@@chrishamilton2559 Well ...... yes - If i'd paid for a Sturmovik restoration then thats what I would expect to receive. BNot that Id say no to s Spitfire although it was the Hurricane that did all the work.
Correction yes Thompson SMG was indeed used by British forces but not In common use due to its expensive cost (200.00 in 1940 dollars. The most common British SMG the Sten in is multiple versions. The Thompson was also very heavy (12 lbs)
@@willdenoble1898 ?? We were given Sterlings to train with in 71, We were told then that they cost 5.50 UK pounds, and were also were given Stens, to compare , those we were told cost only 12/6 we were then converted to the new money , 1 shilling was equal to 5 pence..
@NZ Salt Flats Racer -- that's why it's called the "Most Amazing Unexpected Military Finds"! It only took 9 seconds to change Unexpectedly from a Sturmovik to a Spitfire. You probably Found that to be the Most Amazing military thing you've seen! See how this works?! 😉
5:50 you know that he didn't do it right? First to break enigma were Marian Rejtewski, Marian Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki after they shared to british what they achived they told the world that they made it
They broke the enigma code in 1932. Later in 1939 Germans upgraded the enigma coding which the 3 poles couldn't break anymore because it required further investments. Because of that they shared their discovery and knowledge with France and Great Britain. So Poles were the first to discover how to break anigma codes, but the English were those who broke German enigma codes during ww2.
It's good to see some of these planes recovered and being restored. There's so much history out there that's slowly rusting away and being lost. Especially irritating to me is how the US government just dumped so much useful equipment into the sea because it wasn't needed anymore.
Sad? YES But, at the time, the most economical way to assure it didn't end up in a potential enemies possession...Remember the USSR in the 90's? Still finding caches of weapons that were sold on the black market...
The actual way it went down was the host nation government was approached at the end of the conflict during the pull out and was offered the equipment in exchange for money, (as you know the US was essentially broke because of the conflict) the "gist" of what was said was we will not pay for it, we'll just take it when you leave... The military said fine and scuttled it....
@Modal Soul just gotta ask, is it really more expensive to take these state of the art planes and helicopters back then to let a literal terrorist group freely have them? Not to mention replacing them
Actually we were supplying Britain with loads of guns, ammunition, artillery, armored vehicles including tanks and even aircraft as well as lots of contract “military” ships, they did issue the Thompson, it was The desired firearm except it was expensive to manufacture and the grease gun was a fraction of the price. I don’t think people realize that in WW2 everyone was manufacturing more than could be supported by worldwide mining/refinery supplies could handle. Do you know how much metal ore it takes to make the 12,000 tons of steel for a single destroyer? There were only a few hundred new cars manufactured from 1941-1946 in the us because the govt controlled metal supply and were using it all, and pre war 1937-1941 they were cranking out military supplies like that was the only thing to do
@@codyg7936 You weren't "supplying" Britain with anything. You sold war materials, initially in exchange for money or naval concessions (your so-called "Cash & Carry" policy) and then on credit, after Britain & its allies had won the Battle of Britain on their own. Britain finally paid off the last of its US war loans in 2006.
@@bnipmnaa it was supplied, the things didn’t just appear out of nowhere. nothing comes for free, it was paid for but the us were suppliers despite your anti-American idiocy.
it actually was standard issue from the late 1930s until the Sten was introduced, and was widely used in Asia and the Pacific by British forces after the Sten started to supersede the Thompson in use despite British beliefs, their weapons, tanks, planes, and shops weren’t entirely home-grown.
Several years ago, a friend of mine owned a beachfront home in St. Augustine, Florida. About 100 yds from his home on the beach, a 500 lb bomb was discovered buried since WW II. Apparently, it was lost in a training exercise, and had to be blown up where it was. He said he walked over that spot hundreds of times over the years. Talk about dodging a bullet...
@@brentfarvors192, generaly that is the case, but it was buried about 12 feet under the sand. When the bomb squad dug it up, they had already cleared the area about 1/4 mile in evert direction. It was detonated where it was, and when it went off you could see the cloud of sand and water about 10 miles or so out to sea. It was insane to watch!
@@brentfarvors192 not necessarily, the people killed every year in Europe by munitions from the world wars would tend to disagree. It’s a problem even now.
@@danr6716 1. I have no idea what you said due to your grammar... 2. most stories from Brit are bluffed during ww2... 3. think about it, 500k Brits died, 6mill Poles died, 6mill Germans died, 20mill Russians died... so on, apart from Canada and some other countries...Brits had the lowest death toll considering they were pretty scared...
Ask most people who broke the Enigma code and they’ll more than likely reply that it was the boffins and eggheads stationed in Bletchley Park headed by the legendary Alan Turing. However, were it not for the work of a team of Polish mathematicians, Turing and his team would have faced a far more daunting task.
A US tank was stolen by Vietcong and disappeared. Years later a tunnel rat climbed into a command post deep underground. It was the tank being used as a bomb proof chamber of a tunnel complex. The Vietcong needed a bombproof place to use radios because of US had excellent radio direction finders.
Of all the colonial troops used in France in WWI from the Belgian, British or French Empires, the Vietnamese had the reputation for being the toughest. You have to be tough to stay independent next to the Chinese Empire.
The tank would have been armoured on the sides... the horizontal surfaces weren't! It doesn't show that the story was wrong, just that the users who used the tank as shelter needed to bury it as deep as possible.
The Thompson submachine guns found in the water were cut and de-milled before they were found with a magnet.. The cut lines were as rusty as the rest of the weapon.
There was another plane recovered from Lake Michigan a few years ago. It was intact just sitting on the bottom of the lake with the pilot still strapped in. The pilot's remains were buried with full military honors.
Firstly it's Warwick pronounced War-rick then Beauleau pronounced Bu lee. Then the German's trunk was OBVIOUSLY abandoned or lost by a retreating German soldier, your explanation was laughable.
I used to live close to the Royal Navy bomb disposal team's base, just outside Portsmouth, England. I could hear their sirens every time they went out on a call. They were indeed very busy, usually 2-3 call-outs every day.
I doubt the guns were dumped by civilians. The British military cut up and dumped tons of material after the war. All of those .38s and Thompsons were saw cut before dumping.
Depends on time of Year Some fish etc lay eggs in the weeds to the side or a stone bottom River. in the UK there is a fishing ban on most rivers from march to june for that reason.
It is likely that the crate was left behind when the nazis were retreating from the USSR. As the soldiers serving in the Wehrmacht were not tried for war crimes after the war, unless they explicitly were involved in them. When the war was over they returned to their homes like every other soldier.
That secret site in Germany where all the tanks are is not secret at all. I live quite close to it and it is publicly known to be a military training ground which is open to public outside of the training times and used by local people to walk their dogs or just go for a walk themselves every weekend. I have climbed onto those tanks as a kid and so have my owns kids. This place is called "Brander Wald".
Fun fact near gaspesie in quebec during ww2 a german U-boat submarine tempted to sneak in the us by entering the water from canada but was destroyed by an artillery located on the edge of a hill. The submarine is still down in the sea ever since it's destruction.
In Poland while building the A1 Highway they excavated a Tiger tank, that was buried. They just poured concrete on it without calling anyone so the works wouldn't be halted.
That last piece about a German soldier going all the way to Russia to bury the box of belongings doesn't hold water. Another hypothesis could be that the soldier was part of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of German forces into Russia. It didn't go well. The German's had to give up on the idea for a number of reasons. Hundred's of thousands of German soldiers were taken prisoner. It looks like this soldier buried these belongings with the idea of coming back later to retrieve them. Looks like that didn't work out well either.
Yes, exactly... the Nevsky Pyatachok area was a region of intense fighting between the Germans and the Russians between 1941 and 1943 battling for Leningrad with tens of thousands of casualties.
My dad didn't have enough bomber missions to go straight home. Much to his dismay he had to do occupation duty in Manila. He oversaw the loading of only wheeled vehicles into and onto LST's. Odd task for an Air Corps Lt. who had served as a B-29 navigator. The LST's were then towed to the port of Manila and sunk by gunfire to make a breakwater for the harbor.
@@Kingdom_Of_Dassogne tak zgadza się i to bardzo walecznie ale enigmę rozpracowali Polacy jako pierwsi zdobyliśmy ją i podzieliliśmy się z tym systemem z Anglikami
there’s a bigger reason why the location of that German tank graveyard isn’t talked about: it’s freaking dangerous! despite not being in use, unexploded shells are still there and will kill you! and it’s now mostly a nature preserve so visiting is prohibited due to disturbing local wildlife as for the actual tanks? target practice using 1940s and 1950s tanks is extremely common and done even to this day at military bases. these were obsolete and unneeded due to being superseded by M60s and M551s so were used for something useful rather than scrapped entirely
It's kind of hard, since once you restore it, you need somewhere SAFE to STORE IT...The breeches are still functional...I think the Arms still has some working Sherman's...
At 6.00 in theme about enigma you place a false information- the enigma code was broken by Polish mathematics : Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski. Polish government during preparation to WW 2 gave this informations to british intelligence,afraid so the germans can take this back. British just use those informations and describe all that success to Turing and his team. Rest od materials was really good. Thanks 4 content really good job. Offcourse greeetings from Poland 🤜🤛
The Americans dumping their machine is actually helping more than polluting. The reason is because these wreckage are usually cleaned (removed engines etc) before getting dumped. The aquatic life usually uses these wreckage as homes. (I'm not sure if this is true though since I found this information 2-3 years ago and it's pretty vague)
Not in the 40s at that point in time when an oil change was done on your car they used to dig holes in the ground put some gravel in and dump the used oil right into the ground and burying cars and other trash was also "normal"
just one bulldog and 3 m47 patton! this is a military ground (since 1936) to exercise for ground troops . no tank was ever a target in these woods ......you need to do more research .....
there was no B-239 :( it is the last known "buffalo brewster" that was used in finland in ww2. the truth is that not even usa has any of these anymore. it is shown in museum in tikkakoski
Allan Turin didn't crack the enigma code, it was cracked by Polish mathematicians in Poland who had an Enigma machine and brought it to Britain when the Germans invaded their country.
Turing made things easier by spotting that Enigma machines NEVER coded a letter with the same letter, so you could rule out a lot of 'guesswork' decryption and concentrate on the probables. Turing's main role was breaking the "Fish" codes that Hitler used, for which he had to work out the mathematics, while a telephone engineer, Tommy Flowers, designed an electric switching machine, 'Colossus', that actually broke the codes. (MUCH faster than the bombes could.) 'Colossus' was the world's first programmable computer, and the British government broke it up after the war, then broke and scattered the pieces, because they didn't trust the Americans. What we British didn't know, of course, was that the American IBM company was secretly working on the same problem by a different route, but weren't saying, because they didn't trust us!
@@sarumano884 Both the Polish and the English share credit for breaking the Enigma code, along with all of the people that worked on it. The way the British treated Turing after the war, though, was shameful.
Someone in somewhere called frome found a beretta and showed to his mum she asked where he found it and he said he fished it out the river he then proceeded to find a full stash of classic ww2 weapons in the river
The plane at 2:30 is a static display not an airworthy aircraft. The pictures of the rebuild shows wooden frames the FM2 didn't have wood frames they were aluminum.
Bletchley Park is to celebrate the work of three Polish mathematicians who cracked the German Enigma code in World War II. Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki ...
The German soldier was sent to the Eastern front. This was a battlefield area during the war. The soldier was very possibly hiding his German uniform to avoid being killed by the communist forces. He may either be highly proficient in Russian and went native, or he buried his valued artefacts when it became too difficult to carry on to the next location. The Germans became overwhelmed on the eastern front and in the end had almost no transport due to fuel running out and horses dying in the cold, and also starvation. This is common knowledge in history books.
Less than a minute in and they are saying"...it was known as the flying tank, and this is what it looks like..." role clip of a Spitfire doing a fly by, not an IL2 ffs.
We used the range in Germany /Belgian border for target practice with wombats and Bazookas CG84 and LAW , at that time there were several Tigers and Pathers there as well as well as a Churchill and several M4's
@@jameseastwood4984 was near Aachen , exact ? given early mid 70's , memory is not that good. That is if you were asking me .. trained at several ranges all over Germany .. berlin to west
Well, when he says: "This is what it looks like today" and then he proceeds to show a Spitfire. It then transforms into a Stuka. This is a VERY versatile plane.
I remember seeing a plane being loaded on a truck in Waukegan harbor. I know I was passing by going to beach when they were loading it! Quite a few years ago!
Yes, only until 1939 tho, when the nazis changed the code, and the poles ran out of budget before transferring their equipment and findings to the British, who broke it again.
They went through the same problem closing bases in the Philippines...too much to recover to the states, will anyone buy it... Mortar rounds don't float.
People think that Turing broke the Enigma machine and gave the Allies its most crucial weapon against the Nazis. This is totally and unequivocally false, it was actually broken by Marian Rejewski at the Polish Biuro Szyfrów all the way back in 1932
"WW2 never made it to mainland USA>" I beg to differ. Three Alaskan islands were occupied by the Japanese during WW2. U.S. Army efforts to remove them apparently cost 300-some American lives, all accidents and friendly fire as the Japanese had evacuated before the assault began. I believe a nearby mainland town/airport were bombed. A Japanese balloon bomb made it to Oregon and landed. A youth paster and his Sunday School class, examining it (there had been no publicity about them due to wartime censorship), set it off and they were killed. Down near San Francisco, a Japanese submarine shelled an oil refinery and a car on a road; some damage occurred but no lives were lost and it took an investigation to figure out what happened.
A lot of Balloon bombs made it to the US. At least one even made it to the Midwest. Very few of them were noticed though since a lot of the US in uninhabited. There were plans to use them to unleash bioweapons, but the Emperor wouldn't allow it.
