Sea Wreckage Of World War II
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- While going through some photos of underwater pics of WWII wrecks, Stretch from Australia was inspired to put the pictures in a video to the tune of the music he was listening to. The images are fantastic! These are just some of the items still on the ocean floors around the world. Imagine how many craft are there, from old time sailing ships to airplanes and even a space capsule.
Really like the music.
Everyone seems to hate the song but this is among my favorite songs, and I think it works just fine with the video.
Not quite as ghostly as it could be but plenty appropriate. Thanks for both the music and the video!
Excellent slide show, and and music fitted in brilliantly with it. Always been facinated with this sort of stuff. 5 stars :)
There sure was some fantastic photos in this up-beat slideshow.Looks like some work went into it,very nice job!!Thanx for posting!!
It's beautiful, this video. It really hits you were it counts.
Collection of pictures are absolutely amazing. Excellent video and as for the Dakota at 1:50, it looks as if it just came to rest last week.
Freakin Awesome I really got off on the tunes so much so I am going to watch it a third time.Excellent collection of photos.. Cheers
Great salute and respect of those pilots and navy officers from West Bengal India
So cool staff..never tired of this
I recognize a lot of these relics from Truk lagoon. I usually don't care for slide shows on youtube but this was well-made. Thanks.
very well done... such finds in the vast expanse of the oceans are really valuable indeed as 2/3 of our planet is water... amazing. thanks for posting.
He is a hero in my books.
what i was trying to say is that the airplane looks like it just went under .. The paint jobb gives the feeling that it just crashed .. its pretty amazing that the paint is still visible ..
it had to be awesome to dive there! good video, hope to visit those wrecks one day....
its cool that you can still see the paint on most of these planes especially the p-40 (:
The P 40 with the Shark snout paint scheme was very cool!
RIP to those who made The Ultimate Sacrifice for Freedom.
great pics
I hope you got more like this.
Some amazing pictures and the time of the photos, lot of those wrecks are in very good condition. Whenever I see those, especially planes, I often wonder if the pilot/crew survived or not.
The P-40 at 4:08 is amazing!
great pics - best viewed with the sound down though I'm afraid! Any chance of giving each one a little more time? They're great pics and deserve more than a couple of seconds each
fantastic footage. very impressive.
if you see a wreck with the cockpit close ... take 30 sec and have a thought for the pilot who didnt had the time to open it, its is tomb.
That is not always the case. Many aircraft were dumped over the side of aircraft carriers either because they were damaged beyond repair or because they were unwanted. I know the RN dumped scores of new and newish corsairs, Avengers and hellcats because it was the cheapest thing to do rather than return them to the US. The USN did the same for slightly different reasons. Generally speaking if a pilot ditched they usually opened the cockpit before the ditching.
I could not think of anything with that music
@@blowingfree6928 That's a fact. My father flew to Trincomalee from Katakurunda and boarded a carrier. They sailed a couple of hours out to sea and began dumping new aircraft in crates because it wasn't worth the time to rig them up. Engines, guns, ammunition, radio sets, stripped airframes, propellers. If it was from the US, over the side it went. If it wasn't on the books, it didn't have to be paid for. Corsairs, Wildcats, Avengers, Hellcats, scrap/badly damaged British aircraft. He said at the time, they were common as sand on a beach, it was only the passing of time that made them valuable.
What did he get? A day's pay and an extra tot of rum.
@@BigLisaFan it sounds so sad and such a waste now, though at the time it made sense. All of those beautiful aircraft! Worth a fortune now. Sell a Seafire or Avenger now and you could retire for several lifetimes!!
Similar has been done several times since the war with the withdrawal from East of Suez, though not on such a scale.
I expect your dad appreciated the extra tot of rum! Often wondered what proper Navy Rum, the Prusser Rum, was like as I enjoy a rum myself. It is NY eve, cannot go out as COVID Tier 4 in place, so wish I had a tot now.......
Happy New Year to you and good luck.
Could you imagine how cool it would be to drain the ocean and just see the landscape?
Great photos...the only thing lacking is captions telling us exactly what the pics are of.
history, HISTORY EVERYWHERE!
FANTASTIC
@PokeworksStudios
great music!!! cool pictures ;-)
nice Pictures!
Love from West Bengal India. Amazing how they did sacrifice their lives without fear of death.Hope they rest in peace salute to those pilots who were lost but their toys remains.😢😢😢😢
Excellent vid!Thank you.
They still find WWII planes from time to time in remote regions in the pacific. Planes that were either shot down, ran out of fuel and crashed or got lost. If they crashed on mountain tops on islands they could go undetected for years.
Far to cool! Awesome vid!
Amazing Picture At 1:52! I Like The Other Pics Too
AWESOME!!!! A good many of those aircraft look quite salvageable. I've seen vids salvage operations of aircraft that were in considerably worse condition.
great video thanks for sharing
Would be neat too be a WWII pilot veteran, and hear they found the plane you got shot down in under water, and showed you it. It would probably bring back a wave of memories.
