When is hte last time the Brits won a war, or a battle, or... when is the last time Britain ably fought in a conflict. What a worthless 'ally' to have.
That short, big-headed soldier character that delivers the sponsorship ads is an annoying distraction. I dislike him. He looks like a child in an adult sized uniform and has a grating, off putting voice. I prefer the way simple history used to promote their sponsors. I'm still a big fan of simple history. I've been watching the channel forever.
Humour has always been the Soldiers backup. In the Falklands war a member of the Paras had a leg blown off, he shouted to his mate "I've lost my leg" to which his mate replied "No you havn't it's lying just over there" to which they both burst out in laughter! In the middle of a battle!!!!
@@andrewtate2595 It resulted in the Glorious Gloucesters being slaughtered. American command checked in how they were. We answered with some phlegmatic response like, "It's getting a bit sticky" to describe a 7 to 1 ratio. Great last stand by British troops. But terrible comms.
Honestly it's pretty funny how the British gave the German soliders manuals saving they could leave if they were sick and then eventually too many people were leaving so they made everyone stay even the sick that got more people sick, it was insanely genius on the British part
@@RavenFilms During WW II, fighter pilots took a leaf out of old Alexander’s book and engaged in some serious mind manipulation with the German army. From high in the air, the pilots would drop matchbooks with seditious instructions for how German soldiers could fake illnesses in hopes of being released from military service. According to Sergeant Major Herbert A. Friedman, the instructions could be as specific as: To induce artificial skin inflammation, “Take three times daily…one teaspoonful of a 10% solution of iodine potassium in a glass of water…until a scarlet-like affection of the skin results…Iodine potassium is a completely harmless medicine.” Matchbook Trickery August 12, 2016 By: Kellar Ellsworth
Tea was so important to British Tankers that - to this day - British tanks come equipped with on-board tea kettles so that the crew can brew a cuppa without having to leave the safety of the tank.
That was a solution to *keep* the tankers in their vehicle, as a group of 15 British tanks were almost completely wiped out, because they got ambushed by Germans while outside their vehicles to make tea.
@@jacobrzeszewski6527 Yeah but you're not going to get your ship sunk because someone was making coffee off emergency power, you'll be using that *after* taking critical damage and after the threat has been dealt with. Running a coffee maker off emergency power would likely help save the ship, not doom it.
I think the most British story I ever heard during WWII was when a squad of Americans were getting ready to charge a machine gun when they found a squad of British soldiers sitting around drinking tea. The explained it was tea time and the Americans were so confused that they joined them for a few minutes before they took the machine gun.
I recently read a story of an allied pilot with a pet coyote. He smuggled him to Europe and the coyote accompanied his human on five combat flights. Only to eventually die by being hit by a truck on the air base. The coyote was buried with military honors and is recognized for his service just like a human soldier.
I remember watching a history channel documentary about Italian campaign airborne operations. An American paratrooper got dropped closer to the British, first group of British paratroopers he found were brewing up right after they landed. The American couldn’t believe they didn’t start assembling to go to their objectives, first thing they did was brew tea and discussed their plans 😂.
Reminds me of my favourite story from the Bovington Tank Museum. 'The Browning is jammed, I am saying 'Driver advance' on the A Set and the driver, who can't hear me, is reversing. And as I look over the top of the turret and see twelve tanks fifty yards away, someone hands me a cheese sandwich.' - Lieutenant Ken Giles (British Army) on driving a Grant tank.
I heard one where an armoured piecing shell suddenly went in one side the turret and out the other, leaving holes through which daylight streamed in. The commander looked at the gunner, the gunner looked at the commander, both wondering if the other were hurt. The gunner looked very worried, then bent down, took off his boots, took off his socks then stuffed one in each hole. The commander said that he thought about it for a moment, and knew doing this made absolutely no sense. But somehow it made him feel better. So he shrugged and carried on with the battle, secure in the knowledge that he's tank's armour integrity had been restored with a pair of socks.
Your version of the Carrot story may be a part of the story. However, the great FACT is that the British had to keep the story of RADAR a top secret from the Germans. During the Battle of Britain, the Germans were getting confused about how the British always seemed to be able to find them easily. Not wanting to disclose that they had the nationwide Radar network helping detect the movement of the German airplanes, the British military leaked a story about how the scientists are feeding the pilots Carrots to improve their eyesight. Some months later, during routine interrogation of captured German pilots, they mentioned how the German high command has started feeding the German pilots carrots! So there in a nutshell, the carrots were injected as a ruse to deflect the fact that England had a Radar system to detect and plot the German aircraft.
"Cat's Eyes" Cunningham was in video . He became a night fighter ace in his Beufighter. Air to air radar was pioneered in UK ( as indeed was radar itself ). Later in the war Germany had some success with their radar directed night fighters against RAF bombers .. so in the inevitable counter measure the RAF deployed Mosquitos that could detect Germans using radar and blast them out of the sky.
@@coling3957 Yes, it was a cover story to explain why cunningham was doing so well. It's carrots, not the top secret radar in his night fighter. Pop eye came from the same place. Lots of spinach, so make some crap up about it making you strong to get people to eat it.
