The Eradicator Battleship That the US Sent to Win the War Once and for All

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The Eradicator Battleship That the US Sent to Win the War Once and for All

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Күн бұрын

It was early June 1944, and the Allied forces were deep in preparations for Operation Overlord. From the highest command centers to the bustling shipyards, an unspoken urgency hovered in the background.
There was no time to lose. This monumental assault would be the largest amphibious invasion in history and required every available asset and every ship to converge on the shores of Normandy.
Among these was USS Arkansas, launched in the early days of 1911. At over 30 years old, she stood in stark contrast to the modern battleships designed to take down Axis powers.
Even through the war, she had led a relatively quiet existence, primarily as a convoy escort across the Atlantic. With the fate of Europe hanging in the balance, it was time for USS Arkansas, a ship older than many of her crew, to step into the fray.
Now, it was her moment to fight and reclaim occupied Europe once and for all.

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@jeffreyhall2136 2 ай бұрын

I am proud to say that my Dad served on the Arkansas during WWII. He was a GM3 on a secondary battery. On 06/11/44 he turned 18 off the coast of Normandy.

@daleshelden8394 2 ай бұрын

Served

@torbjorn77 Ай бұрын

Respect sir

@Bingbing611 Ай бұрын

My birthday too 6/11/62

@davefellhoelter1343 Ай бұрын

RIP! Greatest! "I miss!" Y'all, YaAll!! thanks for 70 YEARS! of Peace! for Your! Blood sacrifics. Sorry we let yo down.

@mikebone206 Ай бұрын

Truly the greatest generation

@krisdrinkwine6045 2 ай бұрын

I know we can't save them all, but it still saddens my heart to see such a glorious battle ship sent to the bottom. 😢

@totheinferno 2 ай бұрын

Her bell is on display at the Arkansas Inland Maritime museum.

@josephmichuda6447 Ай бұрын

As much as I hate to say this, being sunk at bikini atoll is a better date than getting dismantled and scraped.

@corbintodd9339 2 ай бұрын

This is what I love about battleships. EVEN when it’s a totally obsolete vessel, their massive guns can still unload absolute hell on the enemy.

@spvillano 2 ай бұрын

Downside: They cut loose with everything from cruisers, destroyers and battleships on Okinawa and still didn't appreciably thin the herd of angry enemy.

@corbintodd9339 2 ай бұрын

@@spvillano the Japanese were certainly hidden and hug in very well on Iwo and Okinawa

@noodleincup Ай бұрын

Totally? You didnt yet heard of new artillery rounds mate. I will not be surprised if they'd start diving after her cannons: x6.5 range multiplicator - and you know whats there the most needed? Caliber. US Navy 2 digit inches, made in USA

@beebop9808 2 ай бұрын

A fitting end for a mighty ship born to battle. Viva La Arkansas and every true hero who graced her decks! Fair winds and following seas...........

@Kneon_Knight 2 ай бұрын

"Vive le Arkansas" is more fitting, seeing as how Overlord was the assault on Normandy.

@TheArkDoc 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for featuring the USS Arkansas. I hate her ending, but at least she wasn't scrapped like so many others. When I was younger, I wanted to dive her.

@golfr-kg9ss Ай бұрын

Great video. I've heard bunches about the USS Texas and USS Nevada during D-day but this is the first I've heard about Arkansas. Thanks for the education.

@jeffreybell4801 2 ай бұрын

She was one of the last great juggernauts! RIP to the old lady and thank you for your service!

@williampage622 2 ай бұрын

Escorting convoys was a combat mission.

@peterbrazier7107 2 ай бұрын

You say how great USS Arkansas was to the Americans, Our greatest Battleship was HMS Warspite.

@paoloviti6156 Ай бұрын

Very true but I think it has been very wrong to cut in pieces the most highly decorated ship of the war: the HMS Warspite. Very sad indeed 😢

@kelvinw.1384 Ай бұрын

TBh you guys had alot. Repulse was great. Prince of Wales never got a chance due to incompatence.

