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i'll try to answer a couple of your questions as best i can: the RAF and the royal navy while separate entities, were always pretty much tied together when it came to sea based engagements, the royal navy has its own air force called the fleet air arm, they now consist mainly of helicopters and other support vehicles, they do have 1 type of attack jet vehicle the F-35, but the FAA as a whole is significantly diminished compared to what it used to be way back when. in terms of the size, an aircraft carrier back then was very small (relatively speaking) in comparison to say a battle cruiser or battleship, because back then you would have a flagship in the formation flanked by supporting cruisers and aircraft carriers as well as other ships if the convoy was big enough, whereas today the scales have tipped to where you have 1 gargantuan aircraft carrier as the flagship vessel surrounded and supported by multiple battleships and cruiser etc, because of precisely the thing you identified, the aerial superiority of planes, which is where most warfare occurs these days. likely part of the reason they never test fired the guns of the Bismarck is due to the severe shortage of materials for making munitions and so they were to only use them in actual combat situations, even during training and test operations, most of the time there was never any actual munitions used it was all just decoy items and using callouts etc. in terms of the actual battle of the Atlantic, there's 2 schools of thought on the significance of the battle, there's one side that believes it was one of the most pivotal battles of the war and there's others who believe that even if the Bismarck had succeeded in its mission it wouldn't have changed the overall outcome of the war, i'm personally in the camp that believes it to have been a pivotal battle that shaped the war and the overall outcome but there's arguements for both sides. the band member featured in this video was Pär, the bassist for the band, in terms of the music video there's several keys things to be aware of, the actual fighting between the different ships is almost 100% historically accurate both in terms of how it is portrayed, but also the overall outcome of the battle, also, the man who was at the helm of the little boat the band were playing on is the son of the surviving crewman of the Bismarck who was given the compass pocketwatch by the commanding officer and it is a family heirloom, the one used in the video is a fake and just a prop but the real thing does exist. as a little bit of general trivia, the resting place of both the Bismarck and the Tirpitz are considered war graves and protected under law, only a small handful of people actually know the true location of the Bismarck, and the man who found it initially is the same person who also first found the wreck of the Titanic, Robert Ballard.

The band member was Pär Sundström, bass player and together with Joakim the runner of the band

The Germans had incredibly bad luck running into the Swedish cruiser Gotland when they passed the Swedish west coast. She was possibly the only ship in the Swedish navy at the time with ultra low frequency communications radios fitted (the radio waves don't travel very far so very good for ship to ship communications without being detected) this meant that the Swedish ship could pick up the Zig-Zag instructions from the German flagship to the squadron and follow them more easily.

An interesting note is that Bismarck failed to hit any of the Swordfish torpedo bombers that attacked it. It was discovered that, because Bismarck's anti-aircraft systems had been designed with modern aircraft speeds in mind, the Swordfish flew so slowly that Bismarck's AA guns couldn't aim slowly enough to hit them.

The Royal Navy was responsible for a number of breakthroughs in naval aviation, including the first full length fight deck (HMS Argus 1918), the angled flight deck, steam catapults, optical landing systems and ski-jump ramp. With the demise of the Sea Harrier in 2006 the Royal Navy no longer operates its own fixed wing aircraft owing to cost, but the RAF now fly the F-35B from the two RN aircraft carriers although some of the pilots are still RN aviators.

Its important to understand the despair of the British people and the need for positive news early in the war. Things did not go well in France - Dunkirk was a salvation from disaster, but marked failure nevertheless. People had little faith left in the strength of the British Army. The Royal Air Force fought on after the defensive Battle of Britain - struggling to keep the enemy from the door at huge losses of aircrew, planes and after massive damage to British cities and morale. The public still trusted that the Royal Navy was strong and could protect against invasion and keep supply lines open. The "Mighty Hood" had been the RN flagship - largest warship in the world for 20 years, well known to the public. When Bismark sunk Hood so quickly with only 3 survivors - protecting convoys was the clear practical reason to command: "Sink the Bismark", but beyond that - restoring some of the public's faith in the Navy was also massively important for morale - dark days indeed.

