The Incredible Story of U-615 in the Caribbean
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it is interesting how Humans use so much effort and energy to kill itself...
well done....Lest We Forget.
@@thelastaustralian7583 Greatly appreciate it! Have a great week :)
you can just say 615 and leave out the hundred each time...otherwise good eh
@@Prone2Thrill Will be fixed in all future U-Boat videos! Thanks for watching :)
My father was the Chief Machinist Mate of the Walker during this action. The Walker arrived in the Pacific just in time for the Maranians turkey shoot. After the war my dad was reassigned to another ship and retired on December 7, 1949. thank you for making this video.
Wow, thank you for sharing this and most of all thank you to him for his service! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)
Jesus Christ what a story. If 615’s gunners were on the Bismarck she might’ve survived the war. Even though they were our enemies you have to acknowledge the bravery and heroism, an incredible story of the human experience in extreme circumstances
Really is interesting how ineffective the Bismarck's AA guns were. Seems to be the case for most battleships against air power though, none really had much success as far as I know. Thanks for watching and have a great week :)
@@HiddenHistoryYT qq no
@@HiddenHistoryYT Were the AA guns ineffective or was it the sighting system?
The main guns of some battleships could be directed to fire fairly close to one moving target from another, yet not always a hit.
They were on a 2 dimensional sea, air makes it 3D.
@@20chocsaday I believe on Bismarck they weren’t designed for airplanes as slow as the Swordfish that were attacking
Nah...idts...if it wAsn't 4 these Enemy's. 🇺🇲wE🇺🇸 wouldn't hAd 2 Be in UnForgiven D💀adly BATTLES...WASTE OF PRECiOUS ⏳on 🌎 & LiFE on 🌍..O' sOSorryFAMiLY's...⌛'z🆙️
Somewhere in amongst those sunken oilers was an interesting story from a deckhand who was sunk twice before being rescued once. He was fairly new to the merchant marine but sharp enough to sleep with his life jacket on. When the ship suddenly heaved, He knew exactly what had happened and got topside in time to be swept over the side.
The water was covered in oil, And he swallowed some making him violently ill. Another freighter began picking up surivers and was itself torpedoed, This time Catching Fire. Again, He had to take to the sea, And was horribly burned getting there this time. A third ship coming the other way Was picking up survivors. It too was damaged but not sunk before they could get the man out of the water. It was quite a challenge because the men were oil covered and kept slipping out of the loop, But this man held the loop tight despite it biting through the burn on his back and was hauled up onto the deck. The ship immediately struck out for mobile Is Alabama and was able to outrun the submarine, Who was by then, being harassed by allied armed forces.
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Do you happen to knwon what the subs number was or who steered it?
More U boat stories, please, kind sir
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These men of U615 where young men fighting a war for a mad man
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I worked at Todd Shipyards Galveston, TX in the summers of 1968 and 1969 for college money at University of Houston. Old timers at Todd told me of the ships that made it back from being torpedoed in the Gulf of Mexico and their repair. The same drydocks that held those ships were still in service in my time at Todd.
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My father flew out of Norfolk Flying station Virginia on the Catalina n Mariner as a gunner n Spotter chasing Uboats. From late 1942 til the wars end.May ‘45
Your video history is excellent.
@@walterbsprinks Thank you to him for his service, a true hero! Appreciate you watching and have a great weekend :)
@MrKen-wy5dk: my father worked as a boilermaker, rivet driver, welder, and steel plate and bulkhead installer at Todd Shipyard in Galveston during the era of 1939-1961. I worked at Todd during the summers of 1957, ‘58, and ’59 to help my college expenses. I was born in 1937, raised, and educated in Galveston. I still remember the blackouts we had during the night because of potential U-boats offshore and the blimp base we had at Hitchcock that housed two blimps used for scouting and hunting for U-boats that could be attacked by planes from planes at Scholes Field and Ellington Field. My dad riveted a lot of the ships that went into WWII and he was drafted into the Army in 1944 at the age of 34 yrs, with 4 kids to support. He repaired and converted a lot of the ships that returned from the war after 1945. I worked in and knew all 3 dry docks at Todds as well as the main plate shop and most of the employees at Todds - especially the boilermakers. Since I was a boilermaker helper, I knew a lot of the senior welders, cutters, & fitters as well as machinists and electricians. I learned to cut and weld at Todd. I heard a lot of the stories and tales of what went on during and after WWII. I can relate to the U-boat presence the Gulf of Mexico.
