I love all the "hunches" they played on but when it came to U-boats they knew everything the kriegsmarine was doing which makes the post war interviews more interesting to watch. Excellent series.
Of course I was in the Cav in the 70s and even after being down range for weeks We were expected to be clean shaven ..And We were ...We may have stunk but We were shaved .
@@dennisriblett4622 Look up pictures of returning submarine crews. Even US crews which sailed in relative comfort for submariners looked pretty rough on returning to base and the Germans not having the luxuries that the US did looked far worse. A bit more accurate view is the German crew in The Enemy Below.
The German u-boats were clearly carrying the parts and plans for the ME-262, the first jet fighter aircraft. The Junkers Jumo 004 axial-flow turbojet engines enabled the aircraft to reach a speed of 530 MPH or 460 knots.
As a Jew this may sound strange but I was glad to see there were not celebratory gestures even on a subdued level. Nazi's were a relatively small percentage of the entire German Military. The rest were just good citizens turned soldier because they believed it their Patriotic duty. There should never be joy at the death of another human being regardless of how justified that death was.
Many of the German fighting men's only crime was that of their leader. Between a rock and a hard place... fighting a futile war. Poor Rommel, one of the finest commanders of the last century and another victim of hitler.
"The rest were just good citizens turned soldier because they believed it their Patriotic duty." For example , Regular German Wehrmacht Units ,when invading Belgium ,Holland, quit often used PoWs as a Living Shield,or made them tow Cannons ect. ,Under Friendly Fire,with a German Weapon Aimed at them. They had No Respect for their 'Aryan' Neighbor. And they Showed it,with the Bombardment of Rotterdam,Totally Useless Terror. Greetings !
most german U boot cdrs were decent,scrupulous in giving quarter to freighters by allowing them 3 minutes to bail into lifeboats before sinking them,,,doenitz allowed no nazis to mess with his kriegsmariners.even jews, hitler let him run the Us as he saw fit, they served aboard the U boots
Tanago Tempura.I Am Am POM LOl. But After Seeing All The Graves In Normandy I Am With You,Thanks For All Your Help,Before,After WW11 And Even Now Getting Rid Of The Scum That Wants To Ruin Our Way Of Life.
William Schallert was one the most utilized and finest support actors America has known. He has taken so many different roles with utmost acting skill. I give tribute to this finest film star. BTW isn't Schallert German. Germans were the biggest ethnic group to settle the Midwest and West of North America than any other nation. Pity WW2 pited Germans against their North American settlers. See demographics maps for yourselves. Germans are a great people
David : agreed...I think a very great deal of the technical and industrial power of this country, especially in the early 20th century, is due to this German immigrant group.
Further down they bring up that both subs had the same set. Credits at the end stated: sub scenes were aboard the USS Sawfish..……….. UHhhhhhh how man German subs were left afloat for Sub Movies...………….LMAO!!!!!!!!! These were small budget films...…..
Usually not a good idea to risk opening holes in hulls designed to sink, but I know of one case of a submarine ramming another sub. The Finns on November 5th, 1942 had one sub, Vetehinen, (Merman) which came across the Soviet sub ShCh 305 at night recharging batteries. They fired one torpedo and used the deck guns, and a second torpedo, (probably too close for them to arm), and followed them in as the Soviet sub dived. They managed to sink the sub and the leaks were not so bad that they could not make it back to base. So the captain here was not crazy, as it could be done, but a torpedo sinking is a much more conventional way to sink an enemy sub for the obvious reason sub hulls are very hard things to ram.
"Tthis episode is dedicated the the USS Flounder and the USS Besugo, the two United States submarines, which sank German U-Boats in the Pacific..." this was not a re-enactment, it was a dedication.
@@SeanRCope : only 2 US submarines sunk German U-boats in the Pacific theater. I don't know of any Japanese submarines that were sunk in the Atlantic. but, now you have a trivia question that few people know.
@@SeanRCope : like I said, it is a great trivia question because so few know the facts. U-537 was sunk in the Java sea by the SS Flounder SS-251, 10 Nov 1944 U-183 was sunk in the Java sea by the SS Besugo SS-321 23 April 1945 check Wikipedia for details on the U-Boats. Your welcome.
The Uboat also could be carrying the jet engines from the ME262 and rocket engine from the ME163...thats recorded as historical fact that those engines were sent to Japan via U boat...
there were multiple uboats who made it to asia some may have been successful in delivering cargo none made it to japan though most were headed to nearest base most carried mercury at least the ones by now the containers eroded and mercury has spilled
U-234 (oddly named as it turned out) was ordered to Japan near the end of the war in Europe. It carried supplies of uranium oxide among other things. However Germany collapsed before it got too far and U-234 surrendered to American surface ships. There is a story that the uranium ore was sent directly to Manhattan Project laboratories where it was refined into U-235 and used in the atomic bomb program. I can't find any mention of a USS "Seanettle" or "Sea Nettle" in US Navy archives .
Yes strange as it seems, this is absolutely true . there was a great shortage of uranium. You could say the USA delivered it for them . @@gordonwiessner6327
@@gordonwiessner6327 Since I don't have any real information, this has to be conjecture--it doesn't seem to me that there was enough time for any uranium taken from a surrendered German submarine to have been incorporated into the bomb(s) used on Japan to end the war. Even in the emergency speed then used it is hard to believe that an unexpected windfall of uranium could have been refined and incorporated into a usable bomb within the few months (really weeks) between VE day and VJ day.
They had both the Japanese and German enigma broken by then. Even with one less key they could have deciphered the messages. We finally did get the last key but I'm unsure of the date. The German navy used one more key than the army. Unsure if it was declassified at this point they told the story with the 'crystal ball'. Great story...always hated the klaxon sounds..
Great vid, was curious how a submarine engaged another submarine. Question though: -What happened to the Japanese sub the U-boat was meeting and why didn't it take part in the skirmish?
straswa If the enemy sub was on the surface, just like a ship. If the enemy sub was submerged, and the periscope spotted, torpedoes could be set for 50 feet and fired. The first Japanese sub was sunk by the plane and the second Japanese sub was left behind.
@1735 Sonar reports contact at 180 (Dead Astern). Not familiar with WW11 Class U=Boats but that is directly in the baffles unless they can point the array aft and hear through their own propellers.
Worse,he wouldn't adjust speed without adjusting course away from collision with the uboat...he had just aimed up for ramming,it would be "full reverse and hard to port!". Or starboard of course... Up to him to know if it steers under reverse thrust ,slow speed etc, is it better to stop in a straight line or turn hard at full speed..or the other possibilities ( gentle brake,gentle turn,etc).
I wonder if this fictional account (which was admitted at the beginning) was done to perhaps cover the still classified Ultra code breaking which was not exposed until the late sixties.
We will also have to mask our sonar with native ocean sounds so as to make uncertain the exact location of our pinging source even with extended length towed arrays
Decided lack of detail in this episode. Was this the U-boat carrying nuclear materials to Japan at wars end? 1950s "security" concerns may have suppressed this,
yeah it was carrying uranium ore also several TONS of mercury. remember back then mercury was used for explosive primer products, primers, blasting caps, etc. it wasn't until after the war that mercury less priming compounds were invented. that was why it was soo important to clean all barrels of any kind as soon as they were done firing to get the mercury compounds out of the barrels, because if left there they would try and form amalgams with the barrel steel thereby weakening the barrel steel rendering the barrel useless.
the germans did attempt to smuggle uranium to japan but the war ended the submarine held out 3 days surfaced sent wrong location to canadians then requested a us destroyer to pick them up the ones who made it to pacific carried mercury and possible me 262 engines , blue prints the area near the wrecks is most likely contaminated by mercury a third german sub never made it out of norway british code picked it up royal navy sent a sub with a math genius who hit it with a torpedo after a engine on the uboat became noisy it aborted its run headed home didnt make it very far it dodged all but one torpedo the whole area of the wreck is highly polluted by mercury last i heard norway is debating on putting a metal casing over the wreck but it is also a war grave germany may have objections
sadly a wreck off norway contained mercury last time i heard there was heavy debate between norway and germany it is a war grave but enviromental concerns may make an exception of the uboat wreck
Doesn’t anybody recognize the “I’ll redo this later“ guy from Star Trek’s Trouble with Trebles. This great actor was the agricultural Minister of interplanetary agricultural implantation or something great like that! Captain Kirk didn’t like him and it played so well in the show.
He played Nilz Barris, the Federation bureaucrat who ordered the Priority One distress call summoning the Enterprise to protect the storage compartments of "wheat".
That’s just what I couldn’t put up with - someone constantly arguing against every single thing I said. I always told my team _don’t bring me a problem without some suggested solutions_ It stopped the complainers.
From what I can find, the name of the sub has been changed to Seanettle. I am seriously curious as to why they did that. It was one of their best efforts, and yet apparently it was still classified when they made it. I found some references to sunk U-Boats around Indonesia, but the details on what was being sent or who sunk her is not said. I was just curious. What were they carrying? It was something intense enough to send some subs on a direct hunt for her, and the details are apparently still classified. I think that if it had just been jet or rocket engines that there would be more about it out there by now.
In the intro he said sub on sub warfare was rare and mentioned 2 subs that sank enemy subs. This story was a tribute to them. It was based on true events but didn't actually happen.
