U-Boats History - The Sinking of U 47, U 99 and U 100
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- In 1941 times had changed for the German U-Boats. It was more difficult to find convoys and the ones, that were found, were given stronger escort. In the first 14 days of January, 1941, U-boats had managed to sink only two vessels in North Atlantic. This was due to the number of operational submarines as well as adverse weather conditions.
Three famous German U-boat commanders, Günther Prien, Joachim Schepke and Otto Kretschmer, decided to take leave with their crews. They were national heroes and everyone wanted to meet them. The most known and admired was Günther Prien, the Bull of Scapa Flow, who sank British battleship HMS Royal Oak. Otto Kretschmer was the most successful U-boat ace, who sank 46 ships and damaged another 5 during the World War II. The last one, Joachim Schepke was the 11th most successful German submarine commander during the World War II. In 1941 he was just 20 year old; he was elegant, handsome, very confident and approachable at the same time. Unlike Prien and Kretschmer, he was happily giving official speeches at the Nazi Party rallies, keenly supporting Hitler`s regime.
A few weeks later all of them were out of action. Krestchmer was taken prisoner of war, Prien and Schepke were dead. Three famous aces were eliminated within just a few days. Was that the beginning of the end for the Nazi Wolfpacks?
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Have you seen my latest video on U-boats?
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UnknownHistory - BitmapAxis 8
You’re disgraceful….
Love the respect shown to all those who fought for either side. Informative and unbiased, well done
My father told of the friendship struck up between the British and German sailors who joined their mess on Vanoc. One British sailor could speak a little German and he was a well educated man who went on to become a member of parliament after the war. The sailors lined the ships rail to watch the Germans assembled on the landing stage at Liverpool and gave them a cheer as they were marched off to prisoner of war camp. One of the Germans defiantly returned their cheering with a Nazi salute.
Yes excellent doco. Also, words spoken by kretchmer when fished from water to meet Commander Mackintyre. Sir, thank-you for saving my men in the water, that was good of you. That said, I wish to say how much I regret not having any torpedoes with which to attack you. As it is, I sincerely congratulate you on your success. Kretchmer offered his hand and in return had his excellent Zeus's binoculars taken by McIntyre. He used them for the remainder of the war. Afterwards they met, and they were returned to Kretchmer. Classy all around. Source: The Golden Horsehoe.
Thanks for this video. My father and two of my uncles were sailors on HMS Vanoc when they rammed the u boat. The German prisoners joined my father's mess. This video gives an accurate account as told to me by my father and uncles.
really cool thanks for story mate
Schepke was not "just 20 years old in 1941", he was 29. Minumum age for U-Boat commanders was 25 before 1944, this is why Teddy Suhren had to wait to turn 25 in order to get his own boat, the U-564 even though he had already earned the Knights Cross as the IWO of U-48.
Well he got the chop anyway and that's all that matters.
Of all the scariest things about ww2, this had to have been the most frightening
‘What is Scuttle?’...LOL Smooth move for time, Krestchmer! (He spoke perfect English)
RIP Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien, Hero of U 47, Kapitänleutnant Joachim Schepke., Hero of U 100, the dead crewmen of U 99 and all the brave men who died at the submarines of all nations in this war.
To be fair someone could say the same thing about the Red Barron or Rommel.
@@nemonooit Yep that's what happens in a war. Glad you figured it out. I'm a combat veteran, my grandfather was also, and real veterans don't think like you civilians. It was their job.
Upon being resued, MacIntyre took Kretschmer's U-boat binoculars as his war prize, and used them with great success throughout the rest of the war. MacIntyre returne them to Kretschmer long after the end of WWII.
Very good video - well worth a watch - thanks
This narrator is a good cure for insomnia.
Thank you for posting a very informative video, I appreciate your effort.
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"Was that the end for the Wolf Packs?"
Installs hastily Silent Hunter III
"NEIN!"
Im old enough to remember Silent Service 2!
@@BitmapAxis I'm too, plaid SS2 a lot. I have still the installation CD. But SHIII is my favourite and i have about 1500 Mod-Files for this games!
What about Aces of the Deep?
