you wouldn't even know half of the most dangerous missions of special forces as many of Australian SASR are still classified top secret. especially Vietnam they had some very dangerous missions even today barely anyone know about. Special Z Force ww2 Australian did over 1200 missions in Asia Pacific and most still classified to this day.
@@justingrey6008 I can get onboard with that OR, he can just not talk like the micro machines guy at an auction. Oh, & slowing him down at that speed means slowing the rest of the video down genius.
@@dodoubleg2356 it was a tongue in cheek way of saying he could talk normal and then speed it up so he didn't have to rush to get everything in during a working day. In no way would that work.
It's worth remembering _why_ GSG 9 was created in the first place: because of the disastrous way the Germans handled the 1972 Olympics Israeli hostage crisis. At least the lessons learned from there saved many lives later on.
Well, it is likewise worth remembering that there weren't ANY other special forces units trained to handle situations like that in 1972 anywhere in the world, with the exceptions of the British SAS and the Sayaret Matkal.
@@neilb1619 That's NOT correct! GSG 9 had trained aircraft assault for years prior to Mogadishu. Ulrich Wegener and Dieter Fox have had to set the record straight about this multiple times: Morrison and Davies brought Stun grenades along with them but those were not used inside the plane but rather outside, and opposed to suggested by the SAS, Wegener decided for the raid to use all entrys on the aircraft instead of one or two ...
@@einundsiebenziger5488 In terms of aircraft assault yes. Both units have learned from each other, though cooperation between GSG 9 and SAS is rather kept in the dark. Wegener has stated in a couple of Interviews with Sören Sünkler that the GSG 9 adapted some SAS methods and techniques and customized them after police standards to be suitable for german law guidelines.
Simon, Entebbe. It wasn’t 4 men. It was 3 men and one woman. She was one of the German revolutionaries. Epic event nevertheless. The Israeli commando killed, and who led the raid, happened to be the brother of the current Israeli prime minister.
Yep it’s why Benny has hell bent on hurting the Palestinians ever since. He should not be allowed to be in charge of Israel, he wants to liberate Judah and Samaria. I.e. ethnically cleanse, Palestine, Israel, Jordan etc of non-Jews. Bad man !!
I believe the Entebbe hijackers separated not just Israelis but also Jewish passengers. High praise to the Air France personnel who volunteered to remain with the hostages. Good video!
6:30, of the Israeli commandos, the one that was killed, was Yonatan (Johnathan) Netanyahu, yes, brother of one Benjamin Netanyahu. 13:01. For those interested, the base closest to Noriega’s house is now a resort, you can walk to Noriega’s house (now a bat sanctuary) from there. As you can imagine, the marines turned that place into Swiss cheese!
The Lufthansa pilot was actually executed in Mogadishu. He sneaked away to give the authorities info on the passengers and the situation. This information helped immensely with planing the rescue mission. Then he returned because he feared retaliation on the other hostages if he didn’t return. They then executed him. That’s a true captain.
He was not executed in MOgadishu but in Yemen and nobody knows why he stayed out longer after checking the plane after the emergency lading they did there.
I never get to comment this soon into the episode. Yes Simon is great, but the writers and behind the scenes are amazing. All the springs and gears. We don’t see. Thank you.
You missed a wonderful detail at the Norwegian operation. The story goes that a local Norwegian care taker found the soilders. The soilders helped him find his glasses before they detonated the explosives because glasses were hard to get and very expensive during the war. I read this story in the museum in the at the plant.
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Ah yeah!!! I heard that one in another chanel that covered this event in full length. It's a very cool detail indeed
That last operation on the list was epic just for the fact that they annoyed their target into giving himself up by playing music at max volume that included 'NEVER GONNA GIVE U UP~' 😂
A significant part of Operation Thunderbolt: the Israeli operator killed was Yonatan Netanyahu, older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, also an operator and a Yom Kippur War vet.
The Israelis back than and the Israeli today are not of similiar mettle bro. Back than the holocaust was a personal experience of Israelis who joied the defence forces. The reality today is number of soldiers killed is a such a sensitive issue that funerals take place in the middle of the night and the actual casualty numbers are any ones guess.
The commandos didn't destroy all the heavy water. There was a shipment that had been dispatched for transport back to Germany. It had been loaded onto a ferry. The commandos then set charges on the ferry and sank it.
1:32 - Correction: Not all of the four terrorists who hijacked the Air France plane to Entebbe in 1976 were men, one of them was a woman by the name Brigitte Kuhlmann. It was her cover name "halimeh" the command that one year later hijacked the Lufthansa plane to Mogadishu adapted. 2:04 - if the terrorists demanded the release of 53 detainees, how can "50 of them" be imprisoned in Israel and another "13 of them" (adding up to 63) be held in various European prisons?
@@ytcensorhack1876as valiant as that was it didn't really succeed in many ways and the raf was the one to eventually destroy the ship with the help of Barnes Wallis.
Believe me I know, having this as a subject for my Military Education, I really looked into it, not only that, I am three miles from Sgt Durrant's VC.@@bionicgeekgrrl
Jeremy Clarkson did a documentary on the raid on St Nazaire. It is simply called, "The greatest raid in History" and it was! The fact that he celebrated Allied success, and was incredibly patriotic about it, is probably why the BBC hated him and wanted to get rid of him.
Crazy to think there's groups like this that have done missions such as these that have changed the outlook of the world. We have no idea they happened until much later and no idea who these people are.
crazier is that NONE of these above will be in the TOP 100, as they are public knowledge. the REAL dangerous ones are the ones that NEVER, EVER, EVER come to light
In the case of opeation Grouse, Freshman and Gunnerside (the successful sabotage of the heavywater plant) its quite well known who was directly involved. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage For as long as operators are in service or they participate in an ongoing conflict, their participation on certain operations can not be disclosed to the public for safety concerns of course..
