Big Gun Duel - German Artillery Targets England
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- The English town of Dover found itself in the middle of 'Hellfire Corner' between 1940 and 1944, when, as well as aerial bombing, its residents had to contend with direct German attack using huge artillery guns on the other side of the English Channel.
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I hope Mrs McEwan enjoyed her dinner without any further interruptions.
Looking forward to that episode on the V3 cannon
Exactly what I thought - I may cheat and do a web search beforehand :)
Ah yes, the v3 cannon. A complex system propelling a projectile using several charges fired within the weapons own barrel. Very advanced tech for 1943, for the humans at least. It's a known fact that Himmler was friendly with the Heibash Union of star system RH-31, who used a similar design as the v3 on their own long range cruiser, named after their faithful follower, Admiral Karl Dönitz. The v3 system was delivered as a gift to Himmler and deployed in record time.
The V3 has a modern connection with another dictator.
"But more about that later"
@@BELCAN57 Margaret Thatcher?
Do a search...the video is already out.
The last lady is like my 90 year old nan. Grew up in the east end. Was evacuated against her will during the phoney war period and returned early 1940 as she didnt want to be away. Her birthday is also the 1st day of the blitz which she remembers her party being ruined by plaster from the ceiling falling on the food. Many years later there was a bomb threat from a neighbours house and then police kindly asked her to evacuate. Her reply "I didnt move for Hitler, I ain't moving for that silly sod neither"
Good for her! Neat story...
that time in WW2 were both sides decided to do an artillery only match....
Did someone say ARTILLERY ONLY
1v1 me skrub Huge 1 stone projectile cannons only
Navy...
You continue to amaze. Where do you find all this research material?
Germans: we'll just throw some shells into england
Britain: Parry this you dam casual
basically two land battleships fighting but no one could knock out each other's turrets
2:41
Germans: We have our large guns in almost impenetrable, concrete bunkers
Britain: S H E D
. . . . . with a tin roof!
them bunkers today are an amazing explore :)
Yes, I really enjoyed your exploration videos of them.
IKS Exploration - Hello Folk. Keep searching for those ‘Golden gems’!
"ive got my dinner to cook goodbye!" i love that
She hadn't missed any meals. Food rationing hadn't kicked in yet?
@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 Food rationing was never bad in Britain. Britain had a massive navy to protect convoys and an even bigger supply fleet to bring food and goods from its entire empire, rationing was introduced not out of necessity but to prevent stockpilling from anyone that panicked. Thats why i never understood why ignorant morons keep saying that america saved Britain by preventing it from starving....that was never going to happen. It was very very bad in germany tho.
@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 She would have been considered fat in the 50s and people shouted at at fat people in the streets for being greedy. I remember it was news worthy to note a ship load of oranges arriving.
I want a shirt that says "That's A Story For Another Time"
And on the back " Many Thanks"
Nice gesture on the part of the Canadian commander, sending the flag to Dover.
Fun fact: those german 16 inch guns were originally supposed to be mounted the H-41 class battleships but due to plan-z being cancelled they were moved to france.
H-39* battleships the keels of the first two were laid but cancelled. They were bascially a larger version of the Bismarck class with 16in guns instead of 15
HOW COULD ANYONE DISLIKE THIS GREAT AND INFORMATIVE VIDEO??!!
Frankie P probably a German
Free will?
They probably just misclicked
Trolls
Probably nazis !!!
Only the British can name their giant deadly cannons Winnie and Pooh
I'm sure the weather man of Dover was kept busy at that space of time.
“There’ll be a chance of Thunder near Kent, with possible heavy “hailstones” in the Dover area.”
Metanoia "mostly fine today with a few light showers of heavy artillery this evening"
My dad was in the US 127th AAA gun Battalion stationed in this area during the early part of WW2. He told stories about these shelling duels. He said that they would have lookouts stationed to watch the German's activities and that they would sound the alert when they saw them get too much activity around the guns. He also said that after the flash of the guns, you had about a minute before the shell would hit. He also stated that the Germans would try to catch them unawares and shell them during times of low visibility, such as foggy days or evenings. He told how on one such instance, they had no warning, and a shell nearly killed him. He said that the shells used weighed as much as a small car, but crossed the Channel in a minute before striking.
"Winni and pooh" OH COME ON. Noones gonna jump on that?
Well they can't in China.
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Oh, like they should’ve named the next two Christopher and Robin? Hahaha
interesting !
greetings from Germany :)
Tigre: Pooh Bear you been in your house for days why haven’t you come out?
Winne the Pooh: Oh Bother, The Germans were bombing me again....
As soon as I hear the intro music, I click 'like'.
The into music is very gud
Nice
Yeah you tell em Ms. McEwen
Thanks for bringing attention to this lesser known aspect of the war.
Winnie and Pooh....cool names. Only Brits would do that. 👍❤
I love this music.
The Todt battery has now been converted to a museum it has the main casemate but no gun as it was removed. It also has a Krupp K5E railway gun
The amount of firepower being slung across that channel is unbelievable.
