As a American citizen. I will say the British are absolutely the GREATEST ALLIE we have ever had. Tough doesn't even begin to describe the British military!!! Much love and respect from America 🇺🇸
@zuovelightning3510 With all due respect, The French are 2nd behind the British. Please let me explain. Because the British trained our Special Forces in WW2 . Our Navy learned almost every thing they know from the British. Also we cannot forget the British ramped up war time production of materials for war better than any other country in Europe ever. Also the British people are very determined. That said, The French military of today is excellent but not in WW1 or WW2 . I worked in a nursing home year's ago. A WW2 American fighter pilot was a resident there . He told me how he was shot down over a small town in France 🇫🇷. The French people hid him and helped him get back to England. Even after the Germans shot a bunch of the civilian people for not turning him over . He always had the greatest respect for the French till his last breath in 06 . The French peoples including the French resistance contributed beyond words can say . As a Proud American citizen let me say this. America has many many Truly Great Allies. France 🇫🇷 and America 🇺🇸 have a very special bond between our countries. We owe our freedom's to one another. France 🇫🇷 helped America 🇺🇸 gain it's freedom. America helped France regain theirs. That's something none of our Allies can say accept France. Vive La France 🇫🇷 I love and respect the French. God Bless you all!!!!!!
@britishpatriot7386 My love and respect for the British is enormous. As a Supervisor at the biggest tree service in ST. LOUIS. I got a job to do for a British man who lived in America . The job was 2300 dollars but . I made my crew do a lot more because the man was British. I had to bust my but to give him a 4000 dollar bit of extra work for free . He Thanked me and shook my hand. I told him of my Great respect and admiration of the British. Folks always remember that when one of your Allies soldiers dies in battle that's one of your soldiers that didn't have to . Now then let's also look at history. In every military engagement in the modern age of warfare. From WW1 WW2 , from Normandy to Afghanistan and Iraq. The British have been by our side literally by our side . On the left or the right.
Little is said about the fact that many if not all the commando units contained at least 1 fluent German speaker. These members were German Jews who had Anglicized their Names and many went on to become very instrumental in the early formations of the elite troops such as the SAS
My dad was one of these! I am desperately trying to find out what he actually did but am overwhelmed. I would be very grateful if you could suggest any good videos or books or anything at all! Thank you in advance Melissa
Who needs comic book super-heroes when you can see real MEN doing the impossible at St. Nazair? Excellent film, narration and a sound track that is the most fitting ever. It's always a treat to see 'new' footage after decades of watching the same footage used in so many films. TY!
That guy who sent the message to Hitler is a legend. Probably saved a lot of lives since Hitler posted 250 k troops to Norway where they were no help against the Russians and western allies. Who knows if the Germans would have had better success at Moscow or Stalingrad if they would have had more men there. Maybe it was enough that the commandos attacked for Hitler to reassign troops but regardless it is very possible that one troll message saved tens of thousands of lives.
A practical joke saved thousands of lives. This is the best "It's just a prank bro" thing in history, well... except that Hitler never knew that it was a prank (which was good).
My grandfather was a commando, I don't know about Europe all I know about is the photos I've seen from the desert campaign and that. he was doing such things as hit and run and sabotage stuff but I don't know what exactly, he died when I was young but I heard my uncle say stuff that now I think back couldn't have been from his day's in northern Irland but must have been about his dad, .serious fighting. He still grew his own food and tackled a set of stairs every day till he passed in his 80s and would even do press ups with me balanced on his back in his 70s for fun, a very fit and put together man. .. proper proud, he was far better than me and most I've ever met.
I agree. Robert Powell is my all time favourite narrator. I bet I’ve listened to him talk about WW2 …. well I’ll just say it’s a bunch. Especially during lockdowns.
@@ben-jam-in6941 I go to sleep with this guy in the background and done this more than a few hundred times. 500 to 800 times, easily. I cant go to sleep with movies that have lots of gunfire and bombs going off but when he narrates ww2 docs i am out like a light, Even with bombs going off.
@@suminshizzles6951 That’s crazy! I do the exact same thing every single night and it’s a playlist of WW2 documentaries with Robert Powell as the narrator. I hate to sound like I’m just copying you but I bet I’ve played them nearly 800-1000 times. I thought I was the only one lol.
