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on the night of November the 12th 1944 200 young Airmen set off on one of the most daring raids of the Second World War [Music] there's a target don't do it at the time we just got on and did it though that was our job 70 years ago their target was lurking in a Norwegian Fjord deep inside the Arctic Circle the Allies had already attacked it on 33 separate occasions we were beginning to think that it really was unsinkable they told us unborn but this is the strongest ship of the word and never can sink the target was the battleship Tirpitz Hitler called it the pride of the German Navy Churchill named it the Beast and he was willing to risk the RAF finest units nine squadron and the Dambusters to sink it it never occurred to us if we were in danger the chap on the side of us may have been but we weren't that day the dam Busters should have been shot out of the sky we uncover new evidence to help explain one of the luckiest escapes of the war and perhaps for the final time key participants in one of the most audacious raids of world war ii tell their story we said to ourselves well we've sunk the beast at last [Music] seventy years after the sinking of the battleship Tirpitz historian Patrick Bishop is exploring the Norwegian Fjord that was its final resting place it looks like I don't know maybe one of the ships plates you can see some riveting here so there's still little scattered sort of mementos Tirpitz patrick has come to Norway to find out how the RAF s 9 squadron and six one seven squadron the dam Busters finally managed to sink the unsinkable battleship this day is always commemorated as Tirpitz day by six one seven squadron but it could be remembered in a very different fashion it could have been remembered as the day that six one seven squadron was annihilated it's an enduring mystery why was it that they were able to get in there bomb and get away with no losses it could have gone very very differently seventy years ago the Tirpitz was the greatest single maritime threat to the Allies at 35 miles an hour it was faster than any British battleship it's 815 inch guns could fire 17 miles beyond the horizon it could sink you before you even saw it [Music] its armor was so thick that conventional bombs bounced off it but impressive giant worship Tirpitz was built to be as nearly unsinkable as a ship could be when Hitler launched the Tirpitz on April the 1st 1939 it was worldwide news teenager Toni Iverson was mesmerised by the flickering images I remember seeing in a cinema in New York where I lived and seeing a newsreel of this battleship this huge thing I had no idea when I saw this with my girlfriend that said one day I might be linked to its efforts Toni was part of a generation who grew up with the romance of flying every young man in the world wanted to fly they didn't hurt sometimes on a Saturday night when you'd come back to the local dance when you hope to go would say and what have you been doing today you could say well dicing with death in the heavens Tony now 94 flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain he then joined the elite bomber force the dam Busters [Music] in 1943 the Dambusters six one seven squadron had breached the Ruhr dams using inventor barnes Wallace's bouncing bomb the squadron became the RAF experts in precision bombing a year after the dams raid most of the squadron had moved on or had been killed in action it was time for the next generation of the best young Flyers as the University and I decided that the Air Force really was for me I made the big mistake of saying that two and two made four I should have said five and because I said four I became a navigator and I was not very pleased at the tongue because I wanted to be a pilot I was a student and I was doing electrical engineering I didn't want to go into the army I didn't want to go into the Navy and I thought the Air Force sounded pretty good but I was always a bit worried about my eyes because they it was a really short beam so I just learnt the lies that they were the bottom line or whatever it was that they were being lost and reel that off and pass the eye test within months of joining the Dambusters the new crews in their Lancaster bombers would be fighting in one of the most inhospitable environments of the war after the German occupation of Norway the Arctic Circle became one of the key battlegrounds of the conflict in January 1942 Hitler ordered his biggest battleship north to threaten the Arctic Convoys delivering essential supplies to the Russians [Music] Churchill promised Stalin that he would maintain this lifeline without it the Soviet war effort would collapse [Music] in June 1942 the largest Arctic convoy of the war 35 merchant ships set sail escorted by 43 warships they were only too well aware that the Tirpitz was poised to pounce the possibility that is going to to put to sea is enough to create what Connecticut described I think is panic the rumor cause the Admiralty to issue a fateful order the convoy is to scatter that means that the escort this massive escort they've gathered is to return home and that his merchant men are basically on their own this is an extraordinary decision and of those ships that set out only 11 actually make it to port they're sunk not by Tirpitz but by German submarines and and the Luftwaffe who have a field day so without firing a shot Tirpitz had actually scored an enormous psychological victory against the Allies this the biggest Arctic Convoys loss of the war provoked a furious response from Winston Churchill the destruction of this ship is the greatest event at sea at the present time no other target is comparable to it with Royal Navy ships desperately needed in the Far East the British threw everything of the Tirpitz including dive bombers manned torpedoes and midget submarines in two years 31 attempts failed to sink the Phantom Menace so Churchill called in the dam Busters to finally finish the job they would have just two months to sink the Unsinkable Tirpitz before the onset of the Arctic winter if they failed