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My Dad was a Horsa pilot, but no one in the family knew. Then, in my 30s I had coincidentally become a glider pilot myself. I flew him as a passenger, and afterwards in the pub he told me all about it. We in the family were flabbergasted!
@@redbomberr4594 American glider pilots were just pilots and were sent to the rear , the British ones were members of the Glider Pilot Regiment and were all fully trained airborne assault troops who took part in the fighting on landing
My dad flew these gliders into Normandy He would talk about the gliders to me but never about the battles. He fought all the way through Europe this was the greatest generation that ever lived.
My grandfather too. It really makes you think. They were trained alongside the Paras. They had to be everybit as tough and agressive. But they had to learn to fly a plane too. Then learn to crash land a wooden plane without engines, behind enemy lines, in the dark. And if they survived that, they were expected to form a rifle platoon and perform a night attack. They were subject to Hitler's Commando orders, so if they were captured, they would likely face a firing squad. So if they survived that, they were expected to do it again on the next mission. The GPR really don't get the recognition they deserve.
I worked at a VA outpatient clinic here in Sacramento in the early late 80's and met a WWII vet sporting a different set of wings I had not seen before...The US winged badge had a shield with wings on each side with a big "G" in the center.. I was told by that veteran that day that the "G" stands for guts! 😯 I'm now a disabled US Army Veteran myself from my service during the early part of 1st Gulf War. Not many WWII veterans left these days... I go out of my way today to introduce myself to them, the Korean and Vietnam veterans and give them a sincere "Thank You" whenever I meet them!
I grew up next to an old airbase in southeast Missouri. During the Second World War, glider pilots were trained there. Not far from that base is a tiny cemetery where a dozen British soldiers are buried. They were killed when the glider they were training in crashed.
When I was in the 325AIR, we jumped into an airshow, in the crowd a WW2 82d vet saw my beret and asked if we still flew in gliders, when I told him no, he commented, Good! couldn't pay me to get in one of them...A plane designed to crash! Glider troops, all of the danger, non of the pay!
The advantage of gliders is that they could also carry light vehicles and artillery, which greatly enhanced the paras fighting ability. They also had a better chance of all the troops being landed nearly at the same location.
They were very much an "all eggs, one basket" thing as well, though. The Pegasus and Horsa bridges proved both scenarios: five of the six gliders landed on target and delivered all of their troops and equipment, but the sixth glider got lost and landed some ten miles away, meaning that all of its men and equipment failed to arrive in time.
The site between the canal and the Orne river where the gliders had to land is pretty small and it was quite a feat for the pilots to get even the manoeuverable Horsa's into the confined landing area. The attack succeeded because the Germans expected attacks to come from the outer ends of the bridges not from the middle of the area they were controlling. A piece of trivia is that the Horsa glider was designed by Hessell Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway; the latter being the author most famous under his pen name Nevil Shute for writing A Town Like Alice. Nevil Shute Norway was the mathematician or stress engineer who did the calculations for the design.
Dude, I don’t where in the depths of the internet you get this footage but I can’t thank you enough. As an aviator and casual historian, I love this channel. THANK YOU!!
Yes, but there's a lot of negatives about these gliders that was not touched upon! The overloading of officers kit and Jeeps caused many crashes! Death traps to many for sure!
I knew about gliders in WW2. I didn’t, however know that there were so many of them! Wow! What a feet of human engineering and grit! Never again will this happen. So impressive.
Was there this year for the 80th anniversary, it is simply insane to see how close they landed to Pegusus Bridge in complete darkness. of course vhad to have a lovley coffee at the Cafe GonDree the first home liberated
^ To be bluntly honest, I went inside the Cafe Gondree a fortnight AFTER the 40th Anniv' in June 1984 It was a real $hit dump - Only good thing to say was the memorabilia & the Historic location. Not sure if it's still there, but, at the back (Eastern) side, there was an excellent AFV outdoor museum Look on TripAdvisor several decades later & there are/were many Neg' reviews @ Gondree
Enjoyed reading the comments from fellow men salute, my grandfather was in the navy… he had no ear drums left after firing the guns for first time. He just said those shells were big and they made noise like smacking you in the head with a thick leather with bass that would move your bones.
