The Australian Navy in WW2

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  • @HiddenHistoryYT
    @HiddenHistoryYT  7 місяців тому +5

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  • @claverton
    @claverton 7 місяців тому +11

    My grandfather served in the RAN from 1919 to 1946. He went through WWII fighting in both the European and Pacific theatres on the light cruiser HMAS Hobart aka "The Lucky Ship" shown at 2:38. Pa told me that during the Coral Sea battle the captain would lie on his back on the upper deck with binoculars watching bombs being dropped from Japanese bombers and he'd give calls to the helmsman to dodge them as they fell. In 1943 they copped a Japanese torpedo killing 13 crew. Badly damaged but they limped back to Sydney. Pa told me they selected older guys (such as him, he was in his early '40's by then) to collect what was left of the bodies (ie body parts) because it was thought they could handle it psychologically better than the younger guys. He said it wasn't pretty. The ship's purser was one of the guys blown up so they couldn't open the ships safe (he had the only key to the safe around his neck). Apparently he was sitting on the gunwale smoking a pipe right where the torpedo hit. They had to fly a safe cracker to the ship via flying boat to open it.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  7 місяців тому +1

      Thank you to him for his service, a true hero! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @Leon1Aust
      @Leon1Aust 2 місяці тому

      My father was on at first HMAS Albatross which sailed to Britain before the war to swap it for and pick up HMAS Hobart I and served on her in the Atlantic, Med, Pacific until she was heavily torpedoed put out of action and put into repairs in the Pacific in July 1943.
      He was placed on HMAS Australia till May 1944 and she was kamikazed 4 times thus he returned to the repaired HMAS Hobart I around Feb/March 1945 of which he spent the rest of WW2 on, and was in Tokyo bay for the surrender whilst later being stationed at Kure near Hiroshima for 2 years in the Japanese occupational forces.
      He was a initially a bandsman amongst his more wartime duties and tells me his friend was Athol Guys Father whos son was in a Australian 1960s band called "The seekers" and knew the inventor or son of Cottee's cordial empire ....a certain Mr Cottee.

    • @claverton
      @claverton 2 місяці тому

      @@Leon1Aust Your father would've known my Grandfather. Pa also served on HMAS Australia when they took the Duke of Gloucester back to England I think in 1934. I remember his vivid descriptions of being bombed in Malta when on the Hobart. Ship they were tied up to got hit and had to cut mooring lines with axes to get away from it. I went to school with a couple of the Cottee boys, good guys

  • @patrickmccrann991
    @patrickmccrann991 7 місяців тому +9

    USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Yorktown (CV-5) were not Essex class carriers. They were the lead ships to the Lexington and Yorktown class carriers. The first Essex class carriers were not active until late 1943.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  7 місяців тому

      Appreciate you watching and have a great weekend :)

    • @patrickmccrann991
      @patrickmccrann991 7 місяців тому +1

      @@HiddenHistoryYT Thank you. I found the video very informative, just slightly in error. USS Essex (CV-9) was the lead ship of the Essex class of 24 ships completed during or shortly after World War II and served in the United States Navy for over 30 years. Four of these ships; USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Hornet (CV-12), and USS Lexington (CV-16), survive as museum ships to this day. My father served on USS Intrepid during the Vietnam War from 1968-1971. OSCS(SW) USN RET'D 1978-2002

    • @ronclark9724
      @ronclark9724 7 днів тому

      The Lexington was the first ship of the Lexington class, and Yorktown was the first ship of the Yorktown class. America built Essex class ships with both names after the Battle of the Coral Sea and Midway. The Essex class Lexington and Yorktown are presently museum ships, the Lexington in Corpus Christi, and the Yorktown in Charleston...

  • @ShaneKilpatrick-i4t
    @ShaneKilpatrick-i4t 3 місяці тому +2

    Our military has never been large, but it has always been well trained and equipped.

    • @Leon1Aust
      @Leon1Aust 2 місяці тому

      At the end of WW2 the RAAF was the 4th largest airforce in the world, not bad for a country of only 8 million.

  • @HiddenHistoryGaming
    @HiddenHistoryGaming 7 місяців тому +9

    Brave country!

