Battlefield - The Battle Of The Atlantic - Part 1 

My Grandad was on the north Atlantic convoys he was a chief petty officer with the Royal Navy, but sadly he died 6 months after i was born so i never got to know him.

What problems would they have adding Carriers with aircraft to support the convoy screening?.

This is well done. The voice actor was good, a few mistakes but well done over all.

Germany are the most powerful country in the world . But there problem is over confidence and always fight 1 against 10. They should learn how to take it one after the other

R.I.P to the sailors of the Canadian Navy who fought and died from 1939-1945 in the Battle of the Atlantic 🇨🇦

Though there may be a few errors with the topic to photo coordination This is by far one of the best written and presented documentary’s seen. No narrator talking heads, but in stead, loads of supporting visuals given.

The Battlefield programs are all excellent as this one is. We note one severe weakness which we also note on most programs about the Battle of the Atlantic. It is always presented as just a part of the War in the West. Actually, the War in the West had huge impacts on the Ostkrieg and the Battle of the Atlantic is no exception. There were essential impacts of the Red Army's victory in the Ostheer. 1. Control of the Atlantic was needed to deliver Lend-Lease material, far more important than most Russians want to admit. 2. The Ostheer was primarily unmotorized infantry (80 percent) moving east on foot with horse carts. The Battle of the Atlantic required a significant industrial commitment, far more than the unmotorized infantry of the Ostheer. One reason the Ostheer was so poorly quipped was the industrial demands of the Kriegsmarine. (The Luftwaffe required far more industrial support,. but the KM was important. ) Think what the Germans could have accomplished with a better-equipped Ostheer. 3. The Battle of the Atlantic prevented the Germans from importing oil. Again think about what the Germans could have accomplished if they could have imported oil to supply the Ostheer. The Soviets as a NAZI ally supplied the Germans with the oil there needed to fight the war in the West (1939-41). The British cut off the Germans from obtaining the oil they needed from the first days of the War (1939-45).

The Sheer bravery & audacity of the soldiers to go wherever they are told to go & fight to the last man! They'll inspire generations to come.

Enjoyed the back story. Meeting the players...the who's who on all sides. The types of ships etc.

I just finished reading "Bitter Ocean" by David White, an excellent factual history of the battle of the Atlantic.

At 20 minutes they were still talking about Ernie King and showing a photo of William Halsey. Poor editing.

At 8:22: “When Adolf Hitler took power in 1932”. Nearly right: more precisely, he took power in 1933.

A few key mistakes to be noted - the type XXI was never meant to be a hydrogenperoxide powerplant submarine. Its used conventional diesel/electric setup, but still with high submerged speed. And hydrogenperoxide is not a gas and Walters powerplant was not what I would call a gas turbine. Hydrogenperoxide is a highly reactive fluid, which turns into steam when processed in a catalyst. This steam would then power a turbine.

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It's notable in the film footage of Doenitz reviewing naval cadets and officers that he gives the traditional salute, not the fascist salute. It is said of the armed forces of the Wehrmacht, the army was (inter-war) republican, the Luftwaffe (air force) was Nazi and the Kreigsmarine (navy) was imperial. This is slightly demonstrated in this film footage.

Winston Churchill, sometimes right, sometimes wrong...But Never In Doubt!

This documentary forgets the invaluable Canadian effort contribution made in the Atlantic Battle

4:25 it has recently been admitted that the Lusitania was supposed to be carrying the munitions that blew her up. The first casualty of war is always the truth.

MY GRANDFATHER AND UNCLE WHO WAS ONLY 15 WERE TORPAEDOED ON SOUTHERN EMPRESS OCTOBER 1943, MY UNCLE AND HIS FRIEND BOTH MESS BOYS WERE PUT INTO A LIFEBOAT BY MY GRANDFATHER WHO WAS A DONKEYMAN AND HAD SUFFERED BURNS IN TH EXPLOSION, THEY SAVED 19 MEN AND WERE PICKED UP TWO DAYS LATER BY A NORWEGIAN TANKER

Odd that the review of leaders in the Battle of the Atlantic makes no mention of the Canadian leaders. Very British of you.

Very informative video, appreciate the effort of everyone who worked on gathering data.

Admiral King made many mistakes especially not using convoys and not blacking out the U.S. Atlantic coast. His daughter is quoted as saying, "He was the most even tempered person I ever met, he was always in a rage." Major error in this video at 20:05 that is a picture of William Halsey , not Ernest King.

This is a real history documentary. The Best.

How can Germany ever be trusted again ?

Who came here after watching the movie greyhound?

Well worth visiting The Western approaches Museum in Liverpool operational control room used during the war.

"Famous for his fastidious dress and cleanliness...Apart from his eccentricities...."

Super nice video full of important knowledge thanks

Enjoyed, but a little loose with the facts. Early on claims 2,000 died on the Lusitania when the number was 1,200.

The MV Rabaul was sunk by the German raider Atlantis in 1941, among those lost was a young Australian gunner Victor Eyers. Find his story and that of the sinking here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3VNGODIvt4I.html

A good documentary film including all necessery materials. This video should be watching on lessons

This narrator sounds like the same voice actor as Kurzgesagt!

20:04...They're talking about Admiral Ernest J. King but the picture they're showing is of Admiral William Halsey. What the ...?

I hate to say this but at about the 20 minute mark the narrator is discussing Admiral Ernest King while a photo of Admiral William Halsey is shown. ???

Footage showed pic of Admiral Halsey and narrator called him Admiral King and the two look nothing alike. Ooops ... 😊😊😊

King actually did not like or listen to Canadian or British officers, but did listened to US officers who were fighting the Western 1/2 for the Battle of the Atlantic. Also when there were improvements made to any tech in hunting Submarines, the British were reluctant to tell the Canadians of the Improvements. So the Canadians were at a dis-advantage for the first part of the battle. Only where there was true cooperation between the allies, did the Battle of the Atlantic turn to their favor. A lesson the the US command grudgingly admitted to, and the British for helping in giving the improved technology to remove the U-boat threat.

I believe the reason for the U-boat attack the ship was that the Naval officers on deck looked like Army and that was a reason also given. As wrong as those actions were let’s not forget that other nations have attacked boats/ships flying the Red Cross flag. Just look up U-156 involving a liberator

Awesome video but at the part where your talking about admiral king your showing a picture of admiral Halsey … not once but twice 😅 good video though 21:15

Minute 20:15 - they're talking about USN Admiral King, yet show a photo of Bull Halsey. 🤣

How the Battle of the Atlantic would had changed if instead of building Bismarck (built 1936-40), Tirpitz built 1936-41), Scharnhorst (built 1935-36) and Gneisenau (built 1935-36), two dozen more U-boats were built? Submarines were more effective and they could cover more ocean.

Both of my Grandfathers served with the Royal Navy on these convoys, one an engine stoker on the steam powered ships, the other a depth charge/ torpedo setter. Only ever met one of them who passed away in 1978. (I was 7 years old ).Never got a chance to talk to them about their service. I remember he once said submariners were cowards, hit and run whilst hidden.

Talking about Ernest King only to throw up Halsey's Bull-Dog Mug gave me a real laugh.

He doesn't really talk about Canada that Much I mean I know Canada was a major role during the battle of the Atlantic

Why has Halsey's photo been allowed to pass as King? Please correct; Halsey was not not anti- Anglo

Fellow "Greyhound" fans . . . I hope the second part of this very good British documentary discusses the Fletcher-class U.S. destroyer like the one Tom Hanks commanded. A brand-new design ready just in time for WWII, the Fletcher class was the Ferrari of destroyers. It was equipped with both sonar and radar, and was very fast and maneuverable. Its main drawback in the battle of the Atlantic was its poor performance in severe weather. This destroyer was originally intended for use in the calmer Pacific to take on the Japanese. (I was so engrossed by "Greyhound" I watched it three times.)

...poor documentary...very poor with loads of mistakes...i.e. 1932 was not the year Hitler took power. It was still 1933. And so may other fatal wrong numbers and conclusions.

The idea that German submarines nearly won in the First War is ridiculous.

Why the hell would 265 people dislike this ? Fucks wrong with people ?

The really beautiful part of it all is that Lemp paid dearly for the Athenia murders with his own life on the 9th of May, 1941 when, as Captain of the U-110, he was killed while trying to swim back to the sub when he realized it wasn't sinking fast enough. The U-30, sadly, went on to continue her rabid sinking of ships and survived the war only to be scuttled and then eventually raised and cut up for scrap.

Back when the History Channel got it right . Sort of . And was better than the crap now . Why are you showing a photo of Adm. ( Bull ) Halsey ??? For Admiral King ???

Freedom was never free we appreciate the USA sacrifices WE agree

Seems outlandish that they couldn't outfit the Hurricane with sea plane pontoons, allowing it to land on water and be lifted back aboard by crane/derrick as spotter/reconnaissance aircraft were at the time for large capital ships. A recurring problem with them was cracked engine blocks caused by cold sea water splashing up on their hot engines upon landing in a choppy sea. Replacing an engine was a lot more sensible than ditching an entire aircraft as disposable. The pilots assigned to this duty must have been there as a kind of punishment.

The Flower class was actually ordered in 1939 before the war began, this video makes it seem like they were not being produced until after the war started and the British had to respond.

Why pop in a pic of Bull Halsey @ 20:10?

Don't know how Americans can be anglophobes when there ancestors were basically just British people( obviously not all but the founders) that settled in America and didn't want to be told what to do by the colonial British and that's fair enough, why would you want to escape Britain for a new life to be told what to do by stuck up British colonial aristocratic men and a king taxing them but to be an anglophobe is to hate yourself really. Where dya think your democracy ideas came from or your constitution that's basically a watered down version of British common law. But I suppose he had his reasons. Anyway God bless America and Canada and long live Britain 🇬🇧

Wait… at 21:03 that is NOT Ernest King! That is “Bull” Halsey! Didja think we wouldn’t notice..?

50 if I recall correctly. 4 stackers.

Some of this was ok but also some information was wrong but I did enjoy the old footage of the uboats

I think you have a picture of Halsey as King ...

thanks greyhound

The world stood back and allowed Germany to build up for war and did nothing.

"a shred of truth"...Lusitania was probably sunk by the secondary explosions of the MUNITIONS she was carrying lmfao. It`s ok when we do it, right?

I'm wondering if the persons giving dislikes can do this documentary better?

What this video doesn't tell you is that Germany suspended its U-boat campaign in WW1 for a while because it had become clear to some sane-minded Germans that the campaign was slowly driving America into the war on the side of the Allies due to too many American ships and lives being lost or ruined forever. The suspended campaign worked well in keeping America neutral, but the angry voices of German naval buffs finally caused the sinkings to resume by claiming that leaving a powerful weapon unused was foolish. "And not one American soldier will reach Europe if they dare to intervene!" some of them more or less added. Germany would have won if patient and humble people had prevailed, but in the end America did intervene, their troops made it across the water, and their millions of forces, and millions of dollars, helped bring about eventual defeat for Germany and a humiliating exile for the Kaiser. What boggles my mind is that by WWII this history lesson appears to have been lost, and something like a re-run happened. Launching Operation Barbarossa against the Russian giant was controversial (and evil, I would add), but at least there was land, oil, and other resources to possibly capture there. Poking the American giant in the eye again and again, on the other hand, was a wild gamble with no payoff possible unless Britain quickly succumbed to the sinkings -- which couldn't have happened early in the war due the weakness of the German U-boat force, and was unlikely to have happened later in the war due to the strengthening of the British resolve to fight things out to the bitter end. I think the two U-boat campaigns were among the biggest mistakes in German military history, and I wish more people would look beyond the action and glamour and see how suicidally moronic the efforts were.

Getting rid of the surface fleet would have partly been due to lack of Oil

Who would have thought that the most dangerous job in world war two was transporting goods

This is NOT part of the Battlefield Series. It. has no connection to those documentaries

Thanks for the video!!😎🦇🦇🇬🇧

I'll be watching you

RIP you, our GERMAN HEROES from Kriegsmarine ! YOU are listed as criminals but all allied forces are heroes.... No comment ! GERMANY MY HEIMATLAND I LOVE YOU !

Pongan SUBTÍTULOS EN ESPAÑOL..... !!!!!!

Very good documentary One mistake you show 2 closeup photos of Admiral King that were actually Admiral "Bull" Halsey

In the main photo of this video is my grandfather standing third from left on the stern of the coast guard cutter spencer as they are watching a depth charge detonate.

This is a very interesting film, but not mentioning WATU is a gross oversight especially as it pre dated the appointment of Admiral Noble

I myself served as a HERO

An excellent book to read regarding the Battle of the Atlantic is 'Black May'.

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The voice over is excellent, but man, I can't stand the graphics/maps. Some clever fan might create an edited version of Battlefield with the first season's quality graphics edited in place.

We're half way through and all we have learned is the personnel of the British effort. What happened?!

Bull Halsey had nothing to do with the battle of the Atlantic. Pity you mucked up your photographs!

ÓTIMO DOCUMENTÁRIO, BRASIL OK

is name is raider not reader and he was the no 1 man and Donitz wasno2 the sub marine commander he took over from raider as admiral raider hated Hitler and he would never gave the Nazi salute

Very interesting

lusitania was sunk off the old head of kinsale , its last stop was queenstown now known as cobh

Anyone wanna summaries this? 👉🏼🥺👈🏼

At 20:03, looks like Halsey, rather than King

i would love to serve the Royal Navy for free

Excellent! Thank you 💕🕵🏼‍♀️

From the narrative in the prelude we knoe that UK and US were using People to be human shield as the ship also carrying war goods.

stuck in under water for days not for me

You have an error in your film. While describing admiral Ernest king you kept showing the picture of William Haley (Bull Halsey).

Uboat jermany very sopticatid

British female soldiers are fascinating! very much

Those were pictures of Bull Halzy!!

Why do the editors display an image of Adm. Halsey when discussing Adm. King?

i would do it just for fun

Very good, thanks.

A correction to the commentary. FDR told KING to send Chester to Pearl and to put him in charge of the Pacific Fleet. And to leave him there until the end of the war.

Fun fact : the Rolex you wish for was also made by the same neutral country which made nazi torpedo detonators. Swiss cheese anyone? How about some chocolate as you remember your grandfathers ship sinking to the bottom.

at 17:03, i don't understand what "he introduced..." Could some native English speaker write it for me? Thank you from France