Rare WW2 Footage - Bismarck sinks HMS Hood - No Music, Pure Sound
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My grandfather had served abroad Hood in the 1930’s, having enlisted in 1915 but shortly prior to this clash of the Titans in which Bismarck proved ultimately superior, he had been transferred to Prince of Wales. Talk about lucky, shortly before Prince of Wales left for Asia, they transferred him again, he was a master gunner, as they needed him to train crew. Prince of Wales was sunk by the Japanese with a similar loss of life to Hood
My father was aboard the Prince of Wales in the action against the Bismarck too. He was a signalman and saw Hood going down and he, was also lucky to be transferred to command of a minesweeper in the North Atlantic before PoW left to the far east and was sunk.
What a story. Hope you wrote a book about him.
@@Design_no I think he was featured in a book in the 1960’s as he had several meetings with an author
@@Design_no When the film 'Sink TheBismarck was released in 1960 I was 10 and my dad took me to see it. He was noticed there by a reporter from the local small town newspaper and was interviewed for the paper. I also remember seeing his friend who was on board the Prince of Wales as well, His name was Esmond Knight, who was an actor after the war, and he appeared in the actual film!
Absolutely wild
NOTE....The HMS Hood sank in about three minutes with 1,415 members of the crew. Only Ted Briggs, Bob Tilburn and Bill Dundas survived to be rescued two hours later by the destroyer HMS Electra.
Thank you for sharing this information here. I also have a more detailed video about the "HMS Hood" to honor the men of the ship. ua-cam.com/video/_s4xp5mn4b8/v-deo.html
How the heck did they survive in the North Atlantic for two hours?
😳😅
@@tyree9055It’s weird to me that you ask this question as if you don’t believe it. They did. Probably out of pure will and adrenalin. It’s amazing that anyone survived at all.
@@tyree9055It was in may, so probably cool enough
@@Marcolepsie Also, they were next to a giant hot mass sinking and heating the water below them. That and adrenaline.
My Great Uncle Wolf Neuendorff served on the Bismarck as Chief Navigational Officer. RIP all soldiers of WW II.
indeed. But many of the crew of the Bismarck were saved by the Brits.
@@doctorandusB only 115 of 2.200... My Great Uncle was among the fallen...
. @@_friedieOf course that was a tragic loss for your family and I am sorry for them and for your great uncle. There is no joy in killed soldiers and seamen.
@@doctorandusB Thank you. You're absolutely right.
@_friedie they might have saved more if there hadn't been reports of U- boats operating in the area.
Thanks for not adding music, this is an authentic event that happened where many sailors lost their lives in a matter of a few hours.
Film cameras didn’t have the ability to record sound back then the sounds in the video are added.
@@davemclaughlin8625 - the colors are fake, too. "Improved", well. That's not how I see it.
Top marks for no music raw sound If you have more please do share.
@@davemclaughlin8625 The first talkie was developed by 1927. The Hood sank in 1941.
This is so eerie and unsettling, especially given we know the outcome. Imagine the frantic efforts during the battle on all ships. RIP to the brave men of the Hood.
Rare indeed
Not often mentioned, but Bismark's forward looking radar had failed during the night. Because of this, Prinz Eugen took the lead ahead of Bismark. It is believed that in the failing light and because of their similar profiles, HMS Hood mistook Bismark for Prinz Eugen when the engagement began. HMS Hood assumed that Prinz Eugen would be the trailing ship and that HMS Prince of Wales would engage the leading Bismark.
Very true. It is doubtful that Hood ever fired at Bismarck, but had mistakenly fired at Prinz Eugen during the engagement. Prince of Wales spotting officer was focused on Bismarck throughout and reported he only saw his own rounds fall, none from Hood.
@@markzerkle1899POW also landed several hits on Bismarck before Hood was hit, with one rupturing Bismarck’s forward fuel tanks and damaging bulkheads, causing Bismarck to have to slow down and abort her mission. Had POW not had to turn sharply to avoid the burning wreck of Hood, there’s a good chance she could have kept hitting Bismarck until she caused much more severe damage.
How does one confuse a cruiser and a battleship? There's quite a size difference, no?
@@thecaynuck Distance, weather, light and camouflage make recognition and target acquisition harder. Also the previous day the Bismark had been spotted in the lead with Prinz Eugen following but they had switched places during the night due to the Bismark's radar failing which the British were unaware of until after the battle commenced the following day. Heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen is rather big, not as big as Bismark but big enough that in low light at distance she can be easily mistaken for a battleship.
