Watching the Barham blow up, it's hard to imagine that within that large blast, smoke and debris flying immediately as she exploded, there were people and bodies also flying around in all that. Brave men. RIP. Great video.
My Dad was a Royal marine on the HMS Barham, and was one of the survivors... Lucky for me.. He sadly passed away at the ripe old age of 96 in 2019 RIP to all of those brave young men that went down with the ship..
What a brave young man. To be only 18 and already a Royal Marine and at sea fighting for his country's freedom. Very relieved to know he survived and went on to (hopefully) a very rewarding and satisfying life. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from North Carolina btw... love our awesome cousins across the pond. 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧
Im actually surprised HMS Hood wasnt in this list. It suffered a catastrophic explosion in its rear ammunition magazines after receiving a armor piecing shot from the Bismark. The ammunition ignited and blew the ship in half, killing all but 3 of its crew members, and sank within 3 minutes after the explosion.
The explosion itself of HMS Hood was not caught on film (or, it is said,, it was, from Bismarck, but the footage was lost with the sinking of that ship). A cameraman on Prinz Eugen only captured the smoke column in the distance, but that was minutes after the explosion.
My Cousin James Selaya was on the USS SERPENS when it exploded, only two Sailors survived that because they were actually inside one of the ships boilers scrubbing it. James name along with all his shipmates that perished that horrible day are on a monument at Arlington. While watching a Victory at Sea episode it shows the blast concussion travel across the bay among the other ships in the Bay. Both James and his brother Ralph ( Buddy) along with my Dad were all born in Anaheim California...my Dad is in Victory at Sea episode 13 twice! First sleeping on his bunk the night before The Invasion of the Philippines began and later on in the video it shows him along with his squad in a Higgins boat headed towards a beach head i never knew Jimmy but I sure miss Buddy and my Dad ...as a child that's when I felt the safest when Buddy and Dad were by my side....harm could not even enter my mind....love you miss you.... IVAN! Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High School Downey California USA 👉♥️🇺🇲🙏🗽🦅
I was a 16 inch gunnersmate on the battleship Missouri, turret 3 center gun. I was also LPO of the powder decks and powder magazines. It wasn't just the powder that went up on those battleships in the video. When a powder magazine is stocked and you first walk in, there is the strong odor of ether that makes you dizzy and light headed for a little while until you get use tomit or tha magazine airs out. Since it is highly flammable, there are certain rules one has to abide by. 1.) Turn belt buckles toward the inside of the pants with cloth belt facing out. 2.) Remove all watches, bracelets, rings, lighters and other items that can produce a spark. 3.) If something happens, prepare to close the hatch and flood the magazine. Get as many out as possible before flooding. We were down in the lower port magazine moving powder cans around when the hoist fell off the overhead rail and the powder can hit the deck from about 6 feet up. Everyone in that magazine went silent and turned white.
@thehistoryexplorer , The concern about a dropped powder can is that each can holds 330 pounds powder bags. At the rear of each powder bag is a red circle about 15 inches in diameter sewn into squares. That is the ignition pad which has 480 grains of black powder. Black powder can ignite with static electricity or shock from being dropped. Also if not properly store, black powder can sweat and that sweat is nitroglycerin. When we did ammo unloads, we made sure to get those powder cans off the main deck and into the cooler magazines as fast as possible.
Branched Ordnance in the Army. Was in an above ground magazine (think one & a half football fields, two stories tall in size) in Korea inventorying 155 mm HE Rocket Assist. Two South Korean soldiers dropped six pallets (roughly 300-350 pounds HE in the shells) of 155 mm HERA onto the concrete floor. Everyone held their breaths for a second or two the exhaled in relief. The SK soldiers thought it was funny.
@jamessimms415 , watched a TV news report few years back in Manila. While digging for construction, they dug up a WW2 1,000 pound bomb. So what happens? There's the police down in the hole, walking on it and hitting it with a hammer.
I spent 25 years in the Navy. The ship is a floating bomb. We try not to think about it, but it is in the back of your mind. I feel for the submariners because if their ship goes down, they have nowhere to go. Being on the surface I have a slim chance to make it.
As a 6 year navy corpsman vet I took my chances with the USMC when it came to sea duty. Plus and minuses for both sides but I will never regret being a USMC Doc, it was an honor.
