059 - It’s Raining Bombs, Keep Calm and Carry On - Life During the Blitz - WW2 - October 12 1940
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- The Blitz continues while Chinese Communists are fighting Chinese Nationalist in China. But the mass bombing of civilian targets does not really do what it is supposed to.
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Hey China! If the war you are fighting against the Japanese is a stalemate maybe it might be a good idea to not attack each other.
Will you make episode about Croatia in WW2 ?
Cool to see that. I remember checking out aa website from like 20+ years ago where it listed major events for each day for the entire duration of WW2. As a history and WW2 buff, it was a really cool thing to see. I wonder if it's still around...
@@marinanguish9928: It's the other guys' fault!
German high command: 'Destroying their homes will break them!'
British person: 'Yeah but can I bring Mr Nibbles into the shelter?'
Barnes Wallis: You know, that 10 tons a day figure is really easy to do if you have a 10-ton bomb...
@@JustSomeCanuck
*Grand Slam bomb intensifies*
'Huh, another Wallis bouncing ideas around eh? - at least this one doesn't paint half his face blue, what?'
'Er, yes Minister . . . biscuit?'
@JustSomeCanuck
*americans doing something crazy in the future intensifies*
@@JustSomeCanuck 🤯
The battle of "He Sed - Xi Sed"
What are the Nationals going to do if you attack them unexpectedly ?
Su Yu
What king did Mao help elect? Nan king
Punmanship on point! 😀
Sum Dum Phuc
Brilliant.
"Do I have to pay rent if my house is destroyed?" Is a very British thing to ask I wonder what the answer was hoping it's no
IIRC a law was passed to address it as some landlords were still charging rent anyway
hahaahh !!!!
'I would't worry about it since my bank's been blown up...'
U can buy a house for 99 years then the property goes backs to England...is this communist or not?
Stayros Paparunas Similar to China. They have the exact same policy, it’s just a little shorter (either 30, 50, or 70 years; I can’t remember exactly)
I remember the blitz. I was 6 but my memory is still vivid. I never saw any panic. Stoical seemed to be the order of the day. The only moaning I heard was about the inconvenience of it all. There was a determination to overcome any of these raids with the thought that we would get revenge. AND WE DID.
It is an honor to have viewers who have actually experienced these harsh times. Thank you for your comment, John, and for telling your story.
Us kids never thought of it as harsh. I lived in Hampstead and we used to watch the Battle of Britain from parliament hill. This was just before the blitz. It seemed like a huge adventure. We used to have Aircraft Recognition books so we were able to recognise all the aeroplanes German as well as British. Parliament hill overlooked the whole of London so we saw everything.
crazy to think the queen was there aswell and still is today. pretty amazing
@@chozer1about that
German troops enter Romania? Hmm, a tremor in the Force tells me that this will have unforeseen consequences elsewhere...
Nah, you are just getting paranoid, Germany is just caring for romania
Good thing Yugoslavia is neutral.
All the romanians here knowing stuff while I as a non romanian dont even care.
@@belisarius6949 Nobody here is Romanian 😁
@@VladTevez Then what are thee? And how does thou know of this happenings?
3:30 Actually his theories were tested out: in Spain. Bombing civilians didn't make them amenable to defeat. Ground forces were decisive in that war.
That is one of the problems at bombing civilians it just makes them mad, and actually hardens resolve to keep fighting. It still takes boots on the ground to secure physical territory.
@@WorldWarTwo It kind of sounds like the "bomb them to the stone age" strategy. At least to me, it resembles the (flawed) American military strategy during the Vietnam War: bomb, destroy, but not occupy with ground troops. The nazis couldn't do it in Britain because of the weather, the Royal Navy, etc., but the Americans?
@@ArdanArianis I believe the issue was that the US didn't want to risk China going in to defend North Vietnam, so the most they could do was bomb it. After all if China went to war that would put the US at risk of nuclear war. Especially if the USSR followed China
@@mini2239 Also the US goal (Nixon) was to "bomb them to the peace talks" which it did, but like all politically driven BS, as soon as they came to the table the bombing stopped. If it would have continued things may have come about differently...maybe...possibly. If I remember correctly, the CCP and 3CP1 had already had their falling out
Populist of course the North Vietnamese knew we were not going to invade and the Japanese knew we were. We quite literally had millions of troops getting ready to invade Japan and had the ships to do it.