  • @davec5153
    @davec5153 7 місяців тому +2

    Lexington and Yorktown were at the battle of the coral sea. The Essex carriers were still being built.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  7 місяців тому +1

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @Leon1Aust
    @Leon1Aust 2 місяці тому +1

    My father was on at first HMAS Albatross which sailed to Britain before the war to swap it for and pick up HMAS Hobart I and served on her in the Atlantic, Med, Pacific until she was heavily torpedoed put out of action and placed into repairs during the Pacific in July 1943.
    He was placed on HMAS Australia till May 1944 and she was kamikazed 5 times thus he returned to the repaired HMAS Hobart I, around Feb/March 1945 of which he spent the rest of WW2 on, and was in Tokyo bay for the surrender whilst later being stationed at Kure near Hiroshima for 2 years in the Japanese occupation forces.
    He was a initially a bandsman amongst his more wartime duties and tells me his friend was Athol Guys Father, whos son was in an Australian band called "The seekers" from the 1960s and another navy friend was from the family or son of the inventors "Cottee's cordials"

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  2 місяці тому

      Thank you to him for his service and this comment! Appreciate you watching & have a great weekend :)

  • @markswayn2628
    @markswayn2628 7 місяців тому +1

    Good video. A couple of corrections, the ships in North Africa were called the Scrap Iron Flotilla, not the Iron Scrap Flotilla. The USS Lexington and Yorktown were not Essex Class carriers. There was an Essex Class USS Yorktown, but this was a replacement of the vessel that fought at the Battle of the Coral Sea.

    • @baritonewoman4702
      @baritonewoman4702 7 місяців тому

      There was also an Essex class USS Lexington (CV-16) in 1943 to replace the original CV-2 Lexington that was lost at Coral Sea.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  7 місяців тому

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @MichaelCampin
    @MichaelCampin 7 місяців тому +11

    The Germans called the Austrailian Navy the Scrapiron Fleet not the Iron Scrap Fleet

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  7 місяців тому +2

      Appreciate you watching and have a great weekend :)

    • @trevorlewis847
      @trevorlewis847 7 місяців тому +4

      Scrap iron flotilla get it right

    • @shanerobertson6267
      @shanerobertson6267 6 місяців тому

      @@trevorlewis847going on spud runs to Tobruk

  • @stevekohl5351
    @stevekohl5351 2 місяці тому

    The American carryers were not Essex class but earlier designs.

  • @PaulHumphrey-qo5qn
    @PaulHumphrey-qo5qn 6 місяців тому

    My cousin Ray Mort, a scientific instrument maker, died on "Centaur". The first his parents new of his deployment was the advice pf his death.

  • @RayyMusik
    @RayyMusik 7 місяців тому +2

    10:30 I somehow expected some basic knowledge about carrier classes here.

  • @realamerican7626
    @realamerican7626 6 місяців тому

    USS Yorktown was a Yorktown-class and the USS Lexington was a Lexington-class carrier

  • @markpaul-ym5wg
    @markpaul-ym5wg 7 місяців тому

    Your videos keep getting better and better HIDDEN HISTORY.Reminds me of americans accumulating navy as the war progressed.😊😊😊

  • @haggis525
    @haggis525 7 місяців тому +1

    I'll subscribe, like, comment more, share and hit the all notifications bell.... when you do a history of the Royal Canadian Navy from 1910-1946. It's a cool story! Retired Chief on deck 😎

  • @andrewstackpool4911
    @andrewstackpool4911 7 місяців тому +2

    You haven't mentioned the Battle of Cape Spada, where HMAS SYDNEY sank the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni and severely damaged another, Banda Nere, the role of the RAN units in the Greek campaign. HMAS Kuttabul was lost in an attack in Sydney Harbour by three A-class Japanese midget submarines that entered the harbour. Two were destroyed, the third managed to get away but was lost a short distance along the coast. The shelling by the Japanese submarines did little damage. If blood is the price of Admiralty, then the RAN in WW1, WW2, Vietnam and in peace and war-related operations has paid the price in full. It is a service with a proud heritage and history and, today, stands as ready as then to engage the enemy and protect Australia and those in peril on or by the sea.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  7 місяців тому

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @andrewstackpool4911
      @andrewstackpool4911 7 місяців тому

      @HiddenHistoryYT You too. I appreciate your efforts and hoped do add some more info. We could include Savo Island but will pass for now.

  • @alecblunden8615
    @alecblunden8615 7 місяців тому +3

    Wa re go and, by the way, the V and W's were the Scrap Iron Flottilla.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  7 місяців тому

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @captaccordion
    @captaccordion 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for the video. I must offer a couple of corrections though. Yarra (ship and river) is locally held to rhyme with cat and not car. Australia's Mediterranean ships were referred to as the Scrap Iron Flotilla, not Iron Scrap. And HMAS Kuttabul was torpedoed at anchor by a midget submarine launched from a large submarine, rather than being shelled as the commentary suggests. Cheers.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  7 місяців тому

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @robertmansfield7656
    @robertmansfield7656 7 днів тому

    The Washington naval Treaty meant that HMAS Australia, taken as part of the British fleet and the Authorities scuttled her. Thanks again USA.

