"The Germans are coming... the Germans are coming!" Prequel to "The Russians are Coming... the Russians are coming!" Sequel to "The British are coming...the British are coming!"
I am per definition an Israeli jew as I have an Israeli/polish mother. Common people can be led into atrocities so easily. My dad is Swedish-German-French British. I have met my great grandparents who fought for Germany and the Jewish victims on my maternal side. The current conflict in Israel is a testimony to how easily people are tricked into creating starvation, genocide and new Hamas terrorists by a few maniacs in power of a nation.
There are reports of civilians making picnics to personally see the first battles of the American Civil War. These picnics was very dangerously close to the battlefield. Perhaps an unusual american tradition?😁
I think TGW should make the movie on this incident. Indy can be the gallant American aviator in his Curtis biplane and Flo can be the reckless U-boat commander.
My great uncle served on a submarine in WWI. He died in 1924 from lung problems, probably attributed to submarine service. I contacted the US Navy for more information on him, like the name of his sub, what action they saw, did they sink any ships, etc. The Navy said they could not do anything without a service number, which of course is impossible to get. I suppose there must be a lot of sailors named Stanley Miller from Pulaski, Wi in the submarine service.
Cruiser submarines are extremely interesting and often overlooked. Only Germany had Cruiser subs in WWI. Before and during WWII they became far more advanced. France's Surcouf, for example, had massive twin 203mm cannons in a turret, an array of AA guns, 12 torpedo tubes, carried two motorboats, and was utterly massive albeit pretty pointless. Later the Japanese also had huge cruiser subs, like the I-400, which could carry three fighter planes as well as still had guns and 8 torpedo tubes.
Hi Indy and crew. Growing up on Cape Cod, in the town of Harwich, we were told this story as kids. According to our history teacher when the first bomb dropped on the uboat didn't explode the frustrated mechanic on board threw a large wrench at the Germans on deck.
Unofficially the bombs were not properly fused because there were no armorers at the station. Most trained specialists had been transferred to fleet duty by then.
It's not surprising that neither bombs exploded. The propellers on the front of the bombs were a safety feature that armed the firing mechanism. Dropping the bomb pulled the pin from the propeller and it had to spin a certain number of times before the bomb was armed. The quickly trained pilots may not have factored this in during the excitement of being shot at and dropped the bombs too low to allow them to function.
Same mistake the Argentine Air Force did when attacking British ships in the Falklands. They hit a couple of ships but the bombs didn't go off because they dropped them from too low of an altitude. Had to stay low to get under radar then also make it harder for British AA guns to hit them. Proving once again that you need to be a wildman to dive bomb a Naval ship with a plane. One of the main reasons for having a fuse on a gravity bomb is so you don't get blown out of the sky with your own bombs.
That makes sense. If you've ever been in the vicinity of a 500 lb. bomb detonation you'd know you don't want to be in the area when that occurs. It will rattle your teeth loose. It's for sure that being in the air doesn't immunize you from the concussion of the bomb. The best example that I can think of is the video showing bombs being dropped in the jungles of S. E. Asia by USAF B-52s. Everywhere a bomb hits you can see it displacing the air and atomizing the moisture in the jungle foliage followed by the thump, thump, thump of the bomb's explosion.
