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I love your videos but (as an amateur music producer) the sound mix is off consistently - narrator voice is too loud compared to background noise. Hope this helps your channel expand and grow!
Fun fact: When U-Boats returned from mission, it wasn't entirely uncommon for the janitors to immediately climb out to vomit because of the awful smell, which reeked of a mix of diesel, the crew's sweat, and other nasty smells the crew were desensitized to along their journey.
This may be a dumb question but did people get sick physically from the over exposure to the large amount of diesel fumes? And by sick I don’t mean throwing up I mean like illness.
One nitpick, the Germans used primarily electric powered torpedoes that were quite difficult to spot, except at the very beginning of the war. The Americans used mostly steam powered torpedoes that were much easier to see. The steam powered torpedoes had their own advantages though, they were faster and had longer range. And both German and American torpedoes had design defects that caused them to be unreliable until halfway through the war!
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa They were steam powered but used oxygen instead of air for combustion, so had enormous ranges for the time. Surfaced launched torpedoes were also much bigger than the allies.
You mean the magnetic detonators which were not testet outside of the home waters? All nations had this problem because the theory of earth magnetic field was very new and incomplete. However, the Americans had problems with impact detonators too. However, many japaneese sailors in early war own they life to the mark 14 and the American ministry of ordnance.
@@molybdaen11 The Americans had the unfortunate additional problem that the people in charge refused to admit that there might be any problem at all, and initially didn't agree to test fire a single torpedo despite repeated reports from ship captains. It turned out that there were a lot of problems with them beyond just the detonators.
@@TheRealFmarty ah, than the manual was surley lost in time. i hope the seller was fair and you did not need to pay the full price, because of the missing manual. anyway have fun with your german u boat and its crew! good to know, when i gonna make my own u boat movie, i will contact you!
Excellent video as always! One minor nitpick though :) A typical U-boat's speed was only limited to 8 kn while submerged, on the surface they could make about 14-16 kn, which was comparable to the top speed of most escort ships and well above that of a laden freighter.
You forgot to mention one quirkful tactic: instead of reversing after firing the salvo the sub would go INTO the formation of vessels, underwater of course, so they had no chance of spotting it. It would then hide for a while and either carry on with the slaughter or leave to replenish supplies.
He didnt forgot, that never happend. If they could get into the convoy, they would have done it befor the attack. A U-boat couldnt keep up with a convoy submerged, the batteries would be empty in less than one hour. What they did was sneaking into a convoy on the surface befor the attack
Found you not too long ago this year and have watched as much as I have the time for. Glad you are starting to get the recognition you deserve and you are starting to get advertised more. Keep it up. Nice voice work on the phone trivia card game. Cant remember the name right now.
Fun fact: the germans would later develop noise makers to counter hydrophones and an experimental ( which proved to break off due to sea salt and corrosion) rubber coating to counter sonar.
THANK YOU! My friend gave me a British WW2 submarine(crew included) for my birthday and I’ve been looking for a video on how to operate it, you literally saved me and my crew.
One of the first things I learned in the three years I was on an SSN was how to properly flush the toilet. If you tried to open the ball valve while they were blowing sanitary tanks overboard...I don't want to think about it.
these videos have amazing animation like oversimplified but they dont take ages to come out its amazing (oversimplified should not stop making such amazing animation though even if it does take time)
My Dad's theory on the Flower class names - Imagine being the U-boat captain whose combat record ended with: 'Rammed and depth-charged by HMS _Petunia,_ _Candytuft,_ _Buttercup,_ and _Periwinkle._ '
I come from Malta 🇲🇹 an island nation in the Mediterranean. I am really proud of our history and culture. I would really appreciate it if you could maybe do a video about Maltas victory in the great siege which was one of the greatest underdog victories in all of history. Thank you sidequest !
Honestly I don't care about WW2 submarines, but I'm still gonna watch for the animation and the jokes. My Heart Will Go On lyrics coming out of nowhere got me cackling lol. And also for the BGM selection and the sound effects! Whoever is doing the audio deserves a raise because it's so, so good!
