The WW2 Target They Never Expected
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- 2:15 AM, 28 February 1942. Bruneval, occupied France.
Under the cold moonlight, Flight Sergeant Cox's hands moved swiftly over the Würzburg radar. This German technology had decimated RAF bomber squadrons, its precision enabling accurate night-fighter interceptions. Dismantling it could turn the tide of the air war.
Cox wrenched free the pulse unit as Lieutenant Vernon pried loose the stubborn transmitter. Metal screeched, the sound piercing the night air.
Major John Frost's eyes scanned the perimeter. His men had taken the radar site swiftly, but now, time was against them. In the distance, engines rumbled - German reinforcements approaching from Bruneval village.
Suddenly, muzzle flashes erupted from the surrounding woods. Machine gun fire ripped through the air. Frost's men dove for cover, the night exploding into chaos.
As bullets whizzed overhead, Cox secured the radar components. Each piece was vital intelligence that could save countless Allied lives.
Frost's mind raced. The beach assault team, meant to secure their escape route, was missing. They'd landed miles of course.
German soldiers emerged from the tree line, their feldgrau uniforms ghostly in the moonlight. Frost bellowed orders, his voice barely audible over the intensifying gunfire.
The paratroopers began their retreat, precious radar parts rattling on a makeshift trolley. Every step towards the beach brought them closer to extraction - and deeper into the enemy's closing trap.
Frost stood on the moonlit beach, his heart pounding. No sign of the naval evacuation force. German fire raked the sand, pinning down his men. He reached for his flare gun - their last hope. The red flare would signal their location to the evacuation boats, but it would also illuminate their position for the enemy.
Frost's hand tightened on the flare gun. He knew the fate of the air war - perhaps the entire conflict - hung on the success of their mission. With a deep breath, he raised the gun skyward. There was no other choice.
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Probably one of the best videos on the channel
Once again, you have amazed me. A critical mission at essentially the beginning of WW II, has never been taught nor mentioned in historical books. This adds to a significant gap of knowledge that I knew nothing about but now adds to new points of education.
Well done! ❤❤❤
A super mini-documentary: well researched, well narrated and thoroughly enjoyable!
History can be more interesting than fiction. This is a very captivating story. Thanks for posting this.
"History is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense". Samuel Langhorne Clemons AKA Mark Twain.
Particularly good episode. Thanks very much.👍🏼
I have at least two accounts of this raid in book form. The script you have developed here is actually very impressive, very true to the facts while covering the high points.
Well done.
R.V.Jones's autobiography of his time in the intelligence services (Most Secret War: British Military Intelligence 1939-1945) is a great read. He discusses his interactions with Lindemann, Tizard, Watson-Watt and Churchill amongst many others. He also gave the 1980 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, which can be viewed on the Royal Institution's website.
The younger generation of today who are interested in WW2 have no idea the germans had dish radar guided 20mm,40mm,and 100 mm guns.For some reason,the information has been deleted and their is no information on it.Thanks for the video.
I had heard that the German flak was radar guided. I don't know much about it though
@@ddhh6552 Yep.Information about the subject is hard pressed
Most of what really happened in WWII has been either suppressed or "lost."
@craigd1275 Yes it has,especially anything to do with german technology.
It's not only technology, have you ever heard of the transfer agreement? Where nazi Germany minted a coin with a star of David on one side. How they moved jews from Germany to Palestine and what is now Isreal?
There was a rare mobile version of the Wurzburg radar mounted on a railway cart.
This setup is displayed in the open at Middelkerke at the Belgian coast. Free to visit.
This unit has been used after the war for many, many years as a weather forecasting radar by the Belgian K.M.I.
82 years ago.. amazing..
Before anything had been found at brunvall, a mission had taken place in buenos aires to retrieve a top secret radar from the Graf Spee's hulk.the radar unit was retrieved and placed infront of Watt, who said"this is all lies! We are the only country who knows about radar, i figured it out an noone else knows, this is a lie! "and it was put on a shelf and forgotten about! He was so respected that they beiev3d noone could have possibl beaten him to it in germany or replicated it. He was a fool, if one can ldiscover it so can someone else and they had even before war kicked off. We were lucky the germans hadnt put more resources into radar because in a lot of ways they were ahead, especially in radar guided weapons for navy and anti aircraft weapons
I can find no reference that suggests Watson Watt denied the existence of German radar. Have you got a link or book title for this? It's clear that R.V. Jones, Lindemann, and Churchill were all aware of German radar.
