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My father was not far away at the time. He was a stoker onboard HMS Dorsetshire returning to Newcastle with the Bismarck survivors. Thank god the ship that Ludovic Kennedy was aboard, HMS Tartar, was accompanying Mashona, and able to pick up the survivors including your grandfather. Respects to their memories..
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I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the actual number of pilots from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent).
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@alanjm1234 Much the same as my own father did a year later in the (admittedly much warmer) Indian Ocean when Dorsetshire herself was sunk by Japanese dive bombers, he and 600 others clung to wreckage for 33 hours before their eventual rescue. All the best Alan.
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What a weird voting pattern you have there. P.S every year prvides a plethora of new books whose authors claim to have uncovered previously unseen information.... the vast majority of which is marketing BS.
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Not forgetting the 75% of Fighter Command pilots that were British born.
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They represented 7% of fighter command. By typing rubbish such as "yet were erased from British history" just shows you've NEVER attended a UK Remembrance day parade in your life where the Poles especially are ALWAYS honoured with wreaths & tributes, as well as being given FULL UK residency and citizenship rights as enshrined in the 1947 Polish resettlement act. Take your divisive, biased, uninformed nonsense somewhere else.
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While we're at it, lets also give thanks to the British who gave safe haven to the refugees of Europe, and paid for and supplied them with the tools that enabled their contribution to the allied war effort, and to the >80% British born Pilots of Fighter Command on whose shoulders they stood.
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@nynek13 The Poles were not some breed of "superior" pilot, they'd simply accrued more combat experience since Sept 1939, and as a result of their previous battles with the luftwaffe only the most succesful Polish pilots had made it to Great Britain, the less successful ones had already perished. As soon as the rest of the RAF pilots had gained more experience there was NO difference in skill levels, as is witnessed by the kill tallies at the end of WW2. Luckily for the Poles they were provided with world class fighter aircraft with world beating radar and defensive control systems courtesy of the RAF and the British taxpayer, rather than flying to their deaths in the likes of the PZL P.7. Though we Brits are nevertheless still appreciative of their contribution to our victory against the overconfident Luftwaffe, it must still be remembered that 75% of Fighter command pilots in the battle were of British birth.
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I await the day that the stuka in the Flying Heritage Combat and Armor Museum in Everett, Washington takes to the air again. Imagine it at an airshow, diving with its siren screaming. That would be COLOSSAL !!!!
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The Poles serving with the RAF during the battle of Britain had been filtered through months of combat so only the most successful made it to the UK, and those that did had more combat experience that any other fighter pilots in the RAF, so it would be a poor reflection in the Polish pilots if their experience plus some of the best fighter planes in the world didn't produce excellent results, for which we are grateful, as would be reasonably expected they were soon equalled in skill as the rest of the RAF pilots died or improved during the rest of the battle..
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As opposed to the 2100 who died on Bismarck... only a cnut would celebrate the waste of those lives. Grow up !!!
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Andrew Choong is ALWAYS worth listening to. I do like listening to experts who know their field, and can discuss and expand on a subject fluently using their innate knowledge of the subject, and not the current style of resorting to vacuous, token "talking heads" reciting a prepared script.
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Remember, there are OTHER fantasy movies available on netflix.
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Ordinary signalman Albert Edward Pryke Briggs 1923-2008 (Signalman serving on Hood's compass platform) Midshipman William James Dundas 1923-1965 (I was unable to locate William's post onboard) Able seaman Robert Edward "Lofty" Tilburn 1921-1995 (Gun crewman serving Hood's port 4in secondary guns)
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@sextoncardew903 If you don't want to be carpet bombed, then you shouldn't attempt to do it to others first, as at Guernica (1937) Weilun & Warsaw (1939) Rotterdam, London and 50 other British cities (1940-41). The first British air raid intentionally aimed at civilians was "operation Abigail" an attack on the German city of Mannheim on the night of 16-17th December 1940. This was as a direct reply to the German attack on the British city of Coventry on the night of 14th November 1940 (Operation moonlight sonata) where the Germans first attempted to create a "firestorm" on a civilian target by dropping first oil bombs, followed by incendiaries and then finishing off with 750 tons of high explosives.
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Another ignoramus. At the time of these events the USSR was supplying the nazis with MILLIONS of tons of raw materials, food and fuel, and there were NO Indian Army units defending Britain. Glad to have been of help educating you.
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Or indeed any death camps in the Cotswolds, Pennines or Scottish Highlands. P.S You are aware that Churchill held NO government office in the run up to WW2 aren't you? Yes.... of COURSE you are.
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@manuel.camelo Apart from the resources of South America, which the Spanish empire had completely pilfered while totally wiping out multple civilisations on that continent.
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Who has ever said the battle of Britain was fought entirely by British pilots? It was fought MOSTLY by British pilots with minority support from the commonwealth and some refugee European & other foreign pilots. I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the actual number of fighter pilots/aircrew from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent). It is however COMPLETELY true to say that Britain as a country DID stand alone against German aggression from July 1940 to April 1941, unless that is you can provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or Canada? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE.
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@zenekpipka4594 You were welcomed to our shores as refugees from your own defeated country, and your service personnel's contribution to our final victory was (contrary to popular misinformed opinion) rewarded with full UK residential and citizenship rights (for their families as well) as enshrined in UK law as the 1947 Polish Resettlement act. You're also ignorant, but welcome nonetheless.
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Barely a mention in comments regarding the ATROCIOUS leadership of the US 82nd Airborne. Who instead of carrying out its orders of seizing the Grave and Nijmegen bridges, instead, and without informing 1st Allied Airborne Army HQ decided to sit in the southern districts of Nijmegen watching out for imaginary Germans in the Groesbeek Heights, and flagrantly allowed German forces north of Nijmegen to seize the bridge and set up a defensive perimeter that allowed the Germans to hold up 30th Corp's advance for THREE WHOLE DAYS !!! Instead the braindead parrots cry "Monty.... Monty.... Monty!!!" SQUAWK SQUAWK !!!! Pieces of eight!!! Pieces of eight !!!!
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Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation subjected to ALL of those threats by the nazis between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. No need to thank me for unburdening you of your complete cluelessness.
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Is there any mention of the British forces involved? Or is it all supposed to just be Canadian and US?
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Why remember them especially? I prefer to remember ALL the squadrons.
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Here's some of Bismarck's "uber" design choices.... 1. Her incremental armour scheme and low horizontal "turtleback". Incremental armour (several layers of thinner armour above a "main armour" layer) the thinner armour was thick enough to activate shell fuses, but not thick enough to prevent the penetratation of even medium calibre shells, and her low turtleback while making her difficult to sink, saw all of her weapons and communications systems disabled within 30 minutes of her final battle. Most other battleship construction of the 1930s used the concept of an "all or nothing" armour scheme, where only the vital ship systems were protected, the rest of the superstructure being standard marine plating, which allowed the passage of a shell without activating its fuse. Witness HMS Prince of Wales at Denmark Strait, hit by multiple large calibre shells, none of which detonated, and all but two of which passed through the ship with only minimal damage. 2.Twin gunned main turrets, an outdated design choice which meant more turrets and their accompanying magazines required a greater weight of armour to protect them all, when more modern, more weight efficient thinking decreed triple and quadruple gunned turrets, thereby producing a greater weight of fire, from a smaller number of turrets & magazines with a much reduced weight of armour to protect them all. 3. Duplicated Secondary / anti-aircraft weapon systems that wasted a lot of weight for no added benefit, as opposed to the dual purpose secondary armament then becoming more common and more weight efficient in contemporary naval construction. 4. Triple propeller propulsion design which intrinsically reduced the amount of "off centre" propulsive power that could be used for steering with the engines by 33%, should she suffer the slim possibility of damage to her rudders (Well who knows? It might happen!!!). Look at the propulsion systems of many other major units, the majority have either 2 or 4 shafts powering them, both of which enable 100% of engine power off centre to increase the turning potential of the engines.
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And extermination camps would have operated in Europe FAR after 1945.
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To all those Brit haters, determined to undermine the achievements of the British empire during WW2, please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation being subject to all of those threats by the nazis between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. Also just to detail the commonwealth units in Britain in Sept 1940. By the time of the expected invasion in Sept 1940 the British army in the UK was fielding 2 British Armoured divisions 2 British Armoured brigades 15 British infantry divisions (full strength) 7 British infantry divisions (under strength). 7 British independent infantry Brigades 2 British independent motor machine gun Brigades 1 Canadian infantry division (full strength) 2 Australian infantry brigades (BOTH under strength) 1 NZ infantry "division" (actually a single understrength NZ infantry Brigade but with a British motor machine gun brigade attached to it) No need to thank me for unburdening you of your lack of knowledge on the subject.
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Just to detail the commonwealth units in Britain in Sept 1940. The 1st Canadian infantry Division (the full strength division that you mention) stationed south of London around the Leatherhead area in Surrey, the 2nd Canadian division at the time was a skeletal force whose poorly equipped subordinate units only started to arrive in Britain in late august 1940 and was in no condition for combat. Then there was the "2nd Australian Imperial Force" (Australforce) which though nominally comprised of 2 brigades (the 18th & 25th) actually only had the combined strength of a single 8000 man Brigade stationed outside Basingstoke, and finally the "2nd New Zealand Expeditionary force" a grand sounding title that hide the fact that it was comprised of solely the NZ 2nd infantry "division" which was again comprised of 2 understrength infantry Brigades (5th & 7th NZ Inf Brigades). Its two understrength brigades were bolstered by the addition of the BRITISH 1st motor machine gun brigade and was stationed near to Maidstone in Kent. By the time of the expected invasion in Sept 1940 the British army was fielding 2 British Armoured divisions (1st & 2nd Armoured) 2 British Armoured tank brigades (1st & 21st Armoured) 15 British infantry divisions (full strength) 7 British infantry divisions (under strength). 7 British independent infantry Brigades 2 British motor machine gun Brigades 1 Canadian infantry division (full strength) 2 Australian infantry brigades (under strength & unequipped) 1 NZ infantry "division" (actually 2 understrength infantry Brigades but with an attached British motor machine gun brigade) Glad to have been of help in unburdening you of your misunderstanding on the subject.
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Barely a mention in comments regarding the ATROCIOUS leadership of the US 82nd Airborne. Who instead of carrying out its orders of seizing the Grave and Nijmegen bridges, instead, and without informing 1st Allied Airborne Army HQ decided to sit in the southern districts of Nijmegen watching out for imaginary Germans in the Groesbeek Heights, and flagrantly allowed German forces north of Nijmegen to seize the bridge and set up a defensive perimeter that allowed the Germans to hold up 30th Corp's advance for THREE WHOLE DAYS !!! Instead the braindead parrots cry "Monty.... Monty.... Monty!!!" SQUAWK SQUAWK !!!! Pieces of eight!!! Pieces of eight !!!!
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You know what I do when I feel that about something? I go find something new and leave others to make their own choices.
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No it would have much preferred to have been left alone while it conquered the rest of Europe.
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@marcboschen5126 "They were able".... simple as that. No account taken of their infantry being wasted on crystal meth (pervitin), or the fact that the Germans were concerned that they had rest of France to conquer, or Goering's promise that he would stop it with his over hyped luftwaffe. There are multiple reasons why the Dunkirk evacuation couldn't be stopped.
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What do you suggest? Let the Germans sweep across Europe and enslave everyone else? Bell end.
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Think you'll find the founding father of the RAF was Hugh Trenchard. Smuts wrote a report that supported the idea of an independent air force. Trenchard made it happen.
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Well said Jorge... don't forget the ground crews and Observer Corps.
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So many IDIOT US commenters who don't know even the BASICS of WW2 histroy, and then expect to be listened to as "learned commenters". US soldiers might have been lambs to the slaughter on OMAHA beach for 1 day, the British and Canadians were lambs to the slaughter as they fought off the fresh German reinforcements arriving daily from the east for 2 MONTHS, as they acted as the "shield" for the US forces in the western beach heads.
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It's just a pity that virtually NONE of that enormous global empire had anything to do with the UK's survival during 1940. Unless you'd care to expand on your groundless diatribe and prove me wrong? I'll not wait for a response, windbags such as yourself almost always have no knowledge of the subject to back up their BS.
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Apart from the Romans, Vikings, Angles & Saxons, Normans, Spanish, French, and nazis that is.
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@kazmierzglinny6728 Get your facts straight Kazmierz, At the Yalta conference in February 1945 Stalin signed an agreement to hold free elections in Poland at the conclusion of WW2. Elections which would have seen the post "liberation" puppet Communist government voted out of office, and democracy rightfully restored to Poland. It was at the Potsdam conference in August 1945 when the war in Europe had concluded that Stalin when challenged about when the elections would be taking place, reneged on his Yalta agreement and effectively said to the western allies, "There will be no elections, What are you going to do about it"? What do you suggest the western allies (and not Britain alone as Poles suggest) could do to remove the 12.4 million strong Red army from central Europe? The British had actually prepared an outline for just such an eventuality named "operation unthinkable" which the US as junior (but far more powerful) partner of the western alliance vetoed, and short of launching a potentially nuclear WW3 in central Europe and costing the lives of several more million already war traumatised European casualties, what could be done? What would you have suggested Kazmierz?
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"we have never had such a plan" Meanwhile Hitler's "Fuhrer directive 16" issued on the 16th July 1940 to OKW stated: "Directive No. 16 -- On Preparations For A Landing Operation Against England Since England, in spite of her hopeless military situation, shows no signs of being ready to come to an understanding, I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and, if necessary, to carry it out. The aim of this operation will be to eliminate the English homeland as a base for the prosecution of the war against Germany and, if necessary, to occupy it completely."
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@ibrahimismail3107 "Nobody helped Germany?" Where do you imagine Germany got the raw materials food and fuel to power its all conquering "war machine"? You're not REALLY that dim that you believe Germany was self sufficient do you? Without it's own supply network (just as the British had theirs) the Wehrmacht would have stuggled to conquer even Poland alone just on bicycles without tyres.
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485 non British Pilots from a total of 1822 RAF fighter pilots during the Battle of Britain, or 26.53%
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@vstar7196 Considering the film makers credit the assistance of The MOD, RAF, IWM as well as Battle of Britain fighter association, I was happy to accept their figures. Figures obviously revised since 1969.
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You mean you're upset that the yanks were mauled by a "stomach division"?
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We ignore them... Our main effort should be to get that message across to the large proportion of younger people who now do their own history research online, seeing as state and private education now do their damndest to make sure it is all forgotten.
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@mazda1942 Poles were "shunned" were they? You'd best go and read about the 1947 Polish Resettlement act, which enshrined in UK law both citizenship AND residency rights for ALL Poles (and their families) who had served within the British armed forces during WW2. Stop parroting Brit hating lies.
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Respects to his memory and service. The lack of recognition given to the personnel who kept the USSR supplied until almost all of them had passed on was disgraceful. The UK govt repeatedly blocked the Soviet then Russian offers of awards of the "Ushakov medal" to RN sailors who had taken part in the Arctic convoys, it was only afer 2014 when again most of the veterans had passed on that the Russian awards were generally permitted.
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Nonsense as ever Mark.
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@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 Masks are fine if YOU CHOOSE to wear them. The ORDER to wear them is one little baby step down the road towards what our parents and grandparents were fighting against. Too many are too thick to see that.
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Wow... that's some BS you got in your head there Eric !!!
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Educate yourself more and you'll discover that Britain saved itself INSPITE of the US as much as it did BECAUSE of the US.
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@sextoncardew903 So the US / UK / French occupation of a broken and devastated post WW2 Europe was unnecessary? In the face of the untrustworthy monster of the Red Army steamroller? I too hate the current spreading hegemony of globalist directed "NATO" that that occupation has evolved into, but in 1945 it was a necessary action to check the further spread westward of the red tide which a vast majority of people would have hated even more.
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He obviously didn't take into account the 1947 UK Polish resettlement act, then did he?
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Clueless yank by any chance?
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That's your pension sorted then......
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You forgot to mention the single pilot who scored a full 30% of 303 squadron's TOTAL confirmed kill tally.... The CZECHOSLOVAKIAN ace Josef František.
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@thevillaaston7811 Everyone's allowed an opinion "aston".... even those with utterly NO idea of what they're taling about. YT comments are jam PACKED with them.
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Lucky? It was the RN's doctrine pre ww2, as Gary Player once said "the more I practice the luckier I get"... if you wanna discuss luck lets talk of Bismarck's hit on Hood's magazine.....
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@ocumstweezers Bat & dolphins use a SIMILAR principle with SOUND, and it wasn't "invented" at all. It evolved naturally without any conscious thought required.
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In what way better? Please expand your theory.
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While forgetting about the world's largest navy protecting the shores of the UK. (PS the destruction of the RAF was never imagined even by the Germans... the whole point was to get Fighter Command to retreat to airfields north of the River Thames).
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@pumelo1 What history is it that I need to learn? That Polish pilots represented 7% of fighter command during the battle of Britain, and that Britain, inspite of being unable to stop the invasion of your homeland, still went to war over it, and lost 450000 of its people as a result? And that being unable to liberate your country from the post war oppresion of the Soviets, gave full UK citizenship and residency rights to nearly 200000 Polish service personnel and their families after WW2? Oh!!! THAT history ...
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All unimportant. Does anyone apart from the English know how to pronounce Howick? It really doesn't matter.
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@sergiosolano6773 Please expand on your "correct version".
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Not forgetting that without us in the UK that the history of WW2 would have ended VERY badly indeed.
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cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!!
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Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom......... ALONE.
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And what do YOU believe? Maybe you could awaken the sleepers with your insightful perception?
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@swietymikolajbb For those who believe Poland was "excluded" from the 1946 "Victory Parade", here is what actually happened. Britain while it was organising her Victory Parade sent out invitations to the embassies of EACH AND EVERY nation who had fought as part of the British armed forces and her allies. The invite was for each country to send a "flag party" to represent their nation who would all march together providing a colourful spectacle similar to the opening of the olympic games, with the wind unfurling the large number of national flags. Two parties, the Yugoslavs and the USSR for whatever reason, turned down the invites out of hand, and Poland ALONE was unhappy with how the parade was to be organised, and pressed for a larger contingent from their country to mirror her national pride. It was though unfair that any one country should have a larger representation that any other, and with the date of the parade approaching and only Poland unhappy with the organisation of the parade, they effectively "took their bat and ball home" and THEY CHOSE to not attend.
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Because it wasn't particularly.
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@jamesberlo4298 Do please provide details, or is yours just another unfounded claim from another "wehraboo"?
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An amount proportional to the Polish contribution is included in the film. Though nothing about the other nationalities, but its 80% about Britain, just like Fighter command pilots.
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And they've never forgiven us for highlighting their own inadequacies ever since !!!
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Stop watching on a phone/tablet/TV. Watch on a computer with an adblocker installed. Bliss.
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1. Germany didn't have the shipbuilding capacity to build that many ships through the 1930s 2. If the the Germans had attempted it then Britain and France, who both had FAR more shipyards than Germany, would also have scaled up production.
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Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was Great Britain ALONE.
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@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- The first rule of the bullshitter, Susan (😉)..... "If at first you don't succeed, then deny ALL evidence that you ever attempted it in the first place".
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Or maybe because aliens from the planet bleep bloop blip organised it... Have you ever considered that?
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@billshun3963 Don't forget the US "Business community" supplied BOTH sides of the European war THROUGHOUT WW2.
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@andyholburn Have they stopped teaching written English in UK schools now? Damn those corporate globalists !!!!
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Remember "If at first you don't succeed deny that you ever attempted it in the first place". Nazis had their arses handed to them. Simple as.
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@sukhastings4200 Then the 14in shell from HMS Prince of Wales must have hit the other vulnerable spot.
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Aye, and on top of the lack of co-ordination with the heavy cruisers, with hindsight (and from the comfort of a cosy chair) there are a few other points that might have been considered by Holland. 1. Shadowing Bismarck until his screen of escorting destroyers which were racing back to the scene after having been dispatched to search northwards for Bismarck earlier during the night. 2. Placing the more heavily armoured PoW in the lead to attract the early fire. 3. Giving his 2 capital ships more latitude in manoeuvre, instead of following in battle line astern, which enabled the Germans to quickly switch target after Hood's destruction. But all that being said, Holland had managed an interception in poor conditions which resulted in the cancellation of "Exercise Rhine".
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Don't worry, when you grow up you'll realise what bad guys the Germans were.
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@sauravkundu5752 Ah so what you're actually saying is that India's indigenous rulers, the mughals and maharajas of the individual states actually sold their respective populations into the service of the British Empire for their own personal massive profit? Right that has made it much clearer, thank you.
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Top RAF "kill tallies" at the end of the battle of Britain. Eric Lock (English) - 21 confirmed kills. James Lacey (English) - 18 confirmed kills. Archie McKellar (Scottish) - 17.5 confirmed kills. Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed kills. Colin Gray (New Zealand) - 15.5 confirmed kills. Witold Urbanowicz (Poland) - 15 confirmed kills.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw The Nazis began bombings of other nation's towns in 1937 in Spain.... 1939 in Poland and the UK... and in 1940 in Holland, Belgium and France.
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BS. Without the UK the Soviet Union would have collapsed in 1942/43.
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We DID fight the war on our own.... for ELEVEN months.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 You forgot to mention the "Reverse Lend Lease" where the UK provided the US with 30% of the supplies that the US provided to the UK.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Probably not.... but its nice to nail the coffin shut tight on these clueless commenters.
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I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly foreign pilots". Below is a graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the ACTUAL number of aircrew from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. The figures are taken from the RAF records of the awards of the highly coveted "Battle of Britain clasp" to the British 1939-45 Campaign Star. Which was SCRUPULOUSLY only awarded to RAF & Fleet Air Arm aircrew who flew at least one active sortie in the UK in any RAF fighter aircraft between 10th July 1940 and 31st Oct 1940. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent).
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Damn !!! I was "late to the party" (a bit like the Americans) but you've saved me from having to wear my fingers to the bone responding. Though You did forget to mention how American businesses were busily profiteering from BOTH sides of the conflict while Britain faced off against the nazis. The US business community never let morals get in the way of a healthy profit. It still baffles me why us British still tend to believe there is some sort of "special relationship" between the US and UK!!! Ordinary citizens from both nations maybe, but between their respective governments / economies? No way.
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Your opinion Vs the world.
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CUCKOO !!! CUCKOO !!! Thank God Spring has arrived at LAST !!!
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@thebun2901 No Britain DID stand alone as a nation, that is unless you can provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how in 1940 the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or Britain's colonies in Africa? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE. The Commonwealth was in 1940 mostly a distant vocal supporter. The defence of the UK in 1940 was maintained by 95% British troops and citizens. It was another year or so before the commonwealth contribution in Europe REALLY began to kick in.
