>When your last gasp, desperate attack against the US becomes the future of submarine warfare

@robertbishop5357

4 жыл бұрын

So very true.

@PolarisC8

4 жыл бұрын

Dr. Felton says in the beginning the video they'd been studying this sort of thing since 1941. Not even a minute in

@krisfrederick5001

4 жыл бұрын

Right?

@yousefseed1874

4 жыл бұрын

The power of German Engineering

@christosvoskresye

4 жыл бұрын

We can't make the movie now. Ricardo Montalban is no longer with us.

I didn't realise that the V2 was launched in such numbers, nor the amount of death/ damage it cased. I thought far fewer of these missiles were launched. Always learning from Dr Felton!

Kinda feel bad for the dudes who died on the 7th of May 1945, just a few hours before the war ended

@dougerrohmer

4 жыл бұрын

At the end of WW1 the idea was to end hostilities at 11H11 on the 11/11/1911 or some cute idea. Lots of guys died before the appointed hour.

@ElCaminoGuy2005

4 жыл бұрын

YTLSF I kind of feel bad for the ones that surrendered just day before. Being brutally beaten and interrogated for info they didn’t have, but war is hell so they say.

@tavish4699

4 жыл бұрын

Somebody has to be the last .....

@David-kr7fx

4 жыл бұрын

Have a look into the time leading up to the WW1 armistice going into effect.

@lukamarko1037

4 жыл бұрын

You should feel bad about evryone ho died in the war exept for nazis

What amazes me is how the Germans kept hammering away at these projects even as the Red Army was closing in on Berlin. Did they really believe attacking New York was going to have any effect on the outcome of the war, at such a late stage ? Anyway, another superb video Mark. This really is one of the best channels on KZread - well done, and keep it going!

The "dumb mortar bombs" fired from a submerged submarine deck may have have been too inaccurate to hit anything, but they would have done one thing with great precision: show the surface ships hunting them exactly where the sub was located. That might have had something to do with why the idea was abandoned.

So the germans were initiating submarines with ballistic missiles ? I've learned something today, thanks Mr Felton 🙂

Germany was way ahead of its time

Despite being a lifelong WW2 history buff, Mark Felton almost never fails to surprise me with the unusual, untold stories of this epic conflict.

My Grandparents used to tell me about the V1’s and how when you heard the engine stop, you knew it was bad news. They said the fear of the V2’s was so much worse as you didn’t even hear them coming. I can’t imagine living in times like that, and we think we have problems today?!

I only now found out from this story about how the nazis managed to improve the accuracy of the v1 to a 7 mile diameter circle. That is impressive accuracy given the relative crudity of the weapon itself.

There was a book on something like this but I had no idea it was based in reality, thank you Mark

@blacksuite1

4 жыл бұрын

What is the book called?

@ALSmith-zz4yy

4 жыл бұрын

In the 1970s or 80s I remember reading a novel on the subject of V2 rockets being launched by U-boats during WWII. I don't remember the name of the author but the book was called, "Pivot".

@Alftura

4 жыл бұрын

I knew the Nazi's wanted something like this but i had no idea how advanced it was. Thank god the Allies caught on and stopped it. You learn so much of this channel. Great content as always.

@akosv96

4 жыл бұрын

It's called "Vengance: Hitler's nuclear bomb fact or fiction?" by Philip Henshall You can access it on archive org with a government distributed key. It's only available for borrowing and expect to get on an FBI watchlist too, but hey there are some more free ways to access it *wink wink*

@wstr1470

4 жыл бұрын

Was it 'The Scorpion's Sting' by Edward A. Pollitz? That one had a plot featuring a U-Boat with a V-2 rocket and a Nazi Atom bomb warhead.

I am almost 60 years old and started studying about WW2 in junior high. I have learned more from this Channel than I ever did from books.

*Ah, it's time for that stirring music again... :)*

@aidenb3069

4 жыл бұрын

Pfp bros

@NorthKoreaUncovered

4 жыл бұрын

I miss the older theme it used on the Maus video :(

@Habdabi

4 жыл бұрын

Dum dododododo dum dododododo dum dododododo dum dum dum dum

The first ICBM's, the first smart bombs, the first operational jet fighters, the first assault rifles, the first interstate highways, no wonder people are so fascinated with Nazis. Despite everything they did. Anyone remember the American pigeon guided bomb? Not sure if Mark has covered it but that was a first and a last.

