Bismarck vs Hood original WWII recordings footage
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2014
- Original footage of battle at denmark strait.
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this guy is in the middle of one of the most famous naval battles in history and can still keep the camera more steady than school fight recorders
The cameras also seem to be of a better quality than the cameras generally used during the hoax shootings like the one that Santana used to record Walter Scott.
hold a camera steady while at sea and under fire from battleships that you can't really see with the naked eye, all while 16'' and 15'' shells splash around you not knowing when one is gonna hit you or the ship your on, i'm sure his nerves where a bit on edge so the shaking is understandable, also when those shells hit the water , they shatter sometimes sending fragments everywhere which might explain the sudden jump after 1 shell landed close by
whats even more impressive. is judging by the size of the bismarck, he's zoomed in insanely
so even a tiny movement results in ALOT of change to what we see
Na. When those big shells hit the water a hundred or more yards away camera 🎥 man didn’t hold steady at all. He must not of realized if he was hit he wouldn’t know it and if he heard it that means it didn’t hit him. Not everyone can Col. Kilgore.
@@Nyxchayeah they were roughly 9 miles apart during the battle so that is quite impressive
my uncle Edward was on HMS Hood. when the Bismarck sunk it.
the foliage gives me goosebumps knowing that was my uncle's last voyage.
And my uncle William (Bill) was a stoker on the Hood. Have you seen the website that lists all of the crew with photos etc?
My Great Uncle Raymond Kerr was also on the Hood, I get a bit overcome watching this.
"Foliage"? Is there something I'm missing in translation?
i believe it's meant to be 'footage'
the british navy was foolish by trying to encounter a contemporary Battleship with an outdated first world war heavy cruiser. This should never have happened. But they got the bismarck in the end. Its always a shock for me to read about havy deaths. Yamato had around 2kish dead crew members. Musashi 1k etc. So many crew members died with zero control over the situation the navy commanders put them in.
For those wondering, this is footage taken by a film crew aboard the Prinz Eugen, the ship you see firing is the Bizmarck. The Bizmarck had a camera crew on board too but they and their footage were lost when she sunk. At 2:20, that is presumably the Hood ablaze after her explosion.
Its Bismarck not Bizmarck
@@BNSFSantaFe603 I agree but Bizmarck looks cooler.
I think that’s Norfolk actually. Hood is the right side I think
@@TriggerVR657 You could be right about Hood being on the right, however that would then more likely be Prince of Whales, Norfolk wasn't that close to the German ships and was never actively involved in the battle (never fired nor was fired upon).
@@_lime. but was wales even hit that bad?
As the song goes: HE WAS MADE TO RULE THE WAVES ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS!
TO LEAD THE WAR MACHINE , TO RULE THE WAVES AND LEAD THE KREIGSMARINE!
THE TERROR OF THE SEAS!!! THE BISMARCK AND THE KRIEGSMARINE!!!
@@Reksio-yz1eg Buzzkill.
Reksio 1164 fùçk off
Reksio 1164 np
I think this is the footage my grandfather filmed - he was the second gunnery officer on the Prinz Eugen - Paul Schmalenbach.
Paul schlanbach is my great grand father I posted a comment on your only video with more information about this
Cool story bro :)
Thats awesome man
this is awesome!
xyz did he put on the fake soundtrack?
Nice you can only imagine the ferocity and sound at which Bismarck was shooting those 15" guns.
Ya d that flash and the black powder wow main.
Krustiest Frust Nope, Bisko uses 15" guns
Krustiest Frust 38cm are 15"
No, it is 15"
The sound is not originale
The fish around there must be like “wtf”
Sea creatures had an all you can eat buffet for about a week or two.....1400 sailors.
Nah bruh it’ll be like when you see shooting stars in the sky except instead of shooting stars it shooting bullets
And Humans just like: just ignore, we are 350 000 y Evolution ahead of you...
..but still are goddamn racists
😂😂😂😂
@@Alecin_ What's your definition of "racist?" That word gets tossed around without a lot of thought, but what do *you* mean when you say it? Btw your 350,000 year figure is way off if you are discussing fish! It would be hundreds of millions of years in that case, genius. But for whales and dolphins it would be an indeterminate number depending on how you rate the different species. Humans are not necessarily more evolved than killer whales in certain aspects of social behavior, for example.
War has no winners. A few days later, the Bismarck had the same destiny like the Hood. 😰💀
Don't be silly. If the Axis had defeated the Allies evey person on the planet, who was not of pure German ancestry & without any physical or psychological abnormalities, would be exterminated or slaves to the Greman Rat Bastards!
@@bakaweiner6956 The allies kept the Asian Empires' asses from expanding globally. Put an end to Japan & they're 'rising sun' & emperor bullshit! How many years have the Asian cultures been slaughtering each other off the planet? How many billions have been murdered? Only one superpower in the entire World right now, and it ain't Asian decent!
@@bakaweiner6956 Of course you don't!
@@uncletio0428 well USA is a angle for u right (if we ignore the millions of civilians they killed) same for GB 😇👼👼👼
But Hood is more brutal. The shipwreck is so messed up
This is easily one of the great real-time battle footage of the entire war.
100%
@@markhughes7927
Missing is the fiery explosion of the Hood. It's shown in another video lasting only a few seconds.
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy Damn shame, it was black smoke anyway those basterds were cooking.
This and the battle of Cologne
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zyI know this is a year old but do you have the link to that video? I haven’t seen it before
God bless the men who perished on both sides .
Really? Blessing the nazis aswell?
