That is one of the worst ways to go. God damn.

@brokenbridge6316

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you friend.

@buoydix

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. Though I'd say scaphism is potentially worse

@Ant_Man211

2 жыл бұрын

@@buoydix what's that?

@buoydix

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ant_Man211 they stick you into 2 hollow log halves where your head and limbs stick out. Then they force feed you milk and honey until you're sick. And then they force feed you more. Then they leave you in a humid bog, out in the sun. The bugs begin to creep in because of the putrid sick and burrow into you. The buzzing isn't just inside and all around you, it's nonstop. You can't escape as you are eaten alive. The people that put you in that position will pull you back in and repeat the process, every day, until you are dead. There is an account of someone lasting around 18 days. . .

@kokaulv2755

2 жыл бұрын

RIP sailors

I can see how that didn’t make it to fourth grade history textbooks

@bobwhite6685

2 жыл бұрын

I had West Virginia history in 4th grade actually. Lol sadly it was taught. And it wasn't in the text, the teacher told us. We've no major league teams so we take what we can get

@phantomaviator1318

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobwhite6685 o7 my fellow Appalachian I wish we were known as Vandalia instead ngl

@spacedout4061

2 жыл бұрын

It isnt in any textbooks tho lol

@protatort6345

2 жыл бұрын

@@spacedout4061 it is

@SirTravis-vn6yp

2 жыл бұрын

@@benchoflemons398 really? We learned about them in 7th grade or so

My father was on the West Virginia and was transferred to San Diego a month before December 7th 1941. He told me about the hydraulic hatches closing down after you went to your station. Not a good feeling to be closed up being part of the ship’s water tight integrity. And he did tell me about the guys trapped banging for help.

@Bhatmann

2 жыл бұрын

He said the battleship was tied up outboard of 3 other battleships and thus took four fish in the side sinking.

@mrcoolluke7850

2 жыл бұрын

It's to bad the captain did not get charged and did not take notice and the soldier should have followed the sound

@acausalnine

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bhatmann what does that mean exactly when you say it took four fish in the side sinking

@pmcgee003

2 жыл бұрын

@@acausalnine fish = torpedoes

For some more info. They were in the desalination room. They had a massive tank of water. They had food too, hence the rations. They died of suffocation. The oxygen in the air was slowly running out, until there was just carbon dioxide. Their death was not painful. They slowly passed out from lack of oxygen and died in their sleep.

@natem1579

2 жыл бұрын

Well I imagine it was mentally painful, being trapped in a room underwater with no chance of rescue and waiting for death to take you would be positively soul-crushing. Knowing you will never get to say goodbye to your loved ones, and watching your colleagues pass out one by one...

@nikik5567

2 жыл бұрын

@@natem1579 well that depends on ur frame of mind. If they had stayed rational they likely were holding out that their ship would be put in dry dock so that crews could reach them, it’s highly likely they didn’t know just how much of the fleet had been hit along with them. So while yes if the isolation got to them they could’ve had a very maddening death, but it’s equally possible that they were banging so that people knew that they were still down there, and might be able to prioritize getting their ship into dry dock.

@robertrose1098

2 жыл бұрын

Who are you to say that there death wasn't painful !!!!!! Wanka snake venom .

@cavemanlovesmoke4394

2 жыл бұрын

Yeeeeeeah... not so sure on the painless part. I get what ur saying but uhm.. yeh

@cavemanlovesmoke4394

2 жыл бұрын

@@nikik5567 no one is gonna stay rational that long in that kind of situation . No matter how headstrong you think you are , niki. Eventually ur mind and loss of hope can bore out that part of the human psyche

Frankly, I cannot imagine how those guards on duty must've felt, knowing that they were just told to stand by and do nothing to save their trapped comrades, to just be told that there's nothing to be done before even a single attempt is made...

