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

  1. The British actor Robert Powell.... best known for his portrayal of Jesus in the 1970 TV epic series "Jesus of Nazareth".
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  2.  @MyTv-  And You too !!! Best wishes from the UK. 👍👍👍
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  3. "Allied aerial bombing had little effect on any of this"... that's NOT what Albert Speer thought.
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  4. Nonsense.... please detail how you believe that would have happened?
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  5.  @PDZ1122  Sad wehraboo, trying to make out the battle was equal. Or Course it wasn't equal, the RAF were FAR superior to the luftwaffe, inspite of being outnumbered in the defence of Britain by a margin of 4 luftwaffe aircraft to every 1 RAF fighter.
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  6. No "they had to use so mnay" because they were looking for a needle in a 41,000,000 square mile North Atlantic haystack. After she had been stopped from running away just 2 battleships and cruisers tore her to pieces. Both the KGV class and Nelson class were both better armed and armoured.
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  7.  @philliphogg2329  I'll spell it out for you again... after she had been stopped from running away, Bismarck was completely dismantled in 30 minutes by just 2 battleships and 2 cruisers, with just one of the battleships, HMS Rodney, doing the majority of the damage.
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  8. An escaped gunman, sniping at tourists stalks the Rocky mountains. How many "state troopers" is it gonna require to bring him down? Needing a thousand feet on the ground doesn't mean the gunmans a giant that needs 500 men to fell him, Only that he's hiding in a vast wilderness. Just 2 RN battleships and 2 cruisers ripped Bismarck apart.
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  9.  @glennpickard2239  I do NOT mean to diminish the courage and resolve of our Commonwealth compatriots, Britain was the "mother country" of a vast empire who all gave their best in the fight against tyranny. We are all stronger together. All the best.
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  10.  @charlescoleman4017  Your grasp of English comprehension is top flight Charles, commenters of less rigorous logic and comprehension (as well as the many programmed lefty "Brit haters") either cannot or choose not to understand. One category deserves our help, the other, our contempt. I have NEVER diminished the contribution of other nationalities (indeed even though I am obviously a Brit I had a Canadian 1st cousin from Golden, BC who as a tank driver in the 28th Canadian armd regt was killed during "Operation Totalise" on 8th August 1944) and I am aware of the massive contribution towards the security of the UK's "Atlantic lifeline" that the Royal Canadian Navy provided together with the RCAF and its part in the air war and the BCATP as well as Canada's unending supply of resources, and will argue till I'm blue in the face in defence of their honour and service they provided, but I REFUSE to see the stoicism and resolve of the British general public be diminished or mocked without challenge. Likewise the Poles, Aussies, Kiwis, Indians, Czechs and Free forces etc, EACH deserve the honour, recognition and credit for their own war effort & war dead... but I won't see it done by misrepresenting what the British public went through, including the >450,000 British citizens whose lives were lost in opposition to fascism & Japanese militarism... NOT that that was your purpose.... but for PLENTY of others it is. All the best Charles.
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  11.  @charlescoleman4017  🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 "Up the Canucks" 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 💩💩💩"Down with "justin" and his lefty globalist cabal" 💩💩💩 P.S Charles, I forgot to ask... Are you REALLY trudging through Canadian snow while on a postal round, while responding? If So, TOP salute to you, the tenacity of you Canadians STILL burns bright (just get those puppets out of office please... we're TRYING to do the same over here) All the best, 👍
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  12. Not for the more intelligent who DON'T watch on a phone, tablet or TV.
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  13. They played their part, as did others. We thank them.
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  14. How ridiculous old chap.
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  15. As a small aside regarding Mr Flowers, post WW2 when he was released from his service in GC & CS, he applied to his bank manager for a business loan to start his own company producing business computing machines. His bank manager refused the loan as he believed Tommy's ideas were science fiction, little did he know of Mr Flowers position in history of having designed the world's first electronic programmable computer and Tommy, whose hands were tied by the Official Secrets Act, was not able to relate to his bank manager his world leading experience in the field of computing electronics.