One of my favorites as told in the book Ghost Soldiers of a US Ranger unit that was sent into the Philippines during WW2 to rescue POWs at a camp because the US learned the Japanese were had murdered POWs at another camp. With the help of the locals they made their way through the jungle and attacked and raided the camp and got the prisoners away. The ones that couldn't walk were put into OX carts and they managed to sneak their way back to US lines without the loss of one ranger. Don't do the raid that Patton ordered to free US POWs, it failed badly.
Are many in WW2 Australia had the most successful special forces of WW2 special z force who carried out 1200 missions like this throughout Asia Pacific and Sparrow Force the longest behind enemy lines guerilla SF of ww2 had to eat off the land with barely no resupplies and sometimes killing japanese after cooking a meal just to survive. what Australia SASR are based on and why were most successful and most feared in Vietnam war also.
Other examples in no particular order: The Son Tay Raid - 1970 * Air France 8969 - 1994 * Iranian Embassy Siege in London - 1980 * The bin Laden Raid - 2011 * The Japanese Embassy Crisis in Peru - 1996 and I'm sure we could go on and on. Many have been lost to history or are unattributable to a Special Operations group because of secrecy.
The Iranian Embassy siege has to be the most well known SF raid in history, since it was shown on live TV in the UK over a Bank Holiday weekend. I was 14, and watched every detail, live, as it happened. I've since learned everything I could about operation Nimrod.
The BBE raid at De Punt in the Netherlands is definitely one that belongs in your list as well, which along with the Peruvian raid on the Japanese embassy were unique in their special tactics and out of the box thinking, and the great success they achieved under very difficult circumstances.
@@16rumpole Nope. Delta force is mainly for hostage rescue. To take airports, Army Rangers are your guys. That was one of the reasons for the high SEAL body count. In this case they combined two SEAL teams that had not practiced together, to make up for the lack of numbers (found in a Ranger assault).
Funny how each branch of SF in the US has a dedicated, assigned role. We don't have enough SF in the UK, so they have to cover every type of specialty...
I'm happy that you mentioned the operation in Vemork, but when talking about special force operations, Operation Chariot should get an honourable mention no matter what. It's the story of one of the most daring operations of World War II - the Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St. Nazaire in France on 28th March 1942. It was an operation so heroic that it resulted in the award of five Victoria Crosses and 80 other decorations for gallantry. It's arguably the most dangerous, but most successful military raid in history. On paper, it shouldn't have worked, but a mix of diversions from the RAF, cover of darkness, Germans fucking up, ingenious improvisation from the Commandos and stupendous amounts of luck, they pulled it off. Timeline have a great video about it with Jeremy Clarkson narrating it.
The British or so damn clever. So much respect and admiration for their military. As a US vet, I always said the only foreign officer I would ever allow command me is a British officer. Such a fine officer class with an enlisted personnel second to none. Without a doubt some of the best officer and enlisted personal in all the worlds military. It’s shame you now have to be PC and change a RAF squadron name fromCrusaders because it hurt the sensibilities of some people!
Yeah, especially considering they knew about his drug smuggling all along and where entirely fine with it. In fact the same US government branch who financially supported Noriega because he was a right winger did a lot of drug smuggling themselves; the CIA. From Heroin in and out of the Golden Crescent to fund their black ops, to Cocaine out of South America.
Yes, I remember hearing the same and laughing at the thought of Noriega watching helplessly as the archbishop began losing his mind and any lingering patience.
The American SF community does not consider the Panama action to be a success, even though it ended in mission accomplishment. It did however largely contribute to improved tactics and provided lessons that doubtless saved many more operators over the years.
A very interesting Israeli operation to look into is the special operations missions that happened before, during, and after operation orchard. (Aka Operation Outside the Box). It involved multiple intelligence agencies and assets, special forces infiltrating Syria to gather soil samples next to a suspected nuclear reactor, the destruction of the reactor by conventional air forces, and the assassination of a few key individuals.
Thanks Simon and SIDEPROJECTS team! Great video as usual. Kind of surprised you didn't mention the famous movie about the Entebbe raid. And thanks very much for not agreeing to do those hideously long sponsor commercials on your channel. Keep up the good work!
It wasn’t just GSG9 who carried out the rescue in Somalia, they had two SAS soldiers helping them to, the SAS brought then newly developed stun grenades with them
But those two never made it on the the runway, let alone the plane. They were in support of some of the equipment the GSG9 had gotten from the British, not only the stun grenades. The assault itself was performed by Col.Wegener himself and and 11 other GSG9 operators (out of a total of 30 present in Mogadishu).
The SAS were sent to advise and observe but once at the scene in Mogadishu two took part in the assault on the aircraft for which they were awarded the British Empire Medal.
"Fun" fact; Souhaila Andrawes, the female highjacker who got shot in the raid but survived, was given a 20 year sentence in somalia, but was pardoned and expelled after only two years. She resurfaced in Norway in the early 90s and the germans got here extradited and convicted her to another 10 years of which she served 5, most of them in Norway.
Uhmmm...... Members of special force units, both military and civilian, are not elite soldiers/seamen/airmen/marines/policemen and whatever else. They are operators. Trained for very specific scenarios. You will never see the US Navy just throwing their SEALs against any properly organized infantry formation because that would be just stupid. They would be cut down like any idiot in boots with a rifle who thought that could be a good idea. That's what marines are for.