It's amazing how cruel man can be to one another. So sad seeing the loss of all of these sailors. Many thanks for their sacrifices. May they all R.I.P.
Yes, I agree. Loving is easy. Hate takes too much effort, and the effects last way too long. Merry Christmas, and many thanks for all of the great video footage this year.
Thank you for showing the Naval part of WWII. All of those deaths in a war we didn’t start. The brave men of the Merchant Marines risking their lives to deliver the supplies needed to keep Great Britain from starving. RIP to them and the sailors of brave escort ships. The kamikazes were a last ditch effort for Japan to try to be victorious in a war they started. Absolute insanity. Would not accept defeat. Therefore, the lives lost and wounded because of what was done to bring it to an end. Could have simply surrendered.
I must confess I don’t cover naval history in much detail if at all because there are channels out there who already do it so well. When I made a few videos on the 100th bomb group and masters of the air it didn’t gain much traction at all
England hat den Krieg Deutschland erklärt!!! Sonder hat auch alles getan das er ausbricht in dem Polen aufgefordert wurde alle Vorschläge Deutschlands abzulehnen. Es ging nur um Transitrechte zwischen Deutschland und Polen und mit Welcher Währung sie beglichen werden soll mehr nicht. Polen hatte nicht das recht Millionen Menschen in Ostpreussen abzuschneiden und die Transitstrecken zu schließen das wäre eine humanitäre Katatrope geworden keine Kohle kein Strom keine Wasserversorgung!! Hitler hat 13 mal den Angriff verschoben und aus Vermittlung aus England gewartet doch die wollten diesen Krieg das ist heute eindeutig belegt anhand der Botschafts Depeschen zwischen Berlin, London und Warschau!! Sie wurden belogen und wir Deutschen bis Heute.
@@thehistoryexplorer When you read about convoy PQ17 or fate of crews of USS Indianapolis or USS Juneau ..just to mention few.. sea is alway something to be feared.
Rob, Thank-you for what your doing. Your work is captivating. May the world never forget and hopefully not have to endure the horrific events of another world war. May those who are lost in any war not be forgotten. 🙏 May you have a very Merry Christmas and wish you the best in the years to follow. Once again...... Thank you for the time and effort you put into your channel. As always...... Safe Travels To You Brother! ✌️😎
My god seeing all those sailors trying to escape as the mighty battleship keeled over and a massive explosion 💥 R.I.P to all of those souls who died my uncle lost his brother on HMS HOOD the same thing a massive massive explosion with only 3 men surviving on HMS HOOD R.I.P to all who tragically died on both ships 🤝🫶🙏 respect for these stories
I don't have a lot of details on what my uncle Carl did at Normandy, but my father told me this, he said they shelled the beach for 3 days and nights before they landed, Uncle Carl told him that, thank you young man for a wonderful presentation, 🫡
Arizona and Pearl Harbor were not the 9/11 of that generation. 9/11 was the Pearl Harbor of our generation. Pearl Harbor and WWII were a much much much much bigger deal
My grandfather able semen survived this explosion and was one of a few survive he only did because he’s just been moved the anti-aircraft guns on the top of the ship. He served on the ship from the very first day of the wall when it got to pee out a few days later Through to Africa through to the battles the Italian fleet and he always talks about the ship and his mates to his dying day I have a photo of him on the ship with his mate and the whole ships company which is framed
HMS barham was heartbreaking to watch explode, knowing there were hundreds of my fellow Englishmen killed in that split second. My Grandfather sailed on the Atlantic convoys before sailing to Malaya and avoiding imprisonment as Malaya fell to the Japanese and he kept a sword for the rest of his life which he took from an IJN officer he just killed. I think he felt some sort of debt was repaid with the death of that Japanese officer, revenge for those englishmen who were killed in Malaya. These men were a different calibre of warrior. We shall never see their likes again.
He used to love talking photos on the ship, battles when he could and burials at sea but went missing all we have now are photos of my wife's grandfather landing at arromanches just after DDAY to Arnhem bridge to making Germans load the lorries up to disarm then pictures of when the Germans loading hit the shell in the other ones hands causing it explode pictures of the remains
@thehistoryexplorer th-cam.com/video/uxFrV0vo_cA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Mb0JVjckAn3ptqSz That's my Dad @1:11 seconds...look at the base of the Palm 🌴 tree...how scarred up it is!