@sess5206 2 ай бұрын

Operation Crossroads was devastating for the personnel who served it. Many men were seriously injured because of carelessness with regard to radiation

@dukecraig2402 2 ай бұрын

That picture has always amazed me, in the mushrooms stem to the right is what appears to be a sizeable ship standing upright in it. Wow, just wow.

@spvillano 2 ай бұрын

@@dukecraig2402 not a ship, it's literally the shadow of the ship that blocked part of the rising water column. There's a video just on that in particular. Which only makes that ship even more bad assed! A pure case of "I ain't moving, not even for a nuke!".

@wdtaut5650 Ай бұрын

More ignorance than carelessness. Still, many of those men were guinea pigs for science, never got the recognition of the heroes they were.

@johnelliott7375 Ай бұрын

Amazing how much reliable and stout something is when you build it to the best of your industrial prowess and out of the best of materials for and of the time. Too bad the things that are built after the 1960's and the days when things were built to last and be easily replaced, repaired, and serviced easily and properly to the standards of the machine that you are building or making from scratch!

@sbcee2220 2 ай бұрын

For not being involved in especially dangerous maneuvers for most of the war, she certainly finished up strong. Normandy and Iwa Jima? Oof. Not to mention the age of the old girl. Her ending was rather ignominious if you ask me, sacrificed at the altar of man's hubris.

@noodleincup Ай бұрын

Well, not quite that, underwater test of the event Baker wasnt expected to end it all for the entire fleet, which neither she, neither the most advanced modern punch taker Prince Eugen didnt survived through. First blast just scratched the paint but own weight making 3 times Olympic jump with half of the water surface? Yeah, well, time dictated own rules. There were no chernobyl experience yet, battleships were scrapped left and right, and though she was the most beloved veteran of a public (NORMANDY FLAGSHIP) - her and Prince Eugen been let sunk and deactivate. And these two were fabulous crafts, trust me on this. It wouldnt be not only scrapped, it was in today's ranking like to just let unmanned unanchored USS Gerald R. Ford and a little more obsolete Tico to hit some reef, say Amen and close the case, trying to whistle some song and looking for clouds

@stephen1137 Ай бұрын

The Destroyers actually provided the fastest and most effective fire support for the beaches. Aside: As for battleships being designed to take down Axis powers... let these rhetorical flourishes go. The later BB designs were to serve the naval requirements for faster fleet movements... taking down the Axis powers was an overall strategic objective which happened to be synchronous with the design.

@TKM1951 2 ай бұрын

Well it is just metal and steel .Still a sad end for valiant warrior who served her country as best as she could

@milwaukeeroadjim9253 2 ай бұрын

Ships live on if remembered. My ship was scrapped in 1999. Very sad.

@darrensmith6999 2 ай бұрын

Have Arkansas in World of war ships , real old bruiser. Thank you for making this video she is hardly ever mentioned , shame she was sunk at the Baker tests :(

@totheinferno 2 ай бұрын

As long as airplanes aren’t around she’s a beast. AA defense is her Achilles heel, at least on console. I don’t know how good she is on PC. Bayern is probably my most favorite for my play style.

@darrensmith6999 2 ай бұрын

@@totheinferno Yes it has no AA defence at all i wish WOW would update her to 1944 specs.

@thh072007 2 ай бұрын

At least the battleship Texas still survives was recently refurbished in Texas

@steveferris663 2 ай бұрын

Note: a Wyoming-class Battleship … The OLDEST! Turret farm! 12-inch! OH WHAT A DAY! God Bless Arkansas!

@nigeldepledge3790 2 ай бұрын

Operation Crossroads was not the world's first nuclear bomb test. That distinction goes to Trinity, in July 1945. Crossroads might be the first tests that were known publicly to have occurred, but that's not what the video says.

@spvillano 2 ай бұрын

True, they were the first tests *after* Trinity vaporized her giant stripper pole at Alamogordo test range. And Trinity was most certainly publicized as well, given that it was a warning to Japan. Far too many videos being made with half-assed research and shitty scripts that don't actually follow facts. Might as well claim that Trinity was a flying saucer farting on the test range...

