To everyone who wanna know more about how effective these U-boats were in the Black Sea: During their relatively short time of service between October 1942 and 1944 (when Romania switched sides), they could sink 26 ships with 45,426 tons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30th_U-boat_Flotilla
Thank you for presenting this further information and link to the Wikipedia article. If I had been a little smarter, it might have occurred to me to look for something like this myself. From the data presented, it sounds like this operation probably did provide good value, from a military perspective, for the effort expended. Beyond that, I must say that while the Wikipedia article seemed to present the facts of the operation well enough, your presentation here, with all the annotated maps and pictures, was infinitely more helpful in understanding the problems and scope of the operation, as well as being far more entertaining.
@@expansionone These are not, and never were, German cities. Wrocław was first inhabited by Silesians (a Slavic tribe) and later became a part of Duchy of Poland, then Kingdom of Poland. Poznań is one of the oldest and largest cities in Poland, the historic capital of the Wielkopolska region, where the Polish State was born more than 1000 years ago. Poznań was stolen from Poland by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland, and renamed to your "Posen" in 1793. Szczecin was inhabited by Pomeranians (a Slavic tribe), then became part of Poland in 967. So Poland didn't stole anything, but these cities were stolen from Poland. But now these territories are recovered again. So no, the names used in the video are completely correct. Cope.
I'm from Dresden and I never knew this happened in my town! I always wondered why there was a wide asphalt road through a park heading straight to the autobahn
Just discovered this channel on this video. WOW! No dramatic music, no stock footage of stuff not actually related to the story, no hype. I fancy myself an amateur WWII historian and have for decades. I have NEVER heard of this incredible effort. I am hooked! Today, to accomplish anything remotely like would take years to turn the first shovel.
That was a very interesting story unknown to me. Lots of picture material too. By the way, I believe that “scuttled” is a more correct term than “self-sunk”.
@@howardsimpson489 The why is Soviet forces advancing as they drove the Germans back to the Fatherland. The subs scuttled at the base were in August 44 when the city was taken. The subs scuttled of Turkish coast were because neutral Turkey said that by the same 1936 Montreux Convention we cited when not letting you sail in, we ain't gonna let your U-boats sail out to the Med.
Sehr Gut erklärt, warum der Transport über andere Routen nicht möglich war ! Vielen Dank für die ausführlichen und sachlichen Erklärung zu diesem außergewöhnlichen Transport !
U9 was originally a WW1 submarine, credited with sinking 3 British Cressy class armoured cruisers in 1 hour in 1914. She, and the Emden were the only ships awarded the Iron Cross by the Kaiser. Rebuilt and commissioned as a Type IIB U-boat, it was named U-9 and featured a large Iron Cross on it's conning tower. For more on the 30th U-boat Flotilla in the Black Sea, see: "Steel and Ice, the U-boat battle in the Arctic and Black Sea" by Lawrence Paterson.
Only just learning of this, its fascinating. The trucks and trailers where very close to what is used today for big moves, modular multi wheeled trailers and large trucks like those.
Very interesting documentary! I remember post-war Kaelble and Faun heavy trucks and Culemeyer trailers from my childhood growing up in Germany. Although a WW2 geek myself, I had never heard of this operation. Thanks to you for researching, producing and posting this video. I’m sure the other geeks with whom I’ve shared the video will be just as surprised.
..or by others such as.... _Drachinifel, Simon Whistler, Nicolas 'The Chieftain' Moran, Ed Nash's Military Matters, Greg's Automobiles & Aeroplanes, The Mighty Jingles_ or _Dark Docs/Skies/Seas_ etc. Well Done Bsport 😊😜😋😀
It's incredible the Allies never knew of this operation that took 3 days to be carried out...when you consider the air control the Allies had over the European theater, plus the huge number of spies and informants strewn across the territories covered by the transport convoy.
Thanks for your research and storytelling, one aspect I would have liked to know about was the military performance of the uboats in the Black Sea. Cheers
This is the first time I've heard of this! Amazing! I'd've loved to see the royal navy's faces when they saw some German U-boats in the Black Sea! Their signals back to the admiralty must've been pretty funny! "You're not going to believe this but...!" 😆 What stunning logistics! Right up there with Hannibal's elephants! "Jumbo" was well named!