the British Navy in the North Atlantic would be tied up until the spring the dam Busters were to be joined by nine squadron one of the most distinguished in the RAF we were called to a special briefing up would hold sparked our friends base where their wing commander flying man called Tait took us into a briefing room would you've been totally blacked out so we knew there was something special and he was a fairly dramatic man and he enjoyed having us all sit down and then suddenly during the the cloth other model in front of him which was of course the Tirpitz gasp everybody the beast was hiding at the northern tip of Norway well out of the range of a direct attack from Britain so the RAF came up with a daring plan we were told to practise a lot of dinghy drill while dinghy drill was the procedure for getting out of an aeroplane if you had to land it in the sea they were going to attack the ship by the Soviet Union on September the 11th the two squadrons took off on an unprecedented 3,400 mile mission they first flew the 1,100 miles to Russia then after refueling and at the very limit of a Lancaster's range they flew on to bomb the Tirpitz in their bombay's they were carrying the new barns Wallace designed 12,000 pound tall boy it was a revolutionary precision weapon in the right hands it flew like a dart bonds Wallace has designed it so it didn't tumble over like a bomb might it was dropped and flew directly onto the point it was aimed at I hope tallboy was beautifully designed if you could say that about a bomb it had fins at the rear so that when it fell it went into a spin that meant it was flying very accurately the raid would have such propaganda value that a film camera went along to record it after a six-hour flight from Russia the Lancaster's approached the target I could see Tippett's over the front of my Lancaster and at about the same time I saw all the smoke generated start up and they had about 200 plus so they filled the field very rapidly with with smoke just my bombers say that it's no good skip I can't see anything so we just we just had to go most of the tallboys plunged harmlessly into the smoke screen but having survived this attack the Tirpitz was now forced to make a fatal move in 1944 despite five years of conflict the crew of the Tirpitz was largely immune to the hardships of the war historian Patrick Bishop has come to Tromso Tirpitz Museum located in a former German bunker he's exploring the daily routine on board with curator life on the Berg this is the wall Nautilus phone by diver yeah thank you three oh wow that's a bucko card so this is like the your weekly tobacco regression yeah but under the coordinate what do we got something different ah my gosh I think we all know what that is that way tobacco and condoms uh-huh two staples of the the Siemens equipment sure that is a cop for coffee from the ship taken out by some of the workers who was cutting the ship after the war so he's an ice bit of crockery that isn't it looks like they live pretty well the ship had a crew of 2,400 men it was so large it ran its own bakery cinema and post office it even produced its own newspaper karl-heinz curse Ling was 21 years old when he first stepped on board the 42,000 200-ton Tirpitz without doubt or seed he got me asthma for often it can't be for love we are young and we we were proud and and and the gods looked for a nice blue uniform you understand German troops retreated on all fronts and starving German civilians faced daily attacks on their cities life on the Tirpitz remained largely unaffected we have had got food and clean rooms clean wash three days into it we have meat and in the evening we have sausage children and such teams cheese hidden Zonta Gabbar horrified super hidden sorta yeah but hold on super meat Zagal if I say tofu for energy and then hold mine away and frankly I think here I mean I telephone in hottest the washroom like tank assault but in October 1944 as Soviet forces advanced into Norway the Tirpitz was moved 120 miles south to tromsø it was a fatal mistake the ship was now almost within range of a direct attack the news encouraged Churchill to pile on the pressure I consider that every effort should be made to attack this ship even if losses have to be incurred the RAF went into a frenzy of activity if the Lancaster bombers were completely stripped of excess weight and filled with extra fuel they might just reach their target our ranges were changed and armor was taking out the one behind the pilot's seat was taken out their big piece of armour plating they had to reduce the weight so they took out the mid-upper turret in its entirety they took the guns out of the front turret and reduce the amount of ammunition in the rear turret losing weight increased range but the Lancaster's needed to carry much more 100 octane aviation fuel to get them to Tromso the extra fuel tanks was a Wellington tank for 200 gallons and a mosquito tank of 50 gallons one on top of the other placed inside the future large where the rest Spade would have been and it was so dangerous that ground crew had to wear plimsolls because the danger of a spark they wore their boots and that was probably blow up the whole aircraft at least one perhaps several more around it as well I have to say that despite oh the fuel giants big family tight and there's no sign of any leakage you still could smell that hundred octane so it makes you feel a little bit sick I suppose on October the 29th 1944 the refitted Lancaster's of six one seven and nine squadrons took off on a 13 hour non-stop mission to succeed the undefended planes needed to take the Tirpitz by surprise they cross the Norwegian coast where they knew there was a gap in enemy radar and they used neutral Sweden to disguise their approach everything was in place to finally send the Tirpitz to the bottom of the sea but the one thing not in their control was the weather just 30 seconds before bombing commenced Tirpitz was covered by a blanket of low cloud but most people didn't bomb because they couldn't see the Tirpitz it very disappoint you all that preparation