Marine reacts to Jeremy Clarkson: Greatest Raid of All Time (Part 2)
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2021
- Finishing off this amazing documentary!
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"Don't hang about here it is decidedly unhealthy" Quality.
As an ex British soldier, I am always appreciative of the respect you show towards our troops, young, old, and passed away. Peace to you and all our brothers and sisters across the pond.
from an aussie . hear hear
I'm still surprised the Campbletown stayed afloat carrying the sheer mass of the balls of finest British steel those guys have.
I'm still surprised that people are making the same, unfunny from the start, shitty 'giant-balls' jokes!
@@amazingusername8925 I didn't say giant did I? If you're going to attempt to denigrate someone, at least make an effort to read the original post properly beforehand.
@@amazingusername8925 you sound like a barrel of laughs
@@benwratha6628 doesn't he just?
@@swoop1352 he doesn't sound very amazing.
What a bunch of fucking legends… I could do nothing but stand in awe of these men.
Jeremy Clarkson is a Master Storyteller! We owe him much gratitude for bringing this bit of history to light.
Wounded 16 times,
And the german officer advises a captured British officer, "that man on the boat deserves your Victoria Cross" sadly, the wounded man died the following day, but yes he received a posthumous vc.
God bless him.
A point of note, all the British dead were buried with military honours by the German troops. Such was their respect for the calibre of men who would undertake that raid.
@@ianmills9266 was about to mention this... its often forgotten that the German machine often held funerals ect for fallen brits.. not to say they didn't commit atrocities ect.. but ya know...
Similar story with HMS glowworm a destroyer engaging and before sinking ramming the German heavy cruise Hipper. Hipper's captain through the Red Cross recommended the decreased captain for the VC for his valour in the engagement. The captain was latter awarded the VC post-war chronologically it was the first Victoria Cross of the 2nd world war
@@robertbodell55 I was thinking about the HMS Glowworm as soon as they said that, amazing story, put the Hipper out ot action for a while.
@@martinmillar7137 Yes. We are living in times where many are desperate to land one simple all-compassing verdict on everything, from individuals to continents. In reality, many conflicting statements about one person can be true at the same time. And here we are talking about the people of a whole nation, if specifically those who were officers in the army. Credit where credit is due. You got it right.
man even i feel proud of the brits. and im german
Thank you.
Always makes you proud to be a British citizens when you see what our boys did
And now they break into stadiums to watch England lose at football.
@@karlydoc there not people mate there goons, not mistake us and our army to them we are completely diff.
@@karlydoc yeah that’s the kalergi plan in full effect
The moment when the people walk nonchalantly past the little memorial stone, having a drink from a flask, oblivious to where their freedom comes from. Knot in gut.
I'm often humbled by the brass and guile of those that came before, they are an almost extinct breed in this country these days. Most patriots use these brave people as proof of their own superiority, despite being just a shade of the example shown in this documentary. very few flag waving brits these days understand the value of sacrifice and service to a greater cause, and instead blame others for their own cultural demise.
I'm not English but in the great British understatement I say "well done those men." Stunning.
Real men, Real heroes. Such soft spoken humble but absolutely hard as nails men.
A couple of years ago I went to find the memorial rock and found it had been moved and replaced with a much more substantial one in a more prominent position.
That is good to hear
Awesome to hear!
So they bloody should
Prince of Wales pier in falmouth I go and sir there and think about the stories of what my grandad got up to and I came to the conclusion he wasn't wired up right
AMAZING.
Ok, this needs to be made into a movie, a no BS, accurate recounting of what occurred, because you don't need to add to it, change it or exaggerate it. It was the stuff of heroes from start to finish. I want to see these commando's characterised and immortalised. More people should know what kind of people they were.
Think there is a film, old black and white. Here you go; ruclips.net/video/smmaaMmqZ50/видео.html
You don't need a movie.
Just appreciate what these people have done for you.
This would make a fantastic 3rd series to The Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and this story from the struggle of their recruiting, training and acceptance to the carrying out of the entire raid!!!!!
The only questions would be could the last episode be 4 hours long and could an audience handle that much action and adrenaline!!!!!
There was an old black and white film based on it with the regular stars from that era
@@stevepirie8130 The Gift Horse. It was based on the St Nazaire raid.
