German Parachute Mines - WW2 Killers Still Found Today

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10 ай бұрын

Known as 'The Silent Killer', the Germans dropped modified naval mines on Britain during the war, these huge weapons descending silently by parachute and had enough explosive power to level entire city blocks. Today, they are still being found and remain just as dangerous as when dropped eight decades ago.
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@Youthure 10 ай бұрын

Mark keeps indiscriminately dropping fascinating videos on civilians targets

@cv990a4 10 ай бұрын

He targets them well, so it's hard to call it indiscriminate.

@theprof73 10 ай бұрын

A lot of collateral damage... to ignorance

@mitchmatthews6713 10 ай бұрын

Hear, hear!

@Namkify 10 ай бұрын

saturation informing of the general population

@Ken-fh4jc 10 ай бұрын

He’s throwing down knowledge bombs.

@headshot6959 10 ай бұрын

For those wondering about the bomb that went off while being defused - nobody was hurt. It was undergoing a slow-burn deactivation which sped up somewhat. Thought that was worth mentioning!

@Roll_the_Bones 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, I was wondering why I'd not heard about it as headline news at the time, which I suppose would have been the case if there had been any causualties. Fortunately, these guys don't take any un-necessary risks.

@jimburg621 10 ай бұрын

yeah my 1st thought was of the brave men and their familys having to deal with losing a loved one.

@lifeindetale 10 ай бұрын

That was a helpful fact

@headshot6959 10 ай бұрын

@@lifeindetale I'm surprised Dr Felton forgot to include that nugget. 'Exploded while being defused' does create instant thoughts of tragedy, or those who will never again participate in a Mexican wave.

@DannySmith-pv6xw 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, like many others, I too was wondering.😂

@maryinsentani6801 10 ай бұрын

I live in Sentani, Papua, Indonesia. This area was occupied by both the Japanese and subsequently US forces during WWII. Last week, we were warned that a 250-kg WWII bomb had been found and on 13 July, '23 it would be blown up. My home is about 1.7 kilometers away. That noise even here was super loud! It shook the house and startled the dog. I can well imagine how awful that bomb in England was. After 80 years, WWII ordnance is still quite potent.

@connycontainer9459 10 ай бұрын

They still find several bombs each year in Berlin, never witnessed one beeing detonated unfortunatly, if I may dare to say that.

@gwaters8067 10 ай бұрын

Hope the dog is OK 👍

@Mercmad 10 ай бұрын

Imagine being in war time London during the blitz,with hundreds going off .

@LewisB3217 10 ай бұрын

And that’s a rather small bomb, imagine something bigger, hope the areas alright

@leaveme3559 9 ай бұрын

@@connycontainer9459how do they get rid of them than?

@garethgreenslade2657 10 ай бұрын

My father was nearly killed by a parachute mine in Charlton, London. He was saved by running indoors to get his older brother to “come and see the Jerry parachutist”. The houses that stood there were still missing when I was a kid in the early 1960s.

@Ramzi1944 10 ай бұрын

Jerry parachutist lol

@bigtrev9043 10 ай бұрын

Close shave! It's similar here in Hull, particularly so in East Hull. Numerous green spaces that were never redeveloped after bomb damage clearance. There's such a site where my great great grandparents lived in Estcourt St. They were staying with my great grandmother when their street was levelled (unbelievably lucky) Both next door neighbours were killed including a mother & toddler. There's really good history resource on the Hull blitz so you can see where all the HE bombs fell. You can see the rebuilding work and scars in the brickwork in many places if you know where to look

@paulbriggs3072 8 ай бұрын

Those houses were still missing, eh?

@garethgreenslade2657 8 ай бұрын

They finally built a pub with car park and outdoor beer garden on the site. Those mines cleared a hell of a lot of ground! #@@paulbriggs3072

@nospoon4799 7 ай бұрын

@@bigtrev9043 Liverpool is the same. Birkenhead too in places. Google earth is great for this. There are some 1945 pictures on there from aerial photos after the blitz. Pretty shocking actually.

@sharkscrapper 10 ай бұрын

Several years ago I was working for an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle company. We were doing a demo for the Royal Navy with a new side scan sonar. You could hear the gasp when we found one of these. Ended up shutting down the port for a day or two while EOD dealt with it. The Royal Navy continues to use these UUV's to this day.

@Biker_Gremling 10 ай бұрын

Best demo run in the world

@CAP198462 10 ай бұрын

Best sonar demonstration ever.

@BlueBirdsProductions 10 ай бұрын

Undeniably worthwhile product 😂

@DescendingVelocity 10 ай бұрын

I bet they ordered 3x as many after that demo lol

@anthonywilliams379 10 ай бұрын

i mean what better luck could you have in demonstrating it's utility?

@SotonSam 10 ай бұрын

With the hundreds and hundreds of hours of video watching, documentary watching, book reading that we've all done on this topic, how is Mark STILL coming up with topics and facts that we either know little or nothing about? It's absolutely brilliant

@richardwillson101 10 ай бұрын

Agreed! It is absolutely brilliant. Thanks Mark for all your hard research, narration and video clips! 👍

@rudyboyance8029 10 ай бұрын

Well actually Mark has a time machine and goes back and forth, just kidding.

@mr.naughtypants7069 10 ай бұрын

Hard to believe in that six year span of WWII. So much was going on all over the globe, you can spend a lifetime studying it, and still never learn it all. Obviously Mark has enough WWII content to last until the cows come home.

@SotonSam 10 ай бұрын

@@mr.naughtypants7069 such a fascinating time/topic

@CitroenDS23 10 ай бұрын

In addition to all your brilliant comments, I feel I must add that his audience probably keep him engaged with wit and occasionally a deserving idea. I came late to the channel and still have an infinite supply of earlier videos. Brilliant.

@thesandero2454 10 ай бұрын

I live in The Netherlands and our bomb squad are getting called out for WW2 left over explosives on an daily basis. Same with the Navy Mine Sweepers. It's mind blowing really. And a special team is still working on identifying human remains of service men died 80 years ago. People buried in a rush are still being found and the army is doing everything to sent the remains back home to the remaining family.

@q9260 10 ай бұрын

What an horror , industrial scale murdering , i hope we will never face that again.