Wow, I always thought the railway gun thingies were exclusively a German thing !! Never knew the Brits had those. Thanks.
I am extremely glad that you are covering history so often lost and forgotten. Nobody reads books anymore and your channel keeps these important incidents of history alive. It's been a while since I studied 'winnie' and 'pooh' so to see this chapter in history is most welcome indeed! Thank you!
Have heard of Winnie and Pooh before, and a couple of the German ones. Did not know there were that many though.
Good work Sir.
i really learn a lot about history from your videos. Thank you Mark, you teach me more than any teacher could. Greetings from Bosnia!
As always great content
Never fails to impress me
Ww2 era gusto.... She has to cook! I wonder if it was fish and chips?
Classy move on part of that Canuck!
The Canadians used flame flowers to sort the Calais crews out and teach them not to interrupt British afternoon tea any longer.
The book 'Winnie the Pooh' was published many years earlier in 1926.
The first gun was named 'Winnie' after Winston Churchill, the second was inevitably going to be called pooh.
My late father (Captain Royal Artillery) was in charge of a battery of radar assisted 9.2 inch guns based at Dover Castle. Their maximum range fell short of the French coast but they were very effective against enemy shipping. That said, it is sad to record they failed to score a hit during the notorious "Channel Dash" by the German battleships. This was due to utter confusion and late orders to open fire. The targets were out of range. Father said he was never so angry and frustrated as he was that day.
Amazing! Did not know about this Fighting! Thank you Mark!
that Canadian commander gift was a savage move.
So is it true that people in England could hear the artillery explosions in France during The Great War like distant thunder? :o
"Winnie and Phoo guns" soooo British I love it.
Your wasting my time. I have dinner to cook. Good bye!
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Fascinating, another story from history I was ignorant of. Any chance you could look into the story of the Irish Navy taking charge of a new pt or torpedo boat from England as the evacuation of Dunkirk was happening, and how the crew put to sea to assist in the evacuation before taking the new boat to Ireland. Thanks for the content Mark
I can see the angry letters in the Telegraph about the increasing house prices already...
Dear Mr. Felton, would you please talk about the story of Pavlov's House? I would really appreciate that.
The front of my Grandparents house on Buckland Avenue Dover was blown in by the blast from a shell that landed nearby, being funneled down the road opposite - after that they moved out to Lyminge and where caught up in the blast from a V1 that landed on the nextdoor methodist chapel ! - my Gran had a terrible scar on her arm from that.
"Each shell fired weighed 1 ton." My god haha
Thanks for posting this. My Dad lived in Dover at that time and he would talk about the guns firing off shells when I was a kid. I was always curious about this. Thanks Mark making this.
Germany: shoots with artillery to England
England: right back at ya buckaroo
Got my dinner to cook just got to love the old British spirit.
How did the gunnery crews spot the impacts to correct their fire ? If they had air superiority they could have used spotter planes but that wouldn't have been possible for the Germans in the later stages of the war. Rather imprecise even against fixed targets.
I love the news reel footage, Jolly good show Mrs McEwen !
On clear days you can see across the channel (the fireman said they could see the muzzle flash of the german guns), or they could have small boats (the E-boats) spot for them and radio the results of each shot.
JD: They used range finders with an alidade. The same way every other artillery does.
By checking the size of cloud
The Jerries used to watch where their shells landed. The subsoil around Dover is chalk, and a hit registered clearly as a white crater. They could plot these hits on a map, and correct their aim to compensate for wind, air density and temperature. These craters were filled in as rapidly as possible. I heard somewhere that fake craters were laid out on the ground, to mislead the Jerry gunners.
This intro music is my favorite. Whenever I hear it, my hips begin thrusting uncontrollably to the beat.
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Apparently the British sleeved down a gun that then had a range of 60 miles. I've never been able to find out any more information on this but if Mr Felton can, it would perhaps make a good video. First class as always.
No visual contact, yet you're engaging the enemy in direct fire. Insane.
So the British used railway guns and hid the guns in railway tunnels. When the American troops were being shelled at Anzio, they couldn't figure out where the shells were coming from. Nobody though, maybe it's a railway gun and they are hidden in a railway tunnel. Maybe the British could have told the Americans this little bit of strategic information. Maybe the Americans could have asked the British for ideas.
I love that matronly bit of propaganda at the end. It seems corny now, but I'm sure it helped keep spirits up at the time!
Hey, love your content but do you think you could cover the Occupation of the Channel Islands? It was the only part of the UK to be captured and occupied by the Nazi's (1940 - 45) and being from Guernsey I can tell you we are littered with German bunkers, tunnels and big guns. Alderney (one of the smaller islands) had labour/death camps as well.
There will be some Channel Island videos later in the year as I shall be filming in the islands next month.
@@MarkFeltonProductions Oh awesome! Hope you enjoy your trip.
Looking forward to the V3 video!
