Lucky Fluckey and his Barb-arians. The Legend of USS Barb-Episode 213

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This week Bill and Seth break down the leadership and the war patrols of the incomparable Eugene B. "Lucky" Fluckey and his beloved USS Barb (SS-220). Tune in and see what the team breaks down as the ingenious, innovative and revolutionary skipper rewrites the tactics of submarine warfare in World War II.
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@morganhale3434 Год назад

I do hope your audience does realize that the reason you guys are focusing on the Silent Service in the PTO is because that aspect of the U.S. Pacific Naval War was arguably the most successful undersea blockade in human history and not just because Bill is a really nice guy who we all like. This by far is the most informative source on the USN's submarine campaign against Imperial Japan that I have ever come across and it is highly entertaining as well.

@jeffreymcfadden9403 Год назад

On top of all that,,,Bill is a BUCKEYE too!

@jesscarver9882 Год назад

@@jeffreymcfadden9403 But we won't hold that against him.😅

@RodneyGraves Год назад

The numbers speak for themselves. What the silent service accomplished was unprecedented, and they paid the price in full.

@williamrobinson827 Год назад

Of course, Seth and Bill don't concentrate on the Silent Service, but they extensively cover the surface and land battles of the PTO as well.

@russfranck3491 Год назад

Come on pacific enthusiasts,help and support this podcast

@barrylittle8067 11 месяцев назад

My Grandfather served on the Barb under Flucky and told me first hand of many of the stories in Thunder Below (he is even mentioned by name in the book). He passed away long before the book was written and I wrote off his stories as tall tells until years later when I read the book. My father later served on the Barb596 (he passed away while on the Barb in Hong Kong). Thank you for your Chanel

@tgmccoy1556 Год назад

Flucky's story needs a Movie.

@flagstafup5857 7 месяцев назад

If it ever is, I hope is more believable than U571!!

@willl7780 6 месяцев назад

@@flagstafup5857hated that bs movie

@COACHWARBLE 3 месяца назад

LUCKY FLUCKY. Great movie title

@johnnyg3166 Год назад

You two have thee best podcast covering the pacific war on RU-vid. Hands down.

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

Thank you

@williamlyerly3114 Год назад

Need several more “e” ‘ s in thee.

@stevewilson7819 5 месяцев назад

I had the good fortune to meet Rear Admiral Fluckey at the sub museum at Pearl Harbor during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of VJ Day. He was selling his book The Thunder Below and autographing it. I’m a Marine and not much of a naval historian so I hadn’t heard of him. And I wasn’t interested in buying a book about submarines. That is until I saw that he was wearing his CMH! I bought the book which he graciously autographed, and spent a few minutes chit chatting with him and his wife. He personality was just as you described. And I later regretted not being able to spend time getting to know him better. My loss! As a final note; my father in law borrowed the book and never returned it.

@joebombero1 Год назад

Shout out to my mother's cousin, the rock star of her family, Robert Pollack Guiler, the Captain of the USS Grampus, on eternal patrol. So many great family stories about him. We always lose the best of each generation in wartime.

@AdmiralYeti8042 Год назад

I’ve been waiting for this one!!! Fluckey’s storytelling in Thunder Below is what originally established my love for the Navy as a kid. I remember reading it and thinking “there’s no way this dude was real, this sounds like something right out of an action novel”…and then I found out just how real he was when I did an in depth report on him for history class. Absolute Legend.

@tallthinwavy3 Год назад

Wonder when Admiral Fluckey will has his story told by a mini series or a long film ?

@AdmiralYeti8042 Год назад

@@tallthinwavy3 I honestly believe that it would be really hard to make that movie or miniseries in a way that would do these men true justice. It would be one hell of an expensive production just to get key details right about the things they did in action, I would imagine the train kill would be about the easiest scene to get on film purely because you can film on land and use scale models and cgi to get a decent locomotive explosion. Everything else would get very expensive very quickly and that’s before you even pay decent actors who can put themselves into the role without coming off flat. If it were ever made though, you can bet I’d be lining up to pay to see it.

