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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2013
- Part 5 of a meticulously made series from the Beeb Beeb Ceeb of seven episodes now uploaded here as an all in one files
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In in-depth look into the magndtic minee and the countermeasures developed to overcome it, including Degausing, and an interview with Lt Cdr John Ouvry from HMS Vernon, who defuzed the first intact German magnetic mine on the sands at Shorburymess found by the British, the actual preserved mine that he recovered being featured in a re-enactment for the episode. - Розваги
Those good men who initially went to defuse the bomb on the sandbar had an infinite amount of heart. God Bless them all!
I remember watching this as a schoolboy when it was first broadcast. Five years later I was a junior officer on the sweep deck of a minesweeper! I'm convinced programmes like this made me choose the Navy.
As an Ex- Navy Clearence Diver trained at HMS Vernon I have worked on some of these mines - and others - "Pressure & Accoustic Mines" but I have never seen these films. Makes " Standing on the sholders of Giants" really meaningfull!! BTW I was wincing at the sound when he unscrewed those fittings ... That woulda enraged an accoustic ....carry some WD40 !! :)
Even though it was a re-enactment one of the officers actually flinched when the other made a sudden shift. That really made my hair stand up.
As a kid I lived very close to the Canoe Lake- and did some paddling canoes around but I was useless on the rowing boats .We also used to take the guided tours into Portsmouth Harbour on a small boat and would pass HMS Vernon. This programme shows so many amazing men of outstanding skill and bravery. Indeed, my friend from down our road, his father worked for ASWE- surface weapons up on Portsdown Hill. Anyway, HMS Vernon is now home to a shopping mall which is somehow typical of today's world but seeing these man and hearing their story is a reminder of the incalculable debt we owe them all.
I am stunned at the quality of these films. Insightful, straightforward narration and accurate, relevant footage make a good documentary, but the interviews with the actual people who participated in the events make it great. Not just 90 year old average soldiers being asked generic questions, but the experts who made the breakthroughs or led the crucial missions explaining, with the original equipment, exactly their thought processes and the events in context. You can feel the gravity as they tell it. The stakes were high and these men were geniuses. I marvel at their technical knowledge, instincts for troubleshooting and creativity. Given the passage of time, we'll never see the likes of a production like this again. They had their shot and nailed it much to our benefit.
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Agree! The suspense is killing me! And somehow the producers managed to do it without ridiculous background 'music' pounding away.
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"Not just 90 year old average soldiers being asked generic questions, but the experts who made the breakthroughs or led the crucial missions explaining, with the original equipment, exactly their thought processes and the events in context."
I have nothing to add. Brilliant serial, brilliant resume.
+laurelrunlaurelrun Generic questions with pounding background music. That sums up contemporary documentaries. Even those made by the BBC. In 2015 the BBC & other channels assume the audience are idiotic plebs whose attention needs to be held with gesticulating presenters, fast editing, flashy animations, loud dramatic music etc.
The Secret War is one of the best ever. It's makers were not afraid to go into technical detail or allow experts several minutes to explain things. Older documentaries are always better. Back the 70s & 80s both ITV and BBC made some good documentaries.
and its so matter - of - fact. no hyperbole, no judgement, the stories speak for themselves. refreshingly understated.
In one of these episodes they talk to Albert Speer. Now THAT is a WWII documentary.
28:45 "... And we ourselves walked in shore with our 4 fittings..." and directly to the nearest pub for a quick snort to settle our nerves
At any cost , very easy to say but quite different prospect when it may be you that pays that cost.
Very special men
"It was rather like when you've finished some intensely physical exertion, and won." Damn right, that guy and his buddies are among the bravest men ever, watching that reenactment of disarming the mine was terrifying.
they only survived because the booby trap anti tampering device was not correctly set. They were lucky.
This was a reinactment. I wonder what the "real" dialog was between these brave men. The shocker to me was hammering on the retaining ring, that must have been really scary, every single tap. Extrodinary. Surprised they didn't have another special wrench made.
