The Last Zeppelin Raid 1939

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Think Zeppelin raids ended in 1918, then think again! This is the extraordinary story of a secret German 1939 mission using the largest airship in existence.
Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.o...
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@almac2598 3 года назад

Wish my Dad was still alive. He always said that he had seen a Zeppellin through a break in the clouds (in Scotland) just before the outbreak of WWII, but no one believed him.

@davidtarbuck4166 2 года назад

Wow that’s incredible

@zombehmonkey Год назад

I hope this is real. That’s crazy.

@snoopdogssb2 5 месяцев назад

proof

@grahamwilliams5190 5 месяцев назад

My mum a as young child saw the R101 going over Hull in 1930.

@youdontseeanoldmanhavinatw4904 5 месяцев назад

How do you expect him to provide proof@@snoopdogssb2

@ewanblack1414 3 года назад

My grandfather (Major CJ Black) was in charge of the radar battery from the Isle of Sheppey to Dover. I remember him telling this story when I was young. However, the way he told it the batteries being buzzed were aware of what the Zeppelin was doing and systematically just turned off the radar so there would be no signal to pick up. Either way we know the enemy didn’t get what they wanted from the exercise.

@robertrhodessr3664 3 года назад

@Ewan Black ; Great corroboration good response! Thankful for the many men who manned their posts and fought the good fight. Our respect and gratitude to the Greatest Generation.

@PORRRIDGE_GUN 3 года назад

This is the version I heard. But even if the radar was active, it seems the LW would not have detected it anyway as they were using the Chain Home frequency band to communicate with their own HQ.

@andymoore9977 3 года назад

Thanks Ewan, a great account.

@Tron-Jockey 3 года назад

Is it possible that the British knew what frequency the Germans used for communications and deliberately used it for their own radar? The Brits were very clever that way.

@PORRRIDGE_GUN 3 года назад

@@Tron-Jockey Possibly. Our sigint was years ahead of other countries at the time.

@bruensal7182 3 года назад

Each time I think "OK this must be the craziest thing Mark is doing" he finds something even weirder.

@davesy6969 3 года назад

Wait until the daleks attack next year......

@edwardcornwallis9436 3 года назад

They move so slow, it must have been hell to watch them advance on a city so gradually. Like a nightmare

@oliverbruce6240 3 года назад

They could do about 70 MPH if I’m not mistaken. A lot slower than a plane but a lot faster than I’d have guessed!

@JeffCounsil-rp4qv 3 года назад

@@oliverbruce6240 And seeing them coming from 70 miles away was certainly dreadfully slow... Of course the obtainable max speed depends on wind direction. When you're "running against the wind", you can't get near that kind of speed.

@samsum3738 3 года назад

A nightmare and something out of the pages of H G Wells .

@dabking94.19 3 года назад

Not just the sight of an 804' monster flying slowly towards you, but the loud droning noise of the 4 huge Diesel Engines.

@stevebean1234 3 года назад

@@oliverbruce6240 70mph airspeed or air over ground ? I suspect airspeed. Just FYSA as an aero engineer, there’s a big difference here. Winds at altitude can be hundreds of miles an hour, and you can adjust altitude to find winds traveling in different directions (this is how a hot air balloon moves). So I suspect the zeppelins would do the same thing - adjust to an altitude favorable to the direction they want to travel and then go. Otherwise, I figure they’d get blown all over the place. Even with a relatively low mass, the zeppelins have a huge surface area. Ambient wind must have been something you had to work with, not against

@thejudgmentalcat 3 года назад

"...which had a disconcerting habit of bursting into flames" the most British thing I'll hear!

@johnt.4947 3 года назад

I gave a little chuckle when I heard that.

@terryc8164 3 года назад

@@johnt.4947 me too, and they want to use it in cars now too, what fun that could be.

@minhthunguyendang9900 4 месяца назад

Well, the Hindenburg wouldn’t contradict this « most British thing » as well as the Zeppelins that did so when their H2 suddenly turned bigamist with O2 when ignited by a young flame 🔥

@bertmeinders6758 4 месяца назад

Hydrogen had another fault. The very small atomic cross-section enables it to pass easily between larger atoms and molecules, so that over a few weeks it escapes from custody. Helium does the same, but more slowly.

