My grandfather was a gunner on the ship that captured the U505. He told me so many stories about that day and he was so proud of what they accomplished. Thank you so much for posting this video!!!🇺🇸

As a member of the Museum of Science and Industry and someone who has been through U-505 nearly 100 times, if you are ever in Chicago, please come see the U-505 and exhibit; you will not regret it!

@Sacrifice-Loyalty

3 жыл бұрын

Loved the experience!

@jimjam51075

2 жыл бұрын

Just make sure to buy an interior tour ticket at least a day in advance. Otherwise, you're just looking at torpedos and the exterior. All of them were sold out my first day here.

@Jay-gf8tm

Жыл бұрын

It is a lot bigger than you'd expect in real life!

@zombiesallday2423

Жыл бұрын

I live in chicago and have been many times i have no idea how ive never seen U-505

@foodlover2236

11 ай бұрын

Did tour it and thoroughly enjoyed the experience

One little addendum to this: Although many of the parts had been stripped from the sub by the US government, the German companies who made them were very willing to supply whatever replacements they could find in order to return the sub to her former glory.

@todd5082

3 жыл бұрын

rockets4kids I doubt the U.S. government stripped out all those parts. Other than the Enigma machine I’m willing to bet it was picked clean by all the American service members who love souvenirs. A known fact.

@connor7716

3 жыл бұрын

@@todd5082 so the US government?

@todd5082

3 жыл бұрын

Connor no not the government. The term “U.S. Gov” is normally used to mean ordered or authorized. The military servicemen (unauthorized) who love souvenirs tend to take enemy flags, helmets, knobs, even Normandy Beach sand. The official U.S. Gov has no use for used German sub parts. In the past the US military would use captured subs, boats, and tanks as practice gun targets.

@JonatasAdoM

3 жыл бұрын

@@todd5082 Other than friendly fire, it escapes me why they didn't just put to fight on their side. The Germans used British tanks in WWI after all.

@todd5082

3 жыл бұрын

@@JonatasAdoM I hear what u r saying. But tanks r much simpler to operate than say aircraft or in this case a submarine. Lots of training would be required to train a full crew. Simply not worth it. U don’t get the owner’s manual on how to operate an enemy sub when captured. Otherwise, American troops were notorious for repurposing captured weapons.

I went to Chicago and visited the sub. It is a fond childhood memory that I'll cherish forever.

@catman8965

4 жыл бұрын

Tyler Griffin Me too!!! That was back in the late 1960's - maybe early 1970's.

@bat1159man

4 жыл бұрын

The sub is now indoors and has a spectacular display - highly recommend visiting.

@animalcorvair

4 жыл бұрын

it was out side when i went in it,,,,,its inside now

@dorseykindler9544

4 жыл бұрын

I saw it as a kid in the 80s!

@jackpinesavage1628

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. I remember the tour guide yelling at someone for touching the periscope.

About a year ago I found a shirt at the goodwill that says "U-505 Captured 1944" I wear it all the time. When I saw this video title I got excited!

@eoin730

4 жыл бұрын

Crazy that you found a shirt with that on it man👍

@gumunduringigumundsson9344

4 жыл бұрын

Just about the coolest comment ever seen. Sweet!

@silentotto5099

4 жыл бұрын

@@eoin730 It was probably a souvenir shirt from the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, where the U-boat is on display. It's well worth the visit to see it.

@fbdanking7306

4 жыл бұрын

That's Excellent. U-505 t-shirt.

@AECRADIO1

4 жыл бұрын

I AM JEALOUS!! THAT'S MY SUB!

I actually met a German crew member of the U505 years ago in the early 1990's at a militaria show, his name was Hans (cannot remember his last name) but he had a ton of photos and had even written a small book on the subject, I believe the book was titled or had a subtitle of "I pulled the scuttle plug on the U505" he was rather old at that time so I am sure he is lost to time but it was still cool to hear his stories on this famous u-boat. He ended up having a fairly good life in the US after the war as a citizen from what he told me.

@Michelle-ri2os

Жыл бұрын

That was my father! Hans Göbeler! He would go to most military shows with me and my mom. I remember people crowding his table listening to his stories and asking him questions. He passed away in 1999 in Florida. His book is called "Steel Boats, Iron Hearts"

@LolimGennaro0o

10 ай бұрын

@@Michelle-ri2osamazing.

@cjmars822

6 ай бұрын

I just finished reading his book. Highly recommended

My uncle owned a manufacturing plant in the Chicago suburbs. One of his engineers was a former WWII submariner. When 505 had arrived in Chicago he "loaned" that engineer to the 505 project. The fellow was helping translate what various levers and labels were used for. He was amazed at two things: 1) that there was a scuttling charge still on board and 2) that had the boarding party tried to dive the boat it would have sunk. I remember talking about that with my uncle and the engineer. Great video Mark!

