Channel Dash by Battleship Scharnhorst & Gneisenau 1942 Animated 

Same here! Found this channel that way too. Made sure to subscribe. Looking forward to future videos!

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Was there not somekind of duel between British and German coastal artillery?

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Probably cose there are other, older and vastly popular (and in some aspect better) videos about those topics. About Channel Dash specificly there are great videos by Operation Room and BuzBattles. Btw, this one look suspiciously symilar to Buz's one.

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Yes, very high effort videos

Ya, and Boulogne isn't Bologna either!

Tee-Pits...no it's pronounced Tur-puhts

Wow, boys - calm down. - Here to add to these pronunciation critiques: quality video, presenting a very accessible explanation of this thrilling wartime episode. Good script and graphics.

Frisian was another one

AI innit.

I actually think the pronunciation was quite good. Except maybe for the city of Wilhelmshaven, which sounded like "Wilhelmshown". I suppose this is an artificial computer generated voice. Maybe it's programmed or follows the name "Copenhagen" as a role model, which in Danish is written "København" and pronounced "Koebenhown". The V in Wilhelmshaven (literally: Williamsport /Williamshaven) is pronounced as F. Side note: The V in German and Dutch words and names of Germanic origin is pronounced as F . Examples: Vater (father), Vogel (bird), vier (four), vorbei (over, past), Volk (people, the people, folk), Hannover (Hanover), von Bismarck, van Beethoven, Amstelveen (Dutch town), Bremerhaven (coastal city, port of Bremen) ... Whereas the V in German words of Latin/Romance origin is pronounced as V. Like: Variation (variation), violett (violet), Vibration, Viktor/Viktoria (personal names), Vakanz (vacancy), Lavendel (lavender) etc.

Do you know who firdst called the Channel Dash a German Strategic Defeat? Some chap called Erich Raeder. I suggest that he was in a position to know.

Two nuclear bombs, and Prinz Eugen is still partially above water.

No, it wasn't, because nukes don't exist.

I don't care what you memorized from school, or what you watched on TV. Because that's all you have for proof.

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I was gonna say BazBattles but that's fair too

By which I assume you mean that the three German heavy ships fled back to Germany under a massive air umbrella, abandoned any future possibility of operating in the Atlantic, and thus played almost no part in the rest of the war, Admiral Raeder declared the Dash a major strategic reversal. He was correct.

@@dovetonsturdee7033 A risky dash, torpedos and mines made it to risky…

Germany just called them Battleships because germany never run the name battlecruiser. In Germany a battlecruiser like ship is named a Großkreuzer (Big Cruiser). It was planned to make a retrofit on the Scharnhorst class with 3×2 380mm guns. Never happend because the war started to early and not as planned 1949.

They were fast battleships, just with relatively small guns.

@@michaeld.uchiha9084 Germany had loads of battlecruisers, up until Jutland anyway...

@@tomriley5790 Well, they werent officially called Battlecruisers. For fiscal reasons. They were Big Cruisers (Große Kreuzer), just like the Armored Cruisers before. On the same note, officially Germany didnt have Battleships (Schlachtschiffe) until, well, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau came around. All before were Ships of the Line (Linienschiffe, Pre-Dread) or Big Ships of the Line (Großlinienschiffe, Dreadnoughts, so Nassau to Bayern) Inoffically the crew etc still called them Battleships /-cruisers, cause thats what they were.

Even thicker then the Dunkerque does not mean much. The Twins had a really strong Beltarmour with a decent Turtleback as backup. The Gund are also not too bad. They really performed quite well for the caliber. Penetration and range clearly make them capital ship guns. The mission profile for the Twins also was not cruiser killing but to oppose the Dunkerques. That makes them Battleships and they are classified as such.

Except Nelson never fled.

Indeed. A successful strategic calamity for the Germans, effectively signalling the end of their surface fleet as a relevant factor in the war.

@@dovetonsturdee7033 It was ending anyway. Germany was running out of fuel therefore Naval fleet was always on the clock. Plus US comiting to carriers fully broke/changed Naval warfare and rendered all these fleets useless.

@@MALITH666 'Plus US comiting to carriers fully broke/changed Naval warfare and rendered all these fleets useless.' Really? Perhaps you might explain the importance of US carriers in the naval war against Germany?

@@dovetonsturdee7033 They didnt have to. Its a case of 'even if Germany managed to have a surface fleet'. American partners, the British, succesfully did that with their fleet air arm. Which is the prelude for the this mission. 1940 aircrafts were far too great deterrent than the biggest battleship.

@@MALITH666 Which German warships, or come to that Italian warships, were either sunk, or even crippled, by Fleet Air Arm aircraft?

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No. It made the Royal Air Force look incompetent.

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Info should not be mainly accurate. Either it is or not. In second case one should not spread it having a YT channel.

@freebeerfordworkers I understand. Yet he navigated a flotilla of ships and therefore had thousands of lives to look after. One of those very young men who took on huge responsibility. I respect them all.

Hi there, just to be precise: The name of the ship was >Prinz Eugen< .

Wow, thank you!

Nope, no casualties during the whole war!

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I rather call them Undergunned Battleships, but Also agree with the term Battlectuiser

Nah, they are battlecruisers in role and usage.

@@alphamaccao5224 Not at all. The intend was to counter the Dunkerque class. That makes them Battleships.

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Wow, thanks!

every goddamn pilot/crew was a knucklehead within that airforce

He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions.

No. Her nine eleven inch in three turrets were to have been replaced by six fifteen inch in three twin turrets.

There is so much you've gotten wrong Firstly are you saying 145 Polish pilots won the battle, how about the other 2800 RAF pilots in FIghter Command of which 2400 were British, 5 of the top 10 aces including all of the top 3 were British (1 was a pole, 1 Czech, 1 Aussie and 2 Kiwis). Discovery of electromagnet waves were first proved by Heinrich Hertz, a German in 1888 using equations from James Clerk Maxwell who was Scottish. Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi would notice in 1899 radio waves would bounce back towards the transmitter, and in 1916 with British engineer Charles Samuel Franklin what could be effectively considered the first radar. Fast forward to 1938 when the Chain Home system became operational in Britain, it was the first early warning and military radar to become operational. The basis for Bletchley Parks intelligence program was on the work the Poles had done before the outbreak of war. Peter Calvocoressi who was head of Hut 3 at Bletchley wrote "The one moot point is-how valuable? According to the best qualified judges it accelerated the breaking of Enigma by perhaps a year. The British did not adopt Polish techniques but they were enlightened by them." and Gordon Wealchman, head of Hut 6 wrote "Hut 6 Ultra would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military version of the commercial Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use." This has seemingly become a myth that Britain was on it's knees without Uncle Sam. The Battle for Britain was over by Christmas 1940. Sea Lion was postponed indefinitely with Hitler issuing Directive No.21 with German forces beginning to prepare for the upcoming Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. In the African and Mediterranean front. After the initial defeat in the Italian invasion of Egypt in September 1940, Britain launched its own counter attack in Operation Compass whilst outnumbered 5-1 in men and 3-1 in tanks with the British forces losing 500 troops KIA, and the Italians losing 5,500 men and 133,000 captured. With the British capturing Tobruk, Barbia, Giarabub, Mechili, Beda Fomm, Sidi Barrani, Kufra. The Success of Compass and the poor performance of the Italians in the Balkans forced Hitler to divert troops from the Soviet Union to Africa. At the same time British Air attacks from Malta were intensifying with a steady supply in the Malta Convoys that neither the Italians nor Germans could stop. When the Germans arrived and launched Operation Sunflower they saw limited success, capturing Cyrenaica and besieging Tobruk, although their siege of Torbruk after 7 months would end in a failure. Between May and June 1941 there were limited skirmishes with the only notable action being the German capture of the Halfaya Pass and the failed Operation Battleaxe in June. The front not not move much until the Siege of Tobruk ended and the British launched Operation Crusader in 1941 with the British succesfully recapturing Cyrenaica and Rommel withdrew to the Gazala line which accumulated in the Battle of Gazala at which point after over a year of trying the Germans finally managed to capture Tobruk taking 35,000 prisoners. The Germans and Italians attempted to capitalise on the Gazala offensive and push on to El Alamein, which ended in a stalemate with the Axis forces failing to break the lines. At this point in the summer of 1942 Montgomery was put in charge of the British Eighth Army and on the 30th August 1942 the final German offensive on the African front commenced, Operation Surf, an attempt to envelope the British forces around Alam el Halfa which ended in defeat for Rommel. In October 1942 the British would launch an offensive around El Alamein which would end in the destruction of Panzer Army Africa. The offensive would end on November 11th, the same day the Americans would land troops in Operation Torch. The war was not won by Britain, or the United States, or the Soviet Union. It was a collective effort. Each country needed. At the Tehran conference in 1943 Stalin praised Lendlease and stated "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." Nikita Khurshchev wrote "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war, One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." And Marshal Zhukov stating "People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own."

"pocket battleship" referred to the much smaller KMS Deutschland and KMS Graf Spee, equipped with smaller guns (only 6, 11 inch guns) and lighter armor, as well as being much smaller to the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which were very much comparable to the HMS Hood in size. Pocket Battleships have far less firepower and armor than battlecruisers, and were only employed by the Germans during the interwar period to skirt treaty limitations on their ships. Think of battlecruisers as battleships with less armor and higher speeds. Pocket Battleships are smaller and weaker in every way--their like bite-sized candy.

@@fightingdreamer123 , this was not how the Royal Navy categorized the Scharnhorst or Gneisenau. When those ships were spotted, HMS Glorious Used the abbreviations P/Bs, in the message sent to the Admiralty. I appreciate your response, though. Thank you.

@@MrMalvolio29 Glorious had more pressing matters concerning her than whether she was being attacked by Deutschlands or Scharnhorsts. The Scharnhorsts were definitely called battleships by the German navy.

@@fightingdreamer123The Germans never used the term Pocket Battleship. They used Panzerschiffe which means armored ship. In terms of concept the Panzerschiffe were closer to the armoured cruisers of the pre-dreadnought era

Deutschland was renamed Lutzow - before the Norwegian campaign. Renamed by Hitler as he did not want a warship called Deutschland to be sunk. In the German Navy, Deutschland / later Lutzow was classified as panzerschiff / armoured ship , this could be translated as armoured cruiser. Some newspapers of the time called the Deutschland a pocket battleship.

Victorious, or, at least, her aircraft, did. Repulse was with King George V (not VI) initially, but withdrew due to lack of fuel Renown stayed with Ark Royal, as the whereabouts of Prinz Eugen were unknown.

I'm not sure how it was a humilation for the Royal Navy, as the Royal Navy's main units were in the north, operating as cover against a potential sortie by the Tirpitz against Arctic convoys, as she had recently been declared operational and relocated to Norway.

@@dovetonsturdee7033 my friend how could it not? The Royal Navy had the enemy pass with a stones throw of their “Yard” right under their noses, and they couldn’t stop anything!! Really? I’m astonished by your statement!! Believe me, this was an embarrassment 💯‼️

@@ricardocorbie6803 Why do you think that the Channel was within a 'stone's throw' of Scapa Flow or Iceland, where the Royal Navy's heavy ships were based in early 1942. The only Royal Navy resources left in the Channel were light Coastal Forces, and a flotilla of V & W Class destroyers. The Channel was not a significant naval war zone since the abandonment of any possibility of invasion almost 18 months earlier.

@@dovetonsturdee7033 The Air Force, however, wasn't based at Scapa Flow, was it? The British failed to sink a single ship from the german squadron which ran over 600 km right past the island. You do not need heavy surface ships to sink a battleship, as was proven by the Japanese when they managed to sink 2 British battleships at Malaysia with less than 100 planes just 3 months prior to the Channel Dash. The British failed to take advantage of a perfect situation due to lack of unity between the military branches and an overall ineptness to adopt the tactics they had witnessed the Japanese perform against their very own navy in the Pacific theater.

@@PeliSotilas No the RAF wasn't based at Scapa Flow, but the German Squadron didn't go anywhere near Scapa Flow, but rather fled through the Channel, where the RAF were based. The Germans mobilised over 250 aircraft to protect their ships from the RAF. The failure of the RAF was threefold. Firstly, the inability of their reconnaissance patrols to realise that the squadron had sailed, secondly, the earlier failure of Bomber Command to inflict more serious damage on the ships when in Brest, and thirdly the failure of the allocated fighter protection to arrive when it failed to arrive to cover 835 Naval Air Squadron's sacrifical attack with their Swordfish. What tactics had the Japanese actually adopted, by the way? They simply used torpedo bombers against ships which lacked any air cover, much as the British had previously done against Bismarck, and against Italian ships in the Mediterranean. There wasn't actually a lack of co-operation between the RAF & the RN, for the simple reason that there were no heavy RN units anywhere near the Channel.

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Ah yes, very clever, why sinking enemy capital ships when you can just let them go lmao?

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Well, some guy called Erich Raeder called it a major strategic reversal. I suggest that he was in a position to know.