Victory at Sea "Killers and the Killed" Allies turn the tide in U-Boat War

(1952 -- Restored) From1942 to 1945 the Allies build a string of airbases around and across the Atlantic to extend air cover over convoys for their entire voyage. German U-Boats are no longer safe in the Atlantic and losses mount rapidly. Rare film of anti-submarine aircraft variants like the Lockheed Ventura, maritime versions of the B-24 Liberator and the Martin PBM Mariner. The Allies seal the fate of the U-Boats by launching dozens of anti submarine "Jeep" CVE mini-escort carriers to cover the "mid-ocean gap" that can't be reached by land based aircraft. Excellent archival footage from the "Victory at Sea" TV serieswith an all time great musical score by Richard Rogers.
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[@ojofelixnm3608]

Those of us who lived through WWII as children better understood what had happened when Victory at Sea began programming on our very small TVs. Wonderful series with a terrific musical score by Richard Rogers.

[@4406bbldb]

Ojo Felix NM truthfully reporting the news. We had a 1947 RCA 9" B&W tv. Ha it took 2 men to lift it.

[@Chainyanker007]

@@4406bbldb - Those were the good old days.

[@peterjohnson617]

don`t think it would be the same with that Richard Rogers score, great stuff.

[@paulreilly3904]

@@peterjohnson617 without?

[@williamolivadoti3867]

Tthere were regular blackouts in Connecticut with car headlights being taped to slits coz oif German submariines near the Sound and off the coast. I wuz there. I still got them ration stamps.

[@rdadal]

When this series came on TV, there was nothing like it before. Never before seen films, great script, and great narration.

[@rdadal]

Forgot to mention, great score.

[@raywest7570]

I went thru the U505 many times at the Chicago museum where she is a permanent exhibit. It's really an amazing experience.

[@Chainyanker007]

I’ll have to check that out next time I’m there. Thanks for the info.

[@judywhitecrane4711]

My dad, Jim Dalton, was on the Guadalcanal during the capture of the U505 and the Enigma.

[@stevemoyer2273]

Smelled of diesel fuel as do the WWII boats I've toured.

[@leehuff2330]

10:42 was what my father did in the battle. He served on a jeep carrier, the USS Croatan (CVE-25).

[@danboyle116]

Since I was a young kid, I've always loved the "Victory at Sea" series. My father was a US Navy aviator - sub hunter, in fact. I think maybe it bothered him a bit when I wound up on an attack sub. Oh, well.

[@solomonreal1977]

I'm your real father and nah that's fine... imagine that, my boy on an attack sub. Ha! And me, the milkman...

[@Mondo762]

Never forget the many thousands of American Merchant Seamen that died during the Battle of the Atlantic. They were civilians and not afforded veteran status until 43 years after the war's end.

[@KPearce57]

My Father was one of those Merchant Marines. You are Correct on the VA status.

[@Mondo762]

K.D. Pearce - I sailed engine department in the Merchant Marine 1969-2006 which included Vietnam and Desert Storm. Although I would never claim veteran status, I have always believed the WWII Merchant Marine deserved it. They were definitely in combat and took higher casualties than any armed service.

[@peterroberts2737]

Don't forget the 50,000 British merchant seamen who died, sorry I know it was only americans involved

[@Jon908584]

Many will never forget the crass stupidity of Admiral King who refused to sanction the turning off of all power along the US eastern seaboard so that tankers from Venezuela were silhouetted against the shoreline. Many, many seamen floundered in a sea of burning oil thanks to his pigheadedness.

[@aaaht3810]

I have always loved Leonard Graves' narration in this series.

[@prrbill]

Used to watch this religiously from when it first went on the air on Sundays in 1952. And was there ever a better opening score of music?

[@lamwen03]

No

[@donbreveleri6269]

prrbill No!!!!!!!!👍😎

[@tomhough2735]

You and both

[@RU-zm7wj]

Yes.

[@alanpeterson6224]

I'm deef.