I'm old enough to remember silent service 1
Great footage. Thanks for the video.👍
The classic question and answer on a sib was part of the “U-571” script. “How deep will she go?” “Oh, she’ll go all the way to the bottom if we don’t stop her “.
You put a lot of work into this. It's great to see what a committed amateur historian can produce. Good luck with your future endeavors.
Very absorbing and well done
The U-Boat is to few !
Awesome video! What's the name of the background soundtrack? Sounds really soothing
I know I'm a little late to the party, but the footage at 1:31 is sinking of SMS Szent Istvant. An Austro-Hungarian battleship , which was sunk by Italian torpedo boats in 1918.
I know the footage is not 100% accurate, but please remember this is no a "pro" production and I had to use what's available, as otherwise I'd never be able to pay for accurate but licensed materials.
@@BitmapAxis you're good, sir. I loved what you did here
*Submarine Commander at 20*
*More than Appreciative*
*Incredible*
Excellent. Nicely done. I liked the little human touches at the end.
captured British and USA airman were treated with respect by the Luftwaffe as well.
They are lucky they were not simply tossed overboard.
Sumbamrine warfare is not for the faint hearted.
My uncle was a midshipman of 16 years of age. He was in a convoy going to Halifax, when his boat was torpedoed by U100. He took to the lifeboats and a few hours later was picked up by Norwegian freighter in the same convoy - U100 again torpedoed his rescue ship and all hands were lost. I think the merchantmen deserved those u boat souvenirs that were mentioned in this film.
My father in law also did the Archangel runs as a merchant seaman. He was sunk 3 times. Once, the U Boat surfaced beside them in their lifeboats and they were waiting to be machine gunned down. They'd all heard the stories before. But this boat (no idea which one) came along side and gave them cigarettes and water. Didn't give them food, as they thought they weren't going to make it. Chatted for a while and left.
Not all Germans were Nazis they found out. They got picked up by a straggler ship.
What is with you civilians...war is war. Your uncle knew what his professional job was. So did my grandfather, so did I. You civvies act like children. But mommy they were mean to me fiiiiiirst!!!!
@@mamavswild you are the weed of the human race
@@mamavswild You are an idiot, millions of civilians were killed by the Germans
Thank you.
Excellent footage editing, really tells the story which is extremely complex in of itself. Look on a 65” screen for vivid impact. I like the voiceover as well.
Yes i love battleship, aircraft carrier, destroyers, light and heavy cruisers
Bizarre, moments before they're are trying to kill each other....1 hour later the German captain plays Bridge with the British officers, the crews are exchanging pictures and so forth..... I think everybody that survived on both sides were just happy to be alive
Unlike land armies there's an unwritten law of the sea about picking up survivors and treating them well
Both sides generally adhered to that law
Why are you using film of the US Navy instead of the Royal Navy? Apart from that it's a interesting video.
Very interesting. Thank you.
That’s quite a career- going from Captaining a U-Boat to Air Assault. ;-)
Otto Kreschmer was an honorable man who did his duty for his country, misguided as it was. He was anti Nazi. However after being a POW in Canada went to go back to the navy and ended up being I think the head of NATO maritime operations.
thy were not Nazi s
He was not a Nazi, but he fought for the Nazis. An ambitious murderer. He didn't realize anything.
@captmitty easy to say from where you sit; there is a moral difference between fighting for one’s nation and fighting for the nazis.
Who else were they going to fight for if not their nation, which they trusted. By the time they figured out how bad the party was, they were caught in ‘Le Grande Machine Infernale’.
Nicely done. Good Job!
Boat losses were atrocious. Brave sailors.
The best of them all! I completely agree!
those corvettes bob like a cork in tho seas. God bless all those sailors.
life in a submarine was better in stormy weather
The Cruel Sea!
@@alexhayden2303 - Monserat! Classic book...
Good stuff .
Excellent Presentation!
See "Das Boot" for a very realistic film (in German & English - Actors shot each scene twice - not dubbed) Nice Large Model work!
I loved that series. It humanised men who have, in the Allied countries, been demonised. Most German servicemen were the same as Allied servicemen in both world wars.
