Drone film of the Möhne dam with information about the 1943 'Dam Busters' raid.
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@nashuf1492 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking us all there and glad your drone stayed airborne :)
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching. It was very scary flying over water for so long.
@VisionAssoc Жыл бұрын
Marvellous video. I appreciate all the work you put into these historic videos. Thanks Steven…🇬🇧
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@PaYnMzZ Жыл бұрын
Good to see you're back in the game mate, I have been reading some of the released battalion war diaries from ww1 available from the national archives. Always find your videos a good reference point when searching these, so I have both a written and visual standpoint to gain a better understanding of this terrifying moment of history. Greeting from Sydney, Australia
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@daveandjoannenoordhoff Жыл бұрын
Having watched the marvelous film, read the interesting book and studied the After the Battle articles, I really enjoyed watching this video. Thank you for filming and editing it for us. Also, a very belated thanks for all your Great War videos, especially of the Franco-German parts of the front such as Massiges, Hartmanwillerkopf, Verdun, etc.
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching and your encouraging comments. I hope to be back on the Somme in February.
@martincolclough4387 Жыл бұрын
Hi Steven, enjoyed this video. Nice to see you have ventured into WWII. My family were RAF during WWII so it was nice to see your video.
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@rogerpattube Жыл бұрын
Most amazing use of the drone! Amazing. (Steven, suggestion: ANZAC Cove would be a highly suitable subject for more battlefield detective work!)
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching. I would like to go to Galipolli as my great uncle served there. He was wounded twice and still only 16. Unfortunately not sure when ir if I can go due to cost.
@roddy222 Жыл бұрын
My first UK trip included a visit to Herne Bay Museum to see a bouncing bomb prototype and then I visited Derwent River Dam where they apparently done training runs before the mission. So honoured to have been able to visit these sites. Great video. Cheers.
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@TheDeadlyraptor Жыл бұрын
This popped up in my feed toga just after Johnny Johnson died . I met him few years ago at East Kirby with Barnes Wallis’s daughter . RIP Johnny
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching. I just read today about Johnny's passing. The last of the Dam Busters.
@Ade4fish Жыл бұрын
Well done. Thanks for the film.
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@dave3156 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting video. Steven, I didn't know you ventured out of WW1 and into WW2. I do hope you have some more WW2 planned. Thanks for sharing!
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching. I happened to be near the dams in August and decided to film them. Also my personal connection to 617 squadron.
@AMDronephotography Жыл бұрын
Good video Steven, must go back there and take my drone. Not been there since 1989 when I was in the RAF and doing work out at Gütersloh, from North Luffenham. I can remember walking out to the middle and wondering how the hell they managed that at night at almost zero feet without modern navigation equipment. Lest We Forget
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching. I always wonder how they found specific targets in a blacked out Europe.
@AMDronephotography Жыл бұрын
@@StevenUpton14-18 yes me too. There was a series on tv a few years back and the wanted to see if modern day RAF pilots and navigators could fly the Dambusters mission. They did it but they found it very difficult.
@SimonFlex Жыл бұрын
4FG3+J8 Aalter (wandelknooppunt77) not far from where I live, there is one slab of concrete left from the airfield, still though there are bunkers around. There is a museum as well 5GQ2+H3 Maldegem and the Canadian CWGC cemetary next to the museum. Two tanks from the Operation Switchback are still there in Adegem. Greets Simon
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@simon6ppc246 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant video my friend
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@Haxenhans Жыл бұрын
8:06 you are mixing up Möhnetalsperre (Drone footage) and Edertalsperre (historical picture) - But of course you know - Best regards
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@harley909 Жыл бұрын
Surreal how peaceful it seems…
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching. I filmed this early in the morning to avoid people. I know from a previous visit that the dam can get very crowded.
@Mikkelltheimmortal Жыл бұрын
Beautiful footage. The plan was quite audacious wasn't it. Yet they managed to pull it off, even if it was seemingly all for not
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@gatrataable Жыл бұрын
When are u visiting normandy? Plz
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching. At present I have no plans to visit Normandy.
@westerncherokeewireless642 Жыл бұрын
@@StevenUpton14-18 Hope you're well Steve, looking forward to your next history lesson, you're the best!
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
@@westerncherokeewireless642 - Thank you for watching.
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
I have no plans to go to Normandy at present.
@metalema6 Жыл бұрын
The allies sure committed their fare of atrocities
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@ja37d-34 Жыл бұрын
Pretty amazing flying with Lancasters... Hat´s off boys! Amazing raid.
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching.
@ja37d-34 Жыл бұрын
Just curious, went back and looked on some vids.. Working on any new ones? :)
@StevenUpton14-18 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching. Unfortunately I lost my drone in February in Switzerland, so although I will be visiting Verdun next month I will not be filming.
@ja37d-34 Жыл бұрын
@@StevenUpton14-18 I´m sorry to hear you lost the drone. Hopefully ypu get a new one some time? Oh nice, have a nice journey? Nice season for visiting Verdun I guess? Maybe harder to see some traces in the green foliage?