Please kndly let Indy know he can pronounce the "t" in "fait accompli", because it sits between two vowels - rather like the first "r" in "car alarm" even in accents which don't pronounce "r"s at the ends of words (e.g. most English accents).
0:24 “…in his pocket…” made this 60 year old child spit up his nice strong drink on Maui at 11:40 pm. Now I have to make another. Have you no shame, Indy? Mahalo and Aloha!
That part where Hitler actually against sending Bismark on this mission shows that the surviving German general's and admiral's line of "it was Hitler's mistakes that defeated us" shows that they had more than their fair share of gaffes.
never has a bigger basket of eggs been seen in Naval history as there was with the Bismarck. While it wasn't as big as the Yamato, the Kriegsmarine was so much smaller, that all the resources poured into this beast was proportionally more substantial. For reference the Bismarck's tonnage of steel could have been used to make 30-50 U boats depending on the variant. 50 vessels wrapped up in one ship!
Not to mention Bismarck was much less efficiently designed…. Oh, and the IJN at least built new aircraft carriers while building the Yamatos so they had options when the Yamatos turned out to be a massive waste of resources: same with the USN and their ten pointless fast battleships and the RN and the KGVs. The Germans only had battleships and that turned out to be the wrong choice.
True, but keep in mind that Britain would have also noticed this sort of construction and responded accordingly. They're not going to just keep building battleships when there are no battleships to counter. It's where Germany was in a lose/lose situation.
I can't help but contrast this episode with the 1960 movie, 'Sink the Bismarck'. Both have their strengths. StB had the advantage of a visual medium in story telling but is compelled by the nature of its medium to fill in all the gaps with non-historical fictional drama. This channel's strength is in its focus on historical soundness and Indy's skill as a story teller. Ed Murrow's radio commentary in StB connects the two theatrical products across time and media.
I like that the shots of HMS Victorious in the movie, is the actual HMS Victorious. Be it after her decade long refit for the jet age. Or that actual Swordfish took off, for the last time, from an actual carrier. Realism you usually never saw in 1950's or 1960's war movies. 'Just slap a German cross on it, it'll be fine', was usually the SOP of war movies of that day.
Ed Murrow became a magician in that movie: All of a sudden, poor little Britain was completely alone against mighty Germany. How did he manage to lose the "Empire, where the sun never sets"? :D
Even already knowing the story, Indy's telling is so wonderful and infused with such enthusiastic drama, that I'm surprisingly left on tenterhooks for the next episode!
I've said it before, but it bears repeating. The music is perfect! It is light enough to not overpower Indy, yet enough to raise the tension. Great job sound/music team!
Love that no matter how many books I read or documentaries I watch, I ALWAYS learn something new from EVERY Time Ghost episode! Thank you so much for the wonderful output, the hard work, hours of research, writing, editing and filming to make you the BEST channel on TH-cam bar none!
Indy, your work is superb, the ending of this chapter with the complete of the list of the crew of HMS Hood is a great tribute, and deeply touching at the same time. Thank you so much!
Ooo, the Bismarck in real time! Nice! I had to wait to watch, but I'm super excited now that I've gotten to it. Time for one of my favorite Sabaton songs too!
I remember a cousin of mine, serving in the French Navy, telling me of the Bismarck when I was a little kid and showing off his replica. It's a real legend among european naval servicemen and it's been covered so many times! Somehow, I feel like this coverage will be better by orders of magnitude.
The weapons being made by Krupp definitely impacted my family. My grandfather, of German heritage, who fought in World War 1 with the US Army in France, was disgusted with what the Germans were doing, and in particular his namesake being stamped on all these weapons of war that were causing death, displacement and general horrors. After the war, around 1923 or 24, my grandfather took his wife and four children and moved the entire lot to America. At first, they ended up in New York City, but over the next handful of years, they traveled the country until they ended up in San Francisco. Without giving my last name, I'll just say that my grandfather changed our surname to something that rhymed with Krupp. My grandfather was the kindest, gentlest man I have ever known! He was instrumental in raising me, more than my own father, who was dealing with PTSD and malaria from serving with the US Navy in the South/Central Pacific from late 42 till the end of the war. My grandfather certainly taught me what Integrity meant and stood for, and so did my dad for that matter! Love you Dad and Grandad!🇺🇲⚓️🙏🇦🇺💖🍺🖖
A book about the Bismarck, including Robert Ballard's discovery of the wreck, was one of the first military history books I can recall reading as a kid.
I just looked something up about the Tirpitz class and I thought TH-cam recommended some age old video from that I missed. But this was uploaded 18 hours ago. I love you guys ❤❤😭
'mein wish list' and 'something to sink about', small details but its things like this that make this video great, really enjoyed, looking forward to more parts
Looking forward to the rest of this little series. I wonder how it ends? Quibble: at 15.06 you said Hitler was in an 'uncharacteristically indecisive mood'. My reading of Kershaw and others suggests Hitler was a serial ditherer, failing to make difficult choices in a timely way and hiding behind euphemisms like 'letting the situation develop'.
Can’t wait to see the end. Suspense is rife. Four juggernauts clashing together with especially the mighty “Hood”. Bismarck against the Hood. That must be epic!! Hood victorious of course!! (Yes, yes, I know the sad truth, had a glimpse in the future, But following Indy’s lead)
Prince of Wales was not ready. It still had workers onboard completing tasks & fixing problems & hadn't had sufficient gunnery practice. Talk about an unlucky ship later to be sent to her doom on a foolhardy mission by Churchill.
@@zetectic7968 Churchill was an idiot anyways. Sending an outdated ship against the strongest battleship ever made which was why Hood didn't last more than 10 minutes against Bismarck. UK really liked to shoot themselves in the foot until the Americans came to save their dumbasses.
It was (only partially) foolish only ex-post. By that time no battleship had been sunk by air attacks while in action (Pear Harbour and Taranto were surprise attacks on sitting ducks) On top of that - the Prince of Wales had a strong AA system, which unfortunatly was affected by the local weather - it was not believed that Japanese planes could operate so far away from their bases, if I recall correctly a partially correct assumption because they were at their very limit - the Allies weren't aware of the effectiveness of Japanese torpedoes and that Japan had been training a specific anti-shipping bomber unit
@@amogus948 >> And an aircraft carrier was supposed to go with Force Z, HMS Formidable. Not that Fulmars would be much good against Zeros, but Wildcats would be OK.
@jaybee9269 I assumed the focus was mostly or strictly on the mission to oppose the landings, but if we broad it to the reason Force Z was sent to SEA and what should have been included (as you mentioned, an aircraft carrier to offer extra protection) then the British mission makes even more sense. Both the British and the Americans were reinforcing at the same time their holding and in a matter of weeks they would have been able to deter and potentially prevent any Japanese move in the region. Moving back to the sinking of the Prince of Wales, we must keep in mind that despite their superior machines and training and uncontested local air supremacy, if I recall correctly it took the Japanese a "lucky hit" to cause that deadly amount of damage to the British capital ship. Having a friendly carrier to provide air cover as planned might have actually saved the ship given that the Japanese air bombers were not escorted (If I'm not mistaken)
Well played TG Crew. Did not expect the Bismarcks journey to be the next on the list. Definitely going to be one heck of a cat and mouse chase (The sea Story of "Oskar" the cat aboard the Bismarck its about to begin as well)
And to think that West Germany still had ships called Rommel and Lutjens well into the 1970's is mindboggling. I know, not directly related to Bismarck but...