Churchill said "at any cost"...
@@wazza33racer re: 32:44 - Was it a manufacturing defect? If it was, what luck that the particular mine landed on the mud flat. (There's that word again.) It seems like it was was too early in the war for slave labor and its deliberate defects.
@MichaelKingsfordGray Who are you talking to?
Fascinating program. Especially liked the bit when the reenactors flinched when the spring loaded arming mechanism popped out.
How hot headed can you be? These men dismantling totally unfamiliar sea mines is one ultimate answer. However, I would have taken off my wedding ring, just to be shore.
As they defused the mine I remained calm with nerves of steel.
I did not flinch.
You are braver than I, sir.
For we all know u r lying!!
Nerves of steel...balls of brass.😆
This series still is one of the best documentaries on ww2. Unbeatable.
agreed! brilliant series. Been catching up. By coincidence I see you here G2! similar tastes
THE--BEST, NO NONESENSE PRESENTATION AND LEAD INS, GREAT DOCUMENTARY FILM--BASED ON THE GREAT PROF. R.V. JONES' OWN BOOK OF THE SAME TITLE.
These old documentaries are gold. Hollywood brings out movies like Dunkirk and the new Masters Of The Air shows, but this is where you find the really small details that don't make it to the big screen.
Extraordinarily well done documentary.
Anybody else: Run!
Englishman: It's a fitting I never saw before.
Hand me a hammer.
hand me non-magnetic hammer
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"Are you sure you brought the anti magnetic ha€¥££$%**%%\\=£.,
@@ztyy8185 And pray for us.
And a cigarette please.
" Oh shit, I can't find my 10mm socket"
The BBC as it once was...... fascinating, brilliant, vital. Now look at it...
It beats American programing hands down. You should see the shit that gets dumped on the public, absolute garbage.
No thanks. Got rid of the telly 6 or 7 years ago and haven't missed it once.
@@jbuckley2546 Same here.
@@johntomlinson6849Must agree, thats a good idea...
@@paleoman8854 Supported by all the shitheads that continue to watch that programming.
That mine they defused is now displayed on HMS Belfast in London. Unbelievable courage, often against huge odds. Amazing story.
On Belfast now.
I saw it a few years ago just up the road at the IWM
Appropriate on Belfast of course.
The council are thinking of turning the mine into a small apartment
@@obviouslytwo4u 😂
The experience we gathered will now, after Brexit, prove valuable, in order to prevent the English from smuggling their goods into the EU.
Fascinating . A proper documentary
This was a fantastic series, I am not sure if it was repeated, but it should be on TV as often as "The World at War" series.
‘’If it went off it would make a hole about a cricket pitch wide..........’’. Great British description !
Wow I had the VHS series of this series. Thanks for putting this on UA-cam.
Brilliant presentation showcasing the work of scientists and very brave navy personnel in tackling an ingenious weapon.
Now that's how you make a documentary!
Who remembers those red defused mines being mounted on stands with a slot for charity contributions for sailors?
There was one in porthcawl when I was a kid
I believe Mark Felton made a doc recently on these
ua-cam.com/video/lvyv9KCJoUY/v-deo.html
I thought this was an EXCELLENT video. Entertaining, suspenseful, and well edited. Thanks for a great viewing experience!
Buy the series on DVD if you can find them, number 6 is banned here on YT
Good old Lord Cherwell. Supposedly Churchill's scientific advisor. We can all be glad that Winston didn't listen to his advice very often and in fact came to rely more on R.V. Jones brilliance, starting with the Battle of the Beams in 1940. Jones had figured out that the Luftwaffe was using radio signals beams to allow spot on navigation in the dark over England during the Blitz. Cherwell unbelievably almost always came down on the wrong side of every problem put before him, including arguing that the V2 rockets that had begun showing up on reconnaissance photos were in fact barrage balloons!
