My great uncle Sapper James Stephen was one of the men who was on the first failed mission. He survived the glider crash but as the documentary says he was caught and executed
I read the book of this extraordinary mission before watching this really great series, really good to put the two together , What an effort from these real heroes (never mind some guy that kicks a ball into a net on a Saturday afternoon, he aint no hero).
There is such crap on US TV. I don't even watch it anymore. I watch BBC on UA-cam and listen to BBC world news on local FM radio during the night. I have learned all kinds of things from BBC. Thank you British taxpayer.. Survival TV as Ray does it is very important to teach skills in case we Yanks get into another national emergency. We are fat and far from ready for the next mega-conflict or disaster.
@genetrumbo to be exact, and no doubt, pernickety, the BBC is funded by licence fee payers, not tax payers. Legally, you have to pay for a licence to watch TV in UK, but the state does not subsidise BBC TV (and of course, not independent channels). There used to be Foreign Office subsidy (but of course, no control) of the World Service, this is ending.
Those guys are so modest, but what they did was extraordinary. So humbling.
My great uncle Sapper James Stephen was one of the men who was on the first failed mission. He survived the glider crash but as the documentary says he was caught and executed
RIP Spr James Stephen. REspect.
These guys knocked their pipe out.welldone each man a hero
I read the book of this extraordinary mission before watching this really great series, really good to put the two together , What an effort from these real heroes (never mind some guy that kicks a ball into a net on a Saturday afternoon, he aint no hero).
Bletchley Park? SOE had its radio monitoring team at Grendon Hall at that time.
Excellent to know
There is such crap on US TV. I don't even watch it anymore. I watch BBC on UA-cam and listen to BBC world news on local FM radio during the night. I have learned all kinds of things from BBC. Thank you British taxpayer.. Survival TV as Ray does it is very important to teach skills in case we Yanks get into another national emergency. We are fat and far from ready for the next mega-conflict or disaster.
@genetrumbo to be exact, and no doubt, pernickety, the BBC is funded by licence fee payers, not tax payers. Legally, you have to pay for a licence to watch TV in UK, but the state does not subsidise BBC TV (and of course, not independent channels). There used to be Foreign Office subsidy (but of course, no control) of the World Service, this is ending.
These guys are made of granite.