and all that hard work and all that flying and to arrive together at the right time over the right point and then to be wasted is I won't say disheartening because we were just hot we were annoyed by halves but after the failure of this raid there was to be no letter the crews were ordered back again there was no time to plan a new route and there was one more shock in store for them they said sorry to tell you chaps but since the last trip that we Germans have moved two squadrons of Fighters to be near the Tirpitz at Badr foss in Norway well this made us swallow a little bit we were a little apprehensive because of course we haven't got the military but I could little voice we all went off but new evidence has emerged that suggests the dam Busters and 9 squadron were in even greater danger than they ever imagined [Music] in November 1944 the RAF was preparing to attack the battleship Tirpitz for the third time in two months the British was still hoping to take the Nazis by surprise even though they'd be flying the same route but new evidence suggests the Germans may have been expecting them on the Norwegian island of andorra historian Patrick Bishop is investigating a story that the Germans repositioned some of their radar before the third raid Patrick has come to the site of a Vasa 'men radar installation the most powerful German radar of the conflict he's with local resident John Ronald Nauheim who was brought along a photograph his father took at the end of the war Hitler had this obsession with the idea that there were the Allies even though they were sure Normandy landings have gone ahead he still clung to this belief that would be an allied landing in Norway as well that's what I was I was told they though I was picking up all the to ship traffic course rush now if we look at the this picture here we've got this landmark which is it's very prominent rocky island just behind us and you can see with that in the bottom right hand corner of the picture this box structure that's on the back of the scaffolding if you like is actually the rear of the radar set so that would mean that the that the thing is actually the Vasa man is pointing inland it's not pointing out to sea where you might expect it to be yeah this is very interesting because it was possible for the Vasa man radar to actually pick up the the raid as in claimant as it hold in on Tromso to bomb the Tirpitz with the radar repositioned to track the Flyers coming from inland all it needed was one phone call to the fighter squadron that bardufoss in just 13 minutes the fighters would be swarming around the Tirpitz ready to shoot the Lancaster's out of the sky one of those crack fighter pilots at bardufoss now lives halfway around the world in Southern California Curt Schultz age 92 meets with a group of veteran fliers every week 70 years ago he wouldn't have hesitated to shoot them down it's a friendship that has developed and I'm so grateful for that because I was the enemy Kurt started the war as a navigator on bombing raids over England but later he became a fighter pilot he was posted to a squadron of fighter aces based deep inside the Arctic Circle he wasn't prepared for their relaxed attitude to discipline I arrived just a few days after they had tried to kill Hitler and you know the salute was like that all of a sudden they all walked in and instead of greeting like that they gained like that and you know I thought so but it was a very loose punch as far as real discipline was concerned but they were very very successful Kurt flew 63 missions and had three confirmed kills some of his colleagues at bardufoss were among the highest scoring aces of the war he had 199 victories and I think kept there was a group command I had maybe 160 Jochen all said on the hundred these three together had six hundred victories almost as the Lancaster's took off in the early hours of November the twelfth from the frozen coastline of northern Scotland the fighters at bardufoss were preying on their minds this would be their last chance to sink the Tirpitz before the onset of the Arctic winter it was cold but when you're 20 21 June area you don't feel cold ascent but it was cold if we wanted to have a pee some kind wife in the mess at law see it provided milk bottles and of course they were little joke about those looking back they just pitched us into it as it were there's the target you've got the weapon could go and do it at the time we just got on until it them that was our job it was a long long journey there was no world radio contact of course any way we could navigate I couldn't ever get any how was take the odds shots of whichever star was previous and just keep my fingers crossed at 7:00 a.m. the Bombers turned east through what they still believed was a radar gap but German records show they had already been spotted defenseless laden with fuel and with two and a half tons of high explosives inside their tallboy bombs they were extremely vulnerable we had founder of flying into a gym clear sky which which is perfect for our job absolutely but then one little thought came well it may be free it'll suit the fighters pretty well too at 7:40 the Lancaster's began their run into the target from neutral sweetie the Tirpitz was already receiving information of confused sightings some placing bombers on a course to Russia others placing them a hundred kilometers to the north [Music] no one alerted the bardufoss air base then at 8:09 the Tirpitz on its own radar spotted the bomber force just 30 minutes away and it was coming straight at them the alarm finally sounded at the bardufoss Fighter base at 818 this was more than an hour after the Raiders had first been spotted six minutes later the Lancaster's passed a few miles to the east of bardufoss on their way north mine thought was help to Christ the fighters don't get nearest if I got a one not 109 up my backside and there would be a very little left I mean finished reverse with his cannon at 8:30 Curt Schultz arrived at his Messerschmitt 109 fighter had he taken off then he could still have caught the Lancaster's but