Comments by "Adam Bainbridge" (@AdamMGTF) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Used throughout the war. I've read of accounts as early as 1939 in one of Hastings books. Obviously long before there was a pacific theatre,šŸ˜‚
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  2. Wasn't that ages ago? Tank fest?
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  3. To all those complaining about the pronunciation of New Orleans... An understandable and I hope forgiveable mistake. We English can barely agree on how to pronounce most of our own place names (let alone foreign ones). It varies massively based on accent, geography and history of each area and each "clan"* of people. I know a lot of my friends from around the world (especially Europe and the US. Less so Aus/NZ) really don't get this about us... So let me share a brief example to highlight what I'm on about. In my area there is a village who's name is pronounced coopen with a shortened en sound on the end. So almost cooopn as we really enunceate the oo sound in the north east (especially on the coast). Anywhere else in the country it would no doubt be pronounced how it's spelt Cowpen or maybe c-aow-pen. Other parts of England would say it k-oh-pen with a k rather than a c sound and a oh rather than oo. Proof the English language is indeed a massive muddle. Especially in England herself! Miss pronouncing a place name half a world away I hope really is forgivable.
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  4. Ā @kmech3rdĀ  in English it's soothing. In Welsh or Scots it is much less so! But that may be my English ancestors genes speaking!
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  5. Taranto and PH have been compared across the decades. But it's hardly a fair comparison. The size of the attacking force. The means of attack. And the time of attack are all very different. Also the Italians were at war and knew the rn had carriers. The rn was at war. Knew the Italians knew they had carriers and of course didn't care lol. The USA was still not technically at war in either Ocean. Yes the war has been raging from 39, through 40 and now to the end of 41. But there is very little reason for 99.9% of us personal to expect an attack on the morning of the 7th any more than they did the morning of the 6th. The .1% is arguable. A comparison video would be really interesting. Especially to see the Italian response Vs the American response in terms of salvage. But I daresay most keyboard historians will forget that one case involved 2 navy's who'd been at war for some time in a compact thatre And the other was two nations at peace in the world's largest ocean
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  6. HMS Agamemnon. Not only a fighting ship. She survived being holed more times than a good course and became Nelsons ā€œfavouriteā€ ship
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  7. Ā @sarjim4381Ā  thanks for this little nugget. I'm in the process of re-watching all Drachs videos again. Because... There is no because. Anyway (bare with me. There's a point here somewhere). While doing so, I'm also reading comments. Something I rarely do on YouTube (I'm an oddball these days. I don't have social media. Short of a FB account I use only for messenger). At 32 years old my phone's an annoyance. So I'm an oddity there. Right! My point. Yes there is one. Honest. Your little tidbits of information in the comments of various videos are absolutely excellent. I'd consider myself a bit of a history nerd. And you blow me away with some of the "forgotten" stories your sharing. So I'd, very much like to thank you. And...... I Just wonder how good it'd be for Drach' to do a special video where he pulls some of the best 'shared histories' from the comments... Something I'll be asking him in his next 'tagged Q&A' (I don't know how to tag him in this!). I know the poor chap has a to-do list that's never ending. But still, I dare say a few of us could do the leg work to help him out. ....side note.... Stories like this really do show how commited the US was to the conflict prior to Pearl Harbor. Something many people really would do better to understand. I'm English and it does irk me somewhat when people start prattleing on about the Americans joining WW2 after "we" had been fighting for over 2 years. Roosevelt* really was the Ace in the hand of every man, woman and child who were committed to battling Nazism. End of. *And the brave US servicemen who followed him of course.
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  8. Doubt youā€™ll see this drach but.... 5 years? It seems like 5 moments. From robot voice to today. Your the only channel I follow like a soap opera... except your informative and entertaining.... I can claim to understand some of the memes as I donā€™t use social medial. But the Seymour/in flags had me in tears. Sarjim...if your still watching, hope your well.
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  9. This is one of my huge bug bears. Case in point to anyone wanting to argue X way of saying something over y..... Please say "Birmingham" out loud. Was it said as a native of Birmingham? If so then was it the one in Alabama, the one in the English Midlands or one elsewhere? Or if not said as a native. Did you say it as most would in your country? Because as an Englishman I can tell you. 90% of the country does not say Birmingham as would someone living in/coming from Birmingham. That is Birmingham in England. Of course we don't say it how a native of Birmingham Alabama would. And would a native of Washington state, new England, California or Florida say Birmingham how natives of Birmingham say it? If so. Natives of which Birmingham. In short. We live in the age of the internet and international communication. If the speaker communicates that which they intend. What is the benefits of arguing linguistic nuances? Especially when this is largely done over the internet using the written and not spoken word!
