Comments by "Geordiedog" (@geordiedog1749) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

  1. There’s a great interview with a Luftwaffe navigator who spent most of the war in Scotland and Canada in a pow camps. He described being attacked by a Hurricane witha French tricolour mini flag. Next op he got shot up by a hurri with a Polish mini flag. Shortly afterwards he was shot down by a hurricane with a Czech flag. His comments about this state of affairs were understandable. Great vid. Never heard of this kite - which is exactly what I’m looking forward in this sort of channel.
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  2. “Well, with a name like Tiger Shark it’d better be good!!”
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  3. Winkle could land Concorde on a lifeboat.
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  4. Definition of the word ‘Ego’: That little bit of Argentinian in all of us. (South American humour:)
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  5. Reading Patrick Gibbs ‘Torpedo Leader’ it sounds like any torpedo attack, no matter what the aircraft utilised, was extremely hazardous.
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  6. Another aircraft I knew bugger all about. Cheers mate.
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  7. When I saw ‘Spitfire’ I did think “oh, ok. Going for the Yankee Dollar are we”.Yea of little etc etc. My bad:)
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  8. All the way through I was saying to myself... Martin Baker, Martin Baker.... why do I know that name??
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  9. Well done for this. Shows class mate! Being able to calmly reassess. Nice one.
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  10. The Middle East is to the early 21st century what the Balkans was to the early 20th century.
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  11. Very good point.
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  12. The BEF was the most mechanised military units in the world at the time. So they had a lot of kit to leave behind.
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  13. Well done, Ed - great video. I’d rather be doing somethings than sitting on my arse watching it unfold. I’ve been checking for any agencies looking for medical staff. If I find anything I’ll post it. I know a lot of medical trainee folk would like to do stuff rather than just seeing the suffering on a screen. (Time listen to 5:45 by ‘Gang of Four’). Anyway, well done again.
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  14. I would NOT have looked forward to landing that chin in a carrier deck heaving up and down!
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  15. Fascinating. Kill the messengers. While they’ve air in their lungs they can relay the info. But probably just plain murder.
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  16. I very nearly got all seven kinds of shite kicked out of me in an Irish bar in Chicago for mentioning that the IRA stated “a United Ireland under a Marxist government” as a goal. Despite being quite sympathetic to Irish republicanism and very well read on the history I found that impressions and facts were quite some way apart in the opinions of the patrons of this establishment. Fortunately, I decided on the discretion/valour/run! tactic otherwise it may have ugly. Also, as a side note, can someone please do a piece on why the PIAT is a bandwagonesque maligned weapon?
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  17. Very clever. And very interesting. Cheers. One often unknown down side of the ‘back blast’ type launchers was that, in confined spaces, the sudden injection of expanding hot gas would increase the air pressure in the area to the extent that it could cause severe injury to the launcher crew - usually ear and brain injuries. PIAT anyone?
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  18. That’s very true and a really fucking long sentence. Do you have gills?:)
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  19. It would be nice to hear just once that we didn’t tuck up the indigenous people we ‘used’ once hostilities/war was over.
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  20. Great work Ed. Your enthusiasm comes through on your narrative and is infectious!
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  21. Had it made it into combat the gun camera footage would have been brutal. Great vid again Edd.
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  22. Italy in WW2 is a very nuanced subject. Well equipped and motivated units did well.
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  23.  @benholroyd5221  lol:) Brexit is a joke. And that’s it. (Probably regret mentioning the ‘B’ word now:)
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  24. Mr Nash. I owe you an apology. I had penned you in the wrong pigeon hole. While I’ve loved your work genuinely I’ve though of it as the usual type of ‘superficial’ overview of the world. This has shown me wrong. Well done. And all done on this video. Although it has scared the living shite out of m, it’s very very well presented scripted and thoughtful. Good man!
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  25. It sounds like ‘combat’ saw the Avro Manchester.
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  26. The Hurricane was a terrible aircraft to ditch in due to its air intake under its belly as this would flip the plane arse over tit which was bad. Very bad. Fulmars where better as they had longer range and much more ammo but were very heavy and had a crew of two. Plus the FAA needed its Fulmars. Much maligned aircraft the Fulmar. Most successful FAA fighter of the war. True dat...