Ed:"What's the plan, then?" Shaun:"Run backward, get Dunkirk, jump on some boats, back to London, have a cup of tea, and wait for all this to blow over."
You couldn't get anymore British than Captain Mad Jack Churchill who fought in WW2. If you don't know him then look him up. It's astonishing no ones made a movie on him. It would be an instant classic.
Or As Netflix series I mean he fought German with Longbow and Sword would be nice fitting story as series to see German Wehrmacht reaction and Allies 😂😂😂
This Christmas I got a little gift and it was perhaps my favourite, it was a little book called how Tea won world war 2. It talks about the impact of tea for British soldiers and civilians moral drinking tea, it even goes into detail on the best brew during combat or resting. It even mentions what's the best cup to drink from (ceramic) and a pre heated cup is best by pouring warm water into the cup for 3 minutes then empty but immediately brew tea while cup is warm as the tea will become stronger. If your tea is too warm and you want to cool it down faster, simply leave two spoons inside your cup while brewing and once tea I made, place spoons back inside your tea as they will help attract heat, do not spoil your tea by adding cold water. Especially tank crews having the best tea as they could carry huge amounts of it and were able brew very strong tea from inside the tank.
2:52 The carrot myth worked so well that even the Germans bought into the idea, thinking that carrots gave their pilots and gunners better night vision, rather than look for hidden radar technology.
One wonderful story is of Maj-Gen Sir Andrew "Bulgy" Thorne, commander of the 48th Division at Dunkirk in 1940. During a Luftwaffe attack, one of the soldiers outside his HQ flew into a hysterical panic, and began charging up and down the street firing a Bren Gun at random, much to the consternation of everyone in his immediate vicinity. Thorne, rather than attempt to overpower the soldier, instead simply walked up to him, tapped him on the shoulder, and said "you have a fly button undone." The soldier immediately became preoccupied with doing it up, bringing his rampage to an anti-climax. Another division commander at Dunkirk, Major-general Sir Merton Beckwith Smith, was said to have informed his officers that "We have been given the supreme honour of being the rearguard at Dunkirk. Go and tell your platoons the good news!" His advice for dealing with Stukas, in marked contrast to Thorne, was "Stand up to them. Shoot at them with a Bren gun from the shoulder. Take them like a high pheasant. Give them plenty of lead. Five pounds to any man who brings one down."
I once watched a documentary about the SAS and one guy, was sat behind a machine gun, firing it with one hand while holding a cup of tea in the other..
I don't think people understand quite how good a morale booster a tea break is. You could be in the worst situation possible, but you'd be able to deal with it after sitting down for a cuppa. In war time, that's essentially the equivalent of an overpowered squad buff
Tea is still a massive part of our culture, it’s the first thing I’d offer any guest to my home and is a vital part of the day at work with my work mates
Agreed, it punctuates the day nicely and when you wanna slope off for a quick 10 mins, no company I've ever worked for has told me I can't go and make a tea lol
There is a story that was told by a polish 304 squadron pilot. When he was fighting over britain he run out of ammo so he went down to rearm and refuel on arandom british airfield. Be couldnt find the ground crew. Turned out the brits were drinking tea in the bunker. He refueld and rearmed the plane on his own and flew back to fight.
The Para Dogs are so badass. More so since they parachuted from planes alongside their human handlers and where in the combat zone, their extra senses undoubtedly saving some lives. You can always count on the British to have their tea time even in crisis, casual no nonsense. Great stuff.
In 1942, the British bought all the available tea on the global market (apart from Japan and Germany) to ensure we had enough to avoid further rationing
tbh, this just made me feel at home lol. especially the part about tea. but dogs always put a smile on my face. Lovely video from start to finish, well worth the like.
During the Falklands War Captain Larcom of HMS Fearless read out the cricket scores during an Argentinian air raid in San Carlos Water. Details of who bowled, was caught out and how many runs were given, while the crew engaged the Mirage and Skyhawk jets bombing them. On another ship to the crew closed up below the Captain simply broadcast. “Still an air raid going on. No need to panic.” Later he announced “We are pleased to confirm that Flight A4 from Argentina has landed. In two pieces in East Falkland.” A word about the Argentines themselves… they did not attack the MV Canberra which was so hastily sent to war it was in its civilian white paint. Although it was actually carrying troops, the Argentinian pilots believed it was a hospital ship.
When I was an English teacher in Poland, the Polish students did tell me about a very popular Polish comedy sitcom, set during the war, and one common theme was, during the middle of a battle, the British soldiers would suddenly stop firing, and shout over the top of the trench , “oh, no, no, sorry, it’s five o’clock, we need to have our cup of tea”… It often got a laugh, when we needed to re-arrange a lesson, and I told them, I couldn’t make it for 5 o’clock…(and shouts of “five o’clock tea”) Also, well into the late 1970’s there was a common public information advert still shown on British TV, for drinking Tea (not a specific brand, just tea) with the catchphrase “Tea, best drink of the day” I remember seeing it on TV in about 1978/79, when I was about 5 or 6… Something tells me that those adverts were almost a legacy from the war years…
The drinking tea has been grossly exaggerated. Its just a drink, humans have to drink. The American equivalent was coffee. The U.S. Army installed thirty-two mobile, trailer-mounted coffee-roasting and grinding units attached to field bakeries in July 1944, each operated by six specially-trained men. These units produced 90,000 lbs of coffee a day, every day, according to author Tim Lynch. Coffee was the standard, widely-used drink for American troops, as stamina and alertness functions were necessary for combat, hence keeping soldiers performance at high-levels and helped to endure fighting fatigue. To combat drowsiness in the field, military cooks judiciously added coca leaves to the urns of brewed coffee. A doctor in the Pacific War recalled the scents of portable coffee pots drifting through the jungle.