Different breed of men. Respect doesn't cut it all. True heros 1 and all . I never knew of this until now there must be so many untold missions of unimaginable courage... Thankyou
The British Army makes me proud to be a Brit
Btw, Hande hoch is German for hands up
Thanks for translating.
Thanks!
Thank you 'Dad's Army'.
Kind of ironic that u translated this, with ur name being what it is... lol
@@SpikeF14 😂😂👌
As they said on the radio at the time... Britain is a country of farmers and shop keepers forced to take up arms against a race of robot warriors....
These people gave their lives, sacrificed their health caused from the horrendous injuries they received in this conflict and suffered years of imprisonment in a fight for the common good and freedom. In 2021 some of us have taken this hard earned gift of freedom and free will and selfishly forgotten the common good these men fought and died for. For some, its too much to ask them wear a mask whilst shopping in Tesco's or getting a needle jab in the arm. You know who you are and when you watch this documentary you should be truly ashamed and belittled. To all those people who all those years ago stood up for what was right, I would like to say a big THANK YOU for giving me the life I enjoy today. I am truly humbled.
Clarkson said on the boat in this documentary was his favourite piece to camera he’s ever done, and you can see it.
Yeah defo, you can tell Clarkson is proper enjoying it and means every word
yeah jezza and may are two history buffs
The moment they raise the Battle Ensign wow lump in throat
The memorial has now been much improved with the VC winners having their own named star in the town.
Gives me immense pride to hear that Brummie accent on the one veteran. RIP gentleman, the youth of today hasn't forgotten what you did for us.
Unfortunately I think they have.
Thank you to the US Marine for his genuine respectful reaction to this vid. Clarkson also made a documentary about his father-in-law, Robert Kane (i think) who was awarded a VC at the battle of Arnhem. A brilliant story & really well made, much the same as this documentary. He’s very thorough, proud and patriotic.
He's already reacted to Clarksons VC film
Robert Cain, JC's former father-in-law
Not thorough at all, read my comments.
@@Chris-BognorRegis ?
Proud to be British. RIP to these brave men
I like Clarkson's enthusiasm. His passion for the subject matter is infectious.
Most veterans of WW2 never saw themselves as heroes, they were "just doing their bit for king and country" as my late father used to say. He was in the British army in the Far East fighting the Japanese and I am pretty sure he witnessed some terrible things. It's almost 30 years since he passed away, and he never spoke about what he experienced during the war until the day he died.
@Chris G The sacrifice their generation made should never be forgotten. Before I retired, a few years ago now, I was speaking to one of the young clerks in my office who asked me if I had ever heard of something called the holocaust. I thought she was joking, but she wasn't. Tragic!
My dad was in WWII in the navy as a gunner and anti sea mines...in wooden boats...he also was a part of the Normandy Landings in taking the chaps over...he always said the British Moto was "go in you go in hard"...my dad passed in 2014 he was 90...what hero's we had!..
My Dad was a CAS wireless operator NSWE 1944-45 Scheldt Clearance to Rhine Crossing, ebnfed up suuporting 1st Commando Bde, he said litle but I managed through biographies and so on a fair amointof what happened and swhhy he couldn't taklk abvoiuy it,, nrevrt joined aAmistice Day Parades or Remembrnce Sundays.
THe Commando's themmselves had kirt wolrsty - rthey were the toiugh guys
best first hand accounts are on "the old and the boid" youtube channel
Discipline and normal morality had just broken down in those months.
Then we sent him to Palestine. Battle hardened troops doing police duties .Will we neveer learn?
My grandfather fought in ww2. He died just before I was born in the 70s. He'd been there at the liberation of Belsen etc.
I asked my mum what he said about his time during the war.
And she said he never spoke about it either. Just he would say "you don't need to know what I'd seen... thats what we fought and won for, so you wouldn't ever need to see"
She said he always looked really uncharacteristically sad when asked, so they stopped asking.
Seems fair.
Conscription. Many had no choice, which makes me even prouder.
When I was a young kid our doctor was Dr. David Paton, it wasn't until many years later when I happened by chance to see his obituary in the paper I found out that during the war he had been Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Paton and was medical officer on the raid. He made it home and later in 1944 stormed ashore with the Commandos on D-Day.
How hardcore, the guy was recommended for a VC by the enemy!
I'm in my 60s now. My grandfathers, uncles, even my teachers served in WW2. As I get older, their courage and sacrifice makes me shed tears out of pride and admiration. I'm sure we do have the brave men and women who would do what they have to do, even today.
No one tells a story like Jeremy, you should definitely watch how to win a vc its just as good, those guys were amazing
Already done a video on it I believe
They Shall Not Grow Old. A great documentary about WW1 using original footage, colourised, higher frame rate and stabilised and using lip readers to add sound. A beautiful and haunting documentary.
@Chris G Yeah that's the one.
Seconded.
Great reaction bud. Clarkson isn't a comedian as such, he was primarily a print journalist who went into telly, he still writes for a couple of papers today.
Gotta say he comes across as a knob to me in his journalism and car programmes, but he redeems himself in these documentaries👍👍
@@2lefThumbs he knows he's being a nob though on top gear and grand tour. Its just for laughs man. And yeh he's a bit of a history buff and really respectful when doing war docs.
@@2lefThumbs kinda part of a character he plays grump old "boomer".
Irl in London he rides around on a peddle bike. I would suggest watching Clarksons farm. He keeps up his persona definitely but he between the act there are some very real moments.
@@tmarritt I'm a grumpy old boomer too! (with bigger belly and tighter trousers, but much less hair). I do like his war documentaries, but I'm totally averse to reality tv, and reality tv based on Clarkson more so 😉 Maybe one of these days, when I'm not allowed the remote anymore, I'll get to watch that series , but I'll be feeling like Alex in "A Clockwork Orange" 😄
@@2lefThumbs That's because the British left-wing media made him out to be that way. Sure he did a few arsehole things but haven't we all? Cancel culture wanted him gone a long time ago while he was still working for the BBC.
British humour no matter what is happening at that moment is one of my favourite parts of being British. How they joke around whilst all hell is breaking today is still alive on modern day Britain.
I'm glad it's a part of Australian culture from the British heritage. It used to be far more so than now, but out of the cities it's very prevalent.
I’m American but my Dad’s parents were British and his dad fought in the war…I grew up around that dry British sense of humor and stiff upper lip. Love it!.
Who would dare give this a thumbs down 😡. They can’t be British, not in the real sense anyhow.
Probably IRA supporters
@@leeregan610 Or from sandy places.
Theres a youtube channel called 'Ship Happens', who have purchased an ML boat like the ones that got destroyed at St Nazaire and are restoring her. The history of that boat is incredible.
You beat me to it! There is one of the type which has been restored to WW2 spec, and the owners from Ship Happens took part in it's D-Day trip this year-they hope to have enough done to make it next June. Oh and yeah DIY with no dock is pretty steel balls.
There's something poignant about a small memorial to such a secretive raid, and I know these men did what they were made to do through sheer grit, bravery and courage. But I can't help but feel as someone who enjoys the freedoms these people gave, that it's just not enough. Size doesn't matter, in theory, but a rock and a plaque? Surely we can do better than that.
It’s a travesty that this raid isn’t as famous as it should be!!
It will be
At the end of this film, the small stone memorial stating the facts of the St Nazaire raid is so small and inconspicuous that it could easily be missed. Gives a clue to the spirit of the fighting men & women of the UK & Commonwealth. Their names shall live forever.
As an Englishman, I knew absolutely nothing about this. Wow, they were some men. This raid deserves a movie.
There is I think its called raid on the iron coast
Tom hanks and will Smith could play the lead roles
My dad was in the second wave on D day with the royal marines, he told me they had expected 100%casualties on the first wave although it turned out better than they hoped for.
Like most of his generation he was very reluctant to talk about it, probably a lot of things happened that he would have preferred to forget.
He also said that blokes used to know, "when their number was up" which amazed me.
In all he told me though, which I found amazing is that he had no personal hatred towards the Germans, in fact he held a grudging respect for their discipline & fighting quality's, blokes doing their duty for their country as he was for his.
For me a old man now myself, it's so shocking to see how young these men who died were, my father being 19 himself. But in both world wars look up the ages it's truly one of the greatest tragedies of war.
Mate this two part series is without question the most gripping thing I've watched. Utterly incredible
There were quite a few extreme actions done by Europeans during that war. My own grandmother delivered illegal papers. We had guerrilla fighters here in norway. The resilience against the oppressor is ingrained in us humans. Regardless where we come from, but Europe has alot of experience fighting the odds.
