And avoid pumpkins and people called Wilson at any cost

@@ai-d2121 You mean a volleyball?

Well, his shrimpboat business went pretty well i would say 😂

@@mortjoer At least this time, he is not dealing with some Somali pirates who want to take his ship.

However if you get invited to a Batchelor Party with him... GO

Thank you for your service.

Awesome

Did you find Ivan?

Thank you for your service!

@@andreasjonsson8075 - None, but almost. After 48-hours at battle stations, the crew hit the sack, replaced by newbies. The new sonar operator informed the captain that he had picked up a ping. When he could not identify it, the captain ordered that the "experienced" guy be woken up. He comes in, puts on the headphones and listens. "It's fucking whale," he exclaimed and went to hit the sack. The was our closest. LOL

you will be surprised how much salary of US soldiers during WW2

@@joshuajoaquin5099 let's assume he's an E4. in 1944 an E4 with ~3 years of service made base pay of 81.90...monthly. When adjusted for inflation that's 1381.17 per month. It wasn't a lot.

@@joshuajoaquin5099 no we won’t 😂

​@Ghost Smoke "not a lot' but it was enough for a lot of that generation to build stable lives for their families after the war ended However I would argue that our soldiers could never be paid enough

@@jacobpgood724 Spot on, mate.

this kind of movie is what IMAX was made for.

Big sin it never saw the big screen.

It was originally going to be in theaters but remember, COVID-19 ruined it.

@@CngDelta757 Yeah such a shame.

It was.

Why? I assume cause 1 torpedo is hard to track the location of where it came from

@@kennyrivera6332 I think a part of it is to distract the escorts and let the other U-Boats get into attack positions unmolested.

@@kennyrivera6332 the idea is for the submarine to get very very close and attack at the best possible moment, preferably while surfaced so you can aim better, with only one shot. This is instead of planning ahead of time to attack from a "safer distance" and use many torpedoes to increase your chance of hitting. If you get the kill with the first hit there's nobody left to report your location, and you still have almost a full payload. Very effective for sinking more ships per voyage. The u-boat captain referred to, Otto Kretschmer, fired 116 torpedoes and 70% of them hit. Surprisingly he did all of this in the first 2 years of the war, being captured in early 1941 after an action where 5 u-boats attacked a convoy of 41 supply ships and 6 escorts. They sank 6 supply ships but lost two u-boats including Kretschmer's. After the war he served extensively in the West German Navy and NATO! He died in a boating accident in 1998, aged 86.

@@benneem NATO are basically modern Nazis so must have been easy for him

Silent Otto had all his success in the early part of the war.

Would have been even worse knowing they were out there but unable to detect them until they revealed themselves and fired. That would have sucked even more.

it was worst at the begining of the war. towards the second half planes got good enough to range far and bomb the hell out of them. they ended up inventing basically a microphone they would drop in the water, listen for the sounds of submarines such as propella noises, then drop airial depth charges to bomb the shit out of em

@@danielp2311 very good movie, Konvoi is the best soundtrack from it

About as terrifying as seeing America Invaded by illegal immigrants across our Southern Border. Looks like American WW2 losses will be in vein as we join a 1 World Global Economy.

Submarines were slow and had limited range underwater, all a convoy had to do was turn away and the subs would be left behind. They got lucky if they managed to find themselves ahead of a convoy coming towards them. also depending on the zig or zag. Try Silent Hunter 3 on the PC, its quite informative if you play with no cheats, full realism.

Psycological or physical ?

Good question. PTSD wasn’t well talked about as openly as it is today. There was a real stigma in any mental health condition back in the 50’s and 60’s. Hiding one’s problems only makes them worse. Men were more stoic back then

@@62Cristoforoen are becoming more stoic again, because of how we're treated by modern society. Hopefully it will do us better in the long run

All hail the flower class!

I just finished reading The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, which tells the semi-autobiographical experience of a young naval officer on board a Flower class escort throughout the duration of the war. It describes quite eloquently just how brutal, boring, hilarious, and downright horrifying the Battle for the Atlantic really was. It's definitely worth a read if you're interested in the topic - I believe it was regarded quite highly by naval veterans of that era.