8:20 I think you’ll find the 22nd SAS regiment were embedded with the Germans…I think you should do some more research on such serious topics. It’s publicly available information
Special forces always a unique kind 1. The lonely SAS in kenya 2. Malaysian paskal in fighting somalians pirates 3. Navy seals in pakistan 4. Spetnaz in afghanistan Too many special forces stories to heard
It would have been useful to note that the GSG9 team were accompanied by (and had been earlier trained by ) two sergeants from 22 SAS, who also supplied "flash-bang" grenades that were used in this action for the first time against enemy combatants, disorienting them and enabling the GSG9 operators to score kills with less difficulty than would otherwise have been the case.
@@hotmechanic222 correct. There is also speculation that the 2 SAS troopers actually took part in the assault, although there technically as "advisors".
@@hotmechanic222 Again, that's NOT correct! GSG 9 had trained aircraft assault for years prior to the Mogadishu raid. The CRW wing of the SAS was set up pretty much around the same time after the Munich massacre. Remember, Wegener got Aid in the setup of GSG 9 by the SAS, but mainly by Sayeret Matkal who came along with a delegation in 1975 to see how far the unit had come. Ehud Barak himself was part of that and had to acknowlegde that GSG 9 had become a prime CT unit on the 1st level.
@@CaptainSpyware this is copied direct from the wikipedia page about the kidnapping, so it turns out I am correct Operation Feuerzauber (Fire Magic) Date 18 October 1977 Location Mogadishu, Somali Democratic Republic Result GSG 9 victory
Belligerents West Germany GSG 9 United Kingdom 22nd SAS (logistics and planning) Somalia Somali Army (support) PFLP Commanders and leaders West Germany Ulrich Wegener United Kingdom Alastair Morrison Somalia Siad Barre Somalia Hussein Kulmiye Afrah Zohair Youssef Akache [de] † Strength West Germany 30 GSG 9 operators United Kingdom 2 SAS operators 4 hijackers Casualties and losses 1 wounded 3 killed 1 wounded/captured 4 civilians wounded
Yes. Entebbe. That name stands forever for sheer moxie, especially since it was all thrown together ad hoc. You didn't mention the SAS storming of the captured embassy in London!
The number of ads is getting absolutely absurd, honestly I’m really not thrilled about it and it’s making your videos feel incredibly cheap. Happy you’re doing well but damn am I disappointed.
Special forces are just crazy good at what they do. Yet I can't help but think back to the joint military exercise where finnish conscripts dealt with navy seals. Solid basic training and strategy can cover a lot of ground in the right setting. But the special operations, that's something else.
There's another very well known and impressive SF raid which is still tought in police and military CT units around the world because of their stunning success and brilliant techniques and improvisations; the raid on a hijacked train at De Punt, in the Netherlands by the Bijzonder Bijstands Eenheid (a marine CT unit of the Dutch military). As a result of our colonial history in Indonesia we have a substantial Moluccan community here, who admittedly were quite badly treated by the government, having fought on the Dutch side against the Indonesian insurgents during what are known here as the "politionele acties", which was basically the Indonesian struggle for independence. To keep a long story short, it led to a string of hijackings by young Moluccan terrorists, culminating in a simultaneous hijacking of the above mentioned train, and a primary school full of children. The hostage crisis dragged on for several weeks, and while eventually due to a mysterious disease outbreak at the school it caused the terrorists to release the children and surrender to the authorities, the government resorted to a CT intervention to end the hostage taking at De Punt. The BBE used thermal imaging (mind you, this was in the 70's, when that stuff was completely unknown to anyone but a handful of people) to study the movements of the hostage takers for several days and nights, when they noticed a pattern: at night the hostage takers would sleep in the short hallway where 2 railway carriages are connected to each other, while the hostages slept in the carriages themselves, this was confirmed by long range audio surveilance and stealthily placed listening devices. After it became clear from the audio surveillance that the terrorists were wearing thin and had treatened to blow up the train, the BBE was finally given the order to intervene. In the early morning hours of June the 11th while everyone in the train was still asleep the BBE fired bursts of heavy machine gun fire at the couple meters in between each carriage where they knew the terrorists to be sleeping to neutralise them. They perfectly timed it with the Dutch Royal Airforce, how would do supersonic ultra low fly by's (as low as 30 meters altitude) at full afterburner to hit the train with sonic booms and stun any terrorists who might have survived the inital machine gun volley. Simultaneously with the fly-by's the BBE sieged the train and entered the carriages to neutralise potentially remaining terrorists and free the hostages. Although one hostage sadly got killed (in an attempt to build up rapport with her hostage takers she ended up sleeping close to a terrorist and got hit by the initial machine gun fire, something they had not noticed from the thermal and audio surveillance in the previous days because she only did it this night), it was an otherwise stunning success, especially considering the difficult circumstances (the terrorists had stopped the train in a rural area where it was easy to see anyone coming from kilometers away, but the BBE still managed the element of surprise by using a special vehicle which could drive on the train tracks, and of course using the Airforce's sonic booms as impromptu stun grenades). Only recently a small scandal errupted when it became apparent from some of the marines present at the raid that they were given orders by the government "not to take any prisoners" and instead execute any terrorists if they happened to come across any who were still alive, an order they followed to the letter. Mind you this was an era where the Netherlands faced multiple instances of Moluccan terrorism, and just a short while before during an earlier train hijacking by Moluccan terrorists they had killed a hostage, and thus the government wanted to send a very clear message to anyone else that they would not survive if they had similar plans. And the message was received loud and clear, it was the last such event since...