What a truly gripping and detailed account of action and bravery! I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it!
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Fantastic vid. Excellent narration. Excellent detail. Added bonus ... no stupid background music.
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And all this at an age at which I merely dared to ride on public transport alone...
May all the poor souls who have been betrayed of their lives so very early rest in peace...😢
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thank you for telling the story of a great commander, Ralph Kapitsky , thank you .
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Sinking defenceless ships
Unrestricted submarine warfare as the Americans later
Employed some were full of pows!
Sure, all those great people who would have murdered half the world were just so wonderful. Sick, man, really sick to praise these nazi killers.
Really, really sick. I'm sure your parents wanted something better for you.
@@angloaust1575 u clearly don’t understand y he said that… smh 🤦♂️
@@angloaust1575 They didn’t and he didn’t however my grand uncle ran the show towards last years, he sank over 8000 tons (metric) and let others limp away. How dare you judge them defending nation from offensive monsters coming to kill civilians, his babies and wife. What if killed yours in 8 million set fire to your family lost all, nation and better life, all knew wealth positions buisness status home language history job, noble landed family. Your magnificent time on earth. They were bringing death to a peaceful nation unfairly. 53 nation on one? Two giants? Go to Russia or serve Israel ya coward. The terror or being in a semi sub coffin. You’d never do it. 36 hours under the sea, they went all seas, under attic all, America South America, NYC harbor. These aren’t real subs, drop depth, torpedos mines, no washing or using toilet noise. No water to get the sink off of engine. They were bravery godmen. I never heard a word of complaints or anger. He killed no non combatants or concentration camp. They were free, and could have freed us. The filth that fought for Allies should be in hell. Fools, they served in WW1. It would eat your mind. You don’t own a bank nor understand the conflict and stakes. Probably part human, of nations. He didn’t sink a thing, even in all that time. You think you’d rise to top or be of school where all came from. Flying, drowning is terrifying. Not breathing, this wasn’t a game, NO CHOICES! Bombers took Stuttgart and Keil too. The Bombed the harbor
The ceiling consisted of pre-stressed concrete-layers being in the end 4,8 m thick, the walls then had a strength of 3,3 m. There were two boxes each with a length of 150 m, the berths within stretched over 138 m per side. Therefore "Kilian" was the only base where two boats could be berthed one after the other. They killed maybe 5 and took not a boat. All slipped out and nobody was harmed but tons of Allies. These punks had real weapons but as an ace in yanks or Brit’s gets ten maybe shot down, they had weaker or better technology. With nothing they stopped 300. Some were on both marines and or other services. All Nuremberg were, Goebbels was dead. You’d not take a gyro or sailboat to sea, not a surfboard. Just being a troll, you know they were right!
At some point the Captain surfaces and shouts "Ach, c'mon!!! You can only kill us once!" at the assault ship.
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What a fight! The last victim gave me a chuckle. Great story telling.
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A wonderful channel that deserves all respect, appreciation and pride. Accurate and useful information in a sophisticated and beautiful manner. I wish you lasting success. I have the utmost respect and admiration for your great honor for these wonderful works. I hope you success
Wow..what a story of U615...thumbs up
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HIDDEN HISTORY IS SOOOO BACK
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That was an incredible u boat to be able to stay floating as long as it did.
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Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job. Historians did a very good job presenting actual facts from fiction. Orator presented the documentary very well. Class A research project. Quite a game of hide and seek hunting 615.
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You’re really doing a great job for us who love WW2
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Badasses on both sides of the conflict: We stand on the shoulders of giants.