Here's a story you'll absolutely love (and I will shamelessly leverage Indy's love of baseball by including Larry MacPhail's involvement) January 1, 1919. Col Luke Lea and several of his men, including one Capt. Larry MacPhail, set out from their headquarters in Luxembourg in "borrowed" staff cars. Their mission: kidnap the Kaiser, and bring him to President Wilson so he can stand trial. Of course this was not an official mission, with the source of their orders likely being an empty bottle of whisky. Using Lea's contacts as a former U.S. Senator, they cross the border into Holland, making their way to the castle of Amerongen where Kaiser Bill was doing the European royalty equivalent of crashing on his cousin's couch. They cut the phone lines to the castle and formulated a plan: grab some tire irons and beat their way past the guards all the way to the last monarch of Germany. This was relegated to plan B, as they might as well try and talk their way in first. Posing as reporters here to interview Wilhelm, they were surprisingly allowed entry to the castle, and taken to a library to wait. Wilhelm never came out to meet them, and when the Kaiser's valet tried to call to confirm their journalistic credentials, the plan started to unravel. The local authorities were going to just let them go but, in true American fashion: our brave heroes made a run for the cars. They made their escape into the dead of night, trading gunfire with the guards as they sped back to Belgium. Now, this failed plot would have more or less been forgotten by history if not for one thing. Kaiser Wilhelm made a formal complaint that these Americans who showed up in the middle of the night "made him nervous." Also, his personal ashtray that had his initials monogrammed on it was missing, and he would really like it back. An inquiry was formed, and turned up nothing. As for the ashtray, it sat on MacPhail's desk all through his baseball career.
The Kaiser wasn't near the war criminal that Wilson was. What the US tried to do was and still is illegal under international law. No wonder America gets no respect.
Hi Indy and crew, this is a question for Out Of The Trenches. Can you explain the situation of Gibraltar during WW1? Did some important event happen? Thanks and keep going!
I imagine there was much cursing from the first pilot after the second bombing-run failed and he clambered down to release the bomb manually. And more cursing than that when it failed to explode.
Hollywood never makes a movie about a historical event that is both genuinely interesting and generally unknown by the public. They either make it about a fictional event, or a real event, and whether they get the real event accurately is really anyone's guess.
Was it not that people came out to see the first battle of bull run in the American civil war and now here they do the same, I see a pattern ....Americans see battles like a nice day out with the family.....
"Disposable heroes" was always one of my favourite songs. After watching and rewatching all episodes, i`m shure, this song is the best piece of art so far.
This is actually pretty dadgum funny ! I can just picture the chaos ! It reminds me of the 1966 movie “ The Russians are coming ! “ 🤣 The German captain should be given an award for best contribution to comedy in WW1 ! 👏🏻
When I was in Medical School, I was told the story of 'Camp Bullis Fever' from WWI. Camp Bullis was an US Army installation, West of San Antonio TX, which was hastily enlarged, in about 1916, to meet the immense burden of training new recruits. Usual sanitation protocols (garbage control, sewage control) took a back seat to training. And then a great epidemic began. The overwhelmed Medical Corp was unfamiliar with the disease and began to refer to it as 'Camp Bullis Fever'. The Press heard of the problem and gave it great coverage. Then the Army had a problem. Troops with orders to Camp Bullis began to go AWOL, rather than face almost certain death at Camp Bullis. The Army had a brilliant idea, call the disease 'Scrub Typhus'. Then they could truthfully report to the Press that "There were no more cases of Camp Bullis Fever this month". The Press lost interest and recruits began to show up as ordered. They also instituted stringent sanitary protocols and rat control measures which stopped the Scrub Typhus. Camp Bullis Fever remains to this day the only disease totally eradicated by Military Fiat.
In October of 1916 U-53 visited Newport RI for a few hours. Afterward she went to the South of Nantucket and was in sight of the Nantucket Lightship where she stopped ships and sank 5 (3 Brits, 1 Dutch, and 1 Norwegean) while surounded by up to 16 US Destroyers.
Thank you, Indy & crew, for another great episode. My uncle was a US Marine and aircrew on anti-submarine seaplanes based in Florida during WW1. At 2:50 you mentioned that this was the only naval air action in the American theater. Did the Florida bases not make contact with any German submarines during the war? It seems like there would have been plenty of Allied shipping in that area for the U-boats to attack. Sadly, we never talked with my uncle about this when we had the chance. Thanks again for the great show.
Larry G, The subs in WWI only made it as far south as North Carolina so Florida was untouched in that war. Florida saw plenty of action in WWII though.
I don't recall a movie docu.menting this action in WWI but I did see a documentary on a sub action which shelled Hollywood in WWII. It was called '1941'.
