April 24, 1945. Edsall-class destroyer USS Flaherty vigilantly patrolled the perilous North Atlantic on the hunt for a horde of deadly German U-boats. Under the codename Operation Teardrop, she formed part of a 24-vessel barrier force whose mission was not only to stop the Nazi submarines from torpedoing crucial Allied supply ships but to prevent a much more terrifying scenario: a devastating U-boat-based missile attack on the mainland United States itself.
As Flaherty roved the vast ocean, suddenly, her radio crackled to life with alarming news: fellow destroyer USS Frederick C. Davis had been hit by a German acoustic homing torpedo, and things didn’t look good. Without wasting a moment, Flaherty dashed through the waves as quickly as she could toward the floundering Davis, determined to save as many souls as possible.
Arriving within minutes, Flaherty was met with a scene of utter chaos and destruction. Davis had broken in two and was rapidly succumbing to the depths as her unfortunate crew fought for their lives among the wreckage and oil slicks. Flaherty’s men managed to haul three survivors from the frigid waters before her lifesaving mission was abruptly interrupted by an urgent message from her sonar operator: the attack’s wily perpetrator was still lurking nearby. With other Allied ships taking over rescue responsibilities, Flaherty was free to focus on her new objective: revenge.
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That's true German was quick in making rocket U-boats and it was deadly attack if it was us in USA soil it. USA will be in dire situation 😬☢🛢
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There were stories that the scientists at Penamundie (sp?) we’re working on a two stage V-2 that could cross the Atlantic and hit our East coast.
So once again its obvious that the Americans committed war crimes against prisoners and then destroyed the evidence post war.
Achtung! Isn't that Kommandant Klink at 4:18 – 4:24?
Torturing prisoners is unforgivable.
Krieg ist die Hölle.
Always wondered why no one has made a nuclear powered sub that was rocket powerd
We know of a Mr Kim who is called Rocketman but Werner von Braun was the only true Rocketman, right, Elton?
I used to really like your content, but this is an example of why I don’t so much anymore. Using images of nuclear explosions to illustrate the threat of German buzz bombs when the Germans had no such nuclear technology is ridiculous and it’s analogous to Clickbait … shame on you.
THE FACT IS THE TACTICS USED TO GAIN INTELLIGENCE SAVED THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN LIVES !!! POSSIBLY YOUR GRANDPARENTS OR GREAT GRANDPARENTS AND RELATIVES !!!
this is another good reason why you brought in nazis
Any of those tortured U-boat sailors still living? If so ask them & find out what they went through at the hands of Americans as POW.
The Germans were trying to develop the capability to launch a V2 from the sea, either by towed barge on a surface ship or a submergible barge with a dry storage hanger towed by a sub. Since there was nearly zero chance of a surface unit getting anywhere near the US coast undetected a submarine was really the only option. While the mission and equipment was feasible on a technical level it would have had very little chance of success.
1. The towing submarine would have been very VERY slow to manage the tow.
2. Greatly impacted the towing submarines seakeeping in weather.
3. If the barge was to sink it could not be disconnected underwater, likely resulting in the loss of sub and crew.
4. It took a couple of hours to prepare and launch a V2 on land but the difficulty increases when working at sea from a barge. The rocket is not structurally sound enough to be raised if pre fueled, it has to be fueled upright but the barge required it to be carried laying down.
5. The crew would need plenty of light to prepare a launch, so either launched in daylight or with plenty of work lights, either option leaves the surfaced sub vulnerable to visible detection.
6. Submarine cannot quickly dive once launch preparation has begun leaving them very vulnerable to attack.
7. Rocket must be launched within 200 miles of its target city further raising the likelihood of detection on the surface (day or night) during launch preparations.
8. Even using a submarine with a submersible launch barge the system still covers most of its journey on the surface using its diesel engines. The combination of sub and launch barge had very poor dive performance if they needed to dive to evade detection.
9. The barge imposed a severe maximum depth penalty (less than 50m if I recall)
10. It would take over ten thousand sorties to have a meaningful impact on the war and each barge could only carry 1 rocket. This is more U-Boat sorties than the Kriegsmarine undertook over the entire war and not by a small margin.