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U-615 is referred to as 'Six-Fifteen' NOT 'Six Hundred Fifteen' ;)
I sincerely wish to thank you for this historic event. I am from trinidad. I would enjoy more clips of the caribbean. .their was a battle between Spain and England for trinidad. But that was in the 15th century
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That last words of the commander just before he died was; " Hatten Sie jemals einen dieser Tage?
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Omg he shot more planes than a mesersmit!
Truy insane! Thanks for watching :)
One problem with the German navy command was too much radio traffic. Even if you cannot understand what they are reporting that radio transmission gives away your location. The Germans had the ability to locate radio transmissions so they should have known the Allies could do the same.
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Ever heard the term swellhead AKA stubborn pride?
These so-called Supermen thought they were invincible.
It doesn't take much to drop you a few notches, then you'll start walking on firm ground again.
The heroism of the allied aircrew of the various aircraft is noteworthy.
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Having lived in Trinidad for decades and not far away from Cheguramas I relate well with the story with interest. I also visited military museum there.
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Kudos to the U-615 crew for their defence, but man those Allied attackers were shoddy in their work...
At least what I've seen it was a pretty difficult job but yeah not the best showing. Can't question their bravery though in continually pressing home their attacks into AA fire. Thanks for watching :)
To hell with the evil murderous nazi. No honor to any of those murderous scum.
Watched from Old Harour, Jamaica.Reed about U-615 in G.T.M. Kelshall's book The U-Boat War In The Caribbean, capture 'The Greatest Battle'. I even wrote Mr. Kelshell a letter and he informed me that his book was doing well in the US and Europe but sadly, West Indians are not interested in his book. I do research on US bases in Jamaica and too find not too many people are interested.
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@@HiddenHistoryYT I had introduced the book to many other, one suched was a former VP-91 (off the top of my head) pilot who after reeding it pointed out some errows in which I was not took surpriced because I too found afew myself. In his second letter to me Mr. Kelshell informed me that he got so much correspondence from ex-service men that if he were to rewrite the book it would be twice the volume. I even made the suggestion on one of our local radio station in Jamaica that his book should be apart of out local school curriculum but nothing was done.
@@kennedysingh3916 Wow! I agree with you on that, very underrated events in the region!
Many greetings, respect and appreciation for your wonderful channel, which is full of useful and accurate information. Thank you for all the nice words for your amazing efforts. Thanks for the Arabic translation. I wish you success and goodness
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this man was a true undersea warrior
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Never shown on film, U-Boats with only the top of the conning tower above water, commander outside, often in water up to his waist, commanding through a speaker tube.
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What an excellent video ! Thanks for that.
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I recommend a video on Peter-Erich Cremer.
I will add that to my list for videos this month, appreciate the suggestion! As always thanks for watching John and have a great week :)
My dad was also a RM on 60 ft Cabincruser taken over by the Navy to track Submarines operating in the Gulf. Tracking subs reporting and bearings.
Thank you to him for his service!
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wish you continuous success . A very beautiful and wonderful work that deserves admiration and all appreciation. Never stop.. It would be great if all your works are translated into Arabic. I wish you well and happiness. Thank you for your exceptional and distinguished effort in presenting this very beautiful work
Great story . great shooting. Thanks for sharing this story
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the great shooting was on the Allied side, evil wicked shooting o the evil rotten german side
@@dave8599 Well on this boat it was unfortunately.
Incredible story thanks for sharing with us. A video of the Jervis Bay´s combat with the KMS Admiral Scheer would be highly appreciated.
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Awesome, thankyou!
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U- 615 Warriors to the end. What a waste of courage though no matter what colour uniform or badges worn. Great story telling thank you very much.
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Apparently the logic in staying on the surface when airplanes attacked is that scoring a direct hit on the submarine was statistically minimal, but underwater there was no need to score a direct hit as the water transmitted the energy of the bomb in a large radius.
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Great Story , thank you 👍.