Am I the only one wondering how there's always what seems like original, non stock video in these videos? It always seems relevant to the video so I'm curious where it comes from. Always cool to see relevant, real footage.
time travelers. or possibly aliens with advanced cameras but they have to render the data into locally available formats so its not suspicious to the current era.
Many european countries have public libraries of footage for people to use in their documentaries, it takes some skill to find what you need, but it's also just much associated clips that work well as fillers
1st Gen phalanx. 30- 40s German science was scary advanced.
yes but apparently the British had the jump on radar technology. makes you wonder if someone stole or sold the specs
7:21 This German radar had 2 pieces, 1 German radar pointing towards England in 1 direction and a 2nd German radar pointing towards England from a DIFFERENT area in France. These early German radar DID NOT rotate in a circle like today's radar. These 2 differently-positioned German radar sites would eventually intersect their "straight radar lines" with each other for the junction of a letter "X." over a specific site in England. Where that junction was is where the Germans were to drop their payloads. This was done usually at night against the English. The English figured this out and counteracted these German "radar lines," i.e. Dark's video. 🙋🏻♂️
You are getting cross hobbled between the radio navigation systems to guide their bombers over British targets and the "Freya" and "Wurzburg" systems which were for tracking RAF bombers attacking them
For such a important piece of technology it was really badly guarded.
Thank you,DARK DOCS,for yet another superb video.
Truly a daring operation to retrieve this German Radar. The incredible bravery of the Paratroopers involved. Risking their lives to help turn the tide of WW2. My upmost respect to the British Soldiers who took part in this raid. 💪👃✨
Great video Dark once again using relevant video including Whitleys !! well done keep it up
What happened to the six British soldiers captured by the Germans? In October 1942, Hitler issued his Commando Order, which stipulated that commandos should be executed, even if captured in uniform. So, just curious if any of them survived the war.
Interesting how the "Winners" of WW2 redacted history to indicate that Germany did Not have a working Radar system in use until late 1943. Which forced Allied bombers to fly higher than flak guns could shoot.
Proof?
@@newFaction64proof of what? All sides dumped chaff. Even Japan had radar. Do your own research, never rely on a source from someone else on RUclips
No... no serious historian acted like Germany didn't have radar... and thankfully, those "Winners" won WW2
This was a display of amazing bravery and perseverance, soldiers like these were a different calibre. A breed apart. See also 'Operation Chariot', the amazing proto-SAS raid on the German dry docks for U-boats at Saint Nazaire.
wow how you cobbled together this story with the footage to match the actual raid in France is incredible . did they take a camera man with them on the raid or was the footage from an old movie or documentary ?
That footage isn't the actual raid! It's stock WWII footage , and old movies .
Fantastic presentation .... Many thanks for posting.
At 19:55 how could the British know what the German losses were? They barely escaped themselves.
Enigma machine chatter after the operation.
They googled it.
For most of the war, the German book keeping was top notch
Thought it was gonna be a toothbrush 😂
I was on the imaging of a flesh light covered in dog hair
A$$.
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Correction: the radar at Middelkerke at the Belgian seaside, is the Wurzburg Riese. The Wurzburg Riese has a much bigger dish antenna than the Wurzburg.
You need to offer to teach others how to produce such excellent videos. Really enjoy your efforts. Thank you.
Two great books that describe this event and the overall electronic war in WWII are Instruments of Darkness by Alfred Price and Most Secret War by R.V. Jones.
It might have worried a few if those who knew about it. But I’m fairly certain they weren’t terrified.
Correct. The most terrifying weapon the Germans used against the Brits was the V2, the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. It travelled at supersonic speed, over 3500 mph, impacted without audible warning, and proved unstoppable. No effective defense existed. Over 3000 V2s were launched during the last 6 months of the war, causing over 9000 mostly civilian deaths.