My Grandfather was in the LRDG in north africa in WW2 he was Coldstrem Guards and was in G patrol LRDG and he never mentioned it at all. Its only now that I have been reserching him that I have found out what a real Hero he was. R.I.P all you hero's.
My great grandfather volunteered in 1940 for the commandos, at the time he was a 35 year old, regular sgt, married with 3 kids. He was in the royal Scots and was embarrassed about being evacuated from Dunkirk so him and his mate volunteered! He missed dday because he was hospitalised with a smashed up arm caused by a training accident, this pissed him off massively apparently! After the war he was rtu'd and posted to Palestine, this he said was scarier than any of his wartime exploits. He ended up retiring as a captain and the adjutant of the day! He died in 72 and I never got the chance to meet him, so RIP captain Pringle, you warry old bastard!!
''Well done old boy'' Man I miss how brits used to speak there's a certain class to it that's missing nowadays. The germans admired bravery and prowess, to them they were impressed and respected the commandos. This would make a fantastic movie I'm surprised hollywood hasn't bothered yet
Tiddy Fard.It has been but along time ago in black and white.It's called, "Gift horse"
Coz no americans were involved.
Remember how they made a film about cracking codes when they weren't even in the war!
Hollywood butchers real stories and tries to change historic fact at the same time.
Movie should be made here with a totally british cast and danny boyle directing.
@@stumpy6479 I was actually aware of this story because of the film, I remember seeing it as a kid on a sunday afternoon round my grans after lunch. Many of my uncles serve in the military after the war and a few in the navy so whenever a war story film was on in the 3pm sunday slot on the BBC it was like a command performance for whomever was there. This was perhaps the most memorable as attending the gathering that day were two of my uncles who had been navy men and knew the story adding genuine colour to the black and white film and embedding it in my memories.
@@TheCornishCockney Except that won't happen because 1) The UK film industry is broke, and 2) even if 1) didn't apply, the woke lefties would never allow it to show straight, white UK males succeeding at something.
@@thadtuiol1717 sadly,you are probably correct.
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15 miles in 3 hours,then assault course,then firing exercise then a March up Ben Nevis ,which is a mountain.
Tallest mountain in the UK . Bloody legends! All of them 👍🏻
And still be able to fight
bloody hell they were men of steel that lot
My Grandfather died when I was 17yrs old I knew he'd been in the Famed Commandos during WW2 but I never really appreciated what they did until later on in life and when I watched this documentary it all said it all to me. My Grandfather was in the First Special Service Brigade SOE Commando, Luckily for him he and some of his fellow Commandos made it through Spain to Gibraltar and then home. I do wish I'd talked to him regarding his time in the Commandos. Don't forget the British Army Commandos where the Original British Special Forces, the SAS & SBS were formed from the Commandos and the Commando ethos still lives on in the Royal Marines, US Rangers and in Commando Forces around the World
My stepdad was a commando. Anybody who knew anything about fighting or special forces were extremely respectful of him once they knew he was a baret. Very dangerous man for the wrong people.. Rest his soul..
"Well, there we are - four minutes late." And where they were was rammed into the gate of the Normandie Dock at St Nazaire, under intense German fire. It was called the greatest raid of all - and it was, a display of the highest courage men can show. Several VCs were awarded - there should have been more. Bless 'em all.
If there was ever a movie made about this a good title would be "4 minutes late"
There was a fictionalised B&W movie made about it in 1952 called 'The Gift Horse',@@whovianhistorybuff. Starring Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough, it was called 'Glory at Sea' in the USA. Those old four-stackers were gift horses indeed.
These men were so brave and so Humble. It's a generation thing everyone seems to have someone in the family who's got medals from the War but they never talk about it. I think with today's technology we'll never have to fight the same type of War as previous generations did. Although will always need soldiers that are on another level for special operations.
The courage and dignity of the soldiers involved, so humble having achieved such accomplishments.
As a proud Brit from a family with a military background, this documentary has me in tears. The sad bit is when one of the old boys says the youth of today would do the same thing if they had to, because I don't think they would.
