World's First Bomb Designed To Miss - Against The Odds 2018
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- A look at Tallboy and Grand Slam, the biggest non-nuclear bombs of World War 2. With some complimentary footage from the Agianst The Odds 2018 event.
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If anyone requires a height reference for when I am standing next to the bombs, I am ~1.9m / 6.2ft...
Jon Petrangelo that’s definitely worth going too. I’ve only been there once but I 100% enjoyed it
You are tall.
I honestly thought you were shorter
About 6' 3", just to clarify
You have a tiny little error Bismarck. The Grand Slam isn´t the biggest conventional Bomb of WW2 or all Time. This Title is for the T-12 Cloudmaker with 43.600 lbs. deployed 1944. Grand Slam is "only" the biggest conventional bomb that has seen action
"Hey Tommy, you see that bunker complex?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
"I don't want to"
"Understood, sir"
@@mandernachluca3774 That's when you ask the Americans if they can spare a nuclear warhead ;-)
@@natekaufman1982
Seems fitting for the brits to relie on the americans XD.
Mandernach Luca I mean they’re called allies for a reason, both sides had them.
@@uniboio2437
Yeah but ultimately just an economic powerhouse like the USA could concentrate enough resources to build a nuclear bomb, i mean, even the americans had to build a second type of nuclear bomb because they had not enough uranium. So to say the least, the brits wouldn't have been able to build one (resource wise).
Mandernach Luca I’m not saying the Brits could have built a nuclear bomb at the time. America could unsurprisingly as a result of the large levels of demand it received from Britain and the rest of the world for resources which helped the US become an economic powerhouse such as the £45.5 million pound debt that Britain owed the US at the end of the war which it only finally paid off in 2006.
GAIJIN?! Where is that bomb at? Why only Russians have 5k kg bomb?!
*drops grand slam in tank RB*
enemy team: oh no...
friendly team: oh no...
bomber: *O H Y E S*
mate it would be so OP it would not be funny. no wait it would be hilarious. :)
FAB-5000 is not a 5kt bomb, but 5000kg bomb. 5kt reads as 5 kiloton and means 5000000kg.
Even better. the TRAZON for the B29. Essentially a Tallboy with a remote guidance system similar to the Fritz X,
@@EriIaz yep, my mistake.
If a bomb is designed to miss...does it TRULY miss?
Ask Bertrand Russell.
Hit or miss?
Not really sure if theres a TIK TOK reference.
@@captainprice4261 I guess they never miss huh...
Chisel you got a boyfriend I bet he doesn’t kiss ya
5:20 "loose their collective Shnitzels" LMAO. Only one problem, I think they did that a long time ago.
Best UA-cam quote in a long time
Absolutely agreed 100%
"So here's someone on a bike." Shades of Monty Python.
Be funnier if it was jump cut to the fish slapping dance.
Sexiest arming sequence ever
5:15..."on second thoughts, the kind folks over at You-tube would probably lose their collective Schnitzels if I showed you how to arm a nuclear bomb"..... Pure Gold!!!
The Dam Buster raid was in May 1943 before the Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs came into service; not after as stated.
@@LoneWolf-ck7pj wrong comment?
Somehow, I don't think the knowledge of how to arm a nuclear bomb is really the hard part of getting a nuclear capability. It's not like those bombs are exactly for sale at Home Depot.
Maybe if you lose your collective schnitzels you also lose the ability to tell real risks from fake ones?
*Arms nuke*
YT: aight
*Plays one second of music*
YT: n o w s o m e o n e s d e m o n o t i z e d
Puussyyyyy
Uboat Bunker Valentin in my hometown was hit by two Grand Slams that created 8m wide wholes into the 4.5m thick concrete roof. It's impressive in two ways: How big that bomb is and how sturdy the bunker was.
Are there visible craters from the bombs or have they been filled?
@@jaihadgeppo150 yes indeed. Just google ubootbunker Valentin Bremen and you should find some
Grüß dich :) I come from the same town, i only saw that bunker from the outside. I believe these large english bombs where the only thing that could damage a bunker like that. Im not sure tho if they ever managed to damage one of the larger u-boot bunkers like the one in Brest. Compared to those, the bunker in Bremen looks tiny.
I saw a photo of a U boat pen that had been missed but the bomb went under the foundations and when it exploded it left a U boat lying on the dock as it blew it out of the water, in tact.
