Appearance Of Battleship Texas Was A Remarkable Challenge By The Americans (Ep.2)
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- (U-Boat Commander Series, Part 2) Watch our video "Appearance Of Battleship Texas Was A Remarkable Challenge By The Americans" and embark on a riveting journey through the untold stories of a German U-boat captain during World War II. Dive into the gripping tales of perilous patrols, accidental losses, and daring escapes. Follow the incredible wartime experiences of a submariner who survived sinking and faced the challenges of commanding multiple U-boats. Uncover the highs and lows of naval warfare as you explore the life of a midshipman turned watch officer, navigating through the tumultuous seas of history. Join us in unraveling the mysteries of wartime bravery and resilience in this captivating video series.
Link of Playlist • Memoirs of a German U-...
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Part 2 of memoirs of a German submarine officer and captain during World War II, He was one of the few surviving German U-boat commanders, served on five submarines from 1941 to 1945. From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, from the English Channel to the North Sea, he shares the triumphant years of 1941 and 1942, when German U-boats nearly strangled England, to the apocalyptic final years of destruction, disillusionment, and defeat.
Here is the link of the playlist ua-cam.com/play/PLGjbe3ikd0XHLhQjUH9w4ZGlvnBQeuyV0.html
Link of Part 1 ua-cam.com/video/99neeGGU0-I/v-deo.html
God bless the USS Texas
When I was a young guy I worked with a guy who was on those liberty ship. He survived three sinkings by those U-boats.
My great-uncle was XO of U-616 under u-boat Ace Siegfried Koitschka (himself one of Erich Topp's former officers), and Captain of U-37 and U-3047. He was a member of the X/39 class: the October class two months senior to Herbert Werner (XII/39 class). It is amazing to listen to these stories: they were all very young men, and were some of the few to survive while so many did not.
Watching this with morning coffee before work. Love the history of sub combat from WWII. Makes me want to get on my computer and play uboat and go hunting! Too bad I gotta work haha.
These are stories of true history that are no longer written anymore with such eloquence. It makes me wish that I had kept more of a diary of my time in Iraq and Afghanistan. All I have is my memory now.
It’s never too late to write down what you know
I've stood on the deck of the Texas and never knew how close those men came to being wiped out. She's currently being restored again. She's old but a good ship with more history than most. Who knows? Maybe the Germans were the 1st to say "Don't Mess With Texas"
Fate of U557, "Fate
At 18:06 on 16 December, U-557 sent a short radio signal indicating that she was 18 hours from port. At 18:00 on the same day, the Italian torpedo boat Orione left the Cretan port of Suda. The commander had no knowledge that a German U-boat was in the area of Crete.
When the Italian commander saw a submarine at 21:44, heading in a northerly direction, he decided to ram it, supposing it to be British. U-557 sank immediately with all hands; the damaged Italian torpedo boat headed back to base. The position of the incident was given by the Italian commander as 35.31°N 23.19°E.[1] [24] An investigation by Supermarina (Italian Naval Command) determined the collision was an accident, though they reserved judgement on whether the ramming was intended, or the result of a navigational error.[25] They also noted that German notification of U-557's presence in the area did not arrive with Supermarina until 22:00, after the incident had taken place."
Lasted less than a year after being commissioned. The casualty rate was around 2/3's of every submariner serving in the Uboat fleet. It's no wonder they were known as iron coffins.
The battleship Texas is the only surviving Dreadnought. It protected American citizens in the Mexican Revolution in 1914, served in WWI & WWII and is currently in drydock in Galveston, with plans on making it a war memorial and museum.
I only wouldn't brag about the American role in the subjugation of our Southern brothers.
@@haeuptlingaberja4927 sounds like a Russian bot hard at work sowing discord.
She's been a museum ship since 1948.
The Texas has been a memorial and museum since 1948. She is currently receiving badly needed detailed attention in a roughly year long dry docking. She has been berthed at the San Jacinto battleground east of Houston since 1948. She will be moving to a new home, probably nearer to Galveston where she will be more readily accessible to the public.
@@haeuptlingaberja4927I do. We won. Suck it Russians.
I have memories of my Dad taking me to tour the ship and you could get a small plastic model of the ship onboard out of a vending machine and it seems the model was molded right in the machine. Been a long time but the battle ship Texas is a timeless vessel of history and if only it could speak
Excellent - waiting for the next part.......
