Full throttle at low level, pilots were probably early twenties, maybe a bit older, flying into flak, looking out for fighters, dodging trees, chimneys and power lines…taking hits and seeing and hearing crew mates dying around you, and still hitting the target, unbelievable skill and bravery from those boys. I hope future generations remember and that men and women are never called on to do these things again.
Despite the narrator’s optimistic comments; many of the bombs missed their target causing destruction and chaos for the citizens in Eindhoven. In total 138 Dutch civilians died. Still, these RAF crew were incredibly brave. The citizens of Eindhoven never held a grudge towards the Brits for this bombing as they knew it was necessary to end the war.
At 0:40 and 3:40 City of Eindhoven with Philips factory clearly visible. From the past I can remember story’s of this raid told by elder family members who lived in Eindhoven during WW-II.
Dutch Family friends lived in Arnhem during the "Bridge Too Far" Battle. An artillery shell plunged into their house and through a new bolt of cloth she'd scrounged for to sew sheets. She still sewed the sheets: Patching each of the many, many holes the shell made passing thru the bolt's folds.
Lockheed Ventura pilots are particularly brave, they didn't have the speed of the Bostons or especially the Mosquitoes. They took some of the worst casualties.
My dad was a gunner in one of those Venturas, it may have even been his first combat mission. I believe that particular squadron was actually a Royal Australian Air force (RAAF 464) squadron although the crews were a mixture of British, Australian and New Zealand nationals. The following year the squadron was re- equipped with mosquitos and my father transferred to 83 ,( pathfinder) squadron which flew Lancaster's. My dad always spoke very highly of his pilots as indeed he did of all his crew mates. When I look at the young men in my dad's squadron photos it is both sad and humbling to realize many of them did not survive.
At 4:18 the PSV (Philips Sport Vereniging) football pitch can be seen. The current pitch of the Philips Stadium where PSV Eindhoven is playing is still on the same location. Around it were Philips factories and housing of Philips employees. Remarkable thing is that many of the old houses have disappeared and that the majority of the very sturdy concrete Philips factories survived the war. Around 1970 Philips had over 400.000 employees worldwide, so they flourished after the war. This film is remarkable for an Eindhoven citizen (that I am). I lived for some years in house with some remaining small damage of a December 1944 V2 hit further up the street. Eindhoven was bombed several times by allied bombers and later by the Luftwaffe (a day after the liberation during Market Garden.). The aforementioned V2 was heading for Antwerp but something went wrong with the engine probably. 20 people dead.
"In the Oosterschelde estuary, the first major hazard arose in the form of sea birds, which were startled by the sound of the aircraft approaching and rose into the air. As the aircraft flew through them, some birds shattered wind screens, penetrated cockpits and injured aircrew, others bent fuel pipes and caused wing damage. In one aircraft two gulls smashed through the nose Perspex, striking the navigator in the legs. The wind caught his maps and sucked them out the broken windscreen. The rest of the trip he navigated from memory." Just like that, eh? Dear God . . . Rijken, Kees; et al. (2014). Operation Oyster: The Daring Low Level Attack on the Philips Radio Works (ebook ed.). Barnsley: Pen & Sword.
Very impressed with the flying expertise of these pilots, especially the evasive maneuvering and dodging the lead plane and his wing man utilized on their approach(to avoid incoming/enemy anti-aircaft fire) of Philips factory 🏭. Outstanding pilots and their crews.
At those altitudes there must have been a hell of a lot of birdstrikes over the course of the war. I wonder how many planes and pilots were lost due to that. I also noticed for the first time that even en route that the pilots were weaving across each other’s flight paths. I am guessing to throw off AA and small arms fire along the way. I never considered this as another task the pilots had to perform on each and every mission.
From what I have read, the Ventura was not highly regarded by its crews. 'That bloodycrate' was one description by John Beede, an Austrlian gunner who flew in the aircraft.
my mother's first husband was a Lancaster bomber pilot who flew 14 bombing missions over France and Germany from 10th April 1942 and was shot down in Belgium with all crew killed returning from bombing Aachen Railway Yards on 28th May 1942 to prevent resupply lines to the front line for D-Day 9 days later on the 6th June.