>Implying that the German Kriegsmarine was full of "Nazis"
maybe it was, judging by those swastikas painted on Bismarck's bow
well, if you insist on respecting them this much, you can respect them, you have the right to do, you can also ignore the fact there were nazis both in the Wehrmacht, and the kriegsmarine. Who knows how many were the nazis amongst them. They came to kill allied sailors. Germany winning the war would be resulted in half of European nations be destroyed in gas chambers by nazis. If they win the war, those sailors could make this dream of Hitler come true, whatever they were fighting for
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Five times you are right. But the most of them HAD an idea whats going on(some of them were nazi bitches), and they gave a fuck until they were winning. I dont want to hurt your feelings about the german war machine bro, but thats twisting the truth, they were not nearly that innocent as some would like to see them. They lived years before the outbreak of war and saw whats happening, talking to their family members while had a break of service in wartime. Germans used to say each other to hold their mouths about it, or "they may go out of the chimney" Also, i still say im glad they were stopped, because their war efforts could maintain Hitlers dictatorship up, leading to even more extermination of people.
Think about this: One of those salvos ended the lives of 1415 people...
Exactly! Many of the comments posted are simply maddening in their total disrespect of what they are witnessing!
When the naval constructor killed over 1400...gosh WHO created the *Hood* battlecruiser project? And WHO order the battlecruiser to close when could flank?
@@WadcaWymiaru
I thought that the Hood was not only a battleship - not cruiser - and was the largest in the Navy.
It was the principal fighting platform in the action against the French fleet at Mers el Kebir a short while before.
I’ve found my mistake but she was also designated as a ‘fast-battleship’ and was the largest ship in the British Navy for twenty years after her commissioning in 1920.
True, however Hood suffered several hits prior that resulted in serious fires, explosions of 4" ready-use ammunition, and the death of dozens of her crewmembers.
All because a couple of arogant men in poncy offices somewhere had a disagreement. Send negotiators. Can't agree? Send your wives. They'll straighten you out!
Imagine being in those ships, getting sunk, then being in the sea, even with serious survival gear ( which those men did not have) , & knowing rescue was hours & hours, maybe days,away , it would take brave, dedicated sailors to answer the call to duty. We all owe thanks to all those that served
everyone on the hood died except three people, who had a plethora of rafts to choose from amidst an absence of other casualties. they were pulled from the water 2 hours later. everyone else on the hood was sucked down by its rapid sinking. being lost at sea is probably a terrifying event, but this is not it.
Superb job of synching the audio with the actual salvos! Exceptional audio throughout the presentation! Very well done! Congratulations
David Rudolph There should be a slight delay due to the distance between Bismarck and the camera but yes, quite remarkable video:)
Das klingt anders.....Bei dem Kaliber.Das hört sich tiefer an, als der Ton von Wolfschanze. Dann kommt ein Pfeifen in der Luft.Das Donnern hört sich an wie ein Gewitter.Mein Opa hat mir das erzählt.
I've heard outgoing USN 5" rounds make a whistling sound, such as udo krause mentioned.
Opposite of “superb”, actually. As noted, the sound should lag behind the flash. Thinking they’re concurrent is a common error.
But there was no delay for the distance. The gun sound shouldn't occur at the exact moment you see the flash.
WOW those poor people on Hood. only 3 survivors. but that was incredible footage. FREAKING AMAZING
+ThenewerGamer 06 It was all done in such a short period of time, maybe 10-15 minutes. The video put chills in my spine watching this mortal combat. You can see the British shell splashes in the water between the two German ships. Both sides were firing for maximum effect.
Not true, HMS Hood only blew up when a shell hit the ammo hold, others were badly damaged and normally sank under combat conditions. My uncle was on HMS Prince of Wales, which was also damaged and went back to Plymouth, also my uncle was the radio officer and the official photographer on the Wales and took the last photo of the hood. The German warships were better marksmen than the British. My uncle honestly admitted that. The Bismark even hit his radio cabin, happily he was outside photographing...
So, it was for all sailors, which reminds me of the American warship that was sunk and the survivors in the sea were being taken by Tiger Sharks one by one, absolutely terrifying for those poor sailors killed and the survivors of the sharks to see that.
John Grindley USS Indianapolis?
The name rings a bell Tom, but my memory fails on the name, but I shall take your cue and look it up that name.
Top G
I still remember what my great granfather told me that he told me that he was a Staff Sergeant of the KMS Tirpitz.For a moment I thaught he was lying that he wanted to do a joke,but he appear in one documentary of the Tirpitz.He then was in charge of a group of anti-air gun crew.And then appear his name:Heinz Schneider,I died cause i told him that thats fucking cool he survive WWll and served the German Marine until 1967 he retired as a General command of the German Navy.And I never get tired of his strories
WOW i bet he had some interesting stories, i had family members that served in british navy & army, , in both world wars & heard stories from British side, but would love to hear stories from the German side & some r very touching stories, i know in Army side of when soldiers from both side would share same treaches, share smokes & family pic s while waiting for heavy shelling to stop, & then went seperate ways to fight another day, but i"m sure they never turn their backs to each other lol
My Great Great Grandpa served in both World Wars on the German side and my Father still has the Pass from the Kaiserreich Armee and his reworked Birth documentary from I think 1935
I dont know whos shooting at who but i know i wouldnt wanna be there
NaVI S that's Bismarck firing at the HMS Hood
I know i would love to be there.
@@mehmetcaneren4042 No you would not
Danny Austin is it the Hood in smoke on the last scene?
@Genio yes. Hood is where the larger cloud of smoke is on the right; Prince of Wales is at the smaller cloud of smoke on the left.
still a ominous predicament.
finding yourself in the middle of the ocean,fighting large metal behemoths with nothing but the sound of the sea battering against the decks and the roars of the cannons,shells whistling and cutting through the air with immense speed,impacting the water,creating an amazing but frightening display,knowing that a shell might hit your vessel and possibly sink you to the deep,dark abyss that may await you in your final moments...
a frightening thought indeed.
