Comments by "Iain Mc" (@iainmc9859) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. I sometime glibly criticise the Yanks, 'Over paid, over sexed and over here' etc but when you come up with the Real McCoy, like this gentleman then you realise how invaluable they were to finishing the war. Looking forwards to the next story of this everyday hero.
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  2. There is a medical reason as well. It puts a bung in diarrhoea. Just thought you might like to know that 😊
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  3. Probably worth a visit to Fairfield Heritage Centre, Govan, if you're ever in Glasgow. They've obviously amassed more primary sources than they could ever possibly display in a museum dedicated to shipbuilding.
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  4. I was going to say, a bloody cheek just calling Edinburgh a town, unless they're just referring to the 'Old Town'. It makes sense if they were co-nominal with US towns.
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  5.  @hadrenrailway9971  Is there a red wobbly line under your name of the Scottish capital ?
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  6. Hey, a classical reference - good man !
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  7. Romanes Eunt Domus. What did the Roman's ever give us ? .... we'll now you come to mention it, gold, so we stopped killing them ... for a bit ! I live north of the short lived Antonine Wall.
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  8. There's a torpedo boat usually moored in Bowling Marina (near Dumbarton). I think its a British MTB but its painted up in Imperial German Navy colours and flag (no swastikas).
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  9. You know I've always wondered why that was; thanks for the enlightenment !
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  10.  @jimtaylor294  Aye, keep the salt for ya porridge !
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  11. Hang on ... Stalin gave ships back. How did Attlee swing that one ?
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  12. I preface this by saying I effectively know nothing about the Austro-Hungarian Empire in this period. What I'm wondering is what resources came from overseas to the AHE that these ships were designed to protect and would the money simply have been better spent on landbound defences on the Adriatic coast. Simply put, was this just a vanity project by another old empire limping along.
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  13.  @bluelemming5296  Thanks for that, but essentially by mid WWI none of the trade/ports that the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica lists that Trieste was engaged in trading for/with was any longer available to them. If there was any northern Levant trade presumably that would have been through Ottoman territory. Thus we're thrown back on protecting the Croatian coast from Italian/British/French landings, which is still probably easier and more cheaply done by big guns around the deep water ports and lesser sized guns along shallow beaches. I suppose that if you flip it AH were maybe thinking about the use of the battleships offensively rather than in purely defensive terms, but by this point of the war that's probably semi-delusional. As I said I know diddly squat about AHE by this point (my period is really C17/18th) but I feel seagoing battleships is somewhat financial overkill.
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  14.  @bluelemming5296  Yeah, I sort of missed that point ... they were battleships on paper only 😐
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  15. Interesting to see it by drone. I used to teach re-enactment swordsmanship then moved over to HEMA but due to the hell for leather, I'm not going to get harmed by several bashes with all this protection on I'll just motor on attitude I dropped HEMA and took up Aikido before I got too old and slow. I guess its the difference between Rugby and American Football.
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  16. Funny how 'waves' pop up on the same day on different channels, that have no apparent connection. The other channel was discussing if gravitational waves interfere with each other at the quantum level, in relation particularly to binary neutron stars (the short answer is Yes), although they described interference as constructive and de-constructive. Oddly enough, the quantum physics seemed so much easier to understand than the naval stuff ... but theory is always simpler than practice 🤔
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  17. Maybe a one off collaboration, 'Navigation by the Stars'. Drach and Becky on one screen 😁 @gbcb8853 
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  18. Technically Australasia is a continent, Australia, New Zealand etc etc, so I suppose you could call Australia a sub-continent; although I've only really heard it in reference to the Indian sub-continent, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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  19. Yeah, the great Roman War Machine that wins battles and then retreats because it can't hold the ground. Still happens today, militarily superior nations that finds the population doesn't accept their presence. Afghanistan is the prime example. @thomasbaker6563 
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  20. 😊😁😂🤣 @zeedub8560 
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  21.  @hadrenrailway9971  That's cheating 😆
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  22.  @CorePathway  I understand where you are coming from. I believe the U.S. only came into the war due to Pearl Harbor. Japan was an ally of Germany and Germany declared war on the U.S. Whether the U.S. should have entered the war beforehand I think you have to consider the terrible evil of Fascist regimes across occupied Europe (and within Germany itself) and the resultant political and economic turmoil, that the U.S. could not cushion itself from. Personally, I'm with Rooseveldt, it was necessity and if you'd come in earlier the war would have been shorter and less bloody. I'm sorry for the loss of life of U.S. citizens but the war would have come to the U.S. mainland eventually. Military regimes don't stop until somebody, hopefully Democracies, stop them. I'm not a fan of Churchill or the posh entitled class either ... but he was better than his predecessor in an ongoing war. Britain did remove him immediately afterwards and had a much more progressive government.
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  23. Yeah, not Atlee's finest moment; but they did give the civilized world the National Health Service.
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