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Do you remember his name?
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Did the nazis only discover the German heritage of the British Royal family DURING the battle of Britain? If not then the only reason the Germans abandoned thier half baked invasion plan was because they'd had their arses handed to them by the RAF.
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And the complete nonsense goes on... and on.... and on.... and on....
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@mariuszkowalski6472 If you're aware of your own countries history, at the time of the victory parade in 1946 the west was still negotiating with the Soviet Union, the "liberators" of your country. The Soviets were wary of nationalism and at a very sensitive time, its not good tactics to upset the people you're trying to bargain with. As it turned out, the Soviets weren't playing ball with regards to democracy in their newly "liberated" east European "buffer states". So what could the west do? Start WW3 ? (with nukes!!!). The Brits that everyone is now taught to hate, did the only thing in their power to compensate the Poles, and gave FULL UK residency and citizenship rights to ALL Polish service personnel who had served in the British armed forces during WW2 together with their families. You can still read the "1947 Polish Resettlement Act" at the UK government website. Obviously not all Poles chose to accept the kind offer, and decided to return to Poland, but by all accounts, lived to regret it.
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@mariuszkowalski6472 I hope your grandfather managed to live his life as well as can be hoped through those tortured years in Poland Mariusz, Thank you for his service & All the best to you as well.
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I wonder what William Shirer had to say about the industrial grade network of extermination camps across eastern Europe?
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Luck has its part to play in ALL combatants efforts. Witness Bismarck's hit on HMS Hood.
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It must always be kept in mind that 75% of the Fighter Command pilots that turned the tide of nazism in Europe during the battle of Britain were British born.
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No, Britain WAS alone, that is unless you can provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the German army stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or Canada? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and May 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE.
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What you MEAN to say is that the British people were not entirely alone (nearly but not quite) at this early point in the war, the commonwealth was a distant mostly vocal supporter of the UK with VERY few actual troops in the British Isles. By the time of the expected invasion in Sept 1940 the British army in the UK was fielding 2 British Armoured divisions 2 British Armoured tank brigades 15 British infantry divisions (full strength) 7 British infantry divisions (under strength). 7 British independent infantry Brigades 2 British motor machine gun Brigades 1 Canadian infantry division (full strength) (plus some small under equipped subordinate units of a 2nd division) 1 NZ infantry "division" which was called the "2nd NZ Expeditionary Force" but which in reality was actually 2 understrength NZ infantry Brigades but with an attached British motor machine gun brigade. 2 Australian infantry brigades (both under strength & under equipped) In addition to these forces were the 1,500,000 million men of the British "Home Guard". As you can see, as well as being the ONLY country being threatened by nazism from July 1940 to May 1941, the defence of the UK was a +95% British affair at this early stage of the war. It was in the following years AFTER 1940 that the size of the British Commonwealth forces really started to grow.
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Large battleship guns ALWAYS used to cause a degree of damage to the firing ship. Imagine what the forward NINE 16" guns of the Nelson class class did to their mother ship !!! Even smaller guns could cause damage to their own ships when firing. When the RN's heavy cruiser HMS Suffolk's fired her forward 8" guns abaft at one point during the Bismarck saga they blew in her own bridge windows leaving the captain & bridge staff to deal with dreadful North Atlantic weather until she eventually returned to port for repairs. (Mind you HMS Suffolk was lucky.... HMS Norfolk who accompanied her still had a completely OPEN BRIDGE that the Royal Navy seemed to prefer (well at least the admirals sat in their warm offices back in Whitehall seemed to prefer !!!).
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Jeschonek, a self assured but ultimately weak planner who blew his own brains out when grim reality broke into his fantasy world.
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Could you please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing the FULL weight of the German Wehrmacht anf ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE.
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Do you believe the Saxons who died on Senlac Hill also died in vain? Just so modern day corporate globalists could flood the country with the brown tide?
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YOU FORGOT TO MENTION HOW WHEN THE SCHARNHORST AND GNEISENAU SANK THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS GLORIOUS AND HER TWO DESTROYER ESCORTS (HMS ACASTA & ARDENT) ON 8TH JUNE 1940 THEY REFUSED TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST RUDIMENTARY EFFORT TO RENDER ASSISTANCE TO 1500 DROWNING RN SAILORS, AND INSTEAD SAILED OFF LEAVING THEM ALL TO DROWN. THE RN HAD EVERY RIGHT TO ABANDON THE RESCUE OF BISMARCK SURVIVORS, SEEING AS THE NAZIS HAD DIRECTED U-BOATS TO THE AREA OF BISMARCK'S FINAL BATTLE. WHOOPS LOOKS LIKE MY "CAPS LOCK" BUTTON HAS STUCK. (No need to thank me for ridding you of your absolute cluelessness).
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Take a tip... if in doubt, don't comment... the chances are you'll sound REALLY stupid.
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Poor British? We won in BOTH cases !!!
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They needed those assets to COVER the vastness of the North Atlantic Ocean... all 41,000,000 sq miles of it, at a time when satellites and GPS were stories in science fiction books, radar was in its infancy and large areas of the oceans were not covered by aerial reconnaisance. Once stopped from running away from action, Bismarck was dispatched by just 2 battleships and cruisers.
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@MotosAndMachines BRITAIN ALONE was being assaulted by the might of the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1940. Canada as a commonwealth country supplied men and goods to support her, the US did almost utterly NOTHING without being paid. Don't try and portray it any other way. That is all fact.
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Prinz Oyghen
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Stress fractures caused by poorly designed hatch openings to the ships holds caused a fair percentage of the early liberty ships to break in two
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"Luftwaffe itself lost far more planes" (AND aircrew..... don't forget the more important aircrew they they kindly donated to our PoW camp jamboree)
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I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of mostly "Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧UK (2342) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (And just to preempt the idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the two pilots from the Caribbean were both of white British descent).
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"mental health outcome" BS didn't exist in them days. You got on with it.
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Yes and 303's highest scoring pilot (indeed he achieved a full 30% of 303's confired kills) was CZECHSLOVAKIAN pilot Josef František. Credit where credits due !!!
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Stop watching on your phone or TV and get a PC (or if you're that way inclined a mac) install an adblocker, and use the internet as it was originally intended to be used.
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I see Andrew the troll is enjoying a supervised trip out from the secure mental unit again.
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@Charlesputnam-bn9zy The VERY FIRST civilian terror bombing. Carried out by Germany on the 16th August 1914, when zeppelins bombed Liege in Belgium. They just LOVE dropping the stuff on others, but can't take it when it comes to visit them !!!!
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No... it actively ENCOURAGES them while simultaneously assuring the public it's doing all it can to halt the flood.
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They could always have stayed in Poland if they liked?
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@Warriorking.1963 Not with an ad-blocker install... just uninterrupted viewing pleasure for me.
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I remember back in the 1970s when walking through the city centre where I lived seeing lots of downtrodden middle and old aged men wearing "sandwich boards" proclaiming the "second coming"... "armageddon"..... and so such. It's another "blessing of the internet" that we can now be exposed to the same level of nonsense in the comfort of our own home.
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Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or Canada? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. P.S Ignore Mark... he lives in a parallel universe where the murderous nazis are the good guys.
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Well done !!! Looks like you've learned some English words, your next task is to put them in some order that actually constructs a sentence !!!
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If you're going to troll, make it a good one.
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Please tell us more Carlos !!!
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Dear oh dear... WRONG !!! Top RAF Fighter Command "kill tallies" during the battle of Britain. Flt Lt Eric Stanley Lock (English) - 21.5 confirmed kills. Sgt James Harry Lacey (English) - 18 confirmed kills. Flt Lt Archie Ashmore McKellar (Scottish) - 17.5 confirmed kills. Sgt Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed kills. Pilot Off Colin Falkland Gray (New Zealand) - 15.5 confirmed kills. Flt Lt Witold Urbanowicz (Poland) - 15 confirmed kills.
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Lancasters weren't in service at this point, and it was the world's then largest navy that the German invasion fleet with it's tiny escort would have had to contend with.
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The standard of some of the postings in this thread is really rather good. Well done.
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Maybe, just maybe, they're completely happy within their own skin. Who knows how YOU will look if you're lucky enough to reach old age.... quite possibly with a completely changed outlook on life, with enormous eyebrows, two small hedgerows growing out of your ears and 2 "shaving brushes" sticking out of your nostrils as well !!! hair stops growing where you want it to, and starts growing where its never grown before!!!
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Tirpitz's capt Karl Topp informed the German naval high command that Tirpitz's crew were not trained well enough for the ship to be considered "combat ready" (Tirpitz eventually became operational in January 1942), but the OKM had already decided that they needed a major success to stay relevant in the run up to "operation Barbarossa" and so decided to go ahead with "Exercise Rhine".
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Obviously you need to weight up what you read Paul, there is a HUGE amount of mis & disinformation regarding history..... more so now than ever before.
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Nothing to do with Germans marching across Europe univited then?
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Possibly the greatest naval pursuit in history.... Over 2500 lives lost...... Over 100,000 tons of premium grade steel sent to the bottom of the Atlantic. And fools still debate over which pronoun to use for one of the ships. I prefer "she" as do many others. It makes not one bit of difference.
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@aresee8208 Maybe you could provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or the British west African colonies? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE. The Commonwealth was in 1940 mostly a distant vocal supporter. The defence of the UK in 1940 was maintained by 95% British troops and citizens. It was another year or so before the commonwealth contribution in Europe REALLY began to kick in.
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Not in 1941 they weren't
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Likewise without the Spitfire.... taking care of the fighters while the hurris' mainly took out the bombers.
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Hood takes a headshot, Bismarck gets "gang raped" Which option would you take if forced?
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@michaelidarecis ALL empires come to an end, and don't be silly enough to ever think that what fills the void left is going to be any better.
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"she" is customary for 99.9% of English and German speakers. Enjoy your time in the 0.1% club.
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@Jeremy-y1t Don;t be silly Jeremarkyjames.
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Thank you for that nugget, I'm off to do some reading about that situation right now. The RCN did indeed save Britain via its sheperding of a large proportion of transatlantic shipping during WW2.
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Read "War is a racket" by Smedley Butler.
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@MarkHarrison733 Israel didn't exist during WW2 Mark.
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@Gmonn13 Biden, just like Trudeau, Sunak, and the rest of western "leaders" nowadays are just puppets of Klaus Schwab & the World Economic Forum.
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Prior to the Denmark Strait engagement there was every reason to expect that HMS Hood would have given as good as she took, though the fickle hand of fate ensured that was not how it finally played out. I too owned models in the 1970s of all the major ships involved in this escapade, and I can testify first hand that NONE of them had armour suffient to prevent the penetration of multiple .177 air rifle pellets at the end of their "active service" (as my toys)!!!!
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It was a dramatic sea chase. Do you want it to sound otherwise?
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Watch on a PC and install an adblocker.
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Or indeed HMS Rodney
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Don;t be a dork... stop watching on a phone, tablet or TV. Watch on a computer with an adblocker installed and enjoy the internet as its MEANT to be enjoyed.
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The Volga was a considerable obstacle to be crossing at thte end of a VERY precarious supply line, and the terrain east of the river at that point is marshland for hundreds of miles. The Soviets held the only road leading to Stalingrad from the east, the rest being impassible, like the Pripet marshes in Byelorussia / Ukraine.
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@blackmamba___ Do you think the allies would just let him quietly consolidate what the nazis had conquered? From 1943 onwards the nazis were fighting defensively on all fronts.
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Putingrad has been "twinned" with Bidenville and Obamabad.
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@thevillaaston7811 Likewise.
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When fearful, you tend to run away from the source of that fear. The RN spent 5 days at full speed chasing Bismarck, not the act of something thats "fearful". The only thing that was fearful was Bismarck.... which spent its entire time running away from the RN.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 I did reply to this yesterday Dove (in my browser I can still see it above your comment) but when logged out of YT its not there. YT in their insidious way do love to "ghost block" some comments. Though strangely it allows the same comment in the main comment section (above Jim Ewing's message), just not as a response to this loon.
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What a dork.
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Well the Bf-110 was designed as a long range escort fighter. Its just that it was really rubbish in that role and ended up on occasions being escorted itself by Bf-109s. It had a haymaker of a punch, but was so lackluster in its acceleration and manoeuvrability that it was incredibly lucky to get into a position to land hits with its fearsome armament.
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@GM-fh5jp Respects to BOTH their services. All the best.
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@aldgate Thank you for the extention... My apologies if I misunderstood the thrust of your OP. To find the reason why the video will have so many dislikes simply read through the comments section below. There is an engineered dislike of Great Britain, mainly because we had the largest and most humane empire in human history and nobody likes those who have been at the very top, and will always enjoy pissing on them on the way down.... but as I say, it is better to be British and have lost, than to have been a Belgian for the whole of eternity.
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@humansnotai4912 Just as I assumed.... you've utterly NO idea what you're talking about. Thanks for confirming it.
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There were NO Indian pilots in Fighter command during the battle of Britain. The first Indian pilots arrived in April 1941.
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@bronsonperich9430 If you read my response above, you will see that he arrived in the UK in OCTOBER 1940 as an unqualified pilot candidate at the very end of the battle of Britain, though he was in Britain during the blitz that followed. Not that he and his fellow Indian trainee pilots would have seen much bombing, they were undergoing their initial pilot training at Prestwick (near Glasgow) then RAF Hullavington (in Wiltshire), followed by "operational conversion" at RAF Sutton Bridge (in Lincolnshire), before fully qualifying as RAF pilots in April 1941.
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No it wasn't, you silly boy Mark.
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I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the actual number of pilots from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent).
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Two peoples seperated by a common language.... and a reasonably large amount of IQ.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 "Engage the enemy more closely"
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Ahem... America did NOT "go to war with Germany". It was dragged kicking and screaming against its will into war by GERMANY'S declaration of war on the US.
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@johnsmith-by3yg You remember incorrectly... what I've stated is documented fact.
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No need for them, HMS Rodney ripped her apart.
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No sorry.... centuries of custom dictates that "she" it is for 99.9% of English speakers.
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@HeavenlyWarrior I've spoken English all of my 56 years, and come from a family which has had numerous sailors and dock workers in its midst, and I've always heard a ship refered to using the feminine pronoun (though very occasionally as you say the ungendered pronoun "it" being used instead), that's not to say that other cultures & languages don't have their own customs, but for British people ships have always used the feminine pronoun, it is also the case in the German speaking world, hence why Captain Lindemann first decreed that Bismarck should not be considered feminine, precisely because it is the usual custom in Germany as well, (with "Die" instead of "Der" being the usual prefix for ships). It seems all this current "gender pronoun nonsense" is trying to push its evil insidious way into maritime custom.
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@HeavenlyWarrior British as a language doesn't have "gendered nouns" as such. For example we would say "the sun", French would say "Le soleil" (masculine) and Germans would say "Die Sonne" (feminine), but customarily in Britain ships have for centuries been attributed with the female pronoun, I'm not sure of the origin of that, but my guess is that in possibly less enlightened times a ship would have been seen as the sailor's guardian, and a place of safety and so spiritually IT may have been seen as a "mother figure" protective of HER "sailor children", but that is purely my guess. Could I ask what is your native tongue as your written English, at least, is very good.
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"Match up" ? She was designed with NO regard for the international naval treaties that other nations had adhered to. No matter though, she still ended up on the sea bed.
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But things don't happen in a vacuum Scott. If Germany had embarked on an expanded program of capital ship production, other nations would have seen this and acted accordingly.
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@MarkEliasGrant Sloppy, granted... but strictly correct.
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"Those in said countries that wanted to fight and defend Britain's interests were originally FROM Britain", Where they? So how do you explain the 2,500,000 INDIAN troops who VOLUNTEERED to fight as part of the Indian Army (The LARGEST volunteer army in history) during WW2? If you have to talk utter BS in comments, at least expect other people with greater knowledge to reply and correct your nonsense. P.S If you hurry you may be able to catch the next flight to the "worker's paradise" of North Korea, you'll enjoy it there.
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@Jeremy-y1t Which "illegal blockade" was this Jeremarkyjames? WW1 or WW2?
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@Jeremy-y1t Preempting your so called illegality of any British blockade was Germany's invasion of the neutral low countries.
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@Jeremy-y1t Yes, after a LEGAL declaration of war in Sept 1939. As opposed to Germany's habit of launching illegal wars of aggression against neutral neighbours.
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@Jeremy-y1t "Declarations of war were obsolete"? Why because Jeremarkyjames says so. Your descent into insanity continues unabated.
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In what way better? 2 very fast ships in an enormous ocean, still managed to get located and sunk? Yeah, EPIC performance.
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Escaped patient on ward 4 !!!! Escaped patient on ward 4 !!!!
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Gregg, Please tell me about the attacks that the luftwaffe launched on Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand... Oh wait a second... they were only launched against Britain weren't they?
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You do realise its not "Ukraine" fighting Russia, but the globalist controlled countries of the west. Its known as "proxy war". Think of it a test ground for the western military industrial complex.
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@BingoFrogstrangler The British historic record has never attempted to airbrush the commonwealth and foreign pilots who flew with RAF Fighter Command that summer out of history... but there's an increasing number of revisionist anti-Brit commenters who brazenly try to over represent the foreign contribution and downplay the overwhleming role of British born pilots..... attempting to snidily portray the situation as one where "Europe saved Britain" when the opposite is FAR closer to the truth. For further information search out the "Battle of Britain Historical Society" and the "Battle of Britain Memorial Trust" who continue to catalogue and honour the lives of ALL those who took part in the British side of the struggle in 1940.
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@BingoFrogstrangler The British historic record has never attempted to airbrush the commonwealth and foreign pilots who flew with RAF Fighter Command that summer out of history... but there's an increasing number of revisionist anti-Brit commenters who brazenly try to over represent the foreign contribution and downplay the overwhleming role of British born pilots..... attempting to snidily portray the situation as one where "Europe saved Britain" when the opposite is FAR closer to the truth. That was my motivation to quickly assemble my post above. For further information search out the "Battle of Britain Historical Society" and the "Battle of Britain Memorial Trust" who continue to catalogue and honour the lives of ALL those who took part in the British side of the struggle in 1940.
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@3112-x9r Germany was the clear and present danger... the predatory psychopath to the USSR's lumbering opportunist. What exactly could the British/French do to attack the USSR anyhow? As it turned out there was not much an unmobilised UK could do to help Poland never mind attack USSR. P.S British / French "Aggresors"? Remind me who attacked who on the western front?
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If they hadn't bothered then the many generations of European born after 1945 would have instead grown up in a totalitarian Europe, with death camps sited across the continent. I dunno about you, but I've preferred the Europe I grew up in courtesy of the millions who fought and made the ultimate sacrifice to prevent such an alternate world from happening.
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Outdated but FAR from obsolescent.
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@Alex-ov5th You mean the 15in Mk1 that the German and Italian navies spent their ENTIRE wars running and hiding from?
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More of the same uninformed nonsense. Here's some more of the "history that is never talked about". 1. Britain still thanks Poland at every remembrance day parade across the country to this day. We appreciate the 58.5 confirmed kills that 303 Sqd contributed to the 2900 luftwaffe aircraft destroyed during the Battle of Britain, incl the 17 scored by the Czechoslovakian ace Josef František who flew with 303 Sqd. Also take note that 303 sqd were not "all Polish pilots", as well as Josef František I've already mentioned, the squadron commander and most of the flight commanders were British during the battle of Britain. 2. With regard to the 1946 Victory parade when it came to Britain handing out the national invites to all of the countries that had fought on the side of the Allies in WW2, The British Labour government of Clement Attlee handed the Polish invitation to the Warsaw based Polish provisional government of national unity (which was after all the official government of Poland, as recognised by the United Nations). The now effectively powerless & stateless nationalist Polish government in exile based in London took great offence at their sidelining in this matter, and raised a torrent of indignation that was backed by many British MPs and ordinary people. A few days before the parade was due to take place a belated invitation was sent both to the Polish Govt in Exile in London as well as directly to various Polish generals who had fought with the allies, ALL of who felt so disgusted with the perceived disrespect shown by the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY (I.E being made to play "second fiddle" to the official Warsaw Polish government) that they CHOSE not to attend the parade. And the final ignomy? The Soviet backed Warsaw government neither acknowledged the British invite, or attended the parade either. Britain sacrificed 450000 of her citizens in a war started to aid Poland which, due to her quick conquest, evolved into a meatgrinder of a war to topple her oppressors. At war's end it was the treachery of Britain's "enemy's enemy" (Josef Stalin) that strangled any possibility of a postwar democratic Poland. The western allies were reluctant to start WW3 in a central Europe already bled white by 6 years of murderous tyranny and warfare, a WW3 entailing probably millions more deaths that would have been necessary to remove the 12.4 million strong red army from the countries of Eastern Europe. Oops, Bi Ling !!! You've forgotten to tell us how YOU would have removed the 12.4 million strong red army from central & Eastern Europe?
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Read widely and form your own narrative based on that WIDE range of reading.
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Without the west the Soviet Union would have collapsed, and Stalin would have been eating his borscht with a wooden spoon in a cave in Mongolia by 1944.
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Barbarossa took place 6 months before Pearl Harbour.
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Who do you now blame for India's poverty stricken millions now that you've had self determination for the last 75 years?
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If you want to make the situation in 1940 reflect what is happening in today's world, then Oswald Mosley would have been prime minister of the UK in 1940 and inviting the wehrmacht to come and "diversify" Britain.
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The Very short answer is the RN..... the slightly longer answer is the "Royal Navy".
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Such forceful and footsure assertion of a complete fallacy... excellent entertainment, well done !!!
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Please explain how the Germans were going to sail their invasion fleet of towed canal barges at 3 knots past the world's largest navy to invade the UK ?
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@Jeremy-y1t IF Britain had been "planning for war since 1933", then how come she was so woefully unprepared when the Germans invaded their next victim in Sept 1939? German troops Invaded Norway on the 9th April 1940, the first British troops in response landed on the 13th April 1940. You can't seem to get ANYTHING right, can you Jeremarkyjames.
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Thanks for your memories, and for your service to this country Shevill. Happy 85th with many more to come !!!
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There were NO luftwaffe bombers pounding Ottawa, Canberra or New Delhi. The British Isles stood alone as the last bastion of democracy in Europe against the merciless attacks of totalitarianism. We were ably supported by commonwealth troops, and gave refuge to defeated Europeans, but without Great Britain standing firm and alone, all the commonwealth troops and refugees in the world would not have been able to act as the springboard for the future liberation of Europe.
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Maybe you can tell us all exactly which other nations were being bombed, blockaded and threatened with invasion by the full weight of the Wehrmacht between June 1940 and April 1941?
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@CB-fz3li I'm happy to accept that... I just wish to put the constant "oh it was the Poles", "oh it was the Czechs", "oh it was the Canadians" etc in context of their percentage contribution, and so highlight the SMALL but important service that they provided.
