The Only Time a Submarine Destroyed Another Submarine Underwater
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- During World War I, Germany created havoc in the seas by unconventional means.
The German U-boats, or submarines, sent tons of Allied war material to the bottom of the ocean in such a practical approach that the US and its allies could not keep up with the production line of new supplies other nations desperately needed.
Eventually, the US, Great Britain, and other countries realized that the submarine, although slow and clunky at times, was a useful war asset.
During World War 2, the Kriegsmarine continued to make fair use of the U-boat fleet, conducting a naval blockade all over Europe that forced the Allies to be cautious at sea.
Nonetheless, since the original submarines were put afloat for the first time, there have only been two registered encounters of two of them clashing in a combat zone.
The first one occurred in World War I, when U-27 sank the British E3. The submarine was destroyed, but the crew was saved.
The second one had a more sinister ending in February 1945 when a U-boat carrying a secret cargo on its way to Japan was intercepted by British submarines dispatched to eliminate it.
When both submarines were in range of each other, a short battle followed underwater, with the vehicles fully submerged.
The skirmish jeopardized a secret mission whose objective was to help the Japanese Army with the latest German technologies to fight the Americans in the Pacific.
Aboard U-864, the Germans carried prototype weapon designs along with German and Japanese scientists and a significant quantity of liquid mercury for transport to Japan.
It was Operation Caesar, and it was the Reich's last attempt at trying to win the war against the Allied forces.
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As a former Cold War submariner I understand the Target Motion Analysis necessary to attempt to sink another submarine. That the British Captain could perform this with existing technology is profound to a level of amazing
Why you lyin, why you always lying
@@noobplaysyt2067 evidence of his lying?
Or do you need attention and a hug 🤗
and it was done without anykind of a plot table,yes amazing.fmr coldwar dd guy here
@@ftdefiance1 How many cold war submariners are there on the internet? As an Space Shuttle door gunner this makes me sad.
@@gaveintothedarkness .... a few of us submariners
My late father served on HMS Venturer.
The crew formed the HMS Venturer society post war and kept in touch with each other till the last man standing.
Mrs Landers continued to attend the Venturer reunions after Captain Landers had died.
I only found out looking through dads paperwork after he had died.
Liker most ex servicemen from the war they did not talk about what they had done and seen.
Surely until the second-to-last man died, no?
😮
Good point and my error now corrected
@@Vaginaninja
You should look into the USS BARB the sub that sank a Japanese train. First sub with rockets. Captn received Medal of Honor.
The History Guy did a piece on the Barb I believe
@@MrSpartanicus History guy sucks though. He could give lectures on how to be boring and have zero pizazz.
@@MrSpartanicus ayyyy, Lucky Fluckey!
@@garrysekelli6776 that hurts
Sink a train? How do you do that , teleport it into the sea
imagine being in a submarine and hearing the radar pick up another submarine. The absolute fear and realization that the men aboard the German sub must of had when their secret mission was no longer secret.
Radar doesn't work underwater! And I don't think any submarine captain would use 'active' sonar for absolutely anything, unless in distress.
They would use sonar underwater. Also, its must HAVE, not must of.
Active sonar was used more in WWII than in modern times. Mostly by surface ships but subs would use it too for more accurate ranging. But it does give away the element of surprise. They would have used passive sonar and yes you could detect a submarine with passive sonar.
I wonder though. With the snorkel raised the German boat was most likely running their diesel engine which would have made it difficult to hear. I wonder if the Germans saw the British periscope and that's how they knew they were being tracked.
@@fasfan You didn't really LISTEN to the video, did you? The Venturer found the U-boat because one of its diesel engines was missing. A submarine spotting another sub's periscope is virtually impossible. Spotting a snorkel, which is larger, is easier.
As implied in the video, the German sub starting doing evasive maneuvers. I highly doubt it actually heard the Venturer. The Venturer was on battery and would make it ultra quiet. Besides, hydrophones are shit past the screw, because, the screw makes too much noise and masks any noise behind the submarine.
@@bobalicious2696 I'm aware spotting a periscope would be difficult, but not impossible. Depending on sea state and vehicle speed it may leave a noticeable wake. I didn't say that's what happened. I was doing some called theorizing. It's a guess. Wondering why they started evasive maneuvers. Did they spott he British sub? How?
I was a submariner when I was in the Navy so I do have some real world knowledge on the subject of how submarines work and how sonar is used, and baffles, and transients, etc.
