You should check out the story about HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, the ship they 'dressed up' as a tropical island to avoid being detected. It's genius and hilarious at the same time.
Doorman's decision to go down with his ship was probably motivated largely by the fact that there were still hundreds of wounded sailors on board who could not be evacuated.
I know what you think when you hear the words "Dutch oven".😁 it's also a warship cruiser with two big dubbel cannons on the front deck and one on the after deck. It's also a cooking kettle above the campfire.
Doorman's signal (All ships, follow me) has gone into Dutch Naval history as "I'm attacking, follow me" and could be regarded as the Dutch answer to Nelson's "England Expects Every Man To Do His Duty", as Doorman sailed straight into a fight he though he had only the tiniest chance of winning (Dutch forces were told by Heldrich to "hold the line, the fleet included"). Invia virtuti, nulla est via.
my great grandfather and his son, my grandfather shipped many English soldiers out of Dunkerk, his ship later got confiscated by the Nazi's and was returned to him after the war by Americans, who found it all the way up North in Trondheim Norway. It was a "coaster" a typically Groningen seaworthy shipbuilt of ships that where much lesser of tonnage, but could also sail up rivers and canals due to low depth needed. Made Dutch shipbuilding lucrative again in the early 1900's. Today still many wharves are building ships for this purpose, and are still worldclass topnotch ships, and they go to water sideways, quite the spectacle
My grandpa was onboard HMS de Ruyter he was taken POW and moved to work at the Birma railway. (most of the ships have been lifted a couple of years ago and sold as scrape metal by a Asian company)
On the Java there was no time at all to bring the wounded to safety, on the De Ruyter they succeeded with the slightly wounded - the seriously wounded had to be left behind. So Doorman choose to stay with them.
The Dutch actually gave the Germans a run for their money during those 4 days of fighting. So much so that the Germans had to resort to terror bombing to force the Dutch into surrender as their supply lines ran the risk of not being operational for the battle in France. Especially the battle for The Hague, where the Germans hoped to catch the 3 airfields near The Hague (Ockenburg, Valkenburg and Ypenburg) and land in enough troops to run into the city and capture the royal family and the Dutch government failed so much so that Germany has been reluctant to use paratroopers ever since. Of course, in the end, the Dutch were no match for the Germans. They were using outdated equipment and the equipment that was up to date (like their airplanes) they just had too little of them. The Dutch airforce only had 36 fighter planes in total, and many were destroyed on the ground.
Don’t forget the battle of Rotterdam where the marines who defended the bridges. When they surrendered (after the bombing of Rotterdam) the Germans where in awe and payed the marines a lot of respect because they couldn’t believe there were so few of them.
Indeed, carpet bombing cities was the turning point. Despite the Dutch armed forces fougght their socks of, the vast majority of the population werent all to hostile towards the Germans; that happend much later.
The Dutch East Indies Merchant Fleet was the largest in the world at the start of World War II. American commanders like MacArthur etc., relied in large part on Dutch transports to move troops and supplies during the Island Hopping Campaign.
@@marcusfranconium3392 Yeah but I believe that they would keep ships mostly to their assigned theatre of war. And Battle of the Atlantic was really a battle of attrition. There's a reason the Allies won that battle in part by building more ships per month than the Germans could sink.
Funny how the narrator in the video pronounces the name of the Dutch admiral "Conrad Helfrich". He pronounces both, first and last name in German, and not in Dutch.
What most people forget is why Rotterdam was bombed. Thats because the german Blitzkrieg didnt work in the netherlands. In the northern parts german soldiers Could not pass Dutch lines. The biggest army in Europe with tanks couldnt pass Dutch soldiers with horses...and we had the smallst army in Europe at the time. Thats why the bombs dropped....the Dutch had to surrender
The Dutch goverment actually tried to build 3 battle/heavy-cruisers just before the WW2 started. Sadly they started too late (again). Because this wasn't the first time they started too late with an impressive effort, before WW1 the Netherlands planned to build 9 dreadnought class battleships. That would be an immense ammount of ships considering britain had 20 dreadnought class battleships and 9 battlecruisers and germany 15 and 7 before WW1. That means the Netherlands would have likely entered the top 5 biggest navies (again). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_1913_battleship_proposal
Nice reaction video’s and i love your fascination for the Dutch history! I am sure, If someone could make subtitels for the video, you would like to react to Walraven van Hall. ‘Bankier van het verzet’ from verzetsmuseum Amsterdam here on YT also!
Dutch ovens are not named after the Dutch but after the Germans who in their native language are called Deutsch. Big difference there. Similar with the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Doorman 's command lay upon the bottom of the sea and what did the Indonesians do. They desecrated it. The ships were brought up for scrap metal... Didn't care one bit, that thousands of sailors died on board of those ships. Disgusting...
Indeed, the Dutch fought like hell, but it was not very effective, except for the submarines, who were the only subs in the world that had functioning torpedoes back then. The Japanese torps were excellent too, but their submariners were rubbish.
Also a fact..... France was fighting germans till surrender Then for years was an ally of germany with major operatief from Marokko, algiers and Marseille. Then when the americans landed in africa...france joined alliens again.
You should check out the story about HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, the ship they 'dressed up' as a tropical island to avoid being detected. It's genius and hilarious at the same time.
Oh god... only the Dutchies can think about such a genius idea.
Man, I'm so thankful you showed this. I've been crying watching and listening. I am so proud of these heroes.
Doorman's decision to go down with his ship was probably motivated largely by the fact that there were still
hundreds of wounded sailors on board who could not be evacuated.
I know what you think when you hear the words "Dutch oven".😁 it's also a warship cruiser with two big dubbel cannons on the front deck and one on the after deck. It's also a cooking kettle above the campfire.
