Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. Not in May 1941 she wasn't.
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  2.  @AnikKasumi  At the time the events described in this video took place, Bismarck was the largest operational warship on the planet. It was another 7 months before Yamato took the crown from her.
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  3. Not at the time of these events it wasn't. When Bismarck was patrolling the North Atlantic in May 1941, Yamato was sat in a fitting out basin in Kure shipyards in Japan, without her guns or a large part of her systems fitted. She was commisioned into the IJN in Dec 1941 6 months after these events. Therefore at the time these events took place Bismarck WAS the largest operational battleship in the world.
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  4. That radio message was only a tiny fibre in the sinking of Bismarck. It merely confirmed what the British Admiralty already strongly suspected.
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  5. Tiny details but interesting.
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  6. But they WEREN'T surrendering.
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  7. Yamato wasn't completed at the time all this was happening.
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  8. Germany did not have the shipbuilding capacity (or the finances) to build 12 in a short space of time, and if they had attempted to build more, don't you think the rest of the world's navies would also have massively increased their shipbuilding? Thats why multiple naval treaties were signed internationally throughout the 1920s & 30s to avoid such a naval arms race.
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  9. Same physical dimensions, and virtually identical to Bismarck but slightly heavier due to some changes in her weapon & radar systems.
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  10. Which "war crime"?
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  11. What "clear signal to surrender" was that then?
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  12. Read more......
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  13. It was a tiny, relatively insignificant, though interesting side note. It didn't make the cut in this 9 minute video.
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  14. Amidst all the hullabaloo of the sailors "shouting polish insults while firing pistols" they forgot to use their most potent weapon, that is the 5 x 21in torpedoes that Piorun carried. She was the only destroyer of her flotilla of 5 ships that failed to use them.
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  15. So not much then. This series of videos is a good place to get the salient details.
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  16. Because its a minor unimportant footnote.
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  17. Not at the time of these events it wasn't.
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  18. Neither of which were operational at the time of these events.... if you're going to ignore the chronology, then just jump 80 years after these events and compare Bismarck to USS Gerald R Ford.
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  19. But just a one hour epic. The story of the other 4 RN destroyers in Piorun's flotilla is TRULY epic.
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  20. The three survivors all said that they never saw any other men in the water after the loss of the Hood. HMS Electra, one of the escorting destroyers that hours earlier had been sent north from Hood & PoW to seek out the Bismarck, raced back to the scene of Hood's sinking, with hundreds of blankets, her galley and medical crews working flat out to prepare for a flood of frozen and injured men, and with bowlines ready to haul up hundreds of survivors, arrived to find flotsam and nothing else, after a period of searching, she found the three sailors near to death huddled on a raft.
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  21. Indeed..... 7 months after Bismarck was sunk.
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  22.  @ankitait2  Ah so what we're seeing is your own uninformed personal hatred for the UK... and nothing to do with historical reality. Maybe you'd have preferred rule by nazism with its attendant being herded into gas chambers and all that as opposed to being sold into the slavery of the British aristocracy by your own Mughals and Maharajas. Grow up lad, don't be a clueless child all your life.
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  23. She was in all truthfulness an inconsequential minor footnote in the saga.
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  24. To prevent the same tourist circus and commercial pilfering that has plagued Titanic since its discovery.
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  25. How dare you write 4 RN destroyers completely out of history. ORP Piorun was a member of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla comprised of HMS Cossack, Maori, ORP Piorun, Sikh & Zulu and commanded by Captain Philip Vian, ALL of whom engaged the Bismarck during the night of 26/27th May.
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  26. Why just Piorun? Why not the rest of the destroyer flotilla that kept Bismarck at action stations all night (HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu), whereas Piorun withdrew and lost contact after her hour long gun duel.
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  27. That's what we use.
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  28. How bizarre. Have you had a bad experience with them?
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  29.  @emodarkstalker001weir7  If by "Just begun" you mean 21 months earlier. Silly American song.
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  30. 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 more before the commonwealth contribution in Europe REALLY began to kick in.