Again... I was just throwing ideas out there. Truth is we will never know because the people who DO know were killed. So all we have are our guesses and theories.
@@fasfan Very true. A submariner myself. Nuke MM. USS Bremerton (SSN-698), '85-'91.
Genuinely amazed this has only happened once! Thanks to submarine movies, I honestly thought submarines were sinking each other all the time in wars!
Submarines were sinking each other all the time. These videos tend to have a lot of inaccuracies. In the Pacific the score of subs sinking each other was 25 Japanese to only 1 American sub.
@@duncare3601 but was that under water though? They probably waited till the other submarine was above water, because the hit probability was greater.
@@duncare3601 Not while submerged, this is the only known case of a submarine sinking another while submerged, which is an order of magnitude more difficult than sinking a submarine on the surface.
One thing to consider would be that since ww2 there were very few wars involving submarines. Or to be even more concrete submarines on both sides. There has only been on ship sunk by a submarine since ww2. I think either of them were Indian in the late 60s or early 70s
@@felixstieger9039 Yeah there just hasn't been that many conflicts involving submarines since WW2. Like you say there's only been two military ships sunk by subs since WW2, one was Indian and the other was the ARA General Belgrano that was sunk by HMS Conqueror during the Falklands war. The ARA General Belgrano is the only warship to be sunk by a nuclear powered submarine during military action.
In 1939 , 1 week into the war, the submarine HMS Oxley was accidentally sunk by another British submarine, HMS Triton. My uncle Peter Gregory went down with the Oxley.
I’m not a big art critic or anything, but this video is actually beautifully made.
@Lloyd Lee yea his speech is strange. Really quick with abrupt pauses.
Yeah it seems this guy has a lot of integrity. He continuously shows improvement. Instead of getting butthurt and rebellious he takes criticism and uses it to better his work. Wow an honest human!
@@krisryan9181 he's improved a lot. His brain obviously works very quickly he used to turbo through even faster but he cared enough to slow down so people could be more involved instead of being hurried at.
CZcams videos arent art, just like u-boats arent submarines
@@bokoda7207 . I think that you could be another person that likes the truth, and the correct use of words too........
Unfortunately I had to leave a critique of his truthfulness, wether he is ignorant of the truth, or wether he is doing it on purpose I am not sure yet..........
But, the start of this video is so incorrect, because the British had been fighting the U-boats for more than two years(before the yanks joined the war), and they had stopped them quite successfully.....
And, when the yanks joined the war, they refused to listen to the British advisers(because of admiral king who was a self confessed Anglophobe, who said that the British couldn’t tell him anything), and so the yanks allowed the nazis, to sink more than twice the amount of shipping, than they had sunk in the previous two years(more than), in just three months.......
What an astounding submarine captain. And having achieved that by only 25? Puts many of us to shame. He was clearly gifted
Look up Specialist Willard F. Parish.
Shame nah these guys were put to war early. Good stories for sure but man we’re all these guys young
Almost a century later? I was born in 1945, but I don't feel a century old... not quite yet.
Guess discovery of the wreck 58 years later is almost a century :P
Came looking for this comment, that was a weird mistake... maybe he got mixed up with the WW I event, lol
I've come to expect these types of mistakes with Dark Docs
@@Ryan-uk6zq Yes, that's his trademark. Interesting stories. Botched details.
Holy hell, 1945??!! I can only wonder what it must feel like watching the world around you change
So well produced. Someone is not getting enough personal
credit for the great research and presentation.
Thank-you for putting this together for me, you saved me hours
of time looking up all these details for myself.
Civilians with expertise in high tech military equipment, have a big target on their heads in war.
Ha!🤣
I know nothing . Sergeant Schultz zip , the Russian front !
@@davidking7222 🤪
Lol wut
Hey cut the guy some slack, and give the guy some credit, he puts out good content and it's always entertaining, informative, never boring, and it's generally new info to me. He may talk a little fast (and I know y'all are just joking around) but all in all, I give the guy a 9.5 out of 10. Plus his voice matches the "Dark Docs" channel name.
3:13 Colonel Klink or Werner Klemperer of 'Hogan's Heroes' fame makes an appearance.
Nicholas Smith-That's what I thought!
*I see nussink!*
It's from an Outer Limits episode
@@jameskruczek9635 Actually "One Step Beyond", but in the same vein.
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@@mauryhan yeah I got them mixed up ,it was all that tapping on the submarine that distracted me
That British captain was incredibly brave.
This was a feat for the ages.
nothing compared to the fallen german one
@@noodlebob5302 Yes, I'll give him his due.
