Using Planes to Break Out of Prison (Operation Jericho)
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Ever heard the story about how a bunch of ANZAC's busted a bunch of French Resistance fighters out of prison? And even better, they did it with an airstrike.
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I never expected to see Detroit on a disaster scale.
@Ineptias_
Жыл бұрын
We all knew it was gonna happen sooner or later.
@TheEDFLegacy
Жыл бұрын
Should have used Flint, but definitely valid. lol
@robert506007
Жыл бұрын
Ya it tracks all too well
@theonethatdoesnotknow9014
Жыл бұрын
Detroit isn't on the scale Detroit is the scale
@drewjohnson-85
Жыл бұрын
Watch the Grand Tour episode where they went to Detroit it makes sense if you see the places they go in that episode
Huh, and here I was thinking that Castle Itter was the craziest jailbreak in history
@maskedgaming2798
Жыл бұрын
Well it was the end of the line
@TheEDFLegacy
Жыл бұрын
Indeed! Tough to say which is more awesome, though. But I'm glad to have watched this! Never heard of it until just the other day.
Now that you covered the best, you need to do the 2nd best prison break: Castle Itter. Or rather: the only battle of WW2 in which French Prisoners of War, the Austrian resistance, and US soldiers went on to liberate a prison with a single tank. They *also* allied with Wehrmacht prison guards and their command to fight an approaching SS regiment.
@YeahItsYourBoyG
Жыл бұрын
oh yeah... we NEED a video on this haha
@cheeseninja1115
Жыл бұрын
That is such a good story, it plays out like what you think an old ww2 movie would be. A castle in the Austrian alps needs to be protected so that the SS don't liquidate the prisoners inside after the suicide of Hitler. The disenfranchised Wehrmacht solders team up with the Americans, that only have one tank, in this attempt to hold onto their honor as soldiers not killers. I am always surprised that there hasn't been more movies of it besides"The Last Battle", its perfect for film!
@shinjiikari1021
Ай бұрын
The last battle?
@hammer1349
10 күн бұрын
Sadly as far as I know, the only fatality suffered by the allies in the battle was the allied German commander.
Megatron: "Soundwave! Bust those French Resistance members out." Soundwave: "Rumble, eject. Operation: Jericho!".
Wow French content from both you and Lazerpig within a 24 hour period. What a day 😄
@AnimarchyHistory
Жыл бұрын
I know right. Blew my mind.
animarchy: tries to sing in french my brain: wtf me: laughing non-stop (because iknow the feeling trying to sing a french song)
@tk5800thesecond
Жыл бұрын
Sacreblue, non regretorien Bagguette le eiffel tower
Can we just take a second to appreciate this man's French singing? I'm not saying it was *good*, but you have to appreciate the effort, right? ...right?
@TheEDFLegacy
Жыл бұрын
I definitely appreciate the effort. But does that warrant breaking the Geneva Convention for his crimes against France? :P
@jizburg
Жыл бұрын
@@TheEDFLegacy nah. We all know that france is not real.
@351xb1973
Жыл бұрын
Lucky I’m reading this because my ears are still bleeding. I thought he was being tortured by the Gestapo
@stickiedmin6508
5 ай бұрын
Huh? In my opinion he absolutely nailed it, 100% accurate and authentic. To my ears, that's *_exactly_* what it sounds like when French people sing. 🙃
*IRS Armed Tactical Teams Intensify*
@AnimarchyHistory
Жыл бұрын
*panik*
I love the fact that the Royal New Zealand Air Force roundel prominently features a kiwi bird in the same way that I love how the American libertarian party adopted a porcupine as its mascot. It’s a simple declaration of “Yes, this is who we are, and we don’t give a fuck if any of you think it’s silly.” 👌 Also, after watching this one, I’m kinda dying to see you regale us with the tale of the siege of Castle Itter. And by dying, I mean, where is the place I can throw money at you to achieve this goal?
@jamesharding3459
Жыл бұрын
Well, it’s appropriate on the case of New Zealanders but absurd in the case of the libertards.
