10 Royal Marines vs. the Kriegsmarine: The Frankton Raid, 1942 - Animated

[@HoH]

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[@JohnJones-cp4wh]

The little shed they trained from still exists on Eastney seafront in front of the old Royal Marine barracks.

[@MM22966]

Italians: "Look at this, Giuseppe! They are trying to get in the harbor ABOVE the water!"

[@geordiedog1749]

That made me lol - literally not figuratively.

[@MM22966]

@@geordiedog1749 You're welcome! ;) Italy may not have much to boast about in WW2, but the frogmen of the Decima Flottiglia MAS were an exception.

[@garethmatthews7939]

@@MM22966 they were brave men

[@andrewmontgomery5621]

The famous war movie Cockleshell Heroes is inspired by this raid.

[@MoonBerryShrimp]

8:30 "Must have been the wind"

[@iainmc9859]

These guys were real heroes because none of them could have expected to get home again. Britain holding its ground in the West and the Soviet Union hanging on in Stalingrad.

[@notthefbi7932]

Always amazed how the French police just handed them over knowing they would be executed, so sad 😢

[@Heike--]

Churchill sent them on a suicide mission knowing they would be executed in the likely event of their capture. So sad.

[@cynthiabauer5763]

most people everywhere are "just following orders." There's a conformity experiment where if a figure of authority tells you to push a button, despite you hearing agonizing sounds of someone in pain as a response, most people will still push it and "increase" dosage when told to do so by an authority figure. There's another where people say the wrong answer before the test subject's turn, so when it's his turn he also says the wrong answer going along with everybody else, but if there is one dissident before the test subject's turn then the rate of dissent to dare speak the truth increases by a lot. These two experiments show most people are, as Aristotle said, "natural slaves" (without any moral implication, simply an inclination to obey someone else), so it's important that there are filters and review processes over figures of authority in society, and that their power is limited by a strong moral culture, because most people will obey whatever absurd commands labeled as "laws" are put into place.

[@Heike--]

@@cynthiabauer5763 That's the Milgram experiment, it's not science and was never science. It's a load of bullshit by a political activist with an axe to grind.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Hello from Colombia! Huge fan! Keep up the good work ❤❤❤

[@MrSpringheel]

También de Colombia, me encanta la historia militar.

[@KHK001]

Amazing work as always!

[@simongee8928]

The greatest issue was the lack of in depth training of kayak handling for the volunteers. To deal with rough waters, much less tidal races in a kayak takes a heck of a lot practice and experience. This was lacking in the lead up to Frankton, the probable reason for the losses approaching Bordeaux.

[@alexanderleach3365]

This is a classic commando raid.

[@Heike--]

By which you mean it didn't work and got good men killed for no reason? Classic Churchillian sideshow operation, just like Gallipoli.

[@aidankitson7877]

I thoroughly enjoyed this entertaining and educational video. As I am Irish, please could you review some famous Irish battles such as The Battle Of The Boyne and The Battle Of Clontarf?

[@brokenbridge6316]

I saw a movie about this raid. It was called "The Cockleshell Heroes." It wasn't bad.

[@Centorior]

Thank you for the video. I always feel excited watching one of these, then remember or be reminded there were countless sacrifices made.

[@hazchemel]

Amazing story that was unknown to me, thank you.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Another wonderful historical coverage video shared by an amazing ( house of history) channel...thanks for sharing

[@NO-poleon]

Very interesting and cool story! Can you make a story on the adventures of the SMS Cormoran II or the SMS Seeadler?

[@HoH]

I will see if I can find some sources!

[@sonnyjim5268]

Interesting video. No VCs?

[@stevebarlow3154]

No, because their action was 'not in the direct face of the enemy'. Hasler got the DSO and Sparks the DSM.

[@theofarmmanager267]

The bravery shown by these men was beyond my understanding. Like so many such tasks (from every national) their own safety - their own lives - were just ignored by them. Liveth evermore

[@lexvanriet4053]

Can you do a vid about the raid on bruneval?

[@AvenKrall]

Hola, saludos desde México! Excelente contenido. Muy interesante detallado y específico. Agradecería ininitamente que doblaran el video al español, o con subtítulos en español.

[@emmiannon1266]

Oh i saw a canoe like these on display in the combined military museum in essex. I wonder if its the same one? Edit: they are the same ones!. if you are anywhere near essex UK, go over there and see them, its a great museum. Edit 2: i think they were unused ones if i remember correctly which would make sense as to why they survived this long

[@lukethompson473]

It’s the one that was damaged on launch :)

[@Trebor74]

If you went to the Chelmsford and Essex museum did you see the Napoleonic eagle the Essex regiment captured?

[@emmiannon1266]

@@Trebor74 no, i went to the combined military museum in maldon. they did have a captured german artillery gun outside which was pretty interesting.

[@wolfu597]

The month before, British Commandos of the failed operation Freshman in Norway, had been summarily executed according to Hitlers orders after their two gliders crashed, forcing them to surrender.

[@theodorossarafis7370]

one of the best and dariest operations in history

[@carlambroson8872]

Maybe you have already and I just forgot, but you guys should have a video on the capture of Pegasus Bridge by British paratroopers on D-Day!

[@xe2594]

Hello from Aus

[@oldandintheway9805]

Hello from the land up over!

[@julio5prado]

Amazing operation!

[@cossintan1]

Those “canoes” look an awful lot like kayaks to me.

