These are 40 of the best and most exciting WW2 submarine adventures, following the day-to-day actions of the most successful combat submarine skippers. Watch with them as the big freighters go down, listen to the sound of shearing metal, and wait out the depth charge attacks in close, airless quarters, hundreds of feet underwater.
Share the thoughts and perceptions of legendary commanders like “Mush” Morton, Charles Kirkpatrick, J.R. “Dinty” Moore, Thomas Klakring, N.G. Ward, C.R. Burlingame, John S. Coye, and Dick O’Kane as they stalk their prey, wait in ambush, and face the rigors of failing equipment, unpredictable torpedoes, and ramming attempts by freighters and escorts. All these great stories, and more, are told in detail here.
Yes, German submarines did and they were responsible for a number of ship sinkings off the eastern coast, in places like Georgia and the Carolina's.
In addition, Japanese submarines were rare but did make appearances off the coast of California, sinking a few ships and also shelling Santa Barbara and Santa Monica.
1008 U boats were built and made at least one cruise during the Second Battle of the North Atlantic, 1939-45; 775 were sunk; 600 by the Royal Navy and the rest by the US………..and one by the Free Polish Navy!
The American Submarine fleet, dubbed the Silent Service, was almost single-handedly responsible for the destruction of the japanese merchant fleet, sinking 1152 ships and cutting off the strategically vital oil supplies from Indonesia. I don't think that US boats were technically superior to the German U-boats. There were serious problems early in the war with the magnetic fuses and depth settings on the US torpedoes. The torpedoes would run too deep. The high command demanded a setting of twenty feet, and the would run at sixty feet. The only submarine captains who got kills int he early part of the war were the ones who disobeyed orders and set thier torpedoes to run on the surface.
Just something I put together from the film.
Duration : 0:6:15
1 May 1999
In a new major investigation, one of the Australian Navy’s most respected former officers says the new Collins class submarines from Swedish manufacturer Kockums are potentially unsafe.
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Another video using pictures from Microsoft Paint
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Russian nuclear submarines in training start-up of ballistic missiles in the Arctic Ocean. NATO apparently derived the name ‘Typhoon’ from a 1974 speech by Leonid Brezhnev which mentioned a new SSBN called the “Tayfun”. In fact, the Russian name for the class is “Akula” — “Shark”. During the Cold War the Typhoon submarines prowled the waters of the North Atlantic. The Typhoon is the world’s largest submarine and was one of the most feared weapons of the Cold War. Each submarine is capable of carrying twenty long-range ballistic missiles RSM-52 ( SS-N-20 ballistic missiles, now SS-N-28 new Russian ballistic missiles) with up to 200 nuclear warheads that were once aimed at the United States.
The design of the Typhoon submarine is multi-hulled and bears resemblance to a catamaran. The submarine has two separate pressure hulls with a diameter of 7.2 m each, five inner habitable hulls and 19 compartments. The pressure hulls are arranged parallel to each other and symmetrical to a centerplane. The missile compartment is arranged in the upper part of the bow between the pressure hulls. Both hulls and all compartments are connected by transitions. The pressure hulls, the centerplane and the torpedo compartment are made of titanium and the outer light hull is made of steel. A protected module, comprising the main control room and electronic equipment compartment, is arranged behind the missile silos above the main hulls in a centerplane under the guard of retractable devices.The submarine’s design includes features to enable it to both travel under ice and for ice-breaking. It has an advanced stern fin with horizontal hydroplane fitted after the screws. The nose horizontal hydroplanes are in the bow section and are retractable into the hull. The retractable systems include two periscopes (one for the commander and one for general use), radio sextant, radar, radio communications, navigation and direction-finder masts. They are housed within the sail guard. The sail and sail guard have a reinforced rounded cover for ice-breaking.
This fastest weapon for 2-3 minute Apocalypse for any military opponent.
God Bless never do it…
Duration : 0:3:31
.14 Claymore Mine.
.57 Oil fires, first Gulf War
1.11 20mm Chain Gun.
1.16 Relaxing on Submarine deck before Mission.
1.39. Richard “Mack” Machowicz from Future Weapons took this picture during a training mission as proof he had the primary target in his sights.
2.02 Young MCPO Griffin
2.15 Submarine “Lock Out.”
2.20 SEAL firing Claymore Mine.
2.46 Pilot Rescue Training Mission.
2.55 MCPO Griffin Sniper Mission.
3.18 Rubber Duck Drop.
3.24 MCPO Griffin “Spotter” Sniper Training.
3.40 Submarine Dry Deck Launch.
These are photos I’ve collected during my 24-years as a Navy SEAL. Pictures from SEALs doing various training and deployments with SEAL Team overseas. BUD/S Training, SEAL Qualification Training, and SEAL Team is the order for guys aspiring to become Navy SEALs.
70-80% of BUD/S Trainee’s will not survive SEAL Training with the toughest part being Week, a grueling 5 and a half days with trainees continually on the move with little or no sleep.
Log PT, surf torture, boat drills and the mud flats it gets much better in SEAL Team as guys attend Jump School for static line and free fall parachuting, breaching school or sniper school to name a few and worth every push up they do in BUD/S Training, “The Toughest Military Training in the World.”
Duration : 0:3:51
from the movie Yellow Submarine
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