@@chrisholland7367 : I agree. The old movie 'Attack on the Iron Coast' just doesn't cut it anymore, it's just too old and outdated. Having said that, big respects to the cast, most were ex-servicemen who'd done post-war national service, as well as many who'd actually served during WW2. That's one of the bonuses of all those old movies, it's clear from their evident familiarity with military protocols and behaviour, their experience had been at first hand... and damn, they sure knew how to drill !
My Grandad took part in that raid he was in N⁰1 Commando He fought at Monte Cassio, Burma, Germany, Africa and more. He was a Para and a British Army Commando 🙏 Lest We Forget ❤
My Grandfather was a member of The U.S./Canada First Special Service Force (The Black Devil's). He was in The Alutieans in The Pacific and The Italian campaign, Operation Dragoon (The invasion of Southern France) and The Rhineland.
Great thing about these documentaries is to hear the first hand interview accounts of those veterans who were actually there - a different breed those men were .
Yes, they Dutch crowded onto the streets, showering the troops with flowers and wine and food. The crowds glocking the roads prevented a rabid advance.
Thank you for this excellent, well told Word history lesson. I hope not, but it may prove to be valuable here in America, in light of recent fascistic developments.
@Aces OverKings Yeah, no. That's like saying the 82nd ABD is the same as 10th Special Forces Group. They'll both shoot you in the face with a smile but one of those entities will leave everything pregnant or on fire. Hide your crayons and farm animals if it's Marine Recon or the Seals.
My grandfather was Royal Navy, and after he won his commission he was in charge of Motor Torpedo Boats. One of his jobs was ferrying commandos to the coast of Yugoslavia under cover of darkness, to link up with Partisans.
Oddly the official march music of the Parachute regiment is Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries , Hitler's favourite composer, still played today as every new platoon passes out of training.
True heroes , they fought for freedom , it is so sad that what they fought and died for has been diminished by politicians and the extreme left . They would be ashamed of this country that is emerging 😥
9:49 Herr Hitler, "Reference your last speech, I thought you said that when ever British troops land on the continent of Europe, German soldiers will face them. Well, where are they?" Ok mister, you just broke WWII!! Here's my money!! :D :D :D
amazing how little recognition all the forces (allied) in this series got. surely there must have been multiple medals for valor and bravery, yet their actions are overlooked because of things like D Day, Battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad, etc.
Kudos to the courage of these young people. I was in the war for 4 and a half years. Against a much stronger enemy, better armed. But we were building a real armed force until 1995. And won their third of the occupied country for 8 days and entered western Bosnia and protected it from Serbian occupation. Every war is terrible, but WW2 was the worst.
My grandad was over In dunkirk !he had orders to stay in position keep the germans back guess what he had 30 bullets!!!British army had no ammo poor equipment disgusting how the government treated them
Operation Market Garden was where Montgomery should have been asked or told to resign!!!, he had been siphoning off supplies that could've been better used by either George Patton or General Devers of the US Army they would have in all probability crossed the Rhine in Sept of 1944 had Eisenhower not allowed Montgomery to siphon of those supplies
Here it guz again??, does this great man of great british substance live in yankee bloody heads rent free???, FFS its same ol, same ol every feckin time, seriously its feckin cringe.......
the poles were landed on the south bank of the Rhine by direction of the remaining pocket of 1st Brit AB Div in Oosterbeek. The advance of XXX corps was stalled by the blown bridge at Zon,, not any other reason, and not mentioned at all.
The first officer to be murdered under Hitlers "Kommando Befehl" (Commando Order) was a Canadian Captain Graeme Black, DSO, MC, who was in 2 Commando, (after serving in two Canadian Militia army regiments, volunteering to go to England to join the new British "Commandos", he completed the very first Commando Course and then served in the very first Commando Raid, Operation Archery in Norway) and subsequently was placed as the officer in charge of the Commando Raid party which attacked a Large Hydro-Electric plant in Operation Musketoon in Norway, on 21 Sept 1942. After their successful attack (Hydro plant remained out of service until Nov 1946), Captain Black ordered the raiding party split, sending one half of them to escape evade and return to a planned submarine pick up, while his half of the raiding party, (2 officers and 5 Other ranks) would seek to escape and evade across Norway to neutral Sweden......the first group of commandos succeeded in meeting the waiting submarine, but Captain Black's party of seven were soon overtaken and captured by a large force of responding German troops. They were all then taken to Colditz Special security Officer Prisoner of War camp, with the two officers (Captain Graeme Black and British Captain Houghton) placed in the prisons isolation cells within the Colditz castle prison, the 5 Other Ranks being jailed in the Colditz town jail. When Hitler was told of that successful Commando Raid, he became extremely mad and ordered his infamous "Kommando Befehl" (Commando Order) on 18 October 1942, that "all captured Commandos were to immediately be turned over to the Security Service (the SD) Gestapo and interrogated, then taken directly to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and shot". Captains Black and Houghton and the 5 Other Ranks were then taken out of their jail cells by a party of Gestapo officers to their Headquarters in Berlin. They were then subject to a very severe interrogation, then taken directly to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp north of Berlin, forced to their knees at gunpoint in front of an open trench and then shot in the back their heads on 23 October 1942. Hitler was then informed by the SS Chief, Heinrich Himmler that Hitlers new "Kommando Order" had been fully carried out.
