"They could be singing a song about Easter Eggs hunting." And my ADD just put the image of Joakim in an easter rabbit costume singing Ghost in the Trenches.

in the attack on Convoy ON 92 it was the British convoy rescue ship SS Bury that was equipped with high-frequency direction finding, a type of radio direction finder, not as you rightly pointed out a destroyer. The convoys naval escorts were the flower class corvettes HMCS Algoma, Arvida and Shediac and HMS Bittersweet, there was also the cutter USCGC Ingham and the destroyer USS Gleaves.

Sabaton - Midway is the shortest song. only 2 minutes and 30 seconds. And it is one of my favorites

Even in Germany at that time going on a submarine was voluntary, from what I was told. It was heavily advertised in the Navy as the most heroic job and the one that would get you all the ladies but it was still voluntary. My grandfather got offered a submarine position but he knew it basically meant 100% assured death so he refused. His friend on the other hand like the thought of being such an amazing hero and unfortunately never came back.

The store I used to work at called the carts on the loading docks U-Boats. I'd be humming and singing this while stocking shelves. They must have thought I was nuts.

Pls react to sabaton more often, they are amazing

The song that got me in to Sabaton. Now it's a family issue, my son is so in to them to. They know their history and i love them for that and the heavy riffs. ❤🦊🤘 Stay safe!

The battleship Texas, the captain sunk half the ship to be able to even hit the beaches of Normandy. Its epic for a captain to even do this.

Never apologize for liking history or any other kind of learning and education. It is the best quality of humanity alongside of curiosity, which together brought us out of caves and to the skies and beyond.

Glad to finally meet someone who "loved" Greyhound as much an I did. Two thumbs up.

I love this band. My son got into them by playing Call of Duty; So for His 8th birthday I took Him to see them. They put on an amazing show. Turned out to be a very awesome night.

Sorry, when you mentioned Tom Hanks, all I could think of was Ricky Gervais speach at the Golden Globes 2020.

The guy who does the Sabaton History Channel also has another channel, "WW2 day by day". Really time-consuming, but amazingly done.

Did twenty years on submarines, USS Nathan Hale, USS Henry Clay, USS George Bancroft and retired onboard USS Pennsylvania, all boomers. It is a different kind of life. Longest submerged period was 121 days! That record was recently surpassed by the USS Pennsylvania.

Sabaton live from Gothenburg, with En livstid i krig (with english subtitles) should be your next. It is just amazing, filmed from back of the stage and out on the crowd. And all sings along with the band. Sabatons guitarist Tommy Johansson also has a band Majestica. They released a metal christmas album, A christmas carol, based on Charles Dickens book by the same name. Can recommend Ghost of Marley. Tommy got some damn good pipes...

The moment you said that Sabaton's music was more accurate than the video, I subscribed :-D

In the movie they used the U.S.S. Kidd, a Fletcher-class destroyer, while in the book it's a Mahan-class destroyer. There may be only six years between these two types, but that is a very long time given the speed of the development during the war.

You need to react to the latest video Sabaton just released yesterday! It is called no bullets fly story video and the story will BLOW YOUR MIND!

When my wife and I saw Greyhound, she said she hated the soundtrack because it made her super anxious. It's like Dunkirk's soundtrack, but multiplied by like 10.

to be fair, the complete movie is historically inaccurate... radar is the least of the problems with it ok finished watching the video and I'm crying from laughing at your comments about the movie. and every word is true!

OSN I really dig and respect your history chops. Another facet to the gem that is you. Honest reactions, technical critique (You know what you do and don't like, and you can explain why). Cooking lessons, historical knowledge sharing. The result of all of this is that your fan base (subscribers) is above average. This keeps the comments interesting, educational, and civil (for the most part). You just keep getting better and better. Salute!

The movie Greyhound is based off of the book the Good Sheppard. You should check it out. Its a great book and hollywood nailed it with this movie. The book explains a lot more of what's happening than in the movie. They had to cut a lot of the hunts out of the movie and had to use a Fletcher class dd than the early War dd thats in the book.

