Conservatives often beef about the beeb, but they do make some excellent documentaries, still. This one features a new presenter, Mark Urban, who I hope we will see more of. A really good historical one this, including some fine actual war footage (a lot of which I have never seen before), interspersed with interviews of veterans, readings from diaries, excellent commentary and a small amount of dramatisation.
Highly reccomended if you have a spare hour. There's a follow up about the battle for Malta which isn't too shabby either.
1 posted on
01/25/2013 1:11:38 PM PST by
Vanders9
To: Vanders9
One needed to be a hero to go up against a Tiger, in a Sherman.
To: Vanders9
One needed to be a hero to go up against a Tiger, in a Sherman.
To: Vanders9
Thanks ‘V9’ I like these documentaries, when the BBC does them right, they are the best. My favorite is “ What the Romans did for Us”
4 posted on
01/25/2013 1:32:51 PM PST by
virgil283
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To: Vanders9
Next year is WW1 centennial.
To: Vanders9
How can we watch it? Do you have a link? Thank You, FReegards,
7 posted on
01/25/2013 1:36:03 PM PST by
STD
( People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face' but none of us can see theirs!)
To: Vanders9
The British must have had a heavy tank. An old Combat Engineer told me that when they put a British tank Battalion across the Rhine, they would sink just about to the water on the pontoons.
They handled them OK but any heavier and they would not.
12 posted on
01/25/2013 2:04:23 PM PST by
yarddog
(One shot one miss.)
To: Vanders9
My grandfather was a sherman tank gunner in the 12th armored, they were involved in some of the bloodiest fighting in France. I wish I more documentaries were made that included them.
I remember his stories about how frightening the battles at night were. they dug a trench, backed their sherman into it so it propped the front up and fired shells like artillery down into the river on advancing Germans.
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22 posted on
01/25/2013 2:25:59 PM PST by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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25 posted on
01/25/2013 2:39:40 PM PST by
Vanders9
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Just finished watching Part One, wonderful. I can’t wait until Part Two becomes available. Please ping me, put out the word.
26 posted on
01/25/2013 2:54:11 PM PST by
STD
( People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face' but none of us can see theirs!)
To: Vanders9
This is the first Russian tank to enter Berlin. The monument is under construction in this picture. A few days after it was completed, it was blown up during the night. This was at Tiergarten Park. I know very little about Russian tanks but this one was a Stalin tank.
29 posted on
01/25/2013 3:10:18 PM PST by
yarddog
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This is the first Russian tank to enter Berlin. The monument is under construction in this picture. A few days after it was completed, it was blown up during the night. This was at Tiergarten Park. I know very little about Russian tanks but this one was a Stalin tank.