The Last Luftwaffe Raid 1945
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On 21 April 1945, German forces in Norway launched one last big air attack on Britain. It turned into a major air battle.
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Huh WT been sponsoring a lot of aircraft videos recently I think. Anyways great informative video
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may i suggest an episode on the disatrous german air raid on Bari. In wich a great number of allied ship carrying chemical shells were destroyed intoxicating numerous allied soldiers and sailors. That attack was the only time in ww2 when chemical weapons were use.
@@toaster2049 What about Enlisted?
The fact that a large German air raid constituted 12 bombers, compared to the flight of 45 mosquitoes they encountered, really shows the difference in industrial capacity. Especially late war
It is the wooden wonder, so its easier to build. That said, True.
I bet if Germany had the resources America had they couldnt have been defeated.
@@edwelndiobel1567 debatable. Resources would’ve helped, but by that point germany would’ve been critically low on manpower. All the weapons and vehicles in the world mean nothing without people to operate them
@@edwelndiobel1567 If Germany had the political system Canada had, nobody would have wanted to go to war with them in the first place.
I read somewhere that in one raid on Hamburg, the US Army Air Corps dropped more tonnage of bombs than the Germans did during the whole battle of Britain.
Now that's a statistic that's hard to wrap one's head around.
Wing Commander Christopher Foxley-Norris, you win the award for the most British name ever.
Better then that , his Grand Father was Dean of Westminster . I am always astounded by how many of Britain's outstanding military men have connections to the C of E.
I think that should go to the British ambassador to the Vatican at the time: Francis D'arcy Godolphin Osborne.
My favourite was WWII Parachute Regiment Lt.-Col. Richard Pine-Coffin. His men nicknamed him "Wooden Box" with typical gallows humour.
@@MarkFeltonProductions Haha like the footballer Benjamin Fitz Hall, nicknamed _One size._
@@MarkFeltonProductions Not as magnificent a name, but RAAF Navigator Don Charlwood recalled in his book _No Moon Tonight_ (about his time with 103 Sqn RAF at Elsham Wolds) how one evening his crew (actually Geoff Madden's crew) shared the transport out to the dispersal bays with a crew led by a pilot with the surname of Burton. Given one of the common phrases at the time for not coming back from an operation was "Gone for a Burton", they quietly joked amongst themselves about how on Earth that crew could survive. Later, Burton's crew told Madden's crew how they'd overheard the latter joking about their potential fate.
Amazing that the Luftwaffe was still wasting precious resources conducting an attack that would change absolutely nothing to the course of the war this late in the war. Especially since those aircraft could have been put to better use conducting air strikes against the Soviets. Even if they were an anti-shipping unit.
Well obviously they thought the war was going to go on longer, and still following orders and attacking.
❤ 🇩🇪, wish they had better leadership
They were just doing their duty they didn't surrender
Yeah, ya gotta wonder how the battle of Britain would have turned out had the Luftwaffe not squandered their advantage by bombing civilian targets instead focusing solely on those of military value.
It was a vengeance attack, like the V-1 and V-2. There was no point.
My Dad was RAF aircrew in Bomber Command, shot down near Berlin at the end of Jan 1944 (3 died, 4 survived) and POW until 7th May 1945. It's weird that I can empathise with these German bomber crews but also know that as they were in the air my Dad was starving and exhausted on a forced march in Germany.
it was most likely a crew of young boys, completely wasting their lives in a futile raid. So yes its 100% natural to empathize, could just as well have been the other way.
Hi Rallan. What Squadron was your Father on. Aircraft type? Jan 44 was toward the end of the Battle of Berlin. 19 major raids on the city between Sep 43 to March 44. Heavy casualties for Bomber Command, 600 heavy bombers lost. Harris was obsessed with Berlin. Nearly wrecked Bomber Command as an effective fighting force.
So was my Grandfather, Leo Thomas I, he was captured the first day of the Battle of the Bulge when his support unit, which was delivering mostly food and ammunition, was attacked and a lot of them were taken as POW's. He was force-marched over the border into Germany and was transported by there by train to a POW camp for the last 6 months of the war. He said they had to eat potato peel soup for the most part but they weren't bay treated and the guards and staff would trade them for things in their Red Cross packets, which the Germans actually let them get instead of stealing them. I have a Luger a German NCO gave to him when they abandoned the camp but there's no magazine in it.
