Hood's last salvo is poetic as hell

Firing on the Prince Eugen was the final critical mistake for HMS Hood.

Mad respect to the people who fired the last salvo

"I will not have my ship shot out from under my ass" translates into "oh hell no! now you fucked up!"

“I cannot actually beat the shit out of her, even getting closer... ” - Hood

As Rear Admiral Jingles says, “you give the enemy full broadside, your going to get a paddlin”

mad respect for the cameraman for risking his life on the battlefield and shoot this masterpiece

Armor piercing shells used in World War Two were tipped with a lead cover called a penetrating cap (shown as red in the video) over the pointed steel projectile because it was discovered that a pointed steel projectile will simply bounce off a solid steel hull, especially when the hull is 7 inches thick (178MM) like the HMS Hood was. Anyone who has ever tried to drill a hole in a piece of steel without first center punching it will discover the bit refuses to penetrate the steel. The lead tip "center punches" the hull. I was a Gunners Mate in the US Navy in the 1960s.

+Kingslayer +One shot one kill +Survivor +Merciless +Bloody thirsty +Ruthless +Giant killer +Scrapped +Collateral

OK imma play world of warships

we've got to sink the Bismarck, the terror of the seas, with those guns as big as steers, and those shells as big as trees!

Prinz Eugen doesn’t get enough credit 😂😂

I think it's amazing these gunners can hit targets miles off. No laser targeting, no computers, no satellite tracking literally just raw calculations. Edit: I learned something in the replies, they did have early computers for targeting.

Hood: Approaches Bismarck. Bismarck: Do you want to explode?

My dad knew one of the 3 survivors of the Hood, signalman Ted Briggs. My dad was also a signalman and trained with him. It's weird to hear the story told from the perspective of history when you were personally acquainted with the people involved. But every time I see stories about wars I can't help but think of all the wasted potential of those who were killed. Maybe one day we'll have no more wars.

Bismarck: Töten sie Briten! Jawohl, Herr Kommandant! **sinks Hood** Hood: This is for my fallen Sailors! **fires last salvo**

5:01, The groan as the hull buckled gave me shivers up my spine. That was a phenomenally powerful explosion. Many of the sailors died mercifully for they didn't know what hit them.

Seems like the Brits didn't bother re-aiming the guns after overshooting every shot.

Holy shoot, there was a purge of Dogfights vids here on KZfaq, including this incredible video.

My father lost many friends on Hood, on which he had previously served. Thankfully, he was not on her final voyage, he took the loss of so many men with considerable rage.

1:15 I wish I had dispersion like that in wow

The pros of having similar looking Battleships: The enemy can shoot at the wrong one L O L

My grandfather was too young to join the Newfoundland Regiment so the found a way to England where he joined the Royal Navy. He was too young and was assigned below deck where no one wanted to be in an attack. He told me about shells punching neatly through bulkheads and severing seated men at the waste, and cleaning it up. His greatest source of pain was when another sailor stepped in for a tour he missed to keep him out of trouble. That ship would be lost. I think it was the battle for Bismarck but I can't be totally sure. He would just recall bits and pieces to everyone out of the blue and never speak of that particular thing again. It was up to the family to try and put them together. My grandmother, a British war bride, was sent to Wales at the start of the London blitz but was mistreated by the sponsor family. She made her way across the UK, collected her sister along the way, returned to London and they got caught out in an air raid. They actually saw a bomb bounce down a street past them and blow up in the bottom of a Dept store building. You could never make a movie to grasp what these folks went through.

Bismarck spams ez in chat

actually the shell that killed the Hood h it the water, amidship, surfed up and into the Hood low on the side. Starting fires in the 4 inch magazines that began the destruction and ultimate ignition of the main magazine just aft. It did not go through the deck or upper side plating.

Who else heard a Minecraft water splash sound effect.

My grandmother remembered when the Bismarck sunk the Hood, lots of British moral was lost that day. Only to be regained three days later.

The good ole’ “I detonate your pride” vs the “floating mass of wasted space”

Pride of a nation; the beast made of steel. Bismark in motion. King of the Ocean! He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas!

4:14 I like that they actually made the flight time 20 seconds

Gives me chills that even as Hood was vertical and sinking the guns still defiantly fired. Unbelievable to say the least.

Ted Briggs, one of the three survivors from the Hood, recollected that he was up high on the superstructure....after the explosion the order to abandon ship was given...he lined up to exit...he said an officer stepped aside and gestured him out...he did so....and was soon in the water...pulled down then miraculously lifted to the surface in a surge of air exploding from the ship. He swam, and turned to see the bow of his ship standing vertically and slipping into the sea. Of the officers gesture, he could only say, in broken voice..."I can never forget that."

Having damage Bismarck like that after taking such devastating fire Prince of Wales and the men deserve a ton of respect

Gets me chills as how powerfull the explosion is, It literally lifts the hull above the sea level

I've been looking for this video for months

The explosion on Hood is so phenomenal. It cut the ship clean in half. The Hood slipped under the waves in less than 3 minutes. All but three sailors never knew what hit them. They died mercifully. May they rest in peace.