I can't wait for my Invasion Of Greece.I think it's gonna be great.
Yeah, that dream of recreating the Roman Empire will surely work.
Coat of Arms intensifies
@@mikhaelserrano7944 ah, I see a man of true culture!
Soon.
Please don't poison their water supplies with Marinara.
That picture of Hitler leaning out the train towards Mussolini cracks me up. Mussolini looks like a fussy mother saying, "Are you sure you brought your packed lunch?"
It looks like an animated and not entirely friendly discussion.
My mum was 18 when the Blitz started where she lived and worked less than a mile from St. Paul's cathedral said the constant bombing at night became a pain but you adapted to it and just got on with what you had to do each day. This changed when the V1 and V2's started coming over as this she said was "looking over your shoulder fear".
@Wehosrm Think That's quite an amazing history your family had. Thanks for sharing her memories from the Blitz, we're very glad you're here with us to explore this terrible war. Never forget
Bomber captain: alright just checking on who made this idea
High command: Oh this Italian general named Giuilo Douhet
back in 1921
Bomber Captain: Ok I guess but I have a feeling it won’t work 🤷♂️
Well that’s like if we would use tactics from 2001...
so I don’t think it was too outdated
Well that’s like if we would use tactics from 2001...
so I don’t think it was too outdated
@@tyler1107 russia was gonna collapse sooner or later the war made it sooner
I'm glad we're seeing more of the Chinese front. It's such an under represented area for most accounts of the war
Also Hong Kong number 1 China number 4
I think you're missing some digits mate
@@ToastytheG 4 sounds like death in Chinese, so 4 is widely considered unlucky and avoided
ToastytheG Nah bro there’s like Taiwan number 2 and Macau number 3
@@RTSG_Prism Begone, tankie.
@@phil_cassidy It's not about being a tankie you idiot, it's about bullshit US sponsored color revolutions. My Arab friends tell me the same thing about 2011's fake revolutions and how the US backed them, where conditions were far worse in the aftermath, while great countries like Syria and Libya were absolutely ruined. I myself come from a country that has been ruined by 40 years of US sanctions that block even basic human needs like medicine; I come from Iran. Don't get me wrong, I do not like China at all. The Chinese themselves are turning into America 2.0 stealing 70% of Iranian oil profits, and doing economic imperialism across the third world and militaristic imperialism in the South China Sea. But I will defend their actions in Hong Kong since they have shown total restraint. If this was America, police would have beaten down the protestors into a bloody pulp, have we all forgotten Ferguson just a few years back? The fact that the movement is completely backed by foreign governments is why I think it is a bullshit movement just like the 2011 bullshit protests in countries like Libya. If this was a grassroots movement like the protests going on in Ecuador right now, I support them, but these Hong Kong protestors are all a bunch of Uncle Tom's waving the British flag. Fuck them.
Begins at 11:02 on grandfather clock, ends at 11:20. Took only 18 minutes to record 12 excellent minutes of content. These are real professionals and we are witnessing history being made in how to present history.
Thank you for that.
‘Remarkably small in proportion to the considerable effort expended’ - quite possible the most British thing I’ve ever heard, i can see why the British have the stereotype for understating.
My grand mother who live in Paris said me one day.
''We know when is RAF or USAF bombing et night because RAF fliging lower than USAF , of course they have more casualties''. I never forget the tone of her voice.
Indy, you forgot to mention the events of Operation Medium which occurred on the night of October 10-11. It was a raid on Cherbourg where HMS Revenge was ingeniously turned into a stealth battleship via a well timed air raid; it took a while for the German defenders to notice the large battleship methodically sinking invasion barges in the harbour.
I'm interested in the psychology behind the areas that have been bombed in Britain being less vocal about reprisal bombing. Was it more "I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy" or "This is actually hardening my will to continue the fight so bombing the enemy might do the same"? Has there been any work done on this topic?
How about "It's not very effective"?
unnefer001 From what my grandparents said- it hardened their will. The more they were bombed, the more they resolved to just keep calm, carry on, and let our boys finish the job overseas.
I think it made a lot of people who were affected want to leave the city or their countries altogether. I don't think they did this in large numbers until after the war had ended, though. Probably since they saw it as their patriotic duty to hold and see it through. But after the war is over, all bets are off...
Another factor to weigh is that those most affected by the bombing were the most involved in the aftermath and were kept very busy physically. Those unaffected by the bombing had time on their hands to be vociferous with the press.
