Tank Chats #58 Buffalo & Weasel | The Funnies | The Tank Museum

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Tank Chats playlist • Tank Chats from The Ta... Another episode in the Tank Chats Funnies Specials, with David Fletcher looking at the weird and wonderful vehicles of 79th Armoured Division led by Major General Percy Hobart, known as 'Hobart's Funnies'.
The Buffalo, or Landing Vehicle Tracked IV (LVT), is a lightly armoured tracked amphibious carrier. British ‘Buffaloes’ were used in Northern Italy during WW2 and were issued to the 79th Armoured Division in Northwest Europe where they played an important role in the crossing of the Rhine, in 1945. This particular Weasel is amphibious and was used in muddy and wet conditions, rather than directly in water.
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@9thSapper 6 лет назад

Only Mr. Fletcher can talk about the back end of a buffalo and keep me interested.

@Bird_Dog00 6 лет назад

lol, true.

@JohnyG29 6 лет назад

off*

@alcoles9660 4 года назад

Mr. Fletcher and AVGN

@williamchamberlain2263 2 года назад

"How many troops can you stuff in the back end of a buffalo? Sources vary, but..."

@alanhelton 2 года назад

But that’s the $hit end m8!

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized 6 лет назад

I see David Fletcher and I like.

@Bird_Dog00 6 лет назад

Yep, pretty much.

@CybershamanX 6 лет назад

David Fletcher smashes. ;)

@TheGreatSteve 6 лет назад

Speak like a valley girl?

@neilwilson5785 6 лет назад

Me too. Always a good day when these come out.

@zoltankatona6828 6 лет назад

I David Fletcher and I see I like.

@oldgysgt 6 лет назад

The builders of the LVTs was FMC, but that stands for Food Machinery Corporation, NOT Federated Meat Corporation! FMC later built the M113 APC and the Bradley Fighting Vehicle currently used by the US Army. The reason the Americans put fewer personnel in the LVTs than the British is that the Americans were primarily using LVTs for amphibious invasions of Pacific islands via beach landings, and the British primarily used them for river crossing. In an amphibious invasions you might circle for hours before all of the waves of landing vehicles were organized before the rush to the beach. Circling for hours in the open sea in a flat bottom craft can cause severe sea sickness, (I know this from personal experience), and closely packing people into the landing craft only makes the problem worse. However, river crossings were usually done much faster over a shorter distance on much calmer water, so motion sickness is less of a problem.

@PanSearedRibeye68 3 месяца назад

The Graham Brothers built many of these LVTs as well.

@Loui5D 6 лет назад

More out-takes please.

@haroldellis9721 6 лет назад

Agreed. One, very funny. Two, David Fletcher's mistakes are better than most people's best work ever.

@evilmoif 6 лет назад

Woffle woffle woffle

@norad_clips 5 лет назад

Out-tanks

@Dsdcain 6 лет назад

These Tank Chats with David Fletcher are always so enjoyable to watch.

@wannabemexican 6 лет назад

I will always stop what I am doing and watch when I see the Tank Museum has uploaded another of these. Great stuff.

@spencerc7819 6 лет назад

So civilized.

@sim.frischh9781 5 лет назад

Yes, especially since they use a better mic, he tends to mumble and was hard to understand in early vids. Must have been the mustach, i say.

@sim.frischh9781 5 лет назад

@Patrick Ancona And thanks to the better mic now even i can understand what he says XD

@lalucre1803 6 лет назад

David Fletcher is the David Attenborough of tanks.

@MrB1923 5 лет назад

Hopefully the BBC don't get to him.

@michaelemberley2767 5 лет назад

Except he's ill-spoken, full of nonsense, and generally a bore. FMC stands for Food Machinery Corporation.. David Wiley sounds like a scholar, Fletcher sounds like your drunk uncle.

@JohnyG29 5 лет назад

@@michaelemberley2767 You are wrong. He is neither ill spoken or a bore. He mistook meat for another word in relation to a 70+ year old vehicle 99.999% of the general population would never have heard of, that is all. Please grow up.

@liquid6901 5 лет назад

He'd have to be crouching in the bush, speaking in a hushed tone, as the tank approaches it prey.

@MrBurtbackerack 5 лет назад

@@michaelemberley2767 You fookin' wot m8?