[@peterodonnell5820]

In most places, except America, 'canoe' is a generic term for small craft powered by paddles. A boat with a covered deck and powered by double ended paddles is called a kayak, and an open decked boat powered by single ended paddles is known as a Canadian canoe. If you look at the Olympic events you will see the canoeing events are divided into classes, K1, K2, and K4 for kayaks carrying 1,2, or 4 paddlers, and C1, C2, C4 for Canadian canoes.

[@Hacienda_27]

Operation Jaywick also, the Commandos' Singapore version

[@AcidMole]

Why on earth would the french police hand them in? Shocking

[@garethmatthews7939]

no the unit was called the royal Marinne boom patrol detachment the cockel shell name was the name of the film later. A good book to read is called a brilient little operation by the late lord paddy ashdown who served in the Royal Marines then the SBS. This also inspired operation jeywick then the infated Ramlui attack on singapore harbour the first using a captures Japanese fishing vessel then the second was by Sub

[@nonbigbrain9662]

When in doubt paddle your way out!

[@SA-xf1eb]

True heroism.

[@garethmatthews7939]

the royal marine raid at zergburga in ww 1

[@MrSpringheel]

They used kayaks because there wasn't budget for better ships, lol😂😂 Seriously, it was a formidable strategy.

[@Heike--]

A stupid strategy. It got good men killed for no reason. Thanks, Churchill.

[@Whitpusmc]

How did this shorten the war by six months? Not knocking the brave men at all, just don’t understand?

[@CurtisWebb-en5kh]

Fuck yes.

[@duncanandrews1940]

The Gironde is an ESTUARY and NOT a RIVER...................

[@Judge_Magister]

Well the word estuary refers to both a sea arm and a river mouth so its perfectly fine to say sea or river instead.

[@duncanandrews1940]

@@Judge_Magister An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environments and are an example of an ecotone. Estuaries are subject both to marine influences such as tides, waves, and the influx of saline water, and to fluvial influences such as flows of freshwater and sediment. The mixing of seawater and freshwater provides high levels of nutrients both in the water column and in sediment, making estuaries among the most productive natural habitats in the world. I live 3 kilometers from the Estuary and I can assure you that it is not called the River Girond by anyone here. I am also a member of the Frankton Souvenire and thus well aquainted with the raid and the escape.

[@Judge_Magister]

@@duncanandrews1940 a lot of words to say its a bit of both.

[@duncanandrews1940]

@@Judge_Magister You miss the point...There is no such thing as the RIVER GIRONDE

[@Judge_Magister]

@@duncanandrews1940 yes well, we all knew what he ment but technically you are right.

[@USS.-LOVERS]

Pertamax🗿

[@Tigerpanzer6666]

you should try games to tell the history like total war or something instead of animating maybe just a suggestion

[@mariopasha4119]

Make a video about albania in ww2

[@jamesscully7108]

👀🇮🇪👍⚓

[@satnav9699]

0:52 map is wrong, has he invasion into ussr but no occupation of greece, yugoslavia and Bulgaria is in the Axis.

[@vampi-chan3793]

and the Battle of Stalingrad started on July 1942, but in this map it doesn't seem that the germans have reached the Volga River or Stalingrad yet. Sevastopol fell in July 1942 too.

[@jaydeister9305]

[@oldandintheway9805]

VIVE le lingerie!

[@bernardoveintiuno6391]

Well, comparing this with the italian raid in Alexandria, this was an amateur attempt. The royal marines sacrifice themselves to please the british high commands and did not succeed on getting revenge.

[@CIMAmotor]

That was all the Regia Marine could do after being thoroughly humiliated in the Mediterranean by the Royal Navy.

[@zillsburyy1]

cockoshell>?

[@stevebarlow3154]

Cockle shell ie the shell of the cockle, a marine mollusc.

[@angloaust1575]

The movie wasnt accurate in all its areas and using fictious Names didnt help obviously An american was needed to Sell it!

[@stevebarlow3154]

Using one or more American actors was the price the British film production company had to pay for American finance. A common practice at the time.

[@jimjames5416]

Poorly planned and poorly prepared for. Lack of awareness of tides and dangers at the mouth of the river. River so shallow that attacked ships were repaired and refloated. 8 out of 10 of the people involved died, mostly from lack of proper planning. Nothing heroic here, just a disaster of brave men dying. Hasler was a bit of an idiot.

[@trooperdgb9722]

He says...with 80 years of hindsight...

[@stevebarlow3154]

You seem to forget that this was wartime and we were desperate to halt the flow of shipping into Bordeaux. Hasler was a very brave men determined to do his bit to damage the German war effort. There were similar cock-ups in the Falklands War. One SAS group underestimated the conditions on South Georgia and two helicopters crashed trying to get them off a glacier, before a third heavily overloaded helicopter operating in near white-out conditions managed it. Around the same time a RIB operated by the Boat Troop had its outboard motor fail and came close to being swept out into the depths of the Antarctic Ocean by the strong currents around South Georgia.

[@jimjames5416]

@@stevebarlow3154 not forgetting, desperation resulting in poor planning still gets people killed. No justification to hero worship this guy, he got everyone but one plus himself killed, but people think he was a hero.

[@Heike--]

@@trooperdgb9722 What, like people didn't know men died of exposure back then? Or tides existed?

[@rickden8362]

I'd like to know how Churchill calculated the operation shortened the war by 6 months. It's doubtful the results alone accounted for such a result.

[@LMyrski]

Yawn.....how many videos can one watch on the same few British raids.

[@CIMAmotor]

Wanker.

[@samryan180]

First comment!

[@justinmorgan2126]

*slow clap*

[@PaulJohn01]

@@justinmorgan2126 🤣🤣

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

​@justinmorgan2126 which is better than quick herpes.