@ezz9 holy cow

that prediction was SPOT ON

that's astounding

Yeah, too bad it’s censored

Lol

Anyone here a bit of a ww2 buff?

🙋‍♂️ of sorts

Sweet.

@HUNTER4639 have you ever done any reading or looking into the Pacific theater?

I think I've heard of it but not really.

It sounds familiar

Interesting. I always found sea battles to be more interesting. Idk why.

OHHHH

Yes I have

I was thinking it was a book or something lmao

Yeah I also find sea battles more interesting

Ah cool.

I think the most mismatched battle was leyte gulf.

Sadly it's overlooked in most history classes and not widely known unless you happen to study/look into history.

I've played Battlestations Pacific and that was one of the battles 😂 pretty cool stuff

What role did you play?

I can't remember the scenario.

It's been to long ago for me.

You play as the air support while bombing hangars

Ah. Well, there's another aspect of that battle. One far more interesting in real life anyways.

And then a Japanese battleship with 2 escorts shows up

But before that 2 aircraft carriers get kamikazed

Our aircraft carriers

That's the mission lol

Haven't really looked into the real life battle too much

Hmm. Interesting.

Well, I think you would enjoy the history.

Do you know what a tin can referred to in the navy?

No I don't

Ok, well destroyer and destroyer escorts were called tin cans. Because they would be crushed like a tin can if they were hit by enemy ships like a cruiser all the way to a big battleship.

Interesting I didn't know that

So there's a book called, "the last stand of the Tin can sailors." And it talks about the entire conflict between literally tin cans turning an entire Japanese navy battleship group.

Oh man

Taffy 3 was the name of group. They were made of like 4 or 5 dd(destroyers) and 4-6 de(destroyer escorts) and a a dozen or so jeep carriers who were supporting the landing at leyte for the Philippines island invasion.

They were the only thing standing between the troop and supply ships.

Oh wow I didn't know that

I'll share a link with you.