Bit of a correction in this narration. The Paras did not take PEGASUS BRIDGE it was D Company, 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (part of the 6th British Airborne Division). The Ox and Bucks later became 1st Bn THE ROYAL GREEN JACKETS. So now you know.
I served 10 years with the RGJ. The OX&BUCKS went on to become the 1st Batt RGJ. Check out the RGJ cap badge, its one of the 17 major battle honors written on it.
@@lewisdavidson5645 they were glider borne. They were not Paras. Each of the 2 airborne divisions in the British Army of WW2 had a brigade of glider infantry. It supplemented the 2 para brigades in the airborne division.
39:50 - the "6th British AB Division at Arnhem" ???- poppycock. the 6th was never involved in Market - Garden. poor research in this documentary there.
+Me, I think what you refer is a misspelling. Early on when they discuss the plan and talk about the Airborne Division they mention the "First AB Division" at 37:50, they present Gen R. Urquhart. I have heard the section you refer to. Sounds almost like Sixth. I believe that what happened there was the sound breaks in a way that it sounds as if the narrator is saying "Fixth." After all, he correctly identified the unit earlier. Not poor research.
Though not a big fan of the British I just wonder how every one of the people who dislike and make negative comments about this video would have liked living under the boot heels of the Nazi's
My grandfather was in dieppe he never spoke of it matter of fact he only ever said 1 thing and that was the germans treated them good. He spent 2 years as a p.o.w.
Joke from WW2, If you see Silver Planes in the air it's the Americans, if you see Green Planes it's the Brits. If you see no planes in the air? It's the Luftwaffe!
dose anyone know of a good video on world war 2 in China? traditional world war 2 documentaries are so Europe focused most people don't even know that China was in the war. China was actually an extremely important member of the allied forces.
The Allied Bomber crews suffered more casualties 58000 than the entire USMC did in their whole Pacific campaign which was 22000 killed or missing. & Mountbatten was inept and got where he did through his Royal connections .
this totally bullshit i want to watch the Norwegian resistance fighters episode, but agian it says that this video is blocked in your country. i have a vpn so maybe if i use that and switch to britian i may be able to finally watch it. proud to be scandinavian and i can"t even see how hard my ancestors worked against the werhmact. ur content is awesome would love to see some new videos.
There are the Marines, these are basic naval infantry. There are detachments of marines based on every ship of the navy, tasked with security and guard duties. The marines are also specialized in amphibious operations like beach landings. Comandos, and there where army as well as marine comandos, are special forces that are specialized in raiding and high risk operations.
Comando units are more mobile,offen have sub machine guns for higer rate of fire becurse they normaly 20 - 200 men. and used fore fast attack operations and a cuick return to there home base. Regular units are more likely to march to war and deployd to divisions at normaly a rund 20 000 men. And slowly advance to there goal. hope this was the anser to your question your where loocking for!Sorry for my english im not british!
A commando unit is staffed with volunteers; regular units are not. Commando units are filled with highly aggressive, specially trained, and task-specific soldiers (Take that headquarters building). They know the particular mission, and execute that mission. Done. Regular units are deployed to a general mission (Take that hill ) and have more organic (mortars, artillery etc) support during the operation. Commandos once released, are usually on their own until they either accomplish the mission or they die. Therefore Commando, or Special Operations missions are well planned out. These missions are a one target, one-hit, high intensity operations that are then over. A "take that hill" operation may result in a week of combat and multiple movements that will result in success.
