'"America Stole A German Submarine And Stuck It In Chicago" | Kip Reacts to The Fat Electrician

Fellow Legends, welcome! Today we dive into another excellent Fat Electrician video, this time where he explains the LEGENDARY efforts of the Americans stealing a German U-Boat. This was absolutely amazing to watch! The Fat Electrician has an amazing ability to relay history, and I really hope you liked this as much as I did. If you did like this content then I absolutely recommend you go and check out the original video to show some support for the source material!
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Original Video: America Stole A German Submarine And Stuck It In Chicago
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[@gilmadreth680]

The most scary conversation in any theater of war always starts off with two Americans and the phrase: "Hey, do you think we could..."

[@Plastikdoom]

No the scariest is a butter bar saying “in my experience” other than that, the scariest things is Americans saying can we? Or watch this.

[@enigmagrieshaber5555]

​@@Plastikdoomif you're the 3rd guy never give them more fucked up ideas 😂

[@gardraulin4746]

Fun fact: the only reason why we didn't constantly get bombarded in America by German U-boats was because we gave a bunch of civilians with private aircraft 100-pound bombs and told them to drop it on the subs, when the German general was asked why he didn't push the U-boat project his response was, and I quote "because of those damn yellow planes" that group of civilian pilots are now referred to today as the Civil Air Patrol. I'd recommend checking us out, we don't do all the stuff we used to do back in the 1940s, but we're definitely a good place to start if you're interested in the military, aviation, or leadership. We're like boy scouts, but we actually do fun stuff

[@usernamealreadytaken9330]

"What if we shot nuclear bomb at it. . . For science" Is one of the most American thing I ever heard.

[@selonianth]

We did do that with several other captured ships. The Nagato, the Prinz Eugen, both went down not to combat but to nuclear testing. Even some of our own ships died that way. The Nevada rather famously *didn't* sink despite being nuked twice and had to be towed to an appropriate location before they just shot the ever loving hell out of it till she died.

[@stevegoesrogue]

​@@selonianthI don't remember it right but I think I read that Prinz Eugen went down due to disrepair at Bikini Atoll and not from the nuclear testing that she was being subjected to

[@HMSAtomicDreadnought]

When they told the American and British admiralty they did this they were furious because the British with help from the other allies already broke the enigma and were reading German communication and if the German heard that the American stole a u bout with with an enigma machine and codebooks they would change everything and the British and allies would have to start from scratch

[@KipReacts]

So THAT'S the interaction there, thank you for clarifying!

[@RocRolDis]

I have to assume having the books and the machine itself was way better than a broken code. Also, it beautifully shows the difference between British ops and American ops. You spent years and fortunes having geniuses break one of the best ciphers in history? Dude, we just stole the thing, er, we strategically transfered the equipment to an alternate location.

[@Archris17]

@@RocRolDis Broken is broken. Alan Turing and his team knew everything the Germans were saying, so the enigma machine the Americans stole changed basically nothing. It was VITAL that no-one find out what they achieved or it could have set things like Operation Overlord back by MONTHS. This all took place just TWO DAYS beforehand after all!

[@djcuevas1057]

@@RocRolDisit’s 100% a valid concern and thing to be upset about

[@mmasque2052]

@@RocRolDisthey had already broken the Enigma codes. Having an actual machine and cypher books just meant they could break them even faster.

[@ChancySanah]

The people that built it were like, "nope." Couple dudes, first time seeing it, "Yep, that's the problem right there."

[@MrFlarespeed]

To be fair to the germans, they didn't have a boat to tow it with, so that trick with disconnecting the motor wouldn't have done anything for them.

[@chazo1367]

@@MrFlarespeedit was also so unprecedented to save the sub. This is the ONLY sub that was saved, every single other one was sunk and dealt with. No one had done something like this at all during the war, it was a crazy and suicidal mission that they managed to pull off.

[@reggriffiths5769]

@@chazo1367 I'm afraid you have not done your homework friend. It was not the only sub saved. In fact, what WAS unprecedented was the German sub captured by an RAF pilot!! It was brought ashore it Iceland (then an RAF Base for Hudson aircraft), and used by the Royal Navy for the rst of the war. It therefore became the only submarine to be usewd by both sides!! There are other subs captured that springs to mind - one in Liverpool, England, and one in Peenamunde, Germany. You really should try researching before making silly comments that show your ignorance of historicasl events. How do you think historians get their facts?

