Thank him for his service, not just from me but everyone on site here, ...Okinawa was a fierce fight. My father (passed in 1977) was Army with the 503rd Parachute Regiment....New Guinea, Admiralty Islands and Philippines.
Did he actually fight? My church leader recently passed at 98 and he was the last group of young men drafted...Meaning it was towards the end of the war, even in the South Pacific. He said he seen no combat. I really doubt your Grandpa fought the Japanese being the last group of young men to enter the war. Sorry man...My leader was quick to say he didn't see any combat.
@ Yes, grandpa was part of the 6th marine division 22nd infantry. He landed on April 1st at Yontan Airfield and fought across the island of Okinawa until he was wounded mid May at the edge of the city of Naha, by a Japanese grenade. He was only 17 when he joined so definitely one of the youngest ww2 vets
I’m a Singaporean 🇸🇬 living in Singapore, which was part of Malaysia 🇲🇾 during WW2. Didn’t know there was a German Naval base in Penang, thank you for sharing.
Didn’t a British sub sink a German one? I agree that the US and German submarine warfare in WWII receives the bulk of the attention. Yet the Brits had dozens of submarines that must’ve had some significant contributions to the war, notwithstanding the fewer number of German and Italian ships to attack
I know a U-boat or two was sent to Japan with scientists and V weapon plans, but I didn’t know that Hitler gifted a couple of subs to Japan. Interesting story
My (late) grandfather's U-Boat, U862, was part of the Monsoon group. Outlasted the German war and became a Japanese sub (I-1502) until their surrendered, then I think expended as a target or scuttled. Great video as always!
one of the most iconic scenes ever captured on film: Japanese sub mariners trying to get his radio through the hatch "we have to figure out a way to make these things smaller" lol
The amount of new (to me) information about WWII continues to impress, thank you Dr. Felton. This was so interesting, I had no idea the trade was so integral to both axis forces.
The most fascinating Uboat of WWII is U234. An XB Class Uboat initially destined for Japan, carrying nuclear technology and enriched uranium, it was after secret negotiations, diverted to USA in a move that lead to Operation Paperclip. This changed the course of post WWII history and lead to the Cold War.
Interesting to see the photos of German and Japanese sailors together. The Japanese seem to have a different and deeper respect towards Germans, and vice versa.
I find it odd because BOTH were extremely racist and thought THEIR race was the superior to all others. Can't see how that would work. Had the allies lost, I suspect that eventually they would have become enemies. (as demonstrated in the series "man in the high castle")
Hmm. This much any enthusiastic school teacher can do. Will he/she? Not if the school program goes different way OR students / pupils are not interested. And most are not.
Mark: i would love to see more about Karl Dönitz. He is a very 'clandestine' character, but obviously very important. Even my dad could not tell me much about him..
How could U-Boats actually bring in a considerable amount of raw goods? It seems like they are already so crammed so how could they actually bring in a decent amount of anything at all? Not even to mention all the losses along along the way... it really seems like they received almost nothing in the grand scheme of thing in terms of raw goods.
Japanese subs were fairly large and raw goods in questions were some things that Germans lacked (mica, shellac, rubber, tin, tungsten ...) . Not required in very large quantities but still valuable.
Your "Milk cow" type XIV u-boats were refueling stations. They could hold a lot of cargo as well. Nevertheless, all the u-boats that sailed to Japan were type IX. Except for one, the U-234, which was the sophisticated type X. It's cargo bound for Japan included scientists, plans for a glide bomber, blueprints for the ME-262 jet fighter, and uranium. The contents must have created quite a stir when the boat surrendered before reaching Japan.
@@aleksazunjic9672 Still they are U-Boats. Not cargo ships. No matter what the model ww2 subs weren't huge. And there wasn't a lot of space in any of them. Sure you can cram pack them and hopefully make it and bring some stuff but in the entirety of the war effort it seems so minuscule.
Hi Dr. Felton. I was wondering could you please do a video on Anthony Brady and Frank Stringer, the only two Irish men known to have fought in the SS and ended up in a special forces unit under Otto Skorzeny, Brady even ended up fighting in the Battle of Berlin. I think it would make a great video! Thanks 🙂
I recall reading somewhere that the Japanese submariners were well fed, and of course their submarines were much larger which presumably meant more room for the crew.
Statistically speaking, Japanese submariners had larger chance for survival. Crews of German U-boats were just slightly better than Japanese Kamikaze, and worse than Soviet T-34 crews.
