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My father was one of the sailors who served in the Royal Canadian Navy on these escorts. While he didn't talk about it very much, he did occasionally recall having to chop the ice off the deck of his frigate to stop the ship from getting top heavy and rolling over. He recalled seeing that happen to other ships which was probably pretty motivating to do a proper job of it. Years later, when we would be unpacking the car or truck at our cabin, we found that we would have to cut the ropes because we could never untie Dad's knots because they were done so well and so tight.
I am the descendant of the pirate Captain John Quelch who was the first pirate hung up outside of Britain and unlike most pirates he never gave his crew up
This event occurred before former President Obama and I were born. Diplomatic relations have evolved in 80 years. I am a USN man till the day I die. Served proudly. 2000-2005. I don’t buy Toyota or Honda. This war was fought and won by my grandfather and yours in a time when politics took a back seat to WINNING . Don’t bring current politics into your rant.
I read the artic storms were like a sandblaster to exposed skin, strong winds blowing a fine spray from the wave tops, the water freezing as it accelerated, faces and hands all had to be protected or no flesh. The ice build up was the constant threat, always men had to be in the weather, on the deck with a big iron bar breaking off the ice before it could flip the ship over.
No, the fact that Singapore was not fortified in the North to the jungle. What can you do with armour in a jungle ? They needed modern planes, also to attack the Japanse Navy !!!!! And they surrendered far to easy…Some tanks should have been useful of course !
Nikita Khrushchev, having served as a military commissar and intermediary between Stalin and his generals during the war, addressed directly the significance of Lend-lease aid in his memoirs: "I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I don't think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so."
One of the great myths of the Second World War is that Lend Lease and the arctic convoys were critical to the Russian war effort. Russia received no support from the Allies until 1942 and that was restricted to British contributions. It wasn't until 1943 that American lend lease started to arrive in Russia. Thus the Russians had already turned back the Germans at Moscow and Stalingrad before the war materials arrived in any kind of meaningful numbers. The contributions of tanks, aircraft, trucks etc. represented a small percentage of what the Russians were able to produce themselves. Some supplies were certainly critical to the Russian war effort, materials like rubber, communications equipment and machine tools. I suppose one could argue that Lend Lease shortened the war on the Eastern Front by two to three months but it is ludicrous to state that the arctic convoys saved the Soviet Union.
@@andynctnot true, lend-lease equipment was not practical, bolts, parts, even tools, as well as amo were not standard. In a war-torn country there weren't enough resources to allocate to all these demands. US planes needed special octane fuel, crews needed special training, etc. It helped, particularly food supplys to besieged Leningrad, but the result would have the been same meaning, Saved is overstatement. It's the USSR that save the world from Nazi. When D-day occurred soviets already planned to attack Hungary.
Absolutely correct, it was a couple weeks before the Japanese attack at Pearl harbor the Russians launched their first full scale winter counter offensive, literally pushing the German army back a couple hundred miles, Russia needed no help killing Nazis although they certainly were happy getting all the free stuff, Franklin Roosevelt simply made sure evil communism became very powerful, without our battle ships we couldn't prevent the Batan death march, we couldn't supply a 100,000 man USA army inside China and consequently the entire war saw constantly more chinese deaths while at the same time Russia was fully supplying a young Mao Ta Son (the only one that murdered more people than stalin). Roosevelt was Secretary of the Navy and knew exactly what he was doing, moving our battleships into striking range of Japan assured a 1949 communist Chinese victory..and Korean war 2 years later. I am part idiot and believe our WW1 & WW2 presidents were evil in their political spheres of control, WW1 we meddled by choosing a side and causing the other side to collapse, literally paving the way for a Hitler.
I recall it was the new Russian T-34 that was instrumental in the first Russia winter counter attacks, 400 plus the 40,000 Siberian ski troops, but I'd think some allied supplies were already in use, but it was a very small % of the total amount shipped across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
If the Russians had wanted to sink Duncan, it would have all been over with pretty fast. Sure, the Russians probably would have had a few Flanker's shot down, but they could swarm the Duncan's defenses with dozens of missiles. Duncan wouldn't be able to shoot them all down.