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  27. “Soft Launch” - one reason why PIATs were such great weapons back in the day…..innit. Great job Ed.
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  28.  @petersouthernboy6327  … and age maybe. It’s certainly making me less reliable.
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  29. I worked on a ward where the consultant and the senior nurse where from the opposite sides of the Argentine political spectrum. It was a bit tense sometimes.
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  30. There were a couple of exceptions to the large cannon in the nose theory. Airocobra comes to mind.
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  31. I’m sure they’ve missed the boat. They could have found the Messi had an English grandparent 15 years ago and we’d have let them have anything they wanted.
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  32. KIA - not a great name for a military unit.
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  33. ........ and so it begins. Uzi nine mm anyone?
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  34. I spoke with a geezer at a festival in Oxfordshire who said that his step father had flown WW’s and they had been trying to get the go ahead for ‘intruder missions’ (his term) during the B of B. They wanted to follow the bombers back to their aerodromes and hit them as they landed. However, the brass “fucked about too much” ( his words again) and by the time it was green lighted the battle had essentially ended. The only other thing I’d heard was the WWs were being looked at by the FAA. They wanted a navalised version but got bogged down with whether to have an extra crewman or not.
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  35. Excellent work, comrade.
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  36. Chilling …… that someone should invent such cobblers. To quote Carl ‘Hail’ Sagan “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. Nice one, though. :)
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  37. “Dove”…….”Dove”!!!!!! Told you this would happen!!
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  38. Explosive bolts on the rear prop for emergency exits.
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  39. Every time I see i Mirage I think ‘Saturday mornings and ‘The Aeronauts’’. (Showing my age or what?).
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  40.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  that’s great. My father in law was in the Black Watch as a loader in a Bazooka (super) team. His instructor said he’d have rather had a PIAT - bear in mind this is the 1950’s. The reason he said was that shooting a bazooka had such a large WDS weapon discharge signature (I made that up:) that you would be instantly counter batteried. Also you could fire a PIAT from inside a room or bunker. Firing a rocket from an enclosed space caused such sudden increase in air pressure due to expanding exhaust gas that it could kill or at least deafen. Then there’s the whole setting stuff on fire thing. I think there’s a good tale of a typical British military death cult type guy at Arnhem who took out a load of Tigers by firing his PIAT from upstairs and roof tops. I get miffed about this topic because of the lazy and bandwagon history. Every report was just a rehash of a previous report etc and non had an actual source. Yes it kicked like a bastard and yes it didn’t always cycle but actually it was ok and as mentioned had some very useful advantages over rocket projectiles. Rant over, ta.
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  41.  @smellysam  Vety Italian, then! I had an Italian motorbike once. Beautiful, Powerful and fast. And no fecking use at all if it was damp or cold.
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  42. Great work Edwardo. Your narration is so good now. Very pro, mate. Well done etc etc :)
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  43. What a beast. Convair next? Incidentally, I was reading a book about the atom bomb development and I found that the B29 had so many teething issues that there was a contingency for RAF Lancasters to drop the Bombs. In fact, it was only politics that pushed the B52s into the final attack as it was thought it wouldn’t be ready in time.
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  44. Great vid, matey - Very informative. SAAB say don’t cash the check until payday:) One of the things the (much maligned) PIAT was good for was firing from enclosed spaces. The rapid expansion of gases in a confined space can deafen and concuss or even kill the user. Then there’s the whole burny burny thing. Also, pretty sure the price is gonna be well below the Javlin $$$$$
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  45. Russia failed to take the Ukraine so I don’t think Europe has much to worry about.
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  46. Can anyone confirm the existence of a British gull winged naval interceptor plan circa 1940? I’m sure I saw one recently on a video but I can’t remember where). It was basically a very close copy of the Spit but heavily navalised.
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  47. Bloody crabs made a bollocks of WW2. Glad the FAA got shot of them!:) Great video. Needs more unconditional love for the Fulmar, though. ( Fullies v German LBF ratio of kill:loss was 1:1 although the cohort is tiny weeny).
