The U-boat in the thumbnail is U-995, located in my hometown. It had quite an interesting history, as it survived over 9 patrols and after wars end was given to Norway as a training vessel. Eventually it was returned to Germany at the end of the 60s and was restored. It's a technical museum now and can be visited. Been inside many times. Very hard to imagine that about 45 people lived in this thing for months.
Chris, I have visited the U505 located in Chicago on a few occasions. I am not prone to claustrophobia, but I feel it whenever I am inside of that. And this is on dry land during peacetime. I can not imagine being inside that thing, several hundred feet underwater under attack. I am a veteran of combat myself, but will never know how those men had the courage to do what they did.
Fantastic video as always! It’s bizarre that the allies sunk the U-boats so quickly after capture. You would think that they would have kept them considering they were the most advanced in the world at the time.
judging by the screw on the bottom of it, you may be overestimating it by about a foot if it is full size can you imagine how many men it would take to tighten that screw!!
why did we 'dispose' of all the u-boats? surely we could have re-used them, (Esp the more modern type 21 & 23s) and if not why sink them and not break them for scrap? it seemed such a waste!
There were two more electroboats on patrol at the surrender, the larger and more potent Type XXI versions. The U-2511 made a practice attack run on a British cruiser on May 4, according to the skipper, right after the surrender message was received. He stated he was never detected and could have easily torpedoed the vessel and escaped. It was lucky for the Allies that Germany didn't realize their plight until too late to get more boats into service.
The allies, including the Soviets were eager to incorporate (copy) the revolutionary design of the Type XXI, into their own sub fleets. The world's first nuclear sub, the USS Nautilus, had her hull design copied from the type XXI.
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With only 2 torpedoes, the Electro Boats couldn't have made an impact on Allied shipping and Navies unless 100's were made and operational. It is agreed by all that destroying fine captured submarines after Germany's surrender was a tragic waste and should have been seen AT THAT TIME to be stupid to the point of complete lunacy. The rush by Allied nations to destroy German military equipment after WWII was not realized to be a tragic mistake until far too late and years later.
Absolutely agree, however approx 10,000 ex werhrmacht troops were utilised by the French in Vietnam immediately at the end of WW2 as foreign legion recruits...another untold story.
What President Truman and staff, and Winston Churchill and staff (remember their respective ages, and having seen the murderous rise of Bolshevik SOCIALISM including the murder of the Tsar and his wife and children for no clear gain) were trying to accomplish was to not give the Murderous Soviets a leg up on technology that on its own would take them 10-20 years to even approach, and scale down the potential of Workd War 2 continuing, but with the Soviets as the new enemy! Remember what Patton had recently said, about denazifying and re-arming the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, and to what ever extent the could, the Kriegsmarine, and turning them and all other allied forces against the Soviets! It was actually a good idea, prevented in no small part by Patton!s arranged car accident, and would have given us a radically different post war world from the horrors we did have. I could say more, but why?
As always Mark, your videos and presentation are extremely well done and informative as well as entertaining. I find myself looking forward to them and enjoy them like mac and cheese! Would love to see something about the USCG Cutter Taney, 327' who has the honor of the last survivor of Pearl Harbor that is still afloat and a museum ship at Baltimore's Maritime Museum in the inner harbor of the city. There were 7 of these cutters prior to the start of the war and The Hamilton was sunk by a U-boat early on in the N. Atlantic. Tremendous amount of history and service behind these 327's before, during and, after WWII. Thanks
Yes do a video on it, and tell the world how a Soviet sub, I believe u13/s113 whatever it is sunk it and how German civis lost over 10k in lives and how stalin glorified the captain with the highest honor of the Soviets, and how it was the greatest 2 days of maritime life disaster
And how the allies never scorned the Soviets either, just as they didnt do when Uncle Joe and his satanic army never were punished for invading Poland Finland and the baltics.
And the mystery about the Soviets sending divers to clear the entire wreck of basically everything inside. They even filled it up with concrete afterwards AFAIK.