Thank you... While watching an episode of Victory at Sea during the video from a camera of another ship in the Bay the camera captures the shockwave as it travels past the ships in the Bay. But I don't know what episode...I've been looking for decades and I can't find it again. My Dad is shown twice in Victory at Sea episode 13. God bless..👉♥️🇺🇲🙏🗽🦅
@ it’s not real I’m afraid. I researched the Hood so I could add it but there isn’t reliable footage. The footage you refer to could not have been taken from over the horizon (Prinz Eugen)
Nice one yet again Rob. Merry Christmas and all the best for 2025 mate! Probably getting out next year ( 2025) mate, passed my PhD so will now be looking for jobs in PME ( =a common port of call for retired O6's). Keep in touch!
On April 7, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest ever built, exploded and sank after being attacked by US Navy carrier aircraft. She went down with the loss of over 3000 of her crew of 3332.
This was almost too much to watch because we know this is actual footage. I stood over the USS Arizona in 1982 and pondered all the men that were at rest below us. It was sobering to say the least. To think these men were asleep one minute and drowning, on fire, the next was horrifying. God bless these gentlemen and their families for ever more. 🇺🇸♥️☘️
@@thehistoryexplorer Well if I can make that a dream come true, I will. I was 28 years old and installing a computer system at Pearl Harbor. I took advantage of everything I could see. It was well worth it Rob.
I wish people would pick up on the importance of one single sentence you said. “The 9/11 of their generation” or similar. If you only knew how spot on you were
Why is the Arizona explosion shown in reverse? The footage was shot from the hospital ship Solace, which was moored a short distance on the starboard, or right side, of the Arizona.
No disrespect for cases mentioned.. but my impression was that nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was captured on film and deserves "The Deadliest EXPLOSIONS of WW2 " title... maybe "...naval explosions of WWW2..."?
Poor poor sailors, no matter whose side they are on it was tragic watching all those sailors standing on the hull, a split second later they were vapourised. A terrible waste of young men's lives. 😕
The correct answer seems to be HMS Hood not HMS Barham (862 victims) . Of the 1,418 crew members of HMS Hood, three men, Ted Briggs, Bob Tilburn and Bill Dundas, were rescued by the destroyer HMS Electra.
if you know how many victims the HMS Barman explosion took but you don't know how many victims the HMS Hood explosion took with it. THE HEADLINE IS ON THE SIDE
Have you considered the Denmark Strait battle, as footage taken aboard of KMS Prinz Eugen shows both the exchanges of gunfire and a series of images where HMS Hood has exploded with HMS Prince Of Wales following astern whilst returning fire.
It makes me sad that American service men are buried in France. I've been to France. They do not like Americans and show no appreciation for what we did for them in WWII.
#Hallo von #Deutschland2024 > was "storage wetting" a real extinguishing procedure? > the procedure is to prevent explosions of propellant und Petroleum combination
I wonder if the boilers exploded on the Barham. It happened close to the time the flue pipe hit the water and then a bunch of water instantly turning to steam in the combustion chamber and that expansion causing the first explosion. It's related to boilers losing water while firing and then water is introduced to a very hot pressure vessel.
5:31 It was told. That the bombs beings used then. Were 18 inch bombs. Bombs that were converted from being 18 inch gun ammo. That was used from battle ships in Japans Navy.
The HMS Barham explosion has been misrepresented by various history outlets so many times, as being that of another ship , I have literally lost count .HMS Barham from what I can tell , had a good service life up the the moment of its demise
Watching the Barham blow up, it's hard to imagine that within that large blast, smoke and debris flying immediately as she exploded, there were people and bodies also flying around in all that. Brave men. RIP.
Great video.
Jeez I never thought of that but you’re absolutely right. Just terrible
My Dad was a Royal marine on the HMS Barham, and was one of the survivors... Lucky for me.. He sadly passed away at the ripe old age of 96 in 2019
RIP to all of those brave young men that went down with the ship..