Lutjens at least was one of the only Wehrmacht officers who actually criticized the treatment of Jews. But why the hell they named a ship after Rommel I have no idea other than propaganda.
@@bkjeong4302 A bit of a shot in the dark here, but maybe because he was linked to the resistance against Adolf. And therefore saved his honor. Rommel didn't seem to be a fanatic, just a soldier doing as he was ordered to.
I don’t think that the names of the WW2 era are tainted, they were already historic and were away from the odious actions of the regime that constructed them.
The 6" secondary guns are an obsolete design. Contemporary designs had dual purpose guns that worked quite well. I have read that her 37mm AA guns were manual loaded one shot at a time. I can't confirm. She wanted nothing to do with Nelson and Rodney. Much more powerful.
I can't tell you how much this miniseries will end up meaning to me. A long time ago, sometime in 1993-94, I was a six-year-old child in first grade. One of my classmates had checked out a book from the library called "Exploring the Bismarck" by Robert Ballard. As we waited outside at the end of the school day for our parents to pick us up, we flipped through the pages of that book. It was then, at that moment, that I began to fall in love with history. I couldn't read the words, I was too young to really understand them, but the pictures were enthralling. It's because of the German battleship Bismarck that I became a history buff.
You've already covered this in earlier specials, if I'm not mistaken. It's nice to see it re-done with your newer maps and other production capabilities. Very nice!
In May of 1941 the war had just begun The Germans had the biggest ship that had the biggest guns The Bismarck was the fastest ship that ever sailed the sea On her decks were guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees Out of the cold and foggy night came the British ship the Hood And every British seaman he knew and understood They had to sink the Bismarck, the terror of the sea Stop those guns as big as steers and those shells as big as trees We'll find the German battleship that's makin' such a fuss We gotta sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us Yeah, hit the decks a runnin', boys, and spin those guns around When we find the Bismarck, we gotta cut her down The Hood found the Bismarck and on that fatal day The Bismarck started firing 15 miles away "We gotta sink the Bismarck" was the battle sound But when the smoke had cleared away the mighty Hood went down For six long days and weary nights they tried to find her trail Churchill told the people put every ship asail 'Cause somewhere on that ocean I know she's gotta be We gotta sink the Bismarck to the bottom of the sea We'll find the German battleship that's makin' such a fuss We gotta sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us Yeah, hit the decks a runnin', boys, and spin those guns around When we find the Bismarck, we gotta cut her down The fog was gone the seventh day and they saw the morning sun Ten hours away from homeland the Bismarck made its run The Admiral of the British fleet said turn those bows around We found that German battleship and we're gonna cut her down The British guns were aimed and the shells were coming fast The first shell hit the Bismarck, they knew she couldn't last That mighty German battleship is just a memory "Sink the Bismarck" was the battle cry that shook the seven seas We found the German battleship t'was makin' such a fuss We had to sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us We hit the deck a runnin' and we and spun those guns around Yeah, we found the mighty Bismarck and then we cut her down We found the German battleship t'was makin' such a fuss We had to sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us We hit the deck a runnin' and we spun those guns around We found the mighty Bismarck and then we cut her down
From the mist, a shape, a ship, is taking form And the silence of the sea is about to drift into a storm Sign of power, show of force Raise the anchor, battleship's plotting its course Pride of a nation, a beast made of steel Bismarck in motion, king of the ocean He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas To lead the war machine To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine The terror of the seas The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine Two thousand men, and fifty thousand tons of steel Set the course for the Atlantic with the Allies on their heel Firepower, firefight Battle Stations, keep the targets steady in sight Into formation, the hunt has begun Death and damnation, the fleet is coming He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas To lead the war machine To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine The terror of the seas The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine At the bottom of the ocean, the depths of the abyss They are bound by iron and blood The flagship of the navy, the terror of the seas His guns have gone silent at last Pride of a nation, a beast made of steel Bismarck in motion, king of the ocean He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas To lead the war machine To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine The terror of the seas The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine To lead the war machine To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine The terror of the seas Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine To lead the war machine To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine The terror of the seas Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine
Way back in nineteen-forty-two or maybe forty-three, I sailed with Captain Tuna, the chicken of the sea. We didn't sink the Bismarck, no matter what they say, For when we seen the German ships, we sailed the other way. We seen torpedos comin' and we saw a periscope. We were full of fightin' spirit and our souls were full o' hope. The captain yelled, "Now hear this!" He really flipped his lid. We haven't yet begun to fight. What's more,we never did. Oh, we didn't sink the Bismarck and we didn't fight at all. We spend our time in Norfolk and we really had a ball, Chasin' after women while our ship was overhauled, A-livin' it up on grapefruit juice and sickbay alcohol Then they made me a frogman on the demolition team. I sunk a battleship, a cruiser, and a submarine. I blew up ammunition dumps. I did my best to please. I did it all before the Navy sent me overseas. Tony, our Italian cook, was a-settin' on the deck, And we were a-peelin' 'taters. We must 'a' peeled a peck. The captain yelled, "Hey, Tony! Is that a U-boat I see?" Tony says, "It's not-a my boat; it's-a no belong to me Oh, we didn't sink the Bismarck and we didn't fight at all. We spend our time in Norfolk and we really had a ball, Chasin' after women while our ship was overhauled, A-livin' it up on grapefruit juice and sickbay alcohol And now the war is over and our story can be told About our captain's fightin' and the young ones and the old. We stayed in San Francisco , away from the battle scenes. We spent our time on Treasure Island a-fightin' the Marines. Oh, we didn't sink the Bismarck and we didn't fight at all. We spend our time in Norfolk and we really had a ball, Chasin' after women while our ship was overhauled, A-livin' it up on grapefruit juice and sickbay alcohol
Just a note on the 10.38, when mentioning the routes one of the reasons the route to the south and north of Shetland was suicidal was due to the constant patrolling from RAF sullom voe which had Short Sunderlands patrolling constantly from 1939 onwards, RAF Scatsta was coming online around this period too Sumburgh had Squadron of Beufighters and Hurricanes for fighter cover, On top of that Lerwick and Scalloway was used as docks for passing for the scapa flow fleets with the minesweepers commonly passing through on there patrols under the command of vice Admiral Sir Hugh Binney. So the odds on being spotted on either passing was incredibly high but the north cover was from shetland not Orkney
It's easy to get carried away with "It's German so it's the best" but there was a great many design flaws that were, ultimately, fatal. The main fatal flaws were the stern which wasn't armored & easily destroyed. Such damage would render steering ineffective & making it a sitting duck. Second was the armor scheme, it's layout looked fantastic on paper, but thick armor that can't be penetrated by the enemy isn't necessarily an asset &, in the case of Bismarck, was definitely a huge liability. It is the often overlooked matter of "Reserve Buoyancy", in other words, the buoyancy of the internal armored Citadel. It doesn't matter if the armored Citadel, that steel box inside the ship the protects engines, magazines, boilers etc etc, can't be penetrated by the enemy if the weight of the unarmored sections exceed the buoyancy the Citadel can provide. As an example, if ship has Reserve Buoyancy of 3,000 tons from the armored Citadel, BUT the ship's total weighs is 3,500 tons then you're potentially in BIG trouble. Punching holes in the unarmored sections, usually the bow & stern, fills them with water & their buoyancy is lost. Now a box with 3,000 tons of buoyancy is trying to keep 3,500 tons afloat.....your ship sinks even if your armored Citadel is intact. This was the fate that awaited Bismarck.