During WW1 a German submarine shelled Nut Island, Quincy, MA It was night time and the buildings were well lit. After several hit's and none exploded The Submarine left. Nut Island was/is a sewer treatment plant and the shells all landed in the open storage tanks. The shell's are on display today. It is guessed they were looking for the Squantum Naval Air Station on the otherside of the Bay. During WW2 my father served on a Coastal Artillery Battery in Plymouth, MA. He said you could see the ships burning but their cannon couldn't reach the submarines "even if you saw them" And even then the locals lined the shore to watch the action.
Have been fascinated by this story since I heard about it a few yrs ago. Was at the Orleans library yesterday trying to find newspaper articles from that day. No such luck. Local legend has it that some old codger from Orleans took pot shots at the U boat with a shotgun. And the Perth Amboy tugboat was eventually sold to Britian...........where it shuttled soldiers from Dunkirk.
Nice work again,guys. Sad to think that in a few months,the war will end and so will this channel. I was wondering if you guys could cover the last two Battlefield 1 Expansion Packs;Turning Tides and Apocalypse, with historical analysis.
It says a lot for your work ethic that, while "Out of the Ether" is the format that requires the least amount of work, you guys don't lean on it too heavily. (That said, this episode was fantastic regardless of the work involved.)
This reminds me of a story my grandfather told me recently from the Second World War. He and his brother in 1943 or 44 went to Popham Beach in Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River. Bath Iron Works up the river is a major Destroyer builder and during the war they popped out a new ship every 19 days. They witnessed a group of destroyers get into a battle a few miles off shore with a U-Boat Wolfpack who were trying to access the river to attack the shipyard. My grandfather mentioned his brother said it was cool to watch ships practicing. He was only 3 or 4 at the time and didn't understand this was a time of war.
In WW2 a German sub got grounded on the East coast. It was spotted by an aircrew of the Civil Air Patrol who radioed the situation to the Navy. But this early in WW2 the US was desparately short of aircraft and it took 2 hours to get a Navy plane to the scene. By that time the U-boat got unstuck and left. After this the Civil Air Patrol was authorized to carry a bomb under their light aircraft and a number were modified with a bomb rack.
tiggergolah well most shells and bombs were at that time.. look at jutland, the germans took less than half of the casulties of the british despite receiving more hits due to bad quality shells of the british warships
The bombs were designed to be dropped from 1000 feet altitude. This is a safety feature to prevent accidents on the ground when loading munitions into a plane. Dropping bombs from too low an altitude and not having them explode on target was still happening in the 1980s! For further information see the Falkland war :-)
Question for OOTT: Hi Indy, I have some alternate history speculation for you: If Italy had remained with the Central Powers and followed them into the war, how do you think this would have affected the Western Front and the Austro-Russian front? I imagine Italy could have joined either through promises of seccession of Austrian Italian territory or CP support in annexation of French Savoy, Corsica and parts of North Africa. Could the Italians have hit the French hard enough in the south to let Germany break through to Paris?
Thursday’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s are my favorite days of the week now! Every thursday i post a screenshot of the weeks main episode on my Snapchat story 😁
The mine that was laid by U-156 struck the USS San Diego on July 19th 1918. Six sailors were killed during the sinking. The ship lies upside down approximately 13 miles s/o Fire Island, NY about 110 ft. under water (though taller portions of the ship are only 66 ft. under water). It's a popular dive site. Unfortunately, more divers have been killed diving the wreck than the number of sailors killed back in 1918 when the San Diego was sunk.
Indy, many-many years ago, I read a book by Lowell Thomas which chronicled the German Uboats in WW1. One chapter was devoted to a boat which cruised up the Hudson river one night in the latter part of the war. If memory serves me right, it actually surfaced for a while and some of the crew admired the NYC lights. The book is long out of print and am wondering if anyone is familiar with it.
