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The Drydock - Episode 384

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:46 - Was there a particular reason why the cutter USCGC Taney was chosen for the role of amphibious command ship?

00:04:54 - Did Taney ever have a float plane on board?

00:06:06 - How common is it for warships to sink in battle with sailors trapped in air pockets?

00:10:03 - Could the Kriegsmarine have successfully disguised the true purpose of the Panzerschiff by significantly overstating their speed and armor and understating their range?

00:12:50 - Did any Razed frigates ever find themselves unwittingly participating in a line battle and how did that turn out for them?

00:16:59 - If HMS Shah had successfully torpedoed and sunk the Peruvian ironclad Huascar how do you think that would have influenced the adoption of the torpedo by navies and the development of the tactical doctrine underpinning its use? Conversely, how do you think the sinking or capture of HMS Shah by Huascar would have affected the Royal Navy’s deployment of warships in distant foreign stations?

00:23:49 - Could the WW2 campaign in the Med have unfolded broadly the same way as historically if neither side had any capital ships in the theatre and relied entirely on land-based airpower for sea control?

00:30:00 - Would British battlecruisers have benefited from having three gun turrets instead of the two gun turrets?

00:38:35 - How much of a threat did the Luftwaffe actually pose to the Royal Navy?

00:47:23 - Deck armour and plunging fire

00:54:33 - What would the USN's first battlecruiser have looked like?

00:58:36 - In the leadup to D-Day, how much say did Eisenhower and other Army/Army Air Corps generals have in planning the Naval portions of the operation?

01:00:41 - Cruisers and Treaty Compliance?

01:07:37 - National Levels of -Insert Thing Here-?

01:09:59 - Net cutters on submarines?

01:13:16 - How many times were battleships actually sunk by aircraft vs how many times were carriers sunk by aircraft?

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