Nazis vs New York - Axis Operations to Attack 'The Big Apple'

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The German second happy time was partially the result of Chief of Naval Operations, American Admiral Ernest King's failure to enact an adequate U Boat defense. He was given advice from the British and he chose to ignore it.

The fact that the italians got closest to hitting the big apple is priceless.

This is what YouTube should always be. Informative, mysterious, rare, entertaining, diy. Perfect.

As a submarine veteran and a history buff, it is rare to hear about the Atlantic war under the sea other than the standard. Thank you.

A measure of the US's desperation at being unprepared for coastal defense was the formation of a civilian auxiliary of the Army Air Corps called the Civil Air Patrol, originally formed from WW1 pilot vets and patriotic Americans who saw America's entry into the war inevitable. They flew recon missions over the East Coast looking for U-Boats and provided eyes for convoy security until the regular forces could ramp up, after which they performed military cadet and pilot training and air SAR, which they still do today.

"The Nazis had a submarine off Coney Island in Brooklyn during the war. But we were saved....It was destroyed by toxic waste" Woody Allen - One more :) "A storm destroyed Coney Island when I was growing up - stores, the boardwalk, everything. The only thing left standing were those little milk jugs you have to knock over with a baseball to win a prize"

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Kind of surreal that so many Axis combatants were once studying/working/touring the States before WWII. Yamamoto, Kuribayashi, and now Hardagen. The context of peacetime and war makes their visits almost surreal to imagine; one minute they're touring the Empire State Building, the next minute they're planning an attack on Hawaii.

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30 plus years of the so-called HISTORY CHANNEL can't hold a candle to the great Mark Felton!

42 minutes of Dr. Felton. I knew today was going to be a good day.

I was born on the west coast of Florida, and I remember seeing a U-boat that washed ashore. Pretty wild.

That’s my Sunday evening viewing sorted. Thanks Doc.

Another great episode. This reminds me of the U-Boat encounter with the famous Canadian vessel, Bluenose. This was at one time, the fastest boat on the ocean. It is the image on the Canadian 10 cent piece. Anyway, since retirement, Bluenose was used as a freight boat in the Caribbean. A U-Boat surfaced, approached Bluenose and in perfect English, asked if she was indeed Bluenose. After affirming this, the U-Boat Commander said there was no way they would ever sink such an iconic ship an allowed them to continue to Haiti where Bluenose subsequently hit some rocks and sunk.

I can highly recommend H G Wells' 1908 novel "The War in the Air". Apart from giving an amazing insight into society in Edwardian England, bicycles were transforming the world for the common people. Londoners could cycle out of the slums of London for a weekend at the seaside without having to find the expensive train fare. The book features a unicycle monorail over the English Channel, and predicts the coming world war. A fleet of Zeppelins fly across the Atlantic and bomb New York. Wells truly was a prophet of his day.

What a coincidence!!! U-123 was the main character in the"Drumbeat"book I just finished.

US Coastal Guard: "Hey, since when the ocean start burping?" U-Boot commander *giggling*: “Hans, launch ze schnitzel!”

This episode was really exceptional. All your videos are so gripping & educational. I have watched many of your postings Dr. Felton, but finally decided to tell you how much I enjoy them. Keep your vids coming. Back in the 1970's I worked with WWII vets. I am a Canadian, so I knew fellas that were in the RCAF, the navy, infantry, etc but none of my older work chums wanted to talk much about WWII. They'd only tell stories about being sea sick on the Ille De France ex-French Line ocean liner converted into troopship. Or drinking pints of bitter in English pubs & chasing limey girls. Or Harold, who was a sniper in France, talking about when the Canadians took turf from the Nazis, that the Canucks were feted by the freed French locals, & he had to still pissed full of Normandy wine, walk back to his company at 0430. My coworker Doug was a tank driver & was there when Canadians liberated Holland. My other boss Al was an infantryman paired up with British soldiers when they liberated the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Another supervisor I had was an RCAF bombedier, he flew about 20 missions over occupied Europe. Anyway, I am digressing, I could mentioned Frank G another tuff WWII vet, but I'll stop. Dr. Felton, your channel is one of my favourites on YouTube.