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  10. Ā @bkjeong4302Ā  but that's with the benafit of hindsight. War isn't like that. If the RN knew the Germanz were going to keep their large ships in Norway and the baltic then they could have sent every ship to fight Japan, because they would also know Italy would surrender and change sides. Saying the cambletown raid was a waste because the dock wasn't used is like saying that dieppe was a waste because it was a failure and that the hold out at tobruk was pointless as it would be liberated and then surrendered anyway. In the first case. Failure taught lessons. In the second. Again, they couldn't see the future. These plans were put in place for very good reasons by the most intelligent minds of a generation. They did so because they did not know the future in the way we know the past. Not understanding that is a huge failure for anyone trying to understand history
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  11. Bk Jeong again, thatā€™s all hindsight. The RN had the same attitude all militaryā€™s tend to have in war at the time. Hope for the best. Plan for and expect the worse. The war had hardly gone well for the allies at the start. As for big gun ships being obsolete. No, they were not. Iā€™m not a ā€œbattle ships are cool so they ruleā€ person. But there was no indication in the early war that the big gun battle ship and its 700 year reign was over. There had been successes of air power. And of submarines just like at the start of ww1 when the Germans sank 3 armoured cruisers. But in ww1 the threats to big gun ships had been acknowledged, designed around and beaten, more so in the interbellum as the belief was that asdic was more capable than it was. Your not thinking like a person whoā€™s on the spot at the time. Itā€™s 1939-42. You know that for 700 years the surface, gun warship has been king. You have seen the disruption that surface raiders have caused. Youā€™ve seen the attempts to bomb capital ships which are in dock, with high level and other land based bombers fail. You have multiple theatres to worry about and the RN capital fleet is stretched thin, especially in the med. The horror of a tirpiz plus a couple of sharnhorsts being able to base from France and hit a convoy thatā€™s escorted by a couple of town class and some destroyers keeps you up at night. Itā€™d be like pq17 but x1000. But you know you can remove such a forced base of operations and repair with a special forces strike. You know with no dock to support such ships, they are basically a mission kill. Your battleships can go where needed most. Like the med where they are needed, to support landing operations in Sicily, torch etc. Itā€™s a no brained.......... your not thinking ā€œwell them there airoplanes have done rather well in torpedoing a few ships in Italy and one hit the Bismarck with an lucky shot. Seems we best scrap the surface fleet chaps. Just build destroyers and subs and aircraft carriers..... such a person would be locked up. Even though it seems rather reasonable from a 2020 perspective....... there is one lesson I have tried to teach my history students time and again. Stop looking at what happened and consider the mind of their person who made the decision. What happened after is a result only of that person(or persons) knowledge and experience. The great minds of the time weā€™re drawing on centuries of history. Decades of experience and using the latest theory........ but none coupe see the ā€œfutureā€ as we can. Because it is our past....... if you canā€™t get your mind in such a mindset BK. I wish I could explain what I mean better (internet and typing isnā€™t good for such things)
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  12. Just a thought here... The whole not Manning aa guns and having crew shelter seems to be a standard practice in accounts I've read of various battles. And Drach' has mentioned same on his channel. The story of Nelson/Rod and the effects of her guns causing temporary blindness come to mind. So this would lead me to believe this is a issue/known to be a fact of life when it comes to much "smaller" guns than 18s. Also I know accounts differ as to the yamatos using the main guns in their anti aircraft role (Christ that's both scary and comic to think about. Just as a sentence... Anyway).... But we can all agree I think that they had that built into to the design. Surely the designers didn't think the regular as crew would stop fireing and shelter when said rounds were fired. I am probably being naive here and the concussive blast is much reduced with such rounds. So I'm looking to be caught out here. I'd love a explanation/correction to my thoughts here as it's not my area. Just musing and looking for info
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  13. When the drachism is so funny that Drach' laughs at his own drachism. Well played sir. Well played.
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  14. My lunch went cold watching this. Bravo
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  15. It was a pretty out their hypothetical scenario. The person asking the question sort of gave him an impossible scenario. I reckon the answer was more a case of humouring the questioner.
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  16. "Incase of emergency, keep calm. Place your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye"
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  17. I live just down the road, it's a good visit.
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  18. But the video was launched just in time for Sunday dinner. Ugg had evolved into a gentleman with his own empire and was drinking tea and festing on Yorkshire puds. Ah evolution.
