German WW2 Explosive Speed Boats

The Germans developed a novel way to try and sink Allied ships - super fast radio-controlled explosive motor boats. Were they successful?
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[@grumblekin]

Germans: ....the pilot jumps out and the boat hits the target and blows up. The pilot lives. The Japanese: WHAAAAAAAAAAAA?

[@SekTauBand]

mostuh deeshonorable!

[@CBielski87]

ya i wonder how many of these pilots got back to safety tho

[@Combinehuntsmanunit]

@@CBielski87 if the ship sank you swim back or drown if it failed you were captured

[@EpicThe112]

In reality it's Germans and Italians the Japanese has the one blow up with the boat.

[@sozekeysersoze]

“Heading home for tea, and Iron crosses” 😂😂😂

[@slick4401]

Schnapps and Iron crosses, more likely.

[@sonet66]

Yeah made my day too 🤣

[@herbwag6456]

Bier?

[@korbell1089]

I was thinking "ersatz coffee and Iron Crosses!"

[@Hebdomad7]

Bier, Schnitzel und Eisernes Kreuz ? Is this more correct?

[@RGC-gn2nm]

Running high light boats in the North sea and channel that late in the war was suicide. The Italians had better results in the Med due to calmer seas and warmer water.

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Honestly I am not sure why the Germans did not just exclusively operate the Linsen in the Med, specifically the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, while operating midget submarines exclusively in the North Sea and the English Channel. Seems the most logical thing to do... but I guess logic was in short supply in 1945.

[@MlTGLIED]

@@_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._- Like You said. The Ideologic beats the logic at this time ;)

[@acchaladka]

Níłch’i naalkidí ᛏᛖᛚᛖᚹᛁᛋᛁᛟᚾ दूरदर्शन التلفاز Logic in any army is in short supply usually, and especially in war time.

[@ziblot1235]

@@_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._- They used them where they were needed. English shipping was in the Channel. The med was a side show.

[@neutronalchemist3241]

And better design, and better employment doctrine. To pretend to use explosive motorboats in a mass assault was just stupid. The boats were very vulnerable, so they had to approach the target undetected until it was too late for the ship's weapon to react. Few motorboats could do it, a flottilla was too easily detected.

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@LUCKYDUCKY 62 Hello. I think the dude was just not knowing how to ask this bc he doesnt have much experience with this and you know a lot off people are extremly sensitive nowadays. Sry for bad english

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@@seanc.5310 I find it absolutely perfect. It fits with the grey images, sounds like being part of that era.

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"How effective were they? The first disaster...." lol

[@Jonjs99]

idiot, its not funny

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The Limony Snickets conundrum: Then the unthinkable happened - again.

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@@Jonjs99 anything's funny if you try hard enuf

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@@Jonjs99 I found it funny, what you going to do about it, eh? Oh right, nothing!

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5:45 what a gamer

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*The God Gamer of WW2*

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Looks like an ancestor of the Competition Pro...

[@Jonjs99]

Idiots

[@neinnein9306]

Linse = also German word for lentil So if you have enough Linsen, you can make lentil soup.

[@spot1401]

"Bohnen und Linsen bringen den Arsch zum Grinsen" (Beans and lentils make your ass grin. Flatulence, you know...) ;)

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@@spot1401 Wenn's Arscherl brummt, ist's Herzerl gesund!

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Sounds like the RN did : )

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It means lens

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Sounds good to me!

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[@spot1401]

Linse means "lentil". A "Rotte" is coloquially a group of wild boars.

[@kulturfreund6631]

Rotte is not colloquial, it´s an official term. Either for a group/pack of boars, a military sub-unit/rotte or a gang.

[@spot1401]

@@kulturfreund6631 Recht haste, coloqually gehört da nicht hin

[@kulturfreund6631]

@@spot1401 Kann ja mal vorkommen. Schönen Tag noch : )

[@DannyBGer]

Maybe for "Wasserlinse" or duckweed.

[@gilles2708]

I live in scheveningen never knew that Germans used linden here

[@luuko656]

Also S-boat and seaplanes there...

[@oddballsok]

also an impressive german bunker complex in the Staelduinse bos just east of Hoek van Holland.

[@VeraTR909]

My uncle was killed in the early morning by an allied bombardment of a V1(or 2) base in Vriesland (he was getting milk from a nearby farm with his dad) The war is so close here in the Netherlands.

