Huh? *walk over* Nein! Fire Everezing!

British Captain: It's fine, this'll work. ... British Captain: Best keep your distance, though. But don't *look* like you're keeping your distance. British Seaman at the wheel: *Confused grunt* British Captain: I don't know! Sail casual!

Captain of the HMS Campbeltown: "Keep your distance XO but don't look like you're trying to keep your distance." XO: "Whadayamean uh?" Captain of the HMS Campbeltown: "I don't know... sail casual."

*I know that reference meme intensifies*

hello there fellow cultured men

It already is .

It was - Attack on the Iron Coast - 1967

@@aaronbussey3856 Oh lol, nvm. Perhaps a remake??

Noel Zaporteza Yes, it could be...

@Joe Also I wonder who's gonna make it?

To prevent said ship from sinking american guns exported to the soviet union

Thats what i call a world war :D

what kind i say but superbly done

you're confusing world war 1 with world war 2

Iheb Ben Rhouma Because the events of WW1 led up to WW2

well when 1/2 the german army is on meth I wouldn't always expect sound decision making. Like... imagine an army of florida man

I can imagine one of the captured commandos realizing that one of the germans speaks english and "lamenting" how all the booze and cigarettes that they left behind are going to waste

Actually makes a lot of sense to treat the men with items that are considered valauble and desirable to get their morale up before the mission

The germans wasn't aware it was a kemikaze attack. For all they knew, that destroyer might have been meant for fire support and evacuating the commandos but accidentally swerved onto the dock ports and got stuck.

@@timpyrules Same with the Japanese who would drink sake and other alcohols before a banzai charge. I know when I have a good buzz I'm much more willing to do something I would think twice about when sober. Then again, I can't imagine a suicide charge even if I was drunk.

OMG really?!?

but how? there is too much kilometers between spain.

It was a common escape route used by downed bomber crews and stranded soldiers/spies throughout the war, the idea being that if you were captured in Spain you would just have to sit in a Spanish prison for the rest of the war rather than a POW camp and if you evaded the Spanish police you could just walk into the British embassy and get flown back across the channel to rejoin your squadron/force.

correction: only 2 made it. and it was not that raid.

@@doomerboomer9402 I have read several sources which state 5 commando's made their way back to England with help from French civilians and possibly underground members. They were taken to neutral Spain and to England from there. Not sure where the confusion is coming from but I have been able to find 3 independent sources which all state nearly the exact same summary with the number always being 5. And I do think this would make a good subject for a modern film....imagine a well done film which could cover the incredible drama and action of the event itself and then the incredible human drama of those wounded, taken prisoner, killed and the few who escaped. If it were to be done correctly, it could be a movie classic.

There's one narrated by Jeremy Clarkson which is way more epic.

Cable TV must cater to its demographic, which is aging paranoid elderly and rural poor who have cable/satellite but not good internet. These people are not often interested in knowing the details of an operation they've never heard of.

Himmla's last words

I can imagine that lmao

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zp2Kl5OA3p6uqYU.html

Very entertaining and a lot more in-depth on the major individuals involved in the operation.

Yea I love BazBattles but that documentary covers this in depth and the sheer ridiculousness of the operation doesn't come out in Baz's video.

@@ktvindicare True. The detail of Mountbatten affirming to a critic that "It's the outlandishness, that makes it possible. The germans will never expect us to try it." He was right, as the germans recieved the raid woth quite a bit of stunned amazement, to the point of later commending some of the prisoners for their audacity and guile.

One of the best things Jeremy Clarkson has ever done. And he's done a lot of great things. Amazing documentary.

The whole of WW2 it wasn't Britain's main goal to piss off the Germans. There were hundreds of raids, maybe not to this scale but many against all the odds

Salute from Tennessee

I still think about the soundtrack all these years later

@James Scoles definitely

Águila701 it’s another way of saying “well” but more excited. so replace think of him saying “well I guess it’s time to play Medal of Honor”

@Águila701 "Ah shit, here we go again"

It was cool at the time with the extra objectives and the power meter thing, but it does not hold up these days lol

Same😂

Bomber Crew did it for me

I was waiting for this comment.

I was getting like, PTSD level flashbacks “wait a minute....I was there that day”

Is it that first mission? holy sh*t

8/10

The Brest sort of joke, if I Marseilles so.

Hi spacedock, love your videos

Thanks for recommending this channel Spacedock

ye KMS Admiral Graf Spee Gets rekt again

Historigraph made a video about it long ago, but it would be nice to see it in BazBattles style.

Historigraph did one on that battle, if you can't wait ;)

It aint a shadow legend though

"The Greatest Raid of All". That's the name it got given in WW2 Commando circles.

I like the 1595 BC Hittite raid on Babylon. These guys hiked over twelve hundred miles to sack the city and modern historians still aren't sure why.

⁠@@levitatingoctahedron922>travels hundreds of miles to a city >sacks it >doesnt elaborate >leaves Based.

Croatians*

@@_sky_3123 The fortress of Szigetvár was under the command of Miklós Zrínyi. The defenders were around 50%-50% Hungarian and Croatians, with a bit more on the croatian side. But with significant Hungarian presence in the leadership. Saying that it was either the Hungarians or Croatians that defended the fortress is wrong, because they both did together against a common enemy.

