Originally Posted by Matador.es (Post 1672530)

Just saw advert for a series on discovery channel (western Europe) about the last trip of the Ark Royal. Will start on June 7th at 20:00 GMT

Don't know whats its gonna be, but u might like it.... If u can c it.

Originally Posted by Vendor (Post 1672547)

It may be interesting .... so you are "Japan", you will summarize the event since, :D

Originally Posted by Matador.es (Post 1672551)

Right now on discovery Europe: how to command a nucliar submarine! Documantaire about Asw.

Let's see if I have lost my jap status :)

Edit//It's about perisher sub training.

Originally Posted by Matador.es (Post 1672558)

Keep talking vendor, YOU are doing a good job here!

But honest, it's a cool documentary! I never saw this one before. But I gues u can't c it....

Originally Posted by Vendor (Post 1672560)

Yes but not through my local operator, then I connect to me via, my work as an example

Originally Posted by Matador.es (Post 1672530)

Just saw advert for a series on discovery channel (western Europe) about the last trip of the Ark Royal. Will start on June 7th at 20:00 GMT

Don't know whats its gonna be, but u might like it.... If u can c it.

Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1672840)

Not sure if it's a repeat (the one your making reference to) but I quite like this one:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5l...yal-traps_tech

Originally Posted by danasan (Post 1673492)

When I read here about HMS Ark Royal, I thought about HMS Ark Royal (91).

I than remembered that I knew Mr. G. Zierk, who served on U 81 when the AR was torpedoed at Gibraltar. He lived not so far away from Flensburg at the Gelting Bay. He told me about it from first hand experience.

Well, nothing else than what we can read about the sinking. Except maybe, that they almost stranded on the North African coast, because they had turned of their machines while they were searched by the DDs. The tides made them drifting towards the coast. It took hours to escape.

He was later transferred to U 370, which he helped to scuttle in May 1945 in the Gelting Bay. It can be said that he scuttled U 370 in front of the door of his house. After picking personal equipment and rifles, he and his comrades went to his house to wait for the end and what would happen next. He passed away a couple of years ago as a well known engineer. He left a bunch of U boat photos, which his widow still keeps. I arranged to get a few ones. Like this:

As a side note: his Captain on U 81, the later Admiral Friedrich Guggenberger, went for a walk, while being in hospital, into a near forest and never came back. That was in 1988. His body was not found until 1990. Strange thing IMHO

Originally Posted by Vendor (Post 1673513)

Finally, I saw it ... party time, :()1:

Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1672840)

Not sure if it's a repeat (the one your making reference to) but I quite like this one:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5l...yal-traps_tech

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch (Post 1673786)

Jim, after finishing Rowland White's Phoenix Squadron last Friday that video is exactly what I needed. :yeah:

And if you haven't read it then get it soonest!