Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "Historigraph" channel.

  1. Respects to your own service Rob.
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  2. Sincerest respects to his service, sacrifice and memory.
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  3. Keep those letters safe Nikki, they are important historical documents. If you decide they need a proper home, then the imperial war museum will archive them if you contact them in future.
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  4. Must be awful to have your uninformed delusions burst !!!
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  5. Remember.... "If at first you don't succeed, deny ALL evidence that you ever attempted it in the first place".
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  6. Read about Capt Gerard Broadmead Roope RN.
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  7. A VERY costly diversion. with close to 2000 Luftwaffe aircraft, and a LARGE proportion of Germany's prewar "experten" aircrews permanently removed from the nazi order of battle.
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  8. Thats a high density of complete fantasy nonsense in one post.. Well done. Now go and polish your Hitler Youth dagger before bedtime, you've got school in the morning.
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  9.  @nomooon  You mean like at Dunkirk? where the Luftwaffe PROMISED to prevent the escape of the allied forces back to the UK? The English channel was PACKED full of RN warships and civilian passenger ships and yet the Germans only managed to sink FOUR RN destroyers, and 338,000 allied troops were evacuated back to the UK? Oh THAT "easily takes care of ships".
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  10. Ahh... the nazi version of "Fantasy Island".... "Look boss !!! The Plane the Plane!!!" Sounds like you nearly had a wargasm by the end of that nonsense !!!
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  11. Please explain how the Germans navy consisting of several dug out canoes and two coracles was going to clear and maintain a secure crossing in the face of the world's largest navy? Before you make the weak argument that the Luftwaffe would have "taken care" of the RN, I suggest you look at how it performed at the end of May 1940 when Goering ASSURED Hitler that his Luftwaffe alone would prevent the evacuation of the forces surrounded in the Dunkirk pocket. What was the result of that promise? 338,000 troops evacuated and a loss of just FOUR RN destroyers in an English channel that was chock-a-block with RN warships.
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  12. The reason none of what you say above is reported is because it's ALL COMPLETE NONSENSE !!! Also it was Warspite's hit on Guilio Cesare at 26km that is regarded as one of the longest ranged hits in naval gunnery history.
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  13. How very uninformed you are.
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  14. They also fail to realise that Britain wasn't at war with the Japanese in 1940 (and most of 1941) and so were not losing ANY ships to the IJN. The normal argument by clueless wehraboos is that the Luftwaffe would have "wiped out" the RN had it tried to intervene in "Sealion". You then have to point out to them that Hermann Goering promised Hitler that the Luftwaffe would single handedly prevent the escape of the BEF from north Eastern France in May 1940, and that inspite of the English channel being chock-a-block with British and French warships, the Luftwaffe managed to sink only FOUR RN destroyers (with 2 others being accounted for by a kriegsmarine s-boat and a u-boat), and thankfully permitted the escape of 338,000 allied troops.
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  15. There was no general assault on the whole of the RAF. The avowed aim WAS indeed to push the RAF back north of the Thames to allow air superiority over the channel. Apart from the single, easily repulsed, attack of Luftflotte 5 from Denmark/Norway the entire rest of the air assault in summer 1940 was against the south of England.
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  16. No it didn't.... there was FAR more British ships rescuing over 100,000 French troops from within the Dunkirk perimeter.
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  17. Respects.
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  18.  @lieutenantgoose6969  Don't try to justify your poor judgement Logan, We've all talked embarrasing shit when we were kids. Take ownership of the fact that you talked shit, remember somethings make a better subject for humour than others, and develop your sense of judgement for the future. All the best.
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  19. Same as HMS Warspite on Guillio Cesare.
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  20.  @nomooon  Absolutely. The Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm had been the pioneers of naval aviation for 20 years before WW2, and had developed great skill in the practice of naval air power. Indeed in the 1920s the British had trained the Japanese pilots of the Imperial Japanese Navy (Japan at that time still had friendly relations with Britain and the west). The Luftwaffe was primarily a tactical support force for the German army, and had almost NO experience in naval aviation. It took until 1942 for the luftwaffe to develop the ability to air launch a torpedo. With regards to Operation Sealion, the Germans in reality had utterly NO chance of successfully invading the UK. They initially hoped that after the fall of France that Britain would sue for peace, and allow Germany a free hand in Europe. When they realised that Britain wouldn't surrender they attempted to bully and intimidate the British into surrender, but the British called their bluff, and the nazis then decided to quickly knock the soviet union out, hoping to return to finish off the UK afterwards, but in doing so subjected themselves to a prolonged "two front war". All the best.