I’d read that bismarcks first salvo knocked out his own radar and that’s why the ca had to take the lead.
Naval gunnery is just insane... These 2 ships are lobbing one ton projectiles at moving targets at distances measured in miles.
Over 3500 sailors died within days of each other from the Sinking of the Hood and the Bismarck. Brave Souls. RIP
😂😂😂
@@kiranrajsuvarna2670 What's funny about it mo*on?!
They died as heroes. Imagine what they would think looking at Britain today.
@@mcmarkmarkson7115yup nowadays it's the patriots who are insulted as fascists by lefties who are indeed the true nazis
@@mcmarkmarkson7115They'd have surrendered to the Germans
Wow, like traveling back in time- those Bismarck guns were LOUD!! Thanks for this..
the audio is edited in. They would be louder.
At the going down of the sun - and in the morning - we will remember them - RIP to the fallen, from a veteran.
Incredible. I had no idea that this battle had been filmed.
I actualy met someone who served on HMS Hood talked for hours one night who wasn't on duty on that trip. It's strange but even today understandable that all that took part on both sides whether by ship or air there is still a respect with no real joy but a kind of awe and respectability. Whether Prinz Eugen which took 2 Nuclear bombs to sink it and it still survives to Fairy Swordfish Bi-planes that actually messed with the Bismarck's steering. Which ever side they served their Country with their lives. They should all be remembered.
no nuclear bombs until August 1945...
I met a surviving veteran at a swap-meet once, who was a merchant seaman in Convoy PQ 17: "On 27 June 1942, the ships sailed from Hvalfjörður, Iceland, for the port of Arkhangelsk in the Soviet Union. The merchant ships were attacked by Luftwaffe aircraft and U-boats and of the 35 ships, only eleven reached their destination". He was still traumatized by the event in 2004, I think he lost a lot of people he knew, he must have been a very young man also.
The bravery gets respected, but not the cause.
That is the attitude of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has revoked all campaign medals and awards given by the previous regime, except awards given for personal bravery.
A couple of those got the chop, too. One was the Golden Sunburst of the Iron Cross, the highest rank, higher even than Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.
Previously, only Blucher, from Napoleon’s time, had ever been awarded this. Goering awarded it to himself for his magnificent contribution to the Fall of France. This got on the nerves of several different people, for different reasons, and the new government revoked it.
@@bigbearhugebear9018 They were atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At end of WW2 Prinz Eugen was captured intact and became USS Prince Eugen and served in Vietnam. When decommissioned she was sent to Bikini Atoll for the H-bomb tests and survived two of those.
@@bigbearhugebear9018Prinz Eugen was sunk after the war in nuclear testing done by the US.
The sound is thunderous, if that was the sound at that distance, what would it be like to be on the same ship and hear those 8 380mm guns fire at the same time?
Simply amazing
There was no sound on the actual recording. This has been edited in.
Probably not amazing
The first Korean War veteran I ever met was an AA gunner onb the Iowa. THe only story he told me was the day he forgot his plugs. “One of the 16 inchers, let a rip. I had not heard, nor have I since heard a louder noise than that, and I’m pretty sure that’s part of the reason I’m going deaf.”
The original recording had no sound. However an engineer on Prinz Eugen did record the battle using his own audio equipment, independnt of the War Correspondant who shot this footage. For years the separate audio was thought lost, but eventually it was discovered and the two married up through editing.
Overpowered... these ships
Blew out their sensors and often windows
Very impressive. I have seen several still photographs of the engagement but not an actual film. Thank you.
Insane to think how many men aboard the hood and bismark died. The german ship was hit for 90min straight by the british warships when they caught up.
It's funny to know that it might take them much less time if they kept distance instead of shelling it so close. That's why Rodney's shells penetrated Bismarck's thick armor only 2 times.
@@Madmiata79 why?
@@RicoJuan1998To prevent a repeat of Hms Hood.
@@RicoJuan1998 The angle of the decent from a distance would hit the top of the decks. Unlike the British, the Germans had disciplined powder control and storage. The top deck was the thinnest, shortest route to a powder magazine. The side angle had too much armor to penetrate that deeply.
