How British Soldiers Almost Killed Churchill  

"British almost killed their prime minister" USS William D Porter: *Hold our torpedoes*

Would've probably been a little awkward if they succeeded the mission

"Narrowly, coming into contact with breast". The highlight of many flights.

Even when a Boeing isn't killing you, it's trying to get you killed 😂

Might be a great example of how two incompetencies cancels themselves out

These unknown stories from WWII are fascinating.

"... And that's how I earned the Iron Cross." - Abe Simpson

You imagine being the pilot that took out the "bomber" only to find out it was the pm? Oof.

Hurricane Fighters : Mission Failed Successfully.

In a parallel universe they found him

Summary: Churchill wanted a flight and almost cost him to be lost in the middle of air and ocean and shot down by friendly air force

Now, do the one where Franklin D Roosevelt almost got torpd but still pardoned the sailors despite almost killing him and a 100+ other navymen while onboard Missouri

Imagine had the flight intercepted the aircraft but acknowledged it to not be an enemy, then painting a cigar on the plane for almost shooting down Churchill

Imagine an Indian newspaper headlines: "British dictator shot down by British planes"

It's so nuts how much wild and unbelievable shit happened during the world wars. So much of it is just like this.

Sometimes a roll of dice determines the fate of the world.

Why is the most North Western part of Wales labelled as "East Wales"?!

I wonder if the Germans thought it was one of theirs? xD

This flight originated in Baltimore with a stop-over in Bermuda. My grandfather sent a committee of disgruntled Bermudian leaders to New York that week. So Churchill's surprise arrival as the first Prime Minister to ever visit Bermuda -- which included a rousing speech and singing of "God Save the King" in the Bermudian Parliament -- did not include many of the complainers. These civilians learned the lesson: don't complain about my grandfather's naval decisions during war.

Please share more of these obscure stories from WWII. They're always fascinating

How have I not heard of this

Where were the soldiers? This should read "British Airmen" not British soldiers. Soldiers don't fly aircraft, not in the UK. None of the crew are called soldiers.

That could change the history

Most competent brit pilot right there Went wrong way, failed to locate potential enemy bomber

Dumb luck was with Churchill.

Imagine how different history would be if they would have found the plane and shot it down.

Imagine not identifying the royal charter from 30nmi away smh

Friendly fire won't be tolerated

Imagine if Churchill had ended up retaking France himself.

British: "We almost Killed our leader." The American Military with JFK going against their interests: "......."

there are times when radio silence can be the most dangerous rule of war

Boeing: software issue

Gives me Brothers In Arms vibes with the red stripe

Thanks another potential alternative universe story right there.

Churchill was despised by the working class of Britain, before, during, and after the war.

"Oh wait, dont engage, that might just be the prime minister" "oops"

*"Church-hill"* 💀💀

This just tells you either espionage was crazy or mismanagement was rampant

THIS GOES SO HARD ON MY JDM RADIO IN THE LATE NIGHT🗣️🗣️🔥🔥‼️‼️

This could be the pitch of a whole "what if" Netflix series

To be fair the Hurricane pilots would have most likely recognized that the plane with its markings weren't german.

They almost single handedly ended the war 😂😂😂

"The mission was a failure!" "Which was successful!"

Churchill had ridiculous luck 😂

Lucky todger

Incompetence cancels incompetence.

18:46 Fernbedienung ASMR (Toshiba Edition).

Perfect example of failing successfully

Bro i can see that drivers an pilots write history no One else

there are so many 'near death' experiences of ww2 and ww1 that would have drasticly altered the course of history

Great Video❤

Bro has Call of Duty levels of plot armor

Ah yes, an Englishmen’s worse nightmare, approaching France.

Holy shit... That... ho... that would've changed the course of history forever... Wow... It's moments like this that are just fascinating. It's similar to the situation of that one Russian nuclear armed submarine where one officer refused to believe that WW3 had started and refused to launch nuclear warheads in retaliation. There are so many events like this in history where EVERYTHING would have changed in a few short moments.

That flight really had the opportunity for many misfortunes. Shot down by friendly fire, enemy fire, crashing, lost at sea, sunk by a U-boat, just to name a few.

That was one awkward conversation later

If the pilots would have succeeded, the whole accident would be covered up and blamed on the germans, for sure.

*For some reason at the very tip of North Wales* “This shall now be known as East Wales”

I watch the WW2 channel & I remember when Indy covered this. Apparently, after landing or maybe just before it, Churchill is to have said "They failed in their mission". In reference to the RAF not being able to find him or shoot him down 😂

Imagine if Churchills plane accidentally landed in an airfield in German occupied France near the coast.

RAF fighters when they landed: 😬😬😬😬

This guy had balls of steel. I mean, flying in a Boeing? Crazy...

Never heard about this ,thanks

Thank you for the excellent captions.

That is the worst day during the WW2.

At 6:33 The kicksmobile turbos sounds like a jet

That flight even got crazier!! My man Churchill even took the controls from the pilot and flew that big 'ol sea plane!! There's even a pretty cool picture of him sitting in the pilot's seat, headphones on and chomping on a big smelly cigar!! Back in the EARLY days of flight, Churchill was a big champion of these new fangled flying machines and even helped get the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm started. He really, REALLY wanted to get his pilot's license but after a series of crashes, his wife Clementine, really, REALLY wanted her husband to stay alive so he made him choose: pilot's license or a loving wife. Because Winston was so smart, he chose the loving wife thing... who also happened to be the mother of his children!! Wise choice my friend, wise choice!!

That's very interesting. Great clip 👍🏼👍🏼

Did they not have protocol to radio a new intercept before verifying it's an enemy and not something like this?

Wasn’t Churchill told his close death and his response was. “They failed in their mission…”

And they would have done it too.. Thx god for Sub Par English radars back then.

"and that's how I won the iron cross"

Good thing Churchill didn’t become a whistleblower on that Boeing or he’d been done for

That looks like Howard Hughes Spruce Goose!

Yeah, the "genius"

So the debacles on the Italian peninsula and at Arnhem might have been avoided?

And he wouldn't have had it any other way. If the pilots got eyes on his plane, they would have realized it wasn't a german bomber

Such a creative idea!

„I was almost killed by the people of the country I am ruling, but luckily our military is too bad for that“

“Eastern wales” over anglesey lol

"Task failed successfully".

The one guy who disables Friendly Fire in every game.

Yeah, have to admit we’re much better sailors than we are fliers.

Ironically it was Churchill who gave backing to the British military using radar. Despite that, the decision was a good one that saved a lot of lives.

Legend has it the flight crew diverted just long enough to jury rig their parachute cords to hold up their pants before the inevitable debrief

"EAST WALES" while being in the north west of wales... wtf lol 😂

ace combat 7 ahh airforce

Couldn't imagine how the pilots would have felt if they engaged target.

I guess churchill wanted to know what kind of rainge are plane had

Churchnil said ," why Gandhi didn't die if there is a famine in Bengal"

Thos aircraft renders are awesome

Damn, too bad

And there weren't any transatlantic phone lines back then so no one could call to let them know what he was doing. There were AM radios and those could pick up transmissions but it would take a lot of power to get a message across the Atlantic.

Wait wasn't the plane marked with allied markings ?

Almost two catastrophes 😮 Either get shot down or captured by Axis forces in occupied France, or shot down by the RAF 😬 😅

The cliffs are on the east coast, they really were lost🤣

Thank you

What a story

Little confused why would they assume a plane coming from America(west) would be a German plane? If Germany is to the east?

RAF: "We nearly killed our Prime Minister!" US Navy: "Oh you too?"