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  31.  @rappakalja5295  The colonies played almost no part in the defence of the UK in 1940/41. It's quite simple. Just to detail the commonwealth units in Britain in Sept 1940. The 1st Canadian infantry Division was stationed south of London around the Leatherhead area in Surrey, the 2nd Canadian division at the time was a skeletal force whose poorly equipped subordinate units had only started to arrive in Britain in late august 1940 and was in no condition for combat. Then there was the "2nd Australian Imperial Force" (Australforce) which though nominally comprised of 2 infantry brigades (the 18th & 25th) actually only had the combined strength of a single 8000 man Brigade stationed outside Basingstoke, and finally the "2nd New Zealand Expeditionary force" a grand sounding title that hid the fact that it was comprised of solely the NZ 2nd infantry division which was itself comprised of 2 understrength infantry Brigades (5th & 7th NZ Inf Brigades). Its two understrength brigades were bolstered by the addition of the BRITISH 1st motor machine gun brigade and was stationed near to Maidstone in Kent. By the time of the expected invasion in Sept 1940 the British army was fielding 2 British Armoured divisions 2 British independent Armoured tank brigades 15 British infantry divisions (full strength) 7 British infantry divisions (under strength). 7 British independent infantry Brigades 2 British motor machine gun Brigades 1 Canadian infantry division (full strength) (plus some small under equipped subordinate units of a 2nd division) 1 NZ infantry "division" (actually 2 understrength infantry Brigades but with an attached British motor machine gun brigade) 2 Australian infantry brigades (under strength & unequipped) In addition to these forces were the 1,500,000 million British men of the "Home Guard". As you can see, as well as being the ONLY country being threatened by nazism from July 1940 to April 1941, the defence of the UK was a +95% British affair at this early stage of the war. It was in the following years AFTER 1940 that the size of the British Commonwealth forces in Europe really started to grow. Glad to have been of help in unburdening you of your misunderstanding in regard of this topic.
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  32. She was too busy profitting from both sides.
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  33. Britain: But first let us blow you to smithereens.
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  34. Well, attempting to starve the population of the UK into submission was more of their objective.
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  35. As did the other 4 destroyers of her flotilla, those being HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu.
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  36. Bismarck's crew actually scuttled a 51000 ton mountain of sinking, flaming scrap metal. All guns silenced, her superstructure devastated, her main armour belt broken in several places along her port side, her command staff obliterated, internally aflame from end to end, her stern and port gunwales already underwater, a thousand of her crew dead, and further hundreds of her crew already in the water behind her.... All the scuttling did was to sink her a few minutes earlier than was already happening. In the world of boxing the crew's scuttling efforts are what is known as "throwing in the towel", submission of a boxer when he has been punched senseless by a more skillful & powerful opponent, and only a deluded child would say, "the loser wasn't beaten, he gave in before he was annihilated.", when the truth is the loser had his arse ripped off and handed back to him on a plate. Maybe stick to Roblox... historical accuracy doesn't seem to be your strong point.
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  37. But due to the very short triangulation baseline of the Y service listening stations back in Britain, completely understandable.
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  38. You actually mean Globalist NATO Vs Russia
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  39. Yamato was not fully "made" when this was happening.
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  40. Likewise Bismarck herself 3 days later.
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  41. What 15000 ft under the N Atlantic? Other fairy stories are also available.
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  42. At the time of its sinking Bismarck WAS the largest operational battleship on the planet.
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  43. Other fairy stories are also available.
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  44. U-74 searched the area of the sinking and rescued 3 survivors in a raft at 8 o'clock in the evening (Bismarck had sunk at 10.37 that morning) . The following day 5 u-boats searched the area and found only dead bodies, but at midnight on the 28th (the day after the sinking) the German weather reporting ship "Sachsenwald" spotted a flare and rescued a final 2 sailors in a raft. That area was again searched the following day by the u-boats (and were also joined by a Spanish heavy cruiser the "Canarias"), but no more survivors were found. The rescues were as follows HMS Dorsetshire - 86 (although 1 sailor died the following day from his wounds) HMS Maori - 25 U-74 - 3 Sachsenwald - 2 For a grand total of 116 rescued but 115 survivors. (The wikipedia page is inaccurate on this point, as well as many others).
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  45. "Swordfish, obsolete, garbage and fragile" and yet the "stringbag" finished WW2 with the LARGEST total of enemy shipping sunk by a WW2 naval aircraft.
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  46. Always more difficult to sink something that runs or hides away.
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  47.  @c00lkitty  oh you ARE an enigma, aren't you?
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  48. If by "just begun" you mean 20 months earlier, that's correct.
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  49.  @WillyHWonka  I know..... An american singing using the collective "we" about when the British were fighting for the survival of democracy in Europe, while the Americans sold supplies to BOTH sides of the conflict.
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  50. ORP Piorun "annoyed the Germans" for around 1 hour before losing contact with Bismarck in the darkness, it was the other destroyers of her flotilla (HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu) which harried Bismarck for the WHOLE night.
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