If y'all like this you should play the game Wolfpack, it's pretty fun and realistic, you basically operate your own submarine with your friends. Thought the servers are pretty much dead nowadays
Have you seed Grim Reaper's videos on that game? He and his crew are the only people I have ever seen play that game, and others like it, with any degree of competency. Well worth the watch if you enjoy that kind of gameplay.
I think it's worth mentioning "UBOAT" too, it's singleplayer and the closer there is today to the old Silent Hunter games, even if it's "easier" (not a bad thing for people learning about U-Boats tho) and you do get to command and upgrade your own Type VII U-Boat.
by this time when the U boats were telling the boss what they were up to the British were reading the decoded messages before the Germans, the Germans wondered why it was so difficult to find convoys but never once suspected the British knew where they were
Fun tid bit, you can totally determine torpedo trajectories without a computer/TDC just by using a periscope, and some quikmaths. The TDC however, did give the significant advantage of allowing for gyro(?) angles, allowing freer movement of submarines.
3:16 is probably wrong, because submarines in WW2 needed to measure the distance, course and size of targets through periscopes. Which means it's impossible to fire torpedoes accurately in too dark or too high waves.
Thermal layer, was the aim of every U boat being hunted by escorts. The issue with depth, is that the deeper you are the bigger are the chances of a depth charge to destroy the hull. There's one thing that should be noted, the merchant ships didnt have full escort in the whole trip until 41-43. That meant in some place in the middle of the Atlantic they were alone without escorts. Something germans knew and used to hunt in that area at full extent. And probably the big thing that helped merchants was the dud chance of torps in the early war.
@@wolf310ii I found the tactics of following courses, showing oscilligraphs and the details of the stations quite interesting. Also both sides were shown equally, which is rare in such movies.
I spent 2 nights on the uss pompanito in 6th grade as a field trip. We also stayed on the uss hornet aircraft carrier that week. It was probably my most memorable school trip.
I am actually surprised that this wasn't in the video. A German submarine (U1206) sank in the spring of 1945 near the Scottish coast after a new toilet was installed. This toilet could only be operated by a specially trained crewman, which the captain of the boat, Commander Schlitt, semingly ignored. This lead to water floating into the submarine, which reacted with the batteries, producing poisonous chlorine gas. Commander Schitt ... er, sorry, Schlitt then ordered the boat to surface, where it was immediately spotted and attacked by British planes. Because they had no chance the commander then ordered the crew to evacuate the boat and sink it, which they did. One crewman was killed by the British planes and two or three (depending on the sources, one of these crewmen might have been the corpse of the crewman that got killed by the British plane) drowned when their life raft crashed against the cliffs near the beach (the other eight crewmen in the same liferaft managed to get to the beach).
Otto Kretchmer said germans allways played same melody when he returns from mission . When he got capured he relise the melody was "Star and stripes forever"....
They didn't have to get back to shore to pick up ammo and supply, they just had to meet one of the many supply ships on sea that provide food, diesel and torpedos
If the Captain is screaming "Schnell!", then all is well If he is screaming "Nein!", then all is fine. If he whispers "Wir brennen', it's the end, then.
Great socialist background songs - "Dem Morgenrot entgegen", "Der kleine Trompeter", "Thälmann Kolonne", "Brüder zur Sonne zur Freiheit" were the ones I gathered while watching. Probably a few I missed. FINALLY a use for me knowing those songs.
An intern at WATU beat an admiral by wargaming. She figured that U-boats liked to hunt not from the fringes of a convoy but from within. She figured that if you've got 50 vessels coming off and on your sonar then one or two more dots goes amiss. Her work upset an Admiral, saved thousands of lives and created Raspberry. Her name was Janet Okell. She was a WREN and only 19 years old. Remember her name, remember her achievements. She earned your attention and so much more.
I have a really stupid question: why are there leftwing german marches in the background? xD suddenly i had lyrics on my mind that matched the marches xD not to get me wrong i really like the music but why?