That’s one of my favorite movies

*destroyer

@@panzerivausfg4062 he’s making a joke aimed towards the old board game battleship…

@@factbeaglesarebest I see

I like accurate jokes 🤷

@@turtledan2513 So did the germans. Oh wait. That was torpedos. My mistake.

Well put it into a novel before it is lost Get someone to write it for you. I believe some Uni students doing Arts do it.

Destinies of our "fathers"......probably one of the most difficult side with the convoys of the North Atlantic and the fights with the u-boats and the German air force...many soldiers came back without talking about it. (if you know the British singer and actress jane birkin ,the wife of the singer serge gainsbourg) , his father in the navy also deposited commandos on the French coast (Brittany), and after the war he came on holiday in this region....

Holy shit dude!

Somebody should edit Greyhound and Das Boot into a single movie.

@@MarkChittom Hmmm, nah. These stories deserve to be told on their own. But I WOULD pay good money to spend 6 hours in a movie theater for a double feature!

As a former SWO (Surface Warfare Officer) who served aboard a WestPac based sub-hunter frigate in the mid 1980’s, I can attest that ‘Greyhound’ gets it right on every count. Thank you Mr. Hanks, cast and crew.

what was wrong with the near collision scene?

they should make those radio scenes a dream-like events instead of something that actually happened. fits hanks' character who is unsure of his own abilities, also his fatigues as he's been on it for days. makes a lot more senses that way.

@@bwer123gt ya absolutly. I think it would have fit the movie a lot better.

Yep. Too much melodrama.

@@MrChickennugget360 Uh, it's ghey?

fire everything!!!!

Try Das Boot, Enemy Below, Hunt for Red October....

Nothing beats Das Boat IMHO I've only ever seen clips of the Tom Hanks movie and it worries me, as do most Hollywood productions. Recommend The Cruel Sea for a more personal pace of film.

Lol this movie is trash.

Greyhound a gem of a naval war film agree really captures the fear from german uboats

@@piotrd.4850 The Cruel Sea is the absolute peak of naval warfare films. Das Boot is also phenomenal.

Convoy Rescue Ships were a legit thing and did some great work.

​@@goodshipkaraboudjan Except I do not think they were in the middle of the Atlantic

@@jacktattisThey were, as they were considered a part of the convoy. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_rescue_ship There just doesn’t seem to have been a whole lot of them, and the one in the movie looks like a fleet tug, some of which did perform this task.

@@sirboomsalot4902 Thanks however it is extremely unlikely that a USN destroyer would be convoy leader

Yup, my dad flew ASW patrols off North Carolina and Florida and said that people could see the ships explode at sea and dead bodies would wash up on the shore. He said that a lot of cities refused to turn their lights off even though they lit up the tankers at sea. German U-Boat captains were attacking on the surface.

@@jerlewis4291 City lights could only expose docked ships, or ships in the harbour area. You really don't need to be far out to sea for the coastline - with the lights that go with it - to disappear. So any stories about fires or explosions out in the open sea having somehow been witnessed by people on shore, I take them with a grain of salt.

@@itskarl7575 No, you could see the dark silhouettes of the ships as they moved in front of the lit cities.

@@jerlewis4291 In which case they would have to be in the harbour area. The horizon is only about 5 km away - which means if you're at about that distance from shore or farther, water is all you'll see.

@@itskarl7575 I spent 9 years at sea, and you can see the loom of a large city from 20 miles out. Why don't you look up ships sunk by U-boats off the Florida coast? My dad flew the ASW patrols. You can definitely see the silhouette of a ship that has lights behind it.

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Some apologies but it's an absurd overstatement. U-boats would try to get ahead of the convoy but would dive to avoid radar detection. The bravado exhibited by this Wolfpack is ridiculous.

@@francisdavis1271 yes but they were detected by sonar. A piece of technology very new and unknown to the Germans during the time

@@Phantom-dm9fz And given to the USA free of charge by Britain

A sense of realism, true! it's looks visually like a Playstation 2 game.

Go and get films from the 50s /60s better than this rubbish

More British merchant Seamen were casualties in WW2 than any of the forces. My father Survived the Atlantic and Mediterranean Campaigns and was awarded the relevant medals. He was torpedoed in the Med.

