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The Netherlands was invaded by Germany in the Second World War, its fleet largely escaping to Britain to continue the fight there. Another Dutch fleet was stationed in the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia), which prepared to defend Allied possessions in Asia from the Japanese. Part of this fleet consisted of 15 submarines, commanded by Conrad Helfrich, who would soon earn the moniker “ship-a-day” as in December of 1941 the force of Dutch submariners would sink more Japanese ships than the American, British, and Australian navies combined. This is the story of the Dutch submarine fleet in the Second World War in the Pacific.
Sources Used:
General:
https://archive.is/20121205182220/http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/classes/class_kxiv.htm
http://www.avalanchepress.com/DutchSubs.php
https://archive.navalsubleague.org/1993/dutch-submarines-in-world-war-ii-the-far-east
https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/netherlands/dutch-submarines.php
O-16:
https://magazines.defensie.nl/allehens/2016/10/11_016-de-tegenaanval
KXVII:
http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/boats/boat_kxvii.htm
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The Dutch were fortunate because shortly before Germany invaded, they had just renewed the extended warranties on their naval ships.
The Dutch proved like they do today that they where the better nazi's…
The Dutch never had any naval prowess in WW2! Their Far East fleet was destroyed along the coast of Java in days…..
great prunounciation on the onderzeebooten
What makes these stories even more tragic is that most of these wrecks have been completely destroyed and robbed by scrap steel hunters.
Meer Hollandse glorie!
There is absolutely no reason for any form of Dutch national pride here. Unfortunately, the story of the Battle of the Java Sea in particular is one of the saddest examples of clumsiness and incompetence.
Deze podcast in het Engels gesprokken met Noord Hollandse uitspraak zit heel goed in elkaar.
Well I am dutch and i can say they were very brave and fought well in the east but in the west when they fough aiganst the germans they fought well we had 4 tanks only 2 worked sadly they bombt our city Rotterdam so they surrended also our queen went to england respect to het so our president has to stay in the netherlands during a war but they leaved to so the dutch people fealed betrayed
(don`t mind my grammar pls)
0:23 in 1667 a dutch fleet, under command of admiral de Ruyter sailed up the river medway, destroyed a lot of naval fortifications, deployed marines, captured 3 british ships, including the flagship of the time the HMS royal charles, this event is now called the raid on the medway, and was the event thats practically ended the second anglo-dutch war, in the favor of the Dutch.
0:24 Not just the Brits. Basically, they went toe-to-toe with anyone who stood in their way. A street in my hometown of Debrecen, Hungary bears the name of Michiel de Ruyter until the present day, and a memorial was erected to honour him, next to the Protestant Great Church. On February 11th, 1676, off the coast of Naples, he facilitated the release of 26 Protestant ministers, whom were sold into slavery, to work on Spanish galleys.
This is really sweet. Talking about Dutch submarines (around 2:40) you're showing profiles of modern Russian attack submarines. Come on, dude.
One point to consider about that English secret agent’s story. I presume you tell it correctly: What then would have been the point of involving Her Majesty queen Wilhelmina? -None; she’d best been past by by conspirators Churchill and Roosevelt.
That the former agent names her in fact makes his story much less credible.
The Japanese surrender was not signed on a US aircraft carrier but on the battleship USS Missouri , currently an impressive museum ship in Pearl Harbour Hawaii.
ik gok door die uitspraak dat jij ook nederlands bent
For those wondering, the dutch word for submarine is "onderzeeboot". This would literally translate to: "onder" below, "zee" sea, "boot" boat. So simply a boat below the sea.
Who survived WW2? When and where was the rest of the U-boats lost?
3 lost in battle or in minefields? 8 scuttled in docks or Harbours? Did only 4 survive? Out of 15?
There's a fab museum in Den Helder – you can go in a old sub there, plus other cool maritime/naval exhibits.
Thanks for uploading this. I didn't no much about the Dutch Navy in WW2.
oeh i hope this video talks about 1-a-day-Helfrink ! the captain that sank 58 Japanese ships in 60 days, while the rest of the Alliance didn't even reach that number together !
For Europe WW2 was 1939-1945.
Helfrich tekende het einde van de Oorlog op een Battle ship van de Amerikanen .
Verder heel gaaf verslag ! Petje af.
Perfect pronounciation, prob. born and raised as well…
The Dutch East Indies, where 3 million people got killed during the war…and we fought a naval battle in the Java sea. After the war the English and Americans betrayed us, not helping to liberate the Indies from the Japanese-supported Javanese who g
took over power in the Colony.
Mooie video! interessant stukje geschiedenis 🙂
your introduction is way to long
Not just Dutch submarines continued the fight against Japan. Dutch merchant marine, civilian aircraft and elements of the air force and army evacuated to Australia where they operated under Australian and ultimately MacArthur's command. The Netherlands East Indies civilian government in exile also relocated to Brisbane near MacArthur's HQ.
Dutch commandos and civil affairs officers supported the Australian operation to recapture British and Dutch Borneo in 1945.
When the Japanese surrendered in August 1945 Australian forces with Dutch support had already occupied the NEI from Borneo eastward.
Australia called the Dutch the "Fourth Ally".
The role of Dutch forces and NEI government in exile evacuated to Australia would make an interesting video.
8:00 Vening Meinesz was a Dutch scientist who invented a method for accurately measuring the strength of gravity. He made several long voyages on Dutch submarines, measuring gravity in many locations, and he discovered there are small changes in Earth's gravitational field, e.g. above deep trenches in the ocean the field is slightly weaker. These trenches turn out to be the places where tectonic plates meet.
There's a movie about his experiments, along with a book (which I have).