@raytrevor1 6 лет назад

Another excellent video from David Fletcher. And I am so glad that no-one at the Tank Museum feels the need to add music - which detracts from so many others that I watch.

@thatfriggingbathroom2656 6 лет назад

Oh yes, please keep not adding music

@spencerc7819 6 лет назад

The main reason I can hardly watching the "Inside the Chieftain's Hatch" series.

@ItsStevieBoy 6 лет назад

So much this.

@EleanorPeterson 4 года назад

I like the lack of nationalism, too. No flags. No partisan bitching. No "We're Number 1 and everybody hates the Commies!" crap. Just the facts, ma'am. Just the facts. :-)

@cjwrench07 2 года назад

@@EleanorPeterson that’s why we need to make sure museums & libraries are well funded, and kept at arms-length from any kind of politics, forever. They are there to store and relay facts. I desperately wish they would receive the funding to keep them open late at night. A lot of times, I don’t want to hang out at the pub/bar, and they would be great alternatives.

@adamg7984 5 лет назад

Oh my god, Fletcher's humor is such pristine gold. He just takes the most mundane and remedial details and makes them so interesting.

@jakedee4117 6 лет назад

Brilliant ! "The Americans don't have patience for the slightly loony like the British do" It's true, in America the slightly loony are living in a tent under a freeway shouting at the traffic. In Britain they get a medal and a job as historian in a museum. 😁😜 God bless you David Fletcher. Wait ! Is he wearing any socks ?

@Swarm509 6 лет назад

I'd like to submit Irving Finkel and his teaching on Cuneiform's, Noah, and the game of Ur as further evidence that this is indeed true.

@TigerBaron 6 лет назад

More like the loony that lost the Presidential run. Oh and what about the loonies in the mainstream media that all said otherwise.

@DC9622 6 лет назад

Jake Dee yes, hence the all Funnies he has talked about. Firefly, lets put the best gun we have in the best tank, sod the fact the turrets too small. Upkeep, we will bounce the bomb over water. Mustang, lets stick in a two stage Rolls Royce Merlin. Perhaps more eccentric than loony in those cases.

@tigermonkeybeijing 6 лет назад

I've met Mr Finkel. It's something of a studied act, a performance. He is a genuine and high-performing academic though. The eccentricity is a fake which has become a shield, designed to protect Mr Finkel. Best leave him to it, he's happy like that.

@joseelempecinao89 6 лет назад

@yeoldebiggetee I think Mr Fletcher is talking about talented looneys

@skipdreadman8765 Год назад

The way he said, "weeeeasel," when he introduced the vehicle! Fabulous.

@CarlosZig 6 лет назад

David Fletcher must be one of the most well versed man in tank history, and one of the cutest, I see him and I just want give him a big hug and ask for tank stories.

@garfield921 6 лет назад

David Fletcher is the Bob Ross of tanks

@kansascityshuffle8526 6 лет назад

That buffalo might be pregnant.

@MrB1923 5 лет назад

Was it you?

@kansascityshuffle8526 5 лет назад

Maury said no. You nervous?

@jamespfp 5 лет назад

AND IT IS A BREACH DELIVERY! QUICK, get a bucket of boiling water and all the white towels you can find, STAT!

@randomcoyote8807 5 лет назад

An Amphibious Jeep/"Seep" appears to have been the proud papa.

@benwilson6145 4 года назад

Blame Boris, he shags everything.

@johnking6624 3 года назад

These Buffalos have a place in my heart. When I was in the TA many years ago we were trained in placing demolition charges on redundant Buffalos. Watching the drive wheel on one of these whizzing off through the air was great fun.

@alluraambrose2978 6 лет назад

That 20mm must be a real pain, if you would rather go in to combat without it.

@RexWort 5 лет назад

I'm wonder why tho? Isn't a bigger offense weapon better for dealing with bigger trouble?

@KennyCnotG 5 лет назад

@@RexWort well a big weapon takes up a lot of space, is heavy, generally harder to use, has less ammo, and more annoying maintenance, so for the 90% of the time your not fighting, it's not all that fun

@iuploadherebecauseimnotbuy7236 4 года назад

Ian on Forgotten weapons has a video of this gun. It was stupid to trash them.

@cobalt2361 6 лет назад

11:53 That perfect British "right" before a sentence :)

@sophrapsune 6 лет назад

David Fletcher... absolute legend.

@deanfriant6390 6 лет назад

David, great video. One point of correction, though. The LVT's were manufactured by the Food Machinery Corporation (FMC). They also produced the M113 and the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

@johnking1463 5 лет назад

And the LVT 6 and the LVT 7 and the M-114 and .....

@markcantemail8018 5 лет назад

Dean Friant , Thank you . Author Patrick F . McManus always claimed FMC meant Fast Mean Cow Or Frickin Mean Cow if you are a Trout fisherman being chased at the time by an FMC . I am glad you cleared that Up About FMC . Happy New year

@gbalias361 4 года назад

and the m-59 -- used 2ea 302 6 cylinder gmc engines -- one mounted on each sponson - driving forward to a right angle gear box then to a center mounted differential unit. --- the " alligators" used a similar arrangement but with 2 flat had cadillac v-8 engines -- I rode in one -- first of the rear ramp models - at the boat basin camp pendelton about 1943 --

@WildBillCox13 3 года назад

@@gbalias361 Wow!

@janwitkowsky8787 6 лет назад

That opening. I love it! Seeing our beloved teacher's acting as humans and having fun is a great part of a good education. ^_^

@stuartlockwood9645 3 года назад

Hi Mr Fletcher, I much apreciated your views on the Weasel , my father crossed the Rhine at night in a weasel along whith two other men, they pulled across a rope for a pontoon bridge and also a bunch of telephone cables , on reaching the far side they fixed a ground anchor plate whith steel pins , the plate had a snatch block and the rope was run through it refastened to the weasel, the cables were left atached to the plate, and they returned, the engineers then used the rope to pull a steel cable across and this was the start of a pontoon bridge, he said he was worried they wouldn't get back as the weasel was a nightmare to handle, sorry I can't give you a date or place of the crossing, he was a D, Day veteran, 15th Scottish , gold beach, Aromanche landing, I hope this is of some use, many thanks for your time and efforts, stay safe, best wishe's to all, Stuart uk.

@WildBillCox13 3 года назад

Thanks for his service.

@NorthernMouse52 11 месяцев назад

The word 'Weasel' somehow made your story all the more enjoyable, Thank you 👍. 🦦

@tubaman500 3 года назад

My Dad was a Corporal with 48 Royal Marine Commando in WW2. This unit was part of 4 Commando Brigade. On 1st November 1944 they landed on the Dutch island of Walcheren. This was at the mouth of the River Scheldt, which had to be cleared to enable the Allies to be able to use the port of Antwerp, which had been captured intact. His Commando landed with far fewer casualties using the Buffalo. On the 8th November the day the Germans signed the surrender, a 3 Buffalo patrol on its way to Veere were ambushed in a village called Seerooskerke where one of the Buffalo's was blown up. 28 men died. My Dad was rescued with a broken wrist, but covered in his friend's blood, who had been killed.

@rsfaeges5298 4 месяца назад

🕯️🙏

@samuelhudson2620 6 лет назад

Could listen to Mr. Fletcher talk about tanks all day.

@alexadamson9959 2 года назад

3:04 I know it’s not loaded but I find it funny that they have a bunch of prisoners with a few machineguns within easy reach while their being covered by only 2 men with revolvers. Again, I know the things aren’t loaded but I find the imagery quite humorous.

@christopherfarrow 4 года назад

My father a member of the 4th RTR drove one of these across the River Elbe in support of the American 82nd Airborne Divisions last opposed river crossing of WW11. April 1945. Candidly he thought it was a waste of so many young Americans.

@waynemayo1661 5 лет назад

Most informative. Between you and The Chieftan I have learned much about multiple AFVs. Thank you.

@TheMetalfreak360 6 лет назад

Mr. David Fletcher is a national treasure at this point.

@sirrliv 6 лет назад

Fun fact about the Weasel: After the war several of them ended up with the US Army Reserves where they were used both for training and for emergency services. Perhaps their most notable role in this deployment came in 1952 when several US Army Weasels were used to help rescue passengers from the stranded streamlined express train "City of San Francisco" after it became snowbound in Donner Pass, California.

@euansmith3699 6 лет назад

Well that was lucky. No on wants to become stranded in the Donner Pass [shudders]

@stevenpilling5318 5 лет назад

Another cannibal feast averted!