If you were aboard the Bismarck, none such thoughts would have occurred. Neither the Hood nor the POW could do anything as to superficially damage the Bismarck. The armor belt protecting the citadel actually showed it had bounced numerous shells from the KGV.
Those were brave men, British and German alike, out upon the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean. Leaving aside the fact of war between Germany and Britain, the North Atlantic itself was a formidable enemy when at her worst.
GeorgiaBoy1961 Very well said and very true... as many a sailor has learned to their cost.
Great and thoughtful comments...
@@shchorss Yeah, and the builders of the Titanic said their ship was unsinkable. Bismarck was eventually sunk. Her citadel was wrecked at the end. Those men on Bismarck were human, and I doubt most of them were psychopaths with no sense of fear. Fear keeps you alive in a lot of danger situations. They were also trained to deal with fear. Fuck your bullshit "none such thoughts would have occurred."
The ship on which this footage was taken from has a pretty formidable story, the ship is an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, the Prinz Eugen, and not more than a week after this footage was taken, she would seperate with the Bismarck to raid supply lines on its own, it would suffer engine issues about a day later and would turn back to Brest, which is where the Bismarck was also headed for repairs, unfortunately for the Germans the latter wouldn't make it, upon the Prinz Eugen's arrival at Brest, the Fuhrer ordered the ships Gneisenau, Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugen to return to German waters, all three of these ships were at Brest at the time, seeing that there were no other path towards the port of Wilhelmshaven apart from the English Channel (going around Britain and Ireland would've made the group vulnerable to attacks from the Home Fleet, which were stationed at Scapa Flow), the commanders suddenly grew balls of pure irom and steel and decided that they should go through the English channel instead, this would later be known as the Channel Dash, the German ships saw very little reinforcements from the unprepared British, and were already out of the channel when they finally saw real action, damaging the Scharnhorst (or the Gneisenau, I can't remember) all of the ships survived and not a single German vessel was sunk, this was humiliating for the british cause Hitler was basically taking a long walk on their front yard, the Scharnhorst (Battle of North Cape) and the Gneisenau (used as a blockship) would meet their fates soon after, but the Prinz Eugen would not meet her own until after the war, where she was surrendered to the allies, crossing through the Panama Canal with some of her original German crew still onboard, now as USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300), she was nothing but a faulty nuisance for the Americans, and didn't really want to keep the ship at all, but kept it anyway from the prying hands of the Soviet Union, she would then be thrown in the trash in the form of Operation Crossroads, a set of nuclear bomb tests at bikini atoll, and remarkably survived *two* nuclear bombs, and would only suffer from a leak months later, and couldnt be repaired cause of the radiation, she slowly capsized and now lies on the shallow waters of Kwajelein Atoll
Correct my errors if you want
Just use a few full stops, the single sentence is not easy to read.
Thanks.
Do you want to read me a bedtime story to love ?
" this was humiliating for the british cause Hitler was basically taking a long walk" It was basically a painful and final retreat for cover from the Atlantic (without Hitler)
Lucky ship.
Thanks for the history lesson.
Top g top g top g
Anyone can spot the Bismarck, it had such an iconic sillouette
Elijah Stewart fun fact: the British mistaken the admiral hipper class HEAVY CRUISERS as BISMARCK class ships as both classes had similar hull designs but the ADMIRAL HIPPER class ships were smaller and the BISMARCK class ships were actually BATTLECRUISERS.
Derp Derpington The Bismarck Class has been designed and built as Battleships from the beginning, not as Battlecruisers. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau have been Battlecruisers.
Admiral Holland aboard the Hood mistook the Prinz Eugen (Heavy Cruiser of Admiral Hipper Clasd) with the Bismarck (Battleship of Bismarck Class), because they looked similar. When he saw his Mistake, it was to late.
wouldnt have mattered as Hood couldn't hit the Prinz Eugen as well.
the fact they mistaken eugen with bismarck is due to a change of formation in the short time the 2 cruisers lost visual contact with the germans, and at 20km when the brits spotted the 2 smoke columns they relied on reports from the 2 cruisers stating bismarck ahead, eugen behind. they where stalking the germans.. it was not a visual mistook, since you can't identify 2 ships with similar silouhette, turret mountings and numbers at 20km.. now, the reason of the formation change is a jammed forward radar on bismarck caused by main battery shockwave while eugens radar was operational they switched eugen in front, bismarck behind. And no, Bismarck was not a battlecruiser, and again no, it was not recognizable due to it's iconic silhouette, it is iconic in 2017, but not in 1941 ;) in fact bismarck was seen 1st time "live" during that encounter.
Holy fuck i need to know more about this why they Mistake it.
Shouldn't have sunk the Prinz Eugen at Bikini Atoll it would have been a major part of naval history
Or the Nagato for that matter...
Alexander Stormdahl the Nagato was in bad shape already from being bombed a few days before the surrender. But the Prinz Eugen was in good shape, heck, she was in good working condition!
@@Kris-qy7hh Not at that point - all but one of the boilers were out of action and the ship was heavily fouled. I think they had to tow it into position in the end.
My late father was a U.S. Navy enlisted man during the Second World War, and years later he described to m how huge and formidable the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen looked, even while docked in San Francisco Bay, after being captured by the Allies near the end of the war. Eerie that this footage was taken aboard her.
Could have said the same about many ships, it's a shame we didn't preserve more. Specifically HMS Warspite and USS Enterprise
At first i was like: "Too bad the Cameraman was only on the Eugen" ... after a few seconds i realized if he would have been on Bismarck there would be no footage at all :(
He definitely wasn't on the Hood
Why? The Bismarck did not sink, it was HMS Hood.
@@petersyme7083 In that battle yes...but where do you think would the reels have been a few days later?