I would like to wish all British families a pleasant evening during this time of grieving for your queen. May your nerves remain cool, and your cups of tea hot. 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸
Hahahah 😂😂😂😂 What a romanticised and archaic view of the majority of us (no doubt helped by this video and Hollywood) Whilst I appreciate the sentiment nobody here is still mourning the queen. I dont think I mourned her any more than I would mourn the loss of my pet goldfish, life really does go on.. and tea drinking is very much an older person thing these days. I dont drink tea, my wife doesn’t drink tea, lots of our friends dont drink tea.. in fact me and my wife dont like hot drinks at all.
@@seany8787 true, but I'd still say the tea drinking stereotype still holds, but just not as much as it used to. And yes, people's addiction to sugary coffees is concerning
More recently I was watching a documentary on a British unit (R.Marines probs?) Who were in Afghanistan in a firefight and in cover they're all chatting about what movie they're going to watch when they get back
I love the story of the a British Jedburgh team who parachuted into France to help the Resistance communicate with the invading Allies in 1944. One of the teams was a Scot who jumped from the plane wearing his kilt. A French lookout spotting them parachuting down shouted "The British are coming, the British are coming ...and one of them has brought his wife!"
Jack Churchill - "Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed." Or Lord Lovat and Piper Millin, who played the bagpipes under fire on D-Day - the Germans refused to shoot him as they thought he was insane
@@choughed3072 The joke was lost on you huh? It was Ovaltine in the US, where the movie too place. Britain is known for drinking copious amounts of tea, hence Oval-tea 🤦♀️
Another very British thing I saw was that the officials didn't duck. They walked around the battlefield giving instructions to the soldiers as if they were walking on a park.
I love it how everyone memes on the Challenger 2, calling it the worlds best protected tea maker (or something similar). The actual reason why all british MBTs have boiling vessels is for 2 reasons: 1) it’s just a good idea, and it’s a great morale boost 2) Because during WW2 british armour columns would stop mid-journey, and all the crews would dismount and gather by the side of the road for a brew up. This of course left them as easy targets for the Germans. Eventually the MOD got so fed up with the excessive casualties that they put boiling vessels into our tanks so there wasn’t a need to dismount for tea. It’s also worth noting the yanks have the exact same boiling vessel as us brits in the Abrams and Bradleys.
The thing is some tanks here in Britian after WW2 were designed so that they could have a special type of kettle so that tankers could have a cuppa in the field
I'm disappointed radar became a sub-note on the carrots. It was a really big thing the allies invented radar. To prevent the Germans from getting wiser and taking counter measures, they made up the story bout carrots. It was a very VERY big thing not a stupid sub note
British in ww2 - loves tea so much they lost to a tiger tank - loves dog so much they paradropped it in normandy - has a mad bagpiper - has a mad officer fighting with umbrella - loves carrot so much that it became propaganda - troll the enemy by using a homeless corpse - has a mad officer who uses sword and longbow - sends a bear into the war ah...great britain
I really enjoyed this video! It would be interesting if you made more videos highlighting similar stereotypical or strange stories from the different allied/axis nations.
A truly British video my old chap, Blighty approves. Feel free to join us in the Challenger for a swift cuppa before we go and give the enemy what for. Huzzah!
Never underestimate the power of hydration and morale! When you're up to your bollocks in misery and death, a cup of tea to remind you of home, of what you're fighting to save, will spur you to take another step. Another town. Another victory.
Lovely to see Private Wojtek in the beginning. May I suggest to do a polish episode? Something about the brave, but a little chaotic warrios from central europe. You have alreade one on Private Wojtek, the soldier bear. But there should be on on the myth of polish cavalery charging german tanks with sabers during the 1939 campain. One myth that is very strong among the Germans even today. Than about the brave defence of the Danzig Post Office in 1939, with is strong among the Polish still today. The part of the polish pilots during the battle of britain. And of couse the brave Warsaw uprising, including Kubus a makeshift polish tank.
Americans in a car accident: "OH GOD, CALL AN AMBULANCE- wait, I can't afford it... eh, I'll be fine." Meanwhile, British in a car accident: "Mummy! Me arms' broken and theres glass in me eyes!" "Oh, don't you frett now dear! Just eat your carrots and drink your tea!"
Actually working for the ambulance its more, "I know you're busy and don't want to waste your time". Im sorry but fucking no, you're having severe chest pains and struggling to breathe, this is exactly what we're here for.
