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At 1hr 24min…. Churchill arriving in a captured Fieseler Storch with RAF rondelles. Ya I know we had nothing comparable but the British Prime Minister arriving in a war zone in a distinctively German airplane? Remarkable.
1hr 30min…. RAF Typhoons going in almost vertical to strike the Falais gap.
17min…. Footage of my childhood home Blackpool, thirteen years before my arrival 🙂
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Mark Felton's videos are what every other documentary maker ought to aspire to.
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It would have been better if they had not blurred out a lot of the frames.
Just doesn't make sense. They blurred out dead bodies. Either as a show of respect or to get YouTube approval.
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Tag. Will have to give it a watch. Thanks
Now with even more aplomb
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There were several combat vets in the small, rural town in which I grew up, but there was one there who had a unique combat experience.
He was a waist gunner on a B17. In late 1943 on their 22 mission over Germany, his plane was shot down. He parachuted out, was captured, beaten up (The Germans resented the airmen who bombed their cities), and sent to a Stalag. He spent the rest of the war there, and said there was nothing "fun" about being there. He said he was lucky to be alive.
He was also credited with shooting down two German fighters .
It was not combat on D-Day, but those USAAF pilots and crews were being shot at every day.
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My uncle was one of those guys who hit the beach during the Normandy invasion. His landing craft was hit by artillery fire offshore, and he swam through burning fuel to get there. He was horribly scarred from his neck to his waist for the rest of his life. Ironically, that might have also saved his life, as most of his original unit was wiped out at the battle of the bulge while he was in a field hospital, recovering from his wounds.
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It would have been better if they had not blurred out a lot of the frames.
Just doesn't make sense. They blurred out dead bodies. Either as a show of respect or to get YouTube approval. Makes it easier to get approval to show in Middle/High School too.
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