When a Tin Can Sunk a Ship
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- Job Maseko was a soldier serving in the Native Military Corps as part of the South African 2nd Infantry Division. When Tobruk was surrendered to the Axis forces he was captured. White and Colored prisoners were separated and he was put in an internment camp. Forced to do hard labor and given starvation rations he resolved to strike back. He hatched a daring plan that would sink a Freighter. At great risk to himself Job built and placed a device that would slow the movement of goods through the port city for the duration of the German occupation, one more logistical headache for the Africa Korps to deal with. All thanks to a brave man and a tin can. He was awarded the Military Medal for his actions.
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Please make an A-10 video or smoking snakes from Brazil
Oj
smoking snakes
Broke me: 😭
One small can can make a big difference
"Can a misplaced shot sink a ship?"
"No, but a tin can."
here is your award, sir
This is going to be one of those 1.k comments huh?
r/angryupvote
This is a genius comment
PepeScoots I Get It
"Why use giant 200mm naval guns to take down a ship when a tin can does the job perfectly"
Tin can filled with pretty strong explosives)))
Or a can of spam
The chance aren’t always like that 🤓
Ya true a tin barrel works great
It could work with a match stick and gasoline too
My great grandfather was captured at Tobruk. He was South African. He was taken to a POW camp in Italy. But when Italy swapped sides. Took a chance and ran before the Germans could occupy the camp. Walked nine months to reach rome and made it with his two buddies
Great story! I hope he had an amazing life after the war
sad he got treated like that in my country....
Ahh yes, italy with the switching sides
That's why we can see the coment
@@bodetaylor3642 he did. Went home and got married
Job Maseko was a great soldier to serve the South African 2nd Infantry Division!
Making a bomb out of a tin can and filled it with cordite and causing a freighter to sink with it (and a little help with dry straw, gasoline and other explosive devises)!
It's so sad that he died early because of an accident at a train station as a loyal police officer.
He will be always remembered! Thank you Yarnhub for making yet another great animation of a great story!
Keep it up!
It's quite the show of intellect of the time, isn't it? A bomb made from cordite from discarded bullets, straw and gasoline, all in a perfect spot for a brutal detonation, during a long war.
Why does this sound like an AI wrote it
i dont get it why did you summarize the video?
@@guerillagorilla4423 it's gotta be a bot
@@jason200912 Kinda funny people see me as a bot nowadays!
Its sad how this hero was left in horrible conditions after his achievements in war
Even his supposed allies didn't give him the respect he deserved in the end...
Cuz he Dark skin. Racism was still thick at that time
The opposite thing for Vietnam People's army veterans
@@WynnofThule capitalism moments compilation
@@danieljani7981 yeah, and it wasn't just the racism either. See also what "thanks" Turring got for all the help he give to the cause after they realized he was gay: chemically castrated and driven to suicide despite him doing more to help the Allies win than most/any general.
We'll never even know the number of LGBTQ+ people that were murdered in the Holocaust because the Allies didn't bother with trying to get a total for them.
Then there's the famines in India...
Really, the main reason for appeasement was that a lot of the Allied powers didn't see the Nazis as uniquely evil but kinda like themselves, just a bit more extreme and underestimated how much more extreme.
Rolling back the bigotries of the age of colonialism has been a painfully slow and messy process with a lot of grey and black morality along the way.
When a potato sank a boat:
1943-0405, War, the Potato Battle.
The USS O’Bannon, a destroyer, was one of the most decorated ships in WW2, with 17 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation. However, amongst all the stories of its daring heroics, there’s also a story of how its crew used potatoes to defeat a Japanese submarine.
Early on the morning of 5 April 1943, around 2 a.m., the O’Bannon’s radar detected something in the water near the Solomon Islands. By 2:30, it was identified as a surfaced Japanese submarine. The sub appeared not to notice the ship, so the O’Bannon was steered into position to ram the sub. However, at the last moment, they decided it might be a minelayer (which could cause the O’Bannon to explode along with it if struck), so the ship turned hard to avoid hitting the sub. However, this left the ship floating alongside the sub, too close to fire its guns. Neither the ships nor sub’s crew was armed with guns, but the Japanese did have a 3-inch deck gun.