Best submarine movie ever : DAS BOOT :)

I think the British started to equip the radar onto its destroyers in the '42. But the experimental ones to search and destroy enemy subs. But the radar didn't do well as mentioned in the lyrics 'when Bury did fail the test' because although she was equipped with radar, she couldn't detect the wolfpack resulting the loss of half the convoy

Highly recommend Night Withches by Sabaton.

This song was in their first album! And it's absolutely a bang. (The official first one, Metalizer wasn't done with the actual Sabaton essence, telling stories throughout songs)

People forget that something as large as a submarine periscope is only the size of your fist now imagine trying to find a human sized fist sticking out in the middle of the ocean

Yes!!! Finaly an older sabaton song!!! Keep them coming (beard) brother

Love your reaction to Sabaton. As a fellow history buff i can highly recommend the movie, Das Boot, a German made movie about the life in a German uboat on a mission. One of the best movies i ever seen.

I did 6 on the Cheyenne SSN-773, my wife and I were in the grocery store and saw and old couple and he was wearing a WWII submarine hat. I asked what boat and where he was, I don't remember what boat yet, it was in the Pacific. I vividly remember out of the corner of my ear the old man's wife grab my wife's arm and said, " come on dear, this is going to be a while." I still laugh.

As a Tin Can Sailor (USS Howard) the son of a Tin Can Sailor (USS Spruance) and the grandson of a Tin Can Sailor (USS Zellers) this movie really pissed me off.

You are alone about Sabaton music and the vocals having something which educes an emotion/mood, I would say something epic. Maybe I should say hero songs ? This is what Su-metal of Babymetal wrote in 2019 her Album of the year: Sabaton - The Great War: "I tend to listen to this album in the mornings, because Joakim's [Brodén, Sabaton singer] powerful vocals encourage me to push forward and achieve something great every day. But listening to it on the train is dangerous because I get into the groove too much and then I tend to miss the stops I'm supposed to get off at!" :-)

Agree with you both on the music and the video. :) There is an older fan-made video of this track which is better, with clips from other submarine movies. Wolfpack is one of Sabaton's older songs, but still one of my favorites. While radar was uncommon in WW2, asdic (the name for sonar at the time) wasn't - and in fact the Royal Navy had many corvettes equipped with it on anti-submarine duty on convoy escort. The Bury referenced in the song was one of them, but its equipment failed and it wasn't able to provide warning to the 2 American destroyers (Gleaves and Ingham) which were also on the escort. Despite that the actual losses of the convoy weren't that heavy, and the Bury wasn't sunk. A little artistic license by Sabaton. :)

Hey I just found your channel, your reactions are great! I'm a historybuff too, currently I actually study it in university. You should react to Sabaton's En Livstid I Krig (Live - The Great Tour - Gothenburg). Its an EPIC AF live gig and even if its not a story telling music video, it's still magnificent and emotional video. And be sure to turn the subtitles on if and hopefully when you watch it. Sabaton has an English version of this song, but the directly translated lyrics in Swedish are so much more meaningful. If you wanna do research (or just to point out), the song is about the Thirty years' War in Europe between 1618-1648 which was a very bloody one and particularly in the modern day Germany area in some areas even 2/3 of the whole population died. Greetings from Finland btw!

Sabaton did a tour earlier this year before the whole world went down to sh*t. But to all the fans, they decided to put on most of their songs from the tour on their channel. PLEASE do a reaction to their live performances! I know you did Ghost Division, so I KNOW you'll enjoy them! And also, they have a few songs in Swedish, why we can get into later, but they have a caption for it so you won't feel left out, promise!.... That's your holiday sealed.

Great job, As it is the 76th year Anniversary of the Battle of the bulge right now (started Dec 16, 1944)you should do "Screaming Eagles" and the history channel about the 101st Airborne during that battle

Alot of the Film Greyhound was filmed on USS Kidd, the only surviving Fletcher class destroyer which retains her WW2 configeration. Not the Mahan class (I believe) it should have been in the book. Not seen the film but I mean to, just because I'm a World of Warships fan. I must read Forester's "The Good Shepherd" which the film is based on too.

Watching this video makes me think of a hunter bringing a rifle to hunt a bear, having it in his sights. then running up to the bear and using the rifle as a club instead of shooting it.