Thank you! What an incredible feat. You have got to hand it to the Germans. Their command of technology was and still is outstanding. Surely that feat would be a challenge for heavy hauliers even today. I had no idea that rear-steering wheels were in use during the war. Were these the first examples?
While watching this I couldn't help but think of the USA bringing new Fleet Submarines from Manitowoc Wisconsin to New Orleans during WW2. No road component, but tricky getting through Chicago. Also getting a captured U boat to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
Surprisingly, you never made any mention of how successful the subs were in sinking enemy shipping, which I assume, was the reason that they had been transported to the Black Sea to begin with.
To everyone who wanna know more about how effective these U-boats were in the Black Sea: "During their relatively short time of service between October 1942 and 1944 (when Romania switched sides), they could sink 26 ships with 45,426 tons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30th_U-boat_Flotilla " (As per the update by BSport at the top.)
During WW2 some US Submarines were built in Wisconsin and sailed down the Chicago ship canal to the Des Plaines river where they were then transported in a floating dry dock to the Mississippi River and down to the Gulf of Mexico. I think the floating dry dock was needed because the Army Corp of Engineers only guaranteed a 9 foot channel in the Des Plaines river.
@Yulis "Germans do everything better" LOL, that reminds me of the old story about a British Airways pilot who asked for taxi directions from the tower in Frankfurt. The tower....being known for terse replies said, "Vat? Haf you neva bein to Frankfurt befuh?" British Airways Captain says: "Ah yeah, back in the 1940's but I didn't stop over."
I really enjoyed your video. But some of the photos was not type 2 boats but S-boat upper deck parts. Like the command bridge. Other than that it was great to see and learn about other stuff from WW2. Please keep up the great work.
Very interesting, knew German submarines operated in the Black Sea but did know how they had got there, had assumed they had come through the Med and been allowed to pass by Turkey.
We're used to the idea of The Allies pulling off some extra-ordinary logistical efforts during the wars. It is interesting to see some of the things The Axis did too.
Thank you so much for the details of this operation! I have been curious about this for a while and it's good to know about all the engineering details which went into getting these massive cargoes on and off the rivers. It's those details like "how do we get around this tight bend?" which make or break complicated operations.
My father worked in Linz in the „Schiffswerft“ which is still existing on those U-Boats before he had to join the German army as a mountain ranger engineer. He came home from Ex-Yugoslavia in January 1949 from a prison camp. Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹😎👍💪🍀🐺 Europe!
Never heard of this before. What a huge effort for just 6 old submarines. Would be interesting to hear if they actually achived anything in the black sea.
Drachinfel did a video on this subject, but not as much detail as this one though. Sorry to say I don't recall the war record of the subs. I will have to watch it again. But as I recall, it was not all that glorious.
They not only send Submarines, but also E-Boats (Motor-Torpedo-Boats), R-Boats (Minesweeper) and other small crafts via the Danube to the Black Sea. Also, Italy had sent some Motor Torpedo Boats. Not sure how they did it.
@@lisanalgaib555 It was not so difficult for Italian ships to get into the Black Sea, becuase Turkey - being officially neutral until 1945 - allowed axis ships to use the Bosporus. German submarines however needed to pass Gibraltar first, to enter the Mediterranean Sea - and that was highly dangerous. Thats why the Germans chose to transport the subs via trains and rivers accross Europe.
@@petebeatminister No, that is not true. Germany had some Submarine in the Mediteranea Sea, but the Turks wouldn't allow them to pass to the Black Sea. Just Checked, there were about 7+ MAS (Italian Torpedo Boats) Boats in the Black Sea and even in Lake Ladoga near Leningrad. They had only 25 tons and so, I guess they were easy to carry by trucks. though the German S-Boats were bigger, so they came the same way like the Subs. German had transported about: 6 Submarines, 10 S-Boats, 23 R-Boats. They had also 100+ Landing-Crafts (MFP-Barges) and other ships in the black sea. Though the MFP-Barges were built in the Naval Yard in Mykolaiv in Ukraine and other ships like Transport ships were built in Romania.
