Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Admirals Arima and Ugaki went on kamikaze missions even though they didn't have to. One of IJA's more prominent staff officers - Masanobu Tsuji, gave his food rations to some starving Japanese privates he encountered on Guadalcanal.
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  2. Just start counting the combinations
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  3. Don't rush to conclusions based on one, purposefully recorded angry phonecall made from a cozy office. The guy later entered politics, and the call served the cruize liner company well to deflect blame from its many systemic problems that were actually the single biggest reason for the disaster and the casualties.
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  4. The French were neutral. The British had been at war with the Netherlands for years.
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  5. I think U-571 did include the note at the end in which they mentioned the various historical captures of the Enigma machine. Still a horrible movie.
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  6.  @newhallgeorge1  Some didnt. Many did. Chokai, Suzuya and Chikuma's sinkings are a testament to that fact.
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  7. The most offensive-minded Japnese admiral was probably Shoji Nishimura. Bona-fide Tenno-Heika Banzai YOLO guy.
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  8.  @tremedar  US entry to WW1 came an entire year after the sinking if the Lusitania which was a British-flagged ship smuggling a sizeable quantity of war material and on a register of Armed Merchant Cruisers and the Germans issued a warning that thUS citizens travelling on British ships do so at their own risk. US entry to WW1 had nothing to do with it, the fact that a number of Americans lost their lives in the sinking merely served as a propaganda rallying cry once the descision to go to war was made.
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  9. If I were a pilot of one of the 2 Pearl Harbor Attacks' worth of USN aircraft that attacked the Japanese Center Force during the battle, sank a Battle of Savo Island's worth of Japanese heavy cruisers and were consequently the REAL reason the Japanese retreated, I'd feel a little ticked off being left out of the report...
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  10. Right after Gerald R Ford, George H W Bush, JFK, Carl Vinson, John C Stennis 😂...
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  11. 06:30 - It happened: Coast defense battleships of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Thailand...
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  12. "It's a long way to Tipperary..."
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  13. It would have been really funny had the royalists in Toulon actually got to use the Commerce de Marseille to attack the commerce of nearby Marseille...
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  14. 5:11 - Along the entire Sweden :)
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  15. 44:43 All Greek navy ships entering Pireus honor Georgios Averoff, now a museum ship.
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  16. Against suspicious-looking merchant ships / possible merchant raiders (Italians had some in Somalia before it was captured, Germans also sent some to the Indian ocean and the Japanese had some too) yes as long as she kept her distance (out of the raiders' torpedo range and possibly gun range). Against light cruisers - she didn't have the speed to catch them unless they were already damaged or had broken down. Against heavy cruisers she had neither speed nor firepower (number of guns, range, penetration, rate of fire...)
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  17. During the 1st Balkan War, after the Serbian army took what is now North Macedonia from the Ottomans it decided to take its allotted (per prewar allied agreements) Ottoman north of Albania. Due to poor roads and railroad network there it decided to do so with a shipborne invasion, chartering the necesary ships from the Greek government with a rate of 1000 dinars per ship per day to take its troops from the as of recently Greek port of Salonika (which was close to where its troops that took North Macedonia were) to Albanian ports and supply them thereafter. The profit-minded Greeks, naturally picked the ships on the small side for the task and it went on. Meanwhile the Ottoman navy, bottled down in the Dardanelles by the Greek naval blockade decided to send their fast protected cruiser Hamidiye to run the blockade and raid the Greek sea lanes, hoping to lure the Giorgios Avereroff to chase her which would in turn enable the main Ottoman fleet to defeat the Hydras and the rest of the Greek fleet and to break the blockade, but the Greek naval command initially decided not to send anything after Hamidiye. However, after Hamidiye managed to catch a group of unprotected Greek ships offloading Serbian troops in the Albanian port of San Giovani di Medua and sink and damage several causing more than 150 Serbian dead (and it would have been worse had two Serbian artillery NCOs not set up their mountain guns on the deck of their Greek transport ship Trifimia and fired back, prompting Hamidiye to open the range and lose accuracy), the Serbian high command and government complained bitterly to the Greeks about the lack of naval escort. The Greeks then detatched the Psara (which was too slow to catch Hamidiye) and 3 destroyers to escort the subsequent Serbian troop convoys which it performed successfully.