The technology the Germans had was insane. Not to mention their tenacity!

@christophdollis1955

4 жыл бұрын

A great people.

@quanquan4363

4 жыл бұрын

@Deutsches Brot - German Bread So what your saying is its better to get rid of the communist than the fascist? By all means enlighten me.

@Mtaalas

4 жыл бұрын

@Deutsches Brot - German Bread internet is full of loonies like you... what the fuck.

@mrunseen3797

4 жыл бұрын

@Deutsches Brot - German Bread are you dumb? Edit: lol, ja dumm wie Brot

@yousefseed1874

4 жыл бұрын

@Deutsches Brot - German Bread Well tbh Western Allies should not have Allied the Soviets and helped Germany instead to annihilate commies. If the Germany's crusade against the Soviets was successful, communism will end and there won't be cold war

Dr Felton's work deserves some major recognition.

Great video never knew about these submarines until now.

@dr.migalitoloveless1651

4 жыл бұрын

Why was this never mentioned on The History Channel or The American Hero Channel?

@wardwilson4883

4 жыл бұрын

I watched A DVD ( Two volumes), titled " Hitler's Secret Weapons??", and one of them was on Germany's Rocket Program. The conclusion was that the Rocket Program failed miserably. After watching this video, I can only say that Germany's Rocket Program was fat more successful!

Certainly be an emotional event for a Flower Class corvette to see a flight of those mortar bombs rise from the sea and arch down toward the ship.

@seafodder6129

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely a bit of a "brown trouser" moment but given that the U-boat couldn't really aim them the odds of actually hitting a ship approaching at 25+ knots is pretty small. On the other side, the orders on the corvette would be "steer course to where those bloody rockets came out of the water and fire every hedgehog and roll every depth charge we've got when we get there".

@bigblue6917

4 жыл бұрын

You would just hope you remembered the spare underwear when you saw that.

@mikec8086

4 жыл бұрын

More like fly up and fall in a spread larger than london and its outskirts.

@raypurchase801

4 жыл бұрын

The flower class corvette actually did something useful in winning the war. The V1 and V2 were a huge waste of resources.

@Taistelukalkkuna

4 жыл бұрын

U-boat Captain: "Two can play this game!"

So much material on this channel for supervillain plots.

@markfryer9880

4 жыл бұрын

Taking inspiration are we?

Last time I was this early operation sea lion was still in planning.

@bigblue6917

4 жыл бұрын

Well this channel is a lot more likely to succeed the Sealion.

@neilwilson5785

4 жыл бұрын

I was late, but you were able to See lowe than me.

@howiebouthat3435

4 жыл бұрын

So early in fact, it was Op Seal Pup

@guntherposse3236

4 жыл бұрын

🇧🇪🤘👌😉

Americans: we’re safe at home German rocket scientists: challenge accepted

@karlk9316

4 жыл бұрын

After the atrocities in Asia and Europe, followed by the attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans did not feel safe. Those years before and during WWII were tense and not a particularly happy time.

@karlk9316

4 жыл бұрын

Americans did not feel safe before or during WWII. There were preceding atrocities in Asia and Europe. Six months after Pearl Harbor was attacked, rationing began. Everyone was tense during WWII. It was not a happy time.

@swimfeared

4 жыл бұрын

japan balloon makers challenge accepted .

@daveybernard1056

4 жыл бұрын

I think Hearst left his Castle in California, due to fear of Japanese Submarines. Also, an IJN Submarine shelled an oil refinery in CA w/ its deck gun. The Battle of LA was a fun little flak dustup. Alaska had a little trouble with an enemy infantry invasion of the Aleutians. Stuff was going on, just not really on the scale of Eastern Europe, is all. Wake Island, Pearl Harbor, Clark Field, Balloon Bombs, germ warfare...

@probablynovideoshere

4 жыл бұрын

US Navy: Challenge failed!

Those towed V 2s are something out of a wet dieselpunk dream.