Not brave. That's what you did. Submarine, battleship, infantryman, lots of ways to die. This was just another day at the office. Come up with a solution. Execute it. Hope they don't get you.
@@noodlebob5302 That was his job. A very bad one. By this time in the war going out in a U-boat was almost a certain death. To make a journey around the world? Not very likely he'd make it. In fact almost certain he wouldn't make it.
@@noodlebob5302 German captain was too predictable in is zig zags
Can you imagine how tense the German submarine crew was knowing that torpedoes had been launched and we're heading your way in a 4 torpedo spread.Biting bullets would be my guess,until the explosion.Thanks DARK DOCS for another great episode of WW2 adventures .Splendid!
lol the German submarine with the secret cargo is literally right outside my house
Your vids are greatly improved. There’s more to this story - such as the British captain becoming THE authority on hunter-killer sub warfare. One minor mistake was “finding the sub nearly a century later”. That would be 2045. It is fortunate that the German had engine trouble as the state-of-the-art technology it was delivering would have caused problems - although too little / too late.
Colonel Klink died a sub commander?!?! You learn something new everyday!
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what - Sean Connery achieved this feat destroying Tupolev's Alpha Sub
During WW2 with unguided torpedoes and crap sonar it's a much bigger deal.
To be accurate it was Cpt Tupolevs own submarine/torpedo that killed his arrogant ass
Plus the Red October never fired the torpedo. I'd say It's more comparable to O'Kane and USS Tang.
@Chad Mower Didn't Dallas also try to kill Godzilla as well. The one with Matthew Broderick in it.
Maybe Tupolev shouldnt have wasted time sitting on the bottom, he may have been too anxious feeling he was so behind the chase.
I like how you address all the scenarios/questions many have probably wondered, but no TV program would ever answer.
There are a few documentary shows that featured this story - back when TV actually ran historical shows.
I haven’t seen a video from this person, or any other person in fact, that has done something that hasn’t been covered by a tv documentary, have you???? If you have, please name it, or give a link, because I would love to see it........... And this was done by the dogfight programs, a few years ago..............
@@norrinradd3549 I guess I meant more the concise, focsed format. Bite-sized but to the point without a week long series on WWII naval confrontations.
- non-military historian
@@rodglen7071. I was just pointing out, that what we get from the people who post videos on YT, isn’t actually new material for the main part, but is actually more often than not, just a part of a one hour documentary, or a one hour documentary that has been shrunk down or cut into little “parts of”(because of copyright laws) bits................ Which doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be thanked for what they do, but we shouldn’t overstate things, because that demeans the people who release new material after they have done lots of investigative work, to bring their video with any new information out..........
Brilliantly put together mini documentary. Great production values,narration and music. Thank you so much for showing us an obscure part of WW2 that had massive ramifications if successful
Historically accurate? Only in the eyes of Americans, 5 minutes in and already the the efforts of the commonwealth (Australia, New Zealand etc ps sorry to those I've missed) and the UK have Been ignored 🤔
@@colinreynolds2907 I didn’t here mention of any US participation in this video/documentary
@@colinreynolds2907. He is very Anglophobic, and he says things like he does at 3:38, when he says the US landed on the coast of Normandy and southern France, and the yanks only landed on two of the five beaches in Normandy, and he then says the war was affectively over(or very similar), as if the yanks won the war on their own.........
And, just like you, he constantly forgets the “Empire Troops”(they weren’t commonwealth troops until they started to be their own countries, and that happened after the war, and the Canadians used a flag that was far different from the red and white flag 🇨🇦 of today, and everyone forgets the allied country that fought alongside the British empire troops from the very start in 1939, which was the only country that was invaded but didn’t actually surrender in any way, and they were the Heroic Polish 🇵🇱 people who joined every branch of the armed services, and they also were very instrumental in breaking the Enigma codes, as well as helping with information about the V1 too........
25 years old submarine captain, what was you doing at 25!
Being thankful I don't have to risk my life in a war.
Practicing my grammer :(
@@dallannorrish1587 awesome, free like an eagle.
@@dallannorrish1587 21, finished studies and confirmed astronaut training next.
I was on my second enlistment and completing my bachelors.
Only time a submarine sank another submarine *that we know about* we don’t know all of the cold war shennanighans that happened yet
USS Scorpion
@@collguyjoe99 that would be "the time a submarine sunk itself while submerged." Yes I know all the conspiracy theories but none of them hold up. The confirmed the nearest was miles from the Scorpion. There is no way a could have sunk her. We're just stuck with reality being stranger, if less interesting, then fiction.
