As a hungry shark player I approve that

As a U-Boat I can confirm

@@pom8130 if you are a u-boat why is there a car (a competitor to your species) in your pfp?

@@Praktical_ I am who my enemy is of enemy beware of me

you sink your target then when it hit the sea floor you eat it

Those POWs built themselves a chapel out of scrap material from the construction project, and made a sufficiently sturdy and artistic job of it that it's the only bit of their camp that's preserved to this day. The artist who painted the interior actually stayed on after the war to finish the job and returned a couple of times to help with preservation and upkeep. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Chapel

They acted as Causeways from the very Beginning, as they were officially declared as such. The Reason is, that U-Boat Barriers would have been a War Effort, and thus using POW Workforce would've been prohibited by the Geneva Convention.

Churchill barriers you say? So, they prevented subs from entering the harbor by building a barrier of fat, elderly, balding men with top hats and dry senses of humor?

Might I submit, The Hunt for Red October

Some tanks used to have that too even on Jeeps in WW2 it was attached because there were wires from tree to tree to injure or kill the crew of vehicles.

When I was involved with rotorcraft in the National Guard, ALL of our helicopters had "Wire Cutter Kits" installed. There's a cutter above the "greenhouse" and one below. They do work. I've seen videos out here of a civilian helicopter hit some powerlines and the wire cutter did its job and the helo didn't crash and didn't suffer much -- if any -- damage.

Biplanes, too, have struts designed to (attempt) to cut power lines to save pilots from being decapitated. This is a big problem because crop dusters are often flying low and near power lines that often run along roads at the end of fields. You can avoid them if you know they’re there but the extra insurance is something often designed in.

@@stevebean1234 I'm old enough to remember biplanes being used for crop dusting because they had great up and down maneuverability. That was back in the 1950's in Delaware.

17-03-41 saw Schepke killed and U-100 sunk as well as Kretschmer captured and U-99 sunk. It was a bad 30 days for the Kriegsmarine, their three top aces and crews lost. The British had really upped their game.

It was 70% not as bad but still high as hell

Not very good kamikazes if they survive are they

@@digitaal_boog Kamikaze were not required to kill themselves if they could not find a target, the weather turned bad, etc. Some survived several sorties before finding a terminal one.

@@mbryson2899 oh I know. Wasn’t there a kamikaze pilot who flew dozens of sorties and never even saw an American ship?

It did have torpedoes in some iterstions.

It sure is!

It was an episode of the American TV series, ''The Silent Service.'' Aired 28 NOV 1958. ''U-47 In Scapa Flow.'' Series 2, Episode 39.

Saw that clip: "Is that Werner Klemperer?" spent entirely too long trying to find anything before realizing the maker of the video had put the names of the clips.

Thanks Rick. I appreciate the kind feedback.

Yes, and they were found to be terrible in battle, with the possibility of being ripped loose forward and dragging backwards to foul the screws. As torpedoes got faster and heavier, they found the nets couldn't be hung far enough from the hull to prevent the torpedo's momentum from either smashing through or ramming the net (and torpedo) up against the hull.

Caught cha!

Thanks for the clarity my man. Left the date just so people knew the date of the video. But I see now how that would be confusing.

And a few hits from the forts Krupp guns, leftovers from WW1.. The wreck still poses a great danger to Oslo, if all the munitions went off, the resulting tsunami would cause havoc in the city.

@@noahwail2444 I doubt there would be more than a 1-3 foot wave at Oslo after an ammunition detonation. Bluher was a decent bit away from Oslo when she was sunk.

@@williamgandarillas2185 Well, that was what they said, when I lived there..

My favourite detail of the Oskarsborg fortress is that the commander in charge of the fort when they sank Blücher trained on those torpedoes and guns as his first assignment as a newly-minted junior officer, and had been called out of retirement to command the fort for WW2. Of course, there was no need to update torpedoes that were covering a strait only a couple of hundred yards wide, and apparently the Norwegians hadn't missed a maintenance interval in fifty years.

Great video 👍🏻 Thank You

Lol funny thing was that was in my notes to add but I make these from a chaotic household and likely was pulled away by something and forget on return to my desk 🥸

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq maybe do a video about torpedo since where on the subject of subs

And sure enough Disney would be on his ass.

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq regardless love your channel! Great videos!

The destroyer rammed the sub in that film. It is a net cutter. In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the warships that were attacked had wooden hulls. Even a pointed prow would smash the wooden hulls.

@@garfieldsmith332 Yep. I edited my comment after remembering that the destroyer rammed the sub. 😊

Skyraiders, king of attack planes...

@@User_Un_Friendly "Disneys" 20000 leagues under the sea????? DISNEYS?????????? i cry myself into sleep now 😅

@@BratislavMetulski it’s a classic! And made before Disney became as corpulent and bloated as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. Back when Disney still made great live action movies. 😋

My man!

Lol that's a new moniker! Gave me a good chuckle with that one my friend

I thought they were wolves

Am in Royal Navy, can confirm, I love to ram stuff. Ram it! (I’m RDP)

@@georgemorley1029 must be awful with all this long range gubbins they have now. Can’t get close enough to ram the bar stewards! I had to laugh actually. I read, a couple of years back, that an RN frigate while on commerce protection duty in the Gulf of Aidan had “attempted to ram a suspected pirate vessel”. I though “you just can’t help yourselves, can you? Millions, nay, Billions! of quids worth of modern warship but no, Bloody ram them. Guns: Captain, sir! Capt: what is it Guns? Guns: Permission to fire the Super Sea-Devil-Dart ‘Blow the balls off a fly over the horizon’ ship to ship guided missile, sir? Captain: What do you think No. 1? No.1: Well, sir, why use an expensive bit of kit like that when we can risk buckling the whole ship by RAMMING the swines!!? Whole ships crew: Ram him!! Ram !! Capt: Right! All ahead flank. Stand by to RAM!!

HMS Warspite loved ramming stuff even allies

@@DieWitness yes! Very true. :)

Don't forget Crimson Tide with Denzel and Gene!

So he helped kill innocent merchants on Japanese vessels?

Goodmorning to you 🇬🇧

Absolutely I appreciate you adding this

haha right on thanks Michael!

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq You're welcome and appreciated!

In 1937 work started on a Boom Defence Depot and by May 1939 there were booms across the three main entrances to Scapa Flow. After the sinking of HMS Royal Oak a second line of net was added. In total, 6.52 miles of anti-submarine net and 6.1 miles of anti-torpedo net were laid in Scapa Flow