@Fourtytwo4242

2 жыл бұрын

I would said "fuck you" and ran to nearest newspaper to report this shit or keep claiming chain of command. You either try to save then or you die trying...but I most likely get shot for "treason".

@sardonicspartan9343

2 жыл бұрын

True. But there was nothing that could be done with the technology they had.

@louditalian1962

2 жыл бұрын

@@sardonicspartan9343 My ass. They could had taken it into the dry dock as they did. But “cost money” is the real talk.

@tinkywinky4449

2 жыл бұрын

@@louditalian1962 Probably not just "cost money" They were fighting a war. Every ship was vital.

@ianherp5678

2 жыл бұрын

@@louditalian1962 they didn't have any dry docks working until after the war and they had to move those ships with specifically designed crane ships

Well, that's just fucking awful.

@smokey-smore

2 жыл бұрын

They died of lack of oxygen not hunger

@tim.liltlilililmtim.bigtbi4321

2 жыл бұрын

Your statement is one of the most profound things ever stated. Ordered to ignore it.

@thewanderer3988

2 жыл бұрын

And hardly the worst death in ww2

@ricksturdevant2901

2 жыл бұрын

This is seriously FUCKED UP !!! 🤬

@98reivax

2 жыл бұрын

Everything USA does is effing awful

“No man left behind” is one of those nice quotes the military throws around to feel better about all those men it left behind

@nikik5567

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. It’s a case by case basis. They’ll uphold it if they know they have a chance in hell of succeeding. Hell, they deployed my entire platoon to a combat zone over one dude that they weren’t even 100% sure was even still there. But with the choppers cameras and all 40 of us looking, they knew they had a chance so they went for it. In this instance there was no chance. It was either kill them when the room depressurized from divers cutting their way to them, or they die slowly while waiting for a chance to get the ship into dry dock. Either decision ended in death for the three men. And waiting for dry dock meant that the divers wouldn’t also be at risk of dying.

@edgregory1

2 жыл бұрын

Huge number got left behind as Germany was carved up by the USSR and Allied forces. They were taken for slave labor in the gulags.

@Ranshazzam

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what happens when you join the military

I can't imagine being on patrol and being told to 'ignore it' I don't think I'd ignore it fuck that

@GCAT-zv9in

2 жыл бұрын

Right. What is patrol for if not getting information to save lives? There must have been a way to get the engineering plans and realize salvation was possible.

@brendanh8978

2 жыл бұрын

Drachinifel has an amazing three or four part series on the salvage operation of Pearl Harbor. Very in depth on exactly how they refloated the ships and all the technical hurdles involved. He has declassified photos and even early color film of the operations. The simple fact was they simply couldn't get to these guys. Cutting through armor belts, flooding of the dry pockets when they were opened up, all kinds of technical problems prevented it. Doesn't make it any less horrifying a way to die, but it's not like the brass in charge left them to perish out of indifference or anything.

@ar-sithf.austin3744

2 жыл бұрын

This is not a hard problem to solve. Especially not even in the 40s. Whoever told them to disregard this should of been court-martialed and shot

@ar-sithf.austin3744

2 жыл бұрын

Bullshit. They could of installed casons from the hull up and pumped it out then simply used a cutting torch to gain access thru the hull.

@ar-sithf.austin3744

2 жыл бұрын

We had divers then and under water welders as well. Whoever didn't think of doing this was a mindless idiot.

That was one scary minute, not gonna lie

@jonslg240

2 жыл бұрын

*I can think of many, many worse ways to die* But it's only a matter of degrees. Any way you die prematurely, where you can see your death coming, is bad. *That being said, I don't know how much of this story is true,* because it sure seems extremely light on facts. Who was the sailor who heard it? Who were the sailors that died? Why not reveal those facts? Is it because checking those facts would discredit this story being told for the sole purpose of gaining views? If not, you just did these sailors a disservice by not revealing the facts, leaving everyone room to speculate propaganda is involved. *Also, where did you get "minute" from? They're not talking about minutes, not even days.. they're talking about WEEKS.*

@aspennnnnnnn

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonslg240 The video is a minute long

@jwaj

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonslg240 Jons rn : 🤡

@kevintucker3354

2 жыл бұрын

It was one scary 3 weeks.