1:19 "I will not have my ship shot out from under my ass"
-Commander of Bismarck 1941
Kapitän Lindemann
The footage is way later. The only moment during the engagement when Eugen and Bismarck were on parallel courses was when they evaded torpedo from Hood(i.e. minutes after it was sunk)
Captain Lindemann
Lindemann was dead long before the Bismarck was scuddled.
@@mackydog99 that´s another topic
Thank You for sharing this, My Father served in the RCN , HMCS St,Laurent and HMCS Haida, he was on the Arctic Convoy's , Archangel and Murmansk, Had Bismarck made it into the Atlantic, well I might not be here....
shawn harold fox firth well I'm glad you are here, your dad was part of the greatest generation!
Yes absolutely great documented battle very good but little bit short
My father served in HMCS Matapedia (K-112) and HMCS Pictou (K-146) escorting Atlantic convoys.
My great grandfather was on Prince of Wales and he watched as the Hood sink. Glad he made it out alive.
You should be proud!
@@supernovaf1198 for what?
@@lyvianne0063 shut up
my grandfather was chief petty officer on the Hood, but was transferred to the Prince of Wales just before this confrontation of an old wooden decked !!?? Battleship from the Navy,s first world war fleet and the latest technology coming from the shipyards of Nazi Germany ! I wonder what he felt as he watched all of his shipmates and surely beloved ship meet this fate !
@@jamesdaltrey2878
In his book ''Sink The Bismarck'',
Captain C.S. Forester RN imagined the conversation between
2 Royal Navy Operations officers :
Officer 1 : ''The Hood and the Prince Of Wales have powerful guns.''
Officer 2 : ''But sending an Old Lady and a Little Boy against a bandit armed with a club ?''
The Little Boy with untested guns managed however to cripple the bandit with a club, sealing the beast's irrevocable doom.
Big up Top G
Who's here after almost an hour in the tate interview
The Bismarck, like all of the capital warships built by Germany, were really beautiful ships. I particularly like the pocket battleships. Beauty and death in a small package.
You flatter us.
@@kmsbismarck137 Yo, Bismarck. Have you made up with HMs Hood or do you still hate each other?
Royal Navy: "Why do I hear boss music?"
Kriegsmarine: **BISMARCK joined the Chat**
ph41 fudgepickles Another fact: HMS Hood and USS Mt Hood are both named after the British Admiral. Both ships met their end in explosion.
Fun fact:its bismark not bismarck
TheManBehindTheSlaughter
Incorrect. Bismarck was a German battleship, and they added a “c” into its name because of that
@@diegosilang4823 i think mount hood was named after the volcano mount hood and hms hood was named after the british admiral
I have never seen this footage. Just stills taken from it. Assume it was taken from the Prinz Eugen. The sound added was done very well. Thank you.
Right. That day, Prinz Eugen was the only partner of Bismarck.
Is it just my impression or is the speed of rate of fire from Bismarck's Main Guns absolutely astounding??
Probably firing 1 gun on each turret then the other one. Would explain that pace of firing.
@@az_3kgt714 Thx for your reply. Maybe so, going back and looking carefully it looks like sometimes one gun fires, sometimes both guns in a turret fire. Impressive nonetheless!
@@theexile6605 no way to know for sure. But it is impressive. Just find this kinda stuff fascinating..had 3 ancestors 2 great grandfather and a grandfather in ww2 2 were army air Corp flying b-17's over Germany the brother got shot down. And the grand father who was barely old enough to enlist at the time was a a destroyer escort crew for the usn. Myself a 6 year usaf vet as well 2006-2012
This clip is worth more than Gold❤️ Thank you so much for the upload!
R.I.P Sailor's, from the Hood and Bismarck...
whose here from Tate?
Now again, after this UK Jail crap
The Top G Brought me here
all i can say is what an awesome battleship, how great were the minds that designed and built this powerful battleship
+veeman30 Not that great. Bismarck was indeed scary but ton by ton was very inneficient. She had a lot of design flaws, a questionable armor layout, and was way too big for what she offered (compare Bismarck's broadside weight with that of a South Dakota, then compare immunity zones, and you'll understand what I mean. And south dakota was 5000 tons lighter).
And the minds that designed and built that powerful battleships were far from "great". As a design Bismark really was wanting. That size and displacement for a ship that actually wasn't better than ships a lot smaller than her, while being clearly inferior to similar sized ships (An Iowa or a Vanguard would've chewed up a Bismarck class battleship in no time, and they all were within the same tonnage range). To make an analogy, a heavyweight boxer who can barely hold up against medium weight boxers and is straight up KO'd by a boxer in his same class, isn't a very good boxer. A battleship that could barely hold up against 5000 ton lighter battleships (and some of them were plain better than her when it came down to fighting), and was straight out outclassed by battleships within her same tonnage range wasn't a very good battleship either.
Certainly was a powerful and dangerous ship. But not an efficient, nor a well designed one.
Ramjb i can see the point your trying to make but why did the british send in 7 ships to sink it one can only imagine how much they feared it.
+ramjb And yet the hood was gone in 5 minutes and Prince of Wales ran away.
+ramjb Not really, you're forgetting typical engagement ranges of Atlantic and Pacific. There's a tendency to go for belt armour and sloped barbette armour in Atlantic, because of shorter ranges, whereas Pacific BBs tend to go for deck armour and decapping decks. A Vanguard would obviously beat a Bismarck in mid range, but close range it's questionable. The Bismarck was famous for not sinking after continuous barrage from Rodney, it wasn't easy to penetrate her gunwells. You can't compare Iowa to Bismarck, Iowa doesn't have Atlantic type armour schemes, and would actually be at a severe disadvantage in the Atlantic, where her limited belt would let many more shots in, and her deck armour nearly useless. Furthermore, Iowa has incredibly shitty agility, she has smaller tonnage because she sacrificed agility for speed, whereas Bismarck had the same speed and kept her agility. Furthermore, broadside weight is inaccurate as comparison. Lighter, faster shells were better at penning belt armour than deck armour, so of course Atlantic BBs would go for that. It's just not fair to compare Iowa and Bismarck, since either would be at a severe disadvantage in the other's territory.