There are already good videos about this (don't wanna spam links here though, but I have seen good videos in English). Mark is not the one talking to us about things we know - he surprises us with things we don't know yet, so I doubt the Wilhelm Gustloff is a topic for him. :)
Excellent and fascinating as always. I’m glad you try to avoid rehashing events that are already over covered and often poorly. By sticking to less well known events and incidents you expand our knowledge and understanding. No silly music and straight to the story. 👍
You're posts are the ones I always look forward to and I am never disappointed. Thank you. I am presently reading "Case Red" by Robert Forczyk wherein he mentions in passing in one single sentence, that as Poland fell in 1939, some Polish military types fled with two complete Enigma machines. Surely these machines were the prize sought by all the intelligence agencies, how did it come to pass that the Poles got two? And being that the Germans relied so heavily on the machines how did it happen that they didn't notice two missing!? "...keep looking you guys, they were just here a couple of days ago, they didn't just grow legs and walk away... "
I seem to recall that there were some U-boat activities during that early May 1945 time frame in and around Narragansett Bay on the other side of the pond. Thank you.
Not about this specific video, but I figured you guys might know the answer. What were the last battles in Europe after Berlin fell? Some troops still fought for a few more days before surrendering. I know of: Itter(ended on May 3rd) Hamburg(ended on May 3rd) Prague uprising(ended on May 9th) Prague offensive(ended on May 11th) Pojana(ended on May 15th) Ozdak(ended on May 25th)
Wow ! Those guys never gave up, no matter what ! That's what I call true love for the motherland to the point of the supreme sacrifice of one's own life to defend your home soil.
ive heard there were a number of small isolated or fanatical German units in central/eastern Europe who kept on fighting the Red Army for days after the official surrender. Dont know the extent of it.
Mark, this is a great video, but I gotta correct you on something. The last U-boat attack made by the Germans was the u-853. It torpedoed the USS Black point off of Sconset Rhode Island. After doing so it was basically mobbed by several destroyers and other various “cutter“ type boats. They depth charged it for several hours and then sunk it, there were no survivors. It was so weak after having been in depth charged so many times that when they went down to check out the wreck, they were faced with half upside down half torn in half mess of steel. My buddy has dove it many times with scuba gear and says that it’s really cool. It was the last German sub to go down in World War II.
With the shortage of raw materials after the war, wouldn’t it make sense to cut up and reuse the metal from these subs, rather than to use them for target practice?
I Find it really sad that most of these subs were sunk after they surrendered to the allies.Could they not have been re-purposed by the allies into their own navy's. These were amazing well engineered and expensive to build vessels, that proved their worth during combat. Yet they were treated and disposed of as worthless junk!!! These were not just a plane or a half track or a tank , they were submarines!!!!! So sad!!
Those few U-Boats may have gotten their last licks in, but the Kriegsmarine lost 734 boats in the Atlantic, with the loss of about 28,000 crew members, with another 8,000 captured. There were a total of about 40,000 men who served on U-Boats, which means 70% of U-Boat crew members lost their lives during WW II. Quite the hazardous occupation, especially after 1942.
Thanks again Mark.did you ever heard of the German ship Gustloff,the biggest ship disaster in history?when a Russian Sub sank a ship,with thousands of refuges on it,in 1944.
The Type XIII had the same fire control computers as the larger XI electro boats. Despite having only 2 torpedoes they effectively sank a ship every torpedo shot.
Nice. I have an article out of an old magazine that may be of interest to you for a story; late WW 2 German subs & radios. How could I pass the article to you for you to review?
I've heard it had a lot to do with the upcoming cold war. They didn't want to share the tech with the Soviets. The easiest way was to destroy it... keeping what you wanted secret. Sorry Stalin... we sunk all the German and Japanese subs we captured. Pity we forgot to think about giving you samples
I havae no idea why they destroyed all the captured stuff a few years later, I guess the ones sinking the ships/ shooting the tanks where highly experienced veterans anyway so there was no training effect, if they would have kept it a bit longer they would have profited in training and more stuff would have suvived.
The U-boat in the thumbnail is U-995, located in my hometown. It had quite an interesting history, as it survived over 9 patrols and after wars end was given to Norway as a training vessel. Eventually it was returned to Germany at the end of the 60s and was restored. It's a technical museum now and can be visited. Been inside many times. Very hard to imagine that about 45 people lived in this thing for months.
Chris, I have visited the U505 located in Chicago on a few occasions. I am not prone to claustrophobia, but I feel it whenever I am inside of that. And this is on dry land during peacetime. I can not imagine being inside that thing, several hundred feet underwater under attack. I am a veteran of combat myself, but will never know how those men had the courage to do what they did.
Where is U-995 now ?
Best subscription I've made in a while.
Absolutely, fantastically researched video and always top quality.
Love the demo video with the rc submarine
Ah... I was wondering if they had such clear underwater photography back in the 40s
Mark your videos never get old the muzic the animating is great keep up the great work
Fantastic video as always! It’s bizarre that the allies sunk the U-boats so quickly after capture. You would think that they would have kept them considering they were the most advanced in the world at the time.
