I've been playing World of Warships recently and it's really spurred the desire to watch some documentary style stuff on WWII naval battles and ships. Does anybody know of any? I've seen Ken Burn's The War and WWII in Color so far.
Netflix: WWII and the man of Steel WWII 1941 and Hitler's underbelly Hitler's Olympics WWII the last heroes What our Father Did Not sure how many involve navy, but they are WW2 era docs on Netflix
Watching documentaries is the lazy way of learning history, so snowflake. Ken Burns isn't a historian and is a liberal who has been accused of revisionist history to further a political agenda. Here's the best source for WW ll naval history, it's where history is written from. You'll notice a lot that still hasn't made it into the history books yet. It's all government documents, no revisionism. You might want to start here. -> http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/index.html Home page. -> http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/ The secret is, keep following the links, you could find yourself inside the Washington Navy Yard archives by following the links.
[video=youtube;FncAd2qfiAE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FncAd2qfiAE[/video] Ian W. Toll, Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 19411942, W. W. Norton, 2011. ISBN 9780393068139 Ian W. Toll, The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 19421944, W. W. Norton, 2015. ISBN 9780393080643
I've never found a problem with Ken Burn's stuff. In those of his works I've watched, I've seen him be impartial to both sides of an issue, even if he might stress some issues above others. I have no problem with reading, but as these are huge warships that are driving my interest I thought it might be cool to see them as well as hear about them. And video beats a still image if video is available. Thanks for the links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_at_Sea You can find it on YouTube and probably a box set somewhere. Brilliant stuff, I remember watching the series as a kid and it was enthralling.
Well Janes as a source is to expensive. The U.S. Naval Institute (USNI) -> http://www.usni.org/ is the best source for old warships but again you're looking at $59. per year membership. The USNI has the best selection of books. -> http://www.usni.org/store/books But if it's videos and documentary films you want, Youtube seems the place to go. Just type in the search engine the name of the ship or battle you are curious about. This is an excellent naval forum -> http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/directory#.V7uB7U0rLnA from this website -> http://www.navweaps.com/ It covers all of the worlds navies and it's ships weapons going back to 1881. One of the best websites with videos -> http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/