Cherwell argued the rockets were not possible he claimed the wall of the rocket would have to be two feet thick steel to withstand the rocket pressure on launch.
Just watching the film re-enactment of taking the fuses off that mine had me gripping my chair. Silly, I know as obviously nobody was hurt in the making of the film, but it makes you think about the nerve of those who did it in the first place.
Amazing film, and hats off and gratitude - too small a word - to those brave and inventive people.
Anyone else here in 2021 watching this for no apparent reason as it was recommended to you?
NOT ME---I watched it first time round, in 1977, bought the DVD's, and still watch it on Y.T now and then. except, they've banned the last episode number 6, prob because of copywrite
I had a bookmark in a folder from a few years back to a 5 hour long clip of all the episodes of this series. The part @32:44 of the booby trap prompted me to try to learn more about this "seven seconds," to see if it was a manufacturing defect. A Wikipedia footnote brought me here via this: "...accidentally dropped by the Luftwaffe on the sands at Shoeburyness. The incident formed an important part of an episode of The Secret War, a BBC and Imperial War Museum production.[4]"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vernon_(shore_establishment)#In_wartime_and_onshore
Anyone who reflexively knocks Wikipedia is a dope, whom these days seem to be the same dopes who will swallow whole streams of blatant lies about current events.
Yep
Something about mines, the surface mines. As a little kid watching Victory At Sea I cringed when I saw those scary spiked orbs bobbing in the ocean. They had such a sinister look, and an ominous lethality.
Thanks for uploading these films. Very interesting.
GREAT EDUCATIONAL FILMS! THANK YOU FR THE UPLOADS
A story that was gripping, and so well told.. an excellent video
And to think, today all you have to do is sing to get a medal.!
Britains finest, god bless em all !
So glad I found these. They're excellent, much better than the present day documentaries in the US. I can barely watch them because they take 40 minutes to say what could be said in four, also, the graphics remind me of a strobe light and are narrated in a manner more suited to a soap opera. The Secret War series was made while the veterans were young enough to recall technical detail, whereas today, the WWII generation is rapidly dying off. I've spoken with various elderly veterans, so I've nothing against the elderly. It's only too bad the few times anyone publicly publishes interviews and the like, the final product gets edited so much n the name of political correctness, that it scarcely resembles the original. History is fact of how it was in the eyes of the individual. So if he refers to the Germans or Japanese by ethnic slurs, or glories in the destructive power of a certain weapon, that's how he experienced it. If it is now considered unacceptable, the better with which to compare.
Well done, you are a perfect example of a typical British twat. Your pathetic little opinions about the rest of the world shows what a mistake it was for the American's to save your ass, not once, but twice. The British have learned nothing and contributed nothing, all the time whining about everything since the wars, wars which they had no reason to be in. The British had no reason to enter WW1. The British spread a European conflict to a world war spreading it around the fucking planet. Without WW1 there would not have ever been a WW2. Congratulations. WW1 was also the reason the Spanish Flu traveled the world. This pandemic has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history." ANOTHER 100 million deaths. The British have more blood on their hands than any other nation has. Yet opinionated little British pricks like you, and your pathetic little comment alienated present day American's, German's, Japanese, and you even manage a cheap shot at the veterans for their age. The British are irrelevant and obsolete and small. Nobody outside of Britain cares about the British. Asshole.
@@chopchop7938 the ruling elites make war mostly for profit. Ordinary working people do most of the dying. Nationality is irrelevant.
@@chopchop7938 I say old chap, one appears to have a bee in one's bonnet! Have another big Mac.
Didn't expect to see a hammer in the tool kit. Great documentary.
Thank you to the men, who carry such weight, in silence. For what is right and just. I have never met you, but I love you very very much.
How was that huge thing a screwdriver?!?!
That aside, INCREDIBLE film, it’s always fascinating to talk to these vets for whom all of this was “a matter of course”, when in reality they were at risk of pink misting themselves… amazing courage.
