@@jeremiahooms4716 I mean, while I don’t recall any major German encircling movements at Belleau Wood, that doesn’t mean a lone American Marine couldn’t have accidentally gotten trapped behind enemy lines in the confusion of battle and in the thickness of the woods.
Usually the BEF did saw spitfires over the beaches, but most were out of fuel, shot up and gliding for a crash land, or staying over the beaches for a short time due to fuel being to low
The RAF were actually doing lots of heavy fighting further inland over France trying to halt the Germans hence why soldiers rarely saw the RAF over the beaches.
That's my favourite part of Dunkirk where the BEF give the pilot shit for not helping out and Mr. Dawson just points to the guys they rescued and goes "They know where you were"
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I tear up when I think of how those great sacrifices were used - all those brave, smiling young men, mown down so their grandchildren could live like people do today? Like drug-addled, sex-crazed, selfish, ignorant craven animals? So sad.
@@joshuagraham2762 - Nonsense. We in the west have set a double, triple, even quadruple guard on the gate where one angry, lonely, drunken would-be-nazi might possibly show up some day so we can blow him away immediately before he can say something mean, and in the mean-time let every other kind of vice, lie, and degenerate snake oil salesmen infest itself into society to maximum destructive effect. No. If you're looking for dangerous people who seek to reinstall the same political ideology that Tommy Atkins died fighting, you needn't look much farther than the names in today's headlines - Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Christine Lagard, that beady-eyed sockpuppet that supposedly runs France, Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, etc., etc., etc.
"Don't tell my mom I'm in Afghanistan" but you are a Russian soldier watching the Black Tulip fly overhead while under fire "Rule Britania" but you're a sailor on the Hood and the main boat deck has just been hit "Drum bun" but you're a Romanian soldier getting ready to attack Plevna the 3rd time today "Säkkijärven Polka" but you're a Finnish soldier down to your last 5 rounds of ammo and hear the rumbling of tanks closing in.
the british government telling the british to wait at the shores while the enemy is closing in on them fast is the equivalent of the teacher telling you to calmy exit the building during a fire.
Well that and the fact that if they sent the royal navy to retrieve them, they a) opened up the mainland for invasion, and b) diverted naval power away from supply lines that would have been annihilated by German U-boats. The Dunkirk evacuation had to happen the way it did because there was literally no other choice.
Do you understand why you are told to calmly exit buildings during a Fire or any Emergency? Many-a-times before there have and still are things called "crushes", Y'know when a Crowd pushes on each other, The Front falls down, The Back Keeps pushing and Tramples the Front to Death, It has happened many times before, Sometimes not even during emergency's or fires.
@@cmcphotography1 I would imagine the last german soldier in that tank staying inside as he knows he'll die going out. All around him the t34s rumble past, then the shelling begins. Just faintly in the distance he hears sceams for a short while, but soon enough the shelling only gets louder. He picks up his gun and points it at his head knowing full well the hatred around him is not only impossible to beat, but that he created it and is the reason this army is not only invading his country but grinding it under their feet
@@Fafner8888 funny how the song says the army is the strongest, even though they were dying and surrendering so fast they started pulling men out of the navy to fight on land.
I can just imagine a camera pulling back revealing more and more carnage of the fighting and skirmishes, and it ends with the camera looking up as the plane crushes the viewer ending it
It hits different. Damn, imagine being one of those French soldiers on the beach, you don't even know if you'll see your country again and then the song start.
Some creative liberties are taken with respect to anachronism, like the one I did on I wanna be in the Cavalry for example, so nothing is impossible, it's just a fine line to tread. Oh and obviously, suggestion noted!
While the English soldiers were waiting on the beach for evacuation, the French soldiers were defending Dunkirk against the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe. The German General who was in charge of the Dunkirk battle salutes the bravery of the French Soldiers, who later came back to France to try to retrieve their country...
@@generaladvance5812 "some" French troops being over 150,000 French soldiers, most of which decided to lay down their weapons and return to occupied France.
And the evacuation was also hell, as men would pull others out of boats, and some would get in 2 or more and got pulled out by others before they got in one and stayed on it
I had chills when the Stuka siren sounded along with the uncanny mood made by the music in contrast to the anxiety of being at Dunkirk helplessly and desperately waiting for release from hell.
This song always gives me such goosebumps. I can picture two sweethearts slow-dancing long past closing time in some smoky pub because they both know that he's leaving for the mainland in the morning and he might never come back. Can you imagine living in that reality? Crazy stuff
"Russian Road" by Igor Rasteryayev, but you're somewhere between Donetsk and Donbass. (Thank you for your videos! I don't complain about politics, but it's great to see someone who doesn't seem biased about strong subjects like this. Keep it up!)
@@lepmuhangpa everyone also forgets the british soldiers covering the retreat with the French, and considering the British rearguard covered half of Dunkirk its almost surprising that people thi k it was just the French
"la victorie est a nous" but you are a wounded frenchmen from the imperiLal guard on the field of waterloo waiting for some medics to ahow upp or something like that
I heard a very small portion of the ending section to In The Flesh?, the opener song of Pink Floyd: The Wall. The stuka is just as I remember it from the ending of the song. I even heard a bit of the instruments from the song. Kudos to you for that.
Nice to see the people you are defending at home come and rescue you when your in the shit instead of being all nice and safe at home. God bless every single person that took part in the Dunkirk evacuations
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I can't imagine standing on the beaches and hearing overhead the sirens of an approaching Ju-87. You don't have time to make peace with your potential imminent death, you don't have time to cry out or scream, you only have time to get on the ground and pray the bombs spare you.
IDK if this is part of the song but the men singing with the woman just fits perfectly with the scene it sounds like its the soldiers that are singing with her.
"White Christmas" but you are an American diplomat waiting for a helicopter in the embassy during the Fall of Saigon. (Context: White Christmas was played over the radio as a signal to Americans and at-risk Vietnamese to move to evacuation points during the Fall of Saigon).
The Stuka Jericho sirens surprising make me extremely uncomfortable no matter how low I put the volume. Like, I wasn't even there irl to see, hear, and experience it but I could get an idea of that just by the sirens alone.
Yeah, it was nasty, I heard of a story where a reserve(who was part of the initial BEF at the start of the war) got in 3 or 4 boats but was dragged out by others, this was before he finally got on a boat back to England
The French Army stood, defending their British brothers in arms, to their fullest extent. They held off the fascist onslaught so the ships and boats could save them, take them home to England. Even as the Nazis advanced through the beaten French, the French fought on. And the Brits escaped. And France fell. A few years later, the Brits came back with some old and new friends to liberate the French forces who'd saved them. The French who never stopped fighting. Nowadays everyone forgets, and laughs at the French surrender. But the sands at Dunkirk won't forget.