@@ROLtheWolf you're getting confused with WW1 Battlecruisers
This is so unbelievably incredible to watch. To think that such footage actually is real and exists all these years after, you just have to take a step back and watch history in motion. Absolutely stunning. May all those who gave their lives on all sides during the second world war rest in peace.
I never heard about existing footage of the event in my entire life
@@pierluigiadreani2159 what do you mean?
The sound is faked in. Original film had no sound.
just so a few greedy bankers could get rich
Yeah me neither. I'm a bit sceptical it's actually from the real battle.
Who has not heard of this great sea battle with the two big hitters of the time. HMS Hood, and the German ship Bismarck. such a tragic loss of human life, They fought and died for their country doing their duty. I wonder what those souls would make of our Country today ?.I'm sure they would be very disappointed to see where we are today.
They would be mightily impressed. Despite media and common misunderstandings, we live in the best conditions ever lived, with democracy throughout the world, with the proportion of those killed in conflict and war the lowest in human history, with the ability to communicate at will with anyone else in the world, the ability to travel anywhere we like, and we have the best individual wealth, highest living standards, and longest life of any person every who ever lived before us. We have a lot to be grateful for, including being thankful of all those before us who endured unbelievable hardship, and yes, who died the most terrible of deaths.
Cheer up. Your living in a Wonderful time to be alive in human history.
Speaking from a purely political sense you are correct.
What, as allies?
Like all wars the only ones who really benefit are the tin pot dictators who run countries and the arms industry , now they even sell out there people.
Even though the sound was added and not really from the battle it really brings old footage like this to life. The coolest thing ive seen that had sound added to it is that ww1 documentary "they shall not grow old". That on top of color and stabilization and added frames made it as close to a time machine as you can get and honestly it was extremely enlightening to see those men (boys) from over 100 years ago in the same light you see people today instead of just shakey, blurry black and white figures you cant really emotionally connect with. I watched that not too long after listening to dan carlins blueprint for Armageddon podcast and the two of those things made ww1 so much more of a reality in my mind than i ever saw it before in ways i cannot explain. For anyone who hasnt heard Carlins podcast or watched that documentary theyre a must for anyone interested in war history. I'd suggest the podcast first which will make you appreciate that documentary far more
You built a warship to fight, you sail it to fight, you start battle to fight. So it can be sunk by fight. Everything works as expected.
That is illogical (Spock)
@@StevenLubick Why ?
You must be some kind of Einstein to get to this conclusion
@@naughtyUphillboy coz I SAY SO
@@naughtyUphillboy This was a poor attempt at humor. If you didn't find it funny I was not try to insult anyone.
Wow, never saw that footage before. Thanks for posting.
First time I saw this film of Bismarck firing her guns during her battle. That is deafening!!! RIP to the fallen on both sides. They were brave men only doing their duty.
My uncle was also transferred from the hood to the Prince of Wales, sadly he was killed when the ship was attacked.
My Great uncle got transferred off HMS HOOD a couple of weeks before it took on Bismarck he was never the same because he lost All his friends and had survivers guilt because he didn't want the transfer but it saved his life also My Uncles brother got killed on HMS Hood the only time he went to church was remeberance Sunday NEVER missed. HMS HOOD led the charge for the Bismarck,HMS Prince of Wales should of been in front of HMS Hood because HMS Prince of Wales had heavy armour plating as where HMS Hood had light Armour plating . If HMS Hood had survived the War she probably would of been saved and preserved. R. I.P to All who lost there lives on HMS Hood 🙏R.I.P to those Soul's who died on Bismarck 🙏
Old men do the deciding....Young men do the dying. 😢
If memory is correct, Prince of Wales was still being fitted out in this battle. And it had some problems with its main guns.
Uncles brother? You mean your other uncle? Or your father?
whilst POW had the better armour there isn't a huge difference between them. Hood was very well armoured it was just a lucky shot to the magazines which got the better of her.
Maybe Hood would have been where Belfast is today. Sadly she probably would have been scrapped though.
This was a crazy encounter. The Bismark ruled only for a short time. As aircraft came of age when the aircraft carrier turned the tide on surface vessels. The poor men on both these ships suffered greatly. At least with the Hood I'd like to think they went quickly.
Even getting obsolete string bag biplanes in to the air near to these once mighty ships was the end of them.
@@michaeld5888I've read that the Fairy Swordfish was so slow that Bismark's AA gunners couldn't judge their speed in order to hit them.