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@CB-fz3li I find that when you put your case forward in these sections, that over time a well reasoned point of view gains traction, and while I never expect to change an "MSM droid's" opinion, I'm never afraid to challenge their nonsense, I do quite often notice that points I raise and phrases I use start to appear in other comments, and so appear to be read by others who are undecided on the matter. Keep up your own good work.
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Notice how it was ONLY "Britain" that had to "survive the blitz"... NOT the empire or commonwealth, but the UK ONLY.
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@BCHistoria Just Americans still smarting that while they sat on the sidelines and profiteered from both sides, they actually had next to no involvement in the heroic battle against European totalitarianism at the time.
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I remember the good old days when imbeciles had nothing better to do than lick windows, nowadays they're given unsupervised access to the internet.
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@paulunderhill5642 Great info there Paul, I've spent most of my life interested in the battle of Britain, but have never stumbled on that information before... more reading for me. thanks.
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Andrew Choong? Yes he's an EXCELLENT communicator, one of the best I've seen on naval videos.
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Luckily Bismarck was crippled after the swordfish torpedoes snapped off Bismarck's oars !!!
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The Nelson class were far superior to Bismarck in armour AND firepower, only their speed was inferior, but that was the price of keeping to international naval treaties, something that never hindered the Germans (and was something the Americans with their WW2 designs never had to contend with). But the Nelson's lower speed was not the impediment it seemed, with the RN being the pioneers of naval aviation & aircraft carrier usage it had trained its fleet air arm to attack enemy capital ships with the intention of slowing then down to allow its superior battleships to intercept and engage. That strategy almost worked as planned in the case of Vittorio Veneto at the battle of cape Matapan in Mar 1941, and worked to perfection in the case of Bismarck.
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And how would we be speaking German? How exactly where the nazis going to defeat Britain?
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Or how any other unhygenic servicemen would smell. The US for instance referred to the USN's submarines as "Pig boats" for the same reason.
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While I fully agree that Dowding was the defensive genius facing the air assault on the UK, Britain was in no real danger of being invaded. The air assault was only the first step of the planned invasion. The wehrmacht with its tiny navy and air force that couldn't even prevent the evacuation of Dunkirk then had to deal with the world's largest navy. The invasion was NEVER going to happen.
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"Tirpitz nearly won WW2" oh dear......
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You think allied victory was solely down to "American men"? Hahahaha... who writes your material? Comedy gold.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw No the allies won the war James. The USSR by itself would have folded in 1942-43 without western help.
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Complete BS James, Churchill had been railing against nazism since at least 1933.... but seeing as he held NO office within the British government in the 1930s he exerted utterly no influence on British foreign policy. It was only his appointment as first lord of the admiralty on 3rd Sept 1939 that ended what is commonly known as Churchill's "wilderness years" from 1929-39.
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The Story is that Captain Lindemann was of that opinion, and the crew happily took it "on board", but any reference I've seen to Bismarck in surviving wartime documents used the feminine "Die" as opposed to the male "Der", it is purely a matter of personal preference.
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The Germans wanted the ship under as much as the British at the end... it was their best chance of survival.
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"Conquered by islam".... get real.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Ah very observant, Admiral. Who would have guessed it? A self aggrandising American !!! Its unheard of !!! Well rooted out Doveton.
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Correct.
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Get a load of this idiot above my post. Utter delusional.
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Indeed, the US economy was EAGERLY making MASSIVE profits from BOTH sides of the European war. Also don't think for one minute that the US choose to join the war out of some altruistic motive, instead it had war DECLARED on it by the nazis and Japanese. It would NEVER have declared war of its own free will... the profits in keeping out were TOO great to miss. P.S It's "have" and not "of".
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Looks count for nothing. Bismarck 193 million reichmarks to build and destroyed in her first sortie after failing miserably in her mission. Swordfish made from bits and pieces from granny's "sewing box", and went on to become the most effective naval attack aircraft of WW2. German technology indeed.
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A small but valued contribution.
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As if the UK or ANY other nation has ANY effect on Soviet/Russian foreign policy. More naziboi nonsense.
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US produced program. At the time of battle of Britain they were busy selling supplies to BOTH sides of the war, and the BoB didn't involve them, so of course in their eyes its "not important".... clueless yanks.
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Er.....If were talking about the "luck" factor, then what about Bismarck's hit on HMS Hood? In 99 out of 100 reruns HMS Hood completes her turn to port, draws parallel to Bismarck and the two ships then proceed to cripple or sink one another meaning Bismarck doesn't even make it as far as the open North Atlantic, and so no airstrike would have been needed. Britain had since the 1920s planned the use of its carrier aircraft to strike and at least slow down (if not sink) any enemy fast ships to allow the RN capital ships to close and engage. The Bismarck episode was NOT the first time this tactic had worked. Read about the earlier "Battle of Cape Matapan" in the Mediterranean where Fleet air arm aircraft had done the same to the Italian battleship "Vittorio Veneto". The Swordfish was one of the most successful naval attack aircraft of WW2. ALL nationalities aerial torpedoes were of lesser size than their shipborne counterparts.
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@muttley00 Well I live and learn. My torpedo knowledge is far from encyclopaedic... I have read about US aerial torpedoes but had not spotted the diameter of the Mk XIII. I fired off a rogue line and was found out. Thank you for pointing out my error. Yes the heyday of Torpedo bombers did come and go relatively quickly, and I would not have swapped places with any of their aircrews for all the tea in China. Its rare to find a courteous debater in YT WW2 comments, Thank you for your information. All the best.
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HMS Rodney's armour. Main belt: 14 in (356 mm) Deck: 6.25 in (159 mm) Main turrets: 16 in (406 mm) HMS King George V armour. Main belt: 15 in (380 mm) lower belt: 6 in (150 mm) Deck: 5.6 in (140 mm) Main turrets: 13 in (330 mm) Bismarck armour. Main belt: 12.6 in (320 mm) Deck: 4.7 in (120 mm) Main turrets: 14.2 in (360 mm)
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@MarkHarrison733 Apart from that being a complete lie, who started "civilian bombing" from the air in the first place? Oh yes it was the Germans bombing the innocent civilians of Liege in August 1914, then the London zeppelin blitz throughout WW1, then widespread murder of innocents by the fledgling luftwaffe's "Kondor Legion" in the Spanish civil war, followed by Weilun, Warsaw, Rotterdam, and various British towns and cities before a SINGLE British bomb had been dropped on Germany.
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Without taking one iota away from the HUGELY courageous young lads who fought in Britain's defence, had the RAF been forced to withdraw from their southern airfields, the Germans would still have had to transport their divisions across the English Channel in slow, towed canal barges in the face of the world's then largest navy.
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Explain this supposed "backstab" for us please?
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Why not follow your own advice?
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Why? has someone "complained" about the Poles?
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When I first read your post I thought "What's this idiot blithering about?"... I then clicked on the timestamp and thought "Jesus H Christ... He's RIGHT !!!". On pausing the frame closer scrutiny shows it to be a barn with a "jerkinhead roof", which as the camera frame pans to follow the overflying RAF fighters does indeed appear as a HUGE dark blue VW beetle parked in the field. Conundrum solved !!!
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@Jeremy-y1t Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!!
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The Mosquito FB Mk. XVIII "Tsetse" (pronounced "tetsy") carried an autoloading 57mm anti tank gun, but it wasn't used for anti tank missions instead being employed against axis shipping especially German U-boats.
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A "Heavy cruiser" with battleship guns and battleship armour.
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@brianjones5379 Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or of how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or the British west African colonies? Or of how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE. The Commonwealth was in 1940 mostly a distant vocal supporter. The defence of the UK in 1940 was maintained by 95% British troops and citizens. It was another year or so before the commonwealth contribution in Europe REALLY began to kick in.
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@brianjones5379 I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly foreign pilots". Below is a graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the ACTUAL number of aircrew from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. The figures are taken from the RAF records of the awards of the highly coveted "Battle of Britain clasp" to the British 1939-45 Campaign Star, which was SCRUPULOUSLY only awarded to RAF & Fleet Air Arm aircrew who flew at least one active sortie in the UK in any RAF or Fleet Air Arm fighter aircraft between 10th July 1940 and 31st Oct 1940. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent).
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@Jeremy-y1t "The UK attacked Germany in 1914 & 1939." Only after Germany made unannounced attacks on unprepared neighbours in 1914 (Belgium) and 1939 (Poland).
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@mikdavies5027 Exactly Mik, and we receive nothing but opprobrium for everything we did.
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Stop watching on a phone, tablet or TV FFS, and watch on a computer with an adblocker installed instead.
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They should have been as unlike all the other allied nations pilots at the time they'd been filtered through 9 months of previous combat so only the best Polish pilots made it to the UK, as a result they had the most combat experience of all the assembled RAF pilots, though the rest quickly caught up with them. But we still thank them for their service, which is witnessed at every rememberance day parade in the Great Britain, where the Polish nation is ALWAYS well represented.
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As a fungal infection slowly infiltrates its host, so has the lies and corruption of corporate globalism subsumed the BBC along with most of the UK's political establishment, in much the same way as it has across much of the western world.
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You do realise that historical "footage" was captured on finite reels of bulky celluloid film. Probably lasting 10 minutes or so. It wasn't like the war correspondent had a handy digital camera with a 10 terabyte memory card in it and could record for hours at a time, and then when submitted to his/her superiors the reel of film would then be edited to remove irrelevant runs of film to prepare the individual film clips for intelligence or public consumption.
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Get your wallet out Bill !!!
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Why not use a letter less and just say RN?
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Nowt to do with the profiteering yanks... at this point in history they were quite happy carrying out VERY profitable trade with BOTH sides of the European war. Britain saved ITSELF... INSPITE of the US as much as it did BECAUSE of the US.
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@glennpickard2239 Depends on what dates & figures you're using, but I won't argue with your figures. I just have to dispel this current misinformation agenda that tries to portray the battle as a minority British effort. Keep up the good work.
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"Lost interest" Hahahahaha... Great one that,
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I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with occasionally a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly foreign pilots". Below is a graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the ACTUAL number of aircrew from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. The figures are taken from the RAF records of the awards of the highly coveted "Battle of Britain clasp" to the British 1939-45 Campaign Star. Which was SCRUPULOUSLY only awarded to RAF & Fleet Air Arm aircrew who flew at least one active sortie in the UK in any RAF fighter aircraft between 10th July 1940 and 31st Oct 1940. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from South Africa, Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white descent). But keep in mind that at this early stage of the war the UK was defended by +95% British troops.
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@johnsmith-vz3vr The Polish "bomba" machine as it existed in Polish hands in 1939 was unable to read almost all of the various "flavours" of enigma through the war. what the "bomba" represented was the basis on which the rest of the Bletchley park code breaking effort was built upon.
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The 58.5 confirmed kills of the Polish 303 Squadron were indeed a great help towards the total of 1385 confirmed Luftwaffe aircraft lost to enemy action between July to October 1940. They are STILL honoured EVERY year at remembrance day and battle of Britain day parades the length and breadth of the UK.
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Neither did the Royal Navy... they spent 6 days relentlessly chasing it.
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@maconescotland8996 I'm so bemused by the constant misspelling of AVM Park's name that I forgot to correct the spurious charge made against him. Thank you for making the point.
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@nickdanger3802 We bought & paid for them from the US, why? Also just remembered that Britain bought the first 2-3000 Brownings from the US TOGETHER with the license to produce them in GB, so the VAST majority of them were built by BSA in Birmingham UK, and Vickers Crayford works in London, Oh and the avgas was the same that US Standard oil provided to both Germany and the USSR prewar, so that levels out the playing field in the boB. As I say profiteering from BOTH sides.
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Picture the scene....May 1945, one of the USN's most modern carriers, USS Bunker Hill, is hit off Okinawa by kamikaze. 363 sailors were killed and she is put out of action until after the war's end. A month earlier, also off Okinawa, the "obsolete" (1940) RN carrier HMS Formidible is hit by kamikaze (Formidible was one of the four "Invincible" class carriers, and one of the RN's fleet of 59 aircraft/escort carriers used during WW2). The bomb the kamikaze released prior to impact bounced off Formidible's armoured deck, and the remains of the actual kamikaze aircraft were "brushed over the side", the "dent" in the deck was then filled in, and planes were flying off the carrier again within 6 hours. 8 RN crew were killed in the attack.... "Formidible" by name "Formidible" by nature. So much for your evaluation of RN "obsolescence". Seems like the USN could've taken a leaf out of the RN's book with regard to its "obsolete carriers".
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No, they very much HADN'T neglected it. Their technology in 1939-40 was far more advanced than the British, but two problems confronted the nazis in 1940. 1. Air warning radar was FAR more useful in defence than in attack. 2. After the wehrmacht had captured 13 complete sets of British army "Gun laying radar Mk1" (effectively the same technology as the British "Chain Home Low" air warning radars) after the fall of Dunkirk, they assessed British radar as being of far lower technical ability than their own Freya & Würzburg radars, but they then failed to appreciate the hugely effective utilisation of the more rudimentary British radars, as implemented in RAF fighter command's "Chain Home" (Or "Dowding") air warning system.
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Best leave before we splurge all over you.
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Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE.
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The US provided NO troops/pilots to the UK in 1940. the NINE US pilots who took part in the battle of Britain did so as individuals who decided to break US neutrality laws and "do the right thing". The rest of the US at the time was happily profiteering from BOTH sides of the European war.
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@simongee8928 Any you think D-Day went without hiccups? DD tanks not arriving? Landing craft hitting the wrong beaches? Preparatory bombing not hitting beach defences? Overlord took 3 years of planning and took place 70 miles from the UK mainland.... The Falklands was planned at VERY short notice and took place 7000 miles away.
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You mean the battleships of the puppet Vichy regime?
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You mean the depiction of the glorious British triumph over nazism? Why come and watch if you hate facts?
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I see Doveton above has provided all the information required to rebuff your complete BS. Hurry up now Roge, if you're quick enough you might just be in time to catch the flight to your "worker's paradise" of North Korea.
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The Bismarck itself wasn't feared, when it appeared, it was chased & hunted relentlessly until it was sunk, what was feared was what it could do to merchant shipping, a subtle but important difference.
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@BlindPidePiper Without question the US was the MAJOR player on land in Europe, then again thats a result of national populations, 149 million US citizens in 1939 with the UK having 47 million at the same time, of course thats without taking the "Empire troops" into account, but in as much the same way as the US was contesting the pacific, the British empire was also providing the majority forces is the Mediterranean, East Africa, middle east, India and Burma, and once again it should be remembered that D-day would never have been able to take place without the majority UK/Canadian naval aspect of the amphibious landings in addition to the 3 landing beaches that they covered. So its entirely understandable that the "average Joe" in the UK looking at history doesn't immediately consider the Pacific war / China, the same as the average American doesn't immediately think of the middle east, India and Burma, and more often than not considers "D-day" as a purely American effort.
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Ships are inanimate so do not posess any inherent gender, but both British and German custom is to describe ships using the feminine pronoun. Bismarck's captain, Ernst Lindemann, made a decree that Bismarck's crew should use the male pronoun. His decree does show that ships are traditionally referred to as female in the German language, and unless you were serving onboard Bismarck "she" is the normal form of reference.
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GEORGE Dowding? why give a name check to >5% of the pilots and then generalise the rest of the 95%?
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Britain was primarily a maritime empire, having a relatively small population and its colonies being spread across most of the world's continents... Germany was a land based power. Exactly why Britain could never have liberated Europe alone (instead giving an excellent assist), just as Germany could never have cut Britain's lifeline across the Atlantic with her navy.
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What was it about then Sherlock?
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US corporations supplied BOTH sides of the European war, and continued to carry out VERY profitable business with the nazis even after the German declaration of war on the US on 11th Dec 1941.
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No The UK couldn't beat the Germans alone. An amphibious landing on the continent was an enormous undertaking, but even if we managed a major landing the British did NOT have the massive land armies that the nations of continental Europe possessed. But on the other side of the coin, the nazis could not defeat the UK. So your conclusion of a stalemate appears to be the correct one.
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What? The only allies were the UK and France. NO-ONE else lifted a finger to oppose nazism in Europe.
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No, she was at the time of her sinking the largest battleship (by displacement) in the world.
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German objective - Crush the RAF and conquer Great Britain. British objective - Conserve the RAF and prevent the German invasion. Result? RAF Fighter Command finishes the battle stronger than when it began.... Luftwaffe loses over 1700 of it's aircraft, most of them with their highly trained prewar "experten" aircrews, Britain is not invaded. Please view this link, it's symbolic of the nonsense you're talking. https://youtu.be/ZmInkxbvlCs?t=146
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@lisathomas627 You fail to understand the inner workings of the mind of the wehraboo. When the Germans win, then they're "uber". When they get their arses handed to them, "they weren't really trying ".
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Good post Ed !!! Tell it like it is !!! 😁👍
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The British actor Robert Powell.... best known for his portrayal of Jesus in the 1970 TV epic series "Jesus of Nazareth".
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@MyTv- And You too !!! Best wishes from the UK. 👍👍👍
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"Allied aerial bombing had little effect on any of this"... that's NOT what Albert Speer thought.
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Nonsense.... please detail how you believe that would have happened?
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@PDZ1122 Sad wehraboo, trying to make out the battle was equal. Or Course it wasn't equal, the RAF were FAR superior to the luftwaffe, inspite of being outnumbered in the defence of Britain by a margin of 4 luftwaffe aircraft to every 1 RAF fighter.
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No "they had to use so mnay" because they were looking for a needle in a 41,000,000 square mile North Atlantic haystack. After she had been stopped from running away just 2 battleships and cruisers tore her to pieces. Both the KGV class and Nelson class were both better armed and armoured.
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@philliphogg2329 I'll spell it out for you again... after she had been stopped from running away, Bismarck was completely dismantled in 30 minutes by just 2 battleships and 2 cruisers, with just one of the battleships, HMS Rodney, doing the majority of the damage.
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An escaped gunman, sniping at tourists stalks the Rocky mountains. How many "state troopers" is it gonna require to bring him down? Needing a thousand feet on the ground doesn't mean the gunmans a giant that needs 500 men to fell him, Only that he's hiding in a vast wilderness. Just 2 RN battleships and 2 cruisers ripped Bismarck apart.
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@glennpickard2239 I do NOT mean to diminish the courage and resolve of our Commonwealth compatriots, Britain was the "mother country" of a vast empire who all gave their best in the fight against tyranny. We are all stronger together. All the best.
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@charlescoleman4017 Your grasp of English comprehension is top flight Charles, commenters of less rigorous logic and comprehension (as well as the many programmed lefty "Brit haters") either cannot or choose not to understand. One category deserves our help, the other, our contempt. I have NEVER diminished the contribution of other nationalities (indeed even though I am obviously a Brit I had a Canadian 1st cousin from Golden, BC who as a tank driver in the 28th Canadian armd regt was killed during "Operation Totalise" on 8th August 1944) and I am aware of the massive contribution towards the security of the UK's "Atlantic lifeline" that the Royal Canadian Navy provided together with the RCAF and its part in the air war and the BCATP as well as Canada's unending supply of resources, and will argue till I'm blue in the face in defence of their honour and service they provided, but I REFUSE to see the stoicism and resolve of the British general public be diminished or mocked without challenge. Likewise the Poles, Aussies, Kiwis, Indians, Czechs and Free forces etc, EACH deserve the honour, recognition and credit for their own war effort & war dead... but I won't see it done by misrepresenting what the British public went through, including the >450,000 British citizens whose lives were lost in opposition to fascism & Japanese militarism... NOT that that was your purpose.... but for PLENTY of others it is. All the best Charles.
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@charlescoleman4017 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 "Up the Canucks" 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 💩💩💩"Down with "justin" and his lefty globalist cabal" 💩💩💩 P.S Charles, I forgot to ask... Are you REALLY trudging through Canadian snow while on a postal round, while responding? If So, TOP salute to you, the tenacity of you Canadians STILL burns bright (just get those puppets out of office please... we're TRYING to do the same over here) All the best, 👍
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Not for the more intelligent who DON'T watch on a phone, tablet or TV.
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They played their part, as did others. We thank them.
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How ridiculous old chap.
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As a small aside regarding Mr Flowers, post WW2 when he was released from his service in GC & CS, he applied to his bank manager for a business loan to start his own company producing business computing machines. His bank manager refused the loan as he believed Tommy's ideas were science fiction, little did he know of Mr Flowers position in history of having designed the world's first electronic programmable computer and Tommy, whose hands were tied by the Official Secrets Act, was not able to relate to his bank manager his world leading experience in the field of computing electronics.
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More wehraboo fantasy nonsense.
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There is currently a Ju87 being restored to airworthy condition in the USA. Now imagine THAT in future arriving at your nearest air show to carry out a simulated dive bombing run from 8000 ft with its' "Jericho trumpet" screaming.
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Tough, I hate lefties, but have to put up with their CONTANT divisive whinging. Looks like you'll have to do the same.
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@MarkHarrison733 If that was the case (which it isn't) then why had US business interests FEVERISHLY been investing MILLIONS into their German subsiduary businesses from 1930 onwards Mark?
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Well said Allan.
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@shootfirst2097 "The RN would have been easy pickings like the Repulse and the PoW". The difference being that the Japanese responsible for those sinkings had developed both the aircraft and doctrines as well as the training and experience of her naval aircrews to attack shipping, after having taken their lead from the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during the interwar period. The nazis on the other hand had NONE of that expertise and a distinct lack of success against the Royal Navy, with the largest RN ship sunk by the lufwaffe being a single RN light cruiser... and that was in the CAULDRON of the Mediterranean, that enclosed sea surrounded by hostile forces that he Royal Navy operated in against the combined might of the German AND Italian navies and air forces.
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First RAF bombs on Germany Mar 1940 First German bombs on Britain Oct 1939. You're WRONG again Mark.
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There was a section of the German Abwehr (Military Intelligence) called "B-Dienst" whose role it was to listen to the electronic airwaves, in an effort to intercept & decode any enemy radio transmissions such as Royal Naval signals, and pass such information to the German naval high command for transmission to its ships at sea (what modern armed forces call SIGINT, or "SIGnals INTelligence"). B-dienst completely failed during "Exercise Rhine" to gave Lütjens in Bismarck ANY warning of the approach of Hood / PoW this was due to the RN's awareness for radio silence (Something Lütjens himself seemed totally oblivious to). After the engagement at Denmark Strait, Lütjens was made painfully aware of the Royal Navy being fully aware and prepared for operation Rhineübung, whilst at the same time he was completely blind to the disposition of the rest of the RN's capital ships in the north Atlantic. So as well as not having the necessary speed to engage the withdrawing PoW due to the damage that PoW had inflicted on her, Lütjens was too frightened to chase PoW eastwards as he knew that there was liable to be more RN heavy units unknown to him, racing to support PoW from the direction of Scapa flow.