The bunkers mind you where considered impervious to conventional means having something like 25m of concrete followed by 10 metres of steel and about 15m rebared concrete and some open rooms to spread out the damage.
*Tirpitz sweating profusely in the distance*
Tirpitz: *smoke*
Lancaster & Halifax: my time has come to equip the big bomb to destroy big ship
Tirpitz (hearing them from distance): "Sweating heavily"
@@asrielthespaceshiba7723 Halifaxes could not carry either bomb!
No please!
Lol
1:45 'Straya!
My Grandfather was a Lancaster tail gunner in the RAF. All his brothers were killed fighting in North Africa and Burma. It's good to see people keeping this in living memory.
My uncle was blasted out of his Halifax in 1943. He survived, but woke up screaming night after night for the next 50 years. War sucks.
Interesting how some people wish they were in War so much they come to places to play pretend like they were..
@@AG.Floats Name one of the people you are referring to, I do re-enactment and know no-one like you describe.
Thanks for reminding us of the real cost of war. War is often discussed as if it is a video game nowadays.
I wish all servicemen and women and the civilians effected by war peace in the rest of their lives.
Often many professional soldiers enjoyed their experience of war however many volunteers or conscripts found it less so. Obviously both have their fair play of trauma so it's just down to the individual. God bless those who've served.
Screaming night after night for 50 years. Nah, not likely.
Mom was an RAF PBX(telephone) operator during the Battle of Britain. Originally from Brighton being sent to London was exciting, maybe a bit too so with all the air raids. She got orders to Edinburgh and said was wonderful.
I was stationed at RAF Bentwaters in the early 90s to the close of the base. I really wanted to get to Brighton and Edinburgh but finances and mission had me limited to East Anglia.
Thank you for a very well put video, I'm looking forward to your next.
Cheers!
Terry from South Carolina
I'm a 'Kraut' myself, but I love the 'Limeys' for their kind, for their style, for the humour, for their culture. When I have to emigrate (the Germans could decide to fight Russia a third time, which I do not want to join), then I'll go to Britain and buy me a narrowboat to live on the canals. With a little practise my accent could outmatch Bismark's ;)
Thanks - we love you too - too many people live in the past
And in the meantime? Deuschland uber alles?
@@johntechwriter Not for us Germans, we're culturally very dead! Britian has lead the way in music or sports e.g. since WW2, Murica in Cinema and TV, in consumer culture etc. and so on. Today even the German protest culture is lead by the transatlantic elites, think of Greta or BLM alone! That is so sad! The elites tell our children via their media corporations when and where to protest against or pro something.
The line 'Deutschland über alles' does not mean the nation Germany over all the other nations! Most people get it wrong, even Germans. It means the idea of nation building, from all the princedoms and shires, from this sad and chaotic rag rug, over all the other concepts and ideas of rule.
My fellow Germans might pull them out with good, contemporary machinery and the heritage of poets, composers and thinkers/philosophers, but this nation is actually dying. Every second child is sick, has allergies etc., the education system is the same joke as the welfare state, the job market or the health care system. Corruption and degeneration are far too weak words for the mess.
Might be, that a few filthy rich families can bring their offspring up and through without too much harm and degeneration, but Asia will bite our head off. After two world wars, after socialism and capitalism, after catholicism and materialism were are tired and finished. We are done!
As someone who lives on a narrowboat I think its like living in the past. However as a "live abord" with a "continious cruiser licence"" apart from the canal side pubs being shut, the lockdowns during the last year have passed me by. There are a lot of young continental Europeans living on the "cut", along with Comonwealth citizens and the odd American (a bit like the RAF during the Second World War!) .
@@johntechwriter naaa.. brits are very nationalistic. I got beaten up by skinheads and I have blue eyes
3:40 - the spin was to give the bomb gyroscopic stability as it fell - this was intended to make sure that if the bomb went supersonic on the way down, it would be less likely to tumble or be diverted from its trajectory as it broke the sound barrier.
yup
Any body else out there glad when he finished his song?
We have been spoiled since WWII, he wasn't "that bad" really.
Absolutely! It was painful.
Legit song however
Ugh. It just went on, and on and on and on and on and on . . . ad nauseum.
Aw leave him alone bless he was doing his lil song and that hes sweet an old theres times when regardless of how bad it is you have to just listen and nod
"Hey, see that swimming pool?"
"Negative sir, no swimming pool spotted."
"Well drop the bomb and give it a week."
I'm pleasantly suprised to see a video about the yorkshire air museum in my subscription's feed passing by. I worked there for a couple of months as an intern. They've got great exhibits to go and see and wonderful people working there!
ya I visited some about two years back its a nice place very kid friendly to.
Now I know it exists, I'll HAVE TO go.
I used to be in the Air Force and spent six years at RAF Church Fenton where potential pilots underwent their initial flying training, and Church Fenton's relief landing ground was RAF Elvington where the Yorkshire Air Museum has made it's home. Been to Elvington on a number of occasions and made the climb up all those steps to the ATC tower.
No talking during the Merlin flyby. Military Aviation History done right!
Overrated.
Is the tecnical term for overrated supercharged?
Was that a Hurricane?
I'll always remember the story in the bomber sqdrn books. When the "Yanks" asked how many bombs the lancaster was carrying and the brits replied "just the one", the yanks laughed and laughed .... until the lancs were wheeled out of the hangars and they saw the 11,000lb Tall boy bomb ... safe to say they stopped laughing ! Imagine if they had seen the 22,000lb grand slam!!!
"It is't that impressive, but of course, it being an H bomb, it really gets the job done." Your low key understatement is masterful.
"With one of these buggers.." - you've spent far too long hanging around us Brits if you're picking up language like that XD
It's creepy.
24000 pound "grand slam" largest one... and I live less then a mile from the only 1 of 2 flying lancasters in the world.
those rolls royce merlins give me goosebumps every time.
love the lanc
🤣🤣🤣 @ 5:13 .... and they say Germans habe no sense of humour. That one was brilliant!🤣🤣😂😂
German humour is no laughing matter mister.
@@tisFrancesfault indeed, it is being taken very seriously!
@@tisFrancesfault i see you there
What a mind Barnes Wallace had!
The bouncing, tallboy and grandslam bombs, geodetic structure of the wellington bomber and the R100 airship and my favourite the Swallow SST aircraft.
At 8:43; provided that's a photograph of No. 617 Squadron, the officer sitting third from the left is, I believe, my grandfather.
Boy, were 617 & 633 famous even to us US folks. Hats off to him.
Awesome!
@@stevek8829633 Sqn is fictional, you twat!
You gave no information to entertain, us, the Wider audience. Who incidentally doesn't know you or your grandpa.
Matti Haapoja well, A) I couldn’t care less about entertaining you and B) clearly you were enthralled enough to comment so, pick a lane man.
Hit or miss, this bomb was made to miss, huh?
You've got ein bunker, it vill be blown to bits, ja?
It gonna drop and then go boom just like a boomba
The Germans will hit the dab bcuz you miss ya?
U all playin wit Dem nuke like it is toya
Got a tall boi, I bet he doesn't hit ya
My mums great uncle was one of the men who flew from the airbase in ww2 and set up that museum in the 80s. My mum played with the radio in that halifax as a child.
8:25 I'm missing the sign "Do not ride the bomb!"
British let you ride them.
"This is it -- nuclear combat, toe-to-toe with the Russkies"
Slim Pickins
*YAAAHOOO!!!! YAHOO----OOOO----EEEEEEEE!!!!*
Yaaaaahoooooooooo
Tallboy Spins, so would be really difficult to stay on board.
Bomb lands in the ground* “haha he missed!” Couple seconds later* Discombobulated 🤯
When dropped from a sufficient altitude, the Tallboy and Grand Slam were capable of traveling faster than the speed of sound.
The actual method of damage was not quite like a "synthetic earthquake." The bomb would explode, creating a void, which was either under the foundation or close enough to undermine the foundation.
The crazy part of these bombs falling into sub pens was that they penetrated the very very heavily armored ceilings of those pens BEFORE exploding.
If you wanna do an episode on some cold war aircraft you should visit the aviation museum just outside of norwich, they have a sea vixen, ee lightning, avro Vulcan that you can climb inside, f4 phantom, and a nimrod as well as a few hunters
Because size matters.
Small hands make everything look bigger.
Ahhhhhh reenactment, the land of fat Wermacht and middle age RAF.
Just makes me think of that Mitchell and Webb look, one of the wermacht take it a bit too seriously
Still better than sitting on ya fat ass criticising other people, who actually go outside and do something fun...
Like these were the good old days. Can't stand it.
You're up to 177 likes, including mine.