The Chindits were not commandos, although they were operating behind the lines. There were actual commando designated units in the Far East theatre. Same with SOE but the focus is on Europe.
To be frank the Paras and all British Airborne forces were formed from the commandos , but whether they were commandos , Paras or Airborne Forces they fought the Nazis with stealth and put fear into the Nazi high command
Ryan Hinojosa the series "WW2 in colour" is very unbiased and looks at both sides and what they did. It is one of the best ww2 documentaries in my opinion
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As a American citizen. I will say the British are absolutely the GREATEST ALLIE we have ever had.
Tough doesn't even begin to describe the British military!!!
Much love and respect from America 🇺🇸
True
Back at you brother.🇬🇧🇺🇲🇬🇧🇺🇲🙏👍
What about France ?
@zuovelightning3510
With all due respect, The French are 2nd
behind the British. Please let me explain.
Because the British trained our Special Forces in WW2 . Our Navy learned almost every thing they know from the British. Also we cannot forget the British ramped up war time production of materials for war better than any other country in Europe ever.
Also the British people are very determined.
That said, The French military of today is excellent but not in WW1 or WW2 .
I worked in a nursing home year's ago.
A WW2 American fighter pilot was a resident there . He told me how he was shot down over a small town in France 🇫🇷. The French people hid him and helped him get back to England.
Even after the Germans shot a bunch of the civilian people for not turning him over . He always had the greatest respect for the French till his last breath in 06 .
The French peoples including the French resistance contributed beyond words can say .
As a Proud American citizen let me say this. America has many many Truly Great Allies.
France 🇫🇷 and America 🇺🇸 have a very special bond between our countries.
We owe our freedom's to one another.
France 🇫🇷 helped America 🇺🇸 gain it's freedom. America helped France regain theirs. That's something none of our Allies can say accept France.
Vive La France 🇫🇷
I love and respect the French.
God Bless you all!!!!!!
@britishpatriot7386
My love and respect for the British is enormous. As a Supervisor at the biggest tree service in ST. LOUIS.
I got a job to do for a British man who lived in America . The job was 2300 dollars but . I made my crew do a lot more because the man was British.
I had to bust my but to give him a 4000 dollar bit of extra work for free .
He Thanked me and shook my hand.
I told him of my Great respect and admiration of the British.
Folks always remember that when one of your Allies soldiers dies in battle that's one of your soldiers that didn't have to .
Now then let's also look at history.
In every military engagement in the modern age of warfare.
From WW1 WW2 , from Normandy to Afghanistan and Iraq. The British have been by our side literally by our side .
On the left or the right.
Simple production, no fancy tricks, good narration. Why can't modern doccos be as good as this?
Because they have to make money. Sad, the same reason has been hurting humanity for thousands of years
Really ! Wheres Canada in all this.
F this.
Benters not UK made ?
They have to entertain more than to educate
46 years old wow
Little is said about the fact that many if not all the commando units contained at least 1 fluent German speaker. These members were German Jews who had Anglicized their Names and many went on to become very instrumental in the early formations of the elite troops such as the SAS
My dad was one of these! I am desperately trying to find out what he actually did but am overwhelmed. I would be very grateful if you could suggest any good videos or books or anything at all! Thank you in advance Melissa
@@MelissaFarber The Kings Most loyal Enemy Aliens by Helen Fry is a very good reference book
Die Verräter Europas. London ist ein schlechter Witz, und alles andere als Englisch.
X Troop
Who needs comic book super-heroes when you can see real MEN doing the impossible at St. Nazair?
Excellent film, narration and a sound track that is the most fitting ever. It's always a treat to see 'new' footage after decades of watching the same footage used in so many films. TY!
Thanks! Loved these as a kid, back when the Discovery Channel actually had informative shows.
Just like the battlefield series
Discovery sure deserves the hate. No wonder people don't know anything about everything
WHY don't they make documentaries with the same quality nowadays??😔 Now they concentrate TOO MUCH on effect......
Thanks for adding this. It is very special to me as I can clearly identify my late Grandfather at 17:25 on the film.
Your Grandfarther and my great uncle were/are true Heros :) did he fight in Afrika ?
he meant spotted dick ;)
A Very decent documentary with great footage and narration,
Short. Sweet and to the point, very enjoyable old bean....