@charlesparr1611
Жыл бұрын
@@jamesharding3459 Porcupines are prickly and quick to take offense, deeply stupid*, rotund and cowardly. Seems about right to me, but i suspect the randites never actually met any porcupines...🦏 *Where i live Porcupines are a pest, although interestingly they taste extremely good. They are also the only wild animal I know of that can be successfully hunted with a baseball bat, because they are so stupid they don't even run away and seem unable to do what all other animals in Canada have managed, which is learn to fear humans. Also, do NOT attempt to eat a porcupine living in an evergreen forest, as it will taste like turpentine. In jmy opinion, the best tasting pricklepigs come from birch groves.
@jamesharding3459
Жыл бұрын
@@charlesparr1611 If that's the case, I suppose that's highly appropriate!
@thepolishnz
Жыл бұрын
at least our emblem is a bird, unlike Australia
Bob Hoover story is probably my favorite pow story Tho when he tells it he makes it seem like it was no big deal until he realized he was flying an enemy plane about to be shot down by his friends
14:22 i am sooooo uncomfortable seeing people handling explosives like this XD I get that its probably not armed at the moment but... still.
I just love that you dubbed in "Land Down Under" in it's classical music form. Colin Hay would be proud.
@shoominati23
Жыл бұрын
It's infuriating that KZread hasn't worked to any end towards some sort of agreement for creators to use Copyrighted music in a user pays / ad hoc basis. Maybe each creator could buy a yearly license for something like $250 USD to be able to use a copyrighted music , and the royalties from which , identified and paid out preportionate to the amount of views. I think the uptake rate would be worth it and lucrative for the artists and record labels alike. But again , KZread - typical minimal effort from monopolistic crony capitalist woke outfits that only place effort in ensuring their monopoly holds tight.
Love this new direction for the channel with updates from Ukraine and historical topics! I wish you - like Perun - would spin off your video game content to a secondary channel. The vast majority of your subscribers found you channel from your absolutely excellent Ukraine content. I would assert content on Ukraine and historical topics is why those new followers are here
@AnimarchyHistory
Жыл бұрын
The historical breakdowns are staying here because they do well in the algorithm. And both the gaming and anime crowd like it. But actual gameplay like the ace combat and bombing the reich stuff. Will be going to a secondary channel or going on twitch. If there is a channel I have the most in common with that you’d know of. It would be Lazerpig I suppose. But yeah your concerns are noted loud and clear.
@Giganfan2k1
Жыл бұрын
@@AnimarchyHistory You Perun, Jake Broe should do something together. Thanks for everything you do! Been enjoying Azure Lane histories.
@TheEDFLegacy
Жыл бұрын
@@AnimarchyHistory Personally I think your game reactions should also stay here, as it's very much a history lesson as much as it is berating some of the more bizarre (and in some cases, _offensive_ ) uses of history in video games. Case in point: Battlefield V and Call of Duty: Vanguard.
@Destroyer_V0
Жыл бұрын
@@TheEDFLegacy Agreed. The main problem is the youtube algorithm being a piece of crap.
@ag7898
Жыл бұрын
@@Destroyer_V0 ditto. Absolutely love him dunking on the, shall we say, less accurate parts of some so-called historical games.
I just want to say how much I love how you do your videos, the incredible almost documentary style you have along with a witty sense of humor is something I never though I'd want but something I absolutely adore
With regard to your theory, Pac- as far as I know, that's precisely what happened. To my awareness, the Resistance agreed that those individuals would have to be sacrificed, and that hit afaik also killed a large contingent of Gestapo interrogation staff and destroyed their intelligence.
Could you imagine being in 21 Squadron that day. Those dudes we probably sitting there puking for hours waiting on news about the escape. Jeez Edit: Also I had no idea anything besides explody stuff from WWII was still classified on the allied side. Well I guess since it could give away strategy that we still use in some way it might be too soon to declassify some of the information. Still though, I thought the only thing that we still kept secret was weapon or spy/defectors like operation paperclip and such.
@taccovert4
Жыл бұрын
A lot of British stuff gets classified with a 99 year seal. So WW1 is now fully declassified (for the most part), and WW2 will probably get declassified in the 2040s. Logic is that anyone alive when the classified things were done would be dead before they were declassified.
Arthur "sink the Tirpitz" Harris on a thumbnail about jailbreak is a suprise to be sure, but I like it
You've now become the aussie Lazerpig, starting with the Pentagon wars theme, the singing and then the funny accents. Excellent video!