@MrAdeuhtyr

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonslg240 so yeah, this should be top comment

They would have never known that someone could literally hear them

@foodank_atr817

2 жыл бұрын

But they hoped, that's why they were banging... And they were ignored

@nevla.

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I'd prefer not knowing if someone can to knowing that someone can hear be but isn't doing anything, even though they can't.

@ClydeAlb

2 жыл бұрын

@@nevla. speak english for the fucking sake my brain died trying to read that

@thatkalmboi

2 жыл бұрын

@@nevla. engrish

@k-fedd

2 жыл бұрын

Better that way. I would be so angry if I knew that I were being ignored in that situation.

I honestly wonder when they realized they wouldn't be saved and stopped tapping

@nikik5567

2 жыл бұрын

Probably when they closed their eyes and didn’t wake back up.

@grandestcorsair3938

Жыл бұрын

They might have been to weak to even tap (at least enough to be heard) at some point and just slipped away...

One of the grimmest things I've ever heard

Props to the soldiers for not cannibalizing each other.

@boser_ketchup3101

2 жыл бұрын

They probably suffocated before dying of hunger. Or died of dehydration

@eadaoinl

2 жыл бұрын

They probably died from carbon dioxide poisoning rather than starvation. A few years ago, an African man went down with a fishing ship and survived for several days in a handful of air pockets. Before hunger could really become a fatal threat, he was already experiencing the serious effects of carbon dioxide poisoning and was highly delirious. If you're wondering, he made a full recovery but couldn't return home due to local superstitions which made him an outcast. Edit: His name was Harrison Okene. The ship went down off the coast of Nigeria and sank to 98 feet. He was down there for 3 days in total before rescuers who went to retrieve the bodies of the crew found him. Somewhere below this, I've linked the video of him reaching out to a diver in response to someone asking about it.

@joundii3100

2 жыл бұрын

They died from asphyxia

@Alexrocksdude_

2 жыл бұрын

@@eadaoinl aww thats really sad

@stephenmccabe1489

2 жыл бұрын

@@eadaoinl that bottle of coca cola kept that man pushing tho bro, ups to the brown sugar juice there man/gal

Always check. No matter how far fetched do not dismiss hope till you can confirm

@Freekymoho

2 жыл бұрын

the problem was they thought they couldnt check

@MajorCoolD

2 жыл бұрын

@@Freekymoho Still it's retarded... Besides... there were diving suits back then... heck, the Germans and Italians even utilized combat divers during WW2. There were ways they could have done it. Whoever was in command there should have been charged with neglect and diriliction of duty. I mean a Diver could have easily checked the ship over the course of a few hours or at worst a day or two... once they were located it would have been possible to figure out wheter there was a way to safe them.

@bosunbill9059

2 жыл бұрын

If u check, you might take water and doom the whole ship instead

@joundii3100

2 жыл бұрын

But there was no hope. They knew they were there but it was impossible to rescue them so they had to let them and do nothing. That must be torture to those hearing this sound knowing people are waiting for help they will never get.

@jamesharding3459

2 жыл бұрын

@@joundii3100 If the choice is between certain death abandoning them and near-certain death attempting a rescue, then the only moral choice is to make the attempt.

I could have gone my entire life without knowing this.

That shii would haunt me in my dreams for thd rest of my life that banging would never go away .

The psychological torture, Of knowing you've been abandoned as you run out of air. Fucking hell.