My father worked on modifications to the hood. Said he wired lights in magazine area. The conduit had to be bent close to the bulkheads to prevent anyone hanging things from the electricity tubes...
You can clearly see the inacurate opening salvos of Hood well ahead and aft of Bismark, using the slow and fatally time losing Royal Navy technique of stradling the target.
Using the Ziess optical range finding system Bismark opened up very accurately almost on target with her first salvos. This was referenced by Esmond Knight, who was fall of shot spotting for Hood, from his position on the bridge of Prince of Wales.
Mr Knight said the first falls of shot from Bismark on Hood were "far too close for comfort."
Having "disposed of the Hood, Bismark turned her devastating fire power on Prince of Wales and a 15 inch shell from Bismarck passed directly through Prince of Wales' bridge killing everyone except the Captain , a couple of other crew" and blinding Lt Esmond Knight RNVR.
In the film Sink the Bismark (clip available on You Tube), Knight (an actor before WW2 ) actually was asked by the Director to act the role of Captain of the Prince of Wales, and duffle coated in the film on the bridge of the Prince of Wales removes the binoculars from his blind eyes having watched the destruction of Hood. Immediately after this moment he was blinded in the real action .
For all its problems with its untried main guns not working a lot of the time, the POW scored 3 good hits on the Bismark There was the one forward which flooded compartments and cut off its forward fuel tanks, then there was one underwater amidships which shook up a boiler so much it had to be shut down, and finally there was one near its hangar which damaged the catapult. This prevented them from flying off their spotter plane with the ship's log when they knew the game was up.
@@mudball220 Bismark got hit by a relic of an biplane the called a Swordfish which hit Bismark's rudder. Making its fate just a matter of time before almost half the British Navy caught up to the ever circling Bismark.
@@ag4allgooda relic? The Swordfish entered service only 3 years prior to the outbreak of WWII. That’s only 2 years before the Spitfire. Arguably an old fashioned design but it was nonetheless a modern aeroplane which in service outlived others that had been intended to replace it.
@@adriancash7063 The bi plane is a Relic because the British had no other Torpedo planes at the outbreak of the War ! Every innovation in aviation NEVER involved a BI PLANE design. The Jet propulsion developed by Germany & continued by other allied countries never involved BI Planes which was a WW1 design !
@@ag4allgood that “relic” was responsible for sinking more tonnage of axis shipping than any other single allied aeroplane in WWII. However you describe it, it was an incredibly effective airframe hence its length of service. The irony is a faster monoplane design would have been far more vulnerable to Bismark’s AA fire and therefore less effective. It’s highly likely that its design (giving it excellent low speed handling) was actually responsible for allowing it to operate in weather conditions in the North Atlantic that would have kept later designs grounded. The fact is it was old fashioned but I don’t see that as relevant or important either to its role or effectiveness.
Drachinfel did a great video explaining that the speed Hood was travelling at created a wake at the rearstarboard side that exposed the area below the Armoured belt (at the rear )which was penetrated by a shot from Bismarck. Go watch as its quite revealing.
His theory is actually no more likely than the one regarding a lucky penetration of Hood's deck armor- and the latter one has since been shown to be not possible. No eyewitness account specifically states that a round landed near Hood amidships just seconds before the deflagration began.
In a post- battle interview at Scapa Flow, Captain Leach (who was looking directly at Hood when the disintegration of the ship began) and Commander Lawson of Prince of Wales both stated that flash and fire from exploding UP ammunition sunk Hood. Penetration of the ship's ventilation arrangements from either an open hatch or trunk (which had been ordered closed) or from battle damage could have allowed both flash and fire to reach either the 4" magazine or the after 15" magazine. Ted Briggs (who agrees with Leach and Lawson) also suggested the possibility that flash or fire penetrated the floor of a 15" gunhouse.
The second board of inquiry concluded that the 4" magazines deflagrated first. Eyewitness accounts showed that 'that' deflagration was already in progress (observed emanating from the engine room ventilators) before any supposed shell from, Bismarck hit Hood. This is clear evidence that the ship's ventilation arrangements were somehow penetrated.
the channel Drachinfel does an amazing job of describing this action
@@manilajohn0182 "ventilation arrangements were somehow penetrated" Yes, by a shell, striking under the belt armor, due to the wake leaving it exposed... Like Drachinifel explained in his video. Sigh.