@@richardmarshall4322 10 Squadron, Halifax mkII.
They were all doing their duty. Don't be angry at them, there's no point in it.
Spring of 1972 I took WW II history at the U of MN. I thought I knew a lot about the war by the end of the semester. Your videos continue to fill in gaps and add fascinating stories about this incredible time in modern history. Bravo to you for your incredible work! Those mosquitos were amazing!
Perhaps the British Mosquito squadron made it up to raise spirits at home...and get a few free pints. Assuming that Felton didn't make this up.
Same here man I love learning about the war. My favorite WW2/ war in general documentary channel other than mark Felton is Dark Docs, Dark Seas, Dark skies, Dark tech, Dark footage, Dark files. I think that is all the DARK DOC channels. Seriously man check them out you will not regret it....excellent and exciting and informative videos
Ski U Mah!
B.J. ..............you know those 20 mm cannons were hot !!!!
During the first Blitz and then V2 campaign I lost 8 members of my family and the family home. My great grandfather and great uncle where killed at work trying to manoeuvre a coal laden barge at the London Underground Lots Road Power station, while my other Great Uncle died in the same raid while unhooking a damaged transformer. The rest died in the Usk Road York Road hit, the family later moved to temporary housing at Greenwich.
I have realtives in London and Sheffield. My family experienced the Sheffield blitz first hand but I remember my grandmother telling me about her second cousin in London (Brixton if I remember) going grey overnight due to the constant stress and anxiety of the "doodlebugs"
I recall a story from RAF ace Johnnie Johnson's autobiography. A day after the German surrender, a Luftwaffe bomber landed at his allied airfield in Europe. The pilot got out and asked for his aircraft to be refuelled and bombed-up, so that he could immediately join the western allies in attacking the Russians. He and his crew were immediately put into custody, but it's amazing to think some Germans actually thought that way.
"it's amazing to think some Germans actually thought that way."
The German pilot was not wrong, he did predict the war, his failur was to realise it was the cold war.
Patton thought that way.
It was the desperational hope that many soldiers on the Eastern Front clung too. Hold out as long as possible for the Western Allies to arrive. In Cornelius Ryan's The Last Battle there were cases of German civilians learning English so they could converse with Allied soldiers when they arrived, thinking that the Western Allies would not allow Berlin to be taken by the Soviets.
seeing what transpired immediately after ww2, can you really say his thinking was wrong?
Too bad they didnt give them the fuel
8:30 That cheeky little bit at the end of an angry German losing a game of chess.
Sore losers. Just look at the recent women’s Euros!
There were lots of lethal fighters during WWII but there's just something about being on the receiving end of a Mosquito or P-38 Lightning that just makes me shudder. The nose mounted firepower being so concentrated was clearly devastating.
Of all the things a bomber could stumble into, it's a bunch of bomber-killers that outnumber them 3-to-1. I'm amazed any of them made it back.
When he said Mosquito's noticed them then I knew it was game over - great plane!
The Beaufighter was more heavily armed … nicknamed by the Japanese as “Whispering Death”.
Was a two engined, three man strike fighter bomber, successor to the Beaufort.
@@cliveburt2638 If I recall, the Beaufighter had 4x 20mm canons, 4x .303 mg in the starboard wing, 2x .303 mg in the port wing, and 1x .303 mg in the observer's position. That's one hell of a punch!
@@neilfoster814 Mossie FB VI had four 20mm and 4 .303's, all in the nose/belly. Can't imagine being on the receiving end of that.
I can watch History Channel or something similar and see the same topics over and over. You are the only one who takes the time to research and provide us with interesting and previously unheard of content.
Anymore the history channel is all ancient ice trucks looking for pirates or something like that.
@@johndoe-so2ef Don't forget the aliens running a pawn shop.
Don’t be surprised when Germany does some unexpected. Don’t be surprised when Dr. Mark really does surprise us with the story.
GOD👌
WHAT, are you talking about?
@@GARRY3754 Tell us what it is!
No-one EXPECTS the German Inquisition!
Yeah. Latest bomb from those guys is that they in the face of an energy crisis and a coming winter decides to shut down more nuclear power plants. Teutonic stubborness at is best. Nobody saw that coming.