Perhaps 15 years ago, a Polish historian published a book on German Wunderwaffe. Most spectacularly was the German intercontinental boost-glide missile. The A9/A10 was the world's first practical design for a transatlantic ballistic missile. Design of the two stage missile began in 1940 and first flight would have been in 1946. Work on the A9/A10 was prohibited after 1943 when all efforts were to be spent on perfection and production of the A4 as a weapon-in-being. Von Braun managed to continue some development and flight tests of the A9 under the cover name of A4b (i.e. a modification of the A4, and therefore a production-related project). In late 1944 work on the A9/A10 resumed under the code name Projekt Amerika, but no significant hardware development was possible after the last test of the A4b in January 1945. Status: Cancelled 1945. Payload: 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). Thrust: 2,000.00 kN (449,600 lbf). Gross mass: 85,300 kg (188,000 lb). Height: 41.00 m (134.00 ft). Diameter: 4.12 m (13.51 ft). During the course of development, the vehicle evolved. The first stage, the A10, was first to have used a multi-chamber design: a cluster of 6 A4 combustion chambers feeding into a single expansion nozzle. Later a massive single chamber/single nozzle engine was planned. Test stands were built at Peenemuende for firings of the 200 metric ton thrust engine. The original second stage A9 design was a refined A4 with swept wings. A later version had two fuselage strakes instead of wings. Wind tunnel tests showed that these provided better supersonic lift and solved the problem of transonic shift of center of lift. A secondary benefit was better packaging of the A9 into the forward interstage of the A10. Guidance systems of the time were hopelessly inaccurate at the 5000 km range planned for the A9/A10. Therefore it was decided that the A9 would have to be piloted. After cut-off of its engine at 390 km altitude and 3,400 m/s, the A9 would re-enter and begin a long glide to extend the range. The pilot was to be guided by radio beacons on surfaced German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean. After reaching the target the pilot would lock in the target in an optical sight, then eject. Death or internment as a prisoner of war would follow. Work on the A9/A10 was prohibited after 1943 when all efforts were to be spent on perfection and production of the A4 as a weapon-in-being. Von Braun managed to continue some development and flight tests of the A9 under the cover name of A4b (i.e. a modification of the A4, and therefore a production-related project). In late 1944 work on the A9/A10 resumed under the code name Projekt Amerika, but no significant hardware development was possible after the last test of the A4b in January 1945. Designs beyond the A9/A10 were sketched out as well. Adding an A11 stage would have resulted in a satellite launcher. An additional A12 stage would result in a four stage vehicle with the A9 being a manned orbital space shuttle. Post-war refinement of the intercontinental missile concept in America and Russia went down two paths. On the one hand, it was found that it would be much more efficient for the A9 second stage to use a ramjet to extend the range to the 10,000 km true intercontinental range needed for the post-war adversaries to attack each other. This path led to the American Navaho and Soviet Buran and Burya missiles. On the other hand, improvements in rocket structures and engine efficiencies made it possible to design pure ballistic vehicles with cut-off velocities over twice as high as the A9/A10 and 10,000 km ranges. In the end, these faster, uninterceptable designs won out.

There is no finer, more comprehensive and educational channel than Mark Felton Productions.

That was interesting, and especially when he mentioned the Germans coming ashore in Maine, I lived not far from that happened! When I learned about this I did some research and found out more about the German landings , one was close to Goulsboro, , near Hancock point! They were both caught fairly quickly! It's amazing what you find out happened close by where you lived! Thanks to some curious people they didn't last long on their journey!

@fazole

4 жыл бұрын

The US govt. had a secret deal with the mafia run dock worker's unions and other personnel to catch German spies.

@bsc4344

4 жыл бұрын

Rick Dorr They also landed on Canadian soil and set up a mini base with a weather station. They also subbed fairly freely around our shores and sank our ships in Canadian waters and inshore rivers. Historical approach of "who gives a fk about Canada, it's insubstantial and wont amount to much" has always been a failure of others. Including my fellow (non military) Canadians. If you cant get your heads around the fact these incidents happened ON THIS CONTINENT, along with how many undisclosed jaw dropping advances that were mere weeks/months away from coming online to defeat us, then Im pretty confident in stating that people still havent learned much, as the fall of "thise insignificant others" couldve led to a rapid fall of your self absorbed worlds.