16:51 From the mist, a shape, a ship, is taking form And the silence of the sea is about to drift into a storm Sign of power, show of force Raise the anchor, battleship's plotting its course
While the times of the steel-clad leviathans that once ruled the waves, who roared their fiery breath and hurled bullets thick as tree trunks, have since long passed into myths and legends their tales shall long endure till the breaking of the world, She was a warship it was her fate to die in battle, a more honorable end there is none, better to live on in songs and tales than scrapped! It is the sad fate of mankind that such a beautiful steel-clad titan is betrayed by tyranny, in another time and place who knows, May you rest in peace KMS Bismarck & Tirpitz KMS U556 KMS U-69 U-533 KMS Scharnhorst & Gneisenau KMS Admiral Hipper, Blutcher & Prinz Eugen KMS Deutschland, Admiral Scheer & Admiral Graf Spee KMS Königsberg, Karlsruhe & Koln KMS Leipzig & Nürnberg KMS Emden KMS Graf Zepplin SMS Nassau, Westfalen, Rheinland & Posen SMS Helgoland (1909), Ostfriesland, Thüringen & Oldenburg SMS Kaiser (1911), Friedrich der Grosse (1911), Kaiserin & Prinzregent Luitpold SMS König Albert, König, Grosser Kurfürst (1913), Markgraf & Kronprinz SMS Bayern & Baden SMS Derfflinger, Lützow & Hindenburg SMS Emden & Karlsruhe HMS Dreadnought HMS Bellerophon (1907), Temeraire (1907), Superb (1907) HMS Hood HMS Renown & Repulse HMS Queen Elizabeth, Warspite & Valiant, Barham, Malaya, Agincourt HMS Revenge, Resolution, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign, Ramillies HMS Duke of York, Prince of Wales, Anson & Howe HMS Vanguard HMS Illustrious and her sisters HMS Implacable RM Littorio, Vittorio Veneto & Roma (1940) RM Andrea Doria & Duilio RM Conte di Cavour, Giulio Cesare & Leonardo da Vinci RM Dante Alighieri RM Trento & Trieste RM Zara, Fiume, Gorizia & Pola MN Richelieu & Jean Bart MN Dunkerque & Strasbourg MN Suffren & Colbert MN Aigle MN Le Triomphant & Le Malin MN Jeanne d'Arc MN Courbet & Paris MN Bretagne MN Duquesne (1925) & Tourville (1926) USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) & Arizona (BB-39) USS Nevada (BB-36) & Oklahoma (BB-37) USS New Mexico (BB-40), Mississippi (BB-41) & Idaho (BB-42) USS Tennessee (BB-43) & California (BB-44) USS Colorado (BB-45), Maryland (BB-46) & West Virginia (BB-48) USS Washington (BB-56) USS South Dakota (BB-57) & Indiana (BB-58) USS Alaska (CB-1) USS Pensacola (CA-24) & her sisters USS Northampton (CA-26) & her sisters USS Portland (CA-33) & her sisters USS New Orleans (CA-32) & her sisters USS Wichita (CA-45) USS Baltimore (CA-68) & her sisters USS Boston (CA-69) & her sisters USS Albany (CA-123) & her sisters USS Oregon City (CA-122) USS Des Moines (CA-134) & Newport News (CA-148) USS Brooklyn (CL-40), Helena (CL-50) & their sisters USS Cleveland (CL-55) & her sisters USS Atlanta (CL-51), San Diego (CL-53) & their sisters USS Yorktown (CV-5) & Hornet (CV-8) USS Benson (DD-421), Laffey (DD-459) & their sisters USS Fletcher (DD-445), Bennion (DD-662), Cowell (DD-547) & their sisters USS Sumner (DD-692) & her sisters USS Somers (DD-381), Davis (DD-395) & their sisters USS Gearing (DD-710), Frank Knox (DD-742) & their sisters USS Mitscher (DL-2), Wilkinson (DL-5) & their sisters May you all be reunited with your respective crew members in the great beyond, may the light of Elysium grant you all safe passage across Lord Hade's domain to your final resting place!
First and last lmao. Bismarck has got to be one of my favourite stories from the war for just how colossally Germany fucked it up. A floundering waste of men and material just to get a lucky hit and look cool for a few hours before coming up against an actual naval force and getting trounced
It gets worse than that: Bismarck was obsolete upon launch in a war that proved the battleship was dead. And while that was a mistake that literally everyone else also made on both sides of WWII, the Germans arguably sabotaged themselves the worst. To top it all off Bismarck was also the worst-designed of her contemporaries so she failed even at being a gigantic strategic disaster of a battleship.
@@bkjeong4302 You are obsessed with this "obsolete battleship" thing. Battleships still were very useful, especially in the North Atlantic where weather and season would often restrict aircraft operations.
Seem to ecall in the Weekly episodes Indy remarking just how many warships the RN was able to assemble (as well as it's other tasks) - the superiority in numbers was unreal
Imagine seeing Bismarck, eugen, tripitz, hipper out there running together. That would be sight to fear if you was British captain on a merchant or warship to see over the horizon.
I am really wondering why there are not more photographs of bismarck sinking as Rodney was so extremely close in the end. I would expect that some dude on that ship or on the dorsethsire who torpedoed the bismarck from short range in the end made some pictures of the beaten floating wreck of the bismarck. Also a lot of Royal Airforce Planes were in the Sky........ I am wondering if those pictures are in the archives but are not published.....
My money's definitely on the Brits in this match. They've got the Germans outnumbered 2-1, no way they could overcome an advantage like that! Excited for tomorrow!
Was the lighting broken for this episode? Not that im complaining, you guys are very hard working and your set work is great. It just looks darker in the background then usual
The demise of Bismarck is linked to the sinking of Glorious. Admiral Wilhelm Marschall was sacked as Flottenchef despite sinking an important capital ship because he should have gone for the convoys and troopships, used too much ammo and got Scharnhorst damaged. This lesson wasn't learned by his replacement, Günther Lütjens, who boarded Bismarck and went for the capital ship again instead of convoys and troopships, and this time leading to a total loss.