@@Ray-wy4kq Or as the British put it, "its a bit of a bother, but we will just work around it"
Yeah, fighting in air over Britain didn't go so well. "Yeah, dropping bombs on civilian population wouldn't make it angry against the ones who bombed them, they'll be angry against their governments!"
It would probably work better combined with propaganda about british anti-air incompetence
I think it might have worked against an Italian government.
@@georgeeverette3912 it did work didn't it?
Depends who its being done to and what for, in the case of Germany, Japan being allied bombed, they only need be driven to consider, is the leader right?
Italian boi: creates 5 different directives for bombing
Bomber Harris: *why not all of them?*
Arhur "Anne Frank gets the gas, Dresdes gets the blast" Harris
Arthur "The Germans will only learn when they burn" Harris.
Do it again Bomber Harris!
Dresden was a justified target #HarrisDidNothingWrong
@@StickWithTrigger Are you trying to trigger someone?
The Germans bringing troops in Romania are probably going to escalate tensions further in the Balkans, especially the Italians and the Greeks. Seems to me though that this movement seems to be targeted more towards the East, where the Soviet Union is...
Good episode on the battle between the Nationalists and Communists in China, it is often sidelined or not mentioned compared to the many other major battles of the war. It is not good to see both Chinese sides fighting each other, especially when they are supposed to be united against the Japanese. This might have repercussions in the future...
That is absurd Germany, wouldn't open a second Front, when they can't even Beat britain. As if they make the Same mistake twice in a row;)
A Londoner walks out the door , sees bombs falling , sighs and pulls out his umbrella
The Czechoslovak Josef Frantisek, the highest-scoring foreign ace on the British side in the Battle of Britain, died in a plane crash on October 8, 1940 while returning from patrol.
We covered that in the day by day coverage on our Instagram.
@@Southsideindy I didn't know Instagram was back up as it seemed to go down sometime in May or June.
"The familiar images of workers and shoppers picking their way through debris" 4:41 and questions like "should animals be allowed in shelters" 4:58 reminds me of Lebanese Syrian War in 1989 just the same topics in Lebanon at that time. Keep up the great work of bringing WW2 alive !
Thanks for sharing and for your support!
Indy's phone conversations never disappoint! 😁
Neither does his concise summary of the week.
The inclusion of the Italian aerial bombing theorist was fascinating when combined the British Intelligence bomb damage assessment of German bombing efforts.
Thank you for all the hard work.
5:42. Calls to the Government demanding reprisal raids came from areas that have not been bombed. The reason for this could be because their telephones are still working.
Nice to see that you recognized how the works of Douhet were influential at the time, it's usually known only by Italian Air Force history enthusiasts
Curtis Lemay: "Oh boy! Will of the people? Why didn't I think of this?"
"Shure the Germans didn't try hard enough" Curtis Lemay, 1964 to 1968
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, born in 1926, was not only involved in WWII before it became a Hollywood epic, but was also there for the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
An interesting fact about the bombing of the UK was that the City of Leeds had very few raids and those that did occur caused very little damage. This seems strange as the City during the war had major engineering companies, armament companies, a clothing industry and was a major transport centre. After the war it was discovered that a large number of the planners in the Luftwaffe had actually lived in Leeds in the interwar years and that the Germans planned to use Leeds as a major administration centre after the invasion so they wanted to cause as little damage as possible. What is somewhat ironic is that the inventor of the Anderson air shelter used to protect people in bombing raids was invented by William Paterson who grew up and went to school in Leeds.
Nearby Hull was much harder hit.
The German occupation authorities in the Government General (un-annexed Poland) used Cracow as their centre rather than Warsaw, as it was much less heavily damaged.
@@kaczynskis5721 Sheffield was also heavily bombed. If the Germans could find Hull and Sheffield so easily Leeds would not have been a problem. What is also interesting is that a number of those German planners returned to Leeds and their homes after the war.
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Swindon was another big industrial town that managed to escape the worst of the bombing. Lucky for me, as my Grandfather grew up there during the war.
Amazing content again ww2 team, keep it up 👍
Indy, we also need technology snapshots. There was a lot happening here, for instance the Tube Alloys project in Britain was about to kick off (laid the theoretical to practical groundwork to build a nuke). By 1 year in, the weapons begin to change... what about jets? Very heavy bombs? etc etc. :) keep up the good work!
