In those days submariners earned double the amount a normal sailor would earn, that's why so many volunteered to join the U-boats. Also you were out there on the front line risking your life which is why the pay was so good if you were on a U-boat.

@bloodndestroy

6 жыл бұрын

They also had a casualty rate of over 90%

@bloodndestroy

6 жыл бұрын

Yea over the course of the war. It was so horrible back then that it should have been a war crime to have a submarine branch in the navy.

@bloodndestroy

6 жыл бұрын

The submarine branch had the highest casualties among all the major powers' military. Having it alone is kind of like having a kamikaze force, almost certain death but sure to cause a lot of damage.

@alexaga3247

6 жыл бұрын

Roger Rabbit, You wrote "I know Germany started the war". In reality Germany and red USSR started WW2 in Europe. NAZIonal Germany and red InterNAZIonal USSR are allies against Poland. They together divided Poland.

@alexaga3247

6 жыл бұрын

Jack, Formally you are right, Britain and France declared war on Germany on 3 September. And why Britain and France did not declare war on red USSR after 17 September when red USSR started to liberate white Poland from whites.

He wasn't just a decisive captain, he was an honorable one.. He was an honorable one... Before the wolfpack attacks, when attacking lone ships, he was generous to the crews of the sunken ships, making sure they would survive.. Even taking one lone survivor who was stranded on a raft, aboard until he could be transferred to the lifeboat of another of Kretschmer's takedowns..... when it was his turn for his ship to be sunken, he made sure that every member of his crew that was alive got off the uboat to safety... Until he couldn't even save himself, and had to be carried onto the capturing destroyer's deck by a British crewman.. It makes one proud to share a name with him.

@alamoemperor3845

6 жыл бұрын

David Kreschmer shows once again that only a small percentage of germans in the war were asshole nazis and those were mostly higher ups anyway. I hate it when ppl say all german soldiers were nazis bc thats not true and implies these were all inhuman beasts and not just normal soldiers.

@Micropoint.

6 жыл бұрын

agreed with you there where not all nazi and stuff, they just ad to.... Do the job so yeah...

@boombuspoombus3314

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely Hilarious You're rather presumptuous, aren't you?

@djcfrompt

6 жыл бұрын

Studying WWII naval history you find that honor more often than you might expect. German Q-ship captains would run in to an attack position, tell merchant crews they were going to sink the ship, let them get off, then get on with sinking the ship. I seem to recall some of them even taking on survivors and running them in to ports. Just because the leader was a horrid demagogue doesn't mean all the people were, and that's especially worth remembering in this day and age.

@jonh9561

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately he survived the war until 1998. However he was killed in a boating accident whilst celebrating his 50th Wedding Anniversary so at least he got see the his country lose the war and divided by the iron curtain

Cool stuff, wish history channel, discovery channel and the other "learning" channels still maintained this sort of quality

@kuudez

7 жыл бұрын

TLC - the learning channel

@Combatsmithen

6 жыл бұрын

The military History channel does good stuff

@jamespennington7919

5 жыл бұрын

I wish this documentary was accurate and not yet more anti British nonsense. Britain won the Battle of the Atlantic, this attack did not cripple the UK, it's silly to say it did.

@doogleticker5183

5 жыл бұрын

@@jamespennington7919 - That is true. The Germans lost the Battle of the Atlantic. This battle, over many years, was pivotal in defeating Germany during WWII. And the real heroes of this battle were the civvy-sailors embarked upon corvettes...not destroyers. And lest we forget those who gave the ultimate sacrifice as members of the Merchant Marine, who had the cahunas to do their jobs facing death every day and night, and the RCNR and RCNVR who "filled in the gaps" of not having RN and RCN "professionals"... I'll never look at a reservist or a merchant sailor again as I used to do, given it was these groups that won the Battle of the Atlantic...and more. They remain the unsung heroes of WWII. Yet, without them, no victory would have been possible.

@judgegrinch1139

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamespennington7919 You can win a several years long battle while your forces are crippled at phases of the battle. During this phase the British Navy was crippled by the U Boat attacks.

During one patrol in the first two months of 1940, he sank three British armed merchant cruisers, two in one night. He was known for only taking one torpedo to sink his prey, exemplary conduct and helping the survivors of the ships he sank with supplies and given them bearings to the nearest land.

I read the title "The Stealthy U-Boat Attack That Crippled Britain" My brain translated it into "The Germans sunk a freighter loaded with tea"

Last dialogue was like,"works done, beers on me"

Churchill said that nothing frightened him more than the U-boat threat.