@adammarcinkowski-ko3el 9 ай бұрын

Same in Poland , there is still a loot of unexploded mines and bombs , and often retreating Germans have left buried whole stockpiles , there is on average 800 unexploded mines and bombs in Poland , and that is 78 years after war end , and in 2019 3 Polish sappers have died when they defused a ww2 explosive ... and after ww2 1945-56 627 sappers have died and 674 was wounded they have recovered 14 763 514 mines and 58 805 852 bombs and othere explosives , and estimates say based on German & Soviets documents there can still be 9 million mines and 25 million othere explosives in Polish lands ...

@nospoon4799 7 ай бұрын

More planes were shot down in WW2 than fly the skies of the world today. Plus the population was considerably smaller than it is today. You are right, the scale of the conflict is mind blowing.

@multa765 6 ай бұрын

To the Dutch people, thank you for taking care of our fallen.

@helmrichharms2225 5 ай бұрын

Just for the record: the british word for this type of bombs is blockbuster and describes well the devastating effect of this weapon. The RAF used more than 68.000 of these over german cities. One of the first of these killed both my greatgrandparents and their maid in April 1941 in Emden, Lower Saxony.

@thomaskositzki9424 10 ай бұрын

Same here in Germany - civilian EOD teams never run out of work here. Basically the same hassle as you have. A bit more of it actually, as the strategic bombing campaing lasted so much longer. War sucks on every level.

@scottthomas3792 10 ай бұрын

You really have to admire the skill and bravery of those EOD people....think of the lives they have no doubt saved

@davef.2329 10 ай бұрын

A particularly selfless lot they are. Thanks to them.

@Ken-fh4jc 10 ай бұрын

I’m surprised they even try to diffuse them. Figured they would blow them all up in place, but I guess that is too dangerous much of the time.

@owen368 10 ай бұрын

Try reading "Seventeen Seconds" by RN officer from Australia they were tasked with dealing with mines while bombs were an Army problem dealt with be REME.

@ronaldjohnson1474 10 ай бұрын

As s former combat engineer, I can say the pucker factor rises severely when deactivating any mine, even "in situ" demolition of explosive items.

@grahamlucas2712 10 ай бұрын

@@owen368 Thanks Owen. That book is a later version of Ivan Southall's book. 'Softly tread the Brave.' (1960) I still have 2 copies. The parachute mines, whether dropped on land or into the Ports and Rivers and UK coastline were far more deadly and difficult to defuse than any conventional bomb. Having magnetic sensors, acoustic and light detecting cells could detonate these mines in an attempt to defuse them. They also had a counter so minesweeping wouldn't explode them on the first, second third pass by the minesweepers.

@raypurchase801 10 ай бұрын

A parachute mine/bomb exploded above my town during WW2, in a town which received very little bombing. Perhaps the bomber was aiming for the railway station, a mile distant. Flattened lots of houses. I spoke with an old bloke whose schoolfriends were killed in the blast. In the 1980s, lots of houses nearby still had WW2 slit-trenches with corrugated iron covers. Nothing makes you keener to dig a shelter than experiencing a near miss.

@Wooargh 10 ай бұрын

bombing civilians is the lowest thing a country can do AMERICANS would literally NEVER do that OMG

@govinda102000 10 ай бұрын

I have seen reminders when vacationing in Calabria such as small Nazi pill boxes lining some roads along and the sea and also heading up towards the mountains.

@hawnyfox3411 10 ай бұрын

@@Wooargh = So I'll take it then that you ARE being deliberately facetious - (rather than naive)

@brittakriep2938 10 ай бұрын

Oh, Allied pilots, especially US pilots fired with machine guns at everything , what moved in Germany. Civilian vehicles, farmers on their fields, playing children... The Allied pilots had been NOT the honourable heroes, as they are allways portrayed. Also the Bomber pilots threw their bombs on totally undefended and Military unimportant villages.

@connycontainer9459 10 ай бұрын

@@Wooargh That is so low.

@bitterdrinker 10 ай бұрын

My grandfather was a fireman in WW2 and he walked right up to a land mine that was hanging from a railway bridge.On Green Lane in Birkenhead.The parachute had draped over the lines and became entangled in the signals and an advertising hoarding....he couldn't work out what it was in the dark of the blackout...He commented that he could have beaten Jessie Owens that night. 😮

@astridvallati4762 10 ай бұрын

I remember reading about Aerial Mine Delousing back in the 1960s. As they were improved, by Germany, they got Selenium Light Sensitive Cells inside the body under the access cap. Several Deminers died before they used a Field Telephone link to describe step by step C everything done to access the Mechanism. Eventually, they realised the Light Cells were the cause of Detonations during Delousing...so a Dark Room Tent was placed over the Mine and the operation carried out in Darkness!

@nospoon4799 7 ай бұрын

All a completely unnecessary waste of life, as breaking the shell with a shape charge is the best way to disarm a bomb of any kind. The UK will send people to their death for no reason it seems.

@willyboyw.5771 10 ай бұрын

"Danger UXB" with a young Anthony Andrews is a great show about the bombs/mines that fell around England during the war.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 10 ай бұрын

I remember that series, it was shown here in the US around 1980 or so. Great series!

@bob_the_bomb4508 10 ай бұрын

Every episode is based on a real incident. There’s also an episode about parachute mines, which were the responsibility of RN teams. There’s also a great biography about an RN mine disposal officer. It’s entitled “All Mine”…

@01cthompson 10 ай бұрын

I remember that series. It was good.

@mxplk 10 ай бұрын

Danger UXB was on American TV while I was trying to finish my PhD dissertation. It was the only TV show I allowed myself to watch during that time!

@brianreddeman951 10 ай бұрын

Still a great show to watch.

@viandengalacticspaceyards5135 10 ай бұрын

I read a book "17 Seconds" by Ivan Southall, who was working to make these mines safe in the war. Oh, the stories... There was a panic, and the unit and techniques were improvised in no time, even their name "RMS" - "rendering mines safe"-unit was quickly made up. He said the safety distance was 400m, and if you messed up and the mechanism started ticking,you had 17seconds. According to him, defying all olympic records, some guy managed even that. Their main "specialised equipment" was an inflatable ball,stuck in the gears that would block the mechanism until you disarmed it. One guy noticed his ball was leaking in the middle of it, and had to keep pumpimg, while disarming the mine with only one hand. If you can find it, I strongly recomend that book.