+L Ys That part about "atlantic was close range" is utter nonsense. Only the germans were using turtledeck configurations in 1940, and that includes the british, the french and the americans (which lest not forget: had an atlantic fleet too). Heck even the Italians used standard armor layouts instead of turtledecks, and the mediterranean -WAS- a short range theater indeed.
The germans used the turtledeck configuration because is what they used in WW1 and they didn't have the guts to go for something they had not tested in battle themselves. That's about it, because the other myth "The germans had not developed their ship designs since WW1" is also garbage, as can be proven by the continuous design work done by the Reichsmarine in the 1919-1933 period, which included fancy things as all or nothing configurations (Bismarck was incremental, totally obsolete by 1940 standards), triple, quadruple and even quintuple battery mounts (Bismarck mounted twins - the least weight effective configuration by far- because... oh wait, is exactly the configuration they used in WW1 too! see a trend here?)., DP mounts (Bismarck mounted split antiship and AA secondaries, another innefficient feature), etc. They even got extensive research done on target ships and armor plates of decomissioned battleships about gunnery effects (their conclussion was that a superheavy shell fired at lower than normal MV was much more effective than any other configuration, yet bismarck was armed with...lighweight shells and high MV guns)
I can compare Bismarck with Vanguard and Bismarck would've been run over and then passed over several times around. Yes, bismarck lasted a lot to sink vs Rodney and KGV, but she only was able to fight for 20 minutes flat. That was the time needed to silence her main battery, and her secondary battery didn't last too much afterwards.
Staying afloat serves for no purpose when you can't fire back, you know, and the german BB designs were all terribly prone to soft kills (thanks again to that obsolete turtledeck layout which left most of the upper hull unprotected), and Bismarck was a good instance of it. 20 minutes flat, ship silenced. What's Bismarck going to do against Vanguard after that happens?. Spit armor-piercing saliva?.
Iowa can perfectly be compared with Bismarck too. SAme displacement, and that nonsense about "no armor for the atlantic" is just that -nonsense-. There was no stopping sign nor "forbidden to enter" area for any ship just because it had one or other armor layout just because you happen to think that there was such a thing as "pacific armor and atlantic armor". No, there wasn't such a thing, as was proven several times during WWII by South Dakota class BBs (like Massachussets, for instance) which served in the atlantic. And the South Dakota class had exactly the same layout as Iowa (only on a much smaller ship overall and weaker at certain spots).
Also, the Iowa class battleship didn't sacrifize protection for speed.That's utter nonsense: the Iowa design process was pretty simple: the americans took the South Dakota class layout as a basis (itself with an impressive immunity zone against 16'' gunfire), and they enlarged it to make it go at 33 knots top speed and to mount 50 caliber 16'' guns instead of 45 caliber ones. And voila - that's an Iowa. There was no "sacrifize of protection" involved - matter of fact the South Dakota class BBs is considered by the naval experts the best protected battleship design only behind Yamato and...oh wait...Iowa.
Furthermore I don't know where you get that fantasy about Iowa not being agile (she was one of the most maneouverable battleships ever to begin with), but what's totally laughable is your argument about "bismarck being agile". Agile?. A ship that couldn't use differential propeller power because her three shafts were so close to the centerline?. Precisely the inability of Bismarck to use differential propulsion was the last nail in her coffin, as the rudders being locked might have been able to be counteracted by differential propeller power (after all one of the Omaha class CLs, which had 4 propellers, was able to return to base with rudders locked that way, so there are precedents of it). Iowa had similar mass, more efficicent rudders and on top of that cuadruple shaft propulsion and somehow you're arguing that Bismarck, which was renowned to be a handful at slow speeds because of her small rudder area, and had a triple centerline shaft configuration was more agile?.
in your dreams maybe.
What matters: Iowa was 3 knots faster, had an immense advantage in broadside weight, 23400 pounds vs 14300 pounds, and had a much more modern, better thought out, much more effective armor layout on top of it. Yep, I'm sure Bismarck was a contender. For turning into a coral reef, I mean.
And finally one last thing: Radar. I don't even need to say anything more.
Here after tates interview
God bless the Tate brothers and their impecible knowledge on historical events :)
I also came from the PBD interview
@@nonu417 🤜🤛 love gems like these I wouldn't have known about otherwise
@@shaunjonesfighting exactly💯
From PBD show as well😢
Me too :)
Bismarck = Death Star
Fairey Swordfish = X-Wing Fighters
Hood= Alderaan
^^^@Cool Jackster .. Well put Ha!!! :P] .v ..
U left out Jeddah and Scariff
Sums up everything.
非常有才，中华传统手艺，博大精深！
W. Churchill = Jabba El-Hutt
damn powerful gun sounds coming from the bismarck!
the sound effect is from a game
the true sound would be utterly frightening. Very few people have ever heard 15-16 inch main turrets go off with a shell loaded. Alot different from the shots fired with only bags in many videos.
As the kreigsmarine sailors said when she fired it sucked a scream from you`re body.
Now imagine IJN Yamato's 18.1 inch guns going off.
@@vonjager shit man 🤣🤣
Tate sent me
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Hood: We'll end YOU!
Bismarck: *eY bOsS*
Apart from the lack of delay in the explosion sound shockwaves a couple of seconds after the explosions, you are spot on with the actual sounds used. This must have taken you a while. Well done though. I used to work in sound continuity so it's just a hangup of mine :o) No malice intended.
BRILLIANT sound addition, and you didnt ruin it with music !
