The Top World War 2 Missions That Should Have Failed | Narrow Escapes (Full Series)

World War 2 is filled with missions that should have failed. Either the odds were overwhelming, the conditions were terrible or the objective was too complex. And yet sometimes, against the odds, these missions succeed. Discover World War 2's impossible missions and the brave men who carried them out.
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  • @felipegrille8082
    @felipegrille808215 күн бұрын

    You couldn't make up a better story. After watching a handful of them. On this documentary and many others I've watched. It just blows my mind..

  • @roberteells5269
    @roberteells526912 күн бұрын

    This documentary about the Australian rats of Tobruk is one of the best films of its kind. Wherever they went, the Australians were some of the best, toughest soldiers, in both the first and the second world wars .

  • @nickfraser2434

    @nickfraser2434

    11 күн бұрын

    Yeah, as I discovered the Brits used the Australians, Kiwis and the Canadians because they didn't want to waste their own men, Canucks and Aussies and Kiwis were expendable. Did it in WWI as well. I got fed the line in school how great we were! Years later a Scots uncle in the RAF told me about the colonials who arrived in full gear, ordered to take off their gear and boots only to find the British soldiers wearing them the next day and the second hand gear given to the colonials since they were second class people. The colonials had two enemies, he said: the Brits and the enemy. Now I don't quite know how to take that and I have no way of verifying it but it sounds suspicious, especially when you find out that Winston Churchill gave credit to the colonial soldiers. Good boys, thanks for taking the brunt of the rush (so our boys, the Brits, could go to glory after they decimated you!) So the Aussies were sort of on a do or die mission, damned if they did and damned if they didn't. Toughest fighters because they had to fight everybody not just the Germans.

  • @danielreid6041
    @danielreid6041Ай бұрын

    Awesome documentary

  • @greyowl7869

    @greyowl7869

    Ай бұрын

    I WANTED to be FIRST!!!😁 But, that aside, I have to concur with your assessment. Take care. Velox Versutus Vigilans

  • @MWM-dj6dn
    @MWM-dj6dn5 сағат бұрын

    VERY BEAUTIFUL AND VERY CHARMING DOCUMENTARY

  • @benhardgliocam6871
    @benhardgliocam6871Ай бұрын

    Amazing... i love watching world war 2 document....

  • @terryeustice5399
    @terryeustice539927 күн бұрын

    Great and well done documentary! 💯👊👍❤️

  • @kevinarnold213
    @kevinarnold21328 күн бұрын

    Absolutely a worthwhile watch tyvm

  • @jonhildahl9982
    @jonhildahl998226 күн бұрын

    What a story of the SS Ohio. Sounds like that would make a pretty good movie.

  • @janiceduke1205
    @janiceduke1205Ай бұрын

    IMHO best British general during the war was William Slim.

  • @fridaclaxton

    @fridaclaxton

    28 күн бұрын

    I think it was SASSY E. MCGEE

  • @trudiesieberhagen3443
    @trudiesieberhagen344325 күн бұрын

    I loved his response that no white hankies are available due to the dust LMAO I can only imagine SS faces reading this response.Aussie have a sense of humour like no one ells LOL

  • @ZmeiGorinych

    @ZmeiGorinych

    21 сағат бұрын

    Lol... They absolutely do.

  • @willthompson9073
    @willthompson90735 күн бұрын

    Erwin rommel wasn't in charge of "hitlers bodyguard" that would've been Heinrich himmler of the ss idk where they got that from

  • @roberteells5269
    @roberteells526913 күн бұрын

    By this point in the war, March 1944, most people realized the fallacy of siding with the Japanese imperial Army. Hirohito‘s army what is already guilty of atrocious war, crimes. Like some of the survivors of this campaign to defend India, it was a desperate battle to the bitter end.

  • @reedrothschild8079
    @reedrothschild8079Ай бұрын

    Is that anthony hoppkins?

  • @dkkuhn87

    @dkkuhn87

    Ай бұрын

    Its Paul Markey

  • @CurtisWebb-en5kh

    @CurtisWebb-en5kh

    Ай бұрын

    Sir Hopkins.😂

  • @merelleevendig5416

    @merelleevendig5416

    26 күн бұрын

    Just had the exact same thought...

  • @DanielWalker-ci7fo

    @DanielWalker-ci7fo

    15 күн бұрын

    That's funny! 🤣

  • @tkyap2524
    @tkyap252427 күн бұрын

    Fate decides who wins.

  • @jeffhenson1994
    @jeffhenson19942 күн бұрын

    oh fy we like lol

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