A Swede reacts to: How the US Navy stole a Nazi submarine! (The Fat Electrician Reaction) 

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I've said it elsewhere, and I'll repeat it here. Most instances of things getting disrespectfully out of pocket on the side of the Allies during WWII was the end result of two American soldiers, or navy men, looking at a situation, turning to one another, and one of them saying "I bet you we could just..."

Main reason for the photographer is to document everything they can as fast as they can, since the only intel they will have if the sub cannot be saved will be the pictures they got. 😁

I have had the privilege of touring the U-505 several times in Chicago. I remember going to see it as a kid when the Museum of Science and Industry still had it on display outside the building and then toured it again as an adult when they moved the submarine inside its own wing of the museum. The whole wing of the museum is made to look like a submarine pen or bunker. It was always so cool going inside the sub itself and seeing just how terrifyingly cramped and claustrophobic it was inside. I cant believe 50 men all lived together in there for months at a time. I have a coat closet bigger than the kitchen on board the sub. lol. Its really impressive and if you have never been, this NEEDS to be a bucket list item.

Don't remember all of the details, but remember reading sometime ago this U-boat sat outside I believe for 30-40 years. fell into severe condition due to the elements, and before moving it into it's underground resting place. German manufacturers who had made parts for it during the war, made new parts so that it could be completely refurbished. It was a matter of pride for them, as they felt like it was still German property, and since we weren't going to give it back, they wanted it's refurbishment to be done with the right parts. 8)

2nd largest navy in the world, the US museum ships💀💀💀 cold as hell

The actual reason for the photographer was as a backup plan if they couldn’t save the sub. He would be taking pictures of the subs inner working so that American engineers could examine them and try to reverse engineer the technology.

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I'll bet there were a number of country boys in that group. We learn how to fix everything with next to nothing.

You need to check out Lucky Fluckey and his Barbarians, U.S.S. Barb and her skipper Eugene Fluckey, the only Submarine to sink a Train (on the subs Battle board showing all it's successes, there was a train, also the only Americans to actually have operations on Japanese Mainland), and later there was a brand new rocket launcher sitting on the dock at Pearl, Fluckey decided he needed it, promptly sailed to Japan and rocketed a coastal town, the only sub to do so

Loved it!! Thanks for bringing us another great story from The Fat Electrician.

Ricky as a kid in the 50's I visited the U 505 . After the war the German captain of the U 505 also came to Chicago to visit it. It was difficult to get it out of the water and across a major highway to it's present resting place. It took real guts to go down into it knowing it could sink at any minute. Very cool to walk inside it.

This story makes me so so proud of my fellow Americans ancestors. Have you ever watched a movie called "Kelly's Heros" with Clint Eastwood and an all star cast? It's about an American infantry group that break through enemy lines to rob a bank. It is based on a true story although greatly exaggerated. A great mix of War action and humor. My favorite of all time war movie.

Recky, this was good, I also learned things I did not know, (The Fat Electrician) is a great source of information with a fun twist to keep you interested. Thanks bud for reacting to this! Have an awesome week.

I remember going on it when I was a kid, they had walk thru tours. I had no idea of the History of it though. Thanks Recky, I learned something new!

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It's easy to learn from The Fat Electrician... this is one I learned from: on a elementary school field trip, I visited that sub (like 3 decades ago, okay??!), but nearly none of this made it into the placards and tour we received. Even made a souvenir grey wax model of the sub on my way out the door... but no idea how I was in the midst of gangsta greatness.

Great inventions often are a byproduct of war.

U-505....I viewed this boat my first day out of Navy Bootcamp. As a submarine volunteer I wanted to see the history of the service. I got extremely drunk (not allwed during leave before graduating boot camp but it was my 21st birthday which is drinking age in the US and was given a pass due to my performance.) 20 years later I took my son and wife to see the U-505. This is an amazing story and a wonderful relic residing in Chicago.

The first submarine to sink an enemy ship in wartime was a Confederate submarine The H. L. Hunley

I was able to go inside when I was a child. I thought it was cool but never knew the story. Thanks for sharing the story with us.

"This would be the inspiration for the children's book Where's Waldo?" This was the first Fat Electrician video I showed my mom. She 100% believed him when he said that until he revealed the truth, and it was so funny.

That was awesome. I grew up in Illinois and my family visited that museum. I remember seeing that u-boat and staring at it in awe. Great reaction Recky.

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Good thing that the Captain became an Admiral before the decision was made.

I think people are responding to an American film about capturing a German U boat. But in Britain at least, the film starts with an acknowledgement that it was the British who captured a German U boat years before. Not only that, before they sunk it, they captured German documents of every kind including the Enigma code books. It was a war changing moment. In the Second World War America supplied the money. The British supplied the brains.

I got to tour it when I was in grade school.

'i stole that thing fair and square!'haha

some good stuff about the u505 on RU-vid if you want to look it up. Including when they recently made a new home for it in the basement of the museum to protect it from the elements and update the display. Moving the sub to Chicago, and then decades later to the basement were engineering feats.

6:00 Invented by the British.

I’m guessing you’d enjoy a documentary on RU-vid that National Geographic did I think? It’s called something like top 10 submarine battles of ww2. They tell the stories very well & reenact it / use cgi or whatever to show you what it looked like It’s like 50 mins long but I’ve watched it 2-3 times

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The main reason this was done is for the enigma machine to decipher their code.

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Pretty sure cameraman was sent to get intel incase they failed repair in time

U-571 is a very good movie to watch on your free time Recky.

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There is a movie about this called u-571 with Mathew McConaughey. Its not necessarily accurate but it's a fun watch. "Fire now or we die!"

He doesn't know what he's talking about, a war can't be won with only defense.

May be reading to much into the final resting place of the U-boat, but to steal and then publicly display it in Chicago, a city well know for Al Capone, arguably history's most (voluntarily) public gangster has to be somewhat purposeful.

He has a video how we defeated a German U-boat with a Potatoes

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Recky my Skynyrd brother, you gotta watch the movie "U-571" if you haven't already seen it. Really great movie. You would like it.

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😂😂😂😂 freaking AMERICANS!! My family on both sides have been here since 1800 or before.. my mom's family is English and my dad's family 22% Scottish, 15% Eastern European and I have no idea WHAT COUNTRY BECAUSE MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WAS ALSO SOUTHERN ITALIAN- AND SO AM I.. my great-grandmother married a Scot (good looking man also and he died when he was 27 and she was pregnant with their third child). Her last name was French.. I don't know how in the world my great grandma was mixed with Southern Italian and Eastern European, & more Eastern European but had the last name AGEE which is French. Don't know how that worked because she looked very much French.. French didn't show up in my heritage DNA but Southern Italian did. I guess it just depends on how the DNA transfers. Dad said Americans were a bunch of rejects😂 I guess Americans came to this country to get some dignity and freedom from the constraints of Britain and these other big empires but especially Britain & the people just got a little crazy and then the Irish and the Germans came over. the poor Germans didn't know what to do and they used oxen and didn't know how to swim or ride a horse because swimming was not legal in Germany in the 1800s . WTH? MUST HAVE BEEN THE KAISER These people came here to move Westward and be farmers. Peace-loving people Until they had to start fighting back against the Indians reading them going west and other people attacking them.. Up until we had this mask crazy illegal immigration boom over the past 30 years or so I bought America was just a country of American hard workers who would get a little crazy if you messed with their friends family & stuff.

so cool!

Would love to see you watch a yt video about the "U.S. Delta Force 1st SFOD-D CAG" It's was made by a guy named Kanuster and done maybe 4 or 5 years ago and has great real time footage of operations "The Unit" has done. Amazing video and you can just tell by the way these guys talk they are possible of anything. Most outstanding video about Delta on RU-vid hands down!

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