Wow! Imagine if he had been stood somewhere else on that day
What a brave young man. To be only 18 and already a Royal Marine and at sea fighting for his country's freedom. Very relieved to know he survived and went on to (hopefully) a very rewarding and satisfying life. Thank you for sharing.
Greetings from North Carolina btw... love our awesome cousins across the pond.
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wait... how did he survive that?
My grandad was on the HMS barham, he left in Dec 1939. RIP to all the sailors lost.
Wow! How lucky
Im actually surprised HMS Hood wasnt in this list. It suffered a catastrophic explosion in its rear ammunition magazines after receiving a armor piecing shot from the Bismark. The ammunition ignited and blew the ship in half, killing all but 3 of its crew members, and sank within 3 minutes after the explosion.
The explosion itself of HMS Hood was not caught on film (or, it is said,, it was, from Bismarck, but the footage was lost with the sinking of that ship). A cameraman on Prinz Eugen only captured the smoke column in the distance, but that was minutes after the explosion.
My Cousin James Selaya was on the USS SERPENS when it exploded, only two Sailors survived that because they were actually inside one of the ships boilers scrubbing it. James name along with all his shipmates that perished that horrible day are on a monument at Arlington.
While watching a Victory at Sea episode it shows the blast concussion travel across the bay among the other ships in the Bay.
Both James and his brother Ralph ( Buddy) along with my Dad were all born in Anaheim California...my Dad is in Victory at Sea episode 13 twice! First sleeping on his bunk the night before The Invasion of the Philippines began and later on in the video it shows him along with his squad in a Higgins boat headed towards a beach head i never knew Jimmy but I sure miss Buddy and my Dad ...as a child that's when I felt the safest when Buddy and Dad were by my side....harm could not even enter my mind....love you miss you.... IVAN!
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High School Downey California USA 👉♥️🇺🇲🙏🗽🦅
I was a 16 inch gunnersmate on the battleship Missouri, turret 3 center gun. I was also LPO of the powder decks and powder magazines. It wasn't just the powder that went up on those battleships in the video. When a powder magazine is stocked and you first walk in, there is the strong odor of ether that makes you dizzy and light headed for a little while until you get use tomit or tha magazine airs out.
Since it is highly flammable, there are certain rules one has to abide by.
1.) Turn belt buckles toward the inside of the pants with cloth belt facing out.
2.) Remove all watches, bracelets, rings, lighters and other items that can produce a spark.
3.) If something happens, prepare to close the hatch and flood the magazine. Get as many out as possible before flooding.
We were down in the lower port magazine moving powder cans around when the hoist fell off the overhead rail and the powder can hit the deck from about 6 feet up. Everyone in that magazine went silent and turned white.
Wow that’s fascinating! Thank you for sharing
@thehistoryexplorer , The concern about a dropped powder can is that each can holds 330 pounds powder bags. At the rear of each powder bag is a red circle about 15 inches in diameter sewn into squares. That is the ignition pad which has 480 grains of black powder. Black powder can ignite with static electricity or shock from being dropped. Also if not properly store, black powder can sweat and that sweat is nitroglycerin. When we did ammo unloads, we made sure to get those powder cans off the main deck and into the cooler magazines as fast as possible.
@@samuelschick8813i guess everyday life problems aren’t big deal after that..
Branched Ordnance in the Army. Was in an above ground magazine (think one & a half football fields, two stories tall in size) in Korea inventorying 155 mm HE Rocket Assist. Two South Korean soldiers dropped six pallets (roughly 300-350 pounds HE in the shells) of 155 mm HERA onto the concrete floor. Everyone held their breaths for a second or two the exhaled in relief. The SK soldiers thought it was funny.
@jamessimms415 , watched a TV news report few years back in Manila. While digging for construction, they dug up a WW2 1,000 pound bomb. So what happens? There's the police down in the hole, walking on it and hitting it with a hammer.
I cant even imagine how destructive it would be. Those poor sailors. thank you for sharing Rob
It would have been terrible in sure
Likely Instant Death, so didn’t feel anything
I spent 25 years in the Navy. The ship is a floating bomb. We try not to think about it, but it is in the back of your mind. I feel for the submariners because if their ship goes down, they have nowhere to go. Being on the surface I have a slim chance to make it.
