The WORST U-Boat of WW2 

It is funny how he basically always made the wrong decision no matter how hard he tried 😆

Strict doctrinal apparently at the expense of tactical imagination and flexibility.

@@kennethhanks6712 One thing the Americans excelled at in my opinion was the adaptability/creativity, while the Germans on the other hand often seemed to be restricted by doctrine

THE MODERN DAY EQUIVALENT OF THIS IS MANIFESTED WITH THE DEDICATED FOLLOWERS OF TRUMP AND PUTIN!!

The submariners of the Nazi Germany Navy were generally staunch Nazis. Comparative to the rest of the germnan navy

Oh that is very cool! If I’m in that area I’ll have to remember this

@@HiddenHistoryYT There is an incredible amount of pirate history here, too. The wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge was discovered in Beaufort Inlet, off Morehead City, NC. The Maritime Museum in Beaufort has an amazing exhibit about Blackbeard.

@@mattduke6490 oh that is awesome! Definitely is on my list now 😃

Yes I did notice that the deck gun had been removed.

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Because of Adm King the battle off the US east coast is regarded as the US Navy's greatest failure. The RN had to send ASW Sloops to escort American east coast convoys.

@@towgod7985 I am British, and the son of a WW2 submarine officer, and am well aware of both the help the US Navy gave us, and the help the Royal Navy gave the US Navy. It is one of the great tragedies of WW2 that America learnt so little from Britain's experience, and was so comprehensively caught with her pants down from 7 Dec 41 onwards. War is a hard taskmaster, and the price is blood.

Then there's the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ordnance who made the nearly useless Mk, 13-15 torpedoes. Not only did they NOT test the torpedoes under war conditions, they kept blaming USN sailors and pilots for "not using them properly." They could have been awarded IJN medals for killing dozens of USN submarine and air crews who otherwise might have stopped the invasion of the Philippines. It took Admiral King to "light a fire under" these incompetents and finally issue fixes that eliminated the Japanese merchant fleet.

@@Otokichi786 A truly Classic Example of ..... On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman Dixon Personally I believe a lot of these things are tied to Karma, so people's decisions are made by Karma for them ( they just act the part ).

To be fair...King was atleast rather competent...Unlike Halsey,Patton or MacArthur...these 3 fall under what i call "The Rommel category" aka overly glorified idiots who just got lucky

Completely agree with everything you said here Mark. Thanks for the contribution and have a great day!

Hey Mark from Melbourne Australia. Ooow, ya big old rascal ya! Mmmm, with your big old raspberry noggin. I actually heard something a-bit different. I heard he did not have an itchy neck. It was actually the little bit which connects your back bottom bumhole with your swinging nutsack which was itchy & apparently he was experiencing some major problems with trying to scratch it. Anyhoo. Way you bounce skippy.

@@HiddenHistoryYT Thanks. Happy to contribute in a small way.

Agree! Not such much the worst U-Boat, but the worst commanded/crewed!

I would argue that those didn’t get a chance to prove anything whereas this U-Boat actively failed many times and was entirely unsuccessful.

and there are few Uboats that sunk whole fleets and survived till the very end of the war, i think the highest tonnage for a single Uboat was like +400k tonnage which can be considered as a compensation for all kriegsmarine efforts

​@@airshark2764 that would be the equivalent of 80 Liberty ships. I'd rethink that.

Then there was the U-Boat discoverd by divers, chronicled in the book, "Shadow Divers"... a great read... looks like their first and only attack of the East Coast, they were taken out by a "Circle Runner", a nasty surprise that affected submariner of all Navies in WWII. In fact, doctrine was to dive to safe depth after launch since hanging around to see your results through periscope could be fatal... Apparently that wasn't followed. U - 869, reported sunk of Gibraltar was actually off the east coast, and no one had a clue it was ever there.