@@mazdrpan4099 A warship's ventilation system passes through armor decks. In Hood's case, the engine room ventilators passed through them to openings on the main deck.
Rather than just listening to videos, you should read about the ship. This is one of three theories on how Hood was sunk which is still viable.
@@manilajohn0182 Are you suggesting plunging fire penetrated armor deck?
This footage is simply incredible. I never would have guessed this would have been available. Unbelievable to also have sound..!! What an amazing find!
I think the sound is added in today, but it's well done. So eerie
Whaou !! 😲image d archive incroyable merci 🙏pour le partage
Amazing - and in colour too! there have been many TV docus about but none I have seen with this film.
A ship that was 20 years old and a ship whose design was 20 years out of date.
That shell hit so hard it reversed the ocean 1:43
That's actually the side where prince of wales and hood were positioned and if you noticed a big black smoke that's hms hood after being blown out
This is just a small part of the complete 12min film. The film was recorded aboard the Prinz Eugen during Operation Rheinübung.
Finally some quality footage without stupid music or commentary all over it. The video shows how intimidating that firepower sounded.
Chilling.
Thank you.
☮
Amazing, thank you
If every you get a chance to read the book about The Mighty Hood it's worth a read. The stories regarding pre war sailing are fascinating.
Also, The Sinking of the Bismarck by William L. Shirer.
Many of Hood's crew came from the south coast of England. My family lost 5 members when she went down.
Wow, terrible.
A elderly lady lived down the road from me when I was a kid in Canberra Australia in the 1970’s , Mrs Baker , her husband was an officer that went down with the hood
@@pauly2505 She may have remarried by then of course but if she still had her husbands name then there were three 'Bakers' who went down with Hood. Andrew (Ordinary Seamen), George (Stoker) and Kenneth (Petty Officer Telegraphist)
@@Snowdog2711 her name was Catherine Baker , not remarried , her sons were navy and may merchant seaman, I was only 5 years old when I knew her , my mum used to clean her house, I was friends with her grandson Nikki that lived with her
Der Freund von meinem Vater war auf einem Hauptgeschützturm der Prinz Eugen dabei. Nach dem Krieg war er Bäcker bei Bahlsen in Barsinghausen. Ein Mann über uns in der Wohnung war Funker der Landmannschaft der Bismarck, er wäre an Bord gegangen falls einer der Bordfunker ausgefallen wäre. Seine Tochter heiratete den Sohn eines Hoteliers, im Krieg Lancaster Pilot, aus Südengland auf irgend einer Insel lebte der.
After The Marine barracks was blown up in Beirut, they brought in the New Jersey with her 16" guns. I was on a Frigate in the battle group and was able to hear shells weighing as much as a VW beetle being accelerated above the speed of sound for some payback. Impressive is the shock wave from the muzzle that you feel as well as hear. This Ifilm I thought really captured that well.
Awesome , that's great , actual footage , don't think I've seen it before , thanks for sharing !
That is amazing footage ! Very clear too. Counting 9 salvos from the Bismark with the last salvo it looked like the Hood was already gone shrouded in flames & smoke. I remember watching as a kid Family Classics seeing " Sink The Bismark " with Frazier Thomas doing a historical introduction before the film ran.
The salvoes were Hood firing 5 times, and failing to hit Bismarck. Normal British gunnery…
@@cwcsquared Normal British gunnery…??...how u know
@@TheBlueCream I’m a student of military history, over the last 65 years studying
not sure what you have studied but sounds like you might have mixed up Dr.Seuss with actual history books..@@cwcsquared
@@gocatoon4591 take a hike
I know today is all about missiles but man those big guns had a charm and magic to them. And their sound is terrifying.
A terrorific sound of 8 380 guns but a amazing sound
Crazy to think the catastrophic explosion was probably something similar to the Beirit explosion a couple years ago.
Probably bigger. The biggest of all was probably when the Yamato blew up. Have you ever seen the photo of that, taken by one of the American planes, I believe.
Steel leviathans in action.
No missiles or drones. Only armor and the ultimate power of guns! Pure horror.
As a German American - It's so hard to believe in a literal instant - Hood was Gone.
The shock Britons must have felt can only be akin to what Americans felt when the U.S.S. Arizona was blown up at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. Battleships were still considered by many at that time as the most-powerful vessels afloat, and according to some, all but unsinkable.