@risasb 5 лет назад

I have been snowed in on that pass on the Zephyr. An engine with a big rotating snowplow fan thingy on the front came and rescued us.

@billestew7535 2 года назад

@@risasb Rotary plow you had it and may not even knew it

@tyronrossouw44 4 года назад

David takes this video from 8/10 to a solid 10/10.

@thetreblerebel 4 года назад

Amphibious Tanks like this did alot for Marines in the Pacific. Basically the only kind of tank that could land with the Jarheads

@ishouldgetalif3 6 лет назад

i can listen to Mr Fletcher all day.

@Peorhum 6 лет назад

They were used on the Bresken pocket by the Canadians, before Walcheren. It allowed them to carrier UC around the canals. They were seen as vastly important to the battle as it was extremely hard to built bridges at the time due to enemy actions.

@Cemi_Mhikku 6 лет назад

In case anyone is wondering, that is indeed Geoffrey 'Pykrete' Pyke he's talking about in regards to the Weasel.

@euansmith3699 6 лет назад

Well, Glaciation works quite well in mountainous terrain :D Vast Mobile Snow Forts!

@mysss29 6 лет назад

...oh. OH. _that_ loony

@Cemi_Mhikku 6 лет назад

Loonier than the entire Boundary Waters loon population. Look up 'loon calls'. They sound totally batshit.

@duckrutt 5 лет назад

@@Cemi_Mhikku Hey now, you haven't lived until you seen them swim(!) under your canoe.

@stevenpilling5318 5 лет назад

Pike sure made a believer out of Lord Mountbatten!

@cheguevara5940 3 года назад

😂 😂 😂 Hey, the Weasel is a perfect little track car/boot/fishing Swiss army knife like little thing! And it looks like a little tank! Every pair of eyes would be following you on a sunny weekend hanging around with friends 😂😁👍🏻

@linkkicksu 5 лет назад

I remember reading that the weasel was originally designed to use screws instead of tracks, but they eventually decided screw-propulsion was more of a novelty than anything, so they just used tracks like normal people.

@devon4520 6 лет назад

Geoffrey Pyke > obsessed with winter warfare. designs armored vehicle specifically for snow > *doesn't wear socks* 𝘿𝙊𝙀𝙎𝙉'𝙏 𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙍 𝙎𝙊𝘾𝙆𝙎

@51WCDodge 6 лет назад

That's the least of it The guy was a complete loony. Aongst other things his diet was herrings and brocken biscuits, his furniture was attached to ropes so it could be pulled up when not in use. Then you have Pyecrete.

@Desmaad 5 лет назад

@@51WCDodge Less bonkers than just… strange.

@51WCDodge 5 лет назад

@@Desmaad The word Sir, is Ecentric, that's a British Loony with a large bank account.

@samuelbhend2521 4 года назад

where's the problem? I don't wear socks anywhere else than in hiking- and rubberboots with no difference between summer/winter... it's just too much effort putting them on and pull them off again for no reson at all... (I live in the swiss alps, so there's sometimes "cold" days with -20°C)

@thewingedporpoise 3 года назад

@@51WCDodge a poor person is a madman, a rich person is eccentric

@biggerhammer 6 лет назад

FMC is not "Federated Meat Corporation" but is Food Machinery Corporation - they made automated canning & bottling equipment. They are still very active in equipment making.

@QqJcrsStbt 4 года назад

I did a double take on seeing that Kellogg developed K-25, the gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Kellogg Construction not Kellogg's cereals.

@mikecrawford6284 6 месяцев назад

Located off 14th street in riverside, California.

@chappy2121 5 лет назад

No socks in combat boots. Must have had some mammoth blisters

@teamidris 6 лет назад

The weasel is fascinating because that style of a wide track set has come up a lot in future vehicles, Hagland and DT30 for two, but no one was fastening two together pre 45’

@emintey 6 лет назад

The LVT's were very successful vehicles with about 20,000 being built, they were relatively fast in the water compared to other amphibians and provided an armored assault vehicle for infantry having been used primarily in the pacific theater where it was most needed. There was also a tank version with a 75mm howitzer in an open topped turret for use against strongpoints or any of the crappy Japanese tanks it may have encountered, though I dont know if they ever did.

