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My Dad was a Horsa pilot, but no one in the family knew. Then, in my 30s I had coincidentally become a glider pilot myself. I flew him as a passenger, and afterwards in the pub he told me all about it. We in the family were flabbergasted!
My dad flew these gliders into Normandy He would talk about the gliders to me but never about the battles. He fought all the way through Europe this was the greatest generation that ever lived.
My grandfather too. It really makes you think. They were trained alongside the Paras. They had to be everybit as tough and agressive. But they had to learn to fly a plane too. Then learn to crash land a wooden plane without engines, behind enemy lines, in the dark. And if they survived that, they were expected to form a rifle platoon and perform a night attack. They were subject to Hitler's Commando orders, so if they were captured, they would likely face a firing squad. So if they survived that, they were expected to do it again on the next mission. The GPR really don't get the recognition they deserve.
I worked at a VA outpatient clinic here in Sacramento in the early late 80's and met a WWII vet sporting a different set of wings I had not seen before...The US winged badge had a shield with wings on each side with a big "G" in the center.. I was told by that veteran that day that the "G" stands for guts! 😯 I'm now a disabled US Army Veteran myself from my service during the early part of 1st Gulf War. Not many WWII veterans left these days... I go out of my way today to introduce myself to them, the Korean and Vietnam veterans and give them a sincere "Thank You" whenever I meet them!
I grew up next to an old airbase in southeast Missouri. During the Second World War, glider pilots were trained there. Not far from that base is a tiny cemetery where a dozen British soldiers are buried. They were killed when the glider they were training in crashed.
The advantage of gliders is that they could also carry light vehicles and artillery, which greatly enhanced the paras fighting ability. They also had a better chance of all the troops being landed nearly at the same location.
They were very much an "all eggs, one basket" thing as well, though. The Pegasus and Horsa bridges proved both scenarios: five of the six gliders landed on target and delivered all of their troops and equipment, but the sixth glider got lost and landed some ten miles away, meaning that all of its men and equipment failed to arrive in time.
When I was in the 325AIR, we jumped into an airshow, in the crowd a WW2 82d vet saw my beret and asked if we still flew in gliders, when I told him no, he commented, Good! couldn't pay me to get in one of them...A plane designed to crash! Glider troops, all of the danger, non of the pay!
Was there this year for the 80th anniversary, it is simply insane to see how close they landed to Pegusus Bridge in complete darkness. of course vhad to have a lovley coffee at the Cafe GonDree the first home liberated
Hold Until Relieved, Hold Until Relieved. And they did, in point of fact the taking of that one bridge went pretty smooth. But in the movie, The Longest Day, they made it look harder ;)
Richard Todd, who took part in the action at the bridge at Benouville (later renamed Pegasus Bridge), was offered the chance to play himself, but joked, "I don't think at this stage of my acting career I could accept a part 'that' small." He was cast as the commander of the bridge assault, Major John Howard, instead. In a strange twist of fate, in one scene of the battle for the bridge, a soldier runs up to Todd, playing Major Howard, and relays information about the battle to him. During the actual real battle, Todd actually did run up to Howard to relay information to him. Therefore, the film actually did show a soldier playing Todd running up to Todd playing Howard and relaying information the real Todd gave to the real Howard the information
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The phrase "dropped Hitler's jaw" is an evocative way of saying that this event or aircraft left Hitler in shock or awe. This could point to a moment when something about the aircraft or a specific mission related to it caught Hitler off guard-perhaps a surprise attack, an unexpected technological breakthrough, or an event that challenged his expectations of military strategy. Hitler, as a military strategist, was highly invested in advancing the Nazi war machine, so encountering something that astonished or unsettled him would have been significant. It also suggests that this moment could have been both a tactical win for the Allies and a psychological blow to Nazi leadership.
You have to have enormous b@lls of steel to play the bagpipes during battle there had to be another solder walking behind him with Bill Millin's b@lls in a wheelbarrow. This is absolutely insane.
The captain of Pegasus and Horsa Bridges was D Company 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry carried by Horsa Glider. The Gliders took up to France was from RAF Aylebury in Buckinghamshire.