I still have my 1960 novel,,night raider of the atlantic,,
Enjoyed the video and I could feel myself on the u-boat
Thank You!
I could feel myself on the u-boat
My 2 cents: In my opinion, the Germans badly misused their submarine force. Wow! I said that in the face of the historical record that proves they damn near defeated the UK single-handedly, sinking over 175 Allied warships, including several battleships and aircraft carriers, and more than 2,800 merchant ships?
Yeah, I did. U-boats were Germany's ace-in-the-hole weapon. They should have been the main weapon, instead of Germany wasting huge resources on surface ships of capital size. WWI had already proven there was no way the German navy would be able to defeat GB's massive access to the world's oceans and could easily blockade almost all German sea communications. A genius tactician would have recognized the strategic blunder of building a fleet as the Nazi's did.
However, the U-boat as they were technically designed at the beginning of the European second war was quite up to the task of at least strangling the UK before it could get its war footing. If Germany had wisely invested in a much larger fleet of U-boats, had trained crews and operational boats ready to go, I honestly think the outcome might have been different for Hitler's Germany- as far as the war in the west was concerned (many other stupid blunders by Hitler's regime would have ultimately ended the war as it did end, though perhaps not as quickly.).
Numbers of U-boats is one thing. But, technical improvements and R&D investment earlier and the use of better tactics would have greatly enhanced their effectiveness much sooner, thus beating the British and Americans to the line of advanced submarine countermeasures and correcting their own early mistakes. The whole strategic situation in the North Atlantic battle arena was greatly in the corner of the German U-boats. Poor use of long-range aircraft, a dismal array of escort vessels and weapons and the sheer - almost criminal - abysmal organization and control by both the British and the Americans should have given the Germans a fantastic victory in the Battle of the Atlantic. It did not. Although the allies very quickly got their act together, almost 2/3 of the German U-boat sinkings of Allied merchant vessels and warships had already taken place by then. A fantastic opportunity was missed by the Germans.
Admirals Raeder and Donitz (Donitz being the head of U-Boat operations) made many mistakes. Donitz, for example, had control over the largest U-boat fleet in the War and controlled several important bases. Yet, Donitz never had a staff much larger than 12 people, maintaining offices that were so small they barely had room for a pay-clerk! Additionally, the cracking by the Poles and the British of the much vaunted Enigma coding machine was suspected by Donitz, he never really implemented proper changes in how his communications with his U-boats were conducted- a blunder of immense proportions. His insistence on uses of radio by his U-boat commanders was all but criminal, contributing greatly to the loss of at least half of his fleet and the ability of the allies to re-direct their convoys, greatly decreasing U-boat wolf pack tactics and enhancing the ability of long-range aircraft to locate the subs.
Although much of the shortcomings and mistakes of the commanders at the time can be attributed to contemporary practices and technology, Donitz failed miserably simply due to his limited background and training. He certainly was not of the quality of leadership the allies had in King, Ingersoll, Noble, and Horton. Nor did the Germans ever really develop a universal "corporate" style of command and control, which was almost certainly required at the time due to the incredibly vast battle arena and the numbers and types of weapons being used and the rapidity of the dynamic changes taking place. The task was simply far more than any lone Admiral was ever going to handle.
Considering all the things the Germans had failed at over the course of the Battle of the Atlantic, the true wonder is how they managed to be as successful as they were.
Do you really think folk want to read a couple thousand-word essays in the COMMENT section?
Keep it short; make A point.
Don't go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...
@@THE-HammerMan Good advice...I'll take it to the thought room and see what I can do with it to improve. Now, what do you think about the article at hand?
@@acadman4322 There's very little the Germans did right with their Kriegsmarine forces.
Not sending capital ships out in pairs(Example: Graf Spee & Tirpitz; Bismarck & Scharnhorst, etc). The misuse of the potential of submarines as a primary offensive force, as you noted, etc.
Hitler was the root cause of most all blunders for them in WWII. The blunders number more than the ants on a Tennessee anthill!!! As his (and his inner circle of cronies!) drug addiction and megalomaniacal mind got worse as WWII progressed...well, we know where that led- all too well.