First, I love these and want to thank the poster for their effort. Also I think it's hilarious that there are at least two places in each episode where it says insert commercial and they don't. They interrupt vids all over YT and put them before so many good songs but they miss this opportunity? I get that commercials pay for the free vids so why miss so many obvious, expected places to put a commercial?
Those commerical insert notices were intended for the over-the-air broadcaster to pause the film and start advertisements. The notice flashed for a few seconds and required manual intervention. RUclips does not rely on commerical insert notices because user-created content does not have such notices embedded in video.
Like the Germans would have been wearing leather jackets in a sub in tropical waters?????? In fact the German Captain and the XO look like characters out of "Get Smart".
There is a gap in these videos which is related to Submarines but not totally. My Grand Father was thee go to guy that knocked out the radio tower the Japanese had built on Formosa Island. Of all things my Grand Pop was given a modified B25 and 3 gunners one co pilot. No crew really to speak of. My Grand Father did not want to fly the mission at all with no crew. He was protesting from the captains seat when he discovered his co pilot of all people it could be was Greg Boyington. My Grand Father ended up in the air with 11 whistling Corsairs to help destroy the antenna tower. WHY??? Boyington said the concentration of Japanese planes was so bad he was afraid if he attempted with his men to take out the tower they woulda ended up dropping their ordnance to dog fight so he chose the cat bird seat in the B25 because he knew right where the tower was at he just said he was afraid be attacked on the way in. That held out my Grand Father said more than 50 planes jumped em on the way in. My Grand Father was never introduced to the Marines that held thee Island he was sent to. He said he was given a tent with dit floor in it for that mission a toilet seat nailed to a fallen tree and not much else he washed himself in the surf at the tail end of that Island.
This is a factionary description of real advents , made for American audiences . If it was presented as it really happen it would be in German , which many Americans do not speak . Of course they would have used meters , but people in the US would not be familiar with such a measurement .
Germany took on the whole world. They intended to only defeat the Bolsheviks but the whole world stood with Stalin. 3 out of 4 brave U-boat crewmen did not return home. They knew they were facing impossible odds but they still volunteered.
World War II Assigned to the Pacific Fleet, Besugo arrived at Pearl Harbor 25 July 1944. She made five war patrols between 26 September 1944 and 25 July 1945 operating in Bungo Suido, Makassar Strait, Java Sea, and South China Sea. During these patrols, Besugo sank the German submarine U-183, 23 April 1945 in 04°57′S 112°52′E.; one 10,020-ton tanker Nichei Maru; one LST (Landing Ship, Tank), one frigate, and a minesweeper totaling 2260 tons.
Service history After serving in the Atlantic, U-183 sailed from France in July 1943, arriving at Penang on 27 October, and operated in the zone for almost two years. She carried out six war patrols, and was sunk on 23 April 1945, 15 days before Germany's surrender, by the American submarine Besugo (SS-321) in the Java Sea. Only one crew member survived.[citation needed]
This captain was superlative, and would still have died without us knowing what happened had the churman been able to pull the same skinny maneuver by turning directly to the screw source. The German captain did not want his cargo damaged and our American was prepared to ram right after his torpedoes passed the enemy. This very silent service prepared our present sub force for the extended sea duty we now will use presently against the ccp. Small diesel subs lying in hiding keep our hunter killers from having true dominance as with good enough torpedoes will keep our aircraft carriers from close coastal waters unless we are willing to go full active sonar, and I would suppose we will continue to improve our acoustic imaging when we learn how dolphins brains manipulate the return signal so clearly as to have a perfect mental image of the target. Ours are pretty good now but need too extensive pinging to get a good read before the aircraft carrier enters the area.
Not sure if it's "period-stereotyping" but the black leather uniform tops of the U-boat captain & his Exec... a little overly dramatic, wouldn't you say? & ruclips.net/video/dYSqktQQQ-c/видео.html I sincerely doubt this authenticity... "propeller sound, bearing 180...dead astern"... U-boat or American, hydrophones were useless when the sound source was "in the baffles"... the turbulence directly & within a certain cone behind the sub's screws.
+Randy Cable In fact, the snorkel was developed long before WWII. But the Germans did not think they needed it if they limited surface operations to night time. However, the Allies developed airborne millimeter radar could detect the conning tower of a submarine in the dark. So the use of the snorkel was an attempt to escape this form of detection, even though the Germans were not really sure what the technology was that exposed them to attack.
Having an idea is one thing, making it practical is the challenge. The confederate submarine H.L. Hunley during the American Civil War had a schnorkle system, but it did not work well.
maybe a re-listen the the prologue is in order. ;'this episode is dedicated the the USS Flounder and the USS Besugo, the two United States submarines, which sank German U-Boats in the Pacific..." this was not a re-enactment, it was a dedication.
Based on what experience? Take speed for example a WW2 sub could do about 5 knots submerged for a few hours. A modern sub can go 20+ knots forever. Sonar? Firecontrol? Weapons? Sound reduction? Modern subs are better in every wa.