Once spotted by Suffolk and Norfolk Lütjens didn't have any real choice other than to engage Hood and Prince of Wales when they turned up. Lütjens was well aware of the need to avoid engaging Royal Navy capital ships, but he wasn't able to do so. He didn't 'go' for the capital ships, they went for him.
@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 The sinking of the Glorious is relevant since it seems like the German Admirals never really had a good plan for using their ships, especially the heavy ships and both Reader and Donitz were not very flexible to make adjustments to their plans. A recipe for disaster.
@ Bismarck and Prinz Eugen's job was to break out into the Atlantic and do commerce raiding, ie hit Britain's commerce lines. In that they failed. Yes, the loss of HMS Hood was bad news for the Royal Navy but once the Bismarck was located by Norfolk and Suffolk, combined with the damage inflicted by HMS Prince of Wales, unless the RN really scr*wed it up Bismarck was never going to see a German port again.
Really hope you accurately portray just how unbelievably lucky the Germans were for that hit on Hood, not just the crazy unlikeliness of it penetrating where it did but also how it saved them from certain and absolute destruction. Also saying Bismarck could handle any British capital ship one on one is an exaggeration. The King George V Class were on par with the Bismarcks.
I rank the KGV's and Nelsons as superior to Bismarck despite being about 7,000 tons smaller. And another factor all too many ignore is that German Naval shells in WW2 had a very high failure rate, making the hit on Hood even luckier as that shell actually worked.
Huh. Had never heard of Raeder sneaking the Bismark into action. And I just love the "no we can't call them back" response. Just guessing that while Hitler hated being surprised, at least Raeder was taking an aggressive approach.
Yup. It is noted that in a haste to get the Bismarck out to sea, the Kriegsmarine slapped on outdated anti-aircraft weaponry that was not in sync with Bismarcks Anti-Aircraft Fire Control Systems.
@@MarkLac I know EXACTLY which one you're talking, Drach put it as one of the worst AA guns of WW2 in his video on the topic where he ranked them, it's not much better than the 25 mm Type 96 of the IJN, and that's saying something, this would be, for those unfamiliar, the 3.7 cm SK C/30, a 37 mm gun that was basically what was a massive bolt-action/semi-auto, what should have been an autocannon
It’s worse than unimpressive, it’s outright abysmal. It says a lot that the Japanese 25mm (an infamously bad weapon) was far superior to the German 37mm.
@@MarkLac What a piece of BS excuse making Bismarck was completed in August 1940 and didn't ;eave on her one way voyage until May 1941 If they are still in haste after nine MONTHS, they truly are pathetic
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Oh boy, can’t wait. A Battleship like Bismarck is so much more powerful than a Cruiser like Graf Spee and must have a series that will run for months.
You should do the Horus Heresy week by week
Please ... next time pronounce Raeder as (English) Raider.
Beautiful photos and finally someone said the truth, ULTRA manafed to prepared the trap for those two.
Please kndly let Indy know he can pronounce the "t" in "fait accompli", because it sits between two vowels - rather like the first "r" in "car alarm" even in accents which don't pronounce "r"s at the ends of words (e.g. most English accents).
The pacing of this episode is sublime, you can really feel the tension ramping up
0:24 “…in his pocket…” made this 60 year old child spit up his nice strong drink on Maui at 11:40 pm. Now I have to make another. Have you no shame, Indy? Mahalo and Aloha!
Didn't get it
@@LukeSumIpsePatremTe News media referred to the German Panzerschiffe such as Graf Spee as pocket battleships.
"Something to sink about" 😆
Bismarck's First Adventure sounds like an adorable kid's book about a brave little ship that could.
Just like Major Payne's version of The Little Engine that Could.
That part where Hitler actually against sending Bismark on this mission shows that the surviving German general's and admiral's line of "it was Hitler's mistakes that defeated us" shows that they had more than their fair share of gaffes.
never has a bigger basket of eggs been seen in Naval history as there was with the Bismarck. While it wasn't as big as the Yamato, the Kriegsmarine was so much smaller, that all the resources poured into this beast was proportionally more substantial. For reference the Bismarck's tonnage of steel could have been used to make 30-50 U boats depending on the variant. 50 vessels wrapped up in one ship!
They had that issue with their tanks and a few of their super guns too.
Not to mention Bismarck was much less efficiently designed….
Oh, and the IJN at least built new aircraft carriers while building the Yamatos so they had options when the Yamatos turned out to be a massive waste of resources: same with the USN and their ten pointless fast battleships and the RN and the KGVs. The Germans only had battleships and that turned out to be the wrong choice.
True, but keep in mind that Britain would have also noticed this sort of construction and responded accordingly. They're not going to just keep building battleships when there are no battleships to counter. It's where Germany was in a lose/lose situation.
Imagine they went along and actually built aircraft carriers like the graf zeppelin, do you think this would have prolonged the war? @bkjeong4302
And all just to be a commerce raider… quite the flex
Can't wait for the end where Indy sings "Sink the Bismarck!"
“The world depends on us!”
He better!
I can't help but contrast this episode with the 1960 movie, 'Sink the Bismarck'. Both have their strengths. StB had the advantage of a visual medium in story telling but is compelled by the nature of its medium to fill in all the gaps with non-historical fictional drama. This channel's strength is in its focus on historical soundness and Indy's skill as a story teller.
Ed Murrow's radio commentary in StB connects the two theatrical products across time and media.
I like that the shots of HMS Victorious in the movie, is the actual HMS Victorious. Be it after her decade long refit for the jet age. Or that actual Swordfish took off, for the last time, from an actual carrier. Realism you usually never saw in 1950's or 1960's war movies. 'Just slap a German cross on it, it'll be fine', was usually the SOP of war movies of that day.
Ed Murrow became a magician in that movie: All of a sudden, poor little Britain was completely alone against mighty Germany. How did he manage to lose the "Empire, where the sun never sets"? :D
Bismarck was one of the first things I learned about WW2. I'm glad to see your group covering this.
Same, first got into Naval History (and later history in general) in like 4th/5th grade with Denmark Strait and Pearl Harbor
Even already knowing the story, Indy's telling is so wonderful and infused with such enthusiastic drama, that I'm surprisingly left on tenterhooks for the next episode!
I've said it before, but it bears repeating. The music is perfect! It is light enough to not overpower Indy, yet enough to raise the tension. Great job sound/music team!
Mein Wish List may as well be Mein Pipe Dream in regards to Plan Z.
Thanks again.
Love that no matter how many books I read or documentaries I watch, I ALWAYS learn something new from EVERY Time Ghost episode! Thank you so much for the wonderful output, the hard work, hours of research, writing, editing and filming to make you the BEST channel on TH-cam bar none!