@Oldtanktapper 10 ай бұрын

Yep, I remember that book well, read it when I was a kid. Quite crazy what those men went through, keeping up with the developing technology, the situations they had to work in and the improvisations they had to come up with are truly astonishing.

@captainpoppleton 10 ай бұрын

"....One guy noticed his ball was leaking in the middle of it, and had to keep pumping, while disarming the mine with only one hand." Probably the most action packed sentence I have ever read.

@matthewtait3782 10 ай бұрын

Nothing makes a person run faster than a hungry wild animal… or a now ticking bomb!

@brickistic8188 10 ай бұрын

I have the exact book! Just finished reading it this morning

@trevormillar1576 10 ай бұрын

"Hang on. What's this wire...." - Famous last words, bomb disposal expert.

@W7DSY 10 ай бұрын

I have never found a channel which is better at detailing WW2 than Mark Felton's.

@naguerea 2 ай бұрын

Well said W7DSY

@ehnonymouse 10 ай бұрын

I notice that Mark didn't mention the GC variant which was found off Brixham. The Type GC mine utilized a non-contact fuse mechanism, which typically employed a combination of pressure and time delays to ensure the mine would detonate at a certain height above the ground. The purpose of the non-contact fuse was to create a larger blast radius and increase the potential damage caused by the explosion.

@ogstopper 10 ай бұрын

I was a coastguard when the HMS London mine was discovered. We were involved with the EOD at Shoebury. The detonation was spectacular.

@CAP198462 10 ай бұрын

The guy at 11:52 seems to think so too.

@pault1289 10 ай бұрын

There is a massive hole in the ground near where I grew up in Suffolk, once when walking past with my father, he casually mentioned it was from a mine. I was totally bemused until the concept of a 'parachute' mine was explained. Presumably it had drifted from its intended target of Felixstowe, Ipswich or maybe Harwich docks. This was when I really realised why we also had a Morrison shelter slowly rusting away in the garden - the sheer indiscriminate nature of bombing accuracy and specifically the V weapons meant you couldn't make it to an Anderson shelter.

@S4ngheli05 10 ай бұрын

As a german I have to ask you whats the difference between a morrison and an anderson shelter? Im asking for a friend

@laurencek.1580 10 ай бұрын

Didn't the V weapons carry the same volume of explosive as the parachute mines?

@AtheistOrphan 10 ай бұрын

@@S4ngheli05- An Anderson shelter was like a tin shed, half buried in the ground, and could accommodate a family, whilst a Morison shelter resembled a low metal table, was used exclusively indoors and could accommodate a couple and a small child.

@S4ngheli05 10 ай бұрын

@@AtheistOrphan Ahh okey, thank you for your answer! 🙂

@AtheistOrphan 10 ай бұрын

@@S4ngheli05 - You’re very welcome 👍🇬🇧🤝🇩🇪

@neilfoster814 10 ай бұрын

My mother told me that when she was about 7 or 8 years old, a parachute mine came down in a field just outside the town in south Yorkshire where she lived. All the locals were warned not to go near it. A few days later, my mother and grandmother were shopping on the high street when the mine went off, the blast pushed them both through a shop window. It's difficult to imagine just how big and powerful those mines, both A and B types really were. I guess you get some idea from the clips in this video, those things were brutal!

@f.k.burnham8491 10 ай бұрын

My hat is off to the bravery of the EOD/UXB technicians of all countries who continuously risk their lives disarming ordnance from the wars. Be it bombs, shells, gas shells, underground mines from WW1, or mines. The courage of these technicians is so underappreciated by the public. Bless the technicians!

@hardanheavy 10 ай бұрын

In Germany, it is estimated that up to 100 000 up to 300 000 tons of unexploded bombs are still in the soil. Every single year about 5 000 bombs are found and defused.

@benjamindover7399 10 ай бұрын

A few years ago, a 1 ton mortar was discovered in downtown Warsaw and I found a small Soviet mortar about 100 yards from my home in the woods. I did NOT touch it and I called the police.

@scottkelly9052 10 ай бұрын

Once again Dr. Felton has opened another chapter that was largely forgotten, much thanks..... excellent work!!!!!!

@lt.petemaverickmitchell7113 10 ай бұрын

Thanks again Dr. Felton!

@bobk4404 10 ай бұрын

Unexploded ordnance of whatever type are a menace in so many countries. One story which amazed me was that a V2 rocket landed in a road in suburban Essex but actually failed to detonate in 1945. Obviously houses were damaged by the arrival of this supersonic missile but at least the residents were able to get away to tell the tale. Even when London was experiencing a welcome relief from most air attacks in 1942 an undetected unexploded bomb which had fallen during the blitz just over a year earlier detonated without warning amidst tenement buildings in Gurney Street, Walworth, London. It killed eighteen, many of them children, and injured over sixty and when you see your footage of the bomb being detonated in Exeter you can understand the power of such things. Bomb disposal experts....well.....their bravery is incredible.

@HerbertDuckshort 10 ай бұрын

On 16 April 1941, singing star Al Bowlly had given a performance at the Rex Cinema in High Wycombe. He was offered an overnight stay in town, but Bowlly took the last train home to his flat at 32 Duke Street, London. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat at ten past three in the morning.

@GBooth 10 ай бұрын

"Hang Out the Stars in Indiana". (thanks to Withnail & I)

@hawnyfox3411 10 ай бұрын

Glad you related that tale - (I knew it already, here's why) - Back in 1971, I was building an Airfix Hawker Typhoon whilst my Dad had the radio 'on' listening to "Alan Dell's Big Band Sound" & he was also tape-recording it. Replaying the tape (after) I got to hear several tracks TWICE & they stuck inside my 'musically clever' head. One was "Living In Clover" sung by Al Bowlly & the other TWO were "What A Perfect Combination" and the beautiful 1934 x 78rpm 'single' known as "May I ?" by Roy Fox & his orchestra, two of my favourite tracks of all time. Given I was a Led Zeppelin fan (back then) the contrast couldn't have been any more sharp than it was !! The names Al Bowlly, Roy Fox & Denny Dennis (who sang the latter) have stuck in my head ever since 1971 It was my Dad who told me how he died & later research, I found out yet more depth - (as you do) It was remarked that when Al Bowlly died, there was not a single scratch or mark on him, yet he was dead. His bedroom door blew clean off it's hinges, hit him in the head, killing him instantly - such is fate. At least he wouldn't have had chance to comprehend it, so was killed "in his sleep" & pretty much instantly.