I met Chris Foxley-Norris once at the Royal Tournament in London, probably 1976. He was a good friend of my Grandfather, AVM Ted Hawkins. Grandpa was C/O of Changi when Foxley-Norris was C/O of all Singapore, in the 60’s. Also, Foxley-Norris’s ADC was Air/Com Brian Speed who I knew well from another connection. All of them had great stories to tell.
We won ‘t see the like of them again
I love these reasonably unknown stories from WW2.
It's almost like the internet has never heard of this story either. The only other reference I found was by a "guest author" in Wartime History Online that stated "The last air battle in Europe during the Second World War was also fought just off the Scottish coast in Aberdeenshire on April 21st, 1945", which is clearly false as air battles over Europe are widely recorded right up to May 8th.
@@1966johnnywayne lots of things aren't available online. Tons of written records and books are only available if you physically go to the right archive and know where to look, especially things that weren't intended for public consumption
@@thesteelrodent1796 Agreed. For example, items are constantly being added to the Australian War Memorial's and National Archives of Australia's online collections. I have had a small hand in this when researching family history and discovered something which hadn't been accessed since just after WW2 and asked the NAA to scan it and make it available online. Included in this is documentary evidence explaining the "disappearance" of a great uncle - there was no trace of him from the beginning of WW2 onwards - it turned out he enlisted under another surname and was killed at Tobruk ... he is still there, too.
There was another less known battle where the Luftwaffe surprised the Allies, the Battle over the Ore Mountains on 11th September 1944.
The US 100th Bomb Group suffered considerable losses over the area of what is now the Czech-German border. It lost a third of its B17-G bombers participating in the mission. More than 50 airplanes from both sides were shot down on that day, over a quite small area. There is even a museum dedicated to the battle in Kovářská, Czech Republic, displaying many artifacts from the battle which took part over it.
The German JG4 opposing the raid lost over 50% of its fighters in the battle.
One of the US fighter pilots, USAAC Lt. William Lewis, was shot down in his P-51 and was listed as MIA until the crash site was located in 2002 with the help of Czech and German volunteers and his identity was verified by the US authorities. He was given a military funeral at Tulsa airbase in Oklahoma, USA, on 28th May 2004. Amazingly, his own daughter, whom he had only ever seen once before leaving for war, attended the funeral.
Books are available both on the battle and on the story of Lt. Lewis.
That was very interesting...thanku👍
Thanks for posting !
Im czech its good to see that im not the only one that knows about this. 😄
Great story thanks
@@fandakilpis Right, that makes two of us who know about it, then. 😀 The museum is a tiny hidden gem, which deserves much more attention.
As always, Mark, your educational videos are truly appreciated!
Mark keeps on coming up with Interesting and entertaining episodes that I never heard of. All my Friends now subscribe ( I share my sources).
Thank you Mark, my mom lived & worked through the blitz as a welder in ship-building near Hull, and Tank manufacturing in the South.
You know people love these vids when it still says "no views" and already 64 thumbs up :)
Keep up the good work Mark.
The update rate on views and thumbs up's is different.
That's because the statistics are not updated in real time
I would like to make a public confession : I click the 'like' then watch the video.
Have never ' unliked ' one.
Mea Culpa, I await my fate.
Maybe patreons who get an early watch?
I click like before watching. Never been disappointed.
My late mother grew up in Mill Hill, and said of the V-1, “as long as the sound of the doodlebugs went past you, you were safe, the problem was when the sound was coming towards you, and it stopped”.
The RAF used the XX Committee to get “Garbo” to report that the V-1s were overshooting London, so that the Germans kept shortening the range of them, so that they fell on Kent.
Yes much of Kent was an even worse place to live in those days than it is now, so I can understand why the British Govt were keen to let the Germans flatten it!
Typing Londoners
Every time I’m on a boat I look out on the ocean and wonder how many aircraft are lying on the bottom with men still strapped inside
I have become addicted to your videos. I have always been interested in WW2 but you really bring it to life.
Wanna go halves on a 1/4 gramme of outtakes?
Whenever I hear about The Blitz I always think of that movie "Mrs Miniver"....if you've never seen it you really should. Those movies from the 40s are great
You have one of the best channels on UA-cam. Carry on the good work.
The Mosquito deserves more attention. Such a capable aircraft.
Oh no, Mosquitos! The dread the Germans must have felt. Thanks again Dr Felton.
Everyone hate mosquitos
The gunners' 7.92mm machine guns would have to get a lucky hit to have any effect.
Whichever German officer it was who thought that this would be a worthwhile mission at this stage of the war was stupid beyond belief.
According to Les Taylor in his book "Luftwaffe over Scotland", the officer responsible was Generalleutnant Ernst-August Roth.
Good man Mark, always entertaining and detailed.
My granddad was a swiss army AA operator at the northern Swiss/german border for 5 years. They shot down German planes crossing the border. Sometimes more, sometimes less...depending on political standing orders by the generals. Their last kill was a german twin engine bomber in early 1945.
Tough position for a civilian in their mandatory service, allied or axis it has to come down.
@@endutubecensorship Well Swiss neutrality was respected fairly well though.
@@vacgyverfin5170 I think not - by neither side.
The neutral nation that shot down more planes than the French did, lol.
@@greatexpectations6577 Being neutral doesn't mean you are waving white flag.
I'm so happy that Mark Felton got sponsored by War Thunder
Superb bit of research in locating the actual image from the interception, Doc.
Those Mosquito pilots must have thought themselves the luckiest pilots in the world at that moment.
Lucky they weren't in the early Mosquitos (no armament 😂)
Absolutely. The escorting Mustangs asked to break away early because they had a party planned at their base on Peterhead - and they missed the Junkers party.
Commander-in-Chief Sholto Douglas telephoned Fighter Command 13 Group (the escorting Mustangs) to rub it in by offering fighter escorts to their Mustangs when and if required 😆
@@rararnanan7244 Where di you find this...I cannot find further corroboration of this story beyond..."The last air battle in Europe during the Second World War was also fought just off the Scottish coast in Aberdeenshire on April 21st, 1945".
@@rachelar Actually it was only the bombers that were unarmed as the 4 20MM cannon took up the front half of the bomb bay. The FB, Fighter bomber only carried 2 500# bombs, the bomber version carried 4 500# bombs and NO guns, only the MODIFIED bombers could carry the MODIFIED to fit 4,000# cookie bomb !! and the photo recon were unarmed !!!!
@@rachelar MY question is with that many Mosquitos why were not ALL the German bombers shot down ????
As always the best History Channel on TV or on UA-cam or anywhere for that matter Mark Felton
Les Taylor in his book “Luftwaffe over Scotland” comments: Among the Banff aircraft involved in a battle with KG 26 torpedo bombers on 21 April 1945 were a number of specially modified Mosquitoes known as ‘Tsetse’ Mosquitoes. These had a single 57mm quick firing Molins anti-tank gun mounted in place of the standard four cannon in the belly.
Only four of the raiders made it back to Stavanger.
Hmm Banff? That’s the name of a resort town west of Calgary, AB Canada
@@kimclarke5018 No surprised, quite a sizeable number of Canadian places are named after the English originals. Banff, Alberta was coincidentally named in 1884 by George Stephens, the President of CP Rail at the time, after Banff, Scotland.
@@kutter_ttl6786 and my grandfather is from ST Boswells SCOTLAND
The Tsetses were originally intended for anti-U-boat operations although they did a fair job on E-boats and other light shipping targets like barges and small merchant ships.
I never knew my city was one of the last to be bombed by a manned luftwaffe raid. Thank you mark. Keep up the good work, eager to learn more from you.
They didn't bomb it though. They dropped their torpedoes and took evasive action.
@@Secter84 "to be" can be used as a synonym phrase for "expected", or "scheduled".
@@Secter84 maybe he meant that last single bomber that did drop his bombs
@@Secter84:3:32 hear it again...
The guy is from Hull...
@@ULTRA_2112 Good spot Fooker, Playful and Triton. Yep it was a lone 'nuisance' raider. What a nuisance. Come on EightyFour. Pay attention. Ha ha
It's amazing that any pilot eould attempt such an attack considering that the knew, or should have, that the war was lost. It could serve no purpose other than causing the loss of ships, which was akin to revenge prior to surrender.
It is hard to imagine, but with the control the nazis held over all media, radio, newspaper, and even casual conversation through intimidation, its not beyond the pale that pilots in Norway had no real idea just how bad things had gotten on the eastern and western fronts. I imagine they thought they were still in the fight and every battle and/or sortie still mattered. Maybe some just wanted to die for their country rather then face defeat.
@@MudPig6110 agreed. What are the chances of German pilots and soldiers having real up too date truth and knowledge of the total desperate, bloodied conditions on the Eastern front? Those stationed far away in Norway would of been completely isolated too the situation in Germany, Russia and Poland etc..
They knew or should have? You can't support your claim at all. What do you know of how they perceived or were told things went at that time?
You think the German media would spread news akin to defeatism as long as the Führer or Goebbels were alive? Nope. It was war and they were doing their job, that's it.
Shots were fired in WW1 until the very last minute, not because of revenge, but because of duty.
There is a very realistic German series about the war - "Jokehnen, or How long is it from East Prussia to Germany?". One of the main characters, a pretty intelligent mayor in an East Prussian village says in December 1944 "We can't be totally defeated. We still occupy Norway, Denmark and Czechoslovakia. The Führer must be able to somehow use that in a bargain with the Allies". They didn't understand that while it still didn't look hopeless on the maps, their resources were running out and no one was willing to negotiate with them whatsoever.
I am grateful for this channel. Always a unique story on the war whether allied or axis based. My grandfather and his 2 brothers served during the war. His older brother was stationed in England with the air corps.
I like this channel above many positive levels when episodes like these got manage to show a footage as this.
Even the part where the british pilot turns his head and raise his eyes for the formation which Mr. Felton talks about.
Another story I had never heard before. Thank you Dr. Felton for bringing these stories to life! Your work means a great deal to so many of us! Don't ever stop!
It's almost like the internet has never heard of this story either. The only other reference was by a "guest author" in Wartime History Online that stated "The last air battle in Europe during the Second World War was also fought just off the Scottish coast in Aberdeenshire on April 21st, 1945", which is clearly false as air battles over Europe are widely recorded right up to May 8th.
Wow. Where you keep finding such hidden gems? Thanks as always.
TRULY HIDDEN GEMS ... I can't find any references to this battle on the net. Weird.
@@1966johnnywayne It’s not weird really. Mark Felton is an academic looking thoroughly through archives.
@@dustycups The last failed air raid over Britain thwarted out at sea...You don't think that this would be better known, almost on the level of movie worthy???
@@1966johnnywayne There were a lot of last things. Doesn't matter what we think, it is what it is. The number of people knowing about obscure events or Hollywood making movies about it isn't a standard of proof. It seems you're determined to believe some kind of conspiracy about it. Not sure why, that's kind of a weird one mate.
do you mean War Thunder?
Thanks for doing a detailed video of this event!👍👍
Wow Mark, another interesting and exciting expose of history that I had no idea happened! That was some real buzzard luck the Luftwaffe ran into... I couldn't even begin to imagine what went through those Pilots minds as they captured the attention of all those De Havilland's, one of the most feared twin-engined fighter bombers in the sky at the time. Just wow!!! Anyhow... Tally Ho!
The Mosquito: doind the F/A thing before the F/A-18 was a glint in the F-5's eye.
That was extremely interesting! When your luck is out you’ve had it. Seems like nothing was going right for the Germans by 1945!
The third reich….. now I suppose we really in the four horsemen time, but just don’t know it.
I ain’t some bible bashing loon either.
Modern USA makes its own luck militarily
@@codyweien4513 And has lost every war its been in since and including Vietnam, lotsa bombs but cant win a war,..............we have some VERY rich generals though,...............we create millions of enemies with our never ending bomb dropping and drones killing innocents.
Martin Hogg - Luck had nothing to do with it.
It started going very wrong in 1933, particularly for anyone who was the wrong religion, ethnic group or political orientation in Germany.
We might well look at Russia the same way in the future.
Thank you again for your insightful and interesting little known WW2 event.
You nailed another one !
Mark I love your documentaries and have my notifications on!
My grandfather flew as a B-24 gunner in the US 8th Air Force in 1944-45.
Great work keeping these stories alive. 👍👍
Speaking of War Thunder, that’s what it’s like flying a bomber. You’re making your way to a target and boom, a mosquito flies in and shoots you down immediately. Great fun :D
Superb work as always, Dr. Felton
I like to watch Mark's videos at night (and ONLY Mark's videos). It's like going to the movies!
More people died in the process of fabricating the V2 than in its application. Most of them were inmates of the concentration camp of Mittelbau-Dora.
Once again bringing little known history to life. Thank you Dr. Felton
Having this on while grinding the Summer event in War Thunder. Always great to let Autoplay put me back onto a Mark Felton binge
Excellent content again Dr Felton - thank-you. Many of your stories are worth turning into movies - I'd certainly buy a ticket.
Thank you for the information.
This was one part of history, I didn't know about.
It's almost like the internet has never heard of this story either. The only other reference I found was by a "guest author" in Wartime History Online that stated "The last air battle in Europe during the Second World War was also fought just off the Scottish coast in Aberdeenshire on April 21st, 1945", which is clearly false as air battles over Europe are widely recorded right up to May 8th.
Wonderful Lesson. Wonderful learning. MARK IS OUR TEACHER
Always great Dr.Felton keep em coming.
At 2:19 I'm glad that Dr. Who was there to help!
Oh Im so glad Hull got a mention!!
My Grandad Sid was in civil Defence during the War in Hull and was a bit bitter that London always got the front page news ☝️🧐
My main man Dr Felton. Thanks as always for your content, I’ve been with you since early on.
I remember emailing and asking about something on jabal akhdar in Oman near Nizwa. SAS troops…
Maybe war stories.
Thank you for another unique, and awesome documentary Mark Felton Productions!
Always look forward to next these videos!
A handful of young men in the form of RAF fighter pilots saved Britain and by extension, the civilized world. They may have been young, naive and in many cases, virgins but had balls the size of Gibraltar.
The 8th USAAF helped a bit too.
thanks Dr. Felton for a look at this little known operation.. what good luck for the Mosquitos to have come along at the right time and place!!
As soon as I heard "Mosquitos" I knew how this story was going to end.
"TALLY HO, LADS!"
As always... amazing. Thank you, Dr Felton.
Seems ludicrous to send these men to war at this stage. Thanks for another really interesting video, I am looking forward to the next.
another outstanding episode Dr Felton, hope you are all well!
Another great , high quality video Dr. Felton ! Many thanks !
Thank you Mark. It is a very interesting part of history.
It was the brave RAF that really put the Luftwaffa in the back seat.
Big fan sir from India i have learnt very much about Nazi Germany and ww2
Thank you sir! Another excellent video!
Superb Mark!
Thank you
I never heard of this mission. I have read a book or two on Mosquitos, but never about this German raid. Thank You Mark.
Their cause was wrong, but it is a pity, all the same. My dad, who fought in the Pacific, told me of how sad it made his whole platoon, when a couple of men were killed by a sniper, just days before the Japanese surrendered.
That would be terrible to be the last casualties of any war.
Such a waste.
Glad my grandfather came back from Vietnam. He was a casualty of the war none the less...he had severe health defects that were caused by agent Orange that ultimately took his life in 2012.
RIP🙏
So crazy how humans only goal seems to be ending the lives of other humans...it's so wilf how life is just a miracle as it is. Earth flying through space with all the other planets & stars & matter in the universe, yet here on earth we have life for some reason, by some chance. Evolved from God knows what, or maybe we were created? Either way it's so crazy the chance of life being the way it is...all that advancement and superiority to other creatures in this world....and what do creatures who are at the tip top of their evolution do?
End the lives of other evolved and non evolved creatures.
Instead of just existing, it's almost as if it's in our DNA.
There was a TV documentary (not sure if Mark covered it) about US commanders sending soldiers to their deaths in utterly pointless missions literally as WW1 was ending, for their own selfish reasons. I mean just absolutely pointless. It's annoying!
Another well narrated and produced WWII documentary. Thank you!
Another unknown gem of history thanks to Dr felton. Thanks for sharing!
That feeling when you know that you couldn't have timed it worse.....Oh crap.
My mother, who was living in East Ham, London during the War, told me that she felt that an extended V2 campaign would have had an extreme psychological effect on Londoners; they could mostly cope with the V1's, or 'Doodlebugs' as she called them, because you could hear them and take evasive action when their motors stopped, but you could neither see nor hear the V2s, and she said that really did create an atmosphere of terror.
To be fair, I'm surprised if not "baffled" to know she even knew they existed - Gov't kept it quiet deliberately
Gov't hierarchy KNEW the "unstoppable V.2" would create panic, so used "Gas Explosions" as an excuse.
My Mother got blown into mid-air (outer shock wave) on 13th July '44 by a V.1 "Doodlebug" (nr Thames)
She got NO warning as an adjacent Fire Station Fireman yelled at her & her mate to get down
"We didn't have time to react" she said & both her & her schoolmate got blown into mid-air
Both were injured, but survived as a strong neighbouring brick wall ("stocks") took the brunt
The woman (standing at the bus stop) was killed & my Mum fretted about her, even in the 2000's
That B'strd "von Braun" became an 'American citizen' (laughably) despite his murdering weapons
Bet they would NOT have "extended that courtesy" to the likes of Joachim Peiper or his ilk
Amazing "Get Out Of Jail Free Card" (Monopoly game) played by the Allies in exchange for "Rocket Tech"
Thanks Mark for another amazing content on untold stories of WWII.
awesome history lesson Mark...Mahalo's bro!
I'm quite grateful for how prolific Dr Felton is. It's easily some of the very best history content on UA-cam.
One of the best and most consistent channels on youtube!
Hating on Ze Germans pays well...especially when you "stretch" the truth.
Thank you for another fascinating video Mark
Good to see your sponsor is matched to your content. I learned more in the last 4 years playing war thunder about ww2 vehicles and history than the previous 25 years of collecting books and watching videos.
There was a time when I would play War Thunder almost daily. Those days are gone.
Getting uptiered a lot. Your favorite historical vehicles being thrown into matches against something that can just easily kill you without trying, servers randomly getting bad at any time.
@@swenhtet2861 Yep
@@swenhtet2861 >start match with planes designed in the 30s, hoping for a relaxing low tier match
>instantly matched against late-war planes
@@echodelta2172 worse in low tier is when you’re dogfighting against someone and you get pilot sniped suddenly by the AAA on the ground.
Ooh. HATE on EVERYTHING russian = How to do things 2022+?
One maxim of combat: "No plan survives first contact with the enemy". Good example of why. Thanks Mark.
Napoleons maxim.
I had no idea this happened so late in the war, your vids are always so informative, thanks for posting. 😎
Super interesting. Thanks for always expanding my knowledge!
That's very interesting. So the first Luftwaffe bombing raid took place in Scotland and the last one was aimed at Scotland.
first british civilian was killed at Bridge of Waith in Orkney
@@JohnSmith-ii9ci As recorded by Les Taylor in "Luftwaffe over Scotland". Also in that book is a detailed account of the 21 April 1945 raid.
The RAF pilots must have thought xmas had come early. You can almost imagine the reactions when first sighting the enemy aircraft.
Another historical event I hadn’t heard of. Thanks to Mark my knowledge of history is once again improved.
Keep 'em coming Mark!
Regardless of which side the casualties were on, I hate hearing that airmen, sailors or ground troops died just days before whatever war it was had been concluded. If only the raid or attack had been delayed, men who survived the entire war would have gone home and rebuilt their lives... just a few extra days were the difference between life or dying in vain.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the Mosquitos intercepted the raid. It's the moral concept of "If it had just been delayed a little longer..."
My great uncle died on the Western Front in the First World War in August 1918 just 75 days before the Armistice, after surviving the horrors of the Somme in 1916.
Just watching the Ukraine series! Love the videos Mark Felton!!! Thank you!!!!
Another great story abut an obscure WWII event. Thank you for posting.
Just love your presentation of History thank you professor I enjoy your books also keep it coming
This is way more better then history channel. please do japan last air battle of ww2.
What a waste of human life. Right at the end of the war, I can’t see why the Luftwaffe thought that sinking a few merchant ships was going to do anything
"Star Trek- Wrath of Kahn", where Ricardo Montalban gives that little speech as he's setting the doomsday device, something like "With my last breath, I stab at thee..."
@@billh230 That's stolen from Moby Dick.
@@davidbrimson83 Quoting classic literature isn’t “stealing.”
Sullivan Nix who care if those Germans were killed ??? How many millions of death were they responsible for ???
@@PaulMcElligott Yah, but wildly mis-attributing a quote like that makes me look almost as bad as a frauditor.....
I thought you would miss out Hull, then you mentioned it
Great to hear my home city get a mention in a Mark Felton vid!