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  19. This is brilliant info. I'll get on a plane from my home in ne England and fly to a city with history and things to visit and I'll do so with the main attraction being the only remaining dreadnought in the world. I'm not going to go to an industrial wasteland where the only other history of interest in the area is purely local and of no real concern to the wider world (it may be interesting. But I ain't going out my way for it, especially when my home country has 2-3 thousand years of history.)
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  20. Joe Redmon sounds like a crowd of football (soccer) fans to me! Lol. Or maybe our parliament šŸ¤”
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  21. I remember seeing drach at his first time live on camera at TF and marveling at seeing the man himself. Now I'm blown away by how professional you are. Your presenting like the expert you are. No awkwardness infront of camera
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  22. 1) not sure that's wrong. After all, not all cultures call a ship "she". Given YouTube is a multi-national platform. Perhaps calling an inanimate object "it", is actually correct. ;)
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  23. Ā @spookyshadowhawk6776Ā  "being of the right calibre". Indeed
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  24. I'm not sure where you get the lack of pitched battles from. Most of the country of Poland was a battlefield. Northern france had huge battles take place. The low countries commited their entire forces and Norway held out against incredible odds. Not to mention the huge battles happening in China. And that's not even a year into the war!
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  25. Ah the drachisms continue
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  26. Yep. This is a case of England and its huge HUGE variation in accents. Why it's funny as hell when Americans say "you sound British". When in England you sound totally different to someone from a town 25 miles away And that's before we consider Wales, Scotland and Ireland. All of which accents are as different from most English accents as would be someones from NZ AUS or south Africa!
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  27. This is a golden one for drachisms. I think the last time I laughed so much was when the 1stPS came out.
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  28. Be grand to hear drach answer this. But he has a multiple years long backlog of questions. I think he's finally given up trying to please everyone (which he did for a LONG time). Posting this question as a Pateon or by joining in a live q and a is your best bet.
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  29. It is worth remembering that this was a new area of warfare. They may seem "cartoonishly inept" to us in 2020 and with 20-20 vision. To us its obvious that what they did was absurd and how could they be so stupid. At the time they had some of the best minds in their entire country coming up with a system that at the time seemed to make perfect sense and work in their system. The British had some of their best minds trying to best the system and still the victory largely depended on occasions of luck as much as it did intellect and hard work. It's very important when learning history. Not to apply a modern slant to what happened. It's hard not to do. But if you fall into this trap. You don't fully learn what happened and worse. Fail to learn histories lessons.
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  30. As much as I agree and the most exciting thing I saw (In early 2015) was the cutaway Merlin engine. My gf at the time, was absorbed by the very basic ww1 exhibition. As a result. She not only wanted to come with me to more museums. But she began reading 19th and 20th century history books as fast as possible When the population grows and education diviates. At least some education is better than none. That's how i would like to think on it. NB. The lady in general is very well educated and now a leader in her field. By no means a average Jane
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  31. Yeh, I get the sentiment but in no way could they or did they keep up. The British ship yards were out building the germans. At the same time they were building ships for multiple other countries. Any yet. There were still ship yards looking for work! Meanwhile Germany was building at a rate that strained their yards. it was an impressive effort for a country with little naval tradition. But there is no way it could be argued that the Germans kept up with the British.
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  32. Hmm. I dare say anyone who tried to shoot one down would disagree. Early planes were devilishly difficult to shoot down. Rounds would happily pass through canvas and thin air and do sod all to actually bring the things down. A direct hit to a pilot, fuel tank or the engine is all that would do it. And the pilot would have to be badly hit and the engine would have to be badly hit (a hit to a chlinder head of a rotory wouldn't necessarily blow the whole engine to bits and even if it did, the aircraft could still glide at least for a short amount of time. If the pilot could still see, (ie no oil spray) then avoiding action was possible) Most losses in ww1 were due to pilot error or brake down. It's a mute point as in 1916 a plane could do bugger all to bother a battleship short of report it's position. Which it would do while laughing away outside of anti aircraft gun range (hence Drachs comment). Reading about ww1 air combat is fascinating. I reccommend it wholeheartedly :)
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  33. You are of course 100% correct But your reasoning is irrelevant... Think of it this way... The stratigic situation is irrelevant to the Z plan. Nazi Germany was a dictatorship and Hitler wanted a big powerful navy and that was that. So he got the Z plan. Ok. Over simplified a bit. You could argue that what he wanted was to say he wanted a big powerful navy. To bang his bathtub. maybe he just wanted to ruffle a few feathers internationally (especially in Britain) mayyybeee he was just drumming up support amoung the populace and the (militaristic) party faithful. My thinking is that given he was ( if nothing else ) a political mastermind. It's likely this was a case of all the above and more (he was very good at accomplishing many positives out of any one action). But the point is. He wanted a plan for this big navy. He got the Z plan. The actual reality of the situation from a geo-political point of view is irrelevant to the how and why the plan came about. The plan doesn't ignore the theory you stated. It's just that your theory (reality) isn't a factor. Hope that makes sense. It's a different way of looking at history and my favourite. Especially when it comes to Nazi Germany. So much of what happened goes against anything that we see as being rational and logical. So it's always interesting to work out the Nazis "reason" behind the action taken.