I lost both my great grandfather and my great-uncle on Bismark.
Bet you're really pissed at Hitler for starting the war then.
News Now Twin Cities who isn’t?
@@Joe93819 - The people who profited from the carnage by driving both sides towards conflict of course. The military industrial complex more commonly known as the Illuminati... the elitists... the 1%... the shadow government... whatever you choose to call them. Hitler, like all government leaders, was just another useful idiot puppet... a means to a goal... their goal.
News Now Twin Cities your obviously a troll if you talk about the Illuminati
@@Joe93819 - And just as obvious is that you are a complete moron. TA dufus.
"I won't have my ship shot out from under my ass!" - Bismarck Capt. Ernest Lindemann when Adm. Gunter Lutjens refused to initially fire on HMS Hood.
Not that day he didn't...
Lindemann was Jewish
@@ronaldschultenover8137 - I highly doubt this due to the fact that Kriegsmarine Kaptain Otto Ernst Lindemann was baptized into the Protestant Church on 26 April 1894... as were his younger brothers Kurt (b 1896) and Hans-Wolfgang (b 1900). Please provide a link to whatever proof you have to substantiate the claim he was Jewish.
@@newsnowtwincities9331 Does not matter he came from a Jewish family
@@ronaldschultenover8137 - Your non-answer would serve to indicate you have no proof to offer that substantiates your claim he was Jewish other than your claim itself. Good to know.
Didn't know it was edited until i read the description , well done.
Fun Fact: Any and all combat footage from WWII has the sounded edited in. Back then, you couldn't record sound and footage with the same device...you'd need a seperate sound crew and sound equipment at the exact same time as the camera.
Hi everyone from Tate interview
Fantastic footage. Thank you!
Nice bit of editing - love it
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Incredible bit of film, thank you for taking the time to share. Also the sound effects really lend well to it.
Omg - the last shot of the footage. You can see the smoke rising from the hit or already sunk Hood. May the sailors of both sides rest in peace.
Just the drifting smoke cloud where the Hood used to be, and damaged Prince of Wales already turned away and withdrawing. A bad day for the British navy.
@@Rep0007 The bad day was when the Hood was designed. Inadequate protection for the magazine.
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My pop spent almost 2 years in the Atlantic on a Destroyer. He said the seas constantly beat a ship in the North Atlantic. Its amazing they could hit anything they shot at because of the ship's constantly rocking. He also served two years in the Pacific on a PT Boat and was in Japan for six months during the Occupation of Japan. He said compared to the North Atlantic the Pacific was much calmer as a whole.
Well, it was named the Pacific Ocean for a reason.
@BasementEngineer That is what Magellan said about the new seas
My dad taught me that when I was a kid. He had a Master's in American and World History. Also it was in my Geography Class if I remember correctly.
Thanks for uploading this historical documentary. Awesome.
It is easy to forget that HMS Hood was no push-over. It was a formidable battleship, incorporating the best the British had in naval engineering. It also had 15" guns.
The Hood opened fire at about 14 km (Bismarck did not return fire until much later).
Therefore the sound blasts from Hood's firing (flashes) should arrive at Bismarck some 40 seconds after the flashes are seen. First the flashes, then the splashes (when rounds hit the water) 18 or so seconds later, then the sound some 40 seconds later.
@msotil I mean no disrespect toward you. HMS Hood was a battlecruiser and not a battleship. I'm sure others may have reminded you of the same thing so I'll leave it at that. Also, you are right; Hood was the latest in naval engineering..............for some 20 years earlier. She was literally the pride of the Royal Navy and their symbol of power and Naval supremacy for 20 plus years. But by the time she met Bismarck she was a mighty fighter but with a glass jaw The Royal Navy updated just about every ship but her so when she was sent on her final mission and met Bismarck, she was no match for Bismarck. Some say the Royal Navy was desperate so they had to send her but Vice Admiral Holland knowing Hoods dangerous shortcomings as did the British Admiralty, sent her out for a role she was NOT designed for AND MADE HER FLAGSHIP OF ALL THINGS. Had HMS Hood sunk today and the British people made aware of Hoods dangerous shortcomings that the Admiralty obviously knew about, there would be so many law suits going on it wouldn't be funny. And THAT doesn't require hindsight....only common sense. The HMS Hood Association will ALWAYS defend VADM Holland but more so because he can't defend himself. Sad story any way you look at it though.
apiece ofdirt If Hood sunk today any law suits wouldn't get very far.I'm sure theres something that says (quite rightly) that families of personal killed in action cant sue the Military no matter how negligent they were.If everytime a soldier/sailor/airman died their family was allowed to sue the military - then sending men into combat will become untenable!
+apiece ofdirt I refer to an answer I gave to a comment avobe. Hood was a battlecruiser by name only. Her armor layout was actually slightly better than Queen Elizabeth class battleships and was equal to that of the Revenge class battleships. The only reason she kept her class as battlecruiser was because she was a 30+knot ship, at a time (she was completed in 1919) when the rest of the world's battleships were considered fast if they could hit 23 knots. She was literally in a class of her own, one that still had no name as there was nothing like her, nor there was for 20 years until the Richelieus, Bismarcks, Littorios and Iowas entered service. IN the meantime, as there was no class for her she was just called "battlecruiser" because, as battlecruisers, she was a capital ship that could sail at a cruiser's speed.
But she was not your usual WWI british tinclad battlecruiser - she had battleship armor, so the term wasn't correct for her. She needed a new classification, yet never was classified to what she actually was. There was no name for it yet, but that name was coined some 20 years later. That name was "fast battleship", a term applied to Washington Treaty battleships, North Carolina and KGV, which both still were 2 knots slower than Hood and still didn't allocate a bigger armor tonnage % to armor than what Hood did. That's right, Hood had, in absolute terms (total armor tonnage) more armor than a KGV or a North Carolina. And in percentage terms she had similar displacemente % devoted to armor than those two. She only suffered from having that armor spread in a layout that by 1919 was considered top class but which was obsolete by the 1930s, when All or Nothing had won the day in naval warship design and much bigger emphasis was put on strong deck armors. But still that was a shitload of armor she carried. A ship with that ammount of armor was no battlecruiser ,but a battleship indeed.
