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

  1.  @biffdanielson2820  No, just a fact that you're having a problem dealing with.
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  2.  @biffdanielson2820  How far exactly do you imagine Capt Lindemann's jurisdiction over the use of language extended to? Let me give you two possibilities. 1. It extended as far as the crew of the Bismarck? 2. It extended to the whole of the English (or German) speaking world? If I declare that from now on all "cats" are to be referred to as "Bananas", will you abide by my decree? The fact that 99.9% of non-Bismarck crew members refer to her using a female pronoun is confirmed by the crews of HMS KGV & Rodney all shouting "die Bismarck" on the morning of 27th May 1941.
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  3. @ My neighbour's cat is called "Fyffes" (just joking) .
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  4.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Though the yanks did have the best war by happily draining the wealth of all sides, while incurring the lowest national fatalities amonst the major powers.
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  5.  @MNAHN-T.GOF-NN  Please feel free to "challenge" us "bots" to some informed discussion, that is indeed if you have been "informed" at all.
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  6. Tell me again how did Kasserine and Schweinfurt turn out?
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  7.  @dovetonsturdee7033  A Tour de Force as usual, Doveton.
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  8. The Polish contingent did well considering they represented just 7% of Fighter Command.
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  9. In addition to Mr Sturdee's comment above, you can stow the "Britain was saved by American support" nonsense. Due to the fact of US corporations conducting VERY profitable business with BOTH sides of the European war THROUGHOUT WW2, Britain saved ITSELF....... INSPITE of the US as much as it did BECAUSE of the US.
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  10. That's because they are late version Spanish H1112 Buchons powered ironically by RR Merlin / griffin engines.
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  11. What did "the war spark" in Americans? They weren't moved to actually challenge the spread of totalitarianism until it declared war on THEM !!!!
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  12. Actually "Mr (George) Mainwaring"
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  13. The RN had been sporting 9 x 16in guns since 1927.
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  14. Using the rationale of your "All the colonies and their RAW MATERIALS,SLAVE SOLDIERS Specially From INDIA Had Make sure that Britain was not alone against Germany" argument actually means that Britain survived the onslaught of the nazis supported by Italy, the USSR, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Denmark, Norway, the Nertherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Thank you for highlighting the sheer extent of Britain's victory against the assembled economies of all those nations.
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  15.  @matthewmt9148  While celebrating the bravery, skill and success of Polish "Kościuszko" 303 sqd, the top scoring RAF squadron of the battle of Britain, also remember the other nationalities who flew as part of the squadron during the battle and who contributed SO much to its success. Polish "Kościuszko" 303 Sqd total kill tally - 58.5 confirmed kills Squadron commander, Sqd Ldr Ronald Gustave Kellett (British) - 5 confirmed kills "A" Flight commander, Fl Lt John Alexander Kent (Canadian) - 6 confirmed kills "B" Flight commander, Fl Lt Athol Stanhope Forbes (British) - 7 confirmed kills. Sgt pilot Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed Kills. We in the UK remember ALL the pilots (and NOT just the Polish ones).
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  16.  @matthewmt9148  I ponder sometimes how many times the deaths of 460,000 British citizens who were sacrificed in the struggle to topple the nazism that was murdering Poland are EVER highlighted within Polish WW2 documentaries, I'd wager its NEVER mentioned. As opposed to the near constant harping on about Polish bravery and resolve in the west.
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  17. The people of Great Britain stood alone against the onslaught of the full might of the luftwaffe, unless you could please tell us more about the luftwaffe air attacks on Ottawa, Canberra and Delhi?
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  18. I see "Doveton" has handled your incorrect assertion admirably, but I'll just add my usual tuppence worth. Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or the British west African colonies? Or 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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  19.  @antonybarnstormer6285  How would you get the impression I'm in the SLIGHTEST bit "upset"? Who cares what your grandparents thought? My FATHER fought for 6 years in WW2, but what does any of that matter? Please give me some answers to my post above with regards to ANY attacks on the rest of the British Empire & Commonwealth or indeed ANY other nation on earth by the nazis in the time frame of July 1940 to April 1941. Let me save you the trouble, there were NONE. The FACT that on the whole of planet Earth between July 1940 to April 1941 the UK was the ONLY nation that was under attack by the German Wehrmacht means that the well reasoned phrase that "Britain was alone" is well founded. The only thing we may be considered "annoyed" by is the rewriting of history by those who don't have the first inkling of what they're talking about.
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  20.  @MarkHarrison733  Just to correct you Mark, By 1939 British Empire was VERY much still present, but was in the process of loosening the shackles of imperialism somewhat.
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  21.  @ZionIst-liessssss  With a nickname as "zion" I think we can tell what a delusional you are yourself. I well versed in real histroy as opposed to your BS.