Excellent clip on the sinking of HMS Hood. Ludovic Kennedy's book on the subject, Pursuit the sinking of the Bismarck, documents the entire story from breakout into the North Atlantic to the sinking of Bismarck with great accuracy insight and research. A book well worth reading.

I think the shell who sunk the Hood must be the most deadly in human history. 1415 man died from one single shell of Bismarck. RIP all sailors of the battle!

I love the animation of Hood's explosion. The slight lifting of the ship, the sound, the actual look of the explosion. Exactly how I picture a main magazine detonation.

i'm here from the Tate interview on Valuetainment

I've loved this documentary since I was a kid, but every single time I see Bismarck fire those first 8 shots... Jesus Christ dude, chills and fear every single time

When you meet a HOOD in WoWs, my head says: "May 24...1941...DAWN!.."

HMS Prince of Wales was so new she still carried dockyard workers to finish calibrating the ships equipment. The Hood, in my opinion, is still the most beautiful capital ship of the line to ever be built. Her lines just flowed from stem to stern. Her low freeboard aft meant she was a wet ship in heavy seas but she is still gorgeous.

I never really understood Lutjens hesitation. Yes, he was ordered not to engage capital ships and focus on convoys, but the battle in the Denmark Straits was unavoidable. His SAG was shadowed by Norfolk and Suffolk with advanced radar and he couldn't evade the scouting ships or engage them. His only chance at evasion is after he clears the GIUK gap, so he was forced to go through PoW and Hood.

Can we just appreciate how amazing the animation looks?

the sad thing is that only 3 people survived the hoods' sinking

5:24 gave me chills. War no win or defeat just loss... how ever you look at it.

My Father could have been on HMS Hood. He and his two friends enlisted, but as my father was only 17 the papers had to be signed by my grandfather. A veteran of the horror's of WW1 he refused to sign his son's life away. As for my father's friends, they were stokers in the engine room of HMS Hood when she went down. May they rest in peace.

British Battlecruiser: **exist** Bismarck: *and I took that personally*

Imagine is hood's salvo of defiance magazine detonated the Bismark, that would be so epic.

If you look at Bismarck's super structure directly from the front, you can see a death's head.

Love it when TV documentaries spin about half an hour of Show-time out of about 7mins of content. Really drives home the padding when you see it all in one go. Shout out to my homies on the Hood though.

What wasn't mentioned in this clip is that Hood was a battlecruiser, not a battleship. Her deck armour in particular was never intended to face the heavy shells of a battleship's main guns. She was scheduled for upgrades to her armour, but these kept being postponed as she was repeatedly used for propaganda cruises in the late '30s. When the UK declared war on Germany in 1939, there was suddenly no time left. As for Prince of Wales and her four-gun turrets, I'm reminded of something that a martial-arts instructor once said to a friend of mine : if you haven't practiced it, you can't do it.

Slight problem. The trajectory they showed would have put the shell out the other side through the superstructure. What likely happened was a hit below the armor belt just after dipping into the water. And at a 14 degree approach angle, this would be a relatively easy hit.

They probably chose to do this for a reason, but while watching, I found myself wishing animated people/soldiers had also been put into this recreation. It was a fascinating culmination of events, occuring within WW2. And it'd be fascinating to observe some recreated human played out actions and reactions and behaviours while all this was going on, and each new thing took place.

Rest in peace Bismarck, got my respect

Holy shit, 1400 sailors gone after that 1 lucky hit. Its horrifying to watch as the ship bend and blows up. Even if it is an animation and isnt the real thing. I can only imagine.

It always breaks my heart to hear Hood's hull give out at 5:01, as if she just finally gave up. It sounds like she's screaming in pain.

This was one of the last great sea battles, the other being Battle of Leyte Gulf and Battle off Samar. Honestly as epic as this battle was, I think Samar was better, a bunch of hornets swarming a bear so to speak, Destroyer escorts vs a mega battleship doesn’t get much more one sided

"a hurricane of shrapnel"? American's go through that every spring in the hearland of the USA. It's called Tornado Season.

i never expected Hood's turrets to still be able to fire

The British had a bad habit of leaving the powder doors open during a firefight.

Dogfights was the greatest show on history channel And you can’t change my mind

Pride of a nation a beast made of steel

without context, bismarck holding fire at the beginning sounds cool as hell, as if they wanted to shorten the distance for the perfect shot

"Both were truely great battleships of their day. My dads father served on HMS HOOD. But was on shore leave when it took that direct hit. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Aside from the great animation, the background music Is super tense and exciting, and whoever did the soundtrack for this is amazing.

Narrator: "Bismarck, the largest warship afloat" Yamato: "Am I a joke to you?"