I never noticed till you reaction, and I've heard this song over and over and over again because I love Sabaton, but I noticed that the high pitch notes on the guitar at the beginning of the song were put in to represent a radar ping 7:58 8:25 8:28 either way that's what I'm going to think of those now.

That movie must be so bad, too many scenes with submarine on the surface. And those torpedoes used on escort and not on cargo ships is waste of precious ammo. I need to watch Das Boot (that 5 hours long version) after this. Unfortunatelly Sabaton doesnt have a lot of naval history songs.

I love your historical analysis and fact-checking. Actually, more than he music, but that's just me.

PBY Catalina was plane made from wood, she could carry four torpedoes or 6 deep charge bombs, they were made for scouting

The sad thing about the song is that they never mention the four Canadian corvettes helping escort the convoy. The arvida algoma bittersweet and shedic were all part of the convoy

Great Reaction of a great song, a tip if you not have done it yet is to listen to the live version of Wolfpack from Nantes 2016. Epic.

Actually, the British developed the ASDIC (Anti Submarine Detection Investigation Committee) in 1939. It's a predecessor of the sonar and is as far as I'm informed the biggest factor why so many U-boats were sunk. The problem was, the System was useless at first since the U-Boats attack while they were on the surface at night, meaning the System couldn't pick them up. In 1943 was the Radar introduced to ships meaning attacks above the water line didn't work that good anymore. So they had to attack while they were submerged which resulted that the ASDIC could pick the U-Boats up and lead the destroyer to them.

The fletcher class was the first destroyers to have radar and that is the class of DD used in the movie. The incident in the movie with a german submarine right next to the Destroyer is also historically accurate and based on a few events such as the real-life clash between the U.S.S. Borie and U-boat U-405. On November 1, 1943 and also on point-blank 1942 encounter between a German U-boat and the Canadian destroyer, HMCS Assiniboine. That ended with the U-boat sinking after a furious close-up gun battle. "They were literally blasting each other with pistols, rifles, revolvers." Laco says. "The cook even came out of the galley and threw an empty case of Coca Cola bottles down the submarine hatch." The movie based on the C.S. Forester’s 1955 novel The Good Shepherd is actually fairly historically accurate but unfortunately not a great watch.

I really wanted to go in as a submariner. Had a weird situation that got me into the Army. But I really regret not waiting to go to the subs. Edit: Also, Im surprised I havent seen a fanmade playing this to Das Boot. Literally a U-Boot in the song.

I loved it... If you want to see the most lit crowd, react to the live performance from Sabaton: Uprising Love from Switzerland ⚜️🇨🇭 ⚜️

There is Radar displayed that is incorrect. But also there are sonar sound waves and sonar linear display which were really common even on cheapest ships of WWII.

Inmate 4859 (PL,EN-Lyrics) is one of my favourite videos. It don't contain lyrics, but still... The story about Witold Pilecki

The Catalina is one of if not my favorite ww2 era planes because I'm amazed it can be a bomber that lands on the water and a couple other things