Did anyone notice that when they first crossed the coast the lead aircraft seemed to crash or maybe I'm just seeing things, bless them all, so very brave
thank you for your service. R.I.P. brave men, not forgetting those forced labour factories, your sacrifice was our freedom, we should always remember those who fought and fell in the name of our countries, 🥉🥈🥈🥇🥇
Wow! As I recide in this area I will look to the Phillips Work buildings in a different way from now on. I recognise it. Yes It's still there for a great deal there but now as a public place. Restaurants, indore skateboarding, caterings, events etc etc. The soccer field would be probably the famous PSV soccer club as it is located next to the complex.
Last day I was looking up at the sky and the clouds and imagined how people looked at the Allies planes in the skies over The Netherlands 80 years ago. And now YT recommends this video.
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A guy who had family garden centre locally, was a Mossie navigator. I tried in vain to get him on to the subject, not interested in any way to speak of his adventures in WW2. Typical of the breed. The word "brave" does'nt begin to describe him and his mates.
Great vid ! Mi late Dad knew mozzles in the Far-East , but they couldn't cope with the atmosphere's humidity; "they just fell to pieces !" The Blenheims were sound , but he said 12 of his 62 sq' went out on Op and only one came back flown by fatally wounded pilot , Cmdr Arthur Scarfe VC who crash-landed in a paddy field to save his crew . As an instrument flight Sgt' dad said that 'nothing they had at that time could beat the Nippon Zero' and that he would have loved to examine one .
Incredibly brave and skilful young men. My father flew a full tour of 30 raids in Lancasters, a shy quiet man, we only found out exactly what he did after he passed away. But I remember him saying the daylight bombing raids must have been petrifying! Lest we forget.
And today we have huge numbers of people living here who show little or no respect on the one day of the year when we traditionally commemorate the bravery of our service men and women. Who is to blame for this societal chaos?
Yeah it's terrible - countries that were once constantly fighting are now at peace and working together on security. And what about the EU - it's outrageous to see so many European countries forming a wealthy and powerful trade bloc with global influence.
'Notice the houses in the foreground are untouched' - this was probably performed after the accidental bombing of Bezuidenhout. The RAF then flew over and dropped leaflets 'apologising' 😆
Bravo to the Royal Air Force for the bombings of German positions in the Benelux,France and Italy and for the air raids on Japanese bases in Burma,Vietnam and Indonesia,among the others.
Why when somebody is trying to shoot you down would you control your flying, it's called duck and weave, evasive manoeuvres,or never fly straight lines in a combat zone.
12 aircraft lost?! Assuming this was released to the public at the time it's amazing that was revealed. And if 12 losses were admitted to the real figure was probably even higher.
Yet, ... people could do maths back then. They knew the losses. Family, friends and neighbours, school chums all knew that it took a crew to fly a plane. The moral part was if our young men and women can go head long into danger then we can knuckle down and do our bit at home. We are in it together. @@blacksheep1971
Eindhoven is significantly closer to the UK than the Ruhr. It's less than halfway to Berlin. A Spitfire variant with legs could have doubled the number of effective bombing campaigns. This would have shortened the war. In view of Britain's technical accomplishments the failure to develop a long range day fighter is mystifying.
today if you flew too low like this, they wouldn't be able to see you either.... imagine flying a boston this low now and watching the old folks freaking out, remembering
RADAR was then unable to spot low-flying planes because of all the reflections of buildings, pylons, etc. at the same height. Speed high and height low, makes it very hard for anyone on the ground to report what they saw and their direction with any accuracy. Also, the route will have been chosen to make the defences react in the wrong place, and to hit the target before the fighters can react. The route back would be different, and probably very direct, to give the least time for the defences to react again. There is another film like this on the Amiens Prison Raid, and recently a modern film was made in Norway about a raid like this on a Gestapo HQ building in Oslo.