That guy who sent the message to Hitler is a legend. Probably saved a lot of lives since Hitler posted 250 k troops to Norway where they were no help against the Russians and western allies. Who knows if the Germans would have had better success at Moscow or Stalingrad if they would have had more men there. Maybe it was enough that the commandos attacked for Hitler to reassign troops but regardless it is very possible that one troll message saved tens of thousands of lives.
A practical joke saved thousands of lives.
This is the best "It's just a prank bro" thing in history, well... except that Hitler never knew that it was a prank (which was good).
And the soldiers in Belgrade who ousted the collaborator.....it dragged hitler into the balkan quagmire.
@@scottleft3672 ?
FireFlakeFinn agreed lol 😂
Absolutely !!!!!!!!!
My grandfather was a commando, I don't know about Europe all I know about is the photos I've seen from the desert campaign and that. he was doing such things as hit and run and sabotage stuff but I don't know what exactly, he died when I was young but I heard my uncle say stuff that now I think back couldn't have been from his day's in northern Irland but must have been about his dad, .serious fighting. He still grew his own food and tackled a set of stairs every day till he passed in his 80s and would even do press ups with me balanced on his back in his 70s for fun, a very fit and put together man.
.. proper proud, he was far better than me and most I've ever met.
Rober Powell.... a legend. Perfect voice for this. Just a cycling has Phil Liggett, ww2 docs have Robert Powell.
I agree. Robert Powell is my all time favourite narrator. I bet I’ve listened to him talk about WW2 …. well I’ll just say it’s a bunch. Especially during lockdowns.
@@ben-jam-in6941 I go to sleep with this guy in the background and done this more than a few hundred times. 500 to 800 times, easily. I cant go to sleep with movies that have lots of gunfire and bombs going off but when he narrates ww2 docs i am out like a light, Even with bombs going off.
@@suminshizzles6951 That’s crazy! I do the exact same thing every single night and it’s a playlist of WW2 documentaries with Robert Powell as the narrator. I hate to sound like I’m just copying you but I bet I’ve played them nearly 800-1000 times. I thought I was the only one lol.
Can't imagine cycling without Phil
A fantastic achievement, something to be proud of
That St Nazair raid was sheer brilliance
There should be an updated film adaptation of this raid .👍🇬🇧
@@chrisholland7367 : I agree. The old movie 'Attack on the Iron Coast' just doesn't cut it anymore, it's just too old and outdated. Having said that, big respects to the cast, most were ex-servicemen who'd done post-war national service, as well as many who'd actually served during WW2. That's one of the bonuses of all those old movies, it's clear from their evident familiarity with military protocols and behaviour, their experience had been at first hand... and damn, they sure knew how to drill !
Jeremy Clarksons documentary on the raid is a good one. It would make a great film though, I'd watch it.
My Grandad took part in that raid he was in N⁰1 Commando
He fought at Monte Cassio, Burma, Germany, Africa and more. He was a Para and a British Army Commando 🙏
Lest We Forget ❤
Good stuff made by men with the right stuff! Thanks for posting.
My next door neighbour is in this doc but I never knew till I saw the show, thats what these guys were like, humble
Thanks so much for posting this. I'm going to watch all 13. Merry Christmas!
As an American Paratrooper, these boys did alright lol.
Salute to these Giants.
Bit more than alright ahha
Better than any American forces
Thank you so much for uploading these, I looked all over the web for them!
My Grandfather was a member of The U.S./Canada First Special Service Force (The Black Devil's). He was in The Alutieans in The Pacific and The Italian campaign, Operation Dragoon (The invasion of Southern France) and The Rhineland.
We owe those chaps for our very existence.
Plymouthpilot they faught for nothing look at the they state pf the country
@@jennygore9833 www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
Telegram good one
The music is truly amazing. What a great production.
Great thing about these documentaries is to hear the first hand interview accounts of those veterans who were actually there - a different breed those men were .
40:11 "... but they were delayed by enthusiastic Dutch civilians."
Yes, they Dutch crowded onto the streets, showering the troops with flowers and wine and food. The crowds glocking the roads prevented a rabid advance.
They were celebrating liberation and who can blame them!
Thank you for this excellent, well told Word history lesson. I hope not, but it may prove to be valuable here in America, in light of recent fascistic developments.
Paras and Commandos deserve their own episode, not sharing one.
It’s the same thing ...
@@acesoverkings7030 definitely not
@Aces OverKings
Yeah, no. That's like saying the 82nd ABD is the same as 10th Special Forces Group. They'll both shoot you in the face with a smile but one of those entities will leave everything pregnant or on fire. Hide your crayons and farm animals if it's Marine Recon or the Seals.