So Hood was a fast battleship for all intents and purposes. The first of the world, 20 years in advance of the second. The shot that finished her career would've finished a Warspite or a Revenge exactly the same way, for the Hood (as completed), the Revenge class and the Queen Elizabeth class had almost identical armor layouts (and out of the three QE's actually was the weaker by a bit because of slightly thinner internal bulkheads). Three of those two were battleships. Then why is Hood labelled as battlecruiser and dismissed as "not that great armor wise" for that reason?. Boggles the mind.
The footage is being filmed from Prinz Eugen, not Hood... It should only be a few seconds for the sound delay, the Bismarck is only a kilometer away in this footage. Hood is the ship seen burning on the horizon at the end.
Design and engineering-wise, it is difficult to armor the deck of a heavy cruiser or battleship adequately-enough to protect against plunging fire of the kind which destroyed the HMS Hood, without adversely effecting sea-keeping characteristics, fuel consumption, top (flank) speed attainable, and other characteristics. Just as the design of a main battle tank is a compromise between armor (protection), mobility and firepower, the same is true of any capital ship of this kind. The Hood was an excellent vessel; her doom was sealed by the accuracy of Bismarck's gunnery, as much as anything. That - and chance: bad luck. Modern forensic analysis has yet to determine conclusively the cause of her sinking; there are a number of credible theories as to how precisely she was mortally-stricken. Her deck armor may not have been at fault.
Tate interview anyone?
The first time I saw a documentary about this, I was overwhelmed by the enormity of the loss. Three sailors on Hood survived & the interview of one of them was eerie. Of course, now they all have passed. Even crew of Bismarck was surprised by the massive explosion. HMS Hood, a WWI Super cruiser was scheduled for a refit to strengthen its thin deck; but the urgency of the war tragically delayed the work & Hood was sacrificed to Bismarck, a true battleship. The HMS Hood was a beautiful ship.
The fatal shot didn't go through the deck. It hit below the armour belt under the waterline as the Hood heeled over when turning to fire on Bismarck. The shell exploded in the secondary armament magazine which in turn cooked off the forward main magazine. There was no fatal flaw on HMS Hood. It was just a lucky shot that ended her.
What color is your bismarck?
It gives me chills to think that I’m distantly related to someone who served on that beautiful beast.
A epic battle of two mighty ships, but sadly tragedy as well .So many lives lost on both sides,and two great ships lost.
This ships were 26 kilometers far from each other. That's awesome.
actually the bismark is not 1 km away from the prinz eugen, which is where this footage originates from.
So the sound would be instantaneous. Whoever matched that sound to the film did an excellent job!
pretty impressive. And at the same time incredibly tragic.
Incredible ! That this and the 18 sec piece of film showing the hood blowing up exist.
raul duke were can i find that footage of the hood?
it isnt the hood unfortunately
+demonikfunk That is the actual video of the battle between the Bismarck and Hood taken by an officer aboard the Prinz Eugen. The original had no sound.
Incredible footage!.. thank you 👍
Photography is the closest thing we have to time travel. For a few minutes I was able to look through the eyes of someone who was there. amazing.
good sound edited up to the Bismarcks broadsides...they were actually twice as thunderous!!!
Tate bought me here
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Amazing footage. The natural sound is incredible and extremely rare. History at its most real.
The sound has been added.
The original film had no sound.
Also there would have been a delay between the flash from the guns firing (speed of light) and the report from the guns (speed of sound).
However, what you see and hear is simultaneous, which is not how the real world is.
Astonishing historical film. Having knowledge of this engagement's outcome makes it chilling.
Prinz Eugen's eventual fate was to be amongst the target ships at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946. She survived Test Able (airburst) and Test Baker (underwater burst) but was heavily contaminated, and this radiological hazard prevented repair of blast damage. Prinz Eugen was later towed to Kwajalein Atoll where she finally sank some months later. Today, her capsized hull is still visible in satellite photos of the atoll's shallow waters.
Pbd brought us together.
I found it interesting and so sad at the same time so many lives lost amazing ships for there time thanks for the sound
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So sad to lose so many young lives and for the loss of beautiful ships built with blood sweat and pride
the sound really adds to this. thank you
Those shell splash's going up around that ship were massive given how large that ship was. Could not imagine being in battles like that.
The British and Germans both deserve the same amount of respect. I hate how people say stuff like "Well the Germans dont deserve respect, they killed millions!" thats just bullcrap. Its the leaders of the nations that should be blamed, not the soldiers that fight their wars. Those soldiers and sailors had 2 choices: war or execution. So please, respect both sides. Disagree if you want, i dont give a crap, but dont say that every German soldier is evil for fighting in wars they most likely didnt even want to fight in. No one likes war.
Not necessarily a choice between war or execution (at least until 1944-45) but I appreciate your point. Many people think they would've gone against their leaders had they lived in a different time and place, but they would probably have obeyed just as so many millions of others did. The penalties for not participating in the Nazi war effort were significant and severe. On the other hand, many Germans were more than eager to join the military, but fighting in wars for your country is a deep-seated part of human nature for many young men! Cheers to you.
The Germans chose a tyrannical leader, to eliminate a tyrannical government. Then launched a war against the world to eliminate all exterior traces of that ideology. Nazi were evil, but Weimar Republic was no better. The Alt right, I hate to admit. Are a great example of the Nazi party today. Thank God the right will have nothing to do with them, I pray the silent majority does not become desperate and embrace them.
