Stealth Camping in Abandoned WW2 Machine Gun Pillbox
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Join me on a stealth camping overnight in an abandoned ww2 bunker or hardened field defence. We explore the concrete defences, and cook Spanish Military MRE's and then I spend the night alone in one of them. Over 28,000 of these concrete pillboxes were built in Britain in 1940 but now around 6,500 remain and almost all of them are abandoned and derelict bunkers. They were built as part of the british anti-invasion preparations of world war two.
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I've made a playlist for the WW2 videos for you guys to check back in on when I add more to it: th-cam.com/play/PLxnadpeGdTxCjzM8ijvkW02wly3O7YUl4.html - I've now added some more gear to my WW2 setup, and will be continuing those videos again really soon, as well as some bushcraft camping overnights! Cheers for watching folks - Mike
We will always support you and your channel Mike
The information about the bunkers and the fox hole was very interesting. My dad was in the US Army and stationed in Hawaii. He was injured during the Japanese attack on December 7th 1941. He survived but was in bad shape so his Army career was over.
You’re Dad is a legend. So funny. Hope he doesn’t get into trouble bringing the best glassware and stuff. Love watching your adventures. We will remember them, proud to have served.
@irlan hakim Beep boop!
@irlan hakim Beep boop boo!
I lost my dad as a teenager. Cherish these moments Mike! Plus your dad is the most awesome dad ever!
I guessed those gun flaps also served to block light at night if they needed their torches (flashlights). Could somebody decide to take over one of those pill boxes? As in give it a thorough cleaning, solid door, wood stove etc, and use it as a survival shelter?
Thanks, Mike for giving us (USA) a deeper appreciation for your history and what our soldiers had to tolerate. Thank your dad for his service. :)
Got more films to make with regards to these so keep an eye out! But yes I agree, definitely think the flaps were used to shut out light as they are fairly dark even in bright daylight.
@@TAOutdoors it looks somewhat like the flap was made out of an asbestos cement type material. So in addition to being able to provide you know a windbreak you could pull the flap up if they tried to storm you with flamethrowers and clear out your pill box
I think they (the pillboxes) are technically NOT the property of the landowner; they still belong to the MOD (Ministry of Defence...e.g. the Government)
@@rstainsbury aww that would be a cool thing to renovate, hook it up to electricity and furnish with bare bones stuff like cots wooden chairs and tables...put a map up on a wall that is laminated of the surroundings so u could use dry erase markers on it. A kid would lose his mind playing war in an actual bunker.
@@rstainsbury In France, bunkers will be the property of the landowner if it's not buried. If it's buried, it belongs to State since it's considered as an archeologic piece, and since you don't have the right to dig in archeological purpose. To resume, your land is yours, but not what is beneath it
Your dad is like your best friend and it's awesome. I like watching the videos with both of you in them.
We used to do this as kids. We grew up on a housing estate that used to be a ww2 airfield. Loads of bunkers around the area. One of them was a battle headquaters
That sounds like a dream place to grow up.
@@ThePizzaGuy1998 half of it was a council estate so not so much, but pretty cool
the battle headquarters was buried under a mound and blocked off with concrete
we trued to get in as kids but no chance hahaha
I like it very much that you remember the story of the second world war, especially how you do it and that in honor and memory of the brave soldiers who gave their lives to defend your country. But I also remember the people of Great Britain who also made great sacrifices to survive this difficult time. God Save you and your family.
What a great opportunity and a lesson for the future generations of your country!!
Sadly future generations are encouraged to disown the past.
👌🏻👍🏻
Your dad cracks me up. "Question is, who's on watch while we're eating?"
Your dad is hilarious, "Oh thats pretty explosive!." Bringing glass wear... hilarious. Also thanks to all you vets and military personel and the ones with the final sacrifice, Remeberance Day here in Canada.
All gave some, but some gave all. We will remember them.
Another great video Mike. I’m guessing none of the former residents of that pillbox had prawns in a sweet chilli sauce cooked in a wok and washed down with mulled wine. Your dads a legend.
Awesome video. Bless your dad, he's a real character! Cheers 🍻 on this Remembrance Day from Canada 🇨🇦. Take care and stay frosty.
England's Rememberence Day is around the same as America's Veteran's Day. Our Veteran's Day salutes those still alive and serving in the military service. Our Memorial Day, the last Monday of May, is our remembering the fallen military from wars and battles.
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Those pill boxes are part of one of the stop lines where the army would hold the invasion so forces could retreat and regroup on Exmoor and Dartmoor. Please look after your dad, he is a national treasure.
