Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "War Stories" channel.

  1. Barbarossa took place 6 months before Pearl Harbour.
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  2. Who do you now blame for India's poverty stricken millions now that you've had self determination for the last 75 years?
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  3. If you want to make the situation in 1940 reflect what is happening in today's world, then Oswald Mosley would have been prime minister of the UK in 1940 and inviting the wehrmacht to come and "diversify" Britain.
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  4. The Very short answer is the RN..... the slightly longer answer is the "Royal Navy".
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  5. Such forceful and footsure assertion of a complete fallacy... excellent entertainment, well done !!!
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  6. Please explain how the Germans were going to sail their invasion fleet of towed canal barges at 3 knots past the world's largest navy to invade the UK ?
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  7. ​ @Jeremy-y1t  IF Britain had been "planning for war since 1933", then how come she was so woefully unprepared when the Germans invaded their next victim in Sept 1939? German troops Invaded Norway on the 9th April 1940, the first British troops in response landed on the 13th April 1940. You can't seem to get ANYTHING right, can you Jeremarkyjames.
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  8. Thanks for your memories, and for your service to this country Shevill. Happy 85th with many more to come !!!
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  9. There were NO luftwaffe bombers pounding Ottawa, Canberra or New Delhi. The British Isles stood alone as the last bastion of democracy in Europe against the merciless attacks of totalitarianism. We were ably supported by commonwealth troops, and gave refuge to defeated Europeans, but without Great Britain standing firm and alone, all the commonwealth troops and refugees in the world would not have been able to act as the springboard for the future liberation of Europe.
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  10. Maybe you can tell us all exactly which other nations were being bombed, blockaded and threatened with invasion by the full weight of the Wehrmacht between June 1940 and April 1941?
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  11.  @CB-fz3li  I'm happy to accept that... I just wish to put the constant "oh it was the Poles", "oh it was the Czechs", "oh it was the Canadians" etc in context of their percentage contribution, and so highlight the SMALL but important service that they provided.
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  12.  @CB-fz3li  I find that when you put your case forward in these sections, that over time a well reasoned point of view gains traction, and while I never expect to change an "MSM droid's" opinion, I'm never afraid to challenge their nonsense, I do quite often notice that points I raise and phrases I use start to appear in other comments, and so appear to be read by others who are undecided on the matter. Keep up your own good work.
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  13. Notice how it was ONLY "Britain" that had to "survive the blitz"... NOT the empire or commonwealth, but the UK ONLY.
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  14.  @BCHistoria  Just Americans still smarting that while they sat on the sidelines and profiteered from both sides, they actually had next to no involvement in the heroic battle against European totalitarianism at the time.
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  15. I remember the good old days when imbeciles had nothing better to do than lick windows, nowadays they're given unsupervised access to the internet.
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  16.  @paulunderhill5642  Great info there Paul, I've spent most of my life interested in the battle of Britain, but have never stumbled on that information before... more reading for me. thanks.
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  17. Andrew Choong? Yes he's an EXCELLENT communicator, one of the best I've seen on naval videos.
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  18. Luckily Bismarck was crippled after the swordfish torpedoes snapped off Bismarck's oars !!!
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  19. The Nelson class were far superior to Bismarck in armour AND firepower, only their speed was inferior, but that was the price of keeping to international naval treaties, something that never hindered the Germans (and was something the Americans with their WW2 designs never had to contend with). But the Nelson's lower speed was not the impediment it seemed, with the RN being the pioneers of naval aviation & aircraft carrier usage it had trained its fleet air arm to attack enemy capital ships with the intention of slowing then down to allow its superior battleships to intercept and engage. That strategy almost worked as planned in the case of Vittorio Veneto at the battle of cape Matapan in Mar 1941, and worked to perfection in the case of Bismarck.
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  20. And how would we be speaking German? How exactly where the nazis going to defeat Britain?
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  21. Or how any other unhygenic servicemen would smell. The US for instance referred to the USN's submarines as "Pig boats" for the same reason.
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  22. While I fully agree that Dowding was the defensive genius facing the air assault on the UK, Britain was in no real danger of being invaded. The air assault was only the first step of the planned invasion. The wehrmacht with its tiny navy and air force that couldn't even prevent the evacuation of Dunkirk then had to deal with the world's largest navy. The invasion was NEVER going to happen.
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  23. "Tirpitz nearly won WW2" oh dear......
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  24. You think allied victory was solely down to "American men"? Hahahaha... who writes your material? Comedy gold.
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  25.  @JamesRichards-mj9kw  No the allies won the war James. The USSR by itself would have folded in 1942-43 without western help.
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  26. Complete BS James, Churchill had been railing against nazism since at least 1933.... but seeing as he held NO office within the British government in the 1930s he exerted utterly no influence on British foreign policy. It was only his appointment as first lord of the admiralty on 3rd Sept 1939 that ended what is commonly known as Churchill's "wilderness years" from 1929-39.
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  27. The Story is that Captain Lindemann was of that opinion, and the crew happily took it "on board", but any reference I've seen to Bismarck in surviving wartime documents used the feminine "Die" as opposed to the male "Der", it is purely a matter of personal preference.
