Deep Wading Tanks WW2
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- An overview of deep wading and waterproofing during WW2.
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This is exactly what I hoped for after the DD tank video, nice.
Me too...excellent continuity...top notch...E...
I knew deep wading existed, but your coverage was an eye opener for me. I had no idea about explosive charges.
It almost presaged ERA.
So you must be aware that some vehicles can swim just not aware of "deep wading".
@@ericferguson9989 It almost "a sign of the ERA"? "ERA" not everyone is accustomed to your clique's slang. I am old enough to know what the IRA is, ERA though, no clue.
@@minirock000 Sorry. Explosive Reactive Armour. Boxes of high explosives placed around the tank. When hit, they repulse the HEAT ( high explosive anti tank) projectile.
@@ericferguson9989yay they are common on mbt (main battle tanks) and apc (armored personnel carriers)
Iowa-class battleship, Duplex Drive DD swimming tank, and now Deep Wading DW tank.
I see now, it's a summer-themed upload schedule!
Makes me appreciate the beach a bit better knowing I don't have to worry about escaping from a sinking tank.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq the submariners have my respect too..the Thetis sank in Liverpool bay...then there is the Kursk...those midget subs captured the imagination too..cheers Johnny, keep up with the great work that you do...😊😊😊
@@eamonnclabby7067 Just keeping up the tradition I guess. The first submarine CSS Hunley sank 3 times, including her one mission and killed 21 out of 24 crew.
@@korbell1089 That's the problem with submarines, they have this habit of sinking. Usually at the wrong time.
@@bigblue6917 we have a U boat here at Woodside Ferry in Birkenhead...that one sunk too...
Sherman with wading stacks was supposed to appear durng landing scene in "Saving Private Ryan" (you can see it in the promotional photos) but they cut out the scenes with him. Probably because they contradicted with Miller's conversation with the command about the tanks not reaching the beach.
I only now realize that when looking at the footage of the aftermath of the diepe raid in the past, that i always asumed the Y-shaped frame on the churchills were part of a bobbin system to get them of the beach, but hearing about them beeing snorkels makes a whole lot more sense AND makes me realize the bobbin system i always thinked about did'nt even exist during the raid, but maybe were created AFTER lessons learend from this raid?(hobarts funnies)
Anyway,to make a long story even longer, thanks Johhny!
,made me learn something new today, and thats always a good thing,keep it comming!
I think it was the shingle on the beach that screwed the tanks. The tracks just churned it up and got no traction. They couldn’t move. The issue was that no one had thought to check this before hand!
RIP to all the guys who died from that asbestos paste
yeah
You are really getting the most of that Girls Und Panzer footage
Like it or love it it has a ton of tank animation I can't find anywhere else.
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Man, that means so much to me. Honesty, if I stayed at my current subscriber count, I wouldn't care as long as I have some good people like you appreciating the work. You're right about the AI spam content out there. It's so frustrating. One of the reasons I wanted to try to make a channel that wasn't like that.
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From Tank Boats to Tank Subs. Yup, this was a great video, and perfect to follow up the DD Tanks.
And the bit with GuP made me smile, it never not makes mr smile seeing you use GuP, no matter how brief, in your videos.
The tricky part with the tanks sub was launching the torpedoes. They kept getting stuck in the barrel.
Now the perfect follow up to deep wading would be TLC's/tank landing craft or as yanks called it to be difficult as per usual landing craft, tank (LCT).
Imagine being in a Tauch Panzer 10+ meters below a freezing ice flow covered Russian river, your tank is literally 'dead in the water'. You've got no choice but to bail out and chance the freezing waters, but before you can open the outward hinged hatches you would have to FLOOD the interior of the tank with ice water in pitch black because by then the electrical system would be shorted, and you've got 3 or 4 crewmembers trying to not panic and "wait" for their turn to exit.
That would be a Sucky Day even by Eastern Front standards.
I'm seeing a lot of Canadian Ram II tanks being used a test beds. I know they made it to Europe but never saw combat. Soviet armour used thin snorkels but NATO used the much larger hatch sized ones as crews wanted something big enough to evacuate through, for *_very_* obvious reasons.
The Canadians used the turretless Ram Kangaroos in Europe which meant they could keep up with the Shermans and had similar protection.
