Target Australia! Japanese Submarine Attacks on Sydney & Newcastle (Ep.2)

[@matthewwindram977]

My kid is all about submarines and spies now because of your videos on U-boats. As a history lover, thank you Dr. Felton for helping foster a shared passion between us.

[@bulshaale5767]

Dr. Mark Felton once again blessing us with his knowledge.

[@PurplePinkRed]

As an Australian, I love hearing these stories. Thanks very much Mark for the well timed video 😊

[@Boxmediaphile]

It all very interesting given that these very few events of the war happened on our soil

[@張博倫-r2j]

@@Boxmediaphile If you were from Darwin (77 air raids) or Broome (a dozen raids) you might beg to differ.

[@ryanberuldsen3457]

I totally agree...but that's not how you pronounce Geelong

[@wilhelmvillagracia9670]

Thanks Dr. Felton I really needed this today, as it has been a troubling 6 days. Thank you for distracting me for a while.

[@notion6694]

Gained alot of knowledge this quarantine time because of Sir Mark Felton. And there is still a lot to watch and learn.

[@bnipmnaa]

NB it's "a lot"

[@notion6694]

@@bnipmnaa check

[@MartinWillett]

A lot is a two-word phrase.

[@oncall21]

As an Aussie, who had an Uncle at war during this time, your insight to detail is impeccable DR Felton! Thanks for sharing!

[@ApprenticeGM]

Didn't get all details correct - @6:26 he said the messages were picked up and partially decoded by the listening post at Melbourne, but nothing was done. This is incorrect, first they were picked up by a listening post in Sydney, I think EdgeCliff, and then directional finding units were engaged to try and locate the source as the operators had figured out they were enemy transmissions (as opposed to "nothing was done" per your report). You can listen to the operator who actually did this (he turned 100 this year and was interviewed on ABC Sydney radio, Richard Glover's Drive program, of which broadcast was repeated today as part of the Armistice Day rememberances) or read the Sydney listening post archived reports (I think I've seen them in the Sydney Naval Museum near The Star casino, or the National War Museum in Canberra).

[@Skipper.17]

I think this goes to show how unprepared Australia was for war at this stage.

[@whiskeytangosierra6]

Really enjoying this series. As an American I have not been exposed to events in Australia except as memorized by US servicemen visiting there during hostilities.

[@russchadwell]

Mark! You are so good at this you can even carry KZbin "videos" that aren't really videos, but are instead audio only! So cool!

[@chainweaver3361]

I can't imagine the amount of research needed to make just one of these fine videos let alone the amount of videos he keeps putting out. 👍👍👍👍

[@jaybee9269]

Fascinating! I had no idea. Thanks for your dedication, Mark.

[@SuperTims86]

My grandfather was stationed at middle head battery during the Sydney attack. He could see the sub but was told to hold fire because they thought the artillery shell would ricochet into the eastern suburbs, so the depth charged them!

[@innocentbystander8038]

Makes you wonder why they would put an artillery gun there in the first place?

[@imagremlin875]

Thank you Dr Felton. I am a history buff, and I did not know about this attack on Australia. Your well written and Narrated documentaries are a highlight of my day.

[@tomislavkefecek4443]

True bravery was demonstrated by the rowing acumen, skill and endurance by the two Blokes from the maritime services... Dr Felton, here Newcastle we are on the edge of our seats in anticipation of the Fort Scratchley episode.... This year keeps getting better and better great narrative you never disappoint, thank you.

[@DaviesMartinezBeats]

Thank you Dr... I live in Sydney and much appreciated this video...

[@garymckee8857]

I was just starting to watch a video on the coast watchers but your videos trumps all others. Thanks Mark.

[@phrayzar]

Could you give a link to the coast watchers, I have wanting to learn more about them

[@garymckee8857]

@@phrayzar kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJ_FpGuVn7Z9f5o

[@phrayzar]

@@garymckee8857 thanks Gary

[@garymckee8857]

@@phrayzar you're welcome.