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  21. Individual cases of honourable treatment of enemy combattants exist within ALL nations. When HMS Dorsetshire picked up 86 Bismarck survivors after it's sinking on 27th May 1941, one of the men rescued was seriously injured, and sadly died on the operating table in the ship's medical bay that evening. The following day, 28th May 1941, on a bleak, steely grey North Atlantic morning, the unfortunate sailor, his body draped in a flag of the German Imperial navy (as there was no swastika flag in the ship's flag lockers, the old imperial German flag was substituted with the permission of the senior ranking German survivor), he was then "committed to the deep" from the deck of HMS Dorsetshire with full military honours provided by both his German colleagues AND Royal Navy sailors of HMS Dorsetshire, complete with a Royal Marine armed guard of honour and a bugler for "the last post"..... this was just 3 days after the sinking of HMS Hood with the loss of 1415 British lives. Sailors of all nations generally share a brotherhood that is largely unknown in land and air forces.
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  22. Computer games do indeed seem to be the basis of many commenters opinions of the strategies employed during WW2.
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  23. A great post by Ian above, I'd just like to add that soon after the Dunkirk evacuation the vast majority of French troops that had been evacuated to the UK (~100,000) were quickly shipped back to France via the Normandy, Brittany and French Atlantic ports, to rejoin the fighting to the south of the German's "Ardennes thrust", though the armistice was signed between the French and Germans before most of those repatriated French troops were redeployed. The second evacuation that Ian alludes to was named "Operation Aerial". This as well as evacuating troops and a large number of civilians also managed to re-embark a fair amount of British supplies and equipment to be taken back to the UK. Most of the second evacuations also took place at the same Normandy, Brittany and Atlantic ports that I mentioned above. During the evacuation of British troops from the French port of St Nazaire on 17th June 1940 a British troopship, the requisitioned "RMS Lancastria", was taking onboard thousands of evacuees when it was attacked in the Loire estuary by luftwaffe bombers. It was hit by a number of bombs, and sank within 15-20 minutes, resulting in the deaths of 6000 - 7500 people (The accurate figure will never be known due to the chaos of the events and the resultant lack of boarding documentation). It was the largest single loss of life in a shipwreck in history at the time it happened by a LONG chalk, but is almost completely unknown today.... unlike the later losses of the German ships "KDF Wilhelm Gustloff", "M.V Goya", "S.S General von Steuben" and "S.S Cap Arcona" which are regularly covered by contemporary history books and programs.
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  24.  @dovetonsturdee7033  The delusional sealion award is as highly contested as ever. It's always bemusing to see ignorance being doubled down upon. Thank you for typing in such a fulsome reply, it saved me the time.
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  25.  @dovetonsturdee7033  I've not had a cannonade like this one for a while. It used to be Bismarck that was the battleground, but I think that those amongst us with more knowledge on the subject have turned the tide of that particular YT battle. My other current favourite hunting ground nowadays is UK - Polish WW2 matters. Although I have just penned a shortish but pointed jab at US D-Day jingoism that's proved to be quite a productive bait when posted on various US centric D-Day threads. Keep up the good work as ever.
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  26. So he just decided to smash the creme of his air force against Britain "for a laugh"?
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  27. An old Norman name meaning "from the town of Ouilly" or D'Ouilly which over time became D'Oyly
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  28. It couldn't. But the THREAT of invasion was a VERY potent force in focussing the mind of the nation.
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  29.  @bluephoenix8470  On what planet would Blücher have been an even match for Warspite?
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  30. Just save yourself the typing and say " I hate Britain"... its less boring.
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  31. Respects to his memory, as well as the hundreds of thousands of other victims.