With a lot more patience, preparation and coordinated efforts on planning and military buildup(modernizing-no horses!) with particular attention to advanced aircraft, wed most all be speaking German today.
@@THE-HammerMan Excellent points. In my study of it, I have come to the conclusion Hitler's regime failed because of systemic problems associated with his cronyism. Remembering that Hitler was a school dropout, Corporal- although his library consisted of tens of thousands of books, post-war evidence indicates he only read four books (that he annotated or made any references to). None of them were about management or leadership. Nazism quickly faded into Hitlerism. Thus rather than putting quality managers in needed places of management, he ended up with "favorites" like the drug-addled Goering, The Chicken Farmer Himmler, the deeply mentally deranged Hess in powerful positions. The organization's structure was more like a Mafia GodFather type than a proper corporate style as the Americans ran. Although the Russians ran similar management of personalities, Stalin was an uneducated megalomaniac ignoramus, he still seemed to understand his limitations and understood how he could really mess up his industrial structure of he micro-managed too much- thus the lightning up of state controls and the division of responsibility while Stalin worked on the larger strategic operations. Hirohito's regime operated very much like a copy but more fanatic as that of Hilter's. Thus, they made tremendously damaging mistakes that originated more out of pure ignorance.
@@acadman4322 Good points. All of the truly great leaders throughout history excelled at finding and placing very talented people in key positions, counting on their expertise with little need for oversight. Having a second, third and fourth that can be trusted(to a reasonable degree) takes a lot of pressure off a leader, dictator or tyrant; frees up valuable time for deciding who to crush, torture, decapitate, send to the Gulag and/or what country to squash next.
If there was such a thing, America could use a benevolent dictator today more than ever! Nothing can get accomplished because politics has become an endless convoluted mess; so tangled it could choke a bull elephant!
Yes, we could use a benevolent dictator that would step down after 10-15 years of cleaning house, setting things straight, and kicking ads without killing millions. Eliminating some morons would be nice, but they'll always be around and tend to multiply like cockroaches! It ain't a dream world, or there wouldn't be morons, atheists, Islamists or Satanists in the first place.
Sadly, by the study of History one can know what the future will be like. First said by a Roman senator, then put into modern language by Ben Franklin: "Common sense is not very common".
It got really bad for the U-Boats starting in the summer of 1943
Yes, and the arrogant bastards got exactly what they deserved. I don't buy the "they were fighting for their country" bullshit. Even if they weren't technically nazi's, they still fought for them.
@@teddammit5179 Have you ever heard of compulsory military service and that you was shot in Germany if you defy conscription as a deserter. It's always easy to say they were all evil Nazis who committed crimes. Hardly any of the young guys were in the Nazi party. They had also not vote for Hitler when he came to power, they were little children in 1933. Unfortunately, if you start with this accusation, then I also have to classify all British bomber pilots as criminals because they mostly flew Terror attacks on civilian areas. But I do it not, war is war and today is peace and we are friends and allies.
Juan jotabe 15,000,000 Africans died over 300 years of slave trading in the voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas
@@pittsburghpirate58 We should stop counting each other's crime. Every country has dark spots on the white vest. Where should we begin. With the 30-year war, with the conqistadores, with the slave trade, with the extermination of the Native Americans, with the wars of Napoleon, with the colonization and subjugation of entire continents? If you point a finger at others, keep in mind that you are pointing with four finger at yourself.
Yeah; all they could do was take it like a little bitch if one of them aircraft caught sight of them.
Too many commentators here basing their submarine knowledge on a movie or two. Come on, geebus.
Had a massive black out near Alboran years ago so went with a dinky for a swim......saw corroded bomb tail sticking out on a beach...local fishermen told me that flat island with only a small building looked like a U boat at night so Brits tried to sink it by air attack....the Gemans never used the heavy potential of the panick their early success created
I’m grateful to all the brave men who sunk these bastards.
these "bastards" were more man than you ever will be you poor weakhead
pussy
@@Monsterknecht If they were man enough, they would have risked Hitler's wrath and left Germany.
@@aisthpaoitht Bite me!