In our Axis&Allies Global 1940 house rules we use LVTs as Allied amphibious mechanized infantry rather than an armor class unit. Ze Germans have a similar unit in the Landwasserschlepper and with R&D the Japanese can develop the Su-Ki or even the Type 4 Ka-Tsu which is cool because it can be launched from transport submarines.
Just watched Mach corner in Wales...beyond words...❤❤..
Thanks! Keep 'em coming...you seem to find fascinating subjects this life long military nerd has managed to miss. 😊
johnny is on an amphibious roll, next ones gonna be about landing crafts or amtracks
Yeah. IIRC ... the basic idea - was that they'd have the swimming DD Tanks individually make their way to the beach with the earlier waves of infantry in such as LCVP's.
LCVP's held about 30 guys - or about a Platoon.
These early waves would be getting most of the enemy defensive fire. Thus - if an enemy gun hit a DD Tank - you only lost that tank - but - if an LCM with several non-swimming tanks on board took a hit - you could lose all of them.
After the LCVP's - they had LCI's - which were much more like ships. They had a ships bow - but then they had these two little ramps coming down on either side of the bow.
LCI's held about 180 guys - or about a Company.
If an LCVP took a hit - you might lose 30 guys but if an LCI took a hit - you might lose 180.
So - the idea was - they would have these individual tanks and platoons land - in a more dispersed pattern - so they'd take fewer losses.
After the enemy's defenses had been reduced - they'd have LCI's landing troops with LCM's and LST's landing the vehicles.
It's a mark of how bad things were at Omaha Beach that troops disembarking from LCI's were under fire as they came down those little ramps. That wasn't supposed to happen.
An LST could carry quite a few vehicles and was a Landing *_SHIP_* Tank - which was Ocean Going. It has a flat bottom - that made it a poor sea handling ship - but it was a ship that could sail across the Atlantic and carry a lot of stuff.
The LST's would have the Deep Wading Shermans in them. With that Flat Bottom - the LST could open up it's bow doors and drop a ramp right onto the sand in some cases but you never knew about that water.
The trouble with Beaches - is that sometimes they have sand bars off the beach with deeper water between the sand bar and the actual beach - and - sometimes there are shell holes from the Naval Bombardment creating deep spots.
Thus - even if they are being off loaded from an LST which can get pretty far in towards the beach - you never knew. So - they'd have all the Sherman's that were being off loaded from LST's with their Deep Wading gear - just in case they needed it.
Later on - once the Navy had the beach all figured out. Engineers would have constructed specific spots for the LST's to come in and unload safely - but during the first hours of the landing - that hadn't happened yet and they were still unfamiliar with the beach.
Off Tarawa - they had tanks with no deep wading gear sinking in shell holes that they lost. They had Marines wading ahead of the tank to try and see if it was about to run into a Shell Hole and guide it around them. These Marines were under fire and not all of them survived - but - they had to lead the tank in - if they weren't going to lose it in a hole and they needed those tanks. Deep Wading equipment would have made it unnecessary for Marines to do that.
The vast majority of the Deep Wadding equipment wasn't needed - but - sometimes it was and if you didn't have it when you DID need it - you could lose the vehicle and driving into a water filled shell hole wouldn't do the crew any good either.
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So good to see the constant featuring of girls und panzer, makes me happy, great video aswell JJ
I knew all of this but it was entertaining nonetheless. Thanks for another quality upload.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
The LTV's may have worked well on D-Day, their absence was mostly due to the USMC having priority. They were used with great success in the battle for the Scheldt and river crossings late 1944 - 45.
S-Tank MBT from Sweden also have this technique
Wow I've never seen footage of the Canadian Ram tank before. Thanks for sharing!
Good vid as always
A better option than those Shermans with curtains ... which were curtains for the crews if they leaked. A snorkel may not work in more than a few metres of water, but at least retaining contacts with the ground made them mobile, the weight giving them traction.
And I'll wonder how future tanks can handle themselves in space combat, just like in that AT-TE tactic used on the Battle of Bothawui from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and even a certain mission from the FreeSpace 2 mod Blue Planet: War in Heaven.
And man, saving Rabbit Team from their engine wading problem sure turned the tide on that tournament finale.
Addendum: What the heck happened on that War Thunder clip?
Lady is not allowed to complain if someone flips her food table
Great vid gonna wait for the m16 in a few months right?
I believe it has been suggested before but I’d love a video on the Krag-Jørgensen!
