Thank you so much for that, my dad was involved with supplying the steel for the Mulberry Harbours from a place in Corby Northamptonshire. 80 years ago eh, long time, but not that long in some ways. Important thing, keep the history and memories alive.
Thank you for making this film, I learned a lot and just wish I could go and see these things in person but luckily, you did it for me. Very good, thank you.
There's such a wealth of ingenious items designed and built for D-Day that you could probably make videos through the end of the year. It was great to see the things you read about in history books as actual physical machines that helped to win the war -- and I hope we get to see more. Thank You for all of your research and hard work.
A truly fascinating and well produced mini-documentary. Special praise for the very capable presenter, Tim. A natural interlocutor if ever there was...
6 Seconds into this my Grandads face appears. I have a few pictures off him but I love seeing him on video well film transfered to video to be accurate. shame it is fleeting would love to see more of the original if only I knew where to look. Just makes me so nostalgic and more than a little proud. he survived the war and returned home after spending time with the control commision in occupied Germany. died in 1962 when I was a toddler but I have good if vague and faded memories of him.
A Man called Jack Yule ran the Post Office at Noss Mayo, Devon, who spent a part of the war building the Mulberry structures. =============================================== They often wondered what they were for! He later was in charge of a Borstal, which must have been a tough assignment. After the POst Office, he retired to a bungalow in Yealmpton, Devon, where I bought two shops side by side in 1979, and traded there for 8 years through my 20s. I had a labrador dog, Sam, and would often walk him to the north of the village, and so would meet Jack and his collie, and we became friends, sharing the fresh air. I moved to Cornwall, and we lost touch, but I remember him and his wife with gratitude. /
My father was in the Royal Engineers. He was an engineering draughtsman and told me how he had been seconded from his battalion and sent to a 'secret' location somewhere near London. He was shown to a locked and guarded room, in which there was, what turned out to be, a drawing board draped with a dark cloth. His instructions were to keep the door locked and, should it be necessary for anybody to enter the room, to cover the drawing board. All very 'hush hush'. It turned out that he was to work on the installations and infrastructure for PLUTO. It was there that he met mum, who was in the ATS. She was one of six secretaries to Commander, 21st Army Group and was one of the first women to go over to France after D Day. She got there before Dad, which always rankled a bit with him! They married in Brussels on the way to Germany.
Great story! My mother's fiance was killed in North Africa, while she was with FANY in French Section SOE. It took me 50 years to work out why she knew Beaulieu like the back of her hand! /
I think its pretty fair to say that without this ingenuity, the massive industry of the UK to build all that was required and the fact we kept ourselves free from invasion for nearly 5 years there would have been no D Day. Operation Overlord was an entirely British developed and planned operation down to that detail of getting those sand samples and photographing every inch of French coastline from Calais to Cherbourg. 80% of Naval resources used on D Day were British, the land, air and sea commands were all British. When the Yanks failed to secure their Mulberry as instructed (to build it faster than the Brits) and it got smashed in a gale the British one kept right on going. But all we hear is the Yanks won the war apparently.
@@AJ-qn6gd The Russiians had nothing to do with Operation Overlord and let me remind you for the first 2 years of WWII they were allies of the Germans. The war they were fighting was a land and air war and a very different one to the global war the UK and its Commonwealth fought alone for 3 years. As I pointed out. Plus you forget that the industry and ingenuity of the British went to support the Russians in their hour of need in 1941 when Barbararossa struck. The British had the first convoy of munitions on its way 2 weeks after the Germans invaded Russia. Plus they kept the convoys going until 1946. And it was all sent free of charge. 3,000 Hurricane fighters and 3,400 tanks (to name two items out of hundreds) never cost the Russians ONE rouble. So I think my point stands.
@@1chish The Russians fought 80% of the Wehrmacht, I never said they were involved in Overlord but merely stated that the Russians might have something to say about the Americans winning the war !
@@1chishalso the Russians very ineffective per man / casualty ! Meat 🥩wave / meat 🍖 grinder tactics = highest loss of lives , so the Russians to Germans ratio on that / eastern front ridiculous
London Transport buses did not use Gardiner engines then but AEC which was then owned by the LPTB as was jointly owned previously by London Underground and London General Omnibus. The remains of a Mulberry was on the beach at Bognor in the 60's, having broken its tow across the channel and washed up there.
A man named Muir once lived outside Newton Ferrers, Devon, =============================================== who at 19, commanded a Landing Ship Tank on D-Day, ========================================== to land US tanks. I briefly dated his daughter nearly half a century ago, and they later moved away, so I forget his first name and which beach. What I do not forget, is that the reception by the Germans was on the warm side, and the US tankers refused to move. Sub-Lieutenant Muir drew his revolver, made it clear to them that his orders were to clear his LCT, come what may. They went on their way. Considering he was little more than a boy, that was quite an achievement. Mr Muir was a gentleman, and his family were very kind to me, so wherever they are, I wish them well. /
I have great respect to all allied forces. But the West acts like they won ww2 with just the US and UK. 60-70% of the fighting in Europe, was between the Soviets and Nazi. Those were the strongest ground forces in Europe and USSR never gets even honorable mention.
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Thank you so much for that, my dad was involved with supplying the steel for the Mulberry Harbours from a place in Corby Northamptonshire. 80 years ago eh, long time, but not that long in some ways. Important thing, keep the history and memories alive.
Thank you for making this film, I learned a lot and just wish I could go and see these things in person but luckily, you did it for me.
Very good, thank you.