@PennsyPappas 3 года назад

These are the stories that are so largely forgotten and yet could've had such a greater impact on History,and thank God we have Dr. Mark Felton to bring them to light. This was certainly a treat for today.

@user-njyzcip 3 года назад

could've

@bertmeinders6758 4 месяца назад

I saw a zeppelin (actually a blimp, but that's an infelicitous word) flying over Dunedin when I was 4. By the time I'd persuaded my father to come outside, it was gone; I don't think he ever believed I'd seen one. It was in 1957 or 8, and it was on its way to McMurdo Sound as part of Operation Deepfreeze.

@shutup2751 3 года назад

never even knew there was a zeppelin raid in 1939, another mark felton masterclass

@poppedweasel 3 года назад

I reckon Dr Mark has a time machine and he pulls these stunts to one-up every other historian and surprise us all to inrease his viewcount. He's the Gary Sparrow of RU-vid. Has to be.

@JoshuaC923 3 года назад

@@poppedweasel he might be The Doctor

@marcoAKAjoe 3 года назад

He has a time machine & is just recounting what he is seeing. He is hardly ever home

@shutup2751 3 года назад

@@marcoAKAjoe i know german shepherds are smart but you just blew my mind

@babboon5764 3 года назад

I don't wish to be pedantic (he lied unconvincingly) but technically that wasn't a *raid* it was, at most, an *incursion* What's not generally well covered is part of the reason the Germans were foxed by British Radar was not that it was so advanced but because it was so much less sophisticated than their own (although at that stage theirs wasn't widely deployed) they kept misinerpretting what the were seeing. Len Deighton covers this at some length in his book 'Blood, Tears & Folly' (which is a huge inditement of the myriad errors just about all participants in WW2 made)

@1FokkerAce 3 года назад

Been a history buff all my life, WW2 mainly due to the fascinating history of it. But almost all of it is the big narratives, with the same “smaller interest” stories often repeated (Italian Calvary charge on the Eastern Front, etc). This channel is a real life joy for people like me, and I hope Mark knows the tremendous appreciation we have that we will likely never be able to convey.

@lostthedog Год назад

Agreed

@opiecunningham1570 3 года назад

It's evident that Dr. Felton puts A Whole Lotta Love into these videos.

@maralajtkep2900 3 года назад

Mark Felton + Zeppelin topic = guarantee of enjoyable spent minutes

@wazkangz955 3 года назад

This is what the History Channel needed to show to stay alive. Zeppelins? A lot of people know what they did in WW1 But in 1939? Now there’s something many don’t know. Hats off to you Mark.

@jdjdjfdjfjfj2588 3 года назад

The days of the history channel showing proper historical stuff has long gone, sad really because old school style documentaries from the 90s and early 00s were some of the best.

@suzyqualcast6269 3 года назад

Yah !

@twt000 3 года назад

Now History Channel is Ghost/Bigfoot hunting garbage.

@walterthecat2145 3 года назад

@@twt000 :( i like it

@twt000 3 года назад

@@walterthecat2145 Great, have that garbage channel. Have fun.

@JohnDoe-pv2iu 3 года назад

The Hindenburg was 804 feet long. Imagine an airship the size of a WW2 aircraft carrier... Great video, John

@zxbzxbzxb1 3 года назад

I see it whenever I drop my trousers 8-) Sorry, couldn't resist!

@JohnDoe-pv2iu 3 года назад

@@zxbzxbzxb1 I have that problem on those Anaconda videos!

@Charles_Anthony 3 года назад

Imagine the feeling of gazing up at that beast as it started dropping bombs on your city. Definitely more intimidating than a bomber!

@neptune3569 3 года назад

"Not again!"

@funfact8660 3 года назад

Imagine tossing bombs and grenades over the side of said Graff Zeppelin ?

@mbabist01 3 года назад

Watch the Howard Hughes film, "Hell's Angels," from 1930. In one scene they show a flaming Zepp dropping straight down, nearly landing on the two pilots that shot it up. Still scary!

@mjc8281 3 года назад

As a kid growing up in the 1970s my grandmother lived on a street in Coventry with an old lady who had lost her foot in the First World War as a school child from a zeppelin raid.... she then lived in Coventry for the Blitz there is WW2!!!