*This brings back memories... Back in the '70's we made a class trip to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois to see the U505 in all her glory. She is a narrow little ship where single file travel is the rule, I can't imagine being inside that tin can during operations at sea. It takes a brave man indeed to be a submariner.*

@artbobik3516

4 жыл бұрын

try getting pulled to the surface and riding out a hurricane in a fast attack for three days - could not re-submerge - everyone but one cook was seasick -

@MrMenefrego1

4 жыл бұрын

@@artbobik3516 *I'd rather not try that, but thank you anyway.*

@Thirdbase9

4 жыл бұрын

Same here,

@oceanhome2023

4 жыл бұрын

Arthur Bobik Below the surface it is calm and probably the best place to be in heavy seas

@literaldirt

4 жыл бұрын

My favorite parts are the .50 caliber hellcat rounds and other rounds.

Boarding a sinking submarine is bad enough... but then it's also a sinking submarine armed with explosives... then you stop it from sinking and disarm the bombs while aboard. Good lord those were 8 brave men.

@arnonuhm4022

3 жыл бұрын

Brave beyond crazy.

@327JohnnySS

3 жыл бұрын

Big Time.

While in grad school in Chicago I visited U-505 with my father. The most overwhelming take away was just how small it was inside. Yet an entire crew lived and worked virtually within an underwater machine. Submariners are very brave indeed.

Each U-Boat was worth its weight in gold to the Allies, but each Mark Felton video is worth it’s weight in gold to us. Keep up the good work as always Mark!

I am so glad that she has been preserved. It is a very important piece of history.

Really enjoy your content mark. These events should not be forgotten.

@michaelcrane3942

3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather used to pick up German POWs at Moody Field (now Moody AFB) in Valdosta, Ga during the war and take them to work in the sugar cane fields. I still have a list of 10 of their names and a postcard one sent him soon after the war from England, where he was still being held in 1946.

My coworkers wedding reception was in the room with the U 505! What a fun night! What an awesome exhibit! Great job Mark!

I have spent several hours at the Chicago/ Field Museum of Science and Industry and it is well worth the trip. The place is truly massive with entire trains and the U-505 housed within, not to mention spacecraft, planes, automobiles and thousands of square feet of everything you can think of. You can easily spend a week just visiting this museum and still miss stuff.

A company I used to work for did a lot of the video and multimedia content for the U505 exhibit when it was updated some years back. Proud to say some of my animation work appears in a couple of the videos - and even more proud to say that a photo of my grandfather, great uncle and great aunt were used in the video that appears in the exhibit of US service men and women as you get on the elevator to depart the exhibit. Working on that exhibit has definitely been a high point in my career!

I see a notification for mark Felton i click. And as churchill said the battle of the Atlantic is the only thing that kept him awake at night. And with the capture of the u boat by hms bulldog alan turing and his colleagues could start to break the German naval enigma codes

@StaceyIsles

4 жыл бұрын

Also the Bismarck was a nightmare boat for him The commandos that destroyed the French dry dock cutting off the Bismarck from the Atlantic is a crazy story ... It's also a documentary done by formally top gear and now grand tour host Jeremy Clarkson

@steveholmes5207

4 жыл бұрын

@@StaceyIsles agreed but the tirpitz really got under his skin

@StaceyIsles

4 жыл бұрын

@@steveholmes5207 I forgot that ones name (the tripitz) Both were the reason of the French dry dock being destroyed by commandos during ww2 N I defiantly recommend you watch that documentary

@steveholmes5207

4 жыл бұрын

@@StaceyIsles i have seen the documentary with Jeremy Clarkson its well researched and i have seen it on more than one occasion may i also recommend his documentary on the Baltic convoys another excellent documentary

@hawkeyeten2450

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the British FINALLY began to unravel the German enigma codes when they captured the U-110 in a similar operation to this with its communicator machine fully intact. America got an enigma machine also with this sub capture. U-505 I'm pretty sure was the first warship captured as a prize by the US Navy in over 100 years!

my grandfather used to tell us about it a lot because back when i was 6 he would take a trip to chicago every year for a ham radio convention and his favorite museum was the science and industry one where U-505 is kept

@blogengeezer4507

4 жыл бұрын

-Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, many years ago was? one of the very finest museums in all of the world ; Natural History Museum nearby, came in second ... Many long Years ago... ;

When I was a kid, I went with my friend and his mother to the museum. Ronny saw the 505 and said, "that's a U-boat" to which his mother responded in a fake Italian accent "Thatsa nota mya boat, thatsa submarine."

@ironwoodnf

4 жыл бұрын

This comment is 100% wholesome

@johnbecay6887

4 жыл бұрын

@@ironwoodnf and funny

@armybeef68

3 жыл бұрын

I actually heard the accent....lol

I read somewhere that this was the first time since the war of 1812 that the command "Away the boarding party!" was issued on a U.S. Navy ship.