That's so smart to get in side of the convoy

@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Once, I did exactly the same.

@igortereshchenko5675

4 жыл бұрын

Καπτεν Χαρλοκ AHAHAHAHAHAAH

@karelwok3314

4 жыл бұрын

Igor Tereshchenko i think he meant in a game.

@willlauzon3744

3 жыл бұрын

The hard part of being inside the convoy is getting away from the escorts. If you attack from father away your chances of survival go up.

Once radar was available to the Royal Navy from early 1941 then German submarine attacks on the surface at night tailed off. Capt. Donald MacIntyre, of HMS Walker, one of the most successful U-boat hunters of the war, was involved in the sinking of U-99 in March 1941 - Kretchsmer was captured.

@zzirSnipzz1

4 жыл бұрын

Captain walker

@persilbran

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed Macintyre wrote a fascinating book about his service in WW2 , He did not have that high an opinion of Kretschmer and kept his binoculars as a trophy.

@alfredovilla8560

3 жыл бұрын

@@persilbran - he gave the binoculars back after the war.

@alfredovilla8560

3 жыл бұрын

The end of the first "Happy Times" for the U-boats was marked by the quasi-simultaneous destruction of three aces: U-47 (Prien), U-99 (Kretschmer), and U-100 (Schepke)

@maconescotland8996

3 жыл бұрын

@@alfredovilla8560 Otto Kretchsmer was captured and survived the war as a POW.

Great U Boat Captain. RIP Sir.

Silent Otto and his brilliant masterpiece night attack. But that kind of attack was only possible in early years of war 1939-41. After that, those damn radars totally ruined all the game. It was absolutely impossible to sneak inside the convoy like that.

U-boats were nearly impossible to detect at night on the surface, until radar was fitted into the escorts.

I like how everyone here is acting like my history teacher

That was a ballsy strategy! Torpedo los!!!!

The wolf pack was badass

@jackreilly2501

8 жыл бұрын

Would you like to be one of them

@christianjohnson9190

7 жыл бұрын

Dantick09 I would like to be u 480 with its Albright coating

@jackreilly2501

7 жыл бұрын

Dantick09 if you want a game like this download silent hunters on pc

@armyam3679

7 жыл бұрын

WoWS plz Add Subs

@Micropoint.

6 жыл бұрын

u 505 or U 96 only.

You really got good actors. Also, I really love that Wolfpack tactic. And I can't believe Kretchmer managed to sneak in and successfully complete the mission

That was a very daring thing to do, slip inside of the convoy. It worked though.

Adm. E King USN refused to learn the lessons from the early U Boat campaign leading to the outstanding success of Op. Drumbeat.

'Happy Time' for the U-boatmen was short lived, literally. They reveled in their time but superior allied technology caught up with them. They sustained the highest mortality rate of any of the armed forces, Allied or Axis.

@waynesimpson2074

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers Papa... I wasn't aware of that. Very disturbing.

@alexaga3247

7 жыл бұрын

During this "happy time" red inter NAZI onal USSR and white NAZI onal Germany are allies - double side attacks on white Poland. Japan does not belong Axis - no any militant actions against Britain, USA, France. Therefore without mention exact time period the notions Allies and Axis is stupidism. WW2 is enough complicated event.

@mattb9910

5 жыл бұрын

Jack the Gestapo except they didn’t wipe out the Royal Navy, you know pretty much all the ships at D-day were British. You know the British ruled the Mediterranean afterwards

@pilot1721

4 жыл бұрын

@Jack the Gestapo yeah however the Dutch submarines sunk so much japenese shipping it pretty much made it a moot point

@pilot1721

4 жыл бұрын

@Jack the Gestapo and the japenese fleet was crippled in a single action at midway where as everyone else recovered and increased their fleets during the war

Keep in mind this was at the start of the war when conveys were defenceless . Things quickly improved and losses were lower.

@YEETMAN-dt9mb

3 жыл бұрын

Coupled with the fact the Allies deciphered the german enigma code.

There once was a time Germany brought the world to its knees.

@shye4700

4 жыл бұрын

Very debatable

@aliasunknown7476

4 жыл бұрын

@@shye4700 There once was a time Shye brought the world to its knees.

@shye4700

4 жыл бұрын

@@aliasunknown7476 I appreciate it mate o7

@tasaimurphy4800

4 жыл бұрын

But loss it 1945

@tasaimurphy4800

4 жыл бұрын

1944

As Phillips Payson O'Brien has written that German U-boats were much much bigger concern for Allied war leaders than some garrison style German infantry soldiers gaping in Eastern Front. In early 1942 relatively tiny group of German U-boats sunk so much bauxite at Atlantic and Caribbean that US aircraft production went down some 20%. Just think about if Germans would have had their XXI generation new U-boats in 1942 or even 1943.

@AjitMD

8 ай бұрын

Germany had limited resources. They needed to concentrate their limited resources in effective weapons and strategy at the decisive Schwerpunkt. They needed 300 submarines of higher underwater endurance and speed than Type VII or IX at the beginning of the war with long range high altitude air reconnaissance. These subs would have shut down British supply lines. Germany lacked a technological advantage in the air. They had developed the basics of turbojets early… but did not pursue development. In both WW 1, 2 Germany lacked a Grand Strategy to win these wars… or even better, avoid both wars.

My friend's great grandfather was a German u boat commander in WW2 he commander of u 69

Would realy appriciate to watch the series but not available on google store...even your page says it is....

Got ti give them credit, the germans were outstanding warriors

Kretchmer was a stickler for the rules and I'm sure he refused to wear the white cover on his cap which was unofficial anyway.

U boat attacks were supposed to be stealthy, that is the whole point in submarines.

As all should know it: sea warfare has always been much more advanced compared to land warfare. In that perspective war at Pacific and Atlantic made war in Eastern Front looks ridiculously primitive. During WW2 big powers with Soviet U as only exception gave much more resources to air and sea warfare than to land war. German army got only 30-33% of munition production. In UK it was some 20%, in US some 25% and in Japan just 16-18%.

One torpedo one ship!!!

@thomasthetanderloin

4 жыл бұрын

kretchmer: "one torpedo one ship" also kretchmer (2:17): "torpedo 1 and 2, fire"

You can say what you want but from every underwater vessel, do the U Boats look the most coolest

@krashd

5 жыл бұрын

They look like any other WW2-era sub. Personally I prefer modern British subs with their weird hexagonal cross section.

@BrokenAngelWings

5 жыл бұрын

Meh the Gato class or British Subs look so ugly to me. And in modern time I like the Typhoon class and the Alfa and Akula

The reality of human ingenuity. A painful reality of our contemptible self destructiveness. A species could learn from this nature.

Respect for u boats

Sails into the convoy. Stands ontop of the boat Wtf?

this u boat commander got the balls..

@vaerenbergh

4 жыл бұрын

uboat crew, correction

I cant imagine being sent to war at young age

Smart guy

2:40, Alastair Cook, what you were doing there???

R I.P. Sir.

Good job

If my memory serves me right, my dad was on a destroyer in that convoy. He told me that they lost 26 merchant ships and 3 escorts. His destroyer escaped unharmed. 😢

...super..😊😊😊😊😊

Can’t wait for Grey Hound to come out! 😄

Best u boat ace ..

Kretschmer only used 1 torpedo for each ship

@karlk9316

4 жыл бұрын

14 torpedoes, 7 ships

@fabolousnature3873

Жыл бұрын

​@@karlk9316 may be he used remaining 7 in his previous attacks his job is to destroy the convoy You have to refill fuel,ammunation,food only once in a week

@karlk9316

Жыл бұрын

@@fabolousnature3873 Did he engage in torpedo attacks after resupply and before this wolf pack attack?

How did he get past the destroyers while still maintaining enough speed to get into the convoy from behind? Submerged he could go undetected past the escort, but the type VII U-boat could only go about 9 knots under water, which would make it impossible to catch the convoy.

If I had command of a wolfpack, I would have at least one guy targetting all the escorts just before the attack on the shipping began.

@dovetonsturdee7033

3 жыл бұрын

Make it someone you didn't like. U-boats generally tried, where ever possible, to avoid tangling with escorts.

What channel is this on?

What happened to Convoy 92?

A wolf killing sheep from inside the flock. What can the shepherds do but watch in horror?

Ack, this makes me want to play UBOAT all of a sudden. Not even sure why.

That's a U boat... U know

German U Boat Officers & Sailors....Forever.

Perhaps you know understand better why Hitler gave highest priority of warfare until the very end for new generation XXI U-boats. Admiral Dönitz had more influence on Hitler than any Army or Luftwaffe commander. That's the reason why Hitler ordered to defend Kurland in spring 1945 or Holland: to have places for new U-boats to hide and train. U-boats were really the only weapon Germany had to shake allied on its core.

@jroch41

5 жыл бұрын

Imagine if Germany had begun Unternehmen Paukenschlag with 50 U-Boats instead of 5

@littlejimmy8744

5 жыл бұрын

V2 rockets where scary along side those massive tanks they used.

Mercifully Britain was never crippled, but it was a close run thing.

@DannyBoy777777

6 жыл бұрын

Vespelian not really. German successes never came close to strangling the supply lines; lend lease made sure of that. In any case, poor strategy, conflicting priorities caused by an ignorance of coalition warfare made sure of the Axis defeat. Plus the British victory in the intelligence battle.

@nit2rock

6 жыл бұрын

Vespelian ... Britain had control over vital water ways like Suez and up to some extent Mediterranean .....but they had cast resources and manpower of their colonies from Africa to Asia.....

@vespelian5769

6 жыл бұрын

Snollygoster Demagogues What is this gurgling nonsence? Wow, all this illiterate madness inspired by my little half sentence. I am flatered. My pithy phrase paraphrsed Arthur Wesley, remember him? I merely echoed Churchill's concerns during the first 'Happy time' of 1941 which certainly felt like one of the darker hours. However it seems to have inspired you to voluminous prose of purple idiocy of a wonderfully hysterical nature despite the inclusion of the odd obvious fact. And how, from what little I wrote, you managed, though quite erroneously in fact, to ascertain my nationality is another positive wonder? Calm down old chap. Deep breath a glass of water and your medication and I'm sure you'll be as right as rain. Toodle pip.

@vespelian5769

6 жыл бұрын

mad cobra Que?

@flex19112

5 жыл бұрын

Thank Uncle Sam :)

Torpedo impact!

I think you'll find that *no* U-Boat attack crippled Britain. The U-Boat *offensive* masterminded by Donitz is what crippled Britain. That, and Air Command's resistance to flying what they saw as "defensive" missions when they could be performing their own sweet Blitz over the cities of Germany.

@krashd

5 жыл бұрын

I've noticed that this channel is practically propaganda, it routinely portrays everyone during WW2 as weaklings with the US as guardian angels, this would be understandable for any other American channel but it's inexcusable for a channel that is related to one of the most prestigious museums on the planet. To purposely skew history over and over again when history is your speciality frankly doesn't say much for the institution.

@andrewstackpool4911

5 жыл бұрын

Except Britain despite major losses of merchant shipping was never crippled. the U-Boat campaign was successful until the capture of the ENIGMA codes, the total coverage by air and surface escorts and improved sensors, tactics and weapons. Coupled with the strategic bombing campaign the Kreigsmarine was unable to replace lost boats. And as much as one can admire the courage and tenacity displayed by both sides, I suggest we cut the U-Boats or whatever forever crap. Warfare is nothing to cheer about. Unless you are some extremist.

We should have had more U boats in WWI and there would have been no WWII

@cestflechettes1673

5 жыл бұрын

🧐

Cool

Yea but when I try this in Silent Hunter, I get spotted 3 outside the convoy.

Take out the escorts first, and the convoy becomes your prey.

We all know that when a torpedo swims u are a dead ship

@buzzardmusic5606

4 жыл бұрын

Rommel?

Hail 🇩🇪

Netflix has a new tv series called “Das Boot.” It just came out via German TV. Check it out!

Wait wait, he was surfaced getting into the middle of that convoy? My SH5 instincts tell otherwise Edit: well holy hecc, what a bloody mad lad :O

@Herberberber

4 жыл бұрын

Stop basing facts off a game

@chriscase1392

4 жыл бұрын

Well, not exactly. Kretschmer evaded the escort ships around the perimeter of the convoy, got in amongst the merchant ships, then stayed on the surface until he ran out of torpedoes. Surface attack was the most common night tactic used by the U Boats since a submarine sits very low in the water and the crew can see things around it more clearly than when submerged. When surface search radar became more common on escorts, this tactic no longer worked as well.

Despite what the commentary says, attacking within the convoy was standard practice at the time. The escorts were outside the convoy, so the logical place to attack was inside.

Das boot

@lasagna_lad

4 жыл бұрын

"Schneller, SCHNELLER!"

Fortune favors the bold.

Is this what the film Greyhound is based on?

The "happy times" as the nazi's called it early in the war followed later by the " Vat the fuck " times and at the wars finale the "Oh shitzen crapen , glug glug glug " times . Brave men on both sides though you have to give them that .

The nightingale 😊

If it wasn't by churchill the Brits wouldn't have suffered this

@suityboi2126

3 жыл бұрын

How?

A ballzy U Boat Captain

Britannia didn't rule the waves that night.

The German U-Boats were not real submarines, just submersible submersible torpedo boats. Germany needed 300 Type XXI at the beginning of the war with long range air surveillance and support. Achieve quick sea victory before Allies mobilized and developed countermeasures and Germany ran out of resources.

I hate it when I see my country not doing well in something

@jamespennington7919

5 жыл бұрын

Just watch or read real history and not this pro American silliness and you'll find it gets easier.

Зачем подводникам ночью включать прожектор? Они бы ещё фейверк пустили и потом удивляются почему нас заметили?

wait, isnt submarine is slow? how it can went inside convoy?

@BullGator-kd6ge

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, when they are surfaced they can be pretty quick. The most used U Boat the Type VII can reach 17.7 knots or 20.4 mph, and the type IX U Boat could reach 10 knots or 12 mph

@mfulan7548

5 жыл бұрын

but they can be seen on the surface

@trollege9618

5 жыл бұрын

It's at the night

U Boat rocks

75% casualty rate for the U Boat sailors

Here after seeing Greyhound trailer

if only spain and portugal joined the axis. germany would have captured gibraltar malta and the suez canal.

goott

Einmal die Geschwindigkeit bitte - 1000 Meter. Who translated this :D

He had hus own way of attack.. within the convoy he caused chaos. The escort never think hes actually inside. ... but his tequinque got noticed by sone HMS captain. N they knew it was him. N weren't letting him get out this time think he was forced to surface and rammed . The captain that took him aboard n crew . But took his binoculars as far superior to the captains. Also as a trophy.

Wondering if submarine hit the escort ship first....omg

@thomasthetanderloin

4 жыл бұрын

they usually avoided those because they didn't deem them worth the tonnage, destroyers were only 1-3k tons while most merchant ships were 7-11k tons including cargo.

U-99? seriously? i though its just on vehicle simulator only,dayummmm...

Are U boat was so stealthy we didn't even attack

The U boats Could've Kept Destroying the waves of British Ships

@markhorton8578

4 жыл бұрын

But they couldn't because the British developed counter tactics, like "rasberry" and "step aside", and made much better use of Hedgehogs. The losses were falling steeply and U-Boat losses climbing rapidly even before there was much improved aircover from aircraft carriers and long range planes. Interestingly the best tactics were developed by girls fresh out of school (17/18) playing wargames under the rules set by a chronically ill British naval commander. They were so successful that because these battles would last for days, descriptions of the actions would be relayed back to them to get the latest advice.

those men did a great job on the allies

U boats 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Sorry no loss of one convoy 'crippled Britain'. Especially as by October 1940 the UK was already decoding German Naval signals traffic (later speeded up by the capture of the first enhanced Enigma machine from U-110 in May '41). For sure the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest battle of WWII and thousands of brave civilian and naval people died (on both sides) but the UK was never dependent on ONE convoy although we made very good use of everything we had purchased (for cash until Lend Lease in '42) from the USA.

@shahanarif4295

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha British looser naval enigma broken in June 1941. Read history than talk

"Crippled"...? I must've missed that bit.

Is it legal in war to sink civilian merchant vessels like this?

@maconescotland8996

4 жыл бұрын

Simple answer - yes. They were carrying war materials and supplies.

para komandan KRI kapal selam kita pada nonton dokumentasi ini ga ya?

bunun türkçesi yok mu ya

@Soyjakgamingbutawesome

2 жыл бұрын

No

Now that it means to be a real ace!!

greyhound

Imagine if german navy have U214...

@nd823

5 жыл бұрын

At that time.

@sunnybang4575

4 жыл бұрын

There was a U boat type 7 u boat U-214 in fact there was even a type 9 u boat U-850. Dont know if you know but U 99 is the design number not meaning it is the 99th producted u boat. That is why even numbers like 850 existed in the early years of the war.

At 0:28 seconds Stalin comes back to life jeez USSR

@alexaga3247

6 жыл бұрын

At the time of event in this video Germany and red USSR are allies against Poland.

So how did this cripple Britain ?

@lolopard99

4 жыл бұрын

supplies

@donlove3741

4 жыл бұрын

@@lolopard99 and Britain became crippled when exactly ?