[@JessWLStuart]

Awesome as usual!

[@mulgamark1620]

As a child I went to the Canberra war memorial and got to climb onto and around the outside of that sub, it was outside at the time (1974) always amazed at how they were called midget submarines but are actually quite large. Thanks for all your research Dr Felton, it is great to learn the actual details of the attack.

[@nathanielmoran1819]

Listening to this channel whilst working actually allows me to enjoy the office work component of my day. Thanks Mark again for doing this series. It's a part of history Australia tends to forget.

[@DrivermanO]

I visited Sydney twice in 2018 & 2019 and spent a lot of time going round that fantastic city. I was staying with my daughter who lives about a 5 minute walk from Garden Island, and RANS ships were moored opposite! I knew about this incident because I have seen the memorial plaque, but cannot remember where it is! But you should mention that Garden Island is actually now HMAS Kuttabul, renamed in 1943 in memory of the 21 ratings who were killed. Chowder Bay near Middle Head is interesting too as the home of the earlier set of defences until 1922 - as is the Middle Heads gun battery. And finally, the first shots in each world war were fired in Australia!

[@lordchickenhawk]

This story should be made into a movie. Plenty of drama and action, tragic stories on both sides, honourable behaviour in both victory and defeat. All of it ending in futility, moral ambiguity and recrimination. Great war story Mark, thanks!

[@roberttucker2900]

Thanks for another great story close to my heart ! I look forward to the third installment

[@oscarwilhelmy7094]

Loving this series already

[@russchadwell]

Mark! You are so good at this you can even carry videos that aren't really videos, but are instead audio only! So cool!

[@howardbowen-RC-Pilot]

Enjoyed this one. Thanks Mark

[@reeferman502]

A Doctor Felton video- another like, immediately!

[@matthewalker]

Living in Sydney, I'm familiar with this story but it's great to hear it getting told wider.

[@artkoenig9434]

Thank you for this story. Well told, sir!

[@davidberriman5903]

Mark you are a tease. I am a life member of the Fort Scratchley Historical Society and I had the pleasure of meeting Major Wal Watson (retired) and now deceased who was the Battery Commander at Fort Scratchley. I have watched the first two episodes which although interesting were not what I was craving. A search of KZbin for the channel Fortress Newcastle will provide some interesting footage of the fort. This includes the two Six inch Mark 7 guns which replied to I21. This will now be torture waiting for Episode 3.

[@spellchanger1169]

Thank you! I was listening to part 1 while I was cleaning and when it finished was like where is part 2? Oh part 1 was only released a few days ago. Thanks for part 2 love this series, very interesting and entertaining.

[@vervluukt]

Another interesting story! Thank you for all of your work, Mark!

[@mcmoose64]

I remember seeing the remains of one of these mini subs at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra as a kid .

[@billythehillbilly7542]

Once again Dr. Felton knocks it out of the park. Your channels should be required in all schools.

[@paspax]

If those Japanese sailors had allowed themselves to be captured, they'd have lived out the war in relative comfort... unless they got involved in that little incident at Cowra.

[@aussieoffroader1974]

Very good point!! They got it wrong trying to breakout of Cowra. Every farmer shearer and rouseabout was out with a shotgun looking for them.

[@vespelian5769]

To have lived with such dishonour would have been unthinkable.

[@feereel]

Perhaps but the americans rarely took prisoners

[@vespelian5769]

@Yar Nunya You're evidently unequanted with the Japanese mindset, especially that prevailing in the war years.

[@panzerivausfg4062]

@@feereel That was happening because they were no prisoners to capture. The Japanese preferred to die honorably with a banzai charge or commit suicide. They didn't know about the treatment of the POWs so they where thinking that falling into American hands will be the worst thing ever. Ironically, the opposite one in our occasion.

[@loam6740]

Guns being unable to depress enough to engage seems like a common problem on all sides

[@ericstapleton9577]

@ukkowalski kek

[@richardshilling2958]

Mark. Please do a bit of research on Jackie Moggridge. Such a fascinating life and a great war story. Keep up the great work.