There's such a wealth of ingenious items designed and built for D-Day that you could probably make videos through the end of the year. It was great to see the things you read about in history books as actual physical machines that helped to win the war -- and I hope we get to see more. Thank You for all of your research and hard work.
Yes, but this one is very very slow and lacks detail
A truly fascinating and well produced mini-documentary. Special praise for the very capable presenter, Tim. A natural interlocutor if ever there was...
Thanks & excellent narration of military history.
Thank you so much for this report! Even though I have watched many reports of D-Day, I learned a lot of new details! Very interesting!
6 Seconds into this my Grandads face appears. I have a few pictures off him but I love seeing him on video well film transfered to video to be accurate. shame it is fleeting would love to see more of the original if only I knew where to look. Just makes me so nostalgic and more than a little proud. he survived the war and returned home after spending time with the control commision in occupied Germany. died in 1962 when I was a toddler but I have good if vague and faded memories of him.
A Man called Jack Yule ran the Post Office at Noss Mayo, Devon,
who spent a part of the war building the Mulberry structures.
===============================================
They often wondered what they were for!
He later was in charge of a Borstal,
which must have been a tough assignment.
After the POst Office,
he retired to a bungalow in Yealmpton, Devon,
where I bought two shops side by side in 1979,
and traded there for 8 years through my 20s.
I had a labrador dog, Sam,
and would often walk him to the north of the village,
and so would meet Jack and his collie,
and we became friends,
sharing the fresh air.
I moved to Cornwall,
and we lost touch,
but I remember him and his wife with gratitude.
/
My father was in the Royal Engineers. He was an engineering draughtsman and told me how he had been seconded from his battalion and sent to a 'secret' location somewhere near London. He was shown to a locked and guarded room, in which there was, what turned out to be, a drawing board draped with a dark cloth. His instructions were to keep the door locked and, should it be necessary for anybody to enter the room, to cover the drawing board. All very 'hush hush'. It turned out that he was to work on the installations and infrastructure for PLUTO. It was there that he met mum, who was in the ATS. She was one of six secretaries to Commander, 21st Army Group and was one of the first women to go over to France after D Day. She got there before Dad, which always rankled a bit with him! They married in Brussels on the way to Germany.
Great story!
My mother's fiance was killed in North Africa,
while she was with FANY in French Section SOE.
It took me 50 years
to work out why she knew Beaulieu
like the back of her hand!
/
So is this about Hobart’s Funnies? So many great inventions from one man.
I think its pretty fair to say that without this ingenuity, the massive industry of the UK to build all that was required and the fact we kept ourselves free from invasion for nearly 5 years there would have been no D Day. Operation Overlord was an entirely British developed and planned operation down to that detail of getting those sand samples and photographing every inch of French coastline from Calais to Cherbourg. 80% of Naval resources used on D Day were British, the land, air and sea commands were all British. When the Yanks failed to secure their Mulberry as instructed (to build it faster than the Brits) and it got smashed in a gale the British one kept right on going.
But all we hear is the Yanks won the war apparently.
I think the Russians might disagree with that lol !
@@AJ-qn6gd The Russiians had nothing to do with Operation Overlord and let me remind you for the first 2 years of WWII they were allies of the Germans. The war they were fighting was a land and air war and a very different one to the global war the UK and its Commonwealth fought alone for 3 years. As I pointed out. Plus you forget that the industry and ingenuity of the British went to support the Russians in their hour of need in 1941 when Barbararossa struck. The British had the first convoy of munitions on its way 2 weeks after the Germans invaded Russia. Plus they kept the convoys going until 1946. And it was all sent free of charge. 3,000 Hurricane fighters and 3,400 tanks (to name two items out of hundreds) never cost the Russians ONE rouble.
So I think my point stands.
@@1chish The Russians fought 80% of the Wehrmacht, I never said they were involved in Overlord but merely stated that the Russians might have something to say about the Americans winning the war !
@@AJ-qn6gd Well maybe write what you mean then.
@@1chishalso the Russians very ineffective per man / casualty ! Meat 🥩wave / meat 🍖 grinder tactics = highest loss of lives , so the Russians to Germans ratio on that / eastern front ridiculous
London Transport buses did not use Gardiner engines then but AEC which was then owned by the LPTB as was jointly owned previously by London Underground and London General Omnibus.
The remains of a Mulberry was on the beach at Bognor in the 60's, having broken its tow across the channel and washed up there.
There is a section at Littlestone in Kent that can be seen at low tide,they were sunk there for safe keeping and this one section wouldn’t re float !
A man named Muir once lived outside Newton Ferrers, Devon,
===============================================
who at 19, commanded a Landing Ship Tank on D-Day,
==========================================
to land US tanks.
I briefly dated his daughter nearly half a century ago,
and they later moved away,
so I forget his first name and which beach.
What I do not forget,
is that the reception by the Germans was on the warm side,
and the US tankers refused to move.
Sub-Lieutenant Muir drew his revolver,
made it clear to them
that his orders were to clear his LCT,
come what may.
They went on their way.
Considering he was little more than a boy,
that was quite an achievement.
Mr Muir was a gentleman,
and his family were very kind to me,
so wherever they are,
I wish them well.
/
Excellent
Pluto sent petrol not oil
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing your research and informative conclusions.
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If you go to the river in Southampton there are other things to see and also another landing craft tank that is sunk just before you get to Marchwood.
I have great respect to all allied forces. But the West acts like they won ww2 with just the US and UK.
60-70% of the fighting in Europe, was between the Soviets and Nazi. Those were the strongest ground forces in Europe and USSR never gets even honorable mention.
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Pitiful that you have horrible intrusive music on what could have been a professional video!