Cleon DuBois The book is raiders of the deep, the chapter you are referring to had a story about the U-151 cutting an underwater communications cable outside of New York harbor. In the description the former U-151 crewman talks about seeing the the lights of Manhattan glowing in the distance. They never made it as far as the Hudson River though.
Hi Indi & team. Is it possible to order a print of the German lancer in the opening credits? The look on that horse's face - whatever's about to happen, he's a lad & he's up for it.
At 4:31 I expected him to say "..and Howard jumped out of the plane onto the bomb and sat on it as it fell, waving his hat while screaming 'Yeehaw!'"
Dr Strangelove?
Terry L Terry L Dr. Strangelove indeed, or particularly Major Kong.
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Exactly ; ) Maybe Indie can cut that scene into his video and change the text? I wonder if anyone notices..
"Hello Boys! I'm BAAACK!"
- Independence Day
Where's major kong?
I live on Cape Cod! The submarine attack is still part of local folklore here.
GalacticPenguinTV That's awesome bro! But is the folklore focused on historical accuracy or possibly exaggerated?
Wonder if any of those dud Mark IVs ever got recovered?
Incredible they still cause headaches in the 2000's!
I'm a cape codder as well, Orleans to be specific. You ever been to the Land Ho! ?
"The Germans are coming... the Germans are coming!"
Prequel to "The Russians are Coming... the Russians are coming!"
Sequel to "The British are coming...the British are coming!"
History Legends “The Normies are coming! The Normies are coming!”
Except "The British are coming...the British are coming!" is what you hear every season from the locals of Benidorm.
I am per definition an Israeli jew as I have an Israeli/polish mother. Common people can be led into atrocities so easily. My dad is Swedish-German-French British. I have met my great grandparents who fought for Germany and the Jewish victims on my maternal side. The current conflict in Israel is a testimony to how easily people are tricked into creating starvation, genocide and new Hamas terrorists by a few maniacs in power of a nation.
I could just imagine the German crews faces when they seen the civilians on the beach just going
"DAFUQ they doin?"
James Evans "We better give them a show"
There are reports of civilians making picnics to personally see the first battles of the American Civil War.
These picnics was very dangerously close to the battlefield.
Perhaps an unusual american tradition?😁
@@jorgesantos85 Yeah. Uh, _football_ is an example. I mean American football, not International football or soccer as it is called here.
“What did you do in the war, Grandpa?”
“Nothing much. Jumped out of a plane and dropped a bomb on-DONT PLAY WITH MATCHES!!”
I think TGW should make the movie on this incident. Indy can be the gallant American aviator in his Curtis biplane and Flo can be the reckless U-boat commander.
i’d watch that!
What a scary thing to do be a sub mariner in WW1
Uh yeah the british pilots suck too.
I would have rather served on a submarine in this war than in the infantry
The next war it would be the other way if i was german
3 out of 4 german U-boat sailors died in ww2
My great uncle served on a submarine in WWI. He died in 1924 from lung problems, probably attributed to submarine service. I contacted the US Navy for more information on him, like the name of his sub, what action they saw, did they sink any ships, etc. The Navy said they could not do anything without a service number, which of course is impossible to get. I suppose there must be a lot of sailors named Stanley Miller from Pulaski, Wi in the submarine service.
Cruiser submarines are extremely interesting and often overlooked. Only Germany had Cruiser subs in WWI. Before and during WWII they became far more advanced. France's Surcouf, for example, had massive twin 203mm cannons in a turret, an array of AA guns, 12 torpedo tubes, carried two motorboats, and was utterly massive albeit pretty pointless. Later the Japanese also had huge cruiser subs, like the I-400, which could carry three fighter planes as well as still had guns and 8 torpedo tubes.
And was sunk in collision with a Merchant ship.
As much as I don’t like pointless conflict, I would have love to see a cruiser sub battle
I love Subs and think they are so interesting.
I-400 class carried attack (bomber) and reconnaissance aircraft, not fighters.
the us had 3 cruiser types as well, Nautilus, Narwhal, and Argonaut.