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  48. I think Ive seen these before a lot but I just thought them to be Wimpies. Nice touch at the end. A few hours in a tiny dingy in the North Sea and the sight of a Warwick would be very, very welcome. I think I read somewhere that the Beaufort and mossie squadrons attacking Norway would regularly have the Warwick crews over for a thank you bash. Anyone confirm this?
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  49.  @Mini13Mini  Well, if they dropped me a boat in the middle of Dogger Bank while I was in nowt but my Mae West I’d certainly buy them a pint of ten.
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  50. Training ?.?
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  51. I wonder what they did with my granddads motorbike. He put sand in the tank.
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  52. The days of the conventional soldier really are fast becoming a thing of the past.
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  53.  @thekinginyellow1744  That’s because it’s like the most badly represented bit of kit ever! Primary source info on them is really very positive. The ‘haters’ are generally just following a sheep or are Werhaboos spouting the usual cobblers. PIATs had lots of great advantages over rocket prop. kit. ‘King in Yellow’ is a great handle, by the way!:) I love that whole thing from the originals to TD season 1.
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  54. I actually knew about this one. Football War was what I knew it as. Still, great to see it in more detail. Any clues as to the type of 20mm? Hispano or Oerlikons ?
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  55. “And here’s the Blackburn Blackburn flying over Blackburn by Wing Cmdr Blackburn and Flight Sgt Schwartzfuer. It has a new paint which gives off very dark smoke if it catches fire”.
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  56. Is that a Danish Madsen MMG in the pic near the beginning anyone know? It’s not a Bren.
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  57. Hmmmmm ….. should have waited ‘til the end.
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  58.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Aye. Just compiling a wee list of them in my head. Incidentally, have you read ‘Quartered Safe Out Here’?
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  59.  @anthonywilson4873  I thought that it was going to be a vid that was going for views rather than being of decent content. But I’m pleased to be wrong.
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  60. Nice one, Ed. I also heard (on Armoured Carriers’ channel) that the Grumman Martlet/Wildcat sold to the FAA was widely sabotaged at source, too.
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  61. What do you think took down the helicopter?
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  62.  @吴-o8s  Ah! Oh....
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  63. Another great video. Cheers.
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  64. Boooooooom.......er..........rang
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  65. A totally new one on me. Great stuff Ed!
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  66.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  I’ll check it out. Defo. Keep up the good work btw:)
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  67. It’s never aliens.
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  68. Is t one of these supposed to be haunted - the one up in the NE? I know the curator tells a good tale of how a visitor once proudly pointed to the holes in the tail plane and shouted “I did that!”
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  69.  @gort8203  I see. The book I read was saying that the ‘sensible thing’ was to go with the Lancaster option as too many issues were outstanding with the ‘29’s and the possibility that it might not be ready in time was real. However, some US brass felt that it absolutely must be a US only show (despite all the non us allied boffins involved) and insisted they go with the B-29 option and basically crossed fingers (and toes) that I’d be ready.
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  70. I had a motorbike in that category once.
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  71. Gas was the big fear. It was the atom bomb of the day.
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  72.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Armoired Carriers is the place to go. Can’t recommend his channel high enough. Nearly as good as yours, Ed:)
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  73.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Good point. In this case shot down the most enemy aircraft.
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  74. Ah. Finally a plane I have actually heard of:)
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  75. If it’s a ‘No’ to the main question then what’s the new ‘oldest plane to get a kill’?
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  76. Never knew there was such a thing!
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  77.  @greggstrasser88  yeah. Just jump in and start blasting away. Nee botha. :)
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  78.  @Verminator4  I’ve heard it said that armour is now too vulnerable. This does seem to bear out what you’re saying.
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  79. Geodesic is hard to say when shitfaced. Just saying…..
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  80. P39?
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  81. Oh my Gawd!! What the actual fuck is that???? All of them?
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  82. Interesting if the Soviet Air Forces had adopted this type of approach rather than the ‘big heavy powerful’. I kinda T34 of the jets. Great vid. Again. Getting boring saying “great vid” every time . Why not do something shite for a change?:)
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  83. Nice work. Very interesting.
