.
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  4388. I know they have said that the F35 will be carrying out the close air support role, but should you really be using a one hundred million dollar aircraft for asymmetric warfare. Especially considering how much downtime they need for maintenance after each flight. To put it simply this is using a Rolls Royce to deliver a pizza.
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  4389. So this is the party of Lincoln.
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  4390. The Soviets were more advanced than we believed. Though Beria had stolen the plans for the nuclear bomb from the Americans, Soviet scientist had built their own bomb which was smaller and more powerful than the US nuclear bomb.
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  4391. Dan Scavino. The poor mans Bond Villain.
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  4392. Next up will be the invisible aircraft carrier brought to you by the people who made the emperors new clothes.
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  4393. Well having your brain washed has got to be better then having it dropped in the blender like them.
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  4394. The Soviet Union, Russia, knowing about the Valkyrie decided they needed an aircraft to intercept it and came up with the MiG 25. It started coming into service in 1965 while the XB 70 never went into service. So it was designed for a role which was no longer there. Like the XB 70. US Airforce intelligence found out about the MiG 25 but could find little information. They thought it was fast, they think one approached Israeli airspace doing Mach 3.2. and assumed it was manoeuvrable. When they finally got there hands on one, a Soviet pilot defected with one and landed in Japan, it did not live up to its billing. Turns out it was restricted to Mach 2.8 as any faster and it destroyed its own engines, which must been what made the one which approached Israel turn back and it had all the manoeuvrability of a brick. Because of the requirements for speed and the high temperatures it would reach the Soviets had to make most of it out of steel which made it very heavy and drank fuel like a drunk locked in a distillery.
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  4395. Putin is sulking because Ukraine would not do what Putin wanted and the rest of the world is on Ukraine's side.
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  4396. Where's a Fokker Triplane when you need one
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  4397. That's never going to happen because any nuclear strike would mean full scale nuclear retaliation. And the Russian military know this because the US has recently told them what will happen.
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  4398. PinkOld So true.
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  4399. Bet he'll settle for no wall then
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  4400. So Hamilton was Hoist by your own petard.
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  4401. There are over 100 millions Russians living abroad already. The way it is going there will be just Putin left there.
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  4402.  @greyvoice7949  I used the French example to show that these things can be countered. As drones need some form of guidance countermeasures can be used. And as that is something which already exists.
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  4403. Many highwaymen stories included some wealthy lawyer being robbed and this class was much hated amongst the poor. There is one story of a man who on being stopped by a highwayman avoided being robbed by claiming he too was a highwayman and was about to rob the robber. He was convincing enough that he was sent on his way. Later that evening at an inn he related the story of how he had made a fool of the highwayman and had kept his wealth. When he set off the following day he was again held up by a highwayman but this time his story of him also being a highwayman failed to get the results ha had hoped for. It turns out that the first highwayman was also in the inn that night and heard him boasting. So that morning the highwayman had departed early to get ready to stage the second holdup. There was a very successful farmer called William Davis, 1627 to 1689, who paid for everything in gold and as such he became known as Golden Farmer. Then one night he was shot and wounded near a highway. The shooter was a passenger in a coach Davis had just robbed. He had been a successful highwayman for some 40 year, extremely unusual in that profession. In fact he should have been called the Golden Highwayman and not the Golden Farmer. He had retired from being a highwayman but decided to return to his old trade one last time. The problem was he had lost his edge and failed to check the passengers for weapons. As he turned to ride away one passenger produced a hidden pistol and shot him in the back. He was taken to trail, convicted and hung. There is a story of him paying his landlord the yearly rent for the farm only for the landlord to be robbed by a highwayman on his way home. Next time Davis saw the landlord he was very sympathetic and his loss. And yes it was Davis. Interestingly many pirates at this time were also royalists, though many decided to remain in the pirate trade even after the restoration of the monarch. The just refrained from attacking English ships.
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  4404.  @gerryjamesedwards1227  Of all the cities, towns and villages in Britain only 30 had everyone return.
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  4405. As American troops would originally have been trained by the French it begs the question why this method of lying prone at an angle was not passed on. Or is it a case of those using it in training never had that information. But that then asks the question why didn't the American troops look at the weapon and seek a better why of using it.
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  4406. There was three Bear's equipt with nuclear reactors but because of the lack of shielding many of the crew members later died from radiation which leaked out.
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  4407.  @aaronsomerville2124  What if Hitler had stayed with the Bavarian comminists?
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  4408. Archaeologists using geophysics could find it. Ironically they used a version of the same technology, the Magnetic Anomaly Detector, to find submarines in WW2.
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  4409. Your saying something which I have thought for some time now. I have seen this very thing before. What we see here is what happens when infighting within your party becomes more important then fighting the other party. When power within the party is more important then being in power. So I have known for some months now that the notion that the Republicans will bounce back for the 2022 was very unlikely.
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  4410. To change Fahrenheit to Centigrade just deduct 30 and the divide by two. So 70 - 30 / 2 = 20. Okay Not spot on for scientific purposes but for your weather it will be fine.
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  4411. Cometh the hour cometh the man
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  4412.  @Delgen1951  Not a job I'd volunteer for
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  4413. A smart man made himself look stupid
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  4414. There is a recent article that mentioned the discovery of a fossilised dinosaur leg, not the bones but the actual leg. Apparently it had been burnt during the blast which tore the dinosaur apart.
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  4415. I know towards the end of the war the Germans got into suicide attacks. But I can only conclude, considering how many they lost without even bothering the Allies, they never quite understood the concept. You have to wonder what the answer to the question ' so where are the previous crews?' may have been. Kurt. 'Oh, well, you see.' 'Urm' 'Ah, Hans you take over my job and I'll just see how the batteries are doing.' 'don't worry.' 'Hans will explain it all to you.' Hans. 'You schweinhund.'
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  4416. Interesting that the party who say they know how to run the country have just took us into the highest inflation figures in the last 40 years. When they were also in power.
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  4417. Intourist has upped its game.
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  4418. The first flight an Apollo space capsule was 1961. Yet here we are nearly 60 years later and its look-a-like replacement and they cannot even get the basics right. What next from Boeing. The steam train followed by the stagecoach, neither of which works.
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  4419.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  61 was the first flight but the early ones were unmanned.
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  4420.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  According to Wikipedia Saturn 1 first flew on October 27, 1961 (yes I know Wikipedia is not the worlds best when it comes to accuracy on facts). I think I must have mixed up that date with the one for the first Apollo flight. But, still, you would have expected something more up to date by now. Even the Soviets had a shuttle.
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  4421. Another boy made me do it
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  4422. One English royal jester danced from Norwich to London to raise money for the poor.
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  4423. So the choice is a cleaning production or a Dutch football team.
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  4424. So no one wanted to go and no one wanted to speak there. Now there is a surprise.
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  4425. You do know they will take that as a challenge
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  4426. That would scare the crap out of the horses
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  4427. I have come across more than a few references to Allied troops rounding up the local officials and carrying out summary executions as they would all usually Nazi's.
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  4428. When you get to the point when you dare not tilt your head in case your brains start dribbling out of your ears then that is a good moment to take some R&R
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  4429. Not heard of the Secret Air Force before but, somehow, I am not surprised. Especially given their involvement with the Soviet Union later. Interesting how anti communist the Germans were when you consider they were the ones responsible for smuggling Lenin into Russia before the war.
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  4430.  @jlvfr  thanks. I know the Typhoon was used more for the ground role but the P-39 could have come in useful with the 37mm
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  4431.  @JohnyG29  true but ground attack and low level combat with the P-38 was more a Soviet thing as they were in need of such a thing
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  4432.  @jlvfr  thanks. Interestingly the Soviet 37mm was not very good either.
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  4433. Blogger Sergey Kolyasnikov is claiming that Russian defence officials and bureaucrats are deliberately withholding information from him about the state of the war in Ukraine. They are working with all the regional news outlets to stop any negative information getting to the top. If this is correct then Putin has no idea as to the true extent of Russian losses and how poorly the Russian military is performing. So his idea that Russia can get parts of Ukraine and the rest of the world would be fine with it is all based on false information he is being fed by his own people.
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  4434. TheBigStink Well, look on the bright side. At least he is consistent.
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  4435.  @madkills10  But the first flight of the Mi-24 was September 1969, two years after the Bell AH-1 Cobra. Where as they did not have its first flight of the Mil Mi-28 until November 1982 and Kamov Ka- 52 did not fly until 1997. In the 1960s the Soviet military wanted their version of the Cobra. Not an armed version of the Mi-8.
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  4436. Not sure what exercise he gets playing golf. Setting aside the fact he always rides around in a golf cart it has been shown that playing golf gives you very little exercise.
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  4437. I love the Capone reference.
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  4438. So where are all the eye witnesses. Oh yes. Trump has said they cannot give evidence. If he was innocent he would want them to give evidence
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  4439. If von Stauffenberg had included the unarmed explosive with the armed explosive it would have had the effect of killing Hitler.
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  4440. I like the story about the British test pilot Eric Brown. One day, I forget where he was, but this American started talking to him about test flying aircraft. Brown was somewhat irritated by this but as the American seemed quite knowledgeable he carried on the conversation. Brown had not recognised the American but they became very good friends. Yes it was Neil Armstrong. As for ancestors. The ancestors of Neil Armstrong, Billy Graham, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson would have all known each other.
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  4441. The German navy had not faired too well with the invasion of Norway loosing a number of ships, including the heavy cruiser the Blucher which blew up taking up to 1000 sailors and soldier with her.
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  4442.  @Trebor74  Putin tends to spend a lot of time pondering these things so the answer is probably yes. Having said that he usually gets it wrong once he does decided.
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  4443.  @davidhowse884  Trouble with that idea is that it would be even more obvious than a SAM
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  4444.  @daigriffiths399  You may be onto something
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  4445. To be fair to the Hurricane though it was a bit slower than the 109 it could out turn it.
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  4446. Better engines with four nose mounted cannons and this could have been Italy's Beaufighter.
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  4447. What is it about these people whose brain seems to suddenly fail to function the minute they get near Trump.
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  4448.  @davidb6576  Not sure if either version is applicable.
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  4449.  @jasongates-  Just her and Baron
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  4450. Experimentation of this type happened in other industries at this time. Locomotive fireboxes were built with a round top. But in 1864 the Belgian inventor Alfred Belpaire came up with the squire topped firebox. This increased the surface area which improved the heat transfer compared to the round top. The downside was the increased expense and though most British locomotive used the Belpaire firebox after the 1920s the London and North Eastern Railway did not.
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  4451. There was an idea during the Napoleonic War that the French were going to dig a tunnel under the English Channel and that the they could have used that to invade. To be fair to the French this seems to have been an English ideas which occasionally turned up when some newspaper editor wanted to increase sales. Not the sort of thing they'd do today, of course.
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  4452. I think we now see why he used the robot voice. He is actually Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks.
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  4453. Russia is becoming the land of the dead.
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  4454.  @neilcoligan8621  That's another aircraft which was flown by many countries was did not get the recognition it deserved.
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  4455. Johnson is is an American. He was born in the US and has an a US passport. Even gets those nice people at the IRS asking about his taxes. Bet you don't want him back.
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  4456. Not the first time political interference in Russian space projects has resulted in failure. Though this time no one died.
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  4457. You have to wonder about the thought processes of people who decide to intercept a Soviet bomber carrying nuclear weapons using a nuclear weapon. As we know the Germans used hypergolic fuel on the Me-163 which cause a number of accidents. After the war the British discovered this could be avoided by the use of a silver coated mesh to pass the fuel through.
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  4458. He died as he lived. Stupid
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  4459.  @katey1dog  not like they need the practise.
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  4460. Two quick points here. One, make sure when you are decorating your new home to make sure you have the windows open to increase ventilation so you do not inhale any of those nasty paint fumes. Secondly, you should stop drinking the "fortified" rum your great-great-grandfather left in the loft. I have read that the USS Second Amendment Rights only ever fired one broadside. Unfortunately due to an over zealous captain he ordered all guns were fired and not just those of the main armament, which resulted in the ship rolling over. But fortunately the force was such that the ship righted itself. Now it just so happened that while this rolling manoeuvre was taking place there just happened to be a shoal of tuna passing underneath the ship, most of which ended up on the deck. The Japanese ship, Most Honourable Combat, was nearby and offered assistance. When they came alongside they offered their help, by suggesting they combined their efforts and open a sushi bar in San Francisco, which they did. It was later bombed by the USAAF in revenge, it was claimed, for being left out of the deal. Oddly they claimed the attack was in a navigational error as they did not see the target and thought they were bombing in New Mexico. But witnesses said this cannot be true as San Francisco was light up like Christmas, mostly because it was Christmas. The USAAF said this saying it was not true and that any fool would have realised this incident was at the beginning of April. They also denied buying Royal Navy surplus fortified rum.
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  4461. Considering how poorly maintained much of the Russian military is and the shear cost of maintaining nuclear weapons there is a question of if these weapons are still usable.
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  4462. But for a twist of fate he would have remanded a navy officer. In early 1931 he announced his engagement to Lina von Osten. The problem was he was already engaged to another woman so Heydrich was charged with "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman" for a breach of promise. Admiral Erich Raeder dismissed Heydrich from the navy in April 1931. By June he had joined the NAZI party and the SS soon after.
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  4463. I thought that all these high speed aircraft were part of a single project. I had not realised there that different branches of the US military had their own projects. But then you remember all the other competing projects why would this be different. Anyway. thanks for filling in the gaps of my knowledge.
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  4464. Must be the Month of the Missile as The Tank Museum's Tank Chats has just done a video on the Humber Hornet. It carried the Malkara, an anti-tank guided missile. Object 287 looks like they were trying to achieve too much with too little, and most of it untested.
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  4465. He spent the money from the reward on the Aston Martin you see in Gold Finger.
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  4466. Russia did not tell their own troops about them blowing the dam which meant Russian troops were caught in the flood which resulted in Russian soldiers drowning.
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  4467.  @dabdillon6318  Kinda pushing the definition of airship there.👍😄
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  4468.  @Aren-1997  That was Rahbar Al Haq complaining that Drach said war broke out rather then war was declared. He's a bit of a stickler for getting things right.👍
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  4469. It was called the Jug because that is what it looked like. A water jug. As for fire power the C Wing Spitfire carried four 20 mm cannons. Enough to ruin anyone's day. The water injector was not unique to the P-47. I believe, in fact, the Germans had already used it first on the Me-109. The P47 was an excellent aircraft. Very rugged which could take a lot of punishment and still keep flying.
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  4470. I did read that the cost of a WW2 torpedo was the same as the cost of a Rolls Royce for that period. So you would want to use them cost effectively. Which is why ships like tankers were such important targets.
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  4471. This all checks out from what I have read. The head on attack was good at causing damage but limited because of the approach speed, which must have been somewhere between 500-600 MPH. I have read of one or two German pilots making a head on attack at the same level as the B-17. Those who survived usually didn't do it again. If you got the timing wrong then you never got to do a second pass.
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  4472. There is film footage of British troops coming under fire while carrying out an attack during the Battle of the Somme. Many doubted it was real, but the actually spot where the attack took place was found and that the film footage does show British troops coming under German fire during the Battle of the Somme. They even found approximately where the camera was positioned while it filmed the attack and it where the British front line would have been. There was some film footage of the Second Boer War which, though it still exists, was never shown at the time. It was of British troops, in South Africa, walking past the camera. The film was screened in Britain by the company who shot the film shortly before its release. It showed the British troops marching passed the camera with one of the soldiers limping, obviously the man had been wounded. And then another wounded soldier limped passed. And again another soldier limps passed. The remarkable thing is the each of these limping soldiers all looked alike. Now this either means that several almost identical men, possibly brothers, were serving in the British Army at this time, or this was the same man. It was the same man. Who, like everyone else in the film, was not even in the British Army. They were actors in a studio in England walking around the camera in a big circle to make it look like they were British troops on the march. The company supplied film footage of news events for British cinemas. No doubt some of it was real, but other footage was staged. So if you see film footage purporting to show British troops in the Boer War, watch out for a limping man.
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  4473. Well I saw the title of this video and right away I was intrigued. As automatic pistols have the magazine in the pistol grip isn't that close enough to being a bullpup. I have to admit to being surprised at the design and how clever it is. This person definatelly thought outside the box. I can see the advantage for people who have to carry a concealed weapon as it reduces the size of the pistol but still keeps the barrel length. So, thanks for showing us this gun. Learnt something new today.
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  4474.  @ndjibukabengele973  More of an economic death spiral. Dead people don't work and therefore do not add to the economy.
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  4475. I would love to see a video on the sinking of WWII German Submarine U-1206.
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  4476.  @elaineisabelle427  Considering how trigger happy Russian air defence is I'm not sure I'd want to risk it.
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  4477. All that for them to then decide it was not feasible. Who was more irritated. The glider pilot who did all that or the father-in-law who had to explain to his daughter that he'd put her husband through all that for nothing.
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  4478. Matt from Florida We do it to confuse the tourists. Once you lot have gone home we go back to using all of the letters. The Russians do something similar. They all speak perfect English when you are not there, but once you Americans arrive they start speaking English backwards. The fact that they write the letter R backwards is a clue. :-) Interestingly the Moscow Toys R Us was the only shop where no one went in to point out the letter R was backwards (that did actually happen in many of their stores). Historically there was popular trend in the thirteenth century to miss out certain letters when pronouncing words. Many others, such as Warwick came about because we tend to shorten words. Wick, by the way, comes from the Old English word Wic, which meant a trading place. Like a market. Where I live the old name for the settlement was Wyke which is a variation of Wic.
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  4479. Boris Johnson has no idea what he is doing. Unlike David Cameron he is not a 'swot' which is the sort of remark only stupid people says.
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  4480. What is it about Norway. They have better things to do then talk to Trump
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  4481. Trump is now very much a tainted brand. So whether it is one of his children or Trump 2.0 may be irrelevant. Plus the GOP is loosing its relevance and its base is shrinking. Which is why they are gerrymandering with the voting. And Trump and family may have legal problems of their own by then.
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  4482. Definitely a contender for a Darwin Award.
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  4483. Interesting that you missed the fact that Ferdinand invented the steam turbine.
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  4484. That I did not know. Thanks
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  4485. The 2022 threat is rather hollow when your base is just Trump supporters
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  4486. The Falklands invasion would never have taken place as Argentina was relying on there being no carriers. In fact if the military government had not brought the invasion forward the two carriers Britain had would have gone by the end of the year. Just imaging the Argentinians not only facing Harriers but also Buccaneers and Phantoms.
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  4487.  @rednaughtstudios  As we saw what Sea Harriers did to A-4s maybe the wait would be worth it.
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  4488. Inexperience Japanese pilots flying the Zero also got caught out in the dive could also get caught out.
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  4489. Considering what the Ukrainians do to the Russian armoured vehicles the last thing I'd be doing is hiding behind them.
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  4490. Chinese submarines. Like that one that sunk when it hit it's own antisubmarine defence barrier killing the crew. Or the brand new one that sunk while tied up in dock. Fifth generation aircraft which can be seen over 100 miles away. Or the new aircraft carrier which cannot launch aircraft. And let's not forget it has an army which last war was against Viet Nam in 1979 which it lost. Clearly a force to be reckoned with.
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  4491. You rather hope he gets transferred to one of those big ammunition depots, somewhere near Moscow perhaps.
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  4492. So what exactly does he do. Only I think he is not value for money
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  4493. I thought that was mild constipation.
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  4494. Wet himself. That's not what Diaper Donnies lawyers said while sat next to him in court. A wet diaper would be better than what they had to smell.
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  4495. There is a rumour that it's always the same man. They cannot prove it's him, to much fire damage to find the evidence, and because of manpower shortages they cannot get rid of him.
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  4496. So have I. It was used throughout most of WW2. So several years. And we are talking 20mm cannons.
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  4497. You've got to give them some credit. They managed to say it with a straight face.
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  4498. In British football there's a saying when you can't play the ball play the man. It means that the only way to not let the other side win is to foul the man rather then play the ball. All was done by teams who are just not up to playing the game. Always done by a dirty team.
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  4499. It's often missed but this was the first defeat for Germany. Their aim was to destroy the RAF, something they failed to do. Hitting London in daylight was a huge mistake. The Me-109 was at its limit for range and if the bombers took too long the fighters had the choice of leaving the bombers unescorted or run out of fuel. Plus Goring told the fighter escort to fly closer to the bombers and the only way to do that and keep their speed up was to weave across the sky. And this used up even more fuel. So once the fighters left the RAF could attack the bombers without being concerned about German fighters. And the German fighters, being low on fuel tried to avoid contact with the RAF before they got over the Channel.
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  4500. The Swedes stopped selling the US weapons when the US started using them in a war. So they would have been happy to sell them to the US if the US were not going to use them in a war.
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  4501. One thing to remember is that, unlike Russia, China is more tied into the world trade as it sees itself as a trading country. So sanctions on China for supporting Russia would have a greater damaging effect to the Chinese economy than they are to Russia. And they are hurting Russia. And China has enough economic problems as it is with being hit with sanction.
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  4502. Even he has seen the error of his ways.
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  4503.  @anomalousboreoeutherian7683  they used the kitchen sink as part of the clean up operation 😊
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  4504. He gets the peoples frustration, But still he won't call an election.
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  4505. Finally got what they wanted only to run out of time.
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  4506. Actually we should not forget that Russia has lost several sales of their aircraft because their engines and radar is so out of date. Pakistan has been working with China on a joint project and Pakistan has said that both the Russian engines and the Chinese copies are trash.
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  4507. Dr Fucci is more of a virologist says Dr. Siegal. Well the 'vi' in covid comes from the word virus. Corona Virus Disease. So if you want someone to tell you about Covid-19 then there is no one better than a virologist, such as Dr Fucci.
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  4508. Certainly puts the wild in wild west.
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  4509. So the brief for this weapon was design a light machine gun, which is not actually a LMG, with as complicated a method of reloading as possible. Well they seem to have managed it.
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  4510. Extra irony here is that the Arab Baath parties set up to destroy Israel did so with the help of German Nazis
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  4511. I must admit to being suspicious of Hitler's father and his wives becoming ill while he's have affairs. I have been doing some reading about murderers using poisons to kill people during the 19th century and this looks like a familiar tale.
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  4512. This lot would need the pass legislation for it so happen and they will be out of office long before then
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  4513. With so many sides using each others equipment it must have made life more difficult not knowing who was using what. You can imagine someone seeing a tank approaching calls out he can see a Tiger tank only to be asked 'ours or theirs.' I know that in North Africa because both sides were reliant on each others captured vehicles because of supply problems and it did occasionally cause some confusion. One time Rommel passed through a British camp almost unchallenged because he was riding in a British vehicle. I knew about the German Stukas sold to Japan which inspired the Japanese dive-bombers which, ironically, were inspired by American dive-bombers the American Curtiss Goshawk. May I suggest you take a look at the Romanian air forces Me 109s which they had bought from Germany before the war and then would later face the German 109s.
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  4514.  @TheCpadron19  give him time. Also the UK does not have a death penalty so no head chopping
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  4515.  @TheCpadron19  That was hundreds of years ago. Check it out, it's in all the history books. America does seem to have this thing about kings and I do wonder if the US knows things have changed. I have seen it mentioned several times that Trump is trying to be a king. Well if he models himself on the UK then I say go for it. The British queen has no powers whatsoever.
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  4516. Choppington Otter He is an unsung hero for us all, unlike others. It was estimated that one third of the American population alone would have died if WW3 had broken out, yet some US generals thought that they would win and the casualties were a price worth paying. Now people like that should be fired. And yes I do know people in other countries would have thought the same, the USSR for one. I am not singling out America in particular, I am just using it as an example because that is one I know. Of course considering how much of the planet would have been devastated by the war, not to mention all of the radiation, and the possibility of the nuclear winter for at least ten years, any victory would be a very much a Pyrrhic victory. You start to feel those who wold have died in WW3 would have been the lucky one.
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  4517. Ironically the people want to return it's just certain politicians who don't. The fact that those same politicians who have shown themselves to be totally untrustworthy have pushed the people towards returning.
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  4518. When you cannot answer the substance attack the process. Of course it does make you look a hypocrite when you were happy with the same process when you're using it against your opponents.
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  4519. Did Johnson win or did Corbin lose. As to Johnson lying, why did it take them so long to realise this. Years ago he was fired by The Time for lying to The Timed readership. And then while Michael Howard was the Conservative leader he fired Johnson for lying to him. So why are they now waking up to this. Or was it acceptable because it suited them at the time.
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  4520.  @jfryer485  As they used to say 'they were up to no good.' They were targeting the the world's chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons with a cyber attack.
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  4521. From what the Ukrainian intelligence has said Putin thought his troops would be welcomed with open arms by the Ukrainian population. All he had to do was turn up and the Ukrainian government would collapse and run away. Which may well go someway to explaining why the invasion was so badly planned. If at all.
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  4522. I have read various accounts of this incident some with fighting some without. So it was interesting to hear that there was no actual battle. I did know that many Dutch were reluctant for their fleet to sail for England, what with our past history. Yet Dutch born King William III of England was a Prince of the House of Orange who with his wife Queen Mary II, Princess of Orange, had both sat on the throne of England. And you would have thought this would have improved matters somewhat.
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  4523. She's gone.
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  4524. Well if they are brown nosing at least they wont get Covid-19.Not where they've got their noses. Nasal haemorrhoids maybe.
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  4525. The fact that the Russians are relying on WW2 unguided bombs for their aircraft says all you need to know. And we have seen that on their own video footage.
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  4526. Being so incompetent that you cannot successfully cover anything up is not the same as being transparent.
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  4527. Eric tweeted that Minnesota should get out and vote. Dated November 10th. You get the feeling he did not vote.
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  4528. That had a kick to it. Thought Ian was going to fall apart at one point. Nice to know what its capabilities were and how best to use it.
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  4529. It would help if the home secretary did not make the same the same remarks as the NAZIs
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  4530. Surely entry and not reentry. It never left Mars so it cannot reenter.
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  4531.  @meatrealwishes  Monarchs are not supposed to lead army as they are not trained to do that. That is what the generals and marshals are for. It also means that if it all goes wrong the general is replaced and not you.
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  4532. Yep. I'm the same with confined spaces. Also the idea of a ship that is supposed to sink. Just doesn't sit right.
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  4533. Ironically Trump has finally got he payment for Trump Moscow just was Moscow is worthless.
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  4534. There was a court case some years ago of a man who could not feed his hungry family so stole some food. He was arrested and taken to court after being charged with the theft. He was found not guilty because the law said that in these circumstances the food was to for his hungry family and the law allowed for such actions. Not sure if that law still exists but I know it was an old law.
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  4535. Turned to alcohol? Russia is fourth in the world for alcoholism with one in four Russians dying from alcohol abuse before they are 65. There was no turning involved.
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  4536. Listening to him talk I thought he was drinking it by the gallon. Don Junior . Running as the verbal diarrhoea candidate.
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  4537. That's not fair on the Devil
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  4538. So his argument was that he was to stupid to know that Trump was lying to him. He should be locked up for his own safety.
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  4539. It does not require a manager it requires a leader.
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  4540. During Ronald Reagan's time as president there were a number of top US officers who thought a war with Russia was winnable even though it would mean the deaths of one in three Americans. They thought that this was a price worth paying. You can imagine that there were those in Soviet Russia who thought the same. In fact we know there were Soviet plans to attack Alaska when the Soviets discovered the early warning system there was not NBC protected. Fortunately the West got news of this attack and took steps to protect Alaska and warned off the Soviets.
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  4541. The British Royal Air Force worked very closely with America at this time with regards to photo reconnaissance. When Eisenhour banned USAF flights over Russia the RAF took over flying from USAF bases in England using USAF aircraft. They would then do similar missions using the RAF's own Canberra photo reconnaissance aircraft. I have seen interviews with a former RAF pilot who were flying the U-2 in the late 50's. Check out U2 RAF pilot W/C Robbie Robinson. Interview with Paul Lashmar 16 May 1993 on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h64a3d1yES4 Apparently once at altitude the pilot had to keep the aircrafts speed within some 10 knots of required level flight speed for fear of ripping the wings off. Hats off to the pilots for that feat.
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  4542. Damn. I was going to say last time I was this early Nelson was still a warship
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  4543. In England lawns were originally part of a deer park and is where deer hunting took place. It was maintained and kept open because that is where the deer feed and it was easier to hunt deer in these open glades. Part of a local village is called The Lawns and is the only remaining indication that a deer pack existed there. As part of forest management trees would be cut down and this would allow new growths from the stumps, which would then in turn would be cut down when the were about an inch and a half to two inches thick. This would be turned into charcoal which would be used by people such as the local blacksmith. The act of cutting down the tree so the shoots can grow is called coppicing. The problem was that deer would eat the new shoots before they could grow. So they would cut the tree much higher up and above where the deer could reach. This was called pollarding. So the word became the name of the person who specialised in pollarding. So if you meet anyone called Pollard that persons ancestor worked in the deer park pollarding. Interestingly American Woodland Indians also kept these open glades so that they could hunt deer.
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  4544.  @davy1458  Actually the reason for two superstructures is to improve both ship and aircraft operation. And Britain is not the only country doing it.
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  4545. I am pleased he explained about Trump going into daycare. Otherwise I am sure none of us would have gotten it.
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  4546.  @ottovonbismarck2443  pleased you enjoy it, Otto
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  4547. Do you think they have some problems with their priorities.
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  4548. Well you certainly cannot accuse them of lacking courage. Jumping out of an aircraft at that height knowing if the chute failed you did not have far to go before you hit the ground and there was little you could do about it. And if that was not excitement enough for you there was always the Japanese shooting at you. And the aircrew did not have an easy time either. Flying over the same area three times. They say you should only do that once because the enemy has got his eye in for the second run. And you're doing three. It would be interesting to know why gliders were not used the USAAF had British Built Airspeed Horsa gliders which could have brought in 20 to 25 men at a time. We know they had used them The only thing I could think of was the ground was to bad.
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  4549. Thanks for that. Very interesting and informative. And I had no idea the origins went back so far. As to the origins of the term Black Friday I have read about them, it was introduced to the UK several years ago and I decided to research it. One I came across was that coined by a police officer while talking to a colleague. Noting the amount of smog in the air because of all the cars he called it Black Friday. Not sure which is the actual origin of the term but that one sort of sums up the modern life. Not sure about any other country but using a credit card in the UK used to be referred to as 'paying by plastic,' rather then paper money. Ironic as if you use notes today you are also paying by plastic and we no longer use paper.
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  4550. To be fair many German words are often made up of a number of single words. So we could have 'controlsurfacedeflectionlimiter.' But that would just look silly.
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  4551. Love the pistol with the really long barrel. If you miss you could always poke the other person in the eye or something. As someone who studied archaeology I must say it would be great finding something like them while out fieldwalking.
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  4552. That is definitely a story any pilot could dine out on. How I brought down the highest flying German aircraft of the war.
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  4553. Actually that may be a conflict of interest as there is talk of the cow replacing Nunes. We can only hope.
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  4554. Belarus is not going to invade Ukraine. For one thing some 90% of the Belarusian population is against getting involved in the war. And if the Belarusian army performs as badly as the Russian army that is the end of Lukashenko. So no. Belarus will not invade Ukraine. The real fun for Lukashenko will come when all this is over. As an ally of Putin he will still be in the doghouse with him. Along with their two respective counties. Also Belarus will still be neighbours with Ukraine. And you get the feeling that Ukraine may not want to forgive and forget.
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  4555. Must admit I also thought that. Maybe that's what the crane is for so as they can hoist up the new candle. They invented the flamethrower to light the candle.
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  4556. That rabbit really needs to stop binge watching Daily Dose Of Internet videos.
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  4557. I really should not watch videos like this as I end up drooling on my keyboards. And I am not claiming that I have a good sense of smell but I could smell that meal over here in the UK.
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  4558.  @VitoFranchesko  It would be interesting to know who else from the Russian Federation are fighting for the Ukrainians. There must be quite a few who want to get their own back on Putin.
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  4559. The Russians know the Ukrainians use drones but for some strange reason they do not take any steps to hid themselves.
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  4560. Can I just say that as a veteran of Drakinifel's videos I would have to disagree about this video being to long. I have seen answers to a single question take longer. It would have been interesting to have seen the effects of a sniper scope being added. It was well known for its long range accuracy so it would have been fascinating to see what it could have achieved.