I applaud the correct pronunciation of the German names unlike certain other historians focussing on ships on TH-cam who claim to be right.
Content like this is why I have hope for TH-cam as an educational and entertainment platform .
Indy, your work is superb, the ending of this chapter with the complete of the list of the crew of HMS Hood is a great tribute, and deeply touching at the same time. Thank you so much!
This guy is such a great presenter and storyteller.
Ooo, the Bismarck in real time! Nice! I had to wait to watch, but I'm super excited now that I've gotten to it. Time for one of my favorite Sabaton songs too!
I’ve never been so mad at “And that’s where I will leave you…”
You really had me roped in!
I remember a cousin of mine, serving in the French Navy, telling me of the Bismarck when I was a little kid and showing off his replica. It's a real legend among european naval servicemen and it's been covered so many times!
Somehow, I feel like this coverage will be better by orders of magnitude.
The weapons being made by Krupp definitely impacted my family. My grandfather, of German heritage, who fought in World War 1 with the US Army in France, was disgusted with what the Germans were doing, and in particular his namesake being stamped on all these weapons of war that were causing death, displacement and general horrors. After the war, around 1923 or 24, my grandfather took his wife and four children and moved the entire lot to America. At first, they ended up in New York City, but over the next handful of years, they traveled the country until they ended up in San Francisco. Without giving my last name, I'll just say that my grandfather changed our surname to something that rhymed with Krupp. My grandfather was the kindest, gentlest man I have ever known! He was instrumental in raising me, more than my own father, who was dealing with PTSD and malaria from serving with the US Navy in the South/Central Pacific from late 42 till the end of the war. My grandfather certainly taught me what Integrity meant and stood for, and so did my dad for that matter! Love you Dad and Grandad!🇺🇲⚓️🙏🇦🇺💖🍺🖖
A book about the Bismarck, including Robert Ballard's discovery of the wreck, was one of the first military history books I can recall reading as a kid.
I read a paper linked on a video from Drach on the Bismark regarding on her end.
I bet I read the exact same book when I was a teenager. It had history of the Bismark and artists pictures of the wreck
Great idea for a mini series! Also, loved the sonar pings at the end!
Cheers Clay, we have more episodes on the way every Saturday! Stay tuned.
I just looked something up about the Tirpitz class and I thought TH-cam recommended some age old video from that I missed.
But this was uploaded 18 hours ago.
I love you guys ❤❤😭
I just needed to stop at Mein Wish List. I needed a laugh this morning.
'mein wish list' and 'something to sink about', small details but its things like this that make this video great, really enjoyed, looking forward to more parts
What are you sinking about?
Looking forward to the rest of this little series. I wonder how it ends? Quibble: at 15.06 you said Hitler was in an 'uncharacteristically indecisive mood'. My reading of Kershaw and others suggests Hitler was a serial ditherer, failing to make difficult choices in a timely way and hiding behind euphemisms like 'letting the situation develop'.
WW2 and Drac talking about Bismarck on the sane day.
a banger video on my birthday?! thanks indy and team!!
Happy B day…Birthday, not Bismarck…
Happy Birthday Carl!
Happy to again have weekly World War 2 episodes!
Can’t wait to see the end. Suspense is rife. Four juggernauts clashing together with especially the mighty “Hood”. Bismarck against the Hood. That must be epic!! Hood victorious of course!! (Yes, yes, I know the sad truth, had a glimpse in the future, But following Indy’s lead)
The Bismark is facing an ambush at first light by "The Mighty Hood" and HMS Prince of Wales, unless she gets lucky, she's toast.
Admiral David Beatty: "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today!"
Hey hey hey... There was something wrong with Beattie more than the ships. Lol poor workmen and all that.
Except one was too old and the other too new.
Awesome choice for a chronological series
Prince of Wales was not ready. It still had workers onboard completing tasks & fixing problems & hadn't had sufficient gunnery practice. Talk about an unlucky ship later to be sent to her doom on a foolhardy mission by Churchill.
@@zetectic7968 Churchill was an idiot anyways. Sending an outdated ship against the strongest battleship ever made which was why Hood didn't last more than 10 minutes against Bismarck. UK really liked to shoot themselves in the foot until the Americans came to save their dumbasses.
Churchill NEVER orders foolhardy missions!!!!
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It was (only partially) foolish only ex-post.
By that time no battleship had been sunk by air attacks while in action (Pear Harbour and Taranto were surprise attacks on sitting ducks)
On top of that
- the Prince of Wales had a strong AA system, which unfortunatly was affected by the local weather
- it was not believed that Japanese planes could operate so far away from their bases, if I recall correctly a partially correct assumption because they were at their very limit
- the Allies weren't aware of the effectiveness of Japanese torpedoes and that Japan had been training a specific anti-shipping bomber unit
@@amogus948 >> And an aircraft carrier was supposed to go with Force Z, HMS Formidable. Not that Fulmars would be much good against Zeros, but Wildcats would be OK.
@jaybee9269 I assumed the focus was mostly or strictly on the mission to oppose the landings, but if we broad it to the reason Force Z was sent to SEA and what should have been included (as you mentioned, an aircraft carrier to offer extra protection) then the British mission makes even more sense.
Both the British and the Americans were reinforcing at the same time their holding and in a matter of weeks they would have been able to deter and potentially prevent any Japanese move in the region.
Moving back to the sinking of the Prince of Wales, we must keep in mind that despite their superior machines and training and uncontested local air supremacy, if I recall correctly it took the Japanese a "lucky hit" to cause that deadly amount of damage to the British capital ship.
Having a friendly carrier to provide air cover as planned might have actually saved the ship given that the Japanese air bombers were not escorted (If I'm not mistaken)
BEHIND THE MIST,
A SHAPE, A SHIP IS TAKING FORM
And the silence of the sea
is about to drift into a storm
Sign of power, show of force
Raise the anchor, battleship's plotting its course
Pride of a nation a Beast made of steel!
BISMARCK IN MOTION
@@diapason89 KING OF THE OCEAN
Well played TG Crew. Did not expect the Bismarcks journey to be the next on the list. Definitely going to be one heck of a cat and mouse chase (The sea Story of "Oskar" the cat aboard the Bismarck its about to begin as well)
And to think that West Germany still had ships called Rommel and Lutjens well into the 1970's is mindboggling. I know, not directly related to Bismarck but...
Lutjens at least was one of the only Wehrmacht officers who actually criticized the treatment of Jews. But why the hell they named a ship after Rommel I have no idea other than propaganda.
@@bkjeong4302
A bit of a shot in the dark here, but maybe because he was linked to the resistance against Adolf. And therefore saved his honor. Rommel didn't seem to be a fanatic, just a soldier doing as he was ordered to.
I don’t think that the names of the WW2 era are tainted, they were already historic and were away from the odious actions of the regime that constructed them.
Loving the video as usual, but can we get metric measurements in addition to freedom units?
Freedom units? No military today uses such an obscure unit except maybe the British.