@genwoolfe 3 года назад

My first posting as a young soldier in the 70s was to Dover. A stone memorial on the wall of a building near the railway station commemorates the fact that it had been damaged in a Zeppelin raid in April 1915. Sadly I cannot recall the exact detail but it will no doubt be online elsewhere...

@gary4936 3 года назад

The dreadful feeling of deja vu must've been enormous.

@scockery 3 года назад

Dread Zeppelin?

@JMdJ2001 3 года назад

@Robbie Daniel I see what u did there... you sly devil you...

@zaidanp7258 3 года назад

@Robbie Daniel Zeppelin 😂

@photog1529 3 года назад

My father, as a young child, watched the Hindenberg fly overhead in NJ on the day it caught fire over Lakehurst, NJ. Pretty wild.

@wendydelisse9778 3 года назад

There was at the time a local suspicion that "pineys", the New Jersey equivalent of "hillbillies", had put bullet holes in the airship Hindenberg again, allowing oxygen from the air to enter some of the hydrogen gas bags and making the airship Hindenburg more vulnerable to a hydrogen gas explosion. It is said that if the hydrogen had been pre-mixed to the amount of 3% with a very slightly lighter than air gas called nitrogen in pure form, then the danger of a hydrogen gas explosion would have been significantly reduced, and that if inexpensive and non-flammable pure nitrogen had been pre-mixed to an even greater extent of about 17%, then the chance of a hydrogen gas explosion would have been almost eliminated. Helium is the preferred mixing gas, because of having about 29 times the lifting power of nitrogen, but nitrogen is an option for a non-flammable mixing gas as well. Technically, neon is a mixing gas option as well, being both lighter than air and non-flammable, but neon is much more expensive than either helium or nitrogen, expensive enough that neon is not in practice a good option as a mixing gas for reducing the flammability of hydrogen.

@billhanna2148 3 года назад

Wasn't the aluminum coating on the skin the main flammable fuel or accelerant and the hydrogen an accessory but rapid fuel??

@RAMROD4708 3 года назад

@@billhanna2148 That allegation was actually exposed as a hoax, perpetrated by an entrepreneur who was developing hydrogen cell car batteries. Hydrogen was the main culprit responsible for the destruction of the Hindenburg, as was the case with all of the subsequent disasters surrounding Hydrogen-filled rigid airships. The doping compound used on the fabric covering changed little since Von Zeppelin's first ship and a similar doping compound was used on non-German ships from Britain and semi-rigid ships from Italy. When the Graf Zeppelin's sister ship was built and delivered to the U.S.(As part of the reparations of the Treaty Of Versailles.) she, too, had her fabric skin covered with the exact, same doping compound worn by the Hindenburg. The two "Super Ships" built for the Navy by Goodyear in Akron, Ohio and Macon, Georgia (The two ships were named for the cities of their birth.) both used a close variant of same doping compound on their fabric skin. Fire was not present when any of the above mentioned ships were destroyed.

@billhanna2148 3 года назад

@@RAMROD4708 thank you 🙏

@herbertsusmann986 3 года назад

My grandfather had a friend who was at Lakehust when the Hind. Blew up. He gave him a piece of the aluminum skin. I have it somewhere here. I need to locate it. A real piece of history!

@ssechres 4 месяца назад

I had a professor when I was in college who remembered seeing a German Zeppelin when he was a child in England.

@brittakriep2938 3 года назад

Some notes from Germany: Zeppelin is spoken Tseppelin, not Seppelin. The Freiherren ( Baron is wrong, Baronet would be better) von Zeppelin came from a village Zöpelin in nortwestern Germany. There are descendents of Ferdinand von Zeppelin, their name is today ,von Brandenstein/Zeppelin'. One of this family lives in a small palace next to the town Ravensburg. During a daytrip with a small historic society, i could visit his castle/palace. He showed us the few things of his famous ancestor , he owned. A Zeppelin company, selling construction maschines is also existing in Germany. In 1996 i visited next to Niederstetten (?) a castle /palace owned by a branch of Hohenlohe Dynasty to visit both the ,Hunting Museum' and the ,Albert Samt Museum' about the Zeppelin pilot. Unfotunately, this museum no more existed. Sidenote: The guide of the ,Hunting Museum' was 96 (!) years old. He died in 2007 with 107 years and was the last german wwl veteran.

@etiennepilorget8777 11 месяцев назад

Very interesting, thanks.

