Sailor Malan - Freedom Fighter in the Battle of Britain and Beyond

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Part of Battle of Britain Week on WW2TV
A. G. Malan, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar better known as Sailor Malan, was a South African fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force who led No. 74 Squadron RAF during the Battle of Britain. He finished his fighter career in 1941 with 27 destroyed, 7 shared destroyed and 2 unconfirmed, 3 probables and 16 damaged. At the time he was the RAF's leading ace, and one of the highest scoring pilots to have served wholly with Fighter Command during the Second World War.
In this show we will talk about the man, his background, politics and ethics and we will look at his flying prowess and most famous sorties.
A prolific author, Dilip Sarkar has been obsessed with the Second World War for a lifetime. An MBE for 'services to aviation history', and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, unsurprisingly, for a retired police detective with a First in Modern History, his work has always been evidence-based - often challenging long-accepted myths. Firmly focussed on the 'human' experience of war, his many previous works include the authorized biographies of Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader and Air Vice-Marshal 'Johnnie' Johnson, the best-selling Spitfire Manual and The Few. Dilip has presented at such prestigious venues as Oxford University, the Imperial War and RAF Museums, and National Memorial Arboretum; he works on TV documentaries, both on and off screen.
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@WW2TV 2 года назад

Such a legendary figure. If you have enjoyed this show, please don't forget to click like, leave a comment for other viewers and if you have not done so already please SUSBSCRIBE so you don't miss our next streams. You can also become a member of this channel and support me financially here ru-vid.com/show-UCUC1nmJGHmiKtlkpA6SJMeA. Links to any books discussed, WW2TV merchandise, our social media pages and other WW2TV shows to watch can all be found in the full RU-vid description. Lastly, my own book Angels of Mercy is always available online - more info here www.ddayhistorian.com/angels-of-mercy.html

@louwvandermerwe3219 2 года назад

Honathan Malan , Sailor Malan"s son passed away on 20 October 2021. He was my uncle and my son's Gard father. He was my hero ! I always wanted to be a fighter pilot because of him. i ended up being a fire bomber pilot and putting out forest fires. But I miss our late night chats. Jonothan and I loved talking about all the stories.

@sarafigueira Год назад

Hi! Id like to talk to you. Is that possible? Is Sailor Malans daughter still alive?

@rodneyerasmus6736 Месяц назад

Thank you WWTV and Paul for doing so much at highlighting our history.

@CloudyDante 2 года назад

I am a South-African and when I grew up I read about Milan and was so fascinated by him. I even bought books one of which I have taken great care of to this day. Milan had a section dedicated to him that I have read over and over again. A great South-African hero.

@cheesenoodles8316 2 года назад

I will admit, never heard of this pilot. We should all know his name. Great show.

@trevoroutim8519 2 года назад

I am so glad to see a focus on Sailor Malan. I used to read Fleetway comics as a kid which were comics with WW2 stories, which fueled my interest in WW2 stories. I was born and raised in Kimberley, so was amazed to learn about Sailor Malan who lived in Kimberley after the war. I always try to find out more about the man, from people who lived in Kimberley, who knew him. There is the McGregor Museum in Kimberley which i think should have a Sailor Malan exhibit. But as mentioned, his history to South Africans has been airbrushed out, which is such a shame and an injustice. Every South African needs to know about this true hero. Thank you for this presentation. He also had such a great sense of humour, I read of a quote of his, where he described the bar tab of the fighter pilots, at the mess hall, saying: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so few."

@louwvandermerwe178 7 месяцев назад

My great uncle. Jonathan, his son died on 20 October 2021. I miss our late night chats. RIP

@fergus7789 Месяц назад

As a South African, my dad used to talk about Sailor Malian with great fondness. Loved the review and just bought the book.

@thomasmadden8412 2 года назад

Great show and insight into Battle of Britain through a great pilot from South Africa.

@pandacrew1975 2 года назад

Another great presentation. We are really being spoilt this week by the quality of the content! Thanks Dilip for a fascinating story about an inspirational man who I knew little about but now want to learn more, and as always thanks Paul for curating this increasingly fantastic resource.