[@johncee1481]

866 U Boats ...what a slaughter. Once the allies had radar & hedgehog bombs , long range bombers & carriers the Germans had no chance. What a horrific way to die , trapped inside your own metal coffin as it goes to the bottom. My dad did convoy duty on an RN flower class corvette, he said that when the depth charges had done their job it was really messy at the surface, blood & body parts. That and being constantly scared of being torpedoed at any time, separated from the ocean by an inch of steel plate ......hacking ice off the ship in the dead of night pitching & rolling on the way to Murmansk.

[@Cheeseatingjunlista]

Hardly a laff being sunk from nowhere at night on your way to Russia off the coast of Norway, have no pity for the murderous scum, they happily slaughtered civilians without warning.

[@bennylofgren3208]

Cheeseatingjunlista Like the allies did when bombing German cities. The common airmen, sailors and soldiers were all just doing their duty.

[@CavZippo]

They willing crewed ships carrying war stocks. Legally, they were legitimate targets. I have no issue with that. The Allies, specifically, the U.S. failing to pull their collective head out, and form convoys, convoy escort groups, and hunter-killer groups until late the Summer of '42, that is the crime.

[@Chainyanker007]

@@bennylofgren3208 - War is ugly, brings out the worse humans, also on occasion the best in humans. War is hell and should be avoided.

[@Chainyanker007]

@@bennylofgren3208 - I was touring a German city a couple of years ago and the young local gal who was our guide was bitter about the Brits who bombed her city at the end of the war just to wreck destruction since it had no military or industrial importance. The city had a royal palace that had been damaged and restored, also the destroyed town had many buildings and features that were 100s of years old, all destroyed, gone forever. No doubt many civilians were killed too by the bombs.

[@bagoquarks]

What is not covered in this early 1950s production are the roles of radar and code breaking in defeating the U-boats. Some of that story was not declassified until the 1970s.

[@MidnightmoonRR]

"Victory in the Atlantic was due to teamwork among all the allies." something many people seem to have forgotten these days.

[@DonnielSeymour]

When it hits the fan our Allies in the past and present will leave us a stout the world is turning against.

[@TheDustysix]

The Royal Navy has SIX Destroyers. Oh the humanity.

[@paulladuke2259]

@Wal Leece Royal CANADIAN Navy was the chief ally in the Battle of the Atlantic.

[@jayillingworth350]

The battle of the Atlantic was fought by all the allies. For the first 2years, by the RN and the RCN against the Kriegsmarine, then the USN joined in from 1942 onwards. Most of the fight was carried out by the RN and RCN in the Atlantic, as USN was concentrating on the Pacific. However, nobody can deny the massive support put in by the USN in the Atlantic war.

[@benm5221]

The advances in allied naval and air force technologies and systems integration during the war never ceases to amaze me.

[@robertfrederick8590]

Went aboard the U505 at the museum as a child. Our tour guide was recognized from film footage shown during the tour as one of the captured submariners. I am glad he was able to stay in the US after the war.

[@davidrodgersNJ]

I come from a "navy family" and as a boy my dad had to watch every episode of this series, which (being a typical teenager) he hated. Once we were watching TV together and Victory at Sea came on, and he rolled his eyes and said "there must be something else on" : ) Three of his uncles died fighting the Japanese.

[@Chainyanker007]

For many the war was too much and they didn’t talk about it, like my uncle who fought in Europe. They saw too much death, destruction, sorrow and suffering. You can’t blame them.

[@michaeldidomenico7]

I grew up watching these in the early 50's

[@Chainyanker007]

I grew up without TV in the 50s, then went to college in ‘60, still didn’t have TV in the dorms till I went to grad school and lived in a house with a couple of guys, then I was too busy studying to watch much TV. I grew up 200’ from the public library, who needs TV. Call me nerdy, lol.

[@anim8torfiddler871]

Dang. The whole family used to watch every episode in the early 50s when we got back from Guam. Our Dad had crewed on the USS Hornet (CV-8) from shortly before Pearl Harbor attack till it was sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. I guess he watched with the rest of us... but he had lived through a lot of that. As a four-year-old, I didn't connect what I saw on the TV to my own father's recent experiences...

