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Fascinating story, thank you. Subscribed! 👍

Handley was my great great great granddad

I met the pilot of the 2nd incident repairing his phone line he had the control stick and some memorabilia on display was very interesting talking to him

lol love the name... the "grand slam" like hulk smash LOL modified lancaster dropped it... all 22000 pounds..... Poof! LOL

I watched a Vulvcan bomber crash into a field at Halton Holgate near spilsby in 1977. All I can remember is it was on a monday. The pilot stayed with the plane till the last moments as otherwise it would have crashed into the town on market day.

Excellent video mate. Remember reading about this crash, but to have some of the other details RE the ejection near to where I live, was very interesting. Great video. Liked.

I was 5 and off school at Wingate Infants that day.

I was 10 and in school in Hartlepool 5 miles away and felt the impact, it was all very exciting.

*THE BIGGEST GUILT OF THIS TRAGEDY WAS THE CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC. COMPLETELY IGNORED THE WARNINGS THAT THERE WERE ICEBERGS IN THE AREA. HE ORDERED THEM TO CONTINUE THE JOURNEY AT FULL STEAM. THEY DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO PREVENT THIS FROM ALL HAPPENING. EDWARD SMITH HAD MORE THAN ENOUGH AUTONOMY. THEREFORE, HE ASSUMED THE BLAME ARBITRARILY. SHOULD HAVE BEEN TRIAL AND CONVICTED F*UED AT 400 MILLION DOLLARS.*

Tactical what weapons? Anyway i was in Hartlepool coming out of school at the time it happened directly overhead

Rule Britannia from Glasgow 👍🇬🇧💙😎👊

Im going to see one of the only two flying Lancasters tomorrow

"This is where we hold them! This where WE fight! This is where THEY die!" "Earn these shields, boys!"

I was nine and remember watching the plane fly over my school, with a huge orange flame coming out the back i told a teacher whom said it was the engines and not a fire. Watched this for the first time and realised this was it.

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I visited the bielefeld viaduct in 1983 whilst based in detmold germany with the british Army the gisitveas inspired by an RAF air clues magazine showing the earthquake bob descending from a lsncaster over the beilefeld viaduct you could tell thecdamage of the bomb from the size of the circular lake durrounding three modern srchways built from concrete with thevremainder of the bridge being built from red brick it was quite an impressive level of destruction the kind of thing you really wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end be on the receiving end of!

Nancy Pelosi told Bien he can’t win and showed him polls. Joe said to her those weren’t the polls he saw.lol

I was 9 years old when I saw this plane fly past, thick black smoke billowing from the wing. I was in the school playground of Dene House Junior School in Peterlee. Never heard anything about it afterwards. so over the years, although I remember seeing it I had come to the decision that maybe I had imagined it. Now finally after all these years I know what happened to it. Thank you for an excellent explanation of such an awful event.

Too many references to Scotland and Scottish do you not know your geography, also calling the forth bridge specifically the rail bridge is illogical as it was the only one there. Scottish Borders, Scotland only has one border, so it's just the Borders.

My father was a a voluntary firefighter during the war. He was on duty the day it happened. He had nightmares the rest of his life -waking up shouting "they are knocking, they are knocking" It came from when they started digging for survivors from underneath the rubble of the school. They started digging but the rubble collapsed - and no more knocking.

I need to ask my father about this incident. He too was a Phantom driver at the time, but flying for the USAF out of Ramstein.

my adopted home is County Durham - lovely to hear a friendly accent - excellently researched and presented video

The Forth rail bridge was the target, the Germans never got near it. One of their bombs landed in Lochgelly but luckily never exploded. Go find out how far Lochgelly is from the bridge.

One of my Federation Dreadnoughts on Star Trek Online is named U.S.S. Barham in honor of that ship and crew.

We british show the Germans that war could be brought to Germans shore two but to be honest we british should of stay out of ww2 we had no need to get involved I much rather of us going to war with France then Germany cart stand the French 🤮

Excellent account of a unique air incident...RIP to those Australian heros.and the many others who fought for the Mother Country.

Thanks for that, very interesting video very informative….ONLY SPOILT BY THE GREEDY BASTARDS AT CZcams WITH THEIR ADVERTS

Narration by Paddy O'Neil from County Claire, Ireland is just precious.

Thanks for a fine video with unusually outstanding photography. The picture of the live firing of the rocket powered ejection seat deserves an oscar. I doubt it will ever be equaled let alone surpassed. RAF, best in the world.

One of the best multi roll aircraft ever made. 👍👍

I was serving at RAF Laarbruch at the time ( subsequently the venue for the following court martial) They were very lucky that the downed jet came down between a fuel storage facility and an electrical supply station 😮 The consequence of this “mistake “ could have been disastrous.

Wallies bombs did three things One bounced skipped over the water one hit and exploded outwould the grand sam One the nmearthquake penoitrate deep and explodded deep in the earth

RAF practiced thgeir Dam attacks on Derwenmt vally Resivoir being a close likeness to the german ones of the time. German specilists were advised to [place bararge ballons about their dams yet did not heed the advice

Barns Wallies Bomb casing were made in Sheffield River don works rightside lane. Workers worked up to the moment German aircraft started bombing along them river mdon railway in to the city center Fires furnaces had flaps on top of the chimmneys City centerm was hit and Brightside ralway and hoines near by

I was at RAF Wildenrath at the time.

Mosquito caused havoc at night attacking enemy aircraft trying to land and whatever else they could blast. Then bug out.

Embarrassment. Bombs exploding as background music as fattie babbles..

I was in the pigs bar (bell and hornet) when some of the phantom lads turned up with the damaged front fairing and a piper leading them.lynn (barmaid)pulled the shutters down just in time as the 14 sqd boys went nuts.the bagpipes were in bits.those were the days.

Salute to my Grand Pops Able Seaman Douglas W.Ralphs who jumped overboard and survived. He passed in 2007 ! He gives his personal account in the book & on the HMS Barham Association website.

The 4th Rambo movie sees Rambo detonate a legacy WWII Earthquake bomb via setting a booby trap... 😅

I think the Phantom was a bit pissed off because Bruggen was theirs up until roughly 1975/6 when the Jags took their place! 😄

A tragic story well told! (Takes me back to the '70's trying to pick up a Victor 'chute from the end of Finningley's runway - VERY hot and VERY heavy!)

I love the F-106. thank you for this story.

I'm from Belgium and saw the F-15's screaming over our heads. Never saw an F-15 before. Belgium has F-16's right. I was on my way to France and just made a pitstop on rhe highway. To learn like an hour or so later that 'a jet' had crashed on a farm.

Why oh why are these brave young men not celebrated more. Every day we enjoy freedoms thanks to their bravery and sacrifice. Thank you.

I had given up my flying in this 'job' for H.P. shortly before this sad incident occurred. I later met John Tank, who I had known well. Too sad for the others.

that 360 roll took my breath away!

great account and detail thank you

The sdtupidity of war 2 months later we were having to rebuild the viaduct.

I was on 92 Sqn what you say in your transcript is not quite true, I was a FLM on the day of the incident working out of the HAZ next door