@naguerea 2 ай бұрын

I read that he fell and banged his head , not blown to bits kind of thing.

@johnedwards1685 10 ай бұрын

Those things were really nasty. I know of two that fell near my town. One to the north and one to the south, both in fields so went undetected until they detonated during daytime after the night raid. The first one blew out all the windows in my mum’s street and presumably all that half of town. Bizarrely, my grandmother immediately assumed my uncle (then a young scamp) had done something typically daft and was to blame for the damage. The second one did much the same on the north side of the town, that one was described by an old boy I worked with in the eighties who lived on the long lane that side of town. I don’t know where the things landed but they’re no doubt documented somewhere in the records, they must have left quite a mark.

@nospoon4799 7 ай бұрын

It's a bomb.... they tend to be on the nasty side of things. I am sure Hiroshima victims have many similarly humorous anecdotes.

@amham48 10 ай бұрын

Fascinating...not only does Dr. Felton provide detailed commentary but unique photographs and video to compliment his research. The amount of work involved in producing every episode is just amazing.

@jordanpeters3746 10 ай бұрын

My father was in the ARP during the war. He was part of a team that "cleaned up" after bombs had caused mass casualties. One incident resulted in the deaths of over 60 people in an air raid shelter. One day, in the 1950s, when I was 12,, he described to me, in detail, how he gathered up the body parts.

@goodwinter6017 10 ай бұрын

Thats one loving caring father there, I betting he told that as a bed time story. Lol

@jonathanlewis453 10 ай бұрын

My grandfather told me a story about a dozen or so men handling a blimp airship, which got blown away by a gust of wind. The more who fell off, the lighter it got. A healthy relationship with reality is the desired result. Not the delusion that reality does not exist.

@govinda102000 10 ай бұрын

My grandfather also told me stories of the war but unfortunately he was an and Italian soldier in Libya. When he got word of the Allies landing in Africa, he went awol and hid out the remainder of the war in Africa before going back to Italy. That's why he never got a military pension but he never killed.

@jedimindtrix2142 10 ай бұрын

@@govinda102000 hey there is no shame in not wanting to participate in war. It takes a lot of bravery to go against the grain and refuse to be a part of the "big show" so to speak. Not saying that there is no honorable time to fight, there is and have been many times. However if you know in your heart that the reason given for fighting is thin and doesn't hold water....well...I wouldn't want that on my mind for the rest of my life. So props to your Grandfather for following his heart on that.

@MrSGL21 6 ай бұрын

if there was ever a good reason to be an alcholoic, thats it right there.

@casbjoern 10 ай бұрын

Here in Denmark it is much more common to find the equivalent British Type A Mk. I-IV Parachute mines

@davetravers4621 10 ай бұрын

Sometimes here in England,Danish armaments are found,occasionally the former owners are found with them,although they tend to be a lot older than WW2 era😀

@brandongardner9829 10 ай бұрын

Yeah they did the same thing, funny how mark didn't mention that

@EdMcF1 10 ай бұрын

@@davetravers4621 But our silver is in Denmark!

@brittakriep2938 10 ай бұрын

@@brandongardner9829 : Winners of wwll did never bad things, don' t you know this?

@bordersw1239 9 ай бұрын

@@brandongardner9829. Probably to do with the title - ‘German Parachute Mines’ 🤔

@keithwesley2471 10 ай бұрын

One correction here. On the 23rd September 1940 my grandmother was killed in Risinghill Street by a parachute bomb. (A street between the Angel and Kings Cross Islington, London.) 30 people were killed on this occasion, including the Warden of the local shelter.

@jennyearl5194 10 ай бұрын

Mum was ARP at the Angel Rawston street? and mentioned that event and the local shelter under the school which took a direct hit at the back of her house. Dead laid out in the playground very visible from her bedroom window. Whole families and friends gone. She was clearly upset recounting it in the mid 60s. Dad got his dads house demolished around him by mine in Homerton Paragon road while on embarkation leave. Apparently it was save his rife first then family.

@ashleythom1052 4 ай бұрын

One of your best Mark

@Maine307 10 ай бұрын

during my time in Okinawa, we came across a lot of UXOs. all our mil families were always briefed and reminded often especially kids, dont pick up strange items, call police asap. Farmers always finding UXOs as welll.. War never seems to just "stop at peace"..it has such a long lasting effects. Thank you EOD for what you all do!

@jean6872 10 ай бұрын

Think of the cluster bombs being delivered to the Kiev regime today by the USA and the harm they will do to children generations from now.

@milferdjones2573 10 ай бұрын

@@jean6872think about all the Russian attacks on civilians the longer the war goes. Think these will be dropped primarily in highly mined areas they will have to sweap anyway to clear. Think about all the Ukrainian soldiers your asking to die in order to not use cluster bombs. Think about how the cluster bomb thing distracts from all the other unexploded weapons that need to be cleared. The lie that cluster bombs were mine laying devices when I was trained in using them in 80’s we were expected to use them to clear defenses and then move though that area did not even warn us officers of unexploded bomblets. It not a mine laying device all bomblets are hoped to explode. No nation that actually wants to win a war banned them only the minor powers country who no longer wish to remain free and hate their soldiers Ukraine only held because they used mines early war. War is a horrible thing but wanting to lose and your own soldiers to die to avoid a nasty side effect is wrong. Also wrong the poor cleanup attempts of battlefield And plus side cluster bombs are more reliable and in the future a new trigger mechanism that prevents detonation if they don’t go off immediately developing. In the mean time a secondary trigger that goes off say 20 seconds after dropping would solve some of problem.

@philipbair4795 10 ай бұрын

@@jean6872 and Russia hasn't been using them all this time?

@jean6872 10 ай бұрын

@@philipbair4795 Correct. But if the Kiev regime uses them once, the Russians will shower them with tons of cluster bombs like a Biblical deluge.

