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My Grandad was in Nettleton's plane, in the 44 Squadron. He survived and lived until 1999. Thank you so much for making this video 👏👏

YT algorithm: Soo we noticed youre living in Augsburg, wanna hear about how it got bombed? Me: Hell yes

Incredible work. Wonderfully produced, expertly narrated. What a gripping tale!

Being from Augsburg, it`s great, to learn about this. We had only been taught about the big attack in february ´44... Great work!

Everyone on that raid deserved a VC. What incredible determination, yet what a waste. Very movingly told. Well done!

Interesting! I’m British and live in Augsburg and once worked at MAN. The air raid shelter still exists there. Augsburg was a prime target due to Messerschmidt too.

As soon as you said “...... in daylight and at low level...” I thought “oh god! They’re going to get slaughtered!”

Outstanding video, very informative with good quality footage of the Lancs. Keep up the good work. Cheers from Australia.

fantastic summary of this operation and especially the pilots and developers did an amazing job in these times. Greatings from Augsburg, Bavaria

As I said previously- your channel deserves a stack more subscribers! Keep it up, it will come!

The bravery and skill of these Lancaster crews is beyond description. Lord bless them all.

Amazing story, never heard of it before. Thank you very much for making this video.

War... so many lifes lost, families hurt, so much pain. But it had to be the way it went. Hopefully humanity learns from the events and does not repeat the errors of the past. Its our responsibility not to forget, and You do a great job by creating these videos.

My mum was a 1 year old little girl living in Augsburg at this time. Her residential area was affected by another bombing run from the british air force. A bomb that didnt detonate back in the time where she lived there was defused lately and 50000 people had to be evacuated at christmas 2016 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entsch%C3%A4rfung_einer_Fliegerbombe_in_Augsburg_zu_Weihnachten_2016

Outstanding synopsis of this very important raid. Well done!

You did a hell of a job on this I'm a sucker for anything Lancaster but this was superb 👍.

Thank you. A wonderful, exciting story of heroism by a group of young men giving their lives for freedom.

As usual,nothing short of brilliantly done.I could easily watch your productions all day long.Thank you for your work.

Excellent video. I rate all of your content highly - but the quality of this one is superb. Well done and keep up the good work. Cheers and all the best.

Excellent video, your work is really coming along well, keep 'em coming!!

you guys do such good videos well researched and very well done thank you

97 Squadron were, for a while, equipped with Avro Manchester’s. So unreliable was the Rolls-Royce Vulture X24 engine that the squadron was nicknamed the 97th Foot.

Imagine the symphony of not 1 but 4 Merlins. Excellent video footage of those low altitude flights. The loss rates were incredible. You are an excellent chroncler.

Another superb presentation, excellent commentary, thank you, I’ve now subscribed

What a waste in men and machinery. Such bravery and such a terrible start to the Lanc's career. Thank you for making this video.

Tragic. What an absolute shemozzle. Wonderful presentation!! 🙂👌

Great factual information delivered in a very good manner keep it up 👍

A great job, and a fantastic story. Incredibly brave crew.

I have just found this and I am so grateful. My great uncle was Ft Lt Nick Sandford. Very emotional to watch .

Didn't know about this raid. Thanks.

Well researched and presented, another Mark Flelton I hope. What I saw tells me you are no war gaming know it all.

How strange the world is, my girlfriend is from Augsburg. My grandad was a desert rat and one of his closest friends was an Austrian veteran of the eastern front. It's such a shame people can't just learn what a pointless shit show war really is. The men who flew on this raid were incredibly brave souls and words can't express the gratitude, admiration and respect I have for each one of them.

Very interesting topic. Good job.

That was great well documented , but still begs belief of losing 49 brave men .

I lived in Augsburg in 67, 68, 69. A great city then. A lot of history in and around this part of Germany. The city was hit during the war but not much.

I remember Jack Currie made a documentary about this for the BBC back in the early 80s.

Well done , subcribed

Greetings from Augsburg ❤️💚🤍

I grew up in that area and never heard of this, thanks for the info

We only hear about the Dams raid, amazing story of pure bravery.

Excellen video.

you've got Jack Currie's book on the Op then...... surprised no southerners have asked for subtitles ;-)

Well done.

Brilliant post of the heros that flew the Lancs on a suicide mission that should never have been sanctioned - I'm thinking of Arnold Rimmer's victory in Wax World (see Red Dwarf the sit-com).

The Canadian warplane heritage has one of two flying lancs. 4 merlins at low level are not stealth.

My dad was stationed at Waddington during the late '60s. They had Vulcan's then.

What a coincidence! I live in Augsburg

brilliant recount ;)

As good as Mark feltons channel the way you narated...thanks

Beautiful planes

My dad was in Crum's crew shot down over France

This factory is the birthplace of the Diesel-engine by Rudolf Diesel.

A red line at the bottom of a thumbnail that looks similar to the YT line telling one the video has been watched might not be the best idea. Good video.

Well thank KZfaq i didnt know anyone did content on my city.

it was an unmitigated disaster from beginning to end. rip in peace all those young lives lost

Please forgive the pedantry but I hate mispronunciations, it is pronounced Ougs burg as in ouch. that apart I love your videos and subscribed after watching my first ages ago.

Augsburg was revisited, at night.

Augsburg, is pronounced "Owgs-berg." An excellent presentation, again.

How about a doc on Halifax LL 505 FD-S?

Brave aircrew .They went for it to give it to the Nazis.It seems like back then no one knew who was going to be in the skies at any time,they got unlucky but still smashed through.Great narration and really enjoyed hearing their story so well told!