@nigelbradshaw8266 3 года назад

There’s an interesting zeppelin museum on Lake Constance, Germany.

@straycatsmurf 3 года назад

friedrichshafen, you can also fly with the nt zeppelin in a tour over the lake, switzerland and luxembourg are situated at the same lake. also in Germany they call a lake a "see" this lake is called the Bodensee

@conveyor2 3 года назад

@@straycatsmurf Luxembourg? Austria.

@timwebster8122 3 года назад

A great museum

@straycatsmurf 3 года назад

@@conveyor2 rectify....Austria, Italy and Germany...

@brittakriep2938 3 года назад

@@conveyor2 : He confused Liechtenstein with Luxemburg!

@cyberpimp29 3 года назад

Lets face it people, Mark Felton is not only the best historical content on youtube, it is literally THE best content on youtube, period. We are blessed to receive such quality content...

@paulbradford8240 Год назад

Absolutely fascinating. I had no idea. I recall my Grandfather (died in 1976) telling me about watching a Zeppelin raid on London during WW1.

@RCAvhstape 3 года назад

For once I actually knew this before Mark's video. The National Electronics Museum near Baltimore, Maryland has a display about the British radar and the Germans' failed signal reconnaissance mission using an airship as a sensor platform. It's also worth mentioning that the US Navy operated a large number of non-rigid airships (blimps) for antisubmarine patrols during WWII, and unmanned tethered blimps ("aerostats") are in limited use today for surveillance duties.

@inhocsignovinces1081 3 года назад

Lajas, Puerto Rico, USA.

@kiwitrainguy 2 года назад

It has been said that no convoy that was escorted by US Navy blimps during WW2 ever suffered an attack by a U-boat.

@Quadrenaro 3 года назад

Without my glasses, I read it as, "The Lead Zepplin Raid."

@funfact8660 3 года назад

👍🤣

@motorcyclewild5873 3 года назад

😂😂

@tertiusimpostor 3 года назад

Are you mentioning Led Zeppelin?

@Quadrenaro 3 года назад

@@tertiusimpostor yes

@marcusmaddenov2451 3 года назад

Ironically that is a British band.

@Boragath123 3 года назад

Always a good morning to wake up with a Mark Felton video.

@magnusforsman9150 3 года назад

Covid and time come and goes, holding on to Mark Feldon keeps me steady......Thanks for your outstanding work ! Regards from Sweden

@frag2k12 3 года назад

That opening pic of Mark gives off some serious casual super villan vibes.

@Perktube1 3 года назад

He'd be the kind of super villain that would tell you his plans, and some trivia you didn't know about, before he finished you off.

@doorattachment6926 3 года назад

Thank you Dr. Felton you never fail to satisfies your subscribers.

@danielgreen3715 3 года назад

10 minutes 27 seconds of something actually interesting today thankyou !

@Jarod-te2bi 3 года назад

I was fascinated by airships since I was little, thank you so much for this video.

@leandrocosta3709 3 года назад

The Zeppelin hangar shown in one of the scenes is huge. I know. The one in Germany was blown up, but another one, exactly like that still exists at one of the destinations of those Zeppelins in Rio de Janeiro. It is located in the Santa Cruz Air Force Base, and it's been in use by the Brazilian Air Force and is well maintained. I was lucky enough to be able to visit it and it's absolutely mind boggling. Had no idea about the ELINT mission by the Luftwaffe. Keep up the excellent content.

@bombfog1 3 года назад

I find it fascinating that Ferdinand Zeppelin discovered his love of flight in America, following his service as an observer, imbedded with the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War.

@zombienomicon9682 3 года назад

that's one story- another is the Sonoma Flying Club

@TheSoundsage 3 года назад

And amazingly, those were hydrogen balloons, too, not hot air. The mechanics of generating the hydrogen on site using acid on iron filings in a copper vessel are amazing, well worth another Mark Felton documentary

@zombienomicon9682 3 года назад

@@TheSoundsage Thaddeus Lowe balloons for the win!

@ArcticWolf00Alpha0 3 года назад

School kids: We have History teachers RU-vid watchers: We have Dr. Mark Felton

@funfact8660 3 года назад

Revisionist History doesn't count

@wkdravenna 3 года назад

Dr M. Felton a actual historian who does research. I'm happy to have him.

