Comments by "Mike O\x27Neill" (@EllieMaes-Grandad) on "World at War" channel.

  1. The fighters sent after Yamamoto were P38s, twin-boom, twin-engine craft, which did not fly off carriers. The episode risked the secrecy of 'Magic' and 'Ultra'. It could have been a very costly act of revenge . . .
    3
  2. At 43:** we see B29s, none of which were ever used in the European war. (ETO)
    2
  3. The winter war against Poland . . . . or against Finland?
    2
  4. NATO is still around and Russia is not on the Atlantic coast . . . . whereas AH is long gone . . .
    2
  5. There's a school of thought which says Stalin would have gone west in maybe 1942 0r 1943. AH thought so . . .
    1
  6. They were paid, so Chang's corruption didn't matter to them.
    1
  7. Dream on! Come back in 2028 . . .
    1
  8. Alan Brooke kept him in place!
    1
  9. Quite a few clips seen in other segments are re-appearing in this one . . .
    1
  10. AH - the Allies best asset.
    1
  11. The commander on Crete pulled out of Maleme airfield, granting easy access to the Germans. Incompetence again to the fore . . .
    1
  12. "Tube Alloys" was the name of the UK nuclear bomb project, all work on which passed into "The Manhattan Project" by way of co-operation.
    1
  13. No air superiority in 1940, or afterwards, so the British navy would have destroyed any attempt at seaborne invasion. However, keeping warships ready to repel invasion cost casualties in the Atlantic convoys.  @sethpotter9592 
    1
  14. Lefties use him in 'straw man' arguments, when reality is they're the threat to our freedom.  @ortho-g9826 
    1