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  22. Essex class? Oh you mean like USS Bunker Hill put out of commision for 4 months by a single Japanese kamikazi attack. When the same thing happened THREE TIMES to HMS Victorious and Formidible, they brushed the kamikaze's wreckage "over the side", filled in the dents in their armoured decks, and had aircraft flying off them again within a few hours.
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  23.  @morganhale3434  Superb AA defence (Bunker Hill furiously burning in background). Better to have 54 aircraft temporarily grounded for a few hours than 100 aircraft thousand miles away in Bremerton. Facts are facts.
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  24.  @morganhale3434  The RN and the USN carriers were obviously designed and built for completely different scenarios and strategies in different oceans of the world, the RN was out of its "design envelope" in its fighting in the pacific, but as described above still showed itself to have strengths unheard of in the USN.
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  25. "What is the difference between a guy shooting Russian civilians in the field between the bomber crew killing civilians or "dehouse" them?" I'd say around 20-25 million.
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  26. You've mistakenly used "you" in your sentence when you should say "the corporate globalist politicians the UK has had foisted upon it"
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  27. "destroyed more by her own commanders & crew than by the RN" classic comedy !!!! Hahahaha.
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  28. ​ @ghostbirdlary  Seeing as it's globalist corporations that now direct whats left of the UK national educational curriculum its surprising to find ANY reference to British history in UK "schools" nowadays.
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  29.  @briggsak05  Congratulations.... you must be nearly 100 years old !!!
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  30.  @jorgoasparuhov4131  You do realise that online translators will help you to re-arrange the individual words you've learned into an order that makes grammatical sense.
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  31.  @jorgoasparuhov4131  Dear me they have them in your country too !!!
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  32. As long as if you ever got us back into that globalsit shitshow that YOU give US the vote every 4 years afterwards and don't try to rob the electorate of what they voted for... like you did this time.
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  33. Why what's wrong with it?
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  34. They never managed to do it over the course of the war in the Mediterranean.
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  35. Simple fact is profit margin in war is FAR greater than that in space exploration. Sad and tragic but true.
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  36. Whilst forgetting the RN's KGV's, Nelsons and Vanguard.
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  37. Not in May 1941 it wasn't.
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  38. Akin to saying the football team that got hammered 50 - 1 did well to score 1 goal.
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  39. Hood was LONGER than the Bismarck but Bismarck displaced (weighed) over 5000 tons more with full combat load.
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  40.  @dovetonsturdee7033  Fancy seeing you here, Dove!!! If you want something to "get your teeth into" try these two... I've been battling off ignorance left right and centre on these threads. https://youtu.be/Af4ut8eGCe4 https://youtu.be/7rMPLEAzbHI
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  41. If reputation is the deciding factor then HMS Hood must be the champion because read ANY survivor account of the battle of Denmark strait and you will see that when it became apparent that they were facing HMS Hood they were deeply concerned.... as Burkhard Mullenheim-Rechberg (Bismarck's senior ranking survivor) said himself HMS Hood had been the most awe inspiring practice enemy in all his prewar and pre Rhineübung gunnery training.
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  42. They also needed control of the seas around Britain, which they never had a snowball in hells chance of achieving.
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  43. Why where did the "REAL" sea battles take place? (need I ask....)
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  44.  @anouarben779  Mark is COMPLETELY oblivious that he lives in a society where he can freely talk such unmitigated nonsense. If he naively spoke such BS under the regime of his political heroes he would end up as a pile of ashes in one of their death camps he so eagerly supports. The boy has NO idea.
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  45.  @t.l.1610  So the 150 divisions of the French army were beaten because of the 10 divisions of the BEF? IT was the French army that lost the battle, and the BEF was forced to retreat because of their failure on their right and because of the surrender of the Belgian forces on their left.
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  46. Vertel my asseblief van die luftwaffe-lugaanvalle op Australië, Kanada, Indië, Nieu-Seeland en Suid-Afrika en hoe hulle almal bedreig is met inval deur die Wehrmacht. Ag dis reg... hulle was hulle nie? Dit was slegs Brittanje ALLEEN wat !!!
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  47. In the English speaking world ships have been referred to using the feminine pronoun for over a millenia. No need to thank me for preventing you from labouring under a burden of ignorance in future.
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  48. No sea lion WOULD HAVE failed because the Germans had nothing to protect themselves from the world's then largest navy. As it was it was a non starter due to the Luftwaffe failing miserably in its effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command.
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  49. Glad you realise it at last.
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  50. There is one sole surviving member of "the Few"..... that is Flying Officer John "Paddy" Hemingway who flew spitfires with 85 and 253 Squadrons during the battle of Britain. Today he is 105 years old and now lives quietly in sheltered accomodation in Dublin Ireland.
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