If I ever need any footage about literally everything from WW2, I'll go to Mark Felton.
cobalT except from the stuff that everyone knows about
With one proviso: You’ll find out only what the Axis were up to, and very little about the Allies.
I’ve got to hand it to you Mark, these are superb ‘snapshots’ of various parts of ww2.Absolutely Well Done!. I love them!.
In WW1 the first german branch to desert or surrender was the navy
In WW2 the navy was the last branch to surrender
The irony of history :)
Thank you for keeping history alive, accessible and so very entertaining. You have real talent!
Mark, your channel, from an avid WW2 'aficionado', is truly enjoyed and very, appreciated. Cheers.
You aren't kidding about it being small. It looks like a toy about two feet long.
christosvoskresye 🙄🙄
judging by the screw on the bottom of it, you may be overestimating it by about a foot if it is full size can you imagine how many men it would take to tighten that screw!!
why did we 'dispose' of all the u-boats? surely we could have re-used them, (Esp the more modern type 21 & 23s) and if not why sink them and not break them for scrap? it seemed such a waste!
You gained a subscriber from this video, thanks for your U-Boat videos, please make more, you're the only UA-camr covering the subject in any detail!
The fate of those U-boats is breaking my heart. 😢
There were two more electroboats on patrol at the surrender, the larger and more potent Type XXI versions. The U-2511 made a practice attack run on a British cruiser on May 4, according to the skipper, right after the surrender message was received. He stated he was never detected and could have easily torpedoed the vessel and escaped. It was lucky for the Allies that Germany didn't realize their plight until too late to get more boats into service.
The allies, including the Soviets were eager to incorporate (copy) the revolutionary design of the Type XXI, into their own sub fleets. The world's first nuclear sub, the USS Nautilus, had her hull design copied from the type XXI.
Nope, it was a copy of the shape of the whale , It is possible to see the likeness from the bow shape @@Gallagherfreak100
Happy 100K subscribers Mark! I’ve loved the channel and I’ve been here since you were at 20K! I swear, I’ve feel like you’ve grown extremely fast in terms of subscribers. I love all of your videos, they are an absolute treasure trove for history, both known and unknown. Can’t wait to see what you have next! #roadto1million
With only 2 torpedoes, the Electro Boats couldn't have made an impact on Allied shipping and Navies unless 100's were made and operational.
It is agreed by all that destroying fine captured submarines after Germany's surrender was a tragic waste and should have been seen AT THAT TIME to be stupid to the point of complete lunacy.
The rush by Allied nations to destroy German military equipment after WWII was not realized to be a tragic mistake until far too late and years later.
Matthew Hamersly I think the loss of the Prinz Eugen is the one of the most notable examples of these tragic and unnecessary losses.
Absolutely agree, however approx 10,000 ex werhrmacht troops were utilised by the French in Vietnam immediately at the end of WW2 as foreign legion recruits...another untold story.
What President Truman and staff, and Winston Churchill and staff (remember their respective ages, and having seen the murderous rise of Bolshevik SOCIALISM including the murder of the Tsar and his wife and children for no clear gain) were trying to accomplish was to not give the Murderous Soviets a leg up on technology that on its own would take them 10-20 years to even approach, and scale down the potential of Workd War 2 continuing, but with the Soviets as the new enemy! Remember what Patton had recently said, about denazifying and re-arming the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, and to what ever extent the could, the Kriegsmarine, and turning them and all other allied forces against the Soviets! It was actually a good idea, prevented in no small part by Patton!s arranged car accident, and would have given us a radically different post war world from the horrors we did have. I could say more, but why?
Love your videos keep up the good work and I learn new stuff I didn’t know before from you
As always Mark, your videos and presentation are extremely well done and informative as well as entertaining. I find myself looking forward to them and enjoy them like mac and cheese! Would love to see something about the USCG Cutter Taney, 327' who has the honor of the last survivor of Pearl Harbor that is still afloat and a museum ship at Baltimore's Maritime Museum in the inner harbor of the city. There were 7 of these cutters prior to the start of the war and The Hamilton was sunk by a U-boat early on in the N. Atlantic. Tremendous amount of history and service behind these 327's before, during and, after WWII. Thanks
Great video as usual. I like how you edited the rc uboat with a black and white filter. Nice effort and effect.
They should have kept them in working condition but it is what it is. Thanks for another awesome video!!
Excellent mark. May I suggest ( for a future video) the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in Jan 1945.
