Most interesting. On the subject of recognition I did hear or read about the German Army recognition of Aircraft in the late part of the war. If upon looking up the planes are blue, they are British, if they are silver, they are American, and if they are not there, it is the Lufrwaffe....

The amount of smoke the WWI tanks put out is amazing. They look like they are on fire even when they are not on fire.

@JohnDoe-ne4kg

3 жыл бұрын

Well. The inaide of the engine is on fire.

"Look at this one" It looks no less daft than our own tanks. It's amazing.

Independently-rotating cupolas, turret-mounted antennae, unevenly-spaced wheels, and non-baggy berets. Got it. But what about the lack of black and white crosses?

stabilization software!!!!!!

@jeffk19

Жыл бұрын

Don’t think was was invented yet in wwi.

Hey Percy go stand by that tank so we can see how tall it so we can tell if it is British or German.

So interesting to see the Matilda II as a relative speed demon 😂but I guess compared to WWI tanks it really was

Shade awkward that 'they' used 'our' tanks, and we used theirs. Much better to knock on the door of the tank and ask the chaps inside what side they are on.

Thank you Mr chumly Warner when I'm out in the woods I know what to look for now,wonderful shots of great vintage tanks.

The reason German Berets were so much larger than the British, is that German Tank Crews wore a short, close fitting helmet, and the sacky Beret covered it.

@letoubib21

7 жыл бұрын

And the German "berets" were cushioned, too . . .

Хороший фильм!🙂👍

I was totally confused as it kept jumping from German to brit tank often repeating the same stuff about things like aerials and commander cupular - naming the tank and showing its outline would of been helpful

2:25 That drop looked painful.

@louislungbubble

5 жыл бұрын

it was , I believe a couple of the crew were knocked out cold during the demonstration for the King

GAWDS! That was boring! That Brit narrator was putting me to sleep and those ancient-ass tanks and armored cars were positively toys not fit for a sandbox! Still, when I was awake. it was fun to see to judge how much technology has changed for the better. Thanks for the vid.

"Here you see a modern tank" ... A12 Matilda II... 0.o Then I realized just how old this film is... So anyways... if they're trying to help troops recognize vehicles used in WW2, why oh why do they keep going back to showing world war 1 tanks? The troops really didn't need to know about tanks that weren't used anymore.

@McShaggswell

4 жыл бұрын

It's to give them a frame of reference for the improvements made to tank design since the previous war.

I feel like it would be less confusing to just show the men pictures of all allied tanks.. if it's not one of those it's german.

Ring modulation producing a Dalekseque narration effect. Brilliant film though - great upload.

Are you really going to see an antenna at 100 meters? Or a periscope at 50 meters? "Wait! Don't shoot Bob. That's one of ours. Do you see that commander's periscope?"

@Vincent98987

2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

C'mon now- with all the different tanks and features, by the time you identify one, it has just rolled over you. LOL- Thanks for a good post.

First of all, thanks for publishing these historical films. Absolutely fascinating. Second, do you have the continuation of this series? Would love to watch the rest. Third, you seem to have posted this video twice. The duplicate named "BRITISH TANKS AND ARMORED VEHICLES WORLD WAR II RECOGNITION FILM "FRIEND OR FOE" 34502" kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZKegr8huY6azZqw.html Thanks again

Wow! Where did you find these films? Ffffffffing awesome!

@PeriscopeFilm

8 жыл бұрын

We've been saving rare films since 2001!

@eeeboytvr

8 жыл бұрын

PeriscopeFilm Thankyou... 2011 I'm late...better late than never.

as a historical document this film is priceless , if it does not suit the goldfish length attention span of some individuals , turn it off and stop pissing your pants over it

If its the enemy then our shells will bounce off them. If it friendly it will blow up or burst into flames when hit by a shell.

Watchout for those "Armoured Bullets"...

This is a British tank. Do you see? This is a German tank. Do you see?

Captain Mainwaring from Dad's Army should have been the narrator.

Why are we being taught by a dalek

the a7v was clumsy? it was 3times faster than even the ft17. and the chassis was better.

Anybody know what tune that is they're playing at the opening sequence?

@louislungbubble

5 жыл бұрын

My boy willie is used as it was and is is the regimental march of the Royal Tank regiment

16:55 "and here's a German tank...". A Rheinmetall type Neubaufahrzug (one of the mild steel ones)!

@teslashark

7 жыл бұрын

Norweay killed one literally using only a swamp!

Funny to see them name WW1 "War 1914 - 1918" and "The Great War"

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

4 жыл бұрын

BigNick WW2 is also known as the Second Great War.

@BanjoLuke1

3 жыл бұрын

My father, a Normandy veteran) always referred to the First World War as The Great War or "14-18". Born on 1921 to a WW1 veteran, he grew up before the concept of a World War was recognised. It was essentially a European/Colonial war, with the US coming into the European theatre in late 1917. He called his own war "My war" or "the Second War". My grandfather (1892-1982) probably never used ordinal number for either war. It was a generational thing.

First tank used was by the British in ww1.

The "German" Tanksoldier at 12:49 have a Monokel ??? Hahahaha.

@MIMALECKIPL

8 жыл бұрын

+Herr Unfassbar Yeah

@kevinsullivan3448

8 жыл бұрын

+Herr Unfassbar You don't wear glasses if you only have one bad eye...