What a fantastic story/video! Thankyou so much for showing this. Absolutely awesome!
What tremendously brave and courageous men that defused that magnetic mine. They saved so many ships and so many men by their actions. Well deserved DSO's and DSM's. Lt Commander Lewis was correct. If the mine had gone up a crater 22 feet wide and seven feet deep, with both of the men attempting to defuse it vaporized. These men.....the best and tremendously brave and courageous, as were all the UXB men of WW2. God bless these men for what they did. Thank you Sir Charles Goodeve for finally finding the solutions to the magnetic mine menace.
My dad told me during the war seeing a summer house was blown to pieces, as the owner and friends(s?) had brought home a german mine from the beach in Denmark and in process of disarming it. The seagals had a feast picking bloody human meat pieces of ground and nearby grainfield.
Fantastic series and incredible engineering explained comprehensively.
Just remembered, as a very young child we sailed to the Isle of Man and I recall everyone looking to the port side of the boat to look at the masts of a sunken ship which were sticking up proud out of the sea.
This was excellent - thank you.
The Reconstruction of the Parachuted mine being defused was brilliant but the fact the original mine was used was a bit of a spoiler. lol
Actually it was pretty entertaining. I was on edge.
is that you simple simon ? do you REALLY think the bloody thing was for real. ?
Thank you very much for uploading this series, I remember them on ABC television in Australia as a young boy (early 80's I think) and I loved every episode. I ended up finding the book on the series which is very good reading but was unable to find the actual episodes on DVD. I am now very happy and I will enjoy watching this excellent documentary, thanks again!
Great story - reminded me of my favourite war book, "Softly Tread the Brave', all about mine defusing, too! I don't think I'd be brave enough to ever try it!
You speak for most of us.
It is entertaining watching Churchill telling the truth, and comparing that with Johnson who has never spoken truth in his life, so far as anyone can determine.
My Father, who by his own admission had a rather good war, worked in Glasgow docks developing the degaussing technology and the intriguing science of underwater explosions. As with the magnetic mines, torpedoes were found to have greater destructive power by passing the vessel at significant depth below the keel rather than exploding adjacent the often armoured hull.
The Americans apparently had trouble with the magnetic torpedo technology until they discovered that the earths magnetic field is not uniform over the entire earths surface. The story of their experiences with “undeadly” torpedoes makes very interesting listening. It is also suggested that the story of the mysterious USS Philadelphia incident is rooted in deliberate misinformation to coverup the work in the US to defend against magnetic mines by way of degaussing.
that was a great video thanks for the upload !
The reference to HMS Belfast blows me away... i spent hours upon hours walking all over it some time ago, and when its mentioned, I remember the myriad of hatches, walkways, guns, rooms.... i have knowledge of the ship, reference to it makes me realise ive touched the steel of that ship.
Not often you can know exactly what someone born in 1896, and dead for nearly 30 years, over a war 80 years ago, is talking about.... and then you look at a detailed description of the mine that nearly sunk her.
unbelievable.
That is any ship, try living on an aircraft carrier, after living on CV-43 for over 2 years I know I explored very little of the ship and I did make an effort to see it all, endless passageways and compartments.
Blimey ! How much guts do you have to defuse a mine that you've never seen before and have no clue if whatever you touch will set it off.
Cut the Red wire but first cut the blue.
That and keeping a steady hand while doing it...just some amazing people.
The only comfort on this task being is that if you fail you are not going to feel it and will have no burial expenses ! Lacking any recording devices you have a similarly trained 2nd team observing each move . Don’t cut the blue wire we know that doesn’t work for example. These fellows have nerves of. Steel and deserve to be called the Greatest Generation as the present generation is worthless !
The Brits had the best de -fusers and the Krauts had the most sinister bomb makers . I have read that the Krauts would change up a few mines and bombs detonators just for the purpose taking out the de-fusers . Now that is sinister big time!!!