Starting with a dad joke pun? That's worth a comment for the algorithm
The 6" secondary guns are an obsolete design. Contemporary designs had dual purpose guns that worked quite well. I have read that her 37mm AA guns were manual loaded one shot at a time. I can't confirm. She wanted nothing to do with Nelson and Rodney. Much more powerful.
history is so fascinating. glad yall decided to cover bismarck
Another awesome episode, breathlessly fast paced, roll on 2!
I can't tell you how much this miniseries will end up meaning to me. A long time ago, sometime in 1993-94, I was a six-year-old child in first grade. One of my classmates had checked out a book from the library called "Exploring the Bismarck" by Robert Ballard. As we waited outside at the end of the school day for our parents to pick us up, we flipped through the pages of that book. It was then, at that moment, that I began to fall in love with history. I couldn't read the words, I was too young to really understand them, but the pictures were enthralling. It's because of the German battleship Bismarck that I became a history buff.
This is almost exactly the same story as the editor of this episode.
Same book for me! Roughly the same years too
Read that book and his Titanic one too. I forget if it one of my sources for my junior year history paper in high school (would have been in 1998).
Same thing, same book, 1998 for me
The Nat Geo article on it was awesome with painting based on the photos.
Prince of Wales was too new. Hood was too old.
You've already covered this in earlier specials, if I'm not mistaken. It's nice to see it re-done with your newer maps and other production capabilities. Very nice!
In May of 1941 the war had just begun
The Germans had the biggest ship that had the biggest guns
The Bismarck was the fastest ship that ever sailed the sea
On her decks were guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees
Out of the cold and foggy night came the British ship the Hood
And every British seaman he knew and understood
They had to sink the Bismarck, the terror of the sea
Stop those guns as big as steers and those shells as big as trees
We'll find the German battleship that's makin' such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us
Yeah, hit the decks a runnin', boys, and spin those guns around
When we find the Bismarck, we gotta cut her down
The Hood found the Bismarck and on that fatal day
The Bismarck started firing 15 miles away
"We gotta sink the Bismarck" was the battle sound
But when the smoke had cleared away the mighty Hood went down
For six long days and weary nights they tried to find her trail
Churchill told the people put every ship asail
'Cause somewhere on that ocean I know she's gotta be
We gotta sink the Bismarck to the bottom of the sea
We'll find the German battleship that's makin' such a fuss
We gotta sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us
Yeah, hit the decks a runnin', boys, and spin those guns around
When we find the Bismarck, we gotta cut her down
The fog was gone the seventh day and they saw the morning sun
Ten hours away from homeland the Bismarck made its run
The Admiral of the British fleet said turn those bows around
We found that German battleship and we're gonna cut her down
The British guns were aimed and the shells were coming fast
The first shell hit the Bismarck, they knew she couldn't last
That mighty German battleship is just a memory
"Sink the Bismarck" was the battle cry that shook the seven seas
We found the German battleship t'was makin' such a fuss
We had to sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us
We hit the deck a runnin' and we and spun those guns around
Yeah, we found the mighty Bismarck and then we cut her down
We found the German battleship t'was makin' such a fuss
We had to sink the Bismarck 'cause the world depends on us
We hit the deck a runnin' and we spun those guns around
We found the mighty Bismarck and then we cut her down
From the mist, a shape, a ship, is taking form
And the silence of the sea is about to drift into a storm
Sign of power, show of force
Raise the anchor, battleship's plotting its course
Pride of a nation, a beast made of steel
Bismarck in motion, king of the ocean
He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas
To lead the war machine
To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine
The terror of the seas
The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine
Two thousand men, and fifty thousand tons of steel
Set the course for the Atlantic with the Allies on their heel
Firepower, firefight
Battle Stations, keep the targets steady in sight
Into formation, the hunt has begun
Death and damnation, the fleet is coming
He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas
To lead the war machine
To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine
The terror of the seas
The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine
At the bottom of the ocean, the depths of the abyss
They are bound by iron and blood
The flagship of the navy, the terror of the seas
His guns have gone silent at last
Pride of a nation, a beast made of steel
Bismarck in motion, king of the ocean
He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas
To lead the war machine
To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine
The terror of the seas
The Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine
To lead the war machine
To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine
The terror of the seas
Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine
To lead the war machine
To rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine
The terror of the seas
Bismarck and the Kriegsmarine
Way back in nineteen-forty-two or maybe forty-three,
I sailed with Captain Tuna, the chicken of the sea.
We didn't sink the Bismarck, no matter what they say,
For when we seen the German ships, we sailed the other way.
We seen torpedos comin' and we saw a periscope.
We were full of fightin' spirit and our souls were full o' hope.
The captain yelled, "Now hear this!" He really flipped his lid.
We haven't yet begun to fight. What's more,we never did.
Oh, we didn't sink the Bismarck and we didn't fight at all.
We spend our time in Norfolk and we really had a ball,
Chasin' after women while our ship was overhauled,
A-livin' it up on grapefruit juice and sickbay alcohol
Then they made me a frogman on the demolition team.
I sunk a battleship, a cruiser, and a submarine.
I blew up ammunition dumps. I did my best to please.
I did it all before the Navy sent me overseas.
Tony, our Italian cook, was a-settin' on the deck,
And we were a-peelin' 'taters. We must 'a' peeled a peck.
The captain yelled, "Hey, Tony! Is that a U-boat I see?"
Tony says, "It's not-a my boat; it's-a no belong to me
Oh, we didn't sink the Bismarck and we didn't fight at all.
We spend our time in Norfolk and we really had a ball,
Chasin' after women while our ship was overhauled,
A-livin' it up on grapefruit juice and sickbay alcohol
And now the war is over and our story can be told
About our captain's fightin' and the young ones and the old.
We stayed in San Francisco , away from the battle scenes.
We spent our time on Treasure Island a-fightin' the Marines.
Oh, we didn't sink the Bismarck and we didn't fight at all.
We spend our time in Norfolk and we really had a ball,
Chasin' after women while our ship was overhauled,
A-livin' it up on grapefruit juice and sickbay alcohol
I swear the last verse sounds like a rap song. Good ol Johnny horton
I remember when that song by Johnny Horton was in regular rotation on the radio. I remember the movie, too.
@@JeremiahParker-q2dspoiler alert ! 😀
The Sabaton song was playing in my head the entire time I watched this video.
I was thinking of the Johnny Horton one =p
Which one?
@7:42 that a nice signature you have there "something to sink about"... Ha ha ha
I'm loving these miniseries, please keep making them. Any shot at them being made for the Korean War as well?
Hi Indy
Wonderful miniseries
Rooted for the next episode.
Thanks
Awww man great idea on these mini series, when the 2nd world war finished I was genuinely upset 😉. Looking forward to more of these!