@HE-162

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure how they’d have lasted nearly 3 weeks in a sealed room. The oxygen supply would have been exhausted pretty quick and they’d have simply fallen asleep. Horrible way to go

@pedopars

2 жыл бұрын

@@HE-162 thats how they died. They were in a desalination room, hence the food and water to stay alive. They died from lack of oxygen in their sleep

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

@JackRackam

2 жыл бұрын

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore - "Tis the waves and nothing more..."

@angelrivera7546

2 жыл бұрын

@@JackRackam Nevermore!

@softdrink-0

2 жыл бұрын

The raven?

@dom_ed

2 жыл бұрын

@@softdrink-0 yes.

@Canvas19391

2 жыл бұрын

I didnt expect to read Poe in a KZread comment section.

That is absolutely terrible. Every part of it. God bless their souls and may they ALL R.I.P.

This was far from the only case, happened to hundreds off sailors at pearl harbor. The worst was partly flooded compartments where it turned to decomposing soup. Some absolute horror stories from those who had to salvage the ships.

@AZrakoon

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine how horrible it was for the people who picked up the ruble at the WTC after 9/11.

@dillonventola408

2 жыл бұрын

@@AZrakoon honestly I don't think as bad

@AZrakoon

2 жыл бұрын

@@dillonventola408 I was in 15, when 9/11 happened. Not sure how old you are, but it I will never forget it.

@dillonventola408

2 жыл бұрын

@@AZrakoon I was 7 or 8 and vividly remember it. The cleanup at pearl was... Horrific to say the least. There's a documentary I watched on salvage operations one some of the ships. You have rotting food, decomposing bodies, not to mention how many toxins and carcinogens you'd come in contact with. On top of that for weeks they could hear the constant tapping from trapped sailors only to slowly fall silent signifying the end to any hope of rescuing your friends if you were lucky enough to make it out alive. Don't get me wrong 9/11 was terrible, I'm not downplaying it in the least, but the cleanup at pearl seems worse in my opinion.

"I'll never leave a comrade behind" my ass, soldier's creed. I can't even imagine how fucked up that was to witness or hear the story later.

@brodiegriffin_is_Ozzy

2 жыл бұрын

That's not a soldiers creed , that's an Armys , battalions , unit etc.... a soldier the guy in trenches ( so to speak ) don't want to leave anyone behind but the reality is you sometimes have to

@ev3rything533

2 жыл бұрын

Navy says ship, shipmate, self. Take care of it in that order until there's nothing else you can take care of.

@cavemanlovesmoke4394

2 жыл бұрын

Comrade? Hmm Russians always gotta stay hating

@georgerivera9220

2 жыл бұрын

@@brodiegriffin_is_Ozzy Many have died trying to save a buddy or recovering their bodies. I participated in three body recoveries.

@detectivejohndyson

2 жыл бұрын

@@brodiegriffin_is_Ozzy it’s part of the soldier’s creed in the US Army. Every soldier has to memorize it and others and repeat it on command. They do it all the time.

Jesus.. that’s horrifying

The horror of hearing that noise and knowing that there is nothing one can do about it, Would take a toll on the human psyche.

Idk why, but I’m from WV and that being the USS West Virginia just feels personal.

still rather serve on a shp than a submarine.

@FUCKINGRI0T

2 жыл бұрын

Rather in a tank tbh

@phantomaviator1318

2 жыл бұрын

@@FUCKINGRI0T atleast ships are more survivable

@cat-tj1xk

2 жыл бұрын

@@FUCKINGRI0T and get turned into a fine paste from a bush 5000 meters away? no thanks

@Michels1

2 жыл бұрын

Submarines are like waterproof coffins

@chasemishio1781

2 жыл бұрын

@@Michels1 If you can find em

Oh that’s just plain awful

Absolutely heartbreaking, I’m sure those on guard duty will be haunted all their lives

I was born and raised in West Virginia, and I’m not sure exactly where but I hear the calendar that they used to mark until Christmas Eve and a few things are here in a museum.

