Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "Mark Felton Productions" channel.

  1. We certainly are fatter than our grandparents and great-great grandparents - this is very hard to deny when one sees people getting around with guts that arrive somewhere 1 minute before they do.
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  2. Sadly there was an incident in the Iraq War where British armoured vehicles of the Blues and Royals were attacked by two US aircraft from the 190th Fighter Squadron whose pilots didn't see or understand the recognition symbols on the top of the vehicles. What I find incredible is that there are Americans on social media who even today still blame the British troops for the incident.
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  3. Hmmm ... I prefer the current situation where Dr Felton has editorial control over his choice of subjects and his content. Once you accept the master's coin, you become their puppet ...
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  4.  Guy Incognito  Indeed. "Gaul to survive" would've been the situation had they overshot Scotland and landed in France.
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  5.  @roberthudson1959  That was back then. What about from Vietnam onwards?
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  6. Imagine being a fly on the wall during that conference.
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  7.  @joemama.556  My grandfather lied about his age to get enlisted. He didn't like the Army though, and left as soon as they started demobilising at the end of the war. I've seen a letter from his CO asking the authorities if he has deserted or just gone home like a lot of others, LOL.
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  8.  @uio890138  Saying the Nazis were Socialist due to that word being in their party's full name is like saying the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (a.k.a. North Korea) is a democracy because it has the word "Democratic" in it. Don't fall for the old "But it's in the name, so it must be true" trick! PS: don't believe everything your government (including any President, Republican or Democrat) tells you ...
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  9. I've been told that you can't be sloppy with steam by an elderly friend of mine who started out as an apprentice mechanic in the railways. He told me about a particular articulated locomotive type (Beyer-Garratt) which required a fine touch in maintenance. One of these went out of the shop one day after major overhaul, and a few days later it was back - the crews said it "ran like a dog, and even that's insulting to dogs". The mechanics went over it with a fine-tooth comb and found something (can't remember what, but it was some form of duct/pipe associated with the stack) was out of alignment by 1/4". They re-aligned whatever it was and that fixed the problem. Amazing that the equivalent of about 6mm of misalignment could cause a noticeable degradation in performance.
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  10. @topher nolastname There was a bit of whitewashing Soviet deeds and painting the Germans responsible. For example, it was thought for years that the Germans were responsible for the Katyn massacre. I know people of Polish descent who told me that 20 years ago. Since then the truth has become more widely known - it was the USSR all along.
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  11. And the History Channel version will be: "Did Mark Felton use Die Glocke to travel back in time to interview top Nazis?"
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  12.  @wayneantoniazzi2706  That's the same for Hadrian's Wall - after the Romans departed, over the centuries the locals used the wall materials for building stone fences, churches, etc. Historical artefacts can be preserved only if a civilisation has sufficient resources not to need to recycle said artefacts.
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  13.  @thesteelrodent1796  You beat me to it. There's the risk of a place like this becoming a shrine for the neo-nazis - that would be enough to drive some people towards wanting the building levelled.
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  14.  @raymondtonns2521  These people probably never recover mentally from their wartime experiences.
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  15. So called "Secure VPN" will be quite crackable when the quantum computer arrives. Then we'll see The Great Scurrying-For-Cover as people frantically try to hide their digital pasts, LOL!
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  16. You need to keep an eye on the democracy in which you live ... otherwise you get the situation you have now.
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  17.  @beebop9808  And he was Queen Elizabeth II's first prime minister.
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  18.  @muskokamike127  🤣 One of my primary school teachers used to read a book to us for 20 minutes each day. This was to get the class interested in reading - it was a tactic that worked. Each book would take a few weeks to get through. One of those books was Heyerdahl's story of the Kon-Tiki, and I found it absolutely fascinating. I read the book many years later and found it even more so, as I could see the story through more experienced eyes.
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  19.  Jason Voorhees  Who on Earth is Hetler? Were they associated with Hummler, Gearing, and Birmann?
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  20.  @RagingBulCorp  WARNING: TROLL FEEDING PROHIBITED. :-)
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  21.  @SnoopReddogg  Banka Island. The Japanese made them march into the sea and then machine-gunned them from the beach. Vivian Bullwinkle was the sole survivor. She was a LtCol by the time she left the Army.
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  22. I wonder if Radar O'Reilly served in the last few months of WW2 in the Burma campaign - maybe that's where he tuned his ears?
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  23. It really surprises me that someone can doubt that this mine existed. The Germans even built plastic mines for the same reason, but they're more difficult to produce because plastic uses oil as a feedstock and Germany was struggling to get every drop of oil it could. What is it with people on YouTube these days? These mines are documented in books written well before our modern, Internet-fuelled "Age Of The Conspiracy Theory"; so they're not something someone has just dreamed up to get "Likes".
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  24.  @FarbrorBaku  That's a fascinating story about your grandfather ... so much more intriguing than just applying for a visa and boarding an aeroplane. Thanks very much for posting!