@emintey 6 лет назад

@DOUG HEINS I love these vehicles, it was a good idea to put little paddles on the tracks for propelling them through water, simple is always better. They were necessarily very lightly armored being amphibious, anything larger than a light machine gun would probably have penetrated the armor, the 75 mm howitzer of the LVT(A)-4 amtank was not an antitank gun and would have been next to useless against any contemporary tank except for the Japanese tanks. it would have been an interesting encounter if it ever occurred.

@tomjoseph1444 5 лет назад

Swimming an M113 and especially the M577 are some of the most scary things I have ever done in a tracked vehicle.

@maureencora1 3 года назад

I Love the LVT-4 Amtrack.

@kerrydennison7947 2 года назад

The US Marine corps and army also used the water buffalo in the famous landings during the Korean war, the weasel was primarily used in France by the airborne forces they use them as ammunition carriers and to evacuate wounded with, inside the glider artillery regiments use the weasel as a prime mover for their little 75 mm artillery guns. And when the 17th airborne division cross the Rhine River as part of general Montgomery's crossing they utilize the weasel to carry the early versions of the American record less rifle and also used it as a prime mover for airborne artillery, ambulance resupply vehicle and it could do a lot of duties where a wheel vehicle would get bogged down in mud,

@francissullivan6400 5 лет назад

The loose black volcanic sand on IWO JIMA bogged the LTV 4 down..

@lukecole2500 6 лет назад

Great informative video thank you David Fletcher 👍

@hugoshobbies1688 4 года назад

"When the french were trying to fight...." you have to love this man ^^

@Trigg3rHippie 6 лет назад

Great video, as always! We want more! And more outtakes!

@johnskeels8498 6 лет назад

God bless David, don't ever change

@Peorhum 6 лет назад

The Canadians made a alternative to the weasel, the Bombardier Canadian armoured snowmobile, and penquins. Everything I have read said they were better then the weasel. Both were tested in the Canadian north by Canadian, British and US forces during a large WW2 operation. They are rare now but would be great to see the tank museum get one.

@mugwump58 6 лет назад

www.mapleleafup.nl/t16carrier/cdn_armd_snowmobile.html

@chuckh5999 Год назад

The French "trying to fight" in Indo China with a weasel ha, ha. No truer words spoken David.

@davidwhite8168 4 года назад

Thank you for another great video.

@babaganoush6106 6 лет назад

Buffaloes used to cross the river po in Italy. My father was a signaler with 3rd batt grenadier guards. Originally it was intended that all signallers would cross in a dukw. Eventually it was decided this might not be a good idea. So he was crammed into a buffalo. Half way across they got hit by an RPG of some sort....fortunately it bounced off.

@kosrules1884 6 лет назад

probably was a panzerschreck because that's pretty much what the Germans main anti-tank weapon was for the Infantry.

@andrewwaterman9240 6 лет назад

British crews threw their Oerlikons over the side? I would have thought that life with an Oerlikon would be much better, and longer, than life without.

@lucid_nonsense6826 6 лет назад

you wont hit much bouncing in the waves, but, you will become a prime target...

@2adamast 6 лет назад

Unless you're sitting under the muzzle of the Oerlikon trying to drive a Buffalo

@leeboy26 6 лет назад

Sounds like a recipe for Tinnitus.

@marcoflumino 6 лет назад

Logically you never fired the damn thing! Yes it's powerful, but it kicks back more that a mule, weight a tonne and when you have so much weigh one top that push in the opposite direction of fire, a light 16 tonne vehicle in the water loose all the speed and sea ability it has, hell it will be better to sit on a mechanical bull at full speed for comparison... Not counting that you had very little ammo to use (just 200 rounds)!

@Cemi_Mhikku 6 лет назад

Can you still have tinnitus when you've had most of your cochlear nubbins forceably destroyed by sheer volume of sound?

@BobSmith-dk8nw 6 лет назад

The reason the LVT's weren't used on D-Day was, though the American Navy had offered them to the American Army - the US Army said that since they didn't have to cross any coral reefs - they wouldn't need them. I can't speak to the details of this for the British. For the most part the Army was right but at Omaha Beach the Germans had a regular army regiment there (it was actually there for training) and the currents off the beach sank the battalion of Dual Drive Sherman's that tried to swim ashore. Fortunately the crews of the LCT's carrying the other battalion realized it was to rough for the DD Sherman's and ran them right up onto the beach, sometimes at great cost to themselves. .

