U-Boats History - The Sinking of U 47, U 99 and U 100 

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Schepke was not "just 20 years old in 1941", he was 29. Minumum age for U-Boat commanders was 25 before 1944, this is why Teddy Suhren had to wait to turn 25 in order to get his own boat, the U-564 even though he had already earned the Knights Cross as the IWO of U-48.

Thanks for this video. My father and two of my uncles were sailors on HMS Vanoc when they rammed the u boat. The German prisoners joined my father's mess. This video gives an accurate account as told to me by my father and uncles.

Love the respect shown to all those who fought for either side. Informative and unbiased, well done

Of all the scariest things about ww2, this had to have been the most frightening

Upon being resued, MacIntyre took Kretschmer's U-boat binoculars as his war prize, and used them with great success throughout the rest of the war. MacIntyre returne them to Kretschmer long after the end of WWII.

RIP Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien, Hero of U 47, Kapitänleutnant Joachim Schepke., Hero of U 100, the dead crewmen of U 99 and all the brave men who died at the submarines of all nations in this war.

Great footage. Thanks for the video.👍 The classic question and answer on a sib was part of the “U-571” script. “How deep will she go?” “Oh, she’ll go all the way to the bottom if we don’t stop her “.

‘What is Scuttle?’...LOL Smooth move for time, Krestchmer! (He spoke perfect English)

Thank you for posting a very informative video, I appreciate your effort.

Excellent footage editing, really tells the story which is extremely complex in of itself. Look on a 65” screen for vivid impact. I like the voiceover as well.

Very good video - well worth a watch - thanks

"Was that the end for the Wolf Packs?" Installs hastily Silent Hunter III "NEIN!"

Excellent. Nicely done. I liked the little human touches at the end.

Very absorbing and well done

You put a lot of work into this. It's great to see what a committed amateur historian can produce. Good luck with your future endeavors.

Nicely done. Good Job!

This narrator is a good cure for insomnia.

The best of them all! I completely agree!

I know I'm a little late to the party, but the footage at 1:31 is sinking of SMS Szent Istvant. An Austro-Hungarian battleship , which was sunk by Italian torpedo boats in 1918.

My uncle was a midshipman of 16 years of age. He was in a convoy going to Halifax, when his boat was torpedoed by U100. He took to the lifeboats and a few hours later was picked up by Norwegian freighter in the same convoy - U100 again torpedoed his rescue ship and all hands were lost. I think the merchantmen deserved those u boat souvenirs that were mentioned in this film.

Nicely done ✅

Very interesting. Thank you.

*Submarine Commander at 20* *More than Appreciative* *Incredible*

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Thank you.

Enjoyed the video and I could feel myself on the u-boat

Good stuff .

Sumbamrine warfare is not for the faint hearted.

o mehor de todos.amo u boats

What background music are you using?

Awesome video! What's the name of the background soundtrack? Sounds really soothing

Otto Kreschmer was an honorable man who did his duty for his country, misguided as it was. He was anti Nazi. However after being a POW in Canada went to go back to the navy and ended up being I think the head of NATO maritime operations.

Please some one the piano music who is it ?? It says sound track by yakkus but can't find it

those corvettes bob like a cork in tho seas. God bless all those sailors.

For interest ASDIC stands for "ADMIRALTY SUBMARINE DETECTION INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE " and is still used as a short title when talking or referring to submarine detection.

I've seen the director cut of Das Boot and the TV mini series, have to get the German version

Yes i love battleship, aircraft carrier, destroyers, light and heavy cruisers

something seems to be wrong with the speed of this film it seems to be too slow what results in distorted voices of the narator

Does anyone know the name of the music played

Bizarre, moments before they're are trying to kill each other....1 hour later the German captain plays Bridge with the British officers, the crews are exchanging pictures and so forth..... I think everybody that survived on both sides were just happy to be alive

Excellent Presentation! See "Das Boot" for a very realistic film (in German & English - Actors shot each scene twice - not dubbed) Nice Large Model work!

Boat losses were atrocious. Brave sailors.

Good narrative of the fates of the 3 boats. Only complaint is that most of the footage is of the capture of U-505. The boat is now on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Il. USA.

Good info. Thanks.

Imagine all the sunken hulks littering the bottom of the oceans, and the countless sailors in a watery grave. War is madness, but it is the natural state of mankind.

Does anyone know the name of the music on this video?

Otto kreschmet fue el más grande de los comandantes de submarinos alemanes. al mando del U 99.

It got really bad for the U-Boats starting in the summer of 1943

Another excellent one. 📻🙂

Video is fine but narration is too fast and confusing.

The british captain took u99,captains binoculars

Nice music but someone was talking making it hard to hear!!!