I just watched the 2020 movie "The Forgotten Battle" today that included British gliders. I was wondering if they ever had only one side release. That would be really bad.
The nickname is easily misunderstood even by non British native English speakers, it reflects the British ironic sense of humour and tendency to understate.
All the gliders including the Americans was made of wood as it was cheap, lightweight & a non critical war time material so was perfect for the 1 time use mission requirements etc, it's not like mosquito which was a marvel of engineering & British design & truly unique
I knew about gliders in WW2. I didn’t, however know that there were so many of them! Wow! What a feet of human engineering and grit! Never again will this happen. So impressive.
(of the commandos in Norway) "..their lives ended in a tragedy which severely violated the Geneva Convention". Could you possibly have phrased this more deliberately to avoid saying "the wounded survivors troops some of whom where unable to stand to face their murderers, were shot by Germans". God forbid you offend the Germans by telling the truth!
11:38 no offence intended mate, great video btw, but we don't have "lootenants" in the Army or RAF. Same for the Aussies, Kiwis, and Canucks as well. Our lieutenants are pronounced as "leftenants". Unless you're talking about the same rank in their navies. Then it's pronounced "lootenant". The navy (s) always like to be different!
They were used again. There were units in the army whose task was to collect the gliders which were not wrecked by crashing. Also weapons from the dead and injured and ammunition, hand grenades, bayonet etc.
They were intended to be collected and reused after the action, but it wasn't always possible. For instance, most of the Horsas used in Market Garden were lost because of the way the battle turned out.
My father was a Navy Corpsman stationed in England prior to D-Day. He was part of the medical crews transporting the wounded back to the States afterwards. He was assigned to a group of glider soldiers. All with broken femurs and shattered pelvises. These men has seen Rommel's Asparagus and chose to jump from their gliders at about twenty feet up. The weight of their packs plus the speed of their falls caused many orthopedic injuries. The return trip across the North Atlantic hit rough seas. The injured soldier unable to even raise or roll over ended up lying in vomitus.
@@jaygee5693 Not really true. They were intended to be collected and refurbished after use and there was a unit dedicated to this task, but heavy landings, crash-landings and events like Market Garden caused a far higher attrition rate than expected, leading to the myth that they were single-use. For instance, during Market Garden the gliders landed intact for the most part, having achieved surprise and so the landing loss rate was very low. However, after the Germans overran the landing zones, all of those intact Horsas were captured or destroyed.
No. There was a larger heavy-lift glider called the Hamilcar (named, presumably, after the Carthaginian General Hannibal’s brother) that could carry a small tank, or a couple of Jeeps, or a Jeep and a 6 pdr. Anti-Tank gu - that sort of thing.
Flying Deathtrap, there speaks forth a Power Pilot ( like those in Sicily ) let alone land at Pegasus Bridge. I admit it probably wouldn't have to spin from 2,000' and 'complete or fail' 7 complete (360) turns - as that blade of grass gets bigger.
Fun fact about these the aero towing techniques were development was funded by legendary romance author Dame Barbara Cartland who worked wi in the 30s to develop glider based mail services and was attempting to win a prize for first cross channel glider flight .
I love your channels content especially since I can find a personal connection my uncles fought in World War II coming home wounded one crippled dad was in the New Zealand Navy travelled and cleared Nable mines post war however my concern is I find your current advertising regime a little too aggressive I know you need to raise revenue but the ad at the front and the end is a bit too much and I am considering unsubscribing sorry Cheers
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My Dad was a Horsa pilot, but no one in the family knew. Then, in my 30s I had coincidentally become a glider pilot myself. I flew him as a passenger, and afterwards in the pub he told me all about it. We in the family were flabbergasted!
My dad flew these gliders into Normandy He would talk about the gliders to me but never about the battles. He fought all the way through Europe this was the greatest generation that ever lived.
My grandfather too. It really makes you think. They were trained alongside the Paras. They had to be everybit as tough and agressive. But they had to learn to fly a plane too. Then learn to crash land a wooden plane without engines, behind enemy lines, in the dark. And if they survived that, they were expected to form a rifle platoon and perform a night attack. They were subject to Hitler's Commando orders, so if they were captured, they would likely face a firing squad.