"Sink the Bismark" is a good film to watch.

Guns. Naval guns are huge and powerful. The shells weigh a ton each and the guns fling them twenty miles. The recoil and blast frequently causes strain and damage to the ship when it fires them. The gun barrel's also have a limited life before wear reduces accuracy, 150 rounds or so. That being so, I'm not surprised Bismark didn't spend time lobbing shells to see how they worked.

Don`t laugh about the Swordfishs...They are string bags...but those planes hit the Italian Fleet at Taranto in a night action...which inspires the Japanese Navy to try that trick...at Pearl Harbor. I can not emphasise this enough go watch Drachinifel`s channel...he has an entire episode dedicated to Carrier development up to the end of WW2

Disabled by Fairey Swordfish, biplanes. We also took out St.Nazaire dry Dock as it was the only Dock large enough to accommodate her. The raid on St.Nazaire is worth a look. They are roundels, the Royal Navy have the fleet Air arm. The Bismark was 11 metres bigger than Ark Royal, so not a lot of difference in size.

You definititely should do Night Witches next. Choose the animated history version.

My mum used to work with a guy who was on the Rodney. He said that when the Bismark had stopped firing, as many men as could be spared were allowed topsides to see her. He recalled that there was no cheering and the mood was sombre. Somebody said "poor bastards" quietly and everyone was thinking things along the lines of "there but for the grace of God go I..." Sailors have a common bond, whatever their flag. The Bismark definitely wasn't the biggest or most powerful battleship ever (the commentary is a little overblown in places) and she had some questionable design features that can cause an argument even today. She was certainly top-tier though, capable of doing plently of damage and worth treating with a healthy respect. To give you an idea of where she stood: Main gun batteries: Bismark: 8 x 15 inch guns Hood: 8 x 15 inch guns (this was the standard British battleship armament until the naval treaties of the '20s and '30s started screwing around with things). Prince of Wales and King George V: 10 x 14 inch guns (they went down to 14" in anticipation of a naval treaty that never got signed) Rodney: 9 x 16 inch guns USS New Jersey: 9 x 16 inch guns (standard US battleship armament by the end of WWII) IJN Yamoto (Japanese): 9 x 18 inch guns (that's the heaviest gun battery ever put to sea)

Since you're from Memphis, the next Sabaton song you should do is called "82nd All The Way." It's about Tennessee native Sergeant York, and Tennessee is mentioned a lot in the song.

(12:33) Incorrect The Hood had fired a shot in combat. She had fired on the French Fleet at Mers el Kebir.

Poor Joakim’s leg it’s always getting pounded by Joakim’s metal hand.

i really enjoyed watching you look at this your doing a great job ! much appreciation .

19:52 Fun fact about HMS Rodney. Rodney was one of the Nelson-class battleships. This class was unique for having all three main turrets in front of the superstructure. This layout was very similar to Royal Navy oil tankers, another similarity being the use of a single funnel. Such ships always had names that ended in "-ol". As a result, the Nelson-class ships quickly recveived the nicknames "Nelsol" and "Rodnol".

19:46...Before you fall about laughing too much HMS Rodney was named after one of our greatest naval heroes, Admiral Rodney. Rodney was his surname and only became a first name after he became famous. Another great reaction though. Keep up the good work. 😊

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!!

Fun fact, British Aircraft carrier during WW2 had armored deck, while US carriers had wooden deck. HMS Indefatigable was once hit by a kamikaze on the flight deck with it's bomb detonating as well, a USN Liaison Officers on HMS Indefatigable commented: (When a kamikaze hits a US carrier, it’s six months repair at Pearl. In a Limey (British) carrier it’s a case of “sweepers, man your brooms”.”) 37 (45) minutes after being hit by a Kamikaze, HMS Indefatigable started flight operation again.