Hi Indy and crew. Growing up on Cape Cod, in the town of Harwich, we were told this story as kids. According to our history teacher when the first bomb dropped on the uboat didn't explode the frustrated mechanic on board threw a large wrench at the Germans on deck.
Unofficially the bombs were not properly fused because there were no armorers at the station. Most trained specialists had been transferred to fleet duty by then.
LouisvilleUAV
Maybe they were dropped from too low an altitude to arm.
They likely had impact fuses for use against the steel deck of a ship. Hitting the water didn't produce enough impact force to trigger the fuse.
Paulie Hodos, FTW!👍👍
It's not surprising that neither bombs exploded. The propellers on the front of the bombs were a safety feature that armed the firing mechanism. Dropping the bomb pulled the pin from the propeller and it had to spin a certain number of times before the bomb was armed. The quickly trained pilots may not have factored this in during the excitement of being shot at and dropped the bombs too low to allow them to function.
Same mistake the Argentine Air Force did when attacking British ships in the Falklands. They hit a couple of ships but the bombs didn't go off because they dropped them from too low of an altitude. Had to stay low to get under radar then also make it harder for British AA guns to hit them. Proving once again that you need to be a wildman to dive bomb a Naval ship with a plane.
One of the main reasons for having a fuse on a gravity bomb is so you don't get blown out of the sky with your own bombs.
That makes sense. If you've ever been in the vicinity of a 500 lb. bomb detonation you'd know you don't want to be in the area when that occurs. It will rattle your teeth loose. It's for sure that being in the air doesn't immunize you from the concussion of the bomb. The best example that I can think of is the video showing bombs being dropped in the jungles of S. E. Asia by USAF B-52s. Everywhere a bomb hits you can see it displacing the air and atomizing the moisture in the jungle foliage followed by the thump, thump, thump of the bomb's explosion.
I hope they make a movie about it.
This is thrilling. I was at the edge of my seat the whole video...
That was really interesting!
Best episode ever just goes to show the old energy that no matter what the plan is it goes right at the window in the first shot is fired
Here's a story you'll absolutely love (and I will shamelessly leverage Indy's love of baseball by including Larry MacPhail's involvement)
January 1, 1919. Col Luke Lea and several of his men, including one Capt. Larry MacPhail, set out from their headquarters in Luxembourg in "borrowed" staff cars. Their mission: kidnap the Kaiser, and bring him to President Wilson so he can stand trial. Of course this was not an official mission, with the source of their orders likely being an empty bottle of whisky. Using Lea's contacts as a former U.S. Senator, they cross the border into Holland, making their way to the castle of Amerongen where Kaiser Bill was doing the European royalty equivalent of crashing on his cousin's couch. They cut the phone lines to the castle and formulated a plan: grab some tire irons and beat their way past the guards all the way to the last monarch of Germany. This was relegated to plan B, as they might as well try and talk their way in first. Posing as reporters here to interview Wilhelm, they were surprisingly allowed entry to the castle, and taken to a library to wait. Wilhelm never came out to meet them, and when the Kaiser's valet tried to call to confirm their journalistic credentials, the plan started to unravel. The local authorities were going to just let them go but, in true American fashion: our brave heroes made a run for the cars. They made their escape into the dead of night, trading gunfire with the guards as they sped back to Belgium.
Now, this failed plot would have more or less been forgotten by history if not for one thing. Kaiser Wilhelm made a formal complaint that these Americans who showed up in the middle of the night "made him nervous." Also, his personal ashtray that had his initials monogrammed on it was missing, and he would really like it back. An inquiry was formed, and turned up nothing. As for the ashtray, it sat on MacPhail's desk all through his baseball career.
It has the makings of a very funny movie.
The Kaiser wasn't near the war criminal that Wilson was. What the US tried to do was and still is illegal under international law. No wonder America gets no respect.
My wife and I honeymooned near Orleans at Barnstable. I heard about this from some of the locals as my wife and I explored this historical area.