@buzzard5947 Ай бұрын

Do what you want. Music isn’t bad, we all grew up with those damn transformer movies. Keep up the good work!

@jameswilkinson9941 2 ай бұрын

I hate to be 'that guy' but the music was off putting on this video. 😊

@johnnycee5179 2 ай бұрын

Can't please everyone but I agree that some of it is not in alignment with the video.

@michaelturner5050 2 ай бұрын

Then don’t be “that guy” and keep your mouth shut.

@blkmoon33 2 ай бұрын

Music was a little distracting at times. Still a great piece of work. 🎉❤🎉

@martinlewis967 2 ай бұрын

Music was brain damage

@moodogco 2 ай бұрын

Adjust the sound as the narrating was loads louder then the bk ground music & didn't bother me at all tbh

@kenasuma61 2 ай бұрын

Sad that they sunk her

@lifevest1 2 ай бұрын

I throughly enjoyed playing the Wyoming class in World of Warships. 12 12in guns?? come on man! that's just fun!

@totheinferno 2 ай бұрын

Arkansas is a beast in WoW Legends so long as you’re not dealing with carriers. AA defense is pretty weak with not much chance to upgrade. At least when I played

@erikdarling1 2 ай бұрын

Regular ship I like the North Carolina. My favorite ships is Schanhorst and Odin.

@lifevest1 2 ай бұрын

@@erikdarling1 The NC was such a fun ship, especially after grinding through the Colorado which I absolutely hated.

@totheinferno 2 ай бұрын

@@erikdarling1 Bayern is probably the ship I’ve had the most fun with. It’s a real brawler for its tier.

@indivisibleman8596 2 ай бұрын

Convoy escort duty was a battle role

@davecollins1998 2 ай бұрын

Very cool! Thanx!

@waynekrisell8421 Ай бұрын

I'm an Arkansan, we get shit done !!!

@milespearson2 Ай бұрын

That ship should become a museum! It was so worthy in many battles! To take the decision to sink it in atomic tests shows how ungrateful US is to its own assets! This ship cnstituted a National tresure!

@jacarts2793 2 ай бұрын

The most amazing part to me is these 30 plus year old battleships traveling all over the world.

@Forrrest6 Ай бұрын

Did anyone notice that the Arkansas training and refit happened in a neutral country that regularly confiscated anything NOT Irish?

@juliankremer1900 2 ай бұрын

The torpedo tubes were removed from the Arkansas during a refit in 1925.

@timbernie 2 ай бұрын

Yes and at the same time there was in invasion in the Pacific. The Battle of the Philippine Sea. 2 of the biggest Invasions and Battles of WW2.

@Jaysqualityparts 2 ай бұрын

800 all American ships shear beauty.

@Kneon_Knight 2 ай бұрын

Isn't it amazing that in the 1940s the U.S. could fight against well armed and well trained enemies on no less than three major fronts simultaneously in spite of the technical limitations of transport and supply, but in the past 4 years we hastily abandoned billions of dollars of arms, equipment, materiel, and allies to a sworn enemy of the United States because some pants shitting asshole wanted to undo everything his predecessor had achieved?

@lyndoncmp5751 2 ай бұрын

80% of all the naval vessels for D-Day were British.

@LeftyScaevola 2 ай бұрын

The good and very old 12 x 12". That 12" L50 M7 did not have many opportunities to fire on enemies.

@fredericksaxton3991 2 ай бұрын

I never quite understand why there was such carnage at Omaha beach when there was such heavy firepower available to obliterate the enemy defences.

@Jaysqualityparts 2 ай бұрын

Concrete was too thick

@tahoma6889 2 ай бұрын

@@JaysqualitypartsMG 42 in superior positions, inside of bunkers. Easy to understand how that is carnage.

@jeffreybell4801 2 ай бұрын

The Japanese had been building the base and tunnels on Iwo Jima since the late 1930’s in preparation for war. Plus they were dug in deeper than a Georgia tick on a hound dog!