Battleships had been the biggest ships and main force of navies since the advent of the ironclad, in the late 19th century. It had been a constant development, with better armor, bigger guns, more powerful engines. Aircraft carriers had only begun their career, when the battleships were at the absolute height of their power. The change in size demonstrates the shift in importance. The first series of US carriers - the Yorktown class - massed about 20,000 tons. The next class, the mainstay of the carrier fleet in WW2, the Essex-class, came in at 27,000 tons. The following class, the Midway-class, was designed during the war. Up to that point, the USA had always limited her capital ships to the maximum size that could pass the Panama canal. The Iowa-class battleships were about the top of that limit. During the war, this limit was dropped, and the next class of battleships - designated Montana-class - were to have been at about 55,000 tons or more. They were never build. The plan was dropped, and in their stead were build the Midway carriers, at about the same mass. The aircraft carrier had surpassed the battleship for good.

One of my distant uncles was on one of the Swordfish that attacked the Bismark and was shot down... The planes are FAA, Fleet Air Arm...

Saw them live for the first time last year just before everything went down and oh man...That's something you can't describe but have to experience. Looking forward to you reacting to more of their stuff! Definetely check 40-1 :)

Thank you for a really great reaction to both the Sabaton History and the music video on Bismarck. I really enjoyed the format you had that you started with the history lesson and after that watched the official music video. It helped a lot (even though I seen both before) to understand the music video and seeing all the small details explained in the history lesson. The band member in the history channel is Pär, the bassist. He is the main song/lyric writer besides Joakim, who sings. Seeing forward to more reactions on Sabatons rich history lessons.

The airforce circle logos are called roundles and most nations have them, they were needed in the old days to indicate friend from fow by eye sight but now are more of a tradition. You've probably seen the US one that is the state with blue and white bars on the sides of a circle or the Japanese which is just a full red dot (this is were the term Zeros come from as the dot was a O)

Another great video. The Royal Navy does have its own aircraft wing, (Fleet Air Arm) which operates from aircraft carriers (and other ships and bases), there is also the Army Air Corps. The Swordfish planes actually attacked HMS Sheffield by mistake first.

You earned my follow, because you gave historical referances... great

The French have been Germany's primary enemy in a historic sense. Also the region between France and Germany has always been a contested region. It used to be inhabited in a bilingual sense. Kinda like the Sudetenland. So, where Great Britain was a possible enemy, France was a certain enemy.

Since 1870 the french and germans were fighting over border territories so war with France was most likely because of revanchism about WW1 and losing that bit of territory in the Treaty of Versailles.

In WW1, Germany had a massive fleet of modern battleships. In a way, Germany _having_ such a massive fleet of modern battleships was one of the reasons why WW1 happened. After WW1, Germany didn't have this massive fleet anymore. The fleet had been, in a way, a big factor in ending the war as it had been in causing it, when the sailors rather rebelled than set on into One Last Glorious Battle. Most of that fleet was handed over to the victorious allies, sank itself (look up Scapa Flow - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_German_fleet_at_Scapa_Flow) or was used for bombing tests. The new German Republic wasn't allowed a major fleet. It was left with some old, obsolete battleships (The "Schleswig-Holstein", build in 1906, before the " HMS Dreadnaught" revolutionized battleship construction, fired the first shots of WW2). The Third Reich rebuild the navy as it did the rest of the military. The "Bismarck" was one of these newly build ships.

Sooo good election!!! A very good song and about a very famous WW2 topic. I think you have done it right listening into the history before the song

My great uncle was a Lieutenant on the HMS Hood and perished in her sinking. Thanks for covering this in a way.

HMS Rodney was named after Admiral Lord George Rodney and NOT Del boy's brother...

It's really interesting because during ww2 in the war of the pacific there was the Battle of the Coral Sea, like 8 or 9 days long and it was the first naval battle where the ships never directly saw each other. So much happened during ww2 that changed the world

Nice reaction. Looking forward to a live stream .-)

HMS Rodney was a pretty powerful ship. She was older and slower than Bismarck (or the brand new King George V-class just rolling out for the Royal Navy), but her armour belt was thicker and her guns were bigger and she had more of them (3 turrets with three 16-inch guns compared to 4 turrets with twin 15s for the Bismark-class). This was the highlight of her career imo. The Nelson's (made up of Nelson and Rodney) are really interesting looking ships, kinda funky. Blast damage from battleship main guns isn't all that strange, with some ships having more issues than others. Big guns have big shocks. Rodney and Nelson had issues with it too, with the blast of the guns shattering windows. It was to the point they had to fit blast deflectors under windows to protect them. And you probably wouldn't want to be out on deck in an open anti-air mount when the main guns are firing. Both because you're probably being shelled too, and the blast of your own ship's guns going off won't be fun.