Amazing story!
to this day we still learn about it here in school.Big thing on cape!
Hi Indy and crew, this is a question for Out Of The Trenches. Can you explain the situation of Gibraltar during WW1? Did some important event happen? Thanks and keep going!
This story is just awesome.
I imagine there was much cursing from the first pilot after the second bombing-run failed and he clambered down to release the bomb manually. And more cursing than that when it failed to explode.
I like watching Indy having so much fun
Oh yeah Great War time
Hollywood never makes a movie about a historical event that is both genuinely interesting and generally unknown by the public. They either make it about a fictional event, or a real event, and whether they get the real event accurately is really anyone's guess.
This is some crazy stuff!
Love the videos Indy keep it up 😃
Was it not that people came out to see the first battle of bull run in the American civil war and now here they do the same, I see a pattern ....Americans see battles like a nice day out with the family.....
Well I think even today if something like this happened people would be watching. Heck it would be lived streamed.
sander de witt
As Patton would say,
"Americans love a fight".
War tourism was mostly a pastime of the rich , especially if boats and yachts are required.
It was big at the Crimean War for a period of time.
Well, people like some extraordinary action. People went to gladiatorial games for a reason.
jake jones I can only imagine the event. Loser's side pays for the food
big thank you to you all for such a great job you do
if you put this to a film studio they would say go away it just too outlandish or too strange to be true
Like that one time a russian submarine captain with a scottish accent sailed a nuclear sub into a us harbor?
Yaldabaoth Name?
The Hunt for Red October.
Your enthusiasm is so contagious. Such an awesome channel.
"Disposable heroes" was always one of my favourite songs. After watching and rewatching all episodes, i`m shure, this song is the best piece of art so far.
This is a great story. This needs a movie!!
Last time I was this early the royal family was still called saxe coburg und gotha!
pretty stupid they didnt revert back to that name by now
I’m so late that the Cold War has already needed.
Don't germans had a Gotha bomber in WWI. It would sound weird to bear the same name.
patrick Katalenas Reverted already? I don't think they had the chance. Such thing shouldn't happen during the replacement of the monarch?
cool as ever, thanks
(after seeing notification) I'm diving in into this episode !
That was an amusing story
Is it called a Mark IV because you need to drop 4 of them before they explode?
Yeah, wall of the Mark IV's have magnets in them that only start the detonation process when near the 3 other identical bombs.
Last time I was this early, austrohungary was still toghether
LyfHax420 They haven't collapsed yet! (not until October/November anyway)
A most interesting story indeed.
Thank you Paul Hodos, that was a great story!
Such a great video. Definitely one of the best of the Great War
I'm subscribing with all of my accounts to be able to get this channel to 1million before the series is over.Lets do this!
I love learning about the Great War.
I vacation to the Cape every summer, I never knew this happened, very cool Indy
This is actually pretty dadgum funny ! I can just picture the chaos ! It reminds me of the 1966 movie “ The Russians are coming ! “ 🤣 The German captain should be given an award for best contribution to comedy in WW1 ! 👏🏻
Did the sub possibly have something to do with the missing patrol-blimp?
awesome tale it should be a movie
This is a brilliant series
The Best channel
When I was in Medical School, I was told the story of 'Camp Bullis Fever' from WWI. Camp Bullis was an US Army installation, West of San Antonio TX, which was hastily enlarged, in about 1916, to meet the immense burden of training new recruits. Usual sanitation protocols (garbage control, sewage control) took a back seat to training. And then a great epidemic began. The overwhelmed Medical Corp was unfamiliar with the disease and began to refer to it as 'Camp Bullis Fever'.
The Press heard of the problem and gave it great coverage. Then the Army had a problem. Troops with orders to Camp Bullis began to go AWOL, rather than face almost certain death at Camp Bullis. The Army had a brilliant idea, call the disease 'Scrub Typhus'. Then they could truthfully report to the Press that "There were no more cases of Camp Bullis Fever this month". The Press lost interest and recruits began to show up as ordered. They also instituted stringent sanitary protocols and rat control measures which stopped the Scrub Typhus.