[@GoViking933]

Really enjoyed listening to this Mark! Good job..

[@sshizas6986]

I listened keenly to part 1, which was fascinating and riveting. I was eager to listen to part 2 and I was not disappointed. Thank you for your efforts in researching and publishing/uploading these interesting and informative historical story videos.

[@lysanderkrieg5474]

Outstanding follow up Mark. Well researched and very well detailed. You've put my history teachers to shame.

[@silvanski]

Part 2, faster than I expected... Gonna lounge on the couch to enjoy this one.

[@scottcoffman8306]

This video has been only the second reference I have run across concerning the attack on Sydney. Great details and very well done!! If you just read the history text books here in the State, you would think that we won the pacific war all by our-self. Thank god for the Australians, New Zealanders, British and island native peoples. And let us not forget the colonial troops.

[@helenclark3627]

lest we forget

[@coleparker]

Great video. I have studied a lot of the Pacific War and knew about this attack, but only superficially. This adds a lot of new information for me, not only about the attack, but also the role of IJN Submarines played in the early days of the war.

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Very informative, Coach

[@yertyifchtfhh7492]

One of the highlight of my days is seeing these video notifications 👍🏻👍🏻

[@chrisdebeyer1108]

Awesome scope and depth in this series. I had no idea about Melbourne or Hobart. Belligerant attitudes in Australia towards local efforts are beyond belief.

[@sueneilson896]

Dr Felton. A video on Jack Sue and the commandos of Z Force would be a great tribute to their extreme bravery.

[@Ye4rZero]

Amazing how many new facts and stoiries Mark turns up 80 odd years after the most documented event in history.

[@trashfire9641]

I'm guessing I was recommended Ep. 2 instead of Ep. 1 because it is the best episode. 👍

[@paaa2683]

Thank you for what you do Mark. Top bloke.

[@danthewalkingmanen-dorsetg8521]

Dude me an my dad both wait for every episode and locr your content boss!

[@HouseholdDog]

I remember playing on the midget sub when I was a kid in Canberra.

[@Theogenerang]

The Indicator Loop system reference reminds me of a TV advert AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) put out in Australia back in the 1980's where they show a Russian submarine sailing into Sydney harbour with the excited crew taking snapshots. The message was that without AWA technology Australia defences wouldn't be up to scratch.

[@johnroberts7924]

Thank you from Sydney Dr Mark, you are fantastic sir!

[@LazyCookPete]

Excellent work Mark! 👍

[@BA-gn3qb]

In just under the first minute, we get the hear about Brothels and Semen. Now this is going to be one hell of a video. 👍👍

[@ApprenticeGM]

Thank you for reporting this piece of our history (I'm Aussie). One correction - @6:26 you said the messages were picked up and partially decoded by the listening post at Melbourne, but nothing was done. This is incorrect, first they were picked up by a listening post in Sydney, I think EdgeCliff, and then directional finding units were engaged to try and locate the source as the operators had figured out they were enemy transmissions (as opposed to "nothing was done" per your report). You can listen to the operator who actually did this (he turned 100 this year and was interviewed on ABC Sydney radio, Richard Glover's Drive program, of which broadcast was repeated today as part of the Armistice Day rememberances) or read the Sydney listening post archived reports (I think I've seen them in the Sydney Naval Museum near The Star casino, or the National War Museum in Canberra).

[@MrBITS101]

there was also a transmitter operating up in the Blue Mountains, i don't believe they were ever caught them. The direction finding equipment couldn't pin point it to an exact spot, just the general area.

[@Masterbaade]

Awesome. Thirty minutes till my next show comes out. Just enough time

[@AussieDisciple]

top notch stuff👍 one of those 'subs' is, IIRC, still on 'display' @ The Australian War Memorial in Canberra....