[@SS-ec2tu]

Capturing the submarine almost blew the whole secret decoding of the German naval codes by Bletchly Park.

[@MFG333]

I watched them berth the U505 in a parking lot behind a museum in Chicago. I took the tour several times. Thanks for the video.

[@michaelnaisbitt1639]

40,000 German submariners went to sea in WW 2. Only 10,000 returned long range planes and use of Sonar killed them off

[@bigiron383]

Those numbers seem very high. The United States only lost fifty

[@JTA1961]

That's a sub~stancial amount who are swimming with the fishes

[@barrylitchfield250]

This video needs a lot more narrative and a lot less NBC orchestra.

[@darylcarriere2220]

Way Too Much Orchestra

[@johnavery522]

Alot of merchant Mariners lost their lives without firing a shot.

[@jarrodyuki7081]

the allies suck.

[@Chainyanker007]

Thousands of them died, tragic. Most never had a chance. Torpedos hit their ship, ship blew up and sank in minutes. If you survived the blast and jumped overboard you died of hyperthermia in a short time. You never hear stories about them.

[@williamgunnarsson]

Yes, because their ships were unarmed in the beginning.

[@clayz1]

The omnipresent musical score in this clip is nearly as harsh as the open bridge on a Flower class corvette.

[@MrNunna]

I always watch them MUTED.

[@Devildog774]

Thank You.Great as Usual.

[@warrenwilson4818]

Just discovered this (8-19-19). No TV growing up, no theater or movies either. I worked at a radio station in NJ that played some classical music, and I can still remember when that first lp showed up. The painting on the cover was stupendous, and I never heard that sort of music. It wasn't until many years later that I learned who Richard Rodgers was. He never wrote a poor piece of music for Broadway musicals or anything else. Thanks, KZbin!

[@stevemoyer2273]

This was produced over 2 decades prior to the British release of the top secret code cracking done by Turing and company at Bletchley Park

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

My favorite TV series as a kid.

[@bernardscheidle5679]

I'm beginning to think WWII was the high water mark for America. Nowadays there wouldn't be any shipyards or workers to build navy ships, steel mills to make the steel, or anybody who knew how to fix stuff.

[@craigcook1571]

Scary ain't it

[@stanfordcoffee]

You're right. Now we have a whole generation of millennial's still screaming at 20 years old for their moms to come wipe their asses.

[@JD-re3cj]

Well I’d say the moon landings but that rocket was built by a German LOL

[@waterheaterservices]

Yes, but a Prius Googoomobile with a COEXIST sticker and a vote for Comrade Politburist Sanders and The Party will save us. Bolshevik Bernie 2020!

[@bernardscheidle5679]

@Robert Hubbard Dream on Bob. America fought WW2 in 3 years and 8 months. We invented the atomic bomb, built thousands of tanks, bombers, ships, and bullets. Trump can't even supply toilet paper and face masks in 5 months for the American people, and sounds like a rambling old man with Alzheimer's at his useless press events. If Trump had been President in WW2 we would have lost the war, and you would be a Japanese prisoner of war, wearing shit stained underwear.

[@philipinchina]

I remember my father watching this every week when it was televised in UK.

[@philelsner]

been watching since 1952.

[@aucksmix]

+Phil Elsner same here. i was just a kid when it first aired on TV. And kudos to Richard Rogers for a stirring and thrilling soundtrack.

[@sonnyburnett8725]

Phil Elsner , Me too! Thanks.

[@binarybox.binarybox]

I watched the series Victory at Sea in 52...I think it was shown on a Wednesday afternoon.

[@Chainyanker007]

That’s a lot of beer drunk.

[@kleenk8]

Thank you combat cameramen.

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

The U-505 is now on display at the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago!

[@4406bbldb]

Team work won the war. United we stand divided we fall.

[@daleburrell6273]

YOU'RE DOGGONE RIGHT- LOOK WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE VIETNAM WAR-!!!