The British Nuclear programme began at the Rhydymwyn Chemical weapons plant near Mold, essentially the beginning of the "Manhattan" project, when of course the British programme was merged with the US programme.
You are doing a great job.... I loved the old THE GREAT WAR series, I love to binge watch it every time. Please continue with this series because even after reading and watching many documentaries about this topic, I always learn a looooot new in this videos. Greetings from Bolivia.
Rest In Peace your majesty.
On the 12th of October Mussolini is furious about the German military mission in Romania. Foreign minister Ciano reports these quotes from Mussolini on his diary (on the 12/10): “Hitler always faces me with a fait accompli. This time I am going to pay him back in his own coin. He will find out from the press that I have occupied Greece. In this way the equilibrium will be re-established" . From this day on, preparations for the campaign against Greece start.
This will not end well. Remember in "The Great Dictator" the thinly disguised Hitler and Mussolini characters are in barber's chairs alongside each other and each tries to get higher than the other. This is the real-life version. Of course the real-life version got people killed...
Indy I know what you mean. My sister had to carry me into the air raid shelter in 1940. Along with my brother's. But we survived and we are still going. And we will keep on going because we are a strong people.
I still can’t wait to see the beginning of operation Barbarossa, but that is still a year away from now.
I knew a pirate called barbarosa. Does this operation has to do anything with him?
😁
The name comes from the German King Friederich Barbarossa, I believe; not from the Ottoman Corsair Barbaros Hayrettin.
Operation WHAT ? Is this a movie ?
Operation Barbarossa has been mentioned in previous episodes... We just don't know if the Germans will be able to avoid Napoleon's fate.
@@georget8008 Barbarossa means Redbeard, I think it's just a nick name for both of these guys.
That bombing strategy is a great example of how sometimes a good strategy becomes less good when everybody knows what you're trying to do.
Su Yu ended up becoming a civil courts lawyer after the war
6:17 so that bad weather theorist i hoi4 mabey actually be worth something after all
hasn't that theorist always been solid?
Regarding night time air defense. May I recommend a minor post war movie called Light Up the Sky. The most famous name in the cast is probably a young Benny Hill, but the big name at the tie time was Ian Carmichael, who had actually been a tank officer in Normandy. The movie is how a understanding officer eventually shapes a mis fit searchlight unit into s functional part of the defense sstem. Films such as these are interesting beccause they show a little about how these units might have worked, though they do not seem to have had any coverage during the war. Alow budget comedy to be sure, but there were certainly plenty of search light beterans around to keep them reasonably close to reality.
Astrid, the glasses case you keep putting on Indy's desk every week is stunning.
Mark Felton: [makes a video about Hitler’s incestuous relationship with his niece]
Everyone: 0:00
Cybermat47 😂😂
Too good ha ha!
So, are animals allowed in shelters?
Whoa, man, will be there any new uploads soon?
Later on in the war, the Germans sometimes prevented Poles and forced labourers from the occupied USSR from using air raid shelters.
Screaming eagles only
"My Mom been allowed in shelter, so that mean animal also allowed, right?" said kid on 1940, before found dead killed by an Animal.
@@AdityoWN Nice one.
@Timeghost: You make my week. Every week.
Love listening to Indy. Ive been following this channel since finding The Great War series whilst it was running early on. This is yet another great series.
Thanks a lot! I'm happy you're here!
Thanks. I like this day to day coverage.
You all rock!
Indy, you were already amazing narrator/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, but you are actually getting even better at this! At the moment, I love TimeGhost videos so much, I wait a week or two just so I can go down the rabbit hole and enjoy them in a binge session lol
Thanks for your kind comment! It's much appreciated!
I just had this in my suggestions, what a brilliant idea! Reliving WWII as it happened! I love this channel! Subscribed!
Thanks a lot! Welcome to the channel!
And you can find the video on that topic here (Indy points)
The thumbnail ends up nicely centered over Indys face
Brilliant dose of humor
RAF Bomber Command dropped 964,644 tons of bombs on Europe between 39-45. The USAAF 8th Air Force added another 623,418 tons between 42-45.
Seems they don't just give up when you bomb them, but it is a real pain in the ass.
Churchill began civilian bombing in World War II.
Were the answers to those 'most asked' questions in the Daily Express published, by any chance? I can't be the only one who'd love to hear the answers
Thanks guys!
Any chance to have James Holland directly contribute to the show? Besides his acclaimed WW2 expertise the guy is just a great narrator.
It’s raining bombs! *dundun* hallelujah?...
The way the Brits had to hold up, every day to bombs. Just to smile, laugh, and keep supporting the war effort. Now naval action is starting to unfold again, and the only front that was getting anywhere is ripping itself apart. All at the same time, the segregation and slaughter grows official in France, creeping further and further around the world.
Another great installment. Please keep up the good work!
Thanks!
A song that first the events of this week really well is "London Can Take It" by Public Service Broadcasting
They basically make music out of old historical and propaganda films, really cool stuff.
Britain: Ask me questions, swipe up :)
British Citizens: Am I liable to pay rent for my destroyed house
Britain: ommmmgggg you’re so dryyy
NutritiousPie "rent for" not "rent to".
It seems a natural enough question - would you still have to pay rent on a property hit by a bomb, while you're living in a tent or in the London Underground?
@@kaczynskis5721 No house, no rent. after all you renting a home, not a crater. However do you pay taxes on the crater your property used to be on?
@@TheGM-20XX hopefully you can get it reassessed and only pay tax on the land.
@@TheGM-20XX No roof no rates on the land.
Oh my god, this video is actually monetised! Is youtube finally listening to the criticism?
oh wait nevermind
Dan Cooper f
Su Yu should definately be a lawyers name, not a general
Best channel ever man well done. Wish you could do roman history as well
5:39: damn, that’s interesting. Even while they were being put through hell, the Brits didn’t want their enemies to go through the same thing...
nearly 40,000 Chinese troops fight each other deep inside what is shown on the map as territory held by Japan. how could that area be considered Japanese controlled if that many enemy troops are present and supplied?
The area covered on the map doesn't really make sense for the Chinese front. The Japanese only ever really controlled the major cities, roads and railways (for the most part) and left the countryside alone, not by choice but because they couldn't control it. Hence you have 100,000s of Chinese guerrilla fighters fighting in "Japanese controlled" territory. It's hard to show this on a map though
@@lovablesnowman They encircled quite a lot of Kuomintang troops in pockets, but the mountainous terrain and the Japanese lack of tanks and troops meant these pockets were often not eliminated.
Congratulations on an excellent series, you must have put a lot of work into this. I am surprised you havent been approached by a terrestrial tv station to possibly broadcast it. Well done keep it up.
Thanks! We don't want to have it broadcast by TV (Exclusively). CZcams allows us to do whatever we want and reach everyone who wants to see it!
Su Yu...is that a perfect name for an ambulance-chasing lawyer, or what?
I really love the week by week concept. In movies and most documentaries they put major events in more often to be more exciting. But you don’t get a feel for how long between events. I can also get a feel for weather. Like when watching in summer I can be fairly certain it was hot during those events. I try to think what would I do if I didn’t know how the future was. Anyways great work and love the channel.
Thanks Robert!
Fantastic channel!
Thank you techno!
The Ajax was involved in trapping the Graf Spee that led to it being scuttled
WoW an add in the middle!
Really? That is not supposed to happen.
World War Two yes it happened. I will note time and add if it happens again.
Amazing episode, as always. Keep marching on, TimeGhost Army!
P.s.
For Indy's eyes only
Cape Passero is pronounced cape (ok, in Italian is Capo but that does not matter) paSSero. The two s have stronger stress upon them, like the "s" in "salt", PaSSe-ro, while the e is bit quicker on the tongue.
Also, it mean Cape Sparrow ^^
I am really excited about Greece! What about a special episode on Greece during WW2 considering governement, economy and army?
Based on previous videos on World War 1, we can expect a closeup on many nations on the buildup for war
I love this guy start whenever he talks on the phone
I kept staring at the clock in the upper right corner. If accurate, it took roughly 18 minutes to shoot this 12+ minute video. That's pretty damn good guys!
Naval Battle of Cape Passero this week shows that Italian Navy , best prepared service of Italian Armed Forces was at least trying to do something but at this stage they were complately outmatched by Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet in terms of sea going and naval combat training , experience and technology. British naval vessels were equipped with radar , smokeless powder and night vision equipment. Royal Navy had a very good cooperation with RAF whose recon flights delivered early warning to Royal Navy task forces. Italians had none of these. Royal Navy before and during war had always training exercises in open seas , Italians due to lack of fuel mostly kept their vessels at port. Next month though Italian Navy will experience a very sharp blow at its own naval base at home front with a novel way of warfare.