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  34. Ā @mwt3579Ā  I'm not sure I can agree with your premise. Your saying that the most intelligent and experienced military thinkers in Japan KNEW that they had come up with a doctrine that was bound to fail? That makes no sense at all. In 1905 Russia was considered a world power. Yes the Crimea didn't go so well. But look who they were up against. Yes their economy was backwards compared to west European nations. But their military was large and well regarded. The fact that the Japanese won against Russia upset the world view of well, the world. It elevated them to great power status. Being on the winning side since the start of ww1 didn't hurt. As for America. I don't understand the 8th grade thing. But I know that's American. And your view is very American centric. The American civil war was just that. A civil war. Yes it was observed from a military point of view (on a technical level). But that was about it. The only other way it effected other countries was economically and as with any other civil war. The rest of the world adapted and carried on. If you look at America from the Japanese point of view. They were very much beatable. America from the outside was a country recently divided (your civil war). It had made lots of money from ww1 but entered late. This was due to a public who didn't want war. The 1920s saw economic collapse on a horrible scale. Military spending was pitiful. If you forget what we know now. If you don't consider things from an American point of view, but from the point of view of Japan. America was weak financially and morally. They'd avoid war if at all possible and were definitely not ready for war. In 1905 Russia was almost certainly a more daunting adversary than America was in the 1930s. Thankfully, you had a savvy president and the country used it's natural resources well. As a result we can look back with hindsight and think "good god, were the Japanese mad". But that's not how you study history.
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  35. Still think you should be a special guest of drach on a video or 20!
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  36. I dunno. I had some hangovers in university that could have been measured by gaigar counter.
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  37. He still is. Depends which bloodline you follow. Though 10am I'd say is hardly early ;)
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  38. More likely he'd fight for support from the air force and try and get the luftwaffe involved in taking Malta. Do that and you don't need carriers. Remember, the aircraft carrier was king in the Pacific. But not in the ETO.
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  39. Flat earthers donā€™t mind. They say that History has been Invented by nasa to make us think the world was round. In history err...before nasa existed. Fact-easy to prove, just do your own research! Thank god the internet and YouTube came along to save us. Otherwise Iā€™d still think the world was square.
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  40. Merry Christmas drachinifel and Mrs drach :)
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  41. Ā @parrot849Ā  here in the UK we only have the cinematic kind (I am very glad to be able to say!) And I had a feeling that's what you meant (I was playing devils advocate). I thank you for your service. I have friends in our armed forces and my uncle is a retired police officer. Any member of such professions deserve respect. Good thoughts from North east England Gary :)
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  42. One thing that struck me is how small the cannonball appear. I blame Hollywood, but for some reason I always imagined them to be much larger (the 64lb being what I pictured to be as small as they got!). Lesson learnt :)
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  43. Watching this again. Because. Why wouldn't you? Noticed the "not today" on the intro.... Surely it'd be more efficient to point out the days it's actually a 5 min guide lol
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  44. Thing is. It's called "world's worse warships" not "worse warships of the north American continent". They were good enough to do a job. Certainly didn't deserve to be on such a list as this. But they have a habit of being wayyyyy over rated by 'internet historians'.
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  45. Ā @sarjim4381Ā  an excellent history. Thank you for sharing it. Stories like this really bring history back to a human level. I doff my hat to you!
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  46. "You just missed 3 years and 2 months of war. Don't worry. The last 11 months are all we need to worry about. Now. Do you know anyone who can refit a few 'mildly sunk' battleships?"
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  47. Like hell is it under 20,000 tons!
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  48. Indeed, that said. What space does it displace. Does it have weight if it can't be measured šŸ˜³ mind blown. Someone all sciencey will come in now and answer that, even though it's obvious it was rhetorical lol
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  49. Outside the channels era. The cut off is around 1950
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  50. Ā @ShenaldracĀ  I think I prefer the way I worded it šŸ¤” But your not wrong
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