World War II - Earthquake Bombs Flip Over Unsinkable German Battleship

No such word, it's dived.

Very fortunate that a swordfish hit Bismarck at all much less in rudder. If this was in Pacific these swordfish would not have gotten within 50 miles of a Japanese ship. Fighters would have splashed these relics 100% Germany couldn’t protect without any planes allowing these planes to go around unhindered.

The Fighter Wing on Bardufoss was scrambled, but far too late to catch any of the Lancs departing their bombing run. The reason for the late scramble may have been down to sabotage by the German Commander on the German Radar Station on the Norwegian Island of Senja. A young Norwegian boy who became friends with the German Officer later recanted how this strange German Officer smoked English Cigarettes, had a Union Jack and English Cigarette Case and sang English Wartime Favorites like 'It's a long way to Tipperary'.
When the crucial Radar Intercept was made, valuable time was wasted communicating this inland to Bardufoss, where my Grandfather was stationed as a Radio Operator in the Luftwaffe… My Grandmother was a spy for the Norwegian Resistance, using her position as a Civilian Telegraphist as an important hub. She frequently visited Bardufoss Airbase with my Grandfather, taking notice of their operational strength and reporting this back to London. She was arrested by the Gestapo, but she had the same brilliant memory that I have, and she had memorized the entire code book and burnt it. In the end they let her go. But the psychological torture they subjected her to, would scar her for the rest of her life.
The Radar Intercept was eventually relayed to Bardufoss, but the ME-109s could only see the burning, churning sea around the wreck of Tirpitz and no sign of any bombers, so they returned to base.
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This is why battleships wont be returning. But they would have been alot better off if the targeting systems were developed better, to hear the 16 inch guns were even used to fire upon lancasters and the inaccuracy of the gravity bombs, it must have been chaos

I think the importance is the story. You could always ask for a refund I suppose.

The single earthquake bomb shown dropping from a Lancaster is a grand slam, not a tallboy.

this would make a great movie.

Stated in this is the less than plausible idealism from German perspective .... that they SCUTTLED their own ship ..... they set charges, likely, they had timers and abandoned ship indeed seems probable ... but, IT WAS TOO LATE to avert the sinking of the Bismark - she had been hit with dozens of torpedoes, bombs from the air planes assaulting her from above, many surface to surface Rifles of the British Ships there to take her down - main guns and control were off line and list was so bad any in operation could not be aimed at opposition ships, Submarine(s) were sending ordinance from below .... the destruction and no return fire from this burning hulk WAS NOT GOING TO REMAIN AFLOAT at the point .... "THESE GERMAN SAILORS" made sure of the ship "NOT FALLING INTO THE HANDS, OF THE ENEMY" nonsense !!! The fact is IT WAS THE AGE OF THE AIR CRAFT CARRIER ..... a similar mistake was made by the evil empire of the AXIS power JAPAN .... with YAMATO .... an even bigger BATTLE SHIP ! It too succumbed to wither fire from all directions and superior armament by American might. It sank similar to The Bismark .... with no time to devote to unnecessary "charges set" .... it was annihilated & sent to the Bottom ! GBjj

Hold on a minute. This is not correct. In several places I ignored and carried on watching BUT. I believe that the Turpitz was capsized by a single very close miss. Bit fantastical commentary.

Strange combination of English accent and American pronunciation...

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Dove??? Dived.

moral of the story don't fuck with the british

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Dived not dove.

You need to use photos related to the Atlantic. You lose credibility when you show Pearl Harbor pictures when discussing the Battle of the Atlantic. Editing your narration would be a huge help as well.

Why you use not right info and pictures-videos , when original all that exist ? Is it boring to research in details ? If you do it , do it right!

Listen , this praktice of everibody can do everithing must stop. Its not about theme of this video ,it is all over internet ...plagued with wrong info in many ways. This post 'corona' and some time before will be remembered in history by lies from top to all levels of humanity . Lies become normal like "good day sir" , knowlege is like never before there but humanity is dumber than dumber! Some people say that our flimsy civilization need apocalipse , so ones who left can start again. In first history books in this part of the world - europe , middle east... called bible and quran and may be more , say that was imperialisam present but people in all diferent shapes,colours,ways,etc ,have live in peace without major hatred. Look at this planet now with us humans on it? It's embarasing in what state is in. Super mega rich people in milions, each consuming recources like midd size city populated by 'middle class'! And total oposite, I even can't say what it is,sorry. Total "People are Not equal" sistem rule whole world.
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Can't really love these AI translations and voice overs.

The days of the great battleships were already numbered.
The war in the Pacific saw the rise of the carrier as the means to project power.
Today, a small frigate could take out a capital ship with a single missile from a hundred miles away.

Why all that disturbing noise in the background?

The fighters of the "Eismeergeschwader" were 2 Minutes late, due to communication problems between kriegmarine and luftwaffe. Newest research states, that early radar warnings of approaching aircraft were not forwarded to the Luftwaffe.due to an german technician secretly collaborating with norwegian resistance members

Sad but true , this war achieved nothing but death and destruction .

If you want the real story from the words of the aircrews involved, get your hands on “Australia’s Dambusters” by Colin Burgess.
Colin interviewed the remaining Australian members of 617 Sqn and published the book in 2003.

Most educational and well done!

More Allied propaganda.

What caught my eye in this video is all the Brits smoking their pipes.

The biggest threat to England came from the Rothschilds black mailing England to give the Zionist race a piece of Palestine. Hence 2023 problem of Zionist settlers stealing land off the rightful farmers . Even today the problem still exists.

Exaggeration right of the bat ruins any credibility of this retelling. The narrator says: "30 British Lancasters piloted by Britain's finest airmen..."

What's this about finest airmen? They were the squadron and crews at the nearest base who were available. It's not like the combed through the whole RAF for an all-star team.

Historical documentaries are not open to theatrical license.

How many shots of Graf Spee and Scharnhorst did you pass off as Tirpitz? Lazy!

More a symbol of nationalistic arrogance

It sounds as though you suffer from septicemia.

Something that does not get enough attention is the war in the West. One of the reasons that Germany lost the war was that while they sent most of their MANPOWER East to wage the Ostkrieg, more than half of their INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT went West to wage the war in the West. This meant that the Ostheer was not adequately supplied and supported. Sending your men in one campaign and most of the war output elsewhere is a recipe for disaster.

The huge resources devoted to building Tirpitz and other ships are just one of the ways that badly needed resources were diverted from the Otheer. Germany had a larger steel industry than the Soviets. Yet the Soviets built three times as many tanks as the Germans. Just calculate how many tanks could have been built with the resources devoted to Tuirpitz and other ships.

Well said, my friend!

You mixed several different stories involving different ships. The photos are also of the wrong ships!! Unwatchable.

How about the other stupid word, snuck. Sounds to much like fuck.

Many of the photos are not Tirpitz Photos of the Graf Spee are used. The video was intersesting, but was not as accurate as it should have been. The narrator describes the bomb as 1200 lbs while the closed captions read 12000 lbs. The photos at the end of the Luftwaffe must be about 1935. On a 1-10 rating, I will say 6.

Someone tell that speech synthesizer that it was an M.E. Two Six Two Geschwader and not a Me Two Sixty-two Squadron before it makes a complete plonker of itself again!

When the British do something it was done by the Allies, but when the Americans do something it wasn't the Allies it was the Americans, that, did it

It was the Bismark sinking the Hood, that drove the fear of the Royal Navy

Disgraceful behaviour! First you insist on pronouncing the letter Z as ZEE, which is,as we all know one of the least intelligent things an Englishman can do! And you then follow this up by comparing the length of the Turpitz to 3 SOCCER FIELDS. Turn in your passport and bowler hat, you are no longer British. Good day.

Thumbs down due to historical facts being given as fact and misleading those already not informed but now being taught misinformation that is readily proven wrong and should have been prior to being posted on you tube. You poster, fail, and fail in more than one way.

I'm sorry but U don't think the ship you showed capsizing was Tirpitz. Tirpitz did not have 3 guns per main turret, but 2.

Why is it when the captains said the ship was unsinkable, they sank.

"Dove"? FFS, who wrote this crap!

.. it was never 'a supreme threat' to the allies..it was a liability to the Germans..