@Kneon_Knight 2 ай бұрын

@@tahoma6889 Especially since it was infantry on the beach...no tanks, no artillery, just a lot of crazy, magnificent bastards wih more guts than common sense and balls of solid steel.

@spvillano 2 ай бұрын

@@Jaysqualityparts and the guns nowhere as accurate as modern guns now are. Hell, the Iowa class had pretty much the best accuracy of her time and that was thanks to radar ranging and targeting.

@robertsullivan4773 2 ай бұрын

Great vid but on D Day the Arkansas wasn't alone protecting our boys and almost as old warrior was pounding away by her side called the USS Texas was right beside her. Would have been nice to give her a mention.

@TheArkDoc Ай бұрын

He did mention the USS Texas, even showed a photo of her.

@arkie_bear Ай бұрын

It's a shame she had to go out that way. She was a great ship.

@RAXax 2 ай бұрын

Go Arkansas! WPS!

@bobechs7234 2 ай бұрын

Crewed by the British navy as depicted @2:22? That would be a remarkable story if true...

@stargazer5784 2 ай бұрын

Those battleship main batteries were devastating weapons, regardless of how old she was. Being a recipient of such firepower was not a good thing.

@Scybren Ай бұрын

The music in this video was mostly horrendous and distracting. I assume KZfaq replaced some of it.

@brunozeigerts6379 Ай бұрын

Come on. We know the real reason for the Bikini Atom bomb test... to kill Godzilla!

@stephenandersen4625 Ай бұрын

her biggest challenge.. shooting at stuff that doesn't move or shoot back.

@MrAndrewAllen Ай бұрын

How does any of this have anything to do with the 4-front-turrets battleship in your thumbnail?

@bmacd2112 2 ай бұрын

A horrid ending for a old but faithful hero! Seems like they could've found some limited use for her.

@jwolf4948 2 ай бұрын

I mean, anything getting hit with an 870 pound shell will take damage, so it wasn't like her guns were anything special compared to all the other battleships that threw shells at shore targets. USS Wisconsin blew apart the side of a mountain in Korea with 9 rounds of 16 inch shells when she took a 155mm shell from an artillery unit (I understand it didn't destroy the mountain, just exaggerating).

@mcswato1 Ай бұрын

I've never seen any written account of direct damage on D-Day.

@Manco65 Ай бұрын

After the battleship next was a nuclear powerd guided missile cruiser and now a Virginia class submarine.

@johnkeviljr9625 2 ай бұрын

I think her end was despicable.

@noodleincup Ай бұрын

**In case of real meatgrinder break the glass** - its about Arcansas it seems. Ol' mighty Great War power

@southerneruk 2 ай бұрын

The first shots to signal the start of D-Day were fired by HMS Belfast, she got a full round fired before any other ship could follow

@Piratecapt8383 2 ай бұрын

He said in her division

@fakshen1973 2 ай бұрын

No mention of the USS Nevada except as a nuclear target? It sounds like The Arkansas did all that by itslef, the way this video sounds.

@HerminiePA Ай бұрын

Impressive as the video is, when they said Omaha, I knew that the US Navy overshot the German positions and a lot of Rangers lost their lives needlessly.

@jhauser203 2 ай бұрын

“Craft” is both singular and plural.

@Kneon_Knight 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I've been telling these "no child left behind: asshats that very thing for months!

@tyronemarcucci8395 Ай бұрын

I served with a Chief Boatswain Mate that served in the USS Arkansas during WW2. He was a seaman at the time.

@benjaminrush4443 Ай бұрын

Good story. Too bad they didn't keep this dreadnaught from 1911.

@davidsirett5560 Ай бұрын

the first battleship to be sunk by a bomb that didn't touch her? wasn't the Tirpitz sunk by a Talboy bomb that missed the ship and caused her to capsize?

@townsville69 2 ай бұрын

Navy - our guns can destroy anything! Also Navy - ...unless they have lots of beach sand and palm tree bunkers :(

@Kneon_Knight 2 ай бұрын

I don't think you understand how durable palm trees are and how easily the logs made from them can be replaced. They are pretty much the titanium of wood - lightweight and tough as Hell.