Kurt and his colleagues lost vital minutes getting off the ground for a start the planes were at the wrong end of the runway and then at the moment they were ready to take off air traffic control allowed a transport plane to land [Music] so tell that this u52 that was coming fly in had led down the hill and so there was another five minutes lost just before 8:30 a.m. the Lancaster's began their approach to the Tirpitz re f cameras were again on hand to film it all so far there was still no sign of Kurt and his fighters it was Sunday yes I was standing on the deck then came the alarm and we saw the machine in south as the Lancaster's approached they were confronted by the first of Tirpitz as formidable weaponry the ship trained its massive 15-inch guns onto the Raiders each shell weighed more than a ton the Tirpitz guns had a range of 17 miles even the big heavy guns could be elevated to reach aircraft it was a great unfolding orange cloud this 15-inch shell went off would have probably taken two Lancaster's out of the sky together you could actually see these shells coming up they seem to come up so slowly it was a fascinating sight you never seen anything like it again within a minute the rest of Tirpitz as defenses opened up on the advancing bombers my combat station was the anti-air gun you have to take a hat off to the German Gunners they've got the altitude absolutely cock on I mean we were 15,000 200 feet and the flak was bursting exactly at that level but we were fortunate that they were a little bit early the the flak was in front of us by a matter of a few yards when the fuel in a 200-gallon tank is used up and that's when it becomes dangerous because children a bit of fly get through it's going to hit sort of a vaporized fuel how do you feel I must admit you have been excited and think fast I hope they don't hit us I had to get that airplane positioned so the bomb went down she had this target which from 15,000 feet must have took to my bomb ever like a dinky toy even though it was 900 feet long the first tour boy was released at 8:41 it's called a direct hit [Music] the next five record in another direct hit three near misses and astray yeah you could see it go down like a dart almost because it was painted bright green yeah you and death it looked quite nice actually diving down there it went through the speed of sound so what these poor sailors fit felt when two one two of them landed when the machine come are coming against you you have you cannot get air enough it's so as one pressed you you are you're yeah [Music] after the first wave of six bombers Tony Iverson was in the second wave of three he attacked at 8:42 I bombed at number seven on number eight and I think I had a near miss or an awesome day miss I'm not sure I've never I can't go further than that this second wave scored two very near misses the bombs were beginning to overwhelm the ship the first bomb had landed midships it led to one of the magazines blowing up bomb four had hit close to a turret and blew it into the air bombs five seven nine and fourteen had landed close by these also had a devastating effect producing shock waves that buckled the ship's frame and caused it to start to capsize the first nine aircraft bombed in one and a half minutes that's 90 seconds you can count 90 seconds just think of nine five-ton bonds coming down at you 9 squadron followed up dropping their tall boys into the smoke as they exploded few were certain of the outcome there was smoke up at the one aimed hospital since the points you'd think that the rear gunner was quite convinced bloody things going all the skip [Music] as the Lancaster's turned away from the target they knew the danger wasn't over yet we realize we haven't seen any fighters which is amazing amazing luck they were luckier than they could have imagined the first German fighters were less than three minutes away as the last bomb was dropped it took me approximately 10 minutes to get to Tom's Eve from bout of us and when I arrived there the Tirpitz was already turning over so I turn Ilana true back oh nothing I could do Kurt had only just missed the defenseless Lancaster's all the crews returned home safely was it luck or were there other forces at work the sinking of the battleship Tirpitz after 33 failed attempts was a remarkable feat of navigation flying and precision bombing but it had a terrible human cost 1,700 sailors were on board as the ship began to capsize III saw not the explosion from the hit on the ship but I feel the craic do you have you you are feeling that the ship make a jump from a half metre and in the next moment the ship began to capsize it was so and so was it and and at last we hanging in the raining here and I go a moment later in terms of water yes and then I swim to the coastline and the water was oil and many of the swimmers they have their face in the water they were tied and it I see that it was crazy it it looks as as when footballs was swimming in the interval a seaside villa belt Wilson was below decks when the ship capsized their Sunderman British after thicker they take of a wonderful news I just get the head chef of the ticket Asarco Cobra scarier than that King I was the fucking North Pole or surrender soldier seligman give also Turkey I was the multi shine our afternoon because they launched our Pearson that Menaka I'm doing a session twenty-one-year-old karl-heinz curling was lucky enough to be on shore at the time of the attack he rushed to the rescue of the hundreds of sailors trapped inside the hull is in an hawkish littered unrenewed capital or and so more than hammer fiber on pintle gaps or Homme de salvo a crop for hunger size net the meat for Busan does innovation event album it own John Brennan convoke Newcomb for all satan that one handles hoopla here unfair Cabrera avid end anemic on the Americas and perennial anything up Anwar arose tangina Rose as the tide rose the compartments began to fill with water the rescuers could hear their entombed comrades singing Deutschland uber alles until the voices fell silent tension won't get the tethers they