World War 2 Navy Comparison - Fleets Evolution 1939-1946

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On the brink of World War II, the emergence of effective radar systems, as well as the development of submarines and carrier-borne aviation, drastically changed the nature of naval warfare. Even the most innovative doctrines became hopelessly obsolete on the battlefields of the new war.
In this video, we'll tell you about the navies of the leading naval powers of that time - their composition, number of ships, and the ratio of the main ship types, such as battleships, cruisers, destroyers, aircraft carriers, and submarines.
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[@WorldofWarshipsOfficialChannel]

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[@waynesworldofsci-tech]

Pretty shitty. No RAN, RCN, RnZNS, Netherlands, Polish, Greek, etc.

[@doommonger7784]

Failed to mention the Royal Navy destroyed the French and Italian fleets at anchor in the Mediterranean early on in WW2

[@Cypherdude1]

You are short on the number of aircraft carriers the US and Japan had at start of WW2. US had 7 fleet carriers and 1 escort carrier. Japan had 10 aircraft carriers.

[@mikefraser4513]

@@doommonger7784 The French hated us for that. 1,297 French servicemen were killed.

[@warrenhammonds1093]

This English narrator tells us that England basically fought the Germans by herself even though the US were supplying them. And then tells us that Japan was defeated after competing against the USA and GB. Lol

[@nitsu2947]

9:24 when you have so much aircraft carrier you can spam 11 carriers to a battleship group

[@stevemc01]

Yamato: “NANI?” US Carriers: “hehe yeah boi.”

[@Alecin_]

EXACTLY, what I thought....

[@MarkiusFox]

And damage control so strong that fires spontaneously erupt on the attacking planes.

[@kasonrice2013]

Shoulda took a halland with Yamato smh

[@asrilhanif609]

glad that in-game is just limited to 2 cv on random battle

[@matthewdouglas8368]

"The Soviet union launched a large scale program for creating a *great* navy after the war" This program is what u know today as world of warships

[@trobinson14kc]

Because it bankrupted them.

[@nickrael5693]

Hahaha ikr most of their ships in game are fantasy ones, yet they have the best ballistics, armor, etc.... SMH

[@bwalla50]

Russians have always had feelings of inadequacy. The fact that the Russians who run the game have made fake Russian boats so powerful is just more examples of that.

[@Jonahch2v9]

Totally unfair. All of those tech tree Russian ships were at least drawn out on paper, weeks before being added to a historical game.

[@philingyou]

Its funny how the soviet just cant accept the truth and lie about the facts.

[@paulcarey1708]

Huge oversite - - by the end of the war, Canada had the 4th largest navy in the world. All the more impressive when you consider Canada had a population of about 11 million at the time and their navy basically consisted of 2 row boats and a sling-shot in 1939.

[@davidknowsbetter8495]

ayo

[@bhairavimusic5113]

Canada wasn't an independent country at the time of WW2 though, so it would have come under Britain's figures

[@paulcarey1708]

@@bhairavimusic5113 Canada became an independent country in 1867, and was considered to have "emotionally" broken away from Great Britain after WWI.

[@davidknowsbetter8495]

@@paulcarey1708 They only had two crusty dusty musty ugly useless carriers tho

[@oliverblair7379]

@@paulcarey1708 that's not true. Even in 1914. The Canadian parliament took the position that Britain's declaration of war Included them. Britain's legislative primacy over Canada did not end until 1982.

[@ggsimmonds1]

American industrial output during WWII, particularly with the navy, is just jaw dropping.

[@theholt2ic219]

That is probably the main reason the Axis lost. I truly believe the American manufacturing industry was the deciding factor. The Germans and Japanese could not afford to replace lost tanks, planes, and ships compared to the Americans just pumping them out so quickly. The Japanese were doomed from the start. The Axis manufactured much much slower while getting bombed from the skies.

[@Melior_Traiano]

@@theholt2ic219 The war was lost as soon as Germany declared war on the Soviet Union. The Americans provided the supplies and logistics, the British the intelligence and the Soviets the men.

[@stuka80]

@@Melior_Traiano I think the war against the SU could've been won in the first 6 months before American and British material aid became decisive if Germany did not make critical strategic mistakes that wasted away all the advantages that they had achieved at the start of Barbarossa.

[@Melior_Traiano]

@@stuka80 Their advance halted due to the overstretched supply lines. I think Germany had only a very slim chance of ever beating the Soviet Union in WWII. They achieved amazing victories early on, but ultimately their forces were absolutely overstretched. Even though they had brilliant strategists like Von Manstein.

[@stuka80]

@@Melior_Traiano The supply lines were long but it was not the factor that stopped the German advance, it was the rainy season and mud more than anything else. It strained everything, from the movement of supplies, to battle maneuvers at the front. The mud would not have been a factor though if the armor from Army Group Center was not diverted south and wasted almost 3 weeks of good weather. By the time it was given back and directed towards Moscow again, the rain started and slowed the advance to a slow crawl, including the supplies. Those 3 crucial weeks cost Germany the only real victory they could've achieved in the war.

[@trapical]

I can only imagine how horrified and helpless the Japanese officers felt in the later half of the war. They knew how effective and powerful sending 3 aircraft carriers was, as even a single aircraft carrier can win a battle. Meanwhile the US starts showing up with 12 carriers to each new naval battle. How do you even have any hope to go against at that.

[@TheSuperior100]

In 50 years America is going to feel the same thing again, except this time America is the one with 3 and China has 12

[@lincolntravelconcierge4846]

I remember reading a document from a IJN officer stating how the Americans named some of their ships the same name as previous ships that had been sunk... but then they could afford to do that since they were replacing them.

[@acanofbacon914]

@@TheSuperior100 That’s just not gonna happen though. USA has eleven supercarriers, and China’s navy is about as effective as wet toilet paper.

[@leonardusrakapradayan2253]

@@TheSuperior100 you actually believe China's navy can go against the US navy?

[@JaKingScomez]

@@TheSuperior100 not only that but the USA has the largest ocean protecting its coast from China meanwhile the USA has islands where it can send its navy to china. And USA will be the global superpower for the rest of our lifetime unless something unforeseeable happens

[@squidy4082]

Dude imagine going against 29 aircraft carriers , that’s fucking terrifying

[@emilchen9866]

Unless if your on a ship with guns and the carriers don’t have planes and any weapons or are already destroyed

[@squidy4082]

@@emilchen9866 exactly

[@MrMikemcmike]

This video doesn't distinguish between fleet carriers and escort carriers. Certainly the US had a ton of carriers - but many of them were mid-sized vessels with relatively small air-wings intended for anti-submarine and air cover roles.

[@cass7448]

It's interesting how Midway is widely held as THE decisive battle in the Pacific, yet a mere handful of carriers were involved.

[@squidy4082]

@@cass7448 well it was a very very important battle because it was a massive staging base for the rest of the pacific theater , america needed that island more than anything

[@11C1P]

Yorktown was also badly damaged in the battle of the Coral Sea. Thanks to a herculean effort they were able to patch it up quickly enough to arrive at the battle of Midway. Tactically Coral Sea was a Japanese victory, but they lost a carrier that would be hard for them to replace whereas the U.S. would be able to crank out lots of carriers before the end of the war so strategically it was a U.S. victory.

[@aaronzimmet822]

I believe they said it would take 2 weeks to fix her up but she had to leave in 4 days and they somehow managed to get her up and running again in under 3 days

[@erickuo2786]

Most important thing about Battle of Coral Sea was that the 5th Japanese carriers fleet Shokaku and Zuikaku are heavily damaged on ship and air crew. Therefore they were absence during the battle of Midway, both carrier together carry almost 150 air craft, with these large amount of air craft add into the Japanese aid, the battle of Mid Way might end up differently. Not just Japanese fleet has more air cover and splitting damage against American bomber, but MOST IMPORTANT, Nagumo will not make the mistake of rearming the Torpedo bomber into land based bomb due to the fact Mid Way based could have been wipe out by the first bombing run with the add on of extra bomber from 5th carrier division. In conclusion, Japanese slightly win the battle of Coral sea based on the weight of unit lose, but in strategy, it is the total victory of America because they ruin the Japanese invasion force sent to attack Australia and causing two of the key carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku to be absence for the up coming Mid Way battle.