[@daleburrell6273]

@Noel Normandin ....THAT'S for dam sure-!!

[@daleburrell6273]

@Noel Normandin ...THE OLD PRINCIPLE OF: "DIVIDE AND CONQUER" REALLY WORKS- AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!

[@fredwinter7411]

We are divided now, that's how the democrooks stole the election. We are in so much trouble with bidenski there.

[@artmcteagle]

@@fredwinter7411 You know that's a lie, but yet you want to believe it. Did you go to Capitol Hill along with all your like minded mates?

[@daleeasternbrat816]

My busdriver was on USS Card. I remember this very episode.

[@tommallon4052]

Note, that in 1952, there is no mention ofthe breaking of the Enigma codes.

[@Jon908584]

Or oF HFDF

[@sprinter1832]

@@Jon908584 Huff Duff!

[@GeorgHaeder]

All information regarding the code breaking of the Enigma cypher machine was classified until 1974. It was declassified after the book "The Ultra Secret" was released in 1974. Not only did they successfully break the German Enigma cypher codes, they also did break the Italian Army's C-36 Hagelin cypher codes (the Italian Navy also used Enigmas) and the German Lorenz SZ40, SZ42a and SZ42b cypher machine codes and the Siemens & Halske T52 cypher machine codes.

[@johneastman1905]

This is great visually as a documentary of the war effort, but the audio is too much !

[@frankuebelacker1374]

My Father would have loved this program.. had the Victory at sea record..

[@buckstarchaser2376]

Only the dead have heard the end of this musical score.

[@MidnightmoonRR]

Depth charges are so primitive, yet effective. plus the effect they have is really cool when they explode.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

I kind of like these Victory at Sea programs, specially all the old archived film footage. But that music is terribly annoying, if it was just 1/4 the volume than what it is would go a long way to making these much more enjoyable.

[@fredwinter7411]

Whiner.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

@@fredwinter7411, Was that such a comment that it was eating you up so bad you just had to say that. Isn't it possible I might just be right. Nothing worse in vids than wanting to seriously watch something only to have over the top external Artsy additions ruining what you're trying to learn.

[@d.owczarzak6888]

I was aboard the U505 at the Museum of Science and Industry.

[@ZenosWarbirds]

Me too. You don’t really understand how cramped it was inside a U-Boat until you’ve been inside one. Some of the later American subs were palaces by comparison.

[@DavidDavidunderthebridgeChampi]

This was a combined arms approach. At the end, the leaders in Germany knew that the U Boat war was outclassed and ineffective except for the planes and resources directed against them. So they kept sending them out to simply keep the mass of war material away from Germany.

[@ZenosWarbirds]

Thanks! Z

[@82Echo411]

Nice to see this episode. I toured the U-505 in the mid-60s at the Chicago Mus. of Science & Industry which also has a mine worth visiting.

[@82Echo411]

Thanks for the update on U-505.

[@WJCorbinRR]

I was a 7 year old child when I toured the U-505. It was one of those amazing memories of my childhood.

[@billkaldem1737]

Been through the 505 a few times. Want to go again before I die.

[@TheDustysix]

Well, for a former Infantry Corporal, Adolph nearly succeeded with his U-Boat force. When I was a young lad, we had a NatGeo issue on the OBX, Outer Banks North Carolina. It had a tremendous map of the Cape and the surrounding waters. Sunken ships dotted that map with the dates of loss. It is the shipwreck capital of the US. Very many from our country's history. Many others from 1942. Our Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast were Active Battle Zones in WW2.

[@scottparis6355]

I watched these every Sunday when I was a kid, and loved them. This particular episode, however, is way long on inspirational music, and film of airplanes flying around (12 minutes worth) and way short of information. Makes it look like the Germans put out some U-boats, the Allies thought about it for a day or two, then captured a boat, and it was all over. It's a much, much more complicated story than that.