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great story .. well researched u got me now
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What a story of nerve and fortitude=same for the pilot and crews of the aircraft
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Dad was a radioman on a Martin PBM 5 IN VP-215 late in the war. His area was central Florida to the Carolinas. His description, fly to the last known position of a sub drop bouys to track the sub and fly away as fast a you could. Plane was so heavy from extra fuel tanks they felt a sub could surface and shoot them down before they could get out of range! Not a lot of love for the Martin!
Wow, great info thanks for sharing! And thank you to your dad for his service, he is an American hero! Can't imagine how nerve wracking it must have been! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)
My great uncle in-law, Karl Helmut Fischer was a crewmember.
Wow, absolutely remarkable! Did he have any stories about it?
The Germans definitely knew how to build boats.
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They usually build the best of what it is they are making.
death camps, gas chambers, evil medical experiments, torture, and murder, that is what the germans excelled in. zero honor for them.
According to the book "Steel Boats, IronHearts"; the French dock workers sabotaged them frequently causing returns to port several times.
@@fazole that was mentioned as a big problem in Donitz' book too.
Outstanding video!!!
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U615's wild run would make a great movie!
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The U boats were doomed, enigma had them done for and they had no clue, very brave men
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Played a gig in a dock bar right across from the sub pens in Lorrient , well cool , from the stage , you face two massive windows and in the windows is this massive view of the sub pens , was well impressed 👍 can imagine u boatmen drinking in this bar during the war as they would be really close in an emergency
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Excellent story, well done!
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wow, one hell of a fight!
This caption learned to grow balls 😂 almost to late good defense against enemy planes 😳
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@@HiddenHistoryYT thanks I like u boat stories im half german
@@genesauter4755 Very cool! My relative that came over to America was from Prussia
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THANK YOU FOR VIDEO
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German subs never had XOs, they only had 1WO ( 1. Wachoffizier, First Officer of the Watch).
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Excellent, new subscriber.
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Excellent film!
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excellent production...
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Some of the heroic U-Boat crew members who didn't make back to port are still on patrol.
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This was like a movie. It was so good, it was as if I was there trying to shoot down the ASW planes. It was gripping
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Seriously intense battle, those sub sailors had balz' o' steel, kids of today couldn't comprehend the manliness of the men that comprised that era and war.. great post, I hit the subscribe button twice!
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Very interesting!
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🙋🏻♂️🌅; What a Great Story ❤; Thanks 😮
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Love u boat stuff. It’s fascinating shit
Same here!
I am a big fan of the submarine services. This gentle man was a super Nazi, pilot and captain of subs with little experience in subs. I mean that guy was extreamly adept person. The subs are like the pinicle of smart guys in any service. . way smarter than pilots, who are super smart as well, really. This guy in the early part of the war was a big hero, then after May in 43 it was all down hill. loosing 10 to 30 subs in one month.
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All the nazi were evil men that fought for evil hitler, zero respect for these murderers.
Very good.Sir.
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Well done. Just 3 small criticisms. It's not a point-five-O caliber machine gun. It's just fifty caliber. Wagner is pronounced Vaahgner. Just say U six fifteen for description of U-boat. You don't need to use hundred.
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I want to hit the like button, but its already at 615 likes
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Kapitski (?) turns to the crew..."I am beginning to take this personally!".
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@@HiddenHistoryYT - How dare you tell me what kind of weekend to have! National Socialist giving orders again...huh? Oh, yes, certainly, you are most welcome...see what I did there? I was playing an Entitled One.
Germans really knew how to build a U-boat, and for the men in them "suicide mission!" Better U than me! 🚀💥🇺🇸
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Great Video !!! Whats that background Music please ?
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Fantastic heroism.
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Unknowingly they saved 3 other u-boats in the areas with their Fight. 💪💪💪
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excellent
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Good well put together story, whats buyout footage? Dived to soon, stayed down to long sound contrary to me? Geez U-615 put up a good fight to try and live. Nice goin Crew, you Captain woulda bee real proud of you
An archive source. Unfortunately basically all WW2 footage is in possession of archives who put their branding across the videos unless you want to pay $400+ for each 30 second clip. Pretty ridiculous IMO as they weren’t even the one who shot it!