Nicely done ✅
Imagine all the sunken hulks littering the bottom of the oceans, and the countless sailors in a watery grave. War is madness, but it is the natural state of mankind.
the natural state of the US
@@rc666 You really don't study very much, do you?
War is a product of government(s)... it's the peasants who get wrangled into doing the dirty work of fighting and dying for????? What???? So the corporations can try out their newest and most recent methods of killing the so called "enemy" your real enemy is GOVERNMENT!!!
Video is fine but narration is too fast and confusing.
Ultra code breaking and, eventually, centimeter radar doomed the u-boats.
And the constant chatter back to base.
And real sialors don't like submarines ...so every inch of their minds go-to work , how to kill them. Mercylessly
GOOD>>>>>
Good narrative of the fates of the 3 boats. Only complaint is that most of the footage is of the capture of U-505. The boat is now on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Il. USA.
The main problem is getting adequate footage, that has no copyright...
For interest ASDIC stands for "ADMIRALTY SUBMARINE DETECTION INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE " and is still used as a short title when talking or referring to submarine detection.
the third most successful commander was eric topp... the most suuccessful was Kretschmer...and the second was wolfgang luth...gunther prien was ninth best commander if memory serves me correct?
otto kretschmer 273,043 tons u-35 u-23 u-99
Wolfgang Lüth 225,204 tons u-9 u-13 u-138 u-43 u-181
Erich Topp 197,460 tons u-57 u-552 u-3010 u-2513
Günther Prien 162,769 tons u-47 the convoy was ob293 earnt him ace of aces Meanwhile, on the night of 7th/8th, at about 1am on the 8th, Wolverine sighted a U-boat on the surface which she identified as U-47. She and Verity attacked, and after 4 hours, which had shown evidence of damage, the U-boat was driven to the surface within yards of Wolverine,
before diving again. The destroyer sent down a pattern of depth charges
and was rewarded with an underwater explosion, marked by an orange
glow, and flames that broke the surface...
Wolverine was credited with destroying U-47, and this
featured in the official record until the late 1990s. However, after
reviewing the available records modern historians regard this attack as
being directed against UA, which was badly damaged, but survived to reach port.
No conclusion can be reached about the fate of U-47, and it is thought likely to be the result of a diving accident.
The success of the defence of OB 293, with the loss of the U-boat ace Prien, coupled with the successful defence of Convoy HX-112, and the loss of two more aces, Kretschmer and Schepke, one week later, marks a minor turning point in the Atlantic campaign.
gunther prien...otto kretschmer.. joachim Schepke.. is on eternal patrol as the kriegsmarine saying goes
you got joachim Schepke was the eleventh 155,882 tons you got that one right u-3 u-19 u-100 convoy hx-112
Good upload mate and ...Happy Hunting You Old Sea Dogs!!!.....lol
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"Joachim Schepke was the eleventh" at the end of the war. The narrator referred at the time of his death.
A navy nerd! 😂
Nice music but someone was talking making it hard to hear!!!
Look at the state of the world right now! I am convinced that with a German victory we would not be in this pathetic situation...
exacly
Except, you know, concentration camps.
Mass murders.
The SS.
The Gestopo.
Slave labor.
Yep it would all be hunkie dory.
@@daviddalton9214 Well a lot of thing have happen since then and the Nazi are back in force unfortunately!
My wife’s uncles successfully bombed and strafed Germans and my father-in-law cut orders planning infantry attacks from North Africa through Germany. My uncle dispatched them with the garrote, M-1 and hand grenade. They did good work.
@@Sodbusterrod I change my mind over this idea i had at the time and they were all scums but what worst is that they are back but almost no one seem to notice...
Enjoyed your video very much. In the 1960's I read a book entitled "Wolfpack: The Saga of the U 99" by Otto Kretchmer. I lost this book shortly thereafter and have sought another copy without success. Are you familiar with this book? Have a copy or know of one? This book was illustrated and I found it to be very interesting, coming from the man himself.
You can buy it online under the title the Golden Horseshoe and a good biography of Otto Kretchmer was published a year or two ago.
