Lofty Carr is still alive and well he’s 99 years old now ! He’s a great guy! So polite . The Liverpool echo done a story on him and he tells the story oh when he was a pow and his escape.
You deserve a medal for making your videos. Fascinating stuff and brilliantly visualised. Hope you enjoy making them as much as I enjoying watching them. I look forward to seeing your epic Stalingrad video.
It might not be LRDG, but the BBC in the Autumn are doing a series on the SAS in the Desert. Called SAS Rouge Heroes. I'va added a link, it's been created by the writer of Peaky Blinders: th-cam.com/video/Tdvzw7xa534/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=BBC
Wow... I like how you're able to weave together major stories and minor stories in this series. The friendly-fire incidents, and the crazy feats of individuals, really add to the story. All this, without sacrificing anything major. Your storytelling is as good as 'Mad Max: Fury Road.' ;) Can't wait for the next one! :D
Lol, not even close. Mad Max: Fury Road is big on visual storytelling, but its greatest accomplishment is that it doesn't have any boring moments that can be skipped over. It's a 2-hour chase with a few breaks to catch our breath, but doesn't slow down for long. Every moment is exciting or important. Your documentaries tell the important parts of the story, and use context/backstory and side plots to keep us interested. Everything that is nonessential keeps us hooked and excited. Comic moments make us laugh, badass moments surprise us, and you can certainly build up tension and suspense without overplaying it. And Fury Road takes place in the desert, too. ^ ^ I also recommend Nostalgia Critic's review of Fury Road. It's funny before you see the movie, and even funnier after you see it.
Marvelous! An excellent history of the LRDG, better in fact than some of the books I have read on the subject. You have a real gift to grab the essence of the story. You should be lecturing Military history at Sandhurst. I can assure you that you would be much so much better than some of them who have cured many in their classes of insomnia.
Currently reading Damian Lewis’s book “the ghost patrol” would really like to see a video on what the LRDG got up to just before and during the Tobruk Raid
Really? Or are you being sarcastic? I do get the levels wrong sometimes and it drowns out what I'm saying. I find the audio is different on TH-cam than it is on other programs
Thanks for fleshing out the history of the LRDG. I first became interested in them and the SAS after seeing Brian Horrock's series on BBC (?) when in my teens in the 60s. His dioramas brought the whole thing to life for me. One question I'd like to ask though. There is an iconic photo of 4 armed jeeps side by side that is featured in most books on the SAS and is purported to be manned by SAS. However I've recently come across the same photo which is claimed to be of the LRDG! Any ideas on this?
There is a similar photo that includes David Stirling, but since the LRDG were known to insert SAS members early on in the piece it may still be LRDG, however I'm thinking the SAS would have been inserted in the days when the LRDG were only using Chevys and Fords.
An excellent book on Italian tanks in North Africa is: “Iron Hulls and Iron Hearts, Mussolini’s Elite Armored Divisions in North Africa” by Ian W. Walker.
I love these videos, the detail is just staggering. You look around and it's hard to find the nitty gritty battle details, especially in North Africa without digging into reports from the situation. Thank you for the amount of research and time you sink into these! I am telling everyone I know to spread the word. You are my favorite TH-cam channel. Just a curiousity, how long does it take you to make one of these videos??
That's why I wanted to get into the details in these videos because it's rare and I want to know exactly what happened too. This video took around 30 hrs to make from scratch, all the research, script writing, narration, graphics etc. Some of the other LRDG videos look less than that. But the thing with this series is that I'm only using a handful of sources (because there's not a lot of books on the LRDG), the sources themselves are quite detailed, the graphics I'm using are 2D, and there's only a handful of units on the field. When it comes to the other videos - like Rommel's first desert offensive or Fort Eben Emael - where there's tons of units on the field, the sources are vague, the sources directly contradict each other, there's a lot more sources to wade through, the graphics are in 3D (which in itself takes weeks to render let alone actually create in the first place), and the videos are longer, it can take me months. The script for my Operation Battleaxe video has taken up four full 10-hour days now to research and write, and it's still not finished. This is why I'm now trying to come up with a method of making the 3D videos look more like these 2D ones, and hopefully shave off months of work. Fingers crossed Battleaxe will take me weeks, rather than months
It has recently come to my attention that a family member may have served in the Long Range Desert Group. Would anyone know of any organisation to contact to find out if this is in fact true, and maybe some details about his service. Thanks in advance.
Awesome work TIK, I just found your channel and have been watching all your documentaries. I have a unique question about Market Garden (just posted in that documentary)that I would love your thoughts on.
Fuzzy, the Germans were militarily more alert. The more aggressive SAS took over the headline actions but still relied on the support of the LRDG. They remained active in what they always intended to provide, observation and reports.
How does one walk 200 miles through the desert? Did he have plenty of food and water? Did he kill and eat desert creatures or bugs or mice or rats or snakes? Did he find water?