[@ShiningDarknes]

@@reggriffiths5769 Dude don't be a dick.

[@reggriffiths5769]

@@ShiningDarknes They say it takes one to know one - right Dickhead? "Shining darkness" seems to be that area in your head where a brain should be!

[@dairoleon2682]

"...the second largest navy on the planet: America's fleet of museum ships." The *disrespect.*

[@khemeher]

So that would put the Pepsi Navy at #3 right?

[@carbonwolf3865]

@@khemeher tonnage or individual ships?

[@DJ_Bonebraker]

Fun fact, but the Enigma device that was removed from the sub is ALSO not only in a museum that is open to the public, but you can actually play around with it when you visit said museum: It is one of 3 working enigma devices on display at the National Crytpologic Museum outside of the NSA complex near Ft. Meade Maryland that visitors can not only interact with, but they are encouraged to do so.

[@baseballjustin5]

Wow. They must be super diligent with it and making sure it stays in working order

[@DJ_Bonebraker]

@@baseballjustin5 The National Cryptologic Museum was originally an educational facility exclusively for orientation & training of new NSA recruits before it was finally opened to the public around 2000, so it would make sense that they'd keep the functioning exhibits in full working order, especially since they still use the facility for its original purpose outside public hours.

[@MatthewJBRO]

The Enigma Machine from the U-505 U-boat is actually in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

[@carbonwolf3865]

i find it kind of funny that even though we have made more complex ciphers, the enigma cipher is still incredibly secure and hard to crack in small transmissions.

[@dossiebigham9113]

Look up the seabees stealing a train

[@brandonmercer499]

'Seabees' and then the 'Seabee Train Robbery'

[@thatboredguy5492]

They didn’t steal it, just tried to make it fly

[@brandonmercer499]

@@thatboredguy5492 I believe you are thinking about the U.S.S Barb that managed to sink a freight train. The crew placed a 55 pound scuttling charge under the track on a makeshift pressure switch. Train came by, hit the switch, train go boom. Train then went about 200 feet into the air, hit the ground, and sunk into the ocean.

[@dossiebigham9113]

@@brandonmercer499 no but that's a good one but seabees stole a train in the Korean war

[@harrymu148]

@@dossiebigham9113 Make that seven trains and pallets of booze

[@Eboreg2]

I think the story of the U-505 is also quite interesting from the German perspective because that thing _suffered!_ In fact, I'm quite convinced that U-505's capture was partly due to the low morale of its crew.

[@kalanihanako6087]

Proof that the cameraman never dies.

[@BlacktronSigma]

Submarines were so meta that everyone did it. In fact Kreigsmarine Admiral Karl Dönitz got out of War Crimes charges relating to unrestricted submarine warfare (sinking unarmed neutral shipping in international waters without identification) because the Allies was doing similar stuff. The British ordered every ship in the Skagerrak sunk on sight in 1940, and the US conducted unrestricted submarine warfare from day 1 against Japan.

[@carbonwolf3865]

japan 1941: we destroyed your boats U.S: you destroyed some* of our boats. *eyes glowing* **omae wa mou shindeiru**

[@BlacktronSigma]

@@carbonwolf3865 Even better, of the 21 ships damaged during the Pearl Harbor attack, only 3 (Battleships Arizona and Oklahoma, and training ship Utah) did not return to active service.

[@imapopo2924]

@@carbonwolf3865 Japan: Ha ha! We sunk your boats! America (inhales): The Geneva Convention is about to become _the Geneva Checklist_ and you best believe we're about to have some extra entries. *Loads atomic bombs with murderous intent*

[@carbonwolf3865]

@@imapopo2924 lol. That's brilliant

[@samwade6935]

​@@imapopo2924 you should have used The Geneva Convention is about to become The Geneva Suggestion, I think it sounds better

[@Fyrewuffen]

We in America are really like "Hold my beer."

[@sonofjack6286]

My own boss went to the musuem this U-boat was in. She took a ton of pictures of it and texted them to me. The fact they built the entire damn exhibit around the submarine is just as insane as them towing it two thousand miles across the Atlantic to Bermuda.

