The Top World War 2 Missions That Should Have Failed | Narrow Escapes (Full Series)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- World War 2 is filled with missions that should have failed. Either the odds were overwhelming, the conditions were terrible or the objective was too complex. And yet sometimes, against the odds, these missions succeed. Discover World War 2's impossible missions and the brave men who carried them out.
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I enjoy true unvarnished history and I'm proud to be an American. Camera people on all sides took a major risk to bring these films and images out of the battlefield and don't get enough credit.
I prefer my history varnished.
So
Truer words have not been spoken. As a side note, the famous John Ford (director) happened to be filming on Midway when by chance (after Pearl Harbor Japanese attack) the Japanese attacked Midway Island. A major Japanese naval loss they probably never recovered from and a big boost to the morale of the US after being asleep at the switch on a regular Sunday morning in December. 127 US Carriers were commissioned between 1940 and 1945. Fifteen were sunk and 38 were given to the Royal Navy. Just a silly factoid.
This documentary about the Australian rats of Tobruk is one of the best films of its kind. Wherever they went, the Australians were some of the best, toughest soldiers, in both the first and the second world wars .
Yeah, as I discovered the Brits used the Australians, Kiwis and the Canadians because they didn't want to waste their own men, Canucks and Aussies and Kiwis were expendable. Did it in WWI as well. I got fed the line in school how great we were! Years later a Scots uncle in the RAF told me about the colonials who arrived in full gear, ordered to take off their gear and boots only to find the British soldiers wearing them the next day and the second hand gear given to the colonials since they were second class people. The colonials had two enemies, he said: the Brits and the enemy. Now I don't quite know how to take that and I have no way of verifying it but it sounds suspicious, especially when you find out that Winston Churchill gave credit to the colonial soldiers. Good boys, thanks for taking the brunt of the rush (so our boys, the Brits, could go to glory after they decimated you!) So the Aussies were sort of on a do or die mission, damned if they did and damned if they didn't. Toughest fighters because they had to fight everybody not just the Germans.
yup and the Poles too
Ah, rubbish
24:23 epic eyewitness account😂😂😂
I can only imagine how hard it is to fight in a jungle with no food , man the human endurance & spirit of the human being , very resilient indeed !!!
Amazing... i love watching world war 2 document....
Keeps me grateful.
0:00 - Third Battle of Kharkov
50:00 - Battle of Kohima
1:38:24 - Rats of Tobruk
2:28:17 - Operation Pedestal
Thanks 👍
I’m freezing 🥶 just watching this and I’m in Florida 😂
Great and well done documentary!
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The Siege of Tub-ruck was not something I knew about previous to this video. As a US born Citizen I am happy that the Aussies, the British Empire, and the USA are all on the same side. 🙂
The story of the Ohio that saved Malta & those brave mariners
As a child I used to play on one of those ships
Brings tears to my eyes
A truly outstanding documentary, thank you for posting it.
Hitler's answer to all requests to withdraw to a more defensible position was to "Fight to the last man" That doesn't work when out numbered 2 or 3 to one and without control of the air.
Wow, raw, real. Good doc.
VERY BEAUTIFUL AND VERY CHARMING DOCUMENTARY
This is an excellent series. On Manstein, def a GOAT, but his Barbarossa plans relied on huge encirclements taking 10,000s of POWs, he wrote memos acknowledging they wouldn't be able to feed them & they didn't. 4.5mil captured in 1941, almost all starved to death, not even worked to death, a huge war crime.
Awesome documentary
I WANTED to be FIRST!!!😁 But, that aside, I have to concur with your assessment. Take care.
Velox Versutus Vigilans
Is that Anthony Hopkins on narration? If so, nice.👍
Thank you for the really good video
Excellent
You couldn't make up a better story. After watching a handful of them. On this documentary and many others I've watched. It just blows my mind..
