USS Buckley's INSANE Fight with U-66

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    USS Buckley (DE-51) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escorts in the service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. After spending 23 years in reserve, she was scrapped in 1969.
    German submarine U-66 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.[1] The submarine was laid down on 20 March 1940 at the AG Weser yard at Bremen, launched on 10 October and commissioned on 2 January 1941 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Richard Zapp as part of the 2nd U-boat Flotilla.
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  • @HiddenHistoryYT
    @HiddenHistoryYT  29 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

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  • @Brock_Landers
    @Brock_Landers 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +36

    This is the same destroyer escort that was in the movie "The Enemy Below".

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  29 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Indeed it is! Appreciate you watching and have a great rest of your week :)

    • @Napoleon1815-l8c
      @Napoleon1815-l8c 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      The battle was very similar.

    • @johnharris6655
      @johnharris6655 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      USS Haynes, Buckley class destroyer.

    • @stevecagle2317
      @stevecagle2317 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Wouldn't surprise me if the book the movie was based on took elements of this true story for the fictional book.

    • @vanroeling2930
      @vanroeling2930 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @@johnharris6655 I just watched the movie two days ago - you are correct

  • @TheBrettWay
    @TheBrettWay 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    I just got 2 warship models from your hidden history store! They are absolutely incredible young man thank you. I will be gifting one of them to my grandson for his birthday and keeping one all for myself. I think ill put it in my living room but dont tell the old lady HA!

  • @philiphumphrey1548
    @philiphumphrey1548 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

    Credit to the U-boat crew as well. They were also brave men who put up quite a fight.

    • @briancooper2112
      @briancooper2112 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      To hell with the u-boat.

    • @brianhawk1854
      @brianhawk1854 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Evil murders no glory

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Indeed. Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @thatguy1321
      @thatguy1321 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@briancooper2112 they were fighting for their country. Don’t be so sour.

  • @basilmcdonnell9807
    @basilmcdonnell9807 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    That thumbnail U-boat looks more like the USS Monitor than a submarine

  • @ronaldbarnes8302
    @ronaldbarnes8302 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Nice video, thanks for sharing! My dad served on a Buckley class DE in the Pacific during WW 2. The USS Frybarger.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you to him for his service, he’s a hero! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @waynepolitte4659
    @waynepolitte4659 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    That skipper was itching for a fight! 🫡🇺🇸♥️

  • @thomasosterloh8247
    @thomasosterloh8247 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Around 1960 while in Explorer Scouts I was lucky to spend a weekend on The Buckley as a guest of the Naval Reserve. We went from San Diego to to the neighborhood of Catalina. They let us have the run of the ship including the engine room. They let us play with the 3 inch guns and take the helm for a while. The next day they dropped depth charges and fired depth charges. They also fired the hedgehogs. Then they did target practice with one of the 3 inch guns. It was quite an experience. Living arrangements sucked. Anyway, I went into the Air Force.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Very cool! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @bwilliams463
    @bwilliams463 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    I'm amazed that the Germans actually boarded the Buckley when their own boat was all but crippled. Throughout the narration, I kept waiting for the u-boat captain to surrender. Very die-hard crew, Nazis or not.

    • @conveyor2
      @conveyor2 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They were party members?

    • @Constance_tinople
      @Constance_tinople 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@conveyor2the were fighting for the state and also a majority of German citizens were in fact party members

  • @chrissycarr1618
    @chrissycarr1618 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    This was a thrilling story. Thank you for sharing it.

  • @EchoesofWarYT
    @EchoesofWarYT 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    Brave crew

  • @RayyMusik
    @RayyMusik 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Bremen is not really on our Baltic coast but on the Weser river which ends in the North Sea. You probably mixed it up with Kiel.

    • @juhopuhakka2351
      @juhopuhakka2351 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      No, he is just ignorant

    • @EDD519
      @EDD519 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@juhopuhakka2351 A I is both !

    • @juhopuhakka2351
      @juhopuhakka2351 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@EDD519 It sure is buddy. Semper Fi!

    • @jaibhimadevi5805
      @jaibhimadevi5805 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Also, Kiel has no animal musicians :P

  • @WilliamJohnson-g6z
    @WilliamJohnson-g6z 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    That is so freaking cool

  • @marstondavis
    @marstondavis 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    That's a thrilling story. Brave men fighting for their very lives using anything at hand...including that hand grenade.