What was the coded message the Italians sent the LRDG? Were they essentially telling them that there communications wern't secure anymore? If so, why the fuck would they do that?
I have a feeling that the Engrish translation on the wireless was so bad that it didn't fool anyone. At least they knew they were compromised; most outfits have (or should have) contingency plans already in place to handle these things.
He was stronger in politics for sure...and writing great speeches. I have a copy of Lord AlanBrooke's war time diary. God he thought little of Churchill.
Yeah, I can imagine he had a few enemies. In my upcoming Operation Battleaxe video, I discuss this very issue with Churchill and the impact he's had on the North African Campaign. He's certainly prolonged the campaign at the very least
Such truth. There's nothing 'soft' about an 'underbelly' full of easily fortified hills on a long, narrow strip of land. Not to mention so many other military gaffs.
Lofty Carr is still alive and well he’s 99 years old now ! He’s a great guy! So polite . The Liverpool echo done a story on him and he tells the story oh when he was a pow and his escape.
You deserve a medal for making your videos. Fascinating stuff and brilliantly visualised. Hope you enjoy making them as much as I enjoying watching them. I look forward to seeing your epic Stalingrad video.
This was such a great series. I would pay serious money to see LRDG TV series, that would something like Generation Kill. I would be soooo happy.
It might not be LRDG, but the BBC in the Autumn are doing a series on the SAS in the Desert. Called SAS Rouge Heroes. I'va added a link, it's been created by the writer of Peaky Blinders:
th-cam.com/video/Tdvzw7xa534/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=BBC
Wow...
I like how you're able to weave together major stories and minor stories in this series. The friendly-fire incidents, and the crazy feats of individuals, really add to the story. All this, without sacrificing anything major. Your storytelling is as good as 'Mad Max: Fury Road.' ;)
Can't wait for the next one! :D
Haven't seen Mad Max: Fury Road, but isn't there no dialogue in that film? Are you saying my videos are great, if only I didn't speak? :P
There's actually a decent amount of talking in Fury Road. Not a whole ton but enough to keep interest and keep the plot going.
Lol, not even close. Mad Max: Fury Road is big on visual storytelling, but its greatest accomplishment is that it doesn't have any boring moments that can be skipped over. It's a 2-hour chase with a few breaks to catch our breath, but doesn't slow down for long. Every moment is exciting or important.
Your documentaries tell the important parts of the story, and use context/backstory and side plots to keep us interested. Everything that is nonessential keeps us hooked and excited. Comic moments make us laugh, badass moments surprise us, and you can certainly build up tension and suspense without overplaying it. And Fury Road takes place in the desert, too. ^ ^
I also recommend Nostalgia Critic's review of Fury Road. It's funny before you see the movie, and even funnier after you see it.
Which I imply in my second sentence but you are right in every way.
Thank you so much for this amazing series! The LRDG and all counterparts are just so insanely amazing
Absolutely wonderful story telling.😎🐸
Absolutely loved these videos.. cannot wait for more on the LRDG!
Marvelous! An excellent history of the LRDG, better in fact than some of the books I have read on the subject. You have a real gift to grab the essence of the story. You should be lecturing Military history at Sandhurst. I can assure you that you would be much so much better than some of them who have cured many in their classes of insomnia.
you are completely superb, I am uber-impressed by your knowledge and presentation.....
I will come back to the LRDG at some point and finish this series. Probably after Stalingrad :)
Well done! Congratulations!
Thanks! It's not over yet though. Will do more on this series soon, although I'm focusing on making my Battlestorm Stalingrad video right now
Great stuff.
I'm glad you liked it!
This guy knows how to tell a tail L.R.D.G.is a untold story till now would have loved to served in this unit
nice vid, very informative
Glad you liked it :)
Good documentary:)
Thank you! Glad you liked it
Currently reading Damian Lewis’s book “the ghost patrol” would really like to see a video on what the LRDG got up to just before and during the Tobruk Raid
I got addicted to the background music you use
Really? Or are you being sarcastic? I do get the levels wrong sometimes and it drowns out what I'm saying. I find the audio is different on TH-cam than it is on other programs
Thanks for fleshing out the history of the LRDG. I first became interested in them and the SAS after seeing Brian Horrock's series on BBC (?) when in my teens in the 60s. His dioramas brought the whole thing to life for me. One question I'd like to ask though. There is an iconic photo of 4 armed jeeps side by side that is featured in most books on the SAS and is purported to be manned by SAS. However I've recently come across the same photo which is claimed to be of the LRDG! Any ideas on this?
There is a similar photo that includes David Stirling, but since the LRDG were known to insert SAS members early on in the piece it may still be LRDG, however I'm thinking the SAS would have been inserted in the days when the LRDG were only using Chevys and Fords.
The LRDG didn't use Jeeps. Ever. That photo is of the SAS. Davis Sterling was cropped out of the photo.
An excellent book on Italian tanks in North Africa is: “Iron Hulls and Iron Hearts, Mussolini’s Elite Armored Divisions in North Africa” by Ian W. Walker.