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words! I even more appreciate the information you have presented here! I agree with most of what you have said here, especially with that the argument can be made that the war was lost for Germany in March of 1941. It would have been very interesting if the newer U-Boats could’ve got into action. One thing I wonder about as well is how things could have gone if the Germans just didn’t even attempt to build a surface force, and instead had gone fully into U-Boats. Not sure it would’ve really changed anything but I think they would have ran rampant for much longer. Again thank you for the post and discussion!

Well Will... you are forgetting the most important development that brought about the end of the UBoats "Happy Times"... the breaking of the Enigma code by the code breakers at Bletchley Park. This breakthrough helped Convoys avoid Uboats altogether. But... the Germans were suspicious that their code was being "read" so in Feb of '42 all vessels operating in the Atlantic and Mediterranean were ordered to add a fourth wheel to their Enigma machines (three were used previously.) As soon as the Germans did this sinkings spiked. The British were no longer able to decipher their codes and as a result, from Feb to October of 1942 Uboats sank hundreds of thousands of tons of Allied shipping solely because the British could not read the coded German messages... and they had no idea where Uboats were lying in wait. Starving out Britain was once again becoming a very real possibility. It wasn't until October of 1942 with the seizing of U-559 along with her Enigma machine and codebooks that Bletchley Park was able to break the German code once more and Convoys could now be routed away from known Uboat positions... again. Most think the Enigma code wasn't broken until the seizure of U-559 in late '42... but that is incorrect. The Brits had seized other German ships much earlier in the war along with Enigma machines and code books. They broke the code, the Germans responded... and the Brits had to break it again. The Uboats successes of Feb to Oct of 42 are a direct result of the Brits not being able to read German code. Without this development the Battle of the Atlantic would have most definitely taken a very different turn. Most believe D-Day could never have happened in '44 because of the amount of material that would have ended up sitting at the bottom of the ocean. Btw... you mention anti submarine warfare as a reason for the Uboats demise... once again, this is a direct result of the Enigma code being broken. The Allies knew exactly where the Uboats were and could concentrate their forces to find these subs and sink them.

@@jerryjeromehawkins1712 Great post. However, once convoys were escorted with dedicated, ASW escorts, the ability of U-boats to penetrate this defense was unlikely and resulted in high U-boat losses. A convoy in early ‘44, I don’t remember which one, was deliberately routed directly through a U-boat patrol line to test ASW countermeasures. It ended up badly for the U-boat service. Don’t get me wrong, Bletchley Park did amazing work during the war to anticipate Nazi U-boat concentrations. While Royal Navy ciphers were well guarded and hard to crack, merchant codes were much less so, and B-Dienst(German Naval Intelligence) was able to track convoys quite easily based on this info.

@@jerryjeromehawkins1712 What was surprising is that the Nazi's total faith in their Enigma coding. They really thought it couldn't be broken. British intelligence changed their codes often, by '43 the Americans did too. The British could locate a U Boat's general location by their radio transmissions by late '43 and a destroyer would force them to submerge. Within 24 hours they would be forced to surface with depleted batteries and no air, where they were easy pickings.

I’ll have to check that out, thanks for watching!

Those U -Boats were outside or within the New York Harbor.

@@1963Austria No U-boat entered NY harbor. The closest approach was well outside on the ocean where shipping lanes converge, known as the outer harbor approaches. Glare of light of the city could be seen on clouds and mist in air. I interviewed Hardegan three times and he was very clear about that. The propaganda film had crude graphic effects suggesting city views. Laughable quality for modern audiences.

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That is very interesting! I always find it odd how some people don’t view it to be dangerous or war grave

Yeah, so OK, did anyone get hurt?

@@Dave-ty2qp what if i burned down your house and all your possessions? would you care? nobody got hurt, remember?

@@abbcc5996 Can a U-boat burn under water? Did my house sink? Did you pick and eat the wrong bugger and now have nothing to think with?