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  84. Funny old company, Fairey. They managed to make some absolutely woeful planes as well as some corkers. Like most companies really only Fairey had good planes by accident. Great vid…. again. Keep in up Sgt. :)
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  85.  @johnreep263  That’s a good point. One of my favourite planes ever is actually the Fulmar. Not sure why. Probably to do with Pedestal. Most likely it’s because Fulmars were long and slow and outdated but strangely effective when it came down to it. So I guess they remind me of myself:)
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  86.  @johnreep263  Wings used to fall off apparently! Otherwise I totally agree! Pretty kites!
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  87.  @johnreep263  Yeah, they aren’t ugly kites at all. Bit boxy, maybe but I like them. I think they were rushed into service. If you look at the death rates amongst test pilots for the time you get a feel for just how rushed things were.
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  88.  @thekinginyellow1744  I think it stems from some shit show on the History Channel (nuff said ) which slagged it off. Their ‘experts’ were just wheeled out and told to speak about something for 30 secs even if they hadn’t a clue and they were big headed enough to do just that. “Morons! Fucking morons everywhere!”
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  89.  @garwhittaker3743  Sure you can. Roll and brace the foot rests. Straighten (with gritted teeth) Actually easier to do lying down if the mechanism doesn’t reload the spring after firing.
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  90.  @mebsrea  oh I don’t know. Our ones seemed to jam a fair bit as well. But cheers for that. Very helpful:)
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  91.  @LukeBunyip  Promotion! Wonderful, thank you.
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  92. Ah ha. I was wondering if you were going to mention the Germany incident. Next time? Coolio:) Well done, once again. Cheers:)
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  93.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  Ok so here’s a thought .... so sometimes war and killing harden and empty a person out do it becomes blasé to them - I’m sure you’ve personally come across this - so maybe AI might avoid this? ‘Clutching at straws’ or ‘onto something’?
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  94.  @Bravohalo  yes absolutely. But they also won’t play football with people heads after they killed them to zero their gun like a patient of mine told me his unit had done. I think I’m probably just clutching at straws really, though. It’s just so scary. The ‘Great Filter’ and all that stuff.......the technological singularity may happen in my lifetime, very likely in my kids, and after that no one knows what the fuck will happen (which is what ‘singularity means of course:) It’s not a Sci Fi anymore. Is this the answers the Fermi Paradox. (Gawd strewth! - I do sound very tin foil hat today:)
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  95.  @johnladuke6475  yeah, landing with your feet off the floor!:)
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  96. Well, I think he’s way more genuine that most.
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  97. Some quite notable historians argue that WW2 ran from the Franco Prussian war to the fall of the Berlin Wall (WW1 being circa 1776). This definition of WW2 includes all conflicts of the period (pretty much).
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  98. Was that you on the drums, then? :)
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  99.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  I actually envy you being able to read that for the first time. I only mention it as it’s often cited in historical books about Burma campaign. Japans heaviest defeat of the war.
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  100.  @MrSensible2  very true, alas.
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  101. My God!!
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  102. I just thought of a good project/next video ! Seaplane related! Or rather flying boat related as it’s about a Short Sund#%*!nd. One of them shot down a load of JU88 over the bay of Biscay. Food dtrting place us the Wikipedia Short Sund#%^*nd page. Just an idea but I reckon you’d do a very decent job (as always).
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  103. Congrats. But remember, you get that many subs ‘cos you are doing a good job.
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  104. There’s a version that lands on Stilettos so it can land in the Bigg Market.
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  105. Just watch…….. it’ll be side walks and elevators next!
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  106. Would have done a better job than the Avro Ansen in ASW duties at the start of the war. Much longer range.
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  107.  @jameslawrie3807  Totally agree. I always ask when in a discussion about the Italians in WW2 “would you have fought for Mussolini?” I think the long noses had German engines if memory serves.
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  108. Good work Ed. You’ve actually got my head out of Max Hastings ‘Operation Pedestal’ which is a great as I needed to get a New Red Pencil anyway as my last one has worn out! Great stuff. Do you think the ‘state of the art’ pre-war was for rifle caliber guns or .50/20mm weapons?
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  109.  @swenhtet2861  ah! I see. They would certainly do the trick.