@sergiogregorat1830

4 жыл бұрын

I heard this too, many years ago (1960), from an article in "The Best from the Reader's Digest" - Italian edition

I haven't even finished watching the video but I already know it's a superb one. You're a professional, Mark, and I've long been a fan of your work. Please keep going at it. 👍

@julemandenudengaver4580

4 жыл бұрын

He is actually a professional.. see Hitler's steal beast on Netflix.. Mark is it that one

One of the best things about living in Chicago is easily being able to see THIS.

@BrianNavalinsky

4 жыл бұрын

Whenever I got into town I would visit her at the museum and just contemplate their implications. Definitely the drones of WW2.

@charleslatora5750

4 жыл бұрын

Haven't been back to Chicago since +- '73. Someday.

@gumunduringigumundsson9344

4 жыл бұрын

Haven't been to the windy city since 1 1994 I think. Great town! Almost died in Michigan lake when traversing 2xfurther than the booey line suggested .. it started getting shallow again.. I could walk it was so shallow by now.. thank god I Stopped and looked back.. way far away from beach. When I Looked down in front of me.. less than one foot away from my toes was utter blackness.. I extended my right arm and the current I felt was very strong.. One more step.. No thanks. Tip toed back and didn't turn my back on it for 20 feet.. Omfg! That was one of the scariest things I ever did see. Chicago 4tw! Willard school 4tw! Just anout the nicest people I ever met from there.

@BrianNavalinsky

4 жыл бұрын

@@gumunduringigumundsson9344 You have to know where the sandbars are. All the Great Lakes form them except Lake Superior. I grew up on the south shore of Lake Erie and there was always a prevailing Southerly breeze in late October that blew the water to Canada. You could walk out hundreds of yards and try to gauge and survey where the sandbars were for the next years swimming. There are no discernible tides on the lakes so it was pretty magical to naive kids. The goal when swimming was to get to the fifth bar- seldom achieved until I grew to 6'6".

@gumunduringigumundsson9344

4 жыл бұрын

@@BrianNavalinsky Cool! Weren't you scared of the cliff and the torrent near the deep? I wasn't scared.. just knew it would kill me if I didn't respect it.

The final generation of the U-Boat design was just as advanced and impressive as the new Luftwaffe aircraft but it all came to late for Germany, but it was priceless R&D for the allies to incorporate into their R&D.

77 meters long. I never realized their true size until seeing the huddle of men on the bow, under tow. That's a lot of steel.

@jamesbehrje4279

4 жыл бұрын

And to think they built almost 2000 of them!!!

@machintelligence

4 жыл бұрын

Still, it is very cramped inside. I visited it in the late 1950's when I was about 11 years old and was surprised how little space there was.

@wolfsoldner9029

4 жыл бұрын

The Type nine was an oversized long range U-boat.

@Imbeachedwhale

4 жыл бұрын

James Behrje The Germans operated less than 1,200 U-boats during WWII, with more than half Type VII variants (703 in all), at 1,070 tons (VIIC) significantly smaller than the Type IX (1,540 tons for IXC) like _U-505_ (193 of all variants). Only about 860 actually went on patrol. US submarines of the war were over 2,000 tons submerged. These carried about double the torpedoes of a Type VIIC (10 + 2 overload internal, 2 external, 14 total), and while they had about the same number of torpedoes as the Type IXC (12 + 3 overload internal, 10 external, 25 total), all 24 US torpedoes were inside the pressure hull and available without sitting on the surface for several hours manhandling heavy weapons down narrow hatches.

It’s been a long day of classes studying to be a history teacher. I am tired, I want to take a nap but there’s a new Mark Felton video. I’ll sleep when I’m dead (or in 12 minutes).

@johnjacobs1625

4 жыл бұрын

warren zevon?

@johnbockelie3899

4 жыл бұрын

I saw a 12oclock high episode where the Navy had an aircraft carrier. They needed the B-17s for escort. Now I just saw this.

@johnbockelie3899

4 жыл бұрын

For a long time U-505 was an outdoor exhibit. Glad to see she's inside.

The German crew is justifiably happy in that video - submarines were nearly always lost with all hands in a horrible way to go.

@lucianene7741

4 жыл бұрын

That's because they didn't realize the boot was captured intact, enabling the destruction of countless of their comrades.

@whiskeybuilder6335

3 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of educational videos and footage taken of the battle and capture of the sub. They said that the mortality rate of u-boat sailors was 75 percent! That means only 1 in 4 survuved..Ugh.

@Pow3llMorgan

3 жыл бұрын

@@whiskeybuilder6335 Roughly 40.000 German submariners went to sea, only about 10.000 came home.

@whiskeybuilder6335

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pow3llMorgan My God. A foot soldier had much better odds.

@Pow3llMorgan

3 жыл бұрын

@@whiskeybuilder6335 Their odds were terrible, especially from 43 till the end. Of note however; more than 30.000 (of a rough total of 175.000) merchant sailors also were also lost during the war, so while the uboat campaign ultimately (thankfully) failed, it was at a dire cost.