@gmatgmat 5 лет назад

Also, had D-Day failed, the LVTs stockpiled in England, 2 to 4 hundred or so, would be used in a follow up invasion using Patton's Third Army. From Zaloga's book on Omaha Beach.

@rpm1796 5 лет назад

Great information R....I always luv'd these rigs and figured they didn't have the numbers for both Europe and the Pacific. The protection offered for at least the initial assault coys could have taken them up to the sea wall....and then some, for the ''dash'' inland suffering far less casualties than we all did.

@Bochi42 2 года назад

"the US Army said that since they didn't have to cross any coral reefs - they wouldn't need them." Apparently they did hit a sandbar though so really would've been much better off if they had used the LVT's.

@BobSmith-dk8nw 2 года назад

@@Bochi42 They would have helped on Omaha but weren't needed on the others. I don't believe it was one sand bar but several scattered about. Here the experience of the LCVP drivers made a difference. If they misjudged how far off they were they'd dump guys into water over their heads. I don't think they lost a whole boat that way though. Your more experienced drivers would realize they'd hit a sand bar and work to go around it. The less experienced might not. .

@craigkoehler4363 5 лет назад

Surprised he didn't call it a Boofaylue. We did get Californier, though. And a Wot's It? And plenty of erms.

@SNAFUD-DAY1944 2 года назад

Odd question but, apparently it seems the British weren’t the only forces to employ the LVT-4 in Europe, the Americans apparently also use them for their crossings of the Roer and Rhine Rivers in 1945, but struggling to find information about the specific units of the American army that employed them for those latter operations

@Mugdorna 6 лет назад

Mad as a hatter......what an cutting insult from the great Mr. Fletcher

@lewisbloom 6 лет назад

David Fletcher is such a good historian Presenter, a pleasure to watch always

@465maltbie 6 лет назад

My grandmother worked for Roebling in an office in his big house. She worked in the accounting dept rather than engineering so I am afraid I never bothered to ask her about it. Wish I had now, thanks for bringing this up I havent thought about that for years.

@daffyduck7336 4 года назад

David baby the "scoops" on the track are called "growsers"

@TheGreatest1974 5 лет назад

I could go to that tank museum and talk to David for a year and never get bored of listening to him! Absolutely brilliant.

@thetankmuseum 5 лет назад

Great to hear you enjoy David's videos.

@imagremlin875 6 лет назад

Did you see that welder with NO gloves and wearing a wedding ring? I guess war work required a man to weld his finger to the metal plate.

@StaffordMagnus 6 лет назад

No such thing as OH&S in those days.

@LuvBorderCollies 6 лет назад

OSHA people are lucky to not watch my dad work on anything chemical or electrical powered or fuel powered. They wouldn't have fainted, their heads would've imploded. After a trip to the dr to remove a metal chunk from an eye while grinding steel, he finally bought a set of cheap goggles. He's still alive at 85 with all his body parts but he shouldn't be. I could fill a book about his safety violations and that's just what I saw, who knows all he did without witnesses. LOL Did I mention he was self-taught about electricity?? :)

@texasdeeslinglead2401 5 лет назад

That had to be one of the worst tack welds I've ever seen , bless their heart.

@Onesize17 5 лет назад

@@texasdeeslinglead2401 I think it was a training film on how NOT to strike an arc while doing a vertical weld. :)

@Andriz2006 6 лет назад

This man could explain God how to create earth. And the Universe.

@PpAirO5 11 месяцев назад

The Buffalo is really cool. Such a nice, almost futuristic design.

@crossfirerambo 6 лет назад

Bollards are on shore. Bits are on the vessel. But otherwise just call it a capstan. Unless it hauls up the anchor chain, then it's a wildcat

@wlehtola 5 лет назад

That soup strainer tho

@Jayneflakes 6 лет назад

Thank you for this informative and absorbing set of films, David Fletcher needs to be recognised as the national treasure that he is.

@worldtraveler930 4 года назад

You just want to take David and that cuneiform professor from the London museum give them each a rather large mug of ale and listen to them prattle away about everything until the wee hours of the morning.