Blitz reenactment has to be in subway. I still have hours of newsreels in mind of London burning. I don't see anything jolly there. I prefer documents dating back to those days of courage and resilience. There isn't much available about these extreme weapons so the subject has many peripheral distraction in this newsreel. I guess I may like information cut and dry too much. Sea biscuits and rum. :P
3:17 you say length of 12 feet or 6.4 m but it is actually 21 feet - 12 feet is only about 3.5m.
I'll blame my brain's compulsive need to get at least one of the numbers wrong each video
hi mate the bomb is ~9foot the fin is ~12foot so that gets you your ~21feet.
1 inch = 25.4mm
As you come from the sane land where km/m/mm rule, the pleasures of yards feet and inches can only be really be top by the idea that the US & UK fluid measurement are different sizes ie us gal appx 4L UK appx 5L......,and then there is the measurement of money...., enjoy Pounds Shillings & Pence.
@@robertwoodliff2536 We HAVE moved on since the 70's. We now have Pounds and Pence, alot simpler.
That Victor in the background looks like a space ship compared to all the other bombers on display, and it was flying 7 years after the end of WW2. Incredible!
Wartime pushes a conservative viewpoint on designers: the military wants something that works so isn't willing to fund a "maybe", and whatever that thing is it better be ready last Thursday. There was quite a few highly advanced designed worked on that even reached prototype stage in the US like the YB-35 or XF5U but they lost out to more proven designs.
It's Avatar 2 atrezzo.
@@williammagoffin9324
I can't quite agree. It encourages a conservative mind set for the bulk of the equipment, but a minority is often used to see if promising inventions have potential. If they do they better have been in mass production yesterday …
The Victor is awesome, straight out of Thunderbirds.
The fact that they procured 3 different V bombers + had a back up conventional jet bomber all to do the same job was crazy
Coincidentally I'm watching this video while hearing artillery shells going off just a few miles away at a practice range.
"coincidentally", how do we know that's not YOUR artillery shells :)
@@dabigboom8140 You got me :)
I am kind of a big shot around here.
A real blast at parties.
@@Absaalookemensch I think you bombed out with that one.
@@jackfrost2146 So bad list night we thought it was a thunder storm.
Went there in January this year ,good museum especially the Halfax bomber . We were told some interesting things about the tail gunners in the Halifax which made you realise how dangerous a job it was and also the reason why so many died .
Private : Sergeant, our radio not working.
Sergeant : Use pigeon instead! *throw from high altitude*
7:56 what a sound! It's screaming, love it!
9:05 "Close counts in darts, horseshoes and nuclear war."
Tallboy: "hey, what about me?"
Grandslam: "Ahem!"
People compare nuclear explosions to Hiroshima.
Hiroshima was compared to the Grand Slam.
I think British bomb design is an under-appreciated aspect of the Western Allies' success in the war.
Between the science that went into the design and use of the Tall Boy and the cleverness of the dam busters, as well as the bombing stratagem of Hamburg and Dresden, the effectiveness of British conventional explosives was only exceeded by the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
"with one of these buggers" - you've enjoyed your time in Yorkshire i hear :)
I got really emotional with this video since my grandad flew in a Halifax as a mid upper gunner in 1945. He unfortunately passed away in 2009
I feel bad
Overkill? Maybe. Satisfying to drop? Definitely.
"10 tons of TNT. Enjoy, it ye bloody bastards !"
It would have to rock the plane a bit when released.. It sounds like a fun thing to experience.
@@gorillaau wait fun to kill people with it or...
@@arrowup8711 No, I meant the sensation of losing that amount of weight from the middle of an aircraft, without having it forcibly removed from the middle of the aircraft itself.
Perhaps similar to the belly dropping sensation when on a swing? Reduce the weight so more lift, plane should rise somewhat.
@@arrowup8711 What do you think war is about-dropping leaflets? Militaries are tasked with two missions-break things and kill people...i.e. war is hell. The enjoyment comes from taking part in the effort to stop the enemy. Are you a woke snowflake?
The Air Force had a 40K bomb that could only be carried on the B-36 bomber. After the plane was retired, the bomb was used in Vietnam to create places in the jungle for the helicopters to land. It was dropped by C-130. It would level everything around it.
the nuclear device is actually a training device for ground crews, not a real weapon.
Still very interesting to see on display of course.
5:24 the only reason that bird is sitting on that perch is because you nailed it there.