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  4561. I did read that something like 0.001% of all combat deaths were in WW 1 were due to the use of the bayonet. There are recorded instances of British troops who when faced with a German soldier at close range and with the bayonet attached to their rifles would still shoot the German rather then use the bayonet. It seems that the physical act of stabbing someone with it was just to much of a step for many people. This may also be because shooting the enemy would have been less of a danger to themselves. i remember reading about the US Armies Sergeant York the day he won the Congressional Medal of Honour. While at the front line they came across a number of dead US and German soldier several of whom had died while simultaneously killing their opponent. They had each stabbed the other with their bayonet.
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  4562. Considering at least one Russian drone and one Russian aircraft have been shot down by the Russians they maybe should not be pointing fingers. Also the Russian pilots have been known to bomb their own troops. The commander of the Russian SAM battery which shot down the drone did ask for a medal but was told he'd have to wait as they were busy trying to find out why they had lost the picture from their drone. Got the making of a Russian comedy. 'Honey, I shot down a drone.' And the squeal, 'Honey, I'm Living In A Gulag.'
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  4563. Her brain serves the sole purpose of keeping her ears apart. If she had a brain scan they'd find it still had the plastic cover on.
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  4564. That would depend on which class you came from. In WW1 the average height for a British officer meant he was four inches taller then his men. If we assume the same was true of Austro-Hungarian officers then it is possible that some were walking around with heads bowed.
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  4565. Firstly it would depend on who would still be there after the election. Penny Mordaunt is one of those on the most vulnerable list. So her time as the PM could be the second shortest after Liz Truss.
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  4566. Be interesting to know what the effect a line of men advancing with these guns at the enemy had. Also looks like it would be useful in clearing trenches.
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  4567. Why should Ukraine negotiate. Their winning and Putin is losing. The only person to benefit from negotiations would be Putin. He can hold the line and The has time to train and bring in re-enforcements. Meanwhile he hopes to freeze Europe into surrender. Ukraine is not going to fall for that trick because if they keep pushing Russia will be pushed out.
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  4568. I did think about if they could have used a Boys antitank rifle for sniping and what difference it would have made to long range sniping. But then when you think, as you did, about the difference with hitting a tank at 500 yards and hitting a man at 500 yards, and what would be involved in doing so, you realise there are better ways of doing it.
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  4569. Hypersonic missiles cannot manoeuvre when flying that fast. They can only manoeuvre once it becomes subsonic, which is when it becomes venerable to the Ukrainian SAMs. So it looks like these scientists are paying for someone lying to Putin.
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  4570. Maybe the should have spent more time, money and resources on what mattered. Then the may have won
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  4571. Definitely with you on that one.
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  4572. s it that they are cloning Linsey Graham but the problem is that they are al deteriorating mentally
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  4573. When I first saw Kelly's Heroes what made me realise the Tiger was fake was the fact that the turret was further forward then you would expect from a Tiger. Then looking at the wheels I recognised that they were from a T-34. And as Kelly's Heroes was filmed in Yugoslavia and they had ex-Soviet equipment it made sense to convert a T-34 to look like a Tiger. I suppose it could have been worse. In the film Patton the German tanks were repainted US tanks. Interestingly Yugoslavia had genuine ex-US M-18 Tank Destroyers as well which were involved it the conflict in there in the 90s.
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  4574. The reason the T-14 will not go into service is because of the sanctions after the Invasion of Crimea. So much of it was coming from abroad that without them parts they could not build the tank. So Ukraine this is not the first time Putin messed up.
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  4575. Well, the Ukrainians did just fine against the Russian paratroopers with there AKs. A couple of Stingers dealt with those coming in by transport aircraft, but the AKs dealt with the rest.
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  4576. Nope
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  4577. Look on the bright side. If the Covid-19 had happened this December America could have had four more years of Trump and he would still have no idea what to do.
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  4578. So why are the police not stopping the traffic to allow for the road to be cleared.
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  4579. Erm. I thought you didn't do modern stuff.
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  4580. Easier to fly then the Osprey by looks of it
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  4581. Actually as a pirate the aim, quite literally, was to use your cannons to kill or wound as many men on the other ships deck as possible that way there was less men to fight when you boarded their ship. They would not want to shoot at the ships hull more that necessary because you want to capture the ship for your own use. A number of pirates ended up with a squadron of ships. Most pirates preferred smaller ships rather than the larger ones you see in the films. They had a shallower draft and could sail up rivers and into areas the bigger ships could not. Good for avoiding the biggerships sent after them. Also no one clenched their cutlas between their teeth because if you hit something or fell in the sea it would take the top of your head off.
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  4582. So China is saying that the reduction of trade with the west is because China is refusing to sell to the west rather that the west is not buying from China. That's like saying that in a fight it is not your opponent who's punching you in the face but you are punching yourself in the face.
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  4583. I also get the same feeling when I hear the Merlin engine, Henry Ford did not want to send or sell to any materials foreign power to any involved in a conflict. Ford in Germany worked with the NAZIs. Something he seems to have had no problem with.
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  4584. I think the last country to tell Ukraine to give in is Germany.
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  4585. Actually Americans do seem to have more pronounced accents now. I watched a video from one of the west coast states and there they speak more quickly and because the words tend to be flattened it is harder to understand what the people are saying.
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  4586. Phone rings. Wife, 'Honey, there's someone on the phone' Husband 'Who is it?' Wife ' I don't know but it sounds like someone who is very muffled.' Husband 'That will be Rudy butt dialling again.' 'You have to wonder what his phone smells like'
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  4587.  Red Man  Not my problem
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  4588.  Andiamo 18  How's things in Moscow. Your boy doing fine?
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  4589.  Andiamo 18  not as bumb as you apparently
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  4590. Well if getting unqualified children jobs is corrupt then how come Paul is not investigating Trump over his daughter and son-in-law working as advisers to Trump. Unless, of course, there is a huge need for advice on fashion design or how to over pay for property.
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  4591. Your mind works weird. I love it.👍😊
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  4592. Cummins is a liar. So his little trip to Barnard Castle to 'test his eyesight' was not true after all. Shame it took Johnson so long to work that out.
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  4593. Nate Enochs I have watch a number of Indy Neidell's videos and I have to say I have found a number of factual inaccuracies in them. I felt he had read a couple of books and was then giving his opinion on what he read.
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  4594. American pilots were taught not to dogfight with the Zero because it could out turn American fighter. The British Royal Navy Seafire pilots did did dogfight the Zero but they could out turn the Zero. So Zero pilots got a nasty surprise when they thought they had been given an advantage.
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  4595. Yet another GOP coffee boy. Is there college courses for political coffee boys? Do they get internships? A website, maybe. Coffee Boys Я Us, perhaps.
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  4596. I do know about Sir John Monash and his achievements during the Great War. The army he led in the 100 Days Campaign in 1918 was the British 4th Army. It was made up of four corps, one each of British, Canadians ANZAC'S and American troops.
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  4597. Interesting that he is blaming everyone else for the current problems. After 13 years of Tory misrule and helping the rich as a cost to the poor people have had enough it, according to him and his party, is not their fault. As for Labour not putting forward new ideas that's because the Tories will steal them and then pretend they were theirs all along. We've seen that before under Camoran. What we are seeing is John Major 2.0. And we all know how that ended. Interesting that one of the companies hard hit by Brexit is J.D Wetherspoons which is struggling with rising costs and and a lack of staff. Does the owner, Tim Martin, now regret being a big fan of Brexit. Probably not.
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  4598.  @akrybion  We've all been there at somepoint
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  4599. That has got to be one of the biggest understatements in history.
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  4600.  @edi9892  Is this not a case of be careful what you wish for. Up until that point the Germans had claimed the were not fully committed to the war. Trying to make out that they were fighting with one hand behind their back and once they were fully committed they would win easily. Truth is it was all bluff and bluster.
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  4601.  @tommyfred6180  I understand they are stealing civilian clothed and cars and heading for Belarus. It has been estimated that between 30,000 and 40,000 Russias have been killed, wounded, captured, surrendered or deserted. Not good news for Putin
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  4602. Just noticed this which I think fits into the sort of videos you do. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44800309
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  4603. Lack of European support. Europe has given three times as much money to the Ukraine as America. And without trying to find dirt on political opponents for doing that.
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  4604. The hyperloop is not new and was first proposed back in the 1840s where is was realised it would not work
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  4605. Well, as Putin was seen to be weak all expected this.
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  4606. Boris Johnson misleading people. Are you sure about that? That doesn't sound like him.
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  4607. Putin putting people in the west on his sanctions list. That's got to cause some sleepless nights. 🤔Okay. Maybe not
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  4608. Put the dispute between the German navy and airforce of WW2 about a few aircraft for the navies carrier into the minor league.
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  4609. Should the headline be Putin has decided to cut off money to his illegal war.
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  4610. Giuliani's new job is manure salesmen. He has all his own product.
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  4611. WWW2 ended with the defeat of both the Germans and the Japanese.
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  4612. Looking at how his lawyer behaved in court you can see what happens when you don't pay for the good lawyers.
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  4613. During WW2 people were told to add boiling hot water straight into the pot and keep the pot as close to the kettle as possible. Unfortunately this led to a number of accidents when people held pots which were then dropped and hot tea went everywhere, with people being scolded. The reason for this advice was because during the war the quality of the tea was very poor and this was the best way of making it. This will have been why Orwell gave this same advice as Britain was still being rationed. With better quality teas we have today you are advised is to let it just come off the boil before pouring. This same advice is given for coffee as well. Tea and coffee taste much better if not scolded. Thermic shock, hot water being added to the cup, originally related to porcelain because of its fine quality making it susceptible to damage. But you have to wonder whether this was more to do with them getting cracked by heavy handed servants then anything which came about through hot tea being poured into the cup. Especially as several minutes had passed between the hot water being added to the teapot and then being poured into the cup. And how long before the same excuse was give for other cups becoming damaged.
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  4614. Little old Donny Jr trying to keep is story straight That's got to be fun. Especially with his attitude.
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  4615. I know of George Washington Carver, so I was pleased to see him included in your trip. I must admit that it was sad to see those empty chair I do feel it was very apt because it show those lost are still remembered. Looking forward to the next stage of your journey.
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  4616. The problem for the French Army was its own government. Before the war the French government had feared that the army was planing a coup against them and so they had imposed very tight controls over the army. One example of this was the requirement that all officers needed written orders from higher up the chain of command before taking action. In the Battle of France this meant that during the fighting against the Germans a dispatch rider had to be sent back to the head quarters outside of Paris. Pick up new orders. Then travel back to the general who had sent him. A round trip of several days. By which time the orders had become totally irrelevant. The Germans did not believe they could win the Battle of France so quickly and put it down to the French. So Germany did not win the battle, the French lost it. Or, the French Government lost it. The truth is that the French Army could and should have defeated the German Army. If they had been allowed to. Actually you could say the French invaded part of Germany at the start of a war also happened at the beginning of the First World war as well. Whilst the Germany Army was moving through Belgium in August 1914 the French Army captured the regions of Alsace and Lorraine, which had been lost to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-7. Technically you could say these regions were part of France so the French Army was liberating it, but stil; it was part of Germany at that time.
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  4617. Someone once worked out that since the American Civil War less then 0.001% of all casualties came from the use of the bayonet. Even during bayonet charges soldiers would sooner shoot the enemy then stab him with the bayonet. There are several reasons for this, not least of which is the other guys trying to do the same to you. Shooting him is much safer.
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  4618. My late father had a friend who served in the post war British Royal Navy, my father was in the Royal Artillery at the time so he had yet to enjoy this beverage. They were to meet up so his friend saved up his rum ration for the occasion. They both spent the evening drinking this rum and my father said he had never felt so ill. Rum was, on occasion, issued to the British Army in France in WW1. The problem could be that if the supply sergeant was a teetotaller then you could be issued with powered soup instead.
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  4619. Definitely an interesting idea. I could see its possible use by the military, having a large number of rounds available before you needed to reload, but how often in a normal day would you want to have access to that number of rounds if you were a civilian.
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  4620. UK is ranked 18th in the World Health Organisation while the US is ranked 37th, Cuba is 39. Yet the US spends more then anyone else. The US is not getting value for money.
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  4621.  @ottovonbismarck2443  No it was the old one. Looks like you've given me an excuse to build the new one. My big problem now is that if anyone asked why I am building the Swordfish I have to explain Otto von Bismarck recommended it.
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  4622. Something you missed with the Haldane mission and the German requirement that Britain should not declare war on Germany if it was technically not the aggressor. Britain did not declared war on German in support of France. It declared war on Germany for invading neutral Belgium. Which means that Germany was the aggressor.
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  4623. perforate the snot out of this truck. Now there's a turn of phrase I'll have to use. 👍
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  4624. During a prewar meeting between Sweden and Germany in Sweden the Swedes bragged about having removed all Jews from running businesses before the Germans had done. Sounds like they were sharing Nazi Germany's ideology.
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  4625. 'The only one thing worse then being talked about, and that is not being talked about' Oscar Wilde.
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  4626. Well 100,000 down, 900,000 to go.
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  4627. It looks like they are sacrificing the inexperience troops to save the experienced troops and give the experienced troops a chance to get the other side of the river. That way the Russian army gets their withdrawal without going against Putin's orders.
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  4628. Pity they did not try that instead
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  4629. Whatever fact checkers are being paid it's not enough.
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  4630. Has anyone else notice that since Ian fired that Sherman tank gun he's getting more into the bigger calibres.
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  4631. During a news conference before the invasion of Grenada the US spokesman was earnestly telling the reporters about a spy satellite which the US had used to photograph the airfield being built in Grenada, and how they thought it was being built to help the Soviets. There was some anger and dismay when a British journalist pointed out that they had in fact visited the airfield with a film crew without any problems. They had just walked up to it and started filming. No problem. It made them look rather silly. And if they did think the Grenadian government really was working with the Soviets why did the US government agree to radar and other equipment being used there. Without their agreement the equipment could not have been used. I did see a documentary about Able Archer and its effects on the Soviet government. They had a list of steps they believed were being taken by Able Archer and that once it reached a certain point on that list the West would attack. The problem was the West got to that point and did not attack, and it was realised that the Soviet leadership had made a mistake.
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  4632. A very remarkable man
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  4633. Should we be surprised that Nunes is still doing what he did when he was the chair of the intelligence committee. Should we be surprised he did not recuse himself. And are we surprised he thought he would get away with it rather then getting caught yet again.
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  4634. It's interesting that the American ship was trying to dismast the British ship as this was a French tactic. The aim being to capture your opponent but at the same time having a ship which was sailable and could be brought back into service reasonably quickly. And replacing masts would be cheaper then repairing the hull. The problem with that is it is no good trying to immobilise your opponent if he is hell bent one killing your gun crews and disabling your guns. As both the French and Spanish found out at Trafalgar.
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  4635.  @holymelon8011  That is worse the Russian democracy
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  4636.  @helmutboutros5006  It is what Ukraine practises. Which is why Putin, a dictator, hates it.
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  4637.  @jbradley920rox  Wanna bet
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  4638.  @christophercolumbus1327  You a Putin supporter then
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  4639. I see she is approaching this with an open mind
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  4640.  @Mister_Fancypants  You spotted that as well.👍😄
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  4641. As Russian border guards are themselves subject to the draft, something many of them are against, closing the borders may not be that easy.
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  4642.  @EricIrl  I have seen that as well. And as we are talking things that fly I have also seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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  4643. @Charles Yuditsky You can see why the crew did not want to be onboard when they tried that.
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  4644. What is it with the American right wing. On the one hand there are these idiots trying to cheat but are too stupid to carry it out without getting caught. And then there are the Trump supporters at the Capital building filming themselves and posting it all on Facebook. These people should all be lock up for their own safety if not everyone elses.
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  4645. And just four hours later it is in the Atlantic. As to whether or not it was a weather balloon should be discovered soon as America is looking to retrieve it. The big question though is who sent the balloon. If Xi needs these talks then it looks like someone else may have sent it to embarrass Xs and make him look weak. And the fact that other balloons have passed over America before without anyone saying something this would suggest that the someone who sent it was also the someone who revealed it presence.
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  4646. You have to wonder what would have happened if they'd had these in reasonable numbers
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  4647. The BA-64 Armour Car looks like it has been influenced by the German half track
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  4648. Two things I forgot to mention. At no point did Nixon realise that in a war like that it is the politician who sets out what the military objectives are to win the war. He thought that it was up to the generals to decide that. But at the same time they were interfering with strategic decision making. North Vietnamese Airfields could not be bombed in case Russian advisers were there was a political decision. We will not tell you what to do to win the war but we sure as hell will interfere and make it harder for you to do so. Secondly. We all know that 58,220 Americans died in Vietnam. But it is estimated that that many again died because of what it did to them. Many from suicide but others from drink and drugs et cetera. Do they get add to the war memorial as well. Because one way or another Vietnam did kill them.
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  4649.  @sundhaug92  that quite a temporary solution.
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  4650.  @mikerichards6065  thanks, Mike. I'd forgotten about them two.
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  4651. Ah. The old 'pass on the decision to the person to occupy the office' trick. Whole political careers have been based on never having to make a decision. It's a lot like that game 'pass the parcel' but your aim is to make sure you're not the one who takes the last wrapper off.
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  4652. This just came up in my feed and I took one look at the MG and though of Ukraine.
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  4653. He's paid million to check it out. Which show that a fool and his money are soon parted.
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  4654. Murphy's law is "If it can go wrong it will go wrong." Sods law is Murphy's law with added "shit." Considering how many of these things go astray in one way or another you have to wonder how much luck we went through that none of these things went boom. As we are all affirmed lovers of a good pirate story may I suggest a season of pirate stories. Pirate Month or something similar. September would be a good month. Not that it has anything to do with being my birthday that month or anything. 👍😊
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  4655.    Not questioning their bravery for one minute.
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  4656. I did read about the senior US officer detained because he did not know who won the world series. Eisenhower thought what happened to Montgomery was funny. This from a man cowering in his HQ in Paris surrounded by armed guards while Monty was still out in the field.
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  4657. I knew the Germans had these, The ZG 1229 Vampir 1229 on the Sturmgewehr 44, but I was only vaguely aware that the US did as well. So it is nice to see the US version.
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  4658. Nothing about his part and that he is going to stop his hateful rhetoric
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  4659. I did know about Hitchen but not his name as I came across the story some years ago. I did not know that what he was doing was not uncommon, so that was new. I remember reading Henry Mayhew's book London Underworld, about crime in Mid Victorian London. He mentions a Fagin type person who was running a gang of child pickpockets and he referred to himself as the Prince of Thieves. It must have been sometime before because though the authorities did not catch him the Royal Navy did as he was press ganged into the navy. If he carried on with his previous life while at sea the punishment was to run the gauntlet which would involved running between two lines of men who would beat him with thick ropes.
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  4660. They didn't have one as this was a US thing
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  4661. Can I suggest a subject for one of your videos. On March 16, 1914 Henriette Caillaux shot and fatally wounded Gaston Calmette, editor of the newspaper Le Figaro. He was a political rival of her husband Joseph Caillaux and Calmette threatened to expose the fact that Henriette and Joseph were having an affair while still married to their previous spouses. They both had claimed otherwise. I think you will find it interesting for several reasons. The trial was such a sensational event that it obscured what was happening elsewhere in the world. The verdict was reached just four days before WW1, something most of the French had missed. Then the war itself obscured the trial to history. It was also interesting because despite claims to the contrary it exposed the fact that French society still viewed women as emotionally weaker, something Henriette Caillaux exploited to her own advantage.
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  4662. I think the notion of how good Russian spies are is something left over from the Soviet days which does not hold for today. Let's not forget the failed poisoning in Salisbury where to two agents were identified. Or that five Russian spies were caught in the Netherlands and one of them was carrying a receipt for a taxi ride from his home the the known spy headquarters in Moscow. And even the Soviets had their bad days. If the US had not captured him the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, the spy the US exchanged for the downed U-2 pilot Gary Powers, would have been recalled to Russia because he was so incompetent at being a spy . The Russians suspected that he had been turned and was working for the CIA. Being caught probably saved his life.
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  4663. Oh gee. Why wouldn't anyone seeking the truth want to talk to Rudy Giuliani. Next they will be telling me the president is not to be trusted to tell the truth either. What a crazy world it is if this is true.
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  4664. You may want to remake this video in a couple of months. The way it's going it is definitely going down your list.
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  4665. So, one way or another Giuliani can make Trump pay.
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  4666. Actually there was a rescue mission in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War where a helicopter carried US troops lying on matruses placed on the floor of the helicopter which crashlanded inside the prison. The only reason it failed was because US politicians decided to let the North Vietnamese they knew about the prison. As a point of interest one of the soldiers taking part also took part in the successful rescue of prisoners in the Philippines during WW2.
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  4667. If there are records then the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, will have them. Whether you could get hold of them is a different matter. Secrets are kept for a certain amount of time in the UK. There used to be 30 years minimum under what was known as the Thirty Year Rule, now 20 years. Though in some cases this can be extended up to 100 years. If they are available then they can be requested under the Freedom of Information Act. Interesting that despite suffering less damage it was the Graf Spee which fled the field of battle. Since the times of the Ancient Greeks those who still hold the field of battle are the winners. So despite their damage the British won.
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  4668. I was thinking about the power of the Wasp Major and how it could have been used elsewhere. As the M4 Sherman used aircraft engines you have to wonder what the Wasp Major would have done with it. June 6th 1944. Lands on the beach at Normandy. June 7th 1944 takes Berlin. They would have arrived sooner but the driver likes to get his seven hours sleep or he gets really cranky.
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  4669. Ironically you cannot vaccinate against stupid
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  4670. He was pushed out by self-righteous people are behind the push to remove him. Well, it takes one to know one.
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  4671. Falling out of an aircraft window at 30,000 feet can be problematical.
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  4672.  @georgehh2574  opps 😯
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  4673. How bad are things for Putin. Lukashenko is his only ally. And Lukashenko hates Putin.
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  4674. Nick Glegg was the leader of a British political party. He formed an alliance with the British Conservative Party. They used him as the fall guy. The British people lost any faith in the man which led to his party to complete and total defeat. Not a man whose judgement is something I would trust.
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  4675.  @arniewilliamson1767  Thanks, Arnie
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  4676. Considering how Russia is struggling with the engines they have now I am not sure how they are going to build these new ones. And let's not forget their economy is no bigger then that of Italy so how can they afford these new aircraft. They make most of their money from the gas they are exporting to other countries and the military equipment they sell to others. They are so desperate for money they are still selling aircraft to China despite the fact that they know China keeps stealing the technology from Russia by reverse engineering it.
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  4677. Oh the Battle of Cannon Ball Run. Why's that not taught in school. They should make a movie of that battle. You have to wonder why Trump did not go for Grant instead of Lee. Grant fought for America. Grant won the civil war. And Grant served twice as president. OK. I see why Trump didn't pick Grant.
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  4678.  @maciek_k.cichon  that was banned by the French government. The French are very funny about stale bread.
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  4679.  @bentilbury2002  I could go all French philosopher at this point and say the onion bomb is like life. It has many layers and always ends in tears
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  4680. Having their own courts meant that the church could literally get away with murder.
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  4681. He may have surrounded himself with his former KGB friends and colleagues but the Russian military has kept its distance. So if he is toppled it could well be a military coup. And they have more and bigger guns the he has.
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  4682.  @neilsailing  The way things are shaping up it looks like whoever the 47th president is his, or her, name is not going to be Trump.
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  4683. I did know the Italians took part in the Battle of Britain loosing the equivalent of two fighter squadrons out if the three they sent. I seem to remember they lasted about three weeks. Who said three was the magic number. I know that one Italian pilot bailed out of his fighter aircraft only to die impaled on a statue with a raised arm. That's got to be something you were not noted for. But my knowledge of the Italian bomber is not as great, though I did know they took part in several raids. The Italians thought the the war would go the same way as WW1 and they, as in that war, could take the time and rearm with more up to date arms and equipment before joining Germany. Unfortunately France, unlike in WW1, collapsed and Mussolini had to declare war much sooner then they anticipated of miss out entirely. I believe that by the time France surrendered the Italians had managed to get some 100 yards of French territory. So my thanks again to Mark for adding more to my knowledge.
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  4684. Actually I do know of the Bombay. In fact when I saw the thumb nail my first thoughts were, 'Oh.' 'that's the Bombay.' One thing I remember is that, as you pointed out, it looked older then it was. Interestingly the Blackburn B-101 Beverley looks somewhat like an undated version of the Bombay with its undercarriage.
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  4685. Spoke to soon. We've been trolled. I preferred it when they lived under bridges. Without WIFI
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  4686. Many peoples in the far east give their family name first.
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  4687. It is often forgotten the Johnson's opponent was Corbyn. Corbyn was the real reason for the Red Walls collapse not a sudden desire for Johnson as PM.
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  4688. Despite losing the court case she is still trying to change the narrative. Her problem is that we have all seen that she and the truth are not even acquainted with each other. Apart from the lunatic fringe no on believes her.
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  4689. I did read of someone who was on a Thames Barge near the coast when it was sunk in 1940 and he was sucked down with the barge. Fortunately the barge was in shallow water and only went down some 50 feet. once the suction had been broken he swam back to the surface. In some circumstances life preservers could be deadly. During the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk a number of soldiers were killed by their cork life preservers. When they jumped into the water it would shoot up and in a number of cases broke the necks of the wearers. And a number of US troops died because they put their inflatable life preservers around their wastes instead of around their chests which resulted in the life preserver tipping them upside down and the soldiers drowned. Two of my uncles served in the merchant navy in WW2. To the best of my knowledge neither of them went for an unexpected swim. Which must have been a great relief as they did do those trips to Northern Russia in the middle of winter. Another uncle served in the British Army throughout the war and he did survive the troopship he was on sinking while in the Mediterranean. We are big on irony in my family.
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  4690. Putin is the NAZI. He follows the philosopher Ivan Ilyin who was a NAZI and a supporter of Hitler who Ilyin meet during the war.
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  4691. The British did the same thing to get hold of some T-72's.
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  4692. If he wants the west to us Rubbles he should produce them use softer paper.
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  4693. A very fine man
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  4694. Well you cannot be anything but impressed by someone like that. Not content to sit and wait he went out and found his foe. Then plotted how to defeat him. Then defeated him. I do have a feeling that modern US Navy officers learn a great deal about him during their training.
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  4695. He could have disowned Johnson, except he was part of Johnson's government. And I am sure that would have been brought up along with all the other things he now denies happened.
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  4696. Somewhat ironic that at a time when the Russian arms industry is in decline Ukraine is building an arms industry.
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  4697. Well you know how it is. You are having an amorous evening with your lady love. No. No. A real one. Honest. And you decide to spice it up a bit. So you use that butt plug from the draw in the bedside cabinet for that added spice. But in your excited fumbling you just happen accidentally to select the 6 pounder anti tank shell you just happen to keep in the same draw. It could happen to anyone. Just think. If it had been a high explosive round he could have really finished with a bang. And then, stood outside the Pearly Gates, you would have heard St. Peter say 'you did what?'
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  4698.  @foilhat1138  That is definatelly a technicality.
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  4699.  @ilo3456  interesting idea but a bit late in the day
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  4700. Even if Russia does get 300,000 men to the front line they will still be outnumbered by the Ukrainians. On top of this thanks to NATO the Ukrainian armed forces will be better trained, equipped and led. So those 300,000 will be like throwing good money after bad.
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  4701. You'd think so, wouldn't you. I think it's something to do with the thinkers of such thoughts being as dumb as a bag of hammers.
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  4702. They put the first man in the back of the vehicle and then when the second man is put in the first man is not in the vehicle. It's looks like this has been staged for the cameras
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  4703. You have to wonder what would have happened if Hitler said he came as a liberator rather then a conqueror. Many in the Soviet Union did fight alongside the Germans because they believed that German would liberate them from the Soviet Union.
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  4704.  wolfman02  In his room. Alone.
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  4705. If you want to know the real reason why Gun Jesus has so many guns in his library just ask if you can borrow one of his books.
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  4706. You now that thing of taking a gun to a knife fight. Now you know what to take to a gunfight.
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  4707. If the invasion of Japan had gone ahead one proposals put forward was for the warships with the best triple A to lead the invasion to draw out the Japanese aircraft which would have been shot down leaving the invasion force to face less attack from the kamikazes. You can see how important these fuses would have been. This triple A task force would have included both US Navy and Royal Navy ships as both had experience dealing with air attacks.
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  4708. Interesting that the magazine was not flagged up for making the rifle heavier on the one side and thus twisting the rifle anticlockwise. Something I would have thought made aiming less intuitive.
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  4709. It's interesting how many great aircraft arrive just at the wrong time. We all know about the best piston engined aircraft turning up just as the jets age starts. And the best biplanes going into service only to be surpassed by the monoplane. And here again is Germany bringing the best biplane of WW1 into service just as the war end. Something we'll see again some 25 years later with their jets.
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  4710.  @SoloRenegade  That is so true. Though as WW2 is often viewed as a continuation of WW1 seeing the biplane reaching its peak in WW2 is rather appropriate.
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  4711. As a kid I remember seeing some of these on top of high building in parts of my local city. We did have a test back in the 60s of an air raid warning vehicle driving through the city during the rush hour with its siren blaring out. It was supposed to warn us of a nuclear attack. It took so long to travel its route that if there was a nuclear attack we would known about it long before the siren was heard.
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  4712. Let me guess. He can resign now because Trump will no longer be a threat to him
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  4713. I was wondering about that as well.
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  4714. If Greenland does have all those resources why would anyone sell the island. Its got to be worth a lot more then anything Trump/the US will pay. As an idea. Why not get Iceland give him a piece of land for his own personal golf course. There are a couple of spots where all those volcanoes are. Just tell him he wont need sand traps. Okay. we all got a mental image of him trying a chip shot out of a volcano. 👍
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  4715. The Blackburn Buccaneer was a highly agile low level bomber and as such needed to have very strong wings. The normal technique of attaching the skin to the ribs would never have survived the extremely tight turns the aircraft was capable of. So they also used the technique of milling out the unneeded material with produced the skin and ribs as one unit. They used aluminium rather then titanium.
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  4716. In Italy pizza was sold as fast food where people could buy a slice of pizza. The more you paid the bigger the slice.
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  4717.  @brianargo4595  thanks Brian. I've just been having one of those days today
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  4718.  @sugarnads  I tend to do that in case some my not be aware of that fact
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  4719. I do know about the Novgorod ships but I still burst out laughing at their 'spinning top' performance. The US did have a fondness for putting as many guns on a platform as possible. On the WW2 tank the M3 even the driver had a couple of machinegun just in case he got bored with driving. At the time of the Hoche the French was supplying warships to the Russian navy. The ones which the Japanese kept sinking. The Japanese bought their ships from Britain.
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  4720.  @terrynewsome6698  My sense of humour, Terry. Having said that the West, and the Soviet Union, was quite happy to supply Saddam while he was busy keeping Iran busy. So whereas Saddam would not be on anyone's Christmas list he was tolerated. That is until he invaded Kuwait as Kuwait is on everyone's Christmas list. Yes I know Muslims do not celebrate Christmas but you know what I mean.
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  4721.  @eze8970  If you check it out Iraq did consult the US ambassador about Iraq invading Kuwait and her answer convinced Saddam there would be no problems from the US.
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  4722. Some years after the Crimean War the bones of many of the Turks who died in that war were dug up and shipped to Britain in the same way those from Waterloo were.
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  4723. I knew about Britains involvement in the Greek Civil War but not so much about what went on behind the scenes. So thanks for that. I did come across references that America, possibly through the CIA, backed anti communist groups in Italy for many years after the war. Many communists were based in the north of Italy so you wonder how much support came via Yugoslavia.
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  4724. My paternal grandfather was with the Royal Garrison Artillery at Passchendeale having already fought at the Somme. He survived the war
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  4725. It's in the post. Just keep your eye out for a very, very large van.😊
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  4726. Considering what a walking disaster area Nunes is you have to wonder why he thought he could get away with it. These have to be the most inept criminals ever. The Keystone Kriminals.
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  4727.  @tonywilson4713  Actually similar things were said about labour before they came to power in 97. But we did well under them. The Tories, on the other hand, always claim the economic high ground but what they say and what they do are never the same. Last time inflation was this high was under Thatcher. And recently a Tory minister, I assume a now former Tory minister, admitted that the highest growth figures were under Labour. Considering that we are now seeing a continuation of the Johnson, Truss cockups I would say that anything is better than what we have now.
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  4728. When did we fight Canada?
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  4729. Looks like something from the 1930s
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  4730. Someone didn't get the email Wasn't his predecessor the one in charge when two of his agents botched the attempted murder of the Russian dissident in Salisbury, England, and killed the wrong person. Then not only were the two agents but five others who were caught and identified in the Netherlands. The spy chief 'retired' suddenly through 'ill health'.