Have to give the WWII German transport engineers credit for a crazy job well done. Never heard this story. Also, I subscribed to your channel. Happy Trails
An amazing video this first real heavy haulage specialist i saw film 🎥 years ago of a diesel locomotive being transported across the Western desert and these are the trailers they used
very good video. let me add just a bit more to it. there were german Uboots operationg in the mediterian sea. U-Boot Flotille 23 operating from Salamis Greece and UBoot Flottile 29 from La Spezia Italy. The 6 mentioned UBoots in the video operated as UBoot Flotille 30 ,as you said, out of Constanza Romania.
Great video, well done! I did not know this event at all, I see there, a rather extraordinary achievement. This makes me think of Antiquity, in Egypt when the Greeks or the Romans (?) crossed the Isthmus of Suez by the lakes and then pulled the boats on land. Already something strong enough for the time.... I appreciated the comments that I was able to translate, but it's a shame that the video didn't have French subtitles. Fascinated by these stories, I would have liked to know the details of this whole operation. In any case, thank you for your research work, and also for the photos. I subscribe.
Although the U boats could use rivers for part of the transit, the Italians, in 1942, sent several MAS torpedo boats completely by road, from Italy to Romania, at Costanza, on the Black Sea. They crossed the Balkan states entirely by road. When the Soviets encroached the Romanian bases in 1944, the Boats were scuttled and the RSI crews evacuated with the Germans.
Now THAT is 'thinking outside the box' !! BRAVO to all concerned back then. Probably couldn`t be done after 1043. Thank you for sharing this fascinating bit of WW2 history ! Now, wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could eliminate GREED in man`s nature & direct human imagination towards (peace-ful) endeavours ??
In the classic "Aces of the Deep" submarine sim you start out piloting one of these IIb's before you get your mitts on a VII as a reward for success. Surprisingly it's not bad for a small sub. (And, no, the sim doesn't let you patrol the Black Sea, you start out in the Baltic/N. Sea in 1939 and long before 1942 you graduate to the VII so it never applies) Anyways it's great to find out that none of the subs was sunk by the enemy. Only the turncoat Rumanians forced them to be given up.
Look for submarine S-80, heavier than water that his volume ocupes and had to be elonged 10 meters (resulting longer than docks). The history about trains is from 2022, when noticed than brand new trains bought were bigger than tunnels that had to cross. 😭
A similar story like this from 1453 when Mehmet the 2nd transported his navy from Bosphorous to Golden Horn. Of course less distance but also no technology then.
Very interesting and well made video. Intermodal transportation at 8 klicks on the no speed limit autobahn😂 I am a merchant mariner from canada. And the damage these subs did the merchant marine is terrible. Yet the got defeated by the yellowstones a large mallet type steam locomotive pulling iron ore trains from the messabi range in minnesota usa to the ports of lake superior to the boats carrying iron to the steel mills in detroit michigan and other steel mills and the rest is history. If you want to see subs in north americs the one at chicago science museum is highly recommendable so is the one at muskegon, michigan and in canada in Rimouski,Quebec is worthwhile. In Europe i think there is one in Kiel Germanr Enjoy and greetings from the Great Lakes. Yours truly❤
To everyone who wanna know more about how effective these U-boats were in the Black Sea:
During their relatively short time of service between October 1942 and 1944 (when Romania switched sides), they could sink 26 ships with 45,426 tons.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30th_U-boat_Flotilla
Thank you for presenting this further information and link to the Wikipedia article. If I had been a little smarter, it might have occurred to me to look for something like this myself.
From the data presented, it sounds like this operation probably did provide good value, from a military perspective, for the effort expended.
Beyond that, I must say that while the Wikipedia article seemed to present the facts of the operation well enough, your presentation here, with all the annotated maps and pictures, was infinitely more helpful in understanding the problems and scope of the operation, as well as being far more entertaining.
if you show the maps of Germany, it should indicate the proper names of the cities stolen by the P*laks: STETTIN, POSEN, BRESLAU, etc.....
Ja , die haben schon was geschafft……..
Fun to hear they wanted to move a giant u boat trough nearby cities, but it was too tight... Crazy
@@expansionone These are not, and never were, German cities.
Wrocław was first inhabited by Silesians (a Slavic tribe) and later became a part of Duchy of Poland, then Kingdom of Poland.
Poznań is one of the oldest and largest cities in Poland, the historic capital of the Wielkopolska region, where the Polish State was born more than 1000 years ago. Poznań was stolen from Poland by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland, and renamed to your "Posen" in 1793.