As the glider pilots were so valuable, Major Howard was under strict instructions to not allow the pilots to get into any fighting on the ground. The pilots themselves received signed letters from Montgomery allowing them expedited travel back to the UK by any means after the action.
I have always liked the fact that Richard Todd, the actor who played Major John Howard in the film, The Longest Day, was actually in the attack on Pegasus bridge...
Richard Todd served in the 7th Parachute Battalion, 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Airborne Division. Pegasus was taken by 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, of the 6th Airlanding Brigade, 6th Airborne Division. Richard Todd came along well after the bridge was taken, having jumped from a Stirling over Ranville.
These pilots did these missions in the dark of night with no modern night vision equipment, no GPS, *VERY* rudimentary IFR gauges if any at all, no lights while airborne as it would give the gliders positions away and with no up to date local weather information. These pilots were absolutely incredible! Great video!
@@ASDasdSDsadASD-nc7lf True, but maps don't help you land a glider in the middle of the night with no lights on the ground in unknown wind and weather. Blackouts were imposed all across France, including light houses. The pilots navigated using VHF radio beacons and a compass, they followed the VHF radio beams from England to their landing positions using early DME.
I just watched the 2020 movie "The Forgotten Battle" today that included British gliders. I was wondering if they ever had only one side release. That would be really bad.
I used to care for an elderly paratrooper veteran who told me about his experience crash landing in a Horsa, when they finally came to a rest, he shouted at his mate sat next to him to get moving....then realised something was wrong as his mate stared at him, white as a sheet. He looked down and saw that his mates lower legs were missing among a splintered mess. He then dragged his mate from the wreckage, but the injured para quickly bled to death. This memory haunted him for decades. Lest we forget.
The captain of Pegasus and Horsa Bridges was D Company 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry carried by Horsa Glider. The Gliders took up to France was from RAF Aylebury in Buckinghamshire.
My father was a Navy Corpsman stationed in England prior to D-Day. He was part of the medical crews transporting the wounded back to the States afterwards. He was assigned to a group of glider soldiers. All with broken femurs and shattered pelvises. These men has seen Rommel's Asparagus and chose to jump from their gliders at about twenty feet up. The weight of their packs plus the speed of their falls caused many orthopedic injuries. The return trip across the North Atlantic hit rough seas. The injured soldier unable to even raise or roll over ended up lying in vomitus.
The phrase "dropped Hitler's jaw" is an evocative way of saying that this event or aircraft left Hitler in shock or awe. This could point to a moment when something about the aircraft or a specific mission related to it caught Hitler off guard-perhaps a surprise attack, an unexpected technological breakthrough, or an event that challenged his expectations of military strategy. Hitler, as a military strategist, was highly invested in advancing the Nazi war machine, so encountering something that astonished or unsettled him would have been significant. It also suggests that this moment could have been both a tactical win for the Allies and a psychological blow to Nazi leadership.
You have to have enormous b@lls of steel to play the bagpipes during battle there had to be another solder walking behind him with Bill Millin's b@lls in a wheelbarrow. This is absolutely insane.
What dropped Hitlers Jaw? He has seen the Me321 Giant already in 1941. and ordered the production of over 1200 DFS230 in the mid 30ies to be used in the low countries and Crete.
I just wish that there were a radio controlled model of the Horsa. I've a static one of the first glider to land on D Day. It was landed with such precision that it knocked out a machine gun nest and broke through barbed wire.
Hold Until Relieved, Hold Until Relieved. And they did, in point of fact the taking of that one bridge went pretty smooth. But in the movie, The Longest Day, they made it look harder ;)
Richard Todd, who took part in the action at the bridge at Benouville (later renamed Pegasus Bridge), was offered the chance to play himself, but joked, "I don't think at this stage of my acting career I could accept a part 'that' small." He was cast as the commander of the bridge assault, Major John Howard, instead. In a strange twist of fate, in one scene of the battle for the bridge, a soldier runs up to Todd, playing Major Howard, and relays information about the battle to him. During the actual real battle, Todd actually did run up to Howard to relay information to him. Therefore, the film actually did show a soldier playing Todd running up to Todd playing Howard and relaying information the real Todd gave to the real Howard the information
All the gliders including the Americans was made of wood as it was cheap, lightweight & a non critical war time material so was perfect for the 1 time use mission requirements etc, it's not like mosquito which was a marvel of engineering & British design & truly unique
The nickname is easily misunderstood even by non British native English speakers, it reflects the British ironic sense of humour and tendency to understate.