@fishin_da_hood5020 3 года назад

I have both lol. Mark Felton is more educational.

@tjb7284 3 года назад

@@fishin_da_hood5020 Entertaining infotainment.

@fishin_da_hood5020 3 года назад

@@fridolfmane1063 "hey guys I graduated from the university of youtube"

@ELMS 3 года назад

Astonishing. You’ve done it again, Dr. Felton.

@masterbondofox8982 2 года назад

Maybe I'm the only one, I don't know, but when I see a new Mark Felton video, I hit the Thumbs Up before I start it, I know it's going to be that good.

@mattstreckfuss9678 3 года назад

Looking at the floor plans for the zeppelin- one might think a “smoking room” might have given people pause under so much flammable gas!

@stevebean1234 3 года назад

Welcome to the world of addiction. Smoking kills.

@markfryer9880 3 года назад

It was specifically designed to be the safest place to smoke on the airship. The room was carefully sealed and had an air conditioning system to provide a positive air pressure to prevent the entry of any hydrogen gas.

@mattstreckfuss9678 3 года назад

You’d think the danger still would have kept them from lighting a match! It should have push the development of the nicotine patch or gum instead. Love all you do Mark - keep up the great history

@harri2626 3 года назад

@@mattstreckfuss9678 Memory tells me they used electric lighters, rather like car cigar lighters. All naked flames were, of course, banned. Even so, not a comfortable concept.

@crankychris2 3 года назад

@@mattstreckfuss9678 Electric lighters only, matches were confiscated upon boarding.

@chasc301 3 года назад

‘A disconcerting habit of bursting into flames..’. Dr Felton; the master of considered qualified understatement. Excellent content as always. Thank-you.

@angusgilfillan3615 3 года назад

I remember reading the British radar operator's had never seen such a large blip on their screens

@juhopuhakka2351 3 года назад

Do you mean that blip that is in your blop?

@mrb.5610 3 года назад

I think it's covered in the exellent BBC series 'Secret War' - sone are on RU-vid and are well worth watching.

@robertmcgovern8850 3 года назад

That was my thought -- the radar signature from that immense metal latticework must have glowed like the freaking sun.

@carlg5838 3 года назад

@@robertmcgovern8850 Also, the paint used to dope the entire outer skin was filled with aluminum powder, to reflect the heat of the sun.

@chuckh5999 3 года назад

and used for a spy raid ummhh!

@Fearless_on_my_Breath 3 года назад

Again, an unknown topic brought to light by Mark Felton. Sometimes I think how could he produce such great videos so frequently?

@markfryer9880 3 года назад

Shh and I will tell you a secret. The good Doctor of History is really a well seasoned and experienced Time Traveller, who goes on adventures back into historic times and place’s in order to secure the very best of interesting stories from the past to educate his devoted followers on some of the many tales from the past!

@Fearless_on_my_Breath 3 года назад

@@markfryer9880 I think you are right, there's no other possible way😁

@poppedweasel 3 года назад

"Commander, I've detected a planet on the RADAR.." and lol on them using the same frequency as Chain Home.

@aaronbasham6554 3 года назад

That's more just one of those accidental coincidences that helped the British out.

@poppedweasel 3 года назад

@@aaronbasham6554 accidental coincidences are a British secret weapon. Without them, we're often screwed...... Or because of them. Either way, without an accidental or ironic coincidence, a scrap just wouldn't be British.

@aaronbasham6554 3 года назад

@@poppedweasel like the time the British army so convinced the Italian army of where they were going to attack that the majority of the Italian army was avoiding that space and accidentally where the British really were going to attack

@matthiasvanhecke1283 3 года назад

@@aaronbasham6554 i didn't know about that. What battle?

@aaronbasham6554 3 года назад

@@matthiasvanhecke1283 lindybeige rambled about it in one of his videos on deception in warfare, so would have to watch it again to find out

@NeilCuthbert 3 года назад

Reported in Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Friday 04 August 1939 GRAF ZEPPELIN Identified Off Scottish Coast By Planes An airship sighted off the Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire coasts yesterday was identified two planes from the 612 th Squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force at Dyce, near Aberdeen, the Graf Zeppelin. The zeppelin was about 20 miles east of Aberdeenshire and was travelling in a Northeasterly direction when she was identified by the two planes. The airship was first seen number of miles off Stonehaven travelling slowly. The coastguards at Aberdeen also saw the airship, but were unable to identify owing to its distance from the land. Great 👍 video...thank you 😊 again.