Szczecin was inhabited by Pomeranians (a Slavic tribe), then became part of Poland in 967. So Poland didn't stole anything, but these cities were stolen from Poland. But now these territories are recovered again. So no, the names used in the video are completely correct. Cope.
It is very comforting to watch a video that explains clearly with technical data and good pictures. No annoying music nor stock images. Congrats!!!
What a well researched video! I'd love to see you dive into more historical topics in the future.
More to come!
I'm from Dresden and I never knew this happened in my town! I always wondered why there was a wide asphalt road through a park heading straight to the autobahn
Pity there isn't a plaque or two with a little history placed there but then I suppose some want the past forgotten.
Now you know why😂😂
@@steffenrosmus9177 Indeed
@@anthonyxuereb792 No "suppose" about it, you go to prison if you bring it up.
@@l337pwnage Probably so. By all means let us be dumbed down, the past forgotten and erased. Then maybe we will get a chance to relive it.
Just discovered this channel on this video. WOW! No dramatic music, no stock footage of stuff not actually related to the story, no hype. I fancy myself an amateur WWII historian and have for decades. I have NEVER heard of this incredible effort. I am hooked! Today, to accomplish anything remotely like would take years to turn the first shovel.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
That was a very interesting story unknown to me. Lots of picture material too.
By the way, I believe that “scuttled” is a more correct term than “self-sunk”.
Why and when were they scuttled?
@@howardsimpson489 The why is Soviet forces advancing as they drove the Germans back to the Fatherland. The subs scuttled at the base were in August 44 when the city was taken. The subs scuttled of Turkish coast were because neutral Turkey said that by the same 1936 Montreux Convention we cited when not letting you sail in, we ain't gonna let your U-boats sail out to the Med.
scuttle it up
Du wirst auch niemals irgendetwas "Gutes" aus der dunkelsten Zeit Deutscher Geschichte hören ...
Sehr Gut erklärt, warum der Transport über andere Routen nicht möglich war !
Vielen Dank für die ausführlichen und sachlichen Erklärung zu diesem außergewöhnlichen Transport !
U9 was originally a WW1 submarine, credited with sinking 3 British Cressy class armoured cruisers in 1 hour in 1914. She, and the Emden were the only ships awarded the Iron Cross by the Kaiser. Rebuilt and commissioned as a Type IIB U-boat, it was named U-9 and featured a large Iron Cross on it's conning tower.
For more on the 30th U-boat Flotilla in the Black Sea, see: "Steel and Ice, the U-boat battle in the Arctic and Black Sea" by Lawrence Paterson.
Kuhlemayer & Kaelble waren 1960 noch bei der DB als Straßenroller in Betrieb.
Tolle Gangschaktung ! Ich fuhr einmal einen!!!!
Only just learning of this, its fascinating. The trucks and trailers where very close to what is used today for big moves, modular multi wheeled trailers and large trucks like those.
Very interesting. It would be nice to add some of their combat history in the Black Sea.
Wow, came across this by accident and was fascinated the whole way through! Thanks :D
By any measuring stick, this was an incredible engineering feat, one that I had never heard of before happening upon this video. Thank you.
Du wirst auch niemals irgendetwas "Gutes" aus der dunkelsten Zeit Deutscher Geschichte hören ...
Very interesting documentary! I remember post-war Kaelble and Faun heavy trucks and Culemeyer trailers from my childhood growing up in Germany. Although a WW2 geek myself, I had never heard of this operation. Thanks to you for researching, producing and posting this video. I’m sure the other geeks with whom I’ve shared the video will be just as surprised.
Du wirst auch niemals irgendetwas "Gutes" aus der dunkelsten Zeit Deutscher Geschichte hören ...
nice
Unexpected but really interesting!
Yes,submarines in a normally car-focused channel?.Unexpected but fascinating.Thanks for this B Sport
unusual but very interesting, German technology great commentary and photos THANKS
Hab von dieser Aktion noch nie gehört. Sehr interessant und gut dokumentiert. Danke für's Teilen.
Wow, I'm here for car facts, but I'm also a WWII geek. Normally I see these strange stories at the channel of WWII historian Mark Felton. Thanks!
..or by others such as....
_Drachinifel, Simon Whistler, Nicolas 'The Chieftain' Moran, Ed Nash's Military Matters, Greg's Automobiles & Aeroplanes, The Mighty Jingles_ or _Dark Docs/Skies/Seas_ etc.