Our lads now are dealing with I.E.D.s with absolutely no standardisation at all.
@@normanlesley1867 EOD work is just scary. If youre an entrepreneur though with friends in the field, there is a lot of money to be made. The Balkans, much of Africa, The Middle East and Afghanistan are riddled with unexploded ordinance. Not to mention the South East Asian countries from the Vietnam War Era or the Khmer Rouge.
My father was there on the beach watching from a distance he was RA he formed part of the perimeter guard , they were all such brave men super heroes unsung heroes, unlike our wishy washy heroes of today !
This was Great thanks for posting
Must have been difficult to walk in the mud to defuse the mine while dragging along such huge heavy balls !
There's that. Incredibly brave.
At first, I didn't 'twig' what your comment was about. But whilst pondering how brave the UBX guys were the 'penny' dropped. A very apt expression. :0
The expression I like to use is "balls like church bells". Don't know when /where I heard it. One in a trillion chance I came up with it.
I was on pins and needles Even watching the reenactment
@@brucehanson6427 Me too. Absolutely fantastic cinematography. The tension was incredible.
Thankyou so much for the upload of this. So interesting, informative and real. Those bomb techs had balls of steel bigger than pineapples! serious butt puckering stuff, especially when its a bomb you've never seen!
This was absolutely awesome.
Excellent production. I really like seeing journalism-based documentaries. No music, no artificial drama, no stupid questions, just straight to the matter at hand, unvarnished.
Absolutely amazing the amount of stuff invented in a few years for the war.
thank you very much.
"I signalled to the soldiers on the shore ..... and they responded with two fingers" :)
Not in those day old boy officers superior dont you know lol
The World at War was also one of my cannot miss an episode TV memories.
The best series about the conventional war
The trouble with that series was that it was made just before the breaking of Enigma was revealed.
Very fascinating. I had never paid much attention to this area, of the war. Weird, since my step dad served on board a mine sweeper during Korea.
I remember this show as being called DANGER:UXB. And it was was just this, in a field, or city, or beach or village. PBS when they had the balls to show real history.
I remember that TV series, only 13 at the time i think. www.imdb.com/title/tt0078593/
Which is why, I think, we all have a passing interest in mines - because of the very red things that stood large and proud next to harbour walls
Those two men on that beach had nerves of steel...Real men!!!
Talk about authenticity! - Using the original mine for the re-enactment, along with narration by the very man who disarmed it.
@typo pit Given they reenacted the de-fusing with the very people who performed the operation, I assume the reenactment is correct, and they used a knife.
But, cutters seem like a more logical tool.
"If it went off, figured that being this close I would not suffer." My uncle in law how defused unexploded bombs in London during WW2.
Bernie LaFrance Did your uncle get to watch the BBC series DANGER UXB about a Royal Engineer EOD company during WW2. It was based on the memoirs of an EOD officer and my then commanding officer, an EOD Major, liked it, accurate in spite of TV's need for drama and romance. It's available on UA-cam
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_UXB
"The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company,[n 1] which has been made a bomb disposal unit, and specifically 347 Section of the company, to deal with the thousands of unexploded bombs ("UXBs") in London during the Blitz. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fuzing. The series primarily features military storylines, though among them is a romantic thread featuring an inventor's married daughter, Susan Mount (Judy Geeson), with whom Ash falls in love, and other human interest vignettes.
The programme was partly based on Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, MBE, RE; its episodes were written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series was filmed in 1978 in and around the Clapham, Streatham and Tooting areas of south London.[1] Lt. Col. E. E. Gooch, RE (AER), rtd. was the technical adviser.
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@@colbeausabre8842 Unfortunately Uncle passed long ago so I don't know. I will watch in honor of him and these men.
Thank you.
I beleive, that anyone volunteering to be a member of the Royal Engineer's 'Bomb Disposal Unit', had to come to terms with the real prospect, of instant death. It had to be kept in mind, that one mistake, and you'd know nothing about it. maybe just a billiant blinding flash of light--NO SOUND, as compression on the eardrums would be total. Also, forget Pain, the only consolation.