Another u boat visited NZ in 1945. It surfaced offshore at night and could hear music from a Napier party.They considered shelling Napier but wanted to stay hidden, waiting for a ship carrying frozen lamb for Britain. They left because the ship stayed in the port,but before they did they raided a local farm for fresh milk.Steiners farm... when Germany surrendered the German crew travelled to Japan and handed over the sub to the Japanese.. my mother lived in Napier as a child and told me about it and I managed to confirm it online, even has bits of the Captains log recording these events.
1:25 The Nakajima Nikka would worth a separate episode. It was not a direct copy of the Me-262, but an entirely domestically produced aircraft. How come it looked so similar then? It is because the Japanese military attache gained access to a Me-262, and he was allowed to take photographs of it. The Germans never thought the Japanese were able to reproduce the jet from just a few dozen pictures.
@@Briley-gc8wn TBH I never researched this exact story, although I used to write for a military aviation magazine. It is likely that the photos were helpful for structural engineering, and then they took a few hints from BMW about the engine too. Let's see if Dr. Felton digs into the matter sometime.
Mr. Felton, could you do more on German and Japanese tech trades. I understand they were going to take Tiger 1 plans and develop it for their use? I would like to know more about that and if any pictures were available to see it. Thank you. I really enjoyed this program. Keep up the great work!
Whenever I hear about subs going down for good with the crew it send chills thru me. Imagine the horror of being in that death trap so deep in the ocean , helpless in the pitch darkness with the water rushing in and the pressure of the fathoms. The cries of young men for their mothers…. Yeah. wow…
It is curious that Admiral Dönitz doubted the Japanese had the technical ability to produce a U-boat copy, as the Imperial Japanese Navy was building, or at least planning, the largest submarines of WWII, the I-400 class, complete with stowed seaplanes. The IJN also planned to build one of the fastest submarines during the war, the I-200 class. I can understand Dönitz' reluctance to part with 2 valuable assets, considering that he constantly complained that he needed more U-boats to isolate Great Britain. Furthermore, it would take time to produce new Japanese copies, even if they had blueprints and examples to work from, as the tools required to manufacture the copy would have to be built and calibrated first. I wonder if the Admirals dismissal of Japanese ability was made in racist ignorance, or simply because he was angry at losing the craft.
Was it because of technical capability, or just physical capacity (like they didn't have the industrial strength that Germany had)? I'm just asking, because they clearly had the ability to build a pretty decent surface fleet with some advanced ships (for the time).
@castleanthrax1833 Japan was a contradiction in many ways then, a mixture of modern and old. They lacked natural resources especially iron ore and oil, which lead to the expansion of the Japanese Empire. Their priority was Naval craft and Aircraft production, which they were damned good at designing and building, but at the expense of the needs of their army, which was crudely mechanized. If they concentrated their resources and abilities, they were the equal of anything out there, so yes, I agree that their production ability was not ever going to overwhelm the Allied production.
Japanese had larger subs, but were lacking in some other technologies Germans had : 1. steel quality was worse so U-boats were able to dive deeper. 2. Japanese sonar and radar detection was worse 3. Japanese optics and torpedo computers were worse. In fact, these things are the reason Japanese wanted German subs.
@aleksazunjic9672 Yet the Japanese had two of the best torpedoes in WWII, the Type 93 and 95. The American torpedoes barely worked at first, until they FINALLY admitted there was a problem (2 years later) and set about fixing those problems. The Japanese military was full of contradictions like this. Maybe the IJN subs couldn't dive as deep due to their poor metallurgical abilities, but they made up for that in other fields, like working torpedoes and seaplane bombers on subs... but they could never reach the same productuon levels as the Allies in terms of quantity. Quality can win a battle, but quantity wins wars. The Sherman Tank is the best example of this maxim in that it wasn't the best tank of the war, but without it, we'd probably be typing this out in German.
@ This is true, but the Japanese continued to expand their mass production well into the 80s so if he had seen the true potential, he would’ve been completely amazed
@ And as I had replied to an earlier comment; This is true, but the Japanese continued to expand their mass production well into the 80s so if he had seen the true potential, he would’ve been completely amazed
I would have thought Doenitz' objections might have been due to Japanese submarine warfare doctrine which if what I've read is true was nowhere near as agressive as the German one. "Why should I give them one of my boats when I need them a LOT more than they do!"
He has made quite a few in the last 2 months. You're not the first person I've seen who's complained of the lack of notifications and on several channels. RUclips needs to up its game.