Here in Phoenix, Arizona, we had two prisoner-of-war camps, one for Germans and one for Italians. The German camp held German Navy prisoners. As the Germans explored maps of our state, they discovered they were only about eight miles from the Salt River. They saw that they could float down the Salt all the way into Mexico. They began escape planning committees, began to plan who should escape, and began to gather food, and other stuffs. They built a raft. When they planned escape time came, they made their way our of the camp, through the desert to the Salt, only to discover that the Salt River was a dry bed, it having been dammed northwest of Phoenix to provide flood control and drinking water a couple of decades previously.

Ultra code breaking and, eventually, centimeter radar doomed the u-boats.

Had a massive black out near Alboran years ago so went with a dinky for a swim......saw corroded bomb tail sticking out on a beach...local fishermen told me that flat island with only a small building looked like a U boat at night so Brits tried to sink it by air attack....the Gemans never used the heavy potential of the panick their early success created

I think I saw Fritz Von Eric on one of the Subs.

I’m grateful to all the brave men who sunk these bastards.

what was the Italian U-boat, trying to resaerch it in the Italian Navy but is a bit to fast to know wich one it is :p

Too many commentators here basing their submarine knowledge on a movie or two. Come on, geebus.

"It looks just like a Telefunken U-47."

the third most successful commander was eric topp... the most suuccessful was Kretschmer...and the second was wolfgang luth...gunther prien was ninth best commander if memory serves me correct? otto kretschmer 273,043 tons u-35 u-23 u-99 Wolfgang Lüth 225,204 tons u-9 u-13 u-138 u-43 u-181 Erich Topp 197,460 tons u-57 u-552 u-3010 u-2513 Günther Prien 162,769 tons u-47 the convoy was ob293 earnt him ace of aces Meanwhile, on the night of 7th/8th, at about 1am on the 8th, Wolverine sighted a U-boat on the surface which she identified as U-47. She and Verity attacked, and after 4 hours, which had shown evidence of damage, the U-boat was driven to the surface within yards of Wolverine, before diving again. The destroyer sent down a pattern of depth charges and was rewarded with an underwater explosion, marked by an orange glow, and flames that broke the surface... Wolverine was credited with destroying U-47, and this featured in the official record until the late 1990s. However, after reviewing the available records modern historians regard this attack as being directed against UA, which was badly damaged, but survived to reach port. No conclusion can be reached about the fate of U-47, and it is thought likely to be the result of a diving accident. The success of the defence of OB 293, with the loss of the U-boat ace Prien, coupled with the successful defence of Convoy HX-112, and the loss of two more aces, Kretschmer and Schepke, one week later, marks a minor turning point in the Atlantic campaign. gunther prien...otto kretschmer.. joachim Schepke.. is on eternal patrol as the kriegsmarine saying goes you got joachim Schepke was the eleventh 155,882 tons you got that one right u-3 u-19 u-100 convoy hx-112 Good upload mate and ...Happy Hunting You Old Sea Dogs!!!.....lol

The Allies changed the length of the radar waves. This helped them find U-boats on the surface more easily.

@ 1:11 in 1941 he (Joachim Schepke ) was only 20 years old... Birthdate of Joachim Schepke : 12.03.1912

Never any mention of how many allied merchant sailors died in the Atlantic!!

Doesn't seem that sonar did much....the subs got their shots off pretty easily.

Great vedio and great brave men cost their lives at sea for power hunger and british had gentlmen qulities towards enmy german soldiers when both of the parties waged a clean fight altogether being real soldiers and sea men

also known as sonar hmm I think it was known as asdic

Enjoyed your video very much. In the 1960's I read a book entitled "Wolfpack: The Saga of the U 99" by Otto Kretchmer. I lost this book shortly thereafter and have sought another copy without success. Are you familiar with this book? Have a copy or know of one? This book was illustrated and I found it to be very interesting, coming from the man himself.