Has happened. Read The Kamikaze Hunters - Fighting for the Pacific in 1945. It covers the story of a few airmen from the RAF that fought in the pacific late in ww2 and helped protect the US fleets from kamikaze attacks while they were off Okinawa. One of them that survived was shot down in his last flight before the end of war, did a low pass over a small harbour while attacking shipping and an AA gun hidden amoung the fishing boats hit his F4U and stopped his engine dead, and forced him to ditch in the harbour. He paddled out to sea and was rescued by a US sub on aircrew pickup duty. The war ended before he got back to his carrier. Someone went back with him to Japan, only a few years back, hired a local fishing boat and with his help pinpointed the wreck of his plane sitting on the seabed of the habour clearly visible on sonar.
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With how fast technology has advanced, it's just so hard for me to imagine what it was like for them in WWII. The fighting was a unique series of technology, a middle ground between old and new technology, that attributed to horrific situations daily that war will probably never see again.
Like the Strategic Bombers and their crew. Flying at extremely high altitudes in an over sized tuna can with wings being shot at for hours in an open plane, the only thing between you and those 12 guns on the enemy fighter is open air and luck.
I can't imagine.
nicely done!!!
That was very cool
The biggest problem with most of these wrecks is that they've been sitting in salt water for 70 years. All of the metal is so corroded that the planes would simply fall apart when moved. Even if they could be pulled up intact the corrosion would make restoration impossible.
@MrMichaelDogson For the same reason no one ever raised the Titanic; they serve as memorials to those who died in them and at sea. We lost the bodies, so in a way, these are like undersea tombstones.
This is amazing, never seen.
One little mistake in the list of artists: the music is performed by Enigma, not Enya.
So I give you the best score ever: 99%.
Isn't it neat the level of preservation verses how they would have rotted away on land.
It'd be neat if hidden bunkers with tanks or planes were found perfectly preserved!
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I agree with you there, although the picture does look as if it was taken a few months after the crash.
I sure wouldn't fool around with those mines!
Astonishing.
I see what you mean: a lot of the pictures have the blueish or greenish throughout, but these have a greyish tinge to them. I can only say that the pics were from various sources and the lighting may have been different when the pics were taken, or the coloring may have come from a clean-up process. Lighting can change drastically due to location, weather, and depth. While he lives in Oz, these were pics Stretch picked up from other groups and took them at face value. I do likewise
fantastic images : )
The reason these items have not been salvaged at this time is out of remembrance of those who lost their lives in the various wrecks. Many salvageable ships that have gone down are untouched for that reason. They are now barnacled museums for those that can scuba dive, glass bottomed boats, or others who have access to submersible vessels.
Seeing those mines and the one torpedo, i think those divers are nuts for swimming so close to them, considering the fact that they are likely unstable after all these years. Not worth the risk to find out, either.
+David B. Fishburn Yes, and many had magnetic triggers. Nuts.
Having not exploded in the previous 75/80 years whilst sitting at the bottom of the sea why would you think them remotely likely to explode just when they happen to be visited by a diver?
@@keithwelton Because the chemical makeup of the the explosive ordnance can become unstable and go off at any time. Better to exercise caution than to become a victim. Also, if you don't believe that, take a look at Europe, they're still finding unexploded ordnance from WW2 to this day and setting them off. Germany has a special unit whose only job is to deal with the unexploded ordnance.
I don't understand if you're trying to say "Look, that plane at 4:11 looks in pretty good shape because it has clear, visible paint work on it, there's a chance that it could be remade" or "The painting suggests that the plane is literally alive because it has a mouth and eyes..." :/
@wjp255 My guess is that he is referring to the Liberty Bell 7, which was lost in 1961 in the North Atlantic about 90 miles northeast of Grand Bahama in about 15,000 feet of water. The capsule was recovered in January, 1999.
YouSlideShow is my FAVORITE website.
Brilliant compilation of images and thanks for posting. In context of the crashes and probable loss of brave crewmen involved, however, I don't buy the soundtrack at all.
exactly they sacrifice their lives
cool pictures...thanks for this movie :-)
Condolences Jim.
actually its wrong to disturb the places, we find it normal that we like to visit the places where things of history are and we find it very interesting but infact its a resting place for brave men that fought for their lives in war, and they lived day in day out in fear i think we should let the places be and let the brave heroes we lost rest R.I.P guys i hope u have a much better life now because i dont think it was very easy to stay alive back then and i appreciate what they done for us
Only other thing I can add on that is that the pictures were not all taken on the same day, probably not even in the same year, and possibly not even in the same decade.
Still, I was impressed enough with the video that I posted it for my friend. He did a good job combining the graphics, transitions, and music into a soulful video.
:4:08 simply amazing
The photos are awesome and I love the rhythmic morris code in the music. I do think however that the music in general was a bit to techno for the subject matter.
Fantastic photos. That DC-3 at1:50 is very well preserved. is that a WW2 wreck ? Where is it?
At 3:20 Minutes, that is the wreck of the Martin Flying Boat JRM Marshall Mars that burned 5th April 1950, off Diamond Head, Oahu, Hawaii...
yep your right nice research
@KOLTON545 As much as I agree with you, unfortunely in some cases like with the Japanese, they usually won't give us premission to raise a plane because regardless if there is evidence the pilot was killed, it is still considered as a war grave.
very nice video :D ....
amazing
seeing some of the pics of the "complete" looking planes, it makes me wonder how they went down?
At frame 1:23 is a Chance Vought F4U Corsair. There are other images of F6F Grumman Hellcats also. And one or two Nip Mitsubishi Zeros amoung others.
The B17 at 2:13 and the P40 at 4:10. They just don't have the same feel as the rest of the wrecks. Great video though.
Music by Enya?? That is Enigma. Great slide show though. Thanks for sharing.
Same with my uncle T-Sgt Joseph DiVita Feb 28th 1944 six miles off coast B24-J 90 Liberator
there was some f-4u corsair in there for
sure. i think the flying boat is a serious
corsair chunk -upside down w/gear deployed.
@1:22 i think is a brewster product...i forgot
all about that plane...island defense @ midway
etc...
very cooooooooool
Awesome video. Out of curiosity, where was the space object?
Nice match of music with the slides. What is the music? I liked the Morse Code tidbits in it too.
Would be good if some of the air wrecks could be extracted and preserved as is. BTW, i never read anything about planes being pushed over side with dead crew in them. I think that's just imagination. Think if you were on a carrier and your friend was dead in plane. You wouldn't do that. Also, that would mean the pilot was killed in the landing, right? Which was less common combat death.
Producer Stretch did a great job!! :-)
These areas were now considered as war graves - Both Allied and post-war Japanese governments had declared them as war graves and should not be touched or salvaged.
These frogmen were given permission to do the filming as you may well known.
greaT VIDEO!
I'll check with Stretch, but that's what he noted in the closing credits.
People cannot 'raise' these wrecks nor are meant to remove them or anything in them as they are classed as 'underwater graves' as opposed to random planes and ships where every occupant survived. They are treated similarly to how you are not meant to remove anything from a national park and penalties do apply if you do rob an underwater grave site.
@pudransemarikas i wanna say that is a different view of the picture at 1:14. if it is then its a corsair off the end of the runway in hawaii.
Its best to leave them, from the death and destruction of WW2 these wreacks have allowed life to grow in places where their would normally be no life at all. These beautiful wreacks have become living yes living coral reefs and should not be disterbed. I would rather strap on my dive gear and see these magnifacent wreacks rather then paying 20 bucks to see them in a museum.
The plane at 4:11 still looks abit alive to me, with that shark mouth/eye painted on it !
May all the men, and possibly women, rest in peace
Great
Interesting video, but a short note saying what the wreck is and where would have been useful.
That would be too much to expect.
muito legal mesmo..............
Thats unfortunate. My Grandfather was training to become a bomber pilot but the war ended before he finished his training.
very cool pictures there mate, and it's a shame for that stuff to sit there like that. but for all we know it could be someones grave! so best left alone tbh!!
RIP heroes of ww!!
omg i have to see some of these wrecks :D
Its hard to tell without markings or symbols of what country
there's an episode of Top Gear where they drive a Toyota Hilux to the North Pole, and on the way they see a crashed DC3 that appears to be completely preserved, quite weird to see tbh
Good video! One thing, music is from Enigma, not Enya.
Get rid of the sound track; it doesn't need it.
@buzzbomb15 it does but it also could be a corsair
If the space capsule you are referring to was Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7...it was raised in 1999.....fyi. :)
@adonnis010983 Its not a photograph, but a painting i believe. not to mention the wonderful condition, but none of this type were used this late in the war, at least by the Ami/Brit and in this area....(also the markings are flying tigers..so not real).
@KOLTON545 - Almost impossible. The metals are now soaked in sea water and would corrode almost instantly if brought to the surface. Most WWII aircraft underwater are really to fragile to lift to the surface. You might get the engines up, but the frames would not stand it. And then there's the cost involved. I went to a talk on what it took just to get the Swamp Ghost to Chino. Years and years of effort and a lot of $ involved.
If i had the money i would go to the wreck of the japanese carrier Ryujo and take the 4 planes that were still in her hanger.
That and eventualy these relics will be gone, and future generations should be able to enjoy the history. With out it rusting away.
quick question 0:32 is that the B-17 Flying fortress near the island of Corsica?
cuz if so i've seen that one myself :D