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  25. A bit off-topic, but I read a fascinating story about shipwrecked mariners once. A guy who grew up in New Zealand at the beginning of the 20th century went to sail training, and one of the jobs of the training ship was to sail to NZ's sub-Antarctic islands once each year. The crew of boys would repaint the beacons, reload the emergency supply caches, and most importantly look for any shipwreck survivors or retrieve any evidence of survivors having made it ashore.
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  26.  @johnwright291  "I'm not a conspiracy theory nut" 😂😂😂
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  27. Possibly the Matilda tank may have made a difference in that theatre. But I suspect there was a level of incompetence at various levels in the Empire and Commonwealth forces at the beginning of the war, and sadly (for the troops involved) the only way to remedy that was for those people to make mistakes and either get zapped, captured, or sacked. It's likely that if we'd had Matilda tanks they probably would've been used poorly (if at all) and captured intact for use by the Japanese.
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  28. And yet he lost, as his toys had been taken away from him by the time he died.
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  29. They could've applied the same logic as their Marine and Navy brethren were using in the Pacific to (mostly) good effect - bypass the strongpoints and cut their supply lines. There were Japanese forces left stranded on islands who barely had enough physical strength to surrender by August 1945.
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  30.  @Gamble661  Those kids should have been rewarded for their enterprising spirit in getting the tank going again. :)
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  31. German soldiers in WW2 called their version of the Bazooka the "Stovepipe" (the German word for "stovepipe", that is). In my experience in dealing with military equipment, most users don't call the equipment by its proper name or designation. But they all know what's being referred to when someone mentions a piece of equipment's nickname.
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  32.  @glen.simpson  Excuses, excuses. Why can't you make a video on this subject - who is stopping you? If you can disprove what Dr. Felton says, why not enlighten all of us? Scared of it?
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  33.  @peterkerr4019  Torpedoed despite having hospital ship markings and lit up at night. (The Japanese submarine commander responsible was convicted of war crimes for firing on the survivors of another ship.) The wreck of the AHS Centaur was found in 2009.
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  34. It reminds me of that scene in Das Boot where the submarine is cruising on the surface at night and the officers are relaxing in the wardroom. One of the officers makes a comment about their youngest member (who serves as a training cadre to those who'll listen) as their "Hitler Jugend member". The latter goes red in the face, and the captain orders him to play some music, specifically "The Tipperary song, if you please!" The whole crew sing along to that song, much to the disgust of the young officer.
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  35.  @Tuleyne  And then when they were ready to leave they ran into the icecream counter just before the exit. They had no chance!
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  36.  @CocoCrispy_  It looks like the muzzle break unscrewed off the barrel - at least they didn't need to brake it off ...
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  37. Our local conspiracy theorist claims he knows someone whose grandfather was involved in recovering a "Bell" from Germany at the end of the war, and translated German documents indicate it was developed by the Nazis in an attempt to get ahead of everyone else spraying chemtrails into the upper atmosphere. True story!
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  38.  @nematolvajkergetok5104  In Australia, I remember people saying they didn't hear about the Japanese bombing Darwin and other northern locations until after the war.
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  39. Fascinating video, thanks Mark. Japanese submarines also launched reconnaissance plane missions over Sydney, NSW, on the east coast of Australia, and did a bit of shelling, too. BTW, regarding the mysteries of WW2 - there are people today using PCs to decrypt German Enigma transmissions which were copied by the Allied intercept stations but never decrypted during or after WW2 (probably due to lack of resources, and being from low-level, not-so-important sources). So new information is emerging all the time.
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  40.  @Fair_dinkum  No, it's not the TARDIS. Dr. Felton has access to the real time machine: Die Glocke.
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  41. The Victoria Cross is fairly minimalist in appearance, but not so much in what it represents.
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  42. Those are terrible memories for a young boy or teenager to bear ... and not easily forgotten, either.
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  43.  @XxBloggs  In Australia, one of the airlines hired in someone from the USA who started a practice of thanking veterans for their service at the beginning of each flight. Clearly this person hadn't consulted anyone who had lived in Australia about this beforehand. The veterans didn't like it, their families didn't like it, the other passengers felt embarrassed for the veterans, and the airline cabin crew didn't like doing it. Thankfully the practice was dropped after it was reported in the media. But certain commentators living in the USA have reacted negatively to that decision - obviously they think their way of doing things is the only way of doing things ... and who gives a damn about what the local people think.
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  44. Sounds like life at a Special Camp in the Soviet Union ...
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  45. Watch the video ... Dr. Felton says it was designed to be the Tiger's nemesis - but the war ended before it could be deployed in combat.
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  46. I liked the pub at Stevenage: "Edward The Confessor", locally known as "Ted The Grass" ...
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  47. Well said. The Queen cannot seen to be declaring a political position, so as you say either every PM gets the Order or none of them get the Order.
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  48.  @daddust  There's a sales slogan: "The Only Rates in the Reich!"
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  49. Or they were widowed after their husbands "volunteered" for pioneering and dangerous missions?
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  50. The moustache is strong on this one ...
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