The end of the age of battleships was a shock to everyone. Aircraft and aircraft carriers were rising in influence, but the "battleship admirals" in navies the world over still held enormous influence, and their dominance was not ended at a single stroke, but a series of them in which modern weapons like aircraft and radar played key roles.
Air-power mavericks like General William "Billy" Mitchell in the U.S. and elsewhere may have shown that capital ships were vulnerable to air attack in training exercises, but it took actual losses during wartime to change minds more-permanently. The successful surprise attack by the British Fleet Air Arm against the Italians at Taranto; the role of aircraft in finding and crippling the Bismarck. The Japanese successes at Pearl Harbor and in the Far-East, sinking the Prince of Wales and Repulse, and so on.
Submarines, too, played their role in exposing the vulnerability of battleships. The sinking of the HMS Royal Oak at Scapa Flow on October 14, 1939, by Günther Prien and U-47. The sinking of HMS Barham, November 25, 1941... by U-331. German battleship Tirpitz was not sunk by submarines, but heavily damaged by miniature subs and ultimately sunk by RAF Lancasters carrying 12,000 lb. "Tall Boy" or "earthquake" bombs. Although a different class of ships, aerial and sub attacks against carriers also sealed the fate of battle-wagons, too, since they confirmed just how decisive these modern weapons were.
If you like naval history of WW2, please consider reading "Japanese Destroyer Captain," by former IJN Captain Tameichi Hara. Hara was famous for his command of a number of Imperial Navy destroyers, but he finished the war in command of the Yahagi, a light cruiser which sortied with the giant Japanese battleship Yamato in its final one-way mission against the U.S. fleet and landings at Okinawa. Hara's vessel had been sunk, and he and some other survivors were already floating amidst the wreckage and flotsam of their vessel when Yamato was suddenly engulfed in a huge explosion and mushroom cloud whose height reached 3.7 miles high, an cataclysm visible from the Japanese mainland island of Kyushu 99 miles away. The massive explosion was one of her forward magazines detonating.
With the death of Yamato, not only did the Imperial Japanese Navy cease to exist, as well as Yamato herself, but it also marked the final end of battleships as first-line weapons of naval warfare. The end of an era.
Sink the bismarck was the battle cry that shook the 7 seas
That is amazing footage. None of the return fire from the Hood appears to get close to the Bismarck.
the fact that you can see hood explode and see shells hitting the water is just a fucking historical masterpiece, i dont think theres really been in depth footage like this from historical conflicts of this matter.
I recall reading or watching an doc. about the Bismark, apparently during Sea Trials, that back up steering was poor. that what lead to the sinking of the Bismack , steering damage
Imagine being on a Japanese held island and hearing and seeing the pre invasion bombardment from the 14 and 16 inch guns of the older battle wagons that were recovered from pearl harbor. I would have given up with the first Salvo. Although later on in the war, the bombardment did little against islands that afforded places to dig tunnels.
Wow can't believe you found this footage
Amazing video... the sound of Denmark Strait Battle....
An old boy who lived down the road from me as a kid was taken off Hood due to hearing loss the day before she sailed on her fateful voyage.
Thank you that was interesting.
impressive footage
a one in a million hit of the magazine was the end of the Hood.
Not taking anything away from Bismarck which was a very impressive battleship.
Bismarck 51800 tons 8 X 15 inch guns
Iowa class 57540 tons 9 X 16 inch guns
Yamato class 71659 tons 9 X 18 inch guns
The three biggest battleships of all time.
Imagine getting into a fire fight with the Yamato. What a monster.
Amazing footage! Unbelievable
This is something else. I don't think there are words enough to sum up this video, or how we should see it.
But all the same, Rest in Peace to all those killed on the Hood and Bismarck.
I have seen documentaries on TV but without this live footage. I wonder how this could appear after so many years
My thoughts too. For that reason I'm sceptical it is authentic. I'm witholding judgment until I know more about where this footage came from and why it didn't surface earlier.
If the sound of those guns didn't give you the shivers I don't know what would.
The sound of Coming death...
After the loss of HMS Hood the sailors on Bismark knew their days were numbered. The British would do anything to avenge Hood.
Rest in peace to all the sailors who are on forever patrol. From all nations.
The film is nothing short of amazing.