[@HydraUK]

Sorry for how English people pronounce the name of Scheveningen! :)

[@gilles2708]

HydraUK its okay

[@johngibson2884]

Great video ...again.. Regiment 800 "Special Instruction group, Brandenburg" were part of a secretive , multi- language /Ethnic Sudaten /Polish German units for Special Op's. Created in 1939.These hand selected men spoke perfect home German and at least 2 other dialects of English, French, Portugese, Afrikaans, Polish, Slovak, Russian...more. They had specialist units to master any language ... contrary to false history beliefs this unit was not created to win or even for the fight of the Battle of the Bulge this secretive unit is much older than that ...and was used to infiltrate border territory before both the Polish and Russian campaign, quite effectively, and secure border postings and roads ahead of attacks . As these are also the Kriegsmarine units that secured the ground infiltration at and under Eben Emael where only 2 Germans died ....and shortly after at Athens ; taking several key government buildings and the main radio sending station . Would be good to see a video about this amazing, little discussed unit.

[@yochaiwyss3843]

Wasn't their insignia a mask and a dagger? If so then I believe they were the first to reach Maikop in the Fall Blau Operation

[@douglasstrother6584]

I've never heard of the Linsen before! ... and I'm a WWII geek. Another great episode!

[@xvsj5833]

Amazing “remote control “ Germany’s technology 60 years ahead of RC drones

[@AtheistOrphan]

X VSJ - Google the Kettering and Sperry bugs from WW1.

[@_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._-]

Nikola Tesla has them all beat. U.S. Patent 613,809 -Method of an Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vehicle or Vehicles. The year? 1898.

[@daveroberts6884]

They had remote control glider bombs early in the war too.

[@flybobbie1449]

@@_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._- Radio controlled boat, i believe.

[@THE-HammerMan]

"What a disaster!" "Yes, but it sure beats the Eastern Front. Let's try it again...and again!"

[@CaesarInVa]

Ever notice how the guys doing these things, like plowing their explosives-laden boats or planes into the enemy's ships, are never the guys who came up with these bright ideas? I always wondered how the upper echelon talked the lower ranks into doing these things. "Hey Hans, I've got a great idea! We are going to put you at the helm of a small, fast boat, laden to the gunwales with high explosives, and you're going to run the thing into that British battleship over yonder in the harbor", or "Hey Fritz, I've a great way for you to secure a glorious death for der Fatherland! Just get behind this wheel, steer the boat over to that enemy ship on the horizon and right before collision, jump off! You'll only be doing about 90 kph, and dodging machine-gun fire secondary-battery fire, but we think your chances of survival are quite good. About 5%, given the variables! Hurry Fritz, this unique opportunity is going fast!" You KNOW an idea isn't a good one when the people who came up with it are no where to be found.

[@curtisthomas2670]

Propaganda, indoctrination and manipulation of people's patriotism, nationalism, religious beliefs etc. Same as with sui cide bom bers.

[@ww748]

Actually, this isn’t entirely accurate. The admiral in charge of organizing and launching hundreds of kamikaze attacks during Operation Ten-Go, Admiral Ugaki, made his own fatal kamikaze attack at the very end of the war. At the end he indeed did “walk the walk”.

[@CaesarInVa]

@@ww748 I tip my hat to him, but he is truly the exception.

[@ww748]

@@CaesarInVa - We cannot forget Admiral Onishi either, who after October 1944 sent thousands of kamakazi pilots to attack Allied ships. He committed ritual suicide at the surrender, apologizing for sending ~4000 pilots to their deaths, and imploring the young Japanese civilians to work for peace in the aftermath of the war. True, he didn’t dive a plane into an allied ship, but he did give his life for his emperor and his country to atone for his decisions, sharing in his pilots’ sacrifices.

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

can we only hope, that in the next war, a belligerent will not use the word "BIBER" for a weapon! Such a word congers up a churning sensation in the stomach.

[@hymanocohann2698]

Would it go Mmmmmmm..BOP!!! ?

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[@robashton8606]

Both the Linsen and the Marder programs sound very much like they must have had "punishment detail" stamped all over them. Posthumous Iron Crosses all round, then.

[@Inkling777]

In his 1903 novel, _The Riddle of the Sands,_ Erskine Childers described how effective fast boats commanded by bold crews could be in warfare. Mark might do an episode on the novel and its impact on British naval policy.