Everyone always views past generations with respect but in reality MANY people would do the same thing today. Probably not most, but that was also the case back then. However, some men and women would come forward to do the same thing today. If I was asked, Id do it in a heartbeat. I'm very patriotic, I have few reasons to stick around and in another life would have pursued a military career anyway. In the end there are two outcomes, you live to tell the tale or you die. If there is a place you go when you die, ill get to see my dad again, if not, well it doesn't much matter.
I believe they absolutely would. When a call as desperate as WW2 needs to be answered, people will answer I have no doubts. Hopefully though it never needs to be again.
I thought the same. But at the end of the day you fight for the men beside you.
I'm absolutely convinced that they would.
My old grandad told me that as a teenager he and all his mates were 'proper tearaways.' Always in trouble with the law and with local girls' parents. Then the war broke out and they wanted nothing to do with it.
Within 2 years, he and all his mates were at the recruitment office, volunteering to join up, 'for King and country.'
He fought all across N Africa and up through Italy and France, and won a lot of medals. But he maintained to me that none of the so called 'lazy, layabout youth of today' were half as bad as he and his mates were. So he was convinced that should they be called upon to fight, they would do just as good a job as he ever did.
Of course they would. The Commando's undertook this raid, are you saying todays RM Commando would or could not do things like this? Or that todays Royal Navy boys and girls could not be this brave? And as for 'normal' youth of today types - never underestimate a cornered Brit, if called on I am sure they would fight like lions too.
First off i have to say you are extremely respectful and thoughtful towards men who gave us the freedom that we have ...HUGE kudos to you.
My grandfather Eric Ravenscroft was part of the D Day landings, he fought his way through Belgium, into Germany, he would never talk about his service time, all he ever said to me was the Sea was red with blood...I can't even begin to imagine what he saw and went through, all i know is it's because of brave men like him that we have freedom, it saddens me that society is imploding and destroying the freedom that brave men like my Grandfather went through hell to give us.
Clarksons father in law, now passed away, was a vc holder.....
He won it at arnhem,
And his story is just so unbelievably
Brave.
When he was alive, Clarkson said ne never spoke of it, and it only became public after his death.
VC holders don't like to tell people about their VC, I guess Jeremy understood that his dad doesn't want to relive those events
These are the things we were told as kids by our grandads. Went in one ear and out the other until Jeremy put it on telly. Awesome!
Campbeltown's 12lbr gun is mounted on a plinth on top of a submarine bunker next door to the Normandie Dock. The force of the explosion actually bent the gun barrel. I visited St. Nazaire a few years ago and had just finished reading the book about Operation Chariot. To say it was emotional is an understatement. Huge respect to the Commandos and sailors involved.
That's awesome
I've been on the Western Lady (ML) in Torbay. He's not exaggerating when he said you couldn't get a worse boat for the job.
Vulcan raid on the Falkland Islands is another good one.
The commandos in their 1940s battledress inter-cut with the soldiers in modern DPM uniforms running the same obstacle courses is an amazing sequence.
Now you can understand how we conquered 3/4 of the worlds landmass
this story makes me so proud to be british, i'm typing this wipeing tears from my eyes, RIP to all the brave men that didn't make it home, you will never be forgotten for your service and bravery, you are what makes britton so great.
Britain not britton
Proud as hell of our boys.Ordinary lads that fought like Lions.
Thankyou for showing our brothers across the pond the respect they deserve 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
His documentary about the Arctic convoy (PQ-17, if memory serves) is similarly excellent. He, James May and Richard Hammond have all made lots of remarkably good documentaries in addition to their mucking about shows.
Plenty of US Navy and US Merchant Marine / Naval Armed Guard took part in that doomed convoy - might be of interest to your US audience?
It used to be on here, then disappeared behind a paywall. I think it's now on Amazon prime.
There's also a video on here showing how the Raid video was made, which is very innteresting.
The British and German soldiers often respected each other, at Arnhem the Germans treated the captured British paras with great respect for how hard they fought.
There’s also an anecdote that in Africa the British and Germans would refrain from shelling each other’s positions during football matches as it wasn’t civilised
My great Grandad was a tank driver for the 8th army (desert rats). he was captured at al alamein. Rommel ensured all captured british troops where properly fed and watered before being handed to the italians for transfer to POW camps. My great Grandad never really spoke about it much but he never had anything against the germans but boy did he hate the italians. WW1 and WW11 where examples of a gentlemens war with mutual respect something we unfortunately dont see in modern conflicts.