@rbertmueller8787 3 года назад

Dr. Felton, amazing video. Once again you raised the bar for historical videos!

@rbertmueller8787 3 года назад

I have my PhD in Org behavior. My dissertation is Toxic Leadership in the U.S. Army. Ivan share it with you. I am a history fan. Your videos are so informative.

@greglammers9905 3 года назад

So amazing how if this had worked, and the Germans had totally understood the British radar, the outcome would have been drastically different. Another great lesson. Thank you Dr Felton

@leonardonabinger 3 года назад

My grandma saw the Zeppelin in Rio de Janeiro in the 30's when this one made a trip to South America. Actually there is still the base for Zeppelins in Rio, especially built to receive the Zeppelin that time.

@largol33t1 2 года назад

Wow, is the Zeppelin base used for something else today?

@jrk1666 3 года назад

this is going to be a good one

@jrk1666 3 года назад

yep. i was right

@gball29 3 года назад

@JRK...... That's what she said!

@sannidhyabalkote9536 3 года назад

@@gball29 (θ‿θ)

@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 года назад

It's a Mark Felton Production

@jasondaniel918 3 года назад

I grew up in South-Central Pennsylvania (US). Our small town must have been on a Goodyear blimp route, because I remember seeing many of those blimps passing by during the late 1950's and early '60's. My memories of them are a child's memories, but I recall how huge they were, how slowly they moved and how majestic they seemed. That they were considered obsolete never even entered my mind, and my memories of them are among my most cherished.

@JeffCounsil-rp4qv 3 года назад

Same here in Clinton County, Pa.being born in April 1957. Not far from the Williamsport airport, and Piper airport/factory. They seemed to be quite "popular" along the routes.

@jasondaniel918 3 года назад

@@JeffCounsil-rp4qv Thanks. Your confirmation of the presence of Goodyear blimps is good to hear. Fortunately, they were not dropping bombs. But, ya kno, they just might have been running intelligence missions. 😁

@SaucyAlfredo 3 года назад

All because they had their radios at the same frequency, incredible

@EllieMaes-Grandad 3 года назад

Murphy's law strikes again?

@ghengiscant538 3 года назад

Respect to the guys in the gondola , that must have been one hell of a ride hanging on that cable below the mothership .

@Turbo_Toni1985 3 года назад

i love it when he always said...."however"

@FlyasaDiamond 3 года назад

As ever, fascinating. Never heard of this before

@pesnevim1626 3 года назад

Fascinating. Thank you Dr Felton.

@mashbury 3 года назад

It’s a Tuesday afternoon and Felton does it again .. Reminds us that it’s never too late to learn something new .. Great research Mark 👍👍

@theonlymadmac4771 3 года назад

Reminds me of the old German Zeppelin joke of WWI: commander of a zeppelin going down in flames to crew: „smoking lamp on from now on“

@nathangreer8219 3 года назад

"There was one defense system in Britain, that would have a direct bearing on any future air war between the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force: RADAR": Outstanding British humor at its best. I salute you!

@itchytastyurr 3 года назад

it was night vision induced by eating carrots....

@toraktorak 3 года назад

You put out consistently good work and I really respect that. Thanks.

@kerrysammy3277 3 года назад

Always wondered why the Germans did not know about the British radar installations on the south and east coast of Britain during WWII. This video answers the question. Thanks Mark Felton

@justanotherviewer52 3 года назад

Thanks Mark. As always ,a very interesting part of little known history.

@thestoryteller9140 3 года назад

Mr Felton sparked my love for history thank you Mr Felton

@JBDTV 3 года назад

I love the intro music it's so dramatic

@seanbryan4833 3 года назад

Mark comes up with yet ANOTHER item of WWII history that I never heard of before!

@hoosierpatriot2280 3 года назад

I am laid up after having a full hip replacement so I am extra excited to see an upload from my favorite historian Dr. Felton! I had no idea a zeppelin was used in the 2nd world war! Thank you for bringing little known facts to light sir!

@stevebean1234 3 года назад

Get well soon !