@mattd7566 Год назад

@@AdmiralYeti8042 to be fair, he did fight from the surface a heck of a lot. Might be an easier miniseries than you’d imagine. I bet the hardest part would be to tell it honestly and people that have never actually heard of Fluckey to believe it was true. His career looks like the main character of a video game. You just don’t get kills like that in real life typically.

@martinpickering4601 Год назад

Great stories keep up. The awesome job❤

@grizzlygrizzle 5 месяцев назад

Memoirs and biographies are great additions to studying history of the more formal sort, because they take one away from that constant 30,000-foot overview perspective and plop one down inside a lived life. Furthermore they pull together events and periods within that life that one might otherwise view as different, disconnected events. One surprise I had in my reading was an autobiography of Gen. Hap Arnold, who was taught to fly by the Wright brothers and went on to be the head of the Army Air Force in WW II. It wasn't as thrilling as Thunder Below, but presented a mostly administrative history in a way that was far more interesting than I would have expected. Another famous autobiography was Samuel Pepys' diary, written by a high-ranking Royal Navy administrator in 17th century England, who lived through both the Great Plague (not the Black Death, which was 300 years earlier) and the Great Fire of London. Biographies of philosophers have also given me greater insight into their intellectual work than reading those works and secondary sources about those works (Gaukroger's bio of Rene Descartes is highly recommended). -- Too many historians today spend too much time trying to find ideological themes in history, or worse, to find ideological justifications for their warped perspectives on human nature (Leftist historians are infamous for this sort of thing, and many of their books are tendentious and tiresome.)

@mikeat2637 Год назад

When you spoke about Commander Fluckey getting his MOH on, I believe March 23rd, 1945, from Navy Secretary James Forrestal, President Roosevelt only had 20 days left to live, passing away on April 12th, 1945 at Warm Springs, Georgia.

@marciar7407 Год назад

The Barb was featured on the Smithsonian Channel series Hell Below today. And that boat and its crew blew up that darn Japanese train again!

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

Happens every time....

@BlitherVids Год назад

You guys just knock it out of the park every time. I can tell by reading the rest of the comments here that I'm not alone in my love of this channel. For some reason, I had thought you covered Lucky Flucky before, but I'm glad I was wrong because his story is one of the greatest in all of WWII. Thank you guys again so much - it means the world to those of us for whom the heroic exploits of the world's biggest war need to be told and retold by the best storytellers -- and that in my book, is you two fine gentlemen.

@jovianmole1 Год назад

Hear, Hear.

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

Many thanks

@flparkermdpc 4 месяца назад

Add me to the peanut gallery. Fluckey's story adds mirth since no crew were ever lost under Fluckey, giving us a break in the deadly business of war. I can only take so many Betio and Peleliu stories of sacrifice and loss of great men in their primes. Thank God for Eugene Fluckey. I really mean that.

@Titus-as-the-Roman Год назад

Thanks! Some folks are just born to Boogie, Lucky definitely found his Calling. Another good one.

@SynchronizorVideos Месяц назад

Some context for the Japanese crewman discussed at 44:50; Kitojima Sanji had served in the Japanese navy in the 1930s, and had had a bad experience where an officer forced him to kill a Chinese civilian with a machete. He left the navy as soon as he could afterward to become a shopkeeper, only to be recalled a couple years later when the Pacific war really kicked off. He was very much not a fan of the Japanese military, and after being "recruited" by the Barb, it didn't take much to gain his cooperation, and Kito was usually among the first to celebrate when they sank something.

@alexkalish8288 11 месяцев назад

Fluckey should have received a second medal of honor with everyone on the raiding party. He had a genius for war, very creative and aggressive like a hungry lion. This was profoundly deep and brilliantly laid out. Rare for You Tube military channels bravo -

@AArdW01f Год назад

Yay!!! The Fluckey episode!!

@juantanamo33 Год назад

Who needs Indiana Jones when you have Fluckey?!? Great episode AGAIN! Love your work as always

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

Well said!

@donaldkepple4927 5 месяцев назад

I would love see a cool movie on lucky fluckey make it about 4 hours long

@davidroper3331 Год назад

I’ve been looking for you guys for 25 years.

@thewatchhawk 2 месяца назад

Flukey's leadership skill development started as a Boy Scout where he eventually earned Eagle Scout!