Your details about Operation Freshman were wrong. Both gliders crashed and one of the bombers. All survivors were tortured and killed by the Gestapo. There were a number of war crime trials related to this.
The sharp S sounds, the hissing, in all your videos are unbearable... please fix this, as I otherwise love so many of your videos. I cannot be the only one who notices this.
Tangent.. sat here with my Online D&D group and talking about what we listen to before bed and I mentioned Factboi was my go to... Turns out he is also two other of my group's go to for bed as well.
Sometimes u think religion should do good and help ppl and make them a better person.... Then u find out how many dictators and nazis they saved and helped them fleeing and so....
Kinda shame so much effort was put into heavy water destruction? I mean my understanding is that using heavy water was a dead end to the A bomb? Of course no one understood this outside Los Alamos. Just seems like a red herring to me.
Keep in mind folks that no matter How great special forces units are, their job would be next to impossible without people in other countries that supply Intel and help. There are more people who fight for good than you realize.
Fun fact: Noriega was "convinced" by the nuns of the sanctuary after they got sick and tired of the noise and made him leave so the noise and music would stop.
The poor woman left behind in Uganda when the rest of the hostages were rescued, imagine the horror of finding out about the rescue and that dozens of the people that are holding you hostage have been killed by the rescuers while you were in hospital and left behind, The poor poor lady I can’t imagine what that must of felt like All the soldiers around you are absolutely going crazy with anger And grief that there comrades and no doubt in some cases family members have been killed and you are the only person they consider the enemy left behind Oh lord
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Just a quick note on the Noriega part, The AT4 is a recoiless rifle and not a rocket launcher.
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you wouldn't even know half of the most dangerous missions of special forces as many of Australian SASR are still classified top secret. especially Vietnam they had some very dangerous missions even today barely anyone know about.
Special Z Force ww2 Australian did over 1200 missions in Asia Pacific and most still classified to this day.
The more channels Simon is in, the faster he needs to talk as to get all his work done
I watch him at 1.5x speed just to fit them all in my day
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Make it easy on him and change the playback speed so he won't need to talk so fast.
@@justingrey6008 I can get onboard with that OR, he can just not talk like the micro machines guy at an auction. Oh, & slowing him down at that speed means slowing the rest of the video down genius.
@@dodoubleg2356 it was a tongue in cheek way of saying he could talk normal and then speed it up so he didn't have to rush to get everything in during a working day.
In no way would that work.
The lone SAS operator who volunteered to assist Kenyan forces in a shopping mall hostage situation is worth reading about.
And he did it on his day off 😂
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Christian Craighead is an absolute legend!
@@ImWithBigRedguess was okay then, like some police when off duty pick to break law as they aren't on duty so not need to be role model
I think Simple History has an episode about him. It's called "Obi Wan Nairobi "
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The Vatican embassy in Panama got Rickrolled lmfao
Lmao, didn't even think of that until I saw that comment. Then it became all too obvious!
The absolute power of Rick Astley to compel is mind boggling
It's worth remembering _why_ GSG 9 was created in the first place: because of the disastrous way the Germans handled the 1972 Olympics Israeli hostage crisis. At least the lessons learned from there saved many lives later on.
Well, it is likewise worth remembering that there weren't ANY other special forces units trained to handle situations like that in 1972 anywhere in the world, with the exceptions of the British SAS and the Sayaret Matkal.
It is also worth remembering that at Mogadishu, GSG9 had 2 SAS "advisors" who instructed them in how to assault the aircraft...
@@neilb1619 That's NOT correct! GSG 9 had trained aircraft assault for years prior to Mogadishu. Ulrich Wegener and Dieter Fox have had to set the record straight about this multiple times: Morrison and Davies brought Stun grenades along with them but those were not used inside the plane but rather outside, and opposed to suggested by the SAS, Wegener decided for the raid to use all entrys on the aircraft instead of one or two ...
@@CaptainSpyware ... entries*. Other than that, agreed. The only thing GSG9 adapted from the SAS were the stun grenades.
@@einundsiebenziger5488 In terms of aircraft assault yes. Both units have learned from each other, though cooperation between GSG 9 and SAS is rather kept in the dark. Wegener has stated in a couple of Interviews with Sören Sünkler that the GSG 9 adapted some SAS methods and techniques and customized them after police standards to be suitable for german law guidelines.
The sole Israeli soldier killed during the Entebbe raid was Jonatan Netanyahu brother of current Israeli prime minister Benyimin Netanyahu.
Simon, Entebbe. It wasn’t 4 men. It was 3 men and one woman. She was one of the German revolutionaries.
Epic event nevertheless.
The Israeli commando killed, and who led the raid, happened to be the brother of the current Israeli prime minister.
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Operation Thunderbolt later renamed Operation Jonathan in his honour and was a Lieutenant Colonel at the age of 30 when he was killed
@@IRLangmaid25 Yoni Netanyahu.
RIP Yoni Netanyahu @@neilb1619
Yep it’s why Benny has hell bent on hurting the Palestinians ever since. He should not be allowed to be in charge of Israel, he wants to liberate Judah and Samaria. I.e. ethnically cleanse, Palestine, Israel, Jordan etc of non-Jews. Bad man !!
Netenyahu's brother was the commando killed, and now you know why shit is popping in Gaza right now
I believe the Entebbe hijackers separated not just Israelis but also Jewish passengers. High praise to the Air France personnel who volunteered to remain with the hostages.
Good video!