;LOL the Na&zi USlaguage accent ! excellent (wonder if the KKK guys have the same ) SUbmarines making large distances while under water ? I dont buy that
they got them wearing black leather. lol. Anything to create a good vs evil narrative. In the heat of the pacific, they were boiling. They never wear leather like that.
Oh Boy.... where do the fallacies begin with this episode?! Notice lack of special guest at the end of the episode, but a nod to nuclear power? No mention of these events is recorded as fact. I know the production quality was down, but that was definitely not a uboat interior, uniform, accent, commands, or strategy. There were uboats in the Pacific known as the Monsun Gruppe, in fact, U-537 was sunk by USS Flounder in 1944, and the USS Besugo sunk U-183 in 1945 south of Malaysia, but other than that, no other US Subs engaged and sunk any uboats in the Pacific, and I cannot find any info on the 'Seanettle' which makes me wonder about the authenticity of this episode. Did they simply run out of stories to tell so they started making shit up? Was something classified, even to today, that would prevent simple google searches?
maybe a re-listen the the prologue is in order. ;'this episode is dedicated the the USS Flounder and the USS Besugo, the two United States submarines, which sank German U-Boats in the Pacific..." this was not a re-enactment, it was a dedication.
Man, just give a thought of what you watching! 1940's war stories... No where did I see or hear "based on actual events" The actual events I think about is the brave souls who lost there lives on all sides. God bless them all. Just saying
What a "jingoistic" bunch of rubbish, typical of what Americans call a "documentary", based very loosely on a couple of supposed facts, the rest as usual is just speculation ?????
I remember watching this series
when first aired. Well put together.
I love these! Patty Dukes father and a officer( German ) from The Enemy Below !!
"Gorged!? On my grain!? Kirk, I am going to hold you responsible."
Mr. Barris, I'll hold you in arms if you don't shut up!
I can’t believe I didn’t notice it at first 😂
@Richard Moore: "irons"
I love all the "hunches" they played on but when it came to U-boats they knew everything the kriegsmarine was doing which makes the post war interviews more interesting to watch. Excellent series.
Among his 10,000 roles Schallert was a sub captain in “Torpedo Run.”
That U-boat crew is unusually clean shaven for such a long sea journey. Of course this is a TV show.
They are also too nicely dressed!
Of course I was in the Cav in the 70s and even after being down range for weeks We were expected to be clean shaven ..And We were ...We may have stunk but We were shaved .
@@dennisriblett4622 Look up pictures of returning submarine crews. Even US crews which sailed in relative comfort for submariners looked pretty rough on returning to base and the Germans not having the luxuries that the US did looked far worse. A bit more accurate view is the German crew in The Enemy Below.
If some of you remember Gigit TV show about Teenage Girls that looked like twinns The Skipper played the Dad in that show
....ruclips.net/video/cAIyTtyUz84/видео.html
Thanks so very much for the upload, i have been looking for this for a long time.
The German u-boats were clearly carrying the parts and plans for the ME-262, the first jet fighter aircraft. The Junkers Jumo 004 axial-flow turbojet engines enabled the aircraft to reach a speed of 530 MPH or 460 knots.
As a Jew this may sound strange but I was glad to see there were not celebratory gestures even on a subdued level.
Nazi's were a relatively small percentage of the entire German Military.
The rest were just good citizens turned soldier because they believed it their Patriotic duty.
There should never be joy at the death of another human being
regardless of how justified that death was.
Many of the German fighting men's only crime was that of their leader.
Between a rock and a hard place... fighting a futile war.
Poor Rommel, one of the finest commanders of the last century and another victim of hitler.
"The rest were just good citizens turned soldier because they believed it their Patriotic duty."
For example , Regular German Wehrmacht Units ,when invading Belgium ,Holland, quit often used PoWs as a Living Shield,or made them tow Cannons ect. ,Under Friendly Fire,with a German Weapon Aimed at them.
They had No Respect for their 'Aryan' Neighbor.
And they Showed it,with the Bombardment of Rotterdam,Totally Useless Terror.
Greetings !
Bull shit...some humans and ideologys are evil and need to be wiped out.
They were all evil Nazis fighting under the Nazi flag thank God they were destroyed
most german U boot cdrs were decent,scrupulous in giving quarter to freighters by allowing them 3 minutes to bail into lifeboats before sinking them,,,doenitz allowed no nazis to mess with his kriegsmariners.even jews, hitler let him run the Us as he saw fit, they served aboard the U boots
Tanago Tempura.I Am Am POM LOl. But After Seeing All The Graves In Normandy
I Am With You,Thanks For All Your Help,Before,After WW11 And Even Now Getting Rid Of The Scum That Wants To Ruin Our Way Of Life.