They forgot to mention that the Prinz Eugen was the first to hit and damage the Hood multiple times before the Bismarck managed to score a hit

5:24 As Hood slides beneath the waves her forward turret fires a final defiant salvo before slipping into darkness.. I can just imagine what it’s saying... “ Noob ”

Hood: **exists** BMs 1st salvo: **wants to know your location** BMs 2nd salvo: **steady steady** BMs 3rd salvo: *gotcha bi*ch !* PEs 4th salvo: **Baby you are a firework** BMs 5th salvo: **I'm gonna end this ships whole career**

HMS Hood put up a great fight and very extremely sadly that only 3 survived it and 1,415 brave men went with it. That's very extremely creepy but yet they had no other options but fire their last salvo in anger towards the Bismarck who made it happened. British Navy and the German Navy both sides were actually shocked and disbelieve what happened to HMS Hood.

I love battleships! They are so powerful and beautiful! They strike fear into there enemies!

None can stop Bismarck before he meet king George IV

1:31 I didn’t know Minecraft was in ww2

I remember watching dogfights episodes on KZfaq as a kid and now they're all gone :(

It’s great to see this Video , After building both model Ships !

I like how he knows what he is talking about but he calls the bismarck *SHE* instead of he

Considering how far north the Denmark strait is located it’s amazing that the 3 soaking wet freezing cold survivors didn’t succumb to hypothermia before they were picked up……must have been made of strong stuff.

From what I can tell, Bismarck had fired his short salvo while Hood was in the middle of her turn. For Hood they unintentionally turned right into it.

kinda makes me chuckle, the ilistrations of missed shots. in perfect formation of the barrels. the dispersion of these guns is so outrageous

Lindemann has my respect as an officer. All admirals are good for is public appearances and social functions.

Parents: aww, look at him playing BattleShip with his friend! What he and his friend are thinking:

Bismarck in warship PvP games: accuracy sucks Bismarck irl: sinks another ship in 3 salvos

Battlecruisers, typically those of the early 20th century that fought in the first world war were an evolutional dead end, but Hood was NOT a battlecruiser in the same mold as the WW1 invincible class. She had far heavier arms & armour than her predecesors, which was further upgraded while she was still being built in Glasgow due to the lessons learned at Jutland, and which brought her upto the same standard of weapons and armour as the Queen Elizabeth Battleships of the era ... but 8 knots faster!!! The fact the other 3 admiral class were cancelled was as much due to the fact that Hood was THE most expensive warship ever built at the time of her construction, and Britain had been bled dry by WW1, and could not afford the cost of completing another 3 "Admirals". The fact is that she was a ship of her time, a world beating fast battleship of the 1910s/20s that was never properly updated to keep her abreast of developments in gunnery over her life span due to her being CONSTANTLY in use for 20 years "flying the flag" for the British Empire, and when consequently the major refit that was scheduled for her later in 1941 was postponed by the breakout of the Bismarck, she was still a powerful but aging, dated ship whose "Achilles heel" was becoming all to apparent, and which through Bismarck's excellent gunnery, was exploited by a million to one shot.

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Hoods last fire was if anything 'IF IM GOING TO GO DOWN AND DIE, BY HECK, IM GIVING EVERYTHINGG'

Bismarck: the biggest ship afloat Japan: hold my beer

if you have ever shot a rifle at 100 yards, these ships are shooting targets as small as a flea on that target, and hitting in the same hole, just off by the thickness of a piece of paper. krazy how they can do that.

Jutland should have proven the Battle Cruisers' weakness sufficiently for the RN, but they had to loose another to learn their lesson!

Best story ever. I listen to this while sleeping every time.

I love that the big tough Bismark had its rudder taken out and all it could do was turn in circles like a wounded animal. Ahhhhh!! Not so tough now eh Adolph? FIRE!!!!!!! That thing was going to the bottom no two ways about it.

Dogfights Soundtrack OST used at 0:34 when HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales. It is "Soldier - v2 (No Melody)" by Alan Paul Ett. Other military tracks from him seems to have been used in other episodes of Dogfights as well. Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtRgdKposM-tpas.html If there is enough interest, I'd be more than happy create a full playlist that is public of the Dogfights OST for Dogfights Fans such as myself to listen to and enjoy.

It was a tragedy for many towns and villages on and near the south coast of England because many of the crew were from that area. My family lost 5 members , on both of my grandfathers' sides. They used to describe it as being the fastest submarine in the fleet because she shipped so much water on deck when steaming at speed.

10% skills 90% lucks for a shells to hit

70’s British Doctor Who actor John Pertwee should have been on the Hood, he was a sailor on it, but when the Bismarck left port the Hood left too immediately to face her. Some civilian trades men on the Hood working left with her and died with her.

Bismarck: I’m the biggest ship afloat Yamato: I’m gonna end this mans career

Hood In the Bottom Of The Sea Yamato And Others : So you sank huh? Rip For The Lost Edit : 0 Likes :)

Bismarck: FIGHT ME BITCH Bismarck: shoots* Hood: counties shooting* Hood dies*

these documentary versions are my absolute favourite