My grandmother was a nurse in Dover hospital throughout this period. She described the shelling as being terrifying.
So am I right to think all those guns firing at each other for four years achieved next to zero in military terms?
Germany had a thing for attacking random British civilians.....so much ammo, planes and crews spent, absolutely 0 impact on the war effort, outside of steeling the British resolve...
CMDRFandragon - One German aircraft dropped a single bomb on my late mother’s isolated cottage. Missed!
Never heard of these. Thanks for the video!
I like that lady at the end.
I’m amazed at the range of those things when looking on a map. And to hear them firing, you can hear what seems to be the flying shells after the initial explosion. I wonder who though that Dora and Gustav weren’t put there; only Gustav ever fired and it was only once, so it seems like a better use to have them doing something instead of laid up in storage. However, shelling (or bombing) civilians in peaceful British cities isn’t tactically advantageous, at least in my opinion.
Moving the big guns two Calais would have made them too vulnerable to air attack.
"Peaceful British cities" didn't really exist after the war started. It was total war--every place was contributing to the war effort in some way or another (and Dover more obviously than many, given the strategic importance of that part of the Channel).
On the flip side, though, you're quite right that shelling/bombing British civilians did very little for the Germans (especially when compared to the effort they put into it).
I've got to say, you have easily one of the most watchable voices (if that makes sense).
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@@mandu9520 yeah
No sheep were harmed during this period of the War.
I never knew the guns were able to reach England, i thought it was just the railway guns and v1/v2 missiles.
Wow.....another artillery shelling from island to island history? Ha.
when i said another , looking at the era where China shelling Taiwan was a pretty funny attempt to get another country to surrender , deja vu to me.
Another strategically useless waste of resources.
Imagine being on a gun crew for one of those cannons and hearing that go off. Or being in the immediate area while one of those one ton shells are inbound. Unreal.
Great video. Is the German/Nazi flag still in Dover?
What?
@@xXFaNaTikKXx It's in the video.
King Fanatiikk not watched the video?
Answer?
I bet in some local Museum yeah.
Interesting history for sure. There is another YT channel called IKS Exploration that is from Dover and they explore many of the underground bunkers and tunnel systems in and around Dover. Cheers!
William Logan - Thanks folk.
Can you do a video on the Australian stand at Kokoda thanks
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One of my relatives served on either Winnie or poo , I can’t remember which battery but it’s really cool to hear a little bit about their history
Fascinating...!! one of your best episodes..
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Fire 2000 giant artillery rounds to kill 200 people. I used to think war is stupid, but this is beyond the stupid experience..
When I think of siege guns in the Second World War Russia comes to mind. I never knew the extent of their employment on the English Channel. Well done Mark.
The locomotive that moved the British railway gun into and out of its tunnel is a diesel. No smoke and able to move at a moments notice.
"Winnie" and "Pooh".
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Winnie the Pooh?
What was Baldrick’s famous poem about big guns ? Remind me of the words..
Wow I'm actually early for once... I'll take this chance to say thank you so much for making these videos Mr.Felton.
I'm suprised the German didn't use the Schwerer Gustav after it was used during the Siege of Sevastopol.
It would have been vulnerable to air attack and building a bomb proof tunnel to shelter that massive thing would have been hugely expensive. What I don't understand is why they didn't send Gustav to Leningrad after Sevastapol when they were already sending most of 11th Army up there.
Literally Stormtroopers hitting everything around it but not hitting the gun battery
Brit Soldier: Shit on this, you damn Krauts!
(Fires Pooh)
Great vid Mark. I was not aware of these details. Another excellent post!
Same here - I've been through Dover a number of times when going over and back to the continent. I've never spent time in the town but I've heard you can get tours of some of the tunnels.
1:10 There ya go. Nobody will ever think it was a barrel. Trees grow sideways right?
Mark Felton is the gift that keeps on giving.
I'm always happy when mark uploads a video I always learn something new
Amazing stuff.
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Nice film. These British guns were used to fire at the Kriegsmarine's Channel Dash too, wholly ineffectively
Winni and pooh the deadly naval artillery guns, the perfect kids show
I went there (Batterie Todt) just a few months ago. Unfortunately the huge gun pointing at Dover has been removed for some 'trust issue'. But it is still a nice place to visit. They have a PAK, an 88 Flak, loads of small stuff. Ah, and a railway gun.
Great video, I have read a lot about ww2, but I havent heard about this battle.
Was born and brought up in Dover, there is a piece of armour plate from one of the German guns on display on the seafront, been there as long as I remember (so at least since the 1970’s). The street where my wife grew up had a house unlike the others on the street, we later found out that the previous house in that location had been wrecked by a shell.
3:36 such a cool insight into Britain in the past
Wow! That was some gunfight!
Perhaps suggestion about another one very interesting but lesser known topic: German occupation of the Channel Islands - particularly Sark? :)
anyone have a "spare 14" naval gun" laying about? lol Another great video Mark, cheers! :o)