@@HiddenHistoryYT Unfortunatly there are people around like that. Thanks, keep up the good work.
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0:23 It look like a PBM, but what is that thing on top / behind the cockpit?
I'm not gonna lie I get why they sent these pilots to the Caribbean instead of Europe or the Pacific
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Very interesting of accounts of submarine warfare and destruction of the subs.
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Organizations can't copyright public domain material but they will mar what they can for folks who use their copy, some put phony counters on the bottom.
Ya it’s quite annoying how these people who didn’t even film it act like they own the footage. God Bless the US National Archives at least
True warriors
16:40 Yessssss….
What most people don't realise is that the German navy had been the very first country to come up with the idea of putting rubber panels that made that uboat undetectable on sonar but due to the uboat not having known that the British navy had just laid a naw batches of underwater mines iin the area the sub had sunk a couple of ship in row so when the poor bastards came back they hit one because the TV show about it made it known that the it had hit one was it was eventually found in the channel look at Google for the name of the program because it was always either the British or the Germans that were the first country's to come up with the idea of it first we it always was back then like the jetfighter it is a fact the Germans had those during the ww11
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🎉🎉okay
the narrators pronunciation is a bit unusual.......Dönitz has become Doughnuts
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The four U boat supply U boats were sunk because of Enigma.
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Incredible story! Thank you!
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The painting is explicit😮
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the term centimetre is never used for gun sizes etc , eg, 88mm , 20 mm , etc etc , to say 2 cm's is just wrong , you would never say for instance the famous 8.8cm anti aircraft gun , please use the correct terminology
Not sure what the aircraft is in the thumbnail it isn't a Mariner or a Ventura and the submarine looks nothing like VIIC U-Boat.
My secret is that the thumbnail is AI generated haha, which is why it's not any particular models. Great eye to spot that! Thanks for watching :)
Was also wondering. Not sure but the thumbnail is a type XXI? Still watching so not going back to check right now
@@willlauzon3744 The thumbnail isn't a Type VIIC which was what U-615 was and isn't a Type XXI either. Pretty sure no WWII U-boat had a full width superstructure like that.
As the CZcams owner has said the thumbnail was invented but bears no relevance to the U-boat or 'planes involved in the story.
I'm no good at U-boats, but when I saw the thumbnail I thought "nevermind that it didn't exist yet, wtf is a deHavilland Caribou-ish looking thing doing buzzing a U-boat?"
5:55 Why did they specifically check for venerial diseases? It's not like the could communicate them to anyone. And why was the captain exempt?
While it is true that the diseases don't spread easily without sexual contact having one would still be extremely uncomfortable for the crewmember and with no way of treating or even alleviating the disease while at sea the afflicted sailors performance would be severely compromised. If a crewmember can not fully perform his duties he puts the entire boat at risk. The captain was probably exempt just by the virtue of being a high ranking officer who should know better and not have unprotected sex with hookers.
Don't be too sure. I read in Teddy Suhren's memoirs that some sailors were very much suspected of "closer than normal contact". Even Das Boot, the film, hints at it.
Wow. …
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the coffin service
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Kapitski... Man, good ole ralph muat have had to do a lot of digging up family documemts to get in the navy instead of a work camp.
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I mean 3 times!
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I agree. Change your damn oil and use synthetic on older vehicles.
Thumbnail picture looks nothing like a U boat nor any submarine I've heard of.
They were real heroes
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did the Capt. of U615 get a medal for his action in the Carib Sea?
Initial search doesn’t bring back any info that he got one, which I would find to be shocking
@@HiddenHistoryYT the only people who could of told the German high command were his crew and they became prisoners of war, unless they got traded, only the Americans would know and when the war was over, there wouldn't be anyone to give the late Capt. recognition "or" medals.