The USS Hood was an Excelsior class! I do like all the nods Star Trek gets in your videos!

You need to watch Sabaton's and Yarn Hub's colab for "No Bullets Fly" and "Night Witches." For those two, watch the music video first, then Sabaton History. The info that you want for context is already in the music video.

Great video & Song.

Actually loving your vids! But gotta say this: You got to react to Sabaton - No Bullets Fly So effing emotional!

my brother flew the navy museum swordfish when he was still in the Fleet Air Arm and noted that the bi-plane had tremendous lift, and this means you could land it in a very short space, great for carrier ops.. do try to see the historic demise of its sister ship Tirpitz

5:39 The main reason they were more worried about fighting France than Britain was because they had a chance of winning against France. The Royal Navy was absolutely gigantic so the Kriegsmarine's strategy in the planning stage was to look the other way and pretend they didn't exist. Also, 10:44 the most decorated ship in US Naval History was the carrier USS Enterprise

My middle name is Rodney, I was named after HMS Rodney the ship my grandfather served on during the war. Hated it when younger, love it now.

They are not going out to look for the ship. They are going to see if the spirit of Bismarck might be conjured out of the fog by playing stupendously epic music.

Hi SoGal, there is a British film from 1960 called (Sink The Bismark), it is just over 1.5 hrs long & is available free on KZfaq. As well as combat scenes, it shows the work involved in the search to locate it. It also features the U.S. Radio broadcaster (Edward R. Murrow) who was reporting from here in 1941.

Highly recommend Uprising next about a polish uprising in Warsaw during ww2.

History, Sabaton, Star Trek... Keep this coming, hahah! :)

So glad I've found your channel, The Bismark had a computer controlled anti-aircraft guidance system, which was designed for modern aircraft, problem was that it couldn't handle the low speed of the Swordfish, lucky bonus!

OK, making notes as I go here... In Europe of that period, there were still continental rivalries which are inconceivable today. But back then there were two main 800 pound gorillas sitting around in Europe, indeed as they are today: France and Germany. The UK itself had identified France as the most likely source of the next war in Europe as a matter of fact, not Germany. In Hitler's case, he intended on striking West to conquer western Europe so as to keep it from interfering in his vision of lebensaum (totally misspelled!) on the Eastern front in Russia. This was the concept of destroying the Slavs he hated so much in order to take their extremely fertile lands for pure Aryan German farmers to exploit (using Slavs as slaves - the word slave comes from Slav). As for the Bismarck, this particular battle demonstrates the reason why large "all eggs in one basket" type ships were obsolete with the development of the aircraft carrier (and submarine). Not only do you place a lot of firepower on one platform which is susceptible to destruction, but the nation's pride and morale goes down with it.

Star Trek related info, the Royal Navy had 5 ships titled Enterprise before the US navy had it's first.

My great uncle served aboard HMS Hood in the 1930's. He transferred to another ship in the late 1930's. He served on Mediterranean convoys before joining HMS Belfast (which is moored in the Thames) and serving on Russian convoys, participating in the Battle of the North Cape against the Scharnhorst and D-Day. Two very interesting naval operations to consider looking at are the RN attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto (the first ever all air ship to ship attack in history I believe) and Operation Pedestal, an attempt to deliver much needed supplies to Malta, A very good channel with information on WW2 aircraft carriers is Armoured Decks. Cheers!

(19:30) The name HMS Rodney goes back to the mid 18th century, originally named after Admiral George Rodney, the 1st Baron Rodney a naval commander who made his name during the American revolutionary war where he defeated the French fleet at the Battle of Saintes in the Caribbean which halted French plans to invade Jamaica. A hero of Lord Nelson he is reputed to have invented the naval tactic of 'Breaking The Line' used so effectively by Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar. There have been six Royal navy ships named HMS Rodney, the last being the one mentioned here. Launched in 1925, she survived the war and was broken up for scrap in 1948.