[@chadlongnecker630]

​@@aaronzimmet822they said 3 months

[@lancegideondiokno1774]

US before pearl harbor: **1 ship a year** US After pearl harbor: **1 ship a second**

[@lancegideondiokno1774]

@Falcon Shadow Nova well lord knows how many on average they'll be built

[@baskapat5239]

Capitalism at it's finest.

[@farhanrahman7119]

Lol

[@savagedark916]

Murica.

[@notarmchairhistorian7779]

The amount of aircraft carriers they have is almost unfair. Just look at the battle of leyte gulf. Ridiculous!

[@joshmccormick1645]

USA 1941: “Call an ambulance, call an ambulance” USA 1945: “But not for me”

[@southsideboyz9463]

A man of culture, I see.

[@mazda_rt24-p]

Aha

[@notarmchairhistorian7779]

"In america, there is a destroyer in every blade of grass ." -samurai general

[@Delgen1951]

USA, Ok Dudes you just Pissed me off, Now...You sank My battleship! B14!! J11 and...

[@firemedic1648]

@@notarmchairhistorian7779 That’s not even the right quote😭

[@aon10003]

I have studied military history since the 60s. And still, your oversight gave me important pieces of the Naval History of ww2. Thank you.

[@frankkolton1780]

As someone who likes to read about US naval battles of the Pacific in WWII, it is a terrible oversight not to mention the Royal Australian Navy. While it wasn't a large navy compared to the major powers, they never hesitated to sail into harms way. They lost two light cruisers, one was the HMAS Perth in the battle of the Sunda Stait, and they also lost heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra in the Battle of Savo Island.

[@Adeon55]

It was fortunate that Japan couldn't deploy emus in the ocean

[@keirwhitwell7831]

Indeed, prior to Japan joining the war and the Aussie's focus shifting to the Pacific they fought alongside the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean also.

[@mxhesh]

​@@Adeon55😂

[@user-gn7mi2jv2r]

Australia had a navy ? When?

[@johnhession8035]

Sydney

[@TheGibusDemo]

“Or scrapped them for metal” *entire Royal Navy Disappears”

[@PitchBlackTales]

A socialist party 'The Labour Party' got into power after ww2 in Britain. They scrapped a lot of the Royal Navy to build social housing in the UK after the war.

[@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418]

Obsolete anyway. Everything we've built shall be destroyed and from the scrap metal of our navy, we shall build a better one.

[@TheGibusDemo]

@@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418 I was referring to the fact that very few got turned into museum ships

[@gh5363]

Swords into ploughshares.

[@pavarottiaardvark3431]

The Empire was bankrupt and a bunch of the ships were useless. Really, what was the RN going to do with 300 Corvettes?

[@jacktherip2894]

American naval warfare in a nutshell: If your ships start sinking, build more ships than there is water.

[@Sweetness71775]

If the average depth of the entire ocean doesn't increase by AT LEAST 5" due to all the steel you've placed in them, you're being a slacker.

[@kylerluo4544]

@@Sweetness71775 wow

[@battleship6177]

@@Sweetness71775 lmao

[@woolfyx]

USSR used similar tactics against Nazi Germany. If your soldiers die in thousands just send more than enemy has bullets.

[@Canadafish]

@@woolfyx if we throw enough men at the enemy then they’ll eventually run out of bullets

[@ENGBriseB]

For three years the UK single-handedly battled with the Germany and Italy forces. Amazing stuff.

[@bigbadlara5304]

Yes, but supplied by its commonwealth and allies. At the start of WW2 great Britain was to the world as the USA is now in militaryight metrics.

[@AFGuidesHD]

Yeah the UK would not have been able to fight after 1941 if it wasn't for US aid, similar to Ukraine today, Russia would have won months ago if not for US aid.

[@richardhorrocks1460]

@@AFGuidesHD It was less aid and more transaction. The US did VERY, VERY well out of Britains predicament.

[@kumasenlac5504]

The British Empire fought alone from the Fall of France in June 1940 to the start of Operation Barbarossa a year later...

[@RizzabethII]

@@AFGuidesHD verified ticks don’t make you right

[@wnenf]

Canada by default had worlds fourth largest navy at end of WW2. Many of the ships had been part of Atlantic convoys to supply Great Britain and Soviet Union.

[@R.U.1.2.]

(3rd largest)

[@cjmurray5532]

3rd

[@genghiskhan5701]

USA 1941: Axis ships scary USA 1944: I see no other god here but me

[@keithw4920]

USSR 2021 : Now we are balans.

[@nicholaswilson1851]

Keith W you mean the Russian federation my guy?

[@stevenmoore4612]

Facts! The US navy grew ten fold between 1942 and 1944!

[@TEGRULZ]

and they still can't get the very ship class that provided the punch on Sunday for that great and superb United States Navy.

[@colbeausabre8842]

"There is no god but Neptune and Mahan is his prophet" US Navy WAar College'ss unofficial motto

[@jafojafo5412]

Britain was NOT alone ... her common wealth countries like Canada contributed greatly with ships ... particularly North Atlantic convoy escorts.

[@mikeneufield2855]

Indeed, Canada, the Royal Canadian Navy had command of and was escorting the convoys in the Northwest Atlantic Theatre by /in 1943 , under Rear Admiral Murray .

[@kh7736]

Yes we canadian are always forgotten 🇨🇦

[@commonsenserevolutionx1053]

Actually Canada had the 4th largest navy during WWII

[@mikeneufield2855]

@@commonsenserevolutionx1053 3rd actually by war's end..

[@mjor6406]

Canada was under the Queen of GB. SO their ships were included under the total ships of GB.

[@SarthorS]

Why did the British fleet go from 324 to 153? I don't recall a battle where we lost 171 warships.

[@Glund117]

It switched to showing the Mediterranean fleet

[@Swaggaccino]

I know battleships are worthless today but the Bismarck and Yamato were pretty badass for their time. It was interesting to see how much armor and guns you could fit on one ship. I wonder what modern battleships would have looked like today if we kept making them.

[@youraveragescotsman7119]

I don't really think of 'armour' when I look at Bismarck. 12.6" belt. Weaker than the fucking Queen Elizabeth Class Super Dreadnoughts built in WWI with a 13" belt, with 8 15" guns as well.

[@bigbadlara5304]

@@youraveragescotsman7119 quality of material makes a major difference

[@bigbadlara5304]

At some point there is a limit to size considering practicality. Yamamato probably was over that practical size. I think if battleships were continued to be made their guns would not be much larger but would have much more range and accuracy.

[@Ratkill9000]

Considering that the Iowa class are now floating museums, what are the Bismark and Yamato good at other than being Tetanus infested fish tanks?

[@RizzabethII]

@@bigbadlara5304 Im hearing excuses to make a overrated battleship soudn better

[@chrislyne377]

Wait, did Wargaming just credit the Soviet navy with protecting the Arctic convoys? The ones entirely escorted primarily by the Royal Navy with assistance from the Royal Canadian Navy and the US Navy?

[@benhall7574]

Yep

[@andreikovaci1202]

I wonder what Drachinifel would have to say about that......

[@chrislyne377]

@AA Mech Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania: 👀

[@soffici1]

I might be mistaken, but I reckon they said the Soviets were protecting the convoys UK to the USSR, which is true

[@chrislyne377]

@@soffici1 The USSR contributed one or two destroyers occasionally compared to dozens of RN destroyers, cruisers and other smaller vessels. There was never a situation where the Russians contributed more than a fraction of a convoy's escort vessels yet this video makes it seem like they did it single-handedly.

