By Sea and Land, another Crown Film Unit production, follows the Royal Marines on the extreme left flank of the British Lines on D-Day plus 19 as they consolidate their tenuous foothold on Occupied Europe.
A long but intelligent comment as always, the intelligent not the long. Although it's war and people get killed, dying all around you, forcing a young lad to become a steely eyed fully trained killer of enemy soldiers and personnel. I still think that at some point in their day, when after winning a fierce close quarters battle, and after walking through town streets or across a field, seeing the enemy laying on the cold hard ground, eyes wide open, as if looking up at you, the thought must come to mind looking at a dead German soldier and thinking, saying to ones self “If his young lad has my uniform on, we wouldn't know the bloody difference between us" especially later in WWII when Hitler was running out of men and resorting to using old men and school boys, 14-15-16yrs.....and so on, remember we are ethnic cousins, the English and the Germans, plus Not every German was a Nazi, and not all Nazis were German, The Vichy France, Fascist Italians, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Czechoslovakian: The Sudetenland Annexation,(Germanic peoples), also remember where did all that good go, all the stolen bullion, the 1000s of gold teeth, watches, jewelry etc...etc....ask Sweden, Switzerland too. It is estimated that nearly 91 tonnes (100 short tons) of Nazi gold were laundered through Swiss banks, with only 3.6 tonnes (4 short tons) being returned at the end of the war, Sweden seems to have found a way if hiding exactly huw much foreign currency as well as stolen gold was laundered through their banking system.
@garysoutar451 Yes they played an integral part in the Mayalisan Emergency, Aden ,Suez crisis, Korea, the Indonesian confrontation and of course northern Ireland and the Falklands conflict
@garysoutar451 I was just referring to post ww2 conflicts I wasn't aware the RMs took part in any of the campaigns in the Far East. I know the Royal Marines formed a composite unit with the Argyll and Sunderland Highlanders. These were Marines that has survived the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse. With the Argylls, they named themselves The Plymouth Argyles and fought a fighting retreat through the jungles of Mayalisa some of them reaching Singapore.
@@chrisholland7367 I had heard of the plymouth argyll and Sutherland Highlanders but never put two and two together before. Great Uncle Geordie was a Royal Marine aboard Repulse survived the sinking and evaded the surrender of Singapore. .thank you for that bit info that I never realised before.