The keep calm and carry on poster was intended to be distributed in the event of an invasion or gas attacks, but the situation in WW2 Britain was never considered dire enough to warrant their use and they were rarely seen.
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When is hte last time the Brits won a war, or a battle, or... when is the last time Britain ably fought in a conflict. What a worthless 'ally' to have.
That short, big-headed soldier character that delivers the sponsorship ads is an annoying distraction. I dislike him. He looks like a child in an adult sized uniform and has a grating, off putting voice. I prefer the way simple history used to promote their sponsors. I'm still a big fan of simple history. I've been watching the channel forever.
Sounds great
Humour has always been the Soldiers backup. In the Falklands war a member of the Paras had a leg blown off, he shouted to his mate "I've lost my leg" to which his mate replied "No you havn't it's lying just over there" to which they both burst out in laughter! In the middle of a battle!!!!
There is a book about the Falkland’s war think it was called don’t cry for me Sargent Major had some great funny stories 😂
The British way sarcasm the greatest art the British have ever produced
Better than crying
@@andrewtate2595 It resulted in the Glorious Gloucesters being slaughtered. American command checked in how they were. We answered with some phlegmatic response like, "It's getting a bit sticky" to describe a 7 to 1 ratio.
Great last stand by British troops. But terrible comms.
@@andrewtate2595 Better than sexually assaulting women. #creepiestusername
Honestly it's pretty funny how the British gave the German soliders manuals saving they could leave if they were sick and then eventually too many people were leaving so they made everyone stay even the sick that got more people sick, it was insanely genius on the British part
I believe that was WWI. Still clever.
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@@ahaywood89 Do you have a source for that or a name of the operation? I’d love to read about it. That’s a smart move.
@@RavenFilms During WW II, fighter pilots took a leaf out of old Alexander’s book and engaged in some serious mind manipulation with the German army. From high in the air, the pilots would drop matchbooks with seditious instructions for how German soldiers could fake illnesses in hopes of being released from military service. According to Sergeant Major Herbert A. Friedman, the instructions could be as specific as:
To induce artificial skin inflammation, “Take three times daily…one teaspoonful of a 10% solution of iodine potassium in a glass of water…until a scarlet-like affection of the skin results…Iodine potassium is a completely harmless medicine.”
Matchbook Trickery
August 12, 2016 By: Kellar Ellsworth
I’m confused, were they pows?
Tea was so important to British Tankers that - to this day - British tanks come equipped with on-board tea kettles so that the crew can brew a cuppa without having to leave the safety of the tank.
Even more fun part it is the statistically Most effective method of reducing tank crew casualties by percentage in the entire war
That was a solution to *keep* the tankers in their vehicle, as a group of 15 British tanks were almost completely wiped out, because they got ambushed by Germans while outside their vehicles to make tea.
Tea keeps you pissed off at the right people.
To be fair, American ships to this day have coffee makers hooked up to the emergency power system.
@@jacobrzeszewski6527 Yeah but you're not going to get your ship sunk because someone was making coffee off emergency power, you'll be using that *after* taking critical damage and after the threat has been dealt with. Running a coffee maker off emergency power would likely help save the ship, not doom it.
I think the most British story I ever heard during WWII was when a squad of Americans were getting ready to charge a machine gun when they found a squad of British soldiers sitting around drinking tea. The explained it was tea time and the Americans were so confused that they joined them for a few minutes before they took the machine gun.
Loool very British indeed
Wish I were one of the US soldiers jus without the machine gun part.
Hahahaha I bet there was a tea queue as well before they all sat down as well
OI MATE IT FOOKIN TEE TOIME
I can imagine an Americans pure confusion that the British didn’t have any coffee
I recently read a story of an allied pilot with a pet coyote. He smuggled him to Europe and the coyote accompanied his human on five combat flights. Only to eventually die by being hit by a truck on the air base. The coyote was buried with military honors and is recognized for his service just like a human soldier.
This is sweet and depressing at the same time.
Was that sergeant stubby?
Love how drinking tea and liking dogs is classed as eccentric
The point flew higher above you than brian flew over germany with his parachute
Especially since tea is the most drunk beverage in the world.
It's no different to how we Brits see the Amercians love of firearms and dislike of American schoolchildren surviving through a full school day.....
Drinking tea and liking dogs isn't an uniquely British trait, but we certainly do it better than anyone else.
@@rattlestormrepublic4874 Exactly. Tea came from China but you certainly took it to another level
I remember watching a history channel documentary about Italian campaign airborne operations. An American paratrooper got dropped closer to the British, first group of British paratroopers he found were brewing up right after they landed. The American couldn’t believe they didn’t start assembling to go to their objectives, first thing they did was brew tea and discussed their plans 😂.
Rule 1: while going on duty, have a cup of tea
"here come the yanks, 🇺🇸 always late, for war, 💥 overpaid, 🪙 oversexed, ❤️ and over here!" 👉
Yea, I remember that doc. It was the airborne invasion of Sicily .
"Sicily!?"
@@joeerickson516 yes !
Reminds me of my favourite story from the Bovington Tank Museum.