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  18. IJN Yukikaze.
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  19. 1:16:18 Rodney uses WASD hack 😊
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  20. Lee lost all ships other than his own in this battle.
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  21. Pre dreadnought fight: in 1904, after the Japanese torpedo boats attack the Russian 1st Pacific squadron at Port Arthur, France honors its alliance with Russia and declares war on Japan, UK honors its alliance with Japan and declares war on France, Germany decides to ally with France (note that they did historically help the Russian 2nd Pacific squadron with coaling) to even the odds and bring down RN (and get some colonies). Austria Hungary and Italy honor the Triple Alliance with Germany and declare war on UK. Finally Teddy Roosevelt, ever the opportunist, sees a good opportunity to gang up with the allies to take down RN and expand. So: you have RN vs Russian 2nd Pacific squadron, the French fleet, the German fleet, portions of the US fleet (plausibly - US contigent sails to Brest) and Italian and Austro-Hungarian fleet. The French Brest fleet and the USN from one side, and the allied Mediterannean fleets sail to break the British Gibraltar station, while the 2nd Russian Paific squadron sails to Germany to break out to Brest if the main RN body sails to help Gibraltar. If the latter stays put and the allied Mediterannean fleets breaks out to Brest, two combined allied fleets, one from Brest the other from Wilhelmshaven sail to jointly (coordinated by wireless) challenge the RN in, a climactic pre-dreadnought battle of Jutland. RN, on the other hand, would naturally attempt to engage the allied fleets piecemeal. Japan meanwhile battles Russia's 1st Pacifific squadron and perhaps some US reinforcements based in Manila (which may, or may not decide to sail to Vladivostok). I think the historians may have missed the significance of France not intervening for Russia in 1904. (out of fear of the superior RN) on Austro-Hungarian decision to declare war on Serbia in 1914. (banking on Russia not intervening out of fear of strong Germany, or at least France not intervening for the same reason).
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  22. 00:45:56 Apart from the RN campaign to destroy SMS Koenigsberg in the Rufiji river delta, and several battles in the Paraguay War, there was one river battle (estuary to be precise) at the mouth of the Pearl River during the 2nd Sino Japanese War: From Wiki article on Chao Ho: On 14 September 1937. Chao Ho and Hai Chow (formerly the Arabis-class sloop HMS Pentstemon) engaged the Japanese cruiser Yūbari and the destroyers Hayate and Oite. The Japanese ships were forced to retreat with the aide of the Bocca Tigris' forts land based artillery but both ships were damaged. From www.combinedfleet.com tabular record of movement for the light cruiser IJN Yubari: 14 September 1937: YUBARI is standing into the Pearl River estuary with HAYATE and OITE when they encounter two Chinese warships, the protected cruiser CHAO HO and the revenue cutter HAI CHOW (ex-HMS PENTSTEMON), leaving Humen (Bocca Tigris) Strait. The result is what might be the only surface action between the Chinese and Imperial Japanese Navy in the whole war. [2] The Japanese squadron engages the Chinese vessels and the shore batteries at the forts protecting the Humen Strait. Both Chinese ships are damaged; HAI CHOW is hit three times and loses steering control. This causes her for a short time to be heading directly at the Japanese fleet, as if on a charge. Just as it seems the cutter will be blown out of the water, HAI CHOU regains control. The more powerful CHAO HO inexplicably fights only intermittently, and her captain soon orders a retreat. HAI CHOW manages to escape upriver as well. Ironically, CHAO HO's leaving the battle does her little good: she runs aground short time thereafter. While returning to Taichang anchorage, the IJN squadron is attacked by CAF Northrop A-17 attack bombers, scoring several near misses. Five sailors from YUBARI are injured.
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  23. Oi
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  24. 1:38:99. Graf Spee. Fights honorably to death at sea around South America after causing significant damage.
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  25. 4:17 Pug-li-ese
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  26. Russian navy was a very capable force at the time of Catherine the Great (Baltic fleet sailed around the Europe to the Mediterranean and devastated the Ottoman navy) and later during the Napoleonic Wars (Adm. Ushakov's brilliant campaign against the French alongside the British) and the Greek War of Independence (in alliance with the French and the British, again wrecking the Ottomans).