[@wafs1393]

Bismarck: *exists* Royal Navy: "So you have chosen death"

[@ansonwong7372]

by a swordfish

[@merenjungshi640]

I still wonder y china remained silent. They should hav supported either of the block

[@totoblaubar8393]

To be honest, the Bismark destroyed the HMS Hood while completly outnumbered. And they missed to say that the HMS Hood was the flag ship and of same size as the Bismarck. It wasn't just a Battlecruiser...

[@Kpt_Scharnhorst]

Well ... let's put it that way. The Bismarck was the most powerful ship in the world in her time. She destroyed the flagship of the Royal Navy after her 5th volley (by the explosion of the front ammunition chamber). The Prince of Wales was badly damaged and then returned. The Royal Navy then dispatched 65 ships (I think he said it) to hunt the Bismarck. When she was located, she was also attacked directly. From hammerheads. So these are fighter planes. The problem was that the Bismarck's air defense specialized in modern aircraft. Hammerheads were biplanes from WWI. So the air defense was not very effective. A torpedo hit made the Bismarck incapable of maneuvering -> she could only go in circles. When the British came, the Bismarck was shrouded in fog. It is worth mentioning that, according to eyewitness reports, the team was afraid of the Bismarck, despite the overwhelming numbers. On the morning of May 27, 1941, the Bismarck sank after heavy fire.

[@Kpt_Scharnhorst]

What I'm saying is that the Bismarck not only existed ... no, it also sank and badly damaged the flagship of the Royal Navy, the HMS Hood and the pride of the Royal Navy, the HMS Prince of Wales. Unfortunately, the captain of the Bismarck did really damn stupid things, for example announcing the position of the Bismarck. I'm German myself and I think it's a shame that the Bismarck has sunk. Not because we might otherwise have continued to distribute at sea, but because the Bismarck was a beautiful ship.

[@julieinthenorthwest4594]

Pretty good video. Only one thing left out, the destroyers for bases deal in September 1940 where the UK received 50 destroyers from the USA for land for naval and air bases.

[@George_Bland]

You mentioned when Tirpitz was destroyed, but I think it's interesting to note that until then Tirpitz had sat in harbour since its creation, serving as a "fleet in being" which is the threat that if anyone enters the adjacent sea it will attack, so nobody can operate there, however the ship itself is not being risked.

[@EliiGamer685]

Nobody deared to operate around Tirpitz's domain until she was sunk, which took around 4 years of different tactics of the allies

[@Axispaw1]

Also remember that the Tirpitz stayed in port partly because the Royal Marine raid on St Nazaire meant the Tirpitz could no longer use that drydock and if she took damage from the Atlantic convoy then she would have no close drydock to retreat to.

[@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2]

@@EliiGamer685 The Arctic convoys to Russia all passed Tirpitz's lair, escorted by Royal Navy capital ships hoping to do to her what they eventually did to the Sharnhorst. As for a fleet in being, the way that works is to tie down forces your enemy would rather use elsewhere. But where else were the Royal Navy going to use there battleships mid war? The Pacific had turned out to be a carrier war, most of Germany's fleet had already been sunk, and the Italians were paralysed by a lack of fuel and a fear of the dark brought on by their lack of radar. after Matapan.

[@nighttrain1236]

"How many ships would you like to build Mr USA?" "Yes"

[@wwoods66]

"All of them."

[@davidhimmelsbach557]

Actually, at that time, the buzz in Washington DC and across the USN was that we should build 100 carriers. It was this sentiment that pulled steel away from the BBs on the ways. Even the talent left to build CVs, CVLs and CEs. CVLs were popular because they could be built in yards just too small for the big stuff. They also seemed 'right-sized' for USMC operations where it was assumed that the CVLs would support enduring bombing campaigns while the fleet was off at the Big Battle. It never quite worked out that way. Once it was plain that the CVLs could operate hand-and-glove with the CVs -- well then -- that's where they'll be slotted.

[@wandaperi]

Normie

[@liqiang4506]

Fake bews western propaganda

[@nkvdcomradeorion7336]

@@davidhimmelsbach557 Jesus, 100 carriers? Seems quite a bit overkill.

[@hionmaiden663]

The UK declared war on Japan when it attacked Hong Kong, on the 8th December 1941, and not when Force Z was attacked two days later.

[@1arritechno]

Yes , never let the truth stand in the way of a Video.... there are many half truths & missing facts like Canada's situation.

[@battleship6177]

yep... wargaming for ya

[@the_real_bin_chicken]

its a dishonor to those who fought to misrepresent history in such a way

[@SonofRuss95]

@@the_real_bin_chicken This video has 1 million views, wait until you open a textbook at your local high school or secondary school which impact many more than this video.

[@the_real_bin_chicken]

@@SonofRuss95 “ Walt till you OPEN A TEXTBOOK” yeah textbooks ONLY TELL YOU WHAT YOUR GOVERMENT WANTS YOU TO THINK! Wait till you have two masters degrees in history and strategic studies.... you will find that this video is full of bullshit

[@SamCogley]

I might have missed something here, but the US had six carriers at the start of WWII: Lexington, Saratoga, and Enterprise in the Pacific (though Saratoga was just finishing a long-delayed refit, something that would become a theme), and three in the Atlantic: Ranger, Yorktown, and Hornet. Also, the USN unofficially joined the Battle of the Atlantic in mid-1941, when the Kriegsmarine decided they really didn’t care who was escorting convoys, and started shooting at both RN and USN escorts, and the USN started shooting back.

[@AFT_05G]

0:30 Umm no French Navy wasn’t even close to being 2nd largest,USN and IJN were far larger.

[@resolute123]

So when you say the US lost three carriers in the Leyte, you might want to specify what type of carriers. These were escort carriers, essentially modified cargo ships with flight decks; not a huge asset lost to Japan's heavy carriers and battleships. Same thing with Coral Sea, US lost a heavy carrier compared to Japan's lost of a light carrier.

[@adamtruong1759]

Heavy carrier? Not to fond of that. Fleet carrier? More like it.

[@resolute123]

@@adamtruong1759 I do too. I said heavy because this entire vid is for newbies of history. They might not make that association if I said fleet, but they can get the size association if I had used heavy. True statement?

[@adamtruong1759]

Potentially.

[@thevortex6754]

Yep, the US didn’t lose many true aircraft carriers during the war. Japan lost all of theirs

[@randycheow4268]

Probably escort carriers since the US never lost a single Essex class Carrier during the war

[@yourlocalt72]

fun fact: usa had 200 dockyards with %350 output

[@cirno9356]

exp boost kicked in

[@bhogindrosoubam1822]

Guten Tag Admiral Lütjens

[@murkywateradminssions5219]

Still underwater? If so, can you Say hi to admiral Nelson and that one Korean admiral for me thanks

[@thegreenreaper6660]

=Pearl Harbor attack occurs= US: AMERICAAANS!!! ...... ... .. . assemble! =US Industry= : WHUAAAAAAAAAH!!!! US-radio message to GB: 'Churchill, this is Uncle Sam, do you read me?........ On your left!"

[@joaqincastro5613]

@Simpson, eh? Russia is much bigger but look at their navy

[@InferKnow]

A channel by a game making the content I genuinely like to watch, should be recognized as a good act. 👍

[@jaywalch3696]

Great video! You indicated that GB declared war on Japan because of the sinking of two significant British warships; however, Great Britain and some other nations declared war on Japan when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

[@g.t.richardson6311]

Yes on dec 8th as Malaya Hong Kong and Singapore were attacked

[@mazda_rt24-p]

Hilarious how good the russian navy is in wows compared to real life 😆

[@christianhorn8811]

Because they have only projects...

[@hunterbg6651]

@@christianhorn8811 And lots of half finished ships. Most of whitch were scrapped after the war.