William Schallert was one the most utilized and finest support actors America has known. He has taken so many different roles with utmost acting skill. I give tribute to this finest film star. BTW isn't Schallert German. Germans were the biggest ethnic group to settle the Midwest and West of North America than any other nation. Pity WW2 pited Germans against their North American settlers. See demographics maps for yourselves. Germans are a great people
David : agreed...I think a very great deal of the technical and industrial power of this country, especially in the early 20th century, is due to this German immigrant group.
As they were closely watch by J. Edgar Hoover.
Further down they bring up that both subs had the same set. Credits at the end stated: sub scenes were aboard the USS Sawfish..……….. UHhhhhhh how man German subs were left afloat for Sub Movies...………….LMAO!!!!!!!!! These were small budget films...…..
A version of “The Enemy Below”
He was also Nancy Drew's TV father!
I thought he was Abner Kravitz from Bewitched but was wrong.
Usually not a good idea to risk opening holes in hulls designed to sink, but I know of one case of a submarine ramming another sub. The Finns on November 5th, 1942 had one sub, Vetehinen, (Merman) which came across the Soviet sub ShCh 305 at night recharging batteries. They fired one torpedo and used the deck guns, and a second torpedo, (probably too close for them to arm), and followed them in as the Soviet sub dived. They managed to sink the sub and the leaks were not so bad that they could not make it back to base.
So the captain here was not crazy, as it could be done, but a torpedo sinking is a much more conventional way to sink an enemy sub for the obvious reason sub hulls are very hard things to ram.
What an exciting adventure and a very dangerous situation to be in !
"Tthis episode is dedicated the the USS Flounder and the USS Besugo, the two United States submarines, which sank German U-Boats in the Pacific..." this was not a re-enactment, it was a dedication.
OR IN OTHER WORDS FICTION!
Pacific? Uh, no. Thanks for playing....
@@SeanRCope : only 2 US submarines sunk German U-boats in the Pacific theater.
I don't know of any Japanese submarines that were sunk in the Atlantic.
but, now you have a trivia question that few people know.
Dave -in-NJ I have grown up my entire life (52) not hearing of this and I’ve looked and am unable to verify that claim.
@@SeanRCope : like I said, it is a great trivia question because so few know the facts.
U-537 was sunk in the Java sea by the SS Flounder SS-251, 10 Nov 1944
U-183 was sunk in the Java sea by the SS Besugo SS-321 23 April 1945
check Wikipedia for details on the U-Boats. Your welcome.
3:25, these guys look like KAOS agents.
The Uboat also could be carrying the jet engines from the ME262 and rocket engine from the ME163...thats recorded as historical fact that those engines were sent to Japan via U boat...
there were multiple uboats who made it to asia some may have been successful in delivering cargo none made it to japan though most were headed to nearest base most carried mercury at least the ones by now the containers eroded and mercury has spilled
Yes it was another one @William Signs
Ah
Also?
U-234 (oddly named as it turned out) was ordered to Japan near the end of the war in Europe. It carried supplies of uranium oxide among other things. However Germany collapsed before it got too far and U-234 surrendered to American surface ships. There is a story that the uranium ore was sent directly to Manhattan Project laboratories where it was refined into U-235 and used in the atomic bomb program.
I can't find any mention of a USS "Seanettle" or "Sea Nettle" in US Navy archives .
Actually the uranium was used in the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. So, the German's assisted in Japan's defeat.
Yes strange as it seems, this is absolutely true . there was a great shortage of uranium. You could say the USA delivered it for them . @@gordonwiessner6327
You can't find any info on Sea Nettle because that is how secret it is. 🤫
There were 2 IJN officers aboard as well, returning to Japan. When the Germans decided to surrender, they committed seppukku by poison.
@@gordonwiessner6327 Since I don't have any real information, this has to be conjecture--it doesn't seem to me that there was enough time for any uranium taken from a surrendered German submarine to have been incorporated into the bomb(s) used on Japan to end the war. Even in the emergency speed then used it is hard to believe that an unexpected windfall of uranium could have been refined and incorporated into a usable bomb within the few months (really weeks) between VE day and VJ day.
I was just at Scapa Flow last week. If I had heard about U-47 before I had forgotten about it.
They had both the Japanese and German enigma broken by then. Even with one less key they could have deciphered the messages. We finally did get the last key but I'm unsure of the date. The German navy used one more key than the army. Unsure if it was declassified at this point they told the story with the 'crystal ball'. Great story...always hated the klaxon sounds..
One more Rotor. I was communications in the Air Force and trained on the KL-7 which used 8 rotors.
Best one yet!
Great vid, was curious how a submarine engaged another submarine. Question though:
-What happened to the Japanese sub the U-boat was meeting and why didn't it take part in the skirmish?
straswa If the enemy sub was on the surface, just like a ship. If the enemy sub was submerged, and the periscope spotted, torpedoes could be set for 50 feet and fired.
