Haha! Here in Norway the spring is at least "around the corner", but no sun at the moment, no BBQ, but yes: BEEER!!! *burp*

Here in Croatia sunset, summer is coming soon, siting on balcony, great wiew, and yesss..cold beer...cheers everybody!!

Lake thawed. Sitting in the sun smoking hash. 😊

@@mikehunt4797 Hush! That's ELLIGAL!

Most be in the South.

She sounds like a keeper

W wife

@@leepreston9637 Yup, sound like good wife!

keeper

Lucky

Whether or not any Weapons had been launched to any effectiveness, surely one or two successful to land impact would have been so effective viz the propaganda effect of having done so..... ¿?

Here in Canada we heard a LOT about Uboats operating in the gulf of st lawrence and up the st lawrence river.

look into u boat cmapaign in the Carribean Carribean was a VERY hot war zone in WW2, very few know about it

They operated around Newfoundland, trying to torpedo boats in the harbour as well as installing a weather station in Labrador.

Check into where the last German submarine was sunk,Felton doesn’t cover all obvious historical footnotes and stories

Thanks for the update. Compiled propaganda always settles a chimp’s superstition.

What about cats playing the piano?

Admiral King's contempt for all things British led to several questionable decisions. Convoys and coastal blackouts were eventually enacted.

There was a steep learning curve at effective ASW. The navy needed destroyers but Admirals prefer battleships. If German Admirals had wanted submarines there would have been more U-Boats off America in 1942. Had there been enough in 1940-41 Britain would have been starved into an armistice

I mean he really hated the Brits.

He considered his intellect and abilities to be without parallel. Not a good trait for a leader. Learn to take advice.

@@michaelporzio7384: I was not aware of this, what was his contempt for the British based upon?

Firing on their own people+a few Irish I guess

Yeah attacking her own pizzerias 😂

Don't forget the crippling olive oil and salami embargo the Italians inflicted on America 😢

fugetaboutit!

"It was just business. I always liked you Mikey"

Oh dear :)

And the nazi's killed all the men, Leaving the little girls for Woody. Woody is not a person I would quote.

Id prefere to be a nazi, than Woody.

😊😊😊😊😊d​@@knutdergroe9757

Woody Allen is toxic waste

A lot of those joined CAP so the Army wouldn't take their plane

@@raymondclark1785 The Civil Air Patrol also flew private aircraft such as single engine, Fairchild F-24s armed with depth bombs. I believe the CAP was credited with destroying two U-boats during WWII.

Agreed! the CAP to this day, is a wonderful organization and trainer of youth!

@@michaelporzio7384Indeed and I was a member of it when I was in high school in the 1970s.

These days the CAP is more akin to an out-of-school JROTC, but a great organization.

What a life hey , especially the subarine guy that lives to a105

that trend never ended. khalid sheik mohammed of al qaeda leadership fame studied in north carolina, as one example.

Got many Russian visitors ?

Tamon Yamaguchi was the commander of the carrier Hiryu at Midway. He also attended Princeton. He went down with the ship. I'd like to think his last moments were him singing the Princeton fight song and shouting "GO TIGERS! BEAT YALE!"

@@spudskie3907 = One that got me was Mitsu Fuchida (spellcheck it, for, as usual, I'm typing from my 62 y/o memory here !) - He's the man who LED the actual attack on Pearl Harbor 7th Dec' 1941 & uttered the famous words "Tora, Tora, Tora" - My Dad's Ex-RAF older brother (My Uncle) wrote to him personally in late 1972 asking him to autograph a Royal Mail "First Day Cover" commemorating the attack (Dec' 1971 anniversary). To his utter surprise he wrote back, telling my Uncle that he was (NOW) a GENUINE "Ordained Church Christian Minister" & very much "Anti-War" ( much the same as Japan's Top Fighter Ace, Saburo Sakai - Amazing ) I still have an exact photocopy of the 1974 handwritten letter, sent to London, actually apologising for the 2-3 year delay - Heart Problems) Saw an amazing photo' of Fuschida with his wife on a Church Christian visit to London aboard a B.O.A.C "Vickers VC.10" airliner that had landed @ Heathrow, the U.K's (& at time) World's busiest airport. Amazing that several Japanese High Ranking & important "warriors" actually turned to "Peace" once attitudes & realizations had changed. As I used to view them as "a barbaric race" it kinda shook me to the core to both SEE & realise that, actually (Human) "Leopards COULD change their spots". Seeing Sakai (A6M Zero Ace, 62 kills ?) actually visitng the USA back in the 1970's AND actually hugging the US-Navy TBM Avenger 0.50-cal gunner who destroyed 50% of his eyesight & half of his face showed me that "reconcilation" actually IS & was possible, when, humanity kicks in...

The "History" channel lost me many years ago....are they still running pawn shops and ice road truckers ⁉️

If the History Chanel had good ratings running WW2 shows over and over they would still be doing it. Mark is great but his videos are a half hour or so once or twice a week not on 24/7.

I needed to hear a human voice. I hit search and just said "Mark Felton" and this fine piece came up. The guy's a legend! 🤷‍♂️

For real Dr Felton be giving us some great content

I wan't to be Dr. Felton when I grow up!!! 😚

Oh. That's just the absolute wurst...

When concrete gets soft it takes some time to get Hardigen.

more like wurst and kraut!

It's not a coincidence..