@@castleanthrax1833 Sadly, I think the actual problem is Dr. Felton doesn't push his videos with outrageous clickbait. That seems to be the way to ensure subscribers get notified.
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Excellent video thankyou Mark. The British/Japanese fort (now a privately owned war museum) built on the hill above the submarine pen in Penang is an excellent visit. Comes complete with ghosts 😮 The tunnels leading down into the pens nelow are also intact but off limits to mere mortals like me 😢
I love the title of this video because on December 7th of this year I got a Shiba Inu puppy which we named Emperor Hirohito and the idea of a 9 week old Shiba Inu commanding a u boat is hilarious.
@ you are lucky I did not buy two of them or I would have named them Hiro and Naga after Hiroshima and Nagasaki Plus I can not think of an insult much greater for an Emperor then to name a lowly dog named after him which i can only have because he was the one who lost so badly that his nation can never again have an offensive army that caused his family to become nothing more then a figurehead.
Merry Christmas Tojo, from Adolf. Thanks for the great videos, Mark! BTW, Nomura Kichisaburō, (December 16, 1877 - May 8, 1964) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and was the ambassador to the United States at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. That's pretty amazing.
Approx. 100 years ago, as the young, now independent Republic of Poland was trying to rebuild after hundreds of years of many occupations, came the helping hand from ... USofA. RCA made an investment in the largest radio station outside of United States called Transatlantic Radio Station in Stare Babice, just outside Warsaw. Right next to the military garrison to protect it. 6 x 120m radio towers for the receiver + 6 of the same for the transmitter. This way Warsaw Stock Exchange could play on Wall Street and vice versa. Telegrams could be transmitted etc. THE Internet of these times. When on Sept 1st 1939 Poland was attacked, pictures of the barbaric German bombardment of civilian targets were on the front pages of American Newspapers. Polish Soldiers were suppose to blow the towers off. They did not. Long story short and to the point: that's the installation Germans used to communicate with U-Boots all over the globe, via Enigma machines. Using American and Polish equipment. And they blew it up in the last days of occupation of Poland. Few Poles know this history.
An almost identical transatlantic radio station from the 1920' in Grimeton Sweden had been used to communicate with Swedish submarines after WW2 until it was replaced in that role by more modern equipment in the 1980' AFAIK.
Dr. Felton, In the future you may also wish to mention the Kreigsmarine U-Boats that fell into the hands of the Japanese Imperial Navy after May 8, 1945. With Germany out of the war, the Japanese took over the remaining German subs within their territory.
Excellent video Before Japan entered the war, a German spy found out that the USA 🇺🇸 easily broke Japan Army and Navy encryption . In fact it was also public knowledge. Yet the Japanese carried on.
Kind of crazy Donitz didn't think the Japanese could mass produce U-Boats. I mean sure as hell can mass produce cars, they made the 2 biggest battleships in the history of the world, they could certainly mass produce planes, and they were already making submarines, indeed bigger ones than the Nazis had.
Another fascinating post, well done Dr Felton! What is it about submarine war stories? Always interesting! When I was in school I read the autobiographical novel "Iron Coffins" by Herbert Warner. I'm sure a lot of what he wrote ended up in the film Das Boot. If you're looking to shine the spotlight on a relatively unknown character from history, he'd make for an interesting post.
I'm a bit surprised the Japanese wanted some German U-Boots. I wouldn't think the Japanese, no slouches when it came to naval architecture, would have much to learn from one or find anything they'd care to copy. One thing I found interesting was what looked like a German wound badge painted on the conning tower of the U-511! I wonder what the story behind that was? Anyway, another fascinating video by the good Doctor! Thanks Doc!
I can only find 2 u-boats with the wounded badge as an emblem: U-123 and u-2506. The U-123 under Reinhard Hardegen was the first U-boat to attack off the east coast of the United States. If memory serves me, when the U-boat was first launched, the lines parted and the boat shot across the water out of control and rammed another boat in the water, taking damage. This is why they chose the wounded badge for an emblem. IIRC, I read this in "Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II" by Michael Gannon
Please create a video about the 'Abwehr,' the German military intelligence service during World War II, which played a significant role in resisting the Nazis. Although initially loyal to the Nazi regime, the Abwehr, especially under the leadership of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, became a center for anti-Nazi activities. Many members of the Abwehr, including Canaris himself, secretly opposed Hitler and worked with various resistance groups, including those involved in the July 20 plot to assassinate him. The Abwehr’s internal resistance is an important but often overlooked part of the story of opposition within Nazi Germany.