Lancasters with tallboys and grandslams used to show off to Lancasters with lesser packages.
Till he meets Superfortress with fatboy.
@@stevek8829 In terms of weight, Fatboy was quite a bit lighter than a grand slam. If you have to blow up a city to justify your small PP we're into psycopathy and not measuring packages anymore. ;)
@@mostevil1082 And they had to use British bomb shackles in the B-29 for both Little Boy and Fatman as the U.S. didn't have ones designed for such a weight of bomb.
Earthquake Bomb was actually a bit of a misnomer. It was actually intended to "Camoflet"the target. Which is a French medieval siege Warfare term for creating a cavity under or next to a structure, causing said structure to collapse under its own weight into that cavity.
This video is right on target. RAF rescue pigeon...having to use that would lead one to resorting to 'a wing and a prayer' too.
It's surprising how many crews were actually saved by the actions of their pigeons - they weren't just for show!
What I am disappointed by is that the pigeons didn't wear tiny helmets. If Bomber Crew taught me anything, then that Pigeon Mk II > Pigeon Mk I
There was a great exhibit in Bletchley Park about WWII pigeons that saved many lives during the war. Several of them were highly decorated. Fascinating stuff even if it does sound odd.
Looking forward to the Yorkshire Wartime Experience this July can't recommend it enough if you have the time to spare Cheers for sharing Yorkshire will always be home to me.
"Lose their collective schnitzels" That's funny
I have property in Fl USA. It is located 3 miles north of a designated stride range. Active during ww2 until 48'. A 500 lb. One was dropped on it. The crater is still there at least 60 ft across and 15 deep. Had to get the property searched for more ordnance. Was a trip.
The 4,000 lb 'cookie' seems to have been a very popular bomb too.
Also designed to miss.
hi did you know that entire squadrons of mosquitos got converted to carry nothing but cookies.
back in the 80s I used to shoot with a guy that crewed as navigator on them. he said that when the thing was dropped the aircraft would jump up almost the thousand feet. I never completely believed that bit of the story though.
@John Myers ZEN VE VILL THROW ZE BOOLETS AT ZEM!
@John Myers I speak German, my comment was just the stereotype Nazi Hollywood accent
@@tommyfred6180 I've sometimes wondered... What if half the production capacity devoted to heavy bombers went to Mosquitos instead? A B-17 only carried 4,000 lb bomb load to Berlin, and I understand these 4,000 lb carrying Mosquitos could reach Berlin. And fly too high and fast for German fighters, certainly too high for flack.
The reason for the spin, which was achieved by slightly angling the fins, was that the Tallboy would 'wobble' slightly as it went through the sound barrier and the spin was to stabilise it. (According the the book 'The Dam Busters').
Alright I’m standing next to a nuclear bomb, probably the best translation ever
I went there years ago as a kid but I can't really remember it very will. Will definitely look into visiting for the event this year!!
Small point: 3:50 filling the bomb would have been a time-consuming, not timely, affair.
I'm sure that's what he mean't.
@@timmason7430 It is an important distinction. Timely means it happens at just the right time whilst time-consuming means it takes a long time to finish. That is the kind of error in English that could see a spy arrested.
@@MartinWillett I'm sure English is NOT his first language.
@@timmason7430 That's why it's safe to criticize the usage. If he was a native speaker there's a chance he would take it as a personal attack. He is likely to take it as help, which is good, because it is.
@@MartinWillett I agree.
There used to be an 'inert' Grand Slam on display at the entry gate outside RAF Scampton, close to where I live. It had the detonator removed of course. When they were widening the road, they had to lift it out the way to relocate it, but it was much heavier than expected. Turned out the detonator HAD been removed, but it was still full of the 9000lbs of explosives!
I often feel the the works of Wallace are not given enough light, except the bouncing bomb.
Thanks for mentioning the Grand Slam, now what about his plane design?
I always love your work, you bring the life of WW2 even closer to home
Woooooo Yorkshire!
One of the first photos you showed was of the Saumur Tunnel and embankment.
Six Tallboy bombs in a bomb dump at Bardney, Lincolnshireprior to being loaded on No. 9 Squadron RAF aircraft in October or November 1944
June - August 1944[edit]
Saumur rail tunnel-The sole operational north-south route on the Loire. Nineteen Tallboy-equipped and six conventionally equipped Lancasters of 617 Squadron attacked on the night of 8-9 June 1944. 617 Squadron were guided on to the target by 83 Squadron Pathfinder Force. This was the first use of the Tallboy bomb and the line was destroyed-one Tallboy bored through the hillside and exploded in the tunnel about 60 ft (18 m) below, completely blocking it. No aircraft were lost during the raid.[2]
0:11 This picture makes me think of Susanna York screaming, "Don't you yell at me Mr. Warwick!"
