Cruiser and Destroyer Actions of WW2 - Small but Vicious

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• DR

  @Drachinifel · 2 years ago · pinned

  Pinned post for Q&A :)

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• BI

  @Big_E_Soul_Fragment · 2 years ago

  Everybody's gangsta until a Captain actually named "Manley Power" shows up

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• AD

  @adrianjorgensen3750 · 2 years ago

  It’s always nice to see the Italians get recognized and not as the punchline to a joke.

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• ZA

  @Zaaphod · 2 years ago

  Captain Manley Power is THE best name for destroyer captain ever.

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• CH

  @chehalem · 2 years ago

  Hearing of a WWII naval commander that actually understood the capabilities and limitations of radar and used that knowledge to great advantage at Vella Gulf seems almost unbelievable after so many accounts on this channel where radar was dismissed, ignored, or generally misunderstood.

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• RA

  @rackstraw · 2 years ago

  Manly Power: "There is no kill like overkill."

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• FF

  @Ffourteen · 1 year ago

  Imagine telling someone you were on the Enterprise during WWII, then having to explain, "no, the other one. Yes, there was another one."

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• MA

  @MaxwellAerialPhotography · 2 years ago

  could we get a full video on the small boat war in the channel and bay of biscay? these were the vicious knife fights of naval combat. in particular seeing the battle of ushant would be gratifying.

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• NO

  @Novus_Dawn · 2 years ago

  I remember reading the autobiography of the Shigure's Captain and his career during the war. He and his crew didn't realize that a torpedo had put a hole in the rudder until the ship was dry-docked MONTHS after the engagement. They chalked the destroyer's bad handling to mechanical issues after the battle due to how long the ship had gone without cleaning and refit.

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• JO

  @JopardBDS · 2 years ago

  Drach, you do seem to take great joy when referring to Captain Manely Power when he pops up. Did he have a sufficiently significant career to do a special on him? The prospect of a Manely Power special is quite splendid

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• AN

  @andrewhoogsteen3443 · 2 years ago

  I always like hearing about the destroyer skirmishes. They're so much more chaotic than the big line battles.

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• VE

  @Verdis_deMosays · 2 years ago

  The Regia Marina really does have all the weird and wild stuff happen. I'd love to hear more about that particular scuffle, because it seems so uniquely Italian!

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