The hubrus of Dönitz to suggest what the Japanese could build when Japan had 13 fleet carriers to Germany's nothing. Not to mention the best torpedo of the war, type 93, and two battleships that made the Bismarck look like a dingy.
Liked, sent to ww2 vet grandpa’s iPhone. He fought the Japanese on Okinawa. He’s 99 now and loves your content thank you Mark
Thank him for his service, not just from me but everyone on site here, ...Okinawa was a fierce fight. My father (passed in 1977) was Army with the 503rd Parachute Regiment....New Guinea, Admiralty Islands and Philippines.
@@Normandy1944was 503rd parachute attached to the 11th airborne? My great grandfather was also a paratrooper there
Did he actually fight? My church leader recently passed at 98 and he was the last group of young men drafted...Meaning it was towards the end of the war, even in the South Pacific. He said he seen no combat. I really doubt your Grandpa fought the Japanese being the last group of young men to enter the war. Sorry man...My leader was quick to say he didn't see any combat.
@@thegamingchef3304 at 99, he'd have been 18 in 1943. So he may well have seen action.
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Yes, grandpa was part of the 6th marine division 22nd infantry. He landed on April 1st at Yontan Airfield and fought across the island of Okinawa until he was wounded mid May at the edge of the city of Naha, by a Japanese grenade. He was only 17 when he joined so definitely one of the youngest ww2 vets
I’m a Singaporean 🇸🇬 living in Singapore, which was part of Malaysia 🇲🇾 during WW2. Didn’t know there was a German Naval base in Penang, thank you for sharing.
Mark Felton content is a must click. Always an unexplored area of history!
Yes Indeed!
He'll never run outta great stuff.
@frankgesuele6298 Never!
Your easily fooled .
@@ToddBrooks-o5m Todd, what could you conceivably mean by this, lol.
Suggestion for a video on what the Royal Navy’s submarines did in WW2? They had a large amount of them but their role is hardly talked about
Totally agree the emphasis is always on the role of the U-Boat.
Maybe the UK sub activities are still under the official secrets act.
@@beachcomberbloke462True, this is a very Wermacht centric channel.
Come to think about it I've never heard a story about the English subs 🤔
Didn’t a British sub sink a German one?
I agree that the US and German submarine warfare in WWII receives the bulk of the attention. Yet the Brits had dozens of submarines that must’ve had some significant contributions to the war, notwithstanding the fewer number of German and Italian ships to attack
I know a U-boat or two was sent to Japan with scientists and V weapon plans, but I didn’t know that Hitler gifted a couple of subs to Japan.
Interesting story
they also sent one loaded with gold. I think Mark did a video on it.
U-234.
and one with uranium but on the way the war ended and that one changed course for new york
Another interesting video covering a lesser known incident of WWII. Thanks!
Always great to see a new Mark Felton post pop up in my feed.
My (late) grandfather's U-Boat, U862, was part of the Monsoon group. Outlasted the German war and became a Japanese sub (I-1502) until their surrendered, then I think expended as a target or scuttled. Great video as always!
So, he was one of the lucky ones who survived the war. What was his role onboard the U-boat?
So, your grandpapa was a Nazi?
Thank you for sharing.
Was he interned?
@@castleanthrax1833he guy is here to comment so I’d say yes
U-boats are one of my most fascinating subjects of wwII! Thank you Dr. Felton!
My first thought was Slim Pickens being questioned aboard the sub!!!
one of the most iconic scenes ever captured on film:
Japanese sub mariners trying to get his radio through the hatch "we have to figure out a way to make these things smaller" lol
It is truly intriguing that a U-boat was deployed within the imperial Japanese navy until the conclusion of the war. Thanks for sharing!
I love it when I get a notification from Mark Felton Productions! A video about Japanese U-boats?? Dr. Felton, U-ROCK!
The amount of new (to me) information about WWII continues to impress, thank you Dr. Felton. This was so interesting, I had no idea the trade was so integral to both axis forces.
The most fascinating Uboat of WWII is U234. An XB Class Uboat initially destined for Japan, carrying nuclear technology and enriched uranium, it was after secret negotiations, diverted to USA in a move that lead to Operation Paperclip. This changed the course of post WWII history and lead to the Cold War.
Interesting to see the photos of German and Japanese sailors together. The Japanese seem to have a different and deeper respect towards Germans, and vice versa.
...kinda strange bed fellows indeed and no pun intended, since the submarine sailors share bunks. Not at the same time though...
Unlike land and air forces, all naval personnel, regardless of nationality, have the dangerous sea in common.
I find it odd because BOTH were extremely racist and thought THEIR race was the superior to all others. Can't see how that would work.
Had the allies lost, I suspect that eventually they would have become enemies. (as demonstrated in the series "man in the high castle")
@@muskokamike127why would they become enemies???
@@muskokamike127 A belief in racial supremacy doesn't necessitate a belief in world conquest or hatred towards other races
Awesome Work Dr. Felton!! Greetings from Finland
Hmm. This much any enthusiastic school teacher can do. Will he/she? Not if the school program goes different way OR students / pupils are not interested. And most are not.
I eagerly await anything Mark produces. Always top notch! My favorite channel and presenter!
Always a pleasure to see Mark's content.
Mark: i would love to see more about Karl Dönitz. He is a very 'clandestine' character, but obviously very important. Even my dad could not tell me much about him..
Read his autobiography "Ten Years and Twenty Days."
How could U-Boats actually bring in a considerable amount of raw goods? It seems like they are already so crammed so how could they actually bring in a decent amount of anything at all? Not even to mention all the losses along along the way... it really seems like they received almost nothing in the grand scheme of thing in terms of raw goods.
Japanese subs were fairly large and raw goods in questions were some things that Germans lacked (mica, shellac, rubber, tin, tungsten ...) . Not required in very large quantities but still valuable.
It depended on the class. Not all U-boats were the same. Some had large cargo spaces to carry goods.
Your "Milk cow" type XIV u-boats were refueling stations. They could hold a lot of cargo as well.
Nevertheless, all the u-boats that sailed to Japan were type IX. Except for one, the U-234, which was the sophisticated type X. It's cargo bound for Japan included scientists, plans for a glide bomber, blueprints for the ME-262 jet fighter, and uranium. The contents must have created quite a stir when the boat surrendered before reaching Japan.
@@aleksazunjic9672 Still they are U-Boats. Not cargo ships. No matter what the model ww2 subs weren't huge. And there wasn't a lot of space in any of them. Sure you can cram pack them and hopefully make it and bring some stuff but in the entirety of the war effort it seems so minuscule.
Coffee break. Mark Felton just dropped a new video.
Hi Dr. Felton. I was wondering could you please do a video on Anthony Brady and Frank Stringer, the only two Irish men known to have fought in the SS and ended up in a special forces unit under Otto Skorzeny, Brady even ended up fighting in the Battle of Berlin. I think it would make a great video! Thanks 🙂
A U-boat base in Penang? Good grief.
Not just in Penang. They had at least one other U-boat base in that region also.
Another educational video! Cheers, Mark!
Merry x-mas Mark. You made my 2o24!
That u boat's hunt must be the only time in ww2 were germans and Japanese died in the same battle
I don’t know what would be worse, being on a German submarine or a Japanese submarine.
Great video as always Dr Felton.
Japanese subs were the biggest.
I recall reading somewhere that the Japanese submariners were well fed, and of course their submarines were much larger which presumably meant more room for the crew.
At least the Japanese subs weren't in the freezing North Atlantic. That in itself would've been much more comfortable.
@@MarkFeltonProductions Thanks for the reply!! Yes, I didn’t think of that, perhaps it would make the ‘inevitable’ more comfortable😆
Statistically speaking, Japanese submariners had larger chance for survival. Crews of German U-boats were just slightly better than Japanese Kamikaze, and worse than Soviet T-34 crews.
This was fantastic stuff. Thanks for the Christmas present, Mr. Felton!
Mark’s videos are always well researched and presented
Thank you Dr. Felton!
Another u boat visited NZ in 1945. It surfaced offshore at night and could hear music from a Napier party.They considered shelling Napier but wanted to stay hidden, waiting for a ship carrying frozen lamb for Britain. They left because the ship stayed in the port,but before they did they raided a local farm for fresh milk.Steiners farm... when Germany surrendered the German crew travelled to Japan and handed over the sub to the Japanese.. my mother lived in Napier as a child and told me about it and I managed to confirm it online, even has bits of the Captains log recording these events.
The USS Bouge was the US Coast Guards only aircraft carrier.
Thanks!
Amazing content as usual, Mr Felton.
Once again Dr Felton illuminates the past with this fascinating story.I never realised the Germans had a U- Boat base in Malaya.