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  4731.  @Sarahbryson321  Late lunch 😊
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  4732. I understand that someone else had the flag made as there is a receipt for the payment. Washington tried to get Martha's slave to come back but she decided to keep her freedom. In the end he set up a trap for her in which she would meet someone who would capture her and she would be returned to Martha. But the ex-slave had grown suspicious and refused to go to the meeting.
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  4733. When I saw the photograph with someone in the front I took it that he was the pilot and that they had found a way of not having to shoot through the propeller. I also saw the he had no guns but I assumed this was because it was a prototype. But he was not the pilot but the observer. My thought was that if I was an observer I would only observe only from the ground. Preferably from a different county. When you have and aircraft that kills more of your people then the enemy does then maybe flying it is not a good idea.
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  4734. The photographer who took the photographs of the flag being raised could not use his best photograph because it clearly showed the soldier with the flag was wearing two watches. If he had have used that photograph the soldier would have been shot for looting. So he used a different photograph instead. As a side note. A British man who joined the British Army during WW2 was sent to be trained as an army photographer. When he pointed out he already had experience he was told he would still need to go through training to be a photographer. So he turned up for training and when the instructor's found out who he was realised that far from being trained they could take lessons from him. He was Bert Hardy, regarded as probably the best press photographer in Britain at that time.
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  4735. Mitch has finally got a chance to get rid of Trump and he is not going to let anyone bring him back
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  4736. We know he did not write it as it is not in crayon.
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  4737. I did know about this raid. A truly fantastic feat of arms. I believe one of the paratroopers who took part in the Los Banos raid also took part in the less successful raid to rescue American POWs from Son Tay, North Viet Nam on 21st November 1970.
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  4738. In was thinking the same thing.
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  4739. I had read about this battle but as always it is interesting to watch it again. I have read of an incident about this time on the Eastern Front when a number of Tiger Is and Panthers did a night attack using infrared equipment, both for driving the vehicles and for use with the tanks guns. It has been awhile since I read this but I think there was 48 Tiger Is and 50 Panthers. They passed through their own lines after dark and then cause havoc for the Soviets. Apparently when they returned to their own lines about 100 Soviet vehicles, many of them being tanks, had been destroyed with no losses for the Germans. I wonder if you can confirm the veracity of the claim and, if true, can you add any detail to the story.
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  4740. Does the GOP have someone going around with a big net, like a dog catcher, looking for the biggest crazies they can find. It's a big day when Giuliani is upstaged when it comes to the howling at the moon.
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  4741. We are not starting another world war just for Boris Johnson to become PM again.
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  4742. So the payout for families for the dead we know about will is to be $260,000,000. So there is to be a fire sale for all those yachts.
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  4743. Let me introduce you. Lou Dobbs this is karma. Karma this i Lou Dobbs
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  4744. Sounds good but Putin will never pay out so they'll never see a penny of that money. And The Russian economy will never benefit from the contribution of all those dead men. So no matter what Russia's future is dead.
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  4745. My main interest is the history part of weapons. You can often learn a lot more from Forgotten Weapons then in many books. And it can also act as a supplement to existing knowledge, seeing the actual weapon rather then a photograph, or even bring new weapons and concept that books do not touch on. So I fully endorse your claim that it is more of a history channel as that's how I view it.
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  4746. I sat watching this while eating mint icecream with choc chips. Nothing happened.
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  4747. Funnily enough I was recently watching a video about USN torpedo bomber attack with mark 13 torpedoes on a number of Japanese merchant ships trapped in a lagoon. Not one torpedo exploded and some even missed their target. They could not even shoot fish in a barrel Fortunately other aircraft in the attack did destroy the ships. I have to wonder why, once their failings had been exposed, they Bureau of Ordnance still held any sway over the failings of the torpedo. More importantly why heads did not roll. One way or another their incompetence cost many lives. Not just the submarine crews but also the lives of those who would not have died had the torpedo worked and sunk the Japanese warships.
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  4748. Randy Rinker So true.
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  4749.  @topbreak38  I think Volvo was the first to design the seatbelt but did not patent it, or had a sort of open patent, so it would be available to all car manufactures. Safety first, you could say.
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  4750. Russian has the highest number of deaths from alcohol abuse in the world. One in four Russian men will die before they reach their 60th birthday because of it. When you go to work in Moscow there are people in the Metro stations who will sell you a shot of vodka.
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  4751. The Romans met both the Celts and the Ancient Britains but they never called the Britains Celts. Just as we never call American English even though the speak our language. As the Book of Kells is believed to date from 800 CE it is clearly not Medieval but Anglo Saxon. I know the Medievalists try to make out it was Early Medieval But as my tutor, Kevin Leahy, mentioned when I did my archaeology degree there are differences. And I would sooner trust the word of a man who specialised in the Anglo Saxon archaeology. As the Scots had not long come from Ireland their art form at the time would have been Irish. Thus Hiberno Saxon. Irish and English. If the Romans did not call them Celts then maybe we should not as well.
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  4752. We know the Romans called them Britons as there is a reference to them as the filthy Britains made by the Romans. They may have had a common language with other similar groups but the does not make them Celts, just as having the same language does not make Americans English. In England the Anglo Saxon period dates from the Romans leaving 410 CE until 1066 CE. So Anglo Saxon period. And if we want to talk about them as an ethnic group then they are the English, or Englisc if you want the correct spelling, as that is what they called themselves. The Renaissance starts in 1300 CE but European Medieval period ends in 1492 CE. Where as in England the Medieval period ends when Henry VII becomes king in 1485. Take your pick. Where I live the local Britons were referred to as the Parisi and are known for their chariot burials, one of which is on display in the local museum. As for what you call yourself. Well it can be confusing. The people of Wales call themselves Welsh. Recently a Welsh rugby player said he was proud to be British, and was immediately chastised by a Welsh politician who said he should in actual fact be proud to be Welsh not British. We'll skip the bit about them being related to the Ancient Britons. But you would think before you called yourself anything you should at least know what it is you are calling yourself. You see many people of Wales think that being from Wales makes you Welsh. Now to me they are Welsh, but not to their fellow countrymen and woman. But then to me the people of Scotland are welsh. As are the people of France, Germany, Italy and America. In fact anyone who is not English is welsh. You see the word welsh is in fact English, and means foreigner. So the people of Wales proudly declare themselves to be foreigners.
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  4753. the Russians accuse Ukraine of damaging ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Well the easy way to avoid that is to take them back to Russia.
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  4754. The 2010 recession was world wide not just in Britain, unlike this recession. And if Cameron had been in charge it would have been much worse. We know this because of remarks he made criticising Gordon Brown before that recession. The Torys have shown the are only in it for themselves.
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  4755.  Rad Derry  Firstly there was no communism at that point. That would come later. Secondly it was Germany smuggling Lenin into Russia facilitated the communist revolution. Thirdly WW1 started on the 1st August while Britain did not join the French until the 4th August. So Britain did not provide any excuse to start the was. You understanding of history at this time is abysmal.
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  4756.  Rad Derry  You have no idea what you are talking about
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  4757. Putin wanted 300,000 Russians across the border. So far everything is going to plan. Not the border he was thinking of, granted. But we all know how bad Russian SATNAV is.
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  4758. So to get Matt Schlapp's job actually knowing anything is not a requirement. Isn't that the same requirement for the village idiot.
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  4759. Interestingly the British writer George Orwell was kept under surveillance by the British Security Service MI5 because of his left wing views. But he had seen what the Soviets did in Spain when the murdered left leaning non communists because they were seen as competition. So he was vehemently against communism .
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  4760.  @fromthebackseat4865  True. But there is a difference
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  4761. When she was younger my daughter loved watching wildlife programmes. One we watched showed animals in Africa eating fermented fruit which had an alcohol content. Not sure what it tasted like but the animals obviously could not get enough of it. Alcohol had the same effect on elephants and monkeys as humans. So we were treat to the sight of monkeys staggering around or falling out of trees. And an elephant leaning against a tree so that he did not fall over. Interestingly the animals are attracted by the smell of the fermented fruit which indicates it is ready to eat.
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  4762. I thought prisoners did not get the vote. Or run for president
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  4763. At the same time the Russians are reusing the T-54. I'm still waiting for the Soviet BT-7 to come back into service
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  4764. Russia. The worlds mightiest army. Azerbaijan sarcasm for you. Well done 👍
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  4765. Some countries, especially some small islands, got quite a bit of their revenue from stamps. They did some beautiful stamps, often rectangular in shape
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  4766. Doesn't that depend on how hungry you are.
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  4767.  @Naptosis  I have a feeling the Russians were rather too busy dying so it may have escaped their notice.
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  4768.  @mikeincalifornia  at this very moment there is a British submarine at sea with its nuclear missiles pointing at Russia. If Britain gets hit then Russia will be nuked
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  4769.  @simongleaden2864  true. What I should have said it could also be given to military personnel for none military situations. I may be wrong but I seem to remember bomb disposal personnel could also receive it.
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  4770.  @JohnP538  as you chaps aren't doing anything would you mind popping up and shooting a few Gerry down for us.
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  4771. I have read of an incident in which French aircraft shot itself down just as the F-11 did. And an American pilot who was shot down by his own missile doing the same as the F-11. And there is film footage of a B-25 in WW2 dropping a bouncing bomb but the aircraft was much to low and the bomb came back up destroying the tail which crashed killing the crew. I did read of a British RAF aircraft skip bombing a German ship which had almost the same result. Skip bombing is flying in low and dropping the bomb so it skipped into the side of a ship, much like skipping a stone across a pond. The problem is that it was not unusual for the bomb to bounce higher then the aircraft was flying sometime hitting the aircraft. In this case the tail gunner had a birdseye view of the bomb as it just missed hitting his position as it went passed. And again as it came back down. He immediately warned the pilot who changes course in case it was third time unlucky. It may have been the excitement of the moment but the tailgunner said that it passed him by inches.
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  4772.  @williamdixon8283  He was part of a mission to use old bombers filled with explosives to attack targets in Northern Europe. He was one of a two man crew and flew the aircraft. They had just set up the aircraft for the attack and were about to bailout when it exploded in midair killing both of them. The project was not a success and was overtaken by events.
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  4773.  @chuckaddison5134  The original skip bombing used standard bombs which were released in a similar way to torpedo. They were then skipped into the side of the ship where they would explode after penetrating the side of the hull. It was usually used against transport ships as the hull was easier to penetrate. Rockets proved a much better weapon and an eight rocket salvo of them was the equivalent of a broadside from a cruiser. As well as the Dam Buster bombs Barnes Wallis developed a smaller version for use with the Mosquito aircraft. Wallis not only designed the bomb but also the aiming mechanism to use it. As well as ships at sea it could have been used against ships in harbour being protected by torpedo netting, such as the Tirpitz. One of the advantages of such a bomb was it exploded below water so, as with the Dam Buster bombs, it could use the pressure of the water to magnify the explosive effect. Possibly breaking the keel. Wallis moved to America after the war and was involved with the 'Swing Wing' of the F-111.
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  4774. Unfortunately a joke where America is the punchline
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  4775. Alex Moore And thereby hangs a tale. Britain had the EM-2 but America deemed the round to weak for use in rifles and machine guns and NATO should instead adopt the 7.62 calibre round. The aim was here to simplify logistics by all having the same ammunition. So Britain bought the FNL while the US bought the M14. Then America suddenly decided small calibre ammunition were not so weak and adopted the M16 in 5.56 but kept the 7.62 for the M60. Not sure what the aim was here but keeping the logistics simple was not part of it. Interestingly the first country to buy the M16 was Britain, 10,000 of them, and it was used by special forces groups like the SAS and the SBS. Anyway America has now decided that the 5.56 round lacks the range for what they need and it looks like the merry-go-round has started again.
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  4776. Alex Moore I think they are looking for something with a longer range as fighting in places like Afghanistan were at much longer ranges then they originally planned for. But yes I also do not think the 7.62 will make a return. Having said that the British Army did introduce a 7.62 sniper rifle several years ago which was to be used as a support weapon, I believe it was for use at platoon level. The other think is the US Army has gone for shorter barrel lengths for its assault rifle which means at it loses accuracy at the ranges found in Afghanistan. So they are looking to change that as well.
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  4777. If Britain had taken over Hawaii the whole history of WW2 would be totally different. There would not have been any attack on Pearl Harbour to draw the US into the war. Not to mention the fate of a future president of the US.
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  4778.  @FirstDagger  Some were but many were post WW2. Superior training
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  4779.  @keysontrains538  Not a battleship
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  4780. I have wondered why the Soviet Union did not make more of the US missiles in Turkey. Especially after removing its missiles from Cuba. This failure cost Khrushchev the leadership because the Soviet Union had lost face. Another failure was not telling the Soviet ambassador to the UN what was going on in Cuba. So imagine how he felt having derided the US claims only to be presented with the photographic evidence
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  4781. She's doing a Trump. Praising someone right up until they become a liability then it's 'I don't know this person, I've never met them...' She is one of the few who worked for Trump got the better of him.
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  4782. If the Democrat runs states are so bad how come the money payed by them to the Federal government all goes to the Republican states. Without that money all those Republican states would collapse as everyone of them is subsidised by the Democrat states.
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  4783.  @realQuiGon  Interesting thought. I Did wonder about them jumping with the MG 34 or MG 42 but I have a feeling they may well have been in canisters.
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  4784.  @aussiviking604  Interesting thought, there. Nice one.
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  4785.  @jonmeray713  Holger Harmuss mentioned the same thing and, though it has been sometime since I read about this, it does sound familiar. But as Holger Harmuss pointed out there was the problem in that they end up spinning around. Which means you would end up spraying bullets all over the place. Good chance of hitting your own men in that case.
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  4786.  @bob445566DE  Just thought about the FN which had what we would think of as a normal grip and it was used by paratroopers. Even without the folding stock.
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  4787.  @aussiviking604  First time I read about it I did wonder why they did not give them better chutes. Am I wrong in thinking that German aircrew used a chute similar to Allied aircrew?
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  4788. Putin says a ban on its oil would have “catastrophic consequences” for the global economy. Putin crying wolf now he realises that he is not going to get away with invading Ukraine
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  4789. Oh, look. Another bat crap crazy idea for the use of nuclear energy. And tied to an airship. You know. That perennial idea that keeps turning up and that is noted for its bouncing around in the bad weather like your washing in a washing machine and crashing
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  4790. In an era of how to books and articles here's a how not to, as in how not to win a battle you should have won. Interesting about the ram bow. I had read some time ago that it was introduced in the west after the Japanese had fought a war with China where the Japanese had sunk many Chinese ships by ramming them. What the reports of these naval battles seem to have failed to mention, or people ignored, was that the Japanese were using modern steel warships whereas the Chinese ships were wooden junks. I am sure on in the photograph you used was the stern not the bow as you can clearly see the rudders. British warships seem to have favoured a rounded bow rather then the spike shown in the photograph. I think the idea is that it cuts rather then spikes the enemies ship. This, hopefully, would cut the enemies ship in two and avoid getting yourself caught on the enemies ship. Sinking it, yes. Sinking with it, no.
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  4791. A year on it turns out Europe did not freeze during winter but Russia did. And Ukraine has found its own answer to cutting Russia's oil output. The other thing is that Russia is heavily dependent on foreign companies to exploit its oil and gas as they do not have the ability to do this for themselves. So it Russia's oil and gas is shut down it will freeze and will take years to bring back online.
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  4792. Sounds better then many scripted videos I've seen.
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  4793. I was just thinking about the poor old B-2 crew sat it their aircraft all that time. You would have to get your legs into gear before you could walk anywhere.
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  4794. I very much enjoy these little gems from the past. You have to wonder what would have been achieved if the original idea of war not starting until 1944/45.
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  4795. You read the title and think What! Then after watching the video you think, Okay I can see how that works.
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  4796. The Belarusian army is not the thing keeping Lukashenko in power, it is the Belarusian riot police. They get all the best equipment and training. The truth is the Belarusian army was until recently some 15,000 badly trained and poorly equipped troops. Their new recruits are ex-soldiers, with the same level of training, and border who were transferred to the army but who have even less training. The joint manoeuvres between the Russian and Belarusian armies is just bluff and bluster to scare Ukraine and NATO into negotiating a peace settlement. Like that's going to work.
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  4797. I see lambchop is now doing time with Micheal Cohan
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  4798.  @Unther  I did read they had trouble synchronising the guns to the propeller and more then one pilot shot his own propeller off. Challenging indeed.
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  4799. exileinderby51 They tried their best to forget it for obvious reasons.
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  4800. You mean Track and Trace is not world beating. Whoever is in charge must feel a right Muppet.
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  4801. So the woman who crashed the economy has a growth group. Obviously she has never got the hang of irony, amongst so many other things she has never got the hang of.
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  4802.  @UnintentionalSubmarine  He was probably off on a wild goose chase for the Yamato.
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  4803. I have wondered who in their right mind would want this job. So far my search has been fruitless.
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  4804. There was an Arthur who rode with kings but not a King Arthur. So he was possible that he likely a warrior. Though it is equally possible he had a different role. Maybe an advisor. The British historian Gildas, who lived not long after Arthur's time, does not mention him. As Arthur would have been British as well it would be odd that Gildas did not mention him if Arthur was a king.
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  4805. Typical Johnson. Sounds good but not thought through. All flash and no bang.
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  4806. Ironically it was one George Washington who, having panicked killed a French officer, dragged Britain into the war with France.
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  4807.  @mikejengineergmail  I think that is the one I was referring to. Thanks
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  4808.  @Jonathan-h1w9j  Slipped up? Systematically hacking peoples phones is only "slipping up," to you. What level do they have to descend to before it becomes more than just "slipping up."
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  4809. So this could be fun. All those states which decided to give Trump a pass for 2020 and not run primaries may have to think again. I hear Mitch McConnell may be free.
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  4810. The Tory small boat plan is sunk by a large barge. The only thing we want to see in the autumn is the back of this government.
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  4811. It is because all the Troy claims about Brexit stopping immigration has failed miserably and they know it. So now they are just lashing out because stories like this just reminds everyone how pathetically bad they are at running the country.
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  4812.  @zxbzxbzxb1  It sort of went down hill from 43😀
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  4813. Unfortunately there are too many of these people about.
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  4814. Fear and Urine. The smell of the modern Tory party.
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  4815. Knowing how much the Chinese monitor their own people and now we see they have set up secret police stations around the world why should we expect TikTok to be safe
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  4816. They had quite a long career for something which started off with no prospects
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  4817. Liz Truss is like your appendix. You can live without both of them.
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  4818. I think there was something about the war in the newspapers.
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  4819. What druids. They would not exist for another 2,000 years
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  4820.  @liberalsockpuppet4772  Somethings are worth waiting for. You, of course, had USS England which didn't hold back when it came to sinking Japanese submarines
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  4821. It is interesting how many people who served their various countries kept a record of it. And in many cases this was probably the only time in there lives that they did so.
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  4822. You must have been sat with the mouse button hovering over the notification bell
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  4823. Word of advice don't use this man as your lawyer. You'll go into the court for a parking fine and get life.
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  4824. I do find it odd that we have the technology for stealth and hiding infrared signals but they don't.
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  4825.  @derrickstorm6976  Actually the first 'shed' was probably a converted cow shed which was being used to store stuff in, sounds familiar. Some man on seeing the frame the family used for weaving clothe which was being stored there realised he could make improvements to it and suddenly invented the weaving industry. That was one thousand years ago.
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  4826.  @Wallyworld30  You've been playing that goat simulator haven't you 🦌 😊
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  4827. I did read about one man who was sentenced to be transported to Australia and managed to jump overboard and successfully swam to shore making his escape. The ship was moored in the Thames and would be there sometime waiting to get enough prisoners before it sailed. The man was on deck one day and before anyone could stop him he jumped in the Thames where he managed to avoid the boats in the river whose job it was to catch him and return him to the ship. Once ashore he made good his escape. Now at this point you would think he would lay low for awhile until it was safe. But this he did not do. So a week after making his escape he was walking down the street and walked right into the judge who had sentenced him. He was immediately caught and sent beck to the ship which was still in the Thames. And extra precautions were taken to make sure he did not escape again. You have a feeling that his return to the ship was not a friendly one after making fools of the the crew. I do wonder if he lived long enough to get to Australia.
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  4828. You have to admire their nerve. If the tank commander had looked around sooner the Greyhound would have been a pile of scrap.
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  4829. Max. I think you meant EU. It may be too soon for Ukraine to field a rugby team. As for your point about Ukraine joining the EU Boris has never been the sharpest knife in the kitchen.
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  4830. I think, Gario, you will find we all have that reaction👍
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  4831. enough for a game of cards 👍
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  4832. I did come across a video on YouTube of a former USN officer who took part in the salvage of one of the ships. It gives an interesting account of what it was like to carry out the salvage and the things they had to do to raise the ship. One thing I did find interesting was the contribution the ships captain made to the sinking of the ship this officer was on. Apparently on Saturday 6th December the captain had all the portholes and watertight doors opened ready of working on the ship on the Monday. So when she was hit during the attack there was nothing to stop the water flood the ship and sinking her.
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  4833. Can anyone else hear the sound of Barr trying to wipe his slate clean
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  4834. Sarcasm. The art of slapping stupid people without them knowing
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  4835. I knew these were used in WW1 though I had not realised how extensively. I am surprised, though, that they were still in service into the 1940s as the 2 in mortar was so widely used at squad level at the time. And being a mortar they would have a higher rate of fire. You could drop several rounds downrange in quick succession. Well a couple of new facts learned today. Thanks
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  4836. I have heard of the various origins of Sir Loin but it is fun to hear them again. As for the French connection, the word beef comes from the Old French Boef. But that seems to be as close as French gets.
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  4837.  @pegzounet  If that was the plan it worked very well.
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  4838.  @hirisk761  Shifting over land Viking style. I like it. As we both know if the Navy actually knew what they were doing they would have sent a tug. That's what they are there for. And this would not be the last time they did not listen. There was that incident where the USAF lost a nuclear bomb of the Spanish coast and the Navy was looking in the wrong area. They eventually found it, right where the locals had been telling them where it was. Some people never learn
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  4839.  @grahvis  And its draft would have been much shallower then the warship.
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  4840. They give Trump pictures. They also gave him some crayons as well.
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  4841. Back in the 60s there was a health campaign in Britain to encourage people to use a handkerchief when they sneezed. Part of the message was not new, witnessed by the leaflet you showed. The messages was 'Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases. Trap Your Cold in a Handkerchief.' I found it interesting that the original message was included in the new one. Obviously if America had not joined the war the flu would not have spread world wide as it did. But prior to that there was a peace group pushing for an end to the war who influence had been spreading and eventually included President Wilson. It came very close to succeeding and if had done so America would not have entered the war. And the flu would have been isolated to a small area of America. Unfortunately events over took these efforts and America did enter the war. the rest, as we know, is history.
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  4842. The heavy tank was just to early and needed to wait until warfare and technology caught up.
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  4843. It looks like both sides very much underestimated their support.
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  4844. That's the second tank I know of which brought down an aircraft with it's main gun, though first chronologically. A British tank shot down a MiG 15 in Korea. Though in that event it was a case of the MiG being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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  4845. "Hope for the best but prepare for the worst." Great quote but is has been around for some time. And like you I full support Ukraine.
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  4846.  @vertigo2893  you would think so but it does not take long for nature to take things back. And it's not like it was some big airport with lots of large buildings. And it had been awhile since it had been used so it would have been overgrown by this point it it had not been cleared.
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  4847.  @steveperreira5850  I should think a good biography about Whittle should mention him.
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  4848. Like he was going to pay
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  4849. Thanks for the reminder
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  4850. Including trains. Now that would have been fun. Imagine one of them having an accident in the middle of a city.
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  4851. Johnson surrounded himself with idiots. Sunak was in his cabinet.
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  4852. Years ago I worked with someone who used one in WW2. Most of what he said about it is repeated here. But the thing he hated the most is having to re-cock it, especially it the enemy about. In that case they had to do it laying down. Its best use was in house to house to house fighting. If you had a row of houses you blow a hole in the end wall with the PIAT and entered through it. When you wanted to enter the next house you would just go the the top of the house you have just cleared and blow a hole through the connecting wall. And so on until you had cleared the row. Of course this was not very popular with the Germans defending these houses, suddenly having the wall erupt. The spigotted mortar did get used elsewhere. The anti submarine Hedgehog was the spigotted mortar. And when you watch all those rockets being fired out of the landing craft onto the beaches on D-Day they to are spigotted mortars. The PIAT did have a big brother in the form of the 290mm Petard Mortar mounted on the Churchill Tank and used by the Royal Engineers. I believe it was capable of knocking a hole in five foot of reinforced concrete and would be used on German bunkers. Just thought. Maybe they should have used that for house to house fighting. You would only need the one.
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  4853.  @VexChoccyMilk  One of the tings often missed is that the America Dough Boys were also using Lee Enfield's. Because US arms makers were busy making Lee Enfield's they did not have enough capacity to make all Springfield's the US Army needed. So what the did was produce .30 Lee Enfield's
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  4854. MSNBC has been looking at Special Elections and they show that the polls look way out. Many of the Special Elections are favourable towards the Democrates. Even where they lose they have reduced the Republicans winning number of votes.
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  4855. i did a degree in archaeology and I know about the sudden return to a much colder period at this time. It was thought at one point that the people who had settled in Britain had left and moved south with others returning once it had warmed up again. Though there is now evidence that not everyone left which would suggest it was not as severe as once thought.
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  4856. Belarusian foces are so bad the make the Russians look good
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  4857. Trolls. I preferred it when they lived under bridges and didn't get WiFi
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  4858. Not usually mentioned but the original plan had them using oars as a backup. They planned to hire an all Greek crew and row it like a trireme. There was talk of having it as a quadrireme or even a quinquereme. But someone mentioned this would mean the ship would be full of oars and seaman. And who wants a ship like that
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  4859. Well that all makes sense. Horses for courses, as they say.
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  4860. I, like many others who have posted here, knew about many of the things mentioned here, but it is excellent to see it all put together like this. I am aware the army only kept the best men but I was not aware that they kept the regiments alive within the army. So that was new to me. One think I do know, though Dr Felton may be able to add to this, is that when the Luftwaffe was also expanded many of the officers and men came from the army. It would be interesting to know just how much this effected Luftwaffe doctrine, such as it working so close with the army, and did this contribute to the lack of four engined strategic bombers.
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  4861. It makes you wonder why the Japanese did not send their marines along with several submarines to make a landing at Elwood and attack the fuel tanks and pipelines. That would have been much more productive. Interesting that the Japanese uniforms were so clean. It's as if the whole thing had been staged for the camera,
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  4862. Before WW1 a railway company in Britain painted its passenger locomotives royal blue. But when the war broke out this colour was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for the dazzle camouflage. This meant that the passenger locomotives were left painted in their undercoat, which, ironically, was battleship grey.
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  4863. If she thinks that's bad I'd for her to take the Dutch citizenship test. It's a two hour video where what you saw here would be regarded at too tame.
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  4864. Considering that this was in the middle of the German Spring Offensive is may have been better to have mounted a full on landing. At the very least it would have forced the Germans to divert valuable troops are resources away from the front line and would have meant that attack would have ended sooner.
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  4865. Prettyboy here is the only source of fraud
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  4866. His real worry is that now he is tied to Putin and his failed invasion of Ukraine Lukashenko's future relies on Putin. and that future is not looking good
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  4867. Some thought that the way to stop these weapons was to use an electric razor as it was thought that it interfered with the radio signal. How true this was I do not know but I have never come across and incident where, in the middle of an attack, crew members were ordered to start shaving.
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  4868.  @patchouliknowledge4455  Just joining in the fun. I know about the Russian admiral and his disposable binocular.
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  4869.  @wesleygay8918  They were not to hand at that point.
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  4870. As long as he or Rudy are not your attorney
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  4871. This aircraft looks like it was designed by several different design teams none of whom ever met the other teams and all tasked with designing some specific part of the aircraft. I do hope you will be looking at the Supermarine 224. It seems like Supermarine did one or two designs with the inverted gull wing and I have come across a couple of references to the original Spitfire design being like this until it was changed. There was also meant to be a naval aircraft by Supermarine which had this wing shape to shorten the landing gear just as the Vought F4U Corsair would do later.
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  4872.  @JohnyG29  Actually I came across the 224 in a book about the Spitfire some time ago but since then I have found some rather vague details, some of which contradict what I had read. So thank you for confirming the original details were correct.
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  4873. It is more likely he is just incompetent rather than self-sabotage. In the old Soviet Union Putin was an interpreter who worked in East German, not what you would call a prime posting. He was what would be referred to as middle management. Not what you would think of as having great leadership qualities.
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  4874. @puckay Yes I remember them. It was interesting because you realised that any invention was more often then not made up of existing parts and not something totally new. Connections showed how one invention led to another. Both the book and DVDs are available on Amazon
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  4875. You don't need to. It's Putin's smoke and mirrors to fool the Russian people into thinking Russia is still relevant.
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  4876. Thanks for that Tom
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  4877. Well, that's got to be fun.
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  4878. Trumps' gone so change target
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  4879.  @darrellborland119  They were also used in North Africa and Italy. The USAAF and the Royal Air Force used them for aerial reconnaissance. Not sure about the USAAF reconnaissance version but the RAF painted theirs pale blue as they did with the aerial reconnaissance version of the Spitfire. I believe the USAAF 9th Air Force used them flying from Britain. They even tried converting some to night fighters because they did not want the P-61.
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  4880. I have found this short series on the Lee Enfield very interesting, enjoyable and informative. I know of at last one relative of mine who would have carried one of these in WW1 Like the rifle shown here he was also at the Somme though his weapon of choice was the Ordnance BL 60-pounder as he was in the Royal Garrison Artillery.
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  4881. African bush elephants can and are domesticated even today. So Hannibal's would have more likely to have been African bush elephants. The depiction of the elephant on the coin should be taken as that of a man riding and elephant rather then as accurate representation of what the real one would have looked like. There is no reason to believe that the Battle of Zama did not happen. And the description of the battle, and the tactics used by the Roman General Scipio Africanus in that battle, fits in with those he used in other battles. If it was made up then the person that did that would have had to have known how Scipio would have fought the battle, otherwise it would be obvious that it was made up. One of the things worth noting about this battle is that Scipio uses a double envelopment, a classic Carthaginian tactic. Talk about beaten at your own game.
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  4882. I must admit I have never understood why elephants were used in warfare, Indian or otherwise. They seem to be as much a threat to your own side as they are to the enemy. And once you are familiar with how to defeat them any advantage is lost. I am reminded here of the German soldiers reaction to the first tank attack in WW1. At first many of them ran away in fear but once they had methods to deal with them they usually stood their ground and fought them. At least there was no danger of the tanks turning around and running amok in your own lines. So if they could not find these illusive North African elephant remains I assume they found those of their Indian cousins? Two quick thoughts. Firstly, what difference would it make if these were second or third generation domesticated African elephants. And secondly, I seem to remember something about a now extinct African jungle elephants which were smaller. Could these have been the ones Hannabel used? As to Zama I can think of a couple of possibilities here. The elephants may have been there, after all they are closer to the source, but Polybius, or someone else, increased their number but make Scipio's victory even more impressive. Or, over time there was additions to the story, and adding in the famed, or infamous, elephants would be obvious. And bearing in mind the story of Hannibal bringing them over the Alps showing how they could be defeated would stop the citizens of Roman having sleepless nights for fear of being trampled by elephants while they slept. While writing this I was reminded of how things are repeated. I remembered reading of an army were they disguised camels as elephants to make the enemy think they had more elephants then they really had. They fitted the camel with a wooden frame with material on top to make it look like an elephant. During WW2 the British Eighth Army, in preparation for the First Battle of El Alamein, disguised tanks to look like trucks and trucks to look like tanks. The even used trucks to cover the tank tracks and tanks to cover the truck track. Nothing if not thorough. This fooled the German Afrika Corp into thinking that they would be facing infantry when they were, in fact, facing tanks. The thing which puzzles me about the camels disguised as elephants is why didn't anyone wonder why these "elephants" had such thin legs. :) Like you I have a life long love of history and my degree is in archaeology.
