Comments by "Patrick Donnolley" (@ph89787) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1. 14:27 Fun fact: The RAF’s Tiger Force (Bomber command for the Pacific). Would have marked the Lancaster’s deployment to the Pacific theatre.
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  2. Go see the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War. They did an episode of the morality in the use of the bomb.
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  3. Hi Australian here. We’re proud of our service in World War 2. Especially in North Africa and New Guinea in particular.
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  4. Coral sea yes. Midway, no.
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  5. Nice video. One thing you left out that I thought you should have mentioned. Was that Iwo Jima saw the longest round the clock carrier ops of the war. 174 hours of attacks on enemy airfields and shipping by USS Enterprise supported the marines from February 23-March 2. Only to be interrupted by bad weather. The next day operations resumed till March 9 when the USAAF arrived and started using the captured airfields.
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  6. And yet prior to her withdraw, she was able to send one more raid onto Kyushu and Shikoku.
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