@Sekonism Ай бұрын

1n 1944 20.5 Knots was slaw.

@geoffmarr7526 2 ай бұрын

Background music is way too loud.. its annoyingly distracting.

@hansslagter4209 2 ай бұрын

20,5 knots means that she was to slow for the carrier actions in the Pacific

@hughseagraves7036 Ай бұрын

Weird title Also, the first ever atomic bomb test???

@randallgschwind3799 2 ай бұрын

Texas was the oldest with 14 inch guns!!!!

@user-iv2iy1nw9f 2 ай бұрын

Documentary? Music video?

@Michael_Brock 2 ай бұрын

11 ½ mile range. Pitiful. But beats most land based artillery. (Except the train guns I think, but these can use later 15 or 16 inch naval tech).

@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe Ай бұрын

You have long since run out of new history topics so you make stuff up. Eradacator battleship? Entirely outclassed in the Pacific aganist the IJN. What did it eradicate in the end?

@thomaslinton5765 2 ай бұрын

Normandy "ended the war"?

@auro1986 2 ай бұрын

why didn't you make it an aircraft carrier?

@pnartg 21 күн бұрын

Arkansas did NOT train in Ireland (2:24). Ireland was a neutral country.

@perrymurphy4100 2 ай бұрын

In the first few minutes the narrator repeats himself and that drives me nuts. I didn't wait to see how many more repeats happened so they could drag out this video

@flamingchillum 2 ай бұрын

WHO is doing the background music ??? boooo. too loud!!!!!!!!

@user-vy8zs5xz2t Ай бұрын

Lose the music track.

@nickcharles1284 Ай бұрын

As to the title I say: 'No'.

@timhansen3376 Ай бұрын

Does anybody ever feel sorry for the Germans?

@lhkraut Ай бұрын

It's just wrong to do that to a great lady.

@thomaslinton5765 2 ай бұрын

Star Wars?

@pedrovision6987 Ай бұрын

07:37 hmmm...now...how exactly would you know the German gunners were, "enraged"?? This is sounding a lot like propagandistic clap trap...

@brownwrench 2 ай бұрын

Now Texas is all that remains

@acropolis4032 2 ай бұрын

No, the heavy cruiser HMS Belfast is a museum ship anchored in London

@matthewdavis3014 Ай бұрын

6(!!) twin turrets 😂

@alphalunamare 2 ай бұрын

I thought Ireland was neutral in WW2 so was BAngor a bit like guantanamo bay in Cuba?

@spvillano 2 ай бұрын

GITMO is leased by the US government from Cuba. Just as we lease Diego Garcia from the UK.

@hunty28 Ай бұрын

Bangor is in Northern Ireland, part of the UK

@alphalunamare Ай бұрын

@@hunty28 Jees ..I am so sorry ! think I'll shut my gob in future :-)

@genenoud9048 2 ай бұрын

Why is this guys voice so creepy

@binaway 2 ай бұрын

1.43. That is a Royal Navy type cap. Another of the strange video's this Utuber uses. Nothing to do with the actual subject of the video.

@mknewlan67 2 ай бұрын

So make a correct video, I’m not sure how many minutes of footage Arkansas has available. Poetic license and all that.

@Kneon_Knight 2 ай бұрын

Guys like you, who do not understand how little footage of actual combat operations are available, always bitch and moan, piss and cry about how we don't have color footage of General Patton wiping his ass in 4k. The footage this guy uses is public domain, so either deal with it or go into your own stash of super secret for real trust me bro film and make a superior video.

@kensmith8152 2 ай бұрын

It’s a shame how the USN treated such august ship in the end😢

@jamesleyda365 2 ай бұрын

🇺🇲🤘✖️🏴‍☠️⚔️🏴‍☠️✖️🤘🇺🇲

@glennjames7107 2 ай бұрын

You will never be able to watch these videos in the same way if you ever learn the truth of the French people that lived through it. They are still furious, why do you think the French have held such disdain for Americans ever since. From what we've been told they should love us for liberating them. But the truth we do not know.