Coming soon Sir
Supposedly the movie Das Boot was based on the memoirs of a U-boat officer. Is this it? The out-of-control sinking, hitting bottom, repairs, and re-surfacing in part 1 are familiar from the movie.
Was thinking the same, amazing movie
No, that was a book written by Lothar-Günther Buchheim a journalist who made one patrol with U-96 in 1941
Submariners are a special class of warriors.
I was hoping part two would be posted soon! Very nice
Me too
In July 1944 my father provided Destroyer ranging across the harbor entrance at Cherbourg of German coastal batteries for bombardment offshore by USS Texas and another WW1 twelve-inch naval rifle armed capitol vessel
The other American Battleships at Normandy were Nevada (BB-36) and Arkansas (BB-33). Nevada also had 14"/45 caliber guns, the very same as Texas in a different arrangement.
Arkansas had twelve 12" guns in 6 twin turrets. She was the only American Battleship in service during WW2 with 12" guns. So there you go.😁
All three ships had excellent reputations as "shooters"; VERY accurate gunfire! Especially Texas!
This is intense - it is always amazing to me that anyone got through some of these WW2 battles in one bit - Thx.
{re. KM, RN, IJN , etc, } what is most interesting . . . initially, it is often difficult to know which sides account your listening to !
Fire ! is never yelled on a sub....it could cause panic and chaos.... Launch ! is the call given.
I can just hear the U-Bout Captains saying: oh were in trouble know its the USS Texas!
Given how well they track the target zig zagging, I wonder if the ships weren't better off just running straight out, or at least zig zag randomly.
Zig zag also throw off torpedoes
This is the Book Iron Coffins another is The defeat of the German U-Boats by David Syrett, you can cross reference between the two and they match up.
I wish you would teach your robot how to pronounce the name of the pointed front end of a ship..
Tell him it's called, "the act one makes when the queen walks into the room"
I feel a little bit sorry for the poor robot actually. English is an extremely irregular language.
@@MrDino1953
Germanic, Saxon, Spanish and Italian.
Sometimes it gets the word right, for instance when combined in a sentence with stern. It is disconcerting.
@@AJdet-2
Most irregular, indeed.
I like your videos very much.
i do however have troubles getting from one video to the continuation of it. yesterday i watched one that was 'i attacked pearl harbor' and it covered his flight school but then. maybe there was a link posted and i did not look for it? i will in the future.
again. wonderful videos. several of these books i had read 30 years ago.
U-557 is credited for 6 merchants and 1 warship sunk.
U-boats had to be the worst service, boring routine interspersed with sheer terror. The shiny bright blue, foamy picture you used isn’t the dark, cold , wet dangerous image I picture in my mind when thinking of u-boats! 28:30 I associate, highest risk of death. 30:48
I'd prefer a Uboat to the eastern front. Battle of Moscow, or Stalingrad? The mud of the fall. Horrible winters with the wrong gear. Frostbite, lack of reseupply and even cannabalism in the last days of Stalingrad.
@@joem3999 Neither one was very pleasant, in fact they both (9th Army) equally suck! I’d rather be assigned to Paris,….until July 6, ‘44!
In the end they were all sunk. 90% of all German sailors in the U boat service died.
Including the son of Admiral Doenitz.
Nigel Patterson has narrated some incredible books and has become my favorite narrator consequently. Does anyone know where I can listen to his full narration of this book? The thought crossed my mind that this could actually be his own UA-cam channel but I thought I would ask! Thanks!
For those interested in submarine warfare find a copy of sinkem all the us war in the pacific auther vice admiral lockwood the silent service commanding officer and watch silent service tv series from the 50s or sixties hair raising stories
All submariners from all countries wete surprisingly were volunteers
Nice Sleeping voice plus education
This is all gripping stuff, HOWEVER - your robotic voice narrator DESTROYS the drama when he MISPRONOUNCES the simple word BOW! As any year-four student will tell you - when you talk about a boat/ship, the word 'BOW' is pronounced as in 'Bow your head' and NOT as in 'Bow and arrow'. Please adjust your robotic software in future posts!!!
