Full throttle at low level, pilots were probably early twenties, maybe a bit older, flying into flak, looking out for fighters, dodging trees, chimneys and power lines…taking hits and seeing and hearing crew mates dying around you, and still hitting the target, unbelievable skill and bravery from those boys. I hope future generations remember and that men and women are never called on to do these things again.

@crazy-diamond7683

8 ай бұрын

I've always said the same, imagine all the chavs doing this today with a spliff hanging out the mouths?

@joe18425

8 ай бұрын

Then going out to do the same thing 25 times before you get out.

@robleary3353

7 ай бұрын

A lot of these young Heroes didn't even have a driving licence and hadn't voted in an election!.... Lest we forget!... Nuff said.

@badrikumar8816

7 ай бұрын

​@@crazy-diamond7683d 😅😅😅😊

@Hartley_Hare

7 ай бұрын

They will be, because old men forget and ask younger men to die.

Incredible bravery we must make sure future generations remember these brave people

must have been incredible stressfull..as a dutchman i thank all brave pilots and staf!

At 0:40 and 3:40 City of Eindhoven with Philips factory clearly visible. From the past I can remember story’s of this raid told by elder family members who lived in Eindhoven during WW-II.

@scudosmyth784

8 ай бұрын

Ditto, my mother lived there during that time.

@alexwilliamson1486

7 ай бұрын

Amazing…that connection to history..🙏🏻

@carlcushmanhybels8159

7 ай бұрын

Dutch Family friends lived in Arnhem during the "Bridge Too Far" Battle. An artillery shell plunged into their house and through a new bolt of cloth she'd scrounged for to sew sheets. She still sewed the sheets: Patching each of the many, many holes the shell made passing thru the bolt's folds.

And today we have huge numbers of people living here who show little or no respect on the one day of the year when we traditionally commemorate the bravery of our service men and women. Who is to blame for this societal chaos?

"In the Oosterschelde estuary, the first major hazard arose in the form of sea birds, which were startled by the sound of the aircraft approaching and rose into the air. As the aircraft flew through them, some birds shattered wind screens, penetrated cockpits and injured aircrew, others bent fuel pipes and caused wing damage. In one aircraft two gulls smashed through the nose Perspex, striking the navigator in the legs. The wind caught his maps and sucked them out the broken windscreen. The rest of the trip he navigated from memory." Just like that, eh? Dear God . . . Rijken, Kees; et al. (2014). Operation Oyster: The Daring Low Level Attack on the Philips Radio Works (ebook ed.). Barnsley: Pen & Sword.

6:23 The tall pilot, right of center, was Wing Commander Hughie Edwards VC, DSO, DFC.

At school in the mid sixties we used to take in airfix model planes, one day the teachers husband came in and spoke to us about the planes, he said nothing but she came over and said my husband flew Mosquitos during the war, your nine and do not know how to say it but do know you are in the presence of someone very special.

Holy gripping reality tv batman! It hit home the rest of the vid after they said"12 planes didn't come home"

My father's brother flew in bombers with the RAF. As a boy his uniform jacket fitted perfectly on me and I grew out of it while still in school.

@cjyoung7372

6 ай бұрын

I don't think people realize how much bigger we are compared to 80 years ago let alone 200

There are probably 10 times more aircraft in this raid than today's entire RAF.

Stunning footage. Balls of steel

I’d never heard of the Lockheed Ventura before this commentary.

At those altitudes there must have been a hell of a lot of birdstrikes over the course of the war. I wonder how many planes and pilots were lost due to that. I also noticed for the first time that even en route that the pilots were weaving across each other’s flight paths. I am guessing to throw off AA and small arms fire along the way. I never considered this as another task the pilots had to perform on each and every mission.

You would have to be incredibly brave to fly full throttle that close to the ground. Thank god for that generation of men

80 years to the day. Remember those who gave their lives in service, & don't forget the loss of civilian life the bombing caused.

Imagine being a Dutch civilian living under German rule and seeing that lot coming over.

@scudosmyth784

8 ай бұрын

My mother did but moved to the uk after the war.

@None-zc5vg

6 ай бұрын

A lot of Dutch and French people were killed in such bombing raids against factories that were producing material for the Wehrmacht.

@JohnSmith-ei2pz

6 ай бұрын

They should not have collaborated!@@None-zc5vg

@themotorider1

6 ай бұрын

​@@JohnSmith-ei2pzMaybe you should do some research into what living under Nazi occupation meant.

@JohnSmith-ei2pz

6 ай бұрын

My countrymen/women fought and were not invaded! Maybe you should keep your beak out! at her@@themotorider1

👍🏻🇬🇧 The very Best. Brave men, May their souls be with God.