I think the Russians figured the Duncan's crew were feeling exactly like the one chap said, "Sixteen Flankers...fuck me." Maybe the Duncan should stay more than 2 miles away for its own safety. LoL.
Well the ship they showed is definitively and unmistakably not a Krivak-class frigate. It is, in fact, a Kashin-class destroyer, and the only one sailing at the time this video was made was the Smetlivy, which was decommissioned in 2020.
No one does stories about the convoys/ships that traveled from the US to the Soviet Union across the Pacific during WW2 - I believe they were unescorted Russian merchant ships carrying cargo to Siberia (then shipped by rail to the Eastern Front)...since Japan was not at war with Russia they did nothing to stop them...
"Russian" merchant ships were mostly ships donated to USSR by the US. Russian sailors were also trained in the US too so the ships could be Russian flagged. 97 merchant ships and 20 tankers were transferred to Russia.
I recently learned about that, the amount of war materials shipped across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans were about equal, but the Russo sino non aggression treaty meant Japan had to let the Russians freely navigate, load and unload in the sea of Japan (Vladivostok). Japan often boarded and inspected the very war supplies being used to kill their Allies in Europe. Japan could have easily prevented any supplies reaching Russia, but Russia always gets a pass, recall the Russian invasion of Poland 2 weeks after Germany invaded, the western allies allowed the Russian invasion but not the Germans, France and England declaring war on Germany, but a free pass for Russia. Japan, France and England all gave them a free pass of significant proportions.
I'm surprised there aren't more comments like this. No offence to the guy but I agree. Work on humming along notes with guitar notes. If you can't hear a difference than you need more help than RU-vid strangers can offer.
Lend-Lease tanks constituted 30 to 40 percent of heavy and medium tank strength before Battle of Moscow at the beginning of December 1941. Lend lease was huge especially in logistical support.
Stories like these show how enterprising, ingenious and creative the previous generations were. Most people think that the present day innovations and manufacturing belittle the achievement of past are so wrong. And this is not just a trend in industrial age but from ancient times. The mega structures of Egypt and meticulously planned cities of Indus civilisation are of no less significance!
To this day i resent the Japanese for this vary reason. I would never be disrespectful in person but i keep my resent to those ppl to myself. This was an act of aggression that had no reason. RIP to all those Americans lost. God Bless
Since I came of age during the Cold war and recently learning more about bolshevism ive decided the US Britain and France should have partnered with Germany to destroy the USSR and all communism, THEN we could have contained Hitler. Bolshevism and communism were the more evil enemy of all mankind.
My dad's oldest brother was sfc Broadus Franklin West. He was the oldest of 7 from a small town in South Carolina. He was already in the serving in the Army at Schofield Army Air Base when my dad, who was the youngest, was born. My dad worshipped his big brother. After his tour in the Army, Broadus came home to help run my grandfather's gas station. He was a genius with anything mechanical - if it had an engine, he could fix it. The plan was that he would take over the station from my grandfather, who had heart disease. But when Hitler invaded Poland, he felt he needed to do something. He finally got my grandparents to relent & let him go, but only if he joined the Navy, because if the US joined the war, the Army would probably be deployed to Europe first, so they thought the Navy would be safer. Broadus was thrilled to get assigned to the USS Arizona as an engineer & serve at Pearl Harbor. He loved Hawaii. He died 2 days before his 26th birthday defending his ship. His remains were never recovered. My grandfather died of a massive heart attack just months before the end of the war. My grandmother never stopped blaming herself for letting him go. There is a memorial to him in the small cemetery where my grandparents & my Uncle Raymond are buried. I share his story as often as I can as my family's legacy.
im sorry but why are they all french? who get a lot of tech from america? could the english and americans not be bothered? and why are they starting at modern ships? same people who sell a nuclear reactor to iraq. unbelievable
What would those men serving in HMS Victory say about UK's current woke culture? UK is getting defeated by Extremists Islamic migrants, and soon all governmental position will be voted by majority extremist. Well done chaps. 👏👏👏👏👏