I just got this video in my recommend, nicely done video. Little known fact they tried to compile a series of defense runs of cargo across the English channel, this is the defense force sent to defend that cargo, not much were really issued to the defenders which caused a high attrition raite, it was so bad that anyone who was supposed to deliver shipments to the allies were all voluenteers and often the Merchant Marines lead these ships in convoy with Naval Destroiers and coastal defense ships when applicable. While the video cant chronologically cover the mass of the "Eventful" attacks on those convoys, there were several historical moments that are true in the movie, submarines would surface next to destroiers as to avoid being in the effective firing range of the destroiers gun pods allowing the crew to attempt eaither boarding actions, use of the main gun (a tactic still widely used in WW2 left over from WW1), and also to cause other ships to avoid shooting at them while they recharged there oxygen tanks when they pushed there subs for too long and the oxygen for the tanks were low (needed oxygen for the crew and the engine obvioustly). These dangerous moves proved further problematic when you had a chance to "Lock up" a submarine with the keel of the destroyer and the crews duked it out via the weapons on hand. On one major occasion in the movie you will notice this "Lock up" where the crews are blasting away at each other at point blank range, ruthlessly trying to cut down the enemy numbers so they can break free. The event was true, according to a engagement a submarine got stuck to a American destroyer's keel and was tearing holes in the hull: The U-boats crew pushed out of the ship and were so close that the main gun wasnt capable of turning and switched to mounting a pintle MG-34 and varrious pistols to enguage the American Sailors, the sailors were equiped with only pistols, as the German crew fought to free the ship the Americans went to town on that sub, while German crew members went up the ladders apparently the cook who didnt have a fire-arm came onto the deck and threw a crate of empty coka-cola bottles down the ships ladder hatch and sent all the climbing crew down to the bottom of the ladder, lucky on the German subs side the ship came free, tearing a hole threw 3 bulk-heads on the destroier and quickly did a crash dive with all crew relatively ok. The damage the destroyer sustained was drastic and she was listing so they shifted the crew accross all remaining ships and the destroyer went down in silence. Submarines are a dangerous threat to shipping around the world, and those who brave the terrors of the deep, can bring forth wrath and destruction no sailor has ever the mind to prepair for. When submarines surfaced, the destroyers would blast anything and everything at such a small target to score hits, a hole in the hull means the submarine is killed, but its hard as you need to hit a target that's low in the water with the water defending it more then people think, thats why "Depth-Charges" and "Bomb-Mortars" are used to hit the subs in the water where they hold the keen advantage in the strike. You see sky versions dropped by PBY-Catalina. Also I got to talk to someone who was working on the new tech "radar", the problem was the radar was designed to find surface to sky targets, what your looking for is "Sonar": Sonar was the method of using acoustic searches to pick up sound kinda like a dolphin, when someone ricochet the sound it comes back as a frequency then is picked up on a later blip, it was drastically slower then modern ones, I think the delay between sending was half a second, then it was at least 1 to 1.5 seconds for the blip to mark on screen, the problem was this detected anything, and so it was paired to a person who was using a special listening gear who was listening for a "Screw" of the ships turbine spinning using another sound tracking device. They used a surviving US Destroyer for this film, the destroyer can be seen as a museum ship in NY, s he was one of the WW2 ships saved for the time in service in her stock configuration of the end oft he war, she was upgraded in 1944 and mainly kept all her defensive and offensive armaments the same

FYI: The movie Gray hound is based on the book: The Good Shepherd.

This is my favorite Sabaton song!

Not only that but most Uboat attacks were actually conducted at night via their main guns which yes a flack 88 would have been useless against say a destroyer or even a cruise let alone a battleship, but compared to say the soft skin of a cargo ship which has in reality only an inch of not even armor but just steel and so even flack rounds could punch straight through the hull of a ship and would detonate inside of the ship causing severe damage and what’s worse is things like munitions or fuel tankers which would have over at hundred tons of fuel where a single shot into its hull would basically be enough to destroy the ship and even damage any thing or kill anyone near the explosion as shrapnel and bits of ships and rivets fly everywhere hitting sailors and windows, and whilst torpedo attacks weren’t that uncommon, the ranges you have to be in order to get a successful hit would be the same distance as a football pitch, ie right next to the target due to the unreliable nature of torpedoes where In the pacific there was one instance where a torpedo did a 180 and nearly destroyed its own vessel, and again if those who are not aware of what a torpedo hit is like, it’s as if you’ve been thrown into the air as the explosion causes the ship to quite literally bend until the ship can’t take and more and simply snaps in half, or the torpedo causes a massive pressure wave potentially killing any poor soul within twenty meters of the point of impact and so in order to prevent torpedo hits the British would add space armor so when a torpedo did hit it wouldn’t actually hit the hull itself but the belt armor instead, also the British utilized a weapon system known as hedgehogs where it replaced the single massive depth charge for smaller one pound bomblets where they would be loaded onto a rack of about twenty, so you’d have in total twenty pounds of high explosives which was smaller that the typical 400 pounds explosive drums, which were devastating when they hit their target, however hit probability wasn’t very high and so the British followed the tried and true means of warfare ie throw enough shit at a wall hopefully some of it should stick, ie rather than drop one high explosive barrel why not spread it out over a much wider area, allowing for a much wider area of effect, also for those who are un aware, the boxy turret looking thing on top of British warships are actually anti aircraft mines