@SynchronizorVideos Месяц назад

When the crew of the Barb carried out the famous train raid, Flucky made sure everyone participating was a former Boy Scout, because -among other things - that meant they would all know the same bird calls for use as signals.

@jamesallen8524 9 месяцев назад

I served on the SSN 596 Barb in the late 70s. We had a crew battle flag of the SS 220 mounted on the fwd mess deck bulkhead which had been presented at commissioning by Adm Fluckey. I learned what all the symbols meant and used to study it while sitting there. I was on 3 other subs, Snook, Omaha and Puffer but I really got a deep respect for the crews of the WW2 USS Barb during that time. After retiring, I started searching for SS 220 memorabilia. I've managed to acquire a crew battle flag identical to the one I studied. Along with it was a treasure trove that one of her crew had saved during the war. He was a torpedoman and was on Barb just prior to when Fluckey took command but after her move to the Pacific. Wonderful pictures, some from the war and others from the crew reunions. He saved everything, there are his passes for the Royal Hawaiian and notes from sub school and ordinance school. I also have his copy of the book that Fluckey inscribed and signed. His 1944 Golden Dragon too, and a postal change of address card for Adm Fluckey. I've also found an old Barb ashtray. I got one of the auction booklets for when, sadly, the DOD sold Barb for scrap after Italy was no longer needing her.

@windsorwins46 Год назад

Hi Seth,a loyal sub from India would recommend putting shorts in your channel would make the algorithm like you guys More .Cheers!

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

We haven't broken the code on how to do that yet. Will research!

@28lobster28 Год назад

@@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Lowest effort method would be to pick your favorite 1min section from the podcast and release that the day before you publish the podcast. YT wants to compete with TikTok so they're pushing shorts hard in the algo. It's not selling out, you're just giving us a trailer and trying to get more viewers!

@PalleRasmussen 3 месяца назад

And now TikTok wants to produce longer videos, competing with RU-vid @@28lobster28

@kensvay4561 6 месяцев назад

Always like stories of these boats. My cousin L Cdr Francis Ponsonby helped develop Trident and skippered a Trident boat. Ironically in WW2 his uncle Bill helped develop Asdic and skippered an RN Corvette. After Ponsonby retired he was a defence bureaucrat in Washington like Bill.Later edited the RN magazine and was in the Falklands in 1982 on an icebreaker. He helped the Marines capture an Argentine submarine.

@rickturk2164 Год назад

Great episode and welcome to the Space Coast Bill. I am just a few miles down the coast in Viera/Melbourne. I had the honor of meeting then Admiral Fluckey in 1968 while on my 1/c (NROTC) Midshipman Cruise. I was making an FBM patrol out of Rota which had a highly unusual pre-patrol port call to Lisbon where Adm Fluckey had his NATO command. He came aboard for a wardroom dinner and regaled us with stories. Thanks Again! 👌👍

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

Let's get together for lunch!

@downthethroatmodeling Год назад

@@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar That would be great. I am responding from my branded channel which should give you my email.

@flparkermdpc 4 месяца назад

Tonight I posted a note guessing that meeting Flucky outside of business would be a blast. This post confirms my surmise.

@henriyoung3895 Год назад

You guys are AWESOME. Keep up the good work. SGT DOUG, RECON, 101ST, RVN 68-69

@DalonCole Год назад

How can there only be 11K subscribers to this greatness?

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

We wonder the same thing....

@davekelsey8762 Год назад

Reason: Just starting out... A vast war to cover.... Cancel your future plans Seth and Bill. We need this... and those not yet in high school need this. I think I speak for all your fans in saying you can never go too long. I can't think of a higher compliment for a podcast. A speaking tour with you two is in the future. PS... I'm not the only one who appreciates you straightening out some myths and missed facts in every episode. After reading about military history for 40 years, I get a little toasted watching some of those tv shows that claim to be history. 😎

@PalleRasmussen 3 месяца назад

48 K now ten months later.

@SechristBros Год назад

Thank you for recommending "Thunder Below". Wow, the action is amazing, but the insights into the character of this amazing man is the true highlight of this book. This is a blueprint of how to be the ultimate Commanding Officer.

@stearman456 Год назад

Another outstanding episode. Barb herself survived the post-war scrappings and was sold to Italy in 1954, renamed, and serving as Enrico Tazzoli (S 511) with the Italian Navy. The submarine was eventually sold for scrap in 1972. Admiral Fluckey stated that, had the crew known of this, they would have bought the sub and brought her back to the United States to serve as a museum ship.

@elwoodlodge7764 Год назад

Here we go again, another wonderful episode! Great job guys. I have only one question, why hasn't this story been made into a major motion picture??? It has everything a movie needs WITHOUT embellishments. A capable and eager Officer stuck in non-combat duties, a somewhat disheartened crew who also finally gets to show what they can do and as much action as they time to include. Medals and commendations, evolving tactics, and on and on. For crying out loud someone get Tom Hanks on the phone!😁

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

Good question

@PalleRasmussen 3 месяца назад

No! Keep TH far away from this story.

@Jemini553 Год назад

i wish i had some extra money to give to you two guys , i love what you guys present of the war past thank you

@GaldirEonai Год назад

Been waiting for this one since you started talking about the sub war. Fluckey was...one of a kind.

@pruddyvalentin-xi2xo 7 месяцев назад

While I listened to you guys narrate the Barbarian attack raid I almost died laughing. The genius attack was beyond belief. Thank you guys. Your the best.

@flparkermdpc 4 месяца назад

I had the same reaction to the train sabotage. I felt a little guilty about that fraternity level response, but with zero casualties it's a welcome break from Ironbottom Sound and that tragicomedy with no action chart.

@jimhartman2946 8 месяцев назад

Thanks guys for giving more in depth information of the war in the Pacific!

@hurch1915 Год назад

I'm hoping that among the viewers of this podcast, there might be a movie producer, lol... I'd love to see Bill and Seth's description of these events on the big screen. Many thanks again guys, your discussions are always enlightening and entertaining, and I always look forward to the next podcast.

@haldorasgirson9463 Год назад

The Night the Giants Rode would be a climactic moment. I would love to see a series like the Pacific focused on the naval battles of the Guadalcanal campaign. Don't gloss over failures, own how bad we were at the beginning. But revel in the positives. This is the campaign that broke the IJN. Killed Admiral Yamamoto, obliterated Japan's pool of experienced naval pilots. Japan never recovered from the last one.

@jovianmole1 Год назад

There would need to be the "Based on true events...REALLY" at the beginning of the film (s).

@christopherslaughter2263 Год назад

Try run silent ru deep

@toms6213 Год назад

Again Outstanding work Seth and Bill. The detail and your interactive narrative bring life to this history!

@zeronzemesh7718 Год назад

Great stuff, I've heard of Fluckey before, but never this in depth. There isn't another show that I would listen to for 2 hours, and pause it when I leave the room in order to not miss anything.

@TERoss-jk9ny Год назад

I’ve a neighbor down the road who recently passed away. His dad was an officer on the Barb, I think an engineer, I have forgotten. Last name was Covington, and he went on to command the Catfish at the vet end of the war. RIP to both of them. Bill, my neighbor, also served in the Marines in Vietnam.

@stefanlaskowski6660 Год назад

Just based on this episode I bought Fluckey's book, Thunder Below.

@TheArkDoc 6 месяцев назад

I love this series. I have read so many books and watched so many pacific war documentaries in my life that I consider myself a genuine student of that conflict, and I am always enthralled with the level of knowledge you guys and your guests have of the intimate details. It's so impressive. My grandfather was on the USS Maryland and stationed in Pearl. He spent the remainder of the war stationed at the Naval Ordinance base in Flagstaff Arizona. My great uncle Bud fought numerous campaigns (island hopping) in the Pacific. My mom's current neighbor (100 years old) was stationed on a transport during the war (also pacific theater). I even own a 1964 Thunderbird Convertible that was originally owned by a WWII Ace pilot who served in the pacific (Brig. Gen Arthur Cruikshank Jr.), and spend a much time talking about him at car shows as I do the car. Unfortunately, I never met him, but I do my part in keeping his story alive. I'm lucky to be old enough to have had the good fortune to talk to so many men who served during that war before they passed, so I thank you for your work keeping these important stories alive for people who may never meet a veteran of WWII. I appreciate you more than you know.

@jamesthompson8133 Год назад

Another great job guys! They said that we stood on the shoulders of giants and I agree but i think that people like you Captain Toto have some damn big shoulders as well. Thank you for your service sir! I have nothing but respect for you sir!!!

@williammorris584 10 месяцев назад

ULTRA was the breaking of the German codes although it did eventually become a general reference to Allied decoding of all enemy messages, but MAGIC was the name used for US decoding of Japanese cyphers.

@PalleRasmussen 3 месяца назад

This will see Bill happy, which he so deserves.

@AbbyNormL Год назад

I remember how loud the pings from active sonar were while in a submarine. I cannot imagine the noise, in addition to the concussion, of a depth charge going off anywhere near a submarine.

@rtqii Год назад

In college my best friend's father was the former commander of an LST ship. They made trips to the Pacific to drop off tanks and other heavy equipment, and they made trips from the D Day beaches bringing POWs back from Europe to prisoner of war camps in America. I actually met a German POW who came from Europe by the same, or similar ship. They trained him in optometry after he had been shot down twice, and he got his US citizenship and was able to bring his German girlfriend to America, get married, and settle down.

@flparkermdpc 4 месяца назад

Not all WW2 stories are about death and loss. Yours is one. I had a partner in my anesthesia practice who was an Italian army doctor in North Africa, an anesthesia specialist prewar, a very rare man in prewar America, but common in Europe, especially Great Britain, Germany, and Italy. They were ahead of us in medicine in those days. My partner had been captured in North Africa, during the Torch campaign lucky to be alive. He was interned at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. There are a few Italians in and around Boston, and those Italian POWs were well attended by relations from the Old Country. Elio met and eventually married his American wife in one of those prisoner visitations. He was a happy man, an expert stonemason as well as a fine doctor. To be a prisoner of the Americans was a gift from Heaven. And Elio regarded it as just that.

@tonypegler9080 Год назад

Hey guys not sure if this is in your scope but interested to find out more about his war service. Montrose "Monty" McCormick described as a well known submarine commander was killed when a US Navy plane R4D-5 (DC-3), "BLUE GOOSE" crashed into a hill in Perth , Australia on 19th April 1945. He was enroute to a new assignment as Commanding Officer of USS Pintado (SS-387). The crash site is around 2 mile from my place. McCormick was the recipient of two Silver Star Medals; one was for actions in 1943 and the second was for actions aboard the submarine USS Cobia (USS-245) during 26 June-14 August 1944.

@elizabethhappel6438 Год назад

Just awesome!

@tedc.4956 Год назад

Wow! Another episode that I'll watch repeatedly. Thank you!

@martyyoung598 Год назад

You guys do a great job with your commentary on the silent service. I enjoyed this presentation about the Barb. I learned a great deal more detail, especially about the train derailment raid! Thanks gents!

@jollyjohnthepirate3168 Год назад

Outstanding as usual gentlemen.

@desobrien3827 Год назад

Great show gents. You deserve more subscribers. Can Bill possibly go into some more detail about setting the torpedoes for a shot. e.g. how torpedoes were programmed in WW2 & latter day torpedoes where possible please?

@hurch1915 Год назад

Oh, they'll get more. : )

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

If you watched our "How to submarine" episode I go into this a bit

@hurch1915 Год назад

@@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar I watched that one (of course), and (of course) it was very good. As far as the subject of submarines goes, I especially enjoyed the "midget" sub episode. It showed a lot of details about the little subs that I've never known, as well as the good and bad engineering that went into their making. Another well done episode.

@jamesa702 Год назад

Sounds like like the Bungo strait alright. Thanks for the excellent commentary.

@robertzimmerman6772 Год назад

That was fannnntastic! I just want to thank you guys for all your efforts. Your podcasts are the first thing I do every Tuesday morning. I enjoy them so much I wish there was a new one every day. Again, thank you and god bless.

@rtqii Год назад

I found the audiobook "Thunder Below" online, 15 hours and 28 minutes. "The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper, Captain Gene Fluckey, the Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in World War II. At the same time, the Barb did far more than merely sink ships-she changed forever the way submarines stalk and kill their prey. This is a gripping adventure chock-full of "you-are-there" moments. "

@Thumpalumpacus Год назад

Thanks for explaining what a subscription does. Y'all get my first-ever YT subscription!

@MadLudwig Год назад

Thunder Below! What a fantastic book. I have the same hard-cover version that Bill held up. Just wish I had the opportunity to meet Admiral Fluckey myself!

@markpaul-ym5wg Год назад

Artic tern bird.A bird with the longest migration on earth.10,000 miles.Thanks for the video gentlemen.

@markbauer1096 Год назад

So Bill, the Barb's story is incredible, you talk about expanding the combat capability of the sub force, by creating the first combat proven IED! I was a DCA on a can, and I don't recall that we had explosive charges to scuttle the ship.

@scottboelke4391 Год назад

I read his book maybe 20 years ago. It felt like a novel. There's just so much action. And he made it seem effortless.

@lesmoore6443 Год назад

The very high quality of your presentations has become routine - but never boring! I spread the word about this channel/podcast to the limited extent I can, and so far everyone I've "recruited" has thanked me for the referral. Keep up the great work. I won't hold it against you that you've added yet *another* title to my small mountain backlog of WWII reading ......

@flparkermdpc 4 месяца назад

I can't believe I am only watching this episode for the second time. I have watched others multiple times. Knowing that no crew were ever lost allowed me to laugh aloud, and give a Monty Python air to deadly serious business. The inventiveness of Admiral Flucky's mind gave bìrth to a long list of "First Ever"feats that became part of Cold War doctrine. I can see Admiral Flucky's handprint on the underwater tapping of the Soviet phone cables at the entrance to the main Soviet naval base allowing intercept of fleet operations in real time. Incredible! I can only imagine what a blast it would have been to know him socially. Never a dull moment I'm betting. And never a whisper of scandal. Ever. Well done, Sir.

@stevenanderson9340 7 месяцев назад

The fact that Fluckey was friendly with his crew is opposite from my expierence on a surface ship if we ever saw the captain it meant we were in trouble I was a BT. Really enjoy the history Thanks

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar 6 месяцев назад

There are not BTs on submarines!

@PalleRasmussen 3 месяца назад

Read Jörg Muth's "Command Culture" to learn why.

@StylinandProfilinBBsandBBQ Год назад

Fluckey was a 1 of 1 as we say in the Navy. They broke the mold after they made him. He was a true leader until his last breath. I’ve heard stories of him touring sub bases and wanting to talk to sailors. Of course young officers thronged to him but he also demanded time with the enlisted guys too. Like I said, just stories I’ve heard but not hard to believe based on everything he did. He would also sign your copy of his book if you mailed it to him or happened to meet him. A great man I’m glad was on our side. Another great episode gentlemen! And I’ve rode through a typhoon at periscope depth and at a deep depth, best ride I’ll ever be on!

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

And he wanted to meet as many PCOs as he could. What a great man.

@PalleRasmussen 3 месяца назад

I watched a video a few days ago of a PTO Marine veteran visiting Camp Pendleton and the respect and love shown from DIs, officers and Marines were amazing. But of course. I would have done the same.

@mitch8226 Год назад

Great ,as a submarine sailor on the Pintado 2nd gen,I visited the subase museum in pearl, and was awed with the history especially the battle flag of the Barb

@Anderle52134 Год назад

Incredible! Book needs to be in my hands :)

@anthonybush607 Год назад

Without a doubt, this is one of the top WWII podcasts on RU-vid. You guys are doing an awesome job.

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

Thank you

@danasmith3288 6 месяцев назад

1:21:42 "Put that in your pipe and smoke it" . . . , I can't thank you enough for your brutal honesty. My Dad served in the Navy in the S. Pacific (LST-654). His personal insight and critical thinking pushed me to dive deep in my reading of WWII, but especially of the war in PTO.

@marcbondi8462 Год назад

Most enjoyable episode. I have the book and the thing that says the most about the Barb is the photo of the crew with their battle flag. Incredible courage and tenacity.

@keithrosenberg5486 Год назад

Liked and subscribed when I discovered your podcast.

@psymetal Год назад

They ought to make a movie about this

@jeffreymartin8448 Год назад

What a Grand episode. Story telling at it's best. It's why we tune in !

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

Many thanks

@daffodildude1143 Год назад

Another great intro Seth! Having a submarine skipper narrate this? Priceless.... Thanks Bill!

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

Thank you

@RichardMelanson-xi3kq 7 месяцев назад

Seth & Bill, I really enjoyed this episode. As a basebrat I remember my dad's stories, one of them being when Germany got its independence back in 1960 and dad saying that the day before independence, they were out there with their wooden rifles and cardboard pasties and the day after they were out there with better equipment than what we had. Hope you guys enjoy my little travel down memory lane, thanks Rickm.

@davidkiefer6553 Год назад

Read the book “Thunder Below” last year based on recommendation of fellow RU-vidr “Smarter Every Day” after he spent a few days in a modern sub recently. Can’t recommend that book enough. Great combo of story and technical background of what it takes to be a submariner.

@mattd7566 Год назад

Literally just read the book Thunder Below. Can’t wait to watch this!

@anthonyquinn9399 Год назад

With thanks gentlemen my youngest is a member of the silent service My deepest thanks for your continued service in preserving their lives

@garypillischafske1425 5 дней назад

Thank you for your work, and I know it is work. From an old Nam vet. God bless.

@klsc8510 Год назад

From this Airman/Soldier, what a story! Far, far, far, far beyond what I did in my service in both peace and war. I am getting the book tonight!

@klsc8510 Год назад

I have it on order. I look forward to reading this book. I e-mailed the link to this podcast to a high school classmate that served on submarines.

@paules0099 10 месяцев назад

I am a huge fan of the silent service and I am the biggest fan of the skipper, Eugene Flucky and his commanding style during his war patrols.

@paulbrogger655 Год назад

Reading the book "Thunder Below" -- On leave prior to his last patrol, Fluckey goes out for an evening with his wife and the submariners' wives group, of which his wife is a member. The only male along, he dances in turn with each woman member of the group. Some already know they're widows. He knows a few others have recently been widowed, but he's prevented from sharing this information by wartime secrecy. He dances with these women, as they close their eyes and fantasize someday dancing with their long-absent (and already dead) husbands, and has to maintain appearances, smiling and silent . . . [A *very* good read!]

@SynchronizorVideos Месяц назад

That part hit me hard when I read the book. For all his daring and ingenuity as a sub commander, Flucky really just wanted to see the war end - for the sake of both sides.

@pauljohansen8043 2 месяца назад

I have seen almost all episodes. This is one of the best! Ty.

@robchristinewright4604 Год назад

Listening to this episode today I was struck by the irony of a submarine taking the war to the Japanese mainland. I live in Santa Barbara County, CA. The only incident of the USA mainland being shelled in WWII was by a Japanese submarine here just outside of the city of Goleta. If you are ever driving on highway 101 in Goleta, there is a memorial plaque where the attack occurred. The target was a small refinery, that is still there today. Thanks for the great show! Rob

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

I know it well!

@PalleRasmussen 3 месяца назад

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar that Japanese sub raid might be worth a story as well.

@lavernedofelmier6496 Год назад

This is a great podcast, educational with some wartime humor. Thank you.

@TheBobservations Год назад

Thanks fellows. Truly scholarly.

@tomdewey9690 Год назад

I’m so glad I got to meet Fluckey while I was in the Navy. He was signing his book Thunder Below at the Naval Academy Book store during grad week. He was a good friend of my Godfather Adm. Thomas Burroughs also a sub commander during the war. What great stories.

@daniel-bertrand Год назад

A good read to learn about the US coastwatchers in China: "Ninety-day Wonder: Flight to Guerilla War", John Ryder Horton.. Very well written by an active participant in those operations,

@HDBee 8 месяцев назад

The first time I had a beer in a bar was with my dad in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. He was stationed in Hawaii in 44 before being shipped off to the islands, who’s names he could not remember. He told me that the submariners stayed there during the war and had the best of everything, fresh eggs, milk and meat. He was in the Army and they only got powered eggs and milk. I first heard Thunder Down below on RU-vid audio book. I liked it so much that I bought the book, as you say, it’s a great read.

@ibana8449 Год назад

From England here, and first of all thank you for creating this excellent podcast. My own interest stems back to my Grandfather who before WW2 was a Trawler skipper working fishing boats in the North Sea. As WW2 started he joined the RNR and skippered armed trawlers with the RN Western Approaches command in Liverpool, meeting the convoys from your side of the pond and escorting them into the Med or up north toward Scapa Flow. . 8th Flotilla Special escort group RNR. There are very few quality podcasts out there for what is a marine nation, so you guys really do hit the spot. It has been great listening to your podcasts on the Pacific war, something I knew very little about, I couldn't help but purchase Eugene Fluckey's book, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Fluckey's book should be enforced reading for those tasked with leading others, I was a Cop for 30 years, and I can count on one hand the real leaders I worked for, the rest were bosses. Great stuff guys keep it going. 10/10.

@richardbennett1856 Год назад

The best of the best. The Barbarians. Right up Admiral Bill's Alley. I bought his book, so many thanks, Seth. THUNDER BELOW was amazing.

@johnpancharian480 9 месяцев назад

The photo of Fluckey with the cake at 46:14 is priceless! I read his memoir and enjoyed that he had celebratory cakes/puddings in common with Jack Aubrey of O'Brien's books.

@johnrisher3007 6 месяцев назад

Thank you Bill for your service 🙏. God bless you always 🙏❤

@tomcrouchman Год назад

Amazing Man and crew. Love this channel.

@dwightadams3853 Год назад

I have a signed copy of his book after meeting him at Annapolis book store in 2000 and I will reread it soon as part of my watching these videos.

@darrelllovett4722 Год назад

Seth you are asking me to subscribe? 😮 You and Capt Toti are MUST WATCH EVERY TUESDAY morning. I love history and the PTO; however; for as much as i have learned; you guys teach me WHO the warriors were every week! Bravo Zulu!

@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Год назад

We are asking everyone to subscribe! The numbers we get are awesome, but for whatever reason, our subs aren't where they should be.

@darrelllovett4722 Год назад

@@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar Gentlemen you have had ME since I found you during the MacArthur episode. I even found the Midget Submarine episode Captain Toti tried to sneak past us on a Saturday. "Clear the Bridge" made me want to be a submariner.

@jimbe01 Год назад

In “Clear The Bridge” Commander R.O’Kane, would go through the entire sub (Tang) and personally thank each member off the crew after each successful attack. (Yes, He also did through-the-boat type inspections while underway as well). P.S. Tang also picked up a Japanese survivor who was ‘adopted” by his crew as well. They Tang) demanded and got a receipt (one prisoner, in good condition) from the Marine Guards one who picked him up after the ship’s return to P.H.

@joefrawley5295 Год назад

I just want to thank you both for these submarine episodes. I believe I've read Thunder Below 4 or five times. Flucky was an outstanding commander amazingly Bill got to know him and received a personalized autographed copy of Thunder Below. Wow!! To me the legendary WW2 Submarine commanders are rock stars to me. Well done gentlemen!

@AArdW01f Год назад

Congrats on moving to Cocoa from a fellow Floridian!!

@donaldkepple4927 5 месяцев назад

As a former navy man and being around the navy since I was 13 I really got into naval history thank you and CAPT Bill for helping me learn stuff I never knew like about mush Morton OKane and now lucky flucky and the naval battles off Guadalcanal I love the channel

@mikebrown1600 Год назад

Well that was a great Podcast I don't believe I ever heard of the lucky before everybody knows Morton and mocaine but that was a breath of fresh air I'd never knew that they had another guy out the to do and I'm committing all those brave acts and rocketing towns that's pretty cool

@TheJazsa80 Год назад

Another great one!

@WoodlandsArchive Год назад

Awesome! What a tale/legacy. If it wasnt for you two, I would have never heard of this.

@VincenzoPentangeli 11 месяцев назад

Incredible man and kudos to his crew too. Thanks for sharing.

@DanColley-qy3wi 10 месяцев назад

I worked for a company years ago whose slogan was "We don't have problems, we have opportunities."

@tracygallaway36 Год назад

I have Admiral Fluckey's book Thunder Below! It is an excellent inspiring read, I can't recommend it highly enough. What an inspiring account of Fluckey, his crew, and the USS Barb! Thanks again, guys!