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  32. Unlike the US and Japan the Royal Navy had a FAR greater area of the world's oceans to cover than the Japanese or US did. The RN fought in the Arctic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian Oceans protecting the wide spread of her imperial colonies trade routes on external lines of communication & supply. The IJN on the other hand controlled the western Pacific on internal lines of communications & supply. The ONLY time it attempted to extend itself beyond that area of operations (The Indian Ocean raid discussed here) it immediately found itself over extended and was forced to withdraw back towards its home islands. The USN confined the vast majority of its efforts to the Pacific.... being too frightened to send its paper bag aircraft carriers into the Mediterranean where they would not have lasted 1 month, and which the RN operated its carrier fleet in uninterupted for 6 years.
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  33.  @gwine9087  You mean the British who won the LARGEST land empire in human history? oh THOSE British......
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  34. You seem ignorant of the world's then largest & most powerful navy (the British Royal Navy) that was guarding its shores.
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  35. Unlike the US and Japan the Royal Navy had a FAR greater area of the world's oceans to cover than the Japanese or US did. The RN fought in the Arctic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian Oceans protecting the wide spread of her imperial colonies trade routes on external lines of communication & supply. The IJN on the other hand controlled the western Pacific on internal lines of communications & supply. The ONLY time it attempted to extend itself beyond that area of operations (The Indian Ocean raid discussed here) it immediately found itself over extended and was forced to withdraw back towards its home islands. The USN confined the vast majority of its efforts to the Pacific.
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  36. Yes the British population were clamouring for nazi death camps in the Cotswolds, Pennines and Scottish highlands.
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  37.  @kimj2570  Completely missing the point of my previous reply. I HEARTILY applaud the admirable courage and selfless sacrifice of Capt Fegen and his crew. But you have taken the opinion of one Russian person and without any evidence projected it into the entirety of the Russian people. Just saying.
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  38.  @lilboy3102  Lots of things that should've been done during the war were not done for various reasons. The next nearest refuelling base for the RN in the Indian Ocean was the secret forward base at Addu Atoll in the Maldives, it did not possess the capacity to replenish the entire RN Eastern Fleet at short notice and so the high speed heavy cruisers were directed to Colombo and then to return to the rest of the fleet. Remember that the events at the time, shrouded in the "fog of war" and without hindsight were far from as clear cut as described in YT videos.
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  39.  @druisteen  There was no mention of the French Navy "surrendering" to the British.
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  40. If only we could have emulated Gen Fredenhall at Kasserine pass....Force Z was meant to include the RN aircraft carrier Indomitable, which was unable to reach Asia in time having run into a reef in the Carribean. It would have been nice to have the option to hold on for a couple of months to arrange a replacement, but when the enemy is at your doorstep you have to work with what is available. The real error was poor use (or lack thereof) of the sparse British land based air forces.
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  41. Think you'll find it was Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine who sucked on Royal Navy lead the vast majority of times they met.
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  42.  @mikemines2931  If that's the case then why did he authorise the "Z-plan" navy that he hoped to have in place in the mid to late 1940s?
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  43.  @dovetonsturdee7033  I spotted the initial comment and wondered "I wonder whose comments will be below contesting this post"? Saved me the trouble. Well done Admiral.
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  44. The Germans themselves called "the twins" Schlachtschiff, as they sported battleship armour, superior in some respects to that on the Bismarck class, and they were eventually intended to be upgraded with 15in guns... which never happened. It was the British who classed them as "battlecruisers", so both names are correct.
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  45. Similar to France? Are you sure? Inexperienced British & Australians troops in a totally alien environment, thousands of miles away from their homeland is "similar" to Petain handing the "Front door key" to Paris to Hitler? Shurely you jest !!!
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  46.  @bazmondo  Well Jake, maybe, just maybe, if they read our responses it'll help them some of the way along that road to enlightenment. All the best.
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  47. Best thing that happened to the world more like :)
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  48. Jesus you hjave the gobby Americans in these threads as well saying how they saved the world.... is it any wonder the US is becoming the most hated nation in the world.
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  49.  @rajesrecipe2492  Things are so much clearer 80 years after the event with hindsight and without the "fog of war".
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  50.  @iansneddon2956  Rather annoyingly Ian, my first response is now not showing to me in the thread above. Did I not specify that only 4 RN destroyers were lost to the Luftwaffe during the evacuation with two others lost to S & U boat attack?
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