[@peterclark4685]

Every time I see Raeder I look for signs of that remarkable intelligence he had. He knew it was doomed from the start and took steps to limit the post-war anger that led to the Versailles treaty after the first war that he fought hard to win. I couldn't have done what he did. Perhaps it's just as well the German (never Nazi) surface displacement fleet was a non-issue at every juncture of the war. Except in Winnie the Pooh's mind. [there be dragons]

[@scottyfox6376]

3:28 mins check the guy hand filing that vertical plate edge on the U boat construction. Damn I bet he would've been happy to have a grinder instead of slinging that big ass file. Lol

[@j.d.schultzsr.9215]

Wad q

[@HAmatelot]

Your USN's "10th Fleet" Slowly learned that what the RN & RCN knew was true.

[@maconescotland8996]

The commander of the task force that captured U-505 was severely reprimanded by Admiral King, head of the USN, for potentially compromising the security of Enigma by not sinking the submarine after the secret documents had been retreived. This incident was only 2 days before D-Day - fortunately the Germans never got wind of the capture.

[@ericflagg80]

Tough Men in tough war both sea environment and marine borne islands

[@drewby613]

I think the star of this movie was the soundtrack! No surprise. The guy who wrote all this inspiring music was Richard Rodgers, who teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein to give us some of the greatest musicals ever written. Sound of Music, Oklahoma, South Pacific, The King and I, and on and on. When I saw his name in the opening credits I was astonished. This ought to be good, I thought. I didn't have long to wait, because that opening fanfare was incredible!!!

[@BillSmith-ut5li]

This is an interesting video. But the fact is that the Turning of the U-Boat Menace did not come from aircraft. It was the invention of the Hedgehog. This weapon was able to be fired forward of the attacking vessel. This was critical due to the fact that contact was lost when the ship passed over the submarine. So depth charges were being dropped blind. The Hedgehog was dropped on target. Especially when this weapon was first introduced. The U-Boat captains were not prepared for the sudden accurate assault. Another ingenious solution with a simple mortar like weapon that has been ignored throughout history.

[@williamschlenger1518]

I used to watch this with my dad long ago.

[@Chainyanker007]

Lots of smiles and confidence on those German officers faces. I wonder how they died in the end.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

1:36 the medal represents a Viking drakkar ruling the world.

[@Chainyanker007]

So much for that Nazi idea.

[@paulacornelison243]

Looked up Guadalcanal on the internet. The USS GUADALCANAL is the carrier that led the task force which capture the U 505. According to the article I read, there were 2 USS Guadalcanals.

[@DataWaveTaGo]

At 3:07 the submarine pens on the French coast. Britain's Bomber Command (BC) could have destroyed them in the construction phase, but BC for some reason decided it had other "pressing" priorities and left them alone until it was far too late.

[@rnorm9847]

The captured sub...the U505 is on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago..I have been inside many times

[@Chainyanker007]

Thanks for the info, I’ll check it out next time I’m there.

[@markjohnson5276]

The name of the US pacific fleet command in early 1940s was 'Central intelligence network command United States'. The acronym was CINC US, pronounced 'sink US'. They changed it after Pearl Harbor.

[@steveb6103]

CVE called by the sailors on them. Combustible, Vulnerable, and Expendable.

[@johnemerson1363]

Yeah, like the LST, Large Slow Target. Yet the US only lost the USS Block Island, CVE 21 in the Atlantic in WWII.

[@marbleman52]

@@johnemerson1363 My Dad was an enlisted young man on the CVE-94 Lunga Point in the Pacific Campaign and saw action at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. His Carrier was the only CVE to get hit as many times as it did by Kamikazes and still make it back to a safe port under it's own power. What's even more amazing is that in all of the direct Kamikaze hits, no one was killed. The only casualty on the Lunga Point was when a kid walked into a turning prop.

[@randyboisa6367]

@ 17:24 I do not think a captain like Wolfgang Luth would be taking it easy.