captured Lenovo on Valderrama dad's on Santos gets opened we have Eclipse foreign and depart sons get lost finally a mummy time respond ze Strucker divan with Spanish Mandarin oh there are holes here house we received a map so often the fruit and who shot a light one vanderbeken odds are told [Music] 971 sailors lost their lives but the beasts had been slain and then looking back it's quite remarkable that the Raiders managed to get away with it when you think about it it's the defendants who've actually got the odds stacked in their favor you've got the squadron of crack fighters based nearby apparently with the specific job of looking after at the Tirpitz you got the radar systems apparently pointing inwards yet there we are at the end of that morning the Tirpitz is sunk and the attackers have got away with a virtually scot-free now maybe it was just sheer good luck but I've often thought that perhaps there's another explanation for what happened [Music] on the island of andorra Patrick is following a new lead that might explain why the German fighters weren't scrambled in time he's meeting local resident journalist sander Pettersen as a 17 year old boy schoolboy sander worked in the indoor radar base for a German officer leftenant Carl Heinrich Vesna Vesna was a key link in the radar communication network on the island Patterson thinks Vesna could have delayed vital information to the Fighter Squadron at bardufoss we understand that Dressler had sympathy for England how did he let you know that that he was in sympathy with Germany's enemies you speak very good Norrish and he said you also in a rich and boys way he who was at silver if you e that's like a cigarette case oh very nice or inside then then Julian yaki you know and Jack was inside the Vesna was in the right place at the right time but was he responsible for delaying vital information about the raid I think Messner has a finger to stop yeah sending up Germany plane to take the Lancaster yeah you may be right under that listener I don't say had a hand in the affair yes I know dot to help support sender Patterson's story patrick has been looking for more evidence he's uncovered a letter in the Norwegian archives written by Vesna just after the war this will he confirms this man's anti-nazi credentials no according to him he actually was actively working against his own people as early as 1944 it's not just him he's got at least three other colleagues who were in this conspiracy if you like with him the Germans had a sabotage plan which they've got to put in place if there was indeed an Allied landing and they've got a quite an elaborate plan here for shooting their own offices and running up the white flag he goes over to the underground in Norwegian resistance and they smuggle him out now if his credentials weren't Parker I can't imagine they would they would do that willingly so he does actually match up to the description that were given of him by sander so this new information opens the prospect of an intriguing new theory that a good German did intervene in a major operation of war on the side of the Allies and had a material effect on the outcome on hearing the news that the Beast had finally been slain Churchill wrote to Stalin RAF bombers have sunk the Tirpitz let us rejoice together for the young Airmen of nine and six one seven squadrons there was relief that they had finally finished the job we really didn't know we'd suck it until we got back to near base and they wadis they sent out a signal to say he's had been destroyed yeah we shall vocalist really yeah I think it was called um Churchill's beast wasn't it and I know we said to ourselves well we've sunk the beast at last there's quite an interesting experience to to talk to you about something that happened very dearly seventy years ago and I'm just kidding little flashes of memories I get to go a little flash of memory about the mists beer flowing freely Wing Commander in the middle of it drunk as a new and a great deal of laughter is shouting and chattering yes absolute celebration who've been three times for the damn thing we were beginning to think that it really was unsinkable Frank Tilley and basil fish celebrated their weekend leave with a trip to the London Palladium to see comedian Tommy Trinder remember Tommy trendin making a joke about the Tirpitz and so we sat there feeling quite pleased with their self a still alive seventy years ago Curt Schultz nearly shot down Toni Iverson in the skies of northern Norway today the former enemies are firm friends hello good morning Tony hello I am so glad I can talk with you again just one week after your 94th birthday I like to church we got to know each other quite well and we have seen each other on my trips through California Tony was not too enthused about meeting at their German the pilot we were bit wary of each other for quite a while but then when we had a drink and things loosen them it was a cool reception but we started talking and we became friends we never talked about the war we talked about all kinds of other things that were interesting to us talk with you again soon Tony right goodbye goodbye yeah we are he sounds not too strong this situation where we as human beings finally come through after the politicians did with us whatever they wanted to do everything yes sir 70 years on the raid that finally sank the Tirpitz is still considered one of the outstanding achievements of aerial warfare I think it was very well planned very well executed and to solve those big bombs in this closed circle around and on the ship was an accomplishment but so thousand Germans died so that's something we have to consider too [Music] crazy war for nothing eight years of my life that gets to me now [Music] it was pretty tough once but no it's Oh God it's rather rather like the words at the ceremony of the Cenotaph isn't it you know they shall not grow old it's a stick seeing the photo bit yeah I think all war is dreadful I do really I mean if it came again we'd have to do the same again he couldn't have the nurses in charge could use no way [Music] you

