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I remember one as a child that had been carved into a noughts and crosses board. A tiny one but it was in among the silk Post cards ect from my great grandfather. RfC mechanic.

Thanks for this!

The Netflix documentary, "Five Came Back," based on the book of the same name, is about five prominent Hollywood directors who served during WWII, these being the video mentioned William Wyler and John Ford, as well as Frank Capra, John Huston, and George Stevens. It is a fantastic documentary which gives detailed insight into the experiences of these famous, proficient, and unquestionably courageous film directors.

This was the first khaki uniform the British Army adopted. After scoffing at the Australians at a military parade pre Boer War, and seein how effective it was for Australians in the Boer War

The evil of this world is too much they were deliberately forgotten pure evil 😢

Really interesting insight, I never considered how the simple fact that they couldnt really sit down yet still managed to do some incredible work.

The Lee Enfield Mk 1 rifle was designed by Lennie Peters, of 1970's pop duo "Peters and Lee". At this time Lennie was in love with his singing partner Dianne Lee. In recognition of his two greatest loves, Peters gave his weapon Lee's surname and that of his birthplace, Enfield. I do hope this information lays to rest the frankly absurd so-called 'facts' written on this important subject.

My father Desmond O'Neill filmed D-Day as part of the AFPU on D-Day.

Nice to see the cameramen credited. I have Sgt. Vic Watkins (AFPU) cine camera (DeVry No.27) that landed with him on Gold beach on D Day +1 and with which he filmed until killed in January 1945, along with his fellow cameraman Sgt. Bill Gross (who was using DeVry No.32) and their RASC driver W. Smith. DeVry No.27 was later issued to Sgt. Mike Lewis (AFPU) to film for a week at Bergen Belsen from 16th to 24th April 1945. Coincidently Bill Gross's old camera Devry No.32 was later used by Sgt. Ian Grant.

A staple of the Royal navy since before Nelson. You're welcome Tommy.

armies in the field STILL need good feet, believe me, dry clean socks and underwear are huge thing in the field.

Foot care is important, my uncle was in Vietnam and Jungle Rot was the 2nd enemy.

One FePoW was given 2 used baked bean tins, and table lamp parts, as false hands. He even described this in his book, Blind to Misfortune.

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its amazing what pow can produce. theres some amazing stuff made by pow in peterborough museum from french pows from napolean wars held at nearby camp. although none of it quite at this level

Outstanding enjoyable presentation!

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It's Toll, not Tull.

AKA "the last line of defense" if you run out of ammo just throw them your biscuits.

What does charged mean? Does this mean they were discharged from the army or just told off? Also what if they didn’t have any socks or powder due to logistic issues

Known as "biscuits bulletproof".

Did they ever figure out why chef-boyardee spagetthi plastic bowls with the lid jump in a microwave? Might need to bring some of the best thinkers to solve this.

Spielberg 🤫

Churchill's toy shop watch that. We need to know can mankind use what it is given responsibly first we had evolution then Eugenics. Think of the invention secrecy act.

Bravo.........there are no winners in war............and the hero's are zeros.......and the common people bear the brunt ......

Amazing documentary.

so you did NOT have mittens

It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.

"FWW"!?!? You mean "WW1"

This is riddled with inaccuracies; 2 pints in the water bottle not litres, rifle accurate up to a mile?! with iron sights I doubt it, webbing is designed to transfer load to hips not place it all on shoulders etc etc

Thank you.

The most used and shortest piece of film of the US landing on Omaha beach, on D-Day is the long distance shot of 6 soldiers clambering through shallow water past tank obstacles. The film shows at least two soldiers falling suddenly, presumed shot, perhaps another was seen to be wounded but continues to move on. There the clip stops. Famed film director John Ford worked at Omaha beach with US Coast Guard cameramen. John Ford got the DSM for his efforts on D-Day. Sadly, details of the USCG cameramen is thin on the ground. According to the site War History On Line: "A large amount of film was placed into a duffel bag to be sent back to Britain. However, the junior officer carrying it, Maj. W.A. Ullman, accidentally dropped it into the English Channel. Some of the most detailed and extensive footage of the landings was lost forever." Then, much later in the war, and after the war, the story went around that both the US and UK governments held back much of the D-Day footage because it was thought, at the time, and after the war, the public would not want to see scenes of the carnage on the US beaches which saw the fiercest German resistance. These missing films came sharply into focus as they were preparing to make the Spielberg film, 'Saving Private Ryan'. Using composites of still images and extant films, taken all along the Normandy beachheads, were used to build up the truly realistic CGI coverage of the Omaha beach landings for that film. Whatever theory about the lost footage one takes on board, it does seem like bad planning to put 90 per cent of all the footage shot on Omaha beach that day into one duffle bag. But war is war and it's all about chaos. As it is said, "... the first casualty of any battle plan is the plan." I'm a military historian and I truly hope that at least some of the harrowing footage that was shot at the American landing beaches can be found some time in the future, especially if those films have languished in a US government warehouse for many decades. As a former peacetime air force member, I salute the courage and sacrifice of those outstandingly brave cameramen who went into battle with only a camera and a sidearm. Thank you IWM for this video. Cheers, Bill Halliwell (ex-RAAF and former film critic/reviewer).

the ingenuity of human beings under the most straitened of conditions is amazing.

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Still can’t believe they created all that, given what little they had!

Some of these inventions are incredible.