When a Destroyer Rammed a U-Boat and left the Crew in the Water



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Somewhere in the middle of North Atlantic on the night of Halloween 1943 the American destroyer USS Borie was in a determined search for German U-boats in rough seas. The German U-boat U-405 was patrolling in the area. During her two year career never she had never lost a single man on combat patrols but at 2 AM November 1st USS Borie acquired radar contact. It was the start of an epic battle where there could be only one winner.

Historical sources:
E. Andrew Wilde, Jr (editor) The USS Borie (DD-215) in World War II: Documents and Photographs,
Robert A. Maher, Capt. James E. Wise, Jr. A Sailor’s Journey into War.

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00:00 USS Borie hunting U-boats
03:11 Depth charges
03:57 The battle begins
06:02 Ram it!
07:39 Borie’s hull repairs
09:11 Invest in Yarnhub
09:33 U-405 tries to avoid ramming
09:52 German U-Boat crew surrender
10:56 USS Borie’s crew abandon ship

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22 Comments

  1. Can you do The Battle of Midway? Please, my Dad at 88 years finally told me of his time on Midway when he was stationed there when the Japanese attacked!!! I'm the youngest of seven children, born in 1956!! My mother was a Philapina living in Oahu, when the Japanese attacked and they met, married, and had seven children, I'm the baby!! 70 years old!!!

  2. https://youtube.com/@unsealeddarkfiles
    What an absolute masterpiece of naval history animation! 🌊💥 The intense game of cat-and-mouse in the North Atlantic, the brutal close-quarter combat, and the sheer desperation of that ramming maneuver kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. 🚢⚓ Unbelievable bravery from both sides in such harsh conditions. 🌊🔥 Excellent storytelling and visuals as always, Yarnhub! 👏🎬

  3. 👍Американцы молодцы, а то что они не стали спасать немцев, то они сами хотели побыстрее убраться от другой лодки. И тем более их корабль сам потом затонул.

  4. Jajajaja 😂😂😂😂 vieron un torpedo ir hacia ellos y casualmente quienes lanzaron el torpedo les aviso con bengalas jajajaja 😂 por esto tuvo que irse contra una barca inflable…. 😂😂 Gringolandia siendo Gringolandia

  5. The U-boat used 88mm artillery and 20mm machine guns instead of torpedoes? And the destroyer decided ramming was the best course of action while its main guns and torpedoes were still available, and the U-boat was already damaged?
    What the fucking fuck were going on?

  6. Хм версию немцев, к сожалению, мы не узнаем. Звучит как сказочная история про наезд на спасательные шлюпки

  7. Воистину Аллах простил своей обшине те мысли которые рождаются в их сознании пока не станут они воплощать их в поступках или словах. Выход последнего человека из ада. Если бы люди не грешили Аллах бы всех истребил

  8. This episode showed up in my feed, and I couldn't be more thrilled! The animation is wicked, as is the narration! Well done and new subscriber here. Watching from Seattle, Washington USA!
    Edit: Preparing to binge watch!

  9. 1:57 Thats not what the sonar station looked like.
    3:13 They wouldn't drop all the depth-bombs at once- they only need to drop a single pair from the racks.
    4:21 The Kraut 2.0cm guns couldn't fire that fast, and they wouldn't have needed 'dozens' of sailors to man them. How could you know what the rate of fire of the 8.8cm gun was but not that of the single-mount 2.0cm guns?
    7:11 The American crew would have had Springfield rifles, not Garand rifles.

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