Marines are far superior
My grandfather was Royal Navy, and after he won his commission he was in charge of Motor Torpedo Boats. One of his jobs was ferrying commandos to the coast of Yugoslavia under cover of darkness, to link up with Partisans.
Oddly the official march music of the Parachute regiment is Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries , Hitler's favourite composer, still played today as every new platoon passes out of training.
I love these old-timey docos.
Nice history thanks uploading
True heroes , they fought for freedom , it is so sad that what they fought and died for has been diminished by politicians and the extreme left . They would be ashamed of this country that is emerging 😥
Guts and Glory!! Probably just victor's history but these men are the real thing hero's...
Thanks again for a great film.
Great Doc!
9:49 Herr Hitler,
"Reference your last speech, I thought you said that when ever British troops land on the continent of Europe, German soldiers will face them. Well, where are they?"
Ok mister, you just broke WWII!! Here's my money!! :D :D :D
Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for uploading.
I remember watching this on the history channel when I was in 3rd grade good stuff
amazing how little recognition all the forces (allied) in this series got. surely there must have been multiple medals for valor and bravery, yet their actions are overlooked because of things like D Day, Battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad, etc.
how much time is there....?
They got little recognition because they were secret operations
Kudos to the courage of these young people. I was in the war for 4 and a half years. Against a much stronger enemy, better armed. But we were building a real armed force until 1995. And won their third of the occupied country for 8 days and
entered western Bosnia and protected it from Serbian occupation.
Every war is terrible, but WW2 was the worst.
Lord Louise as we affectionately remember him, Nero showed him the way, apparently a man with a lot of stamina who could recover quickly!
The cinematography is great
Great Men / there are times when words can not / Describe these Men and Their Great Actions and what they Stood For.
Our Freedoms.
I’m sure the 1000s of civilians in Dresden would slightly disagree on the great part.
Brilliant post Vaso.
Amazing footage, their not forgotten.
Beauty Mate.
22:36 it’s a honour to see the real Commandos who fought in this raid retell the battle.
My grandad was over In dunkirk !he had orders to stay in position keep the germans back guess what he had 30 bullets!!!British army had no ammo poor equipment disgusting how the government treated them
Excellent series
Operation Market Garden was where Montgomery should have been asked or told to resign!!!, he had been siphoning off supplies that could've been better used by either George Patton or General Devers of the US Army they would have in all probability crossed the Rhine in Sept of 1944 had Eisenhower not allowed Montgomery to siphon of those supplies
Here it guz again??, does this great man of great british substance live in yankee bloody heads rent free???, FFS its same ol, same ol every feckin time, seriously its feckin cringe.......
I’d love to see a big budget film about the Commandos.
Yes, with a big emphasis on AUTHENTICITY, and good production values👍👍👍
It would be an American unit showing the Brits who it's done
I bow to these very brave soldiers...many also fell to the Kommandobefehl of 18/10/42
The British and Germans are formidable soldiers.
Whats with the gentleman at 29:15 thats clean shaved except for a patch of hair on each cheek. Talk about creating your own style 😆 lol.
Maybe dident have the time to shave 100%
12:47 how does this man not have a film about him?
I have one question would the Sam Beatty in question be any relation to Admiral Beatty commander of the battle cruisers at Jutland
the poles were landed on the south bank of the Rhine by direction of the remaining pocket of 1st Brit AB Div in Oosterbeek. The advance of XXX corps was stalled by the blown bridge at Zon,, not any other reason, and not mentioned at all.