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  4883. Watched the Douglass Fairbanks video and I must admit I always find such things very interesting. I wonder how much of this was connected with Operation Mincemeat. It would be interesting to see how much it all fitted together. The British 4th Army help the allies win both World Wars. In 1918 it led the allies in the 100 Day campaign which resulted in the end of the war. In WW 2 it was supposed to Invade Norway, a threat which tied up some quarter of a million Germans during D-Day. Prior to that it was to be employed in the invasion of France. If I mention that it was to take part in the landings a Calais you will no doubt realise that it was part of the deception which convinced Hitler that Calais was the allies intended invasion point. The British 4th Army did not actually exist.
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  4884. Glen Lego I think it was Eastern Turkey. At least that is where he died. I remember watching a TV programme some years ago about two skeletons found in a cave in America which had Roman lamps with them. It's thought that they had been on a ship which may have been caught in a storm, probably around the Bay of Biscay, and driven out into the Atlantic and as the prevailing currents turn on a clockwise direction they ended up in America.
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  4885. Actually it is better if the water is just off the boil for the best flavour. The idea of having the water boiling when poured into the teapot came about in WW2 because the quality of tea was not at its best and boiling water improved what little quality there was. If you are using a good quality coffee, not instant, then having the water just off the boil stops the ground coffee being scolded and also gives a better flavour. Putting the milk in first dates back to the 18th century and it was supposed to stop thermal shock causing cracks in porcelain tea cups when the hot water hits the cup. The milk reduced the temperature of the tea when it was poured into the cup just enough to stop the excessive heat damaging the cup.
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  4886. I knew about Fairburn and his connection with the Shanghai Police and his later connection with the Special Forces. The Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife is often referred to as the Commando Knife. My late uncle had one of these when he was in the commandos and in fact may have used it on a raid when his gun jammed. Fortunately the German officers gun also jammed and my uncle killed him.
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  4887. Bet you will keep an eye out for them tables next time.
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  4888. It looks like he's taking the p*ss out of Putin's claims about Ukraine being full of NAZIs
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  4889. May be we should spend more time looking at what makes us the same, that way there could be less conflict in the world.
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  4890. Don Felipe. As I mentioned elsewhere the first German aircraft to be shot down went to a Fairey Battle. You wonder what the German aircrew made of it.
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  4891. Don Felipe. The Roc's kill was 28th May 1940. I wonder if you were thinking of the Blackburn Skua which shot down a Dornier Do 18 flying boat over the North Sea 26 September 1939. The Fairey Battle shot down a German aircraft six days earlier which was later confirmed by the French. I also mentioned that on 10 April 1940, 16 Skuas of 800 and 803 NAS sunk the German cruiser Konigsberg. The Konigsberg was the first major warship ever to be sunk by dive bombing. The attack was led by Lieutenant Commander William Lucy. Lacy would become a fighter ace while flying the Skua. I remember reading about a German fighter pilot who was shot down over Britain and insistently claimed his opponent was a Spitfire as nothing less then a Spitfire could have shot him down. There was no Spitfire within 200 miles. You have to wonder what claims the German pilots made after being shot down by a Skua. Maybe they claimed asylum as they were to embarrassed to go home.
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  4892. I did read about a pilot being shot down by a Stuka in Malta. They were having a Stuka party and he was so intent oh shooting down the Stuka in front of him he forgot the one behind. I wonder if it was the same one. Target fixation was not uncommon and many a pilot got that nasty surprise of MG and cannon shells hitting their aircraft.
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  4893. Don Felipe. With the introduction of fighter bombers, in 1941 I believe, a dedicated dive bomber was surely no longer needed. With training the could hit the same targets and were also quite capable of defending themselves. And as well as bombs they had cannon, in the case of the Typhoons. and 50 calibre MGs in the case of the P38, and of course rockets. Slightly off topic. The German S boats described themselves the Stukas of the Sea. Whereas the the British fast attack boats called themselves the Spitfires of the Sea. Obviously basking in reflected glory.
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  4894. The Stuka was held onto because it had become iconic rather then what it could do on the battlefield. Oddly enough the fighter-bomber idea did not stick with the US Navy at that point as they brought in the Douglas A-1 Skyraider. It was designed to replace the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver and Grumman TBF Avenger and reduce the crew to one. Of course as this was at the beginning of the jet age and jets often lacked range in the early days. Something like the Skyraider made a useful stopgap, though Vietnam extended that. Interestingly its British contemporary, Westland Wyvern, had a turboprop and was somewhat faster at 383 mph, compared to the 322 mph of the Skyraider.
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  4895. This guy should go into fertiliser as he's full of his own product
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  4896.  @direktorpresident  Funnily that's what she said.
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  4897.  @Crashed131963  It's not like no one told them. Yamamoto said as much before the attack on Pearl Harbor
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  4898. There is just 300,00 Russian soldiers resting.
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  4899. Thanks for the video. Filled in some interesting details about those events. I did know some of it but most of it was just the outline of what happened.
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  4900. Well another Tiger going onto the danger list.
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  4901. Trump is a fine example of the saying, 'I can explain it to you but I cannot understand it for you.'
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  4902. I did read that the Germans were looking at Kamikazi style attacks on a bridge and I was wondering if it was this one.
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  4903.  @evillittletiger9759  They are sending more of those antitank missiles that guy was carrying.
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  4904. Elise Stefanik want to advance her career by becoming Trump's VP. Ask Mike Pence how that will turn out.
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  4905. To me it looks like a lack of knowledge and experience from the younger presenters. All they are doing is parroting others
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  4906.  @ildart8738  I wonder. Was there a nuclear version of the Trabant engine. Why do I suddenly get the feeling I know what the next video is all about.
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  4907. So the Merlin was used by the British, Russia, lend lease spitfires, Americans, Spain on ex-German aircraft and the Italians. Just need Japan and we have the full set.
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  4908. Well now I know.
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  4909.  @grantbos5967  I'd love to be there if he offer to pay by check.
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  4910. True. But his insanity is probably long past the stage where he could recognise that.
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  4911.  Buttrape Bill  This I know and understand, but they were aware of what was happening with the SS death squads and the camps as well as the atrocities carried out by their own troops.. Yet they still behaved as if nothing was wrong. And the notion of using terror as a weapon was something they had done since the Franco Prussian War. Yet they still thought nothing would be said.
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  4912. I remember some years ago reading the comments of a senior West German Army officer who had just been with his tanks on exercise in Britain. It turned out he had served with the German armies panzers in WW2. A bit of a surprise at first. But then you think well were else were they going to get experienced senior officers from.
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  4913. It is somewhat ironic that Goring blamed the Jews as the third highest ace was himself Jewish.
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  4914. Britain survived the blitz so we know that Ukraine will do the same.
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  4915.  @johnthemachine  I do know about that mission. I do think the first one was rushed and was not ready.
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  4916.  @msgfrmdaactionman3000  that I'd true. Sort of ruins your day doing things like that
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  4917.  @MrJdsenior  And what did NASA do with most of their hand picked rock samples. Absolutely nothing. They are in a vault somewhere untouched since they were brought back. America may have won the space race but the Soviets led the way for much of the time.
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  4918.  @MrJdsenior  hi John. Yes they did send out samples but mostly did end up in a vault. I seem to remember that because of concerns about wheather or not they would be able to takeoff because of the angle the were at that they may have to abandon the rocks on the moon. This would suggest that they were not as important as made out to be.
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  4919.  @shaider1982  thanks, Jerico I'd forgotten about that
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  4920.  @dankengine5304  unfortunately when they did they took more lives. As we saw with the Space Shuttle
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  4921. There is a nursery rhyme the first two lines of which are 'Ride a cock horse, To Banbury Cross. Obviously horse and cross do not rhyme. But, until more recent times, in the north of England horse could have been pronounced like cross by some people. Which could suggest the horse was pronounced like cross elsewhere. The term used for villages abandoned at this time is Deserted Medieval Village, or DMV. Not all DMVs became deserted at this time. Many struggled on but suffered from a declining population before finally becoming abandoned. Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire, did not finally become abandoned until just after 1500. In some cases two villages may have had populations too small to be viable on their own. So the people from one village would move to the other village. There is also the Shrunken Medieval Village. Villages which shrank but were still big enough to be viable. A local village, Wayne, East Yorkshire (pronounced worn) is one such village. There are over 3,000 known DMVs sites, most of which are in the north of England.
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  4922. So is this the criminal returning to the scene of the crime or the dog returning to its vomit. Or both
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  4923. When I was growing up I'd read all the comic books like Commando and knew who was who and what was what when it came to armies and equipment. Now not so much.
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  4924. So the army and navy refused to work together while simulating being the Japanese. Boy were they trying to make it as realistic as possible.
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  4925. I did once read of a man in the 14th century who went water skying. How his was pulled along I cannot remember but he was successful. Unfortunately what he did was deemed to be witchcraft and he was put to death.
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  4926. Having seen in the past a video of one man posting photographs stealing gas from a cop car and another posting on his Facebook page of him having left his state while on probation I have to say none of this surprises me.
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  4927. Turd mentality. That's him projecting again
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  4928. Even Trump thinks little Donny Junior is an idiot. Now we know why.
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  4929. As the two spies who tried to carry out the assassination in the UK both got identified and five more got arrested in the Netherlands, she has got a lot of competition for the worst spy ever. Then again it does fit a pattern of incompetence.
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  4930. Not wishing to distract you from The History Guy's excellent video here you may want to watch this YouTube video. It is run by Drachinifel who is a naval historian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AdcvDiA3lE&t=2s I am sure even The History Guy will enjoy it.
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  4931. Actually a British company came up with backward facing seats. The problem was that passengers did not like being seated backwards.
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  4932. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
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  4933. ​ @empath69  True, Jaded. My remark was aimed at the fact that they were so often in that unfortunate position. Something, as we know, the North Atlantic specialises in.
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  4934. They should fire the person who keeps hiring these loosers. Can't remember the name of the guy but he's some old fart. Delusions of grandeur. Plays golf a lot. Long red tie which he uses to cover up his short comings.
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  4935. That's because the poor cannot afford the lawyers to sue people.
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  4936. I think we should be careful about any conclusions drawn on this war.The Russian army was in complete disarray even before it started. Their equipment has been badly maintained and the training is very substandard. How good have the drones been. How good would they have been in a better trained and equipt force such as those in NATO capable of using dealing with them properly. Yes Javelin, NLAW and the others are killing tanks. But how well would they do against well trained troops. I am not saying lessons could not be learned from this war. But sweeping statements about tanks now being obsolete are not proven here against an army which by any measure has been useless from the off.
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  4937. Maybe they are still planning to build their own helicopter, but, as they so often do, they want to reverse engineer the Ka-52 and use it to build their own version.
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  4938. And six weeks for the Russians to lose it.
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  4939. The Russian troops are withdrawing. Translation, they are running away. They are regrouping. Translation, they've gone home.
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  4940. Much of this was known to me, I did 20th century at school and the Soviet Union did play an important part in the history of that century. It was, though, good to be reminded of the details of her escape. Interesting that the number of Soviet deaths by Stalin's hand are estimated to be as high as 20 million while those by Hitler's hand are also estimated to be as high as 20 million. A rather deadly game of oneupmanship.
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  4941. To be fair to Harold Wilson the previous Conservative government had over cooked the economy before the 1964 in a vain hope of staying in power. So he was trying to deal with the mess he had been left. If they had stayed in power then the same things would have happened. Wilson later said that he was surprised at just how bad the economy was and that it was one of those rare events where it was as bad as he had said during the election.
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  4942. It's fun watching people like her spinning round and round in ever decreasing circles until that moment when she disappears lack of principles
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  4943.  @CtrlAltRetreat  You're here all week. You can't find the exit either.
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  4944. The man with the coke habit looks like the former Russian prime minister and one time president Dmitry Medvedev. I say one time president. He was actually Putin's puppet. So you can see why he now does coke. The rest of Russia has to make do with vodka. On 19 May 2008, Medvedev signed a decree on anti-corruption measures, which included creation of an Anti-Corruption Council. That obviously work out so well. I mean. You don't see Putin owning a $700,000,000 yacht because of him corruptly stealing money do you. And we'll not mention the secret palace will we.
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  4945. I know this does not show the Americans in a good light. But to be fair to the troops involved many of them had no experience of combat until they hit the beaches. This was a deliberate choice because the American top brass did not want people with any combat experience in case it got in the way of them doing their job. More experienced officers and NCOs may well have reacted differently and been more successful at stopping the Germans.
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  4946. A steel tipped dip pen. Someone's ahead of their time.
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  4947. What do you all think. Oscar material. She's certainly ready to slap the host.
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  4948. In the UK there was a woman called Mary Whitehouse who was always making claims about how TV and other media was nothing but filth, interesting what you find when you look for it. She was always calling for things to be banned, especially in the music industry. And yes these calls usually ended up with a huge boost to sales. Some years later she met a man who thanked her for these constant calls for the banning of music she did not like. She looked on somewhat bewildered not sure why he said what he said. You see what he did not tell her was he was a music producer and he produced the very records she wanted banned. Sales jumped up and he made lots of money.
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  4949. It deals with Parasites. Bye bye Alex Jones
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  4950. I had to reread what you had written several times. All you have written makes good sense up to and until the moment you remember he is talking about Trump. At that point I have to go and lay down because the world starts spinning around and none if it makes sense any more.
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  4951. It now seems he's turning US Republican. First saying it was a smear campaign and now his team are saying they believe a labour supporter in Downing Street is behind the leak. He has ordered an investigation into the leak, but not one into how he's wife is living in London but claiming to live in India.
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  4952. Trump will not pick anyone who might outshine him. He wants a more biddable Pence.
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  4953.  @RobinPhillips1957  That is common to large parts of the Russian military. Which is why their arms sales have plummeted. And that, in turn, has stopped Russia to use the funds for newer equipment.
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  4954. So is America great again yet
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  4955. If he moves any further to the right he'll end up at the other end of the political spectrum which means he'll be to the left of Corbyn.
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  4956.  @owen368  I'll take your advice on the coffee.
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  4957.  @nightshade4873  When drones get to the point where they are fighting each other then the airforce takes over. They are not going to let the army have all that fun. Actually maybe the future to all wars is through computers rather than drones. For one thing we can all stay at home drinking our coffee.
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  4958. I fully agree with you on that.
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  4959. Well I knew a bit about British WW2 rifles but not this one. Thanks
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  4960. TPHVICTIMS Now you mention it I had wondered why the name sounded familiar.
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  4961. One of the reasons the Netherlands my have not been rushing to build up its military is because of its stance on neutrality. They were neutral in WW1 and they were not planning to change that position if and when war broke out. With that in mind they would have been reluctant to give others, especially Germany, the impression that they were readying for war. Also everyone, including Germany, thought that there would be several more years before war broke out.
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  4962. Can't see them washing that stain away.
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  4963. Remember that Putin has no military experience
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  4964.  @alexnikishin1354  Even the Russians in Donbass do not want Putin. As soon as the invasion started they went west. Whatever their feelings about Ukraine they do not want to be part of Russia. Even the Russians in Kaliningrad have declared independence from Russia. No one want to be ruled by Putin.
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  4965.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  So the missed the point that they were now in the big league as far as escaping was concern. Not what you would can deep thinkers.
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  4966. Looks like Jordan's past has caught up at last
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  4967.  @Vanilla0729  Actually here in the UK online is a much bigger thing. Some of the supermarkets were a bit slow and suffered for it. Online has hit the big department stores here as well. We've lost one of the big ones a year or two back and others are closing stores to reduce cost. At the same time online sales are growing. I'm just in the process of starting a business which will help sall businesses get online so they can take advantage of online business.
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  4968.  Nobody Knows  As I mentioned to Dan the UK has taken to online more than most countries. Problem here is more the opposite in that many of the big department stores are finding online sales are effecting their stores.
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  4969. Forgot to mention. Not only did the stop the Chrome Dome but SAC has gone as well.
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  4970. I happened to Google SAC several months ago, I think it was when you posted the video on the Titan missile explosion, as I was curious about what it was doing these days. I must of missed the fact that it was decommissioned way back in 1992. Something else I got sorted was that the film Strategic Air Command was the James Stewart film from 1955. I confused it with the 1963 film A Gathering of Eagles with Rock Hudson and Rod Taylor.
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  4971. That's got to be confusing for the enemy. Having to report you are under attack by HMS Dreadnought. The'll probable cut his rum ration again.
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  4972. Trump had some down time. That's like saying fish had some wet time. I did read he had a brain scan but they found nothing. Please add your own jokes
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  4973. Oops.
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  4974. He looked like what he was. A failed chicken farmer.
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  4975. You should take a look at the scimitar wing of the Handley Page Victor if you want an interestingly shaped wing
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  4976. Well we a certainly getting a video history of the SMLE.
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  4977. Just looked at My Pillow's Wiki page. Looks like Mr. Lindell makes a habit of being sued, and loosing.
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  4978. These fogs/smogs were known as London Particular. Because it was particular to London. So when the smog became known as a 'Pea Souper,' pea soup became known as London Particular.
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  4979.  @darklysm8345  That is not what I said. I said the Tiger and Panther were a result of combat experience against the Russians. The Panzer IV went into service in 1939 but it was not until later the the longer barrel 75 mm was fitted.
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  4980. I knew about the guy stealing gas from a cop car. I came across another video at the same time about someone who was stopped by the police in America while he was driving. He thought it was a routine traffic stop until the policeman told him to get out of the car and immediately arrested him. Turns out the man, who was from another state, was not long put of prison and he had decided to jump parole and posted about it on Facebook. When he didn't turn up to see his parole officer the officer checked the mans Facebook page and there he was telling everyone what he was doing and where he was. Which was how he was arrested. I am not sure but I think he may have gotten his old cell back. Two British stories for you where those taking part went a whole twenty minutes before being arrested. One, a bank robbery where the getaway driver used his own car. Another where a man stole a TV and was quickly arrested. This one is old school because he did the burglary at night when it was snowing and he was tracked by his foot prints in the snow.
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  4981.  @chrissouthgate4554  And I was thinking the same for the battleships.
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  4982. Moscow Mitch because, unlike Trump, McConnell knows better. He has proven that by what he has said in the past. Trump is corrupt and incompetent and , though he should, he knows no better. This is how he has always behaved. But McConnell does know better, but he wont do better. It is interesting that when senators get to this point in their careers they start to look at what their legacy is going to be. McConnell's is going to be Moscow Mitch.
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  4983. There was a reported blue on blue for a coastal command aircraft sink a RN submarine during WW2. The submarine was on the surface and near the British coast when it was spotted by the aircraft. There was a RN submarine which was to have transited that area but should have been clear of it by that time. The aircraft's captain believe that was not the a RN submarine but a German U-Boat decided to attack. They attacked the the submarine which was hit and then rolled over and sank. When he got back he reported the sinking but there was a problem. It turned out the RN submarine was reported missing. There was an enquiry where the pilot pointed out that the submarine he had sunk had a rust hull below the waterline whereas the RN submarine was new which meant there would have been no rust. His problem was that when it rolled over he was the only one who saw the the bottom of the submarine so no one else could confirm what he saw. He was court-martialled which ended his flying career. Skip bombing could be as dangerous for the aircraft and its crew as it was the enemy. One problem was that the first skip of bomb could skip higher then the hight it was dropped at. More than one aircraft was destroyed when it was hit by its own bomb which had skipped back up and hit the aircraft. And even near misses could cause some consternation especially to the tail gunner of one aircraft as it passed so close the airman claimed he could have reached out and touched it as it went passed. As to the ends of gun barrels being polished. There is a post WW2 story of senior British officer who insisted that all the artillery guns under his command, 25 pounders I believe, had the paint of the first six inches from the end of the barrel removed and polished when on parade. Whether it happened or not I do not know. But in the version I was told the barrels were brass which had to be polished every day. This leads me to think that if the story was true then we are looking at some sort of cap rather than brass as to the best of my knowledge the barrel of the 25 pounder was not made of brass. The thing that makes me doubt it is true is the fact that the gun had a muzzle brake. Which was not brass either.
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  4984. The story of the crucified Canadian soldier is true. He was Sergeant Harry Band of the Central Ontario Regiment of the Canadian Infantry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucified_Soldier A documentary on the crucified soldier was transmitted in 2002 as part of UK Channel 4's Secret History series and was made by the British documentary film maker Iain Overton.
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  4985. The rational explanation is simple. Putin will not tolerate traitors or opposition to him. We all just saw the Russian opposition politician have his prison sentence greatly increased. And here in Britain we saw one person who opposed Putin poisoned and the failed poisoning in Salisbury. And how many Russian senior officers have been dismissed and are on 'holiday.' Blaming Ukraine is totally unbelievable. This man is a Putin propagandist. He is a male cow manure salesman.
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  4986. During the Cold War Russian pilots would claim that they were having problems with ice so would use the deicer. Once they landed they would bleed off the deicer, alcohol, they had supposedly used to during the flight and that night they would have a party. Soviet troops would drink antifreeze. The lucky one did not lose their eyesight.
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  4987. That's my thought as well
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  4988.  @herb369nichols  He has two cheeks
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  4989. Russian missiles are of such poor quality some 60% of them miss their target. One missile was so far off target it blow up a toilet on a beach, miles from its intended target.
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  4990. WALTERBROADDUS Thats' true of so many things today. How many modern cars are purely mechanical?
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  4991. I think that would be an excellent story. As I said, the pilots wanted everyone to survive, and understandably so. But when you see the film footage of the crash the fact that so many did survive, the majority, is a testament to the skill of him and the other flight crew.
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  4992. The word viking is Old English and means raider.
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  4993.  @jlvfr  Talk about going old school
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  4994.  @jediknight5600  Tell that to all the colonels who are also with the general when he gets hit. That's why things are falling apart in the Russian army.
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  4995. I had not realised just how much effort Japan put in to attacking the US. And this is the first I have heard of them attacking Canada. Well done.
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  4996. Adds to the German tanks used in Syria against Israel.
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  4997. Nabael. The Battle Cruiser worked fine when you remembered its role was to fight heavy cruisers. You only need to look at the Battle of the Falklands 8th December 1914 to see how good they were. Its when you forget what its role is and face it up against battleships that it fails. I did read sometime ago the the battlecruiser HMS Hood was due to go into dry dock for a major refit which would have increased the deck armour. This would have left her much more capable of taking on battleships. The date for this refit was October 1939. Two months earlier and it would have been in dry dock when war broke out.
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  4998. Richard Vernon. The wrecks of those Battlecruisers have been dived on and it was discovered that extra cordite was being stored inside the ships rather then inside the bunkers and it was this which exploded. The carried extra ammunition so that they could keep up a high rate of fire.
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  4999.  @nicholasbrown306  Most of the Russian equipment got sold off in backdoor deals by the Russian officers. Which is why T-62s and T-55s were suddenly resurrected. The Storm Shadow Missiles the UK sent were the mark 1 which is now replaced by the mark 2. There is nothing wrong with the mark 1 it is just that they were due to be disposed of. And who better to dispose of them that Ukraine.
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  5000. If square one is when the Torys took over then go for it. The economy was getting better when they took over.
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  5001. It would be interesting to know what the ships motto was. What's the Latin for shell magnet.
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  5002. As soon as you said herb I knew you were talking about the banana. I did read somewhere that the plant "walks" in that as its roots spread it slowly moves itself along.
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  5003. I also thought of the Gloster Gladiator but then I remembered its entering service date was 1937. Right on the cusp of the transition to monoplanes. I think Gloster's claim to fame is the fact that it went from biplane to jet, the Gloster Meteor, without a propeller drive monoplane in between.
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  5004. I bet that's the last time she asks him what shall we do today.
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  5005. I do know about Émile Driant and his sacrifice defending Verdun. A true patriot and hero of France. The folly of allowing Verdun's defences to be striped would haunt both France and Britain for the rest of the war. The German attack there almost bleed Frances army dry and would be one of the major causes of the French army mutinying in 1917. It forced British Army into fighting at The Somme, a battle it was not yet ready for with all the casualties that came with it. It also had a huge effect on the German Army, bleeding it of troops. But that was down to an ill conceived plan which was aimed at destroying the French army without actually taking Verdun.
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  5006. We all saw it. He's trolling Putin about him wanting to "clean all the NAZIs out of Ukraine."
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  5007. Did the Italians also have a problem with their warships exploding at this time.
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  5008.  @Aco747lyte  I think you're probably right
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  5009. Why is Linsey Graham still talking. And why is anyone listening. The only thing that likes to hear a jackass braying is the jackass
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  5010. The Russians have finally admitted it's warship has sunk.
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  5011.  @mikearmstrong8483  don't worry about having that tune in your head. We all have it lurking there somewhere
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  5012. William Hague does not understand irony.
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  5013. Somewhat ironic that the USAAC was impressed by the Stuka as concept was based on the US navies Curtiss F11C Goshawk. Interestingly both the Americans and the British used dive bombers for their navies but used fighter bombers for ground attack over land. The British Army had requested dive bombers but that request was turned down.
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  5014. Talk about shitting a brick. I thought you guys were taught field craft. Wiping your arse on a Bear Grills or something.
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  5015. I saw the rocket turrets and thought it was something from War Of The Worlds. I was waiting for them to get up and start walking. Like everyone else I have seen the film of the rockets used on D-Day and in the Pacific but the distinction between the different types was not usually explained. o once again Mark has provided important details and added to my knowledge. It is said that the rockets fired by the likes of the Spitfire, Typhoon and Swordfish gave them the equivalent firepower of the broadside from a cruiser. So it looks like each rocket armed landing craft had the firepower of a fleet of cruisers.
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  5016. Imagine dogfighting with a pair of 40 mm cannons. I think even the most stalwart Luftwaffe pilot would avoid taking it on.
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  5017.  Ray L  thanks Ray. Trump's problem is that it is beyond his level of understanding
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  5018.  @tubbymunchkin7254  I understand where your coming from and the analysis needs to be done later. Biggest problem at the moment is the total lack of leadership.
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  5019. Walks like an old Prussian colonel. The only things missing were a dueling scar and a monocle
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  5020. A reverse Nixon. This time it is the president who is recorded.
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  5021. Now you know why they say worse things happen at sea.
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  5022. Looking at some of those old men it was hard not to think they were picking up weapons from the Franco-Prussian and remembering the last time they used them.
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  5023. I did see a documentary about the loss of the Sydney and the search for the wreck. Shows what a simple mistake can lead to.
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  5024.  @calthepeacelovingclover5935  The study of human past through material remains
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  5025.  @TechnoEsoterica  No but I got the hat. Walking around a dig site with a whip was less likely to keep the sun and rain off.
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  5026. Someone's been having extra rum rations
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  5027. Looking at all the smoke coming from the Russian carrier I'd say that it runs on coal.
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  5028. Bourne's moustache and sideburns were called Burnsides, named after the US army general of the same name who had fought for the North in the civil war. When men stopped growing the moustache but kept the rest then the name was reversed and they became sideburns. Stanley Baker owned Chard's original Victoria Cross, though he did not know that at the time. And, of course, he should have worn a blue coat being an engineer. At the end of the film Michael Caine, playing Bromhead, tells Baker's Chard that he had not fought a battle before. This was not true as he already had combat experience.
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  5029. Two things I noticed with Trump at the game. One. It looks like Trump is so delusional that he thought they were chanting Lock Him Up about Bidden not him and it took him some time to realise the truth. Two. Melania realised before Trump that the crowd was chanting about Trump, not Bidden.
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  5030.  @terrycurzon1318  I get the feeling that Putin would rather not
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  5031.  @Brian-om2hh  Is that what's causing them to attack their own launchers or is that just self inflicted.
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  5032. More important is is China able to win a war. The answer to that looks like no.
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  5033. Interesting weapon where the only injury is to the shooters shoulder. Do you think that everytime he pulled the trigger the cameraman had shouted bang? It's just that Iain seemed to be getting rather discourage there.
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  5034.  @jamestheotherone742  True
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  5035. And Trump still wont get Trump Moscow.
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  5036. Not only a series of very remarkable rescues but to do so for that length of time and in those conditions without looses an aircraft is truly remarkable.
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  5037. @Tom Waddle She studied at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. and then Harvard where she gained a masters and the and a PhD. Not so dumb. Interestingly the standards of education in many US states leaves much to be desired and are on a par with former Soviet Eastern European countries. And before you reply check it out.
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  5038. Actually I had no problems following her
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  5039. Johnston windmills are not wind turbines
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  5040. All this equipment came in handy not only with the Vietnamese attack on Cambodia but also China's attack in support of the Cambodian's. Vietnam managed to drive back the Chinese while still fighting in Cambodia. Oddly enough one of the problems the Chinese faced in Vietnam was the fact that no one in the Chinese military wore rank insignias as all good communists were said to be equal. This resulted in incidents were orders were being ignored because that persons giving the orders was unknown to those receiving the orders.
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  5041. Cockney rhyming slang was said to have come about so that criminals could talk to each other without the police in London knowing what was being said. This came about because the would frequent pubs and such dressed in disguise so they could overhear conversations. some of you may know that a pub was a rubberdub. This would later be shortened to rubber.
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  5042. Fine on full auto as long as you are being attack by people over twenty foot tall. If you are being attack by regular people and you miss on the first shot then I suggest you run very fast. 😊
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  5043. I'd like to know the answer to this as well. Best I can tell is that it is an older form of historiographer. I came across a reference to the author T.C. Smout who is the Scottish Histriographer Royal.
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  5044. I may be somewhat lax in this matter but as I understand it Satan's role on Judgement Day is to present each person with a record of their life with which that person will be judged. So Satan is a prosecuting attorney.
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  5045. Okay. I think we should all learn from this example what naive and stupid looks like and I think we should thank Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly for the efforts he made to show us. And we should thank him for showing such dedication by flying halfway around the world so that he could give us this valuable lesson. Now if someone could point him towards the rock he climbed out from under we can gets on with the rest of our lives.
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  5046. I remembered reading about the North Korean commandos attempt to kill the South Korean president from an article in Reader's Digest. I was aware that there were clashes between the two sides but it was the first time I had come across information about the raid. That was the point when I realised there was more to it then I thought.
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  5047. Very workman like gun.
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  5048. Men with 10 gallon hats on 5 gallon heads.
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  5049.  @theleva7  so very true
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  5050. Oddly enough a group of Germans tried to make an escape from a POW camp in Wales just weeks before Germany fell. Though they got out of the camp they were caught and ended up back behind barbed wire. Not sure how they thought they would get out of Britain never mind getting all the way back to what was left of Germany.
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  5051. I do know of this battle but it was good to hear it again. Interestingly the British government did receive a number of letters from the families of those conscripts who served and died in Korea. They understood why their sons may fight and die in Europe as they would be protecting Britain and Europe against Soviet forces. But not in a country the other side of the world. Something which would be echoed by Americans during the Viet Nam War.
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  5052. So what he's doing will result in the deaths of many Trump supporters. So who will vote for him?
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  5053. Shortest trial in history if he does.
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  5054.  @David-ni5hj  I'm talking about post WW2. If you look at Hungary and Czechoslovakia they had learned lessons from WW2. Finland was after Stalin had purged the vast majority of his officer corps. So at that point they had lost the necessary expertise. This is why the German invasion sent panic in the Russian force. No one had any idea of how to deal with it.
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  5055. One night during WW1 a trawler from Grimsby, North Lincolnshire came across a Zeppelin which had come down in the North Sea with many of the surviving crew still clinging to the airship as it floated on the surface. The captain of the trawler wanted to rescue the crew but his dilemma was that there were many more of them then there were of his crew and he feared they would take over his ship, He could not radio for help as at this time his ship did not have a radio. He hung around for some time before deciding he could not risk rescuing the Germans and sailed away leaving them to their fate.
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  5056.  @chemiker494  I am sure others do the same but my experience is not as extensive as yours 😊
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  5057.  Jimmy De'Souza  Thanks for this Jimmy but I think you may have over thought this as it is just a joke, about British buses. 👍😊
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  5058. It's been known for some time that the Anglo Saxons wrote in Runes. There is evidence the King Alfred the Great wrote in runes when trying to learn Latin.
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  5059. I have read about flights in the Hindenburg and how badly it reacted to severe weather problems. So none of this was new to me. My thought it why did they persist in flying airships while knowing knowing how dangerous they were.
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  5060. I did know about these two aircraft but it is always interesting to have the story retold. I have a feeling that the aircraft which faced the Japanese in that air battle were not Spitfires. They were definitely superior to the Zero. Zero pilots got a shock when facing Seafires as the Seafires would dogfight with them and the Zeros lost .
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  5061. Sometimes it's just easier to throw the bullets at the enemy.
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  5062. One million subscribers Well done. So when's the party. French 75s all round.
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  5063. Interesting that he is offering what Norway already gives to its people. They have better healthcare, higher levels of education and a better quality of life. Trump asked why Norwegians do not emigrate to America. Now you know.
