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In the title: you don't say that you're only addressing the U.S. Fletcher class: let alone, only U.S. destroyers; which in all respects.. you failed to. A couple of points: a. What of the initial lousy "Chicago pianos" installed? b. American torpedoes, of all types sucked bad, until late-1943. I'm a proud U.S. Navy vet. If you're gonna talk history; don't boast about untruths. You sound like a goddamn recruiting poster.
My Father was on the DD664 Richard P. Leary. He said their Shake Down Cruise was from where they manned their ship at Quancite Point Rhode Island down through the Panama Canal and across to the South Pacific. I have a book that a Lt. JG put together after the war that showed the island invasions they were involved in and the battle of Leyte Gulf. God rest those heroes souls. Thank you.
All of these men are my heros. You took the world back from an alliance of evil men. My stepdad was a thiety year navy man and i have his stamp collection showing his trip through the seas and WWII. His name was Bonnie Leo Cole.
An interview with USS Ben Franklin suvivor George Black. Mr. Black tell of the explosion and his and others escape from inside the burning aircraft carrier ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VXKW1UjnH3Q.html
As a lifelong resident of the 2nd greatest potato producing state & a neighbor to the first I'd be willing to bet a 10lb sack of spuds that the O'Bannon potatoes came from Washington or Idaho...we don't have much else to be proud about out here.
What some people don't know is that Germany carried out testing of tanks and other heavy armaments in Russia so they could get round the none building of heavy weapons sanctions that were imposed on Germany by the allies after WW1
Amazing that we have these recordings of German Tank Personnel. Yes I’m British,but the German soldiers “Well-the Wehrmacht “ , were respected by the British troops.. I worked with a man that was with the Desert Rats. He said that the German soldiers were just an amazing force. And they would just fight until the end.
Love how they keep talking about SS shooting usa POWS , but not a word about how Americans were shooting German POWS and Germans who surrendered since they hit the beach .
"it symbolized the nazi superman". You know, Hitler never talked about master race or anything like that. I've read my struggle , I've listened to his speeches, I speak German... All this stuff about national socialists believing in super human superior race etc is crap. Yeah, they were German centric, but most ethnic groups feel the same way about their own group
Thank God I was never on a ship while in the Navy😄. I had the utmost respect for those sailors. I trained as a Aviation mechanic working on UH2C Helos. Then I changed to Combat Photographer as I had a lot of training from the time I was kid.
Those racks with a lattice and springs around their periphery and the sag with a sailor in them, wonder if that's why the Gearings had racks with a sheet of canvas lashed to a pipe frame?
The piggyback on what someone else had wrote the military channel is now American Heroes channel and what do they show stupid stuff on the FBI and crap like that I don't care about that I miss the old military channel
Damn I knew legendary German tank commander Otto Carius was a badass tank commander but at around @22:30 it was described how he was shot 5 times on the Eastern Front. He was like the German 50cent. He survived the war & worked at his pharmacy the “Tiger Apothecary.” He lived a long life & only just died a few years ago in the 2000’s IIRC
It's mind boggling that Hitler chose to attack the Soviets in 41. So many tanks, men and equipment got chewed up and lost in that failed offensive. Just imagine if Germany had all those armored divisions - including many, many Tigers - to deploy along the Normandy Coast in 44.
Spent lots of time on destroyers. 3"50, 3"70, 5"54 & boffers, Asroc, sparrows and super arbuc. Oh, cant forget the mortars! Miss them all...but I can visit most of them at the museum now. Lmao.
My father was a radio man and then the exact on the Craven, and then the exec on the Butler. He was also the decommissioning officer on the Butler. A true hero!
The first US deaths during WWII was not from sinking the Destroyer it was from a U Boat sinking a cruise ship with American passengers aboard. The same U boat Captain sank a British cruise ship earlier that year killing all 1100 passengers aboard.