It is Saturday today :-)

I flew my airplane into Treasure Key , Abaco Island and stayed at the Treasure Key resort. The owner , a U-boat Captain, had first viewed the beach from the periscope of his u- boat and vowed to live there if he survived the war. It's interesting that your father may have come close to catching him.

The Germans developed the ICBM first. These were two-stage rockets.

Did the father die while the son was serving in WWII, or was the young merchant marine killed in the war??

May God bless your family.

​@@lemorab1 so many possibilities, so little answers

I would guess his dad passed away.

Great grandpa died while 4 of his sons served in ww2. My granddad was the 6th son. All four of his older brothers survived the war. The oldest was in the 101st airborne. The second was on the USS Sitkoh Bay (part of taffy 3). The third brother was on a destroyer escort. It was damaged in a battle. He finished the war in Australia, while repairing the ship. The fourth was in the merchant marines, as I said. Granddad went into the Navy and served aboard subs during and after the Korean War. He served aboard the USS Requin. It is now a museum ship in Pittsburgh. Lots of brave men, those guys were built different.

To quote Rick in Casablanca, "There are some parts of New York I wouldn't recommend trying to invade."

That reminds me of another German-American family which stood back from both of those wars as neutral Swedes. Except for Dr John, of course, who crossed the Atlantic to help as a scientist.

The perceived "cultural stratification" you speak of, was actually due to WWI. But German-Americans were very well integrated into American life.

Why, he slaughtered innocent people as an aggressor.

He wasn’t on trial in Nuremberg. I’m sorry your racism cannot get past someone’s nationality.

I'm amazed at the longevity of these WW2 soldiers on both sides. Either God rewarded them or He was punishing them with a long life of bad memories... I'm so in awe of all of those brave, brave men.

@@smokeykitty6023 yes indeed, number of times Dr. Felton says "was sunk with all hands" is so sad. The Kriegsmarine referred to the fallen with the phrase "remained at sea."

Also Hardegen said he never went past the Narrows. Take a look a a map. You can see lower or mid-Mahattan unless you do. It's out of the line of sight.

Love the music too, reminds me of world at war

The importance of black outs even made into a bugs bunny cartoon.

"The best UKposts channel"would have sufficed

@@craigoliver8712 I’ll drink to that

That's fascinating stuff, a.g.! Thanks for sharing!

Interesting 🤔

Gaylebaker: Is he voting for Biden this year? Sorry! A poor joke, I couldn't resist.

​@@StevenKeeryAt least he won't be voting for diaper don.

Where and when? Post a link?

@@paulzammataro7185 I believe it was U-166, just off Egmont Key, near St. Petersburg. It was a smaller 2-man sub, I think. Knowing the tourism in Florida though, it could have been a replica. I was a kid - so my memory is fuzzy.

@@woahhbro2906U-166 was a large U-Boat and was sunk in the Gulf, likely by a PT boat. The wreck remains where the action was fought, it never washed ashore.

A drug-smuggling submarine wreck washed ashore in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2015. This is perhaps what he remembered.

@@joebombero1 Sampling the cargo?

There are always parts of populations willing to be traitors.

Indeed

Interesting 🤔

I think it was more for Look How-Big-And-Shiny-Mine-Is posing than practical use ...😉

@@alfnoakes392 Did you notice he's carrying a Walther P-38 rather than a Berretta?

@@JFDA5458 Nope, not into guns per se.

Better to cut grass late in the afternoon, this gives the grass all night to come out of shock. The hot sun ☀️ hurts shocked grass…

The worst casualty of the Battle of the St Lawrence was a Newfoundland Railway ferry, the SS Caribou. Torpedoed by U-69 just before 4:00 AM on October 14, 1942, she sank in only about 5 minutes with 137 fatalities. The armoured train was supposed to be used along the Skeena river in northwestern British Columbia to guard against Japanese attacks, but I'm not sure if it was ever put into service.

Of course we were+are,Norse runs in our blood now,I live in a small town in northeast England called Thornaby-how Norse can you get.Greetings from Thor-naby 👋

It’s all down to the bankers, ‘central banking’ and who controls them. Napoleon nationalised the French central bank and built roads and schools etc. So the people who ran Britain decided he had to go. By the time Boney had been defeated, the private Bank of England had spent £861m prosecuting the Napoleonic war. This was paid by the British taxpayers, but not paid off until 1914. By that time taxpayers had paid back: £2.1 billion. It the same with ANY war, bankers start it, taxpayers pay for it. It’s why our country is screwed.

False Nashers

“I’m a Drunkard”

Crazy hahaha. I just watched that film before spotting this video hahaha. Fun stuff.

Yes! Rick was a Citizen of the World…🥃

And former enemies

Don't try to make out the US declared war on Germany, as if it was some noble gesture. They didn't, it was the Germans who stupidly declared war on the US, and the US had to accept it.

Churchill was so happy he plotzed his pants.

​@@bobbylee2853Well Britain+ Commonwealth were fighting for democracy, probably thought it was time U.S "put its money where its mouth is" apparently they are meant to believe in the concept,still took Japan+Germany to declare war on U.S though

Stirring words.

You id*ot Instead of asking that, maybe you should watch the video first and not comment on it a minute after the uploading 🤦🏻‍♂️

Oh no

The nazis were making a subtle nod to September 11th

Nunya

Zeroing in on King Kong.. obviously😅 (Nah, but I know what you mean though)