[@davidking909]

Nor do I , everyday it was kill or be killed. Doesn't make a difference what day it was

[@ZenosWarbirds]

Developments in sonar and compact radar that could be carried in small aircraft, along with virtually seamless surveillance and attack by escort carriers and long rage bombers across the entire Atlantic made survival extremely problematic even for experienced commanders. No more “Happy Times” by 1944, even with a snorkel. The Walther & Type XXI boats came too late to make a difference.

[@bcwest56]

The CVE Guadalcanal was Captained by Daniel Gallery.

[@fredwinter7411]

Even back in the time this video talks about Hitler's left hand was frozen beside him. So glad our God showed this country and England the way to defeat them so totally that there was no resistance after the war was over.

[@charlesrs]

do you sell a copy of this series ?

[@R.U.1.2.]

yes.

[@danboyle116]

I must disagree with the narrator at about 17:20 or so when he claims the German sailors were completely unaware. I spent several years on a submarine, and when active sonar is looking for you, it doesn't matter whether it's pinging off your hull or four miles away - everyone can hear it.

[@njwalker9314]

Absolutely...propaganda to keep up morale....

[@artmcteagle]

Well if they could hear it, then they would've been very worried!

[@chuckkelly1225]

When we Captured their code Machine. Germany was Screwed. We knew where they where going. An how many to expect. Where they where refueling an supplies. We Broke the Japanese code before Midway happened. We where out manned at out gunned from both side of the world. An still came out ahead. THANKS TO THE CREATIVE PPL WE HAD THEN.

[@drspaseebo410]

The British, in particular the codebreakers at Bletchley, England, cracked the German ENIGMA code ~ despite what Hollywood portrayed ! British forces captured one of these machines on March 4th, 1941.

[@nickhuf3099]

What is the song after the intro? Around 1:59

[@Crooked_Clown]

Freaking awesome. The Hunter became the Haunted.

[@arthurblundell6128]

"black May 1943" was the death knell with 43 uboots killed

[@philliplee1193]

as if the soundtrack was'nt enough, the details exclude our american torpedoes being a malfunctioning disaster for years. .

[@TheJonjay777]

True the uss tang was sunk by her own torpedo

[@davidcraig9779]

This one reminds me that we had a population with enough education to handle it all.

[@peterclark6290]

Imagine a SWATH-based static airfield mid-Atlantic (size nor height is not limited). It could operate as a base for not only ocean-crossing aircraft (refuel, repairs, rest) but also support a PT boat and destroyer escort squadrons for self-defence. It would also be able to maintain a surveillance role. The air-gap could have been closed prior to the end of 1940. However none of the commands in two nations thought of it. The invention was 20 years old at this point. SWATH is virtually unsinkable unless the KMS Bismarck or Scharnhorst turned up for a visit. Now do yourself a favour and go through all the other inventions that never got used to their fullest. Like Diesel radials (which doesn't burn with every spark). I blame the narrowness of the command structure and bureaucrats, a common bulwark to development. All generals are limited by their last war experience, and war is a young man's game.

[@carlhull8276]

Turn the sound ALL the way down and enjoy the movie!

[@daleburrell6273]

WHERE IS THE VIDEO?!

[@ZenosWarbirds]

If you’re not seeing the video, you must have a glitch. It’s there.

[@granskare]

this film is not your property. I saw it in 1952 and the national broadcasting co reserved "all rights"

[@ZenosWarbirds]

The original copyright expired on the “Victory at Sea” and for various reasons wasn’t renewed. That happens sometimes. It’s now “Public Domain.” I don’t claim copyright on the original series, only on the restoration I did on the film, which took a lot of time on my part. In any case, you can watch it here on KZbin at no charge. And there are plenty of other copies of the show on YT if you’d prefer to watch it elsewhere.

[@dunruden9720]

@คีรีวงศ์ โมระศาก Thais are usually too polite to shout, khrap!

[@alanl.simmons9726]

8:43 Even today, in 2020-2023 wrecks of warplanes from the Great Lakes Naval Training are being found.

