Comments by "EdMcF1" (@EdMcF1) on "Mark Felton Productions" channel.

  1. I thought I saw a Russian bomber flying up the Thames one hot summer's day. It turned out to be an optical Ilyushin.
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  2. The British Foreign Office maintained that the Germans were responsible for Katyn until... 1989! An utter disgrace.
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  3. So the Swedes wanted to see what had become of their iron ore.
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  4. The Axis also had a plan to turn Detroit to ruins, it was to sit back and wait 70 years.
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  5. There are around 55 villages in England called the 'Thankful Villages' where no one was killed serving in WW1, and a very few lost no one in WW1 or WW2. I have read that there are NO villages in France where no one was killed serving in WW1.
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  6. On Southend Pier once, I thought I saw a Russian bomber flying up the Thames estuary, but it turned out to be an optical Ilyushin.
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  7. Not to be confused with Bundt cake.
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  8. 6 foot 4" scarface, not chosen for his ability to blend in to the background...
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  9. Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, the purpose of our defence policy is not to defend Britain, it is to make people think Britain is defended". Jim Hacker 'Who, the Russians?" Sir H 'No, not the Russians, the British. The Russians know it's not defended!'.
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  10. I read that the Hungarian Regnent Admiral Horthy's son was rolled-up into a carpet and carried out of the palace he was in. It sounds like a Pink Panther film plot.
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  11. Trying to imagine how gutted those GIs were to find Schnapps crates... full of books.
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  12. When Patton and his men turned up, and with Zhukov in the other direction, and Mussolini became a piece of performance art, Himmler's thoughts turned to peace.
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  13. Goering clearly won the Battle of the Buffet.
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  14. The plots against Hitler are almost a ghastly pre-parody of Wile E. Coyote pursuing the Road Runner.
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  15. Make a film of this: 'Teufel! Teufel! Teufel!'.
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  16. Shhh! Still classified.
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  17. This was feared to be the start of the Pferd World War.
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  18. A desperate battle with the Soviets to the finish, a massive rant from Adolf, confusion and failed efforts, and a hairdresser, this could be a prequel to Downfall.
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  19. They use the old weapons to make it fairer when Bolivia invades.
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  20. There was some damage from the incident, a cyclist on the bridge tore his trousers as he reacted (not a messy situation btw). The gallant Flt-Lt offered to pay for the damage, but the cyclist declined.
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  21. First thought, those Werewolf plans for resistance after occupation were pretty thorough. Second thought, a battleship is a bit harder to hide under a car park than Richard III.
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  22. The proximity fuze still astonishes me today, how they could make something so small not destroyed by being fired and that could detonate so quickly given the need for a detonating mechanism and avoiding false positives.
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  23. Kelly Holmes had a long British Army career, so she has a track record.
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  24. 'It's gonna be really great radar, the best."
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  25. It'd be a menu from a turning point in the Chinese civil war.
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  26. I read that in occupied Copenhagen a bookshop owner put two portraits in his shop window, one of Adolf and one of Benito. In-between the two portraits was a copy of Victor Hugo's novel, Les Misérables.
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  27. A taxying aircraft pulled by oxen, to save fuel. Ryanair eat your heart out!
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  28. Did they call their guard units 'the Swiss Watch'?
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  29. Captain Eric Brown RN (who was there) said of Reitsch that she was a wholly committed Nazi and was unrepentant right to the end of her life.
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  30. Went on a jeep safari in Fuerteventura with a random bunch of Germans in the early 90s, one of my fellow passengers was a former Bundeswehr tank driver who'd practised his tanker skills in Wales in the 80s.
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  31. Germany, saving the Allies the trouble of killing German pilots with a cunning DIY plan.
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  32. The late Captain Eric Brown RN, lecturing about his amazing life got to the Occupation Zones in Germany said something like 'The British got the North West, the Americans the South, the Soviets got the East and the French got... Who cares what the French got?'.
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  33. Italy has 3 micro-nations, one of which is now just an embassy, but it used to have an air force post WW2, the International Sovereign Military Order of Malta, at 68 Via Condotti, Rome. They flagged the Italian post-war air force.
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  34. Dr Felton asked the King if he could discuss this and the reply he got was 'I'm all ears'.
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  35. Turns out that the SAS weren't as suited to South Georgia's glaciers as Shackleton and his crew.
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  36. The Finns also had the swastika as a positive symbol, it was used in the Finnish Air Force even after WW2.
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  37. Solzhenitsyn remarked (iirc) that the (murderous) Gestapo for the whole of occupied Europe, had 40,000 staff, which was roughly the number of NKVD operatives in a major Soviet city..
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  38. We won't ask what he did.
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  39. I read the title summary, and clicked 'like' before the music ended. None can condemn me.
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  40. What were the adjusted tyre pressures for Goering's car when he was in it?
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  41. Sounds like 'Hold meine bier, Tommy'.
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  42. There is a special layer of horror and disgust that a nation as great as Germany was taken over and moulded to the will of a bunch of vicious freaks and weirdos, and no one could do anything once they got into power.
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  43. A guy at my secondary school made a replica Sten gun in metalwork class, we were amazed but looking back that was exactly what the design was about.
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  44. 'Hans,... are we the bad guys?' (Mitchell and Webb sketch)
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  45. D-Day: the ultimate wedding crashing!
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  46. Poor blighters, absolutely no hope. They fought against evil at every point, RIP all. Prague survived the Nazis thanks to them, remember that all.
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  47. I read reports of German U-boat crews landing in remote Welsh coastal villages in monolingual Welsh-speaking areas in WW1, and sometimes going into pubs and drinking with the locals, who not speaking English couldn't tell Germans from English crews.
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  48. Have to wonder why she was allowed into Britain after the war given her position. Did she ever go to Bolivia for dental treatment?
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  49. Von Ribbentrop;s son died recently. He fought right through the war, wounded many times, he got an obit in the Telegraph.
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  50. There's probably one on eBay these days.
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