Brilliant work on the part of the navy and scientists. 👌👌👌👌
Fascinating hello from Australia
Great stuff !
Scientists at work, lives saved, not a single tarot card in sight!
Exactly so.
and no risk of losing your life reading tarot cards!
Excellent!
If I were designing it in the drawing office I would have made all those screw-in rings (about 20 mins in) with a left handed thread, just item one on a list of 100 things to fool any attempts to defuse it. Simple and no cost. If the English disposal officers had tried to undo it as they did, they would have either thought it was impossible or tightened the rings further. They could also have been welded in place possibly. Strange that the disposal guys didn't have a radio to dictate back to the onlookers each step they took so it could be recorded in case it blew up.
Radio uses electromagnetic waves, their loudspeakers contain magnets. If there is any chance of magnetism setting off the mine, radios are the last things you want anywhere near the mine.
A signal lamp running on kerosine, made out of brass or aluminium, would've been a safe way to convey messages via morse code.
I guarantee that 4 pin wrench for the first detonator would remove the rear plug they used a hammer and brass rod. But awesome recreation. Really cool to see what they did and then hear the men who were there tell about it. I’m guessing that about the tool because that’s how the German cars I have worked on for the past 30 years.
Danger UXB ... a TV seires. Super neat and very British.
18:55 sounds like it needs some WD40.
31:12 such a nice mechanism, just to have it destroyed to be of any value !
Super interesting!
21:34 there is nothing better than a little touch to deactivated a bomb
I was just pointing at the wriggly thing when the narrator said "the spring was used to eject the parachute'! Well sir, you read my mind :)
Love that intro
Fascinating watching how they defused the mine and how it worked 👍
I think everything I want to say has already been said about this historic series, but anyway,........ ABSOLUTELY SUPERB.
Remember to ALWAYS wear your wedding ring when defusing a mine...
Hope it was solid gold and non magnetic.
I picked that up also hello from Australia but in the beginning one of the guys emptied everything out of his pockets ,well it was a recreation
And always keep on your jacket with brass buttons and steel eyes.
I will never understand why Germany, after being defeated in WW 1 was allowed to re-arm itself to the power it became in WW 2. Did the rest of the world just shrug and think "Oh, That's just Germany being Germany" ? This is an excelent documentary. Last night on UA-cam I watched an excelent 1951 movie "Decision before Dawn" a dramatic retelling of a true story about WW 2 in Germany.
Part of the problem was the huge loss of life in WWI, GB and France were not eager to send another generation to slaughter.
They did some of it without knowledge of the soon to be allied forces. Also, the danger didn't seem to be that big back then, since for example the Wehrmacht was severely outnumbered by the French army in the years preceding and at the start of the war. Also, many other countries were sneakily circumventing or outright violating treaties, so it wasn't that far out of the ordinary.
It's no different than what is happening today, with large multinational companies that should be paying tax, but are finding ways to act as if their company is located in a low tax country.
Back in the 30s, the nazis founded a u-boat shipyard in the Netherlands. Via complicated financial constructions, they were able to hide the fact that this "dutch" company was actually a german-owned, german-run company. Without people knowing, they were able to amass a huge amount of knowledge (the snorkel was a dutch invention, but soon the tech was 'stolen' by the germans) and production facilities.
Ironically, the Netherlands is again playing a HUGE role in helping multinationals to avoid paying tax in the countries where they operate. Our right wing-conservative governments of the past 12 or so years have no moral compass at all, and they will continue to lick the boots of CEOs wherever they can find them - as long as it makes them a good penny or two.
Never trust the netherlands.
Signed,
A dutch person.
The wonderful Lord Charwell strikes again. "The double L solution won't work." Well it did. Charwell also said it was impossible to build something like the V2. That worked as well.
