The Central Pennsylvania World War II Roundtable provides a forum for World War II veterans, authors, historians, and interested citizens to educate, discuss, study, and share their knowledge of World War II. The Central Pennsylvania World War II Roundtable holds monthly meetings, which are free of charge, and feature speakers, mostly WW II veterans, on topics relevant to WW II.
My life lately has been PC technology confusion and constant workarounds. It's so frustrating. 100 years from now when historians look back at our computer problems they will throw their heads and laugh ...
I have been to the Sicily-Rome American Military Cemetery in Nettuno, Italy where many Tuskegee Airmen are buried. I would like to speak with Dr. Richardson, Mr. Payne, or Aaron Watkins about these soldiers. Have they ever been to Nettuno to the Cemetery? Do they know anything about these soldiers, buried overseas, who never came home? etc. etc.
This book I've re read dozens of times. It screams like a banshee, such clear concise writing like Gulag Archipelago but severely attenuated lol. It took me too long to finally look up who this man is.
Awesome presentation! I've never heard of the references and the quotes DDB gives that clarify the A-Bomb as the key reason for Hirohito's decision to surrender. Most historians will assert that the Russian invasion of Manchuria was what tipped the scales. Evidently, no so much.
No. I do not want to study your forehead, nor see your face - especially the glaring reflection of lights from your glasses. Show illustrations or photos pertinent to the text. Please.
My father was a veteran of the Battle of The Atlantic- he served on HMCS Moosejaw, HMCS Saskatoon and HMCS Huntsville. Huntsville got a shared kill of a U-Boat in the Irish Sea- dad was one of the men detailed to pick up evidence. Flotsam and body parts, mostly. There were important reasons as to why the Allied prevailed but the most important one was that the British knew that they were in the fight of their lives. The Germans were in the fight of their lives but failed to realise it at the high command. Dad told me a story about how his ship chased a U-Boat but the German outran them on the surface, which the crew found particularly frustrating.
Please Mr. Barrett you are ruining the ability of noodle armed armchair professors to prove how smart they are 80 years later in a way which wows gullible female college students in whose eyes he is a hero for proving to the world how evil the USA was compared to the gentle, lotus tea drinking cherry blossom appreciating peaceful Japanese of 1945
" ... moral advancement ... "? 2 Peter 3:10 “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
How can Omaha beach be compared to any American Landscape Battle; Gettysburg; or Bunker Hill? No way in a historical sense of time and position..Why apologize???
I am sure that this gentleman is well intentioned but if you google "Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers" you will find out that the Japanese had been trying to surrender since January 1945 and that the President knew it.
You can turn on the Closed Caption Service by hitting the CC button at the bottom of the viewing screen. The volume is pretty low, headphones would be helpful as well.
It was a group effort. Unspoken, many escorts and landing craft were crewed by US Coast Guard sailors. Additionally, Merchant Marine sailors put their lives on the line every time they boarded an outbound ship. In my view, the war at sea was a determined effort to make marine insurance so expensive that trade would collapse. If Lloyd's, for instance, felt compelled to raise its rates beyond which that the carriers felt they could afford . . . the whole of the continent would have become an aggressive balance to the British Empire System so long in place. Napoleon's dream made reality.
One doesn't have "a beer" with Admiral Karl. For him, it's ersatz coffee and (drum roll please) Doenitz. I'll let myself out through the scuttling hatch.
I wish I had listened to this talk before watching Greyhound. I am 31 years old and have been a long time - avid consumer of WWII knowledge. Great presentation!
Yes vert good thanks but allow to disagree on specifically on the contribution of the town class destroyers as they were a very welcome contribution a few of them sank a U-boat as well.
United States Navy armed guard was not any form of police force. All merchant ships carried various-sized guns for self-defense during the the war. These guns were manned by navel Crews known as the armed guard.
I recommend the movie " The Cruel Sea ". A depiction of life on a Flower-class Corvette. It is a tour de force on the battle of the Atlantic. I agree it should be described as a campaign not a battle.
Dr. Symonds is one of my favorite historians, but he should have mentioned that the escorts that defeated the U-boats were primarily British and Canadian.
As to the idea that Stalin "was not entirely wrong" about the Allies delivering insufficient supplies to the NAZIs and the War in the West was insufficient, it needs to be mentioned that for much of the first 2 years of the War, Stalin was a Hitler ally (1939-41). In addition, the reason that the Allies had a limited ability to open a Western Front was that Stalin had helped Hitler destroy the French Army (1940). As a NAZI ally, the Soviet Union delivered vast quantities of oil and other strategic materials to the NAZU war machine.
@@phillydelphia8760 Absolutely correct. The NAZIs and Soviets were allies (1939-41). The German offenses in 1940 were heavily dependent on Soviet oil, copper, and other material.
About 50 years ago the BBC showed a series called the Battle of the Atlantic on television. Possibly even longer ago. There was no mention of any decoding devices that I remember.
Armed Guards were the U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the gun crews aboard the Merchant vessels. It became a practice when guns were placed on these ships, which was considered illegal by the laws of war between the wars.
It was not only the US building Escorts as well. This talk is, obviously directed at a US audience so I understand the bias towards the US. Thus this is not a criticism. Only broadening the outlook somewhat. On to the Escorts, Britain and Canada built considerable numbers of dedicated Escort vessels. perhaps the most famous, at least in the UK is the Flower Class Corvette. This was actually a pre war design, based on the hull of a Whaling ship. The idea was that it being based on a commercial hull meant it could be built in smaller commercial yards that built fishing trawlers and the like, so freeing up the larger yards for larger ships, like Destroyers, destroyer escorts, Frigates and the like. Between them the UK and Canada built 294 Flower Class. If anything they were even MORE uncomfortable to serve on than the US Destroyer Escorts. They had a tendency to roll and pitch alarmingly, though their seakeeping was actually very good. One popular joke at the time had a Flower Class rolling on a patch of dew (they had very shallow draughts, part of the reason they rolled so heavily). The Flowers were designed to stay with the convoys, they were slow, even for Escort ships. For more proactive ASW ships the British relied on their frigates, ships like the River Class, of which 151 were built, and the later war Loch Class (28 built but 50 were cancelled near the end of the war in Europe). These were not the only British or Canadian designed purpose built escort ships, the Flowers and Rivers were built in the largest numbers, but other Corvette and Frigate Classes, as well as Sloops, were built in smaller numbers. So while not to the extent of the US, and while their Escorts tended to be somewhat smaller than the US Destroyer Escorts, the British and Canadians still built significant numbers of them, numbering in the hundreds of completed hulls. Also, hedgehog *was* a British invention, so we get to name it :). Ironically enough its initial design did not come out of the Navy, but out of SOE. It took some serious development though, if I remember right getting the pattern to splash right was one of the biggest challenges behind the system. Hedgehog was of course replaced by Squid, which was a superior delivery system in most respects, and had the further advantage of being simpler!!!
