WW2 Forgotten Fronts: Britain's Invasion of Iceland

[@PoorlyGraded]

CORRECTION: I mispronounced "Faroe Islands" - like, really badly. Sorry about that! Also "Berwick" is pronounced "Ber-rick" Oops! I'll double check next time before uploading!

[@CZ350tuner]

Don't worry about only two mispronunciations. The average US citizen mispronounces dozens of English words (route, herbs, Gloucester, aluminium, etc.).

[@martinkrog5943]

Dude, you pronounced it better than us Danes :) Cool vid, thanks Keep up the good work and skål(cheers)

[@mitchellgiles6869]

I love that WW2 was starting to really heat up but in the midst of it the British suddenly smelled an undefended island in the Atlantic and dropped everything to go colonize it

[@SheldonT.]

Thanks for including the bit about Canada. Most people forget about our involvement. The story goes that a single German bomber attacked and was driven away by Canadian Anti-aircraft, which PROVED that Iceland was in range of German bombers. This single act led to the massive build up of allied personal on the island.

[@dudududu1926]

I laughed at the Jetson's engine noise.

[@PoorlyGraded]

I'm glad someone got it! :)

[@Spudtron98]

5:18 Well, it _was_ another British diplomatic mission... of the _we weren't asking_ variety.

[@ThatWelshGuy.]

Love the video keep up the good work mate!

[@julbombning4204]

Hey just gotta say, Great content!

[@BambiJuice]

Great video! Glad to find this channel

[@CellularAustralian8222]

Its a good day when you upload

[@casasworks6350]

Thank you for your videos, i love to see a channel covering the minor and ofter overlooked battles of ww2 in such an entertaining way, keep doing content! also will you cover castle Itter some time?

[@PoorlyGraded]

Thank you for the nice comment! As for Castle Itter, I'm not sure, but it is a super interesting battle. I just feel that there are plenty of other good videos made by different channels on that topic already. So I guess, maybe I might. But not for a while.

[@bricklingtonlego]

Awesome! Can't wait for the North Atlantic Weather War!

[@Rokaize]

Good work brother. I had no idea this campaign occurred! May Allah and his prophet Muhammad peace be upon him smile down upon you! Keep up the good work 😊

[@totallyscuffed9394]

These videos are really good, my favourite so far. Sad to see you haven't posted one in 8 months, I was actually looking for the North Atlantic Weather War video somewhere. Even if the views aren't a lot you never know when one of these will blow up so keep it up.

[@lenx5953]

Nice video man

[@NefariousKoel]

My grandfather, an American in the coastal artillery stationed there in '41 before US entered the war, had old photos of him and his British/Commonwealth drinking buddies also stationed there in Iceland. We never talked much before he became senile in old age but I do recall he got quite a butt-chewing for sneaking off base to go fishing. He happened upon some civilian and inadvertently scared the piss out of them. The civvie reported him. Apparently it was a big no-no to go outside the designated military occupied area due to the standing agreements with the Icelandic gov't at the time. 😄 The photos were interesting, though. Looked like the Tommies and the Yanks were having as good a time as they could way out there with little to do but watching for the Germans to show up.

[@wildwilly356]

hey can you talk about the Japanese attack on Alaska

[@J.WILKINS_37]

I’m from Iceland 🇮🇸

[@piney4562]

Great video. I would recommend working on your pronunciation a bit though. Like Berwick, for instance, it is pronounced more like berrick. And the Farroe islands, the E at the end is not pronounced.

[@PoorlyGraded]

Thank you! I did read "Berwick" and think "maybe thats said differently" Oh well! I know for next time now :)

[@jamestrebillcock4718]

Yeah the w is silent. I live an hour south of Berwick upon tweed

[@benediktgunnarsson4311]

there was NO railroads

[@Joplin-and-I]

Railway?

[@Halli50]

Icelander here, born in 1950. While there was apparently considerable Nazi sentiment in Iceland (the father of a childhood friend of mine was an unabashed Nazi until the day he died in the 1970s, a curious childhood experience), the vast majority of Icelanders wanted nothing to do with the Nazis. While the British occupation was not welcomed as a matter of principle, it was not unexpected. The entire invasion was very civilized, the "on principle" opposition was credibly delivered, and that was that. Period. In hindsight, anyone knowing how the occupation of Denmark and Norway turned out will agree that the Brits were better than Nazis as an occupying force. Make no mistake: Colonial Britain made brutal mistakes in their colonies that rival the Nazis in WW2 but, curiously, they have been let off the hook regarding pesky little details.

[@JJAAAACCKK]

If Colonial Britain acted in a way that you deem the moral equivalent of the Holocaust, in what sense were you lucky that it was them rather than the Nazis?

[@Halli50]

@@JJAAAACCKK ???

[@ActionPanda-g5n]

It all makes perfect sense. Poorly graded refers to the appalling quality of your drawing skills, people especially.

[@HXLproductions]

🇬🇧❤🇮🇸

[@zeroqp]

You just ripped most of this straight from the Wikipedia article