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  28. The Germans wanted the ship under as much as the British at the end... it was their best chance of survival.
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  29. "Conquered by islam".... get real.
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  30.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Ah very observant, Admiral. Who would have guessed it? A self aggrandising American !!! Its unheard of !!! Well rooted out Doveton.
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  31. Correct.
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  32. Get a load of this idiot above my post. Utter delusional.
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  33. Indeed, the US economy was EAGERLY making MASSIVE profits from BOTH sides of the European war. Also don't think for one minute that the US choose to join the war out of some altruistic motive, instead it had war DECLARED on it by the nazis and Japanese. It would NEVER have declared war of its own free will... the profits in keeping out were TOO great to miss. P.S It's "have" and not "of".
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  34. Looks count for nothing. Bismarck 193 million reichmarks to build and destroyed in her first sortie after failing miserably in her mission. Swordfish made from bits and pieces from granny's "sewing box", and went on to become the most effective naval attack aircraft of WW2. German technology indeed.
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  35. A small but valued contribution.
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  36. As if the UK or ANY other nation has ANY effect on Soviet/Russian foreign policy. More naziboi nonsense.
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  37. US produced program. At the time of battle of Britain they were busy selling supplies to BOTH sides of the war, and the BoB didn't involve them, so of course in their eyes its "not important".... clueless yanks.
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  38. Er.....If were talking about the "luck" factor, then what about Bismarck's hit on HMS Hood? In 99 out of 100 reruns HMS Hood completes her turn to port, draws parallel to Bismarck and the two ships then proceed to cripple or sink one another meaning Bismarck doesn't even make it as far as the open North Atlantic, and so no airstrike would have been needed. Britain had since the 1920s planned the use of its carrier aircraft to strike and at least slow down (if not sink) any enemy fast ships to allow the RN capital ships to close and engage. The Bismarck episode was NOT the first time this tactic had worked. Read about the earlier "Battle of Cape Matapan" in the Mediterranean where Fleet air arm aircraft had done the same to the Italian battleship "Vittorio Veneto". The Swordfish was one of the most successful naval attack aircraft of WW2. ALL nationalities aerial torpedoes were of lesser size than their shipborne counterparts.
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  39.  @muttley00  Well I live and learn. My torpedo knowledge is far from encyclopaedic... I have read about US aerial torpedoes but had not spotted the diameter of the Mk XIII. I fired off a rogue line and was found out. Thank you for pointing out my error. Yes the heyday of Torpedo bombers did come and go relatively quickly, and I would not have swapped places with any of their aircrews for all the tea in China. Its rare to find a courteous debater in YT WW2 comments, Thank you for your information. All the best.
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  40. HMS Rodney's armour. Main belt: 14 in (356 mm) Deck: 6.25 in (159 mm) Main turrets: 16 in (406 mm) HMS King George V armour. Main belt: 15 in (380 mm) lower belt: 6 in (150 mm) Deck: 5.6 in (140 mm) Main turrets: 13 in (330 mm) Bismarck armour. Main belt: 12.6 in (320 mm) Deck: 4.7 in (120 mm) Main turrets: 14.2 in (360 mm)
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  41.  @MarkHarrison733  Apart from that being a complete lie, who started "civilian bombing" from the air in the first place? Oh yes it was the Germans bombing the innocent civilians of Liege in August 1914, then the London zeppelin blitz throughout WW1, then widespread murder of innocents by the fledgling luftwaffe's "Kondor Legion" in the Spanish civil war, followed by Weilun, Warsaw, Rotterdam, and various British towns and cities before a SINGLE British bomb had been dropped on Germany.
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  42. Without taking one iota away from the HUGELY courageous young lads who fought in Britain's defence, had the RAF been forced to withdraw from their southern airfields, the Germans would still have had to transport their divisions across the English Channel in slow, towed canal barges in the face of the world's then largest navy.
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  43. Explain this supposed "backstab" for us please?
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  44. Why not follow your own advice?
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  45. Why? has someone "complained" about the Poles?
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  46. When I first read your post I thought "What's this idiot blithering about?"... I then clicked on the timestamp and thought "Jesus H Christ... He's RIGHT !!!". On pausing the frame closer scrutiny shows it to be a barn with a "jerkinhead roof", which as the camera frame pans to follow the overflying RAF fighters does indeed appear as a HUGE dark blue VW beetle parked in the field. Conundrum solved !!!
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  47. @Jeremy-y1t Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!!
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  48. The Mosquito FB Mk. XVIII "Tsetse" (pronounced "tetsy") carried an autoloading 57mm anti tank gun, but it wasn't used for anti tank missions instead being employed against axis shipping especially German U-boats.
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  49. A "Heavy cruiser" with battleship guns and battleship armour.
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  50.  @brianjones5379  Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or of how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or the British west African colonies? Or of how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE. The Commonwealth was in 1940 mostly a distant vocal supporter. The defence of the UK in 1940 was maintained by 95% British troops and citizens. It was another year or so before the commonwealth contribution in Europe REALLY began to kick in.
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