The first Japanese sub was sunk by the plane and the second Japanese sub was left behind.
John Smith Thanks.
straswa the
@1735 Sonar reports contact at 180 (Dead Astern). Not familiar with WW11 Class U=Boats but that is directly in the baffles unless they can point the array aft and hear through their own propellers.
Did they have towed arrays back then?
@@kaptainkaos1202 no
You don't "set a course for home" when you might recover debris that proves you got the right sub.
But they are almost out of fuel!
Worse,he wouldn't adjust speed without adjusting course away from collision with the uboat...he had just aimed up for ramming,it would be "full reverse and hard to port!". Or starboard of course... Up to him to know if it steers under reverse thrust ,slow speed etc, is it better to stop in a straight line or turn hard at full speed..or the other possibilities ( gentle brake,gentle turn,etc).
I wonder if this fictional account (which was admitted at the beginning) was done to perhaps cover the still classified Ultra code breaking which was not exposed until the late sixties.
Wow what a patrol!
Great film
We will also have to mask our sonar with native ocean sounds so as to make uncertain the exact location of our pinging source even with extended length towed arrays
Fine Sub Movie!
Decided lack of detail in this episode. Was this the U-boat carrying nuclear materials to Japan at wars end? 1950s "security" concerns may have suppressed this,
yeah it was carrying uranium ore also several TONS of mercury. remember back then mercury was used for explosive primer products, primers, blasting caps, etc. it wasn't until after the war that mercury less priming compounds were invented. that was why it was soo important to clean all barrels of any kind as soon as they were done firing to get the mercury compounds out of the barrels, because if left there they would try and form amalgams with the barrel steel thereby weakening the barrel steel rendering the barrel useless.
the germans did attempt to smuggle uranium to japan but the war ended the submarine held out 3 days surfaced sent wrong location to canadians then requested a us destroyer to pick them up the ones who made it to pacific carried mercury and possible me 262 engines , blue prints the area near the wrecks is most likely
contaminated by mercury a third german sub never made it out of norway british code picked it up royal navy sent a sub with a math genius who hit it with a torpedo after a engine on the uboat became noisy it aborted its run headed home didnt make it very far it dodged all but one torpedo the whole area of the wreck is highly polluted by mercury last i heard norway is debating on putting a metal casing over the wreck but it is also a war grave germany may have objections
sadly a wreck off norway contained mercury last time i heard there was heavy debate between norway and germany it is a war grave but enviromental concerns may make an exception of the uboat wreck
More likely it was jet engine and anti-aircraft gun technology. Germany was trading technology for raw materials with Japan.
Fascinating story
What was the Gernan sub carrying?
Does this sound like a prequal to "AN ENEMY BELOW"?
Prequel ? This would have happened later in the war.
William Schallert aka Patty Duke's series dad.
that was after the war, of course, it could be his cousin, identical cousins....
Dave -in-NJ lmao 😂😂😂😂
I just remembered that Playboy's lay out of Nancy Drew is the closest to art in human form I'd ever seen. Fall 1978!
His greatest role was Milton the toaster
I had no idea patty Lane's old man was on a sub.
I think that was Cathy Lane's Uncle Martin who was the Captain.
Wow! That was intense!
❤
The German captain looks like peter graves form mission impossible
Doesn’t anybody recognize the “I’ll redo this later“ guy from Star Trek’s Trouble with Trebles. This great actor was the agricultural Minister of interplanetary agricultural implantation or something great like that! Captain Kirk didn’t like him and it played so well in the show.
He played Nilz Barris, the Federation bureaucrat who ordered the Priority One distress call summoning the Enterprise to protect the storage compartments of "wheat".
Patty Duke's dad on The Patty Duke Show
William Schallert(sp?)
That’s just what I couldn’t put up with - someone constantly arguing against every single thing I said. I always told my team _don’t bring me a problem without some suggested solutions_ It stopped the complainers.
German Skipper: "Up to periscope depth, QUIETLY!" While he is running active on his sonar.
At 4:14 U boats operated with the metric system, not in yards.
Wait, why did they not look for wreckage? Might have confirmed.
Wonder which U-boat it was...
They named a boat after Kent Dorfman?
The exec was like an albatross
The German sub captain was Peter graves. ( Aurness) James Arness brother. The gun smoke guy.
Imagine James Arness in a sub. At 2.01m tall. (6'7"). Matt Dillion was a tall dude.