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  27. ... along for the ride
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  28. Own goal was the Battle of Punta Gruesa. The Peruvians managed to lose their most powerful warship to shoaling while chasing a Chilean schooner. Another own goal was the disasterous French attempted expedition against the Dutch Curacao. Spanish armada disaster comes to mind and also the follow up equally disasterous English armada. Also the Battle of Cartagena des Indies.
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  29. The "missed the action due to re-fit" torpedo pin pillow carrier.
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  30.  @robert48044  Germany would have still attacked the USSR and everything would have ended more or less the same (UK would reenter the war as France did).
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  31.  @Ushio01  Lend Lease was mostly an American show. Had UK even signed peace with Germany in 1940. it would have broken it by 1942 or 3 at US insistence and once the tide would begin to turn on the Eastern Front. Germany did not have the leverage to force an actual occupation of UK and they knew it and didn't insist on it. Hell they even left French North African posessions in their hands (which came back to bite them when those posessions essentially let the Allies invade in 1942 with little resistence). It would have been the same with UK. You even have an example from earlier history: UK actually signed peace with Revolutionary France for a while when the chips were down even though it never intended to honor it for long. The same did not happen in 1940. but had it happened it would not have made a big difference. British propaganda is perverting common sense in trying to overemphasize UK's importance in WW2 that is all. I laugh similarly at their insinuations that the Battle of Waterloo prevented Napoleon from winning. Really? With Prussian army still in the field (and actually deciding the outcome of the battle), Austrian, Russian, Spanish and many other forces marching on France in force yet again, even in the unlikely event that the entire Anglo-Dutch army was utterly routed at Waterlo, Napoleon would still be defeated by those other forces combined. France in 1815. was exhausted by decades of war and even with all repatriated veteran POW (which made up a good portion of Napoleon's forces in 1815) could simply no longer field an army large enough to fight even half of the, now veteran, coalition forces bearing down on it. But had the Prussians managed to smash Napoleon at Ligny, rest assured their propaganda would likewise be bullshitting about how they saved Europe from Napoleon's boot in 1815.
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  32. German fleet was not the deterrent. The British fleet was. Geostrategically the British (and the rest of the Entente) got the Central Powers bottled up and cut off from foreign imports. Whether the High Seas fleet got itself sunk in a major engagement or stayed in port as a fleet in being only matters for the morale. In all other practical terms Germany is losing the war and the time is working against her. Unless of course they somehow manage to draw the USA to enter the war on their side which was not a realistic proposal due to economic ties between UK and US and UK essentially buying the US entry to the war by taking massive loans and buying out practically all US cargoes bound for Germany and neighboring neutral countries such as the Netherlands
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  33. Check what happened to Hiei. It took a lot of hits by US heavy and light cruisers as well as destroyers to just slow it down enough to be found and sunk by aircraft the next morning.
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  34.  @Drachinifel  Makes sense, but only if he could find the Enterprise and Hornet in time. At the time the Japanese have found only the Yorktown which they historically managed to put out of action with just the Hiryu's two small strikes. Hitting her with a bigger strike would have simply saved the I-168 some trouble (and even saved the US destroyer which was also sunk by the I-168, if the Japanese aviators focused all their attacks on the carrier, which likely would have been the case given their 1942. carrier battles' track record).
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  35. The first plane downed in aerial combat (the Austrian scout plane downed by the Russian pilot and aviation pioneer, Pyotr Nesterov in 1914. during World War 1) was downed by aerial ramming (both planes were lost with no survivors).
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  36. 24:33 Land officers (some colonels or marshals not generals) who became admirals: Robert Blake, George Monck, Prince Rupert, Jacob von Wassenaer Obdam, Grigory Potemkin, Jean II d'Estrees... Admirals employed as land commanders included Pavel Chichagov, Pavel Nakhimov, Blas de Lezo and Alexandr Kolchak.
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  37.  @ggkavlos  It's a town in Crimea named after a town in Greece.