[@soldierofevil168]

Use to live north of Chicago and the Museum of Science and industry is a really cool place the uboat is cool but you do need to pay extra to go to its exhibit alongside the normal museum entry

[@BlacktronSigma]

The exhibit is free, it costs extra to tour the inside of the sub. U505 got moved to an indoor exhibit a few years ago.

[@JC12223]

I saw the title and immediately knew it was the 505 lmao, I used to live less than an hour east of Chicago and in 3 years visited the MSI like 11 times xD

[@johngillespie3409]

@@JC12223 east Chicago is lake Michigan 😜. I live 2 miles on the Southside. Been there lots of times, but n ever knew how it got here though.

[@boringnoninterestingname65]

@@JC12223dude I fricking love the MSI it was such a fun experience I love the giant train model too lol

[@TheNukedNacho]

4:50 “As somebody that really loves the concept of Mortars, this is more mortar per mortar. I love it. It’s perfect.”

[@KahavaveCAPIPI]

Whose gonna tell Lucy that Kip was more attracted to that axe than her? Alternate comment - I wish someone would look at me the way Kip looked at that axe.

[@phildicks4721]

There was good news for the U505 Commander. Years after the war, Admiral Gallery met the former commander in West Germany. The commander was happy and had a very good job at a major shipyard.

[@Gilhelmi]

Do "Cassius Clay". He was the son of the Wealthiest Slave owner, who turned Abolitionist and fought against Slavery. He fertilized the land with the blood of our enemies. 😊

[@megmolkate]

I first visited the sub when it was still outside 30 years ago. Took my 4 daughters to see it 4 years ago when the oldest was 12. The girls asked if they could touch it and were delighted when I told them we were going to go aboard. The new exhibit is incredible, at the old one you accessed the boat from inside the museum and could get only a ground level view from outside. The new exhibit offers a much greater range of views and greatly expanded information. It was regarded by my girls as the highlight of our visit to the museum 3+ hours trip one way. The exhibit seems to try to create an atmosphere of a sub pen, and does so quite effectively.

[@comradedog4075]

Fun fact we used hedge hog mortar because the allowed the us navy to hit and destroy a submarine with out breaking sonar contact.

[@discoprince9065]

Pulling a gamer move in WW2.

[@phildicks4721]

Admiral Dan Gallery was a prolific author of both nonfiction and humorous Naval fiction.. I highly recommend his books, but sadly they are out of print and rather expensive on the secondary market. Fun fact. Two of Admiral Dan Gallery's brothers also made it to the rank of Admiral in the US Navy(one was an Naval Aviator and the other served in the Destroyer Division), a fourth brother was a priest and served as a Naval Chaplin. The Frigate USS Gallery is named for the brothers.

[@andryu_0764]

U.S. Military regarding explosive ordinance. "Like the Mythbusters always say, if it worth doing, it's worth OVERDOING!"

[@folkblues4u]

Was on that U-boat years ago, before it was enclosed, when it used to just be outside. It's hard to imagine spending extended time in one. Just being inside with a dozen other people for 10 minutes is a claustrophobic experience.

[@Kingofdragons117]

Fun Fact. When U Boat 505 got to Chicago, it was mostly stripped of parts. So the Museum Director contacted the German manufacturers for help in which they gave them all the parts free of charge.

[@BlackEpyon]

It speaks well of them that they honoured the extended warranty!

[@joerowell1284]

Ah yes the grand theft uboat and also please do the one on gurhkas next!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jacklucas5908]

The Gurkhas are fucking badass. I second this notion!

[@hideflen6078]

The exhibit is really great, too!

[@Johan_the_Marshal]

4:48 And here we see Kips neurons firing at full force thinking "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM~ Sexy!~"

[@jonathanmiller6381]

You know what's epic dude! I actually saw and heard the story about the actual guy the Uboat leaders uniform in real life from a collector that got it from the Admiral that found and rescued the actual guy and the Uboat guy actually came and joined us the USA and rose through the ranks of our Intelligence network during ww2! :D Also I heard from the collector that basically he's now 100 something years old now and is still alive! :D The Collector basically I bought from him multiple times in Virginia and he's pretty awesome has a lot of old military things and I bought from him Irish Brigade Artifacts! :D But that was really cool to see the actual uniform he got from him and he said it was an honor to get it from the wife of the Admiral as a gift cause they knew he'd take care of it and also treasure it as well! :D Also just subbed to your channel as well! :D

[@joemurphy5769]

I went and took a tour of that sun when I was in Chicago. It’s amazing! Definitely worth the time and money.