@nauticalwolf6649 2 года назад

Amazing man. I hope he gets his just recognition

@scottgrimwood8868 2 года назад

Another outstanding show from WW2TV! I had never heard of Sailor Maran so this was a very eye opening presentation. It is great to explore different people involved in the Battle of Britain. Thank you Paul and Dilip.

@scottgrimwood8868 2 года назад

Sorry it should have been Malan!

@ToddSauve 2 года назад

@@scottgrimwood8868 We forgive you Scott! 😉

@lextownsend8748 2 года назад

I'm a South African.. Didn't know half of his story.. Very informative.

@SpitfireCGI 2 года назад

A great fascinating talk hosted by WW2TV focusing on the detective work of renowned Historian Dilip Sarkar following WW2 RAF fighter ace "Sailor" Malans life story.It is incredible, if the world needs a new true hero, here's one.

@sparkey6746 2 года назад

Thank you for this very enlightening lecture.

@patm8622 2 года назад

Great presentation about one of the best fighter pilots, fighter leaders and thoroughly decent human beings to serve in the RAF. Dilip's book will be a must read. .Hopefully he will consider doing the story of another great South African pilot, Pat Pattle, probably the most successful fighter pilot in the RAF, and all while flying obsolescence fighters.

@ackers36 2 года назад

Another superb show about an a remarkable character whose exploits after the Second World War are frustratingly overlooked. I think there is a lot to be said for the impact of class and cultural cross-fertilization that occurred in the RAF during the war. The Royal Navy was also a technical service where aptitude was important to selection and progression but this seems to me to have been felt more keenly in the RAF during this period.

@TheVigilant109 2 года назад

Fantastic presentation. Thank you Dilip and Paul

@markraatsart5049 2 года назад

The pronouncement of 'Malan' is indeed wrong but to harp on about that is churlish IMO. That Sailor and his entire legacy is celebrated so brilliantly in this book is not only long overdue, its sincerely appreciated. Superb presentation, thank you for sharing.

@ToddSauve 2 года назад

It is interesting that Dilip noted how so many of the top aces were terrific shots. You run into that fact in the lives of so many of these aces. They grew up on farms many times and had a rifle in their hands from a very early age. Even army guys, who were often born on farms and had only one or two bullets to go out and get supper for the family. Audie Murphy was like this, growing up on a Texas farm and being dirt poor he had to get whatever was going to be on the table that night for supper with only one or two bullets. So necessity dictated that they develop an excellent eye for leading their prey and bringing it down with a minimum of fuss. A lot of Canadian aces grew up this way, too, since Canada was basically a frontier country. It is not surprising that Sailor Malan developed this skill at an early age growing up on a South African farm. Like Sailor Malan and early South African pioneers, a lot of the earliest settlers of Canada in Quebec were Huguenots seeking religious freedom in the New World. I have also heard that Willie McKnight was basically mentally exhausted when he was shot down and killed while flying with Douglas Bader's 242 squadron in 1941. No doubt many of those BoB fighter pilots had reached the end of their ropes and long since tied a knot in the end when they were lost in 1941 and 1942.

@johncraig9011 2 года назад

A interesting chat, thanks. A another S.A. fighter ace that nobody knows about is Pat Pattle, flying outdated gladiators and hurricanes, apparently the top "ace" in each of those two types of aircraft, dicing superior German and Italian planes

@tonyvart7068 2 года назад

very good insight into Malan...loved the passionate view of Malans post war activities...hugely relevant today as it was then.

@davidlavigne207 2 года назад

This was a great show Paul. It made me reminisce about a friend from my military past during the 1980s. We had a soldier in our unit who was a British subject, born in Carlisle, but had moved with his family to South Africa at the age of seven. I met his family, who had moved to Gainesville, Georgia in the U.S. His younger siblings were born and raised mostly in South Africa and they had very different race views than their older brother. This explains something of Sailor's attitudes to me in that he saw racism first hand and it lead him to abhor these attitudes. My friend was very much the same as opposed to some of his family members views. (I won't mention the Irish jokes I heard over dinner as that is another subject) Once again, thanks for having such fascinating guests.