@alastairward2774 10 ай бұрын

@@jean6872think of the harm the Russians are doing to Ukraine and Ukrainians right now with all weapons.

@oldedinburgh6014 10 ай бұрын

How interesting, the amount of potential damage these could cause is absolutely enormous, deadly. Thanks Mark for another great video

@alexamerling79 10 ай бұрын

Its amazing Mark continues to find more and more stuff about the war that many people haven't heard about.

@taffyarthursoutdoors 10 ай бұрын

My grandfather as a teenager was acting as a messenger for the ARP during the Cardiff Blitz. He was one of first people of on the scene after one went off in the Grangetown area of Cardiff. He never forgot what saw and 70 years later could describe in real detail what he saw. I wish I had had the foresight to record him talking about his wartime memories before he passed away

@brianb2837 10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, it’s sad and tragic to think that some of these parachute mines are being found the hard way

@Shinzon23 10 ай бұрын

"Parachute "minds". Lol.

@brianb2837 10 ай бұрын

@@Shinzon23 Oppos, thanks auto correct, lol

@scottcharney1091 10 ай бұрын

Now think about the situation in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

@morrisbuschmeier2047 10 ай бұрын

The newest- Ukrainian battlefield.

@Lupinthe3rd. 10 ай бұрын

They still find bombs and mines from world War I all over Europe to this day and Germany has an agency dedicated to locating identifying and disposing of ww2 ordinance all over the country.

@wrayjohnson1905 10 ай бұрын

I didn't know Mark was from Colchester. I worked with the 16th Air Assault Brigade at Colchester when they were in and out of Afghanistan. Mark should do a video about those guys. Wonderful working with them at home and abroad.

@wktodd 10 ай бұрын

16 air assault , or 2 ear assault more like. Fly the things any lower and I wouldn't need to mow the lawn ;⁠-⁠)

@martindrewelius2425 10 ай бұрын

He wouldn´t be doing this at all.

@southtexasprepper1837 10 ай бұрын

Dr. Felton, I'm a great fan of British Drama. I remember that back in 1979, there was a British Drama ("Danger: UXB") that aired. It was Episode Nine (9) ("Seventeen Seconds to Glory") that the "Luftmine B" was highlighted. "Danger: UXB" is one of my Favorite British Drama Series. Thanks Very Much For This Video!!!!! Keep Up The Good Work!!!!!

@howardoller443 10 ай бұрын

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

@HeisenbergFam 10 ай бұрын

Its terrifying how you could accidentally trip a mine from 8 decades ago

@a.grimes4202 10 ай бұрын

*9★* decades ago. You count from when the war ended. 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

@toddwebb7521 10 ай бұрын

Wait till they hear about still live unexploded ordinance from WWI in France

@timothyhouse1622 10 ай бұрын

People are still finding live ordinance from WW1.

@a.grimes4202 10 ай бұрын

@@viktormadman You don’t understand counting, so let me help. I listed 9 decades, including the 1940s, as the war ended in 1945. And the modern era of the world in terms of calendar dates, started January 1, 1AD. You have to have 100 years for a century, so 1-101AD is the 1st Century AD, 101-200 is the 2nd Century AD, etc., until you reach the 21st Century AD, which is where we are now, which started in 2001 and will end December 31, 2100 @ 11:59:59PM, and at Midnight January 1, 2101 the 22nd Century AD will begin. Hope that helps.

@a.grimes4202 10 ай бұрын

@@toddwebb7521 Most of that is bombs though, and not the more easy to accidentally detonate mines. Important distinction to make there.

@robert-trading-as-Bob69 10 ай бұрын

That SC1000 aerial bomb blast in Exeter gave me the shivers! It helps us understand what the people went through all those years ago.

@adamrudling1339 10 ай бұрын

Myself and my housemates used to walk past an old Rolls Royce factory in Coventry. A few years, later when it was being demolished one of these bombs was found there - literally a few feet away from where we used to pass. Scary as a really scary thing !

@Nowun_Toospecial 9 ай бұрын

Nice work Mark... You continue to enlighten... Keep it up. 😁👍

@motorTranz 10 ай бұрын

Incredible piece of history! Thank you Dr. Felton!

@151mattwilson 10 ай бұрын

Very interesting and sad, watching from Colchester. I've been next to that Parachute mine in the IWM London and it's an absolute monster. When you're left alone in the exhibition with just you staring at it; it is rather scary

@TheRoybeasley 10 ай бұрын

I'm currently on holiday in Saumur, France. A few days after D-Day, 617 Squadron dropped 18 Tallboy "Earthquake" bombs on the railway tunnel here. Each one of them dwarfed those German parachute mines as they weighed around 10 tonnes and contained 2.4 tonnes of Torpex high explosive. They were designed to reach supersonic speeds as they fell from high altitude, burrowing deep underground on impact before exploding and causing a local earthquake to destroy hardened buildings. It had a bigger brother in the "Grand Slam" bomb which was of similar weight but contained 4.3 tonnes of explosive. If there are any unexploded examples of those lying around in France/Germany, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near them...

@darylcheshire1618 10 ай бұрын

@@TheRoybeasleyI understand in France gas shells are still being found in farms from WW1.

@samrodian919 10 ай бұрын

@@TheRoybeasleym afraid you got your facts mixed up. The Tallboy bomb was around 5 tons or 11,000 lbs. Tall boy's big brother, Grand Slam was the ten ton bomb weighing in at 22,000 lbs or ten tons. You can see an example of both of them at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight visitor centre at RAF Conningsby in Lincolnshire . That is well worth a visit and taking the guided tour. I did so around 6 weeks ago

@kingofsnakes1000 10 ай бұрын

It never fails to astonish me how many different ways people have come up with to kill and maim each other.

@mattgeorge90 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this!

@strydershadow391 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video Mark. Your work is much appreciated!

@skelejp9982 10 ай бұрын

Anyone interested in this part of WW2 history, I can recommend the Series: Danger UXB. It shows how, because of constant evolving German engineering, Brit Army Engineers were always a step behind, and had a hell of a job, finding out how to disarm these bombs.