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@THINKincessantly If you look at the gunnery stats for the 4 participants of the Denmark Strait engagement, 3 of the ships all had hit ratios in the region of 4-6% of rounds fired. (Apart from Hood who wasted all her spotting salvoes on the wrong target before attempting to redirect onto Bismarck).
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A few scattered nuisance raids are not strategic bombing, merely a face saving exercise on behalf of the nazis.
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Not even a mention of Bob Stanford-Tuck or James Brindley Nicolson VC DFC
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And without the base of the UK with which to build up the required infrstructure of the invasion ALL the industrial output in the world would not have liberated Europe.
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Not at all.. feared for what she could do not just in the direct sinking of merchant ships, but the disruption she could inflict to the convoy system as a whole. Though due mainly to the efforts of the RN it never came to pass.
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Nah... we can ALL do without you.
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Like most nations of the west, rotted from within and now dragged down and intentionally mismanaged by corrupted globalist puppets posing as the "UK Government".
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More so an indictment of the gullibility of the public.... they're still thick as mince to this very day.
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Sorry... let me correct you post..... please remove the "s" from the end of "ships".
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And NEITHER of which was operational during the very short career of Bismarck.
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If you'd like an individual example of the esteem with which HMS Hood was held by other nations, look no further than the account of Baron Burkhard von Mullenheim-Rechberg, the senior ranking survivor of Bismarck, and her 4th gunnery officer, here's an excerpt of his account of the start of the battle of Denmark Strait. "The British ships were turning slightly to port, the lead ship showing an extremely long forecastle and two heavy twin turrets. On the telephone I heard Albrecht shout, "The HOOD...... it's the HOOD!" (his capitalisation), It was an unforgettable moment. There she was, the famous warship, once the largest in the world, that had been the "terror" of so many of our war games." Later he made these remarks following Hood's demise.... "At first the Hood was nowhere to be seen: in her place was a colossal pillar of black smoke reaching into the sky. Gradually at the foot of the pillar, I made out the bow of the battle cruiser projecting upwards at an angle, a sure sign that she had broken in two. Then I saw something I could hardly believe: A flash of orange coming from her forward guns! Although her fighting days had ended, the Hood was firing a last salvo. I felt a great respect for those men over there" Sounds as if the Kriegsmarine and her gunnery experts were more impressed by HMS Hood than you appear to be.
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I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the two pilots from the Caribbean were both of white British descent).
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Which bias would you prefer? Globalist?
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Instead of watching on a TV, phone or tablet watch instead on a computer with an adblocker installed. Ah... bliss !!!!
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No he didn't. All ships are customarily referred to using the feminine pronoun in both the English and German languages. Capt Ernst Lindemann ordered that Bismarck's crew referred to her using the male pronoun.... he had NO juridiction beyond Bismarck's complement.
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@buddermastr Re-read my reply above.
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No they didn't !!! We fought to prevent death camps in the Cotswolds and einsatzgruppen from stalking the shires.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw First German bombs on the UK dropped on 16th Oct 1939 First RAF bopmbs dropped on German 13th March 1940.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Where did they bomb James?
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Aren't people naughty, duplicitous and mischevious? Neutral Sweden, like Switzerland and the US offered their services to ANYONE who they pleased.
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@wolfgangholtzclaw2637 I've never been in combat, but lost any illusions of war being glorious or exciting at a relatively early age, as my father served right through WW2 in the Royal Navy, witnessed Bismarck's final battle, survived the sinking of his ship in the Indian ocean in 1942 by Japanese dive bombers, and was nearly killed aboard HMS Warspite when it was hit by "Fritz X" guided bombs at Salerno in 1943. We lived through our childhood, with his terrible (and unexplained to us kids) mood swings. It was only as we all got older and he started to tell us of some of his awful experiences during the war that we grew to appreciate the toll such experiences took on him, It is easy to see now as an older person looking back that he indeed suffered for much of his life with what is now known as PTSD without ANY support at all.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Methinks you're wasting your time on a clueless flat-earther. Personally I'd leave him to fall of the edge.
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Please don't waste our time.. try this instead. 1. Get a pair of decent binoculars. 2. Wait for a clear day. 3. Go to your nearest port city. 4. Sit on the beach for a few hours and observe the horizon through your "decent binoculars". 5. Observe the mast tips, or funnel smoke of approaching shipping coming to harbour gradually appear over the horizon. 6. Work out why, on a clear day, you don't see the complete hull of the ship gradually appearing out of the earth's atmosphere. 7. Become enlightnened. @OnNativeLand
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Not in May 1941 she didn't.
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"She" is customary for the English speaking world, as is proven by Lindemann having to declare that Bismark's crew should refer to her as "he". You weren't part of Bismarck's crew were you? Also Bismarck is customarily referred to as "Die Bismarck" in Germany (feminine) and NOT "Der Bismarck" (masculine).
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@biffdanielson2820 No, just a fact that you're having a problem dealing with.
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@biffdanielson2820 How far exactly do you imagine Capt Lindemann's jurisdiction over the use of language extended to? Let me give you two possibilities. 1. It extended as far as the crew of the Bismarck? 2. It extended to the whole of the English (or German) speaking world? If I declare that from now on all "cats" are to be referred to as "Bananas", will you abide by my decree? The fact that 99.9% of non-Bismarck crew members refer to her using a female pronoun is confirmed by the crews of HMS KGV & Rodney all shouting "die Bismarck" on the morning of 27th May 1941.
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@ My neighbour's cat is called "Fyffes" (just joking) .
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Though the yanks did have the best war by happily draining the wealth of all sides, while incurring the lowest national fatalities amonst the major powers.
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@MNAHN-T.GOF-NN Please feel free to "challenge" us "bots" to some informed discussion, that is indeed if you have been "informed" at all.
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Tell me again how did Kasserine and Schweinfurt turn out?
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@dovetonsturdee7033 A Tour de Force as usual, Doveton.
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The Polish contingent did well considering they represented just 7% of Fighter Command.
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That's because they are late version Spanish H1112 Buchons powered ironically by RR Merlin / griffin engines.
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What did "the war spark" in Americans? They weren't moved to actually challenge the spread of totalitarianism until it declared war on THEM !!!!
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Actually "Mr (George) Mainwaring"
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The RN had been sporting 9 x 16in guns since 1927.
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Using the rationale of your "All the colonies and their RAW MATERIALS,SLAVE SOLDIERS Specially From INDIA Had Make sure that Britain was not alone against Germany" argument actually means that Britain survived the onslaught of the nazis supported by Italy, the USSR, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Denmark, Norway, the Nertherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Thank you for highlighting the sheer extent of Britain's victory against the assembled economies of all those nations.
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@matthewmt9148 While celebrating the bravery, skill and success of Polish "Kościuszko" 303 sqd, the top scoring RAF squadron of the battle of Britain, also remember the other nationalities who flew as part of the squadron during the battle and who contributed SO much to its success. Polish "Kościuszko" 303 Sqd total kill tally - 58.5 confirmed kills Squadron commander, Sqd Ldr Ronald Gustave Kellett (British) - 5 confirmed kills "A" Flight commander, Fl Lt John Alexander Kent (Canadian) - 6 confirmed kills "B" Flight commander, Fl Lt Athol Stanhope Forbes (British) - 7 confirmed kills. Sgt pilot Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed Kills. We in the UK remember ALL the pilots (and NOT just the Polish ones).
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@matthewmt9148 I ponder sometimes how many times the deaths of 460,000 British citizens who were sacrificed in the struggle to topple the nazism that was murdering Poland are EVER highlighted within Polish WW2 documentaries, I'd wager its NEVER mentioned. As opposed to the near constant harping on about Polish bravery and resolve in the west.
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The people of Great Britain stood alone against the onslaught of the full might of the luftwaffe, unless you could please tell us more about the luftwaffe air attacks on Ottawa, Canberra and Delhi?
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I see "Doveton" has handled your incorrect assertion admirably, but I'll just add my usual tuppence worth. Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or the British west African colonies? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE. The Commonwealth was in 1940 mostly a distant vocal supporter. The defence of the UK in 1940 was maintained by 95% British troops and citizens. It was another year or so before the commonwealth contribution in Europe REALLY began to kick in.
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@antonybarnstormer6285 How would you get the impression I'm in the SLIGHTEST bit "upset"? Who cares what your grandparents thought? My FATHER fought for 6 years in WW2, but what does any of that matter? Please give me some answers to my post above with regards to ANY attacks on the rest of the British Empire & Commonwealth or indeed ANY other nation on earth by the nazis in the time frame of July 1940 to April 1941. Let me save you the trouble, there were NONE. The FACT that on the whole of planet Earth between July 1940 to April 1941 the UK was the ONLY nation that was under attack by the German Wehrmacht means that the well reasoned phrase that "Britain was alone" is well founded. The only thing we may be considered "annoyed" by is the rewriting of history by those who don't have the first inkling of what they're talking about.
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@MarkHarrison733 Just to correct you Mark, By 1939 British Empire was VERY much still present, but was in the process of loosening the shackles of imperialism somewhat.
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@ZionIst-liessssss With a nickname as "zion" I think we can tell what a delusional you are yourself. I well versed in real histroy as opposed to your BS.
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Essex class? Oh you mean like USS Bunker Hill put out of commision for 4 months by a single Japanese kamikazi attack. When the same thing happened THREE TIMES to HMS Victorious and Formidible, they brushed the kamikaze's wreckage "over the side", filled in the dents in their armoured decks, and had aircraft flying off them again within a few hours.
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@morganhale3434 Superb AA defence (Bunker Hill furiously burning in background). Better to have 54 aircraft temporarily grounded for a few hours than 100 aircraft thousand miles away in Bremerton. Facts are facts.
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@morganhale3434 The RN and the USN carriers were obviously designed and built for completely different scenarios and strategies in different oceans of the world, the RN was out of its "design envelope" in its fighting in the pacific, but as described above still showed itself to have strengths unheard of in the USN.
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"What is the difference between a guy shooting Russian civilians in the field between the bomber crew killing civilians or "dehouse" them?" I'd say around 20-25 million.
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You've mistakenly used "you" in your sentence when you should say "the corporate globalist politicians the UK has had foisted upon it"
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"destroyed more by her own commanders & crew than by the RN" classic comedy !!!! Hahahaha.
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@ghostbirdlary Seeing as it's globalist corporations that now direct whats left of the UK national educational curriculum its surprising to find ANY reference to British history in UK "schools" nowadays.
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@briggsak05 Congratulations.... you must be nearly 100 years old !!!
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@jorgoasparuhov4131 You do realise that online translators will help you to re-arrange the individual words you've learned into an order that makes grammatical sense.
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@jorgoasparuhov4131 Dear me they have them in your country too !!!
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As long as if you ever got us back into that globalsit shitshow that YOU give US the vote every 4 years afterwards and don't try to rob the electorate of what they voted for... like you did this time.
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Why what's wrong with it?
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Simple fact is profit margin in war is FAR greater than that in space exploration. Sad and tragic but true.
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Whilst forgetting the RN's KGV's, Nelsons and Vanguard.
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Not in May 1941 it wasn't.
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Akin to saying the football team that got hammered 50 - 1 did well to score 1 goal.
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Hood was LONGER than the Bismarck but Bismarck displaced (weighed) over 5000 tons more with full combat load.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Fancy seeing you here, Dove!!! If you want something to "get your teeth into" try these two... I've been battling off ignorance left right and centre on these threads. https://youtu.be/Af4ut8eGCe4 https://youtu.be/7rMPLEAzbHI
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If reputation is the deciding factor then HMS Hood must be the champion because read ANY survivor account of the battle of Denmark strait and you will see that when it became apparent that they were facing HMS Hood they were deeply concerned.... as Burkhard Mullenheim-Rechberg (Bismarck's senior ranking survivor) said himself HMS Hood had been the most awe inspiring practice enemy in all his prewar and pre Rhineübung gunnery training.
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Why where did the "REAL" sea battles take place? (need I ask....)
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@anouarben779 Mark is COMPLETELY oblivious that he lives in a society where he can freely talk such unmitigated nonsense. If he naively spoke such BS under the regime of his political heroes he would end up as a pile of ashes in one of their death camps he so eagerly supports. The boy has NO idea.
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@t.l.1610 So the 150 divisions of the French army were beaten because of the 10 divisions of the BEF? IT was the French army that lost the battle, and the BEF was forced to retreat because of their failure on their right and because of the surrender of the Belgian forces on their left.
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Vertel my asseblief van die luftwaffe-lugaanvalle op Australië, Kanada, Indië, Nieu-Seeland en Suid-Afrika en hoe hulle almal bedreig is met inval deur die Wehrmacht. Ag dis reg... hulle was hulle nie? Dit was slegs Brittanje ALLEEN wat !!!
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In the English speaking world ships have been referred to using the feminine pronoun for over a millenia. No need to thank me for preventing you from labouring under a burden of ignorance in future.
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No sea lion WOULD HAVE failed because the Germans had nothing to protect themselves from the world's then largest navy. As it was it was a non starter due to the Luftwaffe failing miserably in its effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command.
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Glad you realise it at last.
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There is one sole surviving member of "the Few"..... that is Flying Officer John "Paddy" Hemingway who flew spitfires with 85 and 253 Squadrons during the battle of Britain. Today he is 105 years old and now lives quietly in sheltered accomodation in Dublin Ireland.
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@TennesseeHomesteadUSA The opposite being true.
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Please provide us with details of the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the only nation subjected to ALL of those threats by the nazis between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. No need to thank me for unburdening you of your complete cluelessness.
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Forgive "Jeremy" above... his carers are unaware he has gotten access to the computer. They have been informed and "jeremy" will shortly be returned to his strait jacket.
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@mikespikeey4625 You'll be going hungry waiting for "my EV" to burst into flames. I've not been duped into buying one of those evolutionary dead end vehicles.
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@mikespikeey4625 Seems you have difficulty in English comprehension. You have my sympathy.
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Without the aid of the west, Stalin would have been sat in a cave in outer Mongolia eating his borscht with a wooden spoon in 1943.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Or more accurately Doveton, those whose past is increasingly withheld from them are condemned to allow a repetition of it.
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Please give us more of the "sensationalisms".
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The Germans considered there to be a slim chance of pulling it off, as witnessed by their assembly of 2500 invasion barges and hundreds of other craft converted to operate with amphibious forces.
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Reasonable assertion. Just to correct one point, Bismarck's "kriegstagebuch" (war diary) was not recovered. Group west directing the operation assigned U-556 to close on Bismarck and recover her war diary, but due to lack of fuel U-556 passed over the task to U-74. Due to the presence of the RN U-74 was unable to carry out the task. When it became apparent that no u-boat would be able to retrieve the war diary, Lütjens then ordered that the war diary plus a number of mail sacks of "last letters home" from Bismarck's crew be loaded into one of her Arado AR-196 float planes which was to attempt a one way mission to France. On loading and readying the plane, it was discovered that one of the hits on Bismarck from HMS Prince of Wales 3 days earlier had irreparably damaged the catapult system, and so this attempt too was abandoned, the plane unloaded and then tipped overboard. After the end of "Rhineübung" the German Seekriegsleitung "naval command" constructed a "war diary" for Bismarck from all sources it had available to it such as the war diary of Prinz Eugen and accounts from the 3 Bismarck survivors the Germans rescued, to see what lessons could be drawn from the failed operation, though I think the most obvious lesson was "Don't send German surface raiders out into the Atlantic again".
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Just not a brotherhood led by the European branch of globalism, the EUSSR.
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@bobsakamanos4469 Why add the phrase "Despite the Poles and Czech's best efforts"? The highest hurricane kill tally in the battle of Britain was that of British Sergeant pilot James "Ginger" Lacey flying with 501 Sqd.
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@bobsakamanos4469 Where's you evidence that the Poles alone "raised the Hurricane overall kill ratio". EVERY Hurricane squadron in Fighter Command raised the "overall kill ratio".
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@bobsakamanos4469 They were good quality pilots, but that quality was not because of their Polish training regime, or some form of superior Polish spacial awareness, but simply due to the fact that all the mediocre, poor & less resourceful Polish pilots had already been "filtered out" of the Polish aircrew cadre by 2 previous campaigns and by having had to make their way right across Europe living on their wits. The Polish pilots flying in the battle of Britain were the creme of the prewar PAF and not a random selection, which in Poland had been hammered out of existence within days of the start of the campaign. Set against that "filtration process" was the fact that they had less experience in British fighter aircraft, and the world beating British air defence system, so that while they were more able than novice British pilots then replacing battle losses, they were completely average when compared to experienced pilots of other nations.... as is testified to by the highest kill tallies achieved during the battle. Top RAF Fighter Command "kill tallies" during the battle of Britain. Flt Lt Eric Stanley Lock (English) - 21½ confirmed kills (in Spitfires) Sgt James Harry Lacey (English) - 18 confirmed kills. (In Hurricanes) Flt Lt Archie Ashmore McKellar (Scottish) - 17½ confirmed kills. (In spitfires) Sgt Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed kills. (In Hurricanes) Pilot Off Colin Falkland Gray (New Zealand) - 15½ confirmed kills. (In Spitfires) Fl Off Brian Carbury (New Zealand) - 15½ confirmed kills (In Spitifres) Flt Lt Witold Urbanowicz (Poland) - 15 confirmed kills. (In Hurricanes) I assume you will also roll out the " 303 was the highest scoring squadron during the battle" statement, but while you do that you will need to look into that fact more deeply. Polish "Kościuszko" 303 Sqd total kill tally - 58.5 confirmed kills (NOT the 127 CLAIMED kills widely quoted.) Which included the confirmed kills of the following pilots. Squadron commander, Sqd Ldr Ronald Gustave Kellett (British) - 5 confirmed kills "A" Flight commander, Fl Lt John Alexander Kent (Canadian) - 6 confirmed kills "B" Flight commander, Fl Lt Athol Stanhope Forbes (British) - 7 confirmed kills. Sgt pilot Josef František (Czechoslovakian) - 17 confirmed Kills. The only pilots being disparaged in all of this are the British pilots, who you appear to be trying to portray as somehow generally less able than other pilots. P.S Where are you getting this "very poor Hurricane kill ratio" nonsense from?
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@Jeremy-y1t Or indeed New York, Sydney, Ottawa, Wellington etc.
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Do please explain.
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Or even Bf 109s.
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On a positive note the nazis were unable to open their "death camp" franchise in the British shires.
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Pity that the USN aircraft carriers found the cauldron of the Mediterranean too hot for their liking.... mind you with their wooden decks and so much land based enemy aircraft coverage it was best for them that they stayed away.... It took the armored carriers of the RN to take on and complete the task there....
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That's incorrect, at this point in time the UK Govt had not been fungally infested with corporate globalist puppets, and instead acted in the best interests of its own economy and people.... the fungal infection of globalism started to rot the world from the 1960s onwards.
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We do after all generally have MUCH better erudition and communication skills.
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Go give your dusty pyjamas and flip flops a wash will you.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 but I enjoy responding as he (and his alter ego "James Richards") NEVER has ANYTHING of worth with which to come back with.
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Only 4 months? Try 7 months.
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@Jeremy-y1t maybe on your own behalf Mark. As you futilely try to convince others of your delusions.
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@bclmax No austroish is illustrating that the nazis were outplayed in every aspect of the war.
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Thats "Care in the community" for ya.
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Losers? Unbeaten is the word you were looking for.... clueless redneck.
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More completely ignorant BS from "fullthrottle".
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@momdadtaz8722 The Luftwaffe lost 20% of its total stuka establishment in just 10 days in August 1940, a tasty starter for the RAF.
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Why the "Turing" machine? Without the rest of the GC&CS team Mr Turing would have remained an unknown dry dusty academic.
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There were NO luftwaffe bombers over the skies of New Delhi, Ottawa, Canberra or Wellington in 1940. Britain was the sole recipient of the full might of the Luftwaffe in summer 1940.
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@daviddou1408 Read the title of the video, then try to comprehend the video and comments are about the battle of Britain.
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Hahaha.. lap it up boy !!!
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Please provide us with details of the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the only nation being subject to all of those threats by the nazis between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. No need to thank me for unburdening you of your complete cluelessness.
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The unfortunate fact is that our parents/Grandparents/G Grandparents fought for us and future generations to have the freedom to think how we want. My own father fought 6 years in the Royal Navy during WW2, and I was ALWAYS interested in his (and his friends) stories, but while my own kids were respectful of his experiences (before he passed away in 2013) but the truth be known they are totally uninterested in 20th century history, and pain me though it does to see my ancestor's efforts fade into nothingness (one of my my grandfathers fought in WW1), that is the nature of freedom. My main effort with my kids is to try to ensure they THINK FOR THEMSELVES and do NOT allow themselves to be hoodwinked by today's globalist MSM, and to arrive at their own conclusions about any subject that interests them.
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All so much useless conjecture as the two ships did not at any point share the world's oceans.
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Now you understand how Russians and other former soviet nations feel about their own FAR more costly struggles during WW2, and how it has generated immense pride in their own national sacrifices.
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The west won't be happy until they have installed a Russian leader who is pliable in the hands of global corporatism.... trillions of dollars of almost virgin resources within Russia that is just waiting to be raped by the globalist corporations.
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V/Adm Holland in HMS Hood had maintained strict radio and radar silence on his approach to intercept the German ships. The upside of this was the German's complete ignorance of (and lack of evasive action to avoid) the approach of major units of the RN. The downside was that V/Adm Holland was not able to radio his estimated time of interception, or his intended actions to the two shadowing RN heavy cruisers. Therefore when the big guns opened up at 5:52am on the morning of the 24th May, Wake-Walker in command of the 2 shadowing heavy cruisers had to immediately race to gain gunnery range, but as they were already shadowing at high speed the rate of closing was very small, with the result that they were not in a position to take an active part in the engagement before it was all over.
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Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!!
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Never been a student of "the bard" but he does have a quote for every eventuality !!!
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@dovetonsturdee7033 My English lit GCE (I know we're around the same age category) was the ONLY qualification I ever failed in... gaining a execrable "U" grade. I did walk out of the exam after 10 minutes though. "Twelfth Night" and "A tale of two cities" killed my interest in literature for probably twenty years.
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Technically that wasn't a battle, but an attack with no defence.
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@peternagy-im4be Apart from the "sponsorship ads" that the content creators themselves place into their videos... ALL the rest of the YT ads can EASILY be blocked on a computer.
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No, they FAILED in their effort and so went after Russia....At the time of their effort to crush the UK, the USSR was happily supplying the nazis with MILLIONS of tons of food fuel and raw materials...and they STILL couldn't beat us.
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"England was a country in the British army" was it? I'll have to note that down for future reference.
