The Destroyer that Sank 6 Submarines in 12 Days 

Three years late to the party, “hidden history” “untold story”…..hilarious ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-91beNXTA4Bw.html

Sorry but you don't "sink" submarines. They're already under water

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Wow, this is just absolutely incredible! Let me begin my saying a HUGE Thank You to your Uncle for his service, sounds like he was quite the man. I greatly wish I could edit this video now to add in this excellent information that really makes the story make sense. Also to give your uncle the due credit that he deserves for his actions! Unfortunately the source I used did not go into this deep of detail. But wow. I’m still quite gobsmacked to be honest 😂. Just remarkable information here that you honestly can’t find in the history books. That tactic makes total sense though and why they were able to be so successful. I hope you have an absolutely wonderful weekend and I greatly appreciate you watching this. I hope my video did some justice for the quality of ship and crew that the England was!

After listening to the very interesting story about the England, I was trying to determine who was responsible for great success in sinking 6 subs in 12 days. Now I know. It was Lt. Augustus Dee Daily Jr. Thanks for sharing!

Great information ... thanks Molly

That sonar ping rate change was probably standard practice for depth charge or Hedgehog. The British Sunderland flying boats also used subterfuge to catch U-boats. At night, they lined up an approach then shut off the radar and after a timed delay powered up a pair of searchlights. When the lights crossed they dropped bombs and almost always got a hit. The subs had no chance to escape.

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Thank you for your service!

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@@samegalle1089 Yeah, he said that.

Me too. All new to me, and I’m 70.

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I'm a Brit and I fully agree with you! " There always be an England, God save the King" No not Charlie 3, but his Grandfather, George IV

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The Navy's great tradition of naming destroyer types (DE, DD, DLG, etc.) after Navy/Marine Corps heroes has been sadly replaced with the political bon mot of naming them after politicians who didn't have a fraction of the nobility as our military heroes.

Whatever happened 2 'There will always be a USS England'?

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Hippies now and then never think about anything. The key word is "think" that is the one thing they never do.

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I was on it in 1980. By then it had been designated CG-22.

Lieutent Commander John A. Williamson!

HedgeHogs, very deadly

Yeeup..like grenades...it is all in the timing and release.

As Shakespeare wrote, 'unleash the hedgehogs of war.'

@@jonrich62Well they retcon everything, why not this, Well done.

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Good stuff but, don't forget the Battle of Kuantan, sinking of the POW and Repulse.

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My Dad was 14th Army too. Three years on station fighting the Japs, my Mother said that the man she got back after the war wasn't the same man she farewelled. Dad was often very bitter, said that Brit newspapers carried full frontals of Yanks catching pigeons under their helmets in Trafalgar Square whilst just briefly mention to the effect "...intense activity around Kohima..."

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Good you said, "for the duration." That's a phrase from then that many don't think of now. That's what our dad's were in for...no fixed date of discharge.

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The England was part of a 3 ship group. The US Navy used the same basic method in the Pacific. It’s just that the England’s Captain and crew proved to be uncannily accurate with the Hedgehog. It’s hard to directly compare the sub kill numbers between Atlantic and Pacific due to the vast open water distances in the Pacific. Plus Germany’s larger U-Boat fleet being a bit more predictable as they were seeking to prey on the convoy lanes.

Further to your post, Alan. I watched a vid earlier today about Captain "Johnnie" Walker RN. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sBbwspXoS9s.html

@@andrewtaylor940 Heh, if you can find it, read the biography of Johnny Walker and HMS Starling, once a ship in his group's ASW gear was knocked out and he from the bridge of Starling scored a hit with the other ships hedgehog (told them the line to follow and when to fire) .. the man was supernatural ASW captain.

Thanks for mentioning Capt Walker. I haven't heard of his group or the subject of this video. It's fascinating history I'm going to look into further.

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@@HiddenHistoryYT I worked with him for over 20 years until he retired He was very high strung I wondered if it was because of the stress He said once that they had a “kill zone “ and any ships were fair game All allied ships were not supposed to come in there Gave me chills

I can't imagine how bad it would be.

.....A Japanese friend, yes?

@@darlonripley606 no The US had a complete fleet of submarines operating in and around Japan My father-in-law was stationed on a submarine tender USS Fulton Sadly our torpedos were faulty until 1943 Sub warfare was extremely harrowing

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Hedgehog terrifying weapon slim chance to survive

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The Candian navy had a huge impact in the Atlantic, providing 50% of convoy cover for the first 2 years at least

@@monza1002000 always are under appreciated IMO!

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It wasn't the US's dance until later...

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@Hidden History Y2,have a good one Ole buddy.

That is awesome, I didn’t even realize that!

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Such a disgrace that the Big E wasn’t saved. Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

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@@jtjames79,it's just a term dating back to the 50's era. Now it would be cut up to make worthless Toyota parts.

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As any older boat owner knows, it is cheaper to buy a boat than to own one.

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In New Zealand in the 1980's this is my Buff n Studly claim, and Basic training pictures, is this a theme?

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The people of the atoll pronounce it Chuk - like Juke box.

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There are a bunch of ships that should have movies made about them... - HMS Glowworm - USS Johnston and USS Samuel B. Roberts come to mind

@@chrislong3938 Completely agree!

@@HiddenHistoryYT Have you seen the Drachinifel video on the Battle Off Samar? The Title is, Odds? What are those? He does a fantastic job of describing all of the intricacies of all the ships involved along with other heroics by pilots from the escort carriers! In fact, his description could be a movie just as it is! His title would be a great name for the movie as well! I read the novelized version of the Glowworm's battle as a child and it was gripping to this 13-year-old!

@@chrislong3938 I will check that out, thanks for the suggestion!

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Yes. Your life, brought to you by 124 Japanese sailors giving their lives for you to be....

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I've read it twice, the whole Japanese command structure including political was a bit mad

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@@HiddenHistoryYTI think that kind of decision is made by politicians and bean counters. Not sailors.

Ah...but it's the men, not the ship...always the men....wooden ships, iron men; steel ships, steel men.

I started to write about the sore lack of respect we -the inheritors of all the bravery shown by our Navy- seem to hold for the greatest tool used to earn that respect, the fighting ship. Every school district within a day’s ride of one of the honored vessels should ensure no 3rd grade class misses a true history lesson by getting on board the ships and getting a sense for what they did for us. The $$ is there, the will and foresight is not. No ship should be scrapped without a rigorous checkoff procedure. The England is a clear example: A gun station, a single torpedo, a cabin, the Hedgehog launchers, etc. couldhave been salvaged with no injury to the national debt! Many memories deserve to be preserved. American blood paid for all associated expenses.

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It's a pleasure to praise top notch videos. Greetings from Britain. BOB !

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@@HiddenHistoryYT I ran across a book called Letters From Home by Stanley J. Morrison, that was interesting and horrifying at the same time. The ship had a shallow draft and it was found to be ideal for getting the Generals and Admirals in danger close to direct the amphibious landings with binoculars. The Flag offices that had been on this ship read like a How's How from WW2 in the Mediterranean. It became the flag ship for just about all the D-Days in the Med. Because this ship was so close the landing craft would bring the wounded to this ship from the beach. The Decks would be covered with blood. Once Med was secure the ship was sent quickly back to the states to make it more accommodating for the large number of extra staff that came with these Flag officers, then sent to the Pacific. It was fascinating to lean after all it went through at close quarters fighting a determined enemy, it didn't get a scratch. Only a small chunk of a merchant ship that landed on it's deck after it had blown up.

@@HiddenHistoryYT I'm looking forward to how you will do this.

@@hughsmith7668 wow, that is incredible. Always so fascinating to me how many things occur during war that you would never even think to consider and you wouldn’t know about unless you dig in like you have

@@hughsmith7668 I will try to do it next week! Currently working on a 2 part Sink the Bismarck video!

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"Decisive Battle" was also the name (and intent) given to the Japanese naval doctrine for their all or nothing surface battle plans.

Well...as in cards,,,,,go big or stay home.

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Usually the Death Sentence.

I believe that It was effective because the Japanese had not perfected their sonar systems and had to come in close for an attack. Once they were that close,, the hedgehog was very effective. I was aboard one of a few destroyers in '68 that still had a Hedgehog launcher. when they were fired the charges sounded like small bombs. the deck underneath the launcher banged and vibrated like it was going to rip itself to pieces. Keep in mind that destroyers weren't called tin cans for nothing. As a sonarman I always thought that a sub could easily hear the noise thru the vibrating ship's structure and could zero in with torpedoes.

@@manospetridis1935 Interesting history. It's forebear was the Blacker Bombard named after a British home guard Lt Col who invented it. Designed as a spigot AT it had an effective range of 100 (ish) yards and so like the PIAT required brass cojones and the use of camouflage to be effective. That said when it was designed the German tanks it was supposed to oppose were not the fearsome beasts of Panthers and Tigers that started hitting the battlefield in 42 so it might have been effective enough, and like the other stop gap (the STEN) it certainly gave bang for the buck.

Ya I unfortunately couldn’t find any material of them in action with the US Navy, just with the Royal Navy. Great spot though! Appreciate you watching and have a fantastic weekend :)

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In view of how it ended, nobody would have seen them, however. Filmed aboard HMS Troubridge & HMS Wakeful, of course. I always knew the US Armed Forces didn't use Lee-Enfield rifles!

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Funny enough ive actually been trying to learn more about the Civil War recently! Vietnam has always fascinated me as well, love Ken Burns Vietnam series. Thanks for watching and have a great weekend :)

@@HiddenHistoryYT You too my friend. Ken Burns series on the Civil War is masterful! I have the whole series on DVD`s and I remember when it aired on PBS. I still pop a disc in there and watch it from time to time. The narrators are world class and the photo`s by Brady and others are fantastic, but all so real. Shelby Foote is all over the place in the series. I can listen to that man speak all day long. I just wish he was a Union man. His heroes from that war are Lincoln, Nathan Bedford Forrest and Lee. Forrest founded the KKK. But Foote is talking about him as a brilliant Cavalry tactician the "Wizard of the Saddle" ,but that is all. I have his incredible three book masterpiece, a very in depth look at the War and he has the actions and decisions down to the minute in detail. I am not going to get the books down off the shelf to count every page, but all three books are three inches deep. He spent years researching and writing them. It is not easy reading. It is like studying . It is the gold standard of Civil War history and I recommend it man.

@@gib59er56 I basically got the PBS channel on Prime Video just to be able to watch his documentaries haha

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Ya I’ve really come around on the look of destroyers. Finally started to appreciate them!

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Taken from the British most of their ships including cruisers and battleships had open bridges.

Then again, a Destroyer Escort was one of the smallest ships in the Bluewater navy in WW2.

You need to see all threats with your eyes and binoculars including aircraft. Windows get fouled up and windows in roof not practical. Put on the right gear and have great vision. Now it’s all radar and magnifying vision systems.

I believe the kill ratio with traditional depth charges roughly 60 attacks to 1 kill. With hedgehog weapon 6 attacks to 1 kill. Sonar/ASDIC you could see the target, rather than have a blind zone underneath you you positioned the ship so the sub was ahead of you. You then tossed the Spigot Mortar bombs ahead and even if the sub changed depth it got hit. You could keep eyes on and adjust. The Hunters became the hunted as the war progressed the Hedgehog made a quantum leap in the hunting. The Cavity Magnetron meant that you could see a sub with radar with just the conning tower above the water. See it chase it down kill it. So ASDIC/Sonar underwater, radar above the water and hedgehog to go in and get the kill. Then you have a skilled operator and crew manning the ship to turn all of that into one weapon using a hunting technique developed earlier in the war Now that is team work. Where was Radar ASDIC/Sonar Radar and Hedgehog and hunting tactics developed? Because they basically took away the U Boat threat by wiping them out The Germans right at the end of the war where developing subs coated with a rubber layer to prevent the bounce back of the Ping from the ASDIC / sonar weapon.

I would guess Japanese subs were less luxurious than Americans for sure. Thanks for watching and have a great weekend :)

@HiddenHistoryYT Thanks for your reply. I read that air-conditioning in subs in the tropics especially wasn't looked on as a luxury. It was deemed absolutely essential to prevent prickly heat and other problems. It wasn't just overindulgent crew comfort.

One of the main factors was that japanese subs tended to restrict themselves to combat vessels

@@peterrebelwithoutamenopaus6962 RN submarines anywhere didn't have A/C either. That's why there weren't that many and you don't hear much about them in the WW2 Pacific theatre.

My understanding was the AC was to keep the tech dry. TDC, radar, radio, etc.