@philipmadhatter4006 10 ай бұрын

Great series

@alanconway94 10 ай бұрын

Good episode of it involving a parachute mine, too.

@brianspencer6397 6 ай бұрын

HMS Vernon occasionally had help from the Germans, according to 'Softly Tread The Brave', Ivan Southall's book about RMS crews! Several times, when a new variant of the naval 'land' mine was first deployed, it would land on a concrete surface and break apart, rather than exploding, and HMS Vernon would collect the bits to assess the beast. And more than once, a new mine was dropped somewhere remote, on land, and the wire that would pull out the arming pin as the mine dropped from the bomber was found to be deliberately cut, not accidentally broken, so the mine never armed! This meant that both an armorer on the ground, and a crew in the bomber were complicit in giving the RMS crew a free look at how the new weapon worked. Apparently, not everyone in Germany was in favor of Adolf's war.

@neilmckay8649 6 ай бұрын

Kevin Whately, later of Auf Wierdersehen Pet and Morse fame, starred.

@SaltimusMaximus 10 ай бұрын

Those disposal explosions are just one bomb, you cannot imagine how it must have been when they were raining down in the blitz

@mriamilne 10 ай бұрын

Another triumph, Dr Mark! Thank you.

@joeharris3878 10 ай бұрын

Danger UXB was a favorite television show I watched on public broadcasting in the 1980s One of two stations I could pick up. The parachute mine episode was one of the best.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 10 ай бұрын

"17 seconds to glory"

@jamesmaythearsonist 10 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: Singer Al Bowlly, (known for "Midnight, the Stars and You" and "Heartaches") was killed by one when the bomb exploded near his flat on April 17th, 1941.

@EdMcF1 10 ай бұрын

That's not fun, but nonetheless a fact.

@thomas316 10 ай бұрын

80 years old, no maintenance and still working. You have to admire quality German engineering. 😅

@SweepOps 10 ай бұрын

Well, since its only goal is to explode it does it, usually when it malfunctions it explodes.

@grumpyboomer61 10 ай бұрын

No, I don't. Europe is littered with unexploded munitions from two world wars courtesy of both sides. The only thing admirable is the courage and skill of the bomb techs that risk their lives cleaning up the mess.

@woodenseagull1899 10 ай бұрын

Pity it isn't for the good....Then that's Germans for you.

@rosesprog1722 10 ай бұрын

On the other hand the allies dropped 2 million tons of bombs on Germany but the British manufactures were plagued with faulty trigger devices so many didn't explode on contact but their charge remains active to this day. In Cologne alone, for example, 25 bombs on average are discovered and deactivated every year, if you multiply that by the 60 cities that were reduced to rubble during the war, they don't even bother talking about it in the news anymore.

@robertelliott4547 10 ай бұрын

@@rosesprog1722 There is usually some ordnance or other found each day somewhere in Germany

@envitech02 10 ай бұрын

I think Dr. Felton is the world's foremost and best researcher on WWII history!!

@conconoli93 10 ай бұрын

Thanks once again Mark!! Fascinating!!

@tylerdurden2644 10 ай бұрын

My Mother and her father were the only two to live on her street in Hull by one of those. Late in the war and none had a chance to make a shelter.

@Ramzi1944 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for all the quality content, Dr. Felton o7

@hangin-in-thereawesome4245 10 ай бұрын

Every time I watch one of your videos I learn more and more just how devastating WWII really was! Thank you!

@mtfwebster 10 ай бұрын

Hi Mark, you maybe interested to know that I have some remains of the Zeppelin that came down on Mersea Island. One of my past relatives was guarding the site.... He also guarded the crash site of Alcock and Brown's forced landing site in Ireland after their trans Atlantic flight (I am also in possession of one of their's leather/fur flying hat as it was given to my relative by one of them!)

@dukeman3ca1 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for all the videos, love the channel.

@daystatesniper01 10 ай бұрын

There must be a lot of these around Hull ,as it was the second most bombed city outside of London

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 10 ай бұрын

Super wonderful historical coverage video about the parachute mine ... Thank you, Sir Mark Felton

@davidnemoseck9007 10 ай бұрын

Wow. Didn't know something like this was still problem. Thanks for sharing!

@nickhoutwed4774 10 ай бұрын

Love the vids Mark! Have a good one!

@alanmoffat4454 10 ай бұрын

STILL LEARNING THANKS AGAIN Dr 😮.😊

@fredhoupt4078 10 ай бұрын

fantastic story. I thought that I had a good knowledge of the German naval magnetic mines, which were laid in shallow waters near estuaries and streams. I had no idea that a similar bomb was sent along by parachutes....causing such massive damage. A really important revelation. Well researched and presented.

@TheLincolnshireFlyer 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting 😊

@TankerBricks 10 ай бұрын

Mark. Thanks for providing my Monday night entertainment!

@phil69881 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant video. Some people just don't get how dangerous these things were/still are! Growing up in nearby Beverley I learned that Hull was heavily targeted with a number of parachute mines during and before May 1941, through doing research into the tragic topic of the city. Looking on a map the number of UXBs is incredible, but they were only the ones located. How many more lay beneath Hull and it's waters? 😕😣😖

@heinzer69 10 ай бұрын

Incredible scenes of that street in Clacton devastated by the parachute mine. Amazing only two civilians were killed.

@lightfootpathfinder8218 10 ай бұрын

I live in Sheffield and every time they build a new IKEA or McDonald's they find German ww2 bombs as the area the retail park is now on was all steelworks back in 1940/41

@EllieMaes-Grandad 10 ай бұрын

Back in the 1950s, my sainted mother used to have a small piece of parachute cord; it had a green hue and a polished lustre. Long since lost . . .

@craigw.scribner6490 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, Dr. Felton.

@oneproudchump8457 10 ай бұрын

Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating!!! Well done, Mark!

@whylie74 10 ай бұрын

One was dropped on the airbase my grandfather was stationed at, and of course it drifted of away from the base, across the neighbouring village, and after it was found and secured Grandad was there and saw someone approaching it with steel tools and before anyone had a chance to say anything, grandad ran over and puched this chap in the face and bellowed at him it was a magnetic mine and dragged him away.

@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b 10 ай бұрын

The capture of one of these was portrayed in the UK TV show Danger UXB. It said there were many booby traps on the mines to harm people trying to diffuse them. Sinister stuff.