I agree Graeme is anational treasure.
International, we love him in the states. TA Fishing is a great channel. I have subbed twice.
Hello my family live in Somerset and there is 3 surrounding very big hills and there is round bunkers there it isn’t deep you litlery walk down 4 steps and it’s like a round bunker but also there is a half down stone walls which was a square at one point also there is old water pump houses there.also when my family first moved there there was a big gun mount thing where you mount machine guns like where you sit on it and spin around but it’s on a very big hill any ideas what it would have been used for ? I think it could almost have been a mini camp as Sherborne got bombed in the war and it isn’t far from there seems you know the area
Look after your dad he was brainwashed and now he's a murderer
@@thompsonevergreen8006 What?
Seeing old places like this is always a treat. Especially when they haven't been vandalized and graffitied to death
As kids we used to play in & around the local air raid shelters. They were great to explore. Unfortunately these were demolished years later to make way for a housing estate... but i have some great memories there, & at times think back to those childhood days. The airfield opposite is still in use, but now there is talk that developers want to build on that as well. Thanks for sharing this video. Appreciate it.
That is so amazing...I would want to camp there regularly and set it up nice but I'm sure other people would just wreck your hard work but thank you for the visit. I was very surprised to read 28,000 pillboxes, I figured maybe a few thousand total. Really cool history lesson. Thanks for that.
Out standing. Your dad is the man.!! Definitely need more of these with him. That reminds me,it been more then a year. I should be off to wash my fork.. 😂
Thank you for making this honorable video. Thank you, Graeme, for your service. My American grandfather fought in WWII Company L ,132 Infantry Reg., 33rd Division "The Prairie Division". He made it home.
Thank you for this amazing video, I learned a LOT about Britain's WWII history. My grandfather served in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific theatre, so that's all I heard about growing up. So very cool to see the strategic and defensive structures constructed back then. God bless.
Oh it’s dad! We love dad! Thank you for doing this series, both of you! 🥰
Great video. And many thanks to all those who served
This is very informative so great to go back in time. Perfect timing with today being Remembrance Day in the UK.
Glad you enjoyed it
It's always enjoyable watching you two together. Thanks so much for sharing this time with us here.
It’s so interesting how pieces of history such as ww2 pill boxes mostly are just forgotten and left in a state, it would be great if more examples of history were kept, and preserved. Great video 😀🔥🌲
think the flap is asbestos for when you inevitably get hit by a flammenwerfer
Simply for light mitigation, not for flame defence.
Another fantastic video! I absolutely love the dialogue and banter between your father and yourself. Very entertaining and I remain even now years later a big fan!
Great Remembrance Day video! That is why you are at 2 million subs!!! Dad and son is great.
Nice job. Great to see something like this series on remembrance week. Thankfully England was never actually invaded, so I’m guessing the cigarette buts and beer cans actually aided the authenticity. 😀. So glad to see you hamming around with your dad. Time spent with my dad was often the same. Brings back great memories.
Watching you with your Dad reminds me of adventures my siblings and i had with our Dad. We will remember.
I believe you’d spent the night n just about anything. Thanks as always for sharing.
Thankyou for reminding us of those who gave their lives for the way we can live today...
Now this is Adventuring!!!! Two thumbs up my friends!
I am at work, I will come back to this at lunch ♥️
You are so lucky to have a father that does things with you. Nice!
This is cool because I like survival/bushcraft but I also love history
this is the most badass but also historical camping trip i have ever watched
I love your dad he so reminds me of my late dad he was still a naughty boy in his 90s. We fall over Pill boxes in Orkney They were everywhere because of the importance of Scapa Flow.
your adventures with the spiders reminds me of the first and only time I decided to have a barbeque on the island. It started to rain so i lifted the barbeque into the old corrugated tin roofed shed now I am not afraid of spiders but i got out of there quicker than i went in as they dropped from the roof like a rain storm.
Remembering Private David Sinclair of the Cameron Highlanders who died on the 14th september 1914 at the battle of Aisne leaving his wife with 5 young children and the one he never saw because she born on the 15th January 1915. The only gift she had from her father was her name and a letter he wrote to his wife telling her if it was a boy to give the baby his name and if it was a girl to choose the name.
Thank you for this video
You really should get involved with a local WWII Reenacting group !!
With your filming knowledge and talent, I could see you Reenacting 'Operation Chariot' !👍
We have a distinct lack of filming talent in the Reenacting fraternity !
Great episode. I really like the historical content you have put together for us/yourself/your little one.
It would be interesting to see more of the 'forgotten' military remnants of that time lying around the fields and woods of your area.
Also, some Spanish for you and your pop :)
Powder = Polvo (pohl-voh)
Cookie/Biscuit = Galletta (guy-yettah)
Armed Forces = Fuerzas Armadas (fwerr-sas arr-mah-thas)
Food = Comida (koh-mee-tha)
Vegetable soup or [soup of vegetables] = sopa de verdudas (soh-pah deh verr-doo-thas)
Meatballs with sauce = albondigas con guisante (ahl-bon-di-gahs kon gee-san-tehs)
Hand = Mano (mah-no)
For the hands = Para manos (pah-rrah mah-nohs)
Cellulose paper (cheap napkin) = Papel Celulosa (pah-pehl cehl-yew-loh-sah)
Mulled wine = Vino Caliente [hot wine] (vee-noh kah-lee-yehn-teh)
Shrimp = Camaron (kah-mah-rrOhn) emphasis on the 'O'
Lighter that doesnt work = *%#@
Gambas is also another way of saying prawns
We appreciate the remeberance / veterans day here in the us video . It's nice to see it's a day that's celebrated all around the world .
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Your Dad makes me laugh so much.
I paused the video as your Dad is leaving for the night, after y'all tasted the wine:
Your Dad is the best! I miss my father and the way we interacted, just like you two.
Ok, back to the video.
I've seen lots of these unassuming structures and gun emplacement s on tv shows out here in Australia. It shows what trouble the British went to to defend their country. We have quite a few gun emplacement s here in Australia because of Japanese invasion s. Thanks for your videos they are great.✌️
love the father/son videos - your old man's commentary is brilliant
Awesome! Your Dad is great!! Love your videos!
they look fairly clean ... i'm on a few pillbox/ww2 defence groups on facebook,
its a good source of info. Have managed to locate (and camp inside) numerous bunkers/pillboxes around my area.
Interesting form of wild camping bu often its cold, especially in winter.
sadly lots of them are full of rubbish or used as toilets.
21:12 he’s pretty explosive 🤣
I am a Swedish relatively young man who lives in a modern century where we, it must be admitted, are doing quite well. I live in Sweden. And in a modern world, I am a proud Swede. Historically, it is a completely different matter. Sweden was a country that made concessions to the Germans, the German Armed Forces, not least in the permits for permit traffic that went through our country to the occupied Norway. The moral of this can be discussed, of course, either we were spineless, or smart who kept us out of the war. Britain, however, did not have that luck. I am amazed, sad, and respectful of your country, where people fought and died to defeat this evil and helped end Europe's disastrous years of suffering and death. It is nothing but honorable and let it be remembered forever.
I miss my old man...indeed cherish those moments, stay healthy :)
Nice one Mike,
Good job the pill box's were never used in anger. They are dark and dingy though.. Not far from where I live in Swindon is a village called "Coleshill" where they trained the English resistance (Special Operations Executive) Never seen a Spanish MRE before:) Using the Hurricane lamp was very fitting for the scene I guess thats probably the exact same lamp they would have used back in the day and as for the mulled wine, very nice... I'm going to have to buy a bottle of mulled wine now:)
Sandy
Haha thanks Sandy! Yes the lantern did give it a more natural lighting. Interesting to know about Coleshill. Enjoy that mulled wine :)
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Love the way your Dad manages bugs invasions ^^) Cheers guys! From Belgium. Keep on doing the great job and have fun.
I wish I had pillboxes like this in my woods
Me too
Your dad had me in stitches. Loved this episode. Looked like a decent ration box.
You're dad is a hoot! Very nice gentlemen 🤠
Awesome video mate, I use aeropress everyday! Much respect for those who have sacrificed their lives for us to live!
Thank you Mike. 👍😁
We are the lucky ones that only have to remember what our grandparents and older had to live through. I just hope we never forget so that the next generations do not have to live it again.
The younger generations (those under 45 years old) are now so far removed from these times. I recall a memorable lunch hour at work when we talked about our grandparents. My young colleagues (all of them young enough to be my children) were spellbound at descriptions of the life I remember my grandparents living when I was still a child in the 1950s. No electricity until the 1970s, no phone, no bathroom, outside toilet, open fires, clay oven to cook in, keeping rabbits and chickens for food, growing all their own fruit and veg, making their own clothes, water came from a well, clothes washed in a huge copper on an open fire, iron heated on the fire. This was normal for many people living a rural life in the UK in the 1950s. And then to tell them that my grandfathers and great-uncles fought in the trenches of World War 1. That my father was a prisoner of war in World War 2. That my uncle was shot down during a bombing raid, another uncle on a torpedoed ship. It was beyond the comprehension of my young colleagues.