When I visited the "Flakturm" in Berlin, i was told (and shown) that there was a secondary smaller tower wich housed the radar equipment that controlled/steered the guns.
It could not be in the same tower as the guns, because the recoil messed up the targeting systems.
Really interesting.
Fantastic video
Awesome doc well done and thank you!!!
Nothing wrong with kids today. Watching this in school brilliant. I'm Canadian, show all ally schools. How proud they can be knowing they have this in them. Not used for war necessarily but for anything positive for the world.
I have never heard of that battle and was a good one Thanks 😎
This type of raid was called a "Pinch Raid"
The idea was to seize an important piece of technology.
The Dieppe Raid was a pinch raid buried in a major action
Failed on all counts
The idea was, as Dieppe was a Kreigsmarine base and we were struggling with the U-Boats, was to pinch a 4-rotor Naval Enigma
A lot of the early raids were ''smash and grab'' operations and it's no wonder they picked the thugs and goons of other units, as well as the best and bravest. There's a fine balance of intelligence and mischief in the mix.
"AS DAWN APPROACHED, PAINTING THE SKY IN HUES OF PINK AND GOLD" THEN YOU SAID "FROST CHECKED HIS WATCH-2:15 AM" HUH?? DOES IT GET LIGHT THAT EARLY IN FRANCE IN THE WINTER TIME??
This is a brilliant listen 👍
Such a wonderful account
It’s about time DarkDocs you guys were slacking. This is a great short documentary
It isn't a short, tho
@@drpepperrit's not an hour long
Dr Felton also narrated this on his Channel
This system is not a secret and is very much legendary.
Plz do a video on the Magic Gang and Jasper Maskelyne moving the city of Alexandria.
As a Dutchman who lived near 'Zander' en having used these systems for radio-astronomy I can not see I never heard of this.
Grtz from Teerose I & II
What is the name of movie about the raid that was used in this video?
Super cool vid
Love the longer form
Its fascinating to see how far ahead Germany was over many other countries in many arenas
They should make a MOVIE out of this ENDEVOR! It would make millions! Freeman John Dyson worked on operation WINDOW!
What a coincidence; I'm just reading the book Operation Biting by Max Hastings. It tells the whole story in detail
@Dark Docs
Any change on the radar detection failure in 1939/40 by the Zeppelin probes.
That would be nicely in line with this ' battle of the beams ' story.
I think that there is a side story to this. Two men went to war.
Well told, wonder what happened the the group that were suppose to secure the beach head? Did they make it out?
Divergent channel has been dropping amazing alternate(real) history. We’ve been so lied to since ww2.
Very nice story 👍👍🇺🇲
See it was the British not the Americans 😅
Surely not!
The Brits had Hitler right where they wanted him.... there manufacturing was rocking.... oh wait without American factories you couldn't win stink on crap without our manufacturing.
So interesting , Thank You.
Love your commentary. Always in depth and personal!
The sunlight starting to light the sky at,2:15 a.m.. Uh, right. Gallant men, poor narration. Battered flotilla? The troops were battered but the ships, hardly.
dark5guy whispers...
heard of it before, your not the first to cover this radar system
Does everything have to sound like a campfire ghost story?
You must be new to Dark's channel. He has actually improved his narration. I used to have to SLOW the speed of the video to 0.75 because he used to narrate way too quickly. He's improved his game. 🗣️🎤
was your family sleeping when you recorded this?
This story must have been put into a book???
The excellent book: "Most Secret War: British Military Intelligence: 1939-1945" is R.V. Jones's story of the "battle of beams", the V1 and V2 intelligence battle and much more (the raid mentioned in the video gets small mention and doesn't go into the military details of the operation, however, it does mention that a one stage RV Jones was suggested to go on the mission and had he would have been shot by his own side rather than fall into German hands. The officer who sent the mission was surprised to meet Jones later in the war as he had met the survivors of the raid and Jones was not amongst them. He assumed he must have died in the operation when, in fact, he was forbidden to go on it).
I figured it was gonna be about his meth Lab
Interesting, but would have been way better with some info as to why the German system was better than the British system.
Because they used high frequency radio waves, which traveled farther and allowed for a more accurate finding at long distances.
Why are you whispering during the video. Does really ad much dramatic effect. Interesting video anyway.
I wonder why the Commandos weren’t the force used? Wouldn’t it have been more stealthy to drop the crew off by submarine instead of parachute?
Maybe submarine availability was limited at that time.
Sssh, speak quietly so that no one hears. Sssh…
Actually, it was the Red Army that liberated Berlin in 1945; this, however, helped provide an extremely helpful distraction to the Wehrmacht of the National Socialists.
You misspelled rped
@@christopherscott932that brings a dark overcast to what I can’t help but laugh at “rped” 😂 hardly anyone knows about that
@@ForceOfChaos1776 Hardly anyone is interested in both sides of a conflict especially one where they're told the other side "is evil end of story".
Uhm... the thumbnail to this video shows the Soviet Duga over-the-horizon radar, that started operation only in 1976. How is that related to WW2 story of German radar tech hardware stolen from the coast of occupied France?
Radar is radar to Dark.
@@bassetdad437 He did fix the thumbnail for the video, so the problem is now solved.
Has someone written a screenplay about this extremely important mission of WWll. Operation Biting. Another saga of the Allied forces outwitting the Nazis. Time after time, Hitler was too late. He was so Demon possessed Drug induced delusional that his harvest of doom began to manifest around him. He did listen to Generals because he suspected them of plotting against him. He became paranoid & fearful. The only thing he was obsessed to do was to kill more Jews. 3 wars were being fought. Western Front against the Allies. Eastern Front against !the Soviets, and the inner secret, unseen War Front of the extermination of YAH’S Chosen people in the concentration camps and mass slaughtering in the ghettos.
I BELIEVE in the Messiah because l have certainly witnessed the wickedness of the evil one & his demons.
We wrestle not against flesh & blood…. It is Spiritual Warfare…. Daily, Mostly! Messiah has already fought & won this battle & go around. AlleluYAH v!
AlleluYAHUAH !
AlleluYAHUSHA !
I wonder if this guy speaks in the same conspiratorial tones to his wife and kids? Now that's a video I would gladly pay to see ...😂😂😂
Two tier fears the truth more
He's a traitor
Bro this shit be puttin my ass to sleep
tell your stupid friend that everything will look terrifying if they write novels as writing and reading novels is terrifying in itself
Well, I hope they are proud of the result of their action, as there are only a few english people left in london, for the greater glory of allah, pushed into english land by the millions by the most oppressed tiny hat community. Their gratitude is stunning! .
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Dude, I am Hungarian. Our claims were ONE street in china for business and diplomatic reasons, and the Franz Joseph land in the arctic.
@@bandiras2, simple misunderstanding. I apologize. I thought you were one of those racist thugs rioting all over the UK
@@bandiras2, it deleted my last post, but I apologize. It was a misunderstanding. I thought you were with the rioters all over the UK.
Watching their bravery - did NOT notice any D E I back then vs NOW - SAD
Yeah, women and blacks knew their place back then huh?
It was going swimmingly.
Till they pulled out, the Wentworth spanners.
Whitworth?
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Bravery, technology, etc. It's somehow unbelievable that all british, american, canadian, australian, french had to deal with only 14% of german force, as 86% was destroyed by Russians 😂😂😂😂
Russians using a lot of equipment provided by the Allies.
@@bassetdad437 what percent of their equipment was provided by allies? Like 4%? Ok, let's say 5, cause you're funny. "Provided in crucial moments". Yeah, right
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Shame on u for click bate
Lose the music
Fake videos sad bruh
Sorry, they were to busy to bring a filming crew with them 😅.
@@molybdaen11 hey the with them lol your lost because it's with them 💚👍
@@molybdaen11 I feel sorry for you bruh 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
AT 01:32 ;
…”German soldiers “, in WW2, WITH WW1 HELMETS and SMLE No.1 Mk.3,
In .303 Brit.??????
Yeah, video WITH GREAT accuracy.!!!!!!
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Please share with us your video, with everything 100% right! Would love to see it! Or are you just in a basement commenting on others peoples video just because you are just that sad.
@@WildPixels-ie8qoStop licking Dark Doc's boots. That's just sad.
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