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[pzrwest]

I saw this posted on the "other" forum and thought I would do a copy and paste here for our KM people. Hope this is ok with everyone if there are any objections I will remove it!!
October 1939.
"A U-Boat returns home after sinking the aircraft carrier Courageous. That liar, the First Sealord Churchill at first claimed that no aircraft carrier had been lost, then when he admitted it, he said at least the U-Boat had been sunk. Here you see the U-Boat"

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=V5vh42TRODE

August 1939

The following is a modellers technical masterpiece, it is the Marine Hitler Youth sailing from Passau to Budapest along the Danube in August 1939. You will see a battleship and a passenger liner scale models, notice the head and shoulders of the two crew members in each craft, wonderful.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KjmY305y4gE

[SchnellMeyer]

Many thanks pzwest for the youtube link .Some super footage of the brave U-Boat boys there.

[Shergar]

Thanks for sharing harold ,

[Tychsen]

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Some good footage Harold , I would agree with SM - the U-Boat crews were certainly brave men and not quite the propagand image presented by the news reels.
Equal in bravery that of the Merchant seamen who trudged along at a few knots waiting for the shor with their name on it.
My late father did several Atlantic Convoys to St.Johns in Newfoundland and back - something he said to me stuck " if you ever saw a tanker go up , you never forgot it" , death when it came to them came in fire or in the form of choking on the product of oil corrupted lungs.

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The clip above links to the well known "!World at War" series from which the other parts of this episode can be found - the statements made by all the participants of all ranks and nationalities confirm the nature of the war at sea and the unforgiving nature of "The Cruel Sea" which did not discriminate in the taking of lives.

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Some rarely seen film from an really excellent series fromthe 1970's not often seen.


The Secret War - The Batttle of The Atlantic
Enjoy !
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( Look at what the skipper has around his neck in part two - 8x60 see the binocular thread in this section - perhaps the only film footage showing a set of this type).

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Still Secret... "Enigma".

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Whilst the breaking of the German codes was certainly important , this in itself would not sink ships - aircraft and radar made the vital differences.

We often marvel at German scientific developments - often we overlook the brillant work of Allied scientists who countered their opposite numbers.

Lemp's U-110 was one of the great windfalls , others equally important came from the capture of weather ships -Lauenburg was one vital capture - U-559 was another.

I was 18 when I bought Brian Johnston's book to accompanty this series ( of the same name) one of the best I ever bought - even today it is an outstandingly informative read.
If you can track a copy down on the secondhand market I fully recommend you buy it.
It is also worth seeking on on U-Tube little Hanna Reitsch talking about her flight in the ME-163 - an amazing account of what it was like - makes your hair stand on end - an amazing lady - wonderful and her distain for Messerschmitt who she ( as a pilot ) knew he was wrong fater she was nearly killed in a 323 glider crash.