When Two Destroyers Humiliated Hitler's Navy - Barents Sea 1942
Added 2025-12-23 01:44:02 +0000 UTCGerman "Pocket Battleship" Lutzow, heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and six destroyers descend on an important Arctic Convoy heading for the USSR. In the freezing waters of the Barents Sea, outgunned Royal Navy destroyers charge forward to defend their precious merchantmen from the superior German warships. The resulting battle will be a humiliation for the Kriegsmarine. Hitler will decide that his surface fleet is ineffective against the Royal Navy, and he will change his strategy in the Battle of the Atlantic overnight.
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That's the second battle in WW2 where the Royal Navy has awarded the Victoria Cross to a commander where their opponent was the Admiral Hipper (the other was Gerard Roope on HMS Glowworm).
Tom Wire
2025-12-24 11:01:51 +0000 UTCThese battles are impossible to comprehend without an excellent animation like this along with great scholarship. And the Battle of the Atlantic went on for more than five years.
David Wilma
2025-12-23 15:55:50 +0000 UTCI love these naval surface battles. Great video as always!
CC5643
2025-12-23 03:33:40 +0000 UTCBoth good candidates for videos.
Michael Llaneza
2025-12-23 02:38:55 +0000 UTCAt 4 minutes in, you repeatedly call torpedoes submarines. Not a biggie, just didn't know if there was still time to edit if you wanted to.
Stephen Norton
2025-12-23 02:01:05 +0000 UTCGreat video about the ww2 in the future will you make a video about the falaise pocket or the battle of scheldt please ?
Leonardo
2025-12-23 01:47:24 +0000 UTC