9:50 there is one man still standing in this hell of a barrage.... f*ck
Never any mention of how many allied merchant sailors died in the Atlantic!!
I think they estimated about 30,000 merchant sailors killed due to sinkings by U-Boats, Luftwaffe bombing and German Naval ships during the war. This is only the British statistic including Canadian losses, I think, so it would be interesting and informative to find out how many American and other allied losses there were. Think about how many Norwegian, Dutch and French ships were sunk - even many neutrals who were in the wrong place at the wrong time - and I think the grand total would be quite staggering. It would be interesting to do some further research into this question, wouldn't it ? The merchant sailors were the unsung heroes of both great wars, on both sides. They did their jobs and duty under the harshest possible circumstances ( just think of the Murmansk convoys ! ), uncomplaining, without striking (unlike coal miners and others in Britain) and always in great danger of losing their lives. The sailors on board oil tankers have my greatest respect. If they were torpedoed, the chance of survival was practically nill and the fate that awaited them in the burning sea was too horrific even to think about - yet many signed on to those tankers again and again purely out of their sense of duty. Unbelievable when one thinks about it.
If you want to read a really excellent book about the Battle of the Atlantic, you must read "Convoy" by Martin Middleborough, a true master of military history of both World Wars, especially about the strategic bombing war against Germany by the Allied Air Forces, but in this case also an excellent book about the war at sea.
My father-in=-law was a Greek-American who was serving in the Merchant marine before the war started. He had three ships sunk from under him...and on one, he drifted with three other survivors for more than two weeks in the middle of the Atlantic before they were rescued- spotted by a long-range liberator and a rescue flying boat was sent to pick them up. He said it was a pure miracle. On the day they were picked up was the only day of calm seas. It was as if an angel descended from heaven when that PBY arrived. They were treated well by the military, but the shipping company that hired them, stopped their pay the moment the ship was sunk. They only received a new ship assignment when they agreed to drop their pay requests. He did receive a stipend after 1975 for his service...it was meager- like $100.00 a month. He passed away in 1996.
@@acadman4322
It was this kind of selfless dedication that your father - in- law showed to his country and trade, and love of the sea, that was typical of the merchant seamen of the era. Despite several sinkings they hired on again and again, yet were treated like dirt by the shipping companies - I actually read it somewhere else that payment was stopped the minute the ship was sunk, as if all responsibility for the fate and livelihood of the seamen wasn't the responsibility of their employers any longer (the bastards, if you would please excuse my language !). You and your wife can be extremely proud of him and it was his fate to be found by that Liberator and that the seaplane actually found them. He and the others definitely had a whole shipload of Guardian Angels looking out for them, I must say. The chances against everything going well must have been astronomical. Not only that, to survive two weeks in a small boat in the Atlantic is a miracle by itself. That the Allies won the war and that the United Kingdom didn't lose it was due to men like your father - in - law and the gratitude of our governments should have been worth more than the one hundred dollars pension he received from his employers. Despite the risk to their ships (I am not sure how the insurance coverage was handled during the war), the shipping companies made great profits during the war and should have been forced by law to treat their seamen decently, but as always, the fat cats always have a large lobby looking after them as well. Thank you for sharing your father - in - law's extremely interesting and moving story. He was an unsung hero and his story deserves being told and never forgotten. I certainly will never forget it. God be with you, you wife and your families. 🌟
Deltamac.. 1 was too many !!!
@@acadman4322 Great story he seems a great guy, interestingly the same happened with the Titanic and it's crew.
The british captain took u99,captains binoculars
So it is just robbery .
The military calls it ....spoils of war...🤔
I've seen the director cut of Das Boot and the TV mini series, have to get the German version
"It looks just like a Telefunken U-47."
something seems to be wrong with the speed of this film it seems to be too slow what results in distorted voices of the narator
Here in Phoenix, Arizona, we had two prisoner-of-war camps, one for Germans and one for Italians. The German camp held German Navy prisoners. As the Germans explored maps of our state, they discovered they were only about eight miles from the Salt River. They saw that they could float down the Salt all the way into Mexico. They began escape planning committees, began to plan who should escape, and began to gather food, and other stuffs. They built a raft. When they planned escape time came, they made their way our of the camp, through the desert to the Salt, only to discover that the Salt River was a dry bed, it having been dammed northwest of Phoenix to provide flood control and drinking water a couple of decades previously.
Dunked onnnn
Did they walk back to the camp? A lot of POW camps in the US were so lax they allowed POWs to go out on dates or the restaurant as long ad they were back by roll call.
The Allies changed the length of the radar waves. This helped them find U-boats on the surface more easily.
Charles Smart. You mean the British invented the cavity magnetron and Huff Duff.
o mehor de todos.amo u boats
Good lives, wasted.
Another excellent one.
📻🙂
What background music are you using?
Brave sailors both sides!!!!
Good info. Thanks.
What ever your view`s on U Boats are, I have watched Das Boot in subtitled English and in the original German. I was taken away with the life these people lived, having served in the military myself and others always said two things not to go to war in, a Tank and a Submarine. To serve in one of these took a special type of man, one who new his life was of limited time but still served,morality in war tends to take second place so we vilify these submariners. There is no difference between sinking a ship and bombing or shooting a man. War brings out the worst of everyone no one is immune .
You are right of course, however, I believe firmly that wars are created by politicians,THEY are the ones who should be fighting adversary against adversary, why innocent people (Ex Civilians) use for the 'dirty bits)?
Great vedio and great brave men cost their lives at sea for power hunger and british had gentlmen qulities towards enmy german soldiers when both of the parties waged a clean fight altogether being real soldiers and sea men
As I can see, no one has cracked the enigma machine, they got it with the captured submarine !
slightly different to what hollywood tells us
The Poles made copies of German Enigma machines before the war started.
National Heroes sinking defenceless Merchant Navy non military ships and crews those U boat crews and Captains all deserved there cold watery graves. Giving Nazi salute after being saved and looked after very well shows there utter contempt and arrogance.
"But but muh defenceless merchant non military ships"
oh yes, and they were amateurs at that. The Royal Air Force was different, at least they killed a lot of civilians in their bombings. You wanted to mention that, didn't you?
@ 1:11 in 1941 he (Joachim Schepke ) was only 20 years old...
Birthdate of Joachim Schepke : 12.03.1912
also known as sonar hmm I think it was known as asdic
It was indeed.
ASDIC was the British name. Sonar the American
Active sonar I think is appropriate
david jones ☆ They used "ASDIC" as a Code Name to not reveal it's workings. Remember, the Germans are Very Smart Scientists!
Otto kreschmet fue el más grande de los comandantes de submarinos alemanes. al mando del U 99.
Otto kreschmet era un NAZI RACISTA HIJO DE SU P *TA MAQUINA VIEJA,,, NAZIS P*TA BOLA DE CULERO5,,,
On the 7th March 1941 my father's ship MV Kiamata ran over a submarine and the went to Halifax 10/3/1941 Photos were taken in Halifax harbour showing the damage to the bow. A newspaper clipping date April 1941 states that a merchant vessel ran over the sub and "they think its a goner" This could have been U-47
Interesting, I would love to know more about it.
ALARM! SCHNELL! SCHNELL!
I have always wondered why the u-boats targeted the merchant shipping first, it seems better to sink the escorts first. Then the sheep are free for the wolfpacks to take
If you may only get limited shots you don’t use them on a bodyguard.
1:30...footage of the torpedoed WW1 Austro Hungarian battle ship Svent Istvan? What is the connection with WW2?
I wondered about that 3 piper: Thought it was part of the old Lend-Lease lot.
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Doesn't seem that sonar did much....the subs got their shots off pretty easily.
On the contrary, even though sonar was difficult to use particularly in heavy weather when the pitching and rolling of the vessel confused the signal, as operators became more familiar, with the equipment, submarine sinkings rose and those of the merchant ships fell. The closure of the air gap in May 1943 signaled the demise of the U-Boat campaign.
Facio nie potrafi wymówić normalnie nazwiska Kretschmer?