I've learned so much along with you brother, thank you. 🌷
Doorman's signal (All ships, follow me) has gone into Dutch Naval history as "I'm attacking, follow me" and could be regarded as the Dutch answer to Nelson's "England Expects Every Man To Do His Duty", as Doorman sailed straight into a fight he though he had only the tiniest chance of winning (Dutch forces were told by Heldrich to "hold the line, the fleet included").
Invia virtuti, nulla est via.
my great grandfather and his son, my grandfather shipped many English soldiers out of Dunkerk, his ship later got confiscated by the Nazi's and was returned to him after the war by Americans, who found it all the way up North in Trondheim Norway. It was a "coaster" a typically Groningen seaworthy shipbuilt of ships that where much lesser of tonnage, but could also sail up rivers and canals due to low depth needed. Made Dutch shipbuilding lucrative again in the early 1900's. Today still many wharves are building ships for this purpose, and are still worldclass topnotch ships, and they go to water sideways, quite the spectacle
Very interesting and informative.
Thank you Highly.
My grandpa was onboard HMS de Ruyter he was taken POW and moved to work at the Birma railway. (most of the ships have been lifted a couple of years ago and sold as scrape metal by a Asian company)
They forgot about the minesweeper from the Dutch, which the crew camouflaged to look like an island, to escape the Japanese. Very interesting story
On the Java there was no time at all to bring the wounded to safety, on the De Ruyter they succeeded with the slightly wounded - the seriously wounded had to be left behind.
So Doorman choose to stay with them.
Nice to learn something new.. i didn't know about this.. seems to be allot more info somewhere else, about wo2..
The Dutch actually gave the Germans a run for their money during those 4 days of fighting. So much so that the Germans had to resort to terror bombing to force the Dutch into surrender as their supply lines ran the risk of not being operational for the battle in France.
Especially the battle for The Hague, where the Germans hoped to catch the 3 airfields near The Hague (Ockenburg, Valkenburg and Ypenburg) and land in enough troops to run into the city and capture the royal family and the Dutch government failed so much so that Germany has been reluctant to use paratroopers ever since.
Of course, in the end, the Dutch were no match for the Germans. They were using outdated equipment and the equipment that was up to date (like their airplanes) they just had too little of them. The Dutch airforce only had 36 fighter planes in total, and many were destroyed on the ground.
Don’t forget the battle of Rotterdam where the marines who defended the bridges. When they surrendered (after the bombing of Rotterdam) the Germans where in awe and payed the marines a lot of respect because they couldn’t believe there were so few of them.
Indeed, carpet bombing cities was the turning point. Despite the Dutch armed forces fougght their socks of, the vast majority of the population werent all to hostile towards the Germans; that happend much later.
The Dutch East Indies Merchant Fleet was the largest in the world at the start of World War II.
American commanders like MacArthur etc., relied in large part on Dutch transports to move troops and supplies during the Island Hopping Campaign.
@@marcusfranconium3392 Yeah but I believe that they would keep ships mostly to their assigned theatre of war.
And Battle of the Atlantic was really a battle of attrition. There's a reason the Allies won that battle in part by building more ships per month than the Germans could sink.
The Dutch lost 1/3 of their merchant ships in the Atlantic. By the end of the war, more than 1.3 million tons of Dutch shipping had been lost at sea.
Funny how the narrator in the video pronounces the name of the Dutch admiral "Conrad Helfrich". He pronounces both, first and last name in German, and not in Dutch.
What most people forget is why Rotterdam was bombed.
Thats because the german Blitzkrieg didnt work in the netherlands.
In the northern parts german soldiers Could not pass Dutch lines.
The biggest army in Europe with tanks couldnt pass Dutch soldiers with horses...and we had the smallst army in Europe at the time.
Thats why the bombs dropped....the Dutch had to surrender
The Dutch goverment actually tried to build 3 battle/heavy-cruisers just before the WW2 started. Sadly they started too late (again). Because this wasn't the first time they started too late with an impressive effort, before WW1 the Netherlands planned to build 9 dreadnought class battleships. That would be an immense ammount of ships considering britain had 20 dreadnought class battleships and 9 battlecruisers and germany 15 and 7 before WW1. That means the Netherlands would have likely entered the top 5 biggest navies (again). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_1913_battleship_proposal
Nice reaction video’s and i love your fascination for the Dutch history! I am sure, If someone could make subtitels for the video, you would like to react to Walraven van Hall. ‘Bankier van het verzet’ from verzetsmuseum Amsterdam here on YT also!
Look for Mark Felton. He's a genius historian with most awesome video's. Hands down the best ww2 RUclipsr
Dutch ovens are not named after the Dutch but after the Germans who in their native language are called Deutsch. Big difference there. Similar with the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Doorman 's command lay upon the bottom of the sea and what did the Indonesians do.
They desecrated it. The ships were brought up for scrap metal...
Didn't care one bit, that thousands of sailors died on board of those ships.
Disgusting...
@@marcusfranconium3392 indeed
Indeed, the Dutch fought like hell, but it was not very effective, except for the submarines, who were the only subs in the world that had functioning torpedoes back then. The Japanese torps were excellent too, but their submariners were rubbish.
Also a fact.....
France was fighting germans till surrender
Then for years was an ally of germany with major operatief from Marokko, algiers and Marseille.
Then when the americans landed in africa...france joined alliens again.
yo highly check this one out (Billion Dollar Flower Market | ENDEVR Documentary it all over the flowers from holland
Its quite mind blowing how big the Dutch Navy was at that time nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_Nederlandse_marineschepen_in_de_Tweede_Wereldoorlog