My Grandmother's brother survived 5 years serving in the navy. Then after the war he was repairing the roof on a London Church which was damaged during the war. He slipped and fell to his death. Tragic to have survived all those years and then that happen.
That's so very tragic in every sense of the word. Something similar happened to a man I knew some years back. His son who was in the army did several tours overseas in Iraq during the war, and survived without a scratch, only to come home and get on with life to be killed in a hit-and-run accident not long after.
Wow. Thanks.
unbelevbable fotage - thank you
The brother from my grandfather was on the Bismarck. H. Nissen was his Name!
He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas
Friends, the sound was expertly added, as the original film had no audio track. Even so, what an amazing glimpse of the finest men giving their all for their fellow countrymen, but alas.! Needlessly.
Brothers wickedly stirred-up against Brothers by foolish & evil men who truly cared nothing, except someone else pay their debt & die in their stead.
Spoken wisely. I don't recall ever hearing someone say they were interested in going to war. I don't get out much I suppose. This world is insane and addled beyond comprehension. Just ask the Rothschild's, Rockefeller's, etc etc....don't just follow the money. Follow YOUR money, see what good it's done as our way of life is threatened and pushed closer to the edge. What a shame. Didn't "the rest of the world" call the USA the great social experiment? Happy to say I've been a part of it, nothing is perfect. Including wars.
See my reply above. The soundwas recorded separately by an engineer of Pirnz Eugen, thought lost for many years but has since been married up with the original footage shot by the War Correspondant and the two married in.
A standard line taken by neo-Nazis, who blame the war , not on the Party,, but on the You Know Whos.
One of the worst places to be when destruction happens is out at sea, may God be with you 🙏.
British battleship design of the 1930s risked thinner deck armour for increased speed. Bismark opted for one less turret, longer range gunnery for plunging fire and better armour. When Hood was lost, many in the Admiralty said that it had to happen eventually. This was not lost on the Japanese who took on Force Z with dive bombers instead of torpedo planes that finally made such battleships redundant except as artillery platforma for amphibious operations.
HMS Hood wasnt sunk due to thin deck armour, why does this myth still persist.
@@PotatoSalad614 Well, the shell from the Bismark penetrated to the C Turret magazine. Thats what blew up.
@@TechnikMeister2 HMS Hoods main turrets were A,B,X,Y
@@PotatoSalad614 X Then.
Amazing, never seen this footage
God, each volley is a goddamn thunderstorm. Really demonstrates the sheer power of these behemoths.
😮 this is one of the most famous military battles of all time
This is incredible Historical Footage!!
Incredible footage! RIP, Gentlemen. You fought a valiant battle against a greater foe.
Hood was awesome, but, battle cruiser vs. battle ship, not fair odds. God Bless the men of the Hood
A greater foe ?
Bismark 50,000 tons. 8 - 380mm. Prinz Eugen 18,750 tons. 8-203mm
HMS Hood 46,680 tons. 8-381mm. HMS Prince of Wales 45,380 tons. 10-356mm. In displacement and artillery the balance falls on the Brutish side. It was a true tragedy for Lindemann to have an admiral on board. If the opinion of that one, has prevailed,the Prince of Wales would not have seen Singapore
And to think, there was stuff like this from the Bismarck's POV but it all went down with her when the floatplane catapult was damaged and they couldn't be flown to safety.
Beautiful footage.
An iconic moment it the war and naval history.
Incredible 😮
It would be great if you could add some narrative text. For example, and the flashes seen on the deck of the ship (Assuming's that is the Hood) the firing her guns or is she taking hits?
unreal how accurate the Bismarck's guns were here, very few splashes in the water.
Thats just frightening
It is just the Deathly Sound of the Wars, no matter where or when is it.
Awesome,bismark and prinz eugen...🇪🇸👍
Interesting considering the footage was captured minus any audio, as was usually the case for cameras of that period.
Yes, the original film did not have a sound track. That has only been added recently, but it does make for a better video.
Just astounding!
BALTIC SEA BOATS BACK IN THE FOLD AWESOME!
The finest part and most unsettling part to me of this audio, which I know is added but it's a gorgeous touch, is the far off rumbles of the 14 and 15 inch guns hitting water. That shit makes me scared.
Whats really amazing is all this was recorded on film 📽️, something we could only imagine from the stories is revealed in all its insanity.