[@petermiddleton8704]

Dr. Mark Felton a interesting fact about the midget sub that followed a Manly Ferry through the boom is still around to this day. I used to volunteer in its restoration, the people involved had looked at the timetable from that year and narrowed the vessel to 3 minutes from the time that the sub followed it through.

[@fishrenfroeboyd7954]

I remember first hearing about this particular submarine incident on history channel back around 2000-2001. Always found it interesting, I actually recorded it off the TV onto a VHS tape as well. Since Australia and the Japanese front lines were so close to each other I always wondered what kinda air/sea battles may have happened that people may have forgotten about because of it being over shadowed by more larger primary battles going on that’s not as close to the Australian coast. You would think the Australians and the Japanese would have been bumping into each other all the time along the huge north coast of Australia.

[@scotthays347]

Superb! (as always) Can't wait for ep. 3!

[@WarStorieswithMarkFelton]

Currently being prepared!

[@playwme3]

There’s nothing better on a Hot summers day in Canberra than to head down to the War Memorial and catch the Sub attack and G for George shows. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen them, but they never fail to impress.

[@jim99west46]

Totally fascinating war history.

[@edwardhewer8530]

Well spoken as always.

[@deogratias273]

I was told by a veteran who was camped at Centennial Park in Sydney that the attack prompted word that the Japanese had landed! Soldiers were issued with one (1) round of live ammunition! Correction: Taylors Bay

[@LemmingFNSR]

It was reported to some Australian prisoners of war that the Sydney Harbour Bridge had been destroyed when the MIDDLE pylon was torpedoed. For some reason this account actually improved prisoners’ morale.........

[@CAPTA1N544]

I never knew that their was a scouting mission flown over Hobart and a sub off the east cost!

[@andrewstackpool4911]

Several submarines including a U-boat operated off the Australian station and despite the dogged defence by destroyers, corvettes and aircraft inflicted a heavy loss including the hospital ship CENTAUR. All boats involved were eventually sunk.

[@jjaus]

Great content as usual. Your pronunciation of some Aussie towns was amusing.

[@jeffreybrege7672]

Mark brings you the stories no else does, God I love his channel.

[@steelhelmetstan7305]

Top stuff, and a sort of closing chapter for me....I had heard about the raid but this clarifies it. I have seen the Japanese subs in the Australian war memorial, they were outside last I visited, and quite large for midget subs. Great video , and a quality reference for anyone researching the subject....good show!!!🙂🙂🙂

[@tuzonthume]

Has there ever been an instance of a torpedo attack vs a shore installation?

[@MrBITS101]

i seem to remember in WW1 a british submarine went into the Black Sea and one of it's torpedeos was fired in or around the harbour at Constantinople. I am sure they were searching for some big german warships that sheltered in Turkey. I believe the attack had a big effect on the locals

[@ericp5403]

Excellent! Brilliant retelling of this amazing piece of History. It is sad that Japanese youth and our own have no or little knowledge of these attacks

[@hanzup4117]

Another excellent video. Great listen with a cup of tea :)

[@garybest]

My grandfather was an English sailor who had been in Sydney at this time. This is where he trained to become a diver. He rarely spoke much about the the war side of things as most don't, but he went into a fair bit of detail about this, as he was one the divers who had to retrieve Japanese body's, He gave a pretty gruesome account of what actually happened. So thanks to the detailed history of what led up this.

[@RCAvhstape]

It's really contemptable how Japan's leadership wasted its bravest men the way they did, falls in line with their inhuman brutality.

[@trentslvis4332]

Outstanding videos!!!. This is a part of history that has been neglected!. I would like to see more of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine service!.

[@negativeplacebo6732]

Positive comment for the KZbin algorithm. I love your content, please keep it coming. 🙂🙂🙂

[@alexjolin2589]

Great video on this subject feels like I’m playing the game we’re you sneak into the harbor and torpedos a couple ships.

[@georgepursley2832]

My Father was a fire controlman on USS Chicago, and often spoke of the events of that night. He had been in a theatre when the attack started and returned to the ship on the captain's launch.