My uncle flew Mossies in the Pathfinders bit of bomber command. They did fly low to avoid being detected. They weren't noticed at all until over land, and then hard to track. Very dangerous work indeed.
I would think that low flying meant a sort of stealth and they were more accurate at hitting the target. Besides, I would think that maybe they avoid some anti-aircraft guns that were probaly pointing upwards? Be past them before the AA gun crews could react?
Imagine yourself - a young twenty something life before you. This event, one of countless similar, risked what we value above all else. Low flying/ground interdiction so vulnerable to AAA and tall obstacles. You did the bloody job - you dare not let your mates down. How these young people conquered fear I know not, they did, for you, for me. Remember those crews lost, just twenty somethings, a son, brother, partner/boyfriend - think of your own “comfortable” life now. War is bloody lunacy, but lunatics think otherwise.
So many of these wartime newsreels were spoilt by this shouty Dalek narrator, when a calmer voice was really needed. But that was the tenor of the times, unfortunately.
you mean to say real he-men? Somehow i get the feeling that in the moment people were preoccupied with more pressing concerns. We might take a lesson from this.
Glorifying theses guys who Indiscriminately or deliberately targeted noncombatants is sickening. They were war criminals who murdered tens of thousands of unarmed men women and children in occupied countries and justified their crimes by claiming that they were undermining the Nazis war effort. They knew their crimes had at best negligible effects except to kill civilians .
The Germans should've expected THAT. My dad (who was Scottish) was in the British Army, 1939-45. He was in action in France & at the Battle of El Alamein, among other places. His 19-year-old brother was killed by a landmine. It was was the fat, booze-addled, manic depressive alcoholic Churchill who stuck his fat red nose in & started the war with Germany. 384,000 young soldiers were killed because of this fat Tory who hated the working class, saying they were "expendable". My dad survived the war with shrapnel wounds. I said repeatedly to him (over a few beers, usually) that he & his brother should never had gone to war.
Oh, so you think Britain should have let the Germans come? I do not think your anti-Tory hatred has any place here when we are watching this! By the way, sorry about your father's brother.
And if he hadn't - as you so eloquently put it - "stuck his fat red nose in", Germany would've walked all over Europe and further, reducing all it conquered to a state of subjugated servants to the Third Reich with no free speech, and no one allowed to live unless they had blue eyes and blonde hair. Your comment has to be one of the most stupid I've ever read, and seems politically motivated at the expense of historical knowledge.
Full throttle at low level, pilots were probably early twenties, maybe a bit older, flying into flak, looking out for fighters, dodging trees, chimneys and power lines…taking hits and seeing and hearing crew mates dying around you, and still hitting the target, unbelievable skill and bravery from those boys. I hope future generations remember and that men and women are never called on to do these things again.
I've always said the same, imagine all the chavs doing this today with a spliff hanging out the mouths?
Then going out to do the same thing 25 times before you get out.
A lot of these young Heroes didn't even have a driving licence and hadn't voted in an election!.... Lest we forget!... Nuff said.
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They will be, because old men forget and ask younger men to die.
Incredible bravery we must make sure future generations remember these brave people
Tell that to the woke brigade. They don't seem to know who gave them the freedom they have now.
must have been incredible stressfull..as a dutchman i thank all brave pilots and staf!
And the Patriotism of the Dutch owners
& workers who preferred to see their workshops & factories destroyed
rather than serving the nazis.
Despite the narrator’s optimistic comments; many of the bombs missed their target causing destruction and chaos for the citizens in Eindhoven. In total 138 Dutch civilians died. Still, these RAF crew were incredibly brave. The citizens of Eindhoven never held a grudge towards the Brits for this bombing as they knew it was necessary to end the war.
How many were working in the factory at the time though?
62 air crew were lost.
@@offshoretomorrow3346 nobody...it was on a sunday. All were civilians, o sorry almost forget.... 6 Germans.
6:23 The tall pilot, right of center, was Wing Commander Hughie Edwards VC, DSO, DFC.