Just a note on the 10.38, when mentioning the routes one of the reasons the route to the south and north of Shetland was suicidal was due to the constant patrolling from RAF sullom voe which had Short Sunderlands patrolling constantly from 1939 onwards, RAF Scatsta was coming online around this period too Sumburgh had Squadron of Beufighters and Hurricanes for fighter cover,
On top of that Lerwick and Scalloway was used as docks for passing for the scapa flow fleets with the minesweepers commonly passing through on there patrols under the command of vice Admiral Sir Hugh Binney.
So the odds on being spotted on either passing was incredibly high but the north cover was from shetland not Orkney
It wasn't until 1944 that we used our Barracuda plaxes to take out Tirpitz so it couldn't put the D-Day landings in jeopardy.
It's easy to get carried away with "It's German so it's the best" but there was a great many design flaws that were, ultimately, fatal. The main fatal flaws were the stern which wasn't armored & easily destroyed. Such damage would render steering ineffective & making it a sitting duck. Second was the armor scheme, it's layout looked fantastic on paper, but thick armor that can't be penetrated by the enemy isn't necessarily an asset &, in the case of Bismarck, was definitely a huge liability. It is the often overlooked matter of "Reserve Buoyancy", in other words, the buoyancy of the internal armored Citadel. It doesn't matter if the armored Citadel, that steel box inside the ship the protects engines, magazines, boilers etc etc, can't be penetrated by the enemy if the weight of the unarmored sections exceed the buoyancy the Citadel can provide. As an example, if ship has Reserve Buoyancy of 3,000 tons from the armored Citadel, BUT the ship's total weighs is 3,500 tons then you're potentially in BIG trouble. Punching holes in the unarmored sections, usually the bow & stern, fills them with water & their buoyancy is lost. Now a box with 3,000 tons of buoyancy is trying to keep 3,500 tons afloat.....your ship sinks even if your armored Citadel is intact. This was the fate that awaited Bismarck.
16:51 From the mist, a shape, a ship, is taking form
And the silence of the sea is about to drift into a storm
Sign of power, show of force
Raise the anchor, battleship's plotting its course
Woot! Another great episode! Thanks!
Brace yourselves! The Sabaton Fans will be inbound soon!
PRIDE OF A NATION, A BEAST MADE OF STEEL
@@GeneralKenobi76 Bismarck in motion, king of the ocean, he was made to rule the waves across the 7 seas
@@nhienleminhhue6605 To lead the war machine...
Great presentation Indy!
That was a capital pun!
Excellent thanks
Germany should have formed one fleet and sent it out as a real force to be reckoned with.
If you are making Bismarck adventure, then I want you to make Yamato adventure or Kido Butai adventure too!!
Isoroku's Bizzare Adventure
Awesome miniseries this one might be my favorite
While the times of the steel-clad leviathans that once ruled the waves, who roared their fiery breath and hurled bullets thick as tree trunks, have since long passed into myths and legends their tales shall long endure till the breaking of the world,
She was a warship it was her fate to die in battle, a more honorable end there is none, better to live on in songs and tales than scrapped! It is the sad fate of mankind that such a beautiful steel-clad titan is betrayed by tyranny, in another time and place who knows,
May you rest in peace
KMS Bismarck & Tirpitz
KMS U556
KMS U-69 U-533
KMS Scharnhorst & Gneisenau
KMS Admiral Hipper, Blutcher & Prinz Eugen
KMS Deutschland, Admiral Scheer & Admiral Graf Spee
KMS Königsberg, Karlsruhe & Koln
KMS Leipzig & Nürnberg
KMS Emden
KMS Graf Zepplin
SMS Nassau, Westfalen, Rheinland & Posen
SMS Helgoland (1909), Ostfriesland, Thüringen & Oldenburg
SMS Kaiser (1911), Friedrich der Grosse (1911), Kaiserin & Prinzregent Luitpold
SMS König Albert, König, Grosser Kurfürst (1913), Markgraf & Kronprinz
SMS Bayern & Baden
SMS Derfflinger, Lützow & Hindenburg
SMS Emden & Karlsruhe
HMS Dreadnought
HMS Bellerophon (1907), Temeraire (1907), Superb (1907)
HMS Hood
HMS Renown & Repulse
HMS Queen Elizabeth, Warspite & Valiant, Barham, Malaya, Agincourt
HMS Revenge, Resolution, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign, Ramillies
HMS Duke of York, Prince of Wales, Anson & Howe
HMS Vanguard
HMS Illustrious and her sisters
HMS Implacable
RM Littorio, Vittorio Veneto & Roma (1940)
RM Andrea Doria & Duilio
RM Conte di Cavour, Giulio Cesare & Leonardo da Vinci
RM Dante Alighieri
RM Trento & Trieste
RM Zara, Fiume, Gorizia & Pola
MN Richelieu & Jean Bart
MN Dunkerque & Strasbourg
MN Suffren & Colbert
MN Aigle
MN Le Triomphant & Le Malin
MN Jeanne d'Arc
MN Courbet & Paris
MN Bretagne
MN Duquesne (1925) & Tourville (1926)
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) & Arizona (BB-39)
USS Nevada (BB-36) & Oklahoma (BB-37)
USS New Mexico (BB-40), Mississippi (BB-41) & Idaho (BB-42)
USS Tennessee (BB-43) & California (BB-44)
USS Colorado (BB-45), Maryland (BB-46) & West Virginia (BB-48)
USS Washington (BB-56)
USS South Dakota (BB-57) & Indiana (BB-58)
USS Alaska (CB-1)
USS Pensacola (CA-24) & her sisters
USS Northampton (CA-26) & her sisters
USS Portland (CA-33) & her sisters
USS New Orleans (CA-32) & her sisters
USS Wichita (CA-45)
USS Baltimore (CA-68) & her sisters
USS Boston (CA-69) & her sisters
USS Albany (CA-123) & her sisters
USS Oregon City (CA-122)
USS Des Moines (CA-134) & Newport News (CA-148)
USS Brooklyn (CL-40), Helena (CL-50) & their sisters
USS Cleveland (CL-55) & her sisters
USS Atlanta (CL-51), San Diego (CL-53) & their sisters
USS Yorktown (CV-5) & Hornet (CV-8)
USS Benson (DD-421), Laffey (DD-459) & their sisters
USS Fletcher (DD-445), Bennion (DD-662), Cowell (DD-547) & their sisters
USS Sumner (DD-692) & her sisters
USS Somers (DD-381), Davis (DD-395) & their sisters
USS Gearing (DD-710), Frank Knox (DD-742) & their sisters
USS Mitscher (DL-2), Wilkinson (DL-5) & their sisters
May you all be reunited with your respective crew members in the great beyond, may the light of Elysium grant you all safe passage across Lord Hade's domain to your final resting place!
Was literally talking to a coworker about the Bismarck yesterday, saying I need to study up on it’s ventures leading up to the sinking.
15 inch guns with 1,800 shells? Where I'm from we call those guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees. 😝
Johnny Horton!
