Anyone have any cool fleet boat history links?

[Oleif]

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone had any good historical links/videos/sound clips from fleet boats. When I look stuff up it mostly just goes to wikipedia but Im sure the internet has more to offer. For example does anyone have a sound clip of what a depth charge actually sounds like in a WW2 sub? Ive been reading all about it and I would love to actually hear one (even if I cant feel it).

So, share em if you got em! Im sure the web has more to offer amateur historians like me more than wikipedia/valour at sea/uboat.net (which are all great of course)

[Ducimus]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2427972655646186523&q=silent+service&total=559&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=8

[Armistead]

You can search wav files and get sounds only for about anything.

[Oleif]

Sweet video. Here is a pretty neat book some of you might not have come across yet. http://www.maritime.org/fleetsub/chap1.htm
also: http://www.archive.org/details/sinkemallsubmari011008mbp

[Zoomer96]

You might check out Navsource. It has some of the best info I've found. Here's the link:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/subidx.htm

[Daniel Prates]

:yeah: mateys!

[Dogfish40]

Fleet Boat War Patrol Reports. GOOOD READING for all us Skippers.
Enjoy

http://issuu.com/hnsa/docs
PS: You will find Skippers diagrams and maps of attacks ect, as well as Skippers narratives.
D40 :salute:

[Rockin Robbins]

Battle stations surface! Radio, get ready for some two fisted transmission. Fishing crew, on deck with tackle at the ready! Sonar reports some swordfish in the area.

First, no collection of web sites would be complete without a collection of first hand accounts from the living hell of the after battery (http://www.olgoat.com/substuff/abr.htm). You think submariners were tough? You don't know the half of it. Believe me, they weren't having fun out there! Read it and sweat it out with the men.:shifty:

Then, all the boats had their stories. And they surfaced after the war in the Polaris, newsletter of the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II. Some of these stories are collected at http://www.subvetpaul.com/52BoatsIndex.htm. See it while it lasts. Our sub vets are dying fast and they're the ones keeping the stories alive.

Then there are the Little Known Facts, by Bill Wolfe (http://www.subvetpaul.com/Little_Known_Facts.html), past editor of the Polaris, another irreplaceable treasure left by the guys who were there.

A treasure trove of stuff at Sub Vet Paul Wittmer. http://www.subvetpaul.com/TOC.html Get it while he's still here and able to maintain his site.

I'm looking for my personal favorite Remember This. But I can't seem to find much other than 404 errors. I'll keep looking. Thank God for the Wayback Machine! When people die bots preserve some of their stuff. http://web.archive.org/web/20040925132229/http://www.ussubvetsofworldwarii.org/RememberIndex.html

That's just a sampling. Guys, just the past year has cut our resources down terribly. I suggest we capture these sites and prepare to keep them up ourselves. The heroes who lived it have given all they have and have no more to give. We owe it to them to keep their spirit alive.