There are probably 10 times more aircraft in this raid than today's entire RAF.
and they were 100x less accurate in general
Well there was a War on
At 0:40 and 3:40 City of Eindhoven with Philips factory clearly visible. From the past I can remember story’s of this raid told by elder family members who lived in Eindhoven during WW-II.
Ditto, my mother lived there during that time.
Amazing…that connection to history..🙏🏻
Dutch Family friends lived in Arnhem during the "Bridge Too Far" Battle. An artillery shell plunged into their house and through a new bolt of cloth she'd scrounged for to sew sheets. She still sewed the sheets: Patching each of the many, many holes the shell made passing thru the bolt's folds.
80 years to the day.
Remember those who gave their lives in service, & don't forget the loss of civilian life the bombing caused.
Stunning footage. Balls of steel
My father's brother flew in bombers with the RAF. As a boy his uniform jacket fitted perfectly on me and I grew out of it while still in school.
I don't think people realize how much bigger we are compared to 80 years ago let alone 200
You would have to be incredibly brave to fly full throttle that close to the ground. Thank god for that generation of men
Lockheed Ventura pilots are particularly brave, they didn't have the speed of the Bostons or especially the Mosquitoes. They took some of the worst casualties.
yes- and tail end waves got the full dose of AAA fire -- Germans were very good at it
My dad was a gunner in one of those Venturas, it may have even been his first combat mission. I believe that particular squadron was actually a Royal Australian Air force (RAAF 464) squadron although the crews were a mixture of British, Australian and New Zealand nationals. The following year the squadron was re- equipped with mosquitos and my father transferred to 83 ,( pathfinder) squadron which flew Lancaster's. My dad always spoke very highly of his pilots as indeed he did of all his crew mates. When I look at the young men in my dad's squadron photos it is both sad and humbling to realize many of them did not survive.
@@KevinRudd-w8sYour dad was on 464 squadron the same time as John Cusack, an Australian gunner who wrote the brilliant book They Hosed Them Out.
@@throttlegalsmagazineaustra7361 Thank you for that info, I have not read that, I must get a copy.
@@KevinRudd-w8s His pen name was John Beede. The book was re-released a few years ago with previously-edited passages reinserted.
At 4:18 the PSV (Philips Sport Vereniging) football pitch can be seen. The current pitch of the Philips Stadium where PSV Eindhoven is playing is still on the same location. Around it were Philips factories and housing of Philips employees. Remarkable thing is that many of the old houses have disappeared and that the majority of the very sturdy concrete Philips factories survived the war. Around 1970 Philips had over 400.000 employees worldwide, so they flourished after the war. This film is remarkable for an Eindhoven citizen (that I am). I lived for some years in house with some remaining small damage of a December 1944 V2 hit further up the street. Eindhoven was bombed several times by allied bombers and later by the Luftwaffe (a day after the liberation during Market Garden.). The aforementioned V2 was heading for Antwerp but something went wrong with the engine probably. 20 people dead.
"In the Oosterschelde estuary, the first major hazard arose in the form of sea birds, which were startled by the sound of the aircraft approaching and rose into the air. As the aircraft flew through them, some birds shattered wind screens, penetrated cockpits and injured aircrew, others bent fuel pipes and caused wing damage. In one aircraft two gulls smashed through the nose Perspex, striking the navigator in the legs. The wind caught his maps and sucked them out the broken windscreen. The rest of the trip he navigated from memory."
Just like that, eh? Dear God . . .
Rijken, Kees; et al. (2014). Operation Oyster: The Daring Low Level Attack on the Philips Radio Works (ebook ed.). Barnsley: Pen & Sword.
Very impressed with the flying expertise of these pilots, especially the evasive maneuvering and dodging the lead plane and his wing man utilized on their approach(to avoid incoming/enemy anti-aircaft fire) of Philips factory 🏭. Outstanding pilots and their crews.
At those altitudes there must have been a hell of a lot of birdstrikes over the course of the war. I wonder how many planes and pilots were lost due to that. I also noticed for the first time that even en route that the pilots were weaving across each other’s flight paths. I am guessing to throw off AA and small arms fire along the way. I never considered this as another task the pilots had to perform on each and every mission.
I’d never heard of the Lockheed Ventura before this commentary.
From what I have read, the Ventura was not highly regarded by its crews. 'That bloodycrate' was one description by John Beede, an Austrlian gunner who flew in the aircraft.
my mother's first husband was a Lancaster bomber pilot who flew 14 bombing missions over France and Germany from 10th April 1942 and was shot down in Belgium with all crew killed returning from bombing Aachen Railway Yards on 28th May 1942 to prevent resupply lines to the front line for D-Day 9 days later on the 6th June.
1944?
@ yes thanks for the correction
👍🏻🇬🇧 The very Best. Brave men, May their souls be with God.
Another facet to add to this fascinating and inspiring film is that, quite possibly, the aircraft were also flying at or below sea level!
Did anyone notice that when they first crossed the coast the lead aircraft seemed to crash or maybe I'm just seeing things, bless them all, so very brave
Yes, at 2:19 the lead Boston flies into terrain. Maybe he hit a power line or trees?
@@jackaubrey8614 poor kid, I find it so very humbling to watch these brave young men
I watched it a few times; I don’t think it crashed. Might’ve been an odd light reflection off a pond or canal.
He didn't crash, he's still clearly airborne when it cuts to the next clip.
Also, if he did crash they wouldn't have used it as propaganda footage.
@@meofnz2320 Yes, no crash. He is shown veering into the lead.
Imagine being a Dutch civilian living under German rule and seeing that lot coming over.
My mother did but moved to the uk after the war.
A lot of Dutch and French people were killed in such bombing raids against factories that were producing material for the Wehrmacht.
They should not have collaborated!@@None-zc5vg
@@JohnSmith-ei2pzMaybe you should do some research into what living under Nazi occupation meant.
My countrymen/women fought and were not invaded! Maybe you should keep your beak out! at her@@themotorider1
thank you for your service. R.I.P. brave men, not forgetting those forced labour factories, your sacrifice was our freedom, we should always remember those who fought and fell in the name of our countries, 🥉🥈🥈🥇🥇
Have you seen what the world has become?
@@riaannel2766what has it become?
Exactly the spot where my parents lived. They had vivid memories of this.
Dust is kicked up at 2:17 thought the lead plane in picture smacked a tree but clearly kicking up dirt... impressive flying.
Wow! As I recide in this area I will look to the Phillips Work buildings in a different way from now on. I recognise it. Yes It's still there for a great deal there but now as a public place. Restaurants, indore skateboarding, caterings, events etc etc. The soccer field would be probably the famous PSV soccer club as it is located next to the complex.
Last day I was looking up at the sky and the clouds and imagined how people looked at the Allies planes in the skies over The Netherlands 80 years ago. And now YT recommends this video.
A guy who had family garden centre locally, was a Mossie navigator. I tried in vain to get him on to the subject, not interested in any way to speak of his adventures in WW2. Typical of the breed. The word "brave" does'nt begin to describe him and his mates.
Stop bullying him!
Great vid !
Mi late Dad knew mozzles in the Far-East , but they couldn't cope with the atmosphere's humidity; "they just fell to pieces !"
The Blenheims were sound , but he said 12 of his 62 sq' went out on Op and only one came back flown by fatally wounded pilot , Cmdr Arthur Scarfe VC who crash-landed in a paddy field to save his crew .
As an instrument flight Sgt' dad said that 'nothing they had at that time could beat the Nippon Zero' and that he would have loved to examine one .
And these days - a couple of Storm Shadows fired from half-way across the North Sea. No need to lose 12 crews. Per ardua ad astra
140 civilians and 7 German soldiers were killed during this raid on december 6th 1942
Alternatively let the Nazi's use hi tech Phillips products. You decide.
Time delay fuses so that second wave a/c would not be blown up by first wave's bombs. That this was a daylight raid makes it even more magnificent.
Incredibly brave and skilful young men. My father flew a full tour of 30 raids in Lancasters, a shy quiet man, we only found out exactly what he did after he passed away. But I remember him saying the daylight bombing raids must have been petrifying! Lest we forget.
And today we have huge numbers of people living here who show little or no respect on the one day of the year when we traditionally commemorate the bravery of our service men and women. Who is to blame for this societal chaos?
If they could see the state of Europe today, including England, I think those airmen lost on this raid would turn in their graves.
You might be onto something. In a sense, wasn't this the beginning of the process which bears fruit now?
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Most of them were alive until quite recently, some still are.
What do you mean?
Yeah it's terrible - countries that were once constantly fighting are now at peace and working together on security. And what about the EU - it's outrageous to see so many European countries forming a wealthy and powerful trade bloc with global influence.
I want to see what these Ole Timey narrators look like.
50 foot above the water at 400mph. Incredible.
At 3.40, the outline of the Phillips factory on the horizon..
'Notice the houses in the foreground are untouched' - this was probably performed after the accidental bombing of Bezuidenhout. The RAF then flew over and dropped leaflets 'apologising' 😆
Bezuidenhout bombing was in 1944, two years after this operation.
Bravo to the Royal Air Force for the bombings of German positions in the Benelux,France and Italy and for the air raids on Japanese bases in Burma,Vietnam and Indonesia,among the others.
british cannot fight the japanase and nazi.
Holy gripping reality tv batman! It hit home the rest of the vid after they said"12 planes didn't come home"
Spectacular flying.
But dangerously uncontrolled.
Why when somebody is trying to shoot you down would you control your flying, it's called duck and weave, evasive manoeuvres,or never fly straight lines in a combat zone.
12 aircraft lost?! Assuming this was released to the public at the time it's amazing that was revealed. And if 12 losses were admitted to the real figure was probably even higher.
Word game's - by saying "aircraft" rather than the number of men lost also helped with moral.
That's a 12% aircraft loss so quite high but understandable due to it being at *very* low level.
@@josephking6515 - and in broad daylight.
Yet, ... people could do maths back then. They knew the losses. Family, friends and neighbours, school chums all knew that it took a crew to fly a plane. The moral part was if our young men and women can go head long into danger then we can knuckle down and do our bit at home. We are in it together. @@blacksheep1971
Eindhoven is significantly closer to the UK than the Ruhr. It's less than halfway to Berlin.
A Spitfire variant with legs could have doubled the number of effective bombing campaigns.
This would have shortened the war.
In view of Britain's technical accomplishments the failure to develop a long range day fighter is mystifying.
today if you flew too low like this, they wouldn't be able to see you either.... imagine flying a boston this low now and watching the old folks freaking out, remembering
Damn thats low. Today they would need safe spaces and counselling on their return. Crew were gutsy and fearless back then.
I'd like to know who the flight crew in this piece is at the very beginning, he looks down at the camera and winks?
Dutch civilians working in the factory sadly i presume
Did they fly that low to evade radar? Because that is low.
RADAR was then unable to spot low-flying planes because of all the reflections of buildings, pylons, etc. at the same height.
Speed high and height low, makes it very hard for anyone on the ground to report what they saw and their direction with any accuracy.
Also, the route will have been chosen to make the defences react in the wrong place, and to hit the target before the fighters can react.
The route back would be different, and probably very direct, to give the least time for the defences to react again.
There is another film like this on the Amiens Prison Raid, and recently a modern film was made in Norway about a raid like this on a Gestapo HQ building in Oslo.
My uncle flew Mossies in the Pathfinders bit of bomber command. They did fly low to avoid being detected. They weren't noticed at all until over land, and then hard to track. Very dangerous work indeed.
Nah. The RAF deliberately used pilots who suffered from air sickness and altitude sickness
I would think that low flying meant a sort of stealth and they were more accurate at hitting the target. Besides, I would think that maybe they avoid some anti-aircraft guns that were probaly pointing upwards? Be past them before the AA gun crews could react?
They have to be,below 50 mtrs,otherwise germans radar systems would track them. (Himmelbett).
They could not fly higher due to the weight of their balls
Balls like a buffalo
My mates dad did this with bostons stories of forge in tail 🎉
These heroes would be SICK to see what their country has become
We should restart these raids. Maybe include Brussels on the target list
Stupid unessessary comment..