If you ever find yourself in a situation like that then every so often you should splash the water as it gets rid of some of the CO2 you’re breathing out, allowing yourself abit more Oxygen to breath

@isaacserbin8763

2 жыл бұрын

There was no water for them to splash

@jaysleezy5464

2 жыл бұрын

I heard about that. It's because of the increased surface area of the little ripples and waves absorbing the Co2

@olliesutton1804

2 жыл бұрын

@@isaacserbin8763 Doesnt need to be fresh water, I saw it in another video about a sailer being trapped in a sunken boat that got rescued because he splashed the water

@well_as_an_expert_id_say

2 жыл бұрын

@@olliesutton1804 no there was no water period, they were in an airtight space

@olliesutton1804

2 жыл бұрын

@@well_as_an_expert_id_say Well the point still stands if you do have water 😂

😨How could you not TRY 🥺 I can't imagine how bad that would eat me up inside listening to someone bang inside their down ship and being told "stand down"

@randomperson4198

2 жыл бұрын

Any attempt would be killing them. If u try to open it the air inside the ship that keeping it a float would got out and drowning them. So it's not they don't want to it's impossible. Even if attempt were made they're just risking more life then already is

@austinshane26

2 жыл бұрын

@@randomperson4198 I get it... I do. But to just ignore it and move on would be crushing to someone soul who's told to never leave a man behind. They could have got a group of men together I think tank and came up with a couple of viable options and TRIED. just Try. All I was saying... I know they had their reasons but shewww. That's brutal. Those poor guys

@randomperson4198

2 жыл бұрын

@@austinshane26 well even if they did u just sending them faster. So tbh it's really justified while sinking more in the it's really is no option unless someone have the item to actually break free them

@randomperson4198

2 жыл бұрын

@WAFFEN COLLIDER i don't know where to looked but is it possible they have no engineer that can do those thing?

@goastlyarrowplays

2 жыл бұрын

@WAFFEN COLLIDER I don’t think you understand how hot the diving bell would have gotten for the welder. He would have to do it in one sitting because how unstable the bells can be so the welder would be killed long before he could cut the men out.

Thank you for covering this.

Next rough day at work, I'll keep these 3 gentlemen in my mind.

Gosh... I clicked looking for a bit of history but left with my stomach in a knot and nightmares material for a week. :-S

@blakedavis2447

2 жыл бұрын

History isn’t PG, a lot of it is some of the most tragic shit you’ll ever hear about.

@totallynormalperson2915

2 жыл бұрын

@@blakedavis2447 yep. back then was quite.. yea.. i can't find the right word for this.

@saucyrevenge

2 жыл бұрын

@@totallynormalperson2915 it’s not just back then

Remind me to always carry a gun loaded with a single bullet if I'm on a submarine. Just in case there's a situation like this.

@lolihitler4198

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like the other two sailors would object to you firing a gun in the pressurized air pocket

@alexgraham9458

2 жыл бұрын

@@lolihitler4198 if your going to use it for its intended purpose . It really doesn't matter what anyone thinks at that point

@lolihitler4198

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexgraham9458 bit selfish to subject two other people to a horrible death just so you can have a fast one isnt it?

@legateelizabeth

2 жыл бұрын

@@lolihitler4198 Firing a gun inside a submarine won't cause explosive decompression unless the bullet pierces a hull - which my little handgun, after being slowed by going through two layers of skull and several inches of my brain matter, almost certainly wouldn't. If you'd prefer I can ask for a full magazine so any of my stranded fellows can also go quickly, but I get the feeling they'd object to that as well.

@Jay22222

2 жыл бұрын

@@lolihitler4198 I think the Á bigger concern is compromising the integrity of their air reservoir keeping them alive? They’re already plenty aware that I Koh horrific and only going to get worse. A corpse in the corner doesn’t matter but a leak does.

My god I would of lost it knowing there's poor souls trapped down there and hearing the every night tell they leave this world in the worst way😢

wow , imagine being down there and knowing there’s people above you the whole time but they refuse to help you and you don’t know why

Dying in the dark, starving, and going mad is some hell of a way to die

@stoptrudeau42

2 жыл бұрын

I heard they resorted to gay sex

Also, they had a calendar marked on the wall that had checkmarks from the 7th, until roughly Christmas eve. This may have changed but as far as I know they to this day dont recognize the soldiers official deaths on their tombstones.

@Ben.N

2 жыл бұрын

Damn :(

@ricksturdevant2901

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like those 3 were murdered by their military comrades

@dylanb4494

2 жыл бұрын

@@ricksturdevant2901 everyone at pearl harbor was murdered by fdr. The us and Britain had cracked japanese codes and knew the attack was happening months in advance. Fdr ordered it to be let happen so he could enter ww2.

Crazy thing too, you can still see oil bubbling up from the wreckage while at the memorial. Haven't gone myself but my grandma told me all about it from an early age, including this story.

The banging never stop for the solider who heard and ignored that banging.

I've heard this story, It does nearly make me time every time I remember it

@Sh4dowbanned

2 жыл бұрын

Cry? Or something else.

@Ben.N

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sh4dowbanned yeah how this comment got 26 likes while being incomprehensible lol

@itsnotwhatyouthink5785

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ben.N it's up to 36 now and still unedited. Ppl are funny huh?!

“Never leave a man behind”

@FireFlanker1

2 жыл бұрын

You never leave a man behind you can help... sometimes there are no solutions and men must be sacrificed

@goastlyarrowplays

2 жыл бұрын

@WAFFEN COLLIDER cutting them out? First you would need a special diving bell, one that I doubt they would have had on standby because those bells weren’t that common, and where mostly used back in the mainland. And even if you do that, the steel was so thick that the bell would have overheated and killed the welder long before they cut the men out.

One of those things that make you go "oh my God we did that to our own? "

@albertov137

2 жыл бұрын

so it's fine to do it to an enemy?

@lesthodson2802

Жыл бұрын

Couldn't cut into the ship without killing them, couldn't move the ship into drydock without it disintegrating and killing them. There was nothing that could have been done.

And people still think the government has us in its best interests.

@stephenjenkins7971

2 жыл бұрын

The government literally had nothing to do with this; this was a decision made by officers and generally agreed by the rest of the crew. Mostly because if they did try and help, they're liable to get everyone else killed too. You'd be outright executed for trying to endanger everyone's lives like that if you tried to save 'em.

Even if it would've killed them to flood the chamber, it would've been more of a mercy than that.

@c85senior

2 жыл бұрын

I would rather die in my sleep than to drown.

"Making a hole could potentially kill whoever is inside" So will leaving them in a fucking metal tomb. At least if you make a hole they will either escape, or get a (relatively) quick and merciful death.

@goastlyarrowplays

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think you understand how hot you would need the torch to be to cut though metal. If you were really trying to save you would doom the welder and the men. Can you honestly send a man to his death just so others would have a more humane death?

@Nova7o9

Жыл бұрын

Well if it was a matter of death either way, suffocation is the better way to go, drowning is horrible. But still, I need to learn more about this and find out really why they couldn’t be rescued or if they were trying to figure it out or what. 😰

@Dystopian-toast

8 ай бұрын

Don’t think u realize the vessel sank 40 feet in the sea and the 3 men were on the bottoms floor in an airtight storeroom there was no possible way to save them

Imagine being the last one to live down their all alone looking at the bodies of of your friends knowing you’ll never see your family again and already going through the pain of it all, terrible just terrible.

I remember my 7th grade history teacher telling us about this, it terrified and fascinated me all the same

Forgive us and RIP my Brothers! 😢

Thanks, Jack, I was having a great day until I stumbled on this

i learned about this in my military history class it was terrifying

Everyone knew what the noise was. The problem was that there was no way to immediately free the sailors trapped inside without killing them, and by the time the ship was able to be recovered their bodies were identified.

It's amazing sound made it through all that,..Can only imagine how hard they banged. Exhausting! With limited O2 and rations... Rip

Starving and drowning are one of the most painful ways to die. I can only hope that I die in my sleep

@jamesalexander3530

2 жыл бұрын

Burning or being eaten alive is the absolute worse.

This same thing happened once again during the war but the banging sound was actually a pulley banging against the side of the hull

@cavemanlovesmoke4394

2 жыл бұрын

I doubt a pulley can bang in a offbeat rhythm or banging really loud and fast - (like how cops bang on ur door so u know for sure that's a human making the sounds) imho

@rexjolles

2 жыл бұрын

@@cavemanlovesmoke4394 it was just banging from it swinging around in the flooded water

So sad..so scary..I pray those men had as much comfort and possible..but man that is horrible .and I'm sure it was hell for all involved

Do a video about the tragedy of the USS Liberty

USA: No man left behind! Also USA: Ignore the trapped men.

@stephenjenkins7971

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, because saving 3 men at the cost of the ship and the rest of the crew will really show how braindead the US is.

That’s absolutely vile. It disgusts me beyond description to abandon men to die like that.

That's messed up. Damn nightmare.

Modern technology would likely have allowed for their rescue within hours of the earliest possible rescue equipment arrival. I'm sure there were many cases of this happening across the war

Why didn't they send divers to cut in at the bottom? If there's air there's some pressure!

@goastlyarrowplays

2 жыл бұрын

It would have killed the welder. The bell would have been too hot for them and knowing how unstable the bells can be they would have it cut them out in one sitting.

That response was just too damn cold. I bet that commander heard that knocking the rest of his days.

This is one of the saddest war stories I've heard . Can't imagine how they felt losing hope

It took him 16 days to pass away While they were in the ship I learned about that story many years ago it still fucks with me along with the submarine stories like nope hell no

@dpmjole

2 жыл бұрын

there were *3 of them* !!

"I found the source of the mysterious ticking! It's a pipe bomb! Yayyyy!"

Whoever ordered that soldier to ignore it should have been court-martialed

That is one of my fears being enclosed and trapped the story really got to me

OH GOD THIS

I need a saluting emoji for this one

@thevassinator

2 жыл бұрын

F 🫡🫡🫡🫡

@Ben.N

2 жыл бұрын

o7

@computerwizzy3686

2 жыл бұрын

🫡🫡

Omg! So horribe. So long 18 days?! How horrible to suffer so long with people hearing & knowing. 💔

My Dad was caught in that attack. He was on the first ship to fight it's way out successfully. USS St Louis, CL49 Her sister ship, the USS Phoenix made it out later. Looking at the pics and videos from the Japanese fighters, it's a wonder ANYBODY made it out. Dad passed away in January of 1996. He was 69. He would have been 101 this past April. He is buried in Arlington Cemetary. He told me once, after that day in 1941, the rest of his life he considered himself on borrowed time. A real blessing from God.

ouch... that's like counting the days between when my mom died on the 6th to the bland Christmas because we were so unprepared for everything and just what do you do with the presents she got you and why is everyone labeling their presents from mom 😭 props to the 3 starving soldiers efforts even if a higher up ordered the lower rank to ignore it 😟 starving of oxygen and food

Optimist: Drill a hole big enough to fit a diving regulator. Then make an opening big enough to take a man out. Realist: That's 8+ inches of steel we're trying to cut through... under water... in the 1940s.

@wojciechsosna9230

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, kinda fucked up...

@wojciechsosna9230

2 жыл бұрын

@WAFFEN COLLIDER lmao have you heard of kursk? even then they couldn't get them out, not to mention doing it in 40'...

@wojciechsosna9230

2 жыл бұрын

@WAFFEN COLLIDER 8 inch of steel to cut through, during a war, underwater, in mid 40s when they really haven't had resources to save these men...

@chang.stanley

2 жыл бұрын

@@wojciechsosna9230 Only the armored belt is thick steel. The steel was thin enough and the water shallow enough that someone was able to hear the tapping from the surface.

@wojciechsosna9230

2 жыл бұрын

@@chang.stanley sound is conducted by metal, not stopped by it. have you skipped your 6th grade physics lessons?

POV: You're of the 3 soldier trapped inside. Even a horror movie can't beat that terror.

Well that just cheered me up, thanks

Air lasted well

So, 17 days of pounding, most likely one or more wasting away. The latter date being too tiresome to move.

@Elenrai

2 жыл бұрын

Ill find you 🤣

Imagine the last guy standing, ur buddies died and you're sure already you're next. Hell no

They survived for 17days, 17 long sad days, this, this hurts to even realize, the pain, the hope, the sadness

Jack … you got to do Cesare Borgia!!!! Interesting man in an interesting family. A real rise and fall from power story. Also a lot of juicy stories, true and scandals

@cavemanlovesmoke4394

2 жыл бұрын

Who is he and what is his backstory ? (Commenting as a reminder to look him up too but figured I'd ask ya while I'm here )

@Scum_and_Villainy

2 жыл бұрын

@@cavemanlovesmoke4394 The illegitimate of Pope Alexander the 6th and head of the armies of Rome. He was accused of several things such as murder and incest with his sister. If you like Game of Thrones Jamie Lannister is very similar to Cesare

Wonder what MF gave the order to ignore the sound. That just reflects how the superiors didn't gave a crap about them.

Whoever made the call to ignore it should be held accountable

17 days... 408 hours. Seems suspicious that it stopped the "day before Christmas". Nobody had the heart to say they spent the holiday in agony

Ngl, I'd rather starve than drown

@spacecowboy7568

2 жыл бұрын

Several days of agonizing pain versus about two minutes? I'd take drowning.

@OdinOfficialEmcee

2 жыл бұрын

@@benchoflemons398 probablly even more peaceful than drowning. You'd just black out after a long while and it would be like going to sleep

Big Spoon 🥄 :(

The fact that they didn’t even try at all. It’s disgusting. Imagine being a soldier knowing that if you’re trapped and in a really tight spot. Your superiors will tell other soldiers just to ignore you. You’re not under fire you’re underwater. There was means to get them but it would’ve been difficult how disgusting

The fact that all this men were told to ignore the signs of someone surviving the attack, that is really criminal at minimum,and this is not the only example of this atrocides mishandling, respectfully, Mua

"We're the good guys."

@vladimirlenin843

2 жыл бұрын

Laugh in kamikaze

@blefyplayswowable

2 жыл бұрын

"Greatest generation"

@evangetz

2 жыл бұрын

braindead take

@JackTheSlayer-ok5eq

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, if the Japanese hadn’t sunk the ship, they wouldn’t have been trapped.

@stephenjenkins7971

2 жыл бұрын

Imperial Japanese post-R**e of Nanking: "Yes, the Yanks are the bad guys" Imagine being this braindead.

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭2:38‬ ‭KJV‬‬

@princeps4842

2 жыл бұрын

Amen

LOVE this mans cadence and alliteration, really brings the story to life

There are so so many people that are in charge that really should not be.

That's a strange position to be in, not knowing what the best tactic would be.

This sucks so much, god bless them, and screw the person who ordered to just stand by

So unimaginably horrific!!

This is so horrific!. God rest those poor souls.

That was a truly horrible war. This isn’t even the only such story I’ve heard or read about. They were just too common for the war department to bother reporting them, or often the outcomes weren’t learned even by them until years or decades later. As we start into wwiii I ponder how dreadful it’s going to be.

This is shameful!! No excuse for not going after those men. Somebody needed to be jail for that

That's terrible and that commander should have been accountable for it..

That really shows how much they care!!