Hidden History

31/10/2023

Raising a U-Boat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivP0MOmAdMU&t=419s

Thanks for watching, remember to like & subscribe!Subscribe to our FREE daily WW2 newsletter: https://hiddenhistoryyt.beehiiv.com/subscribeGerman submarine U...

30/10/2023

U-Boat Ace Werner Henke’s Controversial Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkGQEE1W2J8

Thanks for watching, remember to like & subscribe!Werner Henke (13 May 1909 – 15 June 1944) was the commander of U-515 in the Battle of the Atlantic of World...

23/10/2023

The GREATEST British Submarine Commander

https://youtu.be/bL93CshKeBs?si=Bpyd3MF6r0S-MGQb

This video is dedicated to the memory and sacrifice of Lieutenant Commander Malcolm David Wanklyn. Lest we forget.Lieutenant Commander Malcolm David Wanklyn,...

23/10/2023

Admiral Hipper loading mountain troops in Cuxhaven

23/10/2023

Texas making 15.151 knots during the 9th run of her standardization trials, 23 October 1913

23/10/2023

Giulio Cesare after reconstruction

23/10/2023

Italian battleship Giulio Cesare

20/10/2023

Wyoming Class Dreadnought Battleship USS Arkansas pictured on April 11th 1944.

19/10/2023

The Terror of a U-Boat Attack

https://youtu.be/IF0XAO7vpLQ?si=00F6Czpl3_lUzS1r

Thanks for watching, remember to like & subscribe!U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. The ter...

18/10/2023

Battleship USS Massachusetts refueling in the Philippine Sea from the oiler USS Kaskaskia, 18 October 1944. Note Massachusetts’ starboard twin mount 5”/38 caliber guns at their full 85-degree elevation.

18/10/2023

Baltimore painted in MS33 / 16D camouflage off Mare Island Navy Yard, 18 October 1944

18/10/2023

Warspite entering Malta's Grand Harbor, 1930's. Sporting her new superstructure (Dubbed 'Queen Anne's Castle' by some IIRC), she is a beautiful sight to behold in this excellent shot of her.

18/10/2023

USS Iowa firing off Koje (now Geoje), Korea, 17 Oct 1952

18/10/2023

HMS Hood at sea in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War with national "non-intervention" patrol markings on 'B' 15-inch turret.

Photo Credit: Warships in Profile Volume 2, HMS Hood, R.G. Robertson, 1973, Profile Publications Ltd Berkshire, England.

17/10/2023

On this day, 107 years ago, the USS Arizona (BB-39) was commissioned.

She would go on to become the most famous battleship in American history.

17/10/2023

Getting sunk by a U-Boat in WW1

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25/09/2023

The US Navy’s First Integrated Ship

https://youtu.be/SAoE_aqrUOM?si=N9kYmOAEbGw_A3RG

This video is dedicated to the crew of the USS Mason.USS Mason (DE-529), an Evarts-class destroyer es**rt, was the second ship of the United States Navy to b...

11/09/2023

USS Manta arriving at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 10 September 1945

11/09/2023

USS departing Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 10 September 1945

09/09/2023

The Navy destroyers en route to the Royal Navy base at Portsmouth . View from ORP Błyskawica of ORP Grom and ORP Burza, September 1939.

07/09/2023

Italian submarine Cobalto before sinking, showing massive gun-fire damage to its conning tower inflicted by the British destroyer HMS Ithuriel. August 12th, 1942.

24/08/2023

Type IXC/40 U-Boat U-185 foundering in the mid-Atlantic after an aerial depth charge attack by a TBF-1 Avenger from Es**rt Carrier USS Core, 24 Aug 1943. 36 were rescued while 43 perished.

23/08/2023

German U-Boat U-155 surrendered to the British, lying alongside the British Q-boat mystery ship HMS SUFFOLK COAST at St. Katherine’s Docks in London, 4 December 1918 (iwm)

23/08/2023

The ONLY Time a U-Boat Shot Down an Airship

23/08/2023

Torpedo room of USS Cero while the submarine was at the base at New London, Connecticut, United States, Aug 1943

18/08/2023

A soldier inspecting a captured Type 96 machine gun, Kiska, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of , 16 Aug 1943

17/08/2023

Brigadeführer Jürgen Wagner negotiating the surrender of his command with Lt. Col Leroy E. Frazier, commander of the 405th Infantry Regiment. Photography taken at the River Elbe near Tangermünde, Germany, May 1945.

This photo was taken by LIFE photographer William Vandivert

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16/08/2023

USS Bowfin prior to her first war patrol, 16 Aug 1943, Brisbane, Australia.

16/08/2023

A soldier inspecting a captured Japanese Type 96 machine gun, Kiska, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, 16 Aug 1943

16/08/2023

1945 the Japanese surrender marking the end of major fighting in all theatres of
RoyalNavy sailors from HMS DUKE of YORK celebrate with a Fly Past a few weeks later. We should never forget the gift of freedom granted to us by this remarkable generation

14/08/2023

A popular children's Christmas present, sold in N**i Germany during WW2, was a board game called “Bomber over England”. Points were awarded for each place bombed. There were 100 points for hitting London, and 40 for Liverpool

14/08/2023

Battlecruiser HMS Renown, Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, 1927

14/08/2023

Heavy cruiser USS Guam, Pearl Harbor, February 21st 1945.

13/08/2023

Alpino Bagnolini arriving at Gallipoli, Italy, 21 June 1940

09/08/2023

Émile Bertin underway, 9 Aug 1939

09/08/2023

US Marine Corps LVT(1) amphibian tractors moving toward Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 7-9 Aug 1942; note USS President Hayes in background

08/08/2023

Saburo Sakai being helped out of his aircraft after he made a 4+ hour flight to base with a serious injuries, Rabaul, New Britain, Solomon Islands, 8 August 1942

08/08/2023

Japanese G4M aircraft making a torpedo run against the American Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion force, 8 Aug 1942

08/08/2023

Floating Japanese G4M1 bomber off Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 8 Aug 1942 as seen from the destroyer USS Ellet. The bomber was shot down during an aerial torpedo attack on the Allied shipping off Tulagi

08/08/2023

Crew aboard Enterprise loaded a 500 lb demolition bomb on a SBD scout bomber for strike on Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 7 August 1942