Which is why Jews always know that hatred of Israel isn't really about Israel but rather that plain old Jew hatred
wow, rick rolling stopped a dictator, love it
I remember parts of Panama, missed the Vatican part, highway to hell would have been a good choice
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So, the hijackers in the first mission demanded 53 prisoners released, 50 in Israel and 13 in Europe... Doesn't that add up to 63?
The one hostage being left behind in uganda is heartbreaking
Dora Bloch. Her remains were found in a sugar plantation in 1979.
Considering israeli strategy it was surprising that there were even hostages that survived
Was an old lady if my history is correct
What! How dare you challenge their brilliant plan of bombing the hostages to freedom /s
Considering the circumstances, so many people being saved itself is a big achievement.
6:30, of the Israeli commandos, the one that was killed, was Yonatan (Johnathan) Netanyahu, yes, brother of one Benjamin Netanyahu.
13:01. For those interested, the base closest to Noriega’s house is now a resort, you can walk to Noriega’s house (now a bat sanctuary) from there. As you can imagine, the marines turned that place into Swiss cheese!
The Lufthansa pilot was actually executed in Mogadishu. He sneaked away to give the authorities info on the passengers and the situation. This information helped immensely with planing the rescue mission. Then he returned because he feared retaliation on the other hostages if he didn’t return. They then executed him. That’s a true captain.
He was not executed in MOgadishu but in Yemen and nobody knows why he stayed out longer after checking the plane after the emergency lading they did there.
Someone should do a bio of simon butnin simons story telling style, maybe get them incognito joke glasses with the nose and mustache.
One of his writers should do it and have Simon read it without telling him in advance.
70 of the Israeli Soldiers at Entebbe were regular soldiers of the Golani brigade
Don't forget the - Raid on St. Nazaire in France 🇫🇷 durong WWII!
The operations room gives a very good, detailed report on some of these raids. Highly recommend it!
A very good channel.
Sounds interesting, I’ll check it out👍🏻 Thanks
Should have included the SAS rescue in Sierra Leonne when they tookm on the infamous WEST SIDE BOYS.
Getting rickrolled by special forces lol 😅
Of all the amazing rescues done by special forces....Two had to mentioned regarding Palestinians.... wonder what's in the news this week too.
SIMON, BREATHE & SLOW DOWN!! It’s becoming equally comical & worrisome (for your health).
I never get to comment this soon into the episode.
Yes Simon is great, but the writers and behind the scenes are amazing. All the springs and gears. We don’t see.
Thank you.
Except the facts are a bit off but what was that about how great this was ?
You missed a wonderful detail at the Norwegian operation. The story goes that a local Norwegian care taker found the soilders. The soilders helped him find his glasses before they detonated the explosives because glasses were hard to get and very expensive during the war. I read this story in the museum in the at the plant.
Ah yeah!!! I heard that one in another chanel that covered this event in full length. It's a very cool detail indeed
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That last operation on the list was epic just for the fact that they annoyed their target into giving himself up by playing music at max volume that included 'NEVER GONNA GIVE U UP~' 😂
And having been Rickrolled he had no choice but to surrender.
@@sydhenderson6753 Never doubt the power of the Rickroll!
Simon is a legend.
An absolute Chad!
Not just A legend, he's THE LEGEND
Allegedly.
You have something on your nose.... it's brown...
A day in the life of Simon would be pretty cool or is that weird
I’ve been waiting years for you to tell the Entebbe story Simon. Thank you. Please make a dedicated video to it some time.
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A significant part of Operation Thunderbolt: the Israeli operator killed was Yonatan Netanyahu, older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, also an operator and a Yom Kippur War vet.
I watched Raid On Entebbe the other day. It demonstrates that you really don't want to piss off Israel!
The Israelis back than and the Israeli today are not of similiar mettle bro.
Back than the holocaust was a personal experience of Israelis who joied the defence forces.
The reality today is number of soldiers killed is a such a sensitive issue that funerals take place in the middle of the night and the actual casualty numbers are any ones guess.
One of the Israeli commandos in the first story was Benjamin Netanyahu- he was shot in the arm.
The commandos didn't destroy all the heavy water. There was a shipment that had been dispatched for transport back to Germany. It had been loaded onto a ferry. The commandos then set charges on the ferry and sank it.
>phycological warfare entailed blasting never gonna give you up at the target
the meme is eternal
Reports have it that when he surrendered Noriega was screaming: "Please, please, I beg of you! No more Rick Astley!!"
1:32 - Correction: Not all of the four terrorists who hijacked the Air France plane to Entebbe in 1976 were men, one of them was a woman by the name Brigitte Kuhlmann. It was her cover name "halimeh" the command that one year later hijacked the Lufthansa plane to Mogadishu adapted.
2:04 - if the terrorists demanded the release of 53 detainees, how can "50 of them" be imprisoned in Israel and another "13 of them" (adding up to 63) be held in various European prisons?
That time when SEAL teams rick rolled some dictators💀
Sabaton has a song about the Norwegian Heavy Water Plant Sabotage, called "Saboteurs." great song, would highly reccomend it.
Well, I think I can crown all of them with the Raid on St Nazaire by the Army Commandos and Navy personnel under Combined Opersations during WW2
Or X craft assault on the tirpitz?
@@ytcensorhack1876as valiant as that was it didn't really succeed in many ways and the raf was the one to eventually destroy the ship with the help of Barnes Wallis.
There's a reason its often called the greatest raid of all time.
Believe me I know, having this as a subject for my Military Education, I really looked into it, not only that, I am three miles from Sgt Durrant's VC.@@bionicgeekgrrl
Jeremy Clarkson did a documentary on the raid on St Nazaire. It is simply called, "The greatest raid in History" and it was!