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U-boat information was stolen by british code breaking, so its not perhaps best selling point about safety...
Can you guys cover the incident with Napoleon being attacked by rabbits?
I love your videos but (as an amateur music producer) the sound mix is off consistently - narrator voice is too loud compared to background noise. Hope this helps your channel expand and grow!
Congrats on the Cards, The Universe, and Everything advertising money. Think of your channel every time I get the ad.
Imagine if this is another DuckDuckGo incident
Fun fact: When U-Boats returned from mission, it wasn't entirely uncommon for the janitors to immediately climb out to vomit because of the awful smell, which reeked of a mix of diesel, the crew's sweat, and other nasty smells the crew were desensitized to along their journey.
Nose blind to those awful smells? Try Febreeze!
@@ryanotte6737 lol
US Diesel subs were known as ‘pig boats’ for a reason
This may be a dumb question but did people get sick physically from the over exposure to the large amount of diesel fumes? And by sick I don’t mean throwing up I mean like illness.
@@bruhdon4748 I’d assume so, exhaust exposure is certainly not good for you and can be lethal
As a German Submarine Commander NEVER hire a mechanic named Hans to work on your ship
So just tell them, Hans off?
Just rename him Walter.
If you know, you know, if you don't know, don't worry about it.
Too bad 90% of Germany’s population was named either Hans, Franz, or Karl
@@pizzamovies23 AND there are here to PUMP *clap* YOU up!
I dont get it. I need a Captain
thank you sidequest, I was wanting to command a ww2 submarine this e p i k tutorial that hasn’t even premiered yet really helped me out.
One nitpick, the Germans used primarily electric powered torpedoes that were quite difficult to spot, except at the very beginning of the war. The Americans used mostly steam powered torpedoes that were much easier to see.
The steam powered torpedoes had their own advantages though, they were faster and had longer range.
And both German and American torpedoes had design defects that caused them to be unreliable until halfway through the war!
Jepan torpedo is better
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa They were steam powered but used oxygen instead of air for combustion, so had enormous ranges for the time. Surfaced launched torpedoes were also much bigger than the allies.
Lol, the infamous early American Mark 14 torpedoes.
You mean the magnetic detonators which were not testet outside of the home waters?
All nations had this problem because the theory of earth magnetic field was very new and incomplete.
However, the Americans had problems with impact detonators too.
However, many japaneese sailors in early war own they life to the mark 14 and the American ministry of ordnance.
@@molybdaen11 The Americans had the unfortunate additional problem that the people in charge refused to admit that there might be any problem at all, and initially didn't agree to test fire a single torpedo despite repeated reports from ship captains. It turned out that there were a lot of problems with them beyond just the detonators.
If anyone is interested, the background song is Varshavianka (or the Warsawian in English) by the Red Army Choir.
I also heard "Dem Morgenrot entgegen" + "Die Thälmann Kolonne" + "Brüder zur Sonne zur Freiheit"
@@AlexandraBryngelsson kleine trompeter as well, kind weird for the selection of music, most of it is East German military marches.
This will help greatly with my newly bought German U-Boat! it didn’t come with a manual 😢
You should have asked for the instruction manual!!
@@stevenlubick2689 I did!
You bought on eBay?
@@aka99 yeh
@@TheRealFmarty ah, than the manual was surley lost in time. i hope the seller was fair and you did not need to pay the full price, because of the missing manual. anyway have fun with your german u boat and its crew! good to know, when i gonna make my own u boat movie, i will contact you!
Side quest is so underrated. He sounds like the voice of that cards, universe and everything.
I never knew how much I needed my history delivered by the monopoly guy until I saw it.
Quite nice that you used the Warszawianka as the background song
I’ve never come across your channel before - this is outstanding !
Excellent video as always! One minor nitpick though :) A typical U-boat's speed was only limited to 8 kn while submerged, on the surface they could make about 14-16 kn, which was comparable to the top speed of most escort ships and well above that of a laden freighter.
8 kts for less than an hour, and more like 2-3 if they wanted to stay on the battery during the whole day.