'The Browning is jammed, I am saying 'Driver advance' on the A Set and the driver, who can't hear me, is reversing. And as I look over the top of the turret and see twelve tanks fifty yards away, someone hands me a cheese sandwich.' - Lieutenant Ken Giles (British Army) on driving a Grant tank.
I heard one where an armoured piecing shell suddenly went in one side the turret and out the other, leaving holes through which daylight streamed in. The commander looked at the gunner, the gunner looked at the commander, both wondering if the other were hurt. The gunner looked very worried, then bent down, took off his boots, took off his socks then stuffed one in each hole.
The commander said that he thought about it for a moment, and knew doing this made absolutely no sense. But somehow it made him feel better. So he shrugged and carried on with the battle, secure in the knowledge that he's tank's armour integrity had been restored with a pair of socks.
@@billlansdell7225 Pussers socks are indestructible. I have two black pairs from my service in the navy in the 80's and they are still like new.
Your version of the Carrot story may be a part of the story. However, the great FACT is that the British had to keep the story of RADAR a top secret from the Germans.
During the Battle of Britain, the Germans were getting confused about how the British always seemed to be able to find them easily.
Not wanting to disclose that they had the nationwide Radar network helping detect the movement of the German airplanes, the British military leaked a story about how the scientists are feeding the pilots Carrots to improve their eyesight.
Some months later, during routine interrogation of captured German pilots, they mentioned how the German high command has started feeding the German pilots carrots!
So there in a nutshell, the carrots were injected as a ruse to deflect the fact that England had a Radar system to detect and plot the German aircraft.
I believe he did mention this during the video
Wish that would work for my sight
"Cat's Eyes" Cunningham was in video . He became a night fighter ace in his Beufighter. Air to air radar was pioneered in UK ( as indeed was radar itself ). Later in the war Germany had some success with their radar directed night fighters against RAF bombers .. so in the inevitable counter measure the RAF deployed Mosquitos that could detect Germans using radar and blast them out of the sky.
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Yes, it was a cover story to explain why cunningham was doing so well.
It's carrots, not the top secret radar in his night fighter.
Pop eye came from the same place.
Lots of spinach, so make some crap up about it making you strong to get people to eat it.
@@kevinshort3943 i knew about the spinach thing. commercial sponsors on tv. much like Pfizer who sponsor msm "news" programmes today! :D
“I was saving the planet from an axis of darkness, while you were back home opening National Parks! Yes!” Winston Churchill
"You were born asthmatic, you're going to choke hard. When I wake up every day and chain smoke cigars."
*Winston Churchill*
For those who didn’t know these are the lyrics from Epic rap battles of history Winston Churchill VS Theodore Roosevelt
@@yousifaljanabi281 Theodore Roosevelt actually made a cameo at 5:26
Yes, while causing man made famine that killed millions of people
@@CheaplyAnimatedLenin Oh, very clever. Referencing Teddy Roosevelt's influence on the iconic Teddy Bear.
Just imagine how awesome it must feel to parachute off a plane with a doggo using their own parachute.
It would be a beautiful moment to see that happen
Ed:"What's the plan, then?"
Shaun:"Run backward, get Dunkirk, jump on some boats, back to London, have a cup of tea, and wait for all this to blow over."
Great film reference 😂
Shaun of the dead, Loved that movie
Like the film reference but the “wait for this to blow over” couldn’t more inaccurate!!
I think it was more, surely the French will hold the
Maginot line.
We don't need to free France, they'll be alright on their own..........🏳🏳🏳
You couldn't get anymore British than Captain Mad Jack Churchill who fought in WW2. If you don't know him then look him up. It's astonishing no ones made a movie on him. It would be an instant classic.
Or As Netflix series I mean he fought German with Longbow and Sword would be nice fitting story as series to see German Wehrmacht reaction and Allies 😂😂😂
Tom Hardy should be cast as Mad Jack
@@dotdashdotdash Good shout, he looks mote like Tom Hiddleston though and he's an unbelievable actor too.
Very Scottish stereotype
@@ZaiKerizm and even made it to india with the intention of sword fighting the Japanese but then the yanks dropped the fat man and the little boy
The most British story is of Capt "Mad" Jack Churchill who fought in the war with a long bow, a Scottish broadsword and a bagpipe.
This Christmas I got a little gift and it was perhaps my favourite, it was a little book called how Tea won world war 2. It talks about the impact of tea for British soldiers and civilians moral drinking tea, it even goes into detail on the best brew during combat or resting. It even mentions what's the best cup to drink from (ceramic) and a pre heated cup is best by pouring warm water into the cup for 3 minutes then empty but immediately brew tea while cup is warm as the tea will become stronger. If your tea is too warm and you want to cool it down faster, simply leave two spoons inside your cup while brewing and once tea I made, place spoons back inside your tea as they will help attract heat, do not spoil your tea by adding cold water. Especially tank crews having the best tea as they could carry huge amounts of it and were able brew very strong tea from inside the tank.
It was the most effective way tank crew casualties were reduced in the entire war.
As a fellow American tea (and coffee) drinker, I appreciate the advice!
whats the name of this book, it sounds essential
We (Filipinos) acquired Scorpion light tanks from the Brits, and with the boilers intact. We use them to boil our coarse coffee and rice.