This was reenacted with Robert Mitchem in War and Remembrance. Is this a robot AI voice? It pronounced bows like a hair bow, not like a ship bow. "After Rheinübung, a recent breakthrough into the Kriegsmarine's enigma network enabled the Royal Navy to mount a concerted effort to round up the network of supply ships deployed to refuel and rearm the Rheinübung ships. The first success came on 3 June, when the tanker Belchen was discovered by the cruisers Aurora and Kenya south of Greenland."
Yes it's ai
Not a very intelligent one
@Soohie-cat- Well, it is artificial…🙃
@@db5757 I don't know what to be more concerned about - artificial intelligence, or natural stupidity...
@@finalascent Thanks, I'll never get to sleep tonight now.
Some of the timelines seem off in this telling.
What sub and what date is the photo used for the title page? It has atypical features.
It was one of the few smart decisions of Hitler not to attack the Texas. If sunk America would of either declared war or allowed weapons to be sent to Great Britain. At this stage of the war America was still neutral. Texas already was a old battleship by this time. She was kept for use in the landings of North Africa and the Normandy landings. She was later sent to the Pacific for support in Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Yes that could have been a world changing event. The US enters the war against Germany months before it did historically and what then happens in the Pacific. Japan backs down from the surprise attack against an alerted wartime USN with the USA going into full war production? No war in the Pacific?
@@tomw324the Japanese Empire was still being denied access to oil. The Pacific war was about that need for the oil by the Japanese. Nothing about this interaction had anything to do with the oil dilemma.
Agree, but I don't think they would have attacked Pearl Harbor without the possibility of complete surprise and the likely destruction of the US fleet. Without that would they have gone to war with the US? They would have had to go to war with the US to conquer the oil resources in Indonesia because the Philippines would have blocked the supply lines back to Japan. And without Pearl Harbor they would have faced an undamaged US fleet. I just think there is some possibility they would have been forced to negotiate a withdrawal from China with no war in the Pacific.
I think the Japanese would of honored the agreement with Germany. They would of went to war probably with the intent of a sea battle as many of the old Admirals wanted. One fought by battleships not carriers.
Yea, you are probably correct. Cant really see them leaving China so they would probably think they had to declare war, even with no Pearl Harbor.
When was it that the German codes were first intercepted at Bletchley Park ?
I have spent much of a lifetime at sea. Every time the robo narrator says bow, meaning the front of a ship, but pronounces it like the knot used to tie shoes, it is like being hit in the side of the head. For the apparently non English speaking producers of this otherwise excellent content, here is todays English lesson…. ua-cam.com/video/rR_7l7czhho/v-deo.htmlsi=QWbjM_ictGQxbCsZ
Herbert Werner?
That's why those WWII subs were called pigboats. The smells of sweat, bilge oil, and rotting food.
why is there no deck gun and what are the 4 tube things?
That's a Type VIID mine laying u boot
😮
TEXAS!... By GOD!
A I cant say words correctly, : 😮
where is part 1????????????????name !!????????????
ua-cam.com/video/99neeGGU0-I/v-deo.html
Awesome stuff keep up the good work.
Are these narrated by you or taken from somewhere else?
And dude seriously take the swastika out of your pfp and banner it’s a bad look.
So, these aren't Nazi war stories?
AI voice mispronounces "bow".
... the Battleship Texas? ... Was she even in the Atlantic?
Did she ever fight?
Never heard of it.
Invasion of Casablanca, Normandy, many landings in the Pacific. You can visit her in Galveston.or google her.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Texas_(BB-35)
She fired the first American shots of WWI. She fought in both world wars. Battle of the Atlantic with numerous crossings, Operation Torch, Overlord, D-day, Cherburg ect...
Oh... and she is also a museum ship dude....
Nice entertainment, any truth?? to the tales???
Well , the description said it was from a German submariner as he remembers
Much like any war story, it's from the recollection of those who were there. The typical sailor, engineer, gunner, officer all remember from their position.
scam ads are too annoying especially the 45 propaganda
Dear UA-cam... STOP recommending irrelevant videos!!! K? Bye.
This is a Repeat their is Nothing about the Texas in Content! And it's Pronounced B-O-W not like a a bow-tie !
At 41:10 U203 sights the Texas and radios in requesting permission to shoot torpedoes.