Kurt Kruger played the captain .... not Peter graves
hey give the hunley crew some credit for submarine early development
A German sub would not have given the range to target in yards.
just like the U boat 864 being sunk by torpedo's by HMS Venturer off the Norweigan coast in 1945 brave men all of them
Love the Martian mariner! That's the plane type my father served on! Hunting u boats in the Atlantic, out of Melbourne fla
Martin, not Martian.:)
@@kdrapertrucker auto correct
From what I can find, the name of the sub has been changed to Seanettle. I am seriously curious as to why they did that. It was one of their best efforts, and yet apparently it was still classified when they made it. I found some references to sunk U-Boats around Indonesia, but the details on what was being sent or who sunk her is not said. I was just curious. What were they carrying? It was something intense enough to send some subs on a direct hunt for her, and the details are apparently still classified. I think that if it had just been jet or rocket engines that there would be more about it out there by now.
+James Coldiron Some say radioactive material and data for atomic weapon development, but there would be other things possible.
tons of uranium ore & mercury
In the intro he said sub on sub warfare was rare and mentioned 2 subs that sank enemy subs. This story was a tribute to them. It was based on true events but didn't actually happen.
Germany & Japan also shared atomic secrets to a point. It could have carried heavy water.
Only one sub vs sub action was completed while both were submerged, HMS Venturer vs U-864.
Damm ,
Also their was a German Raider. Q ship destroyed by a us sub
First, I love these and want to thank the poster for their effort. Also I think it's hilarious that there are at least two places in each episode where it says insert commercial and they don't. They interrupt vids all over YT and put them before so many good songs but they miss this opportunity? I get that commercials pay for the free vids so why miss so many obvious, expected places to put a commercial?
Those commerical insert notices were intended for the over-the-air broadcaster to pause the film and start advertisements. The notice flashed for a few seconds and required manual intervention. RUclips does not rely on commerical insert notices because user-created content does not have such notices embedded in video.
Like the Germans would have been wearing leather jackets in a sub in tropical waters??????
In fact the German Captain and the XO look like characters out of "Get Smart".
Never heard of the northern pacific referred to as "tropical"
There is a gap in these videos which is related to Submarines but not totally. My Grand Father was thee go to guy that knocked out the radio tower the Japanese had built on Formosa Island. Of all things my Grand Pop was given a modified B25 and 3 gunners one co pilot. No crew really to speak of. My Grand Father did not want to fly the mission at all with no crew. He was protesting from the captains seat when he discovered his co pilot of all people it could be was Greg Boyington. My Grand Father ended up in the air with 11 whistling Corsairs to help destroy the antenna tower. WHY??? Boyington said the concentration of Japanese planes was so bad he was afraid if he attempted with his men to take out the tower they woulda ended up dropping their ordnance to dog fight so he chose the cat bird seat in the B25 because he knew right where the tower was at he just said he was afraid be attacked on the way in. That held out my Grand Father said more than 50 planes jumped em on the way in. My Grand Father was never introduced to the Marines that held thee Island he was sent to. He said he was given a tent with dit floor in it for that mission a toilet seat nailed to a fallen tree and not much else he washed himself in the surf at the tail end of that Island.
Next to last episode of the series.
The Germans are comically this 😂
Hey Fritz give the range in Meters not yards. What navy are you in anyway!
Good surveillance
This is a factionary description of real advents , made for American audiences . If it was presented as it really happen it would be in German , which many Americans do not speak . Of course they would have used meters , but people in the US would not be familiar with such a measurement .
Germany took on the whole world. They intended to only defeat the Bolsheviks but the whole world stood with Stalin. 3 out of 4 brave U-boat crewmen did not return home. They knew they were facing impossible odds but they still volunteered.
World War II
Assigned to the Pacific Fleet, Besugo arrived at Pearl Harbor 25 July 1944. She made five war patrols between 26 September 1944 and 25 July 1945 operating in Bungo Suido, Makassar Strait, Java Sea, and South China Sea. During these patrols, Besugo sank the German submarine U-183, 23 April 1945 in 04°57′S 112°52′E.; one 10,020-ton tanker Nichei Maru; one LST (Landing Ship, Tank), one frigate, and a minesweeper totaling 2260 tons.
Service history
After serving in the Atlantic, U-183 sailed from France in July 1943, arriving at Penang on 27 October, and operated in the zone for almost two years. She carried out six war patrols, and was sunk on 23 April 1945, 15 days before Germany's surrender, by the American submarine Besugo (SS-321) in the Java Sea. Only one crew member survived.[citation needed]
The German Sailor would not have given the range in YARDS, It would have been in METERS
Funny thing is the Germans use yards towards the start of the show and then metres later on.
This captain was superlative, and would still have died without us knowing what happened had the churman been able to pull the same skinny maneuver by turning directly to the screw source. The German captain did not want his cargo damaged and our American was prepared to ram right after his torpedoes passed the enemy. This very silent service prepared our present sub force for the extended sea duty we now will use presently against the ccp. Small diesel subs lying in hiding keep our hunter killers from having true dominance as with good enough torpedoes will keep our aircraft carriers from close coastal waters unless we are willing to go full active sonar, and I would suppose we will continue to improve our acoustic imaging when we learn how dolphins brains manipulate the return signal so clearly as to have a perfect mental image of the target. Ours are pretty good now but need too extensive pinging to get a good read before the aircraft carrier enters the area.
2400 yards? Ah, that would be 2000 meters.
They were apparently interchangeable ;)
anyone notice the movie set in the sub? both American and Germans used the same set. check out the 4:30 and 6:45 8:30
Of course they would use the same set , to save money !
Really? We thought they both were using real sub's. How informative.
IKR. Set Dressing could have at least hung some sausages off the overhead pipes to get that ''Pig Boat'' ambience.
And thus we have the answer to the countless complaints of Germans using yards instead of meters....
German submarine using yards instead of meters????
I'm thinking it was so the US audience would be familiar with yards & not understand the metric system.
Not sure if it's "period-stereotyping" but the black leather uniform tops of the U-boat captain & his Exec... a little overly dramatic, wouldn't you say? & ruclips.net/video/dYSqktQQQ-c/видео.html I sincerely doubt this authenticity... "propeller sound, bearing 180...dead astern"... U-boat or American, hydrophones were useless when the sound source was "in the baffles"... the turbulence directly & within a certain cone behind the sub's screws.
Capitan
One wonders why it took so long for someone to conceive of a snorkel for use while submerged ?
+Randy Cable In fact, the snorkel was developed long before WWII. But the Germans did not think they needed it if they limited surface operations to night time. However, the Allies developed airborne millimeter radar could detect the conning tower of a submarine in the dark. So the use of the snorkel was an attempt to escape this form of detection, even though the Germans were not really sure what the technology was that exposed them to attack.
Having an idea is one thing, making it practical is the challenge. The confederate submarine H.L. Hunley during the American Civil War had a schnorkle system, but it did not work well.
Calling members by the first name....
Can't find any records of a U boat sunk in Hong Kong harbour..or anywhere near Hong Kong.......and certainly not by a US submarine.
maybe a re-listen the the prologue is in order.
;'this episode is dedicated the the USS Flounder and the USS Besugo, the two United States submarines, which sank German U-Boats in the Pacific..." this was not a re-enactment, it was a dedication.
No special real life person (or people) appearance and interview 😢😢
Actually with the exception of greater depths I think modern subs have gotten worse.
Based on what experience? Take speed for example a WW2 sub could do about 5 knots submerged for a few hours. A modern sub can go 20+ knots forever. Sonar? Firecontrol? Weapons? Sound reduction? Modern subs are better in every wa.
I think the sun is getting colder.
;LOL the Na&zi USlaguage accent ! excellent (wonder if the KKK guys have the same )
SUbmarines making large distances while under water ? I dont buy that
Isaac OLEG don't forget the U boats had schnorkles.
Jack Stevens à tes souhaits !
They didn't stay submerged, they surfaced at night and in bad weather to charge batteries.
they got them wearing black leather. lol. Anything to create a good vs evil narrative. In the heat of the pacific, they were boiling. They never wear leather like that.
Oh Boy.... where do the fallacies begin with this episode?! Notice lack of special guest at the end of the episode, but a nod to nuclear power? No mention of these events is recorded as fact. I know the production quality was down, but that was definitely not a uboat interior, uniform, accent, commands, or strategy. There were uboats in the Pacific known as the Monsun Gruppe, in fact, U-537 was sunk by USS Flounder in 1944, and the USS Besugo sunk U-183 in 1945 south of Malaysia, but other than that, no other US Subs engaged and sunk any uboats in the Pacific, and I cannot find any info on the 'Seanettle' which makes me wonder about the authenticity of this episode.
Did they simply run out of stories to tell so they started making shit up? Was something classified, even to today, that would prevent simple google searches?
maybe a re-listen the the prologue is in order.
;'this episode is dedicated the the USS Flounder and the USS Besugo, the two United States submarines, which sank German U-Boats in the Pacific..." this was not a re-enactment, it was a dedication.
Tractornstuff. Didn't do well in school did you? Listen to what is being said.
Man, just give a thought of what you watching! 1940's war stories... No where did I see or hear "based on actual events" The actual events I think about is the brave souls who lost there lives on all sides. God bless them all. Just saying
What a "jingoistic" bunch of rubbish, typical of what Americans call a "documentary", based very loosely on a couple of supposed facts, the rest as usual is just speculation ?????
Not a documentary but a tv show. I enjoyed it as a child. It's not a college course, but entertainment.
What a idiot !
Silent Service was a series aired on TV with WW2 stories, liberally adapted from real events. Many such series found audiences
with vets and boomers.