Eric Taylor Watched that so many times I know the dialogue.
Best bit of that scene is where she is being told off for WAAFS using the men's trenches during air raid practice and you can just see the explosions behind before the sound hits them.
@@ianmoseley9910 Yea, it's one of the great war films made in that era. Battle of Britten, Tora, Tora, Tora, Longest Day.
They don't make them that way any more.
There is a scene in the Longest Day where an actor playing a General was actually a veteran of D-Day. Another actor who is playing the role of the actor playing the General is seen in the film. Very meta.
Now we just have abominations like Pearl Harbor.
@@erictaylor5462 How about Richard Todd (who played Guy Gibson in the Dambusters). In The Longest Day he played his own commanding officer. In one scene he,s talking to an officer called Richard Todd!!!
@@erictaylor5462 Re-reading your post, realised that,s who you meant. what threw me was you saying General, he was actually playing a Major.
I used to go with my men's group to a WW2 Exposition every year in Reading, PA (in the US). It was an entire airfield filled with period paraphernalia, costumes, replicas, artifacts, planes, trucks, tanks, you name it. And the people were dressed up and knowledgeable. There was even a mock battle in the sky between a Corsair and a Zero.
I don't know if it still happens each year, I hope so.
I was actually going to check out that museum when I visit the UK this February
Do so. It might not be one of the biggest, but it has some gems.
@@durhamdavesbg4948 Yeah it's a course trip to stay at York Uni for two weeks so I'll definitely drop by the museum at least once
Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum (set in an old P.O.W. Camp) is only 30 minutes drive away.
Military Aviation History: Thank you for another excellent presentation--always informative and enjoyable! Bob, USAF (1968-72).
0:52 protectively pushes his girlfriend out of the way of a deadly bicycle
Jamie C dun dun DUNN
you dont know how someone can hit you with a bike
I can thoroughly recommend a book called The Dambusters by Paul Brickhill.
Not only does it cover the dambusting exploits of 617 squadron it also covers their eventual role as a specialist squadron flying planes adapted to carry the Tallboy and, eventually, Grand Slam bombs. It also covers the people behind the machinery, people like 'Talking Bomb' who trained the squadron in the use of the SABS (Stabilising Automatic Bomb Sight) which allowed crews to get an average accuracy of 60 to 70 yds.
Hi from York. great vid.
benjamin sheard Hi from New York, great vid.
Poor sod.
It must be shit having to remortgage your house just to pay for the weeks shopping...
Elvington is a great place: it's where Hammond had his first big crash, F1 used to test there, it hosts all sorts of supercar days ... want to drive a MP12/4C then an Aventador? No probs. The Vulcan came during it's penultimate flight and did loops from the airfield to just past my village, eventually over-flying every house in my village at 100ft with the bomb doors open. It scared the bejesus out of the dog! Traffic on the A1079 (the York to Hull road) would stop and watch the Vulcan.
Wait a minute, you're not an old man with a moustache!
Bombardier:Direct hit skipper
Skipper:We were suppose to miss
9:10 The Bridge is located in Bielefeld. Allied Bombers tried to destroy the bridge for four years. Only after using Tallboys the where succesful, but a redundant railway track had just been finished a couple of months earlier (3km North of the bridge, just outside of this picture) and the only thing beeing achived by attaking the bridge was killing civillians.
There will ALWAYS be collateral damage in war, such are the perils of conflict.
I live 300 yards away from barns Wallace's grave and family home, I can't imagine what it would have been like to live here in the 1930s-1940s.
what is the name of the song at the begining? Like the one that plays when that jeep with the machine gun drives in?
you can go to the new forest and see the hole the first tallboy made i believe it marked on maps , also the fins on the rear where offset so the bomb would not wobble when it broke the sound barrier , biggeszt injustice wallis did not get recognition until years after the war
If only we had spent as much energy on helping each other as we do on killing each other, maybe we would be colonising other planets by now...
Arguably our rocketry tech would be much less advanced.
TheEd very true
"I Aim At The Stars", but Sometimes I Hit London.