"Hullo, vhat iz up mine fellow French komraden? Have you heard aboutz zis Hitler guy? Achhh Vhat a loozer! Yahhh! You fine gentlemen have a plan to somezhing about zis Hitler guy right yah?" Haha. That was a beautiful meme routine. It was well written and properly exicuted. You definitely stuck the landing without any splash. I give it a solid 10 /10!
I really enjoyed this sort of video And it further emphasized the importance of Operation Overlord. They could NOT risk the Germans getting wind of what is going on. Once operation overlord succeeded and also the battle of Kursk the Germans were going to Lose in an absolute certainly
The only thing missing in this video is Bon Scott and AC/DC singing "Jaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiilllllllllllllbreak" ( the guitar riff sounds in my head ). Other thing is your intent to sing in french ( you owe me a coffee cup because when i hear you sing in French that thing flew across the room jajajajajaa). Amazing video and your work is simply fantastic. Saludos desde Santiago de Chile.
Operation Jericho? should've played Chris Jericho's intro music from the WWE, after all, they were bringing the walls down
Germans were like: hey, brits, look at those cool super spies. We´ve just captured them! And British reacted like they always did: No you fckin didnt!
"prison is not a nice place to be no matter where you end up" Norwegian prison's:Am I a joke to you
As always, I do love the way you make your videos. Now if you ever want to make a Video about a more wholesome and less heard of story involving military Aviation, you might want to look into something that German Aviators call "Der Fall Jessica" (Case Jessica). Its a story from January 22nd 1982 about a German fighter pilot flying his F 104 Starfighter (aka "The widow maker") through a snowstorm to save the life of a 3 year old girl. Sadly all the articles about it are in German but i am sure you can get Military Aviation History to help you with that.
Pentagon wars theme, singing ... someone was watching Lazerpig videos.
@AnimarchyHistory
Жыл бұрын
I mean Lazerpig and I have a very similar style and sense of humour anyway. What his video did show me is that the Pentagon Wars theme wasn’t copyrighted. Which is useful because I can’t keep using Prinz Eugens theme.
@tonilogar5822
Жыл бұрын
@@AnimarchyHistory That you do. Which is why I am subscribed to both and love watching both. It was not criticism, just an observation.
Even tho this f*cked us it was hella clean almost as clean as our Mussolini one but hey still good tho
Great video! Loved that. Heard some accounts of it before but I'd never heard or seen what happened to the HVT prison area and that's very enlightening. Thanks!
Just realized that you are playing Men at work "Down under" in the background XD
Really big fan of content like this! Consider maybe doing a video on the Gran Sasso raid?
Great video, new to channel (thank Lazerpig), the same three units are at the center of Rowland White’s new book, Mosquito, about a similar operation in Copenhagen in 1945.
This sounds like it’s going to be a blast of a video
I just watched Operations Room's video on this the other day. Great video.
Really good video bud, thoroughly enjoyed it
Why are literally all Australians so cool? I just love em. Wish I could visit😢
As a Detroit resident I will humbly decline on behalf of my city to be on the disaster meter. I would like to extent an invitation over to our colleges over in Chicago to take place our place on the disaster meter
Damn Prinz Eugens Theme really fit into this perfectly
Animarchy History, I love your videos and am a relatively new subscriber. Would you be willing to make a video on the Battle of Samar? Keep up the excellent work regardless!
Great video!
MI6: oh? A letter from the resistance in northern France? Wonder what they've got for us. Letter: shits fucked royally, your spies and our top guy got arrested by the Gestapo. MI6: hm... Wait a minute... oh... OH FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- Meanwhile, us ANZAC boys: mates I think there's a disturbance in the force.
I remember this being a mission on the ps3 game heros over Europe
As a new Zealander agree with the gallipoli thing, GODDAMMIT CHURCHILL!
Honestly, your pet theory of targeting that clean hit to deal with the HVTs seems totally viable, and that bomb hit taking out the HVTs seems very likely. But it is also of about equal likelihood that (goal of the planners or not) the bomb hit where it hit by chance. Good as the pilots were, the equipment they had to work with would have had a hard time guaranteeing that the right section of wall was hit. That further said though, if the commander knew which section the HVTs were in seeing that bomb hit would be a logical reason for sending off the bombers, regardless of malice in planning.