Ive been catching up on the back catalouge, but im glad that im finally able to support a sidequest video when it releases! Keep up the great work
Excellent Tutorial! This is the exact same way I command my U-Boat on my journey to work!
Isn't the U-Boat your workplace?
And if it's not, what, in the seven seas, do you work?
One love ❤️
You're such a talented creator and I'm glad you're growing so fast!
Yeah it took a while lol I remember when all his videos had sub 10k views. Consistent, hard work pays off
80% death rate among U-Boat crews.
Four out of five.
Wow.
You forgot to mention one quirkful tactic: instead of reversing after firing the salvo the sub would go INTO the formation of vessels, underwater of course, so they had no chance of spotting it. It would then hide for a while and either carry on with the slaughter or leave to replenish supplies.
He didnt forgot, that never happend.
If they could get into the convoy, they would have done it befor the attack.
A U-boat couldnt keep up with a convoy submerged, the batteries would be empty in less than one hour.
What they did was sneaking into a convoy on the surface befor the attack
Found you not too long ago this year and have watched as much as I have the time for. Glad you are starting to get the recognition you deserve and you are starting to get advertised more. Keep it up. Nice voice work on the phone trivia card game. Cant remember the name right now.
Fun fact: the germans would later develop noise makers to counter hydrophones and an experimental ( which proved to break off due to sea salt and corrosion) rubber coating to counter sonar.
The Titanic ref was amazing!
1:22 that's the modern US Flag with 50 stars. During WWII, the US Flag only had 48 stars
quite strange that alaska and hawaii didnt get statehood until very recently
Keep up the great work! I love this channel so much, it’s one of my favourites! :)
Danke!
"I know my heart will go on, as will my torpedo."
I don't know where, but I'm going to use that somewhere eventually.
love the humour and animations mixed in with historical facts, guess that means it's time to sub (pun intended).
THANK YOU! My friend gave me a British WW2 submarine(crew included) for my birthday and I’ve been looking for a video on how to operate it, you literally saved me and my crew.
The animation and script never disappoints
One of the first things I learned in the three years I was on an SSN was how to properly flush the toilet. If you tried to open the ball valve while they were blowing sanitary tanks overboard...I don't want to think about it.
Fun fact: in the First World War, u-boats we’re even more deadly, with only 1 in 4 operators making it out alive
these videos have amazing animation like oversimplified but they dont take ages to come out its amazing
(oversimplified should not stop making such amazing animation though even if it does take time)
My Dad's theory on the Flower class names - Imagine being the U-boat captain whose combat record ended with: 'Rammed and depth-charged by HMS _Petunia,_ _Candytuft,_ _Buttercup,_ and _Periwinkle._ '
I come from Malta 🇲🇹 an island nation in the Mediterranean. I am really proud of our history and culture. I would really appreciate it if you could maybe do a video about Maltas victory in the great siege which was one of the greatest underdog victories in all of history.
Thank you sidequest !
Just watched the osp video on the maltese seige, you guys kick ass!
@@rexetelectric3811 Many appreciations
Honestly I don't care about WW2 submarines, but I'm still gonna watch for the animation and the jokes.
My Heart Will Go On lyrics coming out of nowhere got me cackling lol.
And also for the BGM selection and the sound effects! Whoever is doing the audio deserves a raise because it's so, so good!
2:17 Near Far Wherever You Are I Believe That My Heart Will Go On
Thank you SideQuest, these videos really prove that you can learn more on TH-cam than in all 12 years of school!
"near far wherever you are my heart will go on as will my torpedo"😂😂
theres a movie about a german submarine called "Das Boot" really a movie worth watching
Wow u actually used "Varshavyanka" as bgm! Glad to see someone still remembers a song basically been banned in the western world.