[@user-uy7qg3ot4n]

Germany: let's build remote control suicide crafts Japanese Kamikaze pilots: **Laughs at bottom of Ocean**

[@haifischonkokain5018]

That Italian engine design is a bit different but smart

[@druss69harad61]

The brutality of honesty is heartwarming Mark,too many have forgotten.

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Great Story! Thanks Mark!

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Can't get enough of your topics and narration, hoping for longer length videos (and maybe a full length doc???) soon! Thanks for all the great content Dr Felton!

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[@chriscarbaugh3936]

Strange the Italians could get the Naval Special Walfare units to work; whereas the Germans were complete failures.

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Do not forget that Germany had to practically start over again with its navy following World War I, while Italy got to keep theirs, and their war industry / trade connections to boot.

[@inisipisTV]

Well it's easy for a nation almost surrounded by the sea, as opposed to one with a small strip of land. So there's ages of experience.

[@mbr5742]

It is the Alfa Romeo engine. The italian craft where painted red and that made them go faster

[@neils9739]

Mark Felton you are by far the best historian WW2 Theatre's of War. I have always been interested in anything/everything WW2. Both of my grandfather's fought in WW2. 1 Grandfather fought on the U.S. side in the European theatre(survived). My other Grandfather fought for Germany but unfortunately lost his life in 1943 in the Eastern front. In 2012 we finally had closure of what happened to him. His remains were uncovered in a mass grave and 1/2 of his ID tag was sent our family. Thanks again for all that you do to tell the stories of those that fought on both sides.

[@thomasweightman8706]

I always loved the picture on the thumbnail. It is one of the great examples of shared equipment between branches. Kriegsmarine men with M38 Fallschirmjäger helmets! The skijäger units also used the M38 Fallschirmjäger belmets early on, with assault gun wraps and Gebirgsjäger smocks and pants.

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Those were some balsy men. I doubt you would find many volunteers in this day and age.

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for 1000 likes you can find dozen

[@D__Lee]

I recently read a news article that the US Navy is developing a fast speed boat with a small crew for coastal patrol. It’s going to be similar to the function of the WW2 PT boats. Given their experience with Iran and Somalian pirates, the US Navy found they needed a small, fast, and nimble warship that can carry and deliver a deadly punch.

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These summarizing videos are probably the best documentaries out there, mark please! Keep up the good work, this helps me get through the day sometimes! :D

[@bullettube9863]

Many years ago I read book that detailed off the wall thinking which included midget subs and small attack boats. The German boats were discussed and one the problems they had was recovering the crews, AND not having other boats run them over during the attacks. You see it in the films, the pilot bails out and hopefully the following boat doesn't hit him! The Germans also planned on using the boats against bridges, but tests showed explosives going off at the bases of the bridges was ineffective. But attacking in the relatively calm river waters was possible. I guess the old adage is true: "desperate times call for desperate measures" or as my grand-ma used to say; " if you can't swim, stay out of the water!"

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Nothing cheaper than the crew of the USS Bannon throwing potatoes at a Japanese submarine. Perfect story for a Mark Felton video. I mentioned this in "country channel" on Aces High 3 and a horde of players agreed that you would be the best person to tell this story. There's a storage locker in the story, full of potatoes.

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Wonderful video, can you make a video on the German ju 86r bomber, 50000 feet Diesel engines , the brits built custom high altitude spitfires just to intercept them one of which flown by a deposed Russian prince

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These vids are so interesting and informative. Thank you, Mark.

[@rogersheddy6414]

The program was not entirely hopeless or fruitless. That is because I happen to have the ship's Bell from one of the R boats employed, these Schwertfish, which sailed out of Copenhagen. At the end of the war it was in Hemborg where it stayed until 1947 when it was sold and turned into a fishing trawler, which served from that time until it was broken up for scrap in 1973. It rings with a German accent.

[@andyroper1613]

Fantastic! There is an amazing film here! I knew about the mini subs and the Italian/British 'chariots' but these boats were 'new' to me. Thanks Mark!

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[@elizabethtaylor9321]

Home for tea and medals ! Thought that was reserved for the RAF .

[@eightyones]

@Mr T The Battle of Britain wasn't a war: the clue being in the title. The rest if your comment is equally ignorant.

[@eightyones]

@Mr T The Battle of Britain was instigated by Britain?! It's reasonably well known that Hitler / Goring were intent on destroying the RAF as a prelude to invasion, i.e., nothing to do with the RAF bombing German cities. Yes, the shift to bombing London was prompted by the bombing of Berlin, but the BoB was well under way by then. In fact, had the focus remained on the RAF the Germans my well have won, which would have resulted in a very different and dark outcome for the country. I'm not getting into further discussion as it's already well off topic for this video and you're clearly one of those pacifist, anti-Bomber Command types. Oh.... And I guess that if we're going to git picky, the Battle of Britain was technically a campaign, i.e. part of the war but certainly not a war in itself.

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[@mrabrasive51]

The Germans remind me of Wile E.Coyote!..always inventing some crazy gadget to annihilate their enemys!!

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“I’d like my tea with crumpets.” “Sir, I am afraid there aren’t any crumpets left” “Make it iron crosses then.”

[@jhosk]

Thanks Mark, great video.

[@mlong5151]

This is right up my ally, been racing boats all my life

[@MrWarwick15]

I had no idea about this one MarK! Thankyou. Rich.

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i have always enjoyed your content, very informative and great subject matter. yet iam amazed how quickly your channel has grown, great job!

[@alastairmellor6749]

The British also dabbled with the idea of exploding motor boats. They produced a copy of the Italian MT and gave it to the Royal Marines who formed the ‘Boom Patrol Section’, which would later become the SBS. The problem of getting these short range craft closer to the target was explored by devising a way to drop the boat (with its crewman on board) by parachute under the code name of Operation Skylark.

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That pronunciation of Den Helder is superb!

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Do a video on the duels between the two legendary American Piston engines aircrafts : P 51 Mustang vs F4U Corsair during the football war !

[@sarjim4381]

It wasn't exactly a fight with a P-51. It was Cavalier TF-51D, the Cavalier conversion of a P-51D single seat fighter to a two seat training version. It was much slower than the F4U and much less maneuverable. The more interesting fight was later the same day, when an FAH F4U shot down two FAS FG1's, the last dogfight between propeller driven fighters of about equal performance.

[@j.ownbybuilders]

Interesting I haven’t heard of these dog fights til now. Thank you I look forward to researching this

[@sarjim4381]

@Dennis Moore Well, no, the war didn't start until nearly three weeks after the deciding match between El Salvador and Honduras, which was won by El Salvador. Angry pilots there may have been, but just like with any other air force, you couldn't just jump in a fighter and fly off. Tensions had been building for over a decade, and the results of the playoffs were just another provocation in the eyes of Honduras. El Salvador believed Honduras was about to attack and launched their own preemptive attack. It succeeded at first, but the poorly trained and equipped Salvadoran military soon lost ground to the larger and better trained Honduran forces. The attack by El Salvador was a tactical mistake, but both countries suffered thousands of casualties in the 100 hour war, mostly among civilians.

[@drpancakes7897]

Thank you Mark very cool!

[@paul6925]

I love this obscure stuff. I’ve never heard of any of it!

[@Furzkampfbomber]

_"When eight command boats and 23 Linsen..."_ As a native german speaker I must admit that the 'mental cinema' caused by sentences like this is quite hilarious.

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Very interesting unique slices of WW2. Always well presented. Just finished Zero Night.

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Mark Felton, making WWII great again! ;)

[@Jonjs99]

have a cookie for such stupid comment

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@fryfrysk]

Another unknown story told : great video !

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Mark you did it again brother so sick and awsome

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Great work again 👍

[@paolopetrozzi2213]

Thanks, Mark

[@swingingbunny3550]

Dr. Felton; My grandfather served in the young Israeli Navy (1948) and used the Italian explosive boats to sink the Egyptian flagship "Al Amir Faruk". His name is Zalman Abramov, he's 93 years old and has TONS of stories about those days and his life. You're welcome to contact and maybe you'll find a nice story...

[@geraldmiller5260]

I thought I knew history until I watched his great videos.

[@Jonjs99]

history is pretty much useless it teaches almost nothing

[@madjackblack5892]

This was quite interesting, and reminiscent of an OSS project in the Pacific named 'Javaman' that used television guided small boats to attack shipping. Never seen much about it other than the book 'Secret War Report of the OSS'.

[@simonkevnorris]

An interesting subject. Did the Italians have any more luck with their MTs?