!!!,,, unfortunately 3:15:20
What a beating the human condition can endure
The Kohima battle brings so much thankfulness as a Dutch believer in Christ. War is a crazy thing caused by the devil but what the Brits was faithfull ressistance and when everything seemed lost the mighty Lord Jesus send in reinforcements to relief them. Thank you Jesus. Forgive our enemies then my Lord Jesus and bless the Britshs fighting for us to in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
24:17 When Hitler’s yeoman discovers that Hitler has rancid breath, I was delighted by this fact. It is exactly as I’d imagined him. Rotting from the inside, like his soul.
He will be the wart of German history forever and his criminal hatred of his neighbors and enemies cost Germany any hope of allies or victory against the reprehensible Soviet communists. The west paid a huge price for his murders and yes I’d expect the Devil on drugs to have bad breath. So interesting that for so many years Ukraine always gets called Russia and the Soviets never acknowledge Ukrainians and the contribution they made to the victory or anything they accomplish
This is a good video
The thing with the ballon’s is Awsome
For 15 minutes
Humanity returned 👍🏾😂
Effective resilience i see. 🤔
Absolutely a worthwhile watch tyvm
Is Anthony Hopkins the narrator ? It sure sounds like him .
I don't remember the guy's name, but the narrator isn't Anthony Hopkins. He's very good though.
I can't find any reference to Sir Anthony Hopkins narrating this series. His Welsh voice is impossible not differentiate of anyone else like Richard Burton's voice. But IMDB and Wiki says it's Colin Tierney! There's a reference to the fact that Colin Tierney 'has a voice that is naturally a sound-alike to Anthony Hopkins'. I thought my hearing was more gifted then the average dog in range and other hearing tricks. Anthony Hopkins has a voice doppelganger and I wasted too much time trying to find a Anthony Hopkins voice film credit.
Dommage pas en francais et pourtant très bien expliqué
I loved his response that no white hankies are available due to the dust LMAO I can only imagine SS faces reading this response.Aussie have a sense of humour like no one ells LOL
Lol... They absolutely do.
The Australians are amazing. I hope they can throw off the socialists who are ruining their country.
If anyone had known the horrors of Japanese captivity no one would have surrendered. Ever.
Singapore cock-up, biggest surrender by Brits ever (& Japs almost out of ammo). The 1st newly raised Aussie Div, 8th, arrived to surrender a few months later, of 15k Aussies POWs at Changi, a yr later 2k5 were still alive.
What a story of the SS Ohio. Sounds like that would make a pretty good movie.
I've seen an old B+W movie. MALTA CONVOY 1953.
Erwin rommel wasn't in charge of "hitlers bodyguard" that would've been Heinrich himmler of the ss idk where they got that from
You got that right. Rommel was a regular Army guy.
In late 1938 Hitler wanted Rommel to be incharge of his personal escort battalion when outside of Germany specifically during the invasion of Poland he acted in this role as Hitler took more personal attention to this campaign he later I think when he got promoted (from major general as he was when Hitler wanted him to lead the escort battalion) to lead the 7th panzer in 1940 during the invasion of France.
So he didn't lead the bodyguard but he did lead a bodyguard type battalion in the early and pre war which only happened during military situations whereas Himmler and the ss were his personal bodyguards everywhere
When there blowing the RRX and German officer is walking casually with walking stick as two soldiers were ducking and wincing 😂very telling. The officer had enough. Just no emotions.
Didn’t care if he lived or died
The war in USSR was even more brutal then that one in Northern Africa. Europeans are not made to fight in the frozen stepe of Soviet Union or hell heated deserts of Lybia or Egypt desert (a desert is a desert, be it frozen or hell heated). I know, the Russians (and 100 other ethnicities) are Europeans, but the Siberian gene prevailed. I was never there, i'm from Croatia, Istra region. Our winter is pure Disco compared to Russian Grind Hardcore winter
IMHO best British general during the war was William Slim.
I think it was SASSY E. MCGEE
Yes! Manstein was called brilliant during the opening of this video and Zhukov was described as Stalin's "enforcer" and "very cold blooded." Manstein was found to be a war criminal on 17 counts! Many uncritical thinkers call this video unbias. Nazi much? 😂😂😂
Ausys are under rated just like us Canadians Americans didn't do it all like in the movies
Well, the movies are made by Americans and so of course concentrate on what the Americans did. But the Canadians in particular were absolutely splendid in World War II, fighting some of the most incredible tank battles of the war. But the Canadian government doesn't celebrate their veterans. Those who have studied World War II admire the Canadians tremendously.
