Comments by "Uhtred" (@uhtred7860) on "Absolute Mad Lads - The Nightmare POW, Charles Hazlitt Upham" video.

  1. My best friend in primary school was called Crete, He was a Maori whose father called him this to honour the men from the Maori Battalian who fought and died on Crete.
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  2. Theres been a few comments by Kiwis saying "i didn't know about this guy till just now" and it honestly blows me away. We were taught about one of our greatest war heros in school in the 70s and 80s, i guess they stopped that, maybe some karen complained that it wasn't PC. :-))
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  3. Yep 100% agree. A true Kiwi legend.
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  4. The whole reason the German Afrika Corp was there was to help the Italians. The Italians had been soundly beaten by the Anzacs and British in Libya in 1940. Although Italy at this stage had been on a war footing for five years, fighting various poorly armed colonial enemies, the Italian army was clearly not ready to fight a modern war, technical skills and experianced leaders in the Army was lacking and the ability of the the officer corp was inadequate. Manpower was plentiful but equipment was not It was a series of serious defeats and huge amount of ground taken by the allies that made A H send the Afrika Corp to save his buddy Mussolinis arse in N Africa. The Exact same thing had occurred in Greece, Mussolini wanted some glory, invaded Greece and his army wasnt up to the task, so Germany got involved, leading to the battle of Crete.
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  5. FINALLY!! ive been asking for you to do this local boy from the start of Mad Lads. :-)))
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  6.  @tedcrilly46  The germans didnt jump with their weapons like the Allies Paratroops did, their weapons were dropped in a capsule or pod and had to be retrieved after landing. This could cause problems. The German paratroopers lost so many men Adolf refused to use them in drops again in large numbers. (Just read someone elses post about the same thing :-))
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  7.  rian marky  Pulling off Hill 107 was the big mistake.
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  8.  rian marky  Yeah the top leadership on Crete wasn't exactly inspiring stuff.
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  9. WHAT!!?? Omg, hes a LEGEND in NZ. Can't believe you haven't heard of him.
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  10.  @carlmanvers5009  The "shooting incident" ??
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