Nazis vs New York - Axis Operations to Attack 'The Big Apple'

The sun is shining, cold beer, the BBQ is on and dr. Felton has just uploaded a 40+ minute video. Life is good.

Mark Felton is the best historian I know because he tells us history events we were never taught and never heard of. Thank you mark Felton. 👍

As a submarine veteran and a history buff, it is rare to hear about the Atlantic war under the sea other than the standard. Thank you.

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30 plus years of the so-called HISTORY CHANNEL can't hold a candle to the great Mark Felton!

A measure of the US's desperation at being unprepared for coastal defense was the formation of a civilian auxiliary of the Army Air Corps called the Civil Air Patrol, originally formed from WW1 pilot vets and patriotic Americans who saw America's entry into the war inevitable. They flew recon missions over the East Coast looking for U-Boats and provided eyes for convoy security until the regular forces could ramp up, after which they performed military cadet and pilot training and air SAR, which they still do today.

The German second happy time was partially the result of Chief of Naval Operations, American Admiral Ernest King's failure to enact an adequate U Boat defense. He was given advice from the British and he chose to ignore it.

US Coastal Guard: "Hey, since when the ocean start burping?" U-Boot commander *giggling*: “Hans, launch ze schnitzel!”

42 minutes of Dr. Felton. I knew today was going to be a good day.

The fact that the italians got closest to hitting the big apple is priceless.

"The Nazis had a submarine off Coney Island in Brooklyn during the war. But we were saved....It was destroyed by toxic waste" Woody Allen - One more :) "A storm destroyed Coney Island when I was growing up - stores, the boardwalk, everything. The only thing left standing were those little milk jugs you have to knock over with a baseball to win a prize"

The Legendary Dr. Felton at it again!!!

Kind of surreal that so many Axis combatants were once studying/working/touring the States before WWII. Yamamoto, Kuribayashi, and now Hardagen. The context of peacetime and war makes their visits almost surreal to imagine; one minute they're touring the Empire State Building, the next minute they're planning an attack on Hawaii.

Yet again, another topic I would never have thought of and a whole 40 minutes of it! Amazing! Thank you!

I can highly recommend H G Wells' 1908 novel "The War in the Air". Apart from giving an amazing insight into society in Edwardian England, bicycles were transforming the world for the common people. Londoners could cycle out of the slums of London for a weekend at the seaside without having to find the expensive train fare. The book features a unicycle monorail over the English Channel, and predicts the coming world war. A fleet of Zeppelins fly across the Atlantic and bomb New York. Wells truly was a prophet of his day.

Absolutely love these longer form videos really hits the spot for me with less known ww2 facts/stories. Thanks for all of these!

My father was stationed at Jacksonville Florida flying PBY Catalina’s on Uboat patrol from 1942 to 1945. His patrol area was the Bermuda Triangle and knew one of the pilots in the lost squadron of planes never heard from again.

41 MINUTES OF MARK????? MARK BE SPOILING US OMG

My father was a P-40 pilot in Burma, however he was sent to Mitchel Field on long island to look for V-1s fired at NY. He flew P-47s there. He got back to the US early and hooked up with his girl friend. They got married, and in November 1945 I appeared. The V-1 fired at NY flew on November 4, 1944. It ran out of juice and went down in the surf on long island. He never confided the V-1 to me. However i found an article on it in Stars & Stripes when Germany surrendered.

Was just going through your older stuff and got the notification! Great timing.