Schneewind = Blizzard?
Now *that's* a name!
The film ‘1941’. Was that German guest ( Starred Christopher Lee) at the Japanese sub scene inspired by this historical fact?
HORRYWOOOOOOD!!!! 😂
The sub was german lol
1:25 The Nakajima Nikka would worth a separate episode. It was not a direct copy of the Me-262, but an entirely domestically produced aircraft. How come it looked so similar then? It is because the Japanese military attache gained access to a Me-262, and he was allowed to take photographs of it. The Germans never thought the Japanese were able to reproduce the jet from just a few dozen pictures.
I don’t even see how? How tf do you get the inner workings to be so similar to the 262? It’s wild
@@Briley-gc8wn TBH I never researched this exact story, although I used to write for a military aviation magazine. It is likely that the photos were helpful for structural engineering, and then they took a few hints from BMW about the engine too. Let's see if Dr. Felton digs into the matter sometime.
A welcome return to Dr. Felton’s specialty in the Yanagi trade
I always love hearing your theme intro song
Mark, great work!!!
Love your videos!
Always interesting - in fact, gripping - reportage of WWII and the compelling reach of that world-wide conflict... thanks again, Dr. Felton
great episode, many thanks
Dr. Mark. I love your intro music. Well done , I am a big fan of your content .
The RO-501 was re-gifted to Davy Jones.
Mark’s videos are an absolute must see! 👀
Mr. Felton, could you do more on German and Japanese tech trades. I understand they were going to take Tiger 1 plans and develop it for their use? I would like to know more about that and if any pictures were available to see it.
Thank you. I really enjoyed this program. Keep up the great work!
did you check the older videos? pretty sure he has a couple but its been a while
What are they going to do with Tiger tank plans? They barely had the steel plants to build submarines.
Read up on the U-234, and its mission to Japan.
Excellent work as usual 👍 Thank you very much!
Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, TW.
Whenever I hear about subs going down for good with the crew it send chills thru me. Imagine the horror of being in that death trap so deep in the ocean , helpless in the pitch darkness with the water rushing in and the pressure of the fathoms. The cries of young men for their mothers…. Yeah. wow…
Thank you Mark for another interesting piece of WW2 history.
My favorite channel!
Excellent work as ever Mark
A fantastic insight into areas of history, as always
Your content is top notch. Feels way above RUclips.
It is curious that Admiral Dönitz doubted the Japanese had the technical ability to produce a U-boat copy, as the Imperial Japanese Navy was building, or at least planning, the largest submarines of WWII, the I-400 class, complete with stowed seaplanes.
The IJN also planned to build one of the fastest submarines during the war, the I-200 class.
I can understand Dönitz' reluctance to part with 2 valuable assets, considering that he constantly complained that he needed more U-boats to isolate Great Britain.
Furthermore, it would take time to produce new Japanese copies, even if they had blueprints and examples to work from, as the tools required to manufacture the copy would have to be built and calibrated first.
I wonder if the Admirals dismissal of Japanese ability was made in racist ignorance, or simply because he was angry at losing the craft.
Well it’s true the Japanese were far behind western standards in many fields. It’s not racist just a fact
Was it because of technical capability, or just physical capacity (like they didn't have the industrial strength that Germany had)? I'm just asking, because they clearly had the ability to build a pretty decent surface fleet with some advanced ships (for the time).
@castleanthrax1833 Japan was a contradiction in many ways then, a mixture of modern and old.
They lacked natural resources especially iron ore and oil, which lead to the expansion of the Japanese Empire.
Their priority was Naval craft and Aircraft production, which they were damned good at designing and building, but at the expense of the needs of their army, which was crudely mechanized.
If they concentrated their resources and abilities, they were the equal of anything out there, so yes, I agree that their production ability was not ever going to overwhelm the Allied production.
Japanese had larger subs, but were lacking in some other technologies Germans had : 1. steel quality was worse so U-boats were able to dive deeper. 2. Japanese sonar and radar detection was worse 3. Japanese optics and torpedo computers were worse. In fact, these things are the reason Japanese wanted German subs.
@aleksazunjic9672 Yet the Japanese had two of the best torpedoes in WWII, the Type 93 and 95.
The American torpedoes barely worked at first, until they FINALLY admitted there was a problem (2 years later) and set about fixing those problems.
The Japanese military was full of contradictions like this.
