The US Submarine that Turned into a Massive Killer Weapon
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2024
- Deep in the dramatic marine battlefield of World War 2's Pacific theater, the American submarine USS Batfish embarked on her sixth patrol, poised for yet another confrontation with her Japanese counterparts roaming beneath the waves of the South China Sea. With tension building as the days unfolded, the intrepid Batfish silently prowled further and further into hostile waters, her crew remaining vigilant and ready for battle at any moment.
Captain Jake Fyfe, alone on the bridge, deftly guided Batfish towards her prey. With the enemy in his sights, he strategically maneuvered his ship into the perfect position. As soon as he gave the order to fire, the crew unleashed four Mark 18 torpedoes on their unsuspecting victim. Seconds later, a fiery red explosion and the unmistakable sound of a submarine breaking into pieces as it succumbed to the depths let them know they had hit their target.
Without a moment’s pause, the sleek predator continued her hunt. There were more enemy submarines in the area, and she was not about to let them go…
For anyone wondering, the BATFISH is currently a museum ship on Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA
I am glad this valiant old warrior is preserved! 😎👍
Cool
And it’s an awesome tour when it’s open
The best thing about some of these documentaries is the old war and movie footage, if your old enough you can't help but recognize some of the actors. Like the professor from gilligans island in this one.
USS Batfish and her crews are all heroes to all submariners. We salute your valor as the ages pass.
The fact that this ship is museum-ed in the middle of nowhere Mid West USA makes it the only one I've been able to actually visit. Though I believe tours are currently suspended after floods a few years ago cause the ship to actually float again. She stayed afloat, but is closed until they can raise the funds to repair damage caused by the flooding.
Yes where I grew up In Muskogee Ok.
she yearns for the oceans again :) a flood was summoned somehow to bring her there :D
I visited the U-505 in Chicago, and the USS Drum in Alabama.
Uss cod in Cleveland
Thanks for presenting another intriguing story about the unsung and nearly forgotten silent service heroes!
It would be great to hear about more of those stories that a lot of people are totally unaware of.
The trials and somewhat horrific tribulations of a soon to be forgotten generation!
Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤😊
Crew must have said hurry up and get us to the Pacific where it's safe. Our own guys are gonna kill us!
I've been aboard the USS Pampanito, another Balao Class Submarine moored in San Francisco Bay. It was epic, and fascinating to see how the sailors lived when serving aboard.
I just looked down here at the comments section as I was thinking to suggest a look at USS Pampanito's incredible service during WWII, plus the veteran war boat's unlikely role as a movie star for the 1996 film, "Down Periscope," in which the "Pampanito" would be utilized for (mostly) exterior filming scenes, playing the film's fictional, "USS Stingray."
That is awesome that you've actually got to visit the Pampanito in San Francisco, something I hope to do someday.
Read that Papanito's TDC is 100% operational.
I've visited that sub also. Tight quarters in those old subs.
To give a clear idea for those that are spatially troubled. The Batfish is 312 ft long, stand it vertical in the water , nose touching the surface and it's stern will almost be at depth.
That is an interesting aspect of the boat. Thanks for mentioning it.
What an accomplished boat and crew. Love it
Out of everything you covered in this video that covers a boat from a service known for keeping secrets...
The fact that there is a boat on this planet named "Batfish" made my day better, but immediately learning it's actually the namesake of a creature that exists on this planet has me scared that the day is going to well and something is going to go wrong. 😅
As always great video and thanks again
You missed tossing in the video clip of Werner Kemperer playing Gunther Prien in the TV show Silent Service. You have everything else.
Awesome video as always 😊
In the mid-60's my Boy Scout troop toured the USS Batfish when it came to visit New Orleans. It's the only submarine I've gotten to tour. We got to tour lots of ships over the years, because the Navy was always in town for Mardi Gras & other celebrations. Once I got to tour a Japanese warship in New Orleans. It was a used US ship that the Japanese purchased in the 1960's. The Forestal was pretty cool, and big. The USS Arlington (LPD-24) visited a few years back so I got to visit a ship that I'd helped build at Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans.
Been on this vessel in muskogee as a kid I didn't really grasp what this vessel was. Need to take my kiddo to see it, being as its only half a hour away from where i live.
According to the book Submarine! by Commander Edward L. Beach, Batfish detected all three submarines from noticing interference on its radar scope from the radar emissions of the Japanese submarines.
Before Capt Beach passed I was privileged to have him sign my hardbound copy of Sumarine! Great story and you are correct about the radar.
Hey Rick, you apparently have just gotten into ww2 history channels, there are many who cover losses on all sides of the globe. Keep watching, you'll get what you are looking for. 👌
I've visited there before YEARS ago in Oklahoma.