@garypulliam3740

3 жыл бұрын

Monocle

If it has a Black Cross you may shoot it if it has a white star you can't. In 1945 you have to respect a red star too. Over in 5 minutes.

But now, The British army have the Challenger 2.

My oh my. In my misspent youth, I lived on and in a tank (M-551 Sheridan) for ten months. This video simply lost me. Quite possibly the worst military training film ever made. I could just see Brit soldiers nodding off in the projection rooms of that time.

@teslashark

7 жыл бұрын

I'm a civilian, but as a World Of Tanks player, I'll say it's absolutely useless.

@brucewelty7684

4 жыл бұрын

General rule of thumb for FoF recognition, If it is crawling up your ass...it is probably friendly. If you are looking down the bore...It should be killed.

A-10 Warthog pilots could learn from this.

As instructional films go, this is an appalingly bad specimen. Having demanded close attention from the viewer, it proceeds to waste his time for 5 minutes and 44 seconds with information that is of no practical help whatsoever to a GI who must decide whether to let the steel box in his sight go on its way or to kill it without delay. Having thus rendered its spectators semiconscious with boredom, the film proceeds to drone on about how a light tank can hide, but without explaining how you can distinguish between a British box hiding in the trees and a German box hiding in the Forrest. Our verdict: as effective as the Dieppe Raid.

@MarkRider

8 жыл бұрын

+apud harald history documented. A product of its time.

@apudharald2435

8 жыл бұрын

Certainly so, and it is highly indicative of the British inarticulacy that Max Hastings notes in Their Finest Years. A Total failure to understand the need to persuade!

@MarkRider

8 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@kevinsullivan3448

8 жыл бұрын

+apud harald The British had a bad habit of taking forever to get to the point. Old US training films were as bad, then Hollywood was hired to make them and they improved significantly.

@teslashark

7 жыл бұрын

They also didn't mention names of most models...

This video was rendered essentially useless in no less than 3 years

they were early in the war. Japan made bad tanks too.

Would be an excellent film to watch if it didn’t “ shake” 👎👎

The German tanks were not much better than the British. It took the Russians with their T--34 to show us how it should be done. Sloping armour. Wide tracks to allow use in snow and mud with a good suspension. A diesel engine of good power to cut down on fire risk and give a decent perfomance. A gun of sufficient power to penetrate the German armour. Why they did not share their designs with their allies. G.B. & U.S. I don't know. We had too many types on the battlefield as well.

@tightg111

7 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to mention that a t-34 was disposable. Also a t-34 would rarely last more then 3 battles good craftsmen ship totally!

@Vincent98987

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, uhuh..

If it is ugly, unwieldy and slow then it's a British tank.

Now you can see old chap why we had such problems 1939/1940 when the BEF left france and there tanks the Germans must have had a good laugh The Germans had better tanks throught the war and that's a fact Even the Sherman was poor in comparison it was only the numbers that won in the end

@ralphbernhard1757

10 жыл бұрын

In 1939/40 most German tanks were the PzI and PzII. The Germans would therefore have no reason to laugh too loud :-)

@chrisrox24

10 жыл бұрын

After the Dieppe raid the Germans thought that the newly-made Churchill tanks were old obsolete vehicles that were deliberately thrown away. However, that's not to say that the German tanks were better, they just had different priorities in design,

@Cplblue

9 жыл бұрын

***** Sherman Firefly used a 17 pounder not a 6 pounder ;)

@kevinsullivan3448

8 жыл бұрын

+K Woods It wasn't that the Germans had good tanks, the French had the best tanks in the world at the start of the war. It was that the Germans had a combined arms strategy and tactics. The French Cavalry and Infantry each had their own tanks and they had different requirements and used them differently and neither arm would play nice with the other arm.

@eeeboytvr

8 жыл бұрын

The Germans had early Pzr III/iv which were no match for the English and French tanks....sorry WoT boys but war is not about tanks.

Well I must say this excuse of a film is completely Uninformative and undoubtably confusing to the chaps watching this hopefully it will fall into the hand of Jerry and confuse him even more.

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The german tank! It looked like a kids play fort. Thats german engineering for you lol.

@tightg111

7 жыл бұрын

ballsworker97 yeah a kids play fort until the British tank goes into combat with a marder series or a Tiger

Why not use a bigger water mark? I'm sure you can make it more annoying with a little more effort.

@PeriscopeFilm

7 жыл бұрын

Here's the issue: tens of thousands of films like this one were destroyed and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like this on online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. So, in the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous KZread users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content. We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to deal with these kind of issues.

@teslashark

7 жыл бұрын

Honestly, you should sell them as collector items and hobby items.

@1Dropboys

5 жыл бұрын

Having it public is a fantastic idea, thank you periscope for your effort and use whatever Mark you need, it could be half the screen for all I care, I usually just listen to the audio

@adamscott7354

2 жыл бұрын

It looks cool and its outside the actual media, and it shifts a bit with the lower menu bar, that's neat, not annoying

mmm the Italians & French were far worse,

CROMWELL TANK IS ONLY TANK. APART FROM THE STUART LIGHT TANK, BUT UH..... SHUT UP!!!

Xz