I also heard "Dem Morgenrot entgegen" + "Die Thälmann Kolonne" + "Brüder zur Sonne zur Freiheit"
this is so useful, i just bought mine yesterday and had no idea how to use it! this helped me so much
Too bad you need friends to operate it
If y'all like this you should play the game Wolfpack, it's pretty fun and realistic, you basically operate your own submarine with your friends. Thought the servers are pretty much dead nowadays
Have you seed Grim Reaper's videos on that game? He and his crew are the only people I have ever seen play that game, and others like it, with any degree of competency. Well worth the watch if you enjoy that kind of gameplay.
I think it's worth mentioning "UBOAT" too, it's singleplayer and the closer there is today to the old Silent Hunter games, even if it's "easier" (not a bad thing for people learning about U-Boats tho) and you do get to command and upgrade your own Type VII U-Boat.
@@Kyo-kf6jf Hmmm, I've never heard of that one, I'll have to give it a look!
@@Kyo-kf6jf SH3 with gwx is also good although i heard that SH5 mods is good too.
@@resurgam_b7 good hunting, kapitan!
by this time when the U boats were telling the boss what they were up to the British were reading the decoded messages before the Germans, the Germans wondered why it was so difficult to find convoys but never once suspected the British knew where they were
Fun tid bit, you can totally determine torpedo trajectories without a computer/TDC just by using a periscope, and some quikmaths. The TDC however, did give the significant advantage of allowing for gyro(?) angles, allowing freer movement of submarines.
The gyro angle could be set manually, the advantage of the TDC was you didnt need quickmaths, the TDC did the math
@@wolf310ii Thanks! It's been a while
Thank you for this very helpful tutorial
3:16 is probably wrong, because submarines in WW2 needed to measure the distance, course and size of targets through periscopes. Which means it's impossible to fire torpedoes accurately in too dark or too high waves.
I remember visiting the U-Boat exhibit in the Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, and it was extremely cramped even for the tour group
And that is a type-IX - it's much bigger!
Thermal layer, was the aim of every U boat being hunted by escorts.
The issue with depth, is that the deeper you are the bigger are the chances of a depth charge to destroy the hull.
There's one thing that should be noted, the merchant ships didnt have full escort in the whole trip until 41-43. That meant in some place in the middle of the Atlantic they were alone without escorts. Something germans knew and used to hunt in that area at full extent. And probably the big thing that helped merchants was the dud chance of torps in the early war.
If anyone wants a good movie about a German UBoat watch “Das Boot” it’s in German but with subtitles it’s a great movie
„The enemy below” is a good movie too if you want to see accurate uboat warfare (OK technicaly it was filmed on a American uboat but still).
@@molybdaen11 The enemy below shows hollywood uboat warfare and it was filmed on a set, not in a uboat, not even US uboats had that much space.
@@wolf310ii I found the tactics of following courses, showing oscilligraphs and the details of the stations quite interesting.
Also both sides were shown equally, which is rare in such movies.
I spent 2 nights on the uss pompanito in 6th grade as a field trip. We also stayed on the uss hornet aircraft carrier that week. It was probably my most memorable school trip.
Last time I checked you had 20k subs. Congrats on 400k, u deserve it !
Amazing video as usual! Keep it up!!
Clearly you never hit a barrel with a sludge hammer if you think it will do no damage to the barrel.
I'm amazed by the medley of proletarian fight songs playing in the background. :D
I heard "Varshavyanka" + "Dem Morgenrot entgegen" + "Die Thälmann Kolonne" + "Brüder zur Sonne zur Freiheit"
Another awesome episode!!! Thank you!!
A channel who truly understands the peoples interest
Advertising works. This dude paid for his videos to show up in ads and he went from a thousand subscribers a year ago to on the way to half a million
Two uploads in a month! Is it my birthday?
Glad you got yourself a sponsor!
I love how the videos topic is about World War 2 german U-boats while “the International” is playing in the background.
Well, all I know about how to command a WW2 submarine is that you don't flush the toilet. Or you migth sink it.