The fact that he celebrated Allied success, and was incredibly patriotic about it, is probably why the BBC hated him and wanted to get rid of him.
The mission was so successful that they rick rolled him before rick rolling existed. Damn.
Glory to those brave men, who saved so many people, ✨✨rest in peace✨✨
Crazy to think there's groups like this that have done missions such as these that have changed the outlook of the world. We have no idea they happened until much later and no idea who these people are.
crazier is that NONE of these above will be in the TOP 100, as they are public knowledge. the REAL dangerous ones are the ones that NEVER, EVER, EVER come to light
In the case of opeation Grouse, Freshman and Gunnerside (the successful sabotage of the heavywater plant) its quite well known who was directly involved. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage
For as long as operators are in service or they participate in an ongoing conflict, their participation on certain operations can not be disclosed to the public for safety concerns of course..
... there are* groups ...
One of my favorites as told in the book Ghost Soldiers of a US Ranger unit that was sent into the Philippines during WW2 to rescue POWs at a camp because the US learned the Japanese were had murdered POWs at another camp.
With the help of the locals they made their way through the jungle and attacked and raided the camp and got the prisoners away. The ones that couldn't walk were put into OX carts and they managed to sneak their way back to US lines without the loss of one ranger.
Don't do the raid that Patton ordered to free US POWs, it failed badly.
Is that the one "The Great Raid" was based on?
@@LordSluggo Yes and thank you. I brain farted when I was typing and couldn't remember the name of the movie. Book was better.
Are many in WW2 Australia had the most successful special forces of WW2 special z force who carried out 1200 missions like this throughout Asia Pacific and Sparrow Force the longest behind enemy lines guerilla SF of ww2 had to eat off the land with barely no resupplies and sometimes killing japanese after cooking a meal just to survive. what Australia SASR are based on and why were most successful and most feared in Vietnam war also.
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Imagine getting Rick Roll’d into coming out of hiding. Solid choice, Seals 😂
Other examples in no particular order: The Son Tay Raid - 1970 * Air France 8969 - 1994 * Iranian Embassy Siege in London - 1980 * The bin Laden Raid - 2011 * The Japanese Embassy Crisis in Peru - 1996 and I'm sure we could go on and on. Many have been lost to history or are unattributable to a Special Operations group because of secrecy.
The Iranian Embassy siege has to be the most well known SF raid in history, since it was shown on live TV in the UK over a Bank Holiday weekend.
I was 14, and watched every detail, live, as it happened. I've since learned everything I could about operation Nimrod.
Yes, many more, like the legendary train rescue by Dutch special forces at De Punt in 1977. It's in the text books now!
The BBE raid at De Punt in the Netherlands is definitely one that belongs in your list as well, which along with the Peruvian raid on the Japanese embassy were unique in their special tactics and out of the box thinking, and the great success they achieved under very difficult circumstances.
The plan to use SEALs to take the airport was odd. Army Rangers take airports.
I thought Delta Force would
@@16rumpole Nope. Delta force is mainly for hostage rescue. To take airports, Army Rangers are your guys. That was one of the reasons for the high SEAL body count. In this case they combined two SEAL teams that had not practiced together, to make up for the lack of numbers (found in a Ranger assault).
Funny how each branch of SF in the US has a dedicated, assigned role.
We don't have enough SF in the UK, so they have to cover every type of specialty...
I'm happy that you mentioned the operation in Vemork, but when talking about special force operations, Operation Chariot should get an honourable mention no matter what. It's the story of one of the most daring operations of World War II - the Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St. Nazaire in France on 28th March 1942. It was an operation so heroic that it resulted in the award of five Victoria Crosses and 80 other decorations for gallantry. It's arguably the most dangerous, but most successful military raid in history.
On paper, it shouldn't have worked, but a mix of diversions from the RAF, cover of darkness, Germans fucking up, ingenious improvisation from the Commandos and stupendous amounts of luck, they pulled it off.
Timeline have a great video about it with Jeremy Clarkson narrating it.
The British or so damn clever. So much respect and admiration for their military. As a US vet, I always said the only foreign officer I would ever allow command me is a British officer. Such a fine officer class with an enlisted personnel second to none. Without a doubt some of the best officer and enlisted personal in all the worlds military. It’s shame you now have to be PC and change a RAF squadron name fromCrusaders because it hurt the sensibilities of some people!
ngl the US military blasting guns & roses and ACDC outside the vatican embassy to force a drug smuggling dictator to surrender is kinda iconic.
Yeah, especially considering they knew about his drug smuggling all along and where entirely fine with it. In fact the same US government branch who financially supported Noriega because he was a right winger did a lot of drug smuggling themselves; the CIA. From Heroin in and out of the Golden Crescent to fund their black ops, to Cocaine out of South America.
Mans got Rick rolled into surrender WTF special forces
Operation Nimrod deserves to be covered in this video.
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And another thing "in honour of Entebbe"... Jesus Christ that says it all
The Operations Room has a really good video breakdown of the Entebbe Raid.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Americans also played Panama by Van Halen... tho that could just be a drug induced hallucination...
Yes, I remember hearing the same and laughing at the thought of Noriega watching helplessly as the archbishop began losing his mind and any lingering patience.
The American SF community does not consider the Panama action to be a success, even though it ended in mission accomplishment. It did however largely contribute to improved tactics and provided lessons that doubtless saved many more operators over the years.
“Failed Austrian painter” 👨🎨 lol
A very interesting Israeli operation to look into is the special operations missions that happened before, during, and after operation orchard. (Aka Operation Outside the Box). It involved multiple intelligence agencies and assets, special forces infiltrating Syria to gather soil samples next to a suspected nuclear reactor, the destruction of the reactor by conventional air forces, and the assassination of a few key individuals.