Now the case of is a possible cover up. They even highlighted all the important bits in black sharpie. There seems to be strong evidence that... Huh, who could be knocking on my door at this time of night? LOL.
@@navyreviewer Well the thresher did sink itself due to bad valves/welds - Family connection to sub. Guys who were working at COMSUBLANT commo HQ wrote book and stated Flag officers came in knowing Scorpion was sunk -when and where due to SOSUS and Soviet sub tracked leaving area at high speed
We don't even know what happened recently with the Russian Losharik. All the world's major governments and nato went into restricted security lockdowns in national defense meetings. The sub supposedly made it back under its own power.
Before or after the end of the cold War, all sub actions as such are probably classified above top secret.
We rammed a Russian sub with our subs conning tower and sank it in the Pacific about 1967. Our sub was rebuilt in a Japanese shipyard for 18 months.
"Almost a century later"?!?!
DD wanted to put this up around 2143.
58ish years from the second sinking mentioned.
Keep in mind, 2020 was about 42 years long.
@@Jac2587 😂
Freudian slip ?
"Almost a century later???" 2003 - 1944 is almost 100?? Huh
dog years
He said 60 years bud. Listen again.
@@MinistryOfMagic_DoM ummm no. 14:30 mark you listen again "bud." Lol
Probably was supposed to say "almost *half* a century later" but fucked up
@@P07dreadnaut Possibly. I had to go back to check if I missed something. I know WW2 was a long time ago, but the 100 years thing tripped me out. LOL
Dear dark Docs,
You seem to have forgotten the sacrifices of the brave British, Canadian and Free French forces who also landed in Normandy, on the same bloody day!
Well said!
Agree regarding the British and Canadians, but let's note only 177 free french were involved in dday.
After Das Boot, I have the greatest respect for ALL submariners. I dont think Brave even slightly covers them all.
Same what a powerful movie! One of the all time greats, with a very beautiful soundtrack. All my respect to all submarine Crew from the past and present
Hardly the only successful submarine vs. Submarine engagement. Still this was perhaps, the most important and impressive of all such engagements, for many years.
Have to agree with your statement completely. This engagement broke new ground in a lot of different ways.
3:11 "Hoooogan!"
I know nothing...I know nothing! 😁
Take your UpThumb you psychic s.o.b.
I hope one day I hear this guy narrating tv and I look over to my friends and say ‘this guy liked one of my comments.
I guess the collisions don't count, LOL.
“Ramming speed!”
Neither do the subs that accidentally sank themselves with torpedo malfunctions.
@@xostler "That's classified"
And who knows what was really going on back in 1968.
USS Scorpion, Dakar, Minerve & K-129.
It should only/always count, if you/they intended to make the kill.........
Snorkel required U-Boats we're a great idea as it reduced the time needed to run with diesels on the surface. There was a hazard for the U-Boat crews in heavy seas. There was a float valve that shut off the snorkel when water reached near the top of the snorkel tube. With the sudden loss of air from the snorkel, the running diesels would then suck air from the interior of the U-Boat. This would reduce air pressure inside the vessel to the point of suffering painful ear drum ruptures among the crew. Great video, and please keep them coming.
The British submarine HMS Tally-Ho sank a German submarine in the Malacca Strait in February 1944 , I can't find out whether it was submerged or not. HMS Tally-Ho also sank a Japanese cruiser while it was on anti submarine activities and many other adventures. Well worth a look on Wiki.
I sunk an U-boat with my warship in BF1942 by driving straight over it, lovely sound of metal on metal and a lot of cursing that came along from the other party lol
There are legends upon legends having to do with this sub. Hidden gold, secrets about unknown super weapons,espionage, just lots of cool stuff.
I learned something from this video. I never knew that torpedoes were that adjustable in depth . I thought that was just Hollywood artistic license.
adjustable for surface targets, they were not made to do what they did in this story
They aren't. It's almost an impossibility to hit something under water. This kill was amazingly lucky
Great posting but, come on, you should know by now there is no “the” before HMS.
It is not “the His Majesty’s Ship Adventurer”, surely you can hear how badly that sounds. It is just “His Majesty’s Ship Adventurer”.
My thoughts exactly. Probably a US misnomer. It would be correct to say the USS Forestal for example but the HMS Victory is just so wrong and grates on British ears.
Good point, (my pet hate about many Merkin narrators) but it was VENTURER - not Adventurer
A submarine video the same day that Mega projects puts out a submarine video. I smell conspiracy! LOL.
I thought the same thing. It's not the first time they've released very similar videos. I've seen other history channels do it to. I wanna say invicta or kings And generals maybe
Da Boy with da Blaze must be up to something
Thanks ill go look for it
I was reading the comments looking for someone to say this!
Simon secretly owns this channel too.
I had no idea that Col. Klink from Hogan's Heroes was also a sub commander. You learn something new every day.
The USS Batfish sunk three Japanese submarines in a 72 hour period in february 1945.
Also, a Japanese sub ,I176sunk the USS Corvina, an American sub in Nov. 1943. The Corvina was one month into her maiden patrol. However, these sinkings may have been while the subs were running on the surface.
Most likely. Make much easier targets that way.
They were surface action's
This is the best Dark Docs videos I have watched yet! Very, very well done! Thank you. I knew about the German U-Boat(s) in the Indian Ocean that surfaced shortly after Nazi Germany surrendered but not Operation Caesar.
You don’t read “type IX” as letters...these are Roman numerals. It’s a type nine (9) u-boat...
Yeh just goes to show he knows nothing about history. Just reads stuff and spews it out for clicks
I always thought it was pronounced type iz!
You think it’s a human doing the voice-over, it’s not, it’s a bot narrator, precisely as dumb as programmed to be.
@@jontiffinphoto I guess they programmed that occasional lisp too.
@@markc6714 , absolutely. They are using that soft tool lady boy thing just like the young ‘journalists’ in every metro center. Notice that morning radio has done the same thing as well. In every aspect of modern advertising broadcasting platform they are making them sound soft/softer and feminine, agreeable/non-combative/no controversy/milk-toast opinions.
I'm pretty sure the "IX" of the tpe name can be translated to the roman numeral 9...
Native English speakers lack the ability to translate anything 😉
@@gravityskeptic8697 i can translate US english to UK english no problem
Roman numerals were the official way of designating U-Boat types.
@@pvtparts6879 well, yeah, but wouldn't you just translate them instead of saying the numerals out loud? I mean it stands for the 9th version of underwater crafts.
@@Alexis2andsoOn , depending on the elders ability of comprehension, ...
There have been as many trains killed by subs as actual subs killed by subs.
So, lots then :P There were many instances of subs sinking other subs, and many trains were destroyed by sub crews.
@@MetalRodent where are you getting that submarines have killed lots of trains? I only know of one. I think there might be one other sub on sub combat but they weren't under water.
If you said sis a killed by subs underwater, you’d be right. But you didn’t.
British and other allied subs blew up quite a few trains and tracks, mainstream history never goes into clandestine operations in the Med but your can find accounts in books and memoirs.
Also many subs were sunk by other subs, two famous subs for example USS Batfish sank three and HMS Upholder sank two, have a read around you'll soon find examples.
Nice cameo by Werner Klemperer from the show Silent Service where Klemperer played the part of Prien of U-47 fame.
Go Colonel Klink!
Every once in a while you catch me off guard. I wasn't expecting such a riveting story! Excellent job!!!
I was familiar with this mission but never have I seen this much detail thank you
Hey! That’s Col. Klink at 3:12! How did he get demoted to the Kriegsmarine subs? I always knew Maj. Hochsteder was crafty and evil...but this?
I thought that was Col. Klink! Good catch!!
It's called a promotion
Thanks
Dude i see you everywhere
He’s everywhere, sees everything, has a great beard, knows how to be sneaky....
*HE’S SANTA!*
Ya know, it makes more sense now that I’ve said it. In the Air Force, in SF..... sneaky sneaky!
Though to be fair, I really came here to see if Aaron Amick from SubBrief had shown up.
Hello Mike I see you browsing many of the same video's I do. Great minds and patriots think the same.
U-864 is why we should not eat tuna.
Don’t tell Hollywood, they will make a movie about how an American sub was the first to sink another enemy sub underwater and at the same time capture another enigma machine in 1939!
Psshhhh.. Greyhound is all you need to see
Correction*. The war turned when Germany suffered their first major defeat in Stalingrad; 80 percent of all German military casualties occurred on the Eastern Front
I'm so glad you placed the cirkel and arrow on the thumbnail picture. I would never have figured out what to look at by my self
‘Once the U.S. landed on Normandy..’. Err, I think there may have a few other nations involved in that. Besides, the submarine threat had largely gone by then otherwise troops and material wouldn’t have managed to build up to allow for the invasion of France in the first place.
Always historically accurate. Thanks DarkDocs!
hahahahahahaha that's amazing
Im assuming this is sarcasm 😂
How do you know , we're you there ?
The dude said that 1945 was 100 years ago, and that America was the only people involved in D-day
Hmmm not sure about historically accurate. The narrator is 'suggesting' that the U-boat was headed for the Far East by going around the north of Norway, into the Arctic Ocean, then finding its way into Japanese waters. Oh really? In February? Hasn't he heard of pack ice? The boat would need to follow an ice-breaker for a couple of thousand miles.
There were MANY times submarines were destroyed by other submarines. This may have been the first, but it was not the only one.
did u read it at all or just see sub killin another sub....
Did you actually watch the video or read the title you tit?
Captain James Stuart Launders, DSO & Bar, DSC & Bar, ADC was an officer in the Royal Navy during and after the Second World War. He retired from the service in 1974, but continued to serve in an unofficial capacity on training programmes until his death in 1988. His last jobs in the RN were as Captain HMS Forth and Commander 7th Submarine Squadron at Singapore 1968 to 1970, then Chief of Staff, Rosyth Dockyard, May 1973 to August 1974
And Werner Klemperer's estate continues to receive residuals for his service.
I thought that he was in the Luftwaffe and the Commandant of Stalag 13.
usually a wife or son would get that untill they die... might still be a check going out.
@@uprebel5150 "I know nothing... NOTHING!"
@@uprebel5150 He appears at 3:12 in this video portraying a sub commander. I just noticed it myself.
From "One Step Beyond"
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*Who else recognized the commandant from the TV show, Hogan's Heroes? Hogaaaan! Hahaha*
Couple times I saw him here. Lol. The crazy part is that he was Jewish! Werner Klemperer , I always liked him. Must have been strange being Jewish and representing German SS officer in that appearance just now. In Hogans Hero’s he did not play an SS officer. He was in the old German Army.
@@peltel2222
Werner Klemperer's one condition for accepting the part of Colonel Klink is that Klink's schemes should always fail. Also, while Klink was a horrible violinist Werner was a classically trained orchestra violinist.
Sgt Shultz (John Banner) was an Austrian jew from Vienna, General Burkhalter (Leon Askin) was a German jew and WW2 US Army Sgt),
Cpl Lebeau (Robert Clary) was a French jew who survived 2 concentration camps while his family did not.
I'll bet these men thoroughly enjoyed making the Third Reich look like idiots. Hilarious show.
This is also the only time a submarine sunk a giant underwater thermometer.
One of your best docs ever. Absolutely riveting.
As God is my witness, I thought that Colonel Klink was in the Luftwaffe...
*monocle drops*
I thought Hogan's Heroes was a group of pro wrestlers lead by Hulk Hogan. 🤭
He was. I believe the Luftwaffe took care of POWs in WWII. Probably because the prisoners were airmen? Not sure of the protocols for treatment of POWs by Germany at the time.
Enjoyable as usual. I noted that "Colonel Klink" from Hogans Heros made it into the big war at 3:12. :)
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@@mauryhan Interesting. Thanks.
Also at 5:17
Always nice to see Werner Klemperer.
As a nuke fast attack submarine veteran (SSN 612) it warms my heart to hear this story.
This is the only time (that we know of) where a submarine deliberately attacked and sank another submarine while it was submerged.
But, 23 other u-boats were sunk by allied submarines during world war 2, and although I haven't tracked down the numbers yet, I believe the US and Japanese Navies each lost submarines to enemy submarines - other than U-864, all were caught on the surface and torpedoed. Subs killing other subs happened quite a bit, just not when they were underwater.
A Type "i-x D" ?... its a Type-9D
Ed Sullivan once hosted a group of American war vets on his show. When he introduced them he reading off a cue card, and introduced them as veterans of'World War Aye-Aye."
Roman numerals are not his strong point :)
@@Sonofdonald2024 it's ironic that 2-words-prior, he *properly calls the smaller sister-series: "Type-7's"... [then of course the "I-X"]
I wonder if there is EVER any proof-reading/proof-rehearsing in these narrations...
(*or, more aptly, any "proof-logic'ing" of the scripts/details)
@@hancehanson4000 yes they hire 4th graders to proof read as an after school extra credit.
“Type 90”
Awesome.. but you said “almost a century later” @14:45
That 70 tons of mercury is still sitting on the bottom of the ocean leaking into the water.... You would think somebody would try and clean it up.... Burying the sub with sand seems like a Band-Aid.....
Can somebody inform the voice over dude that the war is over?
He need to relax a notch!
it's digitally sped up.
I did NOT know Werner Klemperer was in the Kriegsmarine. :)
I know nothing...... !
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Schullltttzzz!!!!!
5:02 trying to sneak snacks into the theater
or just thicccccc thighs
I'm afraid that you're factually incorrect about the crew of the British submarine E3 being saved. They weren't!
Kapitanleutnant Bernd Wegener, the commander of U-27, had to retreat as he thought that there might be a second British submarine present.
He returned half an hour later to search for survivors, but there were none.
All 28 members of E3's crew were lost, including its captain, Commander Cholmondeley.
One of my Relatives was killed when HMS HAWKE was sunk by a U boat on 15th October 1914, able seaman Charles Rayner
Sounds like the narrator has somewhere to be and running late.
As always...
I’ve got to admit, i like the way this creator lays out the content, and great detail.
The Kriegsmarine lost over 28,000 submariners and 793 U-boats sunk a during WWII, a 75% loss rate.
Difficult to imagine losing that many men and that many boats, towards the end they were the hunted even before putting out to sea.
Colonel Klink was a U-boat captain?
Hogan!!!
I know nothing!
he mustve REALLY screwed up for Burkalter to send him to the U-Boat squadrons
@@LoneWolf051 Better than the Russian front!
So there has only ever been one sub-sub kill, also only one kill _of any sort_ by a nuclear sub. Both are courtesy of the Royal Navy! :)
The U.S. Subs in the Pacific Ocean, have sunk Japanese Subs , Subs on Subs, don't remember the title of the videos but they are called silent service, the American sub also also sunk a German submarine not far off of Japan
The British Empire after all was the Royal Navy and Jewish financiers.
And my cousin served on H.M.S Conqueror when it sank the Belgrano
@@dennishixson1908 He meant sub - sub underwater. Plenty on the surface.
Actually Royal Navy submarines had 20 sub v sub kills by the end of WW2.
The voice commentary is a bit annoying. It doesn't create suspense, except for the sensation of someone about to sneeze.
Otherwise, very interesting.
I literally listen to your channel all day whole im working. quality af.
Amazing stuff. Like high stakes 3 dimensional chess.
"Once the U.S landed in Normandy" yeah, no-one else involved, just america
US Army was the first to land on d-day so he's not wrong?
Lol it only happens in movies 😂😂😂😂 US only fought in the air....
......you're dangerously ignorant on this topic.. the reason it's worded that way is because all the European countries had already declared war on Germany. The US force was relatively fresh. Vast in numbers. They'd spent 4 years stock piling armor and supplies, then they hit with full force.
My problem with this statement is the U-Boat threat was neutralised by British technology, American air power technology, the Royal Navy, US Navy, the RAF and the US Army Air Corps
The battle of the Atlantic was won by may 1943, a year prior to d-day
He never implied it was solely the US...
There's some awful mistakes here that even a quick wikipedia could have avoided. For one opening saying that the only other time subs engaged each other was U-27 and E3 is simply a straight up lie, plenty of subs have sunk each other in both wars (this was the only underwater instance though so is unique), then he says the crew of E3 survived (they did not). It's also very untrue to say the US and Britain only got interested in subs after German success, both navies had substancial submarine forces at the begining of WW1 and had started sub development before Germany. It's also a bit of a clunker to say only the US took part in the Normandy landings.
One factual inaccuracy- none of the crew of E3 survived, although those who had been on the conning tower (because she was on the surface) were seen in the water but had disappeared by the time U27 had surfaced and closed the position of the sinking. The dead included my great uncle, Able Seaman Albert Hunt. E3 was the first ever British submarine lost due to enemy action, on October 18th 1914.
3:37 the british and the canadian’s were also at d day. Not just the US😒
It was our plan, and the majority of the casualties were ours. So yeah, we're gonna take the credit on this one. Look where the resources to wage such a campaign came from
@@krishurlburt7375 That is the single most blindingly dumb thing I’ve ever heard someone say. Historians would roll their eyes at you. Yes, 2/3 of the casualties were American, but 3/5 of the beaches were not. A majority of the ships were British, allied AirPower was close to a 50/50 split between British and American, and its worth noting that of the 160,000 soldiers that landed in Normandy, only 73,000 were American. Also, the original American plan, while emphasizing the liberation of France and straight drive to Berlin, was far more idealistic about landing at Calais, the shortest channel journey, or assaulting a deep water port directly. It was only British opposition motivated by there own experiences in Norway and the Canadian assault at dieppe that Normandy was considered a preferable alternative. Not a completely American plan. I’d also like to point out that 7/10 Germans killed by enemy action in the war were killed by soviets. Should the USSR get sole credit for the victory? Mic drop.