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Excellent...A very big...Thanks

[@steveshoemaker6347]

Thanks you

[@justcause7521]

How do you do air recon from a submarine????

[@markwilkins8314]

They had seaplanes

[@1vigorousdragon]

The Kuttabul ended up either being salvaged or another ferry took its name as I remember taking the ferry numerous times from Mosman Bay to Circular Quay in the 70s. In fact quite a few of those Ferries were used till the mid 80s.

[@revert6417]

Still amazes me how imperial Japan put so much emphasis on honour, yet understood nothing about it.

[@MrBITS101]

correct. read about Bushido code. General Tojo obviously didn't

[@Axterix13]

Plenty of fanatics over some code/creed/belief cherry-pick parts of it, just the parts that let them do what they want to do. Belief is a powerful tool, capable of leading people into self-delusion and/or being abused by power-mongers.

[@Rusty_Gold85]

DAd bought a huge thick book back in the 70's ( Readers digest book sale ) on WWII and in there was a story of the Sydney Harbour attacks . It still doesnt get much doco time until recently they found one of the sunk Midgets

[@christopherbraiden6713]

I'm very much into submarines this is a very interesting episode and something I didn't know about!!😎🐓🐓🇬🇧

[@messmeister92]

Mark, perhaps you could do a video on why Japanese scouts were so bad at identifying Allied ships? They were notoriously poor at this task throughout the war.

[@MrBITS101]

regarding firing the torpedoes at the U.S.S. Chicago. It is agreed that the Chicago was raising steam and had smoke and steam streaming out of the funnels. Hence the japanese assumed that it was underway and aimed their torpedoes with a certain amount of deflection, while the vessel was still moored at that point in time.

[@77thTrombone]

That makes better sense. I don't know how far the sub stood off to shoot, but missing a static target by 300 yards suggests IJN sent the wrong crew in.

[@ingridclare7411]

My mother told me that she and my grandmother hid under their beds that night....They didn't live far from the harbour. God....

[@jeffzaun1841]

Excellent video

[@nazrat1st]

Mr Felton, please publish the batlle between HMAS Sidney and Cormoran cargo-modified ship! I recently heard about it and I found it very interesting!

[@neilforbes416]

Harry Tyrell (18:00), the surname is pronounced with the 'y' sounded as a short 'i', like in "pick".

[@georgehugh3455]

Seemed like Australia's first encounter with Japanese submarines was a veritable 'Keystone Cops' affair

[@factchecker9358]

Sunday was a very popular day for attacks in Europe, Hawaii, and elsewhere. The commander at Pearl harbor was busy playing golf.

[@geoffreypiltz271]

As a school boy I went in a school party to visit Fort Denison (also known as Pinchgut) which sits in the main channel (gut) of the harbour and was built in the middle of the 19th century. We were told by the tour guide that it was hit by 5" shells from the USS Chicago during the midget submarine attack, and that they caused only very minor damage to the stone fort.

[@formisfunction1861]

Fascinating! Great story!

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

Royal Netherlands Navy Submarine K-9? Real Sea Dog there. =D

[@martenikaeltheroy3621]

22:30

[@andrewstackpool4911]

K-9 herself had an interesting history and her remains today may occasionally be seen on the foreshore of Trial Bay, northern NSW

[@Rusty_Gold85]

A bit of Aussie needed for 2 ships names . Whyalla is pronounced Why- alla but say it quickly , almost at once . Geelong is more like Ge ! - long

[@weirdshibainu]

Australia:" Hey Japan, come on an invade. We'll take you walkabout in the outback....and let nature do its job."

[@leeaa01]

It would be really interesting to see a video on the process behind researching and developing one of these videos.

[@WarStorieswithMarkFelton]

Actually, this series is derived from my book The Fujita Plan, originally published in 2006.

[@leeaa01]

@@WarStorieswithMarkFelton I'll check it out! Thanks!

[@mackfisher4487]

Is it true that virtually all navies in World War II experience submarine torpedo problems?