2:52 The carrot myth worked so well that even the Germans bought into the idea, thinking that carrots gave their pilots and gunners better night vision, rather than look for hidden radar technology.
As was the point
One wonderful story is of Maj-Gen Sir Andrew "Bulgy" Thorne, commander of the 48th Division at Dunkirk in 1940. During a Luftwaffe attack, one of the soldiers outside his HQ flew into a hysterical panic, and began charging up and down the street firing a Bren Gun at random, much to the consternation of everyone in his immediate vicinity. Thorne, rather than attempt to overpower the soldier, instead simply walked up to him, tapped him on the shoulder, and said "you have a fly button undone." The soldier immediately became preoccupied with doing it up, bringing his rampage to an anti-climax.
Another division commander at Dunkirk, Major-general Sir Merton Beckwith Smith, was said to have informed his officers that "We have been given the supreme honour of being the rearguard at Dunkirk. Go and tell your platoons the good news!"
His advice for dealing with Stukas, in marked contrast to Thorne, was "Stand up to them. Shoot at them with a Bren gun from the shoulder. Take them like a high pheasant. Give them plenty of lead. Five pounds to any man who brings one down."
“Whatever s*** you throw at me, I’ll just return to sender! I’ll battle to the end, I’ll never surrender!” Winston Churchill
I once watched a documentary about the SAS and one guy, was sat behind a machine gun, firing it with one hand while holding a cup of tea in the other..
As a bloke from the UK. Tea will always be the most British thing over here.
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Let's not let the side down, old chap
Here...
As someone from the States, I have to ask, what's your preferred brand of tea? Personally, I'm partial to PG Tips and Yorkshire Gold.
Yorkshire gold is superior I quite agree.
I think it's due to be replaced with prayer time at the mosque by 2030.
Once again the British find another way to charm many with their culture and customs; it is admirable to the highest degree.
Love from California.
Cheers mate 🇬🇧🍻🇺🇲
Even from Africa , you learn to make eba
God bless you mate!
Ps, keep your 2 n d 🏴
Lol thanks 👍
I don't think people understand quite how good a morale booster a tea break is. You could be in the worst situation possible, but you'd be able to deal with it after sitting down for a cuppa. In war time, that's essentially the equivalent of an overpowered squad buff
Tea is still a massive part of our culture, it’s the first thing I’d offer any guest to my home and is a vital part of the day at work with my work mates
Agreed, it punctuates the day nicely and when you wanna slope off for a quick 10 mins, no company I've ever worked for has told me I can't go and make a tea lol
I bet for Germans their tradition would be sausages and their slogan would be in propaganda posters "A sausage a day keeps the Tommy away." Lol
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Even here in Australia I grew up being told that carrots let you see in the dark.
One thing the British people never let down was their sense of humor. Keep calm and carry on! 🇬🇧
This starts as I'm lying in bed with a tea. You knew.
I'm sitting here at my desk with a tea
I just finnished my cupa tea
We just get on with it and people find us mad
Innit bro we just do our own thing and get rinsed for it 😭🤣
God help the chap that gets between the Englishman and his regularly scheduled cup of tea!
There is a story that was told by a polish 304 squadron pilot. When he was fighting over britain he run out of ammo so he went down to rearm and refuel on arandom british airfield. Be couldnt find the ground crew. Turned out the brits were drinking tea in the bunker. He refueld and rearmed the plane on his own and flew back to fight.
The Para Dogs are so badass. More so since they parachuted from planes alongside their human handlers and where in the combat zone, their extra senses undoubtedly saving some lives. You can always count on the British to have their tea time even in crisis, casual no nonsense. Great stuff.
One that I think is just a shame you missed was that during the blitz shop keepers put out signs that read "we're still open, more than usual"
In 1942, the British bought all the available tea on the global market (apart from Japan and Germany) to ensure we had enough to avoid further rationing
tbh, this just made me feel at home lol. especially the part about tea. but dogs always put a smile on my face. Lovely video from start to finish, well worth the like.
During the Falklands War Captain Larcom of HMS Fearless read out the cricket scores during an Argentinian air raid in San Carlos Water. Details of who bowled, was caught out and how many runs were given, while the crew engaged the Mirage and Skyhawk jets bombing them. On another ship to the crew closed up below the Captain simply broadcast. “Still an air raid going on. No need to panic.” Later he announced “We are pleased to confirm that Flight A4 from Argentina has landed. In two pieces in East Falkland.”
A word about the Argentines themselves… they did not attack the MV Canberra which was so hastily sent to war it was in its civilian white paint. Although it was actually carrying troops, the Argentinian pilots believed it was a hospital ship.
My great grandma apparently hoarded tea during WW2, hiding it under her bed.
What are you talking about?