Well Done Bsport 😊😜😋😀
Hi well done. I know the storry from my grandfather who was one of the guys doing the transport. How you get the pictures? Great research!
Great thanks for sharing!
Very interesting video. Old engineering projects like this are amazing considering the technology at the time.
Every pioneer project is considered ultra-advanced technology.Like from another planet but built in the Earth
...and in the middle of WW2 !
I love how they just built roads as they went. This sounds like it was a very complicated and thoughly planned out AND perfectly executed plan.
I would have expected nothing less from the Germans of that time.
It's incredible the Allies never knew of this operation that took 3 days to be carried out...when you consider the air control the Allies had over the European theater, plus the huge number of spies and informants strewn across the territories covered by the transport convoy.
Excellent presentation about a difficult job. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for your research and storytelling, one aspect I would have liked to know about was the military performance of the uboats in the Black Sea. Cheers
26 Soviet ships sunk in less than 2 years.
Simply amazing! This speaks of German ingenuity all along!
This is the first time I've heard of this! Amazing! I'd've loved to see the royal navy's faces when they saw some German U-boats in the Black Sea! Their signals back to the admiralty must've been pretty funny!
"You're not going to believe this but...!" 😆
What stunning logistics! Right up there with Hannibal's elephants! "Jumbo" was well named!
The Royal Navy was never in the Black Sea in WW2.
@@tankgirl2074 Ahaa! I didn't know that @Tank Girl. Thank you!
A very obscure, but interesting part of history.
Fascinating! I never knew about this. Thank you for putting together this highly detailed account.
Thank you! What an incredible feat. You have got to hand it to the Germans. Their command of technology was and still is outstanding. Surely that feat would be a challenge for heavy hauliers even today. I had no idea that rear-steering wheels were in use during the war. Were these the first examples?
Really well researched and narrated. I had no inkling of this at all.
thanks a lot!
I knew about this sometime ago, but your video was more complete in explaining how it was achieved.
Very interesting. Had read about the submarine that had been found in recent years. Very well organised by the Germans and their engineers .
While watching this I couldn't help but think of the USA bringing new Fleet Submarines from Manitowoc Wisconsin to New Orleans during WW2. No road component, but tricky getting through Chicago.
Also getting a captured U boat to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
You refer to the U-505, the only Class 9 German submarine in existence worldwide today.
I really like WW2 history, and this is one I have never heard of, what a great story about some little know history. great post thank you
You are welcome!
They may have been on the wrong side, but those teams certainly earned their beers! : )
Surprisingly, you never made any mention of how successful the subs were in sinking enemy shipping, which I assume, was the reason that they had been transported to the Black Sea to begin with.
To everyone who wanna know more about how effective these U-boats were in the Black Sea:
"During their relatively short time of service between October 1942 and 1944 (when Romania switched sides), they could sink 26 ships with 45,426 tons.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30th_U-boat_Flotilla " (As per the update by BSport at the top.)
During WW2 some US Submarines were built in Wisconsin and sailed down the Chicago ship canal to the Des Plaines river where they were then transported in a floating dry dock to the Mississippi River and down to the Gulf of Mexico. I think the floating dry dock was needed because the Army Corp of Engineers only guaranteed a 9 foot channel in the Des Plaines river.
@Yulis "Germans do everything better"
LOL, that reminds me of the old story about a British Airways pilot who asked for taxi directions from the tower in Frankfurt. The tower....being known for terse replies said, "Vat? Haf you neva bein to Frankfurt befuh?" British Airways Captain says: "Ah yeah, back in the 1940's but I didn't stop over."
those trailers look like the inspiration for the Mammoet modular trailers used today.
Excellent bit of nearly unknown history!
Very interesting story. Unbelievable. I did not suspect it could have been done. Thanks
Great story!
That picture at 11:20 is just amazing.
AMAZING STORY !! NEVER HEARD OF THIS!!
I really enjoyed your video. But some of the photos was not type 2 boats but S-boat upper deck parts. Like the command bridge. Other than that it was great to see and learn about other stuff from WW2. Please keep up the great work.
An amazing effort. Thanksfor the video.
Amazing! Where there is a will, there is a way. Thank you for this excellent video.