0:53 I texted that recruiter back, and now I'm going to Eastern Europe. You know why. 🇺🇦 Putin bots in the comments keep going on about- "wInTeR iS cOmInG." Personally, I think Christmas in Europe should be something to experience at least once. And the best part: I'm getting paid for it. 🇺🇸
@AnimarchyHistory
Жыл бұрын
Which branch my guy?
@Foreign0817
Жыл бұрын
@@AnimarchyHistory Army. Adjutant General's Corps. HR specialists amongst soldiers. "Defend and serve." 🛡
@AnimarchyHistory
Жыл бұрын
@@Foreign0817 gonna dock you points for not joining the superior branch. Though perhaps my blue jacketed friends may take pity on you and ALLOW you peasants to eat in their DFAC. But they have to share with Space Force now so it may be a squeeze ;) On the real though, outstanding!
@Foreign0817
Жыл бұрын
@@AnimarchyHistory Went to Basic on August 2019. Space Force wasn't a thing yet. 😅
@AnimarchyHistory
Жыл бұрын
@@Foreign0817 ehhh dw about Space Force they have 12 jobs and are mostly officers.
As an Aussie I love this channel
That intro was perfect. 👏
My lad singing La Marseillaise was beautiful, and trust me when I say I can't do any better.
Lake Michigan is on the other side of Michigan from Detroit.
Weird Lazerpig vibes, but i like it. Keep up the great work
How about the Cowra, 1944, escape. Australia's largest? Attempted by 1000 prisoners. All surviving escapees, 359, were recaptured. 4 Australians killed.
Jesus christ, how does this only have 20k views? The thumbnail killed me.
This should be a movie to be honest
pretty damn good video ngl also good to see that you are a man of culture who watched the 4th anniverary of Azur Lane
Im sorry at 3:59 i just cant with how hes holding the sten dude come on
The fact that you, an Australian, did not take the opportunity to use the AC/DC song “Jailbreak” for this video borders on criminal
I do like these relatively shot videos on topics that get a lot of press here in the States. Slight tangent speaking from experience if you do call or text the recruiter back you will learn how to deal with Biblical levels of bovine excrement. Dealing with bovine excrement at least 50% of any job.
You need to cover Castle Itter too!
what is the background music in the first few minutes? I know its from AL but I cant find it. (edit: I remembered, its Eugen's theme from the anime for those who are wondering)
The Germans needed Emus in their Air Defence
@davidty2006
Жыл бұрын
Emu's are thankfully flightless birds...
@itsyvonblitz6819
Жыл бұрын
@@davidty2006 they'll find a way, the emus always find a way
@ussenterprisecv6805
Жыл бұрын
@@itsyvonblitz6819 we need to make jetpacks for emus
Goddamn badass thxxxxzx
Awesome video! And yeah, they definitely meant to kill them
Holy crap! Where did the French Resistance get a French Tank from!? 5:26
Mosquitos got a nasty sting....
14:17 yeah I suspect that whole 'send in the colonials first' attitude would change after WW2 but I cannot help but feel if the British don't decline as they did, i can see Aussies and Kiwis involved in the Black Buck raids because if the British don't decline, the Elderly Avro Vulcan B.2s will have been withdrawn in place of the longer range Avro Vulcan Phase 6s which could carry with a conventional conversion kit a total of 48,000ibs of bombs which is equal to 12 De-Havilland Mosquito Yeah I could see a British, Aussie and Kiwi crew flying Black Buck 1 with up to full bomb load, better tankers and Port Stanley Airport being levelled to the ground
17:50 No, what he realy sayed was: Shinzo wo sausageo!
I hear Mosquitoes and the Hamburg historian in me flinches. Those things are so utterly annoying it is hard to believe. For people wondering, Mosquitoes were very, very, very often used for raids on Hamburg. They actually did nearly all of them, unlike most probably would guess, given the set in picture of raids being done by Wellingtons or Flying fortresses, as that is the simple picture of a bombing raid. Back to it, given they basically are the reason a decent chunk of the raids on my city doing the war are listed as nuisance raids should tell the whole story. So, in the end, while bombers did the most overall damage, the freaking Mosquitoes were by far the most annoying part of it, and makes me appreciate the name of the aircraft cause it fucking deserves it. Just to quick add, many of those Mosquitoe attacks were carried out by a small group of them, and when I say small, I mean 4 or less. You telling me the Germans were crazy doing the war, think on that.
the German chief of counter intelligence is basically Hans Landa in real life.