@handgranate2008 10 ай бұрын

You dont even booby trap them, where i live in Germany its not uncommon to find bombs from WW2 when a new area is dug up for new living area, you can hear it already when they find that you hear over 20 emergency sirens (police etc.) Rushing towards it. Just thing youre a construction worker in a bulldozer or a construction vehicle (i dont know the english word where we say Bagger to in german, but where you dig up ground) and suddenly hit not detonated bombs, you can simply be gone with your whole crew within seconds if you touch with heavy equipment this old stuff. So all the old stuff is booby trapped just by age alone no one knows where its burried but you literally can be gone by seconds.

@ek8710 10 ай бұрын

@@handgranate2008 Bagger, like, bagger 288? :O I think in English that's an excavator :p

@handgranate2008 10 ай бұрын

@@ek8710 yeah could be in english a excavator ( a de-construction heavy machinery, to move ground and break down houses, but yeah literally just think about that as such an worker thinking to move ground/dirt arround and within a second later you hit a 1k pound bomb which can delete within a friction of a second you and other workers out of life since you dont know it was there)

@brianspencer6397 10 ай бұрын

The booby trap was known an a "Zus-40". It sat behind the delay clock, out of sight and inaccessible, and hung onto the back of the clock with little claws so the clock couldn't be removed and its wires cut. If the RMS officer felt it when he tried to removed the clock, he had to either withdraw the clock with a 400 yard long piece of cord, or set up a clay flowerpot of thermite on the mine casing a LONG way away from where the detonator lived, and 'burn' the mine. Often the explosive charge would almost completely burn out before the remainder detonated, giving just a little explosion, but not always.....

@jeremymorrall6750 10 ай бұрын

I well remember that particular programme in the series. Bloody good.

@GypsyHunter232UK 10 ай бұрын

Another excellent presentation from the Brilliant Dr Felton

@cody-en7nt 10 ай бұрын

As always Mark your videos and research are impressive and knowledgable. Keep up the good work, and thank you.

@nancyM1313 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Dr Mark for another great video. Appreciate your work💙

@Styx8314 10 ай бұрын

Incredible footage of those explosions! Imagine how they felt back then in the major bombing raids, it must've been like 9-11 every day, for days on end. How these countries, both allies and axis could've gone through that for 6 years is unbelievable.

@vincekerrigan8300 10 ай бұрын

Styx. Yes I lived right through the Blitz and all the various subsequent attacks and it wasn't very funny.

@Styx8314 10 ай бұрын

@@vincekerrigan8300Incredible. Iam not sure if this current generation of 20 year olds could handle anything even close to yours. They have panic attacks when thier Uber ride is 30 seconds late, or you address them as.. (GASP)! him or her instead of it or the! These things they call "micro aggressions". Lunacy.

@vincekerrigan8300 10 ай бұрын

@@Styx8314 Yes, one does wonder. I don't know about 20 year olds, but I was at junior school in the first Blitz - although evacuated part of that time - and secondary during the second or so-called 'Baby Blitz', which was from December 1943 to June 1944. After that we had the V1's and V2's - great fun. I remember walking to school in the mornings and seeing the damage from the night before - bit different from worrying about my gender or a few pronouns.

@patrickcosgrove2623 10 ай бұрын

Never heard off parachute mines before. Another interesting WW2 piece of history. Well done 👍

@heatherporterfield7343 10 ай бұрын

We learn something new every time Dr. Felton has always presented a new look at WW2. 😎

@gerardleahy6946 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video. I have always had huge admiration for the bravery of bomb disposal officers.

@RailfanDownunder 10 ай бұрын

Interesting and educational ... I had heard of aerial mines but not known much about them ... Thanks for posting Sir

@bigdom1978 10 ай бұрын

definitely the best youtube channel for war stories❤

@jensenwilliam5434 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Mark!

@admiralcraddock464 10 ай бұрын

Some of these were designed to be air burst, that is to explode above ground thereby causing more damage as the shockwave wouldn`t be absorbed by bulidings surrouding the bomb had it exploded on the ground. My old dad lived in Cephas street in Mile End, London and used to go in his parents Anderson shelter during an air raid. In the street itself there was a suface brick built shelter that people went to if they didn1t have their own shelters. One of these parachute mines exploded nearby and competely destroyed the that shelter, killing everyone in it. My old dad`s house, in Cephas street is still there but the opposite side of the road is all new flats built on the bomb site after the war.

@stefanschleps8758 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Professor Felton. Informative and oddly entertaining as usual. One would think that such devices would lose their ability to detonate after a number of years. I wonder if any of your viewers can enlighten us as to why they remain dangerous, in some cases, even after a century has passed? All the best.

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 10 ай бұрын

The explosives used in these and other military munitions are very chemically stable. They're designed to be stored for decades in a range of temperatures and climates. Because of this old weapons that didn't go off when intended can still be as dangerous as the day they were made.

@gilmoursmith7627 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Mark very informative!

@rodchallis8031 10 ай бұрын

Another eye opener. Thanks!

@steveosborne2297 10 ай бұрын

It seems they always liked dropping these all over Essex .. In the 1960s one of my favourite little fishing holes was actually a crater caused by one of these in Epping Forest

@MarkFeltonProductions 10 ай бұрын

Essex was on the way to and from London from German bomber bases.

@steveosborne2297 10 ай бұрын

@@MarkFeltonProductions Yeah so often it was the escape route for them to drop the bombs if things got a bit too hot over London . They used to head north before they went back east to try and return to France or Germany

@brianperry 10 ай бұрын

@@MarkFeltonProductions Thats right, l used to live near foulness island, in the fifties and the sixties there was still plenty of evidence of what went on twenty years before..Pill boxes, Bunkers, rusting Beach defences, Gun emplacements and holes across fields....not to mention the Boom and the Gun towers in the Thames Estuary...