I want more stories like this. Im surprised you only had 4
50+13=53? Must be that new math...
Who would've thought that Rick Astley and Axl Rose would be heroes? :D
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Thanks Simon and SIDEPROJECTS team! Great video as usual. Kind of surprised you didn't mention the famous movie about the Entebbe raid. And thanks very much for not agreeing to do those hideously long sponsor commercials on your channel. Keep up the good work!
The private rescue of Americans from Iran by Ross Perots team. "On Wings of Eagles."
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@@neilb1619 "On Wings of Eagles"
Did you forget about the Iranian Embassy siege?
Operation Nimrod.
It wasn’t just GSG9 who carried out the rescue in Somalia, they had two SAS soldiers helping them to, the SAS brought then newly developed stun grenades with them
But those two never made it on the the runway, let alone the plane. They were in support of some of the equipment the GSG9 had gotten from the British, not only the stun grenades. The assault itself was performed by Col.Wegener himself and and 11 other GSG9 operators (out of a total of 30 present in Mogadishu).
The SAS were sent to advise and observe but once at the scene in Mogadishu two took part in the assault on the aircraft for which they were awarded the British Empire Medal.
@@TheRealRedRooster They were on the runway, they were under the plane and were involved.
@@TheRealRedRoosterthey were involved, two were on the mission itself
"Fun" fact; Souhaila Andrawes, the female highjacker who got shot in the raid but survived, was given a 20 year sentence in somalia, but was pardoned and expelled after only two years.
She resurfaced in Norway in the early 90s and the germans got here extradited and convicted her to another 10 years of which she served 5, most of them in Norway.
If you are surrounded by American SF and they are blasting ACDC and GNR you know you're fucked.
Uhmmm...... Members of special force units, both military and civilian, are not elite soldiers/seamen/airmen/marines/policemen and whatever else. They are operators. Trained for very specific scenarios. You will never see the US Navy just throwing their SEALs against any properly organized infantry formation because that would be just stupid. They would be cut down like any idiot in boots with a rifle who thought that could be a good idea. That's what marines are for.
Yeah FYI ... Rick Ashley songs will get EVERYONE to give up to authorities 😂😂😂
8:20 I think you’ll find the 22nd SAS regiment were embedded with the Germans…I think you should do some more research on such serious topics. It’s publicly available information
Imagine the missions we don’t know about and probably won’t ever know about those are most likely the most dangerous
Surely playing Rick Asley is against the Geneva Convention? It certainly doesn’t sound very ethical!
Special forces always a unique kind
1. The lonely SAS in kenya
2. Malaysian paskal in fighting somalians pirates
3. Navy seals in pakistan
4. Spetnaz in afghanistan
Too many special forces stories to heard
It would have been useful to note that the GSG9 team were accompanied by (and had been earlier trained by ) two sergeants from 22 SAS, who also supplied "flash-bang" grenades that were used in this action for the first time against enemy combatants, disorienting them and enabling the GSG9 operators to score kills with less difficulty than would otherwise have been the case.
There is a good TV series that is present by Lord Ashcroft that details the operating with the former SAS/GSG9 men.
Yes I believe it was the SAS who actually planned the operation as well due to them being more experienced than their German counterparts.
@@hotmechanic222 correct.
There is also speculation that the 2 SAS troopers actually took part in the assault, although there technically as "advisors".
@@hotmechanic222 Again, that's NOT correct! GSG 9 had trained aircraft assault for years prior to the Mogadishu raid. The CRW wing of the SAS was set up pretty much around the same time after the Munich massacre. Remember, Wegener got Aid in the setup of GSG 9 by the SAS, but mainly by Sayeret Matkal who came along with a delegation in 1975 to see how far the unit had come. Ehud Barak himself was part of that and had to acknowlegde that GSG 9 had become a prime CT unit on the 1st level.
@@CaptainSpyware this is copied direct from the wikipedia page about the kidnapping, so it turns out I am correct
Operation Feuerzauber (Fire Magic)
Date 18 October 1977
Location
Mogadishu, Somali Democratic Republic
Result GSG 9 victory
Belligerents
West Germany GSG 9
United Kingdom 22nd SAS (logistics and planning)
Somalia Somali Army (support) PFLP
Commanders and leaders
West Germany Ulrich Wegener
United Kingdom Alastair Morrison
Somalia Siad Barre
Somalia Hussein Kulmiye Afrah
Zohair Youssef Akache [de] †
Strength
West Germany 30 GSG 9 operators
United Kingdom 2 SAS operators 4 hijackers
Casualties and losses
1 wounded 3 killed
1 wounded/captured
4 civilians wounded
Wait, planting a bomb in afactory in the frozen wastelands of a German occupied Nordic country.
League of Extraordinary Gentleman ripped me off.
Yes. Entebbe. That name stands forever for sheer moxie, especially since it was all thrown together ad hoc.
You didn't mention the SAS storming of the captured embassy in London!
The number of ads is getting absolutely absurd, honestly I’m really not thrilled about it and it’s making your videos feel incredibly cheap. Happy you’re doing well but damn am I disappointed.
You just knew Entebbe was gonna be first 😂
Right? It was EPIC!
You might of mentioned the comando killed was Jonathen Netenyaho. Please forgiive my spelling of a brave warior.