Camp Bullis Fever remains to this day the only disease totally eradicated by Military Fiat.
Absolutely amazing
So weird hearing names of places that I live in/near. Hard to imagine any of this happening down the street from where I live.
Great 👍
That would make a great movie.
Great video. I was lucky enough to do a couple of dives on the USS San Diego back in the early 1990's. Some of the coolest dives I've ever done.
Love this channel!!
WOW! Thanks!
In October of 1916 U-53 visited Newport RI for a few hours. Afterward she went to the South of Nantucket and was in sight of the Nantucket Lightship where she stopped ships and sank 5 (3 Brits, 1 Dutch, and 1 Norwegean) while surounded by up to 16 US Destroyers.
That was awesome!!!!
Thank you, Indy & crew, for another great episode. My uncle was a US Marine and aircrew on anti-submarine seaplanes based in Florida during WW1. At 2:50 you mentioned that this was the only naval air action in the American theater. Did the Florida bases not make contact with any German submarines during the war? It seems like there would have been plenty of Allied shipping in that area for the U-boats to attack. Sadly, we never talked with my uncle about this when we had the chance. Thanks again for the great show.
Larry G, The subs in WWI only made it as far south as North Carolina so Florida was untouched in that war. Florida saw plenty of action in WWII though.
I Hope this Channel will reach 1 Million subs soon. And Hi Florian/Flo
I would like for this channel to have 1 million spoons.
panzerabwerkanone autocurrect thx didn't saw that one
Lol, 1 sub was enough for this video, I don't know what they'd do with a million...
I knew you would say "the bomb failed to explode"!
In Orleans Massachusetts their was an Airfield that was used durring
By the by, what happened to the missing blimp??
Legendz says this german submarine is still bombing americans shores and american air command is still trying to bomb it.
I live on Cape Cod in Yarmouth! Hello from Cape Cod!
AMazing story!!! I have to ask, again, about an episode about life on a U-boat during the WW I... Keep up the great job, guys!
From cape cod and never even heard of thag story before lol
oh really? what part of the Cape?
I don't recall a movie docu.menting this action in WWI but I did see a documentary on a sub action which shelled Hollywood in WWII. It was called '1941'.
If you're talking about the Lucas film, it was hardly a documentary. More of a 'based on true events' comedy.
;p
During WW1 a German submarine shelled Nut Island, Quincy, MA It was night time and the buildings were well lit. After several hit's and none exploded The Submarine left. Nut Island was/is a sewer treatment plant and the shells all landed in the open storage tanks. The shell's are on display today. It is guessed they were looking for the Squantum Naval Air Station on the otherside of the Bay. During WW2 my father served on a Coastal Artillery Battery in Plymouth, MA. He said you could see the ships burning but their cannon couldn't reach the submarines "even if you saw them" And even then the locals lined the shore to watch the action.
Have been fascinated by this story since I heard about it a few yrs ago. Was at the Orleans library yesterday trying to find newspaper articles from that day. No such luck. Local legend has it that some old codger from Orleans took pot shots at the U boat with a shotgun. And the Perth Amboy tugboat was eventually sold to Britian...........where it shuttled soldiers from Dunkirk.
Nice work again,guys.
Sad to think that in a few months,the war will end and so will this channel.
I was wondering if you guys could cover the last two Battlefield 1 Expansion Packs;Turning Tides and Apocalypse, with historical analysis.
This was hands-down my favorite episode I live right by Orleans and I had no idea
When you shell the beach and more people come to see the shelling
CLASSIC !!!!!!
This was fantastic. What an amazing story. xD
Loved the episode! Almost had me lmao!
It says a lot for your work ethic that, while "Out of the Ether" is the format that requires the least amount of work, you guys don't lean on it too heavily. (That said, this episode was fantastic regardless of the work involved.)