Very interesting all around but one thing became very apparent, only skinny guys could man these subs and fairly short. I grew a great respect for the men that maned these ships.
Personally believe that our WW2 vets are some if not the greatest generation.
Men with this type of valor and bravery is in short supply now days.
After the tour I stood outside and had tears in my eyes thinking about the brave men we lost.
To all who gave their lives and those who made it back, including our Vietnam veterans
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
3:48 I live in and am watching this in New London, CT!
It's nice to see that they saved this sub instead of sending her the the scrap yard.
12:39 This was taken in New London, CT a mile from my house!
BA-Lay-O. get it right. You haven't yet for a supposed historian.
Batfish's war operations span a period from 11 December 1943 to 26 August 1945 during which she completed six war patrols. She is credited with having sunk nine Japanese ships totaling 10,658 tons while operating east of Japan, in the Philippine Sea, Luzon Strait, and South China Sea. Combatant vessels sunk were: the destroyer Samidare, 26 August 1944 in 08°30' N., 134°37' E. and the submarines RO-55, 10 February 1945 in 18°56' N., 121°34' E.; RO-112, 11 February 1945 in 18°53' N., 121°50' E.; and RO-113, 13 February 1945 in 19°10' N., 121°25' E.
...tac-T and con-sid-ER...
I honestly can't be bothered to parody the style you have chosen, and barely cared enough to reply. That said, personally I appreciate the additional facts provided by you, so I borrowed a fu@k so I could give it...
Perhaps the narrator is a non-native English speaker, or using a pronunciation guide. You also have to admit that people who actually want to spend 6 months riding a boat in the middle of a ocean develop certain quirks, and the pronunciation of whatever arbitrarily named thing you are shaming a person providing you free entertainment over might be one.
I was Army so I'm not without sin, but your alter chosen to die on is miniscule to moot in the face of the research required for producing the free video.
You hurt my head...do like us normal veterans and hate yourself, you will be happier.
This music is cool as funk
great story. thanks
Having radar must have been a complete game changer for submariners. A remarkable achievement nonetheless. 👍
Bet you when asked their identity, each crew member said, “I’m Batman.”
Is it just me ?
How undignified is it that the USS Batfish, or any war memorial ship, would be laid on the ground ?
This sub should be on a stand and have a platform for visitors.
A staff should be there to conduct tours.
Some of those pictures came from the Silent Service series show featuring the Batfish. The series is on RUclips.
It must have just shocked the Axis Powers to watch as the USA could just shift gears and produce so much and so improved weapons in such a short time. It seems apparent not one of them was even close in their estimates.
Batman approves 😊
The first "Bat-sub." Dig it with toast! 👍🤘☝😆
Museum is famous for several different reasons
Radar was developed just in time!
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81 anchored in Diego Garcia Harbor tending Submarines and Surface warcrafraft during the Iranian hostage issue.
Thank you for stating that the Portsmouth Naval shipyard is in Kittery Maine not Portsmouth New Hampshire.only reason it's named Portsmouth Naval shipyard is that Portsmouth New Hampshire back in 1704 had the first and only post office in the Massachusetts territory in what now is Portsmouth New Hampshire
I have been aboard the Batfish, NOLA 1967
I also was on it then and there. I don't remember any markers talking about it's record. Only and old man sitting in the smelly, dirty metal tube.
Those Mk.18 torps dont seem like they were doing to well back in those days.
At the beginning of WW2 our torpedos were grossly inefficient. My understanding is we had to practically start over with torpedo design. Perhaps someone with a better take on the topic of torpedoes could share.
They should have known then the MK14 torpedo was crap.
The funny thing is, in WW2, from my casual observation, it appears the IJN Submarine Service was highly ethical, more so than the allies. I’m carefully isolating the IJN Submarine Service, it appears they limited their attacks to purely military targets, sailing past merchant ships, to attack warships. Attacking freighters only when logically and tactically the freighter had to be engaged in warlike activity.
That wasn’t ethics that was poor tactics. The American navy had a far more coherent strategy with their submarines appropriately targeting the Japanese merchant marine knowing they were an island nation.
WTH the first thing you do is attack the logistics of of the enemy. That is the role of the AF and submarine fleet.
uh huh
Does anyone else find it amusing that the American culture has so many paradoxes, for example, it glorifies the Native American concepts of “coup” as in “ counting coup” on your enemies, it glorify the “High Noon” shoot out of 2 men facing each other in sudden death. Then, it devotes so much time and admiration to what are essentially “bushwhacking” tactics, the assassination of Yamamoto, the use and adoration of snipers (who are essentially very highly trained and well equiped bush whackers) the use of submarine (another very technical way of back stabbing).@@bobbys4327
Nothing ethical about it. With limited supplies, the Japanese had to pick their battles. The Japanese were the epitome of unethical and mistreated captures and enemies.