I know people keep complaining about how the sub pulled up next to the ship and started firing it's main cannon and how they say that's not real they wouldn't do that well actually they will because using that cannon is easier to operate and maybe they ran out of torpedoes so that was their last resort it's actually not uncommon for subs to do that because launching a torpedo is not easy to do and can be avoided by enemy ships if they have an experienced crew and also it's more effective if you can believe it or not

Radar was a thing however it was very very very early in its development where the basic means of detection was through sonar as well as acoustics systems where a German would listen rather than watch where an enemy ship was and would more or less hear where the enemy was, and whilst yes radio or wireless communication was possible again they tended to be very unreliable and very simple, and the only ones with adequate or even the most advanced systems were the British which had the best radar systems in the world and was given to the Americans via a passenger liner in a paper envelope,

Good of you to take the "boring stuff" before the movie. One thing though, the Catalinas (and other spotter planes) weren't really feared for seeing submarines under the water. They were feared because WW2 submarines weren't capable of staying under all the time. Underwater running was on limited batteries, they had limited air and were much slower submerged than if running on diesels on the surface. If a submarine needed to quickly redeploy to catch a target they had to run on the surface and thus were at risk of being spotted and later in the war also attacked from the air. They often also launched torpedoes while surfaced to better see what was going on. So if a plane spotted them the convoy could be warned by radio to change course, increase speed and keep better lookout to hopefully avoid or at least start anti-submarine runs faster. The latest and greatest German submarines did have snorkels so they could get air while just under the surface, but they were much too few and much too late.

Sabaton would indeed have made Easter egg hunting as a kid more interesting

the Fletcher class shown in the video had a targeting radar during that time of the war

I was just rocking out to the music and enjoying that... and then I saw a Uboat surfacing within sight of a Destroyer seemingly willingly and I just couldn't focus on anything else because that Would. Not. Happen. Destroyers, even a frigate or corvette can put them on the bottom with like one hit, surfacing anywhere near one would be a death sentence.

If you want to see a German U-boat, there's one in Chicago. I've been on the U-505. It's the only German U-boat in the US.

The ship in the movie is supposedly an actual ship from the era, but I think it had updates post ww2.

The tempos, vocal styles, mood, etc all change throughout these - check them out! Devon Townsend - Kingdom Cradle of Filth - Nymphetamine Slipknot - The Nameless Lamb of God - Overlord Mushroomhead - We Are the Truth

off camera, you might have an interest in the movie 'das boot' it's in german but has subs. another perspective.

Damn you know your history!

Im no history buff but It looks like a type 2 U-boat broadsiding a Fletcher class DD lol

the song that got me into sabaton is 300, and there are some great videos with images from the movie 300 that even though its not historical acurate, its not ment to be.

Auwtch, the u boats on the eastcoast where lone wolfs with no contact, they coumd not predict the routes and convoys over that distance. But you got the jist of it. There is a a 2u30min. Docu on yt if you are interested

I mean the Video is complete bonkers, but you cant deny that the greyhound is a beautifull ship

It would be amazing if you'd react to their Sabaton history about Wolfpack

I really liked your way to react music and I subscribed! Now I would like to see you reacting to Band Maiko, let me tell you about... 2 years ago, Band Maid announced their end and a new beginning with another purpose, changed their names, costumes, another language (Kioto instead Japanese) and the new band was called Band Maiko. They released a new single called Secret Maiko lips, after they said that was an April's fools!!! But everyone liked and they released a mini album with a new music called Gion Cho. Now, Band Maiko is declared enemies from Band Maid. MIKU KOBATO→Hatoko (Base Guitar) SAIKI→Fujiki (Vocals) KANAMI→Kanoemi ( Lead Guitar) MISA→Umemisa (Bass) AKANE→Akatsuki ( Drums) You can find the videos on Band Maid Channel. Another song from Band Maid is Real Existence, you will like!

i think this movie is called greyhound

Pls do "No bullets fly" animated story version , they just droped it yesterday

Trivia: A sabaton or solleret is part of a knight's body armour that covers the foot.