@erik Johansson tea was rationed in ww2
Rest in peace paradoggos
When I was an English teacher in Poland, the Polish students did tell me about a very popular Polish comedy sitcom, set during the war, and one common theme was, during the middle of a battle, the British soldiers would suddenly stop firing, and shout over the top of the trench , “oh, no, no, sorry, it’s five o’clock, we need to have our cup of tea”…
It often got a laugh, when we needed to re-arrange a lesson, and I told them, I couldn’t make it for 5 o’clock…(and shouts of “five o’clock tea”)
Also, well into the late 1970’s there was a common public information advert still shown on British TV, for drinking Tea (not a specific brand, just tea) with the catchphrase “Tea, best drink of the day” I remember seeing it on TV in about 1978/79, when I was about 5 or 6…
Something tells me that those adverts were almost a legacy from the war years…
Another quip "have had a cup of tea since tea time "
The drinking tea has been grossly exaggerated. Its just a drink, humans have to drink. The American equivalent was coffee. The U.S. Army installed thirty-two mobile, trailer-mounted coffee-roasting and grinding units attached to field bakeries in July 1944, each operated by six specially-trained men. These units produced 90,000 lbs of coffee a day, every day, according to author Tim Lynch. Coffee was the standard, widely-used drink for American troops, as stamina and alertness functions were necessary for combat, hence keeping soldiers performance at high-levels and helped to endure fighting fatigue. To combat drowsiness in the field, military cooks judiciously added coca leaves to the urns of brewed coffee. A doctor in the Pacific War recalled the scents of portable coffee pots drifting through the jungle.
As a Brit, I really enjoyed this video. Maybe you could make similar videos about each country during WW2. Keep up the great work 👍
0:06 Wotjek! =D
I would like to wish all British families a pleasant evening during this time of grieving for your queen. May your nerves remain cool, and your cups of tea hot. 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸
Thank you cousin American
Hahahah 😂😂😂😂
What a romanticised and archaic view of the majority of us (no doubt helped by this video and Hollywood)
Whilst I appreciate the sentiment nobody here is still mourning the queen. I dont think I mourned her any more than I would mourn the loss of my pet goldfish, life really does go on..
and tea drinking is very much an older person thing these days. I dont drink tea, my wife doesn’t drink tea, lots of our friends dont drink tea.. in fact me and my wife dont like hot drinks at all.
@@seany8787 anecdotal evidence buddy, all of my friends drink tea and we're all under 25
@@ToxicJelly9 youve got to admit- its not as popular as it once must have been, especially with starbucks an all that coffee culture crap
@@seany8787 true, but I'd still say the tea drinking stereotype still holds, but just not as much as it used to. And yes, people's addiction to sugary coffees is concerning
More recently I was watching a documentary on a British unit (R.Marines probs?) Who were in Afghanistan in a firefight and in cover they're all chatting about what movie they're going to watch when they get back
I love the story of the a British Jedburgh team who parachuted into France to help the Resistance communicate with the invading Allies in 1944. One of the teams was a Scot who jumped from the plane wearing his kilt. A French lookout spotting them parachuting down shouted "The British are coming, the British are coming ...and one of them has brought his wife!"
Lol literally made me spit out my tea 🍵 😂
Simple history videos are one of the only ways I get excited about history these videos are so entertaining
If you're interested in learning about history through music you should listen to Sabaton, they are a power metal band from Sweden
Every time I start thinking of a canal you’ve already done a great video on it! Another great video guys
I like how tea drinking is considered eccentric
Jack Churchill - "Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed." Or Lord Lovat and Piper Millin, who played the bagpipes under fire on D-Day - the Germans refused to shoot him as they thought he was insane
Hey, I just wanna say thank you for sharing knowledge that people would never know about history without you. Good work!
In the Britain the movie Christmas Story has the Little Orphan Annie decoder ring spell out "Drink More Oval-tea"
This joke will be criminally under appreciated, but I got it!
🤣🤣🤣
Are you sure it wasn't ovaltine?
Which is completely different from tea.
@@choughed3072 The joke was lost on you huh?
It was Ovaltine in the US, where the movie too place.
Britain is known for drinking copious amounts of tea, hence Oval-tea 🤦♀️
It makes me proud to be British 🇬🇧❤️😂
The coolest animal to serve was Wojtek, the Syrian brown bear 🐻
Corporal Wojtek, show some respect.
Wasn't he polish?
@@plebianmarsh2373
He served in the polish Military but was Syrian
@@GhostBear3067 exactly
Homie gotta show more respect
Is that the bear that ended up in a oo in Scotland??
Churchill was a bricklayer
I'm a bricklayer....
Hmmmm maybe good things to come
Another very British thing I saw was that the officials didn't duck. They walked around the battlefield giving instructions to the soldiers as if they were walking on a park.
I love it how everyone memes on the Challenger 2, calling it the worlds best protected tea maker (or something similar).
The actual reason why all british MBTs have boiling vessels is for 2 reasons:
1) it’s just a good idea, and it’s a great morale boost
2) Because during WW2 british armour columns would stop mid-journey, and all the crews would dismount and gather by the side of the road for a brew up. This of course left them as easy targets for the Germans. Eventually the MOD got so fed up with the excessive casualties that they put boiling vessels into our tanks so there wasn’t a need to dismount for tea.
It’s also worth noting the yanks have the exact same boiling vessel as us brits in the Abrams and Bradleys.
