The US Submarine Tactic that Ended Terribly
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- Опубликовано: 18 фев 2024
- On November 7, 1943, the submarine USS Sculpin embarked on her ninth war patrol. This mission was pivotal to the Allies’ Pacific strategy, as the U.S. Navy prepared for a large-scale assault on the Gilbert Islands. Sculpin’s crucial role: to intercept any Japanese naval units threatening the invasion.
With a 60-person crew, Sculpin blended into the vastness of the Pacific, on a patrol scheduled until December 14. However, as days passed, the expected communications from Sculpin ceased. On November 29, attempts to engage Sculpin under Commander Cromwell’s leadership met only silence. Further orders on December 1 remained unanswered.
Four weeks later, with no word or sign, Sculpin was declared lost, her fate shrouded in mystery. At the war’s end, with the emergence of only 21 survivors from a Japanese POW camp, glimpses of Sculpin’s daring endeavors and the sacrifices made by her crew began to surface…
Courage and bravery beyond the call of duty , but then again in their minds that WAS the call of duty RIP
RIP, brave sailors. Thank you for your service, my friends.
They did their duty, until the end. Fair Winds and following Seas. RIP
Sad but amazing. Thank you
Talking about the Medal of Honor, I would love to see a series on all who have won it and what they did to deserve it. It would be sad as most are granted only if they died.
I was thinking something like that - it's quite something to get a Medal of Honor, but to do so, would mean your life is in very grave danger. To the point that you're not likely to live to receive it.
There are at least two books about the lives of VC recipients by Lord Ashcroft, who has a large collection of the medals. Fascinating reading . . .
This is one of your best videos. My congratulations.
Yep Mega Upvotes !!!!!
The sailor @04:06 was lost during what was supposed to be a 3 hour tour. I love all of your dark docs. Keep it up!
...a three hour tour. :D
Yup. But for several years he got to share a deserted island with Tina Louise - the gorgeous “movie star”.
The professor.
The weather started getting rough...
Thanks for the red circle on the thumbnail. I wasnt sure what i was supposed to be looking at.
That was quite a story of brave men.
@ 4:09 Is Russell Johnson aka the Professor from Gilligan's Island!!
Love these videos!
These tragic events were retold in two episodes of "The Silent Service" titled "The Squalus Story" (1958) and "The Sculpin Story" (1957).
Great work. Thanks for sharing
@4:09 the Professor, before Gilligan's 🏝️😂
I noticed that too!
The clips of Russell Johnson were taken from one of his three appearances in episodes of "The Silent Service", where he twice played Cmdr (later Captain) Ed Beach. The real Beach who would later write the famous novel "Run Silent, Run Deep" which was turned into a major motion picture starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster.
@@Paladin1873 Wow!!! Never heard of that series. Russell really got around, didn't he???
@@rogerrendzak8055It was on for two seasons and recreated actual stories of American submarines, mostly set during WWII. Some literary license was taken to streamline the half hour programs. You'll see a lot of familiar faces in it, including some future Star Trek alumni. You can watch the entire series on RUclips.
Great video.
What an interesting story with a bizarre twist of fate!
Brave men.
Isnt that the Professor at 4:09? I didnt know the SS Minnow was involved with this operation.🤷
I do believe it is the Professor.
well skipper was a destroyer officer
why didn't subs fire circulating, surface running torps out of the rear tub, to keep destroyers away from their location ? hard top drop depth charges if there is a torp running in circles .
All people who join the military should be called heroes for service to our nation,GOD bless them,one and all.
WAS THAT THE PROFESSOR ( RUSSELL JOHNSON ) FROM "GILLAGIN'S ISLAND" LOOKING THROUGH THE BINOCULARS TWICE?? I GUESS HE WAS JUST TYPECAST TO BE A SHIPWRECKED GUY THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER??
I think you're right
Interesting story, but your date for the tragic incident involving the sister sub, Squalus, is incorrect. The Squalus went down during sea trials off the NH coast in May 1939 - four years earlier.