@ondrejdobrota7344 2 года назад

I found the mention about changing the bulb. It happened on 24.5.40 at around 15.40, when his aircraft was hit near Dunkerque.

@georgewnewman3201 Год назад

Another point about the radios is that if two or more people are trying to transmit at same time on same frequency, everyone else hears only gibberish. Think the scene in the 1976 film "Midway" when Admiral Spruance (Glenn Ford) and his staff are trying to follow the battle based on the radio transmissions of the aircrews only worse. This radio confusion is considered by investigators as a contributing factor in the 1977 Tenerife runway collision of the two 747s.

@robertstuart-hill7347 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for this wonderful insight. Sadly the Nationalists sought to destroy all records of the South Africans who fought against Facism in world war two. Those veterans were never celebrated.

@ninkieboo3476 3 месяца назад

Thank you for this history about a great South African. I was born in 1946. I can clearly remember the Torch Brand because as a toddler I went with my late father to a meeting in St Helena. All the cars congregated and formed a circle and the car lights were on. We had a huge pile of Torch Brand stickers that were handed out. I do not know what happened to the rest of the stickers in boxes that we had at home. The returning soldiers were cut down for belonging to the Torch Brand. NOTE not every South African supported apartheid. Same applies; now not every South African supports the ANC

@grantrace7117 2 года назад

Super book and great to see this film. Read the original Oliver Walker biog many years . I have always wondered if Sailor Malan's log books and medals survive.

@AnthonyBrown12324 Год назад

Johnny Johnson story how Malan defended the line taken by Park and was having serious argument with Bader about it. I guess I will have to buy this book. Especially as I have an interest in civil rights too.

@AnthonyBrown12324 Год назад

Great video. I remember in the Johnnie

@Postpunk-cx1ph 2 года назад

Cracking content as always.

@WW2TV 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@knackernut4072 Год назад

Great program with fresh insights into the life and career of 'Sailor' Malan. One thing though. Mr Sarkar credits 'Johnnie' Johnson with being the RAF's top scoring 'Ace', but surely there was another South African who is now believed to have surpassed him. ' Pat Pattle, who flew Gladiators and Hurricanes in the Middle East and Greece is believed to have scored around 50 kills' before his death in April 1941,.

@michaelhardy8843 5 месяцев назад

I read it was around 60+ kills

@knackernut4072 5 месяцев назад

You could well be right. I believe that the chaotic nature of the fighting in general and in the final stages of the Greek campaign in particular, was such that it was difficult to keep up with events and there was little proper record keeping possible. Some of Pattle's kills were based upon the recollections of surviving pilots and others. I got my figure from a Book called 'Aces High' by Christopher Shores and Clive Williams, and it gives Pattle's successes as follows: 'Provisionally about 50 and 2 shared destroyed, 7 and 1 shared probable, 4 and 2 shared damaged, and 3 destroyed on the ground.(NB 10 - 15 of those listed as destroyed during April may be open to question as to date or certainty)' Of course what is not open to question is that 'Pat' Pattle was an extemely skilled and courageous fighter pilot, who made a substantial score and who insisted on flying even when medically unfit, He was killed when he was 'bounced' by two Bf 110s after shooting one off the tail of 'Timber'Woods (a squadron colleague and 'Ace' in his own right) who was also killed in this engagement. @@michaelhardy8843

@suenelholloway2265 10 месяцев назад

Marvellous stuff. I have Malan blood on my mother's side. She was a Cape Afrikaner; my father was from the Free State and we viewed the Anglosized Cape Afrikaners as traitors, selling out to the English. There is also a branch of the Malan family that bred horses for the English to use in the Anglo-Boer War. Is that not profiteering? This is a more nuanced story than is generally assumed. Interestingly Apartheid was driven by a Cape Malan who had not suffered under the English but exploited the woundedness of the Afrikaner psyche that had fear of extinction as formative force. ( More Afrikaners , relative to population size, died in English concentration camps than Jews in the holocaust.) I think Sailor is a wonderful person, and my comments in no way detract from his heroism, but am unsure of the picture of Malan as a miniature English gentleman who opposes bullying etc that by implication demonises the Afrikaner as a racist , when apart from other aspects such as the Scorched Earth policy of Roberts and Kitchener, 800 depositions were recorded of English soldiers raping Boer girls and women . Also, Empire stealing South Africa's gold and diamonds is an example of bullying on a grand scale. Expecting the Afrikaners to fight alongside the English caused great division in families - it would be like expecting survivors of the holocaust to fight alongside Germans against a common enemy. English self-absolution pops up in the oddest places . (And please know this is fascinating history, but it cannot quite let go of the oblique prejudicial slant.) I suggest for those that really want to know, to read APARTHEID : BRITAIN"S BASTARD CHILD by Helene Opperman-Lewis Let's face it: We all have blood on our hands.

@WW2TV 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the book suggestion

@jpatpat9360 11 месяцев назад

I'm a South African widow of 74 of Envlish descent. I'm so chuffed that Sailor Malan is being remembered....I knew quite a bit about him as my dad often talked admiringly about him. Unfortunately Malan was a moderate who believed in fairness and justice which didn't suit either the far right apartheid govt or the communist-allied ANC govt so they just painted him out of our history

@WW2TV 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing that

@jonathansteadman7935 22 дня назад

I had heard that Robert Shaw's portrayal in the Battle of Britain was based on Sailor Malan, it's interesting to know it was incorrect as he comes across more 'Bullish' like Douglas Bader than Malan.

@jonzfilms 11 месяцев назад

I need to be involved. Please get in contact. I am family and raised with these values. I echo everything you said. I can help with the documentary.

@WW2TV 11 месяцев назад

www.dilipsarkarmbe.com/

@martindice5424 2 года назад

Can ANYONE explain how and why Leigh Mallory ever rose to the position he did? Please? Sholto Douglas is a mystery too… On the other hand, Park was a success wherever he was in command (Malta, Burma). It’s a historical mystery …

@WW2TV 2 года назад

Yep, Leigh Mallory doesn't seem to have many fans these days

@jpatpat9360 11 месяцев назад

I'm South African and the surname Malan is of French Huguenot stock who now all speak Afrikaans, so (not that it matters now) should be pronounced Malun. I guess all the Brits would have said Ma-lan as its spelled that way. I should imagine its only us who care about that.....

@vonhabsburg2 Год назад

I was married to his cousin - another Malan!!

@angloaust1575 2 года назад

His real name was adolf which wouldn't go down too well!

@WW2TV 2 года назад

Well Adolph yes

@suenelholloway2265 10 месяцев назад

Believe me, the South Africans in my circle honour Sailor. We have forgotten NOTHING about our history - such a tiny beleagured nation guards its heroes. It is simply not true that we do not know about each and every one. Do English people know that the rather ugly staue in front of their parliament house is of an Afrikaner? Jan Smuts was advisor on London's air defenses in WW1, and commander-in-chief as well as member of the Allied war cousel in WW2 . The master of Christ college at Cambridge (of whom Smuts was a chancellor) said that in 500 years of college history they only had three great minds: Milton, Darwin and Smuts. Jan Smuts coined the term "Holism" , was largely responsible for the preamble to the United Nations charter and his unorthodox leadership during the Anglo Bowr war is a matter of record. At the end of WW1 he (a.o.) predicted WW2, claiming that one could not humiliate a nation to such a degree, smash their industries and cast them into poverty without there being a reaction. Afrikaners deeply understand humiliation. Humiliation as pathway to violence is a basic tenet of transgenerational trauma and enactment ; hence apartheid. This is no way, shape or form justifies Apartheid . Our black population is currently in the throes of enactment . Israel's actions towards the Palestinians , Ireland's violent history, many modern histories from Vietnam to Zimbabwe to Rwanda are examples of this theory. It is easy to condemn, but it does not serve to move human interaction towards a healthier footing if we do not seek to UNDERSTAND.