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  5064. Not to difficult when he keeps handing them the ammo
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  5065. I understand that back in the late 60s Soviet Russia found out that the USAF wanted a new ground attack aircraft. So the decided to fly spy satellites over the US to find out what America was working on. Eventually they got photographs of this new aircraft and used it as the basis for their ground attack aircraft. The Soviets got the Su-25 while the USAF got the A-10. It seems US intelligence had sold the Soviets a pup.
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  5066. Keeping him in power after he lied to Parliament is a step to far. A Prime Minister is supposed to tell the truth. Now we are faced with someone whose word cannot be trusted. Whatever is happening in the rest of the world he has to go.
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  5067. Not exactly new. The Crystal Palace Pneumatic, which ran in Railway ran in London in 1864, was a vacuum railway.
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  5068. That was very interesting. I remember reading about the US using their version of the V1 with one of their submarines which I understood had a nuclear warhead. When I read about it I did think why didn't the Germans do that. So now I know where America got the idea. You do wonder why they wasted so much time and effort on these things. If they could not break Britain with V1's, and V2's then what made them think breaking America would be any easier. They would have seen how America reacted to Pearl Harbour so what made them think the reaction to V1's hitting New York would be any different.
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  5069. I like your thinking. Now if you can just think of me having a coffee and a bacon sandwich it would be much appreciated.
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  5070. If you go back to the time when Russia still had a royal family the Romanov's were the wealthiest people in the world. Their wealth was built the fur trade and the exploitation of the the people of Siberia. It did not require any cleverness on their part as everyone who was not anyone was there to be brutally abused, which they did. The reason Russia had to sell off Alaska is because the man sent to run it decided to mistreat the Alaskans the same way they would mistreat the Siberians. When the Alaskans stopped trading with the Russians it all fell apart. Ironically the Russian government agent who ran Alaska before then until his death would always treat the natives fairly which is why it had done so well for Russia. So apart from the name of the leader very little is different.
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  5071. I've always followed the saying worse things happen at sea. And if yours was one of the cars on that ship you'll know what I mean.
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  5072. Doctors: This is bad for the people. Trump: This looks bad for me. Which one would you trust.
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  5073. Considering how much abuse the Russian speaking Ukrainians have been subjected to with the Russian army treating them like cannon fodder it's hard to think of them wanting to be part of Russia.
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  5074. I see what you did there. You drank coffee while watching a Drach video. I like your style
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  5075. The French designed tumblehome ships for the Russian navy. The ones sunk by the Japanese navy in the Russo-Japanese War.
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  5076. ​ @trizvanov  There was a documentary about it which was made several years ago. I came across it on YouTube. It did look well made like it had been produced either by or for a TV channel. I was hoping that this channel would take a look at the story to see what they made of it. I never read the Daily Mail. There is only one use for that rag.
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  5077.  @itzikashemtov6045  It is interesting how close Syria came to winning back the Golan Heights during Yom Kippur. Unlike the Six Day War the Syrians where much better motivated and were causing Israel serious problems. I believe the Syrians had made changes within the officer corps and stopped promoting party members over non party members who were much better qualified.
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  5078.  @philvanderlaan5942  Join the que
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  5079.  @jeffbybee5207  Exquisitely ugly at a pinch.
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  5080. The British actor Micheal Hordern served in the Royal Navy and a Fighter Direction Officer, and then first lieutenant on board HMS Illustrious. Shortly after the departure of his immediate superior, he was promoted to lieutenant commander, I remember watching an interview with him and him describing the training he received for his role. It involved a number of cyclist riding around and each bicycle having a shield in front of it so the cyclist could not see where they were going. Each carried a radio and the trainee fighter direction office would use the radio to direct the cyclists so as to avoid collisions between each of them. It has been some time since I watched the interview but I seem to remember he had to sit on top of a very high step ladder or something similar so he could observe the cyclists and give them directions.
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  5081. Well if it blows up the problem will be solved
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  5082. During WW2 when a city was bombed, especially over several nights, authorities would start thinking that any more nights like that and the people would want to end the war. But it soon became the norm and the bombers would go off to attack a different target.
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  5083. Ty T Makes you wonder if there were other options depending on the severity of the situation. Maybe they start of with Hunted for awhile then they all went off for a beer and works its way up from there.
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  5084. The wind is behind Trump. Shouldn't have had those spicy wings.
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  5085. Actually the Germans planned to fight the French not the British. If they planned to fight the British then U-Boats would have been much more useful. And Britain had over twenty years experience operating carriers by this time. Whereas Germany had none. Germany's knowledge of aircraft carriers and there operation was so limited as to be useless. They planned to launch their aircraft by using catapults of the type normally used to launch floatplanes off warships instead of using the aircrafts engines for takeoff from the flightdeck as the British, Americans and Japanese did. So each German aircraft would have to be moved into position, attached to the launcher and then it would be launched. You can just imagine how long it would take to get a strike strike force into the air, as well as the amount of fuel wasted by the first aircraft to be launched waiting for the rest to get airborne. By this time a British strike force would be well on its way by that time.
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  5086. Even Trump thing Donny junior is an idiot.
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  5087. She claims to know what's like to grow up in somewhere which did not get the benefits of growth. She grew up under Thatcher. And now she wants to be Thatcher. Says it all really.
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  5088. Porky pork pies is cockney rhyming slang, Many of these are British
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  5089.  @babboon5764  Imagine ejecting right in front of the air intakes.
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  5090.  @daviddowney9331  Incentive to stay with the jet
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  5091.  @thekinginyellow1744  A;; part of the learning curve
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  5092. On the 22 December 2005 the bones of the late journalist Alistair Cooke were surgically removed from his body before he was cremated by employees of Biomedical Tissue Services of Fort Lee, New Jersey, a tissue-recovery firm. Michael Mastromarino, a former New Jersey-based oral surgeon and Lee Cruceta agreed to a deal that resulted in their imprisonment. So grave robbing is still being carried out. The bones were for use as medical-grade bone grafts but as Cooke had died of bone cancer they would not have been of any use. Mastromarino himself would die of liver cancer in 2013.
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  5093. If you want to put anyone into isolation then it has to be Trump.
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  5094. This is a dead government walking.
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  5095. It was just Sunak scaremongering
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  5096. The spitting in the lawyers shoes is a variation of an old Billy Connelly joke. I wont say wat went in the shoes but it was brown and smelled bad. In Britain the Inns of Court Regiment, made up of lawyers from the four Inns Of Court, and were known as The Devil's Own.
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  5097.  @hemihead001  Centurion was widely regarded as the best in the world back then. No exceptions
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  5098. taylor  actually it was everyone's opinion
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  5099.  @haroldfiedler6549  and your choice is what?
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  5100. Interesting looking back at this knowing he was found guilty.
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  5101. I have a feeling not
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  5102. Will Mr. Trump please pick up his karma at the checkout. They say you should not laugh at other peoples misfortunes. But then you remember who's misfortunes you are laughing at and burst out laughing again
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  5103. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former hot dog seller, is complaining that Sergei Shoigu, a former construction worker, is not up to running the defence ministry. If you ever wondered what was wrong with Russia you would only need to look at this to realise what it is. Personally I think they should be allowed to shoot it out.
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  5104. Well we've seen where the money for the intro has gone. Got himself a dressing gown. The Beau Brummell of space. So NASA gave up on the Shuttle and is now using a rocket first used on the Mercury programme and the astronauts will sit in something looking suspiciously like the Apollo command module. Not exactly Boldly Going Where No One Has Gone before are we. Interestingly YouTube are recommending a video on Apollo 8 and the is one of Scott's videos on Vostok 1. You get the feeling someone is trying to tell me something.
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  5105.  @michaelmanning5379  I think you just answered my question. Thanks
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  5106. And these plans are going so well. Russia is organising its own collapse to lull the west into a false sense of security. And then when we least expect it the Russian hoard will come pouring over the border taking the west by storm. It is at this point the alarm goes off and Putin wakes up.
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  5107. It's a weresquirrel. It runs up your pants and bites your nuts.
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  5108. Make your enemy think you are stupid and we'll know you're Russian.
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  5109. You know when The History Guy mentions the Caribbean he is going to mention pirates. And sure enough, one minute in and there's pirates. It's a pity the CIA didn't try the free beer thing with Castro. It's got to be better then trying to make his beard fall out.
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  5110. When one the most highly regarded Queens Councils died it was discovered that he had a secret library which was the biggest collections of pornographich literature in Britian.
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  5111. If his nukes have been maintained to the same standard as everything else then they probably wont work anyway.
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  5112. Modern Internet cafe. Well the coffee is going to be good but, as yet, no Mark Felton. I did read of one Parisian who hated the Eiffel Tower so much that he loathed to look at it. The problem was that no matter where he went all the views from the various cafes in the area were of the tower. He finally came up with a solution to the problem of where he could drink his coffee without seeing the tower. In the cafe in the tower itself. Well that's one solution.
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  5113. sounds such a helpful chap this Putin.
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  5114.  @irishboer7124  Maybe General Clark should have gone instead of sending the British.
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  5115. Paul was saying that it was all made up by the press and the Democrats, so Jake was just reminding Paul who put them in prison
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  5116. These were very popular in the British Army while fighting in North Africa during WW2. Much lighter and cooler that the issued boots.
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  5117. Like the new look. You're starting to look like a Victorian gentlemen. It will be a pipe and cravat next.😄
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  5118. Which is worse. People being fooled or people waning to be fooled
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  5119. I have seen photographs of Tiger Tanks hit by battleship shells in Normandy. Some 60 tons of tank upside down as if dropped by a child and left there. Make you think what it must have been like for those inside them. I think the Nevada's nickname should be the mule. It's the only other thing I can think of which is just that stubborn.
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  5120.  @grahvis  Ironic. The Germans go for bigger tanks and the US says I see your tank and raise you a battleship.
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  5121. How not to carry out reputation management.
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  5122. Okay. The truck followed by the caravan and the SUV and trailer is probably working with a circus or fair as I have seen them in the UK.
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  5123. I read a day or two ago that there average time a soldier was in combat in the Pacific in WW2 was 40 days during four years of service. In Vietnam it was 240 days combat for a one year tour. That means a Vietnam Vet saw as much action in two months as a WW2 Vet in four years. Or, to put it another way. a WW2 Vets would have had to have served 24 years to see the same amount of combat.
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  5124.  @ericdpeerik3928  I should add that I think the F-16 is an excellent aircraft and quite capable of taking on anything the Russians have but as I understand it the Eurofighter will take much more time for the Ukrainian pilots to learn and that conversion to the F-16 would be quicker. And Ukraine needs better fighters yesterday.
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  5125. The Russians looked at the T34 and made it as quickly as possible because they knew it had a limited lifespan and just wanted to make as many as the could as quickly as they could. Some 60,000 in wartime. The Germans looked at the T34, produced the over engineered Panther and got just 6,000. As the Russians were producing 1,300 T34s per month that means they reach the wartime production figures of the Panther in about 10 weeks.
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  5126.  @akessel92train  One of the many hazards of flying these aircraft. The British Royal Airforce lost several Gloster Meteors at air displays, And a newly restored WW2 Blenheim bomber did a belly landing, but in that case it was rebuilt and is flying again.
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  5127. I would have thought Canadians would have been more used to the cold
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  5128. Tornado in the pan. Now that's cooking up a storm
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  5129. I had wondered about the Japanese doing a Saint Nazaire type attack on the lock gates. Not necessarily ramming the gates but if they used a cargo ship and got it as close as possible to the gates before blowing up the ship it could cause a fair amount of damage. It would have been a suicide mission but if it succeeded it could have seriously effected US Navy movement and forced many ships to go south adding weeks to the time it took to reach the US west coast.
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  5130. I think America should look to its own problems rather then calling out other peoples. America is now getting mass shooting on almost a weekly basis. Maybe you should start there and leave the UK to worry about its advertisements.
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  5131. The British tested a similar type of torpedoes back in the 50s which resulted in one of the torpedoes exploding. On the 16th June 1955 while in harbour HMS Sidon was sunk after one of its hydrogen peroxide torpedoes exploded in the torpedo tube blowing off the submarines bow and causing the deaths of 13 sailors. After this the torpedo was viewed as being too dangerous because of the instability of Hydrogen peroxide. This should have been known to the Russians which makes you wonder why they went ahead and used hydrogen peroxide anyway.
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  5132. He loves the unpaid. That's how he treats the other people who work for him at his hotels and golf clubs
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  5133. Just watching this and I thought it looked like a giant water tank. Which is somewhat ironic as the name tank came from the code name for the first British tank which was 'water tank for Russia,' which got shortened to just tank. Makes you wonder if the designers of these vehicles had a secret desire to be plumbers.
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  5134. Frederick Spencer Chapman wrote a book called The Jungle is Neutral. Clearly it is not only not neutral but at times down right dangerous. I understand several Americans died in Viet Nam having been attacked by tigers.
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  5135. Just because you are not on a fighting ship does not mean you are any less danger. In wartime everything has to be yesterday, which means you cut corners to get the job done. This works fine until it doesn't and then all hell breaks loose. Sometimes literally.
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  5136. People are dying to elect Trump. Literally.
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  5137. Interesting that both Hitler and Stalin were both mummies boys
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  5138. Was Lord Cochrane the first special forces commander
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  5139. So he's a DINO. A Democrat In Name Only.
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  5140. If they had done what they did with later rifles and made that section out of steel the problem would have been solved. In WW1 a British sniper had a German soldier in his sights but decided not to shoot him. I wonder whatever happened to Gefrieter Adolf Hitler. Fortunately training has been improved since then and now British snipers do pull the trigger.
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  5141. They all looked like they would sooner be somewhere else.
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  5142. Ironically MI6 wanted the total opposite to what Churchill wanted. They wanted everything nice and quiet so that the Germans would leave them alone to do their job.
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  5143. Just had a British Pathe video come up in my YouTube feed and it shows the earlier version of the Pterodactyl 1A as seen at 0:22 on your video. It is being inspected by a British Royal Air Force officer and though it does not state who he is it does look like Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Trenchard.
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  5144. Can we get away from looking at Russia and thinking about it still being the old Soviet Union. This notion that Russia will sustain huge casualties has long gone. We are seeing many Russians fleeing Russia rather than being conscripted. If we look at those who left when the war started and those that left during the call up that is some 1.7 million men. And many Russians are deserting rather that fight. So no. They will not enduring hundreds of thousands of Russian casualties.
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  5145.  @CallieMasters5000  That thought had crossed my mind
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  5146. Interesting the amount a satellite imagery available. Even more interesting is the fact that Russia is supposed to have the capability to knock out such satellites but has either chosen either not to or the claim is like so many Russian claims, without substance.
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  5147.  @surtrpicks  Actually I think that joke is probably older then Lincoln.
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  5148. @copforthat I forgot to mention. I did try to find out more about my grandfather and his wartime service. His records, along with millions of others, were kept in a warehouse in London. The warehouse was destroyed in an air raid during the Blitz.
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  5149.  @copferthat  At least he was too tall for the Bantam Battalion. When war broke out they had so many people wanting to join they actually raised the minimum height just to reduce the number of people they had to deal with. Later they had to drop it so far that it was below the original minimum height. One recruitment office in London usually saw, pre-war, one man per week. The day after war was declared the sergeant who was in charge of the office found so many people wanted to enlist that he had to get a police escort to get to his front door and it took him 20 minutes to reach it.
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  5150. Actually an Australian submarine did the same thing. Even more impressive was the British Royal Navy Captain, later Admiral, Sir Sandy Woodward who, while on an exercise with an American fleet, simulated the destruction of the fleets carrier. He sailed up to it at night with all the ships lights on and be the time the Americans challenged his ship it was to late as he had all its weapons aimed at the carrier.
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  5151. Finally. A coffee pot the right size for my first cup of the day.
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  5152. Talking about the difficulty of using something like that in a confined space. I am sure we've all seen the Isis guys blowing themselves up using an RPG in a confined space. Whole new meaning to a suicide attack.
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  5153. STD's were transmitted between female patience by doctors in the same way. The doctor would examine a women who had just given birth after examining one who had an STD, thus passing it on. But the doctors assumed that it was because the women were promiscuous rather then the infection coming from their hands. As they knew how STD's were spread in the first place it makes you wonder why no doctor realised what was happening.
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  5154. As the T-14 Armata relies heavily on imported parts and equipment, which the sanctions from Russia's invasion of Crimea has stopped, I cannot see this happening for some time.
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  5155.  @machintelligence  Love that
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  5156.  @Sekir80  It's what their now dead commander said of them. Reflects badly on the rest of the Russian army.
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  5157. So if you want to help the RAF eat more fish and chips.
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  5158. I have to admit that YouTube got it's advertisement placement just right. Someone is giving away a free toilet bag. I know what it will be used for.
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  5159.  @Teh0X  With you on the StuG but with the Panzer IV I was thinking that at least it was a proven tank whereas the Panther was not.
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  5160.  @INSANESUICIDE  I can see where you're coming from on that but that was something the Panther did not achieve. Plus this then means you are having to put in a huge effort to recover each tank because they could not afford to loose any. Which we saw with the Panther and Tiger tanks.
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  5161.  @rogereade4950  The infighting was by design. Survival of the fittest and all that. Not a great idea when you are spending as much if not more time fighting your own side rather then the enemy.
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  5162.  @fazole  I admit it was a bit of a rough figure but it does illustrate the problems producing the Panther that the Germans faced with their approach to tank design.
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  5163.  @fazole  True. But by that time the war for Germany was lost. Too little too late.
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  5164.  @sabba_dabba8649  True. And because there was so few there was a huge effort by the Germans to recover each one.
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  5165.  @Guido_XL  I have wondered if the reason they did not immediately gear up for total war production is that they were not in a position to do so. Through costs, lack of material et cetera. As soon as France was defeated many men were demobilised, despite the fact Hitler was preparing to attack the Soviet Union the following year. And many of the transport vehicles were replaced with horse drawn vehicles. Knowing how vital these would be for the coming campaign you would have thought they would have kept them.
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  5166.  @ArousedRat1  You suffering from the shock of no combat.😀👍 I have noticed the same thing. With some YouTube channels the people following are a bit more mature in their outlook and are willing to exchange ideas.
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  5167. Surely the right to life comes first
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  5168. The difference, of course, is that Ukraine can get more missiles.
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  5169. A man known for collecting hats. He goes to the most famous hat shop known for producing the Bowler hat. You know he's going to buy a Bowler hat. He bought a Bowler hat. I did think you would have given the origin of the Mad Hatter and what drove them mad. An interesting and, to a few, a somewhat delicate subject.
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  5170. He does not need a mask. A gag yes.
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  5171.  @jesushatesyoutoo  I think that has already started
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  5172. A very esthetically pleasing shape. Rather modern in some ways.
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  5173. A clash of egos between generals. Not like that happened much.
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  5174. It is amazing just how much history of Egypt at that time is still not known.
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  5175. As a man who is a notorious for lying who would believe a word Gove says.
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  5176. They are even trying to call up the border guards they are struggling so much.
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  5177. A brutal dictator ruining the economy, stealing from the people and sending them to their deaths on a hopeless war he has no chance of winning. On top of with he has turned on the people he relies on to keep him in power after showing everyone how weak he is with Wagner's leader. Can't see why anyone would believe he is feeling threatened
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  5178. I can understand why Trump likes tango. It's a drink which is bright orange.
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  5179. Redtailfox1 I saw that one as well. They had a problem with the oxygen masks on the F4 but had to fly to another base to get it fixed, otherwise they would not have flown at that altitude.
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  5180. Sounds like the one
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  5181. Hague is and always has been a useless nonentity and anything he has to say is worthless.
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  5182. Am I the only one who thinks Gun Jesus is really getting into dressing up. Gun Jesus: 'And next week I'll be wearing a ballgown and high heels as I defend the ambassador from being kidnapped.' You all know you will watch. 😄
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  5183. Interesting look at some of the clashes between Russia and the West during the Cold War in miniature. Ironic that it is the educated and skilled Russian who are now leaving.
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  5184. The problem with getting the wealthy to pay for their own health care is that politicians will use this to reduce spending on the NHS. More and more people will then be dragged into paying for health care and that will hit those who cannot afford it. We will end up like the US where people are selling off their homes to pay for long term care. The other thing to note is that it will be the wealthy who will have shares in the private health care businesses and make money out of the poor.
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  5185. Thanks for the video. Just shows that alternative history is not as simple and straight forward as people often think.
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  5186. Can anyone else smell pants on fire
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  5187.  @darrellpowell6042  Ukraine is losing fast? The only thing moving fast is the Russians deserting. Even your Spetsnaz are refusing to fight.
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  5188.  @hkfoo3333  I never watch the Sun channel. Nor do I watch RT. Something you seem not to know is that the western press is not state controlled like in Russia. All the none state controlled news agencies in Russia have been shut sown because Putin does not want you to know the truth. There are many Russians surrendering. We know this because there was a prisoner exchange. Russian prisoners exchanged for Ukrainian prisoner. If Russians were not being taken as prisoners then there would be no exchange. Most Russian troops are running away. They are stealing civilian clothes and cars and heading to Belarus. Others are refusing to fight. Even you Spetsnaz are refusing to fight. And many troops in Russia are refusing to go to Ukraine.
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  5189.  @32shumble  Alcoholism is wide spread in Russia. In fact it's one of the worst countries in the world for it. One in four Russian will not reach their 60th birthday because of it. So your closer than you think.
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  5190.  @Lucas6l5  Putinland. In Putin land Putin is seven foot six and rides everywhere on a big white horse.
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  5191. Something like the Phalanx Close in Weapon System would be one choice. Assuming it could track the drones it could shoot them down before they reach their targets
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  5192.  @ROBERTNABORNEY  Thanks, Robert. I'd totally forgotten about Avalon Hill's Operation Sea Lion. Now you have mentioned it I do remember the bit about ignoring how they got there.
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  5193.  @benwilson6145  Thanks for your comments, Ben. Something to add to the mix was the fact that if Germany had managed to get the south coast the plan was to set the sea on fire. So even if they had succeeded in crossing the Channel they would then have to face trying to land and disembark troops while their landing craft were on fire. There was a series of wargames back in the 1970s, I believe, which covered what would have happened if the landings had been successful. It came to the conclusion that the Germans would have been stopped before they reach London. Makes you wonder if Germany had gone ahead with Operation Sea Lion how this would have effected Operation Barbarossa. If Germany has troops in Southern England, which would need support from the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine, how was Germany going to have the manpower and equipment to attack Russia. And as Germany logistics was always the orphaned child of the German armed forces they would have been struggling to keep one operation running let alone two.
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  5194. It may well be that Ukraine can do better with surface to air missile. Unlike NATO Russia does not have any dedicated specialists for the suppression of SAMs. A Russian pilot may be flying against Ukrainian fighters one day and against SAMS the next. Which is probably why they are losing so many aircraft to SAMs. NATO specialists pilots will do nothing else but SAM suppression for which they will have 200 hours flying per year. With that in mind how long before Russian pilots totally avoid areas where they know there is a strong Ukrainian SAM presence. And without air cover how is the Russian army going to perform.
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  5195. It's a pity the counties didn't get together like they did for the Tornado and work on it. That way these could have been a supersonic Harrier and larger versions of the Dornier. Splitting the cost between them would have made them.
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  5196. China's navy is a brown water navy which means it cannot travel far from its own shore. So it will not be meeting the US Navy out in the Pacific anytime soon.
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  5197. Looking forward to the Trump's giving evidence in court. The prosecution would only need what they say to convict them all.
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  5198. You get a feeling that he is not one of Americas leading orators. Then again. Like father like son, as they say.
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  5199. I have often wondered what would have happened if the Poles were better equipt as there are several incidents where they caused a lot of problems for the Germans.
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  5200. Not a job for the faint of heart. Over claiming seems to have been a big problem for Germany during WW2 and it's difficult not to believe that at the very least a blind eye was not being turned. They gave out awards to snippers for the number of kills they got which did not need any verification. So consequently they all started to get badges for the number of kills they claimed. The smart ones were those who did not add them to their sleave, knowing how that would be received if captured.
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  5201. Trump may be popular with the GOP but two thirds of the voting population in the US is either Democrats or independents. And trump is better known now than he was in 2016. DeSantis is killing his own chances. The woke thing is a non starter as everyone has other things which are much more important to them. Weaponising the justice department is all Trump.
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  5202. I think you are wrong on that. More tory party MPs like digestive biscuits than like Liz Truss. And Bozo Johnson did not lack charisma though we don't want him back.
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  5203.  @DOMINIK99013  I remember seeing the M-36s with some surprise.
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  5204.  @wayneantoniazzi2706  Thanks, Wayne.
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  5205.  @dontask6863  The King knew what it was like to be in combat. He served on one of the warships that took part in the Battle of Jutland. One large calibre AP shell just missed the turret he was serving in.
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  5206. The facts are that even Sunak's party hate him
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  5207. Passenger, on meeting BEA pilot. 'Hello pilot.' 'What we flying in today?' Pilot. 'It's an ex Luftwaffe aircraft.' Passenger. 'Oh, a Junkers 52.' Pilot. 'Well it is a Junkers.' Walkers outside and sees a Junkers 87 Pilot. 'Just sit quietly in the back please.'
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  5208. I did know about this attempt on assassinating Hitler as I watched a very good documentary about it some years ago. But it is a story well worth repeating. I have to admit that I think the idea was a good one but the assessment that it was to late in the war was a correct. I think that by then the best you could hope for was that infighting within the leadership would be serious enough to hamper their war effort. The alternative could well be that it galvanized Germany into fighting with much more vigor with less likelihood of surrendering.
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  5209. There used to be one next to the pier used by the Humber Ferry in Kingston upon Hull, thought is went years ago. From what I was told I was lead to believe it was German but looking at this video I now believe it was British. Something people may not know was that when a ship sank the pay for the sailors was stopped. So the charity provided a vital service for those who were shipwrecked and without money.
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  5210. A question only he could answer but is what he has achieved after leaving the marines better then what he would have done in the marines.
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  5211. Hitler said the same thing.
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  5212.  @dexexmachinatu4151  Well tbf if his IQ was higher than his age he'd would have attached it to something more solid for the test firing.
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  5213. The sooner we have the general election the sooner Sunak gets the order of the boot.
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  5214. The reason the government is not getting involved is because it has no idea of how to negotiate a settlement. So this legislation is to make the problem go away. And like so much this government does it will fail miserably
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  5215. Johnson has seen no blackmail. He also didn't know that parties were not to attended during lockdown. Despite him being the one who announced it.
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  5216. The F-1 was based on the Sepecat Jaguar
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  5217. Run? I didn't know that America was so progressive the federal prisoners could run for president.
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  5218. I was going to say that I had a feeling it had been sometime since that had been said. But I seem to remember that this was not the first time this has happened. I think there was at least one other which a vaguely remember as being a British escort during the Battle of the Atlantic. Whether those words were said I cannot recall but it was something similar. And remembering it is a Royal Navy ship it does seem likely.
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  5219. I had read about it. The Germans seem to be far more successful with commerce raiders then the High Sea Fleet did with fighting the Royal Navy.
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  5220. If you are looking for evidence of high crime and misdemeanours with a view for impeachment then yes the call was perfect. Covered all requirements needed for impeachment.
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  5221. I loved the second shotgun. Though it does look like it was designed by someone more used to designing church organs. Or perhaps an ambitious plumber.
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  5222. Thanks, Mark. Another great video. You have to wonder it these airbases would br so useful to the Japanese why they didn't build their own before the US turned up.
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  5223. Not sure I'd call that a success. Yes they did plant the mines, yes. They did destroyed one of the bridges, yes. But the other was back in action withing two days. A short delay at best. And as the aim was to destroy both bridges then, no it was not a success. Yet another example of desperation on the part of the Germany at this stage of the war.
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  5224. A man dancing on the graves of children just to make money.
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  5225. Guns like the Owen, the Sten and the Grease Gun always look like the were designed but a plumber who had spent the day drinking. Having said that who would want to be on the business end of any of them.
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  5226. I think Putin will claim it was all just an exercise and backdown. If he thought to use this to get a dialogue with the west about NATO not getting closer to the Russian border then that has failed. Before this happened there was not a majority in Ukraine for joining NATO but there is now. And all the weapons and equipment Ukraine wanted has not only been sent but NATO troops have been sent to provide the much needed training. If this was to test NATO's resolve in helping Ukraine then he has his answer. The problem for Putin is how much has this cost Russia. Russia is reliant on the sale of gas, oil and arms exports. Many arms deals have been cancelled and he has just shown those countries in Europe who buy the oil and gas how venerable they are. All that expense of the new pipeline is now wasted. And the only country he can sell to is China. Definitely a buyers market for China.
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  5227. Looking at Fabricant's wig it is hard to take him seriously when he complain about anything being without dignity.
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  5228. According to the CIA no.
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  5229. Back in the 80s a USN F14 Tomcat was taking part in an exercise in Europe when it came across an A10 which was an opposition aircraft. So the Tomcat pilot though 'oh good, an easy kill' and went down after the A10. Only to find the A10 stand on its wing, turned and coming straight for the Tomcat. At this point he decide discretion was the better part of valour and got the hell out of there. Tomcats did seem to have a problem with ground attack aircraft. In another exercise in Europe two Tomcats came across two British Royal Air Force Sepecat Jaguars below them and one decided to go down for an easy kill, only to be jumped by two more Jaguars following behind. Seeing his friend in trouble the second Tomcat went in to help only for him in turn to be jumped by two more Jaguars. Jaguars 2 Tomcats 0
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  5230. Just change to a first past the post system. The person who gets the most votes throughout the whole country wins.
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  5231.  @chocolatecatdad  thanks, Jay. The thing to remember is that this was a new form of warfare. Whereas the Britsh and Americans overplayed strategic bombing and its capabilities the Germans had reason to regreat not having that option. Especially at targets beyond the range of their twin engined bombers when they wanted to attack Soviet power generation plants. Today one aircraft can achieve what a thousand bomber raid would have been sent to do, and probably have failed. An insight into the thinking behind one person's motivations for mass bombing of German towns and cities in WW2 can be seen in the words of an American USAAF general, who said in 1945 what for most of the fifty years up to that point Germany had either been a threat to or at war with the rest of the world. And it was his aim they nevr would be again.
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  5232. Bit of a mix blessing, Drax. Nice to have the income but now you have the chance to spend more time doing what you love. Naval history. And, if such an ambition exists, you will now have time to write that book you've been thinking about. Especially as you have a ready audience. Whatever happens I wish you that very best of luck.
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  5233. Actually the Royal Air Force was using autogyros before the war and used them during the Battle of Britain to help calibrate the radar with regards to how high the Germans were flying.
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  5234. If Russia removes itself from Ukraine, hands over Putin and all the other war criminals then pays reparations to Ukraine that would be a start.
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  5235. It is ironic that Eisenhower was an excellent supply officer.
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  5236. I remember watching Kelly's Heroes and seeing one of these do the strafing run on Kelly and the others when they are on top of the hill behind German line.
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  5237.  @michaelmullins3396  As they will be flying and fighting in Ukraine under Ukrainian control then all they need is interpreters.
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  5238. They did have tactics for evading torpedoes so it would be logical that they practised them.
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  5239. In the first century Romans dry shaved. That is the facial hair was not wet when they shaved. And as the average razor was never that sharp it could be a painful experience, dreaded by many. This led one Roman citizen to declare that, after shaving, he looked like a gladiator fresh from the arena. But with the arrival of the emperor Hadrian things changed. Hadrian had served in the army and it was the armies fashion to have beards. So as many followed the fashion of the imperial family men grew beards. No more gladiatorial combat each morning. The razors shown in your shots from the TV series look more like straight edged razors which nothing like those the Romans would have used which are more semicircular with a curved edge.
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  5240. I am impressed by the way they built the grain bins. I, probably like many, thought they would build one layer on top of another. But watching them I realised that not only is it easier to jack the bin up and build the next layer on the ground, but it is also much safer for the crew because they stay at ground level. No fear of falling off any platform.
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  5241. Ironically the Japanese navy decided against the use of radar because it could be detected by the enemy.
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  5242. Ukraine has been supplied with British Starstreak MANPADS. Once locked onto the target the Russians would not be able to break the lock and the missile travels at Mach 3 which all means your luck just ran out.
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  5243. For the General Assembly to turn Odesa into a protected port that would require the consent of Putin.