So if they survived that, they were expected to do it again on the next mission. The GPR really don't get the recognition they deserve.
Amen
@@billlansdell7225 My grandfather died in a concentration camp…… He fell from a watchtower.
@@markteaney8381 British glider pilots constituted an elite within the elite qqqqk
The WW1 generation too. I think the UK really damaged our gene pool in these two wars.
I worked at a VA outpatient clinic here in Sacramento in the early late 80's and met a WWII vet sporting a different set of wings I had not seen before...The US winged badge had a shield with wings on each side with a big "G" in the center.. I was told by that veteran that day that the "G" stands for guts! 😯 I'm now a disabled US Army Veteran myself from my service during the early part of 1st Gulf War. Not many WWII veterans left these days... I go out of my way today to introduce myself to them, the Korean and Vietnam veterans and give them a sincere "Thank You" whenever I meet them!
I grew up next to an old airbase in southeast Missouri. During the Second World War, glider pilots were trained there. Not far from that base is a tiny cemetery where a dozen British soldiers are buried. They were killed when the glider they were training in crashed.
The advantage of gliders is that they could also carry light vehicles and artillery, which greatly enhanced the paras fighting ability. They also had a better chance of all the troops being landed nearly at the same location.
....... not to mention with all their equipment, which otherwise could be spread anywhere through the drop area and surrounding areas.
They were very much an "all eggs, one basket" thing as well, though. The Pegasus and Horsa bridges proved both scenarios: five of the six gliders landed on target and delivered all of their troops and equipment, but the sixth glider got lost and landed some ten miles away, meaning that all of its men and equipment failed to arrive in time.
When I was in the 325AIR, we jumped into an airshow, in the crowd a WW2 82d vet saw my beret and asked if we still flew in gliders, when I told him no, he commented, Good! couldn't pay me to get in one of them...A plane designed to crash!
Glider troops, all of the danger, non of the pay!
Was there this year for the 80th anniversary, it is simply insane to see how close they landed to Pegusus Bridge in complete darkness. of course vhad to have a lovley coffee at the Cafe GonDree the first home liberated
Hold Until Relieved, Hold Until Relieved. And they did, in point of fact the taking of that one bridge went pretty smooth. But in the movie, The Longest Day, they made it look harder ;)
They neglected to include the glider born tank that was used to drive off the German counter attack too…
Richard Todd, who took part in the action at the bridge at Benouville (later renamed Pegasus Bridge), was offered the chance to play himself, but joked, "I don't think at this stage of my acting career I could accept a part 'that' small." He was cast as the commander of the bridge assault, Major John Howard, instead. In a strange twist of fate, in one scene of the battle for the bridge, a soldier runs up to Todd, playing Major Howard, and relays information about the battle to him. During the actual real battle, Todd actually did run up to Howard to relay information to him. Therefore, the film actually did show a soldier playing Todd running up to Todd playing Howard and relaying information the real Todd gave to the real Howard the information
my father flew these in Burma ,he was part of the Airborne Artillery . Very rarely spoke of his experiences
I loved this production. I was aware of the capture of the bridges, nice to hear the full story.
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The Horsa was not second to the Waco. It was far superior. The Waco was, in fact, a pretty godawful piece of equipment.
The Waco was also responsible for the deaths of a number of U.S. Congressmen during WW2 (due to defective wing mounting hardware).
The waco had a metal frame that held together better
@ Waco had a metal frame that failed due to poor quality welding and materials…
Look up the accident report from August 1,1943 at Lambert Field, St Louis.
@allangibson8494 That was due to a defective strut not a design issue and yes there were crashes for all types of gliders.
@@jerrymiller9039the preposition that because something is better by default because it’s made of metal is flawed.
The phrase "dropped Hitler's jaw" is an evocative way of saying that this event or aircraft left Hitler in shock or awe. This could point to a moment when something about the aircraft or a specific mission related to it caught Hitler off guard-perhaps a surprise attack, an unexpected technological breakthrough, or an event that challenged his expectations of military strategy. Hitler, as a military strategist, was highly invested in advancing the Nazi war machine, so encountering something that astonished or unsettled him would have been significant. It also suggests that this moment could have been both a tactical win for the Allies and a psychological blow to Nazi leadership.
You have to have enormous b@lls of steel to play the bagpipes during battle there had to be another solder walking behind him with Bill Millin's b@lls in a wheelbarrow. This is absolutely insane.
Mate, that's be 2 soldiers and wheel barrows! 1 per barrow!
The Great Pipes are a weapon of war. They are huge morale boosters
The captain of Pegasus and Horsa Bridges was D Company 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry carried by Horsa Glider. The Gliders took up to France was from RAF Aylebury in Buckinghamshire.
These gliders were featured prominently in the famous D-Day movie _The Longest Day_
Good Dark good a lot of relevant archive film keep it up
I just watched the 2020 movie "The Forgotten Battle" today that included British gliders. I was wondering if they ever had only one side release. That would be really bad.
Dark Skies never fails to Amaze me. Another great video.
The nickname is easily misunderstood even by non British native English speakers, it reflects the British ironic sense of humour and tendency to understate.
All the gliders including the Americans was made of wood as it was cheap, lightweight & a non critical war time material so was perfect for the 1 time use mission requirements etc, it's not like mosquito which was a marvel of engineering & British design & truly unique
My dad was retraining as a tow pilot in preparation for the invision of Japan when the war ended.
Interesting. My dad had battle maps for an invasion of Japanese occupied China. And then the bomb
About 30 miles south of Fayetteville Ft Bragg. Was one of the largest glider bases in the world. It’s called the Laurinburg/Maxton Airport now.
I knew about gliders in WW2. I didn’t, however know that there were so many of them!
Wow! What a feet of human engineering and grit!
Never again will this happen. So impressive.
The landings at Pegasus bridge are probably the finest feat of airmanship of WW2.
I understand that they would fail to get an airworthiness certificate today.
(of the commandos in Norway) "..their lives ended in a tragedy which severely violated the Geneva Convention". Could you possibly have phrased this more deliberately to avoid saying "the wounded survivors troops some of whom where unable to stand to face their murderers, were shot by Germans". God forbid you offend the Germans by telling the truth!
11:38 no offence intended mate, great video btw, but we don't have "lootenants" in the Army or RAF. Same for the Aussies, Kiwis, and Canucks as well. Our lieutenants are pronounced as "leftenants". Unless you're talking about the same rank in their navies. Then it's pronounced "lootenant". The navy (s) always like to be different!
Never knew about these gliders. I wonder how what the average times was they could use them before they were too damaged.
There were special recovery groups that would recover crashed gliders back to Britain for repair.
Do you have a video about the Hammelcar ?
Make me wonder if these particular gliders got used again or just left to rot😊
They were used again. There were units in the army whose task was to collect the gliders which were not wrecked by crashing. Also weapons from the dead and injured and ammunition, hand grenades, bayonet etc.
They were intended to be collected and reused after the action, but it wasn't always possible. For instance, most of the Horsas used in Market Garden were lost because of the way the battle turned out.
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My father was a Navy Corpsman stationed in England prior to D-Day. He was part of the medical crews transporting the wounded back to the States afterwards. He was assigned to a group of glider soldiers. All with broken femurs and shattered pelvises. These men has seen Rommel's Asparagus and chose to jump from their gliders at about twenty feet up. The weight of their packs plus the speed of their falls caused many orthopedic injuries. The return trip across the North Atlantic hit rough seas. The injured soldier unable to even raise or roll over ended up lying in vomitus.
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Does anyone remembrer the pc game "codename panzer"? i remember the first british mission being about this
Loved that game,I always tried to capture as much energy equipment as possible!😅
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A 16 minute commercial for a video game.
How did they retrieve the aircraft after landing? Or were most of these a one way trip?
They didn't. One-way trip. The vast majority of them were wrecked beyond repair on landing anyway.
Single use, disposable.
@@jaygee5693 Not really true. They were intended to be collected and refurbished after use and there was a unit dedicated to this task, but heavy landings, crash-landings and events like Market Garden caused a far higher attrition rate than expected, leading to the myth that they were single-use. For instance, during Market Garden the gliders landed intact for the most part, having achieved surprise and so the landing loss rate was very low. However, after the Germans overran the landing zones, all of those intact Horsas were captured or destroyed.
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Great video
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Was there a „Hengist“ too?
No. There was a larger heavy-lift glider called the Hamilcar (named, presumably, after the Carthaginian General Hannibal’s brother) that could carry a small tank, or a couple of Jeeps, or a Jeep and a 6 pdr. Anti-Tank gu
- that sort of thing.
16 Slingsby Hengist were built as a fail safe just in case the Horsa design failed, which it didn't.
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Flying Deathtrap, there speaks forth a Power Pilot ( like those in Sicily ) let alone land at Pegasus Bridge.
I admit it probably wouldn't have to spin from 2,000' and 'complete or fail' 7 complete (360) turns - as that blade of grass gets bigger.
Second only to the us whatnow?
Fun fact about these the aero towing techniques were development was funded by legendary romance author Dame Barbara Cartland who worked wi in the 30s to develop glider based mail services and was attempting to win a prize for first cross channel glider flight .
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I love your channels content especially since I can find a personal connection my uncles fought in World War II coming home wounded one crippled
dad was in the New Zealand Navy travelled and cleared Nable mines post war
however my concern is I find your current advertising regime a little too aggressive I know you need to raise revenue but the ad at the front and the end is a bit too much and I am considering unsubscribing sorry
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A lot of good men lost in those. But they were totally neccesary. Not sure if today's soft phone loving boys would have the balls to do what they did.
Informative video, misinformative title.
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انا اختك من اراضي اليمنيه والله ماتكلمت الا من الجوع والفقر وضيق الحال يشهد الله ضروفنا قاسيه واجبرتني على هذا اشي ارجوك سامحني💔اخي عاد باقي اخوه إيمانيه طلبتك حق كيس طحين اخي احنا نساء ما بتقدر نخرج بين الرجال عاد باقي مره عندكم اخي ربي اكرمكم انكم رجال احنا نساء ما بتقدر نخرج ولا نشتغل مثلكم اخي وين الاخوه الايمانيه في قلوبكم احنا نساءلاخوه ولا رحمه😥 ولا شفقه ولا انسانيه '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' اخي اول كلامي انا اقسم بالله على كتاب الله اني لااكذب عليك ولا انصب ولا احتال اني بنت يمنيه نازحين انا واسرتي بيننا ایت الشهرب 20 الف يمني والان علينا 60 الف حق 3 شهور وصاحب البيت من الناس الي ماترحم والله يا اخي انه يجي كل يوم يبهدلنا ويتكلم علينا ويريد من البيت للشارع لانناماقدرنا ندفعله الأجار شافونا الجيران نبكي ورجعو تكلمو الجيران ومهلنالاخره الأسبوع معادفعنا له حلف يمين بالله هذا بيخرجنا إلى الشارع رحمه واحنا. بلادنا بسبب هذا الحرب ولانجد قوت يومنا وعايشين اناوامي واخوتي سفار والدنا متوفي الله يرحمه ومامعنا أحد في هذا الدنيا جاانبنا في هذه الظروف القاسيه اخوتي الصغار خرجو للشارع وشافو الجيران ياكلو واوقفو عند بابهم لجل يعطوهم ولو كسره خبز والله الذي له ملك السموات والارض انهم غلفو الباب وطردوهم ورجعو یبکو ایموتو من الجوع ما احد رحمهم وعطلة ردها لقمت عیش والان لوما احدنا ساعدنا في إيكيلو دقيق اقسم بالله انموت من الجوع فيا اخي انا دخيله على الله ثم عليك واريد منك المساعده لوجه الله انشدك بالله تحب الخير واتساعدني ولو ب 500 ريال يمني مع تراسلي واتساب على هذا الرقم 00967711528949 وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولاتتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير اخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وأنقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع تتبهدل أو نموت من الجوع وانا واسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعد لاتتاخر علينا وجزاك الله خير…….. …^~^~π~π~°~°_~π~π~π~π~^^… ..،.،.
Has nothing to do with gliders. Your comment glides/slides on lard.
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