  • @johnfun3394
    @johnfun3394 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Brave men all around, RIP

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Indeed. Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @VoicesofWW2YT
    @VoicesofWW2YT 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    beast mode

  • @Sugarmountaincondo
    @Sugarmountaincondo 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wow!, just Wow! never heard of this story before after 50+ years of military studies.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hope you enjoyed it! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @markpaul-ym5wg
    @markpaul-ym5wg 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Shotgun buckshot.Thats insane!

  • @thatguy990
    @thatguy990 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    My guy👍👍

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Thanks for watching my guy :)

  • @HiddenHistoryGaming
    @HiddenHistoryGaming 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    beast crew

  • @fr57ujf
    @fr57ujf 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Nice report.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @joshsanders9680
    @joshsanders9680 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    My grandfather’s ship, he served on it during the Korean War.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you to him for his service! Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @a-a-ronbrowser1486
    @a-a-ronbrowser1486 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    What an amazing story

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @dangradoville-rq2df
    @dangradoville-rq2df 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    That's not a Buckley class destroyer in the picture

  • @reginaldmcnab3265
    @reginaldmcnab3265 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Resolute and unwavering U-boat crew!

  • @tswizard13
    @tswizard13 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It's foc'sle not forcastle!

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    No kilowatt power translation?

  • @raydonica6723
    @raydonica6723 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wow.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @johndoe-qg7jp
    @johndoe-qg7jp 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Wow😮😳👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

  • @maxheadflow
    @maxheadflow 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    At 7:57 you show a F4U instead of a TBF.

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Ah dammit my bad. Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @taproom113
      @taproom113 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Just FYI ... The two aircraft at 7:57 are Grumman F4F Wildcats. The F4U was the Vought Corsair. Skal, ^v^

  • @randallsmith2959
    @randallsmith2959 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    It seems that the German U-boats could submerge to a far greater depth than the US fleet submarines. I always wondered why?

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Leaders in submarine technology at the time. Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @Constance_tinople
      @Constance_tinople 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They weren’t really ahead in submarine design prior to the experimental type 21 design. The U.S Gar, Gato, and later Tambor class were superior to the type 9 in pretty much every way. Faster, longer dive duration, integrated mast radar that didn’t need to be removed and brought down into the hull, and a superior torpedo load and patrol range

  • @robertsolomielke5134
    @robertsolomielke5134 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sorry, no more USBS war stories. the RCN did 10x the ASW, and never got half the credit..

  • @napraznicul
    @napraznicul 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    PS: Upperhand in allied flotilas against uboots WASN'T about tactics as you said, but about STEALING enigma machine and decoding messages, so nothing BRAVE, HONOURABLE and about MILITARY FIELD VIRTUES.

    • @andrewstackpool4911
      @andrewstackpool4911 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      As a retired Naval Officer and historian, you obviously have absolutely no idea about the battle of the Atlantic, including the Murmansk convoys and the natural environment, naval operations strategy and tactics or ASW.
      The battle, like the other actions against the Kreigsmarine, was a mix of many factors including Enigma (oh dear, the naughty Poles stole it, have you called the Police?), but at the end of the day it was sheer guts, determination, courage and seamanship/warfighting skills by those poor bastards out there on both sides. I suggest that you stay off making comments on these channels and go look up the battle and other anti-submarine actions on Google or somewhere. You might just be enlightened

    • @Constance_tinople
      @Constance_tinople 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The tactics employed against submarines absolutely played a massive factor in sinking them otherwise finding their rough positions with RDF wouldn’t mean anything

    • @napraznicul
      @napraznicul 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@andrewstackpool4911 who said you are what you said above? I'm a prime minister, did you know?
      Mate, you're just a tool of british empire PROPAGANDA, not an Historian as you would like to be seen by public, wake up and watch yourself!

  • @tequila_tibbs7938
    @tequila_tibbs7938 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Almost definitely a cover up for the americans slaughtering the crew. There is no way the beaten uboat crew tried to board the ship and fight to take it. They were obviously trying to board the ship to survive and surrender and the americans got trigger happy. Just apply common sense

    • @HiddenHistoryYT
      @HiddenHistoryYT  18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

    • @joefriday2275
      @joefriday2275 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Common sense!?! 🤣 😂 Just let your imagination run wild.

  • @Gawdssakes
    @Gawdssakes 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    105 rounds of 3.5 inch to sink a sub typical american useless fire
    As for the AI voice no TY

    • @andrewstackpool4911
      @andrewstackpool4911 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Nothing like racism to add to the comments. So when did you serve?