  • @EchoesofWarYT
    @EchoesofWarYT 7 місяців тому +1

    Beasts!

  • @srtaylor5340
    @srtaylor5340 4 місяці тому

    The scrap iron flotilla was made up of HMAS Stuart, Voyager, Vampire, Vendetta and Waterhen. All were recommissioned WW1 destroyers from the Royal Navy.

  • @VoicesofWW2YT
    @VoicesofWW2YT 7 місяців тому +3

    brave country

  • @Idahoguy10157
    @Idahoguy10157 2 місяці тому +1

    Japan was invading and conquering everywhere in 1942. Australia had reasons to be grateful for winning at Coral Sea. The knowledge Japan had decided no not invade Australia was only known years after WW2

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  2 місяці тому +1

      Thanks for watching & have a great week :)

  • @clmk28
    @clmk28 7 місяців тому +2

    *Yorktown class

  • @avnrulz
    @avnrulz 7 місяців тому

    In 1938, Japan was already at war with China, not just 'rattling its saber'.

  • @jedicobb1753
    @jedicobb1753 6 місяців тому +1

    Aussie outclassed by the Japanese imperial navy...even the British royal navy ...look at what happened in Singapore ww2

    • @dovetonsturdee7033
      @dovetonsturdee7033 6 місяців тому

      Except, of course that the bulk of the Royal Navy, and most of the Australian Navy, was in the west, or the Mediterranean, at the time. Singapore was invaded from the land, by the way.

  • @Robert-qi6mb
    @Robert-qi6mb Місяць тому

    Australia was that stupid we sank our own flagship.

  • @Joe-jd4pn
    @Joe-jd4pn Місяць тому +1

    Scrap iron flotilla.

  • @glennmay9944
    @glennmay9944 14 днів тому

    Yorktown and Lexington at CoralSea were NOT Essex Class Carriers.
    The iron scrap flotilla was The Scrap Iron Floatilla, Tobruk Was Being Held by the AIF Against Rommel at the time, the siege of Tobruk, British Forces lost Tobruk later after Australians relinquished it to them.
    HMAS Canberra was Sank by The inexperienced US Navy at the time, though this is covered Up, hence USS Canberra, shameful...
    NAVY SIZES at end of War
    US, British, Canadian, Russian, Australian...

  • @Dinodancing283
    @Dinodancing283 7 місяців тому +2

    💪🇦🇺😎 - 🇯🇵😭💀

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  7 місяців тому

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @robertcameron2808
    @robertcameron2808 7 місяців тому +5

    We sank our flagship how stupid now we have 2 aircraft carrier with no aircraft new patrol boat with no weapons only 3 destroyers to defend Australia the navy in worst shape than before the ww2.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  7 місяців тому

      Appreciate you watching and have a great weekend :)

    • @scottcannell5584
      @scottcannell5584 7 місяців тому +2

      Robert Cameron what on earth are you talking about 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

    • @keithmcwilliams7424
      @keithmcwilliams7424 3 місяці тому

      How com the patrol boats have no guns let alone missiles. Unless.😢

    • @ronclark9724
      @ronclark9724 7 днів тому

      Of the two Australian aircraft carriers, the Sydney was more useful as a troop carrier during the Vietnam War than the Melbourne which apparently liked to run over destroyers, American and Australian. The two LHDs presently maybe flat tops, but for ASW and troop carrying helicopters. I do expect the RAN to invest in aerial drones in the future though for both LHDs... Drones are the future... Adding a handful of VSTOL fighters won't make these LHDs aircraft carriers capable of defeating a large Chinese aircraft carrier with ten times more aircraft. Better would be to invest into two real aircraft carriers like HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales...

  • @tarverr.mcknightjr4439
    @tarverr.mcknightjr4439 7 місяців тому +1

    This guy needs to keep his B-s to himself… no one cares about his opinions!!!

  • @PaulHumphrey-qo5qn
    @PaulHumphrey-qo5qn 6 місяців тому

    My cousin Ray Mort, a scientific instrument maker, died on "Centaur". The first his parents new of his deployment was the advice pf his death.