@@Dave-ty2qp Yes, for a 100 ft dive, it has killed a lot of people. BTW wreck diving is so much better in the FL Keys.

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There is one and only one way those 13 crewman are still on that boat: IF they were in a watertight compartment. Otherwise the saltwater would have dissolved their bones, and of course fish would have eaten what’s left. So there ain’t nobody on that boat.

@@samiam619, still, we revere our sunken warships of all types as war graves if men went down with them and are not to be disturbed. Should not these men be afforded that same respect even though, like our ships, their bodies have long since disappeared?

@@richardcline1337 IMO you're not wrong.

@@richardcline1337 some people.only see us and British ships as legitimate war Graves. I call that racism

@@samiam619 Remember that submarine was / is the only KNOEN grave of 13 men - no matter what you think of them who where doing their duty to their Country and yet as has been said it has become a "playground" for many. WHY was it not or why has it Not since been designated a War Grave? There is much "crowing" by America about their own servicemen and women yet America it seems in this instance does not have the good Manners or Respect to extend that towards their enemies at the time? Luckily I have known many American Servicemen and women and those veterans would not be so disrespectful to fellow soldiers, sailors or airmen / women - I therefore presume this is an isolated incident. Add to this the so called "Hatred" of Admiral King, who no doubt had his own reasons for the way he acted BUT knowing this why was he allowed to treat his allies insuch a cvalier atittude? Admiral or not it would have been easy to transfer him to a position where he did not come in contact with the British! I suspect the main reason for his jealousy was a simple case of jealousy - most other American s were thankful for any help they could get!

Yeah, not necessarily. The Kriegsmarine started the war with slightly more than four dozen U-boats, but eventually launched over a thousand. If you expand the U-boat arm twenty-fold you are going to have to send U-boats to sea with officers with no U-boat experience.

Every military values loyalty and aggressiveness first. You can just look at how many US sub and destroyer commanders were relieved for 'cowardice'

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Greatly appreciate it John! Have a great rest of your week :)

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Not too enthusiastically, please. Nobly obeying orders from a wicked government is a problem described in "On Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell.

@@jacksimpson-rogers1069 Have you ever served in the military? The troops on the battlefield and the sailors at sea are no more responsible for the policies of a government than the man in the moon. This discussion started with dead sailors, average age was probably 21, not talking about the SS.

@@1anthonybrowning I have even gone so far as to say that the citizens of Berlin were more responsible for Hitler than those of Tokyo or Nagasaki were, for their emperor and his advisors. I came to the USA in 1965, signed up as required, and planned to head for Canada if ever I was summoned while the stupidity in Vietnam continued. I was old enough that the risk was small.

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Where did you get that nonsense from ? You only need to visit Wikipedia EN to find out what IVS / Inkavos really was - a camouflage company run by the German Reichswehr and the Krupp AG, purely staffed by German engineers and personel ... indeed they developed the most advanced subs of their time, but the Dutch had absolutely nothing to do with IVS /Inkavos.

@@thomasherzmann1853 And yet you miss about 300 pages on the history of IVS and Inkavos . You do know there are records and books on how it operated . and if you actualy took time to read it you also know that all ties between the IVS/Inkavos was terminated after the anglo german navy treaty 1935 Or that IVS and NeVesBu occupied the same building . And yet all engineers and designers where dutch . Dutch companies and german companies always had close ties and cooperation dating back centuries . 1912 Dreadnaught designs for the dutch navy , to be build 1914 , canceled due to ww1 , java Class cruisers beeing designed and build with german lessons learned . during the war . First of all dont trust every thing on wikipedia Second point do your own reasearch and fact checking . before making stupid remarks . As sidirius was a daughter company of KRUP a company that was already in the Netherlands before WW 1 .IVS no conections to Krup . you would know that if you actualy read the history , Hazemeyer on the other hand was a front company for Siemens and Halske but the germans got kicked out in early 1932 . So next time if you make a comment get some source material and then make asumptions of wikipedia pages as there are several with multiple languages all saying something different.

@@marcusfranconium3392 Sorry but that IS nonsens. First IVS and INKAVOS is the same, IVS is short for InkaVoS wich is short for Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw. Second, the "employees" of IVS were german. Third, the NeVesBu was founded and moved into the same building 12 years after IVS was founded. 4th, after IVS started to cooperate with NeVasBu, many germans worked for NeVasBu, even in leading positions. 5th, IVS was not terminated in 1935, the german employees did go back to germany after the last order was finished in '42, the IVS was terminated after WW2 with the remainings being taken by NeVasBu. 6th, the dutch didnt had highly advanced subs and snorkels only at the end of the 30s, wich were so advanved that they were stripped as soon as they reached England or were captured and tested by the germans. The dutch snorkles were more for ventilating the boat on deck awash than to travel submerged with diesel, one wave and the valve closed the snorkel unable to open again by itself. To dangerous for the Brits and useless for the Germans in the Atlantic.

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That is awesome!

That's HILARIOUS!!

I will have to look into that!

Check your caps lock please.

That happened several times during both wars. The most famous of which was the Red Baron from WWI. Even though he was responsible for many lives being lost when his plane was shot down he was given full military honors at his burial by the Allies.

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Wow! I would’ve been out seeing the tiger sharks 😂. How was the wreck?

@@HiddenHistoryYT this was 35 years ago but at that time the dive shop owner who found the wreck had stripped it of most of its artifacts and displayed them in his dive shop! Shortly after we dove the wreck a bad coastal storm blew out a lot of sand that had filled into the opened rear deck in the engine room and they actually found one of the ten members of the crew who had perished during the sinking by the USCG ship Icarus ! I am not 100% sure but at that time someone said those remains had been sent back to Germany!

@@idlewild1964 ahh very interesting. Hopefully nothing too sensitive removed from the wreck! Thanks for sharing :)

Is there anything worth seeing there history wise? I actually am in Phoenix right now

@@HiddenHistoryYT no gone info:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Papago_Park

@@billenright2788 that’s unfortunate

Conscription was in place in Nazi Germany. You were going to serve if you were a healty male.... A lot of the crews were raised under the upswing of mid-'30s Germany & the rise of their Führer- and probably served in Hilter Youth groups and so on. I find it hard to point fingers when we would've accepted anything we were taught as kids as well- like anyone would.... Granted, they were taught evil. How were those 10 year olds, ect., supposed to know different. Yes, they DID drink the kool aid. But luckily ? It could have been anybody & luckily it wasn't us.... But today's college student in the US ?..... Me thinks they drink the kool aid aplenty as well. See ? Given the chance ? They'll STILL do it & it's here they're doing it at- in the current day.....alas. 🚬😎

True. I keep reading how the younger crew were consistently dull, uneducated, and could not even hold conversations without parroting Nazi propaganda like NPCs.

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Wow, that is amazing!

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Deservedly so!

@@HiddenHistoryYT I concur. Did you know he was a former CPO that received a direct commision.

@@majorlee76251 I did not! You have got me interested in Commander Jester and his story now!

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@@HiddenHistoryYT You as well, thank you.

Ya definitely not a good look but tough to judge their response without going through their experiences in my opinion. Still probably not morally justifiable though. Thanks for watching!

Yeah. And think of this. Only a single one of the 1,200+ U-Boat captains and crews did that to survivors.

@@reyganbriggs6785 source?

Don't know your source but I suspect it's very wrong! In my years of researching the N ATLANTIC battle I have never heard of such a xlaim as yours! Perhaps the British?