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  16. More wehraboo fantasy nonsense.
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  17. There is currently a Ju87 being restored to airworthy condition in the USA. Now imagine THAT in future arriving at your nearest air show to carry out a simulated dive bombing run from 8000 ft with its' "Jericho trumpet" screaming.
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  18. Tough, I hate lefties, but have to put up with their CONTANT divisive whinging. Looks like you'll have to do the same.
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  19.  @MarkHarrison733  If that was the case (which it isn't) then why had US business interests FEVERISHLY been investing MILLIONS into their German subsiduary businesses from 1930 onwards Mark?
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  20. Well said Allan.
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  21.  @shootfirst2097  "The RN would have been easy pickings like the Repulse and the PoW". The difference being that the Japanese responsible for those sinkings had developed both the aircraft and doctrines as well as the training and experience of her naval aircrews to attack shipping, after having taken their lead from the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during the interwar period. The nazis on the other hand had NONE of that expertise and a distinct lack of success against the Royal Navy, with the largest RN ship sunk by the lufwaffe being a single RN light cruiser... and that was in the CAULDRON of the Mediterranean, that enclosed sea surrounded by hostile forces that he Royal Navy operated in against the combined might of the German AND Italian navies and air forces.
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  22. First RAF bombs on Germany Mar 1940 First German bombs on Britain Oct 1939. You're WRONG again Mark.
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  23. There was a section of the German Abwehr (Military Intelligence) called "B-Dienst" whose role it was to listen to the electronic airwaves, in an effort to intercept & decode any enemy radio transmissions such as Royal Naval signals, and pass such information to the German naval high command for transmission to its ships at sea (what modern armed forces call SIGINT, or "SIGnals INTelligence"). B-dienst completely failed during "Exercise Rhine" to gave Lütjens in Bismarck ANY warning of the approach of Hood / PoW this was due to the RN's awareness for radio silence (Something Lütjens himself seemed totally oblivious to). After the engagement at Denmark Strait, Lütjens was made painfully aware of the Royal Navy being fully aware and prepared for operation Rhineübung, whilst at the same time he was completely blind to the disposition of the rest of the RN's capital ships in the north Atlantic. So as well as not having the necessary speed to engage the withdrawing PoW due to the damage that PoW had inflicted on her, Lütjens was too frightened to chase PoW eastwards as he knew that there was liable to be more RN heavy units unknown to him, racing to support PoW from the direction of Scapa flow.
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  24.  @THINKincessantly  If you look at the gunnery stats for the 4 participants of the Denmark Strait engagement, 3 of the ships all had hit ratios in the region of 4-6% of rounds fired. (Apart from Hood who wasted all her spotting salvoes on the wrong target before attempting to redirect onto Bismarck).
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  25. A few scattered nuisance raids are not strategic bombing, merely a face saving exercise on behalf of the nazis.
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  26.  @tophat2115  But they're not "lumped in" usually try this for example..... https://youtu.be/dmsXyJgzk-8?t=7844 and where did you get Adolph "Sailor" Malan's ridicuous kill Tally of 38? That was the TOTAL kill tally for 74 Sqd of which Malan was Squadron leader. If you've utterly NO IDEA of what you're talking about,why come spouting rubbish instead?
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  27. I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle. Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1))
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  28. Not even a mention of Bob Stanford-Tuck or James Brindley Nicolson VC DFC
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  29. And without the base of the UK with which to build up the required infrstructure of the invasion ALL the industrial output in the world would not have liberated Europe.
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  30. Not at all.. feared for what she could do not just in the direct sinking of merchant ships, but the disruption she could inflict to the convoy system as a whole. Though due mainly to the efforts of the RN it never came to pass.
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  31. Nah... we can ALL do without you.
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  32. Like most nations of the west, rotted from within and now dragged down and intentionally mismanaged by corrupted globalist puppets posing as the "UK Government".
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  33. More so an indictment of the gullibility of the public.... they're still thick as mince to this very day.
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  34. Sorry... let me correct you post..... please remove the "s" from the end of "ships".
