Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 238" video.

@gabrieljewell4918 Yes. Enormous. The Skyraider was so much faster, heavier-lifting, and tougher than any of those other planes, it would have allowed USN AirPower to dominate at Coral Sea.
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@BHuang92 Graf Zeppelin had these.
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@samoilenko3887 By 1945, other vessels and weapons could do what battleships do, more cost effectively and flexibly than battleships did those same things.
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@thehuscarl4835 Many job classes were almost entirely filled by nonwhite sailors, and “passive segregation” and outright discrimination meant there were so few nonwhite specialists and officers that it would have been difficult to field a ship’s crew of nonwhite sailors.
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@vikkimcdonough6153 Vanguard alternated between refits, flagship of the Home Fleet Training Squadron, and flagship of the Home Fleet during the Korean War, duties the RN believed more important than providing shore gunfire support.
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@sskuk1095 No. The composition of these islands would have made even 6ton “earthquake bombs” futile.
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