Early in the war German Uboats were unquestionably grinding down the Brits. It's a wonder they survived, and the United States had a lot to do with that. But the Brits labored mightily to bring out new technologies such as air and sea mounted radar, extensive air patrols, new weapons such as their hedge hog mortars, new tactics to defend convoys and devoting ever more resources to defending convoys and attacking Uboats. The technological improvements by the Germans, notably the "Schnorkel" and radar detectors, were never decisive, and they neglected to build Uboats, Uboats Uboats the way the Brits and Americans built escorts and merchant ships. In the end, German Uboats were defeated by attrition and the unflagging determination of the Brits and Americans. You can compare this video with similar stories from late in the war, when the few surviving Uboats were perpetually harassed and hunted to death by their enemies. For the Brits, this Battle of the Atlantic ranks right with the air war Battle of Britain, in my view. And let us remember the civilians who crewed all those ships! How were so many recruited and trained and retained in service when they could see so many ships being sunk around them?
Omg smh. Between way too many advertisements and long several seconds pauses in the middle of the story, impossible to listen to. Quit trying to listen after 23 minutes. Ridiculous. The other videos weren't like this so guessing this was a glitch of sorts.
There's obvious technical problems with this episode. Long breaks like it had ended forcing me to advance it to get it started again. Then places where it must have been spliced with information missing. Very disappointing. Yet, you have to feel sorry for the members of the merchant Marines manning those cargo ships especially during the German "happy times/happy days". I doubt if listeners realize if a ship was sunk and crew members were fortunate to survive, the merchant marine leadership wasn't very thankful. Once the ship sunk, your pay ended until assigned and at sea again. So, your ship has been torpedoed. You survive and bopping around in a wooden rowboat praying to be rescued ALL WITH NO PAY. Apparently it was considered you had volunteered to leave your sinking ship. Jolly good British leadership. That's really showing appreciation and concern.
The sudden stops spoil this.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. I don't mind the audio blank outs. As this presentation in free -!!!😉
The million commercials ruin this.
UA-cam premium is worth the dough. Get it. Otherwise, you’ll remain miserable.
Seems like blackmail
@@TreeofLiberty1791 no more of a blackmail than a DVR
Makes the wife's UA-cam subscription worth every penny.
Or YT Vanced
I’ve heard this episode from another War stories site…
Same here. Yesterday.
love how he talks about their contribution to the inevitable end of england..
Seems pretty destroyed to me.
Early in the war German Uboats were unquestionably grinding down the Brits. It's a wonder they survived, and the United States had a lot to do with that.
But the Brits labored mightily to bring out new technologies such as air and sea mounted radar, extensive air patrols, new weapons such as their hedge hog mortars, new tactics to defend convoys and devoting ever more resources to defending convoys and attacking Uboats.
The technological improvements by the Germans, notably the "Schnorkel" and radar detectors, were never decisive, and they neglected to build Uboats, Uboats Uboats the way the Brits and Americans built escorts and merchant ships.
In the end, German Uboats were defeated by attrition and the unflagging determination of the Brits and Americans. You can compare this video with similar stories from late in the war, when the few surviving Uboats were perpetually harassed and hunted to death by their enemies.
For the Brits, this Battle of the Atlantic ranks right with the air war Battle of Britain, in my view.
And let us remember the civilians who crewed all those ships! How were so many recruited and trained and retained in service when they could see so many ships being sunk around them?
Is this part 1? If not, which video is part 1?
Go to the channel and then it’s Playlist.
Wish I heard the whole book without all the skips.
That’s shocking , didn’t know that
Too many long pauses!!
Did you post this on the wrong channel? This was posted a day or tow ago on WW2 Tales
Way too many skips
Why the breaks and repeating the same reading.
Hard to watch , keeps stopping and full of ads , really off putting I’m afraid 😱👎 really poor editing and I’m a subscriber 🤷♂️
I don't mind the blsnk outs but it just doesn't run together smoothly
The editing is a mess in this one.
check your work
Bad quality. It keeps stoppping and jumping
geschichte ist scwer und wir lerne gar nicks das ist unzere schweringchait.
Is this AI reading or a real person?
Omg smh. Between way too many advertisements and long several seconds pauses in the middle of the story, impossible to listen to. Quit trying to listen after 23 minutes. Ridiculous. The other videos weren't like this so guessing this was a glitch of sorts.
There's obvious technical problems with this episode. Long breaks like it had ended forcing me to advance it to get it started again. Then places where it must have been spliced with information missing. Very disappointing.
Yet, you have to feel sorry for the members of the merchant Marines manning those cargo ships especially during the German "happy times/happy days".
I doubt if listeners realize if a ship was sunk and crew members were fortunate to survive, the merchant marine leadership wasn't very thankful. Once the ship sunk, your pay ended until assigned and at sea again.
So, your ship has been torpedoed. You survive and bopping around in a wooden rowboat praying to be rescued ALL WITH NO PAY. Apparently it was considered you had volunteered to leave your sinking ship.
Jolly good British leadership. That's really showing appreciation and concern.
Very poor editing with sudden jumps in dialog. and poor audio control.
this is read by ai
Bad quality. It keeps stoppping and jumping