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3,505,378 Views • Oct 10, 2012 • Click to toggle off description
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Directed by Dave Flitton, Andy Aitken, James Wignall
Produced by Dave Flitton (series prod.), David McWhinnie, Ken Maliphant, David Rozalla
Written by Dave Flitton, Andy Aitken, James Wignall
Narrated by Jonathan Booth
Music by David Galbraith
Distributed by Public Broadcasting Service
Release date(s) 1996
Running time 6 116-minute episodes
Country USA
Language English
Views : 3,505,378
Genre: Education
Date of upload: Oct 10, 2012 ^^
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The Brits always seem to make the best accounts of World Wars and this one is no exception. This is the best doc on Battle of the Atlantic I have ever seen.
Born in 1946. As soon as I learned my way around a library, I read everthing about WWs 1 & 2 I could find.
USN MM"A" school in 1967 and served as San Diego-based Fletcher destroyer throttleman during WestPac tour 68. Our ship was older than most of her crew.
Hope everybody enjoys this doc as much as I did.
J.D. Schultz, MM2, USNR 1965-71
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Tim, you are greatly missed. The best narrator of all time to me 😊
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My father served in this battle with the US Navy. He was on the flight deck crew of the carrier USS CROATAN (CVE-25). She was part of a hunter killer task force.
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I wanted to comment on how these old grainy WWII docs always really make my miss my grandpa. Then I realized after reading everyone's comments that these documentaries are becoming our last vestige to our grandfathers, & the bonds we shared with them. My grandfather was a little to young to serve, but god bless everyone's that did serve.
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Very proud of my Dad’s service in WW2, he flew in Dauntless Dive Bombers and PBY Catalina as a Radioman & Gunner. Mostly had duty of patrolling the American Coastline looking for subs. In the PBY he flew in “the blister”.
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My friend was a Merchant seaman all the way through WWII and into the 1950s. He was a grizzled veteran that didn't take any gruff from anyone. He said you'd go into a foreign port in Africa one day and it would be allied. The next month it would be axis. They didn't know if they were coming or going. He was braver than me. He never thought of himself that way though. Yeas later, when I was in the Coast Guard, a Russian submarine popped to the surface right beside our ship. I couldn't believe how big it was and how awesome it looked. Drink to those brave men who faced being lost in the cold, cold Atlantic day after day.
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My uncle Kazimierz Sklad was chemist and during WWII he was captured and sent to the labor camp in Germany to work in hteir military industry. While there, as a member of Polish underground he developed substance that when sprayed on the radio parts made those radios go dead in the middle of the ocean. In this way he saved lives of thousands of American soldiers travelling to Europe to fight Germans. He died shortly after the end of WWII from malnutrition and tuberculosis. This note is to recognize his contribution to the Allied win. RIP.
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My Uncle John (Jack) McIlveen Gamble was KIA on the night of Feb 10/11 Feb., 1942, but we never here of the sinking of the HMCS SPIKENARD, she was the Commodores ship for the convoy SC36, but who cares, I remember those who paid the Ultimate Sacrifice, including ALL the Merchant Seamen (over 30,000) who also paid the Ultimate Sacrifice, Rest in Peace HEROES, Fair winds and Following seas, FAB./QS.
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My great-grandfather, who I’ve had the pleasure of knowing, fought in this battle as part of The Royal Canadian Navy. Stationed out of Stadacona, Halifax, Nova Scotia, his father lived in England and his mother died when he was only 16. His siblings had already gone to war. With nowhere left to go, he enlisted in the navy, lying about his age and with no ability to swim in June 1941. He told me stories in my childhood of watching burning Canadian battle cruisers in the distance, and hearing the screams of his fellow compatriots. One ship not far from him was holed by a German torpedo, and began to sink rapidly. He suggested to his CO that they should go back for them. The CO told him it would be a bigger risk if they did. They left them there. Most of the men left on the ship died. He remembers sailing near the English Channel, and hearing a V2 rocket go overhead, knowing full well it was headed toward London, where his father lived. Though he may have never admitted it, his experience was hell. He ended up hard of hearing later in life because of his duty as a gunner. My great-grandfather, Thomas Dawson, died on April 7, 2011, at home surrounded by loving family at age 86. Thank you for sharing your story with me, Papa.
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best tv series to ever be made.....the Vietnam one as well is a classic. Wish they still did this kind of work
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My dad was there on the aircraft carrier: The Formidable...they fought against the super battleship..the Tirpitz.
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I have nothing but the greatest admiration for the men of the Merchant Marine 80% of the time with no more than a minimum of 2 to 4 corvettes bravery does not compute for these Men God bless them all.
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My father was a chief mate merchant seaman mostly carrying 102 octane fuel. He always smiled at the younger mates on board who slept fully clothed in case they were torpedoed. He said hell if we got hit we’d be a huge explosion so it seldom bothered him. The sea made my father. It taught him everything about life, living and luck.
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The Cruel Sea...the best movie to encapsulate the longest battle of the war
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So cool to see all the comments of grandsons honoring their grandfathers who served 70+ years ago. #🇺🇸🇰🇷🇺🇸
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Videos like these definitely inject a sense of pride! My grandfather was 1st Radio officer of the British merchant navy vessel S.S Kioto, torpedoed off the coast of Tobago by U514 in September of 1942, my grandad luckily survived the war and loved until 94, my great grandfather served aboard the first British built iron clad ship HMS Warrior as a boy, and then onto another ship to serve in the battle of Jutland. ⚔️
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thanks Vasile Luga for sharing this i love these great history programs.
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Those were some exceptionally brave sailors who battled the menacing U-boats.
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i've being watching these documentaries for years thanks to you Vasile luga. Thanks from the bottom of my heart.
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@jtaylorb88
7 months ago
Still watching these to fall asleep to for years now.
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