[@theshig9618]

So, the reason they sent a photographer, was they didn't know if they could keep it afloat and take it with them, so he was there to take pictures of everything so the Americans could find weaknesses in design and exploit that. If they'd failed to tow the boat the whole way, those photos would have been potentially VERY important.

[@naughtiousmaximus2687]

I grew up by Chicago and have actually been in that Submarine on a tour it is amazing. The most shocking thing is just how tight everything is in that ship and you realize people lived in that ship for such long periods of time. Reality really starts to sink in when you try to process how life in that ship or any submarine can not have be easy.

[@derpdeherp7121]

I walked through it while I was on a vaction. It was quite neat.

[@KingofKarnies]

No shit, one day my Junior Year of Highschool while at a friend's house his Dad came home and said "This just got declassified today. So I was North of the 32nd parallel being chased by North Koreans....". If you're looking for alternative entertainment talk to an old ass veteran. I'm an old veteran, 43, not an old ass veteran.

[@mugenokami2201]

You memorize that shit.

[@anzaca1]

1:26 Actually, the U-boats were a collossal failure. They enjoyed early success, but simply never had the numbers to be effective, and were basically eliminated as a threat failry early.

[@Kingofdragons117]

US Submarines on the other hand in the Pacific.....

[@Purple-----]

Holy fuck i went to see this thing on a field trip to the science and industry museum and didnt even know how important it was back then.

[@joey_556]

Now you gotta react to the submarine that sunk a train by the fat electrician

[@josephritchhart998]

I toured the 505 as kid and the importance and awe of it was lost on me. After hearing this, I think you're video should be mandatory viewing prior to entey.

[@enigmagrieshaber5555]

American Quotes that you wouldn't want to hear in military: What if, Hear me out, Can We?, Should we?, How about, Listen, Here's the plan, I'm bored lets do something fun, I wonder if we could, Don't mind if I do, that looks fun and many others

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

Churchill's Strained look at Coventry, what most thought was sadness and disgust was also secretly mixed with responsibility, they knew it was coming and couldn't say anything.

[@RocRolDis]

Your u-boat? MY u-boat.

[@warlynx5644]

You-boat? No, it’s a me-boat now

[@sandwichanomaly6339]

Makes me wanna go back and play UBOAT again.

[@c_eize]

The U.S military is literally the most gangster military I swear to you. I can't explain to you how but yknow what I mean

[@0sirus1989]

So finding Nemo was really finding no one lol

[@tsengeltsolmon5952]

CAMERAMEN ARE UNSTOPPABLE 😅😅

[@hjrulez8516]

I expect nothing less from the squids

[@Northbravo]

Kip how dare you make me remember Unit 731

[@soundsofexpressions3720]

Definitely need to review his video on the Benelli probably the funniest one hes made

[@elofton4855]

Kip @ sponsor: That's hot. My goblin brain: Do they make knives/ handsaws?

[@ianjardine7324]

Look into the bombing of Coventry probably one of the hardest call's Churchill ever made and one which haunted him afterwards.

[@Gundam944]

I've actually been to visit that sub. It's absolutely amazing.

[@articcherry8398]

Navy is HOOYAH Who-Yah

[@RocRolDis]

The hedgehog is MOARtar

[@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539]

I translated your comment an it says the hedgehog is DEAD

[@MommyKhaos]

I actually went there when I was 13 visiting family. It's fucking epic and of you're ever in Chicago you should get a tour immediately

[@tpinkstaff402]

I've been to see it it's so cool

[@erika_itsumi5141]

oora would still work because the Marines are the infantry units of the US Navy

[@boringnoninterestingname65]

Hey I’ve been inside the submarine lol when I went to see my brother in Chicago a couple years back

[@starsetgamer8914]

i have personally been inside said submarine, it's fucking cool!!!!!!

[@wendigo9114]

1:42 he laughs this early just reacting to some videos, but him reacting to Markiplier, he doesn't laugh once.

[@stratigangames508]

Mark's a nice guy, but he's not that funny.