Maybe the IJN subs couldn't dive as deep due to their poor metallurgical abilities, but they made up for that in other fields, like working torpedoes and seaplane bombers on subs... but they could never reach the same productuon levels as the Allies in terms of quantity.
Quality can win a battle, but quantity wins wars.
The Sherman Tank is the best example of this maxim in that it wasn't the best tank of the war, but without it, we'd probably be typing this out in German.
Grand Admiral Doenitz’s statement of “The Japanese not being able to mass produce”,
The irony is funny-had he lived to see
Großadmiral Dönitz passed away on 24 December 1980, so he would have seen Japanese achievements post war.
Doenitz died in 1980 so he saw mass produced Japanese cars and TVs
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This is true, but the Japanese continued to expand their mass production well into the 80s so if he had seen the true potential, he would’ve been completely amazed
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And as I had replied to an earlier comment;
This is true, but the Japanese continued to expand their mass production well into the 80s so if he had seen the true potential, he would’ve been completely amazed
I would have thought Doenitz' objections might have been due to Japanese submarine warfare doctrine which if what I've read is true was nowhere near as agressive as the German one.
"Why should I give them one of my boats when I need them a LOT more than they do!"
Am I the only one who hasn’t seen videos of this channel for at least 2months? It looks like a temporal shadow-ban, I’m still subscribed
He has made quite a few in the last 2 months. You're not the first person I've seen who's complained of the lack of notifications and on several channels. RUclips needs to up its game.
@@castleanthrax1833 Sadly, I think the actual problem is Dr. Felton doesn't push his videos with outrageous clickbait. That seems to be the way to ensure subscribers get notified.
Are you missing notifications from other channels or just this one.
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Mark is up again!!!
Great video
great episode
Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Excellent video thankyou Mark.
The British/Japanese fort (now a privately owned war museum) built on the hill above the submarine pen in Penang is an excellent visit. Comes complete with ghosts 😮
The tunnels leading down into the pens nelow are also intact but off limits to mere mortals like me 😢
Merry Christmas mark
Very interesting! Greetings from East Tennessee 🤠
I love the title of this video because on December 7th of this year I got a Shiba Inu puppy which we named Emperor Hirohito and the idea of a 9 week old Shiba Inu commanding a u boat is hilarious.
You named a dog after a war criminal
@ you are lucky I did not buy two of them or I would have named them Hiro and Naga after Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Plus I can not think of an insult much greater for an Emperor then to name a lowly dog named after him which i can only have because he was the one who lost so badly that his nation can never again have an offensive army that caused his family to become nothing more then a figurehead.
Really? Pearl Harbor day...
@ that’s the joke
@@fatlarry1184 The hilariouys part is that we did not even realize what the date was until after we gave him the name lol
Better than the History Channel haha...Dr. Felton you are a genius! New info every video which I never knew.
Dammit. I wanted my own u-boat!
Great video and story
It shows you the state of the war that the Marco Polo 2 never even survived her maiden voyage.
Merry Christmas Tojo, from Adolf. Thanks for the great videos, Mark! BTW, Nomura Kichisaburō, (December 16, 1877 - May 8, 1964) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and was the ambassador to the United States at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. That's pretty amazing.
Excellent episode!
I'm always here for the intro theme 🔥
Catching this episode from Penang.
Prof. Mark Felton request you to also cover the interesting civilian exchange between U-180 and I-29
Mark you always impress me with your research and respect of the material
Tanks Mark interesting vid.
Approx. 100 years ago, as the young, now independent Republic of Poland was trying to rebuild after hundreds of years of many occupations, came the helping hand from ... USofA.
RCA made an investment in the largest radio station outside of United States called Transatlantic Radio Station in Stare Babice, just outside Warsaw.
Right next to the military garrison to protect it.
6 x 120m radio towers for the receiver + 6 of the same for the transmitter.
This way Warsaw Stock Exchange could play on Wall Street and vice versa. Telegrams could be transmitted etc. THE Internet of these times.
When on Sept 1st 1939 Poland was attacked, pictures of the barbaric German bombardment of civilian targets were on the front pages of American Newspapers.
Polish Soldiers were suppose to blow the towers off.
They did not.
Long story short and to the point: that's the installation Germans used to communicate with U-Boots all over the globe, via Enigma machines. Using American and Polish equipment.
And they blew it up in the last days of occupation of Poland.
Few Poles know this history.
So, 12 very tall "Poles" (poles, actually).
An almost identical transatlantic radio station from the 1920' in Grimeton Sweden had been used to communicate with Swedish submarines after WW2 until it was replaced in that role by more modern equipment in the 1980' AFAIK.