Fair winds and following seas to all my brothers on eternal patrol . Submarines Once
7:10 I'm curious how a "drizzle at the surface" disrupted the Japanese' depth charge attack..
Gramps was a west coast Seabee! to my memory. "I Wounder?"
Was his rank Captain or Commander??? You use both ranks when you refer to him.
Sitting here watching this and wondering why they didn't rise bow towards the Japanese cruiser and fire all torpedoes at it while rising?
The outer doors open out for safety reasons, without a accurate depth gage, that is going to be hard. If the depth gages are out, the tdc, and the equipment to set the gyro angle on the torpedos may be out. The passive sonar mat not be working at all as well. The biggest issue is that a sub at 2 knots can’t turn like a destroyer at 30 knots. If i recall history correctly, a Japanese destroyer captain would often drop a few depth charges and assumed he had a kill. This guy played possum, did not give up and even his gun crew hit the target right away. Japanese navel doctrine was best people focused on the attack, second rate officials are on defensive duty, like asw. My guess this captain pissed off the wrong admiral.
All sensors were knockd out.
RIP to the men of the USS Sculpin wo went down with the ship.
I don't like the tendency in this series to hype things even when the subject by itself is already interesting. Take this video's title. Sure, it caught my attention, but my reaction was "The Enterprise (CV-6) wasn't sunk despite repeated Japanese claims that they did! She survived the war only to be scrapped in 1958!"
"60 person crew"? You mean 60 man crew.
Waaah 😂
These sudden endings to some of the videos are jarring.
So sad
Is war a form of brith control,just asking.
trap? or another of your plots to get rid of your old ships?
"America's iconic WW2 vessel." USS Enterprise? No. USS Arizona then? No. USS North Carolina? No. USS Fletcher? No. USS San Diego? No. USS San Francisco? No. USS O'Bannon? No. (And so on.)
@SennaAugutus... AND THE SAMUEL B. ROBERTS!!!
I have heard talk recently about the monument for the Japanese internment camp here in the US where our government had gathered all Japanese in America to have to live in the squalor conditions. I do not condone how they were treated but, in the dire time that the US was in at the time with Pearl Harbor having just been so brutally and unmercifully attacked only to realize that the Japanese government had spies amongst the citizens, they could not tell immediately who was feeding Japan the information so they thought it best for America's safety and security to do that and in a hurried fashion hence the sqalorish conditions. Our government realized that they did not have the time to vet everyone fully to determine who the spies were. I feel bad for the Japanese American citizens who went through that and would only hope that they might understand that it was for America's safety, after all, the West Coast was the next on the plans to be attacked.
60 man crew. Say it. They were not that woke, else we would have lost.
That same crew fought for the narrator to speak the way he wants to. How quickly you are to forget and overlook their sacrifice.
@nickstemberger They're turning in their graves, seeing what we've become. They weren't fighting for the month of June, you can bet on that!
@nickstemberger1289 Aren't you doing the exact same thing 🤔.
@@Mattman2500 No, I'm trying to watch a video about sacrifice and bravery. Now I gotta deal with losers in the comments over wording. WHO TF CARES.
@nickstemberger1289 Free speech applies to everyone. Even If YOU don't agree with what. They are saying. That's the point here.
USS SQUALUS was lost in 1939 Hate when numb nutz cant even get the most basic information right .......
It was salvaged and renamed sailfish. Only thing worse than a historical RUclips video publisher getting the facts wrong is someone too confident in their own knowledge to double check and find out that maybe just maybe they don't know everything.
@@moshebron2105 Try watch the video again and pay attention SQUALUS sank in 1939
'"'On 12 May 1939, following a yard overhaul, Squalus began a series of test dives off Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After successfully completing 18 dives, she went down again off the Isles of Shoals on the morning of 23 May" It was 1939 .........
Her sister SCULPIN on training mission searched and found the buoy sent up by the SQAULUS