The Hood was sunk by a shell, from Bismarck, which fell short, turned up into Hood's hull, penetrating below the armor belt. This shell caused a secondary magazine to explode, which set off the magazine of Y turret. The shell from Prince of Wales that hit Bismarck caused its damage in the same way. Why people need to look for other explanations is beyond me. This behavior of shells was well understood at the time.
Bismarck and Tirpitz were the most powerful ships when launched in 1939, but in no reasonable way can they be considered the most powerful ever. The Iowa and the Yamato classes eclipsed them in just about every category. The Nelson and Rodney, Richelieu and Vittorio Veneto were faster and easily as capable.
Supplying Britain in 1941 wasn't just down to the U.S. and Canada . Britain's life line required she be supplied from the far reaches of her empire as well. Rubber and tin from Malaya, food stuffs from Aus and NZ, bauxite from the Caribbean, on and on. But yes fuel and munitions from N.A. were essential, that is true.
fuel??? She got entire naval task forces with which to escort US LL ironically - and airplanes without which she would have been crushed in Afrika - she got an entire merchant marine without which she couldn't have continued said LL convoyz- as the Kriegsmarine had sent her own nearly entirely to the sea floor (primarily of the Atlantic- but also the Med etc) .. she'd have starved and been forced to capitulate and literally should have been forced into the humiliating but beyond entirely justified and utterly deserved and earned situation of begging German forgiveness for the crimes against humanity she was and remains guilty of in having barbarically forced insane WWI punishments upon her and the German people - etc etc - and to instead receive precisely the same - but that would never have happened - she started both of these wars herself and continues to apparently martyr on under the delusion that she is the moral leader and military hero and just lynchpin of the vicrories in both. I wish she had been and had left us tfo of both of them. Fuel, lol.
Lindemenn was the one to give the order open fire while Lutjens hesitated. As stated Lutjens was under orders to not openly engage the Royal Navy, giving such an order to engage the British Capital Ships would be in direct violation of said orders. Lindemenn was more concerned with the immediate safety of his ship and gave the order to open fire, adding I will not have my ship shot from under my a**.
"Bismarck and Tirpitz, the most powerfull battleships ever constructed", I guess you forgot to place the "German most powerfull", there's a lot of battleships build that can do what a bismarck can but better.
@@adrielcamilo2564 Iowa class was only a little heavier but way better. Bigger guns, more armor, and better fcs, faster reload, longer range, faster speed, better AA armament. Iowa Class vs Bismarck would be incredibly lopsided.
@@adrielcamilo2564 In context of the rest of the video, which uses the "historical present" tense it's implied that "most powerful ever built" means: up until that point in time, not all time most powerful.
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The Hood was sunk by a shell, from Bismarck, which fell short, turned up into Hood's hull, penetrating below the armor belt. This shell caused a secondary magazine to explode, which set off the magazine of Y turret.
The shell from Prince of Wales that hit Bismarck caused its damage in the same way.
Why people need to look for other explanations is beyond me. This behavior of shells was well understood at the time.
This was extensively covered by Drachinifel on his channel.
Bismarck and Tirpitz were the most powerful ships when launched in 1939, but in no reasonable way can they be considered the most powerful ever. The Iowa and the Yamato classes eclipsed them in just about every category. The Nelson and Rodney, Richelieu and Vittorio Veneto were faster and easily as capable.
The narration is in historical present tense, so "ever built" is implied to mean "ever built up to that point"
Supplying Britain in 1941 wasn't just down to the U.S. and Canada . Britain's life line required she be supplied from the far reaches of her empire as well. Rubber and tin from Malaya, food stuffs from Aus and NZ, bauxite from the Caribbean, on and on. But yes fuel and munitions from N.A. were essential, that is true.
fuel??? She got entire naval task forces with which to escort US LL ironically - and airplanes without which she would have been crushed in Afrika - she got an entire merchant marine without which she couldn't have continued said LL convoyz- as the Kriegsmarine had sent her own nearly entirely to the sea floor (primarily of the Atlantic- but also the Med etc) .. she'd have starved and been forced to capitulate and literally should have been forced into the humiliating but beyond entirely justified and utterly deserved and earned situation of begging German forgiveness for the crimes against humanity she was and remains guilty of in having barbarically forced insane WWI punishments upon her and the German people - etc etc - and to instead receive precisely the same - but that would never have happened - she started both of these wars herself and continues to apparently martyr on under the delusion that she is the moral leader and military hero and just lynchpin of the vicrories in both. I wish she had been and had left us tfo of both of them.
Fuel, lol.
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Terrific video! Even after all these decades the story is still captivating.
Lindemenn was the one to give the order open fire while Lutjens hesitated. As stated Lutjens was under orders to not openly engage the Royal Navy, giving such an order to engage the British Capital Ships would be in direct violation of said orders. Lindemenn was more concerned with the immediate safety of his ship and gave the order to open fire, adding I will not have my ship shot from under my a**.
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Another excellent video!
So the Brits sent 70 ships to sink 1 German ship.
Along with a few biplanes.
1:46 Ad ends, back to World War II.
Awesome
"Bismarck and Tirpitz, the most powerfull battleships ever constructed", I guess you forgot to place the "German most powerfull", there's a lot of battleships build that can do what a bismarck can but better.
@@adrielcamilo2564 Iowa class was only a little heavier but way better. Bigger guns, more armor, and better fcs, faster reload, longer range, faster speed, better AA armament. Iowa Class vs Bismarck would be incredibly lopsided.
@@adrielcamilo2564 In context of the rest of the video, which uses the "historical present" tense it's implied that "most powerful ever built" means: up until that point in time, not all time most powerful.
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But even that would be false when the Littorios exist and are significantly superior designs on the same tonnage.
Yamato says hi, and was sailing at that time
I am sorry, Bismarck was never the most powerful battleship, even before the Americans and Japanese got involved.
The Hood go BOOM! THE END!