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  5244. How about that for a coincidence. Yesterday I was commenting on the fact that Trump has so many acting heads of department, and ex-acting heads of departments, that Washington now has more actors, and unemployed actors, then Hollywood. I knew about Gotham and it's people acting crazy. It came up in a newspaper article because both the Bush family and the Clinton family originally hail from there. Hartlepool in north east England is nicknamed the Monkey Hangers. This came about because during the Napoleonic War a French ship was shipwrecked off the coast and a live monkey was washed ashore. Thinking it was a Frenchman they hung it. And like others they too have embarrassed the name.
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  5245. Where I live the local museum has a crews nest from a whaling ship. Unlike the normal crews nest this one has a hood to protect the crewman from the arctic wind and snow while watching out for whales.
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  5246. the A-10 reminds me of the Incredible Hulk. You don't want to see it when it's angry.
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  5247. The people were lied to by Boris as we all now know
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  5248.  @Bert2368  You wonder how, as the father of the Russian Navy, he would have reacted to these ships. After all he knew something about shipbuilding. I get the feeling he would not have been best pleased.
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  5249. Interesting wording by Barr. It make Trump think he's doing something when he is not.
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  5250. About as successful as the old Soviet 5 year plans.
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  5251. The other thing America has is politicians picking judges and deciding who gets prosecuted. Not that exceptional though as countries like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea do the same.
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  5252. Three of the people originally put forward by Republican Kevin McCarthy were actually witnesses to January 6th. Not what you would call impartial either.
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  5253. Looking forward to him repeating this when he is citizen Trump and open to being sued.
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  5254. If you want to home him let us know. We'll even pay for the delivery.
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  5255. Thanks for that. Very interesting. I knew about China 8nventing printing and assume the also invented moveable print but that innovation was invented by the Korean.
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  5256. If it is a weather balloon why not let America know. Why keep it secret until America discovers it.
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  5257. Title is wrong. Trump loses Bigly.
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  5258. Suella Braverman’s dream is to deport refugees. That's someone with a lot of personal problems
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  5259. A woman who felt entitled
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  5260. Maybe they should have a word with the Russians. I seem to remember them being able to move rockets around on a transporter and launch from anywhere. Like the SS-21 for instance. And the way things are over there you could probably get them cheap.
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  5261. I bet he wished he had a deputy to palm all these question onto
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  5262. Was this what they call a slow news day.
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  5263. For you the war may be over. But the salvage man he still has plenty of work to do.
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  5264. He also refers to the Apocalypse as a minor inconvenience.
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  5265. They had a different bayonet which had a tin opener attachment.
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  5266.  @Morris2182  it intercepted the SR-71 twice. Imagine piloting the Blackbird and the Lightning goes hurtling past you.
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  5267. There is drone footage of three Russian mercenaries beating an officer with shovels. I bet that officer will not get to shoot anymore soldiers who refuse to die for nothing.
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  5268. Oh. I think we know what the fate of the crew was.
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  5269. So Russia is the victim. Well you see, judge, this man kept attack my boots, knees and fists with his body and head.
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  5270. Not sure why he thinks the return of the old Soviet Union would be a good thing. The last big exercise carried out by the Warsaw Pact was in Poland. When it ended Poles were going to the railway station where the Russian troops were waiting to go home to Russia and the Poles were giving them sweets and other treas and they were taking photographs of each other with the Russian troops. What the Russians did not know was that the Poles were mocking the Russians by giving them things they could not get at home in Russia. So the Soviet Union was was never that good.
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  5271. THe people who should bear most responsibility for the fall of France is the French Government. The Chieftain did a video on the Battle of France and he points out that one of the problems the French military faced was political interference. The politicians feared a military coup so the required that officers needed a copy of their orders before the could act. This meant that orders given by radio could not be acted on until a copy of that order had been received. This meant that a senior French officer fighting the Germans on the frontline had to send a dispatch rider on motorbike all the way to the head quarters which was outside of Paris with the message telling the armed forces commander what was happening. Orders for the senior officer in the field had to then be sent back to the frontline. This took three days by which time everything had changed. So it was not a case of not calling up the French airforce but more a case of the order would not reach the airforce in time. So the way of sending orders in 1940 was not different that of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Except the riders rode motorbikes instead of horses. And the French lost that war as well. The reason the armed forces commander did not use a radio was twofold. One was, as already explained, that any orders had to be written down and given by hand. The second was that in the Polish campaign the Germans would triangulate on any radio signals and attack that point with Stukas. So either way the French could not use radios. Churchill wanted to send more aircraft to France but to do so would have stripped away squadrons which were needed to defend Britain, something Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding had to remind Churchill of. I believe Dowding even threatened to resign if Churchill did send more aircraft. Churchill had to inform the French Prime Minister that no more squadrons would be sent which left the French PM feeling betrayed. After the fall of France Montgomery was put in charge of troops in southern England where he met Churchill.
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  5272. DimensionDude I have yet to find a recipe which includes mercury. As I said "when cooking or baking" I think we can safely exclude mercury.
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  5273. Clue was in cooking and baking DimensionDude. You obviously went into full pedant overdrive which gave you tunnel vision thus missing the important bit. :-) Never tried mercury casserole but I did make a pizza a couple of days ago and measured 270 grams of water and not 270 millilitres. Whatever Pyrex's qualities I would sooner weigh the water then measure it.
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  5274.  @metaleuman  I hate to say this but that's how you get quotes. Someone makes it up. even if that someone is the person who says it. But, as you say, a good quote is a good quote.
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  5275. The problem with being willing to expend as many lives a necessary to achieve a victory in Ukraine is that the Russian population is in decline being only some 50% bigger than France. Whereas in the past Russians had large families this is no longer the case as Russians can no longer afford to have such large families. The Russian losses in Ukraine along with the demonstration of how poorly led and equipt the Russian military is is having an effect on other members in the Russian Federation and a further decline in Russia could lead to them also seeking separation from Russia. Crimea along with the rest of Ukraine is now looking more like Putin's Achilles leading to the end of the Russian Federation rather than his reassembly of the old Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.
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  5276. Word vomit
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  5277. General Clark wanted British troops to attack the Russian peace keeping force in the Balkans. Which would have led to WW3. He ended up have his tour cut short and his promotion with NATO cancelled.
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  5278.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  This is true but by taking Malta it would have meant the only way to supply the Allied troops in Egypt was by sending the supplies around the Cape. At the same time Axis supplies would have been safer. This would have forced the evacuation of troops in Egypt and its surrender to the Axis forces. And considering how many military personnel, how much equipment Tanks, aircraft and ships the Axis lost in North Africa and the Med the price would have been worth paying. I believe that the number of Axis soldiers who surrendered in North Africa at the end of that campaign was around 250,000, which is more then those at Stalingrad.
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  5279.  @elcastorgrande  After Crete Hitler would have all but ruled out paratroopers making an airborne landing. I have wondered if it is a mental attitude problem. German and Italy are land based forces used to fighting in continental Europe. Whereas Britain and America were for the most part are sea based forces. If they had to go anywhere to fight it usually involved a landing of some sort. So they would have had a better understanding of what was involved and therefor more willing to consider it. We only have to look at Operation Sealion to realise Germany had little understanding of how to conduct such operations.
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  5280. I saw Floatplane and I thought what is he reviewing now. Afterall he has been doing anti tank guns and the Sherman tank. Maybe it's the machine guns used by the rear gunner such as on the Douglas TBD Devastator, I thought. Then I read the rest and thought, well that looks interesting. And I was right.
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  5281. A couple of years ago a large department store chain went out of business. One of their stores was bought and is due to be demolished with the exception of a giant frieze at the front of the store which was going to be part of the new building which was to replace it, The problem is that not only does the building contain asbestos, which means it has been sealed off, but so does the frieze. So the local landmark will now be removed as well as the building.
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  5282. If you mean she looked like she was possessed then I would have to agree.
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  5283.  @jakedee4117  A supply teacher, probably.
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  5284. A man who was not going home without firing a shot. Especially considering how far he had traveled to get there. I was reminded of those German torpedo on the east coast from the missed merchant ships.
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  5285. She was part of a long line of incompetent people with no idea what they are doing produced by her party.
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  5286.  @a6mzeke1  I may be wrong here but from what I understand coking plants would use the coal itself as a fuel.
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  5287. Good question. I had thought about that myself
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  5288. A tornado in a frying pan. I thought I was being cool with the new airfryer
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  5289.  @mirthenary  the SE5A had a top speed of 138 MPH so yes it could catch it.
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  5290.  @grahvis  SE5A could catch it with all its engines.
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  5291.  @neoclassic09  I'd pay to watch that
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  5292.  @jonathanklein383  The British SE5A could do 138 MPH
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  5293. Apparently the first Tallboy to hit Tirpitz on the Russia based raid was dropped out of frustration by the aircrafts skipper. This was because he did not like the idea of having to fly back and land carrying the bomb. The rule was that if you could not hit target you had to bring the bomb back as they were too valuable to be wasted.
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  5294. FYI yes Britain did not hold an election at that the beginning of WW2 but they did have a unity government which was made up of people from different political parties. So though Churchill was Prime Minister the leader of the Labour Party, Clement Attlee, was Deputy Prime Minister. In fact much of the day-to-day running of the government was done by Attlee.
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  5295. Come 20 January there will be mass unemployment of fact checkers.
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  5296. Let's not forget that most of those Russians who have been drafted or left Russia worked in small to medium sized businesses and without them these businesses are shutting down. That means more unemployment in Russia and more strain put on what's left of the Russian economy.
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  5297. Have they fixed that flat tyre yet?
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  5298.  @JanHgh  It would have been interesting. Possibly using a Martin Baker tie pin.😀
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  5299. Okay Guys. An apology. I stated that replica MG34 were used in Star War. It was in fact the Lewis Gun. Sorry about that. A little story which I hope will bring a smile to your faces. On the Kent coast is the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch miniature railway. The locomotives are scale miniatures of locomotives which had been in service by the railways in Britain, but they were large enough for people to sit on the coaches. If you've ever seen film footage of Disney with his railway you will know what I mean. As Kent is just across the English Channel from France during WW2 it was decided to build an armoured train, just like the full size trains. This included mounting Lewis Guns on the various wagons. Anyway one day a German Messerschmitt 109 decided to do a strafing run on the train. And the Lewis gunner shot it down. Now, like me, you would love to have seen the look on the pilots face when told he was attack a miniature train and it had shot him down. Bear in mind that one German pilot shot down over Britain insisted he was shot down by a Spitfire, this despite the fact there was not one Spitfire within 100 miles of where he was shot down. His ego would not accept that anything less then a Spitfire could have shot him down. Now back to the pilot who was attacking and was shot down by a Lewis gunner on a miniature train. How did he square that circle.
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  5300. Turns out he had seven months to talk to Congress about the attack because he decided to do the attack seven months ago.
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  5301.  @torvilasulvstle362  They use glove puppets to explain it to him
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  5302. So, Sunak was not part of the problems of the Johnson government? This despite being in Johnson government. Sounds like Gavin Barwell has some memory problems here.
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  5303. I saw a report on the use of flywheels to power buses several years ago. On the face of it it looks like a good option. It could be powered up while it was sat in the bus station. And this power could be topped up by tapping into the brakes and feeding power from that to get the flywheel back up to speed. Energy which otherwise would be wasted. One of the big concerns was want happens to a flywheel weighing several tonnes if it is involved in an accident and it breaks free. Just imagine the carnage caused by it running out of control in a populated area. One solution would have been to put it in a safety cage to reduce the possibility of it breaking free. But that would have taken up about a third of the bus. Which would mean the revenue generated by each journey would be reduced by one third. So any financial advantage gained by using a flywheel would be lost by the much reduced income. There are undoubtedly areas where a flywheel will be beneficial. But transport looks like not being one of them.
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  5304. They must love coffee in the White House considering how many coffee boys they have.
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  5305. Hi Indy, very much enjoyed this video. The name Tank came about because the British were trying to keep its existence a secret so they pretended it was a water tank for Mesopotamia and from there it was referred to as a tank. A lot more catchier then landship.
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  5306. Canning? Canning would be on a slow day. Let's not forget that a number of politicians took art on duels.
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  5307. Russia warned America not to put Russia on America's sponsor of terrorism list. When Putin was in the KGB he worked with German terrorist organisations. Both left and right wing. So it is not something which is new to him.
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  5308. do you think he turned down the offer of cake and wine
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  5309. I have a feeling that if one of the Japanese doctors had been captured by the Soviets they would have kept quite about it as they were concentrating there entire efforts fighting the Germans. And at the same time Japan had enough to do with fighting the Americans without having to take on the Soviets.
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  5310. For those who thought dumb blonds were a myth
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  5311. Well that is definitely a new one on me. I have never heard of the taxi cab wars. I will say I found that all very interesting. Thanks.
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  5312. Watched the part about the mace and your dismissal of it for lack of cutting ability. As you have not heard of blunt force trauma which could kill without penetration they only conclusion I can make is the rest of the video is going to be a waste of time.
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  5313. I wonder if her mother had subconsciously seen something of suspected something and this was her on mind telling her what she had seen.
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  5314. I did read of a similar operation in reverse when US forces discovered a downed Mig 15 and recovered it using a couple of helicopters and a number of ground personnel. The aircraft was flown out using the helicopters while the troops had to find their own way out.
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  5315. Definitely someone I would love to meet. And he was noted, or is that notorious, for his sense of humour. I am sure we would have gotten on like a house on fire. You know. People running around screaming and no survivors.
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  5316.  @visionist7 That is true. I contrast that with the 109 pilot shot down by a Lewis gunner on the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch narrow gauge railway which in peacetime was used by tourist. Not the only German aircraft they brought down.
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  5317. So Fox News is sacrificing Trump supporters so they can attack Biden. A new form of scorched earth policy? But then we know that Murdoch does not give a damn about Trump or his supporters.
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  5318. An interesting aircraft but at this time there were so many aircraft which looked good on paper but never made it any further. Australia did come up with some excellent aircraft designs but time was just not on their side. Having said that there were a number of very good aircraft coming out during this period but were made obsolete by the jet engine. I do question the use of the 50 calibre machineguns. Britain had been using the 20mm cannons for some time as it was realised you needed something with which you could bring down your enemies aircraft a quickly as possible, a lesson the US had to relearn with the 50 calibre armed Sabre flying against the cannon armed MiG 15 in Korea.
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  5319. So the replacement for the Thomson was designed by a plumber if you were British or a mechanic if you were American. Something cheap, simple and it works.
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  5320. I think the may be what they mean by "What goes around comes around." Also has anybody told Micheal not to drop his soap in the shower.
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  5321. It's the old problem. The minute you leave your country there is a coup and your looking for places for political asylum. And when you have no friends because the people back home are making sure you have no friends. Where will you go.
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  5322. It's interesting how often that happens.
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  5323. If true then well done Ukraine. Russia is finding out what happens when you stick your nose into someone elses business once too often. One other possibility. Could this be an attack by the Russians themselves. A false flag so they can justify further escalation in the fighting. Or with the way things are going with Russian troops rebelling could it be an act of sabotage. Making sure the fighting has to stop.
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  5324. Onger is an accusative. So are they accusing Pelosi of being warm. As it is summer in the northern hemisphere this is quite likely.
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  5325. Political dodge ball
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  5326. I remember watching Hawker Hunters while on holiday back in the 60s when they were practising firing on ground targets off the Yorkshire coast. Talk of the Black Arrows reminded me that I also say the Red Arrows flying just up the coast. It must have been not long after they were formed.
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  5327. He is one of a group who believe that the ends justifies the means. So that a desired result is so good or important that any method, even a morally bad one, may be used to achieve it. So being the VP to a morally bankrupt man like Trump and even supporting him is justified because the end goal is for Pence to become president then impose his christian beliefs on everyone.
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  5328. Just looking at all that rust inside the Blackjacks bomb bay. I'm surprised half the bomb bay didn't fall out with the missiles. Would Ukraine still having those bomber have stopped Russia. I think not. After Russia annexed Crimea sanctions were placed on Russia. This is one of the reasons the T-14 Armata is still not in service as Russia is extremely reliant on material and components coming from the west. And after Crimea those components and materials were banned. So if not getting those shiny new tanks in service any time soon. So if that has not stopped him what would.
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  5329.  @demonprinces17  Definitely
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  5330. Much has been made of the F-35s stealth capability. But we all know that at some point it will be beaten. Every new advance will, at some point, be defeated. And if you can get within visual range of an F-35 is is not the top dogfighter. When the British Royal Air Force flew them in visual range against the Typhoon the Typhoon won every engagement. Ed. A bit of advice with regards your new microphone. Make sure you get a decent stand. If it comes with a little tripod do not use it. It is useless. It does not have to be mega expensive mike stand. Something between £20 and £30 should do it. Secondly get yourself a pop filter. That's one of those round discs they have in front of the mike. It will cost about £5 and will attach to the mike stand. I will improve the sound. Hope that helps.
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  5331. There was a report came out in 1959 which stated that surface to air missiles would become so potent that no aircraft would be safe and this would be the end of aircraft flying over enemy territory. The thing which amazed me when I found out about this report was that people actually believed it. Radar guided missiles can be effected by jamming and chaff. Neither of which were new. Chaff, after all, is just what window was in WW2. And jamming signals is older then that. I understand that the first use of flares to distract heat seeking missile was by an Israeli reconnaissance pilot who was trying to distract a heat seeking missile by using the flares he carried to aluminate the battlefield at night. It worked and he went home.
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  5332. The colonel was such a great admirer of Soviet tanks he just wanted one for himself. Perfectly understandable. It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall when the Soviets found out.
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  5333. I recently reread an account by the RAF pilot who, during the Battle of Britain, rammed his aircraft into a German bomber which was trying to attack Buckingham Palace. As he was trying to attack the bomber his windscreen became covered in oil. It looks like the bomber was trying to use the flamethrower but it failed to ignite.
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  5334. People who want to be offended will be offended, no matter what. If it was me I'd tell them to read the inscription and follow what it says.
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  5335. I am surprised they are getting rid of the tiltrotor aircraft as I thought this was important to the marine corps future. I did see that they were trying to persuade the US Navy to adopt them.
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  5336. You have to wonder why the pilots did not suspect that the flight time over the Thames was much shorter then you'd have expected. There was a German Heinkel He 219 Uhu night fighter which also mistakenly landed in Britain and was captured intact. Though I seem to remember there was some doubt about the idea he was lost and may have been trying to escape Germany. Either way the RAF now had the latest German night fighter to play with. There was an Egyptian Mig which landed at an Israeli airfield during the Six Day War due to navigation error. Again due to navigational error. The good old days. Before satnav.
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  5337. Some are predicting the total collapse of Russia with the break up of what remains of the Russian empire. If that happens how quick would China be at taking back land such as Vladivostok which used to Chinese land. In recent times many in China have been talking about taking the land back. I did notice Victor Gao took the opportunity to point out that China's economy was ten times the size of Russia's. In the past when both were still communist countries China was usually seen as the junior partner.
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  5338. Let's not forget Trump owes Chinese banks a lot of money. It's not looking such a smart move if he wants to renegotiate that loan. So will we be surprised if we see Trump having much of his property off him to pay back the loan. With that we can all see who is going to get the last laugh.
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  5339. Didn't she do adverts for one of the loan companies where if people did not keep up payments, which included extortionate interest rates, that person could lose their home.
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  5340. For a long time it was said the the people who built the pyramids of Egypt also built Stonehenge, despite there being no obvious connection. Well it turns out there was a connection but not in the way it was thought. The method of measuring used in both was the same but it was used at Stonehenge before it reached Egypt. In fact this method originated at Skara Brae in the Orkneys before being taken south and then on to Egypt, probably using the same trade routes the Scandinavians were using.
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  5341. One thing I have wondered about is whether they could use something like the Sikorsky S-97 or the Sikorsky Boeing SB1 helicopters for this role. There are attack versions planned and the design would allow them a similar airspeed to the turboprop aircraft. It would have the added advantage of being able to land vertically which would eliminate the need for a large airfield to be built. And airfields meed to be kept secure. With some armour around the crew and engines I get the impression it could be quote formidable.
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  5342. There is that old story about it being better to have someone in the tent pissing out rather than have them out of the tent pissing in. The trouble with Johnson is that he just pisses anywhere and everywhere. So wherever you are you'll get pissed covered in Johnson's piss.
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  5343. None so blind as those who will not see.
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  5344. There have been reports for sometime that there are groups in Russia which has been attacking Russian targets, including shooting down helicopters being used by senior Russian officers.
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  5345. And thanks to Russia's desperate situation it is being recommissioned back into service.
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  5346.  @Riceball01  And the US could deal with them in the east as they did in the west.
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  5347.  Richard Moloney  Thing is we ended up with Dutch eggs and they had a bigger problem with their eggs.
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  5348.  @BDaMonkey  The leadership is like pass the parcel, but the parcel is ticking.
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  5349. So the Ukrainians should standby for mass surrenders.
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  5350. When your own words come back to haunt you
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  5351. Well I'm sure he can go live with his Trump supporters.
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  5352. So they planned to have these things flying around in the event of a crisis. So what happens if the crisis is everted? Are they left flying around or is there someway to bring them back? Or are they just going to crash somewhere. And what happened if one of these things went rogue and headed towards the USA? Why do I get the feeling that the people in charge should have had adult supervision.
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  5353.  @steveclarke6257  When Eisenhower was asked about him serving under MacArthur he said he learnt acting under MacArthur. I don't think Eisenhower had commanded anything bigger then a division before D-Day. But, as you pointed out, it was his skill as a diplomat which got him the job. He was what every CEO should be. Let the people who know the job get on with it. One irony about the US army after D-Day is how poor the supply chain could be. The irony is that Eisenhower was an excellent supplies officer.
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  5354. I read about Glasgow and some there wanting people to get back into the office. One of the reasons given was because Pret a Manger could sell coffee and sandwiches if no one came into the office. Well it turns out most office workers live in in the surrounding areas. where Pret a Manger could easily set up shop.
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  5355. I had noticed with video footage from Syria that the Russians were using unguided bombs. This surprised me for what is supposed to be a modern country. But when you realise that the Russian economy is smaller than that of Italy with a population two and a half times that of France you realise that they use unguided bombs because that is all they can afford.
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  5356.  @troybaisden8768  You can if you are Trump and not attached to reality apparently
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  5357.  @pickeljarsforhillary102  They use it as propergada, obviously.
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  5358.  @stardust6097  If this is true then it is in very poor taste. I have a great sense of humour but that is no joke.
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  5359.  @blackdeath4eternity  Actually in some areas it is cinders because coal is useful.
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  5360.  @dontroutman8232  That would be interesting.
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  5361. Still had time to put the makeup on though. Very fetching
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  5362. You have to wonder how many such vehicles were lost this way.
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  5363. I remember reading about Swordfish crews sent out at night to intercept Italian convoys. These convoys would consist of one or more merchant ships surrounded by their Italian navy escort ships. It has been a while but I am sure I read that the convoy was supposed to be made up of the faster merchant ships. The idea was they could move faster and hopefully get into port without them being intercepted. Anyway, once the Swordfish found them they would fly around shining a spotlight onto each ship until they found a merchant ship and then attack it. For some reason the naval vessels never actually tried to intervene and drive off or bring down the Swordfish. It may be that they hoped the attacking aircraft would not be able to distinguish between ships if they did not open fire on the Swordfish. The account I read was that of one of the pilots who took part in these attacks.
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  5364. Are we also starting to see a way of dealing with the likes of NLAW and Javelin. Something placed on top of a tank turret which can kill the missile on its way to the tank. We all knew it was only a matter of time before a counter was produced. On the up side t could be some time before the likes of Russia and China could have such a piece of kit.
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  5365. Surely for China the reverse is true as far as Russia and the Ukraine is concerned. They wanted everything nice and quiet as far as the West is concerned while they eyed up an invasion of Taiwan. But instead they are seeing more sales of arms and equipment being sent to Taiwan. And the Japanese have just announced that they are to build two new large warships with a view to defending themselves against the Chinese. So Xi must be spitting feathers at this moment.
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  5366. Mike Lindell is going from a car wreck to a trim wreck.
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  5367.  @philb4031  Setting aside the fact that they already do that let's not forget that drones have a guidance system and that can be jammed.
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  5368. This shows how bad things are for the Russians. The top generals should not be near the fighting. They are supposed to be further back directing the war. But with things going this wrong it means they are having to go to the front lines to deal with all the problems.
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  5369. Actually it is known that the Japanese fleet did not keep radio silence as the ship which regularly travel between San Francisco and Honolulu had been picking up the radio signalt. When it arrived in Honolulu this information was passed on to the military authorities but was not acted up on. As for the midget submarines one did carry out an attack inside Pearl Harbour but with all else which was going on its presence was missed. The sub itself was lost so its success was not recorded at the time. I believe there is a photograph in existence showing a torpedo attack at Pearl which was not from an aircraft. As for Bringing America into the war the Japanese would have been better off leaving American territory alone entirely as there was no evidence America was joining the war any time soon. So deciding to attack any of US territory was a huge strategic error on the part of the Japanese. And the Japanese did plan to attack the fuel storage area but had left it to the second wave as they did not want the smoke from the burning fuel to obscure targets. In the assessment by the US after the attack it was said that the loss of this fuel would have kept the US out of the Pacific for 18 months and would have led to the fleet moving to the American west coast. The Japanese were so fixated with sinking the carriers they forgot that depriving them with fuels would have rendered them just as ineffective.
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  5370. Never trust autocorrect.
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  5371. You have to wonder about the thinking, or otherwise, behind what YouTube is doing. Especially when you consider that there is talk of Amazon setting up a rival service.
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  5372. Is it true that Trump's ego has left him because it did not want to hang around with such a loser.
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  5373.  @mikearmstrong8483  I hope this it was a bit quieter.
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  5374.  @phaasch  I did read an autobiography of an RAF pilot who served between the wars. He was seconded to the navy for a time and one thing I realised from his remarks is that navy flying is not the same as airforce flying and should be left to the navy. Having said that when both the RAF and RN flew Harriers RAF pilots did fly with the RN. I would not be surprised if the same happens now with the F-35s
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  5375. So to appear on Fox to talk about law and order you have to be a criminal. Did I miss something here.
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  5376.  @july8xx  certainly an extensive subject. Interesting that like many 19th century American lawmen there was those who worked both sides
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  5377. I understand horse will sniff each other breath when they first meet which is what these wo were doing.
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  5378. I think that both the Ukrainians and the Russian generals want him alive for now. The Ukrainians because Prigozhin is wasting much needed supplies and the Russian generals because Prigozhin makes for an excellent lightning rod for Putin's anger.
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  5379. Putin has told the airlines to keep the aircraft they have and not send them back. Which will be fine until they need parts when they are going to cannibalise aircraft. And once this war is over they are going to have to deal with the aircrafts owners.
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  5380. Second
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  5381. Sad indictment on American education system
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  5382.  @Simon_Nonymous  Now you mention it I can see what you mean👍😄
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  5383. How about the Democrats leave and lock the doors
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  5384. It was the same when the film The Duellist came out. Couldn't buy a sabre anywhere.
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  5385. Has Ian been unwell. Only it looks like he's lost a bit of weight, and height.
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  5386. I had a cursed car. I could not get the damn thing started on a cold day and lots of cursing ensued. Actually though this event was something of a catalyst for WW1 but the real trigger was the mobilisation of the Russian forces. Various countries had declared war none had mobilised there forces. And if things had stayed like that there is a good chance nothing would have happened. There would have been no fighting as no one wanted to start a war of the death of Franz Ferdinand. The problem was that there was a pro war faction in the Russian court and they persuaded the Tzar to mobilise his army because they thought they could defeat Germany. Once they mobilised so did everyone else. And the rest, as we all know, is history.
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  5387. Well they are definitely in it.
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  5388. Alcohol abuse and corruption. Two more things China and Russia share. We just need a failed invasion for the set. Came across this description of the drink. “Imagine rotten cabbage, ethyl alcohol, and paint thinner, blended and strained. It smells like ammonia… The taste lingers long after swallowing, shadowing the rest of the meal like a culinary revenant.” Probably an aquired taste.
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  5389. Normally tory chancellors take longer to ruin the economy.
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  5390. I wondered about that as well
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  5391. I have come across references to US Navy special forces divers swimming out of a torpedo tube when the submarine was under water. This was usually done by the diver climbing into the tube with his air tanks, the tube it then flooded and then to tube door is opened to let the diver swim out. Once out he would then put his air tanks on.
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  5392.  @iansadler4309  Thanks, Ian. I had forgotten all about that. Interesting that they kept the New Model Armies red coat. Though, as I am sure you know, the guards regiments wore scarlet with a different arrangement of the tunics buttons to denote which regiment they are.
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  5393. Not sure about the Tirpitz having fire control radar. In the spring of 1943, and with Germany believing it was winning the war, many military projects were cancelled, including those involving radar. So it is doubtful that they would have been spending money on a ship which rarely went into combat. The Germans got a huge shock when, in 1944, they discovered that the British had started putting radar on its Lancaster bombers to assist with navigation and targeting. As a side note many of the scientist, engineers et cetera who worked on those cancelled projects were sent to fight on the Eastern Front. They later had to bring back those who survived to work on other projects. Makes you wonder how they lost the war. Brigades of Royal Marines fought as infantry in many of the land battles in France during WW1. Oddly many armoured trains used by the British during the 19th century had their artillery pieces manned by the Royal Navy. You have to wonder what the Royal Artillery thought of this.
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  5394. This man is good. Just when you think there cannot be any more surprises out pops another little nugget for our fascination and delight. Interesting about the US soldiers riding ex German mounts and teaching them English. I remember reading about a British sergeant captured during the Battle of France. He was held with several others near a mounted German officer. Looking around he noticed the markings on one of the hooves on the officers horse and he realised they were British markings. The British army, unlike the German army, had gone fully mechanised before the war and sold off many of their horses to the German army. And this was one of those horses. So it would have been taught the commands in German.
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  5395. Johnson has already handed over his evidence from his WhatsApp to the enquiry bypassing Sunak. Which not only means that Sunak going to court is now irrelevant but it also puts pressure on others to hand over their messages as well. It looks like Johnson has taken his revenge on Sunak. So we now have the possibility of prime minister number four in less then a year. Even the Italians don't change that quickly.
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  5396. Deja vu, or deja video. That feeling you watched this video before.
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  5397. Probably someone who Trump has not paid. So that's most of New York
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  5398. It's not like the millionaires have ruined the country. Just ask Sunak
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  5399. So the VP wants a bipartisan approach. Obliviously no one else at the White House nor Trump Jr got that email.
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  5400.  @neilcreamer8207  I think you will find that the losses are much lower than that.
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  5401.  @darknesstrembles3773  I think you have missed out a few countries there Richard. Thousands are being trained in the UK, Finland, Canada and other. We are all in this together.
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  5402.  @RavingFan  True
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  5403.  @neilcreamer8207  Putin raised the conscription age because he's trying to avoid a general mobilisation and recruitment has all but stopped. And he knows mobilisation would show that he was loosing and that it was a panic move by him. Truth is Putin has no idea what he is doing. and now he is thrashing about for solutions. He put one general in charge and then fired him within days. He had to drag another one, a known alcoholic, out of retirement to take command. Things like that to not instil confidence.
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  5404. As Putin is fighting in Ukraine to take over a country which doesn't belong to him he is not going to hand Vladivostok to the Chinese. Though the way things are going there is a good chance China could just take it back.
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  5405. My partner is a huge fan of peanut butters, as is her granddaughter. And as for Reeses peanut butter cups I think she'd live on them given half a chance. I make my own bread and I have made peanut butter bread which went down a treat. That is bread with added peanut butter. I could suggest making it and just make a jelly sandwich with the bread and no peanut butter, but I bet that wont happen. 😊 They only disagreement I have about peanut but I have with my partner it the I like to smooth and she likes the crunchy version. And before you say anything yes we do get both. The one thing we do agree on is that we prefer it in peanut oil rather then other oils. To go with this story I have a suggestion to make. Their is a saying, which I believe is also used in the US, and it is the something is 'the best thing since sliced bread.' Meaning the pre-sliced loaf. But this invention was a failure until someone invented something to go with it. May be worth a look.
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  5406. So is Priti Patel pushing for Cumming to face justice
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  5407. Hi, in the UK we often cook eggs this way. We call them poached eggs.
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  5408. Play their cards right they could get Trump to pay for it.
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  5409. As they want to get this sorted before Xmas do you think the articles of impeachment will be gift wrapped. The card should read 'Happy Impeachment' and I hope the New Year will bring you everything you deserve.
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  5410. He does know a lot about drones. The way he keeps droning on about being a stable genius and know more about everything then anyone else. He's 'The Chosen One' when it comes to droning.
