Silent Service - Google Video

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?do...arch&plindex=4

This one is about the torpedos:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...20511540926687


Attack plans:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...72655646186523


Looking good, I´ll have to buy this on DVD

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by SS-18rider

Hi!

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


http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...arch&plindex=4

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

[John Channing]

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]

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]

Thanks, bookmarked for later


RDP

[swdw]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

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

Why not add the links to your pacific war topic?

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by swdw

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]

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.

Originally Posted by Doolittle81

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 don´t sit so close to the screen while watching.

Hope it helps

[swdw]

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]

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!

Another video added, se top of the thread.

Silent Service - Attackplans of WW2, US Pacific.

[Elder-Pirate]

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]

Great Video

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]

Woo! More stuff to watch after work!