If you're interested in naval history I recommend Drachinfel, IDK if it's worth making reactions to anything but he does have a lot of videos of INSANE depth and manages to somehow be entertaining on quite dry topics.

There is a video called” Evolution of American Aircraft Carriers”, by Not What You Think, and It covers the history of Us carriers, from the Langley to the Gerald R. Ford.

My Grandfather was on the HMS Norfolk as a CPO ... As a child he had 2 small Spent shells ontop on the TV....i once asked what they were....They were fired at the Bismark.

The Hood was a Battlecruiser which means it sacrificed armour for speed as it was designed to combat smaller vessels.

There is quite a lot of difference between early aircraft carriers and later ones, even the carriers build at the end of WW2. A lot of the early ones were converted from battleship hulls they could no longer use because of the Washington Naval Treaty. But the carriers build near the end of WW2 were from the very start designed to be aircraft carriers once their value had become clear.

Great reaction video. There are so many good Sabaton songs you could check out and to each there is a Sabaton History video. From WW1 there are "Fields of Verdun", "The Red Baron" (Official Lyric video), "Cliffs of Gallipoli", "The Great War" and "Seven pillars of Wisdom". From WW2 you could check out "40-1" (live from Woodstock festival 2012), "Ghost Division" (live Woodstock festival 2012), "Uprising" (live Woodstock festval 2012), "Night Witches" (Animated STORY video) or "No Bullets Fly" (Animated STORY video) or "82nd all the Way". Then they have a couple of songs that have nothing to do with the World Wars like "En Livstid i Krig" (Live - The Great Tour - Gothenburg), "Livgardet" and "Swedish Pagans" (live at Wacken 2019). So much history to learn. And if someone asks "Who told you all that?" your answer would be "A Swedish metal band". Enjoy all the history lessons :-)

The ‘Battle of the Atlantic WW2’ refers to the entire campaign, not just the British pursuit of & sinking of the German ship Bismarck in WW2

The guy who's made it to survive and got the compass from his captain is holding this compass at the end of the video, but you must be figured out that. The interesting part is that the actor at the end is a real survivor from Bismarck

you should look for a documentary on the British 'Dam Buster mission' simply amazing story.

They weren't less worried about the British navy, they were more focused on the french navy as it was weak enough to contend with whereas the British navy was too strong to directly challenge

If you wanna do the concert livestream I HIGHLY suggest the "Great Saturday" playlist of their "Great Tour" (or at least some of those videos, like the Red Baron or En Livstid I Krig). Its not one single concert but high quality records from the stage from different locations of the tour, but it is basically the entire concert just cut up into parts.

this is a proper tune. played loud great to exercise to.

The French fleet was considered a threat to the German s. However the French as they are gave up therefore the French fleet became a threat to Britain which had to be dealt with. The second world war began with air forces on all sides (apart from the late arrivals) started by flying bi planes and finished with jet engined fighters. The Royal Navy has a tradition of no surrender and engages and fights an enemy to the end. Air superiority is a majure factor in war but sloging matches between Navy forces and troops on the ground are still a requirement in "total war"

HMS Rodney was named after Admiral Lord George Rodney, who fought - victoriously - in the American Revolutionary War. The Royal Navy have a long tradition of naming ships after famous admirals. The sunk "Hood" was named after Admital Samual Hood, a contemporary of Rodney, and one of Rodney's sister-ships was the HMS Nelson. The USA follows a similar tradition... just look at the majority of the modern aircraft carriers. Luckily, it's not a requirement to name these ships after Presidents, and so in spite of the "Gerald R. Ford", "Ronald Reagan" and "George H.W. Bush", there won't be a USS Donald Trump. The latest ship of the new aircraft-carrier class will be called - funny name that - "USS Doris Miller". Doris Miller was a black cook, who was awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions at Pearl Harbor. The first black American to get that medal, and worthy of being remembered. Naming a major warship in the US Navy after him wasn't uncontroversial... but no less than he deserved. Don't judge a book by its cover, or a ship by its name.