Really enjoyed this Mark. I see other channels like yours but I don't watch them. You put a lot of work into these video's. They aren't just information about previous military operations they're also part of human history. Thanks for all the hard work and professionalism!

Toured her in 1976. One of the highlights of my family's bicentennial tour of America.

@gearjammergamer8560

4 жыл бұрын

Its all different now. Its enclosed inside the museum. Wife and I went in the late 90's when it was still outside and I was surprised when i took our kids last year that they had built a building around it.

I live in Chicago. I visit her every chance I get whenever I go to the science and industry museum

@nixlad

4 жыл бұрын

Senkan Yamato 🅱️

@at6686

4 жыл бұрын

Thank god this episode didn’t end with, “it was scrapped after the war”

@elbucho8867

4 жыл бұрын

A T yea at least half of the stories end with that depressing note

@Chironex_Fleckeri

4 жыл бұрын

Yes and her exhibit is beautiful. It's modeled like a u-boat pen. She still smells strongly of diesel and it gets hot in there with a small tour group after just minutes. I can't imagine life on that ship. The whole museum is incredible honestly.

@davem5333

4 жыл бұрын

Chicago also used to have a WWII U.S. Navy submarine on display on the lakefront. The USS Silversides. Unfortunately it was evicted from its display location by then Mayor Harold Washington. It is now in Muskegon, Michigan.

It seems that the luck of U-505 had finally turned.... that the sub, Lange and his men, survived the war and intense firepower was short of a miracle...... greetings and thanks, Mark, from Bellows Falls, Vermont

@Jermster_91

4 жыл бұрын

Most of the bad luck the crew on U-505 had was from sabotage when the submarine was in the U-boat pens in France. I highly recommend you check out Steel Boat Iron Hearts: A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505.

@williammorse8330

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jermster_91 will do.... thanks, Jermster...

@centamangila1217

5 ай бұрын

Some of the crew though that the U-505 suffered bad luck due to the U-boat sinking a sailing ship.

Did the tour of this boat on a field trip in high school around 1972 or73. It was the highlight of our trip!

Entering a sinking enemy sub, possibly rigged with timed explosives in order to secure material that could alter the course of the war - that's the epitome of bravery

I met with the original U-Boat crew member (who still maintained the equipment) and was present for engine maintenance on this U-Boat in the 1990s.

This gentleman's output is prolific! Thank you Mr Felton.

My Father was aboard the DE Jenks when the 505 was captured. I still have his Unit Citation Award letter from Pres. Roosevelt. This was one of the only "good" stories he was willing to share. He saw WW2 from start to finish, first on the Battleship Pennsylvania under attack in drydock at Pearl Harbor to spending the rest of the war in the battle of the Atlantic to the end.

@derrinpickett9948

4 жыл бұрын

My mom has a relative that was on the Pennsylvania during the attack. His name was Kendrick "Bud" Wies, from Iowa. I me him when I attended ceremonies for 60th anniversary in Hawaii 2001.

@joeblack4980

4 жыл бұрын

RESPECT to your pops!!!!

@ZAGOR64

4 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was also in WW2, also awarded for bravery but of course, been Italian, it was on the "other" side. He also would share with me only the "good" stories. My respect goes to ALL combatant that endured suffering, death, and losses...regardless of side. Respect from Italy and God may bless you all.

@blogengeezer4507

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZAGOR64 -Family member by marriage, was Italian soldier. In retirement from military, he went back to opera and successful international performances. Not describing the war, even to his children, he passed away quietly, leaving no stories ;

@vinylsp

4 жыл бұрын

My neighbor was on the Arizona Saturday December 6,1941. He wanted to go ashore for church service’s the next day. He couldn’t go until all his responsibilities were fulfilled. He missed five opportunities to go. Finally in the evening, the mail boat came around. He caught a ride with them. The next day, Sunday December 7,1941, he was in a early morning mtg when he heard and felt the explosions. He told me a torpedo entered the area he would have been sleeping in. Had he been there he would have been killed instantly. All of his friends were killed. I wanted to join the marines. He would shake his finger while tearing up and tell me “ you don’t know the horrors of war!” “I pulled the burned, battered, bloody, and destroyed bodies of shipmates and friends from the water. I have felt helpless looking into their dead eyes! YOU DO NOT WANT TO JOIN THE MARINES OR ANY BRANCH OF SERVICE!” By this point tears would be streaming down his aged face. I only mentioned it a few times because I got the same response. Don’t get me wrong, he loved this country with great intensity. He just said wait till they draft you. His name was Gordon Douglas. One of the few survivors of the Arizona, because he wanted to go to church.