The Japanese sub is spotted by the O’Bannon
Before the Japanese crew could fire the gun, the crew on deck of the O’Bannon decided to use anything they had to try to stop them. The closest things to hand were storage bins of Maine potatoes, so the crew began throwing the potatoes at the Japanese. The Japanese thought the potatoes were hand grenades and were so busy throwing them back at the O’Bannon or into the ocean that they didn’t have time to fire their deck gun. This gave the O’Bannon the chance to pull far enough away from the sub that they could fire the ship’s guns at it. Despite being struck in the conning tower, the sub still managed to submerge, but it was then sunk by the ship’s depth charge.
When the Association of Potato Growers of Maine heard how their potatoes had been used, they commissioned a plaque to commemorate the event. That plaque, which was hung in the crew’s mess hall.
😂😂😂As a Mainer our potatoes are top notch!
Wow how you know this stories😂
@@AfnanAyuby
Probably a certain electrician, sounds like something he reported on.
My global studies (history) teacher walked up to me and saw me watching this. I showed him the title, gave a brief summary, and he nodded twice. I’m glad you uploaded during my history class, Yarnhub!
Don’t know if anybody said so already, but that’s how you open a “can of whoop-ass!”
"They didn't even know what hit 'em!"
Everyone always comments on how the animations get better with each video (and rightly so, because they do) but I'd just like to say how the narration and research continues to get better and better also! Always a solid effort Yarnhub! 👌
Was taking the same, Yarnhub do an excellent job all round.
A few errors here and there, but yeah it's definitely improving.
you can buy the assets like soldiers and bottles too.
“Sunk a Ship! + 1000”
“Stealth + 100”
“Creativity + 100”
Creativity should be ♾️
Like seriously.
Who in the World would think of using a Tin Can to destroy a Ship.
“Rank: Silent Assassin”
@@jaredjosephsongheng372To be fair, it was not so much the tin can that sunk the ship, it was the high explosive that was in the can. "When a bomb sunk a ship" would have been a more accurate (though probably somewhat less click generating) title for the video.
Love how we “the audience” are able to watch how much better the animations got through the years of this channel. Love it keep up the good work
Maseko suffered normally the same fate as indigenous people whom served in the Canadian army during WW2. The soldiers in all services of color or race other than white, never received or compensated for their actions. It's a story that's told time and time again. Compare the 2 Canadians, Sgt. Tommy Prince, and Sgt. Léo Major. Same rank, but treated differently because Tommy wasn't white. I'm sorry to hear how Maseko was treated. Sadly, his story is not unique. But I am happy to hear of his actions during the war, and how it had actually helped the allied effort. It's about time Maseko's family to get recognition and compensation he should have been justly deserved.
I heard about this from another channel called Dark Docs, and now seeing it animated, I wonder how this story hasn't been made into a movie yet.
Same here lmao
wait a few years,when Hollywood hear's the story they will make one
The world dose not want black hero’s.
Thank you for telling Job's story. Many South Africans lost their lives, and my Grandfather was wounded in the battle of Tobruk. I'd like to believe Job was one of the stretcher bearers that got him to the field hospital, and out of Tobruk. A true South African hero.
So sad he received so little for his service.
Even more insulting is the fact that other soldiers got as much as housing and land just because they were white, while soldiers who had the apparent audacity to be black were often given 2/5 of a white veterans’ pension, as well as some small, useless item like a suit or a bike.
Many soldiers irrespective of colour get a raw deal when demobbed, job started his service as an ex miner, after the war he became a police man, as a miner this would not have been possible within his society at the time, without his war record, so he did receive a degree of recognition. Thousands of others of all shades were just discarded afterwards, and they still are, despite their heroism and bravery, not denigrating the man's bravery, just saying there will be many more like him that have slipped into history unfortunately unrecognised.
One man can truly make a difference. What a legend.
Thank you, Yarnhub! I probably would've never heard of Maseko without you.
My first thought was "Big deal; destroyers sank lots of ships."
Then I realized it was a literal tin can.
A tin can filled with explosives
I salut to all of the dead or alive African/African American soilders who fought from WWII to now. I respect each race equally.
They fought in every war since the revolution war
@Jason Voorhees weird that many fought for the South too.. I suppose many were forced, maybe ?
@@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 I have a feeling that some of them thought that the conditions in war would be way better then the conditions they had as a slave.
@@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 southern slave owners didnt want to arm their slaves (why would they) they were mostly used as forced labour in the southern army, im not sure they did any actual fighting
@@TonySpike No, from what I’ve read some fought very well for their ‘ owners ‘ some were forced some volunteered to fight . They were local town units where they mainly fought with . Little Googling and might find some sources .
The Allies didn't deserve soldiers as good as Maseko. The way he and others were mistreated before, during, and after the war is nothing short of appalling.