@davidboon5906

4 жыл бұрын

Rick Dorr Enigma 👍👏🏼👏🏼

@craftpaint1644

4 жыл бұрын

There's a great book called "Iron Coffin" by John Mannock that you would like - best U-boat story that never happened.

Damn, these little snippets are addictive!

Nazi part apart, but German engineering & wonder amazes me today. They developed jet engine, rocket, submarine, cruise missile and lot of other things.Lots modern technology is direct result of German. I wish they built more things instead of going onto wars.

As a fan of military history I must say this is one of my top three favorite channels. I won't say where it falls of the three but it's up there. ;)

@Cloudman572

4 жыл бұрын

Interested in what the other 2 are?

@wino0000006

4 жыл бұрын

So it's second.

One of the advanced technical features on the latest German U-boat, the Type XXI, was the snorkel, an airpipe allowing the use of its diesel engines while at periscope depth. This meant it could recharge its batteries without having to surface. The 'snorkel' was in fact engineered by Dutch naval engineers shortly before the start of World War II and it was standard equipment on the latest class of Dutch submarines. Of course, when the German armed forces invaded Holland in May 1940, they captured the plans and a fully functional unit with the capture of two modern Dutch submarines, O-25 and O-26.

I'd never heard about this mission so thanks for the history lesson. My Mum was a kid in London during the second war & had some great but scary stories related to the Doodlebug before she was sent out of the city to live somewhere safer. The kids today don't realise how lucky they are.

Antwerpen was also hit with a great number of V1 and V2 rockets.

@oddballsok

4 жыл бұрын

from Uboats , mind you !

Haven't even finished watching the video and I know it's good, nice content

Thank you good sir these videos are great! I always learn things I'd never heard of before.

@domtavis4653

4 жыл бұрын

Groyper

@Skoko-oh2fz

4 жыл бұрын

You really believe this ?

Gotta love the way Mark gives a detailed - almost 'first person' report of the action. Thanks.

This is the only history youtube channel i can find with significant U-Boat related videos, great job.

Mr. Felton's ability to teach history is unrivaled. I tip my hat to you sir.

I simply know my day will get bet even better, after a Felton production. You should be a screen writer/producer!

Continue to be amazed & enlightened with your work Mark... Thank you!

Dr Felton- I really enjoy the recent longer format. Thank you!

Another gem of history Mr. Felton. Like all of your subscribers, I eagerly await your every post. Please keep them coming!

Just when I think I know a thing or two about this conflict along you come with a totally unheard of story. Thank you!

Hey learnt more watching this for 15 minutes than watching mainstream TV thanks .

Mfw there is a mark Felton personality cult online at this point

@blakelowrey9620

4 жыл бұрын

JAffacakeSON BLAHA that’s for your imagination to decide

@wsg4847

4 жыл бұрын

It is odd that KZread has such an excellent channel. I thought that YT only allowed political, popular entertainment, and idiocy channels. How does Mark Felton slip by the YT censors?

@mrbones3163

4 жыл бұрын

He is sempai. (was going to say Führer but that would look bad)

@ReptilianLepton

4 жыл бұрын

>yfw no face

Once again, clear and precise highlighting of something quite interesting. Could listen to you all day. Well done Mark.

Mark your content is among the best on KZread! Keep it up!

The grandfather of the Tomahawk, impressive.

@ganzlustig9754

4 жыл бұрын

Like almost all weapons after the war!

Thanks Mark, despite being fairly knowledgeable on WWII, I'm always learning something new in your videos that I never heard before. This one was especially insightful. Keep up the great work.

Always excellent content and film clips, pleasant English annunciation AND German pronounciation that doesn't make one cringe. And cool theme music. Learn a lot of history from this channel. Thank you Mark Felton!

Always delighted to watch your videos. I just can’t see how they can get any better than from what they already are!

great vid as always! Would love to see a video about the allies breaking enigma which helped them hunt U-boats with ease.

German enginers precursos of modernday tecnology.

I live in NY, it's cool to learn about my state's history

@lamolambda8349

4 жыл бұрын

Watch a video about the bay of pigs and you'll hit 2 birds with one stone

@sol2544

4 жыл бұрын

How do you be everywhere? How do you do it? Are there multiple of you? Are you the original or the copy o_O

@wsg4847

4 жыл бұрын

@@lamolambda8349 What does NY state have to do with the Bay of Pigs?

