Grey Wolves: U-Boats 1939-1941 Part 1

[Angerfist2]

i fell asleep

[Hanske90]

I've been in a russian 60's sub once and it's very cosy actually. As long as you're not under fire :p

[awnok]

I didn't realise that it was only England vs Germany.

[jumpyjedi]

@awnok no offense buddy but learn ur history and dates.......us didnt come into the war until pearl harbor...and that was a wee bit later in 1941

[awnok]

@jumpyjedi You misunderstood what I meant, Jumpy. I was taking a swipe the narrative of this type of thing. The whole of the UK and many Commonwealth countries were involved from the outset. Not just England.

[MichaelWithstand]

This is the best narrative to help you sleep . . .

[Fixxxer46]

Only saw half of it. It sounds like a News Report rahter than a documentary.

[tannenstein]

Good video but a very dry narrative. Most professional combatants will tell you that war is mostly boredom combined with with brief moments of extreme terror.

[Rico8458]

AH needed more uboats, like 5,000 of them to surround england.

[peri2502]

@Rico8458 actually only 300, but at the time the war started, Germany had 57.

[DaManzMoney]

@peri2502 300? There was 1 over 1100 built in WW2 and that still didn't do it and what they don't tell us is that less than 1% of allied shipping was sunk overall by U Boats and yes they did do good at the start of the war but overall by wars end less than 1% sunk and U Boat casulties were over 70%

[whitewinged1]

@DaManzMoney Victory was achieved at a huge cost: between 1939 and 1945, 3,500 Allied merchant ships (totalling 14.5 million gross tons) and 175 Allied warships were sunk and some 72,200 Allied sailors and merchant seamen lost their lives. The Germans lost 783 U-boats and approximately 30,000 sailors killed, three-fourths of Germany's 40,000-man U-boat fleet. "what they don't tell us is that less than 1% of allied shipping was sunk overall by U Boats" Less than 1% ??? HELLOOOOO???

[DaManzMoney]

@whitewinged1 Yes less that 1% was sunk overall. Ya they sunk alot but overall 99% got through

[DaManzMoney]

@peri2502 300? There was over 1100 I mean not There was 1 over

[daiard]

Thanks for posting

[TurkishHistorian1923]

Very good !

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[RIPMOISES]

@TurkishHistorian1923 very good comment