So many things to say about this documentary : Clarkson's wonderful presentations, explanations of the events ....lovely to see this American vet's thoughts and impressions . One little thing that stuck with me was the German senior officer telling his British interlocutor that Tom Durran deserved the Victoria Cross .....respect for the courage of the enemy in warfare .....
I really enjoyed the few war docs that Clarkson did, his down to earth everyman personality really works for this kind of documentary, he adds a human touch were other docs can be a bit stiff and sterile feeling
This story is just amazing, mad respect for them all. 🇬🇧 Jeremy Clarkson does a amazing job at doing documentaries
British battles during WW2 tend not to get much Attention , I think it's the British way not to make a big fuss and there aren't many documentaries made about them outside of the UK . You should check out the assault on the merville battery or Pegasus bridge . Also saw a good documentary by TIK about market garden
Go read about battle of Caen fought by British. Against 4 elite SS Panzer divisions. Bloodiest battle on the western front.
Yep defo second that and of course Caen too
@@v4skunk739 yep, called the "meat grinder" it stopped the German heavy armour breaking out and allowing the Americans to break out into Normandy
@@v4skunk739 8 Panzer Divisions and 3 Tiger battalions, for a battle in France, that's a huge concentration of armour.
That's also because the UK doesn't have Hollywood to make films about ww2 from the British pov. Dunkirk is the only modern ww2 British pov war film and that's about them retreating.
Beast-mode. I think it is in every man and woman. We will need more of it soon enough no doubt.
Another great one to watch is real story the Heroes of Telemark (made famous by the Richard Harris and Kirt Douglas film of the same name), plenty of sources on RUclips.
I've lived just a couple of kilometres from where they sunk Tirpitz, remember the old folks who witnessed the Tirpitz go down, and with its bottom up saying they heard for days 100's of German sailors knocking on the hull trying to get out or get help, until it went all quiet..
Yeesh. Nasty way to go.
Thank you for finally getting around to watching this mate, even though it may well be copyright claimed. It was really cool to see you watch it and thanks for your respect and interest for and in those who took part.
Watching that made me shiver and want to cry with pride
Imagine they made a movie out of this to commemorate these guys and this missions. Incredible
How powerful was the letter from Bill to his father in pt 1 ? He knew he was going to be killed but went anyway , sacrificing his own life for the generations that came after , like mine . I’m so grateful I now know all this and thank you for reacting to it with knowledge , experience and sensitivity. 👍🏴
I think that because he's a military guy his reactions are really helpful, rather than if an armchair warrior was reacting. He's not gung-ho, he can see himself and his mates in that position.
God rest their souls.
We will never forget their sacrifices and heroism
When you ENEMY recocognizes your badassery..just, wow.
So humbling watching these men's stories
A fine reaction to a documentary I watch about once a year. Seeing the old men that actually did this talk about it is heavy, and it gets even more profound with the pictures of them as young soldiers. Then those who didn't survive... and these old gentlemen visiting the graves of their fellow soldiers, there's always a tear in my eye.
You have to watch "The world at war" a TV series about WW2 and you will love it.
Most military returning from war do not talk about what they had to do and go back to civvy street and chose a new quieter life but never forget the fallen heroes that never came back. Peace.
Clarkson himself said this was the best TV he ever made. Particularly the piece to camera on the ship at the gates. Thank you for this video. You always treat the subject matter with respect.
Strangely enough, I’d never heard about it until you did this reaction and I am a Brit and have studied WW2. Just goes to show, every day is a learning day. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Those guys were made of something else. One thing I'd recommend doing a video on and something a little bit different and in the air is "War Heroes of the Skies Ep 2 Spitfire Victory" which is about George Buerling known as "The Falcon of Malta" who was a Canadian RAF Ace. Our Canuck cousins don't get mentioned as much but those guys were also incredible in both wars.
I'm from Stoke-On-Trent, and *WE* invented the Spitfire.
@@SeeDaRipper... I'm from Southampton and we built and designed the Schneider winning planes that the spitfire was based on, and then built the 1st Spitfire which was tested at what is now Southampton Airport.
@Everest Yeti, yes but the designer Reginald Mitchell was born in Stoke and moved to Southampton.