YES THAT IS NEW WAR MOVIE GRAY HOUND

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Would love to see you react to some Ice Nine Kills. They are a metalcore band from Boston, Massachusetts. They released a music video series called The Silver Scream (also the name of the album) for their latest album and would love to see your reaction on it. Also that album was completely based on old horror movies. Of course if you dont like the first song then you dont have to listen to the others but the order is : The American Nightmare (Extended Cut), Thank God It's Friday, A Grave Mistake, Stabbing In The Dark & IT Is The End.

Thank you

I would agree during 1940 to 1943 their was no sonar raidar then it was introduce wayback 1944 to 1945. Greyhound has few historical inaccurate even the veterans when they escort the convoy shipping they'll say the same.

Pro Tipp: if you wanna react to good videos including lyrics: look out for vids from Piscator. Well made and even Sabaton invated him Backstage for his work. Thx 4 your efford and your honest reactions 🤘

Man i really wanna watch the movie Greyhound too, but its Apple TV... It looks like The same case as Fury, but... Looks cool, tom Hanks, and i dont know alot of WW2 or ww1 naval battle movies so... Yeah

Keep the sabaton reactions coming man! if you're looking for A+ grade sabatob fan videos I Highly recomend a channel named knight SCG

3 things u-boats were afraid of, planes, depth charges and flushing the toilet wrong

Wolfpack Hecht. Escort 4 flower class corvettes, one cutter and one Gleaves class destroyer.

Submarine operations aren't just dangerous, they can be incredibly taxing psychologically.

Torpedo Boats ready to piss you off on war thunder be like: 10:17

Funny enough the main gun firing is a flak 20mm hit one of them rounds hit the sub it would of punched holes in it

I AM TERRIBLY TEMPTED TO JOIN PATREON JUST TO HEAR YOUR RANTS

the destroyer they used in the movie looks like a fletcher class. i don't believe there were too many fletcher class destroyers in the atlantic fleet they should be Gleaves class for the most part along with benson class the side profile. is wrong. also the ship number, which would be a fletcher class is a nonexistent number the destroyers that would have been 548 and 549 were canceled

Half the people in this comments section are complaining about Greyhound, which is a movie. It is not NECESSARY to be historically accurate to have a good war movie. Greyhound is not supposed to be like Das Boot. Quit complaining about a U-boat surfacing, when it gets hit by depth charge. Accept that it is movie

2 things. 1, this was the first sabaton song I ever heard and as a history nerd and lover of powermetal I couldn't be live I did not know who they were when I found them years ago. 2. I think you mean sonar not radar. But I thought a good chunk had sonar but not radar. In this case radar would be pointless though. Edit: not me giving you shit btw. Just a question.

"The Atlantic favours the Grey Wolf on the hunt, not the Greyhound on the run!"

The greatest submarine film was DOS BOOT,

Just in Germany alone, 30,000 submariners were lost.

That Catty shows up...Doh!

You should react to en livstid I krig( i hope i wrote it right) by sabaton live show, its a Swedish song so you will need turn on captions, it is such an amazing song

Being in a metal tube, under water, with a nuclear reactor...

I’m know Americans will not believe me but the American admiralty because they didn’t listen to the British and if we said a U-boat was in a very specific place as we could triangulate their positions even before we broke enigma and the Americans didn’t blackout which just illuminated the silhouettes of ships making them easy to spot and calculate everything the Germans needed to kill it so lots of ships got sunk just off the cost of America and yes you were right about the radar for the most part but a few British ships did have radar and I think the German submariners were more afraid of the Avro Shackleton because imagine you’re looking out trying to spot ships in the dead of night then suddenly two huge lights turn on and light up the sub and the lights get closer and closer that is lay lights for you they were automated lights that tracked ships by radar to help bombardiers see and the lights were set up to converge when the the bombs were to be dropped so it made it easy to blow the ship out the water and the Shackleton is an Avro aircraft so you know it’s good

You should try Into the fire!