Not clear. Could they detect and target submerged submarines or just those on the surface ?
Surfaced Subs by using radar, Submerged ones by using passive (hydrophone) sonar. One was detected submerged after initial radar contact had been temporarily lost. (Timestamp 10:36)
'The courageous captain, alone on the bridge' 🙄👍🥴
Yeah, the first thing I noticed. Let's ignore the drivers and sonar operators
they had a bunch of duds until they figured out that the contacts for the strikers in the nose oof each torpedo, …
I,"ll was aboard 10 world war two submarines.your trulyglomar.
How in the world did they get the submarine to OKLAHOMA?
Definitely NOT MK 14 torpedoes!!!
It's a boat nit a ship
Things don't quite add up, if the max capacity is 10 fishes, they use 4-4 in earlier engagements which leaves them with 2 fishes and yet you speak of a flurry of fishes at 11:00. Unless that sub had time to rearm out of nowhere, I don't see how 2 fishes represent a flurry.
Docfripouille - Gato and Balao class subs had 10 torpedo TUBES and carried 24 torpedos onboard, 14 in the forward torpedo room and 10 torpedos in the after torpedo room. 24 fish total.
Subs are boats, not ships.
At 0:28 the "radar" scope is in reality a post WW2 sonar video display. Nice work dark seas! pay more attention to reality and less to the drama you like to present.
The modern helicopter was also a nice touch.
The scripts are taking straight from a thesaurus, and they must get paid by the word.
Also the cartoon-ish model of a nuclear system at 1:50?
A French submarine?
why did your ancestors before went to japan only to go on rampage with guns? if they had not then there would be no war like this?
The Fat Electrician tells the story much better. Guess Dark Seas is too lazy to come up with their own stories.
I don't care who you are, but if yer name's "Batfish", then lookout world! (*just passing thru(🇺🇸 🔱🏴☠️☠️🏴☠️🔱🇺🇸) )....
(*has Senior Chief Shipley confirmed any of this!?!)....
Fratricide is a real danger.
Trigger happy Hero wannabes…
I hate the ultra fast way this AI voice speaks!!!!!!!!!
Ya know you can slow down the playback speed in settings if you can't follow along..click on the vid and settings in the top right corner...your welcome
This isn't an AI voice bro....
Sorry, most videos on RUclips like this are Qudos to you for actual effort. @@jeffward6239
I did not know, tried it, but only choice is 0.75x, too slow now :(
Anyway, it's not so much the speed as much as it feels anxious, which feels annoying to me.@@SWATT101
Anxious might be the right feeling for reading a script about submarine warfare with expression.
AS IS OFTEN THE CASE, WITH SUCH VIDEOS MANY OF THE VISUALS ARE CONSPICUOUSLY ANACHRONISTIC, INCLUGING SUBS MODERN ENUF THEY COULD BE NUCS I THINK IT IS OBSCENELY DISRESPECTFUL TO CREW OF THE BATFISH
We lost more than 125 ships to Japan. There has to be more stories than the few you done already, America lost over 10 aircraft carriers to Japan , like with every history channel, they only talk about what Japan lost in battle.
Japanese subs sank 189 American ships in WWII; 184 merchant ships, 2 fleet carriers, 1 escort carrier, and 2 cruisers. By contrast American submarines sank over 1300 merchant ships and over 200 warships. That is probably why you hear more about what the Japanese lost.
Sucks to lose.
Try the Japanese version of RUclips
@@davidkinsey8657Doring WW2 the United States 🇺🇸 navy lost 2 Battleships 3 fleet carriers 1 light fleet carrier 5 escort carriers 4heavy cruisers 3 light cruisers 72 destroyers 10 destroyer escorts 51 submarines 1 mine layer 14 fleet minesweeper 26 coastal minesweeper 9 gunboats 69 motor torpedo boats 10 sub chaser 1 seaplane tender 1 ammunition ship 2 fleet oilers 8 fast transports 2 salvage vessels 6 fleet tugs 1 boom defense vessel.Taken from the 1944-45 Jane's warship annual.
@@kevinpresley3136I'm sure you can find a channel more to your liking. Incidentally, the longer the Japanese made the war, the more their cities got blown to smithereens.
Gayyyy
Moronnnnn
Projectionnnnnn.
Please use the metric system. Only three countries don't use it.
The one that really counts: - U.S.A.!
@@seadog686 Surely you can't be serious?
Dude I am unsubscribing from all your content, it's all turned into AI generated clickbait trash, be better.
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Sounds working for me.