By late 1940 the British weren't outmatching the Italians in the naval engagements. Training was similar as was technology, experience was the only thing that the Italians lacked.
Also you mentioned things that the British didn't have in 1940; radar started to be equipped on British vessels only from March 1941, smokeless powder was used by anyone in WW2 since it was adopted by anyone since 1886, while night vision equipment wasn't used by the British in WW2.
The British recon aircrafts were most of the time from the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm not from the RAF. Also the Italians did have recon flights that helped their fleet.
The "Italians that kept their ships in port is a myth", Italy started lacking fuel only after 1938, before that naval exercises were common
@@thecommentaryking Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet was getting best in each engagement with Regia Marina though. In fact under command of Admiral Cunningham (one of the best naval leaders of the war) British ships when not escorting convoys (which took a considerable time and resource anyway) were actually seeking engagement with Italian ships while on Italian side there was active reluctence to engage with enemy , their priorty was convoy escort from Italy to Libya at least till 1942. In 1942 Italian Navy became more agressive in seeking combat against British especially against Malta Convoys but they did this in an insufficient piecemental way.
I believe Royal Navy vessels first time began to be equipped with ASVII surface and Type79 and Type 279 , Type 280 and Type 281 radars plus Precision Ranging Panels when war started in 1939-40.
I meant flashless powder not smokeless powder thank you for correcting that mistake.
And cooperation / coordination between Italian Air Force and Italian Navy were quite bad , on British side cooperation between RAF and Royal Navy was not smoothless either but much better compared to Italians whose aircraft accidently attacked friendly ships in Mediterranean quite a few times when they entered war. Most of recon info came from RN Fleet Air Arm as you said though.
Oil embergo on Italy after invasion of Abysinia cut sea going , training and excerise time of Italian Navy quite a bit though after 1937. Their light fleet units like destroyers , torpedoboats , submarines sortied and caused quite a havoc on Allied naval routes in Central Mediterranean but larger heavy naval units of Italian Navy like heavy cruisers or battleships rarely left port except some eventual piecemental sorties
@@merdiolu Yes, but in 1940 had none of the advantages you mentioned, that are anachronistic.
Also, no the British were not seeking engagement with Regia Marina's ships, just like the Italians they tried to not openly engage the enemy fleet. The Italian reluctance to engage with the British in naval battles started only after the Raid of Taranto, but they retreated only when the British aircraft carriers where near; the reluctance of engaging the whole Royal Navy's squadrons was after Matapan, but only if it was nighttime battles or during bad weather.
You are wrong about the British naval radars, their first use in naval battles was during the Battle of Cape Matapan in late March 1941 (type 271).
Then things are different on the powder. But still the Italians used flashless powder on all naval guns under the 203 mm, the British instead used it mainly on guns smaller than the 6" (even if some historians claim that the British didn't supply even their light forces with flashless powder)
Yes you are right the cooperation between Regia Aeronautica and Regia Marina.
That is false, battleships and heavy cruisers did indeed participate in many patrol and escort operations during WW2 and saw extensive use until late 1942 when due to the lack of fuel were kept in port
Bro I’m hyped af for this channel but gotta finish WW1 first on year 1916
Well, why does one exclude the other?
The real enemies are: Angel and Snake!
0:00 Essentially the beginning of troubles in Game of Thrones 🤣
There's a British urban legend that the Luftwaffe had orders to avoid bombing a part of Liverpool called West Derby because Hitler's sister (who had married a British sailor in the 1920s) lived there.
Indy & company, was the HMS Ajax the busiest British warship in the war? Seems like you've mentioned her a great many times so far....Any chance of an Ajax special?
Googled it. Wiki says a town in Canada was named after the ship, and it has streets named after the ships' crew members.
Exactly, watching this episode reminds me of a few episodes earlier wondering about why the mistakes made by Germany during the Battle of Britain you guys didn't go over more in depth. Maybe the biggest, a grand strategy for how air superiority would be achieved.. Knocking out the radar stations and airfields would have been crucial for Germany.. Luckily they were impatient
Great video as always - keep up the amazing work!
Minor niggle with pronunciation at 10:09: It's pronounced "Pássero" (with the stress on the "a") - passero means "sparrow" in Italian.
It turns out that bombing people's homes just pisses them off.
Hey Indy and team, I would find it very interesting if you created special episodes about best snipers in different theaters or about how different there these tactics in different battlegrounds? Weren't they a target of propaganda the same as the flying aces?