You’re very brave! I did the flood control exercise where you have to fill in holes. Pretty frightening! Can’t imagine doing that for real
@@thehistoryexplorer We trained very hard. Fire is our worse enemy'
As a 6 year navy corpsman vet I took my chances with the USMC when it came to sea duty. Plus and minuses for both sides but I will never regret being a USMC Doc, it was an honor.
It's amazing how cruel man can be to one another. So sad seeing the loss of all of these sailors. Many thanks for their sacrifices. May they all R.I.P.
It’s really sad isn’t it
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Yes. I don't know why people can't live in peace. It takes too much effort to hate. Love is easy and lasting.
Man's inhumanity to man.
@@christesta2521 Religion.
Yes, I agree. Loving is easy. Hate takes too much effort, and the effects last way too long. Merry Christmas, and many thanks for all of the great video footage this year.
Thank you for showing the Naval part of WWII. All of those deaths in a war we didn’t start. The brave men of the Merchant Marines risking their lives to deliver the supplies needed to keep Great Britain from starving. RIP to them and the sailors of brave escort ships. The kamikazes were a last ditch effort for Japan to try to be victorious in a war they started. Absolute insanity. Would not accept defeat. Therefore, the lives lost and wounded because of what was done to bring it to an end. Could have simply surrendered.
I must confess I don’t cover naval history in much detail if at all because there are channels out there who already do it so well. When I made a few videos on the 100th bomb group and masters of the air it didn’t gain much traction at all
Am 3. September 1939 erklärte Frankreich und England dem Deutschen Reich den Krieg. Also, wer hat angefangen? 😮
England hat den Krieg Deutschland erklärt!!! Sonder hat auch alles getan das er ausbricht in dem Polen aufgefordert wurde alle Vorschläge Deutschlands abzulehnen. Es ging nur um Transitrechte zwischen Deutschland und Polen und mit Welcher Währung sie beglichen werden soll mehr nicht. Polen hatte nicht das recht Millionen Menschen in Ostpreussen abzuschneiden und die Transitstrecken zu schließen das wäre eine humanitäre Katatrope geworden keine Kohle kein Strom keine Wasserversorgung!! Hitler hat 13 mal den Angriff verschoben und aus Vermittlung aus England gewartet doch die wollten diesen Krieg das ist heute eindeutig belegt anhand der Botschafts Depeschen zwischen Berlin, London und Warschau!! Sie wurden belogen und wir Deutschen bis Heute.
I wish you went into more detail, I really enjoy the research you do and the way you tell the story. Thank you
This is a short video while I am away. I do try and make the videos longer
My Great Great Uncle was killed in WW1 when U9 attacked and sank HMS HAWKE in the North Sea
Just horrible. So sorry to hear that
Another great video
Ty Sir!
I appreciate what you do for us!
My pleasure!
Wow! I had no idea of the US ship in the Leyte gulf engagement! Unbelievable! Thank you for these videos
My pleasure!
This is why I stand for our national anthem I honor you
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Great work. Naval warfare is brutal. Two enemies. The foe and the sea.
Never thought of it that way! Wow
@@thehistoryexplorer When you read about convoy PQ17 or fate of crews of USS Indianapolis or USS Juneau ..just to mention few.. sea is alway something to be feared.
Devil and the deep blue sea.
Great work 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
This is an excellent video; great narration as well.
It really isn't.
Thank you kindly!
PRO material, as always!
Much appreciated!
9 days late but I served 9 yrs in the U.S. Army. One of many WW2 locations I've always wanted to visit and pay my respects is Pearl Harbor
As you say, "May they all rest in peace." 🕊 Thank you for remembering them.
You’re very welcome 👍
How over 300 men on the Barham survived gets me.
Rob,
Thank-you for what your doing.
Your work is captivating.
May the world never forget and hopefully not have to endure the horrific events of another world war.
May those who are lost in any war not be forgotten. 🙏
May you have a very Merry Christmas and wish you the best in the years to follow.
Once again......
Thank you for the time and effort you put into your channel.
As always......
Safe Travels To You Brother!