Apartheid too.
The Nazis deserved them as enemies, though.
If you think they would have improved under Nazi occupation you're sorely mistaken. The inequality was horrible, but they where fighting for themselves as a part of the allies, not for the allies as a favour.
@@MrEsphoenix The other side was undoubtedly worse for non-whites and others the Nazis called "Untermensch", but I think Friendly Fire's point is that even the best option was shit for them.
Yeah because the nazi's were know for their excellent treatment of minorities.
When this video said how a tin can sunk a ship I though it was a barrel but not a literal tin can from your nearest convenience store, this guy sunk a ship with just THAT! Absolutely amazing!
It’s awesome you guys are telling on unknown stories like this. British Colonial and Commonwealth troops were some of the bravest and grittiest men who have ever fought and their stores are often lesser known. Great job.
Yes Subhas Chandra Bose raised the INA or Indian National Army which consisted of POWs captured by the Japanese....also at that time a large portion of Indians were part of the British Indian Army fighting for the Allies....so at that point Indians were fighting against Indians
Tobruk fell after the 9th Australian division were recalled- they had held Tobruk for over 7 months of siege.
Well done, Job Maseko. A soldier with a can do attitude 🥫👍
...."Can do attitude "...😂
Thanks. This man deserves to be remembered.
God took this man home early because he shown at a young age, ALL the qualities that most take multiple lifetimes to accomplish. I don't think I can put it any better. Shine on people. ❤
HONORS to this man. Thank you for telling his story.
tin can: *sunk a ship*
soldiers: what how
He’s hacking bro!!!
@@West_Midlands.Trainspotting yea. A prop soldier
*"This kid is clearly using 1 hit hacks"*
And this is how the A-Team was founded. Awesome real story!
A true southafrican just a pity the true ones always get screwed but I'm proud of every one of them thank you all of you for doing duty
Similar to the stories of men like Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts in the US ARmy in WWI
I just noticed the Hoist the Colors leitmotif at 5:35
He might have actually helped cause the victory at El Alamein.
No.
I have figured out the one thing you need. Each story that shows an incredible person. Should end with a real photo of that person. That is what I was waiting to see.
Absolutely incredible story this one is, had never heard of it. Thank you, Yarnhub and their cat.
my Husband is South African Zulu and he took this one to heart
Thank you Yarn hub for sharing such a great story of black infantry soldiers during the great war. I hope this can be seen by many South Africans.
It was the second world war, the" great war", is considered to be the first world war.
like how youtube autogenerated "Gameplay" as a chapter
Agreed so cool
"Always take a tin can to a naval fight"
Maybe not with money because of its color and maybe not while alive, sadly.
But it's bravery will be rewarded by the respect of all who saw and will see this video, and it's history won't be forgotten.
Anyone who could carry around rocks that size is a beast!
We remember ypur heroic actions bro ypu won't be forgotten, bless your soul
The only way to beat the ever improving animation quality and historical content is to have a collaboration with Dr Felton. Then the world can implode
Job Maseko was a South African soldier during World War II, serving in the Native Military Corps, as part of the South African 2nd Infantry Division. He was one of many Allied troops captured by the Axis in the surrender of the port of Tobruk in 1942. He gained fame by his actions in sinking a German vessel whilst serving as a POW stevedore in Tobruk harbour, for which he was awarded the Military Medal.
You should win a medal for these amazing animations
bUt rACiSM
Did anyone else notice Hoist the Colors being played around 5:36?
A largely unsung hero.
May he rest in piece.
At this rate in a year yarnhub will be making realistic short movies that will surpass unreal engine 5 and mainstream animation.
The anti-tank at the start that at point blank range missed it's only shot, now that was funny.
Amazing work! This has to be the most underrated CZcams channel. Keep it up!
I've heard of this guy. And I give him royal Kudos for his bravery and ingenuity. He deserves to be properly rewarded. Back then and even today.
Yarnhub I’ve been watching you since your first video and have watched nearly every video, I discovered you sitting in an airport and subbed instantly. I just hope you see this comment and see that I am not the only one who felt this way and the reason why you blew up quickly was because of the quality and amazingness of your videos.
Gotta love the Hoist the colours soundtrack, for some reason when starting watching this it felt like a pirates of the Caribbean vibe for some odd reason hahah
Great job as always. I think it’s great how you make videos of the most obscure and unknown stories and people.