Dr. Felton please do a video on the war crimes of the IJN. After reading your book there is so much more you could do on this channel with what you wrote about them in your book

@wyattpeterson6286

4 жыл бұрын

Which book was that? Tell me the name.

@lukeaspa5664

4 жыл бұрын

Book?

@khaibui7957

4 жыл бұрын

Wait,he has a book?Where,can i get one?

@katrinapaton5283

4 жыл бұрын

And a video on the war crimes of the USNavy would also be much appreciated.

@craftpaint1644

4 жыл бұрын

I think you mean the Imperial Japanese Army. That book must weigh a thousand pounds btw.

Mister Felton, you are truly digging up unknown or lesser-known aspects of the 2nd World War. It seems you could make the same kind of series for anything history. You would make a valuable addition to the staff of any museum. Many thanks to you, sir.

thanks for keeping up the good work and uploading good quality content. My appreciation of your effort is ever-growing

Mark, you never cease to amaze me with your videos.

In 1944, the U.S. reverse-engineered the V-1 from parts salvaged in England. Republic Aviation built prototypes that were almost identical. A navalized version was developed to be launched from LSTs, escort carriers, aircraft, and surfaced submarines. They were put into production for planned use in the invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall).

This dude needs more subs and views. Great job Mark 👍

Bravo Mark Best channel in its field by far!

Remarcable production! Congrats on your exceptional flawless research and productions.

Damn, another amazing and informative video. I never knew about the U-boats with rocket launching capabilities! Gonna love bringing this up in my history class! Thanks Mark!!

These uploads are coming fast and furious. I love it.

@neilwilson5785

4 жыл бұрын

He flaunts the idea that YT videos should be 30 minutes long and full of boring filler. This is a 'long' video, but is tight as a drum. I bet YT pay him nothing, whilst giving millions to 1 hr make-up or minecraft videos. YT should be about mostly concise, funny, or informative content. They don't care though.

My Father was a USNavy vet who studied in Italy in the 1950s. He met a former Italian Naval officer who told me he had seen the NYC skiline during the war through a German periscope.

@Mark Felton Productions PS. ...and (OBVIOUSLY!) - another EXCELLENT piece of material from "Mark Felton"! Big thanks for all those little, brief and always "straight to the point" - EXCELLENT - "mini-documentares", mate! You really got a way with History. When I'm bored (it happens sometimes) I enter your account - put 20 of your videos in one playlist - and watch for HOURS! :D You are truly making an ASTONISHING work.

When you realise the Germans not only invented the first jet, rocket, but they also invented the first missile submarine

@johncarl5505

4 жыл бұрын

Liquid Fuel Rockets and Combat Submarines are an American Invention. Germany just combined them.

Your content is top notch, I always learn something new

Thank you Mark. You put out such great videos. I have yet to find one out of the many, many that I have watched that I did not love.

When I was a kid I remember having a model kit of that American sub with the V one rip off on it’s deck

@bigblue6917

4 жыл бұрын

I had the same kit

@wsg4847

4 жыл бұрын

You may have had a kit of a submarine mounting the Regulus, which was a swept wing, jet powered cruise missile that was launched off of surfaced American submarines. I can't remember which company made the kit, probably Revell, but I did make a model in the 1960's.

@markfryer9880

4 жыл бұрын

Did you also happen to have the How and Why Wonder Books? The one on Rockets and Missiles makes for scarey reading as an adult and yet the books were aimed at kids.

@flytwin1772

4 жыл бұрын

So you know now who really invented this, not saying if this is good or bad. Just stolen like many other inventions from the germans.

@cuntontheweb2657

4 жыл бұрын

America, the China before China.

Wow, this is an amazing bit of history that I'd never heard until now.

Just when I thought I knew WW2, Mr. Felton teaches me something new. Kudos! What a great war flick this would make.

Absolutely fascinating. Thanks, Mark.

As usual Dr Felton doesn't fail to impress . Like the video . Best you tube history videos hands down.

Thanks again Mark, Didn’t think I’d ever say this but your video’s are getting better all the time. Mostly because they’re longer and we don’t want them to end. Where would we be without the Germans?

