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Then I'll apologise for calling you bad things in response, and we can go back to being civilised. Also on topic there was a paddle wheel aircraft carrier. It was nifty.

I am the British English in general, thats what in general means :p That they are traits shared by everyone in that category Just wiki concentration camp, its the simplest research you can do. The term originated in the reconcentrados (reconcentration camps) set up by the Spanish military set...

Concentration camps were invented by a German and first used by the Spanish in Cuba. And America in the Phillipines. Also a big difference between a concentration camp and a death camp or labour camp. At least get these easily researched facts right. Are you even going to apologise for calling...

I am Irish Catholic knobhead, I live in England, my folks are Catholic NI and Mayo so don't imagine I am unaware of things that caused all that. I didn't say Britain is saintly, no one is, but the fact I am Irish Catholic in England and not dead or nonexistent because of some genocide also tells...

It didn't have better PR, it was just better. Anyway I'm sure you can provide a list of what you think happened and I can do the same and maybe there'll be a medal for who was less exploitative or who treated people less like cunts. If your team is 20th century Germany then I wish you the best...

That is revisionist twaddle applying current year American world view to historical settings. I don't recall any campaigns of genocide, indeed I'd say in that respect Britain did much better than its peers including Germany -cough Namibia- No one is saintly but Britain wasn't motivated by some...

What the actual fuck? Get outta here cunt. What is wrong with you? Maybe Wellington was still pissed that when Blucher ordered the march to Waterloo his chief of staff Gneisnau deliberately sabotaged the order of march. The Prussians had a corps that could have been there in a couple of hours...

Must be pretty rare these days for anyone to have a ship that has seen a real fight. Maybe some of those second hand ships sold off to South America or SE Asia perhaps? Pretty sure HMS Victory is the only European ship left either :p

The only vessel currently serving in the USN to have sunk an enemy ship in action is the USS Constitution. The second to last one was a Frigate that wasted an Iranian ship in the late 80s which retired a few years ago

Pretty much. At one point the forward lift jammed halfway down which would have left the deck with a big gap in it. So rather than take that as a sign from above the Commander had the lift well planked over so those planes could fly. She was at the time taking part in a battle which probably...

Somewhat ironic the ship immolated itself when its name translates as Great Phoenix Worst bit was it took six and a half hours between the torpedo hit and the explosion. They had all that time and presumably knew this was a bad, bad idea to keep using the flight deck when the ship was in such...

Yeah her too, she took a torpedo that cracked an avgas tank filling the hanger with fumes. She had armoured deck so it started to build up, normally you'd drop elevators and let natural airflow clear it out along with various vents. Unfortunately the commander still wanted to conduct air ops so...

certainly helped :p Japan probably had the edge at first but as the USN tried new things and allowed its better officers to rise into command positions it all fell together. Not perfect as nothing is, but late WWII USN was probably the peak. Something to be justly proud of. Yeah that really...

they did good at some of the Guadalcanal battles when they could leverage their training and decent ship designs. Battles around Java too. Ultimately though the USN was able to train new crews to better standards and could rely on more aggressive commanders as the war went on. If the Japanese...

Well the USN had the advantage there and won that one :D The Japanese had more carriers but they were understrength with exhausted crews and worn out aircraft that hadn't been reinforced or replaced. They had good strike doctrine but awful defensive doctrine which contributed greatly to their...

that was the same fleet led by the same staff :p it was a shame because the USN had excellent officers available but the procedure and traditions put more senior but less experienced admirals in charge

Hiei got crippled by a cruiser and a destroyer which were part of arguably the worst led USN fleet of the war.

Today I learned this was a real thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry_War All fun and games until you trash a Frenchman's baking

There is the legend of Sadaaki Akamatsu Sadaaki flew for the IJN in WWII but doesn't appear to have deployed on carriers spending his time either in China or the mainland. The stereo type of the Japanese military at the time is either cruel sadists or stoic obedient men of honour, Sadaaki on...

That time the US Navy used a missile to send a message. https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/oddly-interesting-things-that-carried-the-mail/cruise-missile-mail Literally send a message. The sort of delivery service Amazon would cream for. Once again the actual 1950s proves Fallout a poor...