Hi SoGal, A lot of people have recommended the 1960 film "Sink The Bismark". One fact about it, the actor playing the Captain of HMS Prince of Wales was actually a gunnery officer on Prince of Wales during the battle with Bismark. As for naval aviation, you should look at the career of Captain Eric Brown of the Fleet Air Arm. He did more to advance naval aviation than anyone else in history. Some of his achievements, most types of aircraft ever flown, 487, most carrier take offs and landings, 2,407 and 2,271 respectively. First carrier landing of a twin engine bomber, a jet aircraft, tricycle undercarriage aircraft and helicopter. He singlehandedly accepted the surrender of 2,000 german troops at the end of the war. As he spoke fluent German he interviewed Herman Goring, Willy Messerschmitt, Wernher Von Braun, Ernst Heinkel and Kurt Tank. He survived the sinking of the carrier HMS Audacity, he spent a night adrift in the North Atlantic in December. Of the 24 men in his life-raft 22 died of hypothermia. You,ll be hard pressed to find a documentary about him that is less than an hour long, he was just that interesting a character.

Those old Swordfish torpedo planes wrecked the Italian fleet at Taranto in an action that inspired the attack on Pearl Harbour. Until then it was thought that it was impossible to use aerial torpedoes in a shallow anchorage. On the subject of the symbol on the sides of the Swordfish, all UK planes carried the same Roundel whether RAF, Navy or Army Air Corps, like all US military planes display a Star on stripes

You should react net to Sabaton - The Final Solution. It's about Holocaust. I highly encourage you to watch ShadowRider's version "Sabaton - The Final Solution (polskie napisy) HD" because of addition of scenes from movies about Holocaust - they are dramatic and terrifying but they really adding "the feeling" to this song.

Well now you have to do the Night Witches video by Sabaton, pretty please. If you do decide to do it please make sure it's the 7 minute one with the history included, makes it much better. Thank you and love your videos.

Hi So Gal, Another great video. There was an enjoyable British film made in the 1960’s starring Kenneth Moore called ”Sink the Bismarck” which was the order issued by Churchill. The battle of the Atlantic was what worried Churchill more than any other conflict. The film dramatises the whole of the operation. With your love of history you must visit the UK sometime. We have more history than we can use.

please react next to ghost division rommel's 7th panzer division

A tragicomic piece of naval history you should definately look into is the story of the Russian 2nd pacific squadron. Drachinifel has a great two part video about their journey.

Sabaton also made a song about the battle of Greece, which was important at the time because Greece was the only European country left, fighting alongside Britain and the country that gave the first land allied victory in WW2. Later the Germans attacked and eventually won the battle of Greece, but Greek forces that fled to Egypt kept fighting till the end of WW2. Hitler himself acknowledged that the Greeks were the toughest fighters from every other army they faced to that point. Germany suffered more casualties in Greece than all the other military operations combined up to this point in WW2. The Germans considering the Greeks to be equal fighters to them, did not take the Greek troops as prisoners and allowed the officers to keep their side arms. It is said that when the Italians demanded to take the Greek soldiers as POWs, The German Waffen SS general Sepp Dietrich, commanding the Liebstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler" regiment, told the Italian general that he would have to do so over his SS troops, because the losers could not take their victors as POWs. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jLaIq7qFlZO4mac.html and some links with more historical details: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldB0dbSaz6-nhKM.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jqiKo6VysNLNh3k.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gZl6n71q28y9nok.html

germany did try to build an aircraft carrier called the "Graf Zeppelin" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_aircraft_carrier_Graf_Zeppelin ) but resources went short so the project was never finished.