The first officer to be murdered under Hitlers "Kommando Befehl" (Commando Order) was a Canadian Captain Graeme Black, DSO, MC, who was in 2 Commando, (after serving in two Canadian Militia army regiments, volunteering to go to England to join the new British "Commandos", he completed the very first Commando Course and then served in the very first Commando Raid, Operation Archery in Norway) and subsequently was placed as the officer in charge of the Commando Raid party which attacked a Large Hydro-Electric plant in Operation Musketoon in Norway, on 21 Sept 1942. After their successful attack (Hydro plant remained out of service until Nov 1946), Captain Black ordered the raiding party split, sending one half of them to escape evade and return to a planned submarine pick up, while his half of the raiding party, (2 officers and 5 Other ranks) would seek to escape and evade across Norway to neutral Sweden......the first group of commandos succeeded in meeting the waiting submarine, but Captain Black's party of seven were soon overtaken and captured by a large force of responding German troops. They were all then taken to Colditz Special security Officer Prisoner of War camp, with the two officers (Captain Graeme Black and British Captain Houghton) placed in the prisons isolation cells within the Colditz castle prison, the 5 Other Ranks being jailed in the Colditz town jail. When Hitler was told of that successful Commando Raid, he became extremely mad and ordered his infamous "Kommando Befehl" (Commando Order) on 18 October 1942, that "all captured Commandos were to immediately be turned over to the Security Service (the SD) Gestapo and interrogated, then taken directly to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and shot". Captains Black and Houghton and the 5 Other Ranks were then taken out of their jail cells by a party of Gestapo officers to their Headquarters in Berlin. They were then subject to a very severe interrogation, then taken directly to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp north of Berlin, forced to their knees at gunpoint in front of an open trench and then shot in the back their heads on 23 October 1942. Hitler was then informed by the SS Chief, Heinrich Himmler that Hitlers new "Kommando Order" had been fully carried out.
Scott Fuller now that’s a proper rant !
What is the song after the intro?
Bit of a correction in this narration. The Paras did not take PEGASUS BRIDGE it was D Company, 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (part of the 6th British Airborne Division). The Ox and Bucks later became 1st Bn THE ROYAL GREEN JACKETS. So now you know.
alanthevan they were part of the 6th airborne division, they were paras
I served 10 years with the RGJ. The OX&BUCKS went on to become the 1st Batt RGJ. Check out the RGJ cap badge, its one of the 17 major battle honors written on it.
alanthevan will do👍🏻
I agree the 2nd OBLI was rather an AIRlanding rgt; I assume they had those wings on the denison as well, didn't they ? ;)
@@lewisdavidson5645 they were glider borne. They were not Paras. Each of the 2 airborne divisions in the British Army of WW2 had a brigade of glider infantry. It supplemented the 2 para brigades in the airborne division.
39:20 whomever discounted that info should have been fired or worse seriously how disregard important intel?
39:50 - the "6th British AB Division at Arnhem" ???- poppycock. the 6th was never involved in Market - Garden. poor research in this documentary there.
+Me, I think what you refer is a misspelling. Early on when they discuss the plan and talk about the Airborne Division they mention the "First AB Division" at 37:50, they present Gen R. Urquhart. I have heard the section you refer to. Sounds almost like Sixth. I believe that what happened there was the sound breaks in a way that it sounds as if the narrator is saying "Fixth." After all, he correctly identified the unit earlier. Not poor research.
Islamic commando did this you pig
Intro Song please??
36:54
Did COD 1 uses this as reference?
When in cod 1?
I like these docos but the intro music....? Who comes up with that?
45:51 "The Paras' last job of the war was the liberation of Norway."
Shows the Liberation of Denmark...
Regardless love it
Well, as more information comes out. The more ild facts become inactive. The paras last mission was to hold the denmark boarder
Love that music
Though not a big fan of the British I just wonder how every one of the people who dislike and make negative comments about this video would have liked living under the boot heels of the Nazi's
Lol! What do you think they thought, when they heard those bagpipes, and then saw that friggin broadsword? He was mad for real! haha.
My grandfather was in dieppe he never spoke of it matter of fact he only ever said 1 thing and that was the germans treated them good. He spent 2 years as a p.o.w.
Joke from WW2, If you see Silver Planes in the air it's the Americans, if you see Green Planes it's the Brits. If you see no planes in the air? It's the Luftwaffe!
The greatest generation
These great stories of heroism of the British special forces were not very common in the war, most raiders tend to end mostly in disaster.
34:34. Breathtaking.
puteti pune si subtitrarea ? Va multumesc.
Weird music is distracting.
dose anyone know of a good video on world war 2 in China? traditional world war 2 documentaries are so Europe focused most people don't even know that China was in the war. China was actually an extremely important member of the allied forces.
There are some German documentaries on here. If you understand German it helps, because the RUclips German to english translator isn't very good.
Try the flying tigers
I always wonder on how they film it
This is all overlooked, because Hollywood SUCKS.
What bout the wahn that will do for Allah?
😬🤨😟😖Mustafa she'ite ...