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  38. For a more comprehensive response to world's 30s and later capital gunships vs UK and Ger fleets at Jutland a study of shell probability hits at various ranges should be taken into account as well as the magazine capacities of both fleets. That way we could have an idea approx how many WW1 ships would be sunk before the WW2 ships ran out of ammo. WW1 ship guns can still hurt WW2 ship's unarmored or less armored parts potentially degrading their speed and/or accuracy or even command capability if the WW2 ships close too much, but if WW2 ships stay out of effective range of WW1 ships guns (QEs obviously excluded) they will score fewer hits before they run out of ammo. Also WW1 ships still have scores of escorting destroyers to mess up the WW2 ship's formation and cover the retreat with a smokescreen (still somewhat useful in spite of opposing side's radar). Also - where would the combined WW1 fleet be retreating to? RN ships to Portsmouth and HSF to Kiel? Would the WW2 fleet split to pursue them both, and if yes how?
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  39. That was the Takao.
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  40. ​1:32:07 Best ship kill to loss from age of steam onward? Consider: 1) steam sloops of war. A lot of destroyed or taken ships, mostly unarmed or poorly armed sailing ships in the mid 19th century and I believe few losses. 2) German camouflaged armed merchant raiders are good candidates too. In WW2: only 9 deployed, 8 lost (of which 1 in an accident and 1 was repurposed as a gunnery training ship before being destroyed by the Red Air Force) and they sank or captured 142 Allied and neutral ships including HMAS Sydney and the RN armed merchand cruiser Voltaire. The total includes ships sunk in minefields they layed. https://www.bismarck-class.dk/hilfskreuzer/hilfskreuzer_introduction.html 3) In WW1 they also deployed armed merchant raiders and I believe those had even better K/D ratio The most successful one was the Moewe (K/D 40:0): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_M%C3%B6we_(1914) And the most dashing was the Seeadler (K/D 16:1 but not to enemy action): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Seeadler_(1888) There was also the Wolf (K/D 27:0): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Wolf_(1913) SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm (K/D 16:1 - interned in then neutral USA, seized after US entered the war) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kronprinz_Wilhelm SMS Cap Trafalgar (K/D 0:1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Cap_Trafalgar Total (K/D 99:3 or 33:1) but perhaps there are more German WW1 AMRs that I am not aware of. 4) Consider that German WW1 submarines had better K/D ratio than their WW2 counterparts and most probably also the Americans in WW2 but I doubt it amounted to 33:1. Technically a ship class that sank something but suffered no losses is even better.
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  41.  @voqiir3802  The spacetiming of USS Maine explosion is way too convenient for it to be trully unplanned... Especially if we consider that there were hawks at high positions in the USN, such as assistant secretary of the navy (who was the secretary in all but name), while there was also, at the time, considerable opposition within US to starting an imperialist war that the former needed to overcome, with help of their affiliated media magnates...
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  42. [colony] 😋
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  43. In light of this Corona 19 pandemic, a special on measures to combat illnesses on the sailing ships (scurvy, malaria, yellow feaver plague etc.) would be in order soon :)
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  44. Interesting shells: Japanese HE shells with Shimose explosive, used at Tsushima - designed specifically to set the targets on fire and wreck their superstructure.
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  45. Yes. Not nearly as famous or successful but they did sink several British vessels, mostly in the Indian Ocean. Germans enjoyed most of their successes during 1940. and they quite frequently attacked neutral ships. By the time Japan joined in most of the Allied countermeasures designed to minimize danger for the shipping and maximize raider detection and tracking which were needed to hunt them down were developed. Even the dreaded German raiders were inwffective by 1943.
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  46. Jules Verne stuff
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  47.  @deidryt9944  Well then it doesn't count. There was also an attempt by the French and Montenegrins in 1914 to shell the Austro-Hungarian fleet at Cattaro (today Kotor) by land based guns situated on the reverse slopes of mount Lovćen, which was defeated by the counter-battery fire from the battleship Radetzky directed by aircraft. But since the guns in question were actually converted naval guns it also doesn't count.
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  48. Quite a few Japanese submarines carried floatplanes.
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  49. Regia Marina in WW2 = Fleet-in-being that couldn't hit a broad side of a barn from inside + Decima Flotigla MAS + effective minelayers + some submarines + occasional badass destroyer (ish) ship + some transport ships. Change my mind 😁 .
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  50. 0:33:28 Covadonga at the Battle of Punta Gruesa and various uses of fireships, like against the anchored Spanish Armada or the French Fleet at La Hogue...
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