I recommend you watch the 2012 Woodstock Poland performance they performed in front of over half a million Polish fans they got the Polish fans to sing about the Ghost Division which is about Rommel and the German Panzer Tank Division which is pretty significant in and of itself considering Poland history with Germany. The follow-up song Uprising the crowd went nuts because of the Uprising is about the citizens of Warsaw rebelling against the nazi oppressors and then they played 40 to 1 which is about 700 polish soldiers fighting to the bitter end against 40,000 German infantrymen. The show was so fantastic that the crowd started singing the Poland National Anthem and I believe The members of Sabaton left the country as newly citizens of Poland P.S that Par he's the bassist for Sabaton him and Joakim Broden are the only OG band members

If you're interested the channel drachinifel has a much more detailed video on this, as well as many other naval topics.

If you want a Sabaton song about something American, I recommend 82nd All The Way.

Rodney and Nelson are probably my favourite designs from the British Navy in WW2. Names make it even better.

Aircraft carriers were not larger than battleships. When Aircraft Carriers became larger than battleships, those were no longer being built. And it should be noted, that if battleships weren't made obselete by more and more powerfull aircraft on carriers, than they might also grown larger and larger. Germans had plans of constructing battleships (so called H-Class) that in their most ambitous incarnation were up to 345 meters in lenght, before the outbreak of the war. Longer and with more displacement than even Nimitz Class carriers.

James Cameron, of Titanic fame, visited the site of the Bismarck and stated that there is a good case that the crew scuttled the ship. Cameron could find no damage to the internal hull of the ship caused by the torpedo's. That and the fact that it went down so quickly makes a strong case that the crew scuttled it possibly to be picked up. The ship was so tough that it would have taken more punishment before actually sinking. So, in order to save further lives it was scuttled. Cameron does admit that with the Royal Navy pounding it, it would have eventually sunk with its plates opening at the seams.

Thanks , incredible story, I love the movie sink the Bismarck ( 1960s ) great movie

Story first and music after. Good choice.

France and Germany were more hostile, they had been to war with each other twice in recent memory Prussia had invaded France in the creation of Germany or the German empire.

Battleships were essentially obsolete by WW2. That’s one of the reasons the attack on Pearl Harbour wasn’t as devastating as it could have been as the US aircraft carriers were out at sea.which meant it didn’t take long for America to strike back at Midway. It would have been a different story in the war in the Pacific otherwise, at least for a short time.

Cool interview, The Raf was constituted from two groups the royal flying corps and the royal naval air service and they amalgamated in 1918, the RAF pilots are independent of the navy and have airfields. We flew biplanes until someone modified a spitfire for the job, but, they wreaked havoc sinking half the Italian fleet etc etc. Few bits missing about the biplane attack including there being more than one sortie to find 'him' and nearly torpedoing HMS Sheffield by mistake. The interview has brought to light information to the damages to the ships in battle only the survivors could pass on and i didnt know. Bit like the sinking of the Kursk. Need x ray vision and to do an ultrasound before the poor guys passed to know but hey ho. Just subscribed. 👍

When the Bismarck emerges from the fog….THAT was badass.

Ouch! Indy is a good source for narrative history, but he starts of with a mistake already. The Bismarck wasn't the largest battleship ever build. It was 251m long and massed not quite 42,000 metric tons. The American "Iowa" class of battleships, the last build by the USA, came in at 270m and almost 46,000 tons. Biggest battleship(s) ever build were the Japanese "Yamato" and her sistership "Musashi" at 263m length and 65,000 tons. To compare: the latest class of US aircraft carriers is about 100,000 tons. And I should have watched on before posting... so ETA: He's also wrong that "the world had never seen anything like this". The Royal Navy had several ships of a comparable or bigger size. The "HMS Hood" - sunk by the "Bismarck" - was of almost exactly the same mass, even a bit longer, and had an equal armament. Some British battleships sported even bigger guns. Indy, Indy, Indy...

Great reaction! I hvae been told that the german sailor in the water was the the last survivor of the Bismarck and he died the year before they released this video and the captain of the boat that Sabaton plays on (that holds the compass) is the grandson of that german sailor.

There is a Battlefield 360 series on the USS Enterprise (CV-6) which is the most decorated ship in US Navy history. It is a good introduction to how WWII carriers operated.