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  5411. You may have already seen this but if not I think you will find it interesting. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/24/aaron-burr-vice-president-who-killed-hamilton-had-children-of-color It would be interesting to know just how many other such children there were.
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  5412. The witness did not say she saw them leave together. She just said she thought it was him.
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  5413. And of course Corbyn was so adept at running a government department, or any department. And thanks to Corbyn they only lost at the last election to Boris Johnson by 80 seats. To Boris Johnson of all people. Corbyn was a rebel without a clue.
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  5414. All talk no action
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  5415. Barring any unseen disasters the next tory with a chance of being PM will be 2034. So this is all irrelevant.
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  5416. The might of the Russian military? Has this interviewer not been watching what has been happening. Any might the Russian military may have had has long gone. It's no good having thousands of tanks if you cannot use them properly. If Russia was mighty then Putin's invasion would have succeeded in the time scale he originally stated. It's not that Russia is absorbine the casualties it's just that Putin does not care how many people die as long as he wins. Also many of those conscripted are not ethnic Russians and those that are come from poor backgrounds with no say in the matter.
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  5417. All that way only to find you were yesterdays man
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  5418. If this means we don't not have to hear from this upper class twit ever again then this has got to be the highlight of the night.
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  5419. Here's a thought. US Army jeeps with Bazookas and the Merlin engine. Two days after landing in Normandy they would be parked outside Hitler's bunker in Berlin. Not sure who would more upset. Hitler or Stalin.
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  5420. I have to say I can solve all of those by simply telling you that all these phenomena are down to my playing Destroy All Humans. In the UK in the past one of the areas often sited for these phenomena was a place called Warminster. Warminster just happened to be near the Royal Aircraft Establishment where top secret research into aircraft was carried out. Another popular spot was in East Anglia. Were the USAF had bases. They, I believe, flew U-2 and SR-71 aircraft from there. Interestingly one area for which these phenomena have now been spotted is off North West Scotland and are thought to be what is known as the SR-72.
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  5421.  @garpike6382  Well I have been studying war for even longer and the fact that you do not know about the fuel being in the rear doors and the Israelis took advantage of it just shows how poor your knowledge is. And the Russians are now dragging out T-54s proves that they are struggling to keep up with loses. You Russian trolls really need to up your game.
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  5422. Putin is trying to force the world to buy Russian grain but the world preferes Ukrainian grain as Russian grain is poor in comparison.
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  5423. I just looked at the Ripper murders and the only thing I can see in common with the Austin attacks is that they were on woman. Interestingly though it is assumed that there was five victims of the Ripper attack only three are now linked to the same killer while the other two look like copy cat attacks.
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  5424.  @pekkajarvinen69  They clashed with Russian troops when acting as barrier guards. It didn't end well for the Chechens.
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  5425. Maybe huge but also empty. That sounds like Donald rump
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  5426.  @davidty2006  when see faced Lavrov she just sat there like a rabbit in the headlights while he walked all over her. Image her as PM. Finally Putin has a way out of the Ukraine mess he got into.
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  5427. He has friends?
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  5428. The problem with Stargate Universe was that it was full of characters we just did not care about.
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  5429. I did know about the raid but the documentary hardly mentioned the other aircraft types. Considering how the performed over the Pacific I would have thought the B-25s would have done better. But maybe it was too early a model
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  5430. To scale this up. If Sweden's population was as big as the US they would have been 180,400 deaths.
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  5431. Yes I did see them, thanks. It is surprising how long that persisted. And I could never understand the point of it. As a thought, did this make it a biathlon? A running race and a car race.
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  5432. Tom Dean Looking again at the P.1238 I was thinking if you wanted a purpose built light ground attack aircraft it could be a good place to start. The rear mounted engine would mean it was less susceptible to ground fire. And as the nose was now clear you could add armour to protect the pilot and it would allow you to mount a 20 mm Vulcan cannon in there. Some pylons to hang some rockets pods and smart bombs would make it very useful. Keep the canard as this will mean a better view of the ground for the pilot with the main wings at the rear. It would end up looking like the A10's younger brother. I was going to say that as a canard it would make it more agile then the A10 but then I remember about an F14 which jumped an A10 thinking it would be easy prey. The F14 pilots mind changed rapidly when the A10 spun around and came straight at him. "I see your 20 mm cannon and raise you a 30 mm canon with armour piercing shells."
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  5433. I had heard about this incident but I was not aware the pilot had ejected. I was under the impression he had been killed when the aircraft had been hit. So I am glad he survived. Martin Baker. who made the ejection seat for the Jaguar, have a club for those who eject from an aircraft using one of their seats and survives. The pilot joins the Ejection Tie Club. So as he ejected twice does he get two ties or is it like British military decorations where he gets a tie and bar. Sometimes the Jaguars win. There was an exercise in German in the 80s where two Jaguars were heading home when they got jumped by an F14 Tomcat. The problem for the Tomcat was two more Jaguars coming up behind the first two and they jumped him. So the Tomcat's wingman came down to jump them only to be jumped by two more bringing up the rear. Jaguars two Tomcats nil.
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  5434.  @Jreb1865  Well he was selling a book based on the idea his father was Churchill's double.
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  5435. So why would the Alan Dershowitz want to be the attorney for the extremely rich Mike Lindell. I'm sure there must be a million reason. If not more.
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  5436. I know about these but first time I have seen it close up and in detail. So thanks for that. I am surprised they did not simplify its manufacture to speed up the process of making them. It's not like it's peacetime and can take their time to make them. You have to wonder what the impact would have been if they had produced many more.
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  5437. Some fascinating history of the early days of the AR-15/M-16. I knew some of it but here learned about the how it became adopted and the changes made. One thing I had read but was corrected here was one of the reasons the M-16 was adopted by the US. The story I read was that they were being given out to various groups being supported by the US and someone noted that as they were so good why was the US not using them. One of the early buyers of the M-16 was the British Army, before the US Army I believe but not the US airforce, who bought 10,000 of them. They were used by the Gurkhas, because of their small stature, as well special and elite forces such as the SAS and SBS. You would like to think that whoever took their eye off the ball at Fairchild suddenly found they were spending more time with their families. Or put in charge of some very important work such as counting paperclips or something.
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  5438. @steven I have to agree. The only reason I knew about the two Panthers which changed sides was because one of them was used with Churchill tanks which was the subject of the book I was reading. It was no more then a brief note with a photograph of Cuckoo. I was left with the impression it was something they had stumbled across and put into action. I had no idea they were actively looking for them.
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  5439. The question is is China up to invading Taiwan. There is no evidence that China has the ability to carry out such an invasion. And unlike with D-Day there are only some twelve places where Chinese forces can land its forces, all of which Taiwan has covered. Also there does seem to be elements within the Chinese armed forces who do not want to carry out an invasion. Xi had already been warned not to invade Taiwan by the Chinese military. Like with Russia there are a lot of people in the military making money out of their positions and they would not want to ruin a good thing.
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  5440. Citizen Trump comes under the same laws as everyone else. So if he tries the same lies once out of office he would see himself being sued.
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  5441. @Fluesterwitz That is true. But neither Mr Smith or Mr Western, or Mr Gluck for that matter, were involved with Agincourt as far as I know
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  5442. @Marginally Sapient Cactus Sounds safe to use.
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  5443. Amber says what and why. Next week Amber say who, when and how.😀👍
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  5444. Well it would give those commerce raiders something to think about.
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  5445. Sorry but not new. We have known about the use of electricity for healing for years.
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  5446.  @roseandrade2114  No you have just given him more thigs to fail at.
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  5447.  MaryKate's Pajamas  It does look like that. Says a lot about Russian technology
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  5448. We know of girls named after flowers such as Rose or Daisy but a woman several centuries ago was called Lettuce. I remember watching a news report where a mother was talking about an incident at school with her son, Simian, and how upset he was. You have to wonder how upset he'd have been when when his friends found out simian meant ape like.
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  5449. The days of Soviet trawlers following NATO ships are long gone it seems.
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  5450.  @laa0fa  So that's why my application was turned down
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  5451. The thing we missed here is that the soldier of the future is a clone.
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  5452. Russia will pounce back more? How does a three legged paper tiger pounce? And as for Russia being the most sophisticated military in the world. How do you say that and keep a straight face. Well Russia's invasion will be taught at military colleges. It will be taught as to what happens when you don't plan your invasions properly. Or at all. The importance of good training. Or any training. And why you should have good logistics. Well we've all seen that one with the 40 miles traffic jam.
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  5453. Last operational biplane with the RAF was the Gloster Gladiator. The first jet fighter to serve with the RAF was the Gloster Meteor. Not bad.
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  5454.  @jnievele  Thanks. They would have useful in that role. The SABA would have been much more manoeuvrable and as such would have been able to get amongst the Soviet helicopters and break up any attack.
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  5455.  @LafayetteCCurtis  that is true. And how would you feel as a Soviet helicopter pilot with an A-10 coming your way with that huge 30mm cannon pointing at you.
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  5456.  @zaco-km3su  I was commenting on it's role in places like Afghanistan which is something they were not originally designed for. Which is why they are introducing a two seater turboprop for that role.
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  5457.  @ravenblood1954  You have to remember that the Soviet forces were capable of deploying hundreds of helicopters back then. And unlike Market Garden the aim was to deploy the troops close to the rear of the NATO line. They could use Hinds as flying artillery and had air portable armoured fighting vehicles. The idea would be to deploy these troops as part of a pincer move supporting the main Soviet attack one the NATO front line.
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  5458. @YellowLab-rb6xn The super cheap turboprop will now take over from the brrrrt hairy pig thing. Cheaper to use and can stay on station much longer.
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  5459.  @zaco-km3su  The Gepard and the Sergeant York would be excellent in that role but there were never enough off them and their job was to keep the Soviet airforce off the tanks and APCs. Besides the Hind could stay at a distance and use rockets and missiles as we are seeing in Ukraine. And having something which could take the fight to the enemy is always better than waiting for the enemy to bring it to you.
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  5460.  @ravenblood1954  Hi, sorry I'm a bit late with my reply. Back in the 80s they could have done it. They had the manpower and the helicopters to carry it out and put thousands of troops behind NATOs front line. They also had airborne APCs and other vehicles. It has been sometime since I saw the figures but I seem to remember they had enough helicopters, men and machines to drop an entire brigade behind NATO lines. What they tried to achieve in Ukraine was different in that it was more to do with decapitate Ukraine's leadership, both physically and metaphorically. And they did come closer than we think but they were not the old Soviet army.
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  5461. Shouldn't treasure be buried on an island
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  5462. As with this video one of the things I enjoy most is that, though I know something of many of these subjects Mark supplies the extra details to round them out for me. Of course there are times when he brings to light a subject I have never come across which is always a delight. Interestingly Sikorsky's original vision for his helicopters was for rescue work, something he achieved when two men were trapped on a barge which broke loose and other then using a helicopter, which he did, there was little chance of saving the two men. As it was his helicopter managed to rescue them.
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  5463. Just when you think there is nothing new to learn about the Spitfire and its variants up pops two more. The Spitfires wing almost made a return. Back in the 1980s it was realised the problems which the Soviet helicopter fleets could cause in the event of a war by dropping troops behind NATO lines. There was a proposal put forward for a highly maneuverable turboprop power aircraft utilising the canard layout and with the Spitfires wing. The idea was that, similarly to the A-10, it would have a rotary cannon in the nose, 20 mm I believe, and the turboprop in the rear. It would also mount a large number of air-to-air missiles under the wings. Once the Soviet helicopter fleets were detected squadrons of these aircraft would be scrambled to intercept them. The end of the Cold War meant that the idea never went any further.
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  5464. Another example of 'do as I say and not as I do.'
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  5465. Adverts, adblock, no probs,
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  5466.  @DustyGamma  I think if you start with all of them you are probably onto a good thing.
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  5467. the American dream is dead. Welcome to the Donald Trump Nightmare
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  5468. Many of those people are from Siberia where the only news they get comes from the Putin's TV channel and that's more money than they'll see in their lifetime, though few will live long enough to see one kopiyka, 100th of a Rubble, of it.
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  5469. Demoted then given a medal. Sounds like he had a high ranking guardian angel.
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  5470. Would you buy a used car from that man?
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  5471. Nature showing what it can do. Your story reminded me of a documentary I watched some years ago. It was set just before Christmas, I believe the year was 1908, and it was unseasonably mild. It was the last day of school for the children of the West Country village and because it was so mild the children had an extended playtime. The headmaster of the school saw some rather ominous clouds in the distance and decided to send the children home before the bad weather hit them. Well winter was late but decided to make up for it and it snow heavily. The following morning a farmworkers was woken by his children and as it was still dark he sent them back to bed. After a short while he woke up again and realised something was wrong. When he opened his front door all he could see was a solid wall of snow. When he finally dug his way out the snow was banked up all the way to the roof top. For those note from the UK this is not normal. As you would expect this caused widespread disruption to people's lives, especially to the rural areas, as in your story. In June the following year a number of farm labourers came back to the this village from up on Bodmin Moor, which is some distance away, and one of them was carrying the remains of a large piece of ice left over from them winter blizzard.
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  5472. On the up side Putin has cut off the water to Crimea by blowing up the dam. So all the Russian troops in Crimea cannot get water.
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  5473. Russia is not building more T-14s, or the latest jets, because they cannot afford to. The Russian economy is no bigger then that of Italy, but with over twice as many people. So, to put it in its simplest terms, less money to go around. And they are suffering a brain drain. So all those who could help the economy have left to work elsewhere. Yes you will see all of these vanity projects where they have one tank, or one jet, or one missile, but that is for domestic consumption as the rest of the world knows they cannot afford any more.
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  5474. I am not surprised about the Italians helping the US. Unlike Germany many of them did not want to fight the Allies. They were were on our side in WW1 so their experience was much different from Germany's. I did read that many Japanese fought in the US Army in Italy. That could be worth a look.
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  5475.  @tz8785  thanks for that.👍
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  5476. I remember seeing the British Royal Air Force Phantoms and thinking I would not want to be on the business end of that.
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  5477. Definitely puts the heavy in heavy machine gun.
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  5478. You have to think that if this had been designed before the war with time to resolve any issues then the US military would have entered the war with the M2.
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  5479. i seem to remember that one of the problems with Dien Bien Phu was that many of the aircraft earmarked to support the French troops there were taken way for another mission. So it never got the support of ground attack aircraft it needed to make it successful. I seem to remember reading that just after WW2 when Vietnam was briefly held by the British they had a clash with the Viet Min. The British had to rearm Japanese troops and use them to help fight the Viet Min. I think this was against the Geneva Convention, but German soldiers were being used to clear landmines in Europe I do not think the Allies were to worried about that.
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  5480. Getting a definition of what was classed as light, medium and heavy bombers would be a good start. The word vague seems to cover it.
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  5481. Whatever the Navy felt about the RAF collaring all the best fighters the German navy would have been yellow and green with envy.
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  5482. I think we can agree that it couldn't have happened to a nicer person.😏
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  5483. So what happened to the vote for apple pie?
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  5484.  @boobah5643  This is true. Having said that sometimes they are the last line of defense such a Taffy 3
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  5485. The old ones are always the best 😊👍
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  5486.  @paultaylor7082  The 'Mr Micawber strategy.' That's very good. Brought a smile to my face. Thankyou. I read an article a day or two ago about a survey of each constituency asking who they thought would make the best Prime Minister and Sunak only came first in four of them. None of those four were his own. In fact he came third to the I don't knows and Keir Starmer in his own constituency.
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  5487. With a speed of 120 MPH the Ta-Go could have been easy prey for the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a of WW1 which had a top speed of 138 MPH.
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  5488. Can we add to this list the early, pre-Merlin version of the P 51 Mustang. Good thought it was a low altitude, it was the Merlin 61 with the Spitfire Mark IX propeller which finally brought out its full potential.
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  5489. Sorry Adam Baker, I seem to have missed the reference.
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  5490.  @SirAntoniousBlock  I think I missed that one. Thanks.
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  5491. Much as we all love watching Marks videos I think we can all say that his Churchill impression left much to be desired. Happy New Year all
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  5492. Sounds like my typical Saturday
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  5493. Smoking, Well clay pipes were still being used by British men up to WW 1 but these did not survive long in the trenches. Also one of the "advantages" of smoking was a calming effect it had so was often recommended by doctors. This is one of the reasons smoking became so widespread during this time. Interestingly doctors in the US were being used to sell cigarettes in the 50s often sighting there medical advantages, this despite the fact German doctors had shown that smoking was carcinogenic back in the 30s. My paternal grandfather served in the Royal Garrison Artillery at both the Somme and Passchendaele firing the big 60lb shells and I know he suffered from hearing loss. Unlike the infantry gunners would be in the front line for weeks or months at a time.
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  5494. They kept it quiet as no one had inveted aircraft yet.
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  5495. Same here.
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  5496. In the British Army prior to WW 1 the soldiers were encouraged to grow a mustache which carried on into the war. It was thought that it made the soldier look more manly. But as you stated it went out of fashion because of the gas mask. Interestingly in Ancient Rome men were clean shaven until the Roman General Hadrian became emperor. He, as was common in the Roman Army, wore a beard. As the emperor and his wife dictated Roman fashion civilian men soon adopted the beard as well. There may have been an extra incentive here. You see Romans dry shaved, i.e. no shaving soap and no lather. And the razor was not very sharp, so you can imagine with what trepidation Roman men approached the barbers every morning. One Roman man proclaimed that after a visit to his barber he looked like a gladiator fresh from the arena. Another fashion that changed with WW 1 was the use of clay pipes. They were still in use up to WW 1 but could not the rigours of the trench. This is when smoking cigarettes became more common. Smoking was actively encouraged by doctors because of its relaxing effect on peoples nerves and this led to a greater use of cigarettes.
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  5497. Brad has found that you cannot polish a turd
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  5498. A suggestion for a future video. During the Cold War both sides agreed to let the other send observers when each was running military exercises. I believe this was restricted to those exercises carried out in East And West Germany so they were not used to launch an attack upon the other. As North Korea did to South Korea. The observers were supposed to be allowed to go where they wanted but this was not always the case. When British observers where in East Germany they were often stopped, usually by the East Germany army, which they should not have done according to the agreement. The British observers would lock their car doors and demand the East Germans send for the Russians. When the Russians turned up the British observers would then be allowed to leave. I believe that this was usually done by the East Germans without Russian permission. Sometimes it did turn ugly. I was told by someone who was in British Army intelligence back then that on one trip the British observers were pulled from their car and beaten up. Probably to stop them seeing something the Soviets did not want them to see. On the return trip by the Russian observers their car was stopped and the British returned the favour. Thanks to the boys of the Special Air Service. It does seem that the Russian observers were not warned in advance about the previous encounter by their side because they protested vehemently about how they had been treated. Interestingly at the end of the Cold War a meeting was set up were those who had taken part finally got to meet each other.
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  5499.  @hshs5756  Became a fantastic ground attack aircraft with the ability to take on any Axis fighter.
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  5500. Looking forward to your brief (sic) video on Rudy Giuliani later
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  5501.  @thebonesaw..4634  This is true but he does have better optics.
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  5502. The Soviets had a plan to take back Alaska by invasion. They knew that the early warning system in Alaska was not protected against NBC attack and planned to knock them out before invading. Fortunately a spy in Russia working for America informed the US and the sites were upgraded.
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  5503. I think Tora Tora Tora is an excellent film. Not a big fan of the Carlton Heston film Midway. Felt to much like flag waving rather then going for historical accuracy. Seen the trailers for the new version of Midway. Like the film Pearl Harbour I'll be giving it a miss.
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  5504. Okay. Just lately Mark has been on a roll finding obscure stories and I salute him for that. It was obviously feasible to carry out the attack so it makes you wonder why the German did not try it. Or at the very least get more involved in the Italian plan. It had to be easier to achieve then the America Bomber which, lets face it, was only going to work once because the USAAF would have made it never happened again.
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  5505. China last fought a war in 1979 against Viet Nam. They lost.
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  5506. The most produced Allied tank was the T-34.
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  5507. Somewhat ironic that Putin tried to freeze out Europe by cutting off oil and gas during the first winter and now it is Russia which will be freezing this winter
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  5508.  @RocketGurney  A Pirate on your shoulder, a wooden leg and a ship at sea. I think balance could be a problem here. It would make a great Olympic sport though.
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  5509. Prigozhin's death was inevitable once he failed to finish what he started with his rebellion. Putin could not suffer him to live and be a constant reminder of Putin's weakness. Happy Indepence Day to Ukraine. And may you have many more of them
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  5510. @Frank Roberts my late uncle would have agreed with you.
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  5511. America should also stop using volumetric measurements for their recipes as well. I have seen a trained chef measure out breadcrumbs for a recipe which he repeated three times and each time the weight was different.
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  5512. Just a thought. Grandchildren and great grandchildren of both the Tu-95 and the B52 original crews can be flying these aircraft today.
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  5513. Bet this will be played in court
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  5514. I had a clicker as a kid but I was too young to know about the connection with D-Day.
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  5515. There are many Republicans who would gladly sell California to Denmark
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  5516. I am trying to work out if New Statesman is supporting the torys or just prefare chaos because that gives them something to talk about. Of course Starmer will serve the full term and with a majority as big as projected he will win the next election as well. The party with all the problems is the tory party because they will lurch to the right which and be unelectable.
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  5517. We do not care because none of them will make Prime Minister. Unless there is some major disaster n the next five years they will not win the next election
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  5518.  @limedickandrew6016  True there is a lot of propaganda but those are not Ukrainian claims. And if anything they are confirmed kills. So there are others which are still to be confirmed. And if the Russians had not lost so many tanks why were they putting T62s back into service and are they bringing T-54s out of retirement. The T-54 dates from 1948.
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  5519.  @limedickandrew6016  I've seen the ' German Panther' but it looks like it was a film prop.
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  5520.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  And now T-55s which saw service against the US M48 and the British Centurian
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  5521. So Sunak has brought in the man whose government he was decrying only a month.
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  5522. The best tanks in the German army in 1940 were the Czech tanks, the 35(t) and the 38 (t). The reason Britain carried on making 2 pounder gun is because after the fall of France they needed to rearm quickly and to include the 6 pounder gun would have delayed production while everything was set up for the 6 pounder to be made. When it was finally brought into use the 6 pounder was a very good gun. They even had a version later in the war which used armour piercing discarding sabot rounds which was quite capable of penetrating most German armour. But it lacked the range of the 75 mm and 17 pounder guns which were either in service or coming into service. Without Germany in WW2 there would have been a war between Japan, America and Britain. In fact before Germany became a threat Britain was looking to fight in the Pacific. Britain only started to refocus the Royal Navy on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean because of Germany. One of the upsides to this was that Britain had armoured decks to their carriers because there was more likelihood of them facing land based aircraft which would have a aircraft which would carry a heavier bombload that carrier based aircraft. The results of this can be seen by the amount of damage sustained by US carriers against that of their British counterparts. One British carriers which had a kamikaze aircraft hit its deck just put the fire out, pushed the wreckage overboard and carried on fighting, much to the surprise of the US Navy officer onboard.
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  5523. If this guy believes this then I have a dolls house and a sand box I'll sell him as beach front property.
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  5524. Okay, here's one for you. I saw a DC 3 fly over me today. And it looked original. Stopped and watched it fly by.
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  5525. All of us
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  5526. The fact they cannot even get this to work how they going to win a war.
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  5527. I think we are all looking forward to Ian test firing this on the range.
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  5528. Interesting to see Obama living rent free in Trump's head. Considering his past record with renting to black people this has to be a step forward.
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  5529. You can smell the crap in their pants from space
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  5530. You would think they had enough snow on the Eastern Front without going and looking for it. I am surprised the Germans did not make more effort to hid these bases considering how important they were.
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  5531. Ironic that had she won Trump would have gone back to his shading dealings with very few people any the wiser. Instead many of those who worked for him are now facing prison time, which will probably soon include family members. Second irony is that Eric may be the only one who does not go to prison. Who thought he would end up the smart one.
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  5532. So McCarthy will not step down until he wins and there is not enough republicans who will vote for him. Well we know what the GOP is going to be doing in the next two years.
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  5533.  @avnrulz8587  He states in the video that the Horton aircraft was not stealthy. In fact the glue used would have had the opposite effect. Plus neither Horton brothers mentioned anything about that when interrogated after the war. One of them mentioned it in the 80s but no one believed him
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  5534. Pezfeo There is a small plot of land at Runnymede dedicated to John F Kennedy which is actually American soil. It was given to America in perpetuity to commemorate the late president.
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  5535. The Nimitz. Wasn't a flight of Japanese Zeros was it? We've all seen the film. Remembering the CIAs involvement in the UFO stories to cover up them spying on Communist Russia you have to think this is something similar. Makes you wonder what DARPA has been up to.
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  5536. Looks like a pregnant fish and flew like one by the sounds of it.
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  5537. The lose of the oil tanks would have forced the US Navy to withdraw as they could not have supplied their ships. Interestingly having told us that attacking the oil tanks would have diverted a substantial amount of plane when there aim was to destroy US ships, you then say that this reduced the strategic disadvantage for the Americans was limited. So diverting aircraft to destroy the oil tanks would have been an advantage to the Japanese after all. Especially as America admitted this would have force the navy to withdraw. Your logic is faulty
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  5538. I do know about the origins of the hand inside a jacket or waistcoat going all the way back to Aeschines and the restriction of one hand. My interest in this came about because I have seen Victorian group photographs where the most senior man in the photograph placed his hand inside his jacket. I remembered about Napoleon and wonder if he was the originator or whether it predated him Although Aeschines talked about the restriction of one hand it is interesting that he actually restricted his arm and has left his hand exposed.
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  5539.  @Macedonia270  I could but you'd struggle to understand
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  5540.  rMoscoviadoomed  Xi Jinping 'the number you are trying to reach has been disconnected. Your all on your own now.'
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  5541.  @Delta-2-0  Not so much no longer deployed. More no longer active
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  5542.  @Al-oe8ib  True. But are they combat troops or just there to keep the Russian population in line.
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  5543.  @jaytahoe  much of which is no longer active.
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  5544.  @augustinogeorgecloete8050  Assuming they still work. The upkeep on them is very high and Putin isn't big on spending money on anything but yachts and palaces
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  5545.  @djordjelezajic8435  most of which crashed and burned. Literally.
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  5546. You just take your eye off him for a few minute and up pops another video. Thanks 👍
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  5547. I understand that for a pilot pushing the joystick left rather then right is more natural. So if a pilot comes under attack they are more likely to break left.
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  5548. It's not what Trump is running to but more what he's running away from.
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  5549. No Rudi on the list. Oh fun
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  5550. I must admit I thought it was named after some mountain man who spent his life living out in the wilderness hunting and trapping. Or grizzled old prospector looking for the motherload. Not a New York lawyer who spends most of his time either in his plush office or in a courtroom.
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  5551. Have you heard of Jan Gotlib Bloch. He predicted trench warfare 1898 and said it would be so horrific it would make warfare totally impossible and would lead to stalemate on the battlefield. Much of what he predicted with regards to trench warfare did come true but in all of this he seems to have forgotten one thing, human ingenuity. That ingenuity brought us things like the tank and the aircraft which, once the tactical uses were perfected, helped to break trench warfare.
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  5552. The web designer used a fake story. The man she claimed was gay and wanted to get married was already married to a woman.
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  5553.  @kaoskronostyche9939  your welcome
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  5554. A good sharpshooter would never fall for that trick. You see a hat with nothing below it you knew is was not real. In Spain during the Napoleonic War neither side would shoot at anything like that because they knew it was a trick. What a British sharpshooter would do is attach the bayonette to the rifle, skewer a loaf of bread, a rifles daily ration, with the bayonette and then place his hat on the top. So when the rifle was raised up it looked like a head was beneath the hat. From then on any clever idea was referred to as 'using your loaf.' Interestingly the average age for a US soldier in WW2 was also 25 years old.
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  5555. I actually did know that but as you mentioned about them not having a fixed sites in the US, and Canada, I thought I'd mention about those in the UK often performed in a purpose built building which included the word hippodrome in its name. We still have travelling circuses in the UK, now extinct in the US I understand. But I am surprised they are still going. We also have travelling fairs as well. The two biggest in the UK is the Nottingham Goose Fair and Hull Fair. Hull Fair, which was just over a week ago, is the largest, partly because it is the last major fair of the year before the stop travelling for the winter. When I was a child we finished school early on Friday to allow us to go to the fair while we still had daylight. My mother still has an old black and white photograph of us taken when I was about ten years old. I was holding a large parrot while one of my sisters holds a small monkey. The Guardian newspaper did a piece of photojournalism with regards the last travelling circus. Many of the performers trained in Eastern Europe and performing in America was their big break. Sad to see it go.
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  5556. Finally. An Olympic sport the Russians can win without cheating.
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  5557. Well. Now you know. There can be to many clowns in the clown car. Time to find another car.
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  5558.  @VaeringWoT  They only came here so's they could be on the History Channel.
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  5559.  @TheRoark85  Only the Ancient ones. The modern ones watch Mark's channel instead
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  5560.  @ransertu7630  if you think the Russians can do that then you are very much mistaken
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  5561. The Bonesaw I agree with you on this but as for the battleship there were those who had a better understanding of the importance of the aircraft carrier. Admiral Yamamoto for one. And both Britain and Japan were early converts to the carrier with America not far behind. The problem is that it is not always clear to others what is so obvious to you. Some see the big battleship and think of how powerful they are. They don't think a couple of dozen puny little dive-bomber could sink it. As for Roosevelt, and the same thing has been said about Churchill knowing about the attack, hindsight is a wonderful thing and always 20/20. But that is because we know what we are looking at and that the end result was Pearl Harbour. They did not know what was coming next, though they had a good idea, and more importantly they did not know where or when.
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  5562. WALTERBROADDUS I, also, have seen the photograph taken by the Japanese which shows the mini sub attack on the West Virginia. There, for all those years was the evidence but no one had noticed it.
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  5563. Michael Smith The problem with the carrier sub was that the west had already tried this and decided against it as it was to dangerous. The British built the M-Class submarines with the M2 having a hanger which carried seaplane. She sank off Chesil Beach the cause of which was thought to have been the hanger door opening prematurely. The thought had occurred to me that with better planning the Japanese could have had ships filled with explosives and used them to destroy the Panama Canal's lock gates on the 7th December 1941. That way it would have denied the US Navy access to the canal for many years.
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  5564. Okay it took me three goes to get to the end, including staying up until the the early hours of the morning for the last bit. I have seen an example of the first of the two mines. We had one locally which had a slot in it to collect money. I think the money raised went the orphans whose fathers had been lost at sea. I asked my mother what it was and she told me and explained how it worked. So, like any child, I started hitting the horns to see what happened. I was somewhat disappointed nothing happened. What happened to it I do not know for certain but I think it went for scrap.
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  5565. I really hoped she would survive the war but it is somewhat fitting that she died from wounds while helping her crew mates. Also that the name of her tank lived on.
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  5566. You Chinese have been brainwashed by the CCP. You have no rightful historical position. You may have had a top military but the rest of the world has moved on.
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  5567. So the Dreadnought won a close run race. What with the Satsuma and the South Carolina.
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  5568. Forbes have said that the of T-72 and T-90s are in such low numbers that the T-62 is once again Russia's main battle tank. No sign of the US exchanging their M1s for M60s.
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  5569.  @Silver_Prussian  What ever. Your paying for it
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  5570. Well some people like the quite life. And some people do not. She was definitely of the latter persuasion.
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  5571. Actually, Chad, as you probably know there are food historians who look at where foods and ingredients came from, how cooking has evolved, and bring back old recipes as well as replicating methods of cooking from the past. History and food, who could not be interested in that.😊👍
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  5572. The Austro-Hungarian Empire did not posses any foreign territory but that was mostly down to the fact they could not afford the costs of conquering other lands, what with them being in a slow decline during the 19th century.
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  5573. Before WW2 the Germans flew an aircraft across the Atlantic to America and for parts of the journey they used ground effect to save on fuel.
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  5574. These people are typical of what used to be called a jobsworth. I can't do that. It's more then my jobs worth. Well I hope these people lost their jobs.
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  5575. He wants the west to give up because of costs of supporting Ukraine. Does he understand the phrase Pyrrhic victory.
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  5576. In an attempt to stop any more drone attacks in Moscow the Russians are spoofing the GPS. This is causing chaos with the people of Moscow as even the emergency services cannot find where they are going.
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  5577. The way the Russian economy is going down it does not look like Russia will be replaced these tanks anytime soon.