This reminds me of a story my grandfather told me recently from the Second World War. He and his brother in 1943 or 44 went to Popham Beach in Maine near the mouth of the Kennebec River. Bath Iron Works up the river is a major Destroyer builder and during the war they popped out a new ship every 19 days. They witnessed a group of destroyers get into a battle a few miles off shore with a U-Boat Wolfpack who were trying to access the river to attack the shipyard. My grandfather mentioned his brother said it was cool to watch ships practicing. He was only 3 or 4 at the time and didn't understand this was a time of war.
i suggested this too thank you =P
This is Such an interesting story I've never heard of this
I wish they made a movie about This story because it would be awesome
In WW2 a German sub got grounded on the East coast. It was spotted by an aircrew of the Civil Air Patrol who radioed the situation to the Navy. But this early in WW2 the US was desparately short of aircraft and it took 2 hours to get a Navy plane to the scene. By that time the U-boat got unstuck and left. After this the Civil Air Patrol was authorized to carry a bomb under their light aircraft and a number were modified with a bomb rack.
amazing story
You cannot make stuff like this up. This was hilarious. Were American Naval Air munitions that pathetic at that time?
tiggergolah well most shells and bombs were at that time.. look at jutland, the germans took less than half of the casulties of the british despite receiving more hits due to bad quality shells of the british warships
The bombs were designed to be dropped from 1000 feet altitude. This is a safety feature to prevent accidents on the ground when loading munitions into a plane. Dropping bombs from too low an altitude and not having them explode on target was still happening in the 1980s! For further information see the Falkland war :-)
So based on the account of the action, there are still two unexploded Mark IV WWI bombs laying on the sea bed somewhere off of Cap Code
Question for OOTT:
Hi Indy, I have some alternate history speculation for you: If Italy had remained with the Central Powers and followed them into the war, how do you think this would have affected the Western Front and the Austro-Russian front? I imagine Italy could have joined either through promises of seccession of Austrian Italian territory or CP support in annexation of French Savoy, Corsica and parts of North Africa. Could the Italians have hit the French hard enough in the south to let Germany break through to Paris?
he already said he doesn't like to speculate or AH on these videos
Thursday’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s are my favorite days of the week now! Every thursday i post a screenshot of the weeks main episode on my Snapchat story 😁
Are you guys going to do the same in 21 years with world war 2? That would be awesome. Huge thanks from Germany for the great show.
Man that must have been a real trip for the people on the beach. What a story though!
The mine that was laid by U-156 struck the USS San Diego on July 19th 1918. Six sailors were killed during the sinking. The ship lies upside down approximately 13 miles s/o Fire Island, NY about 110 ft. under water (though taller portions of the ship are only 66 ft. under water). It's a popular dive site. Unfortunately, more divers have been killed diving the wreck than the number of sailors killed back in 1918 when the San Diego was sunk.
Indy, many-many years ago, I read a book by Lowell Thomas which chronicled the German Uboats in WW1. One chapter was devoted to a boat which cruised up the Hudson river one night in the latter part of the war. If memory serves me right, it actually surfaced for a while and some of the crew admired the NYC lights. The book is long out of print and am wondering if anyone is familiar with it.
Cleon DuBois The book is raiders of the deep, the chapter you are referring to had a story about the U-151 cutting an underwater communications cable outside of New York harbor. In the description the former U-151 crewman talks about seeing the the lights of Manhattan glowing in the distance. They never made it as far as the Hudson River though.
Thanks for the info. Paul. Will do some more searching on line. It was enjoyable and worth another read these many years later.
man i loved this story
Hi Indi & team. Is it possible to order a print of the German lancer in the opening credits?
The look on that horse's face - whatever's about to happen, he's a lad & he's up for it.
the beginning sounded like Red Dawn or World In Conflict but in WW1 lol
If there isn't a movie there should be.
I wonder if that barge loaded with granite sank like a rock? 😁
You guys should do one on the German saboteur at mare island navel shipyard
belly-button shipyard? ;)