@nicholasgoldstonegh4643 10 ай бұрын

@@MarkFeltonProductions If @MarkFeltonProductions would like more information @ the Magnetometer as mentioned in my comment earlier........ please let me know 😀 TTFN Nick

@russellnixon9981 10 ай бұрын

One of these mines fell close to my mothers house in East Ham,, it flattened houses on 3 streets. As it was slow to decent the all clear had sounded and my grand mother had left the shelter to make some tea when it went off. She survived because she was in the passage at that moment, even though the explosion was 2 streets away it still took the roof off and blew in the sash window frames on the back of the house. My father who worked for the gas board at the time in Barking also told me, a parachute mine got caught on a gas holder and was hanging on the side of the holder. banging against it in the wind. The UXB teem had to wait for the gas presser to drop and lower the holder so the could get. at it Their was a long tense wait , hopping it didn't go off before the could reach it. Fortunately it was defused, but if it had explode it would have taken the holder and all the gas with it. They were a terrible indesimenate weapon.

@chrisblore6385 10 ай бұрын

Awesome episode Mark.

@gerritdykgraaf2570 10 ай бұрын

Very nice documentary investigating!! Thanks for sharing with us Mark. This comes from a U.S. Army veteran!! Good work sir. Keep up your work bud. We love viewing what you bring to us!!

@richardwillson101 10 ай бұрын

I read a fascinating book about German Parachute mines. I cant remember the name, but it was about HMS Vernon and their efforts to understand and counter the threat. Especially as some were dropped with devices designed to kill the brave experts who rendered these mines safe. I wish I could remember the name!!

@davidjones332 10 ай бұрын

Possibly "Secret Naval Investigator" by Commander F. Ashe. The organisation set up to deal with them was called: Department of Mines & Torpedoes Investigation Section, DTMI for short. It was commanded by Captain Maitland-Dougall, with Ashe, RNVR and a barrister by profession, as his Number One.

@richardwillson101 10 ай бұрын

@davidjones332 it wasn't that one, although that is very high on my "to purchase list". The RNVR Barrister is very familiar so it must have been the same naval unit, DTMI. It's going to bug me all evening now. Either way, it's a fascinating topic and this was a great video detailing the fear and damage that these parachute mines could and still do cause.

@viandengalacticspaceyards5135 10 ай бұрын

@@richardwillson101 There is a very good one (though likely not the one you mention), from a guy in the RMS (rendering mines safe) unit, "17 Seconds", by Yvan Southall.

@richardwillson101 10 ай бұрын

@@davidjones332 got it... "Service Most Silent" by John Frayn Turner. I highly recommend it. Also, a MUST read for ANY ww2 technology buff is "Most Secret War" by R.V.Jones.

@richardwillson101 10 ай бұрын

@viandengalacticspaceyards5135 thank you, will have to add that to my list!

@mikethespike7579 10 ай бұрын

Interesting. Similar parachute bombs were dropped by allied forces over German towns and cities. The house I live in here in Berlin was hit by one and didn't go off. It went through the roof and ended up stuck between the second and third floor. The old lady who lived above us when we moved in told us that it was stuck there for weeks before being removed and the gap left in the roof was just covered over with a bit of tarpaulin. I guess the Germans at the time had bigger problems than fixing holes in roofs.

@brandongardner9829 10 ай бұрын

Oh yeah you guys suffered the same terrors, funny how mark didn't mention that 😢

@neilturner6749 10 ай бұрын

@@brandongardner9829not sure what point you’re trying to make here - Mark makes no judgmental comment regarding, for example, “evil Nazi bomber pilots” nor displays any political/moral bias in the storytelling. That being the case, why would he need to bring balance to the narrative by hugely expanding the subject matter to include Allied bombing of Germany? It’s a specialist film regarding a specific topic that, being from the area (East Anglia) that it focuses on, Mark will clearly have a particular interest in.

@brandongardner9829 10 ай бұрын

@@neilturner6749 just interesting that's all. 🤔

@nandolopes9897 10 ай бұрын

@@brandongardner9829 Mark is british, how can you expect that?

@LewisB3217 10 ай бұрын

The Americans at least didn’t have bombs similar to this, they did have parachute “frag bombs” (parafrag as they were called) that were much much smaller with an attached parachute so you could go low and slow, and more importantly, be accurate while bombing, these parafrag bombs weigh 20 lbs, while this mine weighs 1500 lbs, though the British used magnetic and acoustic versions of these parachute mines in water to halt shipping in the early war, but quickly stopped

@tombstone5100 7 ай бұрын

Our Mum spoke of these and the Buzzbombs. She was a teenager during the Blitz. Brilliant work, as always sir. Greetings from Ontario, Canada

@stevenhershman2660 10 ай бұрын

Mark did it again ! I never knew of this type of type if weapon . Thank you Professor Felton !

@faithlesshound5621 10 ай бұрын

The Western world came to regard terror bombing of civilians as a crime when it was done to Guernica by the Luftwaffe and Aviazione Legionaria during the Spanish civil war, but an international conference some years earlier had failed to outlaw the practice. The British delegation had claimed it was useful for "police action" in the colonies. Indeed, the Royal Air Force had bombed Afghan villages whose landowners had failed to pay tax in the Northwest Frontier Province of India, and Kurds who were resisting the new king given to them. RAF Iraq Command also pioneered the use of delayed-action bombs, and "Bomber" Harris used them all over the Middle East. So it is not only Europe where bombs over 70 years old may still be lying in wait.

@milferdjones2573 10 ай бұрын

What made you think this stated it not done in other places? This simply told the history of these bombs used and a bit of others used in Britain. Mark focuses on World Wars manly the II. At the war crimes trial after the war no German was charged with war crimes for terror bombing because the allies did it too. It important to cover all the history everywhere but no one historian can cover everything.

@faithlesshound5621 3 ай бұрын

@@milferdjones2573 Before the war, when foreigners reproached him for how he was treating the Jews, Roma, etc, Hitler's stock reply was "But look at what the British do in their colonies!" This is why the Third World is sceptical when Americans and Europeans claim what the Nazis did was unprecedented. Maybe WHERE they did it, or TO WHOM ... Even prison camps with 90% death rate and lethal medical experimentation on prisoners? All done in German South-West Africa in the 1890's by the man Hitler made Rector of the University of Berlin.

@SotonSam 10 ай бұрын

When I was younger, a Second World War bomb was found at a construction site in Shirley, Southampton, maybe in the 90's or early 00's? My friends had to excavate their house and they detonated it.