Somber, serious ending, balanced by being goofballs on the final shot. I think those who served and those who sacrificed would appreciate it. :)
They were not slept in, the troops would have slept outside, as well as manned trenches outside. The flaps on the loopholes are to block light from the inside, when required. This Type DFW/3 24 is curious, as the doorway is very large, and it also does not facilitate the legs for the Bren LMG tripod. Normally these are recessed into the brickwork on the inside. The canal would have been utilised as an anti-tank barrier, the bollards are there to hinder mechanised advances. The pillboxes would be continual along this anti-tank barrier, forming a 'stop line'. Stop lines are numerous around the country, and also interlink, designed to slow the advance of an invading force, to enable defenders to call mobile reserves. By 1941 these were obsolete, realising the vulnerability of castle mentality inside a static structure. I hope that helps - I am a commercial archaeologist specialising in defence works of Sussex. if I can help, drop me a line.
Great video man. 👍 Soldiers gone but never forgotten ❤️
Great video both of you. Your dad always has me in stitches. Hope those glasses made it home in one piece LOL What's the best MRE you've had Mike?
Were i grew up we had niki site with Some cool bunckers and underground missile chambers and Machine gun structures structures with a long concrete paths leading to them. Tunnels and chambers all giant doors for truck to drive in they piled tons of dirt in frunt of them doors later it was turned in to a giant wine cellar.
Yet again, another great video!!! Always look forward to your videos even more so now when it’s from an Amazing bloke like you and it’s Bushcraft/WW2!!
We Shall Never Forget!!!
Ps your Dads a legend haha
great father and son bond
Looks like a great design for a underground shelter
So cool when you do videos with your dad he’s awesome! Great video
Great video! I'm really enjoying the history that you're sharing with us. Especially as I live on the "other side of the pond. "
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your Dad is one awesome fella.
😅🤣😂 at 21:10 when Dad flames that spider! I'm laughing SO hard right now!
Great video, love your dad, hes awesome
Your dad is a character 🤣 Cherish those moments ❤
Enjoying the WW2 series. It's good to remember the fallen.
This is really amazing! I’m sorry you still have relics of that very scary time, but at the same time, super cool experience!
Very interesting! And also, how the Brits build their pillboxes. Here in Germany, they are totalle different.
Great video Mike. That brought back some memories. My best mate at 6th Form and I celebrated New Years Eve 1999 in at a Pill Box near my house. With Chicken Drumsticks dipped in Vindaloo sauce washed down with a few beers. Finished off with Brandy and a cigar each.
I have two sets of drawers that were my dad’s, when he was a kid, in the early 1930s. The handles had square nuts holding them in place, have some earlier ones with square nuts on. Definitely fits in for being original to at least the 2nd world war,
Your dad is wholesome AF! :D
When the spiders started rappelling from the ceiling I would have surrendered the bunker.
Good choice of MRE! The spanish ones are usually really high-quality stuff as far as MREs go.
It was decent!
Glad you enjoy the spanish racion. Greetings from Spain!!
Good luck Mike and your dad funy man. 🌹🌹.. Follower from SAUDI ARABIA 🇸🇦🇸🇦
Yeah, there are a few small pillboxes from WWII still left in Singapore, but they are pretty much sealed off. Remembrance/Veterans' Day stealth camping & picnic in a WWII pillbox. Awesome!
2 million is within touching distance! Great work guys
Great video"
cheers from Spain, mate!
Great video Mike, your Dad is the best!
Never forget the people that gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country , gone but never forgotten
I kinda like that 3/4 underground model of a tiny house!
If the soil is not getting wet when digged 2 feet, that's a great way in northen climates to help with the cold.
Cherish the time with your Dad, its precious time.
I am losing both my parents to dementia. Dad didn't know who I was last week when I visited, and it's a take it daily situation as to whether they know each other. Dad is only 72 Mum 76.
Cherish every day.
Brilliant and appreciate the info on the history. Thanks
Brilliant! Your old man is great. Cheers!
That is the coolest thing .
Aah yes this brings back memories! The good ol times.
Nice you get to spend time with your dad. Cheers.
What a great video for remembrance day
Thank you
very interesting pieces of your country's history, nice one you 2 !!!!!!
Lest we forget.
Great video. As I watch this your channel reads as 2m subscribers. Congratulations. 🎉🥂
Thank you!
Wow your dad seems really cool I’ve always wanted someone like that in my life you know just go out in the woods and hangout
Thank you for that rare respect.