@@SeeDaRipper... I know where RJ came from, however it wasn't until he moved to Super Marine in Southampton that his ability was truly recognised. Fortunately for him Super Marine where a fairly small firm so his talent could be recognised. It's also unfortunate that he never got to see just how much of an impact his original design had. We forget that RJ pushed the envelope with regards to flight design. If he had survived and lived beyond I have no doubt that where we are now in aviation design, would have been 20 years ago. What people also forget is that the process to build the Spitfire had to be designed, which was also down in part to RJ. I have lived in Southampton all my life and am disgusted that neither the man or the airplane are truly recognised. Like many, without him the world would be a much darker place.
The difficulty and strength it must have taken not to only achieve this incredible and suicidal task, but to manage to exfil afterwards with such incredibly massive balls was truly a feat.
They certainly don't make them like they used to, and when you DO find the true brave heroes, they're in nowhere near the same numbers as they used to be.
Lest we forget.
My understanding of the period was people doing a job that had to be done, ordinary people in an extraordinary time doing an incredibly extraordinary job. My Grandparents generation never spoke of their bravery, there was no jingoism ... they simply stepped up to the challenge and went back to their lives. Another breed.
The people & all of our brave & courageous defenders of the war years are known as the GREATEST GENERATION & rightly so
Yes but did you notice how those old soldiers did not see it that way themselves ?
They were more or less ordinary men who volunteered because they believed someone had to do it. They were heroes in the finest sense of the word to us but to themselves they simply had a job to do, and they did it.
@@allanmanaged5285 Absolutely, they put the safety of our country before their own lives didn't they.They were the finest of the fine
The memorial in Falmouth has since been upgraded and there is a larger one down by the piers. Everyone who grows up their like myself learns about this raid in school and the importance of it. Great bit of history.
Well reviewed and a nice posting.
My old man (Navy) was attached to no4 commandos as he was on assault landing craft .
He went on several raids with them and said they were the toughest troops he every had dealings with.
The closest the Germans had in his opinion as he met a few as pows were the paratroopers.
I suppose Monti Casino was proof just how good they were.
So proud of our ancestress why so small a memberable to this very brave boys
In every war the British do something like this. During the great armada there was the fire ship raid During the Napoleonic war there were several raids on the French and Spanish fleets. During ww1 there was the Zeebrugge raid, it's really a sort of tradition.
And it's strange that the Brits seem to do best when outnumbered: Agincourt, Crecy, Poitiers, the Spanish Armada, the Battle of Trafalgar, amongst others. Perhaps it's because there are fewer people to get in the way! 😉
It never fails to blow my mind the balls and bravery of prior generations, people who gave everything because it was the right thing, their duty, a just cause.
Hats off to them, and all the daredevils still serving
The bravest of the brave !
Different breed of men back then,they were just doing their job,god bless every single one ❤️
What a story !
Makes me proud to be British ,respect to those warriors 💪
I'm humbled by their extraordinary bravery in the face of extreme danger and overwhelming odds, we owe so much to them and to our military today. This was great Theo.🇬🇧👍
From the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember then........the fallen
Indeed one of the greatest WW2 one way raids. True courage and sacrifice.
Nicely done. I've watched this documentary probably 50 times and I never get tired of it. I thought I caught a glimpse or two of you questioning wether you yourself could have done what these brave men did, remember what Micky Burn said at the end - you can.
Some years ago a friend said he didn't think acts like this would be done today, not because people weren't brave enough, but due to the fact that the youth of today (military excluded) would question why they were doing it. I think he was right.
I remember watching this the first time around and being in awe of the men who served that day, I know of my great grandfather who served in ww2 and saved a ship from sinking and was decorated as such, apparently he never spoke about it, its a shame because I would have loved to have known the stories, my grandfather was one of the first guys into japan when that war happened, he was captured and made it home thank god but he also never spoke about anything he saw, I can understand that of course! That being said, I loved your reaction, please keep doing what your doing, the respect that you give the British is admirable
Thankyou for the mutual respect.
My dad guarded Hess when he was stationed in Germany in the 60s. Every soldier is a hero, war or not.
Agreed. Fundamentally, armed forces personnel of all sorts have volunteered to risk their lives on our behalf, if needs be. That's really quite something. All we can do is hope that they don't actually have to, or that they survive when they do.