@dasmotiu 6 лет назад

My father served in 11th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment in the war. They started as a CDL unit and then were converted to Buffalo in France after D Day. Winston Churchill crossed the Rhine in a 11RTR Buffalo after the assault crossing.

@loupiscanis9449 6 лет назад

Thank you , Sir .

@300guy 3 года назад

FMC meant Food Machinery Corporation, not something about meat and California. Same company responsible for the M113

@kenmccormick3052 3 года назад

I have been told by those who had used the 20mm, very high maintenance and due to the very strong spring for recoil control-some what dangerous to work on.

@su35bmsoldier 2 года назад

Omg landing craft tank has babies

@cmanningdeal6228 Год назад

"Light weight, high mobility, in wet conditions"...sounds like Mr. Fletcher just deescribed Holland to me..

@garyneilson1833 6 лет назад

Thank you for a fascinating trip through the 79th Armoured brigade vehicles. I made a point of seeing all of them when I visited the museum this year

@jessh5310 2 года назад

Is the Jeffery Pike mentioned the guy who drew up plans for the huge floating ice berg aircraft carrier made from sawdust and ice?

@BorisZech 6 лет назад

"The British like to put as many people in it as they could" - e.g. a bunch of captured German soldiers at 3:03. Who is that and where?

@GoranXII 4 года назад

Hey, for once a vehicle where an upright radial actually _makes sense_ . Hells knows it never did in tanks.

@hunterventures2101 6 лет назад

i could listen to that moustache ALL...DAY....LONG

@francissullivan6400 5 лет назад

2nd Marines used them at tarawa..Greatly utilized during the assault on IIWO JIMA

@peoplesrepublicofliberland5606 4 года назад

Imagine having a 20mm cannon and then throwing it overboard.

@warhorse03826 4 года назад

the problem with having a cannon like that is the crew will start thinking they're driving a real tank, which will get them into endless troubles.

@PropaneWP 6 лет назад

Very interesting stuff, thank you.

@alexs-zq6ni 4 года назад

And thank you.

@robertcross9863 3 года назад

Is it just me or could you just listen to this man talk for hours about war history

@Paladin1873 6 лет назад

We have several Weasels at the Montana Military Museum In Helena, MT. At least one of them is in working order. The Weasel was originally developed for use by the First Special Service Force, a joint US-Canadian commando regiment which was formed in 1942 at Fort William Henry Harrison, just outside of Helena (where the museum is now located). The Force's original mission was to coerce the German Wehrmacht to redirect massive numbers of troops to Norway to end a campaign of hit-and-run raids which would be conducted by Forcemen using skis and Weasels. The Weasel would have given them far greater snow and cross-country capability than the Germans possessed, allowing them to operate behind enemy lines for several months. Even so, the mission was largely seen as suicidal and eventually the idea was abandoned. Instead, the Force's first mission would be against the Japanese threat in the Aleutians. After that fiasco, in which they encountered no Japanese troops but still incurred casualties caused by friendly fire, they were sent to Italy and later France, where they distinguished themselves as perhaps the most effective fighting force the Allies had, earning them the sobriquet, The Devil's Brigade.

@lib556 2 года назад

Great summary except the end. The Force was never called 'the Devil's Brigade'. That was the title of a somewhat substandard book published in 1966 which was in turn the inspiration for the 1968 film. The film, while enjoyable, is riddled with mistakes. While at Anzio, the force did earn the nickname 'the Black Devils' after a captured German diary mentioned them as such. Not to be confused with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles whose nickname, 'Little Black Devils', is similar. But nowhere in history is 'the Devil's Brigade' mentioned until the 1966 book.

@Paladin1873 2 года назад

@@lib556 I'm aware of the debate about the unit's nickname, but that is how history has chosen to remember them in book and film, just as the Jagdpanzer 38 (Sd.Kfz. 138/2) (Panzerjäger 38(t)) is remembered by postwar model builders as the Hetzer. I read the 1966 book in college in the 1970s. A few years ago I purchased a much later work being sold at the museum, titled "The Supercommandos". It was also my distinct honor to meet a former company commander in 1st SSF who was on the museum's board of directors. He regaled me with some wild stories of his experiences. When I asked him his opinion of the movie starring William Holden, he said he didn't like it because it made them look more like lovers than fighters. Such is often the way with Hollywood history.

@lib556 2 года назад

@@Paladin1873 I have both books. Supercommandos is great - tons of pics. My copy was owned by a former Forceman (now deceased) who annotated and commented on various passages with yellow sticky notes. Another former Forceman was in our Regimental Association and he attended most events. I had spoken with him on many occasions but, like most WW2 vets, he didn't talk much about details. Most of the other WW2 vets in the Assn had survived the Battle of Ortona Christmas 1943 which received a lot of attention. I understand your comment on evolving history but I still fight it. Most people that I discuss the name with have no idea that it was made up for the 1966 book (Adleman/Walton). When I point that out, they usually pledge to never use the improper name again. Since Canadian contributions to WW2 are usually ignored in film, it would be great to see a proper remake of the story of the Force produced by the modern group of more historically-minded film makers.

@Paladin1873 2 года назад

@@lib556 I'd like to see a movie made about the Polar Bear Expedition of 1918-19. Few people are aware of this joint British-American-Canadian force and the adventures they went through in Russia. An interesting dynamic quickly developed in which many of the British officers were viewed with contempt by the Canadian and American soldiers who decided to stick together for mutual support.

@lib556 2 года назад

@@Paladin1873 Yeah. We had a bde in Siberia. I was struck by some of the other participating nations - like Japan.

@bruceboyer8187 Год назад

Built by FMC Farm Machunery Corp. A natural match up.

@jackpursell8846 3 года назад

What if they had the LVT4 for the Canadian gravel beach landing at Dieppe?

@geetee7154 6 лет назад

Mr Fletcher has a way of keeping the viewer engaged, absolutely fascinating stuff, i went to the Tank Museum a few years ago & was like a kid in a Candy Shop,is a fantastic place to visit, i'm definitely a subscriber from now on !!

@lav25og83 6 лет назад

Not Federated Meat Corp. FCM was Food machinery Corp that built industrial sized freezers and reefers a job requiring them to assemble large insulated steel equipment, and was quite capable of making these. They were still building M113s in the 60s and I am sure got bought up by some other government contractor

@WildBillCox13 3 года назад

R.I.P. Percy Hobart. As unique as the armored unit he commanded.

@rls303 6 лет назад

Thanks

@diquadhumungersaur492 Год назад

I love this guy.. it's because of people of his kind that we have won several world wars and assorted skirmishes..

@West_Coast_Mainline Год назад

He also makes good youtube videos

@benwilson6145 4 года назад

I have just read a History of the 51st Highland Division in WW2. They used the the Buffalo a lot in Holland as the bridges were usually blown on the canals. and were very happy with them.

@benoitbvg2888 6 лет назад

What's the point of being a monarchy if you don't make this man a sir/lord? Chop, chop, UK...

@DarknessInferno15 6 лет назад

I mean, he does have an MBE.

@benoitbvg2888 6 лет назад

@@DarknessInferno15 ....soooo he's a "sir" then?....and he doesn't use it? Such modesty. Much love.

@Renegade666 5 лет назад

@@benoitbvg2888 sadly thats slightly incorrect. hes a member of the commonwealth but not a Knight, therefore cannot be called a Sir. There are 5 ranks of the commonwealth and only Knights or Dames can be named as such. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire

@tankacebo9128 5 лет назад

I live in Dunedin Florida, where this was first designed, and where Donald Roebling built the first few alligators. we recently had one return, an LVT-4 built in land-o-lakes, fl, and it's now on outdoor display at the VFW post in town, across from the baseball stadium.

@Lee-eu6wf 2 года назад

It's an awsome machine I want one

@JackG79 3 года назад

At the end when he talked about how they are all gone and only their badge is left, I couldn't hold back the tears. The sacrifices these men made for us is unexplainable.

@George_Bland 2 года назад

No what he means is the division isn't a thing anymore, not that they all died.

@Themanwithnoscreenname 4 года назад

"It's quite a big vehicle, but it's also quite light, as well. It weighs about 16 tons..." Borrowing from Ernie Ford, 16 tons, and what do you get? A big ol' Buffalo in the water and wet.

@mikecrawford6284 6 месяцев назад

The manufacture was called the food Machinery corporation (FMC) located off 14th street in riverside, California.