Heavier Metal for JW51B: Texas & Brooklyn vs Hipper & Lützow | America at the Barents Sea | WotS

🔔 RING THE BELL!!!! Subscribe for weekly battle briefings, poll battles, and full grudge match recordings. What if an American Escort Group of the old battleship USS Texas, the light cruisers USS Brooklyn and USS Philadelphia, the destroyers USS Anderson and USS Hammann, and the veteran four-stacker USS Reuben James, defend Convoy JW51B against a scaled-down German raiding force of Admiral Hipper, Lützow, and a single destroyer, Z-16 Friedrich Eckoldt, in our Barents Sea Battle. Whilst the historical interlude breaks down the order of battle, the battle timeline, ship-by-ship statistics, and the command decisions that decided the action in real life. Why did the Germans not sink the convoy? DONATE/SUPPORT GRIM REAPERS PATREON monthly donations:   / grimreapers   PAYPAL one-off donations: https://www.paypal.me/GrimReapersDona... MERCH: https://grimreapers.net/grim-reapers-... 0:00 Intro 1:11 Orientation to battlespace 02:45 Battle commences 4:25 Historical Interlude 10:00 Battle recommences 25:50 Ammo ship explodes 25:55 Battle concludes 37:00 Debrief GRIM REAPERS YOUTUBE CHANNELS Grim Reapers 1 - DCS & Sea Power:    / @grimreapers   Grim Reapers 2 - WWII naval battles:    / @grimreapers2   Grim Reapers 3 - Full DCS missions    / @grimreapers-fulldcsmissions   SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE: https://grimreapers.net/ STREAM(Cap):   / grimreaperscap   FACEBOOK:   / grimreapersgroup   TWITTER:   / grimreapers_   DISCORD:   / discord   THANK YOU TO: Mission Makers, Admin, Staff, Helpers, Donators & Viewers(without which, this could not happen)