@user-zd1du1zk7r 2 ай бұрын

Well, twice they’ve had to have their butts pulled out of the fire so I wonder if they would’ve rather just stay under German control. The French are a bunch of crybabies they always have been.

@mrfiestas 2 ай бұрын

One of the most stupid, pointless and wasteful deeds in modern history. What was learned by this was nothing that a juvenile could have done at far less cost of assets and some men.

@Kneon_Knight 2 ай бұрын

Okay, Mr. War College Brainiac. Go apply to the pentagon citing your vast expertise and research into all things martial and change the world.

@spvillano 2 ай бұрын

@@Kneon_Knight indeed, who knew that children instinctively comprehend the incomprehensible forces exerted by a nuclear weapon explosion? Methinks Mr Fiestas has had way too many fiestas and is suffering from Korsakoff's...

@personnelente Ай бұрын

Oh, please: aircraft carriers won the Pacific war, not obsolete battleships.

@jhonyermo 2 ай бұрын

The NAVY does NOT HAVE ARTILLERY. PERIOD

@HarshmanHills 2 ай бұрын

don't think a 12 inch gun is "50 caliber"

@828enigma6 2 ай бұрын

In this reference, the length of the barrel is 50 calibers x the bore diameter. Fifty times twelve gives the answer of 60 feet, which is the length of the barrels on the Arkansas.

@HarshmanHills 2 ай бұрын

@@828enigma6 oh. Learned something new

@mknewlan67 2 ай бұрын

@@828enigma6how long exactly is a caliber?

@user-ci7xi5kv8p 2 ай бұрын

@@828enigma6actually it's 50ft as the bore was 1 foot.

@bradgokey4534 2 ай бұрын

And the 5inch gun is 51 caliber! SMH

@glennjames7107 2 ай бұрын

And killing untold numbers of allied troops, and worst of all, French civilians. The allied forces killed citizens, and leveled French cities throughout the country, most needlessly.

@cdbfullbore 2 ай бұрын

Idk, those same French civilians seemed pretty happy to see the allied troops.

@iamblichus5318 2 ай бұрын

Let’s not forget that if it wasn’t for the Soviet Army on the Eastern front buying time and loosing over 26 million people by the end of the war D-Day would never have happened and if it did it is doubtful the Allies would have established a beachhead.

@1chish 2 ай бұрын

So what you are saying is that the British and its Commonwealth contributed nothing to WWII. Despite being the only people to fight every day of the 6b years of WWII. Thank you Comrade.

@AlanRoehrich9651 2 ай бұрын

Let's not forget that Russia and Stalin began World War II allied with Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. In other words, Russia, on the wrong side, helped *START* World War II in Europe, and remained allied with Germany until Hitler betrayed Stalin and invaded Russia. At which point Stalin began begging the U.S. and the other Allies for food, supplies, ammunition, arms, and vehicles. Spare us all your bullsh!t claims about Russia and their "great patriotic war" to defeat Germany. Stalin would have gladly remained allied with Hitler, and to rule over Europe, had Hitler not turned on him. Russia was not on the side of the "good guys" back then. They never have been, and they never will be. Many intelligent people are sick of the revisionist "history" claiming Russia won the war in Europe. The fact is, had the Allies not propped Russia up with food and war materials, they'd never have recovered from the invasion. And had the Allies not fought Germany *everywhere else* other than the "eastern front", Russia might not have survived at all. You can keep your revisionist history, and your admiration for Russia. The rest of us are not buying your crap.

@mknewlan67 2 ай бұрын

Honestly can say about the same thing about either side no? If not for the Brit’s and yanks, if not for Russia. Truth is we all needed each other

@iamblichus5318 2 ай бұрын

@@mknewlan67 26 million dead so no you can’t say the same about both sides. Add the causalities.

@mknewlan67 2 ай бұрын

@@iamblichus5318 would of been 26 million more if not for supplies shipped from the other countries. We needed each other no 2 ways about it. Maybe if we got back to helping each other instead of arguing and posturing the world would be a better place