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  110. So, basically, it’s all Eric ‘Winkle’ Browns fault, then?
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  111. Reading history about the Mediterranean war you’ll see refs to the type come up time and time again.
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  112. Is it tough? It’s canard!! (Ok ok I’m going…)
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  113. …..Tis a cool name!
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  114. Are they both Shia?
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  115. @original king julien ~ that made me actually LoL.
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  116. I’m not going to able to sleep now.
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  117. Nothing wrong with Fairy Fulmars. Excellent planes.
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  118. What’s they craft shown just before the X craft? Looks lush!
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  119. Bearing in mind that you couldn’t have both, how would the ‘Blitzkrieg’ have gone if the Luftwaffe had gone for strategic bombing and not tactical operations? Great video, though, Ed. Nice one:)
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  120. Defence wise it’s very similar to what he Kondor would later sport.
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  121. The answer to the question in the title is ‘Yes’.
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  122. Great work again mate! Very interesting.
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  123. Gotta start somewhere, innit!
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  124. Thanks for saying “Dornier” and not “Dorn-nee-Ayr”
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  125. Great video ………… again.
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  126. Ah. The fine art of being wrong!
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  127. They’d have been massacred by AA. Let alone if a fighter came along.
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  128. Great work Ed.
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  129. So, Blackburn went bust in 5he end? Can’t think why?
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  130. Great stuff Ed. War winning machines.
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  131. Poor Applecores. Nice to see your defence. I noticed the planned TB for the Graff Zeppelin looked very similar to the Applecores. Fiesler something? You have a video I think.
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  132. I thought that, too. Italian air engines were generally thought of as very poor. Certainly by the start of the war they were.
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  133. In this day and age you’d think someone would have upgraded the puller-pusher concept with jet engines!, What? Eh!……oh
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  134. Great work. Happy Saturnalia, Ed:)
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  135. Ed - have you been actively working on your delivery or have you just got more confident and comfortable? It is really very good these days, mate!
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  136.  @gort8203  People seem so keen to take anything as a personal affront to their patriotism. As I clearly said - I’m quoting from a book I read. However, the possibility that some anti- Anglo sentiment effected somebody somewhere judgement isn’t “ridiculous”. Ask any Martlet pilot in the FAA.
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  137.  @eugenemurray2940  Really!! Now I didn’t know that - nice one:)!
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  138.  @eugenemurray2940  oh bloody Feltam is getting to big for his boots these days! Apart from the fact he’s about as tall as a milk bottle, bless. He does decent stuff though - tbh:)
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  139. Would sprung decks have been effectively bomb proof?
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  140. Coastal Command wanted to use them for ASW but were told no chance as they were too few and too valuable. CC ended up using Ansons which were really too short ranged for he job. To carry depth charges the Bombay would need a bigger…………… Bomb bay!! Gettit? I’ll get me coat…
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  141. Ah! I thought it was. Cheers.
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  142. Was that a Hecate .50?
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  143. Looks a bit like one. Mind a lot of the BFGs look the same now.
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  144. It’s got an Airocobra look about it.
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  145. Great work - very interesting.
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  146. Great work, Ed. Take the wings off the 42db and the Machi and they’re very similar looking.
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  147.  @mikepette4422  The fact that something good actually came out of the Fairey Battle airframe is remarkable in itself. I think naval radar direction helped massively and the fact the observer could handle that aspect in the early days was another big plus. You get some hateful comments from folks with Top Trump type arguments who’ve not actually read a grown up book about aviation. But you can dismiss the easy enough. They just see stats and not what they actually mean/meant in the real world. I really like Fulmars. They were big and clumsy but strangely effective. Reminds me of myself. :)
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  148.  @vaclav_fejt  oh yeah. Totally.
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  149. It’s……. It’s got a face on it!
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  150. Nice one edd
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  151. So did Carter’s plan fail cos of USSR or ‘cos of France?
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  152.  @neiloflongbeck5705  I was referring to the specific issue of the fighter arms race. The failure of Eagle Claw etc are the reasons he lost etc. I think he did ok in some areas but his rep went with the Iran debacle.
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  153.  @neiloflongbeck5705  I see. Cheers for that. Carter did it!
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