Pssst check bili bili

Well they did not.

Can you not get Apple tv?

She’s supposed to be a Mahan-class. Thats what Keeling was in the book at least, and fortunately they aren’t too dissimilar to Fletchers to the untrained eye.

@@sirboomsalot4902 yea, near as I can tell they used the Fletcher as their a couple of those still around...I think they used the USS Kidd over in Baton Rouge is I am not mistaken.

@@Curmudgeon2 Yep, they used Kidd

They will NOT believe you.

Those USN destroyers, corvettes, and destroyer escorts' primary job was to drive the U-boats down and let the merchant ships through until there were enough numbers to set up the hunter-killer task forces centered on escort carriers. The RN went through the same cycle, only earlier in the war. The USA provided 50 badly-needed 4-piper, WW1 era destroyers to Britain after so many had been lost in the Battle of France and Battle of Britain. Liverpool housed the HQ for the Western Approaches Command (RN) which handled so much of the Battle of the Atlantic (great museum now). American-made B-24 Liberators finally closed the "Atlantic Gap" where convoys had not been provided land-based air cover during the early years of the war. Britain's Flower-class corvettes shepherded the convoys in and out of the Western Approaches to the British Isles. Many USN warships like USS Texas and USS Alabama supplemented the Home Fleet and escorted convoys at risk of a German surface ship breakout in 1942 - 1943. The British designed the original Landing Ship Tank (LST), but the vast majority were built by Americans in the Midwest along the rivers and Great Lakes. It was the closest-knit workings in the history of "the special relationship" between the US and UK. It's fun to root for your team and claim central responsibility for winning World War Two. The Soviets poured in blood and tanks. The British poured in gold until Lend-Lease started, plus so much of the leadership of the Western Allies. The Americans poured in all the manufactured things like the world depended on it - which it did. As others have pointed out, the loser of a world war loses EVERYTHING. All the weapons are handed over (aircraft, ships, tanks, guns, all of it), the surviving members of the military are detained, possibly imprisoned for a while. The military is largely disbanded. Instead of endlessly squabbling over who did the most to win the war, let's be grateful we didn't lose it. After France fell and most of European Russia was occupied by the Axis, the US, USSR, and UK were effectively battling against the economies of the European Union and Imperial Japan, plus occupied territory like most of coastal China - now the world's largest factory complex. The economies taken over by Japan included all of Korea, Manchuria, Singapore, Hong Kong, coastal China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), and the Philippines plus Micronesia. It was a serious challenge and the Big Three needed each other.

@@amerigo88 1. UBoat losses USN 83, USAAF 76, R/N- RVN 247, RAF- C/C157, Air Sea 37 , FAA 31, RCN17 ,RAAF 29, 2.Brits and Dominions 518 U.S. 159 3. Those 50 ex WW1 destroyers were rusted hulks barely seaworthy One was so bad it was sailed and used to breach the dry dock at a French port and Blown up The US never provided them the UK paid for them in territory Ports in the Caribbean the Ascensions and elsewhere 4. B24 were excellent however the Sunderland also closed the Gap and the thing is the Sunderland could and did land to rescue sailors. This is what US planes provided and What the Brits had themselves RAF Coastal Command US 1555 Brit 2602 5. Some of the breakup to 4 above Catalina 322 Sunderland 572 B24 368 Halifax 141 Wellington 276 B17 30 as you can see the UK still built their own as well 6. D Day fleet USN B/S 3, H/C 3 , L/C Nil ,D/E 40 , Monitors Nil, other ships 154 total 203 7. D Day fleet R/N B/S 3, H/C 2 , L/C 17 D/E 139 Monitors 2 other ships 352 total 515 8. Even this late the UK still were a force to be reckoned with It is very hard to find out just how many planes the USAAF had up on D Day and the RAF/ Friends Both Air forces had a different interpretation on what was a sortie/mission I think the FAA provided spotters for their ships I do not know about the USAAF I know Seafires did it for the Warspite

@@amerigo88 1. Those 4 stackers were rusting hulks .One was used in a raid to blow up dry dock gates I bet the Brits were hoping for something Better 2 Those were not provided by the US The Brits paid in ports in the Caribbean Ascensions and elsewhere 3. UBoat kills in ww2 R/N and Friends 518 US 159 4. Coastal Command Brit 2602 US 1555 The Brits still had their own

Under fire Underwater May 42 when Bury did fail her test

@@unbeatablesniper16 To their own shore Came the World War Gleaves and the Ingham leading them into death

sabaton fans shut the fuck up challenge (impossible)

Just posted a comment about this.

I mean, it’s a high stress combat situation, I don’t think you can blame a guy for not knowing where every bearing is at all times

@@kmmediafactory Indeed...faster to ask a lookout to simply point it out...and in combat you have no time to leisurely figure things out.

Ah, the U-505. Its no longer displayed outside. When there was a remodeling of the museum, they placed inside below ground in a huge diorama-like setting meant to evoke the Sub pens I think. I remember one time while it was displayed outside, maybe 88-89 I lifted myself through one of the bottom....vent-holes I guess of the outer hull near the bow. you could see / touch the 4 forward torpedo tubes that jutted from the inner hull. I was able to climb up the various piping to just below the wooden deck. Its a fascinating exhibit. The history of its capture is amazing. Even if it ticked off the British when they learned of it.

@@barongorn yes indeed! Although I didn’t get the level of contact you enjoyed, your description of some of the details reminds me of the thrill of seeing that boat. You mention the wooden deck; while I don’t remember that specifically, I do remember the wooden cabinetry that seemed so well-crafted, with aesthetic appeal beyond mere functionality. It wasn’t ornate or “fancy”, but showed that a kind of “artisanship”/craftsmanship one wouldn’t expect on a more strictly utilitarian American ship. As for the wooden deck, I vaguely remember being impressed that it was wood, but don’t remember seeing it. It’s indeed fascinating to see how the difference between traditional shipbuilding (including the materials) and WWII submarine construction (at least as far as Germany was concerned) was not as absolute as one might imagine, with fascinating “transitional” aspects like a wooden deck.

@@AnonYmous-ry2jnTo be sure if any security types saw me doing it I would have been in trouble. And I believe the wooden deck was used because of how much time was spent on the surface and the crew walked about it was less slippery than a steel deck would have been. That is pure speculation on my part, but without googling it, it feels logical.

Some of my favorite war stories are from destroyers. My FIL served with some captains that more courage than brains. One fired those forward facing (squids?) while moving at high speed... trying to heard a sub into shallow water. Blew a hole in his own hull when they went off directly under him at like 60 feet. He was also stationed on some island that had an Allied airbase on one side, and a Axis sub base on the other. The would stand at the fence and watch for subs to leave, then race a destroyer around the island to try and catch it surfaced outside the treaty zone.

That's like how in WWII movies, tanks move way too fast and engage each other at way too close of a distance. Lots of people loved the movie Fury, but it was not a very accurate WWII movie. It's unfortunate that it played to so many myths and stereotypes

Yeah they massively increased the pace for the movie. In the book it takes them like half an hour to just reach a sub once they have its location, and a turn to intercept when in combat takes 5-20 minutes. I guess with this knowledge I just assumed we were cutting in at the time critical moments. They should have done a Spongebob '20 minutes later' constantly coming onto the screen 😄

It's explained a bit better in the book, he's a very experienced sailor just not a wartime one. All the crews on destroyers etc were well trained on anti-sub tactics beforehand, but yeah its a bit of a leap for him to display this level of tactical brilliance!

ow that hurts

@@wy5708 lol

darth vader (and the big imperial helmets) were based on these ww2 navy helmets- and dark helmet is based on darth vader. so it has come full circle.

With a sneer upon his face Robert Mitchum would have solved the problem.

@@MrChickennugget360 also samurai armor

The rebel fleet troopers at the beginning of episode IV wore that exact helmet with a visor, black vest, blue shirt, grey pants and boots. Helmets were molded from a WWII navy comm pot with a tail added.

It's a radio communication helmet

I'll take a look! I have a few clips up from Generation War.

@@JohnnysWarStories Thank you so much!

A pelorus I believe.

No they didn’t lmao. They did field acoustic torpedoes at a later point but even those still missed