[@tehredmage]

So, i actually looked this up, and it appears that the Italians had at least some success with their MT boats. The first MT model was used at Crete, as the video describes, as well as Malta. Where it appears to achieve little success, damaging two ships in Crete, and only managing to destroy a bridge in Malta. An upgraded version, the MTM was introduced in 1941, and would be used in the North African campaign as well as operation Barbarossa, though it appears to have achieved nothing in its service there. After the invasion of Italy and establishment of the puppet fascist Italian state, one MTM sunk a French ship off the coast of Liguria. Interestingly, the Israelis used some leftover MTMs during their war of Independence and sunk two Egyptian ships off the Sinai peninsula.

[@AtheistOrphan]

‘Tea and iron crosses’ - Nice Blackadder 4 reference!

[@ezrabrooks12]

ANOTHER EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!!!!

[@sforza209]

I love this channel! Great source of the German perspective of WW2!

[@wallyplumstead614]

Thank you Mark.

[@skull3374]

Awesome story Mark.!

[@nriab23]

thanks for these videos :)

[@Paul-hy6rp]

God knows where you get all this stuff from, Iv'e allways been interested in WW2 from a young age, mostly because my dad was in the tail end of it so a few stories from him plus he took me to the pictures many a time as a kid to see such films as The Longest day,Where eagles Dare ect. Iv,e watched loads of videos and read a few books but I can't for the life of me remember seeing any of the subjects recalled by Mike Felton. Must be an aweful lot of research done for each episode as the information is around somwhere, well done Mark for bringing all these facts to our attention.

[@m998hmmwv7]

Never seen these before. Very interesting..

[@tncorgi92]

I imagined that in an Artie Johnson voice. 😃

[@kstreet7438]

Awesome timing.

[@grontelp77]

These shnell boats were represented in the 70s action movie, "The Eagle Has Landed" starring Michael Caine.

[@KateLicker]

they were just regular E-boats torpedo-boats, based in channel Islands, wasn't it? Donald Sutherland ,the anti-British Irish rebel ,demanded the German suck his thumb with spilled beer on it.. the whole crew hurled Sutherland through the bar window... Of course it all began because they thought he was SS or Gestapo..and poured his beer on his hand..

[@ww748]

Yes, the torpedo boats in the film were S boats (“E boat” was the allies’ term). Far far larger and faster than the tiny linsen....which were technically sprengbooten.

[@joaqofort4938]

Amazing, even their Navy uniform looks appealing.

[@nezircaglar2381]

please make a video for zielgerat -zg1229 -vampir acvtie infrared device

[@_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._-]

Unfortunately, there is scant visuals of any kind on the Zielgerat 1229, except for four photographs (that I am aware of). If he broadened the video's scope to include the Fahrgerät 1250 variants 'Puma', 'Falke', 'Sperber' plus Fahrgerät 1252 and Fahrgerät 'Uhu', then that would warrant a proper video.

[@henrivanbemmel]

My father's buddy spent the war in the E-boats. Dunno how he lived through it, but he later made a good life for himself in West Germany.

[@kimwit1307]

As a dutchman, I really enjoyed how you pronounced Schevening, Moerdijk and Hellevoetsluis. LOL!

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

I'm guessing I pronounced them incorrectly!

[@brianjschumer]

I'm going to bet though, that power boat technology took a leap forward with the German "Torpedo speed boat" engineering.

[@Kray83]

I am puzzled as to why so many of the Germans depicted operating these mini-subs are wearing Fallschirmjager-style rimless helmets and Luftwaffe eagle insignia. It reminded me of the penal unit made up of Fallschirmjagers in The Eagle has Landed. Perhaps that can be Prof Felton's next video.

[@WardenWolf]

Yet another German innovation that was 20-30 years ahead of its time. It was a sound concept, but radio control technology was in its infancy at the time, and there was no way for a video link to actually see what the boats were doing. Nowadays such boats would be a major threat, as they can be armed not just with explosives but missiles as well.

[@GaveMeGrace1]

Thank you

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👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 excellent Mark

[@PersonManManManMan]

Uet another excellently researched video

[@thebadshave503]

The original plan required the crewman to light a cigarette and put on sunglasses before diving off.

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[@woning9228]

Very interesting story, never knew the Germans used these kamikaze-like attack boats. Also: your pronunciation of Dutch names is hilarious. Thanks for the video!

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Love that intro music 😄

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Thank you have a great day