@ Waco had a metal frame that failed due to poor quality welding and materials… Look up the accident report from August 1,1943 at Lambert Field, St Louis.
Can't help but feel a bit sorry for that FW190 pilot - flies on his own through heavily contested airspace, drops his bomb smack on target, only to have the blasted thing bounce off without exploding! Must have been a few choice words spoken in that cockpit.
I don't think the Horsa would have amazed the Germans much really, given they'd pioneered assault gliders first, and had ones even bigger and more ludicrous of their own! (See Me 321 Gigant!)
They were used again. There were units in the army whose task was to collect the gliders which were not wrecked by crashing. Also weapons from the dead and injured and ammunition, hand grenades, bayonet etc.
They were intended to be collected and reused after the action, but it wasn't always possible. For instance, most of the Horsas used in Market Garden were lost because of the way the battle turned out.
(of the commandos in Norway) "..their lives ended in a tragedy which severely violated the Geneva Convention". Could you possibly have phrased this more deliberately to avoid saying "the wounded survivors troops some of whom where unable to stand to face their murderers, were shot by Germans". God forbid you offend the Germans by telling the truth!
@@jaygee5693 Not really true. They were intended to be collected and refurbished after use and there was a unit dedicated to this task, but heavy landings, crash-landings and events like Market Garden caused a far higher attrition rate than expected, leading to the myth that they were single-use. For instance, during Market Garden the gliders landed intact for the most part, having achieved surprise and so the landing loss rate was very low. However, after the Germans overran the landing zones, all of those intact Horsas were captured or destroyed.
11:38 no offence intended mate, great video btw, but we don't have "lootenants" in the Army or RAF. Same for the Aussies, Kiwis, and Canucks as well. Our lieutenants are pronounced as "leftenants". Unless you're talking about the same rank in their navies. Then it's pronounced "lootenant". The navy (s) always like to be different!
I like the look of War Thunder, but I went and read some of the reviews. In fact, I couldn't find a good review. Every single person was saying iti s impossible to really win a match or even enjoy the game if you aren't prepared to pay for premium content and that those who have paid get such a massive advantage that free players are basically just grunts for them to kill. Let me know if I'm wrong, because I love a war sim game, but not after the reviews I've read on my Xbox.
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Fun fact about these the aero towing techniques were development was funded by legendary romance author Dame Barbara Cartland who worked wi in the 30s to develop glider based mail services and was attempting to win a prize for first cross channel glider flight .
Flying Deathtrap, there speaks forth a Power Pilot ( like those in Sicily ) let alone land at Pegasus Bridge. I admit it probably wouldn't have to spin from 2,000' and 'complete or fail' 7 complete (360) turns - as that blade of grass gets bigger.
No. There was a larger heavy-lift glider called the Hamilcar (named, presumably, after the Carthaginian General Hannibal’s brother) that could carry a small tank, or a couple of Jeeps, or a Jeep and a 6 pdr. Anti-Tank gu - that sort of thing.
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My Dad was a Horsa pilot, but no one in the family knew. Then, in my 30s I had coincidentally become a glider pilot myself. I flew him as a passenger, and afterwards in the pub he told me all about it. We in the family were flabbergasted!
What did the pilots do after they landed the gliders? I can only assume they joined the infantry in the assault and defense of the bridges.
Your dad is a brave man. A lot of the glider pilots didn't survive the landings.
@@redbomberr4594 American glider pilots were just pilots and were sent to the rear , the British ones were members of the Glider Pilot Regiment and were all fully trained airborne assault troops who took part in the fighting on landing
@@claverhouse1 Thx. It only just occurred to me that they were in a hell of a predicament if they survived the landing.
