Italian submarines? Watch this.

[Kapitan Soniboy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZL7-nclmO0

At the beginning of this clip there are some interesting submarines which to me, either look like Italian or early US submarines. I want some information. And by the way, I've watched this about ten times now. It's just so cool :DL.

(If this video has been discussed in a different post, please direct me.)

[VonHesse]

The row of subs in the beginning definately look like US Fleetboats to me. Interesting vid. Seems more like a compilation of lots of different clips rather than one complete movie. Cool color action, though. :up:

[mcarlsonus]

Thanks for finding this! Never seen it.
The torpedo loading is on a Type 7, judging from the placement of the ports. The boat coming in with the deck guns fore and aft is a Type 9 of some sort, I believe. Considering this was a wartime German propaganda "extravaganza," I suspect one wouldn't be seeing US or Italian boats (unless the US boats were captured, of course!)

[CutMe]

yea mix of mny clips, mostly german

[bigboywooly]

IIRC the sub at around 1.43 - 1.48 coming into port is the UA
Built for Turkey but kept for the KM at wars outbreak

[msxyz]

Despite having the largest submarine fleet at the beginning of the war, most of the italian subs were either "average" in performance or hampered by their use in the mediterranean sea.

The few that got out in the Atlantic or Indian ocean operated individually as commerce raiders.

There were a few notable exceptions. The 600 class got famous because of X MAS, a special corps of marines which pioneered the use of frogmen to assault every major british harbor in the Mediterranean. The italian equivalent of U-47 is the "Sciré", a 600 class submarine which snuck inside Alessandria harbor time to sink Queen Elizabeth (though, it was raised from the shallow waters and put into service again by the end of the war) and Gibraltar 4 (!) times.

Another famous sub was the atlantic commerce raider Leonardo da Vinci which has the highest success rate for an italian boat: 116000GRT of which 58000 in a single mission (thus earning a place in the top ten most successful missions of axis submarines)

Italians also built large resupply submarines and long range cruisers with 14 (!) torpedo tubes but most of them were captured after 1943 and sunk or simply remained moothballed for the rest of the war

[Leandros]

Interesting clips, obviously German boats. Wonder if the clips with the crowded decks are taken during the Laconia affair. Nice shots of Dønitz and his staff, too.

[Kapitan Soniboy]

Alright. I've been doing som research and found out that the boats at the beginning may look like American subs but really are Italian submarines.