September 18, 2024

BONUS EPISODE: U-352, The Dumbest U-Boat of WWII

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Joe, Francis, and Shocks tell the tale of U-352 as it failed its away across the war in the Atlantic.

Sources:

NAVY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS. FINAL REPORT OF INTERROGATION OF SURVIVORS FROM U-352 SUNK BY U.S.C.G. ICARUS ON MAY 9, 1942 IN APPROXIMATE POSITION LATITUDE 34.12.05 N., LONGITUDE 76.35 W.

Erik A. Petkovic. Was U-352 the Worst U-Boat of World War II?

Underwater Journal. The U-352, North Carolina's German German U-Boat Wreck.

Busch, Rainer; Röll, Hans-Joachim. German U-boat commanders of World War II : a biographical dictionary

Comments (34)

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Markrios · August 10, 2026

Wasn't expecting to catch so many strays in the first 15 minutes

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Vicky Lovelace · February 19, 2026

I expected it would have been U-1206, considering it sank due to a toilet issue.

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Taylor Russell · July 6, 2025

I work at a gym and I see dawgs out way more often than I ever thought I would, and as someone who cleans said floors you couldn’t pay me to go barefoot

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Alex · May 31, 2025

All of the Scientology chatter would have been improved if Robert Evans had been a guest. He would be in his element.

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LightningwingDragon · October 1, 2024

EMBRACE TRADITION, REJECT MODERNITY!!!!

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Rear Admiral JDogg · September 24, 2024

Hey! I earned bread and water jail in the Navy!

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Spaghetti · September 23, 2024

Zoo Crew episodes are my favorite part of the show. I love anything you guys do together. :)

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Ruoska · September 23, 2024

Can confirm. Spent 6 months living on board while ship was in refit. It sucked. Had to wear hard hats and ppe between showers and mess deck

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Mitch Guerrerio · September 22, 2024

Suggestion: the v-22 osprey should be used as a crematorium, pack dead bodies into them, and drop them into active volcanoes

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Hannah Oberhardt · September 21, 2024

Hey y'all, the event Brite link for the stream tickets isn't working for me, is there another link?

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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast · September 21, 2024

Hey this one should work here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestream-lions-led-by-donkeys-live-in-belfast-tickets-1008166803047?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1

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Joon · September 20, 2024

Great episode. An idea for a new series in the future given the recent news: the Lebanese Civil War. It’s a super murky period with everybody being an asshole from the local communities up to the international powers

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AthenAltena · September 19, 2024

I'm reminded of the Operation Pastorius episode where the u-boat that dropped the spies off got stuck in shallow water and was audibly revving its engines

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Page Chase · September 19, 2024

All of you are on top form here. I love an underwater death tube episode. I recently read a horror novel about a sunken uboat in the Caribbean that came back up, but was full of nazi zombies because of course it was.

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Noblese Oblahaj · September 19, 2024

In the army, corporal punishment is when they make you a corporal

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Noblese Oblahaj · September 19, 2024

As a Fear and Hunger guy, all I could think during the opening riff was "podcast marriage"

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The *spooOOOoouwuOooOkily* woman-shaped Pharmacist · September 19, 2024

North Carolina! We had the British bomb a couple U-boats and uhhhhhhh fuckin... I guess they probably had to squat the escort ship because that's a fuckin thing here

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Sean Hakala · September 19, 2024

I listened to this in a 2000 model year Camry with front and rear number dents and an inline four-banger. Can confirm, great car. I’m gonna drive it until the seats fall through the floor pan

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JM · September 19, 2024

Off topic but any chance you guys will cover the Cristero war? it is an odd and undercovered period of Mexican history. Like the crusades it will bring out a certain kind of Catholics… but most don’t know that Mexico for a time endorsed State-Atheism stronger than the Soviets. https://youtu.be/LNzX5UbbO7I?si=COiTGXaDyZBpI4KG

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Markus D · September 25, 2024

The KKK hated the Catholics so much that they ignored the atheism and their own racism!?

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Mitch Guerrerio · September 19, 2024

Just watched a documentary about the mongol invasion of Poland. Duke Henry’s army got absolutely bodied and the Mongols cut off his head and paraded around the city. The Duke’s wife only recognized his mangled corpse because he had eleven toes.

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19ZXB Donkey brains · September 18, 2024

I have a framed picture of "the ghost fleet of the outer banks". U-352 is conspicuous in the bottm left corner.

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William Shackelford · September 18, 2024

The cursed Axe Body Spray scent I imagine would be called. “40 days out at sea in a U-Boat” For Men. Also if you guys ever do a live tour in the USA. I definitely pay and travel to come see ya in Georgia or Florida. Can’t wait to see the livestream in October.

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Max W · September 18, 2024

The main takeaway that I get from every U Boat episode is “I know it smell crazy in there”

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dogman · September 18, 2024

Historians finding all of your guys bodies in the bunk together would say, "And they were roommates."

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BEAUSABRE23 · September 18, 2024

The nut that holds the rotor to the helicopter is known as the "Jesus Nutz' according to helicopter crews I have known. That's 'cause that's all you will have time to say if it fails

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Jim Heeren · September 18, 2024

Hey Joe, since you live in the Netherlands now (and in The Hague) when are we getting a series about the Indonesian war for independence. It’s somehow the most forgotten war of them all and it started literally while WW2 was still going on and lasted till 1949. It has anything a series like LLBD needs, war crimes, large scale city battles, interesting characters, the Dutch being assholes.

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Dave · September 18, 2024

Is it just me, or does this intro song just friggin slap?

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3 Toed Jim · September 18, 2024

I love this intro song!

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Matt · September 18, 2024

Hell yeah, stupid boats

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Dave · September 18, 2024

That’s just boats

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William Shackelford · September 18, 2024

Much like the Detroit Lions, U-Boat crews were choking from oxygen depravation just like Jared Goff choking in Ford Field.

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Anarcho Slowpoke · September 18, 2024

„a boat usually floats“ Meanwhile the pride of the Swedish navy in 1628: „oh no, we’re sinking and not even made it outside the bay!“ The 30 years war could be a good series btw;)

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Sparky · September 18, 2024

Hanging with my homies sealed inside a gas canister currently sinking only the correct amount