[@jamesthehandsome8582]

*Tap* *Sicert* *Ducoments* Comrad

[@jamesthehandsome8582]

*Tap* *Sicert* *Ducoments* Comrad

[@radioactiveboi842]

Yeah its quite a shame. Imagine ships that can survive 15 shimakaze torps just pure bullshit in my opinion

[@cplchanb]

Big shame that Canada was not acknowledged to having the 3rd largest navy by VJ day. They helped win the battle of the atlantic

[@Aluminati1]

Canada was only mentioned twice, about building ships. I guess my grandfather was lying about his 4 years in the North Atlantic escorting convoys to Murmansk

[@n2eman192]

@@Aluminati1 No your grandfather wasn't lying. And I know you know that ;) Its quite a feature going from 2 ships in WW1 to 400 + by the end of WW2 eh?

[@Jonahch2v9]

Churchill openly claimed the Battle of the Atlantic as the key to the war. Canada had taken over the lion's share of that struggle. The amount of attacks that never happened is unfortunately an almost impossible stat. After the war, tacticians agreed with the Canadian concept that keeping submarines away from a convoy was much more effective, than hunting and sinking them. (Something that was only possible because of breaking their radio codes and so knowing exactly where they were.)

[@Aluminati1]

@@n2eman192 Absolutely, Canada might be small in population and in military size but we fight well above our weight. I must've watched 4,000 hours of the history channel and many documentaries about the war with him growing up. To hear him talk about the guys in the Merchant Marine and on the corvettes was inspiring. We're from a small ex-coal mining town in NS and he told me he knew of at least one man from each street lost overseas, many of which were his friends(he used to tell me their names), and I get frustrated with videos like this one barely even acknowledging Canada's war effort

[@n2eman192]

@@Aluminati1 Yep heard many stories. My Mothers Father came from Phinneys Cove and was a Phinney too.

[@hocares6983]

its not only ships that lost, its the souls of those people who participated in war

[@freebornjohn2687]

It is hard to comprehend the scale of WW2: the armies, air forces, navies, industrial operations.

[@morningnapalm9963]

U.S. War Production: "Just build as much as everyone else.." Factories: "Done" U.S. War Production: ".. Combined!" Factories: "No problem" U.S. War Production: "Also supply all of our allies, in fact build more for them then they are." Factories: "Now you're speaking my language"

[@tyvernoverlord5363]

Factory Output at +infinite production!

[@MrChickennugget360]

US uses Cheat Codes- infinite money, infinite production capacity. Nazi Germany be like WFT you using Cheat Codes?

[@eramahmed8896]

Entire USA summarised.

[@trapical]

That really is the summary to all of WW2. Anytime someone brings up an alternate timeline theory like "what if Hiter didn't invade Russia, etc", it's all irrelevant, the outcome of WW2 was only really ever going to end in one way. By the middle of the war, the US had over 70% of the total industrial output OF THE ENTIRE WORLD. The war was always going to end the same way, its basically impossible to go up against that, no matter how brave your troops or how clever your officers.

[@Sweetness71775]

@@MrChickennugget360 The equally funny and sad thing about what you said was the infinite money part. Fractal reserve banking is great in wartime but in any other time it's fucking awful. "Hey guys, I know the value of your currency is dropping so I'm just gonna go ahead and create 1.9 trillion more out of thin air. Is that cool?"

[@issacfoster1113]

USA: You Get a ship you get a ship you get a ship everyone gets a Omfg ship!

[@ancaplanaoriginal5303]

US Navy be like: What if every sailor gets it's own destroyer?

[@namja01]

@@ancaplanaoriginal5303 And then there's the escort carriers, oh god the escort carriers.... all 124 of them.

[@notarmchairhistorian7779]

Kreigsmarine: "kills 2 ships a day" America: "Fine. We'll build 30 more!"

[@LackeysLack]

@@namja01 I like the Jingles video (don't remember which one) where the player is sailing a Fletcher-class destroyer. Jingles goes on about how the US commissioned, not just ordered, or built, or launched, but actually built and manned and put into service, ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE Fletcher-class destroyers. Not counting all the OTHER destroyer classes or the carriers or the cruisers or yada yada yada... (By the way, that's over 57,000 sailors to crew those destroyers). I've never found the answer to Jingles asking whether the Japanese ever had 175 ships at one time.

[@benn454]

@@namja01 Fletcher class: Rookie numbers!

[@ileria3]

The US was building a Carrier per month. By an Industrialist named Henry John Kaiser who started up a medical facility to care for the mass amount of workers he had working for him building the ships, which is how Kaiser Permanente got started. His company also helped build the Hoover Damn.

[@billmason2785]

My father flew war planes from Canada to Britain

[@1984Phalanx]

I’m surprised you never mention the Canadian navy. It made up hundreds of ships including carrier escorts by the end of the war.

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

It was the 3rd biggest navy in the world by the end of the war.

[@genghiscalm4879]

Britain going it alone against the axis might is a much better story, though. Peak drama.

[@bootlegga69]

The RCN always gets the short shrift when it comes to videos about WW2.

[@davidgreen6490]

He is only mentioning navies that were fighting in particular arenas and any actions taken by empire nations would technically be described as British actions.

[@georgebarnes8163]

the bulk of the Canadian navy was merchant ships, not fighting ships.

[@olslimy6428]

Kriegsmarine: Let's send 2 ships just to mess with them Brits- Royal Navy: **laughs in 60+ ships**

[@greva2904]

@won doyouwant But not for very long

[@greva2904]

@won doyouwant Chance or not, it was still sunk. As for the Tirpitz, bottled up in fjords for almost its entire existence for fear the RN would hunt it down, even the kriegsmarine gave up on it and stripped it of any useful equipment. Talk about a pyrrhic victory for the Germans.

[@lokiodinsohn6879]

more like cries in fear of one ship and sends 60 because of it

[@greva2904]

@@lokiodinsohn6879 More like decides to annihilate an enemy threat by eliminating it as quickly as possible with overwhelming force.

[@lokiodinsohn6879]

@@greva2904 too bad they even after hours of shell bombardment it took the crew to blew it up themselfs

[@Pwn3dbyth3n00b]

3:35 The biggest oopsie ever. 345 American ships and that's without the Military Industrial Complex at full steam

[@dingdong4308]

At the beginning of World War II, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world, with the largest number of warships built and with naval bases across the globe. It had over 15 battleships and battlecruisers, 7 aircraft carriers, 66 cruisers, 164 destroyers and 66 submarines.

[@auntieh.4784]

Though, I must say that _Battle of Leyte Gulf_ has such wierd matchmaking

[@HybridHenderson]

When Teir X matchmakes with Tiers IV-IX: O_O

[@ProdigyXI276]

I mean poor ol Yammy boi had to face 11 CV's - yikes, and I thought my MM was bad.

[@deluca1031]

America players just have too many Carriers

[@hudsonarcand3296]

You aren’t wrong

[@Logistical_Nightmare]

The CVS had obviously been in queue longer than 5 min. Was there a sink Yamato with a CV mission that day ?

[@ConfusedAdmiral]

Other Navy: Let us depend on our Battleships firepower and our Carriers air superiority! Kriegsmarine: Meet the *Hello, how are you, I'm under the water*

[@sajidursajid2291]

Lol

[@FRFFW]

They U boat is quiet scary

[@notdave2993]

“OoOoOo I am draining save me”

[@FRFFW]

@@notdave2993 who drain you? Akagi?

[@hanselsihotang]

@@FRFFW probably USN and RN ships that're draining him, not Akagi.

[@bigosolohike]

US Navy had 7 carriers at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack.