Considering that the German High Command (OKW) had initially planned to start the war in 1943 or 1944, and not as early as 1939, and that had the beginning of the war been at the later date with such weapons far more developed, the consequences for the Western Allies would have been even more disastrous than they already were in 1944/45. Not even considering potential German nuclear weapons, a concentrated V2 attack on the east coast of the USA would have caused widespread panic and political upheaval with unknown outcome. Hitler's gamble in 1939 and the premature start of WWII had more dire consequences for Germany than he realised at the time.

Absolutely fascinating. Where do you find these stories/events!? This right here is why I love your channel. One of the best, if not the best in my mind out there! Keep it up.

Loving the Box art lifts from Model Kits and photos of Models

German scientists are always great. They have made many innovations during WW2. US, Britain and Russia used those inventions as their own inventions.

Different and Interesting - Always Learning! Cheers

Again #MarkFelton thank you for this amazing video..!☺😁

Thank you so much!! AMAZING video!! Could only imagine the with you put into this one. Great job

Fortunately for the allies it seems like the Germans had a weakness for complexity when "good enough" would have been sufficient. Many examples of it. In this case they could have probably fielded submarines capable of carrying multiple V-1s and firing them in succession from their decks at coastal targets and then slipping away to be resupplied farther out at sea. The V-1 had simple fuel needs (gasoline) and was an air breather. The V-2 on the other hand was too big, much more costly and resource intensive to produce, and required liquid oxygen as oxidizer which would have presented major challenges to carry on a submarine. Moreover they could have combined their efforts with the Japanese who were fully adept at stowing and deploying aircraft from their submarines.

Wooh i've never heard of this containers. This is so amazing. Love the videos, keep on rocketin the vids

Thanks especially to Mark Felton, the more I learn about WW2 the more I realise how close we came to possibly losing..

Great information on a little known aspect of WWII! Thanks so much!

Where does he get the film for these videos? He is the best I've seen on KZread for history. Keep up the good work Mark

The Peenemünde V1 / V2 rocket research facility, or at least the area, was in continuous military use by the GDR until 1989, a MIG Squadron for short time interception of baltic sea hostiles was stationed at the local Airport. After the war, what was left of the by then rotten experimental facilities was preserved and slowly turned into a museum from private fundings, and is a great and informative place to visit right now. I even took a date over there back when i lived nearby, could not say she was bored that afternoon. The airport is one of two on the island of Peenemünde by now, you can fly your cessna over there. The other little airport hosts annual historic flight displays with wartime planes. Peenemünde airport by now is one halfth a landing strip, the other halfth was turned into a race track right after the place was demilitarised. I crashed my Kawasaki there this summer, gonna need a new race bike now. Pretty cool to go down the strait and have a plane landing on parallel, some metres away. Albeit a nature reserve as most of the island, the bottom is so soaked from oils of the old heavy machinery back then, i would not eat any rabbit the local forester may shoot.

Many thanks Mark, first class stuff, your channel is quite an education.

Excellent Content and Delivery Mark. As Usual.

Dr Felton strikes again Thanks

I wondered why someone came up with the notion of launching a missile from a submarine, but now I see where the idea came from.

Wow! Always enjoy reading up on WWII history, but had never seen anything on this! Great channel!

AMAZING! Many thanks for posting this incredible video I had absolutely no idea!!! Greetings from Guatemala!

I read this book, it's called "Impossible Target"

How do you get the footage. It always amazes me, or the storeis even! Great work Mark! You should do a video about brutal human testing that Japanese did during war.

A crazy good description of a little known chapter of the war. Great research. Thanks.

Man, i didnt realise the V1s killed over 6000 people. These videos are excellent, I'm in awe of the speed of your output. Well done sir.

New material (to me) here. Thank you Mr Felton. I had little notion of the damage wrought by the V weapons on our English civilian colleagues. This is almost as wretched as the wholesale killing of civilians in Hamburg, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Dresden and other beautiful cities. Only one side had to actually answer for their atrocities. I'm an Australian and I am disgusted with the wholesale killing of civilians. I'm also tired of propaganda...

The germans are literally time travel​ler

Geez Mark you consistently do a great job

Thank You Sir, Better than any TV productions.