Well done you won the tired attempt at humour/Prize Idiot award for the month.
62 aircrew lost, 20% of Venturas lost 😢😢
The absolute heyday of the RAF and its crews. It is now a pale shadow of its former self.
My husbands uncle flew in combat over the Netherlands in WW2.
I’m dizzy just watching
Holy smack, that’s LOW!
Iron balls for sure!
Wow ww2 was such an upclose and personal war...
bullshit.
they missed philips but flattened the inner city
"12 planes didn't come back"...how about " 36 men ".
Imagine yourself - a young twenty something life before you. This event, one of countless similar, risked what we value above all else. Low flying/ground interdiction so vulnerable to AAA and tall obstacles. You did the bloody job - you dare not let your mates down. How these young people conquered fear I know not, they did, for you, for me. Remember those crews lost, just twenty somethings, a son, brother, partner/boyfriend - think of your own “comfortable” life now. War is bloody lunacy, but lunatics think otherwise.
12 didn`t come back , mostly ventura`s they were slow under armed .
4:57 Within a fortnight they resumed production...
Is it known what happened with the crew of the twelve bombers that were lost?
Those young fellas must have special flying suits to hold and protect the pair of massive coconuts they all obviously had.
phillips... hummmmmm
So many of these wartime newsreels were spoilt by this shouty Dalek narrator, when a calmer voice was really needed. But that was the tenor of the times, unfortunately.
Bob Danvers Walker, I believe
That music, that tone of speaking.
Sounds just like the German version of propaganda
And to think what our politicians and Labour in particular have done to our country now… none of it was worth it 😢
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Our greatest generation.
Nowadays…???
How was work today Otto? Otto--I got bombed
Now the cultist enemy is within!
Did you delete my comment, was it not so good? 🤔
That's annoying TH-cam.
Often totally incomprehensible.
All performed by men without stupid pronowns etc.
you mean to say real he-men? Somehow i get the feeling that in the moment people were preoccupied with more pressing concerns. We might take a lesson from this.
2:19 did that plane hit the deck??
Yes I think he did.
No, it’s clearly visible in the footage immediately afterwards.
Glorifying theses guys who Indiscriminately or deliberately targeted noncombatants is sickening. They were war criminals who murdered tens of thousands of unarmed men women and children in occupied countries and justified their crimes by claiming that they were undermining the Nazis war effort. They knew their crimes had at best negligible effects except to kill civilians .
All for nothing... Both sides only lost.
The days when young adults didn’t cry and cower over pronouns.
150 civilians were killed...
15,000 work at factory??
boston and ?ventura?....these Yankies did sturdy and easy to pilot planes...
The earth is flat
'Yeah, Alvis lives!'
The Germans should've expected THAT. My dad (who was Scottish) was in the British Army, 1939-45. He was in action in France & at the Battle of El Alamein, among other places. His 19-year-old brother was killed by a landmine. It was was the fat, booze-addled, manic depressive alcoholic Churchill who stuck his fat red nose in & started the war with Germany. 384,000 young soldiers were killed because of this fat Tory who hated the working class, saying they were "expendable". My dad survived the war with shrapnel wounds. I said repeatedly to him (over a few beers, usually) that he & his brother should never had gone to war.
Oh, so you think Britain should have let the Germans come? I do not think your anti-Tory hatred has any place here when we are watching this! By the way, sorry about your father's brother.
do some research….you would not be here if it wasn’t for Winston Churchill. The most uneducated comment I’ve ever read..
@@RobynWarbling Totally agree with you!
Hitler never wanted war with his fellow Germans.....the English.
And if he hadn't - as you so eloquently put it - "stuck his fat red nose in", Germany would've walked all over Europe and further, reducing all it conquered to a state of subjugated servants to the Third Reich with no free speech, and no one allowed to live unless they had blue eyes and blonde hair. Your comment has to be one of the most stupid I've ever read, and seems politically motivated at the expense of historical knowledge.