If anyone is wondering. The other airplane is in the: Canadian warplane Heritage museum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Explosions are cool, that’s why nuclear winter happens
And the Lancaster was the only Bomber that could deploy the Tallboy and Grand Slam. Water injection was used to cool and increase the mix density to get every last hp out of the Merlins for take off.
That version of "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer" was awful. It's supposed to be a mournful ballad, not the Lindy Hop.
My dad, who served as a ground-based radio operator in the AAC, mostly in Belgium, had a record album of WWII songs he would play occasionally, and that song was on it, sung by a male choir. Even as a little kid, I found it very moving.
From the lyrics, I envisioned an airplane that had only one wing remaining, but was still somehow able to fly. I think they'd need more than a prayer though under those circumstances.
This is really cool! I'm not an aviation nerd, but the history side of it intrigues me. Thank you so much for showing us around Against The Odds, and I hope to attend some day.
....... But knowing how to arm the nuke is a good thing
THESAUCELORD you would laugh at how easy.
Aaah, the roar of a spitfire's Merlin engine... Priceless.
That was a Hurricane
There's a really good book by Stephen Flower, Barnes Wallis's Bombs that covers much of the development and production of the bombs. A lot of it is taken up with very good rundowns on every mission flown using them. It's so good i can't get it back off my dad.
Well, I'm glad you're talking 'bout bombs, Herr B. ;-) I could never understand one thing: how any aerial bomb, especially heavy one, can penetrate as heavy armoured target as a bunker, or a battle ship
(or many floors of the big block of flats) - without being damaged and still be able to explode...???
I'm a Pole living in UK for 13 yrs, I think you're doing a great job! Well done, and I hope you'll find an occasion to answer my doubts. Greetings!
hey Military Aviation history you probably wont see this but I have a ww2 brodie helmet that have the words | COW BOY and "real western" any help to where its from? (I am candian)
ThePiggyBackTurtle I have one too sitting in my closet
I got it when I was 7 mistaking it for an American M1 steel helmet
The purpose of the Grand Slam, according to Barnes Wallis, was to penetrate through about 30 metres of earth (in normal circumstances). To do this, the bomb was designed to be supersonic in flight and had a very hard armoured nose cone. Once it had penetrated, it would explode, creating a camouflet, a huge underground cavern into which everything would sink. That is what happened at the Bielefeld railway viaduct, shown here.
but how do you arm a nuclear bomb?
By putting a mad man/women in control of you country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Give it a rifle?
Thanks! Good presetntation. I particularly like hearing about Yorkshire Air Museum. If I'd known when I was there, I'd have visited. I did Cosford Air Show and IWM Duxford. Keep providing more info to more aviation buffs.
The Tripitz got one hell of a Explosion 💥
Nothing more beautiful than the sound of a RR Merlin!
Interesting too me that the people actually involved in these Wars went through hell every day even when they returned home suffering constant mental agony and traumatic stress while people who have never served come to places like this to play pretend and wish they were in the war...
These reenactments make war feel like a feel good movie lol.
well, on the bright side reenactments can be seen as fun and respect to those who actually fought, and show more people a taste of what it was like for them, certainly better then disrespecting what they did and fought for.
Excellent presentation. Thank you.
0:21 That mustache is NOT regulation. :)
Anchor Bait actually it is,raf regulations say you could have a handlebar moustache as long as it only went to the sides of the cheek
@@Alucard-gt1zf please tell me that's really how it worked haha :)
Proud yorkshireman here.
We are very proud of our military history in Yorkshire, with catterick army base amongst others nestled well within our county borders.
God bless.
12ft != 6.4m
I grew up in London and in those days there were still plenty of bomb sites. To give you an indication of the period, the trees growing there were about 4inch or 100mm in diameter. We used to play on all this derelict land. One of of our favourite places was an abandoned factory by the railway tracks. I don't what they manufactured there but it had it's own siding and platform. To cut a long story short, when that area was being developed they discovered a 1000lb unexploded bomb right where we used to play. It's lucky that little kids do not weigh very much!
Referring back to the "Grand Slam", what was the name of that hemispherical German bunker that was made to subside by an earthquake bomb?
1:10 nice to see Jeremy Corbyn in this environment xd
Lmfao, Thats brilliant
If he was there he would be cleaning latrines. He has LMF
for those intreste the other WE 177 bomb is on display at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester