Japan's Nazi Rocket Fighter
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- The story of how Japan bought and copied the famous German rocket fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, WW2's fastest plane.
Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.o...
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Germans:It might be a suicide mission
Japan : No problem
i liked that
Bonus lets go we love suicide
Germans: it might be a suicide mission and we call ours: sondercommndo ebe
Imagine the Japanese pilots face when he took off in this , "Mamason , these Germans are crazy !!".
O M G
Imagine just wandering into some random cave in Japan and finding a top secret WW2 era rocket interceptor
Sounds like something out of a comic book
Hell they only got the one that were easier to find. If you'd dug up every last ounce of dirt all across the world who knows what other secret relics of the war you might find
This is why I always carry a cigarette lighter with me, because you never know when you're going to stumble up on a top secret WW2 rocket plane that needs lighting!! 😁
Like finding the Bat cave.
@@vito7428 I heard an estimate that there have been between one and three million ship wrecks in the world.....
The Mark Felton theme really hits different the 653rd time
Different in a good or bad way?
Always good man
@@chinggiskhanvevo6589 Just wait until it hits you in another 13 plays - it goes backwards
@@Trek001 Nah then he becomes Felton Mark and the music stays the same
Lol
"...discovered in a cave in Japan in the 1960's..." THAT is a story in itself.
Yes, that also caught my attention!
Ah yes, one of the famous Japanese holdouts.
No. The 1960s**
You may be thinking of the apostrophe in '60s.
Was about to head off to watch England Italy. Hold my beer, Felton is up...
Good one😁. Go England✌️
Go Italy 🇮🇹
The match is not for another 3 hours…
idk what you though you were going to watch soon
Kickoff starts at 8PM. Idiot...
@@danielhewit9319 build up starts early you whopper
" The rocket fuel was not particularly stable" - classic British understatement.
@Drew Smith A perfectly normal cocktail!, What could possibly go wrong?.
@Drew Smith Correct. [57% methanol CH3OH, 30% hydrazine hydrate N2H4 · H2O and 13% water H2O. Potassium tetracyanocuprate (I), K3 [Cu (CN) 4], was added as a stabilizer] + [80% hydrogen peroxide and small amounts of 8-hydroxyquinoline] to be exactly.
Both liquids, C-Stoff and T-Stoff, were injected with a circulation pump from separate and sealed tanks into the combustion pressure chamber in which the reaction took place...
The main problem was the aggressive T-Stoff and the associated problem of the tightness of the pipes and seals. Any trace of nickel, as example, acted as a catalyst. And of course, at the request of the Reich Aviation Ministry, the engine had to be smooth adjustable, which led to an even greater susceptibility to failurs. After landing the combustion pressure chamber must be washed out with tons of water until not a single drop of T-Stoff was in it for the refuelling process. So yes, in the case of hard landings, or other rough Incidents, all sorts of impressive things could happen....a few drops of T-Stoff at the wrong place..........Horridoh....:)
Conclusion: The fuel in its entirety should not be stable, since that was the purpose of its use. The two components were in principle harmless, except that you got a week-long white finger when you dipped it into the T-Stoff....:)
It certainly was not stable! Of the pilots killed, I think only 5% died in combat! 'Big fry is coming by' took on a whole new meaning!
@@jozefbubez6116 Around 20% were killed by enemy action....the other losses came from accidents with and without technical failure...and sometimes bad luck, like in the accident from Joshi Pöhs, were the landing gear bounced from a stupid molehill up and against the underbelly of his aircraft. The fuel lines were demolished and the aircraft was not fast enough for a traffic pattern to land - crashed into the field boundary and Pöhs, if he wasn't already dead, was decomposed by the highly aggressive T-Stoff ...and yes, a stable liquide would not work in a combustion pressure chamber....;)
OSHA would have a word, if you might.
What’s their equivalent on the other side of the pond?
History becomes increasingly interesting with Mark Felton.
yes gives a good account, of British hypocritsy, haha correct Mark excellent work, expose all !!!
winners writing history, at least all come out after 76 years
You can watch historical documents with American narrators but the Brits nail it spot on! Who knew Maj Dick Winters in Band of Brothers was an Englishman Damion Lewis. He nailed the American accent. Brillant! There is a great BBC program on Little Bighorn and Custer. Well done!
You know things aren’t going well when your enemies have gigantic convoys moving goods and people and you have to stuff everything into a sub.
which gets sunk 100% of the time.
Into 3 subs which all get sunk
Sure that Pearl Harbor thing seemed like a good idea at the time....
@Marty TrueRedblood what are you trying to say lmao
@Marty TrueRedblood
It's now all made in China.
What I love about this channel is he looks at the war from a different perspective. The big battles are important to know, but there can be no battles without the arms, munitions and the personalities that made it possible which is what Mark gives us in concise and precise detail.
Mostly, this story seems to be about the deadly efficiency of Allied anti-submarine warfare task forces. Difficult to have a technology transfer program when the enemy keeps sinking the ships you're usng to transfer the technology!
Haha right?
R.M. ...............I was just imagining , the crews and staff of Japan and Germany getting a little time off , just a transportation job , like an extended 3 hour cruise ...........to DAVEY JONES LOCKER ????????
And England standing there like, "Yeah, how does it feel?"
It gets overshadowed a lot, but the US Navy's submarines managed to do to Japan what Germany's could not do to the UK, cut them off almost completely from seaborn trade. I find it interesting that two of the Japanese subs sunk in this story were sunk by allied subs, one American and the other Royal Navy. How many sub-on-sub kills were there in WWII I wonder?
@@RCAvhstape I saw a reenactment of HMS Venturer vs. U-864. If that reenactment was anything close to what happened, that boat's captain should have been given 20 medals.
War thunder players:
‘I’m 4 parallel universes ahead of you.’
I loved the Ki-200 before they introduced AAM's.
RO-501 is in Kancolle as well.
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@@marijafrankovic1959 people who enjoy low tier like me.
This ties in nicely with Japan's Tiger tanks and Stukas and guess who told me about them....
You got a hole in your left wing!
Bro at this point the ppl that own history channel should just scrap the shows and run Dr Felton videos all day😂
@@AustriaIsHungry Attack the D point!
What about Japan's Bf109 and FW190
I don't remember the one with Japan and Stukas.
When your army and navy are so hostile to each other they produce the same aircraft with different designations and have them differ by just enough that the parts aren't interchangeable
Their throttles were even backwards between Army and Navy versions of the same aircraft
Was there any major country involved in WW2 where inter service rivalry did not interfere with efficiency to some degree.
@@grahvis Quite possibly the Soviet Union.
@@Nachtsider .
I did wonder about that, you could be right.
German tank makers came close didn't they?
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My other censored comment .
Why tho
Same here
@@QuantumPyrite_88.9 what did u say? U can tell us by purposely mistyping and mispelling and in codes. Lol
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Printed on the ticket for boarding a submarine from Nazi Germany to Japan: “Wish you a happy one-way trip to the afterlife.”
"Hirohito Cruise Lines is not responsible for lost or stolen property or life."
"Help yourselves to refreshments in Davy Jones' locker"
"Bomb voyage!"
“Have a nice time at a aircraft carrier”
@@RCAvhstape tojo and Hirohito send their regards
"..the rocket fuel was not particularly stable."
Something of an understatement.
Apparently dissolves all organic material.
@@MegaBadgeman Including the pilot, at least once.
Oh it was kinda stable, but an 2 component fuel igniting on contact, and nomming everything fleshy it came into contact with, like pilots who survived an landing but had to be drained as an liquid out of the cockpit if there was an leak... but the components by themself where safe (kinda)
Having the bad habit of dissolving all usual used gasgets known back then leaks where the norm.
@dimapez The explosion if the fuels mix is i think only secondary to dissolving the pilot if the maincomponent stored left and right and to the back and under of the pilot leaks....
@dimapez
Given the materials avaiable back then that was propably more an psychological thing... aside i still am puzzled why they did not construct the fueltanks and the whole body of the plane in an way that funnels spills out and way from the pilot, that would not add weight, just have an small opening in the front that pushes air into the cockpit and make the rest of the cockpit someway sealed, spills would be forced away from the pilot and with the right geometry and spill holes leaks would drain outside the plane
Thank you for the material. You single handedly have replaced what The History Channel once claimed to be.
Check out drachinafel for naval history and gregs aircraft and automobiles. Also really great history channels by guys who also dig though archives.
He's already done and debunked Nazis in space.
Japan was so ahead of its time. They used people as guidance systems for their bombs.
@John Milton pigeons, not sure if they used chickens.
seems to me that you and your friends followed their lead, bin Laden
So thats where allars snackbar people got the suicide bomb idea from lmaoo
Hey Osama! If you're here then who did the squids kill? Asking for felton, he wants to make a vid about it
@@ipadair7345 and bat bombs
Thank you Dr. Felton for bringing us another well made documentary short. Your subjects are interesting, provide just enough detail, and your narrations are clear and unobstructed by superfluous music tracts. I especially like the videos that explain the technologies of the day and how they functioned.
Fascinating storytelling as always!
Amazing! Once again, you bring us fascinating but forgotten or ignored history that deserves to be remembered. Thanks, Mark!
Thank you. This was great. I bought "Yanagi" several years ago and enjoyed it very much. The subject of German-Japanese co-operation is very interesting.
Alternative title "Komet of the Rising Sun". I suppose the problem of them blowing up on landing is solved if the pilot is never intended to land the aircraft, but like you said, it likely would not have changed the outcome of the war.
Fun fact. These things had a tendency to flip over on landing and then the fuel (which melted human flesh on contact) would leak out all over the pilot who could not escape. Dissolving him. The two types of fuel were so reactive that they were kept in different colored trucks that never came near each other. These planes were also extremely prone to engine failure right after takeoff, which is the worst time to have an engine failure because you don't have time to bail out or enough height to find a safe place to put down. Greg's Aircraft and Automobiles has an amazing series on this plane (and a bunch of others).
The fuel was so toxic I've read the pilots and eventually the ground crews had to wear rubberized suits for protection.
The ME163 was a spectacular technical achievement, but ultimately a waste of resources, they'd have been better off producing more ME109's and FW-190's or putting more effort into the Wasserfall and Enzian surface-to-air missles than sidetracking themselves with gimmicks.
For takeoff, the throttle had to be advanced slowly to avoid the engine cutting out, after climb to altitude, pushover into negative Gs' would cause a flameout, after a minute or so, it might restart. Landing with fuel in the tanks was very dangerous. The canopy couldn't be jettisoned at high speeds. And the pilots had to be very good at judging power off landings, other than that, a piece of cake.
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I would say to start the week off right.
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The Germans found one of these that had crashed and back-engineered it. Unfortunately the Alien pilot didnt survive. :-(
😂
They tried shipping the alien pilot via sub... It was torpedoed.
I used to watch the history channel religiously. Can’t think of the last time I actually turned it on
Too bad Bigfoot didn’t fit in a u-boat
You are the best english speaking history channel of all time and that will never change!
Kings and Generals.
Pity about all the non English speaking language history channels though
@@rajivmurkejee7498 I know one specific German one:MrWissen2goGeschichte,it‘s as good
Love your channel, keep up the great work!
I was at an Air Museum today and saw one of the other Rocket Airplanes the Germans had, a Bachman Ba 349 "Natter Viper"!
Bachem Natter.
Where did you saw it?
My best friend's uncle was the US army photographer when they retook the Alaska island that the Japanese had occupied. My friend inherited a Japanese rifle he took after the battle but the weird part is it has a German eagle with swastika pressed into the side. Haven't been able to find anyone to tell the significance of it if there is any but still pretty interesting to see the cooperation Japan and Germany sort of pursued
Unless it was taken from China first as a war prize...
This sounds like a script for a movie! Amazing story Dr Felton! Thank you!
"Mom, I want a Messerschmitt Me 262."
"We have Messerschmitt Me 262 at home."
Messerschmitt Me 262 at home:
This aircraft is actually based on the me163
@@MerlinModels. The Komet, right?
@@genericnamehere7602 yes 👍
This is such a wonderful historically accurate channel. Thank you Mr. Felton.
Very interesting with quality research. Planes of Fame in Chino also has the only surviving Mitsubishi Radin. It was donated by the Los Angeles Park Service where I remember it as being in a fenced off area along with a V-1 exposed to the elements at Travel Town Griffith Park. I am glad they saved it before it rusted to pieces.
Have you ever been to Chino? Hearing there is a plane museum there, sounded so random. I think about a lot of things when I think about Chino and a plane museum is not on that list!
@@cdd4248 I was a docent at Planes of Fame for almost 16 years. The Japanese Komet was the first aircraft acquired by Ed Maloney, the museum's founder. It was on display at the Los Angeles County Fair after the war. Mr. Maloney asked whoever was babysitting the aircraft what was going to happen to it after the fair closed. He was told, in effect, "if you want it, come get it." The rest, as they say, is history.
Fascinating little vignette of history, Mark. Thanks for the great work.
I consider myself a World War II history buff. And on the economics side, an expert.
So the most wonderful and humbling aspect of this channel is I STILL learn new things. 🔥💯😎
Indeed, I’ve poured over statistical abstracts, orders of battle, etc., and I never knew this story.
Great to hear that one example still resides at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino Hills, CA. I saw it there twenty years ago.
Always bringing the unknown about ww2 ….that’s why u grew into who u r today….Was watching you Wayback when you only had 1000 subscribers still watching today I have not missed a video nor will I ….if only more of our educators made history as interesting as you. 🥂 Mark! Don’t ever stop!!
PYRO. It certainly wasn't edukatum that made you hew yu R today
@@grahamlucas2712 yip hukd 0n Fonix Wurkd fer Mi
just came from Chino's Planes of Fame Museum with a couple of fellow fans of your work and we were thinking how cool it would be if Mark made a video on the Japanese me 163
Made my day Dr Felton!
I am sure I am not the only one that would like to get some drinks with Mark Felton and just ask him to talk about War.. Great video like always.
When it comes to technology Japan and Germany were like
those 2 kids in grade school who sat next to each other and always cheated on tests with one another.
Germany yeah, but Japan in ww2 was woefully behind the westerners in technology.
@@apis_aculei a6m zero was a paper plane that was already outclassed. Even p40s could deal with them when the pilots werent stupid enough to turn fight them.
@@theodorebennett7938 they were behind in everything except submarines
@@theodorebennett7938 wrong
@@loserface3962 Similar to B-239 (the infamous Brewster Buffalo). US didn't get much out of it, but Finnish Airforce took some 500:29 kill/lost ratio with them against way more modern planes (at first similar or older models). Some tech works even if it's bad as itself, when you figure out the best way to use it - Zero is one of the better examples. It was made of thin paper and was extremely vulnerable, however it had great agility and decent firepower and speed. You can't kill something that you can't hit!
And don't let me start on battleships. They were aging tech to begin with and most countries understood heavily armored battleships being phased out and unnecessary thanks to carriers, missiles, rockets and what not.
New Mark Felton video...must stop what I'm doing and watch.
Beautiful machines with the Horton brothers 229
Great story Mark,. Thanks for uploading.
My weekend is now officially great. Another outstanding Mark Felton video! Learn so much from these!
Thank you for this very high quality document.
Mark, the Komet did not lose its "speed edge" when unpowered. Experienced pilots would dive at high speed for their home airfield and then bleed off excess speed while circling within their FLAK perimeter defence. Few Allied pilots wanted to be in that circle with them.
Nothing we had could touch the Komet in a dive, powered or not.
He said "when landing" Everything loses speed to land.
As always another great episode Mark!
Mark Felton: The man who History Channel should simply put in charge and give all creative control to make it "history" again.
ou do a yeoman's service, Mr. Felton, we appreciate you!
Agreed sir
Another great, unique story. Thanks for sharing, Mark.
I'm a WW2 history fanatic. Mark Felton Productions is GOD.
I thank you for your hard work gathering the content of your videos.
The Japanese probably thought the Me-163 was too safe. I mean, with the Me-163 the pilot actually had a chance to survive.
Kamikaze pilot's had to do all there bragging ahead of time!🤔
I always enjoy the little unknown stories of war. Thank you for the pictures of everything you mentioned.
At 1:24 the Japanese officer wearing The Knight's Cross, I believe is Commander Takakazu Kinashi. It was awarded to him by Hitler himself for sinking the carrier Wasp.
Thank you for popularizing history! Great material. I love the narration.
Just when i think that every topic on ww2 has been exhausted, mr felton changes my mind
Thanks Mark for the upload.
Personally, I think the only reason Hitler liked having the Japanese as allies is because they made him look tall lol. 1:33
Don't think Hitler was that short. I'd say around 5'9" - 5'10", average height.
He was turning Japanese I really think so
He was 5’10” I wouldn’t call that short, taller side of average height
Hitler was short on brains & in his groin area, which is why he had a god complex. All dictators are micro-manhood morons trying to compensate for their "shortcomings".
I imagine Hitler support anime and he a animator himself
With me, Marks theme never grows old. It's a good sounding war sound and I associate it with the German part in WW11.
Dr. Felton, would you ever considering covering the story of British WWII spy Noor Khan? I find her story absolutely fascinating and would love your take on it. Thank you for all of the great history lessons Professor!
"Liberty".
@@raypurchase801 "Liberty"
@@derekweiland1857 You might like to VERY briefly tell the tale, and the significance of that word. Sometimes Mark reads the comments.
WHO? Enlighten us.
@@redwingrob1036 See what I wrote immediately above where you wrote "who?".
Despite studying WW2 history since I was a kid, Mark Felton once again confirms I still have scratched the surface.
Had no idea this thing’s existence, crazy
Nice video about relationships between Japan and Germany during 2WW with all sides and clearly explaining of this strange and complicated relationship
Mitsubishi: “The company that brought you WWII!”
What the warplane buyers in 21st century heard is "From the maker of Zero Fighter, present...".
So Dan Koerner. You will get rid of your BMW?????
Ah, Dr. Felton. Your research is a treasure trove of findings!
I love the intro always slowly zooming in on Mark Felton as if he was a high ranking Nazi Official
Quickly becoming one of my favorite channels
Japan: We can make it smaller, cheaper and faster...
That would apply to Kika jet fighter too, too bad it wasn't as good as Me 262. If only they had seven more months to test it.
It went pretty fast given its' small propeller set up ha, ha.
Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video on rocket planes developed by the Germans and very nearly used by the Japanese during WWII.
I didn't even know Japan used these 😂
It was called the Ouka.
Who do you think invented Rockets? Not Germans.
@@hellboundrubber4448 the Chinese
@@hellboundrubber4448 fireworks don't count 😂
@@supersportimpalass What do you think a V-1 is? Maybe you should learn what they are? It's a Butane lighter w a Fan. It's not that complicated.
@Mark Felton Productions I am gob smacked on how you dissect the events of WW2, It is so interesting and educational, Cheers.
I've been to Chino, CA to that museum and seen that plane. I always wondered how it got there.
Thanks for the subtitles.
Since Japan had virtually no reliable anti-tank weapons, why didn't they supply them with Panzerfaust??
Maybe the trans-ocean submarine from either side can no longer sail to and from Germany after the need for one has been identified?
Well eventually the Japanese did have some effective anti-tank guns, the Marines ran into them on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, although nothing like the Panzerfaust. But the anti-tank guns were just like a lot of other reactive things the Japanese had, too little, too late.
A panzer faust would of reaked havoc on allied tanks ans armor personell! Japanese hidden in caves with panzer fausts might have prolonged the war, but the A-Bomb would have negated it too.
@@hugbug4408 wrought
@@hugbug4408 I agree, but the idea was to neutralize the Allied tanks in ambush campaigns, it would greatly increase the cost of the war for the US and would force it to propose a less aggressive peace agreement that was imposed. Discouraging an invasion partially worked in Okinawa.
Swell video chum! 😁👍🏻
I wish you had made these accounts 15 years ago...we had a gentleman retired from the US Air Force who was responsible for getting Japanese planes out of Japan after the 2nd WW ended. He flew many bombers and other aircraft to bases for analysis by the Americans. He passed some years ago and I did not have the foresite to record his accounts.
A lovely little airplane, and an interesting history and episode!
I'd like to hear the story of the one found in the cave.
A Mark Felton video on the weekend!! Bonus!
Can you make a vid about the Japanese J7w1 Shinden? Its pretty interesting plane.
It looks like.. idk, it doesn’t look impressive just a theoretically really good ability to turn.
@@edie9158 it looks strange and the history behind it and all the 2 prototypes is also interesting.
A TRULY amazing aircraft.
Thankfully the Japanese industry was unable get beyond the piston engine prototype.
@@nicholaskelly6375 Why it would be awsome to see atleast 1 survived Shinden with jet engine
Yokosuka R2Y too
Thanks for the short documtary it's give me more insight Mark.
This is some next-level anime technology here
I loved The Wings of Honnêamise.
Private museum restored by Mitsubishi? Such a proud moment in the history of your company there.
@MrCloudseeker Has Mercedes restored any Nazi cars? They did restore a G4 that is in the Franco family gift from Hitler. It seems like Mercedes, when giving their history, delete years 1933-1945. “Nothing happened in those years” 😗
The Ki-200 is really fun in War Thunder.
Absolutely fascinating and skillfully presented! Thank you for sharing.
its really interesting to see the technological differences when two countries try to build something identical. its like japan was on the tech level of germany 10 years before, or something like that.
but i cant even really gauge germanys tech level, because knowledge was lost after the war. that full cockpit canopee was impressive
japan's big disadvantage by that time was limited resources. By then, the allies had decimated their supply chains so metals, fuel, ammo were harder to come by.
Mark Felton video and Earl Gray make a great Sunday! Thanks for the video.
I'll stick with the Gin and tonic when watching Dr Felton leave the tea till breakfast.
The ME 262 first jet ever produced...still used today in modern aerodynamic shows!
no, the first jet was the Heinkel He 178 in 1939
Interestingly, the first functional jet engine was invented by Frank Whittle. But he didn't get the chance to build an air frame for it.
@@CarrotConsumer That's because the RAF of the late 20s was really something else. Eventually, after about a decade, Whittle did get to put an improved jet engine on a test aircraft.
@@CarrotConsumer only on paper. Hans von Ohain build the first when Whittle's wasn't even ready. Ohain build it by himself and a friend in a small garage, while Whittle with his bigger team an materials needed longer
I don’t think there are any ME262’s still flying.
I swear I have learned more about ww2 history from Mr. Felton than all my ww2 history books combined. Bravo sir!
Japanese engineers look at fuel requirements :
"Aaaah, so now, ground crew can also die for the emperor, not just pilots ! Truly, german technology is indeed the best in the world !"
Who invented Rockets? And who did the Germans learn how to make Mechanical Clocks from?
thank you Mr. Felton, your videos about WWII are amazing 👍
"Hey, let's only attack Russia."
Germany and Japan, in a separate universe where they won WW2
I'd say they'd win, but Britain and France being allies would interfere.
Incredible facts! Congratulations for your channel, by far the best related to IIWW in RUclips! Thanks a lot!
Ugh, the Komet, talk about a pure desperation aircraft.
The fuel had a tendency to suddenly burst into flames, killing the pilot.
The separated fuel elements were corrosive and would occasionally leak into the cockpit, killing the pilot.
The planes tail was too close to the cockpit, so if the pilot had to jump out of the aircraft they invariably got chopped in half, killing the pilot.
The plane had to glide to land, which made it an easy target for allied aircraft, who shot them to pieces, killing the pilot.
The plane landed on a metal skid instead of wheels, so they regularly toppled over and burst into flames when landing on uneven surfaces, killing the pilot.
I'm sensing a theme here...
Absolutely intriguing in every possible aspect. Congratulations , Dr Felton , on providing your fans with yet another marvelous piece of neglected history.