Who new?!?! A Rick roll so powerful it defeated a Panamanian dictatorship!!!😂
You failed to mention a very significant detail: the Israeli soldier killed was Yoni Netanyahu - brother of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Special forces are just crazy good at what they do. Yet I can't help but think back to the joint military exercise where finnish conscripts dealt with navy seals. Solid basic training and strategy can cover a lot of ground in the right setting. But the special operations, that's something else.
There's another very well known and impressive SF raid which is still tought in police and military CT units around the world because of their stunning success and brilliant techniques and improvisations; the raid on a hijacked train at De Punt, in the Netherlands by the Bijzonder Bijstands Eenheid (a marine CT unit of the Dutch military). As a result of our colonial history in Indonesia we have a substantial Moluccan community here, who admittedly were quite badly treated by the government, having fought on the Dutch side against the Indonesian insurgents during what are known here as the "politionele acties", which was basically the Indonesian struggle for independence. To keep a long story short, it led to a string of hijackings by young Moluccan terrorists, culminating in a simultaneous hijacking of the above mentioned train, and a primary school full of children. The hostage crisis dragged on for several weeks, and while eventually due to a mysterious disease outbreak at the school it caused the terrorists to release the children and surrender to the authorities, the government resorted to a CT intervention to end the hostage taking at De Punt.
The BBE used thermal imaging (mind you, this was in the 70's, when that stuff was completely unknown to anyone but a handful of people) to study the movements of the hostage takers for several days and nights, when they noticed a pattern: at night the hostage takers would sleep in the short hallway where 2 railway carriages are connected to each other, while the hostages slept in the carriages themselves, this was confirmed by long range audio surveilance and stealthily placed listening devices. After it became clear from the audio surveillance that the terrorists were wearing thin and had treatened to blow up the train, the BBE was finally given the order to intervene. In the early morning hours of June the 11th while everyone in the train was still asleep the BBE fired bursts of heavy machine gun fire at the couple meters in between each carriage where they knew the terrorists to be sleeping to neutralise them. They perfectly timed it with the Dutch Royal Airforce, how would do supersonic ultra low fly by's (as low as 30 meters altitude) at full afterburner to hit the train with sonic booms and stun any terrorists who might have survived the inital machine gun volley. Simultaneously with the fly-by's the BBE sieged the train and entered the carriages to neutralise potentially remaining terrorists and free the hostages. Although one hostage sadly got killed (in an attempt to build up rapport with her hostage takers she ended up sleeping close to a terrorist and got hit by the initial machine gun fire, something they had not noticed from the thermal and audio surveillance in the previous days because she only did it this night), it was an otherwise stunning success, especially considering the difficult circumstances (the terrorists had stopped the train in a rural area where it was easy to see anyone coming from kilometers away, but the BBE still managed the element of surprise by using a special vehicle which could drive on the train tracks, and of course using the Airforce's sonic booms as impromptu stun grenades). Only recently a small scandal errupted when it became apparent from some of the marines present at the raid that they were given orders by the government "not to take any prisoners" and instead execute any terrorists if they happened to come across any who were still alive, an order they followed to the letter. Mind you this was an era where the Netherlands faced multiple instances of Moluccan terrorism, and just a short while before during an earlier train hijacking by Moluccan terrorists they had killed a hostage, and thus the government wanted to send a very clear message to anyone else that they would not survive if they had similar plans. And the message was received loud and clear, it was the last such event since...
Your details about Operation Freshman were wrong. Both gliders crashed and one of the bombers. All survivors were tortured and killed by the Gestapo. There were a number of war crime trials related to this.
The sharp S sounds, the hissing, in all your videos are unbearable... please fix this, as I otherwise love so many of your videos. I cannot be the only one who notices this.
Rofl
Love how Simon degrades Hitler to being a failed Austrian painter, in which is truth and what caused some of Adolf's future hatred.
Another thing played in Panama was Ted Nugent's 'Stranglehold'
Tangent.. sat here with my Online D&D group and talking about what we listen to before bed and I mentioned Factboi was my go to... Turns out he is also two other of my group's go to for bed as well.
No mention of the SAS rescue of hostages at the Iranian Embassy in London. Disgraceful
Sometimes u think religion should do good and help ppl and make them a better person.... Then u find out how many dictators and nazis they saved and helped them fleeing and so....
Kinda shame so much effort was put into heavy water destruction? I mean my understanding is that using heavy water was a dead end to the A bomb?
Of course no one understood this outside Los Alamos.
Just seems like a red herring to me.
there’s a genocide taking place in Gaza and you are posting videos glorifying military actions by Israeli forces. incredibly poor taste and timing.
Keep in mind folks that no matter How great special forces units are, their job would be next to impossible without people in other countries that supply Intel and help.
There are more people who fight for good than you realize.
Respect to all who have served and those who gave their lives in the service of others. Your sacrifices are not forgotten.
Fun fact: Noriega was "convinced" by the nuns of the sanctuary after they got sick and tired of the noise and made him leave so the noise and music would stop.
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bout 2 b a gd 1 as prrrrrrrr (edited) and it was ! very interesting video, good shit as usual si
The poor woman left behind in Uganda when the rest of the hostages were rescued, imagine the horror of finding out about the rescue and that dozens of the people that are holding you hostage have been killed by the rescuers while you were in hospital and left behind,
The poor poor lady I can’t imagine what that must of felt like
All the soldiers around you are absolutely going crazy with anger And grief that there comrades and no doubt in some cases family members have been killed and you are the only person they consider the enemy left behind
Oh lord
I believe Benjamin Netanyahu's brother was killed in this operation and was the only one of the unit's members that was lost.
Just remember everyone that pays for UA-cam premium the surf shop actually paid to interrupt your viewing pleasure