The Allied Bomber crews suffered more casualties 58000 than the entire USMC did in their whole Pacific campaign which was 22000 killed or missing. & Mountbatten was inept and got where he did through his Royal connections .
Why are there so many bitter and twisted comments below. It's history now a lot of good people died in all countries and a lot of mistakes made.
Make of song?
What about the rescue of Beneto Musalini not sure of the spelling. But the guys who saved him out with out any one getting killed. Look into it.🇩🇪
Omg you’re well informed
this totally bullshit i want to watch the Norwegian resistance fighters episode, but agian it says that this video is blocked in your country. i have a vpn so maybe if i use that and switch to britian i may be able to finally watch it. proud to be scandinavian and i can"t even see how hard my ancestors worked against the werhmact. ur content is awesome would love to see some new videos.
Who killed captain Alex
Great Men.
S.O.E. took the partisans of Europe very seriously.
Check out the film . The rape on nanking. Might be mispelled. Another series to look at equally important and disturbing. The men behind the sun.
23:55 music name ?
So what's the difference between a ROYAL MARINE and a COMMANDO then??? Thought they were one and the same🤔🤔.....
There are the Marines, these are basic naval infantry. There are detachments of marines based on every ship of the navy, tasked with security and guard duties.
The marines are also specialized in amphibious operations like beach landings.
Comandos, and there where army as well as marine comandos, are special forces that are specialized in raiding and high risk operations.
One can fit his feckin head through the door and the uver kunt kent??
Intro music?
"Polonaise No. 3: Polonaise No. 3 In A Major, Op. 40, No. 1 'Military'":
+The Ghastly Varangian "Polonaise No. 3 In A Major, Op. 40, No. 1 'Military'" by Idil Biret from 5/13 Free Polish segment.I think!!!
No OPMK2's here !
I don't understand the difference between a commando unit and a regular unit.
The difference is how they are used and also how they are deployed.
A selection course.
Comando units are more mobile,offen have sub machine guns for higer rate of fire becurse they normaly 20 - 200 men. and used fore fast attack operations and a cuick return to there home base. Regular units are more likely to march to war and deployd to divisions at normaly a rund 20 000 men. And slowly advance to there goal. hope this was the anser to your question your where loocking for!Sorry for my english im not british!
A commando unit is staffed with volunteers; regular units are not. Commando units are filled with highly aggressive, specially trained, and task-specific soldiers (Take that headquarters building). They know the particular mission, and execute that mission. Done. Regular units are deployed to a general mission (Take that hill ) and have more organic (mortars, artillery etc) support during the operation. Commandos once released, are usually on their own until they either accomplish the mission or they die. Therefore Commando, or Special Operations missions are well planned out. These missions are a one target, one-hit, high intensity operations that are then over. A "take that hill" operation may result in a week of combat and multiple movements that will result in success.
Why was no mentiopn made of the Army Commandos in the Far East, especially in BUrma.
The Chindits?
There is an entire documentary on the Chindits - E11/13.
there is....ep 11...."boo-r'ma"...lol.
The Chindits were not commandos, although they were operating behind the lines. There were actual commando designated units in the Far East theatre. Same with SOE but the focus is on Europe.
In the other video ....relax
9:48 what a legend, i wonder how hitlers inner circle reacted to it?
My bookmark 17:45.
st nazzare took some guts!.
My predecessors, hearts of oak,nerves of steel,and balls of titanium.
There's a 60s movie about it, starring Lloyd Bridges, pretty. good, sorry can't recl the title
Gulf Relay attack on the iron coast.
Why Arheim is not strong attack with fighting plane and cuush gernan tanks and troops. My Monty big mystake this operation.
If marines had been used first it would've a very different
What are you implying?
There where marine comandos as well.... they did pretty much the same thing as the army comandos
To be frank the Paras and all British Airborne forces were formed from the commandos , but whether they were commandos , Paras or Airborne Forces they fought the Nazis with stealth and put fear into the Nazi high command
Can Anyone recommend videos on the German perspective of WW2? History is writtn by the victors, I would like to see both perspectives.
+geheimschriver lmfao x 10000000
Generation War
+Ryan Hinojosa Check operation daffodil.
The greatest story never told, its on youtube.
Ryan Hinojosa the series "WW2 in colour" is very unbiased and looks at both sides and what they did. It is one of the best ww2 documentaries in my opinion
Choosed selectively=para commandos
gheimschiver, They sure did.