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Thank you so much for the very kind feedback. I really appreciate it my friend 🙏
My god seeing all those sailors trying to escape as the mighty battleship keeled over and a massive explosion 💥 R.I.P to all of those souls who died my uncle lost his brother on HMS HOOD the same thing a massive massive explosion with only 3 men surviving on HMS HOOD R.I.P to all who tragically died on both ships 🤝🫶🙏 respect for these stories
Yes definitely. I was going to include HOOD but there isn’t much footage as good expect
I don't have a lot of details on what my uncle Carl did at Normandy, but my father told me this, he said they shelled the beach for 3 days and nights before they landed, Uncle Carl told him that, thank you young man for a wonderful presentation, 🫡
You must be very proud Norman 🫡
@thehistoryexplorer thank you for letting me share, young man, God bless you and Merry Christmas
Fantastic mate.love watching all the people in the war. They were all heroes l can't imagine how they all coped 😢
The greatest generation so far
Has the wreck of the barham ever been discovered? I could imagine it was split in two, even more so depending on depth in which she is at.
@Ro6entX It has. It's off the coast of Egypt. Located in 2009, approximately 1000 feet down.
It has indeed been found. I imagine it’s in a state
Jesus.. seeing the ss john burke go up like that.. looked like the baker nuclear test, truly horrifying
Arizona and Pearl Harbor were not the 9/11 of that generation. 9/11 was the Pearl Harbor of our generation. Pearl Harbor and WWII were a much much much much bigger deal
I have spoken to WW2 veterans who made this connection and used it to help others understand how Pear Harbor felt to them. It is their words, not mine
amazing footage
Thanks for visiting
How terrifying! Just image that carnage and suffering. I suppose the only saving grace is any death would likely be pretty quick.
At Pearl Harbor lots of the casualties came from burns and the fire
My grandfather able semen survived this explosion and was one of a few survive he only did because he’s just been moved the anti-aircraft guns on the top of the ship. He served on the ship from the very first day of the wall when it got to pee out a few days later Through to Africa through to the battles the Italian fleet and he always talks about the ship and his mates to his dying day I have a photo of him on the ship with his mate and the whole ships company which is framed
HMS barham was heartbreaking to watch explode, knowing there were hundreds of my fellow Englishmen killed in that split second.
My Grandfather sailed on the Atlantic convoys before sailing to Malaya and avoiding imprisonment as Malaya fell to the Japanese and he kept a sword for the rest of his life which he took from an IJN officer he just killed.
I think he felt some sort of debt was repaid with the death of that Japanese officer, revenge for those englishmen who were killed in Malaya.
These men were a different calibre of warrior.
We shall never see their likes again.
Yes it really is a shocker and gets me every time
My uncle Charles Bennett was killed on the ship barham aged 21
I’m so sorry to hear that. Very sad
He used to love talking photos on the ship, battles when he could and burials at sea but went missing all we have now are photos of my wife's grandfather landing at arromanches just after DDAY to Arnhem bridge to making Germans load the lorries up to disarm then pictures of when the Germans loading hit the shell in the other ones hands causing it explode pictures of the remains
Good lord.......the Burke turned into atoms
We don't here much about that explosion but christ that was cataclysmic.
Shocking isn’t it!
My Cousin James Selaya was on the USS SERPENS when it blew up...his name is on a monument at Arlington...
He was from Anaheim California
Oh wow! I’m so sorry to hear that. Making these videos has shown me we really aren’t that far removed from these events
@thehistoryexplorer th-cam.com/video/uxFrV0vo_cA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Mb0JVjckAn3ptqSz
That's my Dad @1:11 seconds...look at the base of the Palm 🌴 tree...how scarred up it is!
Thank you...
While watching an episode of Victory at Sea during the video from a camera of another ship in the Bay the camera captures the shockwave as it travels past the ships in the Bay. But I don't know what episode...I've been looking for decades and I can't find it again. My Dad is shown twice in Victory at Sea episode 13.
God bless..👉♥️🇺🇲🙏🗽🦅
What about HMS Hood? Why is not in the list?
@primarchxi6639 because there is no footage
@@thehistoryexplorer 😲Ofc there is, and its a very known German footage...
@ it’s not real I’m afraid. I researched the Hood so I could add it but there isn’t reliable footage. The footage you refer to could not have been taken from over the horizon (Prinz Eugen)
I feel sorry for the men and women that fought for America. If they could see our country and its citizens today, they'd have saved their own lives
Why belittle their sacrifice? Particularly as you clearly wouldn't be following their example.