My 2 cents: In my opinion, the Germans badly misused their submarine force. Wow! I said that in the face of the historical record that proves they damn near defeated the UK single-handedly, sinking over 175 Allied warships, including several battleships and aircraft carriers, and more than 2,800 merchant ships? Yeah, I did. U-boats were Germany's ace-in-the-hole weapon. They should have been the main weapon, instead of Germany wasting huge resources on surface ships of capital size. WWI had already proven there was no way the German navy would be able to defeat GB's massive access to the world's oceans and could easily blockade almost all German sea communications. A genius tactician would have recognized the strategic blunder of building a fleet as the Nazi's did. However, the U-boat as they were technically designed at the beginning of the European second war was quite up to the task of at least strangling the UK before it could get its war footing. If Germany had wisely invested in a much larger fleet of U-boats, had trained crews and operational boats ready to go, I honestly think the outcome might have been different for Hitler's Germany- as far as the war in the west was concerned (many other stupid blunders by Hitler's regime would have ultimately ended the war as it did end, though perhaps not as quickly.). Numbers of U-boats is one thing. But, technical improvements and R&D investment earlier and the use of better tactics would have greatly enhanced their effectiveness much sooner, thus beating the British and Americans to the line of advanced submarine countermeasures and correcting their own early mistakes. The whole strategic situation in the North Atlantic battle arena was greatly in the corner of the German U-boats. Poor use of long-range aircraft, a dismal array of escort vessels and weapons and the sheer - almost criminal - abysmal organization and control by both the British and the Americans should have given the Germans a fantastic victory in the Battle of the Atlantic. It did not. Although the allies very quickly got their act together, almost 2/3 of the German U-boat sinkings of Allied merchant vessels and warships had already taken place by then. A fantastic opportunity was missed by the Germans. Admirals Raeder and Donitz (Donitz being the head of U-Boat operations) made many mistakes. Donitz, for example, had control over the largest U-boat fleet in the War and controlled several important bases. Yet, Donitz never had a staff much larger than 12 people, maintaining offices that were so small they barely had room for a pay-clerk! Additionally, the cracking by the Poles and the British of the much vaunted Enigma coding machine was suspected by Donitz, he never really implemented proper changes in how his communications with his U-boats were conducted- a blunder of immense proportions. His insistence on uses of radio by his U-boat commanders was all but criminal, contributing greatly to the loss of at least half of his fleet and the ability of the allies to re-direct their convoys, greatly decreasing U-boat wolf pack tactics and enhancing the ability of long-range aircraft to locate the subs. Although much of the shortcomings and mistakes of the commanders at the time can be attributed to contemporary practices and technology, Donitz failed miserably simply due to his limited background and training. He certainly was not of the quality of leadership the allies had in King, Ingersoll, Noble, and Horton. Nor did the Germans ever really develop a universal "corporate" style of command and control, which was almost certainly required at the time due to the incredibly vast battle arena and the numbers and types of weapons being used and the rapidity of the dynamic changes taking place. The task was simply far more than any lone Admiral was ever going to handle. Considering all the things the Germans had failed at over the course of the Battle of the Atlantic, the true wonder is how they managed to be as successful as they were.

I still have my 1960 novel,,night raider of the atlantic,,

Good lives, wasted.

What ever your view`s on U Boats are, I have watched Das Boot in subtitled English and in the original German. I was taken away with the life these people lived, having served in the military myself and others always said two things not to go to war in, a Tank and a Submarine. To serve in one of these took a special type of man, one who new his life was of limited time but still served,morality in war tends to take second place so we vilify these submariners. There is no difference between sinking a ship and bombing or shooting a man. War brings out the worst of everyone no one is immune .

ALARM! SCHNELL! SCHNELL!

Who did the voice editing, it needs work.

1:30...footage of the torpedoed WW1 Austro Hungarian battle ship Svent Istvan? What is the connection with WW2?

Why are you using film of the US Navy instead of the Royal Navy? Apart from that it's a interesting video.

9:50 there is one man still standing in this hell of a barrage.... f*ck

As I can see, no one has cracked the enigma machine, they got it with the captured submarine !

On the 7th March 1941 my father's ship MV Kiamata ran over a submarine and the went to Halifax 10/3/1941 Photos were taken in Halifax harbour showing the damage to the bow. A newspaper clipping date April 1941 states that a merchant vessel ran over the sub and "they think its a goner" This could have been U-47

a little odd to see pork pie hats on ships during a March 1941 encounter when the USN didn't enter the war until they were bombed into it in December 1941

Wonder what would have happened if Germany had developed and built 200/300 U-boats before the war started. I read where they only had 60 in 1939. Having served on the old diesels I think it could have made a huge difference in the battle of the Atlantic.

Brave sailors both sides!!!!

I've always wondered why the germans didn't attack the escort ships first, then attack the supply ships.;

Facio nie potrafi wymówić normalnie nazwiska Kretschmer?

That U boat ace was 20 years old... 20. What were you doing when you were 20?

I have always wondered why the u-boats targeted the merchant shipping first, it seems better to sink the escorts first. Then the sheep are free for the wolfpacks to take

Out of over 40,000 german men who went to sea in the u boots, 30,000 never returned!

some film is of u-505...

"U-Boat Killer" Captain Donald Macintyre. , Rigel Publications, 1956. ISBN1-898-79978-4.

Where???, ??? oh where on this list of U boat aces is UB40 ????

"What is 'scuttle' ?" smart

Is it just me or does Schepke look like a young Robert Shaw?

10:00 wasnt "wrong orders", he decided to fight till death.... if u dont read historical books about the subject you try to talk about in your videos, plz dont say anything if you DONT really know.

Why did they rescue the crews?

"Siink 'em all."

Story greyhound... Tom hanks

Where is Laurient? St. Laurient I know.....

The German navy can be criticized in the WW2, but still I found its struggle more noble, more honorable. But I never approve of the ground forces.

there was a real U571 Sunk 2/28/ 44 all hands lost at sea. Rest in Peace Gunter Mai uber machinist mate diesel b '20 d '44