@@philiplord181 The alt right and fascism literally have nothing in common. At all.
@@jeebuzcrust I hope your right. They seem to me an authoritarian approach to reestablishing the right wing. What bothers me most is their racial views. it seems the leftist are reinforcing their beliefs on that, as we speak.
@@philiplord181 If anything, the far left seems to be heading towards becoming the brown shirts of the modern era. They seem to have eerily similar styles.
Very clear footage. Very haunting footage.🦇👻☠
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god bless the man that record this
Fantastic footage and so clear!
Great footage, it would be nice to have some narration of what we are seeing.
Please remember that you are seeing people die., and some people out there are making jokes about it ( keyboard heroes ) my mom's brother was ON the HOOD and every year on the anniversary of the sinking she would put on his favorite record, when she died we put it in her coffin with his picture. So remember that people who was killed in the pictures and video's had loved one's RIP all the war dead
Well said, my grandfather was on the Hood. Just respect their bravery, they carried out their duty. RIP . We will remember them.
Well said Keith..
not a damn game but life or sudden horrible death.
C'est la vie, we all end up with the same fate, so may as well make some jokes about it. Grow some thicker skin
@@robdog1245 Jackass
@@robdog1245 I am guessing you have not been in combat.
Bronze plaques were placed on the wrecks (in 2001 I think) by unmanned submersibles, both containing all the names of the crew lost.
Today it has been eighty years since this battle. May all the men who perished aboard the Hood Rest In Peace.
There is a memorial service being held at St James Garlickhythe church in London at 12:15pm today. It is supposed to be on a livestream here on youtube on the church's own channel. Respect to the crew's memory.
Wow look at all the experts on muzzle flash and sound.
well....yeah. light travels faster than sound. the farther you are a way from an explosion (or cannon fire), the longer it takes for sound to reach you. you'll see the muzzle flash first.
There are a lot of comments on this video pedalling a common misconception, Hood although coined a “Battlecruiser” was not built like those at Jutland famed for poor armour schemes. A more appropriate title for Hood would be Fast Battleship, her armour, firepower and speed were the closest thing the Royal Navy had to Bismarck (A much newer Battleship) at the time of engagement and the American admiralty were impressed by her, watching her with interest. Hood’s armour scheme was on par with if not better than other Battleships in the Royal Navy at the time. In terms of her sinking, Hood was extremely unfortunate and luck played a big part in the catastrophic detonation which ripped the ship in half. Even the biggest, most well equipped ships can be undone when in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Only safety the Hood had was turning it's armor toward the enemy, it was in that process when it was hit
The Hood was a much older ship, built in the WW1 days I believe? Nowhere near the protection of the German boat, guns were much smaller on the Hood. She was out matched from the git go.. Me, I would have loved to see the Iowa or the Missouri tangle with the bismarck
@@artbrookey3341 They had just put more armor on a section it was turning that section
Art Brookey Hood was much older than Bismarck yes but for almost two decades was considered the most powerful ship in the world, she was far from under armoured, her belt armour was 12” to Bismarck’s 12.5”. Also Hood and Bismarck were both armed with 8 15” guns, so Hood’s main guns were actually the same size. Bismarck’s main advantages came in that she was more technologically advanced, her fire control systems were more accurate and her guns could fire at greater range, but in terms of raw firepower and armour Hood was a much closer match than most think. Had Hood been refit to accommodate state of the art fire control directors etc she may have had more of an advantage but her vertical armour was not her undoing, and would have remained unchanged through refit. Now in terms of the Iowa class ships, these outclass Bismarck in practically every aspect so I don’t think it would be close, especially as they were armed with radar controlled firing systems they could have engaged Bismarck at night and Bismarck would be helpless.
@@ZuluHarryGaming What you need to remember is that Hood's 12 inch belt wasn't the equivalent to Bismarck's.
The first problem is the alloy, mid circa 1930's steel alloys (for armor) were more resilient than their ww1 counterparts
The second is the width of the section of Hood's belt that was 12 inches thick is not very big at all, the following 2 links help to explain this:
www.hmshood.com/ship/hoodspecs2.htm
www.kbismarck.com/proteccioni.html
Bismarck's gun were a higher velocity, this leads to the shells falling at a less steep angle (which is not good for deck penetration), but good for belt penetration.
At the range that the Hood was fatally hit, the shell would not have been able to penetrate the deck armor and into the vitals to cause the explosion.
The only way to for want of a better term fix the deficiencies of HMS Hood would to pretty much strip it bare and start again in regards to the armor scheme as a whole.
I still remember watching "Sink The Bismarck" On Family Classics in the 60's!
I have that on DVD.
Me too...excellent movie!
I jut saw it for the fifth time a couple of months ago. I will see it again someday.
There’s that predatory sense in this footage which you can imagine of Nelson’s fleet closing in on the French fleet at Aboukir as night was falling.
Big respect to the camera man.👍
Haunting footage....wow
Being a war journalist must be one of the scariest jobs in history. My respects to these guys
there's a memorial here in Maryland for War Correspondents, it's actually not that far from me. that's an aspect of war that never gets talked about. you're in the heat of battle too, but only armed with a camera and note pads
Who ever filmed this is the best camera guy I have ever seen.keep the camera steady on a moving ship.
And during war
That was cool. Thankyou for sharing this.
Who's here from the andrew tate podcast with pbd ?
Intensifying forward fire power!!!
Great history video must have been crazy to be there.
Gun sounds are from Silent Hunter 3. Instantly recognizable. Good job!
I can honestly say the ocean looks and sounds the same now as it did then😁. US Navy veteran
Glorious! A time that we’ll probably never see again. Not like that.
The Internet has done so much to keep historical footage like this alive