I was stationed at Augsburg in 1972-74. The city was pristine and we were told that Augsburg was 'not' bombed during the war since it had 'no' military in the area.

What's happened to Jack Currie's version of this raid? Why has it been deleted? (That's not 'a go' at this production, more a 🤷‍♂️ at the inconsistency of KZfaq's editorial policy)

best bomber ever made !!

CORRECTION - Augsburg is firmly in Bavaria not on the outskirts - other than that small error very good video.

Good video but you marked augsburg false on the map at 2:00. The city you marked is memmingen i would say. Augsburg is about 100km further in the southeast.

In my opinion, this was a far more daring raid than Op. Chastise ( Dams Raid ) . Though it does beg the question that if the Bostons had hit the Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Le Roger at the right time more Lancs may have got through to the target ?

The Lancaster is a hell of a aircraft, both beautiful and deadly. Oh and a fellow northerner saying Lancaster sounds, well how it should sound ;-)

What was the actual damage?

👍 👍 👍!!!

Been to Augsburg, it's a lovely place, as is Bavaria

A little notsofunfact, one of the oldest houses in Augsburg, which survived both world wars, recently burned completely down because someone was charging his e-scooter and it blew up.

We still find this bombs...so if somebody wants them back...

Lacasters had their place for very large bombs like Tallboy but they didn’t arrive until 1944. This failed raid is a perfect example of the heavy bomber folly. Twelve fast flying Mosquitoes could have flown the same mission as six Lancasters delivering the same payload using the same number of engines but less than half the crew at risk. Harris and the USAAF bomber generals were criminally negligent.

BLOODY HELL, GOT ANY CHEERFUL ENDINGS ?

Another example how British sent personnel into the grinder with high rate of casualties and call it success anyway.

This sounds like a raid that would have been great for Mosquitos, if they were in service then.

One thing. U-boat construction was not done inland in the Bavarian Alps. MAN plant may have been there, but I guarantee not 1 U-boat.

SANFU British operation. Got many their bombers shot down at the beginning of the operation, lost most of their aircraft later, didn’t destroy the target and still called it successful.

The audacity of such a raid is staggering. ...... Considering how much damage German submarines were doing, if just ONE was prevented from sailing for a year, the high cost in blood makes sense. ...... Only when the Battle of The Atlantic was won, could the Allies attack through France.

Broo ich live in Augsburg

10:27 that’s so tragic. No wonder bomber command had a 50 50 of survival I think. U boats 80 % didn’t make it. That’s pretty bad odds

Triumph for German flack I think Churchill meant.

Yeah, but Harris was still wrong as to how best to interdict the U-boat menace. Those Lancasters could have done what the B-24s ended up doing: closing that last open pocket in air cover over the convoys.

Fucking advert four second before the end of the video in the middle of a quote! What the hell are youtube up to these days?? A well researched video sir! Nicely done and full of information. I had not heard anything about this raid on Augsburg before, but pity the poor sods who were shot down because of some cock up by someone who can't type a time properly resulting the loss of life of those in the aircraft set ablaze and shot down . R I P those brave airmen

The up and coming mark Felton.

4.30 Four one thousand pound bombs

Lanc crews feared fw190's more than the Bf109.Also daylight raids were quickly dropped due to heavy losses.

Mycock should have received the Victoria Cross.

That's a lot of aircraft catching fire. I guess self-sealing fuel tanks were still a work in progress. Any better informed key-board historians out there?

a correction: per Wiki - John Dering Nettleton, VC (28 June 1917 - 13 July 1943) was a Rhodesian officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. i.e. he was NOT a South African as mentioned by you in the narrative. It's a bit like someone calling you a cockney! lol No offense meant.

The crews were following orders, enduring extremely dangerous missions.. The High Command led a criminal bombing policy until the very eend of the war. With all due respect, Nothing to brag about!

This might be a little uppsetting to some but I really never understood why Field Marshall Montgomery always gets criticized for about anything that could be remotely connected to him in a pessimistic fashion while so many bad decisions from the RAF's top brass usually goes either unchallenged or gets even vigorously defended. The valor and bravery of the young men flying those missions can not be praised high enough. Yet I must admit that I not olnly regard Arthur Harris' decisions highly questionable from a moral point of view, I am far more of the opinion that they were simply counter productive for the allied effort and did not only lead to a staggering high number of casualties among the bomber crews but also to unneccessary losses in the allied nations merchant navies. In my view, Bomber command was far too occupied fighting its own war, only to proove the world that their concept worked while in the same time ignoring targets that promised far more gains at a lesser cost.

Poor sods, sent on a suicide mission. Lancasters were death traps, with un-armoured fuel tanks and fuel lines, which rendered them a flaming inferno in minutes, and the forward escape hatch was too small to escape from wearing a parachute. The air ministry never changed anything and the Lanc continued like this for the rest of the war. Life was cheap in the British forces. There was only one aircraft for this operation - the Mosquito.

Great video, well narrated story. However, please mention civilian casualties. In this raid 12 people died and 20 were injured.In 1944 Augsburg was hit again. 730 died, 1335 injured and 85000 lost their homes. I'm English, from Manchester, Britain fought for it's life, but to this day people in Germany remember their dead too.

Balls of steel .Terrible cost though.

Street level?! Really?! Balls of steel!

The U-boat diesel engine production line was un-affected. Too few aircraft, should have been a 1000 bomber job !

forza palermo

So what happened to the person that made the mistake that alerted the Germans? No lives were lost in vain? Rubbish. The war memorials are at risk in londonistan what would they have to say?