@@hiddentruth1982
As well as the passengers!
My dad flew these gliders into Normandy He would talk about the gliders to me but never about the battles. He fought all the way through Europe this was the greatest generation that ever lived.
My grandfather too. It really makes you think. They were trained alongside the Paras. They had to be everybit as tough and agressive. But they had to learn to fly a plane too. Then learn to crash land a wooden plane without engines, behind enemy lines, in the dark. And if they survived that, they were expected to form a rifle platoon and perform a night attack. They were subject to Hitler's Commando orders, so if they were captured, they would likely face a firing squad.
So if they survived that, they were expected to do it again on the next mission. The GPR really don't get the recognition they deserve.
Amen
@@billlansdell7225 My grandfather died in a concentration camp…… He fell from a watchtower.
@@markteaney8381 British glider pilots constituted an elite within the elite qqqqk
The WW1 generation too. I think the UK really damaged our gene pool in these two wars.
I worked at a VA outpatient clinic here in Sacramento in the early late 80's and met a WWII vet sporting a different set of wings I had not seen before...The US winged badge had a shield with wings on each side with a big "G" in the center.. I was told by that veteran that day that the "G" stands for guts! 😯 I'm now a disabled US Army Veteran myself from my service during the early part of 1st Gulf War. Not many WWII veterans left these days... I go out of my way today to introduce myself to them, the Korean and Vietnam veterans and give them a sincere "Thank You" whenever I meet them!
Sad story all the way around.
At the former McClellan AFB, perchance? Down the street, within walking distance, from where I work.
I grew up next to an old airbase in southeast Missouri. During the Second World War, glider pilots were trained there. Not far from that base is a tiny cemetery where a dozen British soldiers are buried. They were killed when the glider they were training in crashed.
^
Many thanks for posting this my good man - Great to know that they're NOT forgotten some 4,000 miles away
Whiteman AFB?
When I was in the 325AIR, we jumped into an airshow, in the crowd a WW2 82d vet saw my beret and asked if we still flew in gliders, when I told him no, he commented, Good! couldn't pay me to get in one of them...A plane designed to crash!
Glider troops, all of the danger, non of the pay!
The advantage of gliders is that they could also carry light vehicles and artillery, which greatly enhanced the paras fighting ability. They also had a better chance of all the troops being landed nearly at the same location.
....... not to mention with all their equipment, which otherwise could be spread anywhere through the drop area and surrounding areas.
They were very much an "all eggs, one basket" thing as well, though. The Pegasus and Horsa bridges proved both scenarios: five of the six gliders landed on target and delivered all of their troops and equipment, but the sixth glider got lost and landed some ten miles away, meaning that all of its men and equipment failed to arrive in time.
The site between the canal and the Orne river where the gliders had to land is pretty small and it was quite a feat for the pilots to get even the manoeuverable Horsa's into the confined landing area. The attack succeeded because the Germans expected attacks to come from the outer ends of the bridges not from the middle of the area they were controlling.
A piece of trivia is that the Horsa glider was designed by Hessell Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway; the latter being the author most famous under his pen name Nevil Shute for writing A Town Like Alice. Nevil Shute Norway was the mathematician or stress engineer who did the calculations for the design.
Dude, I don’t where in the depths of the internet you get this footage but I can’t thank you enough. As an aviator and casual historian, I love this channel. THANK YOU!!
Yes, but there's a lot of negatives about these gliders that was not touched upon! The overloading of officers kit and Jeeps caused many crashes! Death traps to many for sure!
I knew about gliders in WW2. I didn’t, however know that there were so many of them!
Wow! What a feet of human engineering and grit!
Never again will this happen. So impressive.
my father flew these in Burma ,he was part of the Airborne Artillery . Very rarely spoke of his experiences
Was there this year for the 80th anniversary, it is simply insane to see how close they landed to Pegusus Bridge in complete darkness. of course vhad to have a lovley coffee at the Cafe GonDree the first home liberated
finest coffee on earth
^
To be bluntly honest, I went inside the Cafe Gondree a fortnight AFTER the 40th Anniv' in June 1984
It was a real $hit dump - Only good thing to say was the memorabilia & the Historic location.