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@stevetwede9901 Don't ever waste your time training to be a barrister.
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Are you sure it wasn't Archimedes?
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Overpowering stench of BS around here?
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@Jeremy-y1t "Battle of Britain was a draw", you really should get employment as a comedy scriptwriter Mark.
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@garethonthetube Don't forget that there are TWO blast waves.... the initial blast of the detonation of the torpedo's warhead, but what isn't often realised is that that initial explosion also displaces a very large amount of the surrounding seawater which then immediately collapses back into the void caused by the explosion imparting a second crushing hammerblow against a ships hull.... even better if the torpedo is a magnetic fused variety that explodes beneath the ship's keel, the initial explosion and 2nd "collapsing bubble" hammerblow damages or even breaks the keel frame and the rush of explosive gases upwards partially lifts the ship's hull in the water which in most cases breaks the ship's keel in two.
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Bless their memory, Ann. Thank you for that thread of real social history.
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@paganphil100 The only problem being Philip, that Rodney just didn't have the speed to intercept Bismarck. Though after the FAA wrecked Bismarck's rudders Rodney did "steal the show".
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@dovetonsturdee7033 All part of the "magic" of A.I. If I type a particularly long reply I tend to store it in a text file for a few days. But I find it really annoying when I get a response from someone, and my earlier post(s) are not there to refer to, makes a discussion much harder to conduct.
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Strange? At the time of this PIVOTAL battle, the USSR was the nazi's "bestest fwend", happily supplying their non aggression pact partner with MILLIONS of tons of food, raw materials and fuel.
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@elaeri542 If it wasn't for the UK then the USSR would have been conquered and raped like the rest of continental Europe in 1942/43.
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The whole insistance of banging on constantly about "mental elf" is purely to indoctrinate young impressionable minds that they are suffering from problems they're not even aware of.
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@bobsakamanos4469 If it didn't get the first punch in against an unwary opponent it was useless. Numerous accounts of if being totally outclassed and forced to fly in defensive circles due to its poor acceleration and maneouvrability.
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@bobsakamanos4469 As a fighter it was a one trick pony, any RAF pilot who was caught unawares was likely to be blown out of the sky, against an alert opponent you may as well have fought RAF fighters with a JU 88. Numerous accounts of the 110 being forced to fly in defensive circles purely to survive due of its lumbering lack of manoeuvrability.
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The collapse of the axis forces in North Africa in May 1943 netted as many axis troops as did the collapse at Stalingrad.
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The RN would have been able to trounce ANY grouping the Kriegsmarine could muster, even if it had to strip the rest of the empire's naval squadrons to do so, much as they did by moving "Force H" from the Mediterranean Fleet into the Atlantic to counteract Bismarck's run for France. The Atlantic was the very jugular of the empire, the extremities may have had to be allowed to wither, but EVERYTHING depended on the Atlantic, It would have had major strategic consequences elsewhere, but operationally within the Atlantic the KM would still have been crushed. As for Joining with the Japanese fast carrier forces, how was that going to operate? They made their excursion into the Indian Ocean in April 1942 and immediately found themselves overstretched and with too few ships covering too many duties.
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@GM-fh5jp They did indeed find themselves master of the eastern Indian ocean for the short time they were there, but as I said they almost immediately withdrew due to the perimeter of sea they were trying to control being beyond their means. The RN on the other hand kept control of the Arctic, North Atlantic (with the RCN), South Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian, and eventually projected into the Pacific, on outside lines of comms & supply. The Japanese controlled half the pacific on internal lines of comms and suppply, and found that it couldn't expand further. (P.S I know about the RN losses, my own father was a survivor of HMS Dorsetshire, sunk on April 5th south of India, he also took part in the rescues of the Bismarck survivors a year earlier).
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You could.... IF you controlled the seas around your intended victim.
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You mean the single squadron of the RCAF that took part in the battle? Yes we honour the Canadians as well. (Just don't mention Blenheims to them).
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You forgot to mention the 75% of Fighter Command who were British born, do they not deserve inclusion?
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Yet it was still a whippersnapper compared to HMS Warspite the RN battlewagon that was in the THICK of naval action during TWO world wars... not just one.
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@nozack5612 But that wasn't the doing of USS Enterprise alone, we were talking about individual ships combat records weren't we?
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@nozack5612 Aircraft carriers were without doubt the nemesis of the old battlewagons, and Enterprise gave out and took a good hammering. But likewise HMS Warspite went toe to toe with the best that the Germans could offer in WW1 (including circling alone twice in front of the entire German "Hochseeflotte" at Jutland), and fought through naval and air engagements (including a battering at Crete & surviving 2 hits from the cutting edge wonder weapon of the Germans "Fritz X" at Salerno) RIGHT the way through WW2 from the frozen wastes of Norway to the heat of the Mediterranean gauntlet and the Indian Ocean, making her the most honoured ship in the long annals of the Royal Navy.
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@nozack5612 I'm glad we can come to a common appreciation of the edited highlights of each other's respective naval heritage Zack. All the best.
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There isn't? YT disabled the "dislike" function a few years ago. I suspect your comment is your humour being fired up by your own ignorance.
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@aldgate Which browser exetnsion is that? I'd like to see the "dislikes" of various videos myself. I maybe incorrectly assumed you were expressing some personally held groundless belief that the video was disliked.
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Please explain your hairbrained theory for us all to dissect.
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@bartekbiniszewski5756 Oh look yet ANOTHER communist brainwashed modern day Pole. While it's true that Poland AGREED to repay the UK taxpayer £13 million over 22 years from 1946 onwards, the UK taxpayer had through WW2 and the years following furnished the Polish govt in exile with over £150 million (£5.3 BILLION in 2025) of equipment, supplies and finance and at the war's end then kindly wrote off 91.4% of the Polish wartime debt to the UK, leaving the already bankrputed taxpayers of the UK a further £140 million out of pocket with regard to Poland. What a bargain for Poland !!!! As for the "telling them to get lost" nonsense, go read about the UK's 1947 Polish Resettlement Act that granted FULL UK citizenship and residency rights to over 250,000 Polish ex-service personnel AND their families., thereby saving them from brutality and death at the hands of Polish communists. Please think twice before insulting the nation to whom your country owes its ENTIRE current existence.
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@bronsonperich9430 Mohinder Singh Pujji was from Himachal Pradesh, India, volunteered for the RAF and arrived in the UK during October 1940. Although having his own prewar pilot's licence, he underwent RAF training and as I stated above became an operational pilot in April 1941. He served honourably throughout the rest of the war, and received the DFC for his skill and daring during reconnaisance flights over Burma. A statue in his honour currently stands in Gravesend Kent, England. This video is regarding the battle of Britain, and I'm just correctly stating that NO Indian pilots flew during the battle. I am NOT denying their honourable and valued service AFTER the battle.
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@Jeremy-y1t Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!!
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@asmodeus0454 Was it just the British who built empires lefty? While completely ignoring the Roman, Persian, Mongol, Spanish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Mayan, Incan, Malian, Khmer and countless other avaricious regimes throughout human civilisation.
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In what context? In relation to the RAF it's most likely meaning is "Pilot Officer".
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What has any of that got to do with "English speakers"? What is Klaus Schwab's mother tongue?
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As are ALL government decisions taken by ALL governments. (unless the expenditure is to benefit them personally, then the pockets are bottomless).
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Pomógł
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She was too frightened to face the RN, but only too willing to rip her way through undefended merchant shipping.... time spent on sinking Bismarck was definitely NOT wasted.
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The Globalists have to have their "Bogeyman" to frighten the unthinkers into doing what they say.
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Do you mean the "Kidō Butai"? That was the Japanese name for its combined carrier strike force.
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You've apparently not watched much US TV then? Their "world premier league" self regard, knocks Britain's "pub sunday league" self promotional efforts into a cocked hat.
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So speaks AJP Taylor.
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Please, show us the error of our ways.... what was the true course of events?
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Please tell us your point of view.
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"Yes but becuase of zem we will get our arses kicked by zer uber navy and air force"
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"Prince Eug(e)n could've done the same thing to Hood considering Hood's armor or lack there of".... The delusions carry on unabated.
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Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur (French Forces of the Interior) AKA "The French Resistance".
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If you want to go into granular detail, 501 Squadron outperformed 303 Sqd when it came to Me109 kills during the battle. Despite the pilots of 501 having less average experience than the Polish pilots.
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Germany had its own nuclear weapons program, its why it was harvesting "heavy water" (Deuterium oxide) at the "Norsk Hydro" plant at Vemork in Norway. To read more about the allied effort to sabotage the production of the vital component of atomic weapon production read about "Operation Gunnerside".
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After having found Prinz Eugen's range then had to start from scratch when she recognised her targetting error. Still HMS PoW made up for it with the first hit landed by either side on Bismarck.
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What a dork. At this point in WW2 Stalin was SUPPLYING the nazis with millions of tons of food, raw materials and fuel. Britain won the battle of Britain INSPITE of the USSR.
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They were shadowing from approximately 20 miles behind. With Bismarck / PE travelling at high speed during the Denmark Strait encounter, the following heavy cruisers had only a few knots speed advantage to close in, HMS Norfolk did fire a few salvoes towards the end of the engagement, but they were effectively still out of practical firing range. In addition due to Holland's radio silence in Hood / PoW prior to the interception it was very difficult for Wake-walker in HMS Norfolk to coordinate his cruisers actions with those of Hood / PoW. This lack of communications and coordination is one of the factors that with hindsight Lancelot Holland could be potentially criticised for, but it would appear that he hoped to surprise the Germans while also " crossing their 'T' ". He succeeded in the former, but failed in the latter.
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Nah..... unless you can tell me of the network of industrial scale death camps in Great Britain.
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Every nation devastated and financially bankrupted.... except ONE. The USSR lost 27 million lives. The US lost an incredibly TINY fraction of that figure....was never bombed..... and finished the war overflowing with the gold of other nations. The US won the war AND spread its still ongoing hegemony across Europe and Asia.
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It ain't gonna happen like that... they'll kill us off with their engineered viruses. Less damage and turmoil.
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@MarkHarrison733 Changed your tune from "they never attempted invasion" haven't you Mark? Though what use RAF bombers had in defending against German bombers over London still eludes me.
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Apparently the nazis have made it as far at the Canadian govt.
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The "Queen Elizabeth" being referred to was the wife of King George VI (Elizabeth née Bowes-Lyon) Who was at that point titled "Queen Elizabeth"... and after the ascension to the throne of her daughter Queen Elizabeth II she was titled "Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother".
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My father was onboard the RN heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire at the time of the Bismarck saga. They had been escorting a British convoy from Freetown in Sierra Leone to the UK, and had detached from the convoy escort to intercept Bismarck... for a time it appeared that Dorsetshire might be the last RN ship able to intercept the German battleship, and Capt Martin of Dorsetshire announced to the crew over the ship's tannoy system, that he intended to close on Bismarck and if necessary RAM HER to prevent it from reaching France. Luckily for dad & the rest of the ship's crew the Fleet Air Arm Swordfish put a torpedo into Bismarck's rudders and removed the need for such drastic action by Dorsetshire.
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The enemy subverted our government and institutions LONG ago.
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But why did the UK being an island not save it from Roman, Viking, Anglo-Saxon and Norman invasion? Looks like you've wasted 1 minute by not providing any answer at all !!!
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@thecommonsenseconservative5576 I think you'll find that the English channel that makes Britain an island has existed for around the last 10,000 years since the end of the last ice age, it wasn't fabricated during the British industrial revolution. And yet those other pre-industrial military forces managed to cross it succesfully. But I'll give it to you that by mentioning the modern industrial age you're getting closer to what REALLY stopped the German invasion of Britain. It's fun getting people to enlighten themselves.
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@thecommonsenseconservative5576 "Thousands" of years ago? Think you need to spend some more time on learning your historical dates. The English Channel that makes the UK an island, has existed for approximately 10,000 years, (since the end of the last ice age) and so was still a barrier to those pre-industrial European empires I mentioned above, but I'll give it to you that by your mentioning the "modern industrial age" you're getting closer to what was the ACTUAL reason for the German's inability to invade the UK. It's fun helping people to enlighten themselves.
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Yes the whole of Europe may have been turned into a post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland... How Joyous !!!
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"the brits had no chance".... You do know the story don;t you? As for PE "didn't sink", you are aware she is upside down with her superstructure resting on the sea floor?
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Russia is NOT terrorising Europe. The NATO front line has moved 1000 miles EASTWARDS in the last 30 years. Give over you panic spreading globalist shill.
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Don't you understand that the German national psyche truly believes that it is it's natural right to rule over other countries. They've failed at every military attempt to achieve this destiny, and now act as the self appointed de facto "group leader" for the globalist EUSSR region.
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Harris was ordered by Churchill & the cabinet to draw up plans for the air assault on German cities... He then directed RAF Bomber Command to carry out those orders. When close to the war's end, the colossal destruction wrought acrss Germany's cities was uncovered by the advancing allied armies, the public recoiled in horror. Churchill and the coalition govt, instictively pulled the rug from under Harris and denied ever having ordered such destruction, portraying that Harris had taken their "suggestions" too far. You can hear it from the great man himself here. https://youtu.be/UCWK-O7cKvc?t=236 Who would have guessed it? Politicians lying through their back teeth to save their political skins.
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I'll bet you a months income it won't happen.
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??????????
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You mean its own political establishment now fully infiltrated & corrupted by corporate globalism?
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Look above the Russia / Ukraine / EU narrative. World events are planned and manipulated by globalists organisations who then portray their orchestrated "events" as the result of conflicts between nations.
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@SeanSmith-f3t How do you work that out? Are you suggesting we instead left the nazis to run their network of industrial scale death camps uninterrupted?
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Wrong !!! At this point of WW2 (July 1940 - May 1941) NO other country on earth apart from the British Isles was being subjected to the full fury of German military aggression. Glad to have been of help clearing that up for you !!!
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@sukhastings4200 No, it was actually an RAF PBY that had been bought with UK gold from the US. Apart from 1 USN officer onboard helping the RAF crew to assimilate to the new "Catalina Mk I" the US had utterly nothing to do with the locating or sinking of the Bismarck.
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And not a mention of radar & the fighter control "Dowding system" that was THE winning factor of the whole battle.
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The US was dragged kicking and screaming against it's will into the European war. They were only too eager to see the British empire bled to death while it fought to oppose military tyranny in Europe.
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@3112-x9r Thanks for letting us know... if we ever see you being attacked and stabbed by an assailant, we'll just let him get on with it then, as you prefer.
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While its true that battlecruisers were not designed to confront battleships, HMS Hood, as a result of the type's poor showing at Jutland in WW1, was an evolution of the original battlecruiser idea. After her redesign on the stocks at John Brown shipyard in Glasgow she sported battleship armour and firepower, but was 7-8 knots faster than all contemporary battleships. As Shakespeare had written 300 years earlier.... "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
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What's the game? Do we have to arrange your words into a sequence that actually means something?
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@dovetonsturdee7033 It does indeed, Mr Preview.
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We don't need to speak German, we beat you off no problem. You just keep learning English and we'll get along fine.
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??? The British had NO allies.
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@spitfire4206 The British Empire was the ONLY force then still fighting on against nazism. There were no other nations involved.
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@spitfire4206 Don't mistake a small number of REFUGEES for "allies". Britain was alone.
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@spitfire4206 Inspite of what you imagine, The defence of Britain in 1940/41 was carried out by 95% BRITISH troops & personnel. Time for you to do some more reading, and not from the "socialist worker".
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@spitfire4206 Indeed, you stay stupid and uninformed... that's your right !!!
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@MarkHarrison733 No she wasn't. Franco EXPRESSLY declined to join the Fascists and allowed only the "Blue division" to fight in Spain as a "Thank you" for the fascist assitance provided to it during the Spanish civil war. Franco KNEW that his country depended more on US support than it did German, hence his refusal to be drawn into the axis.
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"The USA would be the only thing stopping Stalin from taking the UK" Would it? Once again how do you think a soviet invasion across the English Channel is going to evade the world's strongest navy (That in 1942 still being the Royal Navy)? The soviet navy consisted of 7 dug out canoes and 3 coracles... fortunately they did not have enough rubber to kit out their massed armies with the "inflatables" that the modern day globalist puppet politicians in the supposed "UK govt" find so impossible to stop from crossing the channel.
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Did someone say something?
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@MarkHarrison733 "Newer aircraft carriers"? You mean the ones that weren't suitable for operations in the Atlantic and especially the Mediterranean because of their flimsy wooden decks and lack of armour? Hence why virtually no US aircraft carriers entered the Mediterranean until 1944. The British fleet carriers had been operating under heavy axis air attack in the Med from 1940 - 44.
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Sorry to disappoint you but in May 1941 it most definitely wasn't.
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She only made it through 1 World war. Try HMS Warspite..... Toe to toe with the enemy right through TWO world wars.
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What in 1940 in Europe?
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@dovetonsturdee7033 I'm eager to hear more about the luftwaffe's aerial assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington. Or how the Kriegsmarine planned a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand, or how Canada & India were threatened with invasion by the German army. Oh, hold on !!!! Incoming message on the teleprinter....... in 1940 it was only Britain who faced all of those challenges... Britain ALONE.
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So little advantage? Monte Cassino blocked the entrance to the Liri valley the major route to Rome.
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For future reference.... YaMATO.
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Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation subjected to ALL of those threats by the nazis between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the actual number of pilots from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) By the time of the expected invasion in Sept 1940 the British army was fielding 2 British Armoured divisions 2 British Armoured tank brigades 15 British infantry divisions (full strength) 7 British infantry divisions (under strength). 7 British infantry Brigades 2 British motor machine gun Brigades 1 Canadian infantry division (full strength) 2 Australian infantry brigades (BOTH under strength) 1 NZ infantry division (actually an understrength infantry Brigade but with an attached British motor machine gun brigade)
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@mikemines2931 No we've already taken "Jon Kline" into account.
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And guess who was supplying YOU. 🇬🇧
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You mean the United Kingdom. When do YOU consider WW2 started?
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You do realise that the Cons, Liebour, and the lib demons are ALL fully bought and paid for by corporate globalism. They ALL take their orders from the WEF/UN/Globalists but "dress their windows" with petty differences to make it appear that we still "have a choice", when the reality is that we're now being pushed into a globalist dictatorship, dressed up as modern "western democracy".
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I was born in Liverpool on 25th Feb (1966) and MY father was a bus driver..... unfortunately I never accrued the countless millions of £££££s that George did. :face-purple-crying::face-purple-crying::face-purple-crying:
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"Fascist Russia"? Stepan Bandera Anyone?
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Makes a LOT of money for those at the top, while it "thins out" the "masses". A win - win for the "elites".
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What makes you think we aren't?
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Another alumni of the "Cletus Redneck skool of huyer ejukashun".
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Bismarck's main armour belt was made of face hardened steel called "New type Krupp Cemented" which was no better than British "cemented" armour which was made using the same industrial processes, though post war ballistic testing showed it better than US face hardened "Class A" armour. (excuse me while I don my protective body armour.... INCOMING !!!)
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In what way was Bismarck "more high tech" that her European counterparts? Maybe the US has a pacifo-centric perspective and fails to consider the war effort of its allies in the European theatre which shaped the war. P.S at the time of the Bismarck episode Yamato was sitting in a fitting out basin in Kure shipyards in japan minus a sizeable proportion of her combat systems. If you're going to ignore chronology then study the USS Gerald B Ford aircraft carrier instead.
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Who are "Lee Mallery and Shelter Douglas"?
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Please provide us with details of the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation being subjected to ALL those threats by the nazis between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. No need to thank me for unburdening you of your complete cluelessness.
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Well in "Operation Berlin" 4 months earlier Lütjens had successfully taken Scharnhorst and Gneisenau through the Denmark Strait and into the north Atlantic for a commerce raiding operation that lasted for 2 months, sinking or capturing 22 merchant ships, whilst evading the RN, finally dropping anchor in Brest on the Brittany coast.
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They could've carried on exterminating further millions... oh if only !!!!
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In a memorandum dated 12th July 1940 Alfred Jodl, who was Chief of staff of OKW (German armed forces high command), set out to the high commands of the 3 armed forces (Army / Navy / Air force) the outline plan that OKW wanted them to each flesh out with their own subordinate planning for their own respective roles. In the preamble of this memorandum he described the scope of the proposed operation with the phrase "a river crossing on a broad front". This infuriated the OKM (German Naval High command) as river crossings don't usually entail a distance of travel of 100 miles across stormy, unpredictable waters, "River Crossings" also tend not to have to deal with large fleets of powerful warships sailing into their midst.
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I think they may have meant "eight tons of steel leaving her gun barrels", which although still slightly overblown is a dramatic way of describing a full main battery broadside.
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Its not so much that the French tanks were "better" than the German ones (and yes some of the French tanks WERE far better armed and armoured than their German counterparts) it was the manner in which they were used that was the decisive element. The French generally employed the elements of their armoured units dispersed amongst the infantry divisions as sub units supporting infantry actions, the Germans used their tanks as concentrated units that were organised from the outset to keep the sub units of the panzer divisions in close support to each other, and had attached mobile infantry elements to support the tanks, rather than the other way around, the whole supply infrastructure for the panzer units was designed to allow deep penetration of enemy territory where as the French supply network was geared towards slower infantry advances which prevented the French tanks from sustaining the pressure of their attack beyond a day or so.
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USSR was Germany's ally during the Battle of Britain, soft lad. The UK was up against +95% of Luftwaffe air power in summer 1940.
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I've said it for years... very few people pick up on what you've said, Well done.
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Speaking "foreign" isn't a requirement for us, when you speak one of the world's leading languages.
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Such ignorance still exists today, with the US STILL referring to the United Kindom as "England" for example.
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DrWeird-op1kg England is a country as are Scotland and Wales.... add all three of them together and it becomes "Great Britain"... then add in Northern Ireland and it becomes the "United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland" (or the UK for short).
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Well one Canadian division out of 15 British army divisions defending the south East of England in Sept 1940.
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@SCVM__ Sorry, I don't live on your planet.
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@SCVM__ I have a better than average perception of particularly 20th century military history, but I'm also quite good at spotting blustering uninformed national pride.
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@SCVM__ Please tell me exactly where I said the battles you mentioned were "nothing"? I would name the individual battles where over the last two millenia non-Canadians have fought and died but I would runout of space. Amongst my many family members who fought in both World Wars I had one British cousin who was killed driving a Matilda tank in North Africa as part of the 7th RTR fighting the Italian Maletti tank Regt at "Camp Nabeiwa" during "Operation Compass" in Dec 1940, but then again I also had another cousin from Maple Creek Saskatchewan, Canada, who was killed driving a sherman tank of the Canadian 28th (British Columbia) armoured regiment during Operation "Totalise" on 9th August 1944 near the village of Estrees-le-Campagne, Normandy, France..... but inspite of being a proud Englishman I don't feel the desire to put their or anyone else's efforts or ultimate sacrifice forward to minimise or diminish the sacrifices of citizens of other nations.