'Loffty' Carr lives by me, he is 101 now.
Lofty carr is 99 . 100 this October he’s such a nice man
@@lanawahsrof1223 .... he is... my maths is rubbish
Jay Bee haha mine is to its only that he told me the other morning
3:00 Nice use of NZ national anthem ... thanks for taking the trouble!
YESSS!!!!
Wooo!
I love these videos, the detail is just staggering. You look around and it's hard to find the nitty gritty battle details, especially in North Africa without digging into reports from the situation. Thank you for the amount of research and time you sink into these! I am telling everyone I know to spread the word. You are my favorite TH-cam channel. Just a curiousity, how long does it take you to make one of these videos??
That's why I wanted to get into the details in these videos because it's rare and I want to know exactly what happened too.
This video took around 30 hrs to make from scratch, all the research, script writing, narration, graphics etc. Some of the other LRDG videos look less than that. But the thing with this series is that I'm only using a handful of sources (because there's not a lot of books on the LRDG), the sources themselves are quite detailed, the graphics I'm using are 2D, and there's only a handful of units on the field.
When it comes to the other videos - like Rommel's first desert offensive or Fort Eben Emael - where there's tons of units on the field, the sources are vague, the sources directly contradict each other, there's a lot more sources to wade through, the graphics are in 3D (which in itself takes weeks to render let alone actually create in the first place), and the videos are longer, it can take me months. The script for my Operation Battleaxe video has taken up four full 10-hour days now to research and write, and it's still not finished.
This is why I'm now trying to come up with a method of making the 3D videos look more like these 2D ones, and hopefully shave off months of work. Fingers crossed Battleaxe will take me weeks, rather than months
What happened to part 3
This video was really hard to find.
my father was in this unit but he joined it after this point so i wanna know what happened next!!
Just upload it when I'm at school why don't you. FIRST!!!
Doing it just to annoy you ;) now get back to studying!
TIK NOOOO
i have watched 4 parts now, and i have yet to hear about sgt. troy.
No rats in the LRDG ...
It has recently come to my attention that a family member may have served in the Long Range Desert Group. Would anyone know of any organisation to contact to find out if this is in fact true, and maybe some details about his service. Thanks in advance.
Haitch?
Awesome work TIK, I just found your channel and have been watching all your documentaries. I have a unique question about Market Garden (just posted in that documentary)that I would love your thoughts on.
Thanks, I'm glad you're liking them! I've just replied to your question and thought it was a good question :)
Awh, you end it here? Does the LRDG not operate much from this point on?
This series isn't ended here. I've just not had the opportunity to do the next one! Battleaxe and now Stalingrad have been the priority
Fuzzy, the Germans were militarily more alert. The more aggressive SAS took over the headline actions but still relied on the support of the LRDG. They remained active in what they always intended to provide, observation and reports.
Fuzzy , the LRDG continued on until wars end , chasing the Italians , and the Germans , back across the Mediterranean .
So the LRDG didn't help the Free French at all during the battle of Kufra or before with intelligence ?
THE LRDG AND THE SAS why didn't you talk about the reg
No SAS in The Long Range Desert Group ...
So both you and McCraith mistook Indians with Italians it seems.
Haha yeah. Not sure how I misread it but I did
A useful link to the vehicles used. th-cam.com/video/1yxnyvcfiho/w-d-xo.html
How does one walk 200 miles through the desert? Did he have plenty of food and water? Did he kill and eat desert creatures or bugs or mice or rats or snakes? Did he find water?
No food for 10 days. Ronnie Moore lived the rest of his life in Matamata New Zealand. He had the driest sence of humour.
He was a Kiwi. Did what he had to do. Keep going. That's it.
What was the coded message the Italians sent the LRDG? Were they essentially telling them that there communications wern't secure anymore? If so, why the fuck would they do that?
I have a feeling that the Engrish translation on the wireless was so bad that it didn't fool anyone. At least they knew they were compromised; most outfits have (or should have) contingency plans already in place to handle these things.
Trolling isn't new.
But wait! What is wrong here? Just and only two dislike? That is not how it is meant to be! 🤣
I really do think Churchill was a fool. He was resolute when needed but a fool otherwise.
+Peorhum he wasn't good when he dabbled in military matters, but was good at politics
He was stronger in politics for sure...and writing great speeches. I have a copy of Lord AlanBrooke's war time diary. God he thought little of Churchill.
Yeah, I can imagine he had a few enemies. In my upcoming Operation Battleaxe video, I discuss this very issue with Churchill and the impact he's had on the North African Campaign. He's certainly prolonged the campaign at the very least
Cool, I look forward to your up coming video then.
Such truth. There's nothing 'soft' about an 'underbelly' full of easily fortified hills on a long, narrow strip of land. Not to mention so many other military gaffs.
Of course it’s an interesting story but this is not a video, it’s basically an audio book.