Comments by "Mike O\x27Neill" (@EllieMaes-Grandad) on "Timeline - World History Documentaries" channel.

  1.  @jeanbrown8295  Not taken away, given away . . .
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  2. All deaths there were intentional; methodology was irrelevant to the perpetrators.
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  3. Atlantic convoys were short of escorts initially, because those ships were held back to counter any invasion [allegedly].
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  4. The Germans should have come in small rubber boats - it's working today . . .
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  5. The dark ages are a time of minimal written history, pre the 'enlightenment'. The darkness is in our knowledge, but the times were not sinister.
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  6. The bones showed evidence - time to do some retro research perhaps?
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  7. The U.S. submarine force almost wiped out the Japanese merchant marine, without which Japan could not sustain itself, let alone fight a war. By 1945 Japan was near-starving but unwilling to surrender. The a-bombs were the coup de grace, the perfect excuse to give up.
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  8. The aircraft depicted has no jet engines - were such aircraft operational or is this a faulty video?
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  9. Adverts are inevitable, but what terrible timing they choose for them . . . !
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  10. €ire was relying on the UK if stuff had hit the fan. If the UK had fallen, they too would have been occupied.
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  11. What does the doom goblin say about this?
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  12.  @macoooos9204  The UK had radar and the ability to discern feints.
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  13. 10,000 killed on D-Day - 19,000 on the first day of the Somme in 1919.
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  14. Tragic loss of life . . . . whilst today, tens of thousands of unborn innocents are killed, every year . . .
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  15. ROC's contribution is very under-appreciated. They worked in 1940 and in 1944 (against the V1s).
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  16. The "narrow margin" in 1940 was made narrower by an action of our French former allies. Luftwaffe prisoners from the Battle of France [1000+] were not shipped overseas and out of the war, but returned to the Luftwaffe when France capitulated. We can still see such things today . . .
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  17.  @2sqnbandit379  Air superiority, maybe, but there would still have been some attacks on the transports, inevitable attrition. Air supply didn't work at Stalingrad.
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  18.  @2sqnbandit379  Be realistic. 50k troops, however good, would not have taken the south of England. Too few in number, with inadequate supplies, under constant attack in unfamiliar territory, they'd not last long. Yes, stopping before Dunkerque was a mistake, just as ours was evacuating 100k poilus who then opted to go back to France . . .
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  19. The Japanese had studied air action against ships, as the loss of Repulse and Prince of Wales proved . . .
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  20. Dowding, or are you making some sort of point?
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  21. Eight minutes in and still asking questions, not giving answers. Another waste of time.
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  22. However, they didn't, so it wasn't . . .
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  23.  @reburdoc4647  The more we could destroy at sea, the fewer we'd have to destroy on land . . .
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  24. With some serious editing and a changed approach, the video length could be reduced substantially.
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  25. A street runs from the old town to the modern centre of Hull, called "Whitefriargate" . . .
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  26.  @johnkelly3886  Funding was found and given, in difficult economic circumstances, by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, the much-maligned Neville Chamberlain.
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