Never knew a Tin Can could sink a whole ship, truly amazing
That tin can lasted more than 30 minutes before exploding 💀💀
Great man, he fought the best way he could, lived an honorable and all too short life. I and mine will remember him...
But his heroic legacy lives on. Forever.
Imagine getting your battleship hit by a tin can, and just sinking it how humiliating
It’s not a battleship
My recommended has been so barren lately, always a treat to see a new upload from you all. We love you yarnhub!
He honestly should have put some of the bullets in there as shrapnel. It could have reached troops on land there.
So much for Rommel treating people fairly.
Yarnhub I haven't even watched the Video yet but I already know it's gonna be awesome. You continue to outdo yourself every time you upload
Thanks yarnhub, you taught me more history than my teacher did online last year!
Probably because schools think History is a useless subject
@@Baboonmomma I mean you aren't wrong..
I just love the "hoist the colors" as a subtle background music. very nice touch. earned my like
Explosions? Dude's a legend, and I can get behind his methods.
is it just me or does every video his animations is better each time
Love learning something new in history, especially when it can be so well illustrated & animated.
Well done, Yarnhub.
5:35 that POTC music though… fantastic & very subtle choice man!
Thank you for this story..I hope he rest in peace....
A little tin made a big difference
German ship: I fear no ship !
Looks at tin cans
Also German ship: BUT that thing....THAT thing scares ME !
Underrated comment
@@JANG553 thank man !
@@VERRATENMEMESANDCOD np
It seems that the yarnhub team’s music composer really likes the PoTC music. Be attentive at 5:35 to get what I mean.
How many men like him our country so badly needs now.
Great as always man If i had enough money to support you I would, but I don't so instead I share you with my friends!
I suspect that the fuse stopped burning, and that the bomb made no difference. The gasoline fumes alone would reach critical mixture at one point, and a German soldier opening the hatch for inspection might cause the spark that ignited the explosion.
A great story of heroism and a great sabotage, but all it would really take was messing with the jerry tanks.
If a submarine can sink a train I don't see why a tin can can't sink a ship
The true heroes of a bitter time in history! Their stories of bravery above and beyond the call of duty! Bless them for their sacrifices and bravery to fight at all costs for freedom!
I don't think the British will ever realize how much their Empire helped them. This is just a small story but they all fought valiantly.
They will never, hell India even had the largest volunteer force of ww2 and had done a fine job in protecting singapore
warship: *Exist*
Tin can: Allow me to introduce myself.
Thank you in remembering this great man
Yarnhub if you don't make a movie I'll be freaking out
The animation looks amazing
Would love to see some german stories from war
Having a small segment of hoist the colours added in was brilliant
YARNHUB your videos are great I love them so much!
Incredible video. Thanks for the unique stories and great animation and epic narration. Love these little known heroic and inspiring stories.
Great story, expertly animated. Well done
you have honored this brave soul in your animation yarnhub
What an credible story.
In the future you should do the story of how u-47 snuck into scappa flow and sunk the HMS royal oak. Love the vids. Keep up the great work.
Your narration, explanation, and imagery make your videos amazing. I am always reminded of the channel when typing up history documents.
when the vid started, i though that the vid was real. really good work
I somehow have the image of Vette from Star wars: the old republic in my head and how she jumps out of the shell of a dismembered Nuke screaming "KABOOM!!!"
Could you please cover some Chinese military history, they seem they might actually in the future make more advanced planes, etc, I would really like some videos on that, thanks. Also, keep up the nice videos, the editing is insane, the graphics are also good. Keep it up 👍!
How long does it take to make each video? I know you put a lot of effort in them. Your my favorite CZcamsr, need, videos, more, often, please.
The Chinese kept the majority of the Japanese army busy, making "victory in the Pacific" easier or even possible, yet this is almost unknown, another facet of history that needs better recognition.
Job Maseko made an actual difference in the Second World War and they rewarded him like shit because he was an African. What an insult.
Man straight up said:
"Woe pipe bomb be upon ye."
And blew up a entire boat, what a mad lad.
The starting battle was really good
Kinda hard for a medic to make a such a hard decision who to save and who not
As always great effort yarnhub, though this video feels a little more special. These soldiers were very brave and those men that were racially treated harshly were even braver putting up with the horrific german treatment they were given.
5:35 All I can think of in this part is the song "Yo ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die"
Brilliant, both as regards animation and narration. I've heard the story before, but still salute this hero, his endurance and determination to 'do his bit'. I had an uncle who served at El Alamein - for all I know they may have met one another.