Jeremy Clarkson's The Greatest Raid Of All REACTION!
Added 2024-06-11 15:00:10 +0000 UTCI'm releasing this reaction in conjunction with YouTube today because sometimes it's good to take a step back and learn/admire what some brave people have done for us in the past. Hope you enjoy the reaction.
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If you want a better understanding of how Micky Burns could be a sympathiser. You really should watch the excellent dramatization of the Mitford sisters called "Outrageous." Queen boomer would certainly enjoy it too.
Tass
2025-07-31 09:05:55 +0000 UTCKB have to remember the Naz were around from 30s so a lot of rich and famous were hanging out before it went pete tong... just like today
rtkeane
2025-02-17 11:07:23 +0000 UTCbattle of Oran when they sunk the french fleeet
rtkeane
2025-02-17 10:59:10 +0000 UTCWhatever you think about about Clarkson the man can write a script and makes brilliant TV. Clarksons Farm next please...
rtkeane
2025-02-17 10:53:30 +0000 UTCIt's funny that nobody remembers the Tirpitz - she was actually the sister ship of the Bismark.
vinnler
2024-07-12 11:35:37 +0000 UTCGlad you’ve seen this and enjoyed it, just to let people know the memorial for this has been moved and made more special still in Falmouth
Chris Fulcher
2024-06-19 15:50:21 +0000 UTCEgghead = genius. Unlike me, who's a complete smeghead 🤪
Foggy
2024-06-15 09:31:53 +0000 UTC44.03 that's literally what an egghead means 😂
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
2024-06-13 19:31:07 +0000 UTCI told you this was good! I didn't expect you to save it for a 100k Special though x
Danny Heywood
2024-06-12 19:56:19 +0000 UTCI’ve never watched this before, really powerful and interesting. I’m grateful that I was in one of the last generations to have grandparents who lived during the war and got to hear their stories, and I do worry that the stories of what they went through will be lost over time. We’ve also recently had our current prime minister leave the D-Day commemorations early, and our defence secretary sticking up for him by saying the only ones he missed were for non-British soldiers, and basically shitting on the contribution of our allies in that operation. (Don’t want to get party political, but yeah our politicians over here are also a sack of shit!).
AdamMcAdamface
2024-06-12 17:47:55 +0000 UTCI was thinking the same about the gate, since we were looking at it from the inside. But he said the Tirpitz DIDN'T even get a fishing boat. That's probably why it's forgotten about. It never really did anything.
Joe Thornhill
2024-06-12 02:33:24 +0000 UTCIf you like a bit of Clarkson, I would reccomend 'inventions that changed the world' series and his doc on isenbard kingdom brunel. Very informative and entertaining.
Azzuri13
2024-06-11 21:21:33 +0000 UTCClarkson never fails to be endlessly entertaining, if your looking for something else he's done look up "Jeremy Clarkson meets the neighbours", or his "inventions that changed the world" series
Roughdiamond
2024-06-11 20:44:49 +0000 UTCTrue, and in the mid thirties the rest of the establishment and politicians were either completely blind to it or didn't want to kick up a fuss. Thank god for the working class! (Yeah I'm referring to the Battle of Cable Street).
AdamMcAdamface
2024-06-11 20:04:57 +0000 UTCEgghead means someone is very intelligent
Liam Cooke
2024-06-11 20:04:11 +0000 UTCLord Mountbatten was the Queens husbands (Prince Philip) uncle. I used to live in a house that he once owned. So the landlady told me. Was a huge house converted into flats. We still wrote letters back in the 80s. I wrote quite a few to friends and family. But it all died off with the internet and mobile phones.
Mouse
2024-06-11 19:54:52 +0000 UTCFun fact about Derry in Ireland where I am, it's the city all the u boats came to surrender
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
2024-06-11 19:02:47 +0000 UTCGood seeing the other side of Clarkson... When he's not messing around, he's brilliant When they say Micky was a nazi sympathizer, he like many before the war, admired the nazis success. Then the war kicks in and with it, the truth behind the Nazis is shown. Many people, including the royal family admired or respected Hitler in the early years
CONALL MCLAUGHLIN
2024-06-11 18:56:10 +0000 UTCAs and when you come to the UK you need to go to the Royal Armouries in Leