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My grandpa was on the arizona, and was transferred to another ship the day before. He didn't want to change ship's because he had friend's on the arizona. He saw everything up close, and didn't say much about it, except that nothing prepares you for that kind of slaughter. The movie pearl harbor doesn't even show how bad it was. G-d bless.

@@died4us590 wow sorry about that but how fortunate for your granddad. Yeah I don't know how a person could be prepared for any kind of violence let alone that kind of total destruction where you're just helpless. My uncle said the smoke plumes and the fires and the sound of the Japanese planes terrified him and his buddies sitting up there on Diamond Head. He also carried a lot of guilt because he couldn't get back to his ship and his shipmates. Luckily his submarine wasn't hit but he knew so many sailors that were killed that day or just horribly wounded and burned. Definitely a dark day in our history.

My grandpa was there too but I'm not sure which ship he was on. He died when I was 6 and never talked much at all. They said he wasn't on his ship when it was attacked but did get back to fight. Crazy to think our granpas could have known each other, or at least some point seen each other.

My dad climbed diamond head when he was stationed at pearl harbor. His buddy Steve Nation quit when he hit the bunker opening and crawled in the fort...my dad was stubborn and decided to climb to the top. When he crawled over the edge and rolled onto his back as he was completely exhausted and covered in sweat, a bus load of Asian tourists that started taking pictures of the idiot who free climbed the face of diamond head 🤣😂 that's when dad realized he left his wallet AND His wine AND his beer on the beach LOL he had to ask some of the shocked tourists for bus fair to ride the bus back down with them 😅🤣😂. Thank you for mentioning diamond head and drumming up that hilarious memory🤘

Thank you to your grandparents who fought for us younger generations. My grandparents we’re alive during this and my both grandpa’s served but never ever talked about it until they were very sick. One of my grandpa’s were there after they dropped the bomb and told us some insane stories and the other grandpa never ever talked about it till the day he died. I am just grateful for the men and women who fought for us. God bless you all and your families. 👍

Very fascinating info pal, thank you.

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Grew up in Chicago. My kids are grown now and still go see this exhibit every chance.

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Remembered visiting on my honeymoon in 1983 we took the grandson two years ago amazing display now inside originally it was out outside

Thank you for your service John. FAETULANT school sounds too class to “flatulent”, which I can only imagine must be a horrible nuisance on a sub.

@@djquinn11 FAETULANT is an anacronim. It means "Fleet Air Electronic Training Unit Atlantic. Norfolk had the ASW (antisubmarine warfare) school.

@@djquinn11 I actually WENT to the school of flatulence

Sir, thank you for your service.

We Have to Eat Chicken! I was on the Munro in the middle east

"Hedgehogs"...

@@PauloPereira-jj4jv it's a real thing tho

The wermacht did their duty but the SS were absolute monsters.

Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed reading it.

I do fault Them. They supported a racist nation, but the Japanese and the Germans, and they would’ve killed us all and they won the war. Think about that before you “don’t fault them.”

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@Derrick Bridges Never said they were but the SS and Unit 731 from the Japanese were a special type of evil in a world full of evil.

A noble act of humanity

Sadly people these days would call it 'woke'

I served on the Nautilus back in the 70s, as a Boatswains Mate.

I have the Directors Cut of Das Boot, My wife tells me that I am " Insane to want to be on the U96 ", I was in ASW in the Navy, so the ties are there only someone on one side vs the other can feel.

@@johnking1896 The game has changed again with the new 3-D Sonar systems.

the sinking of the Laconia is also a very good one, I think you can even find it on RU-vid as a 2 part mini series

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7esQ9S46EJY.html that's part 1 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ijoHGhSDSls.html that's part 2

Good comment - rest assured that not everyone did remain sane. I have met some submariners who only served during peacetime, albeit cold war days, who were noticeably damaged.

Being a merchant seaman was no picnic either, you never knew when a torpedo might hit the bulkhead you were near to. And if you survived the torpedo hits, were you going to survive the sinking.

Thanks

There is no footage of every single torpedoed ship... this is just to fill a blank in the video.

good eye

Ud think people interested in these docu. shows would already know that small fact. It's one if the most famous videos of the war . Its really scary if you ever watch it in slow motion u can actually see the main deck fold over into the superstructure then onto some poor sailors like it's a piece of paper. Just scary

you xpect them to be Honest ?

Unless you consider splitting someones head open love 🤣

Where? Will he do an interview? He would have to be at least 95

There was also a Japanese Commander on a Japanese warship who rescued a bunch of British sailors during WW2, it's not much documented but it did happened, Shunsaku Kudo, commander of the Ikazuchi, a small Japanese warship, back during WW2...

Wow, that must of been so cool to find!!! Thanks for sharing! How cool!

I'm glad to hear most captains didn't go down with their ship. I always thought that was a strategic mistake and waste of a valuable resource.

sounds like a forced marriage, hehehe

I wonder if those two ever met? Imagine 2 oldies in the loungeroom shooting at each other from behind the sofas!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

@@tim7052 with finally a role for clint eastwo_Od that fits him 101%

There is nothing worse, than a German making excuses for fighting in WW2. They fought for their country against a horrendously massive enemy force. It took 4 empires (!) to beat them 5 years. They have every reason to be proud. I am sick to death of these snivelling cowards, crawling and apologizing. Get off your knees, man, get off them now!

@@tim7052 With Nerf guns of course. Ha ha ha. Imagine old men on crutches and wheelchairs doing that....!!!

The U-505 and U-995 are not the same type of U-boats U-505 are a class lXC u-boat and U-995 is a VllC/41 class U-boat which was the most common used German U-boat . I know this because i visited this memorial with the U-995 many times and been inside it just as many times because my mother comes from Germany not far away from this memorial are what they meant was that U-995 are the only u_boat of that class left and U-534 are also a IXC/40 type boat.

@@640626 Well if you want to get technical! This documentary is about the U-513, both the U-505 and the U-513 are both IXC Class U-Boats! Why is the documentery comparing the U-995 to the U-513 then?

@@benadam7753 I dont know but i know U-995 is the only Sub in the VllC class in perfect condition .This VllC were the work horse in the German U-boat fleet.By the way my grandfather were building thoose U-boats but he never liked it because he saw them as Iron Coffins.

@@640626 With over 30,000 U-Boat men never returning home that's excatly what they were, Iron Coffins!

@@benadam7753 it was to be exact 32000 U-boatmen who did not came home i know the exact number because it stands at the memorial were i use to go and all their names and the number on the boat they were written on stone plaques . The memorial are called L marine ehrenmal Laboe.

Und Otto Kretschmer , Erich Topp , Joachim Schepke , Georg Lassen , Wolfgang Lüth , Viktor Schütze und einen von der besten ... Reinhard Hardegen und viele Aces mehr , Luftwaffe Aces und die Tank Aces . All great one's 👍🏻👌🏻.

Sie waren alle Helden

@@hohenstaufen.1010 grobse helden ... Wunsche dir ainem schönes 2023 .

All of them are real heroes and should be remembered 👍🏻

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🤔 what a coincidence the shipyards and ships were called Kaiser shipyards. I mean what's the chances of that

It wasn't just radar but Huff-Duff (High Frequency Direction Finding), and superior training for escorts and in particular Hunter Killer Groups who could stay in contact with a U-Boat until they got it! Later on naval and airborne homing torpedoes put paid to many U-Boats.

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They were murdering swine who got what they had coming to them

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Proudly Germany built a formidable U-Boat fleet that almost wins the war. Long live Germany.

@@pablopeter3564 take her down a notch Pablo, maybe too much hoi4

Donitz wanted 300 operational U boats. That would make 100 in operational areas, 100 at port being fitted/doing training, 100 in transit to or from operational areas. Overall there were 1162 U boats of all types built during WWII. At its (short) peak, around 160 were on patrol at a time.

@@larryclemens1850 Thanks for sharing this important information. Amazing and great achievement of Germany for its war effort. Paying tribute to the submariners and victims alike.

Much fewer boats were available at the start actually. There were only about 7. 21 boats were sea going, the others were coastal or training vessels. Of the 21, 1/3 are in repair dock, 1/3 are in transit and 1/3 in station. This figure of thirds stayed the same as reported by chief of the German admiralty, Dönitz.

This is just to fill the blanks in the video...

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@@seanohare5488 To true

My late FIL was in Navy WW2 on a ship His friend Joe Scannell, both retired SFFD. Joe was in submarines. He told me his sub surfaced and Japanese destroyer spotted them. The depth charged them for eight hours. The sub played dead on the bottom. Joe went to his bunk to get a picture of wife and baby son because he thought they would never see them again. They limped back to port and in between the seams of the sun it was caved in. The sub was scrapped and they were told nothing on this earth kept the sub running and able to make it back. I am writing these words exactly as I remember him telling me in 1979. My FIL never talked except to tell me he always knew he would make it back.

Just so; unfortunate slip.

That is an amazing point that is needed in history books

Tell me how many U.S. subs got lost.

@@thenevadadesertrat2713 Albacore SS-218 7 November 1944 Lost to enemy mine Northeast of Hokkaido Amberjack SS-219 16 February 1943 Lost to enemy action by torpedo boat Hiyodori and submarine chaser No. 18 New Britain Argonaut SM-1 10 January 1943 Lost to enemy action by destroyers Isokaze and Maikaze New Britain Barbel SS-316 4 February 1945 Lost to enemy air attack Borneo Bonefish SS-223 19 June 1945 Lost to enemy action, depth-charged by kaibōkan Okinawa, CD-63, CD-75, CD-158, and CD-207 Sea of Japan Bullhead SS-332 6 August 1945 Lost to enemy air attack; last US submarine loss of the war Java Sea Capelin SS-289 Lost after 2 December 1943 Cause unknown, possibly naval mine or attack by minelayer Wakataka Celebes Sea Cisco SS-290 28 September 1943 Lost to air attack and gunboat Karatsu (ex-USS Luzon) Mindanao Corvina SS-226 16 November 1943 Torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-176 Truk Darter SS-227 24 October 1944 Accidental grounding in pursuit of Japanese cruiser Takao Palawan Passage Dorado SS-248 15 October 1943 Sunk by friendly fire air attack (PBM Mariner of Patrol Squadron 210) or possibly mines laid by U-214 Panama Canal Zone Escolar SS-294 Lost between 17 October and 13 November 1944 Cause unknown, probably naval mine Yellow Sea Flier SS-250 12 August 1944 Sunk by naval mine Balabac Strait, Philippines (7°58'43.21"N 117°15'23.79"E) Golet SS-361 14 June 1944 Lost to enemy action by escorts Miya Maru and Bunzan Maru Northern Japanese waters Grampus SS-207 5 March 1943 Lost to enemy action by destroyers Minegumo and Murasame, or possibly to air attack by 958th Kōkūtai naval aircraft New Britain Grayback SS-208 27 February 1944 Lost to enemy air attack Ryukyu Islands Grayling SS-209 Lost between 9 and 12 September 1943 Cause unknown; possibly rammed by transport Hokuan Maru Lingayen Gulf, Philippines Grenadier SS-210 21 April 1943 Scuttled following enemy air attack Strait of Malacca Growler SS-215 8 November 1944 Cause unknown; possibly sunk by its own torpedo or lost to enemy action by destroyer Shigure and two other escorts Philippines Grunion SS-216 30 July 1942 Sunk due to accidents caused by circular run of own torpedo.[7] Kiska Island, Alaska Gudgeon SS-211 18 April 1944 Cause unknown; possibly air attack Maug Islands or possibly Iwo Jima[8] Harder SS-257 24 August 1944 Lost to enemy action by kaibokan CD-22 Dasol Bay, Philippines Herring SS-233 1 June 1944 Lost to enemy shore batteries Kuril Islands Kete SS-369 Lost between 19 and 31 March 1945 Cause unknown; possibly enemy submarine or mines Ryukyu Islands Lagarto SS-371 3 May 1945 Lost to enemy action by Japanese minelayer Hatsutaka Gulf of Thailand Perch SS-176 3 March 1942 Scuttled following enemy action by Japanese destroyer Ushio Java Pickerel SS-177 Lost between 3 and 30 April 1943 Cause unknown; possible enemy actions include one by minelayer Shirakami and auxiliary subchaser Bunzan Maru on 3 April 1943 Northern Honshu Pompano SS-181 Lost between 17 September and 30 October 1943 Cause unknown; possibly naval mine or enemy action Northern Honshu R-12 SS-89 12 June 1943 Cause unknown; foundered on training exercise off Key West, Florida Robalo SS-273 26 July 1944 Cause unknown; probably naval mine West of Palawan Island Runner SS-275 Lost between 26 June and 15 July 1943 Cause unknown; possibly naval mine Hokkaido S-26 SS-131 24 January 1942 Sunk after accidental collision with USS Sturdy (PC-460)[9] Gulf of Panama S-27 SS-132 19 June 1942 Accidental grounding Amchitka Island, Alaska S-28 SS-133 4 July 1944 Cause unknown; foundered during anti-submarine exercise Oahu, Hawaii S-36 SS-141 20 January 1942 Accidental grounding Makassar Strait S-39 SS-144 14 August 1942 Accidental grounding Rossel Island S-44 SS-155 7 October 1943 Enemy action by Japanese escort Ishigaki Kurile Islands Scamp SS-277 11 November 1944 Enemy action by kaibokan CD-4 and aircraft Tokyo Bay Scorpion SS-278 Lost between 6 and 30 January 1944 Cause unknown; probably naval mine East China Sea Sculpin SS-191 19 November 1943 Scuttled following enemy action by Japanese destroyer Yamagumo Gilbert Islands Sealion SS-195 10 December 1941 Scuttled 25 December 1941 following irreparable damage in air attack 10 December Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines Seawolf SS-197 4 October 1944 Probably sunk by "friendly fire" from USS Richard M. Rowell (DE-403) Morotai Island Shark SS-174 Lost between 8 February and 7 March 1942 Cause unknown; possibly sunk by Japanese destroyer Yamakaze or other enemy action Molucca Sea Shark SS-314 24 October 1944 Lost to enemy action by Japanese destroyer Harukaze Luzon Strait Snook SS-279 Lost between 9 and 20 April 1945 Cause unknown South China Sea Swordfish SS-193 Lost between 9 and 30 January 1945 Cause unknown; possibly enemy action or naval mine Ryukyu Islands Tang SS-306 25 October 1944 Sunk by circular run of own torpedo Formosa Strait Trigger SS-237 28 March 1945 Lost to enemy action by kaibokan Mikura, CD-33, and CD-59; assisted by air attack Ryukyu Islands Triton SS-201 15 March 1943 Cause unknown; probably enemy action Admiralty Islands Trout SS-202 29 February 1944 Cause unknown; probably enemy action by Japanese destroyer Asashimo or circular run of own torpedo Okinawa Tullibee SS-284 26 March 1944 Sunk by circular run of own torpedo Palau Islands Wahoo SS-238 11 October 1943 Lost to air and surface attack by submarine chasers CH-15, CH-43 and 3 E13A1 Jakes La Perouse Strait

No, they fought only for their glory, killing almost solely civilians .... thus being just mass murderers, nothing less, nothing more. Donitz should have been hanged, and does Speer.

For God's sake and for Dog's sake, hit pause and take her out to the toilet! She is doing the right thing and letting you know that she needs to go, so don't ruin all of that training by disrespecting her urgent request!

I’m with you Jennifer, laundry can wait😂

doggie: " okay, watch your torpedo show " 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

A U-Boat could not pick up all survivors depending on how many survived the sinking, just wasn't enough room! They were required to pick up officers and engineers of enemy ships and could help survivors with food, water and directions to the nearest land! The Laconia Order ended that, but some U-Boat commanders still helped survivors until it became to dangerous!

@@benadam7753 they used to tow lifeboats to the nearest friendly port. they didn't have to bring them all aboard.

@@victorpulis5113 Except for the Laconia Incident I've never seen or read one account of a German U-Boat towing a life boat to a friendly port? Please provide a source for this!

@@benadam7753 watch 16:50

@@victorpulis5113 You need to re-watch that yourself! They are specifcally talking about the Laconia Incident here! The one and only time a U-Boat towed a life boat! The American B-24 prevented it from making port!