Very interesting, knew German submarines operated in the Black Sea but did know how they had got there, had assumed they had come through the Med and been allowed to pass by Turkey.
We're used to the idea of The Allies pulling off some extra-ordinary logistical efforts during the wars. It is interesting to see some of the things The Axis did too.
Remember the German Krupp "Paris Gun" with 75 mile range in WW1....
Thank you so much for the details of this operation! I have been curious about this for a while and it's good to know about all the engineering details which went into getting these massive cargoes on and off the rivers. It's those details like "how do we get around this tight bend?" which make or break complicated operations.
You are welcome! I was wondering about all these details too, hence the research.
Excellent video! Fascinating story which I have never heard before.
Very well done. You learn something new every day!!
Great story. Actually amazing.
My father worked in Linz in the „Schiffswerft“ which is still existing on those U-Boats before he had to join the German army as a mountain ranger engineer. He came home from Ex-Yugoslavia in January 1949 from a prison camp. Greetings from Linz Austria 🇦🇹😎👍💪🍀🐺 Europe!
Thanks for sharing!
Fascinating, something new to me. Thanks for telling the story, it must have taken a lot of preplanning and clearly effort to carry out.
It did!
Never heard of this before. What a huge effort for just 6 old submarines. Would be interesting to hear if they actually achived anything in the black sea.
Yes, that was an unfortunate omission from the story.
Drachinfel did a video on this subject, but not as much detail as this one though. Sorry to say I don't recall the war record of the subs. I will have to watch it again. But as I recall, it was not all that glorious.
They not only send Submarines, but also E-Boats (Motor-Torpedo-Boats), R-Boats (Minesweeper) and other small crafts via the Danube to the Black Sea. Also, Italy had sent some Motor Torpedo Boats. Not sure how they did it.
@@lisanalgaib555 It was not so difficult for Italian ships to get into the Black Sea, becuase Turkey - being officially neutral until 1945 - allowed axis ships to use the Bosporus. German submarines however needed to pass Gibraltar first, to enter the Mediterranean Sea - and that was highly dangerous. Thats why the Germans chose to transport the subs via trains and rivers accross Europe.
@@petebeatminister No, that is not true. Germany had some Submarine in the Mediteranea Sea, but the Turks wouldn't allow them to pass to the Black Sea.
Just Checked, there were about 7+ MAS (Italian Torpedo Boats) Boats in the Black Sea and even in Lake Ladoga near Leningrad. They had only 25 tons and so, I guess they were easy to carry by trucks.
though the German S-Boats were bigger, so they came the same way like the Subs.
German had transported about: 6 Submarines, 10 S-Boats, 23 R-Boats.
They had also 100+ Landing-Crafts (MFP-Barges) and other ships in the black sea.
Though the MFP-Barges were built in the Naval Yard in Mykolaiv in Ukraine and other ships like Transport ships were built in Romania.
They transported a submarine through downtown Washington D.C. some years ago to the Smithsonian Museum. That was a spectacle !
thank you great documentary
Well done: a thorough treatment of scarcely known project. "Scuttled", as Anders Pedersen mentions, is correct (cf, Graf Spee). 👍
Have to give the WWII German transport engineers credit for a crazy job well done. Never heard this story. Also, I subscribed to your channel. Happy Trails
Hammer, schönes Video - sehr informativ und gut recherchiert! thanks for sharing this and good pictures- well done 👍
Sehr gut gemachtes und aufwändiges Video.
Und wieder was gelernt...danke sehr!
Very interesting, thank you for creating this detailed content.
An amazing video this first real heavy haulage specialist i saw film 🎥 years ago of a diesel locomotive being transported across the Western desert and these are the trailers they used
very good video. let me add just a bit more to it. there were german Uboots operationg in the mediterian sea. U-Boot Flotille 23 operating from Salamis Greece and UBoot Flottile 29 from La Spezia Italy. The 6 mentioned UBoots in the video operated as UBoot Flotille 30 ,as you said, out of Constanza Romania.
Yes they did, but the Royal Navy was controlling the Mediterranean Sea, so they couldn’t take that route.
An excellent video, many thanks for making it.
Thanks, you are welcome!