Not sure if it's still there, but, at the back (Eastern) side, there was an excellent AFV outdoor museum
Look on TripAdvisor several decades later & there are/were many Neg' reviews @ Gondree
Enjoyed reading the comments from fellow men salute, my grandfather was in the navy… he had no ear drums left after firing the guns for first time. He just said those shells were big and they made noise like smacking you in the head with a thick leather with bass that would move your bones.
The landings at Pegasus bridge are probably the finest feat of airmanship of WW2.
As the glider pilots were so valuable, Major Howard was under strict instructions to not allow the pilots to get into any fighting on the ground. The pilots themselves received signed letters from Montgomery allowing them expedited travel back to the UK by any means after the action.
I have always liked the fact that Richard Todd, the actor who played Major John Howard in the film, The Longest Day, was actually in the attack on Pegasus bridge...
Richard Todd served in the 7th Parachute Battalion, 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Airborne Division.
Pegasus was taken by 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, of the 6th Airlanding Brigade, 6th Airborne Division.
Richard Todd came along well after the bridge was taken, having jumped from a Stirling over Ranville.
My dad was retraining as a tow pilot in preparation for the invision of Japan when the war ended.
Interesting. My dad had battle maps for an invasion of Japanese occupied China. And then the bomb
I loved this production. I was aware of the capture of the bridges, nice to hear the full story.
These pilots did these missions in the dark of night with no modern night vision equipment, no GPS, *VERY* rudimentary IFR gauges if any at all, no lights while airborne as it would give the gliders positions away and with no up to date local weather information. These pilots were absolutely incredible! Great video!
And if they missed their approach, there was no "go around".
Didn't need any of that, they had detailed maps.
@@ASDasdSDsadASD-nc7lf True, but maps don't help you land a glider in the middle of the night with no lights on the ground in unknown wind and weather. Blackouts were imposed all across France, including light houses. The pilots navigated using VHF radio beacons and a compass, they followed the VHF radio beams from England to their landing positions using early DME.
@@JockoFlocko Yes - I read a description from the time, of them having to use stopwatches to determine the correct time to turn
I just watched the 2020 movie "The Forgotten Battle" today that included British gliders. I was wondering if they ever had only one side release. That would be really bad.
I understand that they would fail to get an airworthiness certificate today.
I used to care for an elderly paratrooper veteran who told me about his experience crash landing in a Horsa, when they finally came to a rest, he shouted at his mate sat next to him to get moving....then realised something was wrong as his mate stared at him, white as a sheet. He looked down and saw that his mates lower legs were missing among a splintered mess. He then dragged his mate from the wreckage, but the injured para quickly bled to death. This memory haunted him for decades. Lest we forget.
The captain of Pegasus and Horsa Bridges was D Company 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry carried by Horsa Glider. The Gliders took up to France was from RAF Aylebury in Buckinghamshire.
My father was a Navy Corpsman stationed in England prior to D-Day. He was part of the medical crews transporting the wounded back to the States afterwards. He was assigned to a group of glider soldiers. All with broken femurs and shattered pelvises. These men has seen Rommel's Asparagus and chose to jump from their gliders at about twenty feet up. The weight of their packs plus the speed of their falls caused many orthopedic injuries. The return trip across the North Atlantic hit rough seas. The injured soldier unable to even raise or roll over ended up lying in vomitus.
The phrase "dropped Hitler's jaw" is an evocative way of saying that this event or aircraft left Hitler in shock or awe. This could point to a moment when something about the aircraft or a specific mission related to it caught Hitler off guard-perhaps a surprise attack, an unexpected technological breakthrough, or an event that challenged his expectations of military strategy. Hitler, as a military strategist, was highly invested in advancing the Nazi war machine, so encountering something that astonished or unsettled him would have been significant. It also suggests that this moment could have been both a tactical win for the Allies and a psychological blow to Nazi leadership.
You have to have enormous b@lls of steel to play the bagpipes during battle there had to be another solder walking behind him with Bill Millin's b@lls in a wheelbarrow. This is absolutely insane.
