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SS-18rider
01-19-08, 05:19 AM
Hi!

Sometimes you can find interesting stuff on the internet:


History Channels TV serie Silent Service about the US Submarine War in the Pacific during WW2.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8773806124453881316&q=silent+service&total=550&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4

This one is about the torpedos:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7445220511540926687


Attack plans:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2427972655646186523


Looking good, Iīll have to buy this on DVD

Ducimus
01-19-08, 05:44 AM
Hi!

History Channels TV serie Silent Service about the Submarine War in the Pacific during WW2.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8773806124453881316&q=silent+service&total=550&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4

Holy smokes, this is GOOD stuff. Required viewing for all newcomers i say!

John Channing
01-19-08, 08:48 AM
For $50 you can buy all 4 DVDs from the History Channel on-line store.

You get a DVD on the boats of WW2. one on the captains, one on the torpedos and one on attack tactics. Almost 4 hours .

Well worth the money.

JCC

Gino
01-19-08, 11:53 AM
In case you're wondering where they did the inside shots...

Some of them were taken at the USS Cod.

Looks good eh?

groetjes,

ReallyDedPoet
01-19-08, 11:57 AM
Thanks, bookmarked for later :yep::up:


RDP

swdw
01-19-08, 12:03 PM
Hi!

History Channels TV serie Silent Service about the Submarine War in the Pacific during WW2.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8773806124453881316&q=silent+service&total=550&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4
Holy smokes, this is GOOD stuff. Required viewing for all newcomers i say!

Why not add the links to your pacific war topic?

Ducimus
01-19-08, 01:33 PM
Hi!

History Channels TV serie Silent Service about the Submarine War in the Pacific during WW2.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8773806124453881316&q=silent+service&total=550&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4
Holy smokes, this is GOOD stuff. Required viewing for all newcomers i say!

Why not add the links to your pacific war topic?

Was thinking about that, but went to bed instead. WIll add it later though.

Doolittle81
01-19-08, 01:44 PM
Unfortunately, the visual quality of Google video (and Youtube) is vey low. Does anyone have a link to a downloadable *.AVI or *.WMV version? I'm really only interested in a few clips/sequences from the video, not all four hours of the DVD series.

swdw
01-19-08, 01:53 PM
Had to snicker about people wondering if the torpedo failure rate in RFB is too high while watching the account of the Tinosa. Can't even imagine the sense of frustration with firing 6 fish at a taker with only one explosion which put her DIW, and 12 after the tanker was DIW with no detonations.

Thats a failure rate of 94%!!! Although a failure rate that high was unusual, people wondering if a failure rate as low as 40% or as high as 80% (as some people playig RFB have reported at times) in RFB is historical only need to watch that video.

Rockin Robbins
01-19-08, 06:44 PM
A great find that certainly belongs in Ducimus' stickied thread. The amazing thing to me was that we made such a huge impact with less than 300 submarines. Then you have to almost totally discount their effectiveness while firing defective torpedoes for two years. STILL they sank 55% of the tonnage total for the war.

Great find!

SS-18rider
01-19-08, 07:42 PM
Unfortunately, the visual quality of Google video (and Youtube) is vey low. Does anyone have a link to a downloadable *.AVI or *.WMV version? I'm really only interested in a few clips/sequences from the video, not all four hours of the DVD series.

Anti -pixelating mode for free: Peer with your eyes and donīt sit so close to the screen while watching.

Hope it helps :sunny:

dean_acheson
01-19-08, 09:49 PM
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=106062&highlight=%22history+channel%22

a while back, we had a discussion about this, nice to see somebody put it up....

Elder-Pirate
01-19-08, 11:19 PM
Unfortunately, the visual quality of Google video (and Youtube) is vey low. Does anyone have a link to a downloadable *.AVI or *.WMV version? I'm really only interested in a few clips/sequences from the video, not all four hours of the DVD series.

Anti -pixelating mode for free: Peer with your eyes and donīt sit so close to the screen while watching.

Hope it helps :sunny:

Most of the video I did not fully watch but I listened to every word and to me it was like good old radio. I very much enjoyed both videos. :)

If the devs would have followed torpedo history to the letter UBI would have really lost sales in SH4. Most of the gamers today want it yesterday.

A very good find. :up:

manucapo
01-20-08, 06:19 AM
good find
nice video

DrBeast
01-20-08, 11:04 AM
Nice video, crappy quality though. Sound and image is out of sync, too. Still enjoyed watching it! :up:

SS-18rider
01-20-08, 07:59 PM
Another video added, se top of the thread.

Silent Service - Attackplans of WW2, US Pacific.

Elder-Pirate
01-20-08, 10:27 PM
This last one was very good and very good video as I never saw a pixel out of place, some of the older film was grainy but that is to be expected.

Another good find.

kiwi_2005
01-20-08, 11:41 PM
Great Video:up:

I had a few pixels problems in the start but it got better, good to see the SS class boats as ive just started a new campaign. Read a few books from Beach too, and saw him interviewed, is he still alive today:hmm:

DrBeast
01-21-08, 06:38 AM
Woo! More stuff to watch after work! :up:

aurora-7
01-23-08, 12:12 PM
It's gone! The HC police must have found out!

Whippy
01-23-08, 12:35 PM
Woo! More stuff to watch at work! :up: