The 7 U-boats Could Have Faced The Allied Invasion Fleet

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @j.marden9164
    @j.marden9164 9 місяців тому +2

    I don't think you've monetized this enough. Advertisements seem to only interrupt every 2 minutes or so. Imagine how much you could make if they were every 20 seconds! Think about it.

  • @stevenh.9535
    @stevenh.9535 11 місяців тому +14

    Snorkel was a useful upgrade but not perfect because if seas were really rough they would still have to surface For oxygen and recharge batteries. And would still be visible to aircraft during the day time. It would’ve been best to only run the snorkel at night time. And only run electric submerged during the day. But then your speed and range are limited. Everything was a gamble. It must have been terrifying. Took skilled captains and crews to even make it back to port in those days.

  • @davep153
    @davep153 11 місяців тому +2

    Thanks for this series.
    What a way to live and pass.

  • @Davefromcanada411
    @Davefromcanada411 10 місяців тому +1

    This was amazing to watch!

  • @dr.dumddum904
    @dr.dumddum904 10 місяців тому +2

    This is a fascinating story! The author of the journal is such a good writer that it reads (sounds) like literature...

  • @christhirion9474
    @christhirion9474 11 місяців тому +3

    The British at that stage already had a radar that could pick up a snorkel.

    • @arthurmario5996
      @arthurmario5996 11 місяців тому +2

      I guess the snorkel would reduce the detection range substantially?

    • @stevenh.9535
      @stevenh.9535 11 місяців тому +2

      This is true. It was harder to detect but could still be picked up on allied radar. But I’ve heard they had anti radar coating for some of them.

  • @jeep146
    @jeep146 11 місяців тому +10

    It was suicide to attack the invasion fleet without a Snorkel. It was crazy to even get near the fleet.

    • @konekillerking
      @konekillerking 11 місяців тому

      Would have been with a Snorkel. Subs might have had some success, but survival wouldn’t have been an option.

    • @jeep146
      @jeep146 11 місяців тому

      @@konekillerking They knew it was crazy to try to fight without one. They had a tiny chance if they were in open waters like the Atlantic but in the channel forget it. The screening vessels and air cover for the fleet made it a lost cause.

    • @kaybutterson599
      @kaybutterson599 10 місяців тому

      Schnorkel lol

    • @kaybutterson599
      @kaybutterson599 10 місяців тому

      Schnorcle

  • @SaveTheKidsD2P
    @SaveTheKidsD2P 8 місяців тому

    Who knew the wunderwaffen was just a snorkel

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 11 місяців тому +3

    Interesting/informative/entertaining.. Excellent photography picture 📷of the U-Boat & crew. Snorkel or not the odds of stopping the allied invasion. Were slim to none/ there weren't enough U-Boats to do enough damage to stop the invasion. Admiral doughnuts 🍩 & his disillusioned/ incompetent bureaucratic confusion. From the other disillusioned/incompetent leadership in Berlin. Was a miscalculated error in using those " disposable U-Boats. But why not -??? Dozens of U-Boats entered " King 👑 Neptune territory😇😇😇😇.

  • @kimba381
    @kimba381 10 місяців тому

    One of the best robot voices I have heard. Still doesn't cut it though.

  • @davep153
    @davep153 11 місяців тому +3

    Wonder how the surviving men did after the war both
    Mentally and physically.🤔😟

  • @sharonwhiteley6510
    @sharonwhiteley6510 11 місяців тому +2

    If they only realized their messages to/from Donitz had been their death warrants.
    To ram the invasion fleet was ludicrous. You would think even the most ardent commander, would think of the lives of their crew and surrender.

  • @MrDino1953
    @MrDino1953 11 місяців тому +10

    Pretty grim stuff. Fighting on in an obsolete sub, on a hopeless mission, under incompetent, uncaring higher command and despite what his government had done to his own father. Talented but still blindly committed to the Nazi ethos. I have no sympathy for him.

    • @rainerstahlberg2486
      @rainerstahlberg2486 11 місяців тому

      What Nazi ethos? It is called military discipline, civilian! You are part of a network of actions about which you do not know anything. Personal Judgement under such circumstances has to be suspended. Understand?

  • @lewis7315
    @lewis7315 11 місяців тому

    The snorkel was easily visible on radar. There were constant patrols all over the Eastern Atlantic, and especially around the English channel. no submarine could get anywhere near the invasion. Radar equipped aircraft made every diesel electric submarine a deathtrap.

  • @gregspahr428
    @gregspahr428 11 місяців тому +3

    Maybe you could cram some more adds in here ? Ridiculous ambush advertising always makes me resentful of whatever crap their selling.

    • @timklein185
      @timklein185 11 місяців тому

      blame youtube, not the content creator.

    • @kaybutterson599
      @kaybutterson599 10 місяців тому

      I'm kidding and that was in reference 2 the ads I totally agree makes me 😖😫😵

  • @johndouglass3377
    @johndouglass3377 10 місяців тому +1

    40:13what ever else you can say about these men they had nerves of steel

  • @deplorable1-2
    @deplorable1-2 11 місяців тому +3

    I wonder if sailing to Portsmouth and raising a white flag was even possible?

  • @keithcitizen4855
    @keithcitizen4855 10 місяців тому

    A few months later they had to endure their comrads suffer fatal punishment for tempting to flee

  • @erichughes284
    @erichughes284 11 місяців тому +5

    If he had a snorkel.he could have stopped the invasion by himself.

    • @photoisca7386
      @photoisca7386 10 місяців тому +1

      In the channel against the destroyer and corvette fleet of the RN and RCN? You must have an impressive video game history.

    • @Sedona-cl6eg
      @Sedona-cl6eg 10 місяців тому

      He could have also strapped extra torpedoes to the sides of the boat to be used to reload again and again until he ran out of targets.

    • @benwilson6145
      @benwilson6145 10 місяців тому

      @@photoisca7386 Don't get involved in reality!

  • @gregspahr428
    @gregspahr428 11 місяців тому +1

    Done here .

  • @ifrancus9623
    @ifrancus9623 9 місяців тому

    After growing up listening to fine actors narrating audiobooks, this production's AI feels like shopping at the dollar store.

    • @duncanharrison7981
      @duncanharrison7981 9 місяців тому +1

      Don’t listen to it then

    • @peterloichtl4512
      @peterloichtl4512 5 місяців тому

      oh great i feel better now that i see the speech police is here.