By this point in the war, March 1944, most people realized the fallacy of siding with the Japanese imperial Army. Hirohito‘s army what is already guilty of atrocious war, crimes.
Like some of the survivors of this campaign to defend India, it was a desperate battle to the bitter end.
HOW SAD
"Harkov is the second biggest city in Ukraina and 4th biggest in Russia". Do only i hear some absurd? Nazis were fighting against the Soviet Union, not just Russia
The Soviet Union did not exist when fighting against the Nazis. It was called Russia until after WW2...
The Australian 7th division were ordered by labor prime Minister john curtain to go home to defend Australia against the Japanese in new Guinea. Churchill said no, curtain said yes.
Is that anthony hoppkins?
Its Paul Markey
Sir Hopkins.😂
Just had the exact same thought...
That's funny! 🤣
It's not Hopkins.
THIS WAS NOT REGULAR MEN THEY WERE HEROES 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
I really don't like the communist system (born in Yugoslavia), but there was nothing worse then the nazis (in these times), but history learns us about forgotten genocides through the history, we just don't like to talk about it. Ruanda, Uganda, Armenia, Crusades. Mexico, Peru, Australian Aborigines, Natives in Americas, we can go on and on. And it will happen again, maybe not today, but just look at Middle East or Ukraine...the world is at the brink of a world war. How stupid and greedy can we get? I nearly forgot to mention Asian attrocities, including the British and France and Netherlands wiping out the whole communicities. And the winner is king Leopold and his rule over Congo,which even wasn't a collony, it was his private property. I am white as it gets, but i understand why they hate us. We do it to each other (Caucassians), imagine what we are able to do to the different colored people. "But we bring you civilization...". Nothing has changed since the Roman empire
23:44…Is that a Sherman?
The British are some very tough resilient people and soldiers , they just do it !
And then there was BONEHEAD MONTGOMERY AND MARKET GARDEN !!
Has Montgomery take CAEN YET ?!?!
@@ToddBrooks-o5m Montgomery had grit, but would never have taken El Alamein without the massive American intelligence that was made available to him. He never had another successful operation, and after Market Garden Eisenhower never let him do anything else.
I get secondhand embarrassment when there's a Churchill impersonator doing the lines x.x
I'ts Anthony hopkins
@@richardsoesie9199 it's actually not Anthony Hopkins. It's either Paul market or Colin Tierney, but definitely not Hopkins.
@@nmr3352 he sure sound like him, but thanx i din't now
Fate decides who wins.
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Bueno, tampoco la 3° toma de Karkov es un triunfo como para dedicarle tiempo : los rusos estaban muy extendidos, y Von Manstein tuvo tiempo de reagruparse ...
Mucha música para TAN POCO 👎👎👎
Vanmanstein was brilliant tactician app and a great Field Marshal but I think Hitler's best Field Marshal was Erwin Rommel
Lost victorys
Music is to loud, by👋👎
oh fy we like lol
Where was mohammad during this time. Never hear about them
Whilst looking so old, commenting like you do, showing to still not have done your homework on the matter. Pretty complex. As within the Muslim world, there was all sorts of stances. As within the axis and allies forces and peoples.
@tjallingdalheuvel126 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you are an idiot.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Nazis in particular courted the Muslim nations during World War II and did receive cooperation from them. And the Saudis in particular provided the allies with massive amounts of oil.
Манштейн не ел не спал и т д посколбку его сынок откинул копыта под Ленинградом...Город в котором за время блокады погибло от 600-750т.человек градланских... К чему эти дифераибы преступнику манштейну ? Черчиль опрадал бы манштейна если бы тот воевал на зарадном фронте с британцами и чем это могло закончитсче для Англии и союзников? Г. К. Жуков сказал... Мы освободили их от фашизма и они наи этого не простят... Как же он был прав.)))