[@ryszardnowak485]

Small correction, Soviet Union joined II wwar on 17th September 1939, when together with Germans Reich attacked Poland

[@bearholdensharkslux4791]

I love how the Yamato is more effective in game than in real life

[@Cresc3n1]

Because playing bb in a CV meta is unbalanced

[@chickenofthecave1406]

@@Cresc3n1 I remember a time at the beginning of WoW when carriers were hardly ever played because they were too underpowered

[@Cresc3n1]

@@chickenofthecave1406 well before that cvs were extremely OP especially Midway which had jet planes

[@chickenofthecave1406]

@@Cresc3n1 What? When did they give the Midway jet planes?

[@Cresc3n1]

@@chickenofthecave1406 a long long time ago

[@tomlin9539]

When you think the drops from FDR and AP bombers are bad. Just imagine if in this game we have 30+ CVs that carry 1500+ planes per side in battle...

[@me-ib1zo]

c o n s t a n t d e a t h f r o m a b o v e

[@Alecin_]

Imagine ELEVEN Carriers spaming your single handed Battleship WHILE stay on distance... No fckin Chance, man... Sry for the bad english, i'm german.. NO, i'm NOT a Nazi...

[@MarkiusFox]

Imagine if the game had AA that actually worked, instead of the fireworks show that is currently implemented.

[@Alecin_]

@@MarkiusFox i have to say... everytime I see Carrier-Gameplays.. I think to myself.., "fuck, if this fire would hit more often, that player would be so fucked..🙄"..........

[@ryanm.2930]

Well that's when you know that you just missed with the wrong country

[@RizzabethII]

Why did you cut numbers of the British fleet in half? The Royal Navy had 1400 warships in 1939

[@PrairieSailor]

The Royal Canadian Navy had 434 commissioned vessels at the end of the Second World War, making it third on your list here, and playing a major role in the Battle of the Atlantic.

[@nickdanger3802]

Royal Navy (9,521) US Navy (9,234) Royal Canadian Navy (560) includes ships lost Allied Warships in World War Two u boot period net

[@user-yj6ul9kz3p]

What a Canadian Navy, if they were a colony of the United Kingdom, what the hell are they talking about? If they didn't have independence towards what their father wanted, the United Kingdom is a second-class country. Don't come to England.

[@vannveratia9310]

America to Japan in WWII: "It's really simple, your gun goes pew pew and my fucking gun goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"

[@mustard4762]

-Cyanide

[@bigglesbiggles4999]

Your so funny ...NOT!!!

[@vannveratia9310]

@@bigglesbiggles4999 Your English is so good...NOT!

[@bigglesbiggles4999]

@@vannveratia9310 nuffink rong wiv my English wotsoever !!!!!

[@Epistolary8]

The Japanese fielded the biggest naval guns ever to be mounted on a warship. Problem is, those guns aren't too useful against comparatively tiny dive bombs and torpedoes.

[@paultom40]

Canada has the third largest Navy at the end of WWII. No mention of that ?.

[@alexanderbeach7362]

It might because canada had only 43 of the ships mentioned in the video. which the ships listed are the most important.

[@imperialmodelworks8473]

Merchant ships and fishing boats don't count

[@paultom40]

@@imperialmodelworks8473 I agree... study your history

[@xXTR4IRSOF7]

@@imperialmodelworks8473 Do some research buddy because you are completely wrong.

[@imperialmodelworks8473]

@@xXTR4IRSOF7 third largest navy because German and Japan no longer had a navy at all at the end of WWII. Domt hear many stories of Canadian warships duking it out with thr Japanese and Germany navies. How many battleships and subs did they have that actually sunk enemy vessels?

[@blainefrenette3520]

Would have been nice to show how much the Royal Canadian Navy grew in WWll. It went from less than ten ships to the third largest Navy in the world by 1945.

[@steepingsheet2684]

But i thought the Canadian Navy was just a part of the British Navy

[@blainefrenette3520]

@@steepingsheet2684 not by 1939 sometime after WWl Canada stated they were no longer under total British control. Britain declared war Sept 3. Canada declared war sept 10.

[@steepingsheet2684]

@@blainefrenette3520 but you were still under the british empire and Britain it self?

[@blainefrenette3520]

@@steepingsheet2684 we were part of the British Commonwealth. Just like Australia New Zealand. But in 1867 we became an independent country. We followed British rule up to the end of WWl. But after that we made our own decisions about going to war.

[@steepingsheet2684]

@@blainefrenette3520 then what was 1982?

[@gamewizardks]

The U.S. was Europe's factory during the war and it proved decisive. 90 percent of material went to the European theater. Fighting Japan only took 10 percent of the U.S. Industrial machine and Japan was outproduced by a multitude. Incredible.

[@snipars2233]

Just to be sure, USS Yorktown wasn't lost in the Battle of Midway and rather in it's aftermath. During this battle Yorktown was heavily damaged and had to be abandoned, but long time later she was still afloat, tilted at like more than 20 degrees. US decided to tow her back home for repairs but Japanese submarine I-168 sunk her and the USS Hammann, the destroyer that was towing Yorktown.

[@jasonlupo4117]

While you are quite correct, I wouldn't bother quibbling on that point of mere over-simplification when in fact they managed to omit the presence of most of the Japanese battleships, cruisers, and submarines in their count in the first place. This is just a horribly inaccurate video.

[@terrypennington2519]

Japan: *Bombs Pearl Harbor* USA: _Oh yeah it's Navy time_

[@garymcaleer6112]

Excellent post! You get a true sense of the magnitude of a nation's capabilities.

[@AFT_05G]

Japan also had 4 light carriers in December 1941,not shown in the video.

[@MrKitkatkrunchy]

Wargaming - "So we're going to Halve the number of RN ships at the start, whilst keeping everyone elses fleet number the same. Then we'll make it look like the USSR Navy made a difference."

[@rahul-bx1xo]

😄😄😄👍

[@TheObsidianX]

Yeah what happened to half the RN? I was so confused by that and they didn’t say anything about it.

[@MagicRabbit]

@@TheObsidianX They lost more than 150 ships in WW2. Most of them sunk by aircraft and submarines. You can find a "List of Royal Navy losses in World War 2" in the Wikipedia.

[@crazydiamondrequiem4236]

@@MagicRabbit emphasis on the 'start'

[@bairdrew]

@@MagicRabbit and more were made. Britain had the largest navy in the world until late summer of 1944 by numbers of hulls, although ofc the USN had more large hulls by that point.

[@raywhitehead730]

When I was in the US Navy many years ago, I read the official Navy source on the building of US Carriers during WW 2. You will see many numbers cited about this. And my memory is not exact. But about 150 US Carriers were built , from the time of Pearl Harbor till the surrender on the Missouri. Now an out 30 were Fleet Carriers, that is they were able to carry more then about 45 planes and were outfitted to be front line combatants.

[@The_whales]

Good to know you have experience in the navy, that’s one of the last things I would be in

[@raywhitehead730]

Some carriers ,though, completed construction never had a aircraft assigned to them as the war ended. Some were what is called "jeep" carriers, having room for less then twenty planes. And I served on multiple ships in the US Navy including the Lexington, Roosevelt and the Enterprise. All now retired The Roosevelt And the Lexington fought in WW2.

[@mmmn8979]

@@raywhitehead730damn, how old are you?

[@raywhitehead730]

The carriers I mentioned, had a long service life. My length of service was 1968 till 1995. I was in the US marines and and the US Navy. But you should know a great deal of information is held in various libraries and Archives that the various services have. Professional researchers dwell there and often PhD researchers and book authors.

[@jedimasterdraco6950]

@@raywhitehead730 Not the Roosevelt. She was the second of the Midway-class and Midway herself wasn't commissioned until a few days after Japan surrendered.

[@saturnv2419]

Leyte Gulf is actually the largest naval battle in history in term of tonnage involved, also the most significant naval engagement in history when all element considered.

[@ryanb9749]

Taffy-3 had more tonage than the entire japanese navy.

[@Pantsugrenadiere]

Great vid really A bit sad they didn't talked about what was left of the french fleet at end but everything else was really interesting

[@hunterbg6651]

Ye wish they talked more about the Italian fleet.

[@jinyuliu2871]

@@papaversomniferum2365 Would you please stop spamming this?

[@blusafe1]

@@jinyuliu2871 Because the video is propaganda about the USSR joining the war with the allies, when that wasn't true.

[@jinyuliu2871]

@@blusafe1 Well I guess the western anti-Russian propaganda has gotten to you as well. Soon it would be common knowledge of the west that the US conquered berlin.

[@blusafe1]

@@jinyuliu2871 Is he wrong? You sound hurt.

[@josepetersen7112]

The Soviet “great naval build up post war” resulted in a couple cruddy submarine programs, a cruiser line that couldn’t match the Baltimore’s, a much of torpedo boats and a LOT of hot air. Come WG.

[@dasbubba841]

Naval power was always secondary for Russia/USSR. They have four separate seas to defend, so they cannot concentrate naval power. It was more economical and practical to just build cheap missile boats and submarines to defend relatively unimportant coasts than to invest heavily into building battleships and aircraft carriers.

[@sloptek1807]

@@dasbubba841 Don't bother, they don't have the intelligence to figure it out. They just love to hear stories about the failing Ivan.

[@neevdhawan4200]

@@sloptek1807 less about intelligence more about funding and doctrine.

[@GachaLord]

@@neevdhawan4200 yet they made it into Space a decade before the US ever did, and the first US launch into space was a giant failure

[@dantewiggins5119]

@@kms_scharnhorst who collapsed in 91?

[@12stack73]

Imagine being on board of Yamato fighting against 11 aircraft carriers, sadly planes rule the sea

[@RS-ni3lj]

Poor video, the nice presentation is covering up for the poor research and misleading claims. There's lots of lazy factual errors, it makes little effort to compare the overall quality of the fleets (not all battleships are made equal), and what was with cropping out half of the British ships at the start but not doing it to any other country?

[@cheesedetectiverook5950]

>no mentions of the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, the remnants of the Free French Navy, and other important actions that the Royal Navy and the other Allied Navies did Aight, okay then

[@adamtruong1759]

The Commonwealth forces might be interchangeable, but the Free navies were definitely left out, or they were used by the RN.

[@namja01]

*Angers in ORP Blyskawica*

[@lucadesanctis563]

U were a mere dispatch of the Royal Navy. Subjects, nothing more

[@theandice8152]

@@lucadesanctis563 Angry little Italian spotted.

[@lucadesanctis563]

@@theandice8152 little British dependance spotted

[@GG-ir1hw]

Erm let’s be straight, the Royal Canadian and Royal Australian Navy’s should be ranked well before any mention of the USSR when it comes to WW2 lmao. USSRs fleet was outdated, old 12”dreadnoughts, no carriers and a handful of cruisers. The RAN and RCN by wars end had a modern core of light fleet carriers and decent 6” cruisers along with shot tonnes of destroyers and escorts. Both navies also did more in my opinion. The USSRs contribution even to the artic convoys wasn’t even that much and they just wasted a good R type BB the British loaned them. It was in such a sorry state they instantly scrapped it when it came back (it hadn’t even see combat in USSR service).

[@xo7151]

Im not sure if the current abreviations would be HMCS for Canada and HMAS for Australia. If im incorrect please make me know

[@GG-ir1hw]

@@xo7151 the abbreviation as you listed are correct.

[@davidhimmelsbach557]

The Red Navy's ONLY significant contribution to the war was when the Baltic fleet shelled the advancing Germans just outside Leningrad -- and a tad further west at the entrance to the gulf. Fleeing Odessa and Sevastopol pretty much covers the Reds working in the Black Sea. IIRC the Red navy developed both the 85mm and 130mm guns. The latter being a significant factor in the Vietnam war. (The 130mm rifle is obviously a one-up over the dual action 5"-- 38 USN gun.)

[@ynotnilknarf39]

I think the fishing trawlers coming out of Hull did more for the war effort than the Soviet navy! As always the Australians, Canadians and even more so the kiwis get left out of the conversation plus many other nations. The % of kiwi combatants lost compared to population was the highest of any of the allied forces.

[@jonsouth1545]

@@ynotnilknarf39 I personally contributed more than the Soviet Navy did in WW2 and I wasn't born until almost 40 years after the war finished

[@briananderson8733]

The heavy cruiser lost by the IJN at Midway was NOT a part of the group you listed as a part of the battle. It was from Kondo's invasion force; the IJN MIkuma. The two Heavy cruisers in the Kido Butai were the IJN Tone and IJN Chikuma.

[@jedimasterdraco6950]

And those two were part of the carrier element of the fleet owing to their designed purpose. Unlike in the USN where parts of each carrier's air wing were designated for scouting and fighting, the Japanese air wings were purely seen as fighting forces, so in order to provide scouts, the Tone-class carried an abundance of aircraft for this role. And this typically meant Japan's scouting forces were relatively small and there was an extra layer of bureaucratic nonsense that needed to be gotten through before sightings could be relayed to the carrier commander. Which really bit Japan in the ass at Midway.

[@g.t.richardson6311]

@@jedimasterdraco6950 you are correct about IJN scouting doctrine Tone and Chikuma carried 3-5 planes Not sure if they were at full compliment for midway

[@jedimasterdraco6950]

@@g.t.richardson6311 A quick wiki crawl told me that a single scout went off from Akagi and Kaga each, five from Tone and Chikuma (one of which launched half an hour late and incidentally was the one that found the American carriers), and Haruna contributed it's spotting plane. Contrast this eight plane scouting group with the fact that there were 31 PBY floatplanes alone stationed at Midway. And that American carrier doctrine had four squadrons, one of fighters, one of torpedo bombers, and two of dive bombers; one of the dive bomber squadrons typically carried a lighter load, but was focused on scouting, launching in pairs prior to a battle.

[@0witw047]

Cutting the Royalnavy in half while not treating Germany and Italy the same, even though they also had similar problems with actually fielding all their ships. is an extremely strange thing to do

[@longrider188]

In the mid point of the war, the US was producing three ships a day. Think about that. Amazing.

[@davidhimmelsbach557]

Did you know that the US started running out of names for Liberty ships? Yup. They almost resorted to putting out suggestion boxes.

@@davidhimmelsbach557 They could have just name them like Liberty 1, Liberty 2. No need for distinct names:)

[@LionlordEbonfire]

@ if you are going to possibly die on a ship, it should have a name. And those guys were brave as hell. Especially during the worst days of the battle of the Atlantic.

[@fredjennings5312]

One reason for America’s ability to produce so many ships so quickly is that this was a period when the entire country was behind the war effort. My grandmother was a 5 ft nothing farm wife who worked hard all day just to cook and clean for a large family. During WWII she worked in the shipyard at Long Beach as a welder hanging from ropes welding the inside hulls of battleships. The manufacturing capacity increased so substantially in large part due to the complicit efforts of a united citizenry.

[@EddieFly00]

Notice the small number of RUSSIAN Battleships and cruisers.

[@dasbubba841]

Most of the Russian capital ships were old Imperial-era dreadnaughts (aka. the Octobrisky), or lend-lease ships (aka. the Royal Sovereign/ Archangelsk)

[@foamer443]

Not to worry, Putin will have it rewritten.

[@krashd]

Most of Russia's capital ships had been sunk during the Russo-Japanese war and in the interwar period the Soviets had little or no money to rebuild those fleets.

[@THEORD3REMP1RE]

I didn't know I was watching world of warships video. I thought it was a different channel I was actually focused on the whole video. Good job on this video y'all made this great and explaining everything.

[@deaneldricktan5647]

Was shocked to see the fleet of ships the Italian Navy had at the time.

[@mr.archivity]

Mostly medium-small ships. Italy built 2 big highly equipped ships with the latest technology on board, but they couldn’t join the war in time and remained unused in WWII. At the same time they created the “frogmen” that sinked over 6000 UK and US ships in the Mediterranean Sea

[@MetalRodent]

A pretty interesting and nicely presented video, but a few points: - Chopping a bunch of British ships out but no one else was somewhat weird (as was not including the RCN and RAN) - Norway should probably have got a mention, given it basically destroyed the KMS as a credible surface force. [Edit. Given people are apparently confused by this I mean the Norwegian campaign] - Russian ships contributed very little to the Arctic convoys, a few destroyers as support - And British/Commonwealth sailors were treated very badly when they arrived. - Britain actually declared war just hours after the Japanese invaded Malaya, not after PoW was sunk. - Not entirely fair to just remove the French fleet, the Allies and Vichy saw several naval clashes. Though I did like that this video highlight that the RN had to defend three oceans at once, when the pre-war plan was for France to contain Italy while the UK kept fleets for Germany and Japan (instead the Far Eastern fleet was transfered to the Med).

[@josepetersen7112]

Didn’t you know that the glorious Soviets single handily dominated the article convoys? They also had to defend themselves from a Finnish invasion in 1940. It’s called the Great Leningrad super defensive war.

[@THEBUFUMAN.]

ok, let call this Clip Fake Information.

[@irishbattletoster9265]

@Mr. Miyagi this is a bot. I get it

[@digitalnomad9985]

Also, I don't know whether or not they mention this, but 2 (or was it 3?) of the most powerful surface units in the Australian navy (cruisers) and screen served in the Atlantic theater of the war until the European Axis naval forces were no longer a threat, even after the Japanese navy was attacking New Guinea and threatening the Australian mainland.

[@dennisweidner288]

Good points.

[@a2lparte]

Japan: Hey you sank my carrier USA: Cool, Would you mind if I sink 3 more.

[@Lucky38Casino]

These videos are so well made. Good job, Wargaming.

[@Ealdorman_of_Mercia]

When I was playing Hoi4 and learnt about 'taskforces' for the naval units and squadrons, I thought these were just in game terms.. Turns out almost all the terms are directly actual military terms, Im impressed.

[@de_baard_van_Bart]

Damn, the Canadian, Australian and Dutch navy deserve more recognition when talking about world war 2.

[@joshuamitcham1519]

It was a question about the largest fleet during WW2 so they were left out but their individual contributions are innumerable.

[@imjashingyou3461]

To be honest all of them Individually contributed and fought more then the Soviet Navy. Even the Free French and Polish Navy. The Soviets didnt even assume convoy escort duty like portrayed in the video until 20 to 50 miles from the port it was bound.

[@scipio_stan]

Mostly Canadian tho

[@Miking008]

Drachinifel has a couple of very nice videos on the subject, if you’re interested.

[@spitfirenutspitfirenut4835]

Canadian navy was 3rd largest at the end of WW2

[@TAZAR_II]

By the end of WW2, Canada had the third largest navy.

[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

And the politest They always yield right of way and say "soary" as you pass

[@ryanhuntrajput474]

@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing false they had a policy of take no prisoners kill everyone armed unarmed wounded and healthy alike. You don't know the wraith of canadians.

[@imperialmodelworks8473]

@@ryanhuntrajput474 lol the Italians sank more ships during the war than the Canadians did

[@peterpapadopoulos652]

1945 Canada possessed the third-largest navy in the world after the fleets of the United States and Britain and the fourth-largest Air force and we had three aircraft carriers

[@genghiscalm4879]

@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing Canada is sorry that you're a troll? Nah.

[@Dysturbed-00]

Although this is lightly presented I think we should all take a moment for the thousands of good people who went down with the ships presented. Most of which were young and never had a chance for children or to see what life is really about.

[@fighter5583]

Forgot to mention how Zuikaku's air group was thoroughly decimated, preventing her from taking part in the Midway operation.

[@spudnic5849]

So basically the strongest Country/faction in game (Russia) had fuck all and did fuck all until after the war! When in game they are easily the strongest at every tier regardless because well, ''Paper ships''.......... Jesus! That comment at the end about ''a great navy after the war''! LMAO

[@youraveragescotsman7119]

Paper ships because the Red Navy and their ship building facilities could not make the armour plating or weapons required for their paper ships. If they WERE made, well, their paper ships would have about 1/4 of the armour stated due to inferior shipbuilding and would get clapped by Heavy Cruisers. Wouldn't be very fun.

[@spudnic5849]

@@youraveragescotsman7119 So dont put them in game then.

[@AlphaBravoCheeseCake]

They helped invade Poland if that counts?...

[@spudnic5849]

@@AlphaBravoCheeseCake With ships? LOL

[@MrChickennugget360]

@Mr. Miyagi how do you know all of this? seems a bit strange

[@macdam11]

I wished they put this much effort in balancing the new commander skills...

[@cromwell7785]

Its funny how in the wows blitz, carriers very rarely do significant damage but were so important in the war

[@larsrons7937]

Interesting video, good comparison. 1:58 "...Germany had commenced mass production of *submarines" **_NOT_* to "combat the British *navy"* (military ships) but to combat the British *merchant fleet.*

[@Pienimusta]

Moment when Soviet 1990 fleet arrives to WW2. That happened in history.

[@nenadpadovan43]

Explains the godly ballistic, not like those noobish ones that actually performed.

[@user-dp4ok9ox5w]

​@@nenadpadovan43 Soviet guns had high velocity in real life. In the game they are balanced by being really inaccurate with Stalingrad being the only exception (and it actually has its historical 950m/s gun velocity).

[@gabbens280]

@@user-dp4ok9ox5w Kremlin and Slava would like to know your location.

[@user-dp4ok9ox5w]

@@gabbens280 Kremlin is inaccurate af and Slava is squishy af.

[@gabbens280]

@@user-dp4ok9ox5w Kremlins dispersion has the same shape as slavas. Wargaming only gives you the horizontal dispersion stat in game. Wich doesnt mean Shit If your shells land short or long.

[@KylerJohnson7]

This is really well made. Props wargaming, Props.

[@stevemc01]

*claps*

[@stevemc01]

@@papaversomniferum2365 I think they meant when the Soviets declared war against Nazi Germany. Plus, even that wasn't technically part of the war. The Soviets never made an official declaration until Operation Barbarossa in 1942 or 43. Hitler just offered up some of Poland to the Soviet Union and Stalin was like "ok I guess".

[@Suli5241]

​@@stevemc01 Lol are you joking? Soviets made a full time invasion on Poland, they were fighting with Polish army, it was war. Also there was a full intelligence cooperation with germany during the invasion of Poland even in things like targeting german bombers on polish cities with help of soviet radio and air traffic. They did not declare it, but neither the germans did.

[@johnpaulabocad6941]

Once again, the Art department carries everything

[@wilmotebeuscart301]

Yep, everyone praises the art departement for their work, but the video dep who makes amazing job is often forgotten, it is lmess implied directly in the game tho

[@jankutac9753]

I think you got sth wrong. At Midway I remember a chart showing that Japan had basically twice as many ships of every category as the USA. 4 heavy carriers AND 2 or 3 light carriers. Twice as many cruisers, twice as many destroyers, twice as many submarines. Only in the number of planes they were about even because of support from Midway. But most of the Midway planes were only Buffalos

[@jdog345]

Midway is really complicated because pretty much the entire Japanese navy was involved in some way but these numbers are correct for the numbers doing the actual fighting, although they should have also included the Japanese subs.

[@jankutac9753]

@@jdog345 nah man, just checked a chart again. Type "battle of midway chart forces" on Google, and a blue-yellow chart from Britannica should come up (sorry can't post link because KZbin's stupid bots might delete it) Anyway here are the numbers: CV USA 3, JAP 4 CVL JAP 2 CV (seaplane) JAP 2 BB JAP 7 CL,CA USA 8, JAP 15 DD USA 18, JAP 42 SS USA 19, JAP 10 Midway planes USA 115 What you mean is maybe the Japanese diversionary attack on the Aleutians. But those were additional ships, not included here. Weren't Zuikaku and Shokaku those attacking the Aleutians?

[@RANDALLBRIGGS]

Some of them were with Yamamoto's force, which did not participate in the battle: 2 light carriers, 5 battleships, 4 heavy cruisers, and 2 light cruisers.

[@jankutac9753]

@@RANDALLBRIGGS they were just in a different division. For me that doesn't mean they were not part of the battle. They would have got involved pretty quickly in the next stage, if they Japanese had not decided to withdraw after the first stage. If you want to consider only strictly those units that did the shooting, you would have to exclude almost all of the ships, except those that fired their AA. Most of the fighting was done by the planes. Without the US codebreakers, Yamamoto's other groups would have certainly taken part in the battle. But the way it was, the US was able to ambush the first group and with a lot of luck (the way the bombs hit) destroy its four big carriers, and as a consequence win the battle before the other groups could get involved. I don't see any difference between the battle of Midway and Alexander's battle of Gaugamela, when the Macedons were able to rout the Persians by going straight for Darius, without even properly engaging most of the enemy's force

[@tomyrobinson4149]

I really love how much I learn history just from playing games and watching youtube channel. It shouldn't be the only source of learning cause it tends to get subjective but, its a good way to start. Because if you start by paragraph and paragraph of words, you will probably get bored first. You need a graphics and imagination sometimes.

[@frostedcat]

The Royal Navy had been continously subjected to pressure from the Regia Marina and Kriegsmarine. It's surprisingly remarkable that they remained so active throughout the war. US naval building industry gets almost all attention, which overshadow the also impressive effort from Great Britain with their re-arming programme. Pre-war, they planned to lay down more capital ships than any other navies, including the US Navy. Not until late 1942 did they truly lost the title of being the most powerful fleet in the world.

[@ryanm.2930]

That is true The Royal Navy did lose that title but if we look at what if the Germans actually waited to have their h class battleships that would have challenged the Royal Navy directly and we would see most of the designs that were planned but restricted to the naval treaty actually built

[@frostedcat]

@@ryanm.2930 6 Lion would be in active service in that scenario.

[@lancsladgaming7146]

@@ryanm.2930 they wouldnt of challenged the royal navy at all, by the time the H class would of been built the lion class would of been commisioned and the RN had many times more escorts and thats before we get started on the carriers. Also the german cruisers were barely able to operate in the atlantic ocean without capsizing. Even the hippers were practically useless in anything more that a slight wave.

[@youraveragescotsman7119]

@@ryanm.2930 The H-Classes were never going to be built. I'm pretty sure the designers just made them because they wanted to avoid the Eastern Front. Germany barely had dockyards big enough to build the Bismarck and Tirpitz. By the time they start making a HUGE dockyard for the H-Class, the UK is going to know exactly what they're planning and the shipbuilders are going to enter overdrive while building the Lions.

[@noobster4779]

A big difference of relevance is that the axis forces could never use their navies to support each other or redeploy it like the royal navy. The italians were basically trapped in the mediterrainian and could never leave while the germans alone were no match for the britsh home fleet. And there is also the often ignored fuel situation on the axis size forcing them to massively scale down fleet operations, especially on the italina fleet, from summer 1941 onwards. The big ships could often only be refueld every 3-6 months on the axis side while the Royal navy had fuel to spend like its nothing.

[@spannerpasser]

Pity the British Pacific Fleet isn’t mentioned. They took part in the Battle for Okinawa and was the largest fleet ever assembled by the Royal Navy. It had ships from Royal Canadian, Royal Australian and Royal New Zealand Navies. The US Navy gave it the designation of Task Force 37 then 57 depending which US Fleet it was attached to. The last VC awarded in WW2 was to a RCN pilot who was flying from one of the HM carriers if I recall correctly.

[@tpak819]

Reason I often scroll comments is to run into little things like this

[@cjmurray5532]

canada is always forgotten.

[@hamzamohamed2010]

The us did most of the work in the pacific, that’s why

[@user-gn7mi2jv2r]

*Alternative facts

[@jedimasterdraco6950]

@@hamzamohamed2010 Most, but far from all. Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and even the Dutch contributed to the line being held until our shipyards could start going "brrr!" And the Brits and the Republic of China tied down significant Japanese resources in the Asian theatre.

[@LewisDM]

A very informative, straight forward and well designed video - THE best advert ever made for anything.

[@derrickstorm6976]

Well the way people play this game you'd think it's based in historical events and statistics....

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

But also largely completely wrong.

[@v4rsity0]

"A tiger could take out 10 shermans, but the U.S always had 11"

[@dericdomino]

you got it wrong the u.s had 100 tanks to one tiger the strategy with the old shermans with the 75 mm cannon was to surround the tiger and blast the crap out of it

[@steveconkey7362]

@@dericdomino His quote is an actual quote from a German tank officer. So it's correct. The vast majority of Tigers were taken out by air power not tanks.

[@MrGenesis98]

Little known fact, at the end of WW2 Canada had the third largest Navy in the world with 434 ships in commission. 🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@rahul-bx1xo]

it should have been included

[@zaidanmujahid6567]

Are there any details on what ships they had? Im curious tho

[@kidpagronprimsank05]

@@zaidanmujahid6567 mostly were DDs, corvettes..... anything that used for convoy escort

[@armchairgeneralissimo]

In 1990 Pepsi had the 6th largest navy in the world.

[@idontknowmyname2966]

@@armchairgeneralissimo i want to say nobody asked,but this is just way too funny

[@KimoFest]

I have never heard of russian navy being this active in ww2... Ah, yeah, this is a wows channel.

[@michael-wn2ns]

Let’s be honest Canada had a more effective navy in ww2 than the Soviets

[@josepetersen7112]

They Soviet navy mostly was a Baltic Sea force, providing occasional gunfire support to troops and helping storm a couple minor islands. So,etching else WG doesn’t mention is that most of their ships rotted away during the war. When they borrowed a British Battleship, they managed to let it rot away too. Somehow. When the Americans were looking at supplying the Soviets in the East against Japan, they realized they’d need to build a Soviet navy from scratch.

[@toggers6952]

Romania had a navy almost as effective as the Russian navy in WW2....

[@wladynosz1565]

@Kimo, is that a Nazi anime girl on your profile picture? xDD or wich anime is this? Looks like High scool dxd

[@danepher]

Doubt you actually heard about the USSR at all in America schools. Probably taught the US won the war by itself.

[@VazzVegas]

"The Soviet union launched a large scale program for creating a great navy after the conclusion of the war" 80 years later those draft designs have finally been brought to life in a video game. God bless technology.

[@aliasDonaldDuck]

While the real ships are doing underwater special operations

[@CT--eo2vv]

Freedom’s Forge includes a statistic that puts the civilian contribution to the WWII victory in a rarely noted context: “The number of workers, male and female, who were killed or injured in the U.S. industries in 1942-43 exceeded the number of Americans killed or wounded in uniform, by a factor of twenty to one.”

[@verosiachmedzaky3946]

Still waiting for Naval Legends: Enterprise

[@beepboop9268]

It's a real ships so very unlikely... probably do Slava or something next because balans

[@donthijsy]

Giev Enterprise!

[@CesarinPillinGaming]

You have to wait for 3 to 5 videos of magical russian ships (that barely did anything but float) to be made into legends before the ENTERPRISE.

[@42meep13]

Wargaming said in Bismarck Episoad that they try to only do ships that are preserved. That's why they did the Sov Soyuz episode before Bismarck. Because that makes sense.

[@sankyu3950]

@@42meep13 funny because only soyuz gun barrel is preserved yet no enterprise even though her sternplate has survived and has been preserved, im waiting for wg excuse on that