@Phildo8 3 года назад

This is why I love this channel! I had no idea about this raid! Mark Felton’s channels should be a course in history for kids in school bc they’d learn a hell of a lot more than they do now on WW2! Awesome work Mark!

@ottovonbismarck2443 3 года назад

And you did it again. I've never heard of this story before. Thank you ! Have you ever thought about making a video on the "Beobachtungsdienst der Marine" (German naval intelligence service) and their code-breakers ? Bletlchey Park and its achievements are pretty well known, but their German counterpart is totally forgotten. They played a major role in the "Battle of the Atlantic" and "Operation Cerberus".

@jean-charlesweyland129 2 года назад

Of course you've never heard of it ! You died 41 years prior to that raid 🧐

@alexseiler7788 3 года назад

Mark, I’ve been an avid reader of history, particularly 1920 onward, since childhood. Your pieces always bring new and substantial information. Thanks very much and please carry on!

@MTG776 3 года назад

Seems like a case of 'Good Times, Bad Times' for those Zeppelins...

@silgen 3 года назад

they were probably Dazed and Confused they couldn't get any readings.

@Qossuth 3 года назад

You provided a lot more detail on this mission than I'd ever read before, thanks!

@David-yo5ws 3 года назад

Two pieces of information that where not brought up in this interesting account: 1. The reason Germany used Hydrogen gas was because of WW1 sanctions against them and the allies would not supply Helium Gas. (In which case the Hindenburg Disaster would never have happened.) 2. The other reason the German specialists did not pick up on the British RADAR, was because it was synchronised to the 50Hz power grid frequency and the detected signal was thought to be 'interference' from the power lines. And 'off the topic' : later in the war a DH Mosquito with secret RADAR on board was brought down over German lines. (I can't remember how it happened) and the Magnetron part of the RADAR was 'captured'. A German scientist 'thought' the loose brass nuts holding the Cavity pick-up loop wires were loose as a result of the crash. They could not get the Magnetron to work. The truth is, that the British scientists found that the brass nuts had to be loose to allow the pick-up loop wires to oscillate to MAKE it work. (The engineering tolerances were not fine enough at the time) As the saying goes, The devil is in the details.

@Sultan-cf5wf 3 года назад

im a simple man: Dr. Felton uploads? Instant watch.

@esmenhamaire6398 3 года назад

Myword,I thought I'd come across just about everything there is to know about avition between 1930 and 1945, but I hadn't heard about that mission before. Bravo!

@tinkeringinthailand8147 3 года назад

You never cease to amaze me with your work Mark. A great, and serious, fringe military account, with amazing unseen (for me) footage, as ever. Thanks.

@pirate751 3 года назад

as always,well done Dr.Felton.

@qtig9490 3 года назад

Simply incredible. How many essentially unknown events in WWII has this man brought into the light? He deserves a Knighthood.

@bradnewsbear 3 года назад

Thanks for making the long work day a little shorter :) I always look forward to listening to these at my desk

@negativeindustrial 3 года назад

Great subject, Mark!

@AbnEngrDan 4 месяца назад

I worked in airships up until last year - aerial advertising. Lots of fun.

@henridelagardere264 3 года назад

If you watched the full 10½ minutes and are dazed and confused, 'cause you waited in vain for a stairway to heaven and not one levee broke, read the title again and show the man a whole lotta love and take your hats off to Mark Felton!

@funfact8660 3 года назад

No Quarter 📋😜👍

@JeffCounsil-rp4qv 3 года назад

Maybe Hats off to Roy Harper. 🤣😂

@JeffCounsil-rp4qv 3 года назад

@@funfact8660 One of my favorites...

@funfact8660 3 года назад

@@JeffCounsil-rp4qv or perhaps Hot Dog

@MoonBurn13 Год назад

Superb. I’ve been a lighter-than-air craft fan since we brought “Giants in the Sky” home from the library for my son in the late 70s. Since then I’ve been at work on more airship art and writing than I could roster here. Nevertheless, the only Information I’d had on LZ 130 was so scanty as to be misleading - her “only flight was to travel once around the airfield…”; that plus a brief mention of Heydrich in the 130 on her spying mission, in, I believe, Albert Speer’s autobiography. Thanks for the painstaking research into little-known facts of History, Dr Felton. Fascinating.