@@jerrymccrae7202 The English anyway. They already started with it in the 1st World War. There were also various incidents with the Americans. E.g. the USS Roper which threw water bombs on swimming German sailors. During a reconnaissance mission off New Guinea the American submarine Wahoo sank. Submarine Wahoo (LtCdr Morton) sinks the japan. Buyo Maru (5447 GRT) and the freighter Fukuei Maru #2 (1901 GRT). When Wahoo surfaces at the sinking site, it is in a crowd of an estimated 10,000 surviving Japanese on rafts and floating in the water. Soldiers. For over 1 hour, the submarine commander has the castaways shelled with guns and machine guns before the submarine leaves. There is an article in US Naval Institute's Proceedings (July 2003) with more recent information on this case. According to this, the Buyo Maru was carrying Japanese POWs from Singapore (more specifically, Indian soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 16th Punjab Regiment). She had 1126 people on board, of whom 282 perished (many probably during the torpedo attack). 87 of them were Japanese, 195 Indians. The Americans even shot their own allies floating in the water.

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@@HiddenHistoryYT Have you ever watched the 1973 British documentary series, World at War? It's an amazing series, has lots of interviews with the war time players. The episode on the Battle of the Atlantic is really good, it has extensive interviews with Admiral Doenitz. Doenitz's youngest son actually died in a U-Boat during the conflict. WaW has well over 20 episodes, and is narrated by Laurance Oliva, having such an amazing actor doing the narration really adds to the films.

@@yakacm It’s actually what I put on every night when I go to bed 😂 I need to actually watch it through though as I’m not sure if I’ve paid attention to more than an hour total. It’s definitely one of the best series though just off of what I’ve seen!

​@@yakacmDoenitz actually lost both his sons during the war.

Chat shit get banged!

Wow, did not realize that they had displayed bones. Very distasteful in my opinion!

People these days sure do have painfully sensitive palates regarding what is and is not tasteful, these days. The stupidity that comes from living lives insulated from war, I suppose

What happened is the German govt heard about it and had a diplomatic fit. Justifiably in my opinion. The USN stepped in and removed some of the torpedoes and welded a grate over the entrances. But in time those were cut by recreational divers and visits resumed.

People these days sure do have painfully sensitive palates regarding what is and is not tasteful, these days. The stupidity that comes from living lives insulated from war, I suppose

Germany had a number of allies and would have had more, if things had gone better for them.

You’d think the world would have done something about it

Actually, Britain and France chose to go to war against Germany, over latter aggression to Poland. For some reason they chose not to declare war on USSR, which invaded Poland in concert with germans. It was much later that USA and USSR ended up with the allies. And after the war Churchill and Patton were not the only ones to realize that they "took out the wrong bastard."

You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him. 😒

@@kelvyquayo he's a jerk!

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Thank you to him for his service! And ya King seems to have some pros and cons to him for sure. Appreciate you watching and have a great weekend :)

Convoys would not have worked for the east coast. First thing that happens is sea commerce halts. Dead stop while convoy formed. Then its off to… where? Which east coast port? The US east coast has a huge number of ports. Its not like going from NY and Boston assembling in Nova Scotia, then one long run to a major port in western Britain. So is it Miami, Norfolk, NYC, finally Boston? Going to be reeeeaaaaal slow. And skipping all the other ports means goods are not landing close to destinations, so further transport needed. Btw, no Interstate Hiway System with tractor trailers speeding along. Convoys would have slowed commerce to a crawl. Yes there were losses even after summer of ‘42. But the losses under the increased patrolling were less damaging to commerce than the crimping of overall commerce and shipping would have been attempting to form up and use them, and deal with the extensive issues of prolonged delivery given the bypassing non major ports.

Pour encouragé les autres. (To encourage the others).

I believe that policy changed later in the war as experienced men didn’t exactly exist in great numbers by that point. Thanks for watching!

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Very cool! Have you dived it yourself?

Do you know Eric Rhule(sp)?He was a tattoo artist and diver in Jacksonville he was one of the first to dive on it he actually had some dinner ware and other things off the sub including I heard a skull for which he got in trouble for

Isn't she reagrded as a war grave, and therefore off limits...?

@@Lassisvulgaris Supposed to be but bottom feeders like the aforementioned Eric Rhule and others have NO sense of morality and steal from these graves as they wish.

@@richardcline1337 Happens everywhere. Used to be a diving instructor myself, so I know. Guess that's why I didn't get an answer....

You are very close to the mark there! A Type XI, skipper Hardigan was the first U-Boat to reach and attack America in Operation Drumbeat. All he had to work with due to security risks associated with requesting the correct maps was a map in a World Atlas. Absolutely crazy when you think about risking a vessel and crew by navigation using a large scale map in a atlas? Hardigan, had a very successful patrol and returned home to a Heroes Welcome!

The most eye opening thing for me about U-Boats from the Second World War is just how often they actually spent on the surface

@@HiddenHistoryYT Iwas lucky once and took a tour on a russian diesel electric sub that was on display in seattle years ago, then went to OMSI museum in Oregon and went on last diesel electric boat US made. Russian sub was copy of german IX i think, it-still on display now maybe in San Diego. Russian sub was definitely not built with safety in mind

Maybe!

@@HiddenHistoryYT USS Thresher and USS Scorpion for example.

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According to "U-boat net" U-3534 was an uncompleted Type XXI boat whose hulk was "Towed to Wesermünde and broken up."?

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 I stated the wrong number uboat - the one found in Skagerrak has number U-3524 and the story goes around gold cargo or high ranking nazi persons but the history around seeking and raising the uboat is set on hold becauce one of the key persons died , he had the nickname dynamite Åge becauce he years back salvaged lots of cargo by blowing the wrecks open . He and his friends has gathered a huge number of location on wrecks laying in danish waters including the one raised some 10 years ago now laying in Liverpool war museum - its a 7C / 41 ( four meters longer than a normal 7C uboat) and the 3524 was found some years back but was keept a secret until now .

@@oleriis-vestergaard6844 Hi Ole, No problems, we all make typing errors. Yes I know the U534 pretty well. I used to live in Liverpool in the mid 1990s when it arrived at the warship preservation trust museum, and actually went for a guided tour through its interior before it was disgracefully cut into 3 pieces in the 2000s. There is currently an ongoing project to rehouse the sections in a purpose built new home and then to preserve both the sections and the plethora of artifacts it contained, as currently it is sited out of doors and exposed to the elements 24/7. There is an occasional vlog by the youtuber "Drachinifel" on it projects progress. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IgIwQ72m_C8.html All the best, Ole.

@@oleriis-vestergaard6844 U-3524 was scuttled in operation rainbow in the gelting bay, not sunk in the skagerrak, also the position wasnt a secret and it was broken up long ago.

Good question. Right now I can’t find anything further than them being in North Carolina

@@HiddenHistoryYT camp Ripley was a German prison camp during WW2. It's reported that 2 or 3 German tiger tanks are buried there

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Not as far as I am aware. Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@@HiddenHistoryYT Thanks, thr pleasure is shared ☺️

The boat is thoroughly silted in.

@@hifi6638 silted in? What does that mean? I looked in a dictionary but didn't find it. Cheers

Lmao

being a pow in the us was almost a holiday in camparison to everywhere else, even more safer then being in the allied army fighting the axis.

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Sure. He'd have been more successful leading an SS Einsatzgruppe detachment machine-gunning men, women and children into a pit. Much easier targets and no risk to his men, while proving himself to be the ardent Nazi he was.

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I will have to look more into that, right now I can’t find too much on Rathke’s life postwar. And as far as I know, German POW’s were generally all left together as they would essentially “police” themselves and made the jobs of the guards easier. But ya not segregating them is probably a mistake in retrospect

@@HiddenHistoryYT I would focus 90% of conversion hearts and minds type efforts on privates and pretty much assume all higher ranks will remain hostile. And it would help greatly in this regard if the privates were segregated, even perhaps separating draftee privates from volunteers.