Drachinifel has posted a well considered theory that Hood was hit beneath her armour belt allowing the shell to get deep enough to detonate the aft magazines. At full speed her wake rises high on the first third of the hull then trough along the final third of her hull. The thin hull is exposed.
He argues that Hood’s relatively thin deck armour would not have made any difference. Shells at the range Bismarck was shooting would not be falling steep enough to get very deep into the ship. It’s unlikely that anything other than diver bomber ordnance would get well into the ship.
HMS Prince of Wales was also hit below the waterline by a Bismarck main gun shell. It stopped by the keel but failed to explode. It had gone in sideways and lost its firing cap along the way.
Those were some badass ships
My Opa was one of the survivors on the Bismarck.
Majestic sound of these war machines when at work...now we had missiles and drones
There appear to be shells visible fired by Bismark at 0:44, and a hit on Bismark amidships at 1:00 immediately after the first shell splash, although it might have been the secondary battery.
Secondary battery
I can't imagine being on a boat that sinking in the middle of a very very cold ocean,, and then having to jump into the water or even in a boat hoping somebody will find you?😮
Boat. Go in the water, it’s all over. Hypothermia.
In the US, any merchant seaman who served in the Atlantic is counted as a combat veteran. It was a hell of risk.
@@HooDatDonDarThe only battle of the Second World War that lasted from 3 Sep 1939 to 8 May 1945 was the Battle of the Atlantic. It was the longest continuous military campaign of the Second World War.
its a SHIP!! NOT a goddam Boat!
@@georgemorley1029- It was the most-pivotal engagement of the war, arguably. Everything pivoted around it, especially during the earlier to middle years of the conflict. During the years when Britain fought the Axis powers alone, she was utterly dependent upon trans-Atlantic convoys for everything from foodstuffs to petroleum, oil and lubricants to machine tools and parts.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill later revealed that the only time during the war when he was genuinely in fear for the survival of his country was during the worst days of the Battle of the Atlantic, when it looked as if the U-Boats would strangle Britain's lifeline.
The Soviets, no less than the British, depended on convoys reaching Murmansk and other ports to deliver supplies desperately needed by the war effort against the invading Germans and their allies after June, 1941. Although Stalin would not admit to it publicly during the war years, during the 1990s when in the post-Cold War era heretofore sealed Soviet archives were opened to western scholars, we learned that without Lend-Lease, the Red Army would have been defeated by the Germans.
Merchant seamen were the bravest of the brave, if you ask me. Sailing across the U-Boat infested waters of the icy North Atlantic under the worst conditions possible, and with little hope of rescue if their vessels went down, those men did the toughest of jobs without complaint. Many such vessels were unarmed, or only lightly-armed with a few AA guns and maybe a medium caliber gun for anti-ship use, bolted to the upper works. No armor or protection to speak of, and often loaded with highly-flammable cargo.
To add insult to injury, members of the Merchant Marine were not considered combatants at first in the post-war era, and did not receive awards, recognition of their service and sacrifices, or veteran's benefits. However, after years of protest and campaigning, this enormous oversight was rectified and they finally got their just due. Better late than never, I guess.
Every ship In the fleet was deployed after her once she sank the Hood.
Naval battles are so creepy. At first everything seems serene. Just ships cruising in the ocean, some distance apart, hell they could even be on the same side for all we know as the clip begins. There isn't a massive volume of fire being exchanged between them with thousands of rounds flying at any moment. It's just an occasional deafening volley of shells that weigh more than your truck, and they splash at a distance looking almost harmless. But damn, this is terrifying stuff if you know what's happening here. The lazy pacing (compared to land warfare) is really disarming and that makes it infinitely more frightening, because there'd be too much time to think about what's coming your way every few minutes
Die Bismarck hatte minutenlang Feuerverbot, bis Kapitän Lindemann sagte : ,, Verdammte Scheiße, ich lass mir doch nicht mein Schiff unter dem Arsch wegschießen, Feuer frei ! ''
I saw the black and white movie
Sink the Bismark when i was in my 5th standard in school.
Truly spectacular, marvel technology
There is a question raised as to how the three survivors from Hood survived for two hours in the North Atlantic. Since it sank in about three minutes the damage must have been massive so I have no doubt that all three were covered in oil which helped protect them from the frigid water.
Fair point.
This audio track was added a few years ago. The original video has NO audio. The gun sounds are from the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) in 1991 firing her 16 inch batteries for what would be her last time.