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  5578.  @Kinghassz  True But It was obviously aimed at protecting those at the top
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  5579. You have to wonder what difference these rifles would have made had they been in service in 1941. Even just a couple per squad.
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  5580. The GOP are pandering to a minority of a minority. Not what you'd call a winning strategy.
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  5581. i should add that the ribs are in fact upside down when used on the ship. On the tree the curved part is at the top and the straight part at the bottom.
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  5582. These people have to be the stupidest protesters ever. Instead of trying to win people over they decide it is better to alienate them.
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  5583. Soon all you will hear is Trump's lone voice in the White House calling out, "Hello, anyone here."
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  5584. The trenches did run to the coast and there were German positions behind the lines
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  5585. And you thought the jellyfish had no spine
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  5586. Well having somewhere to hang your hat gave me a good old chuckle. Obviously I have heard, and used, Philips screws, though I was under the impression it was something to do with the Dutch electronics company Philips as I first came across them on their products. The Robertson screwdriver is something new to me. So it is interesting to learn about them. Just goes to show how the Fates can play differently. I think he may have had more success if, like Philips, he had licensed this products to one of the big companies, such as British Standard Whitworth. He could have just let them do the heavy lifting. And Whitworth had a global reach In the 19th century many of the larger British railway companies made everything themselves, including nuts, bolts and screws. So quite a mix of types. The irony about the Archimedes screw is that several years ago they were reintroduce to Egypt to help low income farmers water their fields.
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  5587. So done came up with the theory that whales could hear each other over hundreds of miles. Unfortunately he could not prove it. Later it transpired thae this was known by submariners listening to the whal9 but they could not say anything because it would reveal top secret information about what they were doing
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  5588. When the gun makes more noise then the round being fired you know it's quite.
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  5589. Have I spent all these years listening to Lemmy singing Motorshed and not Motorhead.
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  5590.  @MatthewMakesAU  Hopefully not for much longer
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  5591. Well to be fair Russia has sent North Korea flour several years out of date in payment for the shells. So both sides are putting the others people in hospital or the morgue.
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  5592. I like that one 👍
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  5593. As Russia cannot hit a target with the missiles they've got why do they want to miss the target even quicker.
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  5594. I do know about all of this but again Mark has added details to the story. I first came across a reference to the suicide squadrons when I read an autobiography by a German pilot who flew Me 163's, something of a suicide aircraft in itself. Towards the end of the war he heard about these suicide squadrons but, like everyone else in his squadron he did not believe it was true. Then a group of them came round asking for volunteers. Even more surprising was that one of those who had volunteered was a friend of his. He was astounded as his friend was not some Nazi fanatic and he tried to talk his friend out of it. but to no avail. But as he heard no more about them he assume they were not use. As to those who volunteered. Some seemed to have been persuaded against their better judgement to volunteers. It does seem that several flew bomb armed conventional aircraft with the aim of attacking targets such as bridges. But instead bailed out and were captured by the Allies. Anyway, thanks again, Mark. Interesting, entertaining and informative as always.
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  5595. An interesting 'what if.' I seem to remember that the US Navy wanted the F-18 as cost saving exercise because the F-14 was so expensive. To sweeten the deal they added other capabilities which then pushed the price up to the point where it cost more that the F-14. Makes the F-15N look like a better choice.
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  5596. Up until the 1920s such a law also existed in the UK. Though bizarrely if a husband was seeing another woman and his wife sued her he would get the money.
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  5597. Watching this I was thinking about the comments as to why the Boys would not make a good sniper rifle. Looks like this proves the case.
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  5598. Smigol Time. It's not like we're all jealous of him is it. :)
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  5599. As it looks like Russian pilots are refusing to fly over Ukrainian airspace it would seem a Russian self imposed no fly zone already exists.
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  5600. They may think they are for sound fiscal government but to often they have done the opposite. The 80s under Nigel Lawson was was a period of boom followed by bust. Let's not forget that John Major's chancellor having thrown the economy down the toilet then sat singing in his bath. The torys being a party sound fiscal government is a myth.
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  5601. In WW1 many soldiers took dogs up to the front lines. There was several reasons for this. One is that it was a comfort for the troops while in the trenches. Another was it was often quite boring while in the front trench, especially if it was in a quiet sector. And another reason is that there was a big problem with rats which would live on the remains of those who were blown up. Another reason, and this applies to those troops working with other animals such as horses, the soldiers could talk to the dogs and express the fears and worries. Something they may not be able to do with humans. Express your fears to others may get back to NCO's and officers which could bring all sorts of problems. So being able to talk to an animal gave them a chance to get things off their chests without consequences.
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  5602. That snake is advertising it's new app game
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  5603. Over the shoulder bombing and lob bombing are similar but not the same. Lob bombing, as you have show in this video, involves the aircraft approaching the target then pulling up to release the bomb. The aircraft carries on with a half loop before leveling out at the top of the loop and then heads back the way it came. Over the shoulder, a technique favoured by the French, requires the aircraft to fly over the target and once it has passed it the aircraft starts its loop. As it almost reaches the top of the loop the bomb is released, over the aircrafts shoulder, and while the bomb climbs higher the aircraft completes its loop and flies off at low level away from the target. The first version, favoured by the USAF and the Royal Air Force, leaves the aircraft having to escape at a higher altitude, while the second version, as I said used by the French, means it gets to fly off at a lower altitude. The advantage of the version used by the USAF and the RAF is that means that only once the aircraft starts to climb is the enemies air defense presented with a target. Though it does mean it is a target until it gets out of range or drops down to a lower altitude. Whereas for the French aircraft it becomes a target both during the fly passed as well as during its bomb run. Also flying over the target alerts the enemies air defence to your presence. It also means that the aircraft has to complete its loop which means less time to make its escape. I am not sure how USAF viewed the French version but RAF pilots saw it as suicidal.
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  5604. If you look at this in context as to what else was happening on the Western Front at this time it must have had an impact well above the actually lose of the airships, balloon and base. The German Spring Offensive had failed and just twenty days after this raid the Hundred Days Offensive would start which would lead to the end of the war. Which probably added to the Germans decision not to reopen the base and move their other base.
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  5605. As Ukraine is now equipped with both NLAW and Javelin they would suffer badly from an turret penetration.
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  5606.  @scowell  True
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  5607.  @allangibson8494  Interesting about the Raspberry PI. If I didn't have enough to do already it would be fun having a go at using it.
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  5608. Forgot to mention, I've seen some of his drawing. They were shown in the local gallery. Big coup as there was only a few places it was shown.
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  5609.  @TrainerAQ  Not the first time he's turned a blind eye. He is being investigated about incidents with the collage doctor when Jim Jordan was the collage wrestling couch which he did nothing about.
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  5610. Not what you could call joined up thinking is it.
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  5611. Is that the raid that took most of the people. Only two ever returned if that is the place. Just imagine if you had been away from home that day and everyone you knew was gone.
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  5612. I did know much of this as I had seen a video where Michael Caine spoke about his experiences in Korea. But I did enjoy the video. Actually during the Viet Nam War there were several incidences of North Korean incursions into the south with casualties on both sides. Because of the fighting in Viet Nam much of this was not reported. As to the reactions of the British population to the Korean. Whereas the people could understand the conscripts serving in German to protect the West against the Soviets they did not see why their sons were out there fighting and dying so far from home. A sentiment later held by many Americans during the Viet Nam War.
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  5613. They wargamed this back in the 70s I seem to remember, using British and German plans for the invasion if it had happened. The Germans were brought to a halt outside of London, touch of Moscow here. From then on it would have just been a case of grinding them down. Of course with so many men and so much material tied up here is would probably have put an end to Operation Barbarossa. Or at the very least postponed it for many years.
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  5614. You may think he was unlucky but as he survived both flights I would say he was very lucky.
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  5615. I think that covered all the bets
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  5616.  @silverjohn6037  At one point the highest rank in the English Army was sergeant general.
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  5617. Bad as each other
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  5618.  @retiredgamblers3517  I share your incredulity
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  5619. Do you want an umbrella in your drink.
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  5620. How many of them to knock out a Tiger.
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  5621. So have gone from an American soldiers using German vehicles in a previous video we are now looking at them using the Germans as well. Well, why not
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  5622. Next tour is of various prisons around the country
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  5623.  @zoiders  Thank for mentioning that. As I said. Sterling is what 5he Sten would have been given time. Saying that the Sten did a good job all thing considered.
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  5624. The last bit about the Eurasian Economic Union translates as we are still trying to drag the Chinese into this. China has enough economic problems. They don't want to get hit by the same sanctions.
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  5625. Tough neighbourhood where you live.😀
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  5626. So Trump makes antisemitic remarks despite his daughter and son-in-law are Jewish and attacks a form of immigration which has brought his wife's mother and father into America. He certainly loves his family.
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  5627. Actually as a long time studier of history this was nothing I didn't already know. But I am sure others have benefited from it
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  5628. A very interesting and enjoyable story. Thanks for that. It is sad that she never got to see her flying school but even now she is inspiring others to follow her. Our local flying heroine is Amy Johnson who was a contemporary of Bessie's. In 1930 she became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia, some 11,000 miles. In July 1931, she and co-pilot Jack Humphreys became the first people to fly from London to Moscow in one day, completing the 1,760 miles (2,830 km) journey in approximately 21 hours. From there, they continued across Siberia and on to Tokyo, setting a record time for Britain to Japan. Just like Bessie she also died young. On 5 January 1941, while flying an Airspeed Oxford Johnson went off course in adverse weather conditions. Reportedly out of fuel, she bailed out as her aircraft crashed into the Thames Estuary near Herne Bay. A ship from a convoy in the area did try to rescue her. The crew of the vessel threw ropes out to Johnson but she was unable to reach them and was lost under the ship.
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  5629. I have long known about the Whirlwind and, like you, I did think it should have been given the Merlin engine. They could have reequipped them with the Merlin once the Battle of Britain was over. Even without being used as a pure fighter it would have made a terrible mess on any ground target. Imagine a couple of squadrons doing hit and run raids in France in 1941 with four or five squadrons of Spitfires in support. It could have cause havoc to all the Luftwaffe bomber bases in Northern France. i understand a number of the squadrons ended up in Russia.
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  5630.  @mattheweible  Not defending anyone, Matthew. He was talking about corruption and I was highlighting the hypocrisy of what he was talking about.
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  5631.  @Dr_Birthday  Not pointing fingers. Just exposing a hypocrite
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  5632.  @1940limited  How would you come to that conclusion when we both know he is not of that party. I am saying he should clean his own house before he looks at other peoples houses.
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  5633. Les, more lies and the GOP
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  5634. Dane Gold or Danegeld is a miss interpretation. In Old English the letter G next to a vowel is pronounced as the letter Y. So it is actually Dane Yield, or money yielded to the Danes. In Old English the double letter C in Wicca is pronounced as CH as in church. So it would sound like wicha. And church was spelt ccurcce. Interesting this misunderstanding led people in Scotland using the word Kirk.
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  5635. You must be new here. Us old hands upvote while the intro music is playing. Don't worry. You'll get the hang of it👍😀
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  5636. He had a brain scan. They not only found he had never been used, it still had the plastic cover on.
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  5637. Well, she may have had some adventures on the way but she did become a teacher. Sad that she died at just 59.
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  5638. Definitely a life worth living. RIP
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  5639. My son-in-law, an engineer, is one of those who lived for two years on the Antarctic. He said he loved it but I think I would have been wanting to go home after two weeks rather then two years.
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  5640.  @pjay3028  We know why🙂
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  5641. These are the thoughts of Himmler. The failed chicken farmer.
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  5642. As does his families and that of his wife and her family
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  5643. The vast majority of the immigrants turn up at the airport with a passport, just like the parents of the prime ministers and home secretary, and not in a boat.
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  5644. Well one way or another he certainly paid for it. Nice to see he was reunited with it.
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  5645. The Falcon proves you should always remember Sod Law. If it can go wrong it will go wrong. Especially if there is more that can go wrong.
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  5646. So he is a fool and by that time he had no reputation. Well the reputation he had was nothing to shout about.
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  5647. I have heard people say that the only aircraft to replace an existing one is the same one. Well this is one of those occasions where it's true. The only thing to replace a U-2 is another U-2.
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  5648.  @tz8785  great to know there are some still flying
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  5649. As candles go that one went.
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  5650. Kissing Trump's ring. Is that not like brown nosing except with lips.
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  5651. Well, Peter, that may be true but I have seen photographs of knocked out Russian T-62s in Ukraine so I think that maybe the Russian army did not get the email.
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  5652. Videos going the same way..
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  5653. This guy would not need a colonoscopy. If he has a problem with his colon he will be the first to see it
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  5654. Looks like the Ukrainians were not happy to help him. I wonder why.
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  5655.  @lancewalsh2468  That was as much because the RAF pilots used better tactics whereas the USN pilots kept playing catchup.
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  5656. Kemi Badenoch is, as always, way out of her depth
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  5657. 390 days to go. So what's that for Marco? Three days
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  5658. He can give the order but it relies on others carrying that order out. And as many of his senior officer want rid of him that is not going to happen.
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  5659. I knew about these guns as I had read about the Franco-Prussian War but I did not know how they worked. From what I read I was under the impression they all fired together at the same time. A bit like grapeshot. So it is interesting to see what they were really like.
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  5660.  @stevesecret2515  I did have him in mind, Steve.
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  5661. I think he means at the time
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  5662. When Glegg was a politician he was an apologist for a government he was part of which was penalising the very poor. He left politics because his behavior meant that his party was annihilated in the next election. Now he's an apologist for Facebook.
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  5663. I just looked up both the Gloster F.5 and the Mitsubishi A6M and they are remarkably similar. The F.5 is a bit slower but only has a 9 cylinder engine compared to the 14 cylinders of the A6M. You have to wonder what difference the extra 5 cylinders would have made as he F.5 had a top speed of 316 MPH whereas the A6M could make 331 MPH. It may, like the A6M, have made an excellent naval aircraft, assuming it is not used with the British Pacific fleet. The US did have some difficulty recognising none America aircraft.
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  5664. That's a reunion that could be very exciting, though maybe not for Rudy.
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  5665. So both NATO and the EU were involved. So fake then.
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  5666. Not just American national security advisers. Other allied countries are now thinking twice about passing on intelligence for fear of Trump telling the Russians.
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  5667. Several people have said that intelligent people avoid mobs, which is an interesting observation. The problem is that too often they believe that because they are intelligent they are clever enough to be able to use mobs for their own use. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer who decided to use the mob for his own political ends. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety. During the Reign of Terror this committee was responsible for at least 300,000 suspects were arrested; 17,000 were officially executed, and perhaps 10,000 died in prison or without trial. Mobs are like riding a hungry tiger. At some point you will become its next meal. On the 28 July 1794 Robespierre died under the Guillotine just as many others had. Yes I agree the intelligent should avoid the mob. But as I said, even the best of people can commit the worst of acts.
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  5668.  @CitizenAyellowblue  golf courses are taking up so much space in London they are trying to get many of them closed so they can be used for housing
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  5669.  @shawnhartmann4581  he'd probably say the opposite.
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  5670.  @faithworldleader6891  replace the grass with carpets. Saves water.
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  5671. They were also known as Peelers , though this has long since gone out of use. I knew the origin of the hat being connected to the tropical helmet used by the British Army. In fact if you look at the uniform of both the police of the 1880's and the British Army of the same period and the connection is obvious. The bowler hat, worn by women PCs, was originally invented for the use of bailiffs who worked for various country estates when dealing with poachers and alike. They were designed as safety headgear and the idea was the bailiffs would get protection if the got into a fight with the poachers, or to protect them from branches when they were riding through wooded areas. Interestingly they would later be worn by gents working in the offices in the City of London. So maybe working in the City was more dangerous then you think.
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  5672. Let me just 'reinterpret' what Larry Kudlow has said. Trump has no idea what he is doing and he has gotten himself into a mess which now seriously threatens his reelection chances. But he cannot back down because this is what his base wants him to do, look tough on foreigners. Interesting that Mr Kudlow is the White House chief economic adviser. Because they could not get a real one.
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  5673. they that sounds good, and sows distrust amongst Ukraine's enemies, I think it's more a case of the Chechens being useless cowards who run from their own shadows.
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  5674. Well Putin has turned Russia into a failed state.
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  5675. Those who commit treason should be executed. So if you start an insurrection we know what to do with them
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  5676.  @GaneshDevdas  Thanks for the reminder 🤕
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  5677.  @alexhumble7653  It's not the cost of the weapons, Alex, it's the cost of their upkeep. If they are syphoning off the funds which should be used to pay for the upkeep of the weapons, and we know they have done this with other weapons such as the tanks not having additional armour, there is a good chance those missiles are now in a very poor state. So they may be unusable.
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  5678. Well at least you have finally decided to call HMS Ajax by how it was called by the Royal Navy rather then a Dutch football team. It does not matter what how the Greeks pronounced the name, it's a British ship. This is nothing against the Greeks and if they have a ship called the Ajax it should be pronounce as they do. And I will remind you that you that you talk about Germany and not Deutschland, which is the name they use.
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  5679. There was other designs similar to the Osprey back in the 50s but in their case the entire wing rotated. That, of course, was not a good idea as that meant the aircraft lost the lift provided by the wing.
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  5680. there's a sight worth waiting for Theresa May getting revenge on Dumbo Johnson
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  5681. So if Bunker Boy refuses to quit should they just leave him in the bunker
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  5682.  @mombaassa  I have a feeling this is a story put about the US to hide the fact that they have it at Area 52 (Area 51 is in fact a cover story for Area 52.) We all know that the only way that guy you mentioned can get all those deliveries done in one day is by time travel. And what he flies is kept at the secret Area 25 at the North Pole. Am I the only one getting a headache from keeping track of all these secret bases.
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  5683. Actually the end was coming for airships. Despite the proclaimed luxury of the cabins they were in fact very sparse and basic. When caught in a storm they could rapidly rise and plummet hundreds of feet in a matter of moments, terrifying both passengers and crew. The other thing is that they could carry only a very limited number of passengers, especially compared to an ocean liner. Not to mention the amount of cargo an ocean liner could carry. And with pilots like Alcock and Brown in 1919 and then Charles Lindbergh in 1927 it was obvious that aircraft, not airships, were the future. In 1921 the airship R38 crashed into the River Humber less then half a mile from where I live. My late father used to know when of the men who went out into the Humber to help with the rescue and recovery of the died. At the time of the crash she was the biggest airship in the world.
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  5684. He has lost the whip
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  5685. His next job is a manure salesman. Got all his own product.
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  5686. Depends who's asking
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  5687. I know about the Younger Dryas from days as a university student studying archeology. For some time it was thought humans had left what would become Britain because it was too cold for them to live there. But fossils had been found which dated from the Younger Dryas period which indicates that humans were still living in Britain.
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  5688. As historical events are those which happened in the past then even if it happened yesterday it is historical. Which means, as I assume you already know, that we could be enjoying more videos like this.
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  5689. That's because the poor don't vote for his party.
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  5690. James Parker They would probably say that if insanity did not rule it certainly had a working majority.
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  5691. This elite unit, the best of the best, was beaten by Ukrainian reservists and part time soldiers. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
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  5692. Good little gun at the beginning of the war, same with the British 2 Pounder. But by 1941 it was only good for armoured cars. I knew about its nickname which came about because in 1941 the Germans found out about Soviet KV-1s and T-34s. And the Pak 37 was nothing more then an announce to one of them.
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  5693. Sad really. At least the others can be in the same prison for Thanks Giving
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  5694.  @smokey1255  A sky full of USAAF fighters as well as flak. Now that is what I call a surprise. As many, if not all of the battleships et cetera would have survived they could meet up with the carriers and go after the Japanese fleet. I imagine the war would have been much shorter.
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  5695. Sound money? Inflation is as high now as it was when he was in government under Thatcher. And the period when we had the highest growth was under Labour. As a tory MP said.
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  5696. If you need to convince anyone not to take drugs just point to Lindell.
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  5697. You know how it is. First you want to blow up a bridge and then you don't and you just can't think what to do for best. We've all been there.
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  5698.  @stretchchris1  They did the same with Irish Hurling and Gaelic football. Used to love watching that. Saw a game of Gaelic football in Ireland when I was a kid. County Galway against County Down. I was somewhat confused by people walking around in hats saying Up Down. All became clear when I saw the Up Galway hats. Loved the game though.
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  5699. Imagine your trying open a bottle of wine and suddenly a gun fight breaks out. Do you carry on taking the cork out. Do you try removing the corkscrew and leave the corkscrew in. Do you try to aim and pull the trigger and hope you do not drop the bottle. Or, do you just say WTF and drink the wine
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  5700. Some years ago I was on holiday in East Anglia and you could hear something similar firing off in the distance. So something very much like this was in use until recently. Make an interesting alarm clock. Or get it to play in the big finale for the local rendition of the 1812 Overture.
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  5701. Along with Amelia Earhart and Elvis.😊👍
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  5702. What with this and the recent failed IFF systems which resulted in the lose of two aircraft Ukraine must be happy.
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  5703. Thanks, Mark. Interesting follow up to my comments about the uniform and helmet being the same as WW2 German uniforms in a previous video. Though I am sure you had this one planned before that. The one thing I am surprised about is that the Russians did not do anything to make them change it. After all this did represent the old enemy and they were supplying them with the bulk of the equipment for the East German armed forces. Or was it a case of the fact that the East Germans were in the front line so things like his were tolerated.
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  5704. I think it is time to show the work of the Combined Operations Pilotage Party. The people who had to survey the beaches for Normandy so that the top brass could decide which one to use. Without them the Alles would have had no idea what to expect on the beaches and which ones they could use for tanks et cetera.
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  5705. Not sure what this says about the standards of education in the US, or that of TV anchors, but Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital, not Mein Kamf. Das Kapital was written in 1867 not 1848 while Marx living in London. Mein Kamf was published by Adolf Hitler in German in 1925. And 1848 was the year of the uprisings in France, German and Austria which were all put down. That's fact checking for you.
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  5706. I am surprised that the US still uses cheques. Here in the UK it is very rare that anyone uses them any more. If I pay a bill it is all done online. In fact I am one of the 80% in the UK who no long carries cash as it is all card payments now. All government, both local and national are done online and have been for sometime. Makes life much easier.
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  5707. Well we have all had leaders who were last in the que when it came to brains, honesty or all those other things you should expect. I have, for sometime, thought that just locking up anyone who want to be in politics would just save so much time.
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  5708.  @y0Milan  I never said it was exclusive. So thanks for the editions.
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  5709.  @simonpitt8145  I see your point but maybe if they had actually picked a plan and built them before the war they could have been used.
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  5710. I found your explanation about the word cowboy extremely interesting. In the UK the term cowboy is applied to people, usually businesses, who do very shoddy work and then overcharge for their services. So very similar to your description of them,
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  5711. Shut downs in Britain. Not sure where you got that but Britain is not shut down. Where possible people are working from home but that is becoming the norm anyway. Businesses have realised that paying for office space is a cost they do not need. People are taking precautions, such as mask wearing, but even theatres are open.
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  5712.  @joeschenk8400  There was a B-24 which flew the 25 mission before any B-17 did. Unfortunately it crashed into a mountain in Iceland killing a USAAF general who was onboard. So it never got the attention it deserved for what it achieved.
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  5713. Interesting that George's wife has had nothing to say. When did she know what was happening.
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  5714. He thinks Boris Johnson is sincere. A man who has spent his entire life lying and cheating and Farage thinks he is sincere. And I noticed he got his kids their German passports. Shows what his intentions are.
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  5715. UK laws are not weak We just don't give 25 years in prison for stealing a few cookies or a slice of pizza like the US does.
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  5716. It has been a while since I heard this story but definitely worth the retelling. And the wait. So thanks for that. I remember watching another similar story of a British Army survey which I believe took place between the wars and I think it may have been in Burma. They took great pains to get the contour lines correct but they were having some problems with one area. And as the process was coming to an end there was little chance of getting a survey team up there. Anyway one person came up with a solution and it was finally finished. All were happy with the results until someone noted that if you viewed the map upside down the new contour line looked remarkably like the outline of an elephant. Well you cannot say they did not have a sense of humour.
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  5717. So with the mid term elections next year this is what the republicans are standing on. That's got to be a winner.
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  5718. Not the first time I have seen this film footage enjoyable just the same.
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  5719. Putin was always weak. But like any bully he only starts fights he thinks he can win because he picks on those weaker than himself. Problem for Putin is that he has come up against someone who has been working out since last they met.
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  5720. Even the French wouldn't touch his Johnson
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  5721. Looking at what's happening at the moment I'd say very much so
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  5722. You are a typical example of the Dunning–Kruger effect. Dunning–Kruger effect is the cognitive bias whereby people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. You put 2 and 2 together and get 3.
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  5723. Not the sort of thing you would want to be on the business end of. Especially as a pilot.
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  5724.  @barbaraarndt5293  I think they have that already. Involves the whole government.
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  5725.  @RedToriesBlueTories  It was too much for their tiny brains to understand
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  5726.  @freddysw  Could they manage that?
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  5727.  @malcolmclarke3033  You don't think the fairies take this government serious do you.
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  5728.  @Padraigp  Sorry to be the bearer f bad news but that's why they brought back Esther McVey
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  5729. Wouldn't the easiest way to help these people be to open the government and pay the workers. Or is that to obvious. Wilbur Ross. Makes Scrooge look positively human
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  5730.  @mpetersen6  and me
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  5731. On the up side Mueller's team will get the last laugh. How many will be mentally saying to themselves "lock him up, lock him up."
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  5732. I remember this story being reported on the British news. It caused some concern in the West that this may be some sort of ploy by the Russians to launch a surprise attack on the West. When the real story started to come out the concern changed to one of worry that the Russians could not control their own ships.
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  5733. A case for the English proverb "Give a dog a bad name and hang him". The observation about the ship are due to negativity bias and that people are apt to think poorly of this ship on weak evidence. All these things and more happened to other ships but because of its now perceived to have an unlucky reputation people notice what would go unnoticed on other ships. In the end she gave her life defending others, and did so bravely.
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  5734. HS2 cost so much because the government kept changing things. Everytime they added a tunnel to placate the local voters the cost shot up.
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  5735. I read an interview with someone who left Russia at the beginning of the war and he had been an informant for the FSB. He said that the FSB do not have the ability to investigate people as they lack the skills to do so. So they rely on a very large body of informants and use them to gain to get the information. The FSB will then either use that information to either convict someone in court or more likely make that person an informant. Given the very poor quality of information and the equally poor quality of those working for the FSB then anything they do find out is virtually useless.
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  5736. Yet another in a long line of idiot Tory leaders with no idea what they are doing.
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  5737. Lord Snooty's dumber brother.
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  5738.  @gorgu08  I think we are trying to get the good Russians on our side. Make of that what you will. 🤔
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  5739. The question is whose plan?
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  5740. What is it with walls and the human urge to write or paint, or whatever, on them. We all know about cave paintings but several years ago there was a major find in a valley in Spain which had a number of cave paintings. Soil near the river had been washed away and it was discovered that not only was there prehistoric cave paintings but that these extended to the low cliff walls running along the river valley. As for the abandoned site dating from 1400. My thoughts are that what is know as the Little Ice Age began in the previous decade which meant the average yearly temperatures were lower. And from what I remember that area of America suffered from draught because the weather patterns had changed so much.
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  5741. The upward firing guns on the Me-110 could be just as dangerous to the Germans. The last sight for more then one German was the blazing wreck of his victim plunging down on top of them.
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  5742. And people wonder why he's a stone cold looser.
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  5743. 550. Is that higher then 15? Who gets to tell Trump?
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  5744. 👍 Or is that inappropriate.
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  5745.  @RedwihteGame  That's what I thought
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  5746.  @Cobalt-88  They have been bullying Viet Nam for years so the fact that Viet Nam has reduced trade should not be a surprise.
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  5747. Everyone will appreciate what the loss of such documents can have on a personnel level, even if the did not know it at the time. Then, added to this, anyone with an interest in history will be aware of how much they rely on records and how big an effect such losses can have.
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  5748. I actually do know the story of the Bowler hat but it is still interesting to hear it again. Two points. In Waiting for Godot the name is pronounced as God-o and not Go do. Mercury was an accidental product introduced into hat making. Human urine was used in the making of hats and mercury was often found in the urine as it was used as a cure for STDs. Constantly handling the hats meant that the mercury in the urine became absorbed into the hat makers body through the skin. Mercury was also part of the process of producing Daguerreotype photographs. The mercury was heated in a bath and the fumes were used to process the print. It should be remembered that the photographer would have been present at the time and would have inhaled the fumes. Later in the 19th century platinum prints were introduce and one method of toning a print was to use uranium. Who would think that being a photographer could be such a dangerous profession.
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  5749. Firstly, we no longer use BC as this means Before Christ. Instead we use BCE, Before Common Era. The date stays the same but is now CE, Common Era. The siting of these burial mounds near the top of a hill was to make them easier to see as placing them at the very top could obscure them from anywhere but at a distance. They would do the same with the round burial mounds of the Bronze Age. The man who had four wives can easily be explained by the fact that they had a much shorter life expectancy. So when a wife died, such as during childbirth, he would take another wife. While reading about the English Civil War I came across a reference to a man who at that point in time was living with his sixth wife and as divorce was almost impossible at that time this would mean that his five previous wives had died. Interesting you mention plague as recent evidence has revealed that some 4,000 years ago most if not all of the people here at that time died out through the Black Death. The Bronze Age starts some 4,000 years ago which is when the round barrows start to appear. This find is doubly interesting as until recently they evidence for the Black Death being in Britain goes back 1,500 years. At a time when the first Anglo Saxons arrived.
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  5750. The Bristol F2 was originally to be a bomber but when they realised it was built like a fighter, with the pilot also being provided with a machinegun, it became what must have been the first ever fighter bomber. Interestingly both the pilot and machine gunner of the F2 would be credited with same kills regardless as to who had actually shot the enemy aircraft down. This may have been because at some point both may have shot the same aircraft.
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  5751. You make it sound like they were crewed by leprechauns. I think you will find they had more sense then to climb inside them deathtraps.
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  5752. Johnson always fancied himself as the new Winston Churchill, turns out he's the new Adolf Hitler. Watch out for the burning down of Parliament which he'll blame on the remainers.
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  5753. The vaccine for Trump will be available 3 November 2020. Unless he magically disappears
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  5754. UFO just mean Unidentified Flying Object. In other words on object that is flying and has not been identified. Not little green men from space.
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  5755.  @homuchoghoma6789  Thanks. I'd forgotten about America wanting Vladivostok as well
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  5756. Apparently Russian military and intelligence officers are trying to quickly sell off their property in Crimea. Obviously they have a good idea how things are going.
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  5757. One of her sisters was called Fan Tan. A wealthy Malaysian businessman Mr. Eu Yew Tong Sen, donated sufficient money for the purchase a Mark IV Male Tank from William Foster & Co., of Lincolnshire, as his personal contribution to the WW1 British war effort . He stipulated that his tank would be painted with a ' Seeing Eye', which in Chinese mythology would ' ward off evil ' I believe there was one or two more tanks which all supported the Seeing Eye. Mr. Tong Sen's Mark IV Tank also had a ' Dragon' painted in the Tank's front panel, and a brass plaque was also attached to the front of the Tank detailing Mr. Tong Sen's donation.
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  5758. I have wondered what happened to all the White Russians. I had thought they were absorbed into Europe, but |I had not realised that so many went east. Despite there xenophobia I can see why the Japanese would use them as it would free up their own troops.
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  5759. One of the African nations had a space programme with astronauts and everything. Well everything except the things you needed to get into space.
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  5760. The Russian changes from Putin are now starting to sound desperate.
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  5761. They had better script writers
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  5762. I have seen photographs of Hinds which were with the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Two interesting points were that the Soviets put covers over the Mi-24 cockpit, something the West never did. This begs the question why they thought such steps were needed. And secondly one of the Hind's actually had East German markings. Which makes you wonder whether the Soviets were having problems keeping up supplies of Hinds while in Afghanistan.
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  5763.  @joeyfragile2330  It is the fact that it is used to carry out evil acts that s the problem.
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  5764. The Ring Trade. Or what goes around comes around.
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  5765.  @tlw4237  Spain did use them in Africa. Don't think even Franco would have gotten awa6with bombing the Basques. Remember he was trying to encourage tourism in the 60s because he was broke
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  5766. Johnson's role-model is Winston Churchill. It was often said of Churchill that he was a man without conviction or principle. Johnson's role-model
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