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@SCVM__ Please tell me exactly where I said the battles you mentioned were "nothing"? I would name the individual battles where over the last two millenia non-Canadians have fought and died but I would runout of space. Amongst my many family members who fought in both World Wars I had one British cousin who was killed driving a Matilda tank in North Africa as part of the 7th RTR fighting the Italian Maletti tank Regt at "Camp Nabeiwa" during "Operation Compass" in Dec 1940, but then again I also had another cousin from Maple Creek Saskatchewan, Canada, who was killed driving a sherman tank of the Canadian 28th (British Columbia) armoured regiment during Operation "Totalise" on 9th August 1944 near the village of Estrees-le-Campagne, Normandy, France..... but inspite of being a proud Englishman I don't feel the desire to put their or anyone else's efforts or ultimate sacrifice forward to minimise or diminish the sacrifices of citizens of other nations.
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The globalists are MORE than eager to destroy the UK because we told the European branch of their ongoing world hegemony to "f*ck off" in 2016.
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It's modern cringe TV. Clueless producers dumbing down history for the millenials.
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He delivers an EXCELLENT presentation with beautiful diction. Whats not to like?
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Much like an incident near to where I used to live in Liverpool UK, where a luftwaffe bomb hit the "Ernest Brown Junior instructional college" on Durning road, which at the time had over 300 people sheltering in its basement. The school collapsed into the basement crushing many to death, unfortunately many of those that survived that event were subsequently scalded to death when the boilers that powered the school's heating system, burst. 166 men women and children were killed in that episode, more than 20 of the victims could not be identified.
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Well done for displaying your complete youthful ignorance of the reality of the situation.
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Everyone has their own "telephone voice".... for these people its the "luvvies affectation".
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Please provide us with details of the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the only nation being subject to all of those threats by the nazis between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. No need to thank me for unburdening you of your complete cluelessness.
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At the time of the "Bismarck chase" there were SEVEN British convoys transitting the Atlantic. Amongst the civilian sailors crewing the ships of those convoys were a number of my own family. Over 30,000 merchant sailors were killed during WW2 inspite of not being members of ANY military service.
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Yup, totally.
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Mark's grandad made him an absolutely blithering idiot.
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To the idiots above, Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the only nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE.
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@countryman3460 Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was Great Britain ALONE.
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@Jeremy-y1t You just can't be right for being wrong can you Jeremarkyjames? The Italian invasion of Greece in Oct 1940 meant that the Greek govt had invited British troops to assist them which duly first landed in Greece in March 1941. You certainly don't believe in letting facts get in the way of your complete BS do you, Jeremarkyjames?
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@Jeremy-y1t It was invaded in Oct 1940 by the Italians, and solely fought agianst them on it's home soil. The nazis were not involved until 1941.
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@mikedon5205 Just to detail the commonwealth units in Britain in Sept 1940. The 1st Canadian infantry Division (the full strength division that you mention) stationed south of London around the Leatherhead area in Surrey, the 2nd Canadian division at the time was a skeletal force whose poorly equipped subordinate units only started to arrive in Britain in late august 1940 and was in no condition for combat. Then there was the "2nd Australian Imperial Force" (Australforce) which though nominally comprised of 2 brigades (the 18th & 25th) actually only had the combined strength of a single 8000 man Brigade stationed outside Basingstoke, and finally the "2nd New Zealand Expeditionary force" a grand sounding title that hide the fact that it was comprised of solely the NZ 2nd infantry division which was comprised of 2 understrength infantry Brigade (5th & 7th NZ Inf Brigades). Its two understrength brigades were bolstered by the addition of the BRITISH 1st motor machine gun brigade and was stationed near to Maidstone in Kent. By the time of the expected invasion in Sept 1940 the British army was fielding 2 British Armoured divisions 2 British Armoured tank brigades 15 British infantry divisions (full strength) 7 British infantry divisions (under strength). 7 British independent infantry Brigades 2 British motor machine gun Brigades 1 Canadian infantry division (full strength) (plus some small under equipped subordinate units of a 2nd division) 1 NZ infantry "division" (actually 2 understrength infantry Brigades but with an attached British motor machine gun brigade) 2 Australian infantry brigades (under strength & unequipped) In addition to these forces were the 1,500,000 million men of the British "Home Guard". As you can see, as well as being the ONLY country being threatened by nazism from July 1940 to April 1941, the defence of the UK was a +95% British affair at this early stage of the war. It was in the years following AFTER 1940 that the size of the British Commonwealth forces really started to grow. Glad to have been of help in unburdening you of your misunderstanding in regard of this topic.
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@mikedon5205 Just to detail the commonwealth units defending Britain in Sept 1940. The 1st Canadian infantry Division stationed south of London around the Leatherhead area in Surrey, the 2nd Canadian division at the time had not yet mobilised and was a skeletal force whose poorly equipped subordinate units only started to arrive in Britain in late august 1940 and was in no condition for combat. Then there was the "2nd Australian Imperial Force" (Australforce) which though nominally comprised of 2 brigades (the 18th & 25th) actually only had the combined strength of a single 8000 man Brigade stationed outside Basingstoke, and finally the "2nd New Zealand Expeditionary force" a grand sounding title that hide the fact that it was comprised of solely the NZ 2nd infantry division which was itself comprised of 2 understrength infantry Brigades (5th & 7th NZ Inf Brigades). Its two understrength brigades were bolstered by the addition of the BRITISH 1st motor machine gun brigade and was stationed near to Maidstone in Kent. By the time of the expected invasion in Sept 1940 the British army was fielding 2 British Armoured divisions 2 British Armoured tank brigades 15 British infantry divisions (full strength) 7 British infantry divisions (under strength). 7 British independent infantry Brigades 2 British motor machine gun Brigades 1 Canadian infantry division (full strength) (plus some small under equipped subordinate units of the 2nd division) 1 NZ infantry "division" (actually 2 understrength infantry Brigades but with an attached British motor machine gun brigade) 2 Australian infantry brigades (under strength & under equipped) In addition to these forces were the 1,500,000 million men of the British "Home Guard". As you can see, as well as being the ONLY country being threatened by nazism from July 1940 to April 1941, the defence of the UK was a +95% British affair at this early stage of the war. It was in the following years AFTER 1940 that the size of the British Commonwealth forces really started to grow. Glad to have been of help in unburdening you of your misunderstanding in regard of this topic.
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@Jeremy-y1t "Even though the Axis gave British India its freedom." Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!!
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@CB-fz3li I've just transcribed the figures mentioned at the end of the "battle of Britain" movie.
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Corporate globalism. IN the James Bond films "SPECTRE" led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld was the global crime syndicate. In real life it is the World Economic Forum with Klaus Schwab stroking a white pussycay at the head of all the evil in the world today.
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Hahaha.... complete nonsense.
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Just to provide you with a helpful "visual aid" in order to correct your lack of knowledge about the battle of Britain I kindly put together this accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧UK 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia 🇦🇺 Australia 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇿🇦 S. Africa (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France, R o Ireland, USA, Rhodesia, Newfoundland, Jamaica, Barbados) No need to thank me.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw The Luftwaffe dropped its first bombs on Britain on 13th Oct 1939 nearly 6 months before Britain returned the compliment. Of Course the luftwaffe had been killing hundreds of completely innocent civilians such as the 650 at Guernica since 1937.
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Just what WAS the ridiculous kriegsmarine thinking !!!!
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Must be near where you live. It's lovely round by ours.
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There were no Me 109s in airworthy condition? And no godawful CGI (thankfully) in 1969 so what do you do? Not make the film?
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Not for me..... stop watching on a TV or phone like an idiot.
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@garythomson5039 There was a wrong conclusion... and you jumped to it. I'll spell it out for you. Watch on a computer and install an adblocker. There.... I've made your life better.
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By the time Iowa was completed the Royal Navy had packed the Kriegsmarine off to the Baltic and a couple of Norwegian fjords never to be heard of again.
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Well the Germans had to give Poland to the communists... they'd had their arses kicked during operation "Bagration" in Summer 1944 when the soviets kicked them out of Poland and took it for themselves.
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They're utterly cringeful aren't they?
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But you do realise Bismarck, as well as most European naval forces were not designed for operations in the Pacific. In as much the same was as US aircraft carriers, while effectively throwing their weight around in the Pacific never dared to enter the Mediterranean where their wooden decks and the comprehensive land based Axis air cover would have seen them on the sea bed in double quick time.
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@jackreacher5667 Not much to contend with their Jack, although the idea that British capital ships had "wooden decks" is completely wrong.... you'll especially see that the differences between USN and RN aircraft carriers in particular were VERY marked indeed, the USN designing large capacity carriers that did not need much in the way of defensive armour due to mostly operating far away from land in the Pacific, compared to RN carriers which had far smaller air components but which were far more heavily armoured to defend against the far more prevelent land based air power in the North sea / European Atlantic / Mediterranean theatres. My "go to" example to show the differences between the USN and RN designs is to compare what happened when USS Bunker Hill was hit by kamikazes as to what happened when HMS Indomitable & Indefatigable suffered the same attacks.
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@jackreacher5667 "Most aircraft carriers,(British and American) even the Iowa class ships had Teak decks" (You are aware the "Iowas" were NOT carriers, aren't you?) WRONG. Most British WW2 aircraft carriers such as the "Illustrious", "Indomitable" & "Inplacable" classes did NOT have wooden decks, instead having 3in thick armour acting as horizontal protection and also as the actual flight deck, as well as a further 2in thick armoured deck protecting the hangars. US "Yorktown" carriers had flightdecks of teak planking over standard three quarter inch plating. The "Essex" class had in parts 1.5in plating under the teak planking. It wasn't until after WW2 that the US "Midway" class carriers had deck armour comparable with RN carriers. If you'd like the prime examples of the structural differences between RN and USN aircraft carriers, read about the resultant damage caused by a single bomb on USS Princeton ("Independence" class carrier) and kamikaze attacks against USS Bunker Hill (an Essex class carrier), HMS Illustrious, HMS Indomitable & HMS Indefatigable. On USS Bunker Hill a single kamikaze on her deck wrecked her, killing over 400 crew and knocking her out of action for the rest of the war, as it took 6 months of repairs to make her operational again. HMS Illustrious survived a kamikaze hit by a Japanese bomber as well as the detonation of its 1000kg bomb adjacent to her hull, Indomitable & Indefatigable on the other hand were both hit by kamikazes, and in each case the wreckage of the Japanese aircraft was "brushed overboard", and quick drying cement was used to fill in the resultant dent on their flight decks, meaning that both were flying aircraft off within 90 minutes of the attacks, in each case the number of crew lost was in the order of low 10s. "A little bit of research can often be a wonderful thing." indeed, you should try it sometime.
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@jackreacher5667 Where exactly have I said "only some of the (US) ships had it (wooden decks)"? You need to spend more time on your English comprehension, and less time trying to think of put-downs that fall flat.
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What a complete non surprise to see you here James with your complete BS.
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user-wj6dt5bq3w I have for over fifty years. Widely read.... not just David Irving and "Europa: the last battle".
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Due to the misplaced truculence of one idiotic French officer. Bruno-Marcel Gensoul.
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Oh you mean international trade? The same international trade that ALL countries of the world (including the US) need for their economy to survive. It was all paid for, don't be trying to make out that the "US saved Britain", we saved ourselves and paid the price for it, your lot just sat at the side profiteering from both sides while the second largest economy after your own ground itself into bankruptcy fighting to oppose fascism when no one else could be bothered.
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@kmaher1424 Apart from the ongoing globalist "one world" empire.
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I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the actual number of pilots from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white British descent).
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Without Hugh Dowding as head of the RAF Technical Section from 1932 onwards, and the British tax payer, then instead of having the world's first radar based, real time, air defence system directing world class fighter aircraft to defend the UK, AVM Keith Park would have been facing the luftwaffe in 1940 with Hawker Fury biplane fighters flying ineffective standing patrols over the skies of Southern England, the same standing patrols that had previously seen both the Polish and French air forces wiped out in days. As for your "we were never alone" nonsense, could you please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or the British west African colonies? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE. In future just tell us that you hate the UK and we can all safely ignore your nonsense.
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@willevans429 My word you HAVE spent too long living alone out in that sheep station in the outback haven't you ? Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!!
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Do your duty and tell us some of your facts !!!!
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@sextoncardew903 Another misinformed dupe of the left. Do you think before the rise of the British empire that the human race had existed for millenia in peaceful harmony? Ah bless, to be able to live in such uninformed simple naivete, do you also believe in unicorns and fairies too?... It'd be interesting to hear your take on the use of black slaves for the construction of the pyramids, the enslavement of Europe, the middle east and northern Africa by the Romans, the constant murderous millenia long competition between the civilisations of central and southern Americas and the +100 million who died at the hands of 20th century socialism.... or were the British responsible for all that as well?
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"If the German's had come...." What? Across the choppy channel in their Rhine river barges, contending with the world's strongest navy? The British army were safe on their "flowerpots".
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@ScienceChap Excellent post.... Can I add that Hood's main belt was angled outwards at 13 degrees to give an effective 13 inches of belt thickness, Bismarck's belt was not so inclined.
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@oranculpepper9008 Poles should be grateful there was a lone country prepared to stand up to nazism for them to take refuge in.
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@oranculpepper9008 The US GAVE nothing to ANYONE !!!! They profiteered in the most disgusting way, overcharging both for goods & credit to countries fighting against the evils of nazism. (While also supplying the nazis as well to a lesser degree). The only reason they came over to Europe was to stop the USSR from advancing to the French atlantic coast. You did the same to the Russkis too.... selling them the materials to do the lions share of the fighting and death. Still looks like China has you over a barrel now. At least the British empire lasted 300 years...a bit more than America's 80 years at the top.
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@mariuszkowalski6472 No pain at all for me Mariusz, I was born LONG after the Empire had fallen. I'm just happy to stand up for GB amongst the flood of uninformed, post Brexit, globalist MSM propaganda thats pumped on these threads by the younger, easily led generations. Lefty revisionists are the flavour of the month, just have to keep them and their nonsense in their rightful place. Facts are facts though. Just like to keep the record straight.
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Instead of watching on a phone, tablet or TV , rise above that nonsense and watch it on a computer with an ad blocker installed.... it's like the intenet was 20 years ago. Bliss !!!
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If the US was supposedly at war with Germany from that date, then why did US corporations continue to carry out MASSIVELY profitable trade with the nazis, right the wat throughout WW2 as it happened.
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Oh please not this BS AGAIN !!! Poland was actually the ONLY nation to receive TWO invites to the 1946 London Victory parade, it was due to a poisonous, bitter mix of POLISH political hatred and hubris that they CHOSE to IGNORE BOTH invites. If the UK was so "fearful of upsetting Starling".... (Starling? REALLY?) Then why were the Yugoslavs, Czechs as well as the Soviet Union ALSO invited? While the Czechs DID take part in the parade, the Yugoslavs and soviets, like Poland, ignored their invites.
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More precisely Brits "move your ships out of reach of the Germans" French "Non" Brits "blam blam blam".
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History is no longer taught in western schools as the corporate globalists who now direct western government policy want a cultural "year zero" before they start their reforming of the world. It's upto older people to pass on the torch of history to the younger generation, and to protect its flame from the devious forces that aim to rewrite it. A lot of young people are still interested in learning about "what went before" as can be told from many comments in YT threads.
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The root of his destruction was summer 1940.... before the USSR or USA were involved.
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Not necessary... learn to remove the ads. Easily achievable if you read into it.
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You forgot to mention the world's then most powerful navy defeding British shores.
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They're wrong then aren't they?
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"Help"? My word you're completely CLUELESS aren't you?
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Complete BS though.
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Not for the brighter people watching.
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Park..... Park..... Park..... P... A... R... K PARK !!!!
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You may need to check the dosage levels of your meds.
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@YPALnative91 Nah, I just know too much of what the yanks were doing before 10th Dec 1941 to take retarded current day rednecks seriously.
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Dunkirk is in France..... what has Dutch got to do with anything?
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Globalists insinuate themselves in ALL national governments like a fungus taking over its host, including the puppet circus we now have "ruling" us from Westminster"at the moment. Rest assured if people don't wake up to it happening a nightmarish "one size fits nobody" one world government awaits....
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Spreaders of civilisation to the darkest corners of the planet.
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Don;t kid yourself. If it hadn't been for the west alliance, Stalin would have been eating borscht with a wooden spoon sitting in a cave in Outer Mongolia.
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A nice horse roast in the middle of the freezing Russian steppe... lovely.
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Rich and powerful arms manufacturers and their shareholders would NOT make MASSIVE profits from housebuilding and peace.
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After the damage sustained at Denmark Strait, Bismarck made directly for the only Atlantic port with the relevant facilities capable of effecting repairs to her. Dont think for one second Bismarck / Tirpitz would have toppled the UK, The Royal Navy had FAR more resources to call on if necessary to put the Kriegsmarine on the seabed, even if stripping its other fleets of vital ships caused strategic problems for Britain, the Atlantic was the very JUGULAR of the British empire.
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While an excellent pilot, he was NOT the "best ace" during the battle. That honour went to 21 year old Eric Stanley Lock. František was credited with 17 confirmed kills during the battle, Eric Lock was creditied with 21.5 confirmed kills during the battle.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Jesus James... that's hilarious... even for YOU !!!! Hahahaha
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw This may come as news to you "James" but John Lennon was not "the Beatles".
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Even if that were true, They're still not "the Beatles".
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Poor attempt to rile me there James... I really couldn't care less about John Lennon or the Beatles. Though I roll my eyes at an idiot who relishes murder.
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@chrislong3938 Easily pleased...I guess you're a cheap night out at least.
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@chrislong3938 Hahaha... well 2 British patriots should not fall out over a film. I LOVE this film, but have to say that as a small boy, "Day of the Triffids" had me leaving my bedroom light on for nights after watching it. All the best.
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While what you say is correct, not all convoys had an "R class" defending them, there were too many convoys and not enough battleships. Rest assured Bismarck would have raked any convoy without heavy protection especially with her 5.9in secondary armament.
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The Soviets worked their soldiers to an early grave. No field kitchens, leave, hershey bars and bottle of coke for them. After they'd routed the nazis they then had to go and scavage what food they could find... either off the land... or off the local populace.... day after day... until they fell.
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@Cotac_Rastic Please feel free to enlighten me then.
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Portholes were in non armoured areas, and NOT cut into the armoured belt.
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You've posted your flag in the wrong video.
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What use are RAF bombers when defending against an all out Luftwaffe assault on Great Brtiain exactly James?
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw No James, Britain did not bomb Germany in 1939 First German bombs on British soil 16th October 1939 First British bombs on German soil 13th March 1940 What was that you were saying?
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Granted RAF Bomber Command attacked German Kriegsmarine units AT SEA on 3rd Sept 1939, but at that early stage of the war Bomber Command were FORBIDDEN by the British government to bomb Germany. To illustrate the British Govt's desire to avoid civilian casualties at that point the British govt even forbade attacks on German naval units in port to avoid civilian casualties, and the early attacks against the German navy were even carried out in BROAD DAYLIGHT to avoid the possibilty of attacking innocent civilian shipping plying the northern coast of Germany, which resulted in heavy losses for the attacking RAF bomber... how decent of them. Please educate me as to exactly what land targets in Germany did the RAF bomb at ANY point in 1939... P.S Fancy that !!! 3rd Sept 1939..... that's the VERY same day that German U-boat captain Fritz-Julius Lemp in U-30 torpedoed the British civilian liner "S.S Athenia" carrying children being evacuated from the UK to Canada killing 117 innocent civilians BTW.
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They would have had to contend with cockneys an' suvverners before they met the Liverpudlians.
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Only now they're on "our side".
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IF it wasn't for Britain, then Europe would still to this DAY have swastikas flying over its cities. Read it and weep, sonny.
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"Invade - To enter by force in order to conquer or pillage" France was invaded. What you mean is she wasn't the usual unsuspecting victim that the nazis preferred to launch their unannounced attacks upon.
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With regard to the OPs contention that they were "all posh kids from the wealthy families", while the "poshies" were over-represented without a doubt in the form of RAF "career" pilots heavily bolstered by the RAF equivalent of the Army's "territorials" these "auxiliary squadrons" were made up of, by definition, rich, civilian aviation enthusiasts who trained part time pre-war. BUT there was the 3rd way of becoming an RAF pilot. The "RAF volunteer reserve" was a widespread UK Government program introduced in 1936 that as its name suggests was open to volunteers, usually from RAF "other ranks" but also civilians who showed the necessary aptitude for flight training and were trained at UK government expense. Through this program, PLENTY of "ordinary blokes" such as Ray Holmes, Charlton Haw and Maurice Leng, all took part in the battle, usually as "NCO pilots", the vast majority of RAFVR came from "ordinary" backgrounds.
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@RAL0981 USA AND the UK.
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No, you're wrong.The Luftwaffe threw its best at Britain in summer 1940, and was beaten at every turn.
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@thomasbach8723 Its you against common knowledge, Thomas.... I suppose the nazis threw away the creme of their prewar fighter pilot cadre on a whim? Wake up and wipe the sleep from your eyes Thomas.
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@thomasbach8723 There's on old saying in the UK Thomas.... "If at first you don't succeed.... destroy all evidence that you ever attempted it in the first place".
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There were no "Indians" defending the UK in 1940.... and VERY few Kiwis, Poles, South Africans, and Australians either.
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I know.... I've made a "battle of Britain" playlist. If I try to access it from Britain NINE of the videos are blocked, if I access it from the US (using a US VPN server) only 1 video is blocked. Fecking lawyers need putting up against a wall and shooting.
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"AI" really hasn't got the hang of the English languarge, has it?
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You wouldn't want one of her 15" shells to fall on your toe.
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"The Fuhrer And Supreme Commander Of The Armed Forces. The Fuhrer's Headquarters. 16th July, 1940. 7 copies Directive No. 16 -- On Preparations For A Landing Operation Against England Since England, in spite of her hopeless military situation, shows no signs of being ready to come to an understanding, I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and, if necessary, to carry it out. The aim of this operation will be to eliminate the English homeland as a base for the prosecution of the war against Germany and, if necessary, to occupy it completely."
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"world peace".... but only if you do as the Americans tell you to. "Pax Americana".
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More eager to diminish the achievement of the UK than to keep to historical facts, I see.
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Thank you for the information... I knew of Dowding's insistence on the laying of seperate telecoms cables to the individual stations, but that was as far as my knowledge extended, you've initiated some further reading topcs for myself, thank you again.