[@thargs9184]

to be honest, there is one in canada, nova scotia I think, but might be in such bad shape it might be considered whole anymore

[@chaosXP3RT]

19:00 I'm not sure its that much of a logisticial feat. You can sail a ship from the St. Lawrence river in Canada (it opens up in the north Atlantic) down into the Great Lakes and then down to Chicago. The Great Lakes are the largest freshwater lakes in the world and they are great at storing ships because freshwater does less damage to ships that saltwater. I'm just saying. Up here in Wisconsin, we have the USS Cobia, a US WWII submarine and every year thousands upon thousands of tons of goods are shipped through the Great Lakes, usually out of places like Green Bay and Superior (or Duluth, Minnesota).

[@JoeKier7]

This is how the sub did get to Chicago. The over-land transport was only a few miles from the port to the museum.

[@thomasohanlon1060]

You also need to understand the father and head of the German U-Boat fleet Admiral K. Donitz did not have the number of U-boats he wanted to have at the start of the war. He felt with the right amount of pressure placed on British supply lines from Canada & the U.S., Germany could to drive the British to sue for peace. That magic number was 300, yet he managed to sink the tonnage he did with a fleet at the start of the war with 57 boats and of those only 27 could reach the Atlantic ocean from their bases in Germany.

[@djphroop]

American grandpa's were 100% built different. Or as us grandpa's would say cut from a different cloth.

[@andryu_0764]

For anyone who sees this and thinks, "Wow, this sounds llike The Hunt for Red Oktober... You're not wrong.

[@domination1985]

You would love his vid on war tractors

[@briandstephmoore4910]

Good thing he clarified a hedgehog not THE hedgehog we all know ron Jeremy would sink a sub very differently

[@domination1985]

Navy says heeeeeey😘

[@domination1985]

I'm joking my grandpa was in the navy

[@thebassgamertv]

one of the previous captains of u-505 shot himself in the bridge during a depth charge attack

[@prussia1557]

I've seen it, it's pretty neat.

[@sonofjack6286]

4:38 A maritime mortar shotgun.

[@MrMaradok]

4:32 Wait…is that…a Korean Hwacha that’s been Americanized?

[@Dragonsofchaos852]

16:53 untill 17:03 Uuuuuh, should i be worried if i looked it up?

[@chaz706]

I have been inside that U Boat.

[@anzaca1]

4:54 And the Hedgehog was actually a British invention.

[@Ghost49590]

I’ve seen that. It was neat lol

[@Myztek26]

Why does Kip have active NDA's.

[@Kachowgga]

LETS GO

[@Snipez4104]

See but they could have easily broken the new codes anyways since what do WW2 german reports always end with? HH... and no way would they think that was how the code got broke alongside the people who write the messgaes would never "disrepect" the Fuher by leaving that out

[@jaskim5723]

The only bigger FU is they put it in the great salt lake

[@britishreaper7717]

Imaging being that much of a shitter u grand theft auto’d a *German Uboat!* in the middle of WW2 and then take it for a joyride after the war to make money from touring it. This is why the axis lost. They “woke the slumbering giant” that was the US and paid for it.

[@toakongu1]

Its a shame that carpet bombing mortar tech didnt go anywhere, woule have been fun to see

[@kdrapertrucker]

Well, it kind of became obsolete, you see, both the U.S. and Germany introduced wake homing torpedoes late in the war, with the U.S. developing wire guided homing torpedoes postwar. Why spray an area with dumb bombs when you can shoot a single torpedo.

[@brettswanson]

I recommend not messing with American boats or ships. We do not like that.

[@nunyabiz8305]

In the same way there is only right and wrong there is also only black and white, the people that want to play and say there's gray are the people that usually end up messing it up for everyone, there are always exceptions to the rule

[@Tar-Numendil]

Looked up Unit 731. I'm sorely disappointed in the United States of 1945. Even more so than I was with the knowledge of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[@Tomas-qk5fy]

Unit 731 experimented on civilians during ww2 wtf are you on about?

[@bodugok]

yoink

[@notmebeingme461]

no reddit?

[@jonuschurchill7130]

Methane, it lowers the density of the water and air, and can cause electrical distortion. The 📐 doesn't fa....

[@lavaboatcubesupportsukrain7539]

I read that according to statistics the amount of losses in the Bermuda triangle is no more than anywhere else and the whole thing is just a myth.