The Bismarck was not the largest Battleship ever built, it was, along with her sister ship Tirpitz, the largest built by Germany with a maximum overload weight around 50,000 tons. The largest ever were the Japanese Yamato class by some margin. The Bismarck's were not as groundbreaking as is often claimed. They were an enlarged updated WW1era Bayern class design and their armour layout was outdated. HMS Hood was also a WW1 designed ship and by the outbreak of WW2 was over due for a major refit and she was over weight. It was not true that she had not seen action in WW 2, she took part in the action against the French Fleet at Oran in July 1940. Recent thinking on her loss in the action with Bismarck is that the Germans scored a lucky hit aft where her below waterline hull was exposed by the bow wave due to her high speed at the time. This penetrated a magazine for 4" ammunition which caught fire, in turn setting fire to the adjacent 15" magazine resulting in the explosion that destroyed her. There is a good recent video on KZfaq by Drachinifel. HMS Prince of Wales was a new ship that was still in the process of 'Working Up'. She still had Dockyard workers aboard and was suffering many 'Teething Problems' with her systems and guns. What is not mentioned in this video is that prior to their attack on the Bismarck the Swordfish had mistakenly attacked one of the shadowing British Cruisers, scoring a hit, but, the torpedoes were fitted with magnetic detonators, a new technology, and they failed to detonate. The Torpedoes used in the follow up attack were fitted with the older contact detonators and they did work. The aircraft on British aircraft carriers are flown by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm. They use the same roundel marking as the Royal Air Force. Between the wars the RAF had been responsible for providing the aeroplanes and the flight crews, but this had been a very unsatisfactory arraignment, and control of carrier aircraft was returned to the Navy a couple of years prior to the outbreak of war. Sadly not in time to undo the neglect by the RAF between the wars. The Bismarck had been spotted by a Spitfire photo reconnaissance aircraft whilst still in Norwegian waters. After the action with Hood and Prince of Wales Bismarck's where about's was not known for a while until she was re located by a RAF Catalina flying boat. HMS Rodney was named for a 18th century British Admiral. She was built between the wars and was armed with 9 16" guns in 3 triple turrets all forward of the superstructure. Her sister ship was HMS Nelson. HMS King George V, name ship for her class, was a sister ship of HMS Prince of Wales, a new ship with 10 14" guns in 2 quad and 1 twin turrets. There are many mistakes in the commentary by the 'Historian' in this video. For more accurate videos on the subject please do look up Drachinifel's channel on KZfaq.

10:35 I was actually going to comment about the USS Hood in Star Trek being named for HMS Hood and you beat me to it! I had the same experience growing up and often finding out about the names through Star Trek first before knowing the real history. Another good WW2 shout-out is in "Redemption", which features two starships named Akagi and Hornet - whose namesakes fought on opposite sides of a battle in WW2, and the producers wanted those names to symbolise a reconciliation.

The Rhine River valley and the Alsace-Lorraine region has been disputed territory between France and Germany since forever and have changed hands a number of times.

The wreck of Bismarck was discovered on 8 June 1989 by Robert Ballard, the oceanographer responsible for finding RMS Titanic. Bismarck was found to be resting on her keel at a dept of approximately 4,791 m (15,719 ft), about 650 km (400 mi) west of Brest. 48°10′N 16°12′W

PS I really like your approach to this and everything else, come to that ! pip pip David

HMS Rodney was a hulking monster with three triple 16 inch turrets up front, She pounded Bismarck to scrap and as a side note scored the only battle ship on Battle ship torpedo hit against Bismarck.

USMC here. I would absolutely love it if you checked out Sabaton's song about us called "Devil Dogs." Thanks in advance. Edit: If you want a good look at WWII era aircraft carriers you should watch Midway. The dialogue in that movie can be extremely cringey at times, but they did a great job showing what happened during that battle. Those boys deserve to be remembered forever.

The ship was named for Admiral George Brydges Rodney, a great naval hero, one of his midshipmen was Samuel Hood later admiral Hood after whom HMS Hood was named.

The planes that disabled the Bismarck had the same roundel as RAF aircraft, but were actually part of the Fleet Air Arm, which was responsible for several other famous operations such as the attack on the Italian harbour of Taranto, which inspired the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.