He wasn't the only one who thought that a rocket had to be accelerated like an artillery shell and built accordingly.
"Lions.....donkeys..."!!! For a second time too :( BTW "L" is the mathematical symbol for inductance, which is what creates the magnetic field. De-gaussing gone wrong, see Philadelphia Experiment :(
Absolute charlatan who survived through been Churchill's buddy
Didn't he reckon the V2 would have to weigh 40 tons, and thus couldn't work? That report went to Churchill the day the first one hit London.
That was in RV Jones' famous book, "Most Secret War" - still available. Or was that Tizard?
@@nicktecky55 All sounds about right to me. I've not read the book Most Secret War but do love the Tv series by similar name narrated by Willian Woollard. I've only read The Mares Nest by David Irving, available as a free PDF from the authoors website. Also fascinating is his Churchills War, for a completely different take on that man.
I am stunned at the workmanship of the build the machining quality..One of the downfalls of Germany everything was made to perfection. Watch on UA-cam how cannon shells are made.
21:25 Oh for Gods sake, not the hammer. I think I'd have conveniently forgotten it on the shore or refused to hand it to him. "Just try pushing it gently, maybe that will do it, but please not the hammer". You have to think there must have been a moment of hesitation and prayer before the first swing of the blessed thing.
Well, what the "diffusers" have have going for them is that the Germans had to put these things together and arm them. Also, one of the doctrines of mine warfare is that eventually you want your own side to use the area. (In the case of land mines, doctrine says that you "defend" the mine field.)
The entrance to Dunquirk included a Chanel along the coast such that ships were running along close to the coast, vulnerable to artillery.
Bloody awesome 😎
Wonder if it was an act of kindness that someone didn't activate the anti-tamper device on the mine at the factory
A lot were built by slave labour, an act of sabotage most likely 🤔😎
@@richardrichard5409 I thought slave labour was only later in the war 🤔
25:35 - now THIS moment is what makes a documentary reconstruction realistic. ;)
Disarming a harmful device made with the intention to instantly and brutally kill whoever is messing with it needs a person to have probably the most massive pair of balls in the entire world.
The dude needs a tissue
They were lucky because some German had forgotten to remove the safety device from the anti tampering mechanism
Their wives or girlfriends must have lived in terror
So with other words if the safety latch would not have been forgotten on the second detonator by accident when deploying the mine it would have exploded as soon as Cdr John Ouvry would have tried to remove it. Luck is on the side of the brave.
@Steve Bergman - You are only foolish when you make a choice to do something stupid. Doing your duty when the situation is highly dangerous is bravery.
Terrible stuff - bloody amazing that the country survived the first few years.
Tell it to this generation of young waster's who think nothing of all this bravery, who gave them the 'freedom' to vote their country into the German dominated slavery of the EU.
The music over the end credits used to freak me out when I was little.
I about shat my pants twice in that disarming re-enactment. The closest I can come is free climbing a steep rock wall and realizing half way up that you better get it right or you’re a goner (I have done this a number if times), except these guys didn’t have any idea what ‘right’ even was. Big chops to them. Maybe say a short prayer of some sort, I don’t know.
Free climbing is a good excuse for shitting in your pants. Terra firma thank you....
Amazing British science 🏆
When I saw the hammer come out I was like oh no you arent gonna!
What an interesting story. Britain possibly saved because some anonymous German had one simple job and failed to do it.
“For want of a nail” ...
In fact I had never pulled a mine apart before.. big massive balls
11:00 -- Ironic that Japan and Italy were not yet at war with Britain!
My Grandfather served in WW2, he was directly responsible for the destruction of many German aircraft.
Hitler knew him by name, he once said of him "He is the worst aircraft mechanic we ever had".
Best laugh of the day. ;-) eee
That was GREAT! Thanks for the laugh.
@@yepiratesworkshop7997 My other grandfather was actually the first to die in Auschwitz. He was drinking with two other guards in a guard tower when it collapsed.