My father was in the Royal Engineers. He was an engineering draughtsman and told me how he had been seconded from his battalion and sent to a 'secret' location somewhere near London. He was shown to a locked and guarded room, in which there was, what turned out to be, a drawing board draped with a dark cloth. His instructions were to keep the door locked and, should it be necessary for anybody to enter the room, to cover the drawing board. All very 'hush hush'. It turned out that he was to work on the installations and infrastructure for PLUTO. It was there that he met mum, who was in the ATS. She was one of six secretaries to Commander, 21st Army Group and was one of the first women to go over to France after D Day. She got there before Dad, which always rankled a bit with him! They married in Brussels on the way to Germany.

Thank you so much for that, my dad was involved with supplying the steel for the Mulberry Harbours from a place in Corby Northamptonshire. 80 years ago eh, long time, but not that long in some ways. Important thing, keep the history and memories alive.

Thank you for making this film, I learned a lot and just wish I could go and see these things in person but luckily, you did it for me. Very good, thank you.

6 Seconds into this my Grandads face appears. I have a few pictures off him but I love seeing him on video well film transfered to video to be accurate. shame it is fleeting would love to see more of the original if only I knew where to look. Just makes me so nostalgic and more than a little proud. he survived the war and returned home after spending time with the control commision in occupied Germany. died in 1962 when I was a toddler but I have good if vague and faded memories of him.

There's such a wealth of ingenious items designed and built for D-Day that you could probably make videos through the end of the year. It was great to see the things you read about in history books as actual physical machines that helped to win the war -- and I hope we get to see more. Thank You for all of your research and hard work.

@EppingBlogger

14 күн бұрын

Yes, but this one is very very slow and lacks detail

Thank you so much for this report! Even though I have watched many reports of D-Day, I learned a lot of new details! Very interesting!

Thanks & excellent narration of military history.

So is this about Hobart’s Funnies? So many great inventions from one man.

London Transport buses did not use Gardiner engines then but AEC which was then owned by the LPTB as was jointly owned previously by London Underground and London General Omnibus. The remains of a Mulberry was on the beach at Bognor in the 60's, having broken its tow across the channel and washed up there.

@AJ-qn6gd

17 күн бұрын

There is a section at Littlestone in Kent that can be seen at low tide,they were sunk there for safe keeping and this one section wouldn’t re float !

Pluto sent petrol not oil

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing your research and informative conclusions. 🙈🙉🙊 😎 🇺🇸

If you go to the river in Southampton there are other things to see and also another landing craft tank that is sunk just before you get to Marchwood.

I think its pretty fair to say that without this ingenuity, the massive industry of the UK to build all that was required and the fact we kept ourselves free from invasion for nearly 5 years there would have been no D Day. Operation Overlord was an entirely British developed and planned operation down to that detail of getting those sand samples and photographing every inch of French coastline from Calais to Cherbourg. 80% of Naval resources used on D Day were British, the land, air and sea commands were all British. When the Yanks failed to secure their Mulberry as instructed (to build it faster than the Brits) and it got smashed in a gale the British one kept right on going. But all we hear is the Yanks won the war apparently.

@AJ-qn6gd

17 күн бұрын

I think the Russians might disagree with that lol !

@1chish

17 күн бұрын

@@AJ-qn6gd The Russiians had nothing to do with Operation Overlord and let me remind you for the first 2 years of WWII they were allies of the Germans. The war they were fighting was a land and air war and a very different one to the global war the UK and its Commonwealth fought alone for 3 years. As I pointed out. Plus you forget that the industry and ingenuity of the British went to support the Russians in their hour of need in 1941 when Barbararossa struck. The British had the first convoy of munitions on its way 2 weeks after the Germans invaded Russia. Plus they kept the convoys going until 1946. And it was all sent free of charge. 3,000 Hurricane fighters and 3,400 tanks (to name two items out of hundreds) never cost the Russians ONE rouble. So I think my point stands.

@AJ-qn6gd

17 күн бұрын

@@1chish The Russians fought 80% of the Wehrmacht, I never said they were involved in Overlord but merely stated that the Russians might have something to say about the Americans winning the war !

@1chish

17 күн бұрын

@@AJ-qn6gd Well maybe write what you mean then.

@robertwoodroffe123

13 күн бұрын

@@1chishalso the Russians very ineffective per man / casualty ! Meat 🥩wave / meat 🍖 grinder tactics = highest loss of lives , so the Russians to Germans ratio on that / eastern front ridiculous

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