Great video, well done! I did not know this event at all, I see there, a rather extraordinary achievement. This makes me think of Antiquity, in Egypt when the Greeks or the Romans (?) crossed the Isthmus of Suez by the lakes and then pulled the boats on land. Already something strong enough for the time.... I appreciated the comments that I was able to translate, but it's a shame that the video didn't have French subtitles. Fascinated by these stories, I would have liked to know the details of this whole operation. In any case, thank you for your research work, and also for the photos. I subscribe.
Thanks and welcome on board!
Very well researched and presented.
Never heard about this, what an amazing achievement, thank you for the video.
Thanks a lot!
A fascinating tale of a challenging event. Interesting how many were self-sunk. A lot of work for little gain.
Although the U boats could use rivers for part of the transit, the Italians, in 1942, sent several MAS torpedo boats completely by road, from Italy to Romania, at Costanza, on the Black Sea.
They crossed the Balkan states entirely by road.
When the Soviets encroached the Romanian bases in 1944, the Boats were scuttled and the RSI crews evacuated with the Germans.
First I'd ever heard of this. Well done video.
Now THAT is 'thinking outside the box' !! BRAVO to all concerned back then. Probably couldn`t be done after 1043. Thank you for sharing this fascinating bit of WW2 history ! Now, wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could eliminate GREED in man`s nature & direct human imagination towards (peace-ful) endeavours ??
Thanks for sharing 👍
Herrlich! Sehr interessantes Video, danke für Hochladen.
Well this isn’t F1! But it’s my other passion, WW2 history! I’ve never heard this before either. Thank you.
You are welcome!
You never hear the stories of the countries who lost the war. That's what I am here for.
ein Klasse Bericht 👏👍
Fascinating story.
Great video. You could have included some operational/combat description until they were scuttled.
Sehr gute Doku..danke👍
Danke!
Different topic but same Quality
I loved the story just wished to hear more about their action once arrived in the Black Sea, like that did they do or attack.
Just watched this. Had to look it up. Six subs did sink in total 45,000 tons which is probably pretty significant for the black sea. 26 ships.
Fascinating!
wild! great story, those trucks use the same multi steer solid wheel bogies as today's house movers are equipment transport
That 's an impressive transport even for today's standards.
Good to hear ww2 history from a German perspective .
Very interesting
Waaaahnsinn, was für ein Aufwand da betrieben wurde.
Excellent video and, well researched.
Thanks!
I like your video very much!
In the classic "Aces of the Deep" submarine sim you start out piloting one of these IIb's before you get your mitts on a VII as a reward for success. Surprisingly it's not bad for a small sub. (And, no, the sim doesn't let you patrol the Black Sea, you start out in the Baltic/N. Sea in 1939 and long before 1942 you graduate to the VII so it never applies) Anyways it's great to find out that none of the subs was sunk by the enemy. Only the turncoat Rumanians forced them to be given up.
El ejército alemán, es el mejor de la historia, al igual que sus equipos militares.
Yes a nice interesting piece of history thank you
truly incredible
Very impressed from Spain, the country were brand new submarines get sunk when are driven to sea (2010) and brand new trains are biger than tunnels.
Oh really? I should look into that!
Look for submarine S-80, heavier than water that his volume ocupes and had to be elonged 10 meters (resulting longer than docks). The history about trains is from 2022, when noticed than brand new trains bought were bigger than tunnels that had to cross. 😭
A similar story like this from 1453 when Mehmet the 2nd transported his navy from Bosphorous to Golden Horn. Of course less distance but also no technology then.
I didn't know about it. Thanks
Very interesting, never heard about this!
Amazing story. Good vid!👍🇺🇸
Very interesting and well made video.
Intermodal transportation at 8 klicks on the no speed limit autobahn😂
I am a merchant mariner from canada.
And the damage these subs did the merchant marine is terrible.
Yet the got defeated by the yellowstones a large mallet type steam locomotive pulling iron ore trains from the messabi range in minnesota usa to the ports of lake superior to the boats carrying iron to the steel mills in detroit michigan and other steel mills and the rest is history.
If you want to see subs in north americs the one at chicago science museum is highly recommendable so is the one at muskegon, michigan and in canada in Rimouski,Quebec is worthwhile.
In Europe i think there is one in Kiel Germanr
Enjoy and greetings from the Great Lakes.
Yours truly❤
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Do you like weird vehicles?.You maybe can talk about ekranoplanes,also known as "Monsters of Caspian Sea"