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Which is all you have to do when you know your enemy, who is in his ascendancy, is dead set on course to make an apocalyptic strategic blunder within a few months.
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It's the globalist corrupted politicians across the western world who have sold out their proud nations to the third world for their OWN benefit.
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At least you realise that Russia is NOT fighting Ukraine, but the collective militray industrial complex of the west, as the globalists attempt to collapse Russia so they can have a "free for all" with its boundless resources.
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@Jeremy-y1t Hahahaha... "a draw"..... comedy GOLD !!!
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@Jeremy-y1t I personally I blame William the Conqueror. Bringing his Norman knights over here, imposing his Gallic ways on the poor Saxon peasants.
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Yawn.... Go polish your HJ dagger Mark... you have school in the morning.
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A Glorious memory to have shared with us there....moments such as those would live with me till the end of my days also. Thanks for sharing.
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Aye, as mentioned by the FANTASTIC 1970s BBC documentary "The Secret War" which is from the era when the BBC was NOT a globalist mouthpiece spewing agenda laden BS into the airwaves.
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Stop watching YT on a phone, tablet or TV. Watch on a computer with an adblocker installed.... internet heaven.
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Jesus, clueless lefties and big mouthed yanks both claiming to have won the victory.... NEITHER of which would have survived with the British Empire.
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@MyWifesBoyfriend-pp8kq It's also sad that others offer smokescreens to divert one's attention from what is demonstrably going on in the UK's largely deregulated & privatised "ejukayshun sistim", at least.
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Watch on a PC and install an adblocker.. The internet is now UNUSABLE without one !!!
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Seeing as the English Channel has existed for millenia wasn't it smart of the British to develop the world's most powerful navy to defend it's shores? If we'd have been connected to the continent then we would, like all of the major continental European powers, have developed huge land armies instead. Remember that while the Romans, Vikings, Anglo Saxons and Normans were able to cross the seas to conquer Britain, the French Spanish and Germans could not. Why do you think that was?
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Forgot the pronoun nonsense. 99.9% of English speakers use the feminine, Lindemann's decree of "masculinity" was simply addressed to Bismarck's crew. You never served onboard her did you?
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Ringstellung and steckerbords.
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Stupid boy, Pike !!!
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They did their bit, They'd been filtered through 9 months of previous combat so only the better Polish pilots made it to the UK, and they had the most combat experience of all the allied pilots, though the rest quickly caught up with them. But we still thank them for their service, which is witnessed at every rememberance day parade in the Uk, where the Polish nation was ALWAYS well represented.
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Ships in the English language are customarily given the female pronoun.
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Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or Canada? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was Great Britain ALONE.
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Just because you married an old trout, doesn't mean we ALL did.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Did you hear something?
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At the time of Bismarck's sinking ORP Piorun was halfway back to Plymouth short of fuel.
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Yeah, like 147 Polish pilots out of nearly 3000 RAF Fighter Command pilots.
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Well to be fair ALL battleship guns were so powerful as to cause some degree of damage to the firing ship as well as the intended recipient.
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That's what you get for watching YT on a TV or phone. Watch it on a PC with an ad blocker installed and it lasts for 49 minutes 28 seconds of uninterrupted viewing pleasure.
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Absolutely correct.
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Its alluding to the amount of "metal" she fired from her main guns. Though even then its a bit overblown.
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Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or the British west African colonies? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE. The Commonwealth was in 1940 mostly a distant vocal supporter. The defence of the UK in 1940 was maintained by 95% British troops and citizens. It was another year or so before the commonwealth contribution in Europe REALLY began to kick in. I'm happy to have been of help in filling in the gaps in your knowledge of the subject.
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@Jeremy-y1t Germany attacked neutral Belgium and Poland in 1914 & 1939.
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Respects to the service, and in one case, sacrifice of the 3 Rhodesian pilots who took part in the battle.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Yawn.....
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What do you expect the program makers to do? Built and equip a factory to produce WW2 tanks?
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The precedent was set in 1936. Still its a chance to humiliate the "yellow peril" in the sports arena.
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Your post would be more respectful if you got his name right...... AVM Keith Park.
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Didn't the Germans have a heavy cruiser less than half the weight of the British battlecruiser in the same fight? Luckily for it, the British concentrated their fire on the Bismarck.
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WAKE UP !!! It's time for School !!!!
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Please give us the precis of your version.
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@sextoncardew903 Well what do YOU believe happened during summer/Autumn 1940?
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Apart from Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers that is.
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Dream on.
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Luftwaffe civilian terror bombing of the rest of Europe. Lefty morons: ..................................<tumbleweed>....................................... Allied retaliatory terror bombing of German cities. Lefty morons: WAR CRIMES !!! MURDERERS !!! DIG UP CHURCHILL & ROOSEVELT AND HANG THEM !!!
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Of course only the best Polish pilots made it to the UK, all the others had already perished fighting for Poland. How did "they" betray them exactly?
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NO adverts for me on my adblocked PC. Heaven.
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D-Day 156,000 Troops put ashore on the first day. Okinawa 50,000 troops put ashore on the first day.
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We all have different preferences. I prefer cut glass English to some slurring, incomprehensible half-wit.
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Learn to use the internet. "Ads" are yesterday.
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What a complete pile of BS. When were they "forced out of the UK"? Go read about the 1947 UK Polish resettlement act from the UK Govt legislation website, It was the act of parliament that conferred in UK law FULL UK citizenship and residency rights (including access to ALL welfare benefits) to ALL Polish service personnel who had served in the British armed forces during WW2 AND their families. Not ONE Polish soldier/airman/sailor was forcefully repatriated at the end of WW2. A small number did understandably CHOOSE to return to their homeland and lived to regret that decision. Please remember the maxim "It is better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt".
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@Crashed131963 Or with the world's largest navy protecting the UK.... with OR without air superiority.
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Do you think there was an emergency national referendum? You'll be shocked to know that in the UK there was actually a "national coalition govt" during the war that closely resembled a dictatorship.... but one that was bacisallly fighting evil.
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Great Britain bent over backwards to prevent an escalation of the almost inevitable death and destruction, unfortunately sometimes the other side is just gagging for a rumble and won't take "no" for an answer. The "other side" were sorry they did though.
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@notbraindead7298 I won't be there to stand for America mainly because I'm British..... other nationalities DO exist outside your closed little world "notbraindead". You're talking to someone whose father fought in WW2, and whose grandfathers fought in WW1. Don't try to lecture others about wearing uniforms. People who "wear uniforms" and fight usually do so so that the majority DON'T HAVE TO, They're also likely to fight against governments and organisations who wish to enslave you and remove your civil liberties. The problem arises when your OWN government decices to remove your civil liberties. IF you're so frightened of your own shadow, and winter sniffles, and thinking for yourself, and prefer to have an authoritarian administration make your decisions for you, why not apply for a visa and go live in North Korea?
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@notbraindead7298 P.S Laser like scientific foresight, expert marshalling of barely sufficient resources, and British pugnacity were the reasons we humiliated the luftwaffe in the summer of 1940 btw.... All the best.
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@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 Jesus christ... How old are you? School yard taunts in this day and age. Hahaha Remember kid, stay scared, do as the man in the expensive suit tells you to, don't bother using your own wisdom whatever you do. Who knows? Some day you may develop some.
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You worry about them for me, will you?
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People still had private lives during the battle. It was handled tastefully and in proportion. There are so many subtle nods to masses of different aspects of the battle hidden in the film.
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@MrFergusferret The Polish pilots "were better organised in combat"? Complete and utter rubbish. There was NO air force in existence in 1940 that was more disciplined and better organised that the RAF (who were actually too disciplined for their own good). The Poles, just by the fact of the total lack of Polish air force command and control structure in their own country pre-war, were initially "lone wolves" who acted according to the local situation, and were difficult to direct in the battle of Britain if for no other reason than the individual Polish pilot's poor grasp of English, which made it difficult for them to follow ground sector controllers orders over the radio, and hence why the Polish squadrons were led by British officers. Obviously only the most successful & able of the pre-war Polish pilots made it to Britain (the rest already having perished at the hands of the nazis) and when they arrived in the UK they had the most air combat experience of the all RAF fighter pilots then in service, so it's completely understandable that they performed so well during the battle. It should also be understood that by the end of the battle the pilots of the other nations were performing every bit as well as the Poles. Just look up any list of top allied aces of WW2.
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The Nazis were being supplied with oil and fuel from both Romania and incredibly the USSR, shortage of fuel was not as much of a concern at this point as it was a year or two later.
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What about the other 64 RAF and FAA squadrons?
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Join the PC ruling class. Adblockers mean NO internet AD BS EVER !!!
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@Jeremy-y1t Yes it was Jeremy/Mark.... just as it was also flowing to the nazis.
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Well said Moses.
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The mans name is Keith Rodney PARK, not Parks? Seeing it more and more often. P...A...R...K PARK !!!!
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Why just them?
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@ashwayn Thats more like it. There were plenty of nationalities, and none deserve mentioning more than any other, but it still must be borne in mind that 75% of Fighter Command pilots were British born, and all the nationalities were flying world class, British designed & built fighter aircraft, and directed by the world's first "real time" air defence system, all of which was paid for by British taxpayers. We provided the refuge for the enslaved nations of Europe, and we value their support.
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@nickdanger3802 Sorry, I didn't make myself clear in my post above. US Standard oil sold 100 octane (tetra ethyl lead) production technology to the nazis in the 1930s which allowed them to produce their own 100 octane from their crude supplies from Romania & the USSR.
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And its pathetic that the US thinks it can survive without everybody else.
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@MNAHN-T.GOF-NN It seems we might have a SMALL amount of common ground in our opinions.
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NATO (read US directed proxy military forces) are NOT fighting to save countries from dictators, they're being directed by the US to spread US power across the globe... the proxies do the fighting and dying, the US corporations reap all the profits.
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1980? Readjust your historical clock... the final £42 million payment from the UK to the US govt was made in 2006.
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"Mostly"? here did you get that from Bob? I don't know the figures myself, and I am aware of the contributions of those from the British commonwealth to Britain's war effort, but there appears to be a whiff of passing off an agenda as historical fact in your comment. Maybe I'm wrong who knows.
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@HaurakiVet I really don't feel through my decades of reading WW2 history that commonwealth service personnel are generally lumped together as "British" units. Individuals and units I have encountered in books over the decades always are noted as Australian, Canadian, Indian & New Zealand units. I fully acknowledge the commonwealth contribution to the British & later allied war efforts. I just wondered if the "mostly" comment was correct or not.
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"U" was for untersee or underwater.
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"Social history" is that of the indivduals who experienced the events and always provides some beautiful texture to the "big story".
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Without Hugh Dowding, Keith Park would have been sending Hawker Fury biplanes on standing patrols over the south east of England.
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The wife of the then monarch, King George VI, was ALSO titled "Queen Elizabeth".
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Delusional
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History for half wits.
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As is the intention of the WEF fascists..... direct everyone to the internet as their source of information, and then in future when books have turned to dust and fallen from public consciousness they then decide the time is right to switch off the internet, et voila, you have a ready made clueless, slobbering population that makes today's window lickers seem like Einstein.
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There WERE some aircraft of that period that could do both. The De Havilland Mosquito for example. Though due to today's atomic weaponry even smaller aircraft have some "strategic" capability. During WW2 Bombers were subdivided into tactical (light) and strategic (heavy). There were no WW2 strategic (heavy) bombers that could double as fighters.
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The globalist EU govt enemy now flood their African and middle eastern footsoldiers into the UK with the assistance of the puppet corporate globalist govt that has inveigled itself into the UK houses of Parliament.
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WRONG !!! The Mk1 Spitfire was FASTER at ALL altitudes than the Me 109E. Spitfire Mk1 Top speed 358mph Me109E top speed 348mph
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"Forcefully acquired"? How do you imagine that the UK, a country of just over 30 million in the mid 19th century, ever managed to militarily subdue a third of the world? I'd be FASCINATED to hear your hypothesis.
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Innocent deaths caused inadvertantly by poor supply and adminstration are infinitely less sinister (though no less regretable) than those caused by state authorised & co-ordinated mass murder.
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@TonyChan-eh3nz A ship feared by merchant ships but pursued and sunk by fearless implacable British warships.
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Use a PC... ditch "Chrome" or "Edge" browsers... install an ad blocker. Heaven.
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Well the English Channel never saved the Anglo-Saxons from the Normans? Think what else in addition to the English Channel saved the UK?
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And delivering a VERY good appraisal of Hood & Bismarck.
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@yoonz23 Censored "Because Children watch it" utter nonsense. Have you SEEN the utter BS that is left uncensored on YT for "children to watch"? and besides children interested in history should see it in ALL its majesty and horror, NOT a sugar coated fairy tale version!!! I remember being just SEVEN years old when the globally acclaimed "The World at War" TV series was first aired, and CLEARLY remember seeing the mountains of decaying corpses being bulldozed into pits at Bergen-Belsen in the "Genocide" episode. Any child who wishes to learn about history needs to see the truth, so that they don't think the world is inhabited by unicorns and rainbows like many modern "kidults" do.
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HMS Courageous
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You're making the mistake that totalitarian leaders have the same sort of humanity and decency that lives in the souls of the majority of people. They don't.... How do you think they got to where they are at now??
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They certainly liked to "hand it out" to poorly equipped colonials though... "eat lead club wielding tribesmen" they'd shout !!!
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Indeed, why not bugger off and spend the rest of your life watching the THOUSANDS of videos devoted solely to the US involvment in the war, to the exclusion of EVERYONE else.
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You think it would have done it alone? Don't delude yourself if you do.
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"It often seems that the Brits like to forget about the Pacific theater of WW2." And vice versa of course, due to the battle of the Atlantic being a majority British empire concern, and the pacific a US one.
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@BlindPidePiper but a small minority compared to the mainly UK / Canadian effort.
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@BlindPidePiper indisputably.... but what I said strands... The US were VERY much the minority coalition partner in the Atlantic.
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No luck in the battle of Britain... just preparedness, and cool headed British (& NZ) commanders.
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It appears that the strategic German shortage of aluminium crippled the usage of drop tanks.... The 109E's DID have the facility to be fitted but the only reason I can think of for not using them was shortage of aluminium. The fact that Me110s could be fitted with long range drop tanks called "Dackelbauchs" (Dachshund's Bellies) that were made from plywood and waxed cardboard (I kid you NOT!!!) seems to support that idea. As you can imagine the Me110 pilots did NOT like having 240 gallons of aviation spirit suspended underneath their planes encased in plywood and cardboard!!! The only time they were used during the battle of Britain was during Luftflotte 5's attack from Scandinavia across the North sea on 13th August 1940.
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Reasonably good troll.
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@CharlieDexter99 "French tanks were nowhere near the power and speed of German tanks" is quite a way from the truth. The truth is that many french tanks were far better than those possessed by the Germans, for instance the Somua S35 and Char 1b, both of which were easily capable of withstanding & destroying most German tanks. The problem was very much one of the way the respective combattants employed the tanks in their armouries.
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Also the UK government that was then sat in the Houses of Parliament were not globalist puppets directed by international corporations.
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Have you followed this naval story to the end by any chance?
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@paultaylor9498 Beat me to it Paul. Well said.
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You think its just Britain thats "surrendered"? You've not been to Paris, Berlin, Rome, Copenhagen, Stockholm or Oslo recently have you?
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Beyond the "paywall".
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@MarkHarrison733 Greece? What ARE you on about? Greece was neutral until the ITALIAN invasion on 28th October 1940. and after that Greece was a DRAIN on British resources as we denuded our North African forces to attempt to stabilise the Greek nation. They were NO allies of the UK, providing NO troops or supplies for the British war effort.
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@shadowk3 True, but they never have done. The rich and powerful like to keep the masses dumb.
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When you fear something, if given the chance you run away from it. Given that, then who feared who? The Royal Navy implacably pursuing Bismarck for 6 days? The Bismarck running from the Royal Navy for 6 days?
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US Centric corporate globalism is vile.
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Or indeed with the world's largest navy defending the seas around Britain.
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As opposed to the "iron cross" that was literally handed out by the bucketful.
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@Ole-sf4ps Go polish your repro HJ dagger quickly!!! Mummy says "bed soon", you've got school in the morning.
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Not forgetting the greed of the MIC (military industrial complex). Wars make the rich even RICHER, while those at the bottom do the dying.
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Nice post.
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The English actor Robert Powell... most well known for his 1970's depiction of Jesus Christ in the TV epic "Jesus of Nazareth".
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@MarkHarrison733 Tell us about Strakosh and why a jewish business man bribed Churchill into turning Europe Islamic.... Wait for this fellers, it's a killer. PMSL.
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Yes they WERE betrayed by the Soviets.... luckily the UK was there to once again offer refuge to those Poles who'd continued the fight against nazism in the west after WW2.
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Wrong Britain WAS alone... please name another country that was being attacked by Germany from July 1940 through into the early part of 1941.... let me save you some trouble, there were NO other countries being attacked. Britain, the country, was the SOLE target of German aggression ALONE.
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Let me correct you "penetrated WITHOUT exploding", as did all 3 of Bismarck's hits on HMS Prince of Wales, with PoW's "all or nothing" armour scheme proving its worth. By the way, PoW was back shadowing Bismarck at full speed within 30 minutes of that hit, and engaged in two further gunnery exchanges with her before having to return to Iceland to refuel.
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Well said Peter, from someone whose family survived the luftwaffe blitz on Bootle and the Liverpool docks.
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Don't worry we won with the .303s.
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So let me get this straight.... if things were completely different, then things would be completely different. Inspired thunking, now go to the TOP of the class !!!!
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Prinz Oy-Ghen.
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@BCHistoria "We were hitting Germany as well with Bomber Command". Ah!!! So you mean the battle over Germany then. To extend your flawed methodology why do we not include the British Mediterranean fleet when we discuss the British Home fleet's actions against the Bismarck? The Mediterranean fleet was concurrently engaged in the battle for Crete, so the two things must be linked must'n they? The answer is we don't, they were both constituent parts of the Royal Navy, but took part in entirely different operations. All you're trying to do is conflate two different operations to diminish the achievments of Fighter Command who ALONE brilliantly thwarted the entire strength of the much vaunted Luftwaffe.
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Not forgetting Iowa (or ANY other battleship for that matter). If ANY of them had operated using the same doctrine as Bismarck or Yamato they would have been sunk.
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No, it is because the pseudo-democratic globalist directed body that now passes for the "UK Govt" despises and disowns anything that shows the United Kingdom in an honourable light.
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Get a PC and install an ad blocker... Bliss !!!
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The Poles undoubtedly outperformed the average RAF pilot early on, but they had more combat experience under their belts, so it was completely understandable, but as the battle hotted up the other nationalities quickly showed that they were every bit as good as the Poles.
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No we had better ships, and more off them.
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bulbous
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Don't you believe it.
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An incosequential detail. PS the FW 190 wasn't in service during the battle.
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Luckily for the USSR, Britain decided to stay in the fight. And later on provided critical support for the soviets... even though they had been supplying Germany during their earlier attacls on the UK.
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If it annoys you that much, then stop watching on a phone, tablet or TV and instead watch on a computer with an adblocker installed.
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A dagger, lying untouched in a field is not something to generate fear in anyone's mind. The same dagger, held by a psychopathic madman, its point touching the skin over your carotid artery is another matter. That was the position that Bismarck was in during May 1941.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 He's typed in "official" so it must be true !!!
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Please name me a national leader who during wartime SAVED the lives of his citizens?
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Yes... the German forces surrounding the pocket were fought to a standstill.
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Another yank who thinks THEY won the war alone. Ridiculous.
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As with their army they had some decent modern equipment, but a command & control system as well as general leadership that was geared for a re-run of World War I.
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@Jeremy-y1t Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!!
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Yamato wasn't completed and Tirpitz wasn't in service at the time these events were taking place. Bismarck was the heaviest operational battleship in the world in May 1941.
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"Peace" doesn't generate anywhere NEAR the same amount of profit and power for the world's industrialists.
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Well Scharnhorst / Gneisenau attempted and very nearly completed the Faroes / Iceland route during "operation Berlin" in Jan 1941. Remember at that period that although the UK / Faroes gap was the least favourable passage, night time passage through the gap (entirely possible at full speed, though less so in spring) meant NO British aerial reconnaisance, and the British radar coverage of the Faroes / UK passage from the mainland was far from complete.
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jeffrey, "For a more balance view watch this revisionist BS from the Imperial War Museum" The IWM along with the rest of the former British establishment has been infested by the globalist "march through the institutions", and is no longer "fit for purpose". Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation subjected to ALL of those threats by the nazis between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. No need to thank me for unburdening you of your complete cluelessness.
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@LosPeregrinos51 I thought I'd create a simple "visual aid" in order to assist people learning about the history of the battle of Britain. There is much ongoing debate about the nationalities and proportions of RAF fighter pilots who took part in the battle, with a furtive aspect which attempts to portray the battle as a victory of "mostly Foreign pilots". Below is an accurate graphical representation of the proportion of pilot nationalities serving within RAF Fighter Command during the summer of 1940. Each flag is roughly equivalent to 30 pilots, The numbers after each nation are the actual number of pilots from that country, and the approximate percentage of RAF Fighter Command's establishment in the summer of 1940 that they represented. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 UK (2342) (80%) 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱 Poland (145) (5%) 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿 New Zealand (127) (4%) 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canada (112) (4%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿 Czechoslovakia (88) (3%) 🇦🇺 Australia (32) (1%) 🇧🇪 Belgium (28) (1%) 🇿🇦 S. Africa (25) (1%) (1940 flag emoji not available) 🇺🇳 Other nations (France (13), R o Ireland (10), USA (9), Rhodesia (3), Newfoundland (1), Jamaica (1), Barbados (1)) (1%) (And just to preempt any wandering idiot lefty "Identity warriors" from protesting about "The lack of credit given to the black pilots who fought in the battle of Britain"... the pilots from Rhodesia & the Caribbean were all of white British descent).
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@dovetonsturdee7033 I think you misunderstand. You simply click on the computer screen and the entire Kido Butai slides around Cape Horn to lay siege to the UK.
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At the end you forgot to mention the British 14th army in Burma.
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@dennisweidner288 Well you would expect the 14th army to be a majority Indian force. The population of the UK that was mainly occupied fighting across Europe and north Africa was in the 1940 around 44 million, compared to the <400 million people of India. Even so the UK still managed to employ hundreds of thousands of British troops within it.