@raisagorbachov 3 года назад

The alleged Zeppelin hangers in Riga, Latvia are well worth a look. They housed a market in Soviet times and shortly after which is when I last walked through them.

@harri2626 3 года назад

There are five of them, and all are still used as the city's main market. I understand that none of the hangars were actually used for airships, but were built for a planned Baltic airship squadron near Riga. When dismantled and re-erected they were reduced in height, but they are still huge halls.

@raisagorbachov 3 года назад

@@harri2626 I have memories of shopping in them when I lived and worked in Riga.

@fieldlab4 3 года назад

Other countries made airships. In fact Zeppelin wasn't the only German company. There were ultra-cool Schutte-Lanz made of wood! They WEREN'T Zeppelins.

@raisagorbachov 3 года назад

@@fieldlab4 Oh, lots of countries had hydrogen airships. Britain had some too.

@ElGrandoCaymano 3 года назад

@@raisagorbachov There are British ones outside of Bedford.

@barkermjb 3 года назад

Thanks for this obscure history lesson. Never heard about any of this before and I found it absolutely fascinating.

@YMC888 3 года назад

First to like again Mark! Hope you're well lately!

@henriknilsson7851 3 года назад

Another amazing story hiding in plain sight. I am constantly amazed by your ability to find and tell tales of the unknown and obscure with such rich detail and context.

@Canofasahi 3 года назад

This is story that I did know about, and the British where thanks to their Radar well aware where the Airship was all the time, and when the Germans transmitted their location they where off by quite some distance, however the idea to correct the Germans by sending them their correct location was quickly dismissed.

@tomy.1846 3 года назад

Mark Felton crushes it again! Awesome story!

@ThatManInASuit 3 года назад

Another excellent video, I'm amazed I haven't heard about this 1939 raid before now.

@r2gelfand 3 года назад

It interests me that Goering had the Zeppelins scrapped so early in the war to recycle the metal for Luftwaffe aircraft. Ominous signs of dark times to come for Germany's fortunes of war.

@ALSmith-zz4yy 3 года назад

Not really. The Zeppelin's giant hangers would be easy targets for Allied air raids so they were not likely to survive the war even if Germany won.

@jamesphilip6737 3 года назад

They reminded him of his own weight.

@bernieschiff5919 3 года назад

@@jamesphilip6737 Goering never liked the new generation of rigid airships.. He referred to them as lumbering gasbags, and was looking for an excuse to cancel the program.

@crackbillie5464 3 года назад

Been watching Mark for a long time. I do not think I have seen a video I didn't like... Thank you Mark keep up the good work

@JavierCR25 3 года назад

“Disconcerting habit of bursting into flames” - Such a proper way to put it Professor hehehe

@joepapp01 3 года назад

watching a new video from Dr. Mark Felton - what a perfect way to celebrate my birthday!! :D

@MarkFeltonProductions 3 года назад

Happy birthday!

@joepapp01 3 года назад

@@MarkFeltonProductions thank you!!

@91Redmist 3 года назад

I thought the last Zeppelin raid was when their entourage smashed up a U.S. hotel in the late 70s. ;) ;)

@jacksmith6965 3 года назад

Zing!

@ScottsChristmasChannel 3 года назад

That Led Zeppelin was unable to fly because it was constructed of lead! "Led"!

@scootergsp 3 года назад

My complements to you, sir. I have once again learned something I did not know previously. Keep up the good work

@rudeone4life 3 года назад

Great to know, little known fact that I never knew about. Thanks for posting.

@kampfgruppepeiper501 3 года назад

What a incredible story, I’m amazed at the knowledge you have and thankful that you put a lot of work into your content! Love seeing this channel grow! Thanks Mark!

@luissantiago5163 3 года назад

Oh cool. Great way to start the day

@Aengus42 3 года назад

Airships like the modern Zeppelin's look like a very sedate & civilised form of transportation. One day I would love to avail myself of such a flight.

@donl1846 3 года назад

A great piece of history as only Professor Felton can tell it, thank you.

@bobstride6838 3 года назад

Another great episode! Thank you Mark

@medassistph 3 года назад

The passengers sure bought their stairway to heaven by riding on those Zeppelins.

@Cherb123456 3 года назад

The revival of Airships/Zeppelins was always a dream & hope of mine. The photos I saw on how beautiful it must have been standing on the promenade and enjoying this view!