@@castleanthrax1833 Not Poles or poles. Towers.
...kinda strange bed fellows indeed, since the submarine sailors share bunks. Not at the same time though...
Try buying a gift for an emperor. Hirohito has everything he could ever want.
Dr. Felton, In the future you may also wish to mention the Kreigsmarine U-Boats that fell into the hands of the Japanese Imperial Navy after May 8, 1945. With Germany out of the war, the Japanese took over the remaining German subs within their territory.
Good content as usual Mark crack on mate
Excellent video
Before Japan entered the war, a German spy found out that the USA 🇺🇸 easily broke Japan Army and Navy encryption .
In fact it was also public knowledge.
Yet the Japanese carried on.
The Japanese diplomatic code had been broken. The naval code was only broken before the battle of Midway.
Another EXCELLENT story from Prof. Mark Felton. How did he get all this information?
EXCELLENT Prof, EXCELLENT!
The opening music sounds so much better when heard at 1.5x.
Hello Dr. Felton
Thank you for the lesson.
This was not the first time I had heard about the technology transfers.
However this was more detailed.
How can anyone watch and not think of Christopher Lee and Toshiro Mifune in the movie 1941.
My first thought.
Christopher Lee's script reading is hilarious. Worth learning German just to listen to him😁😎
Kind of crazy Donitz didn't think the Japanese could mass produce U-Boats. I mean sure as hell can mass produce cars, they made the 2 biggest battleships in the history of the world, they could certainly mass produce planes, and they were already making submarines, indeed bigger ones than the Nazis had.
Thank you Mark. Many thanks and as allways, regards from SSW. 🇿🇦
The final resting place of U-1224/Ro-501 located just a few miles from where USS Buckley sank U-66.
Another fascinating post, well done Dr Felton!
What is it about submarine war stories? Always interesting! When I was in school I read the autobiographical novel "Iron Coffins" by Herbert Warner. I'm sure a lot of what he wrote ended up in the film Das Boot. If you're looking to shine the spotlight on a relatively unknown character from history, he'd make for an interesting post.
I'm a bit surprised the Japanese wanted some German U-Boots. I wouldn't think the Japanese, no slouches when it came to naval architecture, would have much to learn from one or find anything they'd care to copy.
One thing I found interesting was what looked like a German wound badge painted on the conning tower of the U-511! I wonder what the story behind that was?
Anyway, another fascinating video by the good Doctor! Thanks Doc!
Germans had better steel, torpedo computers, sonars, radar detectors etc ...
I can only find 2 u-boats with the wounded badge as an emblem: U-123 and u-2506.
The U-123 under Reinhard Hardegen was the first U-boat to attack off the east coast of the United States.
If memory serves me, when the U-boat was first launched, the lines parted and the boat shot across the water out of control and rammed another boat in the water, taking damage. This is why they chose the wounded badge for an emblem.
IIRC, I read this in "Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II" by Michael Gannon
@@ImperialistRunningDo Thanks!
Tristan Da Cuhna, St. Helena, Bermuda, did these UK territories have any effect on WWII. There is no immediately info anywhere on the first 2
"Dyin' ain't no way to make a living, boy." - Josey Wales
There weren’t only torpedo bombers based in Malta.
The RN subs did turn many
Rommel-destined tanks into
Mediterranean bottom explorers.
Please create a video about the 'Abwehr,' the German military intelligence service during World War II, which played a significant role in resisting the Nazis. Although initially loyal to the Nazi regime, the Abwehr, especially under the leadership of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, became a center for anti-Nazi activities. Many members of the Abwehr, including Canaris himself, secretly opposed Hitler and worked with various resistance groups, including those involved in the July 20 plot to assassinate him. The Abwehr’s internal resistance is an important but often overlooked part of the story of opposition within Nazi Germany.
The hubrus of Dönitz to suggest what the Japanese could build when Japan had 13 fleet carriers to Germany's nothing. Not to mention the best torpedo of the war, type 93, and two battleships that made the Bismarck look like a dingy.
Thank you Sir.
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The Japanese acquired some Italian boats as well.
I have always had one question regarding German allies. Didn’t any of them read Hitler’s book?
These Japanese U-Boat stories sound like the fictional U-Boat that tried going to Japan but was sunk along the way in the 2006 anime Black Lagoon.
Its interesting as someone who's family comes from penang that the Japanese had turned it into a submarine base.