Some were, and once we have the research capacity to do this, we certainly will!
Thanks for the birthday gift 🎂❤️
Your every where
@@GoodGames. you're welcome
You're very welcome! Belated happy birthday!!
I’m surprised you haven’t brought up the Canadian psychiatrist, J. T. MacCurdy’s ‘The Structure of Morale’ when discussing the Blitz. I’m wondering if you’re going to do a special on the psychological impact of mass bombings?
Im still neutral.
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Romania ended up in a squeeze, on one side you had the third Riech that wanted your Oil, and on the other side the Soviet Union that wanted your souls. The lost of Freedom that would not return till 1989! And in 2019 Romania is a Fly Fishing destination for trout. And for some fans of a minor horror movie character! Oh, the Kurwa!
@@GeorgeSemel was better with germans,the german soldiers treat very well civilians and the soviets kill everyone and took all from the romaniansand took Basarabia.
România Countryball I would have picked the Germans over the Soviets in a heartbeat aswell tbf can’t blame Romania for that
@@romaniacountryball I know full well the nature of the Soviets, As for the German, well let's just say that of polish origins on both sides and one side Jewish- My opinions of the Third Riech might be a little biased. I admit that there was a little bit of humor to my post, I just love Poland/Country Ball.
I want to know more about that phone call in the beginning. I love the questions the British are asking. If they still have to pay if their house is destroyed and if their pets can come to the shelters too.
Happy to see the picture of the queen. Then and now Covid 19 lockdown.
God save the Queen
Beach Boy Which God are you talking to ?
After swimming hearing some history is a pleasure
Awesome
I had a commercial on this video. So you know. Good video! Thanks.
Thanks for informing us!
I am 13 and i still love all your videos
Thats awesome! Great to see you're already taking an interest in history!
German: Bomb London, it will break their will and bring victory.
British: No bomb will ever break our Will!
4 years later...
British: Bomb Berlin, it will break their will and bring victory.
German: No bomb will ever break our Will!
Japan: No bomb will break our will.
United States: Is this one big enough? Or should we try again?
Breaking morale by bombing random/scattered targets clearly didn't work, though maybe it's because they were fighting a major power. Maybe against a weaker opponent it would've worked? I think it would've been better to target their hangars, communication and radar, things would've fallen into place if air superiority were to be established.
The Germans forced the surrender of Utrecht by threatening to bomb it like they had done to Rotterdam, but this was in the context of a massive ground invasion.
Once again fantastic video. Loving the series. Great job guys
the best part about the title. The Keep Calm And Carry On posters where made but never put up. Since there was no need to put them up.
Still a pleasure to follow your weekly videos:)(from a baguette speaker)
Thanks a lot! We have someone translating every our videos into French every week. Spread the word! France deserves to know!
Haha thanks😄
What lavalier microphone do you use, if may I ask? And what camera + lense for this particular video? I'm really digging the quality of your videos!
Thanks in advance! :-)
Sennheiser remote fly mic captured on a zoom.
A Canon 8mm/35mm EF lens on a Canon C200 4K/Pro Res digital cinema camera.
We acquire in 4K but use 1080 so that we can shift between close and wide in the same shot.
@@WorldWarTwo That's some really expensive camera you got there! No wonder your videos look amazing ;-)
And thanks a lot for your reply! I appreciate it!
I am saying this without any WW2 or history in mind. The queen of England was very very good looking in her youth. Now she is just good looking for her age.
I am glad you give people a better understanding of the war and China and how difficult it is to find sources about it.
On youtube and popular (as opposed to scientific) history books portray the war in Asia often similarly clear cut as in Europe when in reality it was totally different and sources are conflicting and sadly modern politics make it even more complicated.
Millions of Chinese and Koreans supported the Japanese empire and many participated in their crimes against humanity. And yet, even the people fighting the Japanese empire and their collaborators fought among themselves and against the civilian population which were mere pawns in this war where everyone fought everyone with unclear goals, ideologies and objectives.
It was a clusterfuck and sources reflect that since contemporary sources are hard to access, conflicting or sometimes not available.
Even the so called three alls (sanko sakusen) Japan‘s biggest offensive against partisans and therefore terror against civilians, didnt have a name in Japan while Chinese came up with a Japanese name for it and the Japanese general in charge later became military advisor to the nationalist Chinese.