Mate, that's be 2 soldiers and wheel barrows! 1 per barrow!
The Great Pipes are a weapon of war. They are huge morale boosters
One German captive said they did not shoot him because they thought he was a harmless nutcase! No awareness of the morale effect.
What dropped Hitlers Jaw? He has seen the Me321 Giant already in 1941. and ordered the production of over 1200 DFS230 in the mid 30ies to be used in the low countries and Crete.
you are right, Dark Skies's video titles become more and more ridiculous in order to create click bait
I just wish that there were a radio controlled model of the Horsa. I've a static one of the first glider to land on D Day. It was landed with such precision that it knocked out a machine gun nest and broke through barbed wire.
These gliders were featured prominently in the famous D-Day movie _The Longest Day_
Never knew about these gliders. I wonder how what the average times was they could use them before they were too damaged.
There were special recovery groups that would recover crashed gliders back to Britain for repair.
Good Dark good a lot of relevant archive film keep it up
Hold Until Relieved, Hold Until Relieved. And they did, in point of fact the taking of that one bridge went pretty smooth. But in the movie, The Longest Day, they made it look harder ;)
They neglected to include the glider born tank that was used to drive off the German counter attack too…
Richard Todd, who took part in the action at the bridge at Benouville (later renamed Pegasus Bridge), was offered the chance to play himself, but joked, "I don't think at this stage of my acting career I could accept a part 'that' small." He was cast as the commander of the bridge assault, Major John Howard, instead. In a strange twist of fate, in one scene of the battle for the bridge, a soldier runs up to Todd, playing Major Howard, and relays information about the battle to him. During the actual real battle, Todd actually did run up to Howard to relay information to him. Therefore, the film actually did show a soldier playing Todd running up to Todd playing Howard and relaying information the real Todd gave to the real Howard the information
All the gliders including the Americans was made of wood as it was cheap, lightweight & a non critical war time material so was perfect for the 1 time use mission requirements etc, it's not like mosquito which was a marvel of engineering & British design & truly unique
Low radar profile as well!
About 30 miles south of Fayetteville Ft Bragg. Was one of the largest glider bases in the world. It’s called the Laurinburg/Maxton Airport now.
The nickname is easily misunderstood even by non British native English speakers, it reflects the British ironic sense of humour and tendency to understate.
The 70s movie "A Bridge Too Far" highlighted the Horsa gliders involved in the campaign. :)
These machines demonstrate the pinnacle of military innovation and design
The Horsa was not second to the Waco. It was far superior. The Waco was, in fact, a pretty godawful piece of equipment.
The Waco was also responsible for the deaths of a number of U.S. Congressmen during WW2 (due to defective wing mounting hardware).
The waco had a metal frame that held together better
@ Waco had a metal frame that failed due to poor quality welding and materials…
Look up the accident report from August 1,1943 at Lambert Field, St Louis.
@allangibson8494 That was due to a defective strut not a design issue and yes there were crashes for all types of gliders.
@@jerrymiller9039the preposition that because something is better by default because it’s made of metal is flawed.
Can't help but feel a bit sorry for that FW190 pilot - flies on his own through heavily contested airspace, drops his bomb smack on target, only to have the blasted thing bounce off without exploding! Must have been a few choice words spoken in that cockpit.
Do you have a video about the Hammelcar ?
Dark Skies never fails to Amaze me. Another great video.
Innovation is mightier than the pen and the sword.
The Horsa carried more troops than the Waco as well as a larger payload, it wasn’t second to it in any way.
That had to be really scary to fly and go into battle in gliders.
I don't think the Horsa would have amazed the Germans much really, given they'd pioneered assault gliders first, and had ones even bigger and more ludicrous of their own! (See Me 321 Gigant!)
A 16 minute commercial for a video game.
"hold until relieved"
Got the notice let's check it out.
Make me wonder if these particular gliders got used again or just left to rot😊
They were used again. There were units in the army whose task was to collect the gliders which were not wrecked by crashing. Also weapons from the dead and injured and ammunition, hand grenades, bayonet etc.
