Someone mentioned Belfast Blitz "I am that someone". :) I sent a link to this chat to a friend in Dublin who is sick of seeing the uninformed making crass comments on Ireland in "The Emergency". Another good talk/discussion, gents split the speeding ticket between you. As Jim H mentioned GB (RN) submarines were very successful.
Always important when someone mentions the Atlantic Charter. It was Roosevelt's vision of a world that led to the Alliance of United Nations and eventually the United Nations Charter and the system of international law that ended colonial empires and kept most of Europe at peace for eighty years.
You are coauthoring a book? That is cool. Jon Parshall's mammoth work on 1942 has been signed to Oxford and will be out in 2026. Jon is such a great historian and nice guy. Comments; 1. Saitzev was full of Vranyo like all Muscowites. 2. It was not Japan itself, it was a Kurile Island and it was a slaughter. The US had given them landing craft, but they did not know how to use them like Americans did.
Agreed! Everyone should check out the podcast he's regularly on called "The unauthorized history of the pacific war" hosted by Bill and Seth. Highly recommend 👌
More importantly why didn't the British lend lease their torpedoes to the Americans to replace the type 14 torpedoes the USN submarines were using as underwater door knockers?
@PalleRasmussen no but I'm sure that the American submariners were so frustrated by the end with they would have come up with a solution or borrowed a British sub. (Even if it didn't have a shower or an ice-cream machine
@@nigelmcconnell1909 I am not certain Britain had any to spare. That would be a question for Drach. I am very certain there was no way of coming up with a solution though. Oh, and good morning.
Richard O'Connor could do with a reassessment. Another remarkable life.
Someone mentioned Belfast Blitz "I am that someone". :) I sent a link to this chat to a friend in Dublin who is sick of seeing the uninformed making crass comments on Ireland in "The Emergency". Another good talk/discussion, gents split the speeding ticket between you.
As Jim H mentioned GB (RN) submarines were very successful.
I saw a good documentary on it.
Always important when someone mentions the Atlantic Charter. It was Roosevelt's vision of a world that led to the Alliance of United Nations and eventually the United Nations Charter and the system of international law that ended colonial empires and kept most of Europe at peace for eighty years.
You are coauthoring a book? That is cool.
Jon Parshall's mammoth work on 1942 has been signed to Oxford and will be out in 2026.
Jon is such a great historian and nice guy.
Comments;
1. Saitzev was full of Vranyo like all Muscowites.
2. It was not Japan itself, it was a Kurile Island and it was a slaughter. The US had given them landing craft, but they did not know how to use them like Americans did.
Agreed! Everyone should check out the podcast he's regularly on called "The unauthorized history of the pacific war" hosted by Bill and Seth. Highly recommend 👌
@moritzin1 he is almost the third member. And they just dropped an episode that I bet he is on, a few hours ago.
More importantly why didn't the British lend lease their torpedoes to the Americans to replace the type 14 torpedoes the USN submarines were using as underwater door knockers?
Torps are not interchangeable.
@PalleRasmussen no but I'm sure that the American submariners were so frustrated by the end with they would have come up with a solution or borrowed a British sub.
(Even if it didn't have a shower or an ice-cream machine
@@nigelmcconnell1909 I am not certain Britain had any to spare. That would be a question for Drach. I am very certain there was no way of coming up with a solution though. Oh, and good morning.
@@PalleRasmussen Perhaps, but they could have cribbed and adapted the design.
Higher ups were too arrogant to admit theirs were shite. USA number one!