Capturing a German U-Boat in WWII - U505
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2021
- Only six German U-Boats were captured by the Allies in WWII, some were a little more challenging that others. Just before D-Day off the coast of west Africa, U-505 was spotted and depth charges were dropped. The crew abandoned ship and attempted to scuttle it but before she went down, US sailors boarded and managed to keep her afloat. Led by Lt. Albert David, the U-505 was saved and towed back to port.
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Been in the U505, one of the coolest things in Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry
Not only does it take gigantic falls to board a sinking sub but then to recover it to help our boys out is even better
Balls
Not a job for everyone. When it doubt, win the war.
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Can't believe the strength and courage. I'm just stumbling over words to say!
I saw the sub 2 days ago it pretty cool
That’s awesome!
The Royal Navy had already captured a German U Boat months prior. The Allies already had the German Navy Enigma machine. What was needed was the code index for it, which was written on paper that dissolves in water. A bucket of water was kept next to the operators desk, to place the book into should the submarine fall into enemy hands.
Yup
Glad you typed that, for a minute I thought the American was claiming they’d discovered the enigma machine……
@@ems4580thats what they're are aiming for..
@@ems4580Americans always wants most of the credit from ww2 when the soviets and brits did more than them
That maybe the case for y’all 🇬🇧 but did they ever steal a German submarine like this and flexed so so hard on the enemy which the enemy couldn’t do SHIT but watch us Americans go to work in there own ship while everything is literally covered in there language and water was pouring in as well which had more then 5 Americans which is literally FUCKEN insane and Fat-Electrician I believe his name said it best on this topic..
I've gotten to meet one of the men who was part of the boarding party that secured the sub. His name is Philip trushime. His story was amazing to listen to and best of all, he lives in my town of grand junction, colorado
My great uncle was on this ship. He met his wife in Grand Junction lol
@@SpaceCowboy46 it really is a small world ain't it
i love living so close to this thing, it’s so cool
Please, read the book " Steel Boat Iron Hearts " by Hans Goebeler. He served on this same submarine and describes its entire history from the first voyage, all the difficulties and the moment of capture. A must-read for anyone who loves military history and strives to be as objective as possible.
Being 52 I remember going to Chicago to see the U505 and walking through it and watching the documentary before seeing the boat. I went there last year and it’s completely sanitized now. In the original movie they said when it surfaced they open the hatch and we blew them off the boat showing the guns of the destroyer just raking the conning tower of the sub, blowing it to shit. With the narrator saying something like the first Nazis to stick their heads out get blown as shit. Surprise Jerry’s!!
The new film the show is much more kind and politically correct. It says like a little friends came to the service in over the hatch and we surrendered it was so nice
I was at the u505 exhibit at MSI 2 days ago. Watched all the videos and don't recall hearing any "friendly" talk. In fact it was pretty much the same video as prior years.
@@71manny89 that’s because you did not see original film
the british captured a u boat and got the engima before the yanks
Thats what I heard! But then again we were on the same side!
@@Zkkr429 guess you would know. You were there right?
@@Zkkr429 yea like the news! Fake limey bullshit.
It was the, HMS Bulldog, that captured the enigma.
True
This is what inspired the movie U-571!
But that movie was not factual. Many in the Royal and Polish Navies were offended how the movie portrays the US Nave breaking those codes. Those codes were broken long before the US entered WWII.
@@truthillinois6397 thank you , I stand corrected!😁
Nah, he sent fellas in, then told his superiors he did it himself
My granddaddy was sailing on the USS Chatelain (DE-149) which was part of this hunter-killer task group escorting US Navy aircraft carrier USS Guadalcanal.
Hell ya…
Go Navy…👍
A must see if in Chicago. One of the best exhibits put together
So many heroes from that war.
If that's not already a movie, it needs to be.
it is
Oh how cool :) the Americans probably smirked and said merry Christmas
Those enigma machines and code books basically were useless. Poland and the UK both captured U boats long before the US Navy. Those codes were cracked before the US even entered World War II. The movie U571 is crap and dishonored the men of the Royal Navy and Polish Navy.
Didn’t do much else to win the war
Awesome story!
What an awesome story!!
Didnt the egocentric destroyer captain who towed the sub back aswell as its crew?,nearly get court marshalled for jeopardising the secret of enigma that had already been captured and broken ages before...
Sounds like a movie I know
This is why you take all that important stuff and throw it overboard in a weighted bag instead of relying on the ship sinking
There wasn't enough time to do that
Grand theft uboat
i went in the U505 i thought it was the best thing in chicago's msi!!
I went to msi yesterday
My great uncle J.L. Sexton was working in the engine room of this very ship, The U.S.S Guadalcanal. He witnessed this. This was hands down a turn for the Americans by pulling this off.
I've been on a WW2 submarine (US navy) and have to say it was nothing but valves, levers, gauges, and pipes. Where would a complete stranger(s) start when it came to shutting the right valves off to keep it from sinking? I don't know, the thought just seemed funny to me. Lol
Is that where they got the idea for the movie U-571?
Yes. But U571 does not represent the truth of how the enigma codes were broken.
Jackpot
Now she's in Chicago 🎉
US should send it back to Germany.. smh! 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Go NAVY! BEAT Army.
If you want to cover more boat related Intel ops the USS Pueblo and Liberty are well documented, unfortunately neither incident was good for us.
Yeah I saw the movie.
Daaaamn, BALLER STATUS ❤❤
There bravery saved MILLIONS of lives.That Enigma machine was biggest turning point of the war!!
Yes it was thanks to the Royal and Polish navies. Both captured U Boats and cracked those codes long before the US entered the war.
@@truthillinois6397 you still need an army strong enough to use the information to win 🥱
Getting that enigma was huge, if I remember correctly it was the newer one with the additional wheels.
Getting half the code book for that version of the enigma was huge as well. It allowed the Bletchley Park & US-based code breakers to re-wire their computers, before the Germans had fully deployed the new system.
Nope, the 4 wheeled enigma machine was captured from U559 by hms petard long before this? It was hms petard that actually raked the u boat with 20mm cannon and destroyed the radio signalling mast of the uboat so she couldnt send a sos or signal back to her base, the 4 rotor code system was already broken and being read at the time of this...and before that it was the aussies who helped sucure the code books with U110???.....U505 acheived absolutely zilch ,apart from putting the secret of "ultra" at peril and deep jeopardy...
And that's why the captain goes down with the ship. If the KaLeun (Kapitän Leutnant, literal translation captain leuitenant, roughly equal to commander) had stayed aboard, he'd have been able to set of the scuttling charges manually.
America!
HUGE WIN.