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Length: 46min 34sec (2794 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 30 2017

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I had never heard of that ship or the multiple attempts to sink her, so this was a very important documentary for me that shed light on the Arctic campaigns of WWII. Thanks

👍︎︎ 6 👤︎︎ u/foncilla8 📅︎︎ Jul 01 2017 🗫︎ replies

Very well researched and produced. Original footage, too. Excellent find, sir!

👍︎︎ 4 👤︎︎ u/xmotorboatmygoatx 📅︎︎ Jul 01 2017 🗫︎ replies

It's an interesting ship because strategically it was powerful but practically it didn't do much of anything.

Just by existing it caused a lot of war effort to be spent on it.

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/blerdiblerberg 📅︎︎ Jul 01 2017 🗫︎ replies

Its really nice to learn about a not so well known event in the war, especially since its shown from many perspectives.

What really got to me was in the end, when the german fighter pilot reflected on the human losses of the attack. That this war time success against all odds is a remarkable achievement, but its direct results are horrible nonetheless.

Thats a point not many documentaries try to include, after all its not easy to meaningfully weave that into the fabric of stories that invite to be romanticised. At least to me, it didn't feel out of place here at all.

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/MxCxD777 📅︎︎ Jul 01 2017 🗫︎ replies

Amazing. Also so sad.

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/benzethonium 📅︎︎ Jul 03 2017 🗫︎ replies

Not available in England??? what??? It even contains stuff about the RAF who sunk it! why on earth can't I watch it from the UK??

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/steaders 📅︎︎ Jul 02 2017 🗫︎ replies

/r/WorldOfWarships love this stuff

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/Benevolent_Tyrant 📅︎︎ Jul 03 2017 🗫︎ replies