@Suleiman 1st The Magnificent The moment when after Eger another little fortress fucks your army. *Sips turkish coffe angrily*

@@kogerugaming The commander's name was Nikola Šubić Zrinski. (Croat), the same as the majority of the troops defending the fort. Miklós Zrínyi is his great-grandson who wrote a poem about the siege.

@@_sky_3123 They both called Zrínyi Miklós in Hungary.

thanks man, it's episode two, watchin it rn

Thanks!

@Jeremy Brookes It’s on Netflix.

Thanks for this, I had no idea it existed and enjoyed seeing Corran, ‘Tiger’, Eric, Tom and Micky once more. Absolutely inexplicable though why they didn’t identify a single veteran, even in the credits.

It's pronoucned segway, but actually spelt "segue" :)

@@SpaceShipDee Thanks!I didn't know

I laught a lot...

They had to scrape off people from the ceiling afterwards. That's not me being edgy, documentaries on the raid mention it.

@@Holammer oh yeah they found body parts for days afterwards all over the city

not entirelly true, maybe the young ones, but i have heard of that raid and the liberation battle around the "poche de st Nazaire" since i am a kid ... and that would be more than 40 years ago. :)

That's because is wasn't really decisive, the British blew up something the Germans didn't really need and used it as propaganda afterwards. Although I guess people in St Nazaire should know it more

@@grandengineernathan By blowing it up they essentially stopped all German major warship incursions into the Atlantic which meant they could retask naval forces they had bottling up German battleships elsewhere such as the Mediterranean. I know video games and fiction has fed you delusion your whole life about 'decisive battles' and 'war altering actions' but in reality winning wars are made up of small victories such as this.

@@Wanderer628 the germans would have lost the battle of the atlantic with the drydock intact, so no this small victory wasn't desicive.

@@mulmusfistus4128 so why did they bother then? It's all very well you saying that with hindsight.

I get that reference! What a way to start a game in Medal of Honor!

You clearly don't understand De Gaulle. The man was a nationalist anglophobe, for sure, but he first and foremost a pragmatist who hated the Nazis. He said himself that he understood the Beitish attack on the French fleet. Even saying he'd prefer to see those battleships sunk than in the hands of the German's.

He wasn't head of the French state at the time, those ships weren't his.

And why a French ship? Probably the British tradition of paying others to make your wars, isn't it Napo?

@@hegoney5841 What was a French ship?

@@dovetonsturdee7033 Little things Churchill had to sink in order not to lose war

NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN

Hitler didnt care about this in 1942 lol

@@darklysm8345 i bet he did when bizmark was sunk

@@oliva6352 Bismarck *

@@darklysm8345 Quite the contrary, this is a direct quote from the wiki page about the aftermath of the St Nazaire raid. "Adolf Hitler was furious that the British had been able to sail a flotilla of ships up the Loire unhindered and he sacked Generaloberst Carl Hilpert, chief-of-staff to the OB West (Commander in Chief West).[73] The raid refocused German attention on the Atlantic Wall and special attention was given to ports to prevent any repeat of the raid. By June 1942, the Germans began using concrete to fortify gun emplacements and bunkers in quantities previously only used in U-boat pens. Hitler laid out new plans in a meeting with Armaments Minister Albert Speer in August 1942, calling for the construction of 15,000 bunkers by May 1943 to defend the Atlantic coast from Norway to Spain.[74] The battleship Tirpitz never entered the Atlantic. She remained in Norwegian fjords to threaten Allied shipping until she was destroyed by the RAF in Operation Catechism on 12 November 1944.[75]" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid

The pandemic is over.

@@dawn-blade b-but last time i checked the news the pandemic is far from over since there is still no vaccine nor cure for the virus. But were hoping for the best right? Just keep praying and physical distancing. Wear masks :))

Can I suggest a channel for you? World War Two. All advertising free because KZfaq doesn’t like history.

@@dawn-blade ... uhhh what? O.o

Hyde Yeah I watch that too they make a “resume” of the world war each week and some other video about it. I propose to people to watch it.

Do you know about Epic History TV?

@@alchemist6819 Yes, i know them, they are good also... :)

In defence to the British, the French did them no favours there. Drachinifel did a video on the tragedy.

Legitimate act to deal with a bunch of nazi sympathizers and traitors to the French Republic. Should have shot them all at the end of the war.

Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

You obviously don't understand, but it required a commando raid to take the dock out completely.

Call of war has a bit better graphics.

Ac odyssey?

GOD SAVE THE KING! Her Majesty is old, but her reign began much later.

How does one disguise one ship as an entire navy? The Kriegsmarine was the German navy, not one ship.

I want to edit the comment but it sucks to be edited... but the original that I was about to say was... "They tricked us by disguising their ship as part of the kriegsmarine"

Propaganda rarely admits that 2/3s of the raiding force were killed or captured.

@@DomWeasel Sssshhh with your logic, it's not welcome by the tin foil hat wearing brigade.

When your country is on its knees something like this is good propaganda. See the film by Clarkson, at the very end a Frenchman said it gave us hope! ! !