Put simply it was pie in the sky and nearly a suicide mission for the poor crew tasked with such a mission. Even if it had been deployed in 1941 (well before the V2 even existed as a working weapon) and sustained over the entire war and every sortie was 100% successful launching its rocket and hitting its target it would have had virtually no impact on the war for Germany if for no other reason than not having nearly enough submarines available even if they had every U-Boat doing nothing but launching V2's. Realistically those U-Boats were having a much greater impact on the war effort by actually focusing on sinking ships to reduce American personnel, war material, and fuel reaching the front. This is because you would have to do immense damage to many cities to impact production capacity to build a tank, but sinking a ship full of them is faster, easier, cheaper, and safer by comparison. For all those reasons it never really got past preliminary design specifications.
The V1 was also called the doddle bug, by londoners. hope this helps. Leona
Doodlebugs!!
I think I've finally had enough of your low energy clickbait bullshit. Channel blocked.
Your spinning it as Americans were the ass hole. Yet again. Let's not forget what the U-boats were going to do. They didn't just hit shipping. Land attacs happend along the eastern seaboard and the gulf. Hiter was incinerating human by the million. This was at its core. An operation to protect America from Hitler. This was highly effective and saved many innocent lives as no shipping or Shor bombardment happen under their watch. As for the prisoners that was then this is now. That was the normal back then. Not just in America. In Japan prisoners were tortured to death one after another. Batan Death march ring a bell?? How about Germany for example? They also tortured their prisoners. The mangler ring a bell? Medical experiments etc. Russia just beat people to death or gave them exotic poisons. So ya America beat the shit out of a few prisoners in an effort to save lives. Now let's think about the fact the vast majority of German POWs stayed in America. Wonder what that says about America… Your anti American BS has cost you a viewer. Any chance you get you add little digs about America while gently praising most others.
They where trying to keep Kraken a secret so they could incorporate it into US tactics and further develop it.
America is a continent not a country, there are no american citizens, you meant US citizens.
Pa Pa Pete Marsitane? or Marzipain? was Batlle of the Atlantic PBY's the whole ride down through the Americas' gulf, or caribbean, maybe a first EWO, retired from NASA? then CA realestate. Very cool dude, "I think" I was the "only" one he ever talked much with about this, as I knew history as a kid growing up with these Vets.
Teenage girls on horseback patrolled the beach at Atlantic Beach, FL, looking for U-boats during WW2.
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The one thing you can't help but notice is that in every wwII documentary is the fact that the allies cracked the communication codes of the enemy. Had that not happened I shudder to think what the outcome might have been. If nothing else the war would have dragged on many years.
Well well WELL… Torturing prisoners to obtain information… What a surprise. After all, Victor dictates history. But that's ok, we're the good guys… Tit for tat..
You would have thought after time esp' how diligent the Germans are after they are met with force time after time ,they would have asked hey guys we have been hacked
The U-Boats would have worked better if they weren't micromanaged. They should have been sent out and told "good luck have fun and let us know when you need us". Instead BdU constantly sent messages out that were decoded by the Allies and the U-Boats had to make contact with BdU every day and were always found where they were expected.
An interesting and informative video, but I think that the value of groups of warships hunting U-boats was originally demonstrated by Capt "Johnny" Walker CB. DSO and three bars, while Alan Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Parker the people who cracked the German codes and, according to many, developed the first (Colossus) computer. Both were British, and some of us are weary of films and videos giving the impression that USA won WW II single-handed. Oh – and did we not also give you, without payment, the UK technologies in ASDIC and radar, and a useful little medicine called penicillin? Credit where it is due, please
The Germans were within six months of having their own nuclear weapons and they Already had the missile capability! The way the war ended was very very close to being lost. The only thing was that the Nazi’s would have had only enough for either one or two bombs. Look at who was in charge of NASA for many years the Nazi top missile man Werner Von Braun!
Your videos are lies and I have unsubscribed.
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