If I had to guess it’s cause they were on the wrong side of the battle

The bombing of Dresden was a greater loss of life and more purposeful than a random Kriegsmarine ship at night

Had to be done!

@@HiddenHistoryYT there is no justification ,none!

@@desdicado999 the justification being that that dead Nazis are a good thing. Those wiped out on the Gustloff were being evacuated from territory they’d occupied after forcing the Soviets off of it. Commies were horrible too, but at that point they were reclaiming territory, not invading new areas like they were in other places.

@@mattwilliams3456 if you consider the death of 10 thousand women and children and wounded as justifiable then you are lower than the Bolsheviks that murdered sixty million Russian and other ethnicities ,The soviet regime knew exactly what they were doing as they did at the Katyn forest with the murder of thirty thousand Poles but at that time said nothing except to blame the Germans that event was pinned on the them at Nurnberg ,which makes the entire trial a farce .The sickening thing is the Soviet regime were propped up by western monied interests and they were the allies of the west ,what does that say about us ?

Rest assured the German shipyards were heavily targetted from 1941 onwards.

Such a waste! Thanks for watching David!

Maybe look up the food situation in the UK in WW2, befor WW2 the UK imported more than 50% of their food and the rationing ended only 10 years after the war

@@wolf310ii There is a bit more to the rationing story here in the so called UK Wolf and it has nothing much to do with your U Boats and more to do with the Government exercising control over the population. There was never a real shortage of food during the second world war, post war rationing was controversial to say the least but the History of the post war world including the Cold War is only starting to be told much of what was taken for granted in the past being a load of rubbish.

Very True! Myth of war that U-boat crews celebrated “Happy Times”. That was creation of propaganda ministry. Otto Kretschmer was adamant about that during my interviews with him. He told me that he once after receiving his orders for next patrol in a certain area, he researched the reports from previous patrols there. Of six uboats sent, three were sunk. “Fifty percent losses,” he said! “This was not a happy time!”

8,8 marine version

The Germans did use the 88mm on submarines. The US on pre-war built submarines used a 3" deck gun.

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@Hidden History No problem. In NC, it's pronounced the way you said it. My parents-in-law lived in Beaufort SC, and except for that, this Jersey boy wouldn't know. Thanks for the response!

@@rnascak Interesting that there’s a difference between 2 places so close! Hope you have a great weekend!

​@@rnascak this Jersey boy learned because it's next to MCRD PISC.

thats right, hence the term iron coffins!

I’ve heard so many different variations here in Scottsdale haha

@@HiddenHistoryYT Scottsdale was the Apache junction when I was a kid. I still see it that way.

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@@HiddenHistoryYT The way the title is written you would think their was something wrong with the U Boat , the U Boat worked fine , the captain messed up. Maybe the title should be , the U Boat which did nothing.

Genuinely interested to hear why!

@@HiddenHistoryYT it is a long story so see Dan Gallery's "Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea." The book covers his career and that of U-505 up to the point of capture.

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No idea how and why Turing committed suicide

@@2adamast They medicated him to destroy his manhood.

​@@jacksimpson-rogers1069 Was on hormones for a year, was already out of it one year before his death. There are Polish guys who cracked Enigma before him. And Americans after him.

@@2adamast I have the highest respect for the Americans who cracked the code of the Japanese, even for the fact that I think Japanese script more difficult even than Cyrillic, let alone Deutsch. But it was Turing's work that defeated the U-boats, regardless of what those Polish guys did. The ones that came and flew in the Battle of Britain were certainly heroic.

@@jacksimpson-rogers1069 The US build their own bombes in 42 that completely outran Turing's bombes "These bombes were faster, and soon more available, than the British bombes at Bletchley Park and its outstations. Consequently, they were put to use for Hut 6 as well as Hut 8 work."(Alexander)

Cool fact!