So Many Dominos leading up to Overlord that could have fallen the wrong way.
The British air commander that did up the dresden burning
Hey I was on the S.S. Badger last week. Anyway good joke.
Excessive manic digression, zigzagging.
Don’t see this in the American made Masters of the air
I live there man. Come-on.
@joshuawilliams2643
Жыл бұрын
Great story otherwise. (Detroit area)
@eli8922
Жыл бұрын
@@joshuawilliams2643 eww Detroit you live with a bunch of robots
Fr though. Who tf is the tate guy? I'd never heard of him until this Monday
Speaking of prison breaks, is the Cowra Breakout up next?
Haylo
Really talk though, how as an Australian did you not add tassie as a maximum security block to your map of our great prison colony?
Witold Pilecki has entered the chat, multiple times
OK it's not the next Azur Lane video (which ship is upcoming btw?) but I'll gladly take it none the less.
@AnimarchyHistory
Жыл бұрын
Engage..
@mikedrop4421
Жыл бұрын
@@AnimarchyHistory the next episode on Big E? Hells yeah!
No worries, it's been over 200 years and the US is still salty about them taxing our tea. We don't even drink tea.
If it would've been a Swedish Prison they would've break in
As someone who lives in Michigan The oh sh*t meter us accurate
Can we get a whole rendition of the French Anthem ? XD
Note to self: buy an air force... Just in case.
So from all I've learned, Australia and New Zealand are the British Commonwealths version of Florida. Neither of us give any fucks.
@AnimarchyHistory
Жыл бұрын
I’m just saying. There is a reason all my best friends are Texans.
Soyjak: “No you can’t escape from fascist prison!!!”
Milk ! milk ! milk !
The amount of adds I get makes me want to stop using KZread altogether. It’s a dam shame I don’t have an add blocker on mobile.
It’s crazy how well the British completely hid Operation Overlord from the Germans. No wonder they had less defenses at Normandy, I would’ve been fooled and I’m pretty good at reversing deception. The British were masterminds and they deserve way more credit
Wow Half German half british. If you have ancestors on both sides of world war 2 dinner time talks would be… interesting to say the least
TTS 😞
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Let’s be real, the blowing up of the outer walls was the PR part of the mission with the additive benefit of distraction and possibly a few very lucky low value prisoners making like the Dragon born and bunny hopping through fire and destruction to freedom. The main goal all along was to silence the high value prisoners that had any knowledge of the future invasion but leveling the whole prison would not be a good look to the public inside and outside of France so they dubbed it a “Jailbreak”. They had to know there was very little chance of all of the high value prisoners escaping and avoiding recapture so they did the only thing they could do but were smart enough to make it look like they were trying to liberate instead of assassinate. It worked and the title of this video is proof. Ps. I can’t wait for more series like the Enterprise but videos like this one along with Ukraine air war videos are top notch. Keep making the awesome content you have been.
0:59 as some from America who has had family who was hounded by general dynamics so they can make a paking lot i hate general dynamics i remember a time the harbor was see able and was wonderful but then they needed to build more submarine and helicopters so they fucked the already existing roads even more and built this ugly ass building and our senator bluementhall has a record of stolen valor so we are fucked
I seem to recall there was another controversy - not covered here - associated with this mission. Didn't some of the bombers get disoriented and end up bombing a school? or some other civilian target?
This is all rambling all over the place: I know the story so I left at 5.06., switching off the (dim) light.
The mountjoy IRA prison break with a helicopter is pretty cool too.
"Based"? You mean base.
There are certain things that give Germans intergenerational anxiety. Mass pipes and drums on a foggy morning, the orgasmic thrum of a merlin (or two, or 4) under load and the rumour that it will be the colonials. Others include the smell of maple syrup on the wind. The thud thud thud of an m2 and probably as much as the rest, HO RA HO RA HO RA HHHHOOOORRRRAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
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