Okay you got it!
Captain! Submarine at 3 O'clock! (if you only knew how bad it really is)
That asbestos paste seemed to work really well. Wonder why we stopped using it?
Miss swimming man? Interesting topics, thanks. See ya for the next one.
Johnny, I haven't found one, so out of ignorance I'll ask...would you consider doing a video on self-propelled anti-aircraft guns...either side?
I'd be particularly interested in the Wirbelwind flakpanzer.
Stridsvagn 103 (Strv 103) was a swedish tank that i think had the funniest amphibian mode. I recomend looking it up, its also just a pretty neat tank in general.
The ORIGINAL mighty ducks!!!
now i wonder if we will see some recent use that was not from training
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I've always found it crazy that the Tiger was designed with a snorkel
Are you considering doing a video on Germany’s last ditch weapons during ww2? Mainly the Volksturmgewehrs and the MP-3008?
Yeah I'm curious as to how dangerous that asbestos paste was to those soldiers applying it with their bare hands.
Imagine being in a Churchill and finding out that the beach in Dieppe was small, loose rocks that sucked heavy tanks down to their bellies, rendering them into immovable, juicy targets.
Love the videos
0:21 that tank is a Cromwell B the British tank
"Deep Wading" "Deep Wading"
LVTs were actually used in ETO during the Rhine River crossings into Germany. Cheers!
Fascinating
Look at em just swimming in that asbestos paste
When you look at all the effort the Allies put in to getting their troops ashore there are times when all you can do is sit there in amazement. And all that equipment. King George VI said just before D-Day that the only thing which was stopping southern England from sinking was all those barrage balloons.
Several years later the amphibious assault vehicles were created.
is this where the channel logo came from
3:24: Little sadists. 🤣🤣🤣
3:00 can you imagine trying to swim out of a tank under 492 feet/ 150m of water. Im not a swimmer so its hard for me to visualise but I imagine you'd need pretty big lung capacity
Why dont you make a video one the carl gustav?
Will you do a whole video on Landing Vehicle Tracked (lvt)?
Absolutely!
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq they still needed to have used the LVT in D - DAY more to at least give the troops a chance
Now, how is that jagdpanzer IV going?
Mmm asbestos paste, my favorite
Take cover! =)
How many mesotheliomas were seeded by asbestos paste? Maybe the fibres weren’t airborne so it wasn’t as bad?
I rather use a dukw amphibious truck instead and use that big boy for everything
3:39-4:02 where is this from? A movie?
Asbestos paste. Delicious and nutritious.
They do exist amphibious type of vehicles. ww2 Not the show.
There is nothing wrong with asbestos paste or asbestos anything. The main thing is to avoid it becoming airborne and as long as the paste is still a paste, guess what, no problem!
Too easy Hooah!
3:11 you see the copper thinking "such a lousy job.. from policeman reduced to door holder...let's hope no-one will find out after jerry is gone...... oh sjit, camera.."
Well. When it all fails. Give it a good whack.
Asbestos paste! 9 out of 10 dentists recommend it (for insulating sensitive electrical equipment from saltwater)
Guaranteed to give you cancer
OMG work safe would have a fit applying asbestos paste with bare hands oh the good old days 🤪🤣
Ayy maybe first but keep up the awesome content johnny :)
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Seems sketchy at best 🫨
Dieppe was a disaster alright but it was Mounty and Monty who were to blame.
Numerous attempts have been made to try and justify that cock up but it was a planning, tactical and operational failure.
@@Chiller01 Totally agree. It’s the way in which we (Brits) cover over the egregious fuck ups of the Windsor Saxe Coborgs while others are thrown under the bus.
Just do t mention Mountbatten in Montreal!!:)
Die cause your tank sinks and you drown or die cause your tank is filled with asbestos and you get lung cancer, tough choice
I was thinking about the asbestos paste as the soldier was smearing it with his bare hands...
Asbestos is safe as long as you don't get asbestos dust into your lungs. The problem is that it tends to become dust eventually. That soldier will be fine (not accounting for old age), but driving around in that vehicle years later will cause cancer.
@@alltat yes they believe that is what happen to Steve McQueen -- and smoking didn't help
Noice
Donald Ducks tank.
Uh, no thanks. I'd much rather leave the job of submarining to submarines.
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Stay dry 😂