When I was in the Navy I went to school at Great Lakes....got to visit this sub...it was a life long memory worth seeing......good video Mark

@Urbicide

4 жыл бұрын

My father grew up in Chicago. In February of 1944, at the ripe old age of 17, he dropped out of Farragut High School, & tried joining the Marines with a friend who was 18. Marine recruiters told him to come back when he was 18. Dad was afraid that the war would be over before he got in to fight the Japanese. He ended up enlisting in the Navy, who decided to send him to Farragut, Idaho for boot camp. Dad's friend ended up in the 5th Marine Division. Charles (Chuck) Hlavaty was Killed In Action, on February 19, 1945, on the island of Iwo Jima during the first day of the US invasion. The 5th Marine Division's assigned landing beaches were the ones closest to Mount Suribachi. Chuck, along with father & mother, had emigrated to the US from Czechoslovakia after Adolph Hitler annexed the country. Chuck was their only child. He is buried in Wooodlawn Cemetery near Chicago.

@russelder9743

4 жыл бұрын

@@Urbicide what a great read....I salute your dad and his friend Chuck...what a generation they were

the problem with engaging the shaft drive while under tow is you have to declutch the engine transmission then just hope the shaft seal bearings dont fry and disintegrate because if they go the sea will come into the hull through the stuffing box otherwise what happens is the boats screw will turn the generators via the shaft and be able to supply electricity for pumps and lights etc. at a time when the batteries may have suffered combat damage which was common.

@artbobik3516

4 жыл бұрын

and if you do not vent the gas from charging the batteries then there will be a very large boom -

Been to the museum several times back when she was outside, looks nice in her new home.

@AECRADIO1

4 жыл бұрын

I walked her probably several thousand times as a child/youth. I knew everything about it, and my mom saw them tow it across Lakeshore Drive.

Thanks for posting this! I grew up in Chicago in the 50's and remember the U-505 well. I toured the boat many times. It is gratifying to see how it is housed now since it had for many years been outside and subject to Chicago weather extremes.

One of my earliest memories of WWII history is going to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and touring the 505. Many years later, some friends I met in Florida (two brothers who were also from Chicago) were telling me how they used to play on the deck of the 505, when it was still berthed outside, next to the Chicago River. One of them used to play with the deck gun, aiming it at boats on the river. When the brothers were caught, the one playing with the gun pushed it down and away from him as he jumped and ran away. He told me he could never again get the gun to move. By the time he got the nerve to go back up and play on the sub again, the gun had frozen/rusted in place. I imagine they got it fixed when they did the restoration and moved the 505 into its current display area. For a while though, it was aiming at the sky.

I live in Chicago and have seen U505, many, many times. It is my favorite exhibit at the museum of science and industry. I will see it again, more than likely. It just astonishing that I have such an awesome piece of WWII history in my backyard. The exhibit is awesome, I highly recommend it.

As a child I saw the U 505 . It was one of the most amazing vessels I’ve ever been on.

Dr. Felton, thank you so much for recalling this bit of history! As a youngster, many times in the 60's and perhaps once in the early 70's, I've been through the U505 as far as the tour guides would let us go (and sometimes further, when they weren't paying attention). For me, going to the Museum of Science and Industry, meant seeing the U505, the Mine and the Train set, in that order. I have not been back in several years (10-20) and thanks to your historic video, I found they have enclosed the U505. Hopefully when I get back to Chicago this year or next, I'll be able to take another tour.

Good to hear the Uboats crew were mostly unharmed. Very few German Uboat crews were that lucky. This is a story which everybody can feel good about.

If anyone is interested in U-505, read Steel Boats Iron Hearts by Hans Goebeler. He was one of the crew members.

@artbobik3516

4 жыл бұрын

then read Blind mans Bluff -

@starfluke

4 жыл бұрын

Goebler and the rest of the crew were held in secret, sequestered from other prisoners, and incommunicado (to prevent the Germans learning of the captured Enigma) in Camp Ruston, a POW camp just west of Ruston LA, my hometown. Growing up there in the 60s I never knew it and only found out half a century later on visiting the exhibit in Chicago which references Camp Ruston. Artifacts are today viewable on the museum floor of the Louisiana Tech Library in Ruston.

@murraybevan1721

4 жыл бұрын

What’s noteable in the Steelboats recounting is how much interpersonal violence there was amongst the Germans

@garybanglebangle7949

4 жыл бұрын

He was a friend of mine.

@toddbrown4935

4 жыл бұрын

I just read that book. Absolutely fascinating. Mr. Goebeler's voice came into my head when Mr. Felton said that the U-505 was an "extremely unlucky boat." We know Mr. Goebeler thought quite differently!!!

I went through her in Chi 52 years ago. she was outside in the weather at the time.

@GrumpyIan

4 жыл бұрын

They moved her indoors about 10+ years ago. They even filmed on how they moved her. You can easily find it on KZread.

@kyleh3615

4 жыл бұрын

I know a few of the guys who helped move her

@1234Testicle

4 жыл бұрын

You Are Correct Sir

@Urbicide

4 жыл бұрын

I got to see her back in the 1960's as a kid, when the sub was exhibited outdoors. They used to sell slices of her anchor chain, sawn from chain links & stamped with U-505, in the museum's gift shop, along with whole links from the chain. The Science & Industry was my favorite Chicago museum.

@todd5082

3 жыл бұрын

Urbicide u might not want to go back and see the museum now. It was my favorite place growing up. Most of all the great exhibits r gone.

You've done it again, sir! You constantly find interesting and rather unknown stories, and breathe life into them as you educate and share them with the world. Thank you for your videos, they teach us all. You are a treasure!

Your channel is a treasure indeed. I've always been in awe of the type of soldier who could climb aboard a sealed target like a submarine or bomber and go off to war. The first time would be scary enough, but the courage to get back on board again is unimaginable. If Fate ever finds me in Chicago for more than a flight change I will stop in to see the U-505.

Mark you make history so interesting and fun!

I’ve been on the 505 there in Chicago. The sub is well worth a visit if u are there. It still has that military metal smell. Hard to describe but some of u know what I’m talking about.

@pauld6967

4 жыл бұрын

Todd Rey, yup and I have to say, there are times when nostalgia makes me wish I could find a spay bottle of that scent to use around the house, LOL,...like those bottles of 'new car smell'.

@ImperialistRunningDo

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's Brasso, or similar polish.

@blogengeezer4507

4 жыл бұрын

-The electrical wiring insulation, for just one aroma, in addition to lubricants, emits the initial chemistry vapors long after the time of original installation. ;

@ThePrader

3 жыл бұрын

Paul D. I went aboard an old USN diesal electric boat as a Cub Scout in Norfolk in 1960-or there abouts. I later served as in the USN and served on CV62, the LPH 7, as a "guest officer" aboard the HCMS Nipigon, along with a navy tug and a squadron of PBR's. Odd. Every USN ship I ever went aboard smelled exactly the same as that old submarine. It was uncanny how they all have the same distinctive but identical smell. If I close my eyes I can smell it still after all these years.

@todd5082

3 жыл бұрын

terry lober I’ve been in a icbm missile capsule as well and it also has a “metal smell” very similar to a sub. U can’t say it’s diesel because I was also on a new navy nuclear attack sub which had a nicer metal smell. Lol

Mark you really are a remarkable contributor to not only KZread but to the knowledge of those of us who have been sufficiently fortunate to have found your channel. I have now taken great pleasure from passing your name on to a number of my friends who I am sure will also enjoy your work. Many thanks and greetings from Australia.

Mark is a treasure for humanity. Sharing knowledge is the most noble thing anyone can ever do. Thank you Mark.

Absolutely great opening music!! Excellent content very educational and entertaining..Great Job Mark!

It may have had an unlucky reputation, but considering it is one of the few U-boats to survive the war and even till today and that almost the entire crew survived, it is a lucky ship in my book.

Again, fabulous! Better than television! Mark’s Documentaries are the best. They are factual and they don’t waste time he gets right to the point. Also the films that he uses are spot on.

Goodness gracious, what an amazing story! A terrifying tribute to the bravery of sailors, friend and foe, above and below the surface. Thank you Mr. Felton for another rare and excellent history lesson!

The best KZread channel! Greetings from Algeria.

I was about to go to bed when this popped up - change of plans... Once again, a great video Mark

Love it, Mark LOVE IT. Get your own show to fill the void that is actual history. So glad I found your channel.

When I was a kid all I heard was how my friends had gone to visit it. I finally got to see it 2 years ago and it was fabulous. I intend to go again soon. Great video... Wonderful story And well presented.

U-505 is the most amazing museum exhibit I've ever seen. If you do it right, you probaly spend 45min going thru the exhibit learning about what led up to the capture, then you round the corner and there she is.

@Jermster_91

4 жыл бұрын

Even better if you read the memoir of one of the crew members on U-505 and then tour it.

mark your herman georing episode was incredible!! mark can you please do a video on the french invasion and capitulation and how vichy was created?

@blitzmakesunevenmm4323

4 жыл бұрын

The scuttling and destruction of the French Navy at port by the British so that they couldn’t be handed over to the Germans would make a good video. Also, that act of sabotage had something to do with it.

@ar4040smith

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, this is something that I think we'd all love to hear your take on it.

Mark, thank you for again providing a well thought out and delieverd war story!

Again a great story told in an again gripping way. I saw the U 505 outside the museum in 1976. Alas also then a too great a cue. Made my dad buy the small book instead. Now you've provided the docu film with more drama info such as the fate of the previous commander & The guts it takes to board a small boat knowing it is a bomb set to go BANG! Thanks.

As always, Dr. Felton delivers! I would love to see a video on how the Canadian first parachute battalion beat the Russians to Denmark in a mad dash across still semi-hostile northern Germany!

@benwilson6145

3 жыл бұрын

They went and captured Wismar on the Baltic riding on the tanks of the Royal Scots Greys

I read about this when I was a teenager, 50 years ago..... USS Guadalcanal, CVE...

Fascinating stuff Mark. Well-researched and very interesting. Thanks.

Once again another excellent upload. Thank you Sir, always interesting ,and informative.

U-571 is an underrated movie, one of my favorite of historical fiction WWII.

@mattkaustickomments

4 жыл бұрын

MrYoungGun yep and it featured Jon Bon Jovi! I’m not making this up.

@davejohnson3474

4 жыл бұрын

@@mattkaustickomments no way ill have to check

@bluef1sh926

4 жыл бұрын

@@mattkaustickomments WHAT? I've watched it like 20 times, often fragments while eating meals and I never noticed.

@mattkaustickomments

4 жыл бұрын

@dave johnson & AliveC4T hahaha! Yes really! What’s funny is I went back to check out the cast and I had totally forgotten McConaughey Harvey Keitel & Bill Paxton were in it- I had only remembered JBJ because he was such an anomaly! He played one of the Lts. I think it was the first time he cut his hair since the 80’s. I actually saw the movie on the big screen and haven’t seen it since.

@jmulchino

4 жыл бұрын

MrYoungGun It might have been entertaining but from an historical accuracy view point it was a laughable piece of crap!

1162 U-boats!? Not a good time to be in the Merchant Navy, or any navy for that matter. God bless the heroes who kept our nation fed, and God bless everyone who fought against tyranny to keep the world free!

@Lensman864

4 жыл бұрын

Define freedom.

@obelic71

4 жыл бұрын

The longest battle in WW2 (battle off the Atlantic '39-'45) cost alot on men, material and equipment. (36.000 sailors lost on 3.500 merchant ships + their cargo!) Those sailors who sailed on the UK and Murmansk routes from the America's are the unsung hero's of that conflict. Winston Churchill knew if he lost the battle of the Atlantic, Britain and the allies would lose WW2 . Even Stalin himself praised the sturdy and loved by the Red Army Studebacker 2.5T Trucks who were brought by those convoys to Murmansk. Those convoys made sure the Allies on all fronts where supllied to win the war.

@ricknagle6980

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lensman864 Liberals out of power.

@benjigray8690

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with every thing you said, and I also feel that all of us lucky bastards, that live in free countries, owe so much to our war veterans, who fought and many paid the ultimate sacrifice so that pricks like Adolf Hitler aren't governing our lives.

@lucasart328

4 жыл бұрын

@@benjigray8690 hahahaha say that again mate

As a child I grew up in Chicago. That U Boat was an easy bicycle ride from my home on 71st and Stony Island. I visited U 505 many times. After moving to Michigan in 63, I took my children to visit it several more times. good video Dr. Felton !!!

Another incredible video. Thanks Mark. I'm supporting you on Patreon.

Finally the U-505. Nice video

Hey I love your vids I hope you can make more content I hope u see this I'm a big fan.

As a Chicagoan, and a person who has visited the U-505 exhibit at MSI, I’m really happy to see the video on how it was captured.

Thank ytou! I have visited the U-505 several times when in Chicago and was fascinated to see the story of its capture!

I hear Mark narrating my dreams 👍

Back in the early 60’s I visited the U505 numerous times when it was mounted outside on its stands. I was lucky to have been born and raised in Chicago. I almost lived in the museum of science and industry and the Field museum of natural history.

Great video, thank you for this amazing story. I only live about 90 miles east of Chicago and have been wanting to go back to the museum and see this sub again.

Keep up the good work Mark . Yep drove 20 hours cross country with wife and three fighting kids to see u505 summer of 2019. Sure glad I did !

The germans had no idea that the U Boat had been captured and the enigma machine taken, both intact , what a huge trophy of information for the US intelligence.

@maconescotland8996

3 жыл бұрын

Gallery received a severe reprimand from Admiral King, with court martial being mentioned, for not sinking U-505 after recovering the enigma material - its capture, rather than destruction, potentially compromised vital Allied intelligence sources on the eve of D-Day.

Over _700 destroyed_ ? Sometimes I forget about the sheer scale of the human suffering of that conflict.

@keithrose6931

4 жыл бұрын

My father was on destroyers (Royal Navy) and had no sympathy for u boat crews .

@SuperCatacata

4 жыл бұрын

@@keithrose6931 Rightfully so. To everyone in the Royal Navy, the U boats were a terror to their supply lines by sinking so many merchant ships.

@carlevans5760

3 жыл бұрын

Three out of four Kriegsmarine submariners-were killed in action.

@ltcterry2006

3 жыл бұрын

75% of the U Boot crews did not survive the war. Highest death rate of anything but perhaps Japanese Kamikaze pilots.

@chucknorris6640

2 жыл бұрын

This is as lucky crew they were captured and by the us navy wich treated their prisoners better

Growing up near Chicago, I toured through the U-505 when I was a kid over 50 yrs. ago. My most memorable thing about going to that museum.

@Urbicide

4 жыл бұрын

The coal mine exhibit was pretty neat too. Shedd Aquarium was fun. The moray eels used to always creep me out.

Spectaculaire Mark, merci pour vos vidéos.

I don't even wear a tie to the office nowadays. Those guys wearing ties while at war on the open ocean? I don't even know what to say.

Great video! Haven’t even finished watching it yet but I know it will be Absolutely amazing. Are you able to make a video on the Night of the Long Knives? I know that’s long before the war but it’s very interesting!

Mark Felton uploads a new video and I rush home after work to enjoy it with a brew. Keep dropping these incredible videos mate, you're doing some incredible work and uploading some of the greatest historical videos I've ever had the privilege to see!

I’m from Chicago and I have visited this before. So cool to know the story behind the boat. If your ever in Chicago the museum is great. Nice video as usual Mark thank you!!

imagine how surprised their families were! "Wait YOU WERE IN A PRISON CAMP ALL THIS TIME???" That could be tricky, "Hi, meet my new husband!" Obviously the captured crews could not communicate home!

@63bplumb

Жыл бұрын

There's a story in that too!

I've been on that ship! It's a really fascinating display in Chicago.

As a kid I've seen n gone thru the U-505. Great memories. Still have the magazine that covers the story purchased at the museum.

I toured the U-505 on a Chicago visit 30 years ago. Amazing bit of history I'll never forget.

Definitely a tale of daring do. One of Germany's most feared weapons went from hunter to hunted. I did read that the casualty rate amongst U-Boat crews was higher the Japans Kamikaze pilots.

@barrythatcher9349

4 жыл бұрын

That's correct. Nearly 75 percent of all U-boat personal never returned. At the start of the movie Das Boat gives the actual figure. According to the short spiel no other armed forces units in WWII Axis or Allied lost so many personal.

@blogengeezer4507

4 жыл бұрын

@@barrythatcher9349 -'Sound of Music', Christopher Plummer was being ordered, sent to sea, as a U Boat commander. Good thing that he escaped ;

Been on the U505 more times than I can count, every time I went to the Museum of Science and Industry I went to the U505.

@Jermster_91

4 жыл бұрын

I hope you have read the memoir Steel Boat Iron Hearts: A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505.

I toured the U-505 at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry in 1958. See it and a Stuka & Spitfire at age 5 ignited a lifelong fascination of WW2 history and technology. Thanks to KZread I'm 68 now and still learn new and startling facts weekly about the war and it's vastness. The worst calamity in all of human history caused by bankers and their politicians. God Bless America 🇺🇸 🇺🇲🇺🇲😃👍

It always makes my day to see content from Mark Felton Productions... Love this channel..!

Mr. Mark Felton thanks for telling this shocking CLASSIFIED information to the public. And thank you for Teaching this amazing information to me.!!😍😍😎😎😎👌🏼👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤝🤝

@donwall9632

4 жыл бұрын

Just like to say its not classified. It was during the war

@skull3374

4 жыл бұрын

@@donwall9632 basically is CLASSIFIED, because 1, it is true that the allied want that u boat so badly but, not capture only to get information. 2 the American for the first time they got a German u boat. And these information is not to show the public, so is CLASSIFIED. But if you say is during the war, I respect your words. I shake your hand like friends. 🤝

@Gromit801

3 жыл бұрын

Hasn’t been classified since the end of WWII.

Mark I've heard there are a number of unaccounted for WW2 Uboats. Rumors abound about some ending up in Antarctica. Thanks for this great story🇩🇪🇺🇸

@spaceskipster4412

4 жыл бұрын

Greta says they'll soon turn up, the ice is melting. 😁

@pauls.3400

4 жыл бұрын

@@spaceskipster4412 You're taking away my childhood 🚀

@spaceskipster4412

4 жыл бұрын

@@pauls.3400 darn it, sorry about that. But apparently all schoolchildren are Climate Scientists now. 👊🏼 (Feeling sorry for the adults that are qualified to refute some of these ideas. 🤔)

@FriedrichHerschel

4 жыл бұрын

I doubt that. Most subs hardly had the range to to get there, and why shoud they even went there in the first place? Those unaccounted for are more likely to be lost due to mechanical failures, accidents & wrong log entries then a crew deciding to defect to an icy land where there is nothing for them to get them through a single winter.

@pauls.3400

4 жыл бұрын

@@FriedrichHerschel You really should take some time & do some research. The accounts of Uboats being seen there are from many reliable sources. Facts outweigh opinions

U-505 is still sitting in Chicago to this day. Its an amazing boat. Last time I went through it I was 5. Man it's been a good long,time since then. That was my favorite museum to visit of all time.

I had the pleasure of touring U505 a few years ago while I was visiting Chicago. Very interesting.

@carlevans5760

3 жыл бұрын

If ever in Germany? tour U 595. That was an experience. Forgot to mention-it's the only type VII-C still in existence. It's on Laboe beach and until his death-it's original Kdt used to conduct tours on that boat. He was Dr. Hand-George Hess. Was also a Knights Cross Recipient. Just a couple miles away in Moltenort-is the German U Boat Memorial. It has a plaque of every U Boat from WWI and WWII lost in action-including the crew's names.