[@Og-Judy]

After Pearl Harbor my dad enlisted in the navy. His basic training was at Great Lakes. All I know is he was a Machinist 3rd class and was on briefly on the USS Upham APD-99 and then on the USS Edmonds DE-406 on the Pacific Theater of WWII

[@FFM0594]

W/Out 'music' would be better. My poor eardrums @ 9:30!

[@stevefarris9433]

AGREE!

[@mechengineer4894]

Hedge hogs. Split up a standard depth charge into 40 or so bomblets to cover more surface. A few pounds of explosive is all it took to create a small puncture, the ocean takes care of the rest.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

4:15 The Mariner seaplane has post-war US marking.

[@Chainyanker007]

Back to the Future?

[@o-h7567]

The narrator starred in the King and I after Yul Brenner retired.

[@iskandartaib]

4:18 - postwar I think..

[@markroberts9577]

866 German subs sunk during the war! Unfathomable

[@ynotdeviltry5968]

I see what you did there😎

[@donbryant58]

Propaganda is tiresome. This video failed to mention Admiral Kings vast contribution to this glorious struggle.

[@nickdanger3802]

"Very serious depredations were committed by the U-boats off the East coast of America until the convoy system was put into proper order by the exertions of Admiral King." Churchill below 1469 api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1943/feb/11/war-situation

[@benquinney2]

Type VIIc vs fletcher class

[@SomervilleBob]

Did they tow float planes behind bigger ships?

[@meigsman59]

No. Be kind of hard in 25 foot swells.

[@pauldavidson6321]

Launched them off specially built float plane catapults and recovered them with deck cranes ,only possible in fairly calm seas.

[@Christerart1]

The soundtrack is terrible - intrusive and the volume is way too high compared to the voice recordings.

[@ZenosWarbirds]

That's the way it was produced.

[@trangia12]

Ok for day time viewing but not before bed.

[@thegreatdominion949]

I believe Richard Rodgers composed the music for this series.

[@ZenosWarbirds]

And he received an Emmy Award for the score. It was released separately as a vinyl record and was a bestseller.

[@stephenarling1667]

Maybe there is good reason these don't sound good on today's devices. Produced in 1952, the sound mix was probably optimized for TV loudspeakers that were typically deficient at highs and lows, most efficient at midrange voice frequencies.

[@michaelinhouston9086]

One of my uncles flew anti-sub patrols in a Catalina over the Caribbean and out into the Atlantic. I asked him how many subs they saw. In 3 years they saw 1 sub. I asked him if they bombed it - he said 'no, the pilot could not tell if it was German or American so they let it go'. He passed his flying jacket along to one of his grandsons.

[@jamesmurphy6364]

He was probably been modest mate, unfortunately they don't make men like your uncle anymore my great grandfather was the XO on a flower class corvette he said the same,after he died in 1999 we found out he had been decorated with a George cross for ramming and sinking a U-boat after running out of depth charges 🇬🇧🇺🇲👍

[@maxrudder6091]

Daniel Gallery, the Guadalcanal's C.O., was quietly reprimanded for capturing that submarine. The orders were to sink them, not capture them. The British had the code machine, unbeknownst to the Germans, and capturing a submarine with the code machine onboard put that effort at risk. It wasn't publicly known in 1952, but most U-boats were found because of message intercepts. The allies always made sure an airplane flew over the sub before sending a ship to attack it so the Germans wouldn't catch on.

[@mikegross6107]

Does anyone realize over 35,000 human beings were lost in that one "theater of operations"? For what reason but EVIL men wanting to control the world! It will never end until we realize that LOVE (not physical but spiritual) will conquer all in the end!

[@philipcallicoat3147]

The music is inspired! The subject matter isn't.☠️

[@Og-Judy]

Was born in 1953. All I know is .my dad enlisted in the US navy after Pearl Harbor waa hit. I know he was in the fighting in the Pacific dont know actual dates of service. Something about Leyte and Luzon he died in 67 and didn't talk about it much.

[@alanstone1206]

At about marker 18 planes from Guadalcanal spot the Germans subs in the Atlantic, didn't think they could fly that far?

[@williamschlenger1518]

German technology & production was very impressive. Too bad they chose war.

[@Chainyanker007]

All it took was one fast talking snake oil salesman named Hitler. In the end he brought death, suffering and destruction to his country, his people and himself. Ditto, Tojo in Japan.

[@alanstone1206]

I know, It's a ship, LOL

[@willboudreau1187]

Turning point in battle of Atlantic was May 1943, just sayin'.

[@martinjones12]

The Captain of the USS Guadacanal put the the whole outcome of the war in jeopardy as he tried to capture an intact U boat! Stupidly and to inflate his ego, he allowed the capture to be filmed and filmed the subsequent towing of the captured U boat which he planned to sail into harbour as "his trophy". This event, which would be shown on every newsreel in the USA, would have told the Germans that an intact u boat and more crucially, its ENIGMA machine had been captured. The Brits had already captured an ENIGMA machine from a u boast long before and were using its secrets to "read" German signal traffic, a fact the Germans were blissfully unaware of. Great lengths had been taken to prevent the enemy knowing we had an ENIGMA machine, this days action, mostly to massage the ego of one individual almost cost millions of lives, there were calls to court martial this self serving idiot.

[@nickdanger3802]

"Initially, all the German naval high command knew of U-570's situation was her radio message, saying she was under air-attack and unable to submerge; they only learned of her capture from later British press reports." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Graph#German_response

[@jeffmoore9487]

This film is a beautiful example of the fact that when government, industry, and the people unite in a joint project, no problem is beyond solving. Destroying fascism wasn't a random effort of the various CEO'S, their corporate parties, and the people of America. Everything was coordinated. This is what solving our environmental suicide, our growing poverty, and our endless wars will look like if we choose, as a people, as a species in fact, to solve things. Call it socialism. Call it anything you want, but America's response to totalitarianism in WW2 is a good example of it, short of a truly socialist revolution. When we form a democracy of the 99%, control industry collectively, then we'll be able to solve the world's problems

[@stevefarris9433]

Socialism is not the answer. A united people under pragmatic conservativism is. Russia was under a dictator and forced his people to fight to the death like the Japanese did. Japan lost. Stalin just had enough people to overcome the Germans through brute force and massive death.

[@howardsanderson2520]

The US Navy had only a small part in the U-Boat Atlantic campaign. Most kills attributed to the USA were carried out by aircraft. Their navy was otherwise busy in the Pacific. From published data the following kills are, Canada 32, USA 228 (Navy 28 and US aircraft 200). Royal Navy, 237 and RAF Coastal command 212. That leaves 157 U Boats unaccounted for, but there were accidental losses at sea, plus contributions from other Navies such as the Dutch, Norwegian etc. Saying that I love these old propaganda films on how the Americans won the war.

[@stevehobbs9015]

Please.....enough with the "marshall" music....great video.....but the constant music is REALLY distracting!!!!!!

[@ZenosWarbirds]

Steve Hobbs Others disagreed. When this TV series first premiered in the 1950s, the musical soundtrack, by legendary broadway composer Richard Rogers, was a critical success, won awards and was a best selling record on its own.

[@davidrodgersNJ]

So you don't have volume control, including "mute?"

[@stevehobbs9015]

Ok...I stand corrected...but it's still very distracting to me...nonetheless...a great video....and in reply to David Rogers....yes I do....but then it is like watching an old silent movie....and I haven't done that in over 50 years.

[@merlemorrison482]

@@davidrodgersNJ if you mute you loose the voices too - not a great choice.....

[@dunruden9720]

I think you mean "martial," sheriff!

[@gimp7298]

The music is over powering ........

[@ralphaverill2001]

I watched all the Victory at Sea TV films when I was a kid in the 1950's. My father was a Navy ensign in the Pacific in WW II and I swallowed the VaS propaganda pretty much whole. Accurate history it isn't. Allied victory was not the inevitable, foregone conclusion depicted in the Victory at Sea series. It's good to remember that no news account of WW II could be published without prior editing/approval by the US military.