WW2 colorized thread: Big Badaboom edition
>magazine explosion at HMS Barham (1941)

>>63911733 (OP)
Imagine being one of the people on the side of the ship thinking that you're reletively safe

>>63911747
A third of the crew survived, so maybe those are the relatively safe ones.

>>63911825
There is no chance they weren't all made permanently deaf by that, at a minimum.

Was the steam explosion caused by seawater entering the hearth or by the collapse and leakage of the high-pressure steam pipes due to the capsizing?

>>63911889
What steam explosion?

>>63911889
>>63911903
That's the magazine cooking off.

>turret toss v.0.41d

>>63911841
I was gonna say, surely there's no way they got away without permanent deafness + concussions and God knows what else?

>>63911733 (OP)
>>63911841
>>63912281
>When I scrambled over the barbette and onto the heavily barnacle encrusted ship’s bottom and over the bilge keel, it was probably only about four minutes since the ship had been hit. I estimate she then had a list of about sixty degrees. Those of us who were scrambling over the barnacles, which were pretty sharp, were close to the swirling sea when there was a tremendous shudder throughout the ship which turned out to be a major explosion in one of the fifteen inch magazines aft. One sailor near me said ‘Christ, another torpedo’, and another said ‘Nah, the bastard’s blowin’ up’. That was enough for me to hurl myself at the sea and hope for the best.
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>When I hit the sea, the ship was rapidly disintegrating by the force of the tremendous explosion. Gun turrets and pieces of superstructure were being hurled hundreds of feet into the air, and I was immediately engulfed in the vortex of a 33,000 ton battleship which was sinking rapidly. I had no control of my limbs which were at the mercy of the swirling water, but I had the presence of mind to hold my breath as long as I could. I think my first attempt lasted about three-quarters of a minute. The second wasn’t so good because I breathed in some water, but when I tried again I was apparently in the middle of a God-sent bubble until I surfaced – on the point of giving up the ghost and barely conscious. Nearer my God to thee!
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>I could see nothing because of the pall of black smoke covering the sea. I think I can owe my miraculous survival to the efficiency of my inflated ‘Gieves Waistcoat’ as I have never been able to swim more than about fifty yards at the best of times.
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>When I could see where I was, the ship had gone, and there were no signs of life nearby. The surface of the sea was covered with oil fuel and so was I. When I was submerged I had time to think of my mother and my wife, but my over-riding thought was to survive – and I was lucky.

>>63912453
>being pulled down to the dark depths by a massive sinking ship right next to you
jesus christ, how horrifying, a literal nightmare

>>63911733 (OP)
Colourized footage from the Italian propaganda movie "La nave bianca" (the white ship) from 1940. Movie was filmed on board of the Littorio, and included real combat scenes from the battle of Calabria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMO8hNIt78I

>>63912936
I feel like serving in the Navy during ww2 opened up the possibility of experiencing some absolutely awful deaths.

During Yamato's last fight for example we know that at one point the ship's captain decided to flood one engine room to keep the ship upright. the engineers working there were not informed of this, and drowned.

Also When bismark sunk we know that some people remained locked below the waterline as the ship was going down. survivors recall hearing banging noises behind permanently shut steel door as they were abandining the ship.

Also, the absolutely enormous number of subs that are listed as "lost with all hands". God knows what happened on those ships as they were falling to the bottom. Very disturbing stuff

>>63913304
Sailors were trapped for days in the ships sunk in pearl harbor, when the west Virginia got raised 6 months later they found a room where 3 dudes had survived for 16 days

>>63913304
Three guys took 16 days to die inside the sunken battleship West Virginia at Pearl Harbor.

>>63913304
To me naval combat has seen arguably more horrific deaths than ground combatants. Galleys sinking with men chained to the oars, cannon hits sending clouds of splinters in the age of sail (really just naval combat in general during that time period), having your ship detonate around you out of nowhere from a torpedo you never saw. Choosing between burning and drowning. Being stranded for days with no idea if anyone will notice you as sharks and the elements pick your friends off one by one.

>>63913397
>>63913417
USS West Virginia mind

>>63913304
During the final attack on Yamato, the Anti-Aircraft nests were repeated strafed by aircraft, and surviving crews were having to man the guns on decks flooded with blood and the torn-apart bodies of their shipmates

Also the number of sailors who survived their ships being sunk only to freeze to death in the arctic and North Atlantic

>>63913304
Pearl was one of the worst because they were so close and yet so far so to speak
they tried to cut holes in the keel to open up compartments which they knew contained survivors but blowtorches just don't work that fast and for obvious reasons you can't blow open the steel
so they eventually died

not that this is any different from people dying in other ships in the open sea. it's just that them dying in harbor surrounded by damage control crews separated only by inches-thick steel is... something else

>>63911889
Fun Fact!: Krakatowas largest explosion was a steam explosion.

>>63913397
>>63913417
anyone remember the drowning sailors behind a stuck door in that one Medal of Honor game that had you running through a battleship during the attack?
you were running past the door or something and youd see the guys struggling but the game tells you to get your ass out of there (and shoot shit up with a PT boat or whatever)

>>63913813
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnVBP5qrxvI
13:25

I think it is arguable that the life of a sailor in the age of sail was among the worst jobs you could get. Horrible shit they had to deal with

>>63911733 (OP)
Still can't believe this was caught on camera.

>>63913951
>>63911733 (OP)
One of only two battleships ever filmed while sinking. The other being the Austro hungarian Szent Istvan during ww1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PahPJS3fjSI

>>63913813
I played that mission so many times a a kid. On gamecube...

>>63914180
>>63913860
Oh damn never mind I was thinking of medal of honor rising sun..

What the fuck happened to that franchise man

>>63914196
WWII games got oversatruated and people lost interest, by the time they switched to modern combat it was already in the same situation. I thought the online having a payload gametype where you escort a Bradley was cool

>>63911733 (OP)
>don't help, just film

what the fuck?

>>63914196
>What the fuck happened to that franchise
lack of innovation
I cut my FPS teeth on MOHAA but anyone could tell that COD was superior
better animation
better story
better level designs
realistic weapon limit instead of one-man bag of holding walking arsenal
faster to adopt iron sights (ADS) while MOH was still fucking around with the tired old formula

all a bunch of little things that just added up to being outgamed at every point

>>63911733 (OP)
>random ship exploding in 4k
>didn't film either nuclear bombings
Americans are faggots

>>63914316
What exactly do you want them to do?
Can't go much closer with another large ship, you risk chopping up people with the props, and as you can see the ship had a massive magazine explosion.
Most cases large ships will stay a few hundred yards away, throw nets over the railing and launch boats.

>>63914196
>What the fuck happened to that franchise man
Times changed, WW2 was out, GWOT was in, and EA did what EA always does, drain every drop of money out of anything they own.
I still think RS and airborne were the best in the series, RS for the presentation and being one of the most iconic titles in the series, and airborne for doing something new and interesting with the setting.

>>63917258
Allied Assault was pretty great too. That scene when they check your papers and it becomes a squad game (kind of). It was a huge step up from Medal of Honor for PS1 (whatever that one was called) or Wolfenstein, where you would always be alone. Having your buddies with you was a great experience.

>>63917466
True, AA was pretty cool too, more or less set the stage for pretty much every 6th gen WW2 title.

>>63917258
>>63917466

MOH: Spearhead. online multiplayer, rifle only, 3rd person view servers was goat. Wasn't so many hours back in 2004-10.

>>63913560
>To me naval combat has seen arguably more horrific deaths than ground combatants
Don't underestimate the terror of being in melee, especially on the losing side. I remember reading that when they dug up skeletons from the Battle of Towton, they found the men's teeth had been broken by the sheer force of how hard they were gritting their teeth due to the stress. And this was in the age before sugar, when people had healthier teeth.
Towton was during a period of armor ascendency as well, so it was pretty hard to kill men in full plate. Most of them were probably chased until they collapsed from exhaustion, then surrounded and smashed in the head with bills till their helmets came off or gave way.