USS Savannah - Surviving the Fritz X
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- As I like to say, some ships are known for long and exciting careers. Others are known for the exact opposite, either a short service, or a quiet one.
And then there are the ships known for one major event, and nothing else. USS Savannah, the topic of today's video, certainly qualifies. While her shore bombardment role was quite extensive and successful...this is a ship known for one thing. Being hit by, and surviving, a German Fritz X guided bomb.
The same weapon that sent Roma to the bottom.
Savannah would survive this, although it did take her out of active wartime service. Let's look at that story, in this video.
Further Reading:
www.amazon.com/U-S-Cruisers-I...
www.history.navy.mil/research...
www.amazon.com/Army-Dawn-1942...
www.amazon.com/The-Day-of-Bat...
It’s actually a miracle that she didn’t suffer the same fate as Roma and other ships! The lord was definitely looking out for her and her crew that day!
There's a scene in the movie "The Big Red One", with Lee Marvin and Mark Hamill, that highlighted Savannah's work in Sicily breaking up a counterattack by the Hermann Goering division against the Allied forces - it showed the American soldiers hiding in a cave to evade the German counterattack - suddenly there's the sound of a sizeable artillery barrage coming in, which decimated the German forces - the American soldiers are then told that the entire artillery barrage, came from a USN cruiser sitting offshore, prompting Marvin to make a laconic remark about the Navy pulling their bacon out of the fire.
The Brooklyn class cruiser was arguably the best of the prewar treaty cruisers. With few changes, the Brooklyn hull, and engineering plant remained in production well into World war II. When 15 guns, was thought too much. There were heavy cruisers that used the same hull design and engineering plant. Different armament and armor protection. Later used, for the wartime Cleveland class cruiser. Same hull and engineering plant, once again different armament and armor protection. Some hulls were used in the light carrier conversions. Looking at the hull of USS Longbeach CGN-9. The influence of the Brooklyn class hull design is clear. These ships were rugged, reliable and survivable. Absorbing tremendous damage before sinking.
The 5"/25 guns on Brooklyn class and heavy Treaty cruisers were primarily for AA. While at least nominally usable for anti-ship, their low muzzle velocity made them less than impressive. The 5"/38s retrofitted on USS Savanah and installed on Cleveland class light cruisers was a good dual-purpose gun, probably the best of WW2.
Actual footage of the hit at 15.12. Incredible. Those guys on the PT boat must have been pooping themselves.
Superb video as always!
Nice video, I look forward to each new installment. 👍
Nice post. Thanks
For a warship, she's a beauty!
How come you don't provide the length of ships anymore?
Nice stuff. Do you have anything more on the Japanese AA rockets?
Interesting.
Does anyone know how many kills she scored when she engaged any of the land based armored tanks? Does a rough number exist?
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i dont understand how they got those long heavy torpedos on a sub.
I don't understand this ?metric? How many bananas is that 🤔
Only 3 nations DONOT use metric , they are under the power of a Liberian witchdoctor.
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[USS Savannah's Near FATAL Encounter With a Fritz-X Guided Bomb] this is releaesd 12 days ago...what the fvck are you doing?
Hey man, it's alright. I can assure you each post takes a while to research, write, and edit. Skynea does excellent work.
Contrary to popular belief, I have a list I work through. And I don’t often note what other channels are doing to not bias myself.
So if another video was posted, that’s not copying.
Way to be classy niu.