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

  1. 4:57 it wasn't yet the Republic of Ireland in name in 1945, it was still a Dominion. The crown was formally cast off in 1949.
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  2. That's true though.
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  3. I hope he has a tombstone with the inscription 'Here lies a total git.'. Excellent story, as ever.
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  4. Sikorski's death was ever so convenient for the British government as it avoided the embarrassing truth about Katyn and our Soviet allies being discussed. I have been to his memorial in Gibraltar. There was a Polish chap there when I visited it too.
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  5. When Mark is looking for facts and is in a hole, he just keeps digging. An American Home Guard unit.
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  6. All those flights over the years from what is now John Lennon Airport - Imagine, all the people.
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  7. He did bounce...at the end of a rope.
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  8. Imagine a Schrage Musik German fighter flying underneath to fire upwards and coming in range of the down-blast.
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  9. 'supposedly bomb-proof U-boat pens' cue: Barnes Wallis' Tallboys.
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  10. Nothing to apologise for, what a favour she did us, even if by accident.
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  11. Well, the Commies had a Rolls-Royce jet engine in their jets, sold with the permission of the UK's Labour government.
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  12. He was there, with his cine camera. He is a Time Lord.
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  13. I can't help think of Jason and the Argonauts and those sword-fighting skeletons when I see the Corinth Canal. Bet they'd've put up a fight against the Fallschirmjaeger.
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  14. 'News of this robbery would seriously damage the image of the British Army' As if Operation Keelhaul handing 2,000,000 over to Stalin, including thousands of non-Soviets wasn't bad enough.
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  15. A bunch of bat crazy cranks, with an entire country subordinated to their every whim, and the proud Generals of the Reichswehr/Wehrmacht cringing and scraping before them.
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  16. 0:22 Not the best camo of WW2.
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  17. 'Cecilia, you're breaking my heart' sang Keiji.
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  18. The most shocking point was the autopsy revealing that 'Himmler's are rather similar'.
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  19. His auto-biography gets to a point where I read two 'suicide missions' per page, then it tails off to one per page. I had the immense honour of meeting him and hearing him talk about his experiences, beyond jaw-dropping.
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  20. All that goose-stepping in Berlin stopped when the East German army was disbanded, saw them in summer 1990.
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  21. Hitler: 'I will interfere best with my Generals' plans'. Himmler: 'Halten Sie an meinen Bier'.
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  22. Mark only made this vid to show that he could pronounce the capital of Chad, for which he gets an Iron Cross 1st Class.
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  23. There seems to be a theme in the US Army of rather more 'petty' dishonesty (ok looting) that seems acceptable in the aftermath of WW2.
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  24. So that we could enjoy this amazing story on this video.
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  25. Lesson from this: Be careful what you wish for.
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  26. After the German surrender, Eric Brown, a Royal Navy pilot, managed to get permission to a test flight in a captured 163 with the help of the then PoW German crew. Even in peace, it was incredibly risky. If the dolly bounced too high on release, it could hit the 163 and detonate the fuel, and if there was any residual fuel, the shock of landing could produce an explosion.
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  27. At the Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire, WW2 fighters are regarded as terribly new-fangled.
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  28. Could have ended very badly. Strictly, West German military weren't allowed in West Berlin as it was under 4-Power occupation, all the Powers patrolled daily (notionally) checking for enemy (i.e. German) forces. The Bundeswehr could not conscript West Berliners or West Germans living in West Berlin, hence draft-dodgers moved to West Berlin. Luckily, these two pilots weren't interned till the end of the Occupation in 1990 or even 1991 when the legal rights of the 4 Powers were renounced.
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  29. Saw one at Shuttleworth, it literally hovered in the wind and drifted sideways along the crowd line, amazing sight.
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  30. Part of Sir Tom Sopwith's companies' fantastic stable of steeds, right up to the Hawker Siddley Harriers.
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  31. I've heard a rumour that in June 1982 a USAF Hercules landed at Rio at some ungodly hour, disgorging a team of technicians who scurried back on with a 'firework' and promptly left.
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  32. Perhaps the second type should be called a 'Martin Baker'?
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  33. He was a Volksalligator.
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  34. No truth in the rumour that Romanian officials, seeing the drone heading for Hungary, cracked open some fizz and forgot to tell their neighbours.
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  35. Macher was the probably the one person in the Reich hoping that the RAF would 'drop by' and unwittingly lend a hand with his demolition efforts.
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  36. 3:30 seeing that gentleman shoot the Lee Enfield, I was reminded of reports that in WW1, German troops reporting facing machine gun fire when in fact they had faced groups of well-drilled Tommies firing Lee Enfields very rapidly.
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  37. Song for this incident 'Fuel if you think it's over'.
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  38. The Czechs were entirely subordinate to the Soviets, this was formalised under the Warsaw Pact, when a Deputy Defence Minister of the USSR had authority over all Warsaw Pact forces. @dewittbourchier7169 
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  39. And Ulbricht's heirs have now made it to the Netherlands, having a go at their farmers.
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  40. They came from the sea as the ferry from the mainland was too expensive.
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  41. There was a beer advert for Stella, saying that it was 'reassuringly expensive', guess those guys weren't.
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  42. Plus Tito and Enver Hoxha?
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  43. There is a saying in Portuguese 'Ir a Roma e não ver o Papa' "Go to Rome and not see the Pope" which means to fail in one's mission. You didn't.
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  44. We could thank Colonel Tibbetts and his crew for that.
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  45. First time the Soviets ran a prison that wasn't overcrowded.
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  46. Those unreliable engines and transmissions were later to inspire many models at British Leyland.
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  47. A member of the public told Mrs Thatcher in mid-March 1982 that the Argies were planning something, and she brushed it off. The 1977 operation should have led to a firm assault on the Southern Thule base, and its destruction, to send a message to the Argies and indirectly, the Soviets. There was plenty of indication of Argentine aggression, as with their abortive assault on Chile in December 1978, Operación Soberania, called off around 6 hours before the assault began. And those poor penguins.
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  48. Rather like the West Germans starting off with the Federal Border Police (Bundesgrenzschutz) force which was the precursor to the Bundeswehr.
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  49. Delighted to hear that he is still with us.
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  50. Also Slartibartfast got an award for the Norwegian coast, it's in the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.
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