A guy who had family garden centre locally, was a Mossie navigator. I tried in vain to get him on to the subject, not interested in any way to speak of his adventures in WW2. Typical of the breed. The word "brave" does'nt begin to describe him and his mates.

@JohnSmith-ei2pz

6 ай бұрын

Stop bullying him!

If they could see the state of Europe today, including England, I think those airmen lost on this raid would turn in their graves.

@stanstelmach5326

6 ай бұрын

You might be onto something. In a sense, wasn't this the beginning of the process which bears fruit now?

@robmcrob2091

6 ай бұрын

? Most of them were alive until quite recently, some still are. What do you mean?

Lockheed Ventura pilots are particularly brave, they didn't have the speed of the Bostons or especially the Mosquitoes. They took some of the worst casualties.

@gordonhall9871

11 ай бұрын

yes- and tail end waves got the full dose of AAA fire -- Germans were very good at it

@user-lt9py2pu6u

8 ай бұрын

My dad was a gunner in one of those Venturas, it may have even been his first combat mission. I believe that particular squadron was actually a Royal Australian Air force (RAAF 464) squadron although the crews were a mixture of British, Australian and New Zealand nationals. The following year the squadron was re- equipped with mosquitos and my father transferred to 83 ,( pathfinder) squadron which flew Lancaster's. My dad always spoke very highly of his pilots as indeed he did of all his crew mates. When I look at the young men in my dad's squadron photos it is both sad and humbling to realize many of them did not survive.

@throttlegalsmagazineaustra7361

7 ай бұрын

​@@user-lt9py2pu6uYour dad was on 464 squadron the same time as John Cusack, an Australian gunner who wrote the brilliant book They Hosed Them Out.

@user-lt9py2pu6u

7 ай бұрын

@@throttlegalsmagazineaustra7361 Thank you for that info, I have not read that, I must get a copy.

@throttlegalsmagazineaustra7361

7 ай бұрын

@@user-lt9py2pu6u His pen name was John Beede. The book was re-released a few years ago with previously-edited passages reinserted.

thank you for your service. R.I.P. brave men, not forgetting those forced labour factories, your sacrifice was our freedom, we should always remember those who fought and fell in the name of our countries, 🥉🥈🥈🥇🥇

@riaannel2766

6 ай бұрын

Have you seen what the world has become?

@watson946

5 ай бұрын

​@@riaannel2766what has it become?

I want to see what these Ole Timey narrators look like.

Did anyone notice that when they first crossed the coast the lead aircraft seemed to crash or maybe I'm just seeing things, bless them all, so very brave

@jackaubrey8614

8 ай бұрын

Yes, at 2:19 the lead Boston flies into terrain. Maybe he hit a power line or trees?

@michaelbull9428

8 ай бұрын

@@jackaubrey8614 poor kid, I find it so very humbling to watch these brave young men

@meofnz2320

8 ай бұрын

I watched it a few times; I don’t think it crashed. Might’ve been an odd light reflection off a pond or canal.

@nialltomy15

8 ай бұрын

He didn't crash, he's still clearly airborne when it cuts to the next clip. Also, if he did crash they wouldn't have used it as propaganda footage.

@carlcushmanhybels8159

7 ай бұрын

@@meofnz2320 Yes, no crash. He is shown veering into the lead.

'Notice the houses in the foreground are untouched' - this was probably performed after the accidental bombing of Bezuidenhout. The RAF then flew over and dropped leaflets 'apologising' 😆

140 civilians and 7 German soldiers were killed during this raid on december 6th 1942

At 3.40, the outline of the Phillips factory on the horizon..

And these days - a couple of Storm Shadows fired from half-way across the North Sea. No need to lose 12 crews. Per ardua ad astra

My mates dad did this with bostons stories of forge in tail 🎉

The absolute heyday of the RAF and its crews. It is now a pale shadow of its former self.

62 aircrew lost, 20% of Venturas lost 😢😢

Balls like a buffalo

They could not fly higher due to the weight of their balls

I'd like to know who the flight crew in this piece is at the very beginning, he looks down at the camera and winks?

12 aircraft lost?! Assuming this was released to the public at the time it's amazing that was revealed. And if 12 losses were admitted to the real figure was probably even higher.

@blacksheep1971

7 ай бұрын

Word game's - by saying "aircraft" rather than the number of men lost also helped with moral.

@josephking6515

7 ай бұрын

That's a 12% aircraft loss so quite high but understandable due to it being at *very* low level.

@jackx4311

7 ай бұрын

@@josephking6515 - and in broad daylight.

@nicegirl1739

6 ай бұрын

Yet, ... people could do maths back then. They knew the losses. Family, friends and neighbours, school chums all knew that it took a crew to fly a plane. The moral part was if our young men and women can go head long into danger then we can knuckle down and do our bit at home. We are in it together. @@blacksheep1971

Eindhoven is significantly closer to the UK than the Ruhr. It's less than halfway to Berlin. A Spitfire variant with legs could have doubled the number of effective bombing campaigns. This would have shortened the war. In view of Britain's technical accomplishments the failure to develop a long range day fighter is mystifying.

Bravo to the Royal Air Force for the bombings of German positions in the Benelux,France and Italy and for the air raids on Japanese bases in Burma,Vietnam and Indonesia,among the others.

@wan96joho86

4 ай бұрын

british cannot fight the japanase and nazi.

Holy smack, that’s LOW!

🎉🎉🎉

Did they fly that low to evade radar? Because that is low.

@stevetheduck1425

8 ай бұрын

RADAR was then unable to spot low-flying planes because of all the reflections of buildings, pylons, etc. at the same height. Speed high and height low, makes it very hard for anyone on the ground to report what they saw and their direction with any accuracy. Also, the route will have been chosen to make the defences react in the wrong place, and to hit the target before the fighters can react. The route back would be different, and probably very direct, to give the least time for the defences to react again. There is another film like this on the Amiens Prison Raid, and recently a modern film was made in Norway about a raid like this on a Gestapo HQ building in Oslo.

@MJMC56

8 ай бұрын

My uncle flew Mossies in the Pathfinders bit of bomber command. They did fly low to avoid being detected. They weren't noticed at all until over land, and then hard to track. Very dangerous work indeed.

@indigohammer5732

7 ай бұрын

Nah. The RAF deliberately used pilots who suffered from air sickness and altitude sickness

@stephenskelhorn3315

7 ай бұрын

I would think that low flying meant a sort of stealth and they were more accurate at hitting the target. Besides, I would think that maybe they avoid some anti-aircraft guns that were probaly pointing upwards? Be past them before the AA gun crews could react?

I’m dizzy just watching

"12 planes didn't come back"...how about " 36 men ".

Iron balls for sure!

How was work today Otto? Otto--I got bombed

We should restart these raids. Maybe include Brussels on the target list

@rexbarron4873

8 ай бұрын

Stupid unessessary comment..

@Snowdog2711

7 ай бұрын

Well done you won the tired attempt at humour/Prize Idiot award for the month.

2:19 did that plane hit the deck??

@thedustofages

8 ай бұрын

Yes I think he did.

@Jimmythefish577

7 ай бұрын

No, it’s clearly visible in the footage immediately afterwards.

150 civilians were killed...

@francisbrewster4948

7 ай бұрын

15,000 work at factory??

All performed by men without stupid pronowns etc.

@brianfoster5748

7 ай бұрын

you mean to say real he-men? Somehow i get the feeling that in the moment people were preoccupied with more pressing concerns. We might take a lesson from this.

The Germans should've expected THAT. My dad (who was Scottish) was in the British Army, 1939-45. He was in action in France & at the Battle of El Alamein, among other places. His 19-year-old brother was killed by a landmine. It was was the fat, booze-addled, manic depressive alcoholic Churchill who stuck his fat red nose in & started the war with Germany. 384,000 young soldiers were killed because of this fat Tory who hated the working class, saying they were "expendable". My dad survived the war with shrapnel wounds. I said repeatedly to him (over a few beers, usually) that he & his brother should never had gone to war.

@dianeunderhill8506

8 ай бұрын

Oh, so you think Britain should have let the Germans come? I do not think your anti-Tory hatred has any place here when we are watching this! By the way, sorry about your father's brother.

@Robinofthewood

8 ай бұрын

do some research….you would not be here if it wasn’t for Winston Churchill. The most uneducated comment I’ve ever read..

@dianeunderhill8506

8 ай бұрын

@@Robinofthewood Totally agree with you!

@snotnosewilly99

8 ай бұрын

Hitler never wanted war with his fellow Germans.....the English.

@timwingham8952

8 ай бұрын

And if he hadn't - as you so eloquently put it - "stuck his fat red nose in", Germany would've walked all over Europe and further, reducing all it conquered to a state of subjugated servants to the Third Reich with no free speech, and no one allowed to live unless they had blue eyes and blonde hair. Your comment has to be one of the most stupid I've ever read, and seems politically motivated at the expense of historical knowledge.