Yes do a video on it, and tell the world how a Soviet sub, I believe u13/s113 whatever it is sunk it and how German civis lost over 10k in lives and how stalin glorified the captain with the highest honor of the Soviets, and how it was the greatest 2 days of maritime life disaster
And how the allies never scorned the Soviets either, just as they didnt do when Uncle Joe and his satanic army never were punished for invading Poland Finland and the baltics.
And the mystery about the Soviets sending divers to clear the entire wreck of basically everything inside. They even filled it up with concrete afterwards AFAIK.
There are already good videos about this (don't wanna spam links here though, but I have seen good videos in English). Mark is not the one talking to us about things we know - he surprises us with things we don't know yet, so I doubt the Wilhelm Gustloff is a topic for him. :)
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Absolutely don’t want to do anything that would make Stalin angry . Stalin was worse than Hitler
My grandad was on board a captured u boat when they sailed it through the Thames
james Lambshead was UC5, captured on the 27th April 1916? Crew scuttled after running aground?
Why does alot of ppl have that avatar?
@@noway57 I know, right?
@@@noway57 It's from the cult classic PC game Deus Ex.
@@noway57 This guy asked all his subs to change their pic to that pic
Awesome video, Mark. You always put together fascinating material and important information.
These Felton videos are so awesome! Well done!
Good one, Mark- thanks as always.
Another excellent video. 100k subs soon Mark. 👍👍
Well deserved
Excellent and fascinating as always. I’m glad you try to avoid rehashing events that are already over covered and often poorly. By sticking to less well known events and incidents you expand our knowledge and understanding. No silly music and straight to the story. 👍
Dr. Felton,
As always, an excellent and informative video. Thank You!
Mark - fantastic videos. Thank you, congrats on 100k subs. Well deserved
My grandfather was a dwarf and served on that little sub in the video. I have his tiny medals to prove it.
Nice usage of a Large Scale RC U-Boat and the firing of a Torpedo, saw those videos years ago.
Great as always mark
Your model submarine fires torpedos! That’s cool. Now I really want one.
Very good, thanks Mark.
Thanx Mark, great, interesting, video. Your work is outstanding.
So close to 100k subs Mark, congrats when you do hit it.
Thanks for sharing, great video again.
Excellent as usual.
Great videos. Love the intro score.
And yeah Doc the model work in here is amazing!!!! Thanks to Otto Gerza from America too!
Nice! Love from the Philippines. You should do a video about the Battle of Samar and The Bataan Death March
Gappie Al Kebabi : you ignorant peasant.
I watched this channel for 10 secs, I subscribed!
Keep up the good videos Dr. Felton!
Never fails to amaze me how the best submarine builders went to war with the best submarine hunters!
You're posts are the ones I always look forward to and I am never disappointed. Thank you.
I am presently reading "Case Red" by Robert Forczyk wherein he mentions in passing in one single sentence, that as Poland fell in 1939, some Polish military types fled with two complete Enigma machines.
Surely these machines were the prize sought by all the intelligence agencies, how did it come to pass that the Poles got two? And being that the Germans relied so heavily on the machines how did it happen that they didn't notice two missing!? "...keep looking you guys, they were just here a couple of days ago, they didn't just grow legs and walk away... "
MrLemonbaby great book
6:47 - what a majestic piece of German engineering
I love your videos mark!
Thanks for another interesting video.
Char B1s pressed into German service might be an interesting future video.
From a design/shape standpoint....these latest German submarines types 21 or 23, look a lot like the 1950's US Nautilus....at least in my eyes.....
I seem to recall that there were some U-boat activities during that early May 1945 time frame in and around Narragansett Bay on the other side of the pond. Thank you.
Great stuff as always...
Can you do a video about the Ho 229
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@Gappie Al Kebabi Jesus bro you alright? Mummy hit you again?
Not about this specific video, but I figured you guys might know the answer. What were the last battles in Europe after Berlin fell? Some troops still fought for a few more days before surrendering.
I know of:
Itter(ended on May 3rd)
Hamburg(ended on May 3rd)
Prague uprising(ended on May 9th)
Prague offensive(ended on May 11th)
Pojana(ended on May 15th)
Ozdak(ended on May 25th)
Utterly senseless actions. Those Electroboats were amazing though. Another great video Mark.
So sad.... dying on the last day of the war...
Every time I hear your intro music I think of a last stand
Great stuff you know your history. who ever made the rc models is a master very good
Battle of Point Judith, RI, May 1945. One of last U boat actions too
Was thinking the same thing, didn't the US Navy or Coast Guard deny the action for years?