@@krishurlburt7375 yes Donald
Yes but we all know that once the "mighty" US entered the war, the part it's allies played was immediately relegated to a secondary, subservient and much more minor role. And if we were good little boys, and they were feeling generous, they might just might take us along with them, providing we did as we were told and didn't attempt to upset the apple cart.
It had Jumo jet engines on board, there's a more detailed documentary made about 15 years ago.
It was on Military History O believe where the wreck was explored.
🤔 If it was on the "History" channel, it MUST have been 15 years ago, because they stopped focusing on actual "history" not too much longer after that. If they had done a documentary on this event within the past 12 years, the "historical facts" would've been presented very differently! They'd have hired that goofy, curly haired d-bag narrator to describe how aliens helped the Brits sink the Nazi sub! 🤡
i thought it also had A lot of bottled mercury for proximity fuzes, which now that the bottles are rusting, presents a really bad situation?
@@paavobergmann4920 Thats why they buried the sub in sand
@@davidm3maniac201 as if that´s gonna stop the mercury........You´ll just end up with a heap of contaminated sand, leaking mercury all over the place just a little bit later.....holey moley, dig it up already.
@@paavobergmann4920 if they can't stop it they can at least slow it down
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Well done-- coherent, well-paced narrative and good music. Even your rate of speech was slower and much improved, so you avoided the "word slurries" afflicting your older, previous efforts. We "liked" and were already subscribed.
90% of comments, ‘that’s colonel Klink of Hogans Heroes’
Does anyone read the comments before they comment. If someone else has already said it, just give it a thumbs up
Your staccato speech patterns is tiresome after a while. Mix it up a little cuz that style does have value. But not for 15 minutes straight.
In February of 1945, the USS Batfish sank IJN RO-112, IJN RO-113, and IJN RO-115. All 4 boats involved were submarines.
You do such a great job being the narrator!!💯💯👍🇺🇸 Your kids prob love bedtime stories!!!😂😂👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 God Bless!!
My life would have so much more meaning, if you narrated it.....🤣
“Little did Colin know that this simple, seemingly innocuous act would result in his imminent death.”
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I heard a Uboat in ww2 also somehow amended to torpedo it selves.
yeah, some torpedo's would malfunction, one did a 360 turn after launch, sinking the sub that fired it.
@@chrismechanic2000 180 turn?
I read the book years ago. Some divers I think it was 1991 thought it was a sunken barge and realized it was a German U boat. I forgot the U-boat number but I think it was off the New Jersey USA coast. They think it tried to sink a ship off the coast and the torpedo gyros malfunctioned and did a " circle run " leaving the tube and doing a prefect 360 degree circle to blow up the same submarine that fired it. U-869
USS Tullibee, USS Tang
@@leonswan6733 think the same thing happened to a British destroyer on one of the Arctic convoys near Murmansk. Steering gear froze to one side and it came back around and slammed in. Horrifically unlucky.
Lotta people don't realize that if the Kreigsmarine was better funded and taken more seriously, the allies could have lost that war.
Love these as always but did anyone else think the verbal cadence in this one was really odd?
Yeah I just noticed this, so I sorted by new to see if I could find anyone else who noticed. It's really weird
Sounded like an attempt by DD to slow down the narrator's speed. CZcams commenters continue to lambast him for his quick tempo so perhaps this was DD's response. If so, good on them for the attempt but the extended pauses between sentences/paragraphs are not 1:1 substitutes for a slower overall tempo.
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My mind when I see this title: *Alien versus predator*
heh?
3:12 A scene from 'Hogan's Heroes'?
For all the snipes at DD's slips, the fact that this IS the only time that one enemy sub sank another with a torpedo underwater,
The excellent series 'Hell Below' episode 'Sub vs Sub' covers this mission in depth.
DD's details are essentially correct, nitpicking aside.
If I may ask -- what is this background music that you have in this video? Is it available somewhere separately? Thank you - and for creating and sharing this - it's a splendid presentation.
Its called ECHELON BY VARIABLE STAR there is a video of it playing on you tube just watched it for you
I shazamed it for you