I am actually surprised that this wasn't in the video. A German submarine (U1206) sank in the spring of 1945 near the Scottish coast after a new toilet was installed. This toilet could only be operated by a specially trained crewman, which the captain of the boat, Commander Schlitt, semingly ignored. This lead to water floating into the submarine, which reacted with the batteries, producing poisonous chlorine gas. Commander Schitt ... er, sorry, Schlitt then ordered the boat to surface, where it was immediately spotted and attacked by British planes. Because they had no chance the commander then ordered the crew to evacuate the boat and sink it, which they did. One crewman was killed by the British planes and two or three (depending on the sources, one of these crewmen might have been the corpse of the crewman that got killed by the British plane) drowned when their life raft crashed against the cliffs near the beach (the other eight crewmen in the same liferaft managed to get to the beach).
Sidequest is growing faster than my height
You have gigantism
me too.
well, I'm 27
I've watched the 30/30 videos, and all of them are 1000/100 💯🔥🔥🔥 love this channel.
I dream of an episode of 1hr :( and a weekly new episode
Thank you! This video is going to help me break into a Uboat full of art
Otto Kretchmer said germans allways played same melody when he returns from mission . When he got capured he relise the melody was "Star and stripes forever"....
If you're side quest, what and where's the main quest?
I have notifications turned on but for some reason I don't get notified when u upload. Anyone else? Great content tho!!
This came in my recommendation when I listen to "Das Boots" theme song, I love the song. Anyway nice detail and video "God Speed"
They didn't have to get back to shore to pick up ammo and supply, they just had to meet one of the many supply ships on sea that provide food, diesel and torpedos
Like the Wesser?
I will surely use this information responsibly
Having your sub torn apart has to suck. Having it torn apart at night during a storm is hell
You forgot to mention that besides of Coca Cola and Food those Liberty Ships also carried guns, tanks and bombs.
Side Quest as always a fun watch.
Great video.Humor and history lead to entertainment.
Biggest Innovation was the snorkel, 48 us got serious, add the albacore hull and you got a winner
Very good work on the animations
Wonderful timing for a reccomendation
If the Captain is screaming "Schnell!", then all is well
If he is screaming "Nein!", then all is fine.
If he whispers "Wir brennen', it's the end, then.
War Thunder reference?
Love the channel keep it up!
I wouldn't even enjoy life without this channel
Great socialist background songs - "Dem Morgenrot entgegen", "Der kleine Trompeter", "Thälmann Kolonne", "Brüder zur Sonne zur Freiheit" were the ones I gathered while watching. Probably a few I missed. FINALLY a use for me knowing those songs.
A las barricadas too, that's the one that stood out to me
The fletcher class is considered a destroyer while the town class was considered a cruiser in everywhere Ive ever seen them mentioned.
Thanks, needed that
This is gonna be one of those videos that after 10 years, will have like 80 million views
3:22 Absolutely love the Frank Sinatra joke.
I absolutely love your content
Love the animation style x
You sent a depth charge through my soul 💔
But my heart will go on, as will my torpedo!~ 💥
2:24 I’m suprised phones had that type of range back then.
Thanks for the guide
smashing! well explain chap!
One U-Boat was scuppered after the captain pulled the wrong lever in the toilet and accidentally filled the sub with excrement.
What useful information for my next venture
An intern at WATU beat an admiral by wargaming. She figured that U-boats liked to hunt not from the fringes of a convoy but from within. She figured that if you've got 50 vessels coming off and on your sonar then one or two more dots goes amiss.
Her work upset an Admiral, saved thousands of lives and created Raspberry. Her name was Janet Okell. She was a WREN and only 19 years old.
Remember her name, remember her achievements. She earned your attention and so much more.
It was great, thanks for the video ❤️!!!
Nice seeing more videos.
I really needed to know this so I can go into the black sea. Thanks mate
Well, these are some long 5 minutes of waiting in the lobby, but could wait 50!
Finally, another great video
FEELS GREAT THAT YOU ARE BACK 🥰🥰
Ok thanks, this video came just in time for me
I have a really stupid question: why are there leftwing german marches in the background? xD suddenly i had lyrics on my mind that matched the marches xD not to get me wrong i really like the music but why?
very interesting video - thanks