Kamakazi, the one word rebuke to any twit that complains about the dropping of the atomic bombs.
Nice one yet again Rob. Merry Christmas and all the best for 2025 mate! Probably getting out next year ( 2025) mate, passed my PhD so will now be looking for jobs in PME ( =a common port of call for retired O6's). Keep in touch!
Congratulations on achieving your PhD. Very exciting.
In the last footage of Omaha beach, the soldier in the red circle is Don Simmons
On April 7, 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest ever built, exploded and sank after being attacked by US Navy carrier aircraft. She went down with the loss of over 3000 of her crew of 3332.
Yes indeed, I wanted to include Hood and Yamato but there isn’t sufficient footage
If you think those scenes were harrowing, Netflix has a show about mail sorting during the war. Extreme bravery.
*Would have thought the shock wave threw those poor crewmen far away. But it didn't.*
The shock wave could have torn people to pieces. That’s how IEDs ripped limbs off
2:41 you see the aft deck fold up and over. Such force sent building size chunks of steal to the sky. It's amazing some survived.
Yes I really can’t believe many survived at sll
This was almost too much to watch because we know this is actual footage. I stood over the USS Arizona in 1982 and pondered all the men that were at rest below us. It was sobering to say the least. To think these men were asleep one minute and drowning, on fire, the next was horrifying. God bless these gentlemen and their families for ever more. 🇺🇸♥️☘️
I’ve always wanted to visit Pearl Harbor. Thank you for the kind feedback
@@thehistoryexplorer Well if I can make that a dream come true, I will. I was 28 years old and installing a computer system at Pearl Harbor. I took advantage of everything I could see. It was well worth it Rob.
I wish people would pick up on the importance of one single sentence you said. “The 9/11 of their generation” or similar. If you only knew how spot on you were
Merry Christmas! Hope you have a lovely day🌲🌲
Thank you! You too!
4 minutes?.. At 73 I can't pee in 4 minutes!!! Every time I see these....I cry...will the human race ever learn?..No we will not.
You forgot the HMS Hood
Why is the Arizona explosion shown in reverse? The footage was shot from the hospital ship Solace, which was moored a short distance on the starboard, or right side, of the Arizona.
I've seen that footage many times, and it's always been in that orientation, with the hand pointing upwards at the right of the screen.
I really thought that one was a nuclear test.
who was filming Barham when it exploded???????
@@henerygreen578 it was filmed from a rescue vessel
@@thehistoryexplorer thank you ...
slowmo right before the explosion and after and you can see the sailors running and jumping off ship...
Terrible isn’t it
Strange but true a witch got jailed for predicting the Barhams demise.
I never knew that!
Look at that..holy moly
Arizona won a band competition the previous day, so its crew got to sleep in the morning of the attack and all died.
I never knew that. Terrible 😞
How about Yamato exploding? Depending on the source, 3000+ crew lost.
No disrespect for cases mentioned.. but my impression was that nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was captured on film and deserves "The Deadliest EXPLOSIONS of WW2 " title... maybe "...naval explosions of WWW2..."?
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Poor poor sailors, no matter whose side they are on it was tragic watching all those sailors standing on the hull, a split second later they were vapourised. A terrible waste of young men's lives. 😕
So sad isn’t it, seeing them slide off before it exploded was shocking
4:40 this is footage of a nuclear test. This is NOT footage of a kamikaze attack.
You’re wrong. It is footage of a non nuclear explosion after a fire ignited the explosives. Search SS John Burke
The correct answer seems to be HMS Hood not HMS Barham (862 victims) . Of the 1,418 crew members of HMS Hood, three men, Ted Briggs, Bob Tilburn and Bill Dundas, were rescued by the destroyer HMS Electra.
@@markogronfors3826 correct answer to what? I didn’t ask a question
@@thehistoryexplorer What is the topic ?
@@markogronfors3826 the title, not question, is deadliest explosions caught on film.
if you know how many victims the HMS Barman explosion took but you don't know how many victims the HMS Hood explosion took with it. THE HEADLINE IS ON THE SIDE
@@thehistoryexplorer The HMS HOOD Simpliest
The IJN super battleship Yamato did exactly the same thing --- keeled over to port and exploded.
Seems being at sea during ww2 is about as dangerous as it sounds!
Unreal. Imagine the Hood had a similar blast
Yes exactly, I tried to find footage of Hood but it wasn’t very clear
Have you considered the Denmark Strait battle, as footage taken aboard of KMS Prinz Eugen shows both the exchanges of gunfire and a series of images where HMS Hood has exploded with HMS Prince Of Wales following astern whilst returning fire.
I was going to add it but the footage was poor quality. The Hood is one that should definitely be on this list
Mögen die Seeleute in Frieden weiter Ruhen.
Horrific explosion.
Thats vidieo of the Yamoto 's last moments .
I have not included any footage of the Yamato
HMS Hood when she was hit and exploded it killed 1,418 crew only 3 survived, there is a film of her exploding
It isn’t footage of the Hood. But you’re absolutely right about Hood being one of the most deadly
@@thehistoryexplorer There is a film of the Hood exploding, the film did belong to pathnews which did not get release till the 1970s
When HOOD exploded, 2000+ men perished in an instant!
Absolutely, but there isn’t any footage of Hood or Yamato
My god RIP men.
Survivors of the Barham had their legs and buts shredded by barnacles as they slid down the hull
That’s horrible. I can well imagine that
How many lives were lost when the Bismark sank the Hood in the North Atlantic???
Yes many many lives, I wanted to include the Hood but there isn’t any footage
HMS Hood blew up, cut in two 1415 men lost.
You’re right but I couldn’t find any decent footage to show it
@thehistoryexplorer google hms hood blows up. 18 second clip taken from the prince eugen.
@ it’s not actual footage of Hood
how are you on a ship, and didnt learn to swim???
Sad does not describe this, at all.
Who would ever go to sea to wage war
Was it Plato hhat ssid that there were 3 types of men, three states of being. 1. The living. 2. The dead. 3. Those who go to sea.
Wow, never heard that but how true
People think Titanic was bad
Exactly!
Hms Barham
blood freezing
Guess you forgot about the USS Arizona and the 1177 souls lost during the explosion
The Arizona is literally the last footage I showed in this video 😂
I found your comment of D Day being the 9/11 of our time interesting. I mention 9/11 as being the D Day of my generation. Have a good day,
Maybe you never heard of the 2 nuclear bombs that were filmed blowing up over 2 different cities in Japan?
I sure have.
It makes me sad that American service men are buried in France. I've been to France. They do not like Americans and show no appreciation for what we did for them in WWII.
I completely disagree. There are memorial guardians and monuments all over Normandy that kept in immaculate condition. The people of France remember
small black dots are people
Horrible into think isn’t it
RIP
Your facts are wrong. The second explosion was a nuclear bomb test in the coral Sea..
@@andrewlambert4934 nope. It was not
I thought Hiroshima hosted the deadliest explosion of WW2.
1415 men were lost in the HMS Hood.
@@TheRealSultanOfSwing yes I did try to find footage of HOOD but there isn’t much. It’s certainly one I wanted to cover
🙏🙏🙏
#Hallo von #Deutschland2024
> was "storage wetting" a real extinguishing procedure?
> the procedure is to prevent explosions of propellant und Petroleum combination
The bigger one? Howard sbout the Hood ?
But there’s no footage
And there's a god?
I wonder if the boilers exploded on the Barham. It happened close to the time the flue pipe hit the water and then a bunch of water instantly turning to steam in the combustion chamber and that expansion causing the first explosion. It's related to boilers losing water while firing and then water is introduced to a very hot pressure vessel.
Sounds very plausible but I’m not a Navy man so I wouldn’t want to guess. It would only be my opinion
Omg
Terrible
5:31 It was told. That the bombs beings used then. Were 18 inch bombs. Bombs that were converted from being 18 inch gun ammo. That was used from battle ships in Japans Navy.
The HMS Barham explosion has been misrepresented by various history outlets so many times, as being that of another ship , I have literally lost count .HMS Barham from what I can tell , had a good service life up the the moment of its demise
@@dovidell it really did, including taking part in the battle of Jutland during WW1
Well, at least the ole boys went fast. No drowning, nor burning or suffocating.
Sadly many of the deaths from the Arizona were allegedly from burns and drowning
R.I.P.