They were intended to be collected and reused after the action, but it wasn't always possible. For instance, most of the Horsas used in Market Garden were lost because of the way the battle turned out.
(of the commandos in Norway) "..their lives ended in a tragedy which severely violated the Geneva Convention". Could you possibly have phrased this more deliberately to avoid saying "the wounded survivors troops some of whom where unable to stand to face their murderers, were shot by Germans". God forbid you offend the Germans by telling the truth!
My grandpa fought with Germany to defeat England, but lost later and the war had an impact to free occupied countries under the British.
Does anyone remembrer the pc game "codename panzer"? i remember the first british mission being about this
Loved that game,I always tried to capture as much energy equipment as possible!😅
A two minute long ad?!
Oh aye, barbed but nae burbed wire daddy'o ☝
How did they retrieve the aircraft after landing? Or were most of these a one way trip?
They didn't. One-way trip. The vast majority of them were wrecked beyond repair on landing anyway.
Single use, disposable.
@@jaygee5693 Not really true. They were intended to be collected and refurbished after use and there was a unit dedicated to this task, but heavy landings, crash-landings and events like Market Garden caused a far higher attrition rate than expected, leading to the myth that they were single-use. For instance, during Market Garden the gliders landed intact for the most part, having achieved surprise and so the landing loss rate was very low. However, after the Germans overran the landing zones, all of those intact Horsas were captured or destroyed.
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11:38 no offence intended mate, great video btw, but we don't have "lootenants" in the Army or RAF. Same for the Aussies, Kiwis, and Canucks as well. Our lieutenants are pronounced as "leftenants". Unless you're talking about the same rank in their navies. Then it's pronounced "lootenant". The navy (s) always like to be different!
I like the look of War Thunder, but I went and read some of the reviews. In fact, I couldn't find a good review. Every single person was saying iti s impossible to really win a match or even enjoy the game if you aren't prepared to pay for premium content and that those who have paid get such a massive advantage that free players are basically just grunts for them to kill.
Let me know if I'm wrong, because I love a war sim game, but not after the reviews I've read on my Xbox.
YT compelled you to put the ad directly into your footage because everyone now has ad blockers
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I do not buy any shit that is advertised in return
We need the Horsa in War Thunder 😛 BR 0 Seriously the Whitley at 5:19 is a glaring omission from the game
Didn't the pilots have papers giving them priority return to UK as they were deemed as being that valuable to the war effort?
Yes.
Fun fact about these the aero towing techniques were development was funded by legendary romance author Dame Barbara Cartland who worked wi in the 30s to develop glider based mail services and was attempting to win a prize for first cross channel glider flight .
I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Tried using the link and did what it said made an account but I didn’t get anything in warthunder
Flying Deathtrap, there speaks forth a Power Pilot ( like those in Sicily ) let alone land at Pegasus Bridge.
I admit it probably wouldn't have to spin from 2,000' and 'complete or fail' 7 complete (360) turns - as that blade of grass gets bigger.
Was there a „Hengist“ too?
No. There was a larger heavy-lift glider called the Hamilcar (named, presumably, after the Carthaginian General Hannibal’s brother) that could carry a small tank, or a couple of Jeeps, or a Jeep and a 6 pdr. Anti-Tank gu
- that sort of thing.
16 Slingsby Hengist were built as a fail safe just in case the Horsa design failed, which it didn't.
@ Thank you so much. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
So the Movie "ABridge Too Far" Was all False?
A lot of good men lost in those. But they were totally neccesary. Not sure if today's soft phone loving boys would have the balls to do what they did.
Great video
Informative video, misinformative title.
Second only to the us whatnow?
Funny that Horsa sounds German.
Yet ANOTHER click-bait title.
I love your channels content especially since I can find a personal connection my uncles fought in World War II coming home wounded one crippled
dad was in the New Zealand Navy travelled and cleared Nable mines post war
however my concern is I find your current advertising regime a little too aggressive I know you need to raise revenue but the ad at the front and the end is a bit too much and I am considering unsubscribing sorry
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So dumb you don’t get nothing if you make an account on Xbox it’s only for pc players
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Its all fake