Wow ! Those guys never gave up, no matter what ! That's what I call true love for the motherland to the point of the supreme sacrifice of one's own life to defend your home soil.
Such great videos
Dönitz saved so many lives..!
Crazy to think what would have happened if they had these u-boats 3 years earlier.
I found very interesting is the time period from 1st May to the VE Day. With German combat operations in the East.
Never heard before. Thanks
You should do a video on the last shot fired during ww2 or the last attributed to fighting in ww2
ive heard there were a number of small isolated or fanatical German units in central/eastern Europe who kept on fighting the Red Army for days after the official surrender. Dont know the extent of it.
Congratulations for 99 k subs you are growing insanely fast.
Wouldn't it be cool to get 100k subs on a video about subs lol
love the footage
Mark, this is a great video, but I gotta correct you on something. The last U-boat attack made by the Germans was the u-853. It torpedoed the USS Black point off of Sconset Rhode Island. After doing so it was basically mobbed by several destroyers and other various “cutter“ type boats. They depth charged it for several hours and then sunk it, there were no survivors. It was so weak after having been in depth charged so many times that when they went down to check out the wreck, they were faced with half upside down half torn in half mess of steel. My buddy has dove it many times with scuba gear and says that it’s really cool. It was the last German sub to go down in World War II.
I love your videos
😍 yay we have one on display at our Science Industry Museum ✌️😎
The Intro Music is what separates you from the other History channels
With the shortage of raw materials after the war, wouldn’t it make sense to cut up and reuse the metal from these subs, rather than to use them for target practice?
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GOOD VIDEO,GOOD WORK!!!!!
Can you do a video about U-boats in the Indian and/or the Pacific?
And you did! Thanks!
Excellent
SS Avondale Park was built in Pictou, Nova Scotia and was registered in Montreal, Canada. It was a Canadian ship not British.
The music is perfectly dramatic for the context.
Could you do a video about Croatia in WWII? I believe some were fighting up until 1946
I Find it really sad that most of these subs were sunk after they surrendered to the allies.Could they not have been re-purposed by the allies into their own navy's. These were amazing well engineered and expensive to build vessels, that proved their worth during combat. Yet they were treated and disposed of as worthless junk!!! These were not just a plane or a half track or a tank , they were submarines!!!!! So sad!!
Almost to 100k subscribers!
Awesome video. Gebirgsjäger pls if possible!
Those few U-Boats may have gotten their last licks in, but the Kriegsmarine lost 734 boats in the Atlantic, with the loss of about 28,000 crew members, with another 8,000 captured. There were a total of about 40,000 men who served on U-Boats, which means 70% of U-Boat crew members lost their lives during WW II. Quite the hazardous occupation, especially after 1942.
Thanks again Mark.did you ever heard of the German ship Gustloff,the biggest ship disaster in history?when a Russian
Sub sank a ship,with thousands of refuges on it,in 1944.
I feel the urge to start playing Silent Hunter 3 again now.
Impressive the bravery of these men... They kept fighting knowing that the war was lost, and the chances of comming back alive were minimum...
That is not bravery, sir. That is madness.
The Type XIII had the same fire control computers as the larger XI electro boats. Despite having only 2 torpedoes they effectively sank a ship every torpedo shot.
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Nice. I have an article out of an old magazine that may be of interest to you for a story; late WW 2 German subs & radios. How could I pass the article to you for you to review?
I can imagine the last dive after receiving the cease-fire message.
Thanks Mark. Cool model sub to. Seems like a waste sinking new subs after the war.
What can you expect from Brits? To stupid to handle a sub. They had to force german
crews to bring the boats to harbor.
I've heard it had a lot to do with the upcoming cold war. They didn't want to share the tech with the Soviets. The easiest way was to destroy it... keeping what you wanted secret. Sorry Stalin... we sunk all the German and Japanese subs we captured. Pity we forgot to think about giving you samples
they were scared of the technology falling in soviet hands. same reason why the I-400s were basically sunken immediately
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Ohh your close to 100k
Gotta love the Catalina.
Fighting to the very end.
Nice!
I havae no idea why they destroyed all the captured stuff a few years later, I guess the ones sinking the ships/ shooting the tanks where highly experienced veterans anyway so there was no training effect, if they would have kept it a bit longer they would have profited in training and more stuff would have suvived.
Not how Képitelizm worked at that time @@iconoclastpleonast8726
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