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  35. And NEITHER of which was operational during the very short career of Bismarck.
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  36. If you'd like an individual example of the esteem with which HMS Hood was held by other nations, look no further than the account of Baron Burkhard von Mullenheim-Rechberg, the senior ranking survivor of Bismarck, and her 4th gunnery officer, here's an excerpt of his account of the start of the battle of Denmark Strait. "The British ships were turning slightly to port, the lead ship showing an extremely long forecastle and two heavy twin turrets. On the telephone I heard Albrecht shout, "The HOOD...... it's the HOOD!" (his capitalisation), It was an unforgettable moment. There she was, the famous warship, once the largest in the world, that had been the "terror" of so many of our war games." Later he made these remarks following Hood's demise.... "At first the Hood was nowhere to be seen: in her place was a colossal pillar of black smoke reaching into the sky. Gradually at the foot of the pillar, I made out the bow of the battle cruiser projecting upwards at an angle, a sure sign that she had broken in two. Then I saw something I could hardly believe: A flash of orange coming from her forward guns! Although her fighting days had ended, the Hood was firing a last salvo. I felt a great respect for those men over there" Sounds as if the Kriegsmarine and her gunnery experts were more impressed by HMS Hood than you appear to be.
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  37. I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the two pilots from the Caribbean were both of white British descent).
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  38. Which bias would you prefer? Globalist?
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  39. Instead of watching on a TV, phone or tablet watch instead on a computer with an adblocker installed. Ah... bliss !!!!
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  40. No he didn't. All ships are customarily referred to using the feminine pronoun in both the English and German languages. Capt Ernst Lindemann ordered that Bismarck's crew referred to her using the male pronoun.... he had NO juridiction beyond Bismarck's complement.
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  41.  @buddermastr  Re-read my reply above.
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  42. No they didn't !!! We fought to prevent death camps in the Cotswolds and einsatzgruppen from stalking the shires.
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  43.  @JamesRichards-mj9kw  First German bombs on the UK dropped on 16th Oct 1939 First RAF bopmbs dropped on German 13th March 1940.
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  44.  @JamesRichards-mj9kw  Where did they bomb James?
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  45. Aren't people naughty, duplicitous and mischevious? Neutral Sweden, like Switzerland and the US offered their services to ANYONE who they pleased.
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  46.  @wolfgangholtzclaw2637  I've never been in combat, but lost any illusions of war being glorious or exciting at a relatively early age, as my father served right through WW2 in the Royal Navy, witnessed Bismarck's final battle, survived the sinking of his ship in the Indian ocean in 1942 by Japanese dive bombers, and was nearly killed aboard HMS Warspite when it was hit by "Fritz X" guided bombs at Salerno in 1943. We lived through our childhood, with his terrible (and unexplained to us kids) mood swings. It was only as we all got older and he started to tell us of some of his awful experiences during the war that we grew to appreciate the toll such experiences took on him, It is easy to see now as an older person looking back that he indeed suffered for much of his life with what is now known as PTSD without ANY support at all.
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  47.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Methinks you're wasting your time on a clueless flat-earther. Personally I'd leave him to fall of the edge.
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  48. Please don't waste our time.. try this instead. 1. Get a pair of decent binoculars. 2. Wait for a clear day. 3. Go to your nearest port city. 4. Sit on the beach for a few hours and observe the horizon through your "decent binoculars". 5. Observe the mast tips, or funnel smoke of approaching shipping coming to harbour gradually appear over the horizon. 6. Work out why, on a clear day, you don't see the complete hull of the ship gradually appearing out of the earth's atmosphere. 7. Become enlightnened. @OnNativeLand 
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  49. Not in May 1941 she didn't.
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  50. "She" is customary for the English speaking world, as is proven by Lindemann having to declare that Bismark's crew should refer to her as "he". You weren't part of Bismarck's crew were you? Also Bismarck is customarily referred to as "Die Bismarck" in Germany (feminine) and NOT "Der Bismarck" (masculine).
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