The thing is some tanks here in Britian after WW2 were designed so that they could have a special type of kettle so that tankers could have a cuppa in the field
@ARK Redeemer like how America desifned the A-10 AFTER the gun, plus the Gau-8 is made by a washing machine company
tea is a very British thing to do during war time and peace time
😂 Tripped over the pronunciation of Lancashire there yank! 🧐🇬🇧
Proud to be British ❤
I just love when there's a video about strange and fun facts. Thank you Simple History. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎄🕊🎅🎁.
I'm disappointed radar became a sub-note on the carrots. It was a really big thing the allies invented radar. To prevent the Germans from getting wiser and taking counter measures, they made up the story bout carrots. It was a very VERY big thing not a stupid sub note
We have carrot cake thanks to WWII. Because sugar was rationed, carrots were substituted.
millions of human loss for carrot cake, worth it.
I'm British and got my best friend who is Lithuanian addicted to tea. Great stuff
Outstanding work, here's a 🏅 for services to the empire 👏 😂
British in ww2
- loves tea so much they lost to a tiger tank
- loves dog so much they paradropped it in normandy
- has a mad bagpiper
- has a mad officer fighting with umbrella
- loves carrot so much that it became propaganda
- troll the enemy by using a homeless corpse
- has a mad officer who uses sword and longbow
- sends a bear into the war
ah...great britain
These days only half of the country would dig for victory, the other half would expect access to your crop for nothing other than breathing.
Whether its the Americans or the Chinese the message of history is clear...do NOT come between the British and tea.
99% of the world: drinks tea
Americans: they're all so weird!
I really enjoyed this video! It would be interesting if you made more videos highlighting similar stereotypical or strange stories from the different allied/axis nations.
As an American, I can say with honesty…I love a good tea party 😉
As a British person, my favorite cafe chains in the UK are the "Boston Tea Party Cafe" they're everywhere. Even we joke about it 😉
Don’t worry old chum, we’ll get you next time, tally ho!
Were just so good at banter,what more can i say.
A truly British video my old chap, Blighty approves. Feel free to join us in the Challenger for a swift cuppa before we go and give the enemy what for. Huzzah!
I loved this, could you do this for all the factions of the war?
Nothing beats a cup of earl grey and some biscuits. Tea just calms the mind and give you time to focus again
Never underestimate the power of hydration and morale!
When you're up to your bollocks in misery and death, a cup of tea to remind you of home, of what you're fighting to save, will spur you to take another step. Another town. Another victory.
"They may take our lives, but they will never take our… TEADOM!!!" - Britain in WWII
Bravo 👏 😂
Great video!
Jack Churchill not mentioned? Surely not.
most British thing i heard during ww2 germans build wooden fake airfields the British dropped a wooden bomb with the word BOOM on the side 😂😂😂😂😂
When your tired, cold, wet and pissed off, nothing but nothing beats a hot brew, except another hot brew.
Can you blame us for the tea breaks? Tea is amazing. Hot leaf water tastes brilliant 🤣
You can imagine the utter chaos if the HM Government encouraged coffee drinking in war time.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thats where it comes from, my dad used to tell me to eat carrots all the time to have better vision
Lovely to see Private Wojtek in the beginning. May I suggest to do a polish episode?
Something about the brave, but a little chaotic warrios from central europe.
You have alreade one on Private Wojtek, the soldier bear.
But there should be on on the myth of polish cavalery charging german tanks with sabers during the 1939 campain. One myth that is very strong among the Germans even today.
Than about the brave defence of the Danzig Post Office in 1939, with is strong among the Polish still today.
The part of the polish pilots during the battle of britain. And of couse the brave Warsaw uprising, including Kubus a makeshift polish tank.
The British MRE today still comes with 15 packets of tea in them. 🤣
Happy Nick Valentine!
Did you know the challenger 2 has a kettle for tea on the go?
Every british tank from ww2 onwards did
Americans in a car accident: "OH GOD, CALL AN AMBULANCE- wait, I can't afford it... eh, I'll be fine."
Meanwhile, British in a car accident: "Mummy! Me arms' broken and theres glass in me eyes!"
"Oh, don't you frett now dear! Just eat your carrots and drink your tea!"
Inaccurate. Americans would be too scared to call the ambulance because it’s too expensive.
Actually working for the ambulance its more, "I know you're busy and don't want to waste your time".
Im sorry but fucking no, you're having severe chest pains and struggling to breathe, this is exactly what we're here for.
When I was in the Army we had a saying - If in doubt, brew kit out.
The Top Hat Umbrella Wielding Soldier still tops these tbh.
Is nobody gonna talk about that there is a CARROT MUSEUM??
There was?
But more importantly, cool name!
0:10 lolz just had to show off the artillery bear the polish army used in WW2 XD
Man's best friend. In peace, work and war.
The keep calm and carry on poster was intended to be distributed in the event of an invasion or gas attacks, but the situation in WW2 Britain was never considered dire enough to warrant their use and they were rarely seen.
Dont forget biscuit dunking.
Church hill looks more like Bob hope 😂 great video
our pals the brits
Hello simple history
Me: dog does flying to 16 000 feet and parachuting down count as a walk? Dog: I am insulted you asked?
it is beyond amazing that any of those para dogs survived. outstanding! or i suppose as the british would say good show.