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Below I've "copy and pasted" the preamble to Hitler's "Fuhrerbefehl No. 16" (Fuhrer Directive 16) issued from the Reichchancellery on 16th July 1940 to the German armed forces high command (OKW). The directive was transmitted in what the Germans believed was an unbreakable code, showing that it was NOT for the digest of the British and simply designed to initmidate them into coming to the surrender table, but was a true indication of Hitler's intent. "The Fuhrer And Supreme Commander Of The Armed Forces. The Fuhrer's Headquarters. 16th July, 1940. 7 copies Directive No. 16 -- On Preparations For A Landing Operation Against England Since England, in spite of her hopeless military situation, shows no signs of being ready to come to an understanding, I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and, if necessary, to carry it out. The aim of this operation will be to eliminate the English homeland as a base for the prosecution of the war against Germany and, if necessary, to occupy it completely." But as we both know the first phase of the operation, that being the battle of Britain, was smashed, meaning the rest of the plan was academic. The operation had been stopped in its first phase. What would be described in common parlance as "A resounding British victory".
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@bigwoody4704 Oh do please explain you theory.
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What they failed to do by force of arms, they now achieve by means of Klaus Schwab's "World Economic Foorum".
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If they thought "Nah" then why did they squander over 1700 aircraft trying to beat us... and failed miserably?
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@shootfirst2097 Do you mean the same stukas that ABJECTLY failed to stop 338,000 British and French troops from being evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk?
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@MarkHarrison733 No it never. The VERY FIRST RAF bomb on German soil fell on the Island of Sylt in the North sea in March 1940..... 5 MONTHS after the first German bombs hit British soil.
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@MarkHarrison733 No it didn't Mark, as you know full well, RAF Blenheims and Wellingtons attacked German naval units in the estuary of the river Weser, the Jade Bight and the Schillig roads off the north coast of Germany, as they were even forbidden from attacking German naval units while they were berthed in port in case of hitting innocent Germans, and the RAF bombers also did it in broad daylight so as to avoid the chance of hitting neutral shipping in the area. NO civilians were killed or injured in these attacks. Unlike when the Germans bombed Scapa Flow on 16th March 1940 and murdered the FIRST innocent civilian, either British OR German, who was a Mr James Isbister, killed by luftwaffe bombs meant for the RN anchorage at Scapa Flow. Mr Isbister was a council road mender whose cottage at Bridge of Waithe near Stenness was hit by German bombs. But aside from the British the Germans had uttely NO worries about murdering innocent Polish, Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian or French civilians prior to their all out assault on British cities in Sept 1940.
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@MarkHarrison733 Do you mean "Military targets" such as the civilian populations of Guernica, Weilun, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Belgrade, Leningrad, Stalingrad, London and 50 other British towns and cities?
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@MarkHarrison733 Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!!
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"France barely had an army"? Oh dear, back to the history books for you I Think.
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@CB-fz3li But with tanks and motorised troops powered by crystal meth (Pervitin).
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Interchangeable like calling a Welshman or Scotsman "British" (which is also perfectly correct). František flew prewar for the Czechoslovak air force, NOT the Czech air force.
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@joe-ob3se And Josef František was the CZECHOSLOVAKIAN pilot who flew with "Polish" 303 sqd, and achieved a full 30% of their total credited kill tally. Some silly Polish people whine on about "national recognition" for their efforts during WW2, and then totally ignore and hide the efforts of other nations who contributed toward "their" success.
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@joe-ob3se No, I'm from Liverpool, UK.
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Ich hoffe, Sie werden bei Ihrem Besuch herzlich willkommen geheißen. Herzliche Grüße aus dem Vereinigten Königreich.
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Of course the pilots were brave... what a stupid thing to say otherwise.... Enjoying the feeling of the raw power of 2 Merlins throbbing away under your wings, in now way diminishes what the aircrews put themselves through.
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Not "unimportant". YT Obviously feels that it is VERY important to blank out these images. I suggest its a strand of the ongoing drive to reduce modern day young people into emotional cripples, unable to deal with harsh reality, and as a result more likely to cling to an ever more controlling "government" for "protection" from life's nasty bits.
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"Per ship" Bismarck was no more "fearsome" than any other modern battleship. Indeed Bismarck was SO "fearsome" that she spent the entire 8 days of her service life running away from Royal Navy battleships. The RN battleships at the same time spent those entire 8 days chasing it to its death. People mistake the fear of what an unchallenged battleship could do to lightly defended convoys in the vast unwatched expanses of the North Atlantic, for fear of the battleship itself.
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Just to help you remember better RAF Fighter Command was led by Air Chief Marshall Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding.
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@Jeremy-y1t Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!! Cuckoo !!!
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@marishiten5944 The words you're looking for are deluded, psychopathic megalomaniac.
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@Real Thailand But Strangely enough Adolf Galland asked Herman Goering for a squadron of Spitfires !!!
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@Real Thailand I'm reasonably happy with that Real, There's plenty enough reportage of the vices of the Bf109 from its pilots and what you suggest from Tom Neil is very mcuh against the flow of general pilot opinion regarding the Spit. So you have your lone disaffected spitfire pilot's opinion, and I'll have my sardonic quip.
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Early Mk I Hurricanes (and very early Spitfires) were fitted prewar with a "Watts" wooden 2 bladed fixed pitch propeller (Simply a laminated, carved solid wooden propeller). These were replaced squadron by squadron from May 1939 by the De Havilland variable pitch three blade propeller with cast metal blades, these variable pitch propellers had only two settings "fine" and "coarse" which was set manually by the pilot and improved performance during take off and at high altitude, but if the wrong pitch was selected by the pilot at the wrong time then poor performance, and most probably engine damage was the result). These were quickly superceded from Dec 1939 onwards by the "Rotol" Constant Speed propellers where the propeller blades (made of a composite wood/metal constuction trademarked as "Jablo") were infinitely variable and controlled automatically. The 3 types of propellers above can be thought of in a similar way to gears. The 2 bladed wooden fixed pitch was rather like an old bike with only one gear.... a single inflexible gear set to give the "worst of both worlds" for both indifferent top speed and sluggish acceleration. The 2 pitch De Havilland was like a car with 2 manual gears, low and high. The Rotol constant speed propeller was like a fully automatic gearbox. The "Rotol" constant speed propeller reduced the pilot's workload during combat and provided a VAST improvement to the overall performance of the aircraft they were fitted to. Eric "Winkle" Brown's book "Duels in the sky" states that in his opinion the joint overall best fighter aircraft in WW2 were the Spitfire & Fw190. The Me-109 doesn't even make the top 6. 1. Supermarine Spitfire / FW-190. 2. Grumman Hellcat. 3. North American Mustang IV. 4. Mitsubishi Zeke. 5. Hawker Tempest V. 6. Kawanishi N1K2 Shinden-Kai. (P.S Eric Brown is STILL the world's most experienced & respected test pilot, with more aircraft types flown than ANY other pilot in history, and consequently his opinion is one which is undeniably worth taking into consideration.) As for the varied merits of both aircraft, another unmentioned aspect is the matter of relative firepower. The Me109E had.... 2x 7.92mm MG17s above the engine each with 1000 rounds of ammo. The MG17 had a rate of fire of 1200rpm which gave 50 seconds of fire. 2x 20mm MG FF cannon in the wings with just 60 rounds of ammo each. The MG FF even with its relatively low rate of fire of 540rpm gave just over SIX SECONDS of potent but low density fire. So after those 6 seconds of fire the 109E had 44 seconds of fire left from just TWO 7.92mm MG , effectively making the average Me 109E a one (or sometimes two) punch wonder. The RAF fighter's 16 seconds of EIGHT .303 Brownings firing at 1150rpm looks a LOT less anaemic when viewed like that. With regards to dogfighting the nazi's MG FF itself was far from an ideal weapon. As well as its low rate of fire, it's low muzzle velocity meant that when used in a "turning battle" or at high angles of deflection it was an incredibly difficult weapon to achieve hits with. It was best employed in "Boom and Zoom" tactics, where a diving 109 would fall on an unsuspecting British fighter and shred it before it had time to react.... Experienced 109 pilots were loath to get into a "turning fight" with a Spitfire or Hurricane. In defence of the 8 x .303s of the British fighters and their lack of outright destructive power, one RAF pilot (either Al Deere or Adolph Malan, I can't remember) voiced the opinion of many RAF pilots when they were recorded as saying they preferred to send a German bomber back to France, riddled with bullet holes, both engines smoking with its aircrew dead and dying rather than shooting it down outright.
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Hollywood are still writing the script, but they're having trouble convincingly minimising the involvement of the British and replacing it with the minimal involvment of the USA, mind you they've never previously been ashamed of totally rewriting history to "big themselves up".
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Get your wallet out and pay up for the second half.... or watch any of the other fantastic videos on the subject here on YT.
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All of which are honoured at remembrance day parades. 75% of Fighter Command pilots during the battle were of British Birth.
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@marypetrie930 Thank you Mary. That figure I gave was off the top of my head, and I have accidentally under represented the proportion of British born pilots, the figure actually being close to 81%.
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Drop the mosquito.
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 @EdwardThomas-mn5vd But then again the Mosquito prototype only took to the air 4 weeks AFTER the batlle of Britain had ended and took NO part in the action.
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@EdwardThomas-mn5vd Look again.... this video is discussing the German plan for the invasion of the United Kingdom which was projected to happen in Summer/Autumn 1940.... BEFORE the Mosquito was in operation. Chronological accuracy dear boy !!!
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@MarkHarrison733 No they didn't.
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In English ships have always customarily been "feminine". A bunch of wet "behind the ears" reprogrammed millenials won't change that.
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 @dovetonsturdee7033 My knowledge of US warships is less than stellar, but (dare I say it) wikipedia gives Colorado's belt armour as 13.5 inches? Is 16" correct?
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@dovetonsturdee7033 As you might have guessed I don't relish citing wikipedia as a "source", but my book collection isn't overflowing with books on US naval power, so it was more of a question posed than a correction. I'll llook into it further myself, always useful for future reference when discussing things in YT comments.
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@dovetonsturdee7033 Remember the old saying Admiral, "Battle ye not with half wits, lest ye become a half wit". As I was told years ago they will attempt to drag you into their own constructed world and then beat you with their familiarity & experience of their home turf.
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Please give us more detail of your theory?
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Not at all... being beaten by globalist paid for criminals now posing as "members of His majesty's parliament" and members of the civil service "establishment", the enemy has rotted its way into the country over decades, some african economic migrants could be easily swatted away if it wasn't for the "enemy already within".
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Read the info underneath the video and then get your wallet out.... or search out any number of excellent videos on the subject here on YT and enjoy them.
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What Germany as well?
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First German bombs dropped on the British mainland? 16th October 1939 First bombs dropped by the RAF on German soil? 19th March 1940 First inncent civilian killed by the indescriminate bombing of the other side? 16th March 1940 when German bombs hit the village of "Bridge of Waithe" near Stenness on the Orkney Islands during an attack on the Home Fleet anchorage at Scapa Flow, which killed a 27 year-old County Council employee, James Isbister (luckily, his wife, baby son, and the neighbour James was endeavouring to rescue from her bombed cottage all survived). The nazis were ALWAYS the first dropping the HE on innocents... just ask the families of the 600 innocent Spaniards killed at Guernica in April 1937.
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It's just yank rednecks thinking once again they are the "be all and end all" of the world.
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When you fear something, if given the chance you run away from it. Given that, then who feared who? The Royal Navy implacably pursuing Bismarck for 6 days? The Bismarck running from the Royal Navy for 6 days?
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@wolfgangholtzclaw2637 I'd counter your arguments, but even taking into account that apparently English isn't your first language, little of what you typed above has any relevence or indeed makes any sense.... unlike my post above.
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But it isn't.
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No matter what you deludedly imagine, they obviously did want to.
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So many ships to find and locate a small fast task force running away from action in the 41,000,000 square mile North Atlantic Ocean.
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@reginaldmcnab3265 Awww.... not upset are you by the largest & most humane empire in human history are you?
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No Britain was alone in being attacked by the Germans, unless you can tell me the details about the wehrmacht attacks on Australia, Canada India and New Zealand.
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You know wrong...at this point in history the US was only too happy to trade with and support the nazis.
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"she" is good enough for almost all of us.
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@jonnyblayze5149 Are you simply a parrot? Or do you know the "story" behind the boring "Bismarck is a he" meme?
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If you want to read fairy stories instead, I can recommend Hans Christian Anderson, my kids used to love his stories at bed time.
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Apparently lots of suggestible young men in need of a "father figure" feel the same.
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Remember if you spot a maniac attacking passers by, do NOTHING, is THAT your suggestion?
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US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler who was awarded TWO Congressional medals of Honour, and who concluded that wars are for the benefit of the elites and to the detriment of the masses.... and the masses STILL fall for it all !!!!
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ALL the mainstream political parties of the west are now funded by corporate globalism via the World Economic Forum.... ALL western parties are now dressed in different colours but ALL pissing in the same globalist/ Anti nationalist pot.
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Its pathetic isn't it?
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Abso-fecking-lutely.
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Another clueless dork. At this point in WW2 the USSR was happily supplying the nazis with millions of tons of food, fuel and raw materials to aid their assault on the UK. Luckily 1 year later when the nazis turned on the "hand that fed them" the UK never returned that "favour" to the USSR, and instead supplied the soviets with fuel equipment and most important of all VITAL strategic intelligence that enabled them to survive their own soviet "hour of need". The free education lesson is my pleasure.
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@billcarson8848 Bill wake up.... its the US that is busy enslaving the world. Are you old enough to remember in 1962 when the US threatened the ENTIRE planet with nuclear destruction because the USSR sited its weapons 90 miles of the coast of Florida? And yet NATO weapons systems are now on the VERY borders of Russia as well as off her coasts (EVEN IN THE BLACK SEA!!!) As well as the US tooling up Japan to face off against the Chinese and Russians in the far east. I don't see any Russian Forces in Mexico and Canada threatening the US.... WAKE UP !!!
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Please tell me about the attacks that the luftwaffe launched on Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand... Oh wait a second... they were only launched against Britain weren't they?
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Haven't you got some washing up to be doing?
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@MarkHarrison733 Your faux sympathies with anti-semitism are faux touching, Jeremy.
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Has anyone ever said there was any glamour attached to the brutality of naval warfare?
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Fighter command was 80% British born.
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Says who? We didn't bomb them enough.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Same old parrotted nonsense "James", as ever without a single shred of evidence. What was Kondor Legion's bombing of various Spanish towns, most notably at Guernica, "in response" to? Don't parrot your usual nonsense of "Guernica was a military target"... The Spanish nationalists must have really needed to stop those local Basque farmers from trading their produce in Guernica's town market !!!
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw The VERY first bombs to fall on the land of EITHER country during WW2? The Luftwaffe attack on RAF Sullom Voe in the Shetland Islands on 13th November 1939. The RAF RESPONDED by dropping their VERY FIRST bombs on German soil by attacking the German seaplane base on the island of Sylt in the North sea on 19th March 1940, FOUR MONTHS after the first of repeated German air attacks on RAF and Royal Navy bases on the British mainland. Prior to the RAF's attack on Sylt in March 1940, they had been prohibited by the British government from dropping ANY bombs on German soil whatsoever, instead preferring to avoid civilian casualties by supplying the German demand for toilet paper and dropping propaganda leaflets over German cities instead. The first civilian casualty of either of the two countries was a Mr James Isbister who on 16th March 1940 was killed in the village of Brig o' Waithe in the Orkney islands during a luftwaffe attack on Scapa Flow. The first RAF bombs to land on the German mainland fell on May 11th 1940, and were likewise ostensibly directed at military targets such as Bridges and railyards west of the river Rhine to disrupt the supply of the German armies then attacking France and the Low countries. Both sides in striking designated non civilian targets regularly caused what is quaintly known as "collateral civilian casualties" (Remember while we're discussing this we're ignoring the direct aerial assaults of the nazis on Polish towns and cities in the east and the bombing of Rotterdam and the aerial attacks executed against the roads of France clogged with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing from the invading German armies in the west). The first large scale infliction of civilian casualties between Germans and the British? (once again we're disregarding the bombing by Germany of other nation's civilians, and concentrating on their attacks solely against Britain) During the second phase of the "battle of Britain" the Luftwaffe attacked multiple RAF fighter stations within the boundary of Greater London such as RAF Biggin Hill, Hornchurch, Kenley & Northolt through the first 2 weeks of August 1940. During these attacks HUNDREDS of "collateral" civilian deaths were inflicted on the British populace. On the night of 23/24th August 1940 the RAF once again RESPONDED to these German air attacks by launching their FIRST bombing of targets within a city, by attacking Templehof airport and Klingenberg Power Station in the suburbs of Berlin. This precipitated the first widespread air attacks on civilian targets when the German launched their "blitz" against London and 50 other British towns and cities, culminating in the first attempt by humanity to create an "aerial firestorm", that being the Luftwaffe bombing of Coventry on the night of 14/15th November 1940. Once again the British RESPONDED by launching their VERY FIRST aerial attack directed specifically at German civilians, that being "Operation Abigail" the RAF attack on the German city of Mannheim on the night of 16/17th Dec 1940. (For comparisons sake the Luftwaffe murdered 568 innocent British cvilians during their attack on Coventry, the British for their part murdered 34 innocent German civilians during their bombing of Mannheim). Do you see the pattern that has formed? Initial (and repeated) luftwaffe aerial attacks on Britain that caused a British response.
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@JamesRichards-mj9kw Wrong from start to finish. The first civilian aerial bombing in human history was carried out by? Surprise surprise the Germans when they bombed Liege in Belgium by zeppelin on August 4th 1914. The VERY first bombs to fall on the land of EITHER country during WW2? The Luftwaffe attack on RAF Sullom Voe in the Shetland Islands on 13th November 1939. The RAF RESPONDED by dropping their VERY FIRST bombs on German soil by attacking the German seaplane base on the island of Sylt in the North sea on 19th March 1940, FOUR MONTHS after the first of repeated German air attacks on RAF and Royal Navy bases on the British mainland. Prior to the RAF's attack on Sylt in March 1940, they had been prohibited by the British government from dropping ANY bombs on German soil whatsoever, instead preferring to avoid civilian casualties by supplying the German demand for toilet paper and dropping propaganda leaflets over German cities instead. The first civilian casualty of either of the two countries was a Mr James Isbister who on 16th March 1940 was killed in the village of Brig o' Waithe in the Orkney islands during a luftwaffe attack on Scapa Flow. The first RAF bombs to land on the German mainland fell on May 11th 1940, and were likewise ostensibly directed at military targets such as Bridges and railyards west of the river Rhine to disrupt the supply of the German armies then attacking France and the Low countries. Both sides in striking designated non civilian targets regularly caused what is quaintly known as "collateral civilian casualties" (Remember while we're discussing this we're ignoring the direct aerial assaults of the nazis on Polish towns and cities in the east and the bombing of Rotterdam and the aerial attacks executed against the roads of France clogged with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing from the invading German armies in the west). The first large scale infliction of civilian casualties between Germans and the British? (once again we're disregarding the bombing by Germany of other nation's civilians, and concentrating on their attacks solely against Britain) During the second phase of the "battle of Britain" the Luftwaffe attacked multiple RAF fighter stations within the boundary of Greater London such as RAF Biggin Hill, Hornchurch, Kenley & Northolt through the first 2 weeks of August 1940. During these attacks HUNDREDS of "collateral" civilian deaths were inflicted on the British populace. On the night of 23/24th August 1940 the RAF once again RESPONDED to these German air attacks by launching their FIRST bombing of targets within a city, by attacking Templehof airport and Klingenberg Power Station in the suburbs of Berlin. This precipitated the first widespread air attacks on civilian targets when the German launched their "blitz" against London and 50 other British towns and cities, culminating in the first attempt by humanity to create an "aerial firestorm", that being the Luftwaffe bombing of Coventry on the night of 14/15th November 1940. Once again the British RESPONDED by launching their VERY FIRST aerial attack directed specifically at German civilians, that being "Operation Abigail" the RAF attack on the German city of Mannheim on the night of 16/17th Dec 1940. (For comparisons sake the Luftwaffe murdered 568 innocent British cvilians during their attack on Coventry, the British for their part murdered 34 innocent German civilians during their bombing of Mannheim). Do you see the pattern that has formed? Initial (and repeated) luftwaffe aerial attacks on Britain that caused a British response.
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You forgot to include the cover all words "fascist" & "racist".
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@nickdanger3802 I don't know this particular case Nick, but the US HAD previous experience of excluding Britain from her "preferred buyers" list, as in when they sold the technology for the production of Tetra-Ethyl-Lead (Y'know used in the production of your beloved 100 octane fuel) to the nazis prewar but refused to do the same to the British, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if what Jamar says is true.
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They did attempt to seize it in Nov 1942.
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It was a bit of a "guestimate" on his behalf. Each of Bismarck's AP shells weighed 800kg, and so 8 of them weighed about six and a half tons, hurtling towards the British ships. Then again when both HMS Hood & HMS Prince of Wales returned fire they each sent over seven tons of "metal" flying towards Bismarck.
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What has any of that got to do with this video?
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I agree with the common people of both countries, but why did the US business community continue to do business with the nazis RIGHT the way through WW2?
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You missed out Sydney Camm.
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British battleships completely outclassed it. US navy wasn't required.
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The English channel never stopped the Romans, Vikings, Angles, Saxons or Normans.... I wonder what it was that stopped the Germans?
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Why wouldn't the Standard Oil company of Jersey City & the US Govt allow the sale of a production licence for TEL to the UK, but were more than happy to sell the very same licence to n@zi Germany before WW2?
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Coming from a man who crossed the floor of the house of commons multiple times, It's something he most certainly changed his views on once the full, awful horror of fascism came to the surface.
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@MarkHarrison733 The focus of WW2 was ABSOLUTELY anti fascist. It was only with the spread of communism post WW2 that some fascist tinpot dictators around the world were humoured by the west. Please give us some evidence of Churchill's "support for fascism" in 1938/40? It's incredible how utterly deluded you are Mark. I sometimes feel slightly embarrassed for you !!!
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Please provide us with details of the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle "the British Empire" out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the only nation subjected to ALL of those threats by the nazis between July 1940 and April 1941 was GREAT BRITAIN ALONE. No need to thank me for unburdening you of your complete cluelessness.
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 @SeanSmith-f3t How did they try to prevent it? Was it by first gassing their own sick, elderly and infirm as soon as they achieved power within Germany?
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"A completely obsolete biplane" that ended WW2 with the greatest tonnage of enemy shipping sunk.
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@JeffDoerr What are you on about? Do you think Swordfish sank HMS Hood? Upvoting your own nonsense is a bit sad too.
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@JeffDoerr I suggest you go back to my initial reply to your original statement, and re-read the conversation again... If you have ANY English comprehension (which looks to be in short supply in your second response) you'll see where your mistake is. Still upvoting you own messages I see.... sad.
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Why would we? That's complete BS.
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The Failure of the masses is to blindly follow the avaricious, ruthless, greedy politicos who slime their way to the top of the political pole. Much as what is happening with the ongoing globalist takeover of the former western democracies.
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