Fun fact: for the cost of Bismarck and Tirpitz the Kriegsmarine could have made 80-100 U boats. Bismarck war nicht preiswort. -Dönitz
I appreciated that joke, don't listen to the meanies indy
Am I the only one who hears "Bismarck by Sabaton" while watching this? lol
Is there a Time Ghost membership tier, where Indy gives you a call and tells you a dad joke just so you can hang up on him?? 😏
I'd pay for that. probably more than is wise haha
Ohhhh
This is such a good fundraising idea
Wonderful work.
First and last lmao. Bismarck has got to be one of my favourite stories from the war for just how colossally Germany fucked it up. A floundering waste of men and material just to get a lucky hit and look cool for a few hours before coming up against an actual naval force and getting trounced
It gets worse than that: Bismarck was obsolete upon launch in a war that proved the battleship was dead. And while that was a mistake that literally everyone else also made on both sides of WWII, the Germans arguably sabotaged themselves the worst.
To top it all off Bismarck was also the worst-designed of her contemporaries so she failed even at being a gigantic strategic disaster of a battleship.
@@bkjeong4302 Bismarck was commissioned in August 1940, at that point no, the war had not proved the 'battleship was dead'.
Brits got luckier then the Germans sinking the Hood though. Bismarck could shake off torpedoes except the hit in the rudder
@@bkjeong4302 You are obsessed with this "obsolete battleship" thing. Battleships still were very useful, especially in the North Atlantic where weather and season would often restrict aircraft operations.
Mein Wish List, well played.
7:44 "Mein wish list" and "Something to sink about" xDD
Seem to ecall in the Weekly episodes Indy remarking just how many warships the RN was able to assemble (as well as it's other tasks) - the superiority in numbers was unreal
OMG Indie, that pocket joke on the phone had me rolling, lol 😆 I love that sense of humor.
Thank you so much. This is going to be great. Love the Time Ghost Army. Keep up the great work and hello from NJ
Thanks for being a member Brian!
Good one Indy! :D
Man I was not expecting another miniseries so quickly, let alone one about the Bismarck! Great surprise and I can't wait for the next!
Imagine seeing Bismarck, eugen, tripitz, hipper out there running together. That would be sight to fear if you was British captain on a merchant or warship to see over the horizon.
Brilliant stuff
Great work
Excellent as always 👍
I am really wondering why there are not more photographs of bismarck sinking as Rodney was so extremely close in the end. I would expect that some dude on that ship or on the dorsethsire who torpedoed the bismarck from short range in the end made some pictures of the beaten floating wreck of the bismarck. Also a lot of Royal Airforce Planes were in the Sky........ I am wondering if those pictures are in the archives but are not published.....
Just look at the footage that there is from the sinking of HMS Barham....it was also filmed from a nearby RN ship.....
My money's definitely on the Brits in this match. They've got the Germans outnumbered 2-1, no way they could overcome an advantage like that! Excited for tomorrow!
Was the lighting broken for this episode? Not that im complaining, you guys are very hard working and your set work is great. It just looks darker in the background then usual
That opening pun had me making angry imitation-Drachinefel noises. XD
Above and beyond with the crewlist and pictures of HMS Hood…
The demise of Bismarck is linked to the sinking of Glorious. Admiral Wilhelm Marschall was sacked as Flottenchef despite sinking an important capital ship because he should have gone for the convoys and troopships, used too much ammo and got Scharnhorst damaged. This lesson wasn't learned by his replacement, Günther Lütjens, who boarded Bismarck and went for the capital ship again instead of convoys and troopships, and this time leading to a total loss.
Once spotted by Suffolk and Norfolk Lütjens didn't have any real choice other than to engage Hood and Prince of Wales when they turned up. Lütjens was well aware of the need to avoid engaging Royal Navy capital ships, but he wasn't able to do so. He didn't 'go' for the capital ships, they went for him.
@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 The sinking of the Glorious is relevant since it seems like the German Admirals never really had a good plan for using their ships, especially the heavy ships and both Reader and Donitz were not very flexible to make adjustments to their plans. A recipe for disaster.
Lutjens had no choice but too fight? Where Lutjens screwed up was ignoring Lindemann 's advice to immediately return to Norway
@ Bismarck and Prinz Eugen's job was to break out into the Atlantic and do commerce raiding, ie hit Britain's commerce lines. In that they failed. Yes, the loss of HMS Hood was bad news for the Royal Navy but once the Bismarck was located by Norfolk and Suffolk, combined with the damage inflicted by HMS Prince of Wales, unless the RN really scr*wed it up Bismarck was never going to see a German port again.
Yeah, not much suspense here if you know anything about Hood... 😅
Scharnhorst, Deutschland, Graf Spee, Gneisenau, Tirpitz, Prinz Eugen, and ofcourse the mighty Bismarck. Some ships! edit- and all mentioned!
Bergen Norway. A town God loves so much he washes it every day.
Really hope you accurately portray just how unbelievably lucky the Germans were for that hit on Hood, not just the crazy unlikeliness of it penetrating where it did but also how it saved them from certain and absolute destruction.
Also saying Bismarck could handle any British capital ship one on one is an exaggeration. The King George V Class were on par with the Bismarcks.
I rank the KGV's and Nelsons as superior to Bismarck despite being about 7,000 tons smaller.
And another factor all too many ignore is that German Naval shells in WW2 had a very high failure rate, making the hit on Hood even luckier as that shell actually worked.
I really like that thumbnail !
I'll share this comment with Mikolaj our graphic designer, thanks for the comment!
Huh. Had never heard of Raeder sneaking the Bismark into action. And I just love the "no we can't call them back" response.
Just guessing that while Hitler hated being surprised, at least Raeder was taking an aggressive approach.
Not to be "that guy" but... The AA armament of the Bismarck was nothing impressive... That ship in general was nothing special.
Yup. It is noted that in a haste to get the Bismarck out to sea, the Kriegsmarine slapped on outdated anti-aircraft weaponry that was not in sync with Bismarcks Anti-Aircraft Fire Control Systems.
@@MarkLac I know EXACTLY which one you're talking, Drach put it as one of the worst AA guns of WW2 in his video on the topic where he ranked them, it's not much better than the 25 mm Type 96 of the IJN, and that's saying something, this would be, for those unfamiliar, the 3.7 cm SK C/30, a 37 mm gun that was basically what was a massive bolt-action/semi-auto, what should have been an autocannon
@@snapshotinhistory1367
It’s WORSE than the Japanese 25mm. At least that thing was fully automatic.
It’s worse than unimpressive, it’s outright abysmal. It says a lot that the Japanese 25mm (an infamously bad weapon) was far superior to the German 37mm.
@@MarkLac What a piece of BS excuse making
Bismarck was completed in August 1940 and didn't ;eave on her one way voyage until May 1941
If they are still in haste after nine MONTHS, they truly are pathetic
Idk what i expected go find in my youtube feed this morning. But a chronological series for the mighty Bismark wasn't it....this pleases me.
immediate like without watching for the ‘pocket’ joke 😅😜
never had a chance.
Looking good for HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales! What could possibly go wrong?