I think I saw Fritz Von Eric on one of the Subs.
a little odd to see pork pie hats on ships during a March 1941 encounter when the USN didn't enter the war until they were bombed into it in December 1941
The first US destroyer attack on a U-boat actually took place on 10 April 1941, but that was an isolated incident.
The USN was effectively in a war with the German Kreigmarine from 11 September 1941, when President Roosevelt ordered US warships to attack U-boats on sight. This was 3 months before Pearl Harbor.
See: www.inconvenienthistory.com/9/3/4882 for details.
Roosevelt was determined to get the US into the war against Germany 'by hook or by crook'. Even if that meant provoking a war with Germany's ally, Japan. However, Roosevelt did not anticipate the devastating air attack on Pearl Harbor - only a submarine attack (which failed completely on 7/8 Dec 1941.)
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Yes, but this is about actions in early 1941, pre-dating everything you listed.
Does anyone know the name of the music on this video?
Please some one the piano music who is it ?? It says sound track by yakkus but can't find it
"U-Boat Killer" Captain Donald Macintyre. , Rigel Publications, 1956. ISBN1-898-79978-4.
what was the Italian U-boat, trying to resaerch it in the Italian Navy but is a bit to fast to know wich one it is :p
That's not a U-boat, that's a my boat?
That U boat ace was 20 years old... 20. What were you doing when you were 20?
I didn't have a u-boat to drive
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Lol... but you would have if you did, except for murdering merchant seaman, which would have been me too
He was most certainly not 20 years old. He was born on 8 March 1912, that made him 29 years old when he died on 17 March 1941. The narrator isn't always correct in this video.
Also, the pronunciation of their names is TERRIBLE!
Not 20..between 27 to 31
I've always wondered why the germans didn't attack the escort ships first, then attack the supply ships.;
Escort ships were too fast to fire torpedo's at & too heavily armed to engage with. Remember, even 1 well placed heavy machine gun bullet can disable a submarine.
Dönitz explicitly ordered to attack merchantmen as strategical targets.
Who did the voice editing, it needs work.
Does anyone know the name of the music played
Wonder what would have happened if Germany had developed and built 200/300 U-boats before the war started. I read where they only had 60 in 1939. Having served on the old diesels I think it could have made a huge difference in the battle of the Atlantic.
Steve Farris: Since such a large building program of submarines in secret would not have been possible, the Allies would have clearly recognized the German intention and built accordingly more destroyers and escorts.
The arms program in the US would have started earlier and the US might have entered the war sooner.
In the end, Royal Navy, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders, as well as the US Navy would have been much stronger .....
there was a real U571 Sunk 2/28/ 44 all hands lost at sea. Rest in Peace Gunter Mai uber machinist mate diesel b '20 d '44
Story greyhound... Tom hanks
"What is 'scuttle' ?" smart
When you sink your own boat or ship. Usually to stop it being captured by the enemy.
@@muttley8818 You don’t get it...it was a stall tactic by Kreschner. LOL
Is it just me or does Schepke look like a young Robert Shaw?
no one ever mentioned that :)
What is the Craig's Marine? I couldn't listen to the rest of it because you're pronunciation was so flat
The German navy can be criticized in the WW2, but still I found its struggle more noble, more honorable. But I never approve of the ground forces.
Out of over 40,000 german men who went to sea in the u boots, 30,000 never returned!
Rodney Hayes as terrible the battle of the Atlantic was... both side had heavy death counts
They left in the South América)
Rodney Hayes Good! It is too bad any of them returned at all.
My boss in 1974 was Gerhard Busch, youngest uboat captain at the end of the war. We worked for a home building company in San Antonio Texas. He was very pro-American and his wife was from Bavaria and a good dancer. They liked Elvis...what a contrast!
Good Nazi.
Where???, ??? oh where on this list of U boat aces is UB40 ????
I’m sorry, but this narrator confuses me.
It was a tad fast
In a way I myself admire this people, considering them sealed in a iron casket without any way of escape, and still having a very high morale of responsibility! Its plain horror. On the other side ,looking at today's junkies, I ask myself, what the hell is going one??Because no Hitler has asked any junkie to take drugs!! But they have succeeded to jeopardise a whole system without having a war, or what the fu.. is going one!!!