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David Linsey
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WWII Veteran Recounts Crossing The Channel on D-Day
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Former commando Roy Cadman, 89, describes the trip across the channel to the site of the D-Day landings.
Former commando Roy Cadman, 89, describes the trip across the channel to the site of the D-Day landings.
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Bagpipes On D-Day
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Former Commando Roy Cadman, 92, describes how troops leaving for D-Day were moved by bagpipe music played by Bill Millin, a soldier who famously played his pipes during the Normandy landings. See more at: toldbythem.com
Inside the mind of a D-Day Commando
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Former Green Beret Roy Cadman describes his feelings aboard the D-Day landings craft that carried his Commando unit to the Normandy beaches, and how his training prepared him to face the worst and fight through it.
British Glider Pilot Training in WWII
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See more at toldbythem.com and on this channel! Here former Horsa Glider copilot Dennis Odgear describes how he joined a glider unit , and the cursory training he was given for his role in combat.
Attacking the Mareth Line
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See more at toldbythem.com: African Campaign veteran Normal Mitchell decries how his battalion was sent to attack a heavily reinforced German position in southern Tunisia. Despite reconnaissance reports to the contrary, several minefields had been laid in their path, causing devastation to the Allied attackers.
Escaping execution on the Death Railway
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In 1941, with the fall of Singapore, Bill Moylon faced every allied soldiers' worst fear: capture by the Japanese. He would spend his next four years as a POW, working on the infamous Burma 'death' railway. Here aged 98, he recounts how he survived the brutal work and conditions in the jungle, and the controversial circumstances that finally led to his freedom. See More at: toldbythem.com
The Death Railway - Forgiving the Japanese
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See More at: toldbythem.com After his capture by the Japanese in 1941, Bill Moylon worked until the war's end as a POW on the Burma death railway. He was worked brutal hours in terrible conditions, even once being made to dig his own grave. Yet in this touching display of forgiveness, he explains why he does not blame his captors. Since the war he has made several visits to Japan, and holds no ...
Sinking of the Empress of Asia - 1941
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In November 1941, the Empress of Asia, a converted passenger liner, set sail for Bombay, carrying troops and supplies for the British war effort. After falling behind her convoy, she was sunk by Japanese bombers, and her survivors eventually captured by the Japanese. Among them was Bill Moylon. Now aged 98, he describes his experience of the sinking.
Close Quarters Combat - Sheath Knife in WWII
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See More at: toldbythem.com In 1943, Norman MItchell's unit passed through the small Italian town of Battipaglia, as part of the force invading Italy. In a brief skirmish there, a young officer was captured by the enemy. Here, the former Grenadier Guardsman describes in detail how he was able to use a forbidden weapon to get him safely returned. See More at: toldbythem.com
Operation Market Garden and the Arnhem disaster
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In 1944, Glider Regiment copilot Dennis Odgear was sent on Operation Market garden, then the largest airborne operation ever attempted. The plan was to land in the Netherlands, and force a path across the Rhine, through Germany's "back door", avoiding the Siegfried line defences. Had it succeeded, the war would have been shortened by months. However, the gross underestimation of German resistan...
Flying The Horsa Glider
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See more at www.toldbythem.com Here former Copilot Dennis Odgear speaks about flying the Horsa glider, Britain's most prominent unpowered aircraft of the war. After having joined the army, he was convinced to join the newly formed Glider Pilot regiment in 1942, and saw action in both Operation Overlord and Market Garden. In other soon- to-be-uploaded accounts, Dennis recounts his expereinces bo...
(old version, new at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykakjxlfbs8) of Flying the Horsa Glider
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Here former Copilot Dennis Odgar speaks about flying the Horsa glider, Britain's most prominent unpowered aircraft of the war. After having joined the army, he was convinced to join the newly formed Glider Pilot regiment in 1942, and saw action in both Operation Overlord and Market Garden. In other soon- to-be-uploaded accounts, Dennis recounts his expereinces both before the war and in these o...
Thanks for this first-hand account. It sounded like a fiasco, and utterly terrifying.
My great grandfather. Richard Staveley was a Private with the 18th recce corps when the ship was attacked. As i've reached and surpassed his relative age at the time (26) i've become more and more fascinated and obsessed with the story. He was re kitted and fought in the fall of singapore and was captured by the Japanese and taken to Palembang.
My grandad was 3 coy Coldstream Guards and was in the attack and subsiquently that mine field on the night of 16/3/43. The man immediately to his left triggered one of those mines killing him instantly and almost fatally wounding my grandfather. He was heavily scarred physically and mentally for life afterwards. He could remember some foreign people talking over him when he was coming to but they left him for dead (no idea who they might have been-grandad may well have been delusional at that point ). The next thing he could remember was coming to for a second time in a vehicle - the men in the vehicle assured him that he was safe and that he'd be going hospital. I would like to note that I do NOT blame those young officers who made the call, they were doing their best. I would also like to note that the open terrain and well positioned and well trained defences meant that it was only going to be super human men that would have taken the horse shoe....and they did it. Brave men all. Grandad enlisted at 20 years of age in the October of 1939 and was just 24 when he was injured.
My grandfather G. E. Johnston, was a baker on that ship. When it sank he made it to shore. However, he spent the next few years in a Japanese POW Camp.
I wish that a new bulided Airspeed Horsa glider could be created with a try-cycle fixed landing gear with double tire nose gear and be towed up again to the sky this time with the LOCKHEED C-130 HERCULES
Depending on the situation, these aircraft were reused...
ITS NOT JUST THE WINNING.. ITS THE TAKING APART...😮...AND YOU SET EUROPE ABLAZE ...LITERALLY...FULL RESPECT..❤😂
“Oh they were quite safe………..very airworthy.” Well I guess everything is relative.
What a man.
A good one 👍
In 1994 I was lucky enough to meet Geoff Barkway and Peter Boyle who flew one of the gliders that landed at Pegasus Bridge. They told me that for that operation they actually swopped seats and Geoff, the first pilot, flew the aircraft from the right hand seat. This was to allow Geoff to look out for the Orne Canal which was on the starboard side of the aircraft while Peter used a stopwatch to time the run on the agreed headings and monitor the airspeed indicator and altimeter so Geoff could concentrate on finding the LZ. The aircraft was overweight so the landing approach had to be flown faster than usual, resulting in its going into the pond zbd breaking up.
Two things to note. 1. Excessive concern for quality in a single use disposable item. The end of every flight was a crash landing. 2. They used two pilots in a Horsa and only one in a four engine heavy bomber???
Since it was designed to crash land, that would take all the concentration and vision, especially at night. Crash landings are a lot more stressful for the pilot so it makes sense to have two pilots. The precision landings of the gliders that had Pegasus Bridge as the objective could probably not have been done by a single pilot. As the first pilot would try to spot landmarks along the way, after having been detached from the tow plane, the second pilot could keep an eye on the map and time passed. So it was not just crash landing, they also had to glide quite a bit down to the objective and succesfully navigate to the landing spot. In a Lancaster bomber, if the plane returned in one piece, landing was rarely an issue. And if the plane got hit, all crew would have to bail out anyway.
Well the plywood experts advised them that if they compromised on the quality then the airframe would not stand the stresses. And don't forget that they were not single use, there were all the training exercises as well 😊
Very interesting! Thank you for taking the time to post and conduct the interview!
I wish more people would watch this man talk about the appalling conditions he survived. The history revisionists would get set straight.
My good friend since 1995 and just celebrated his 99th Birthday.
That's wonderful to hear!
The Horsa is designed so good, that even a wood and paper model of it flies very well!
My Grandad was on this ship when it was bombed then was Japanese POW first in Changi then in Burma Thailand altogether 3 half years. Gone but never forgotten.
Bag pipes instrument of pride glory n war
Really cool! What battalion was he in?
Respect
Stone cold but a proper gentleman
Nails! A warrior and a Gentleman.
Damn...
What the HELL the Germans did not like the knifes? WHO GIVES A SHIT WHAT THEY LIKE OR NOT LIKE?
Thank you sir
Amazing
I imagine they sent a strongly worded rebuke to the German commander, saying 'that sort of thing was not on, can we have our man back' ......... or else!
Thank you for helping my life be the life I’ve had,god bless
sas dagger work also!!
A time when men were men
I wonder what became of the officer they rescued? Impressive story. Brave men, indeed.
The reason we beat the German war machine was we had some proper hard men , understated matter of fact real men .
I don’t think you come away well from things like that. War is hell.
1st of the Anti fascists!! Hero...
That's for your service
Much love. What a legend.
My foster father was a sergeant in the Royal Marine Commandos and went behind enemy lines in Norway and France. Calm cool and collected, butter would not kept in his mouth. I am so glad he is not with us now to see the wretched politicians we have now, that he and his generation fought on behalf of. He did live until he was 94 and excelled in most everything he did postwar.
The British lower classes are so obsessed with WW1, WW2 and past glories that they are easily and ably exploited by graduates of grandiose establishment colleges to snarl and chomp at anyone not showing conformity or anyone who shows any sign of a dissenting opinion on where we are being led.
Germans didn't like it lol
Thank you for your service
That right there gents is a stone cold killer. No bravado or macho bullshit just fucking lethal.
Wow real talk, I definitely respect and admire this stranger
He is the most pleasant killer i have ever come across, but then again they do say that Ted bundy was quite a charismatic chap.
How not 'supposed to have' a knife when bayonet is standard?
US Marines still carry knives and are taught how to use them, it’s strange that the US Army doesn’t teach this ? What happens if they are near you and you don’t want to make any noise ?
Don’t know or care! What’s that got to do with this?
WWII men real hero’s !
Much respect and gratitude......all my family are either spitfire pilots or front line battlers....god bless you all.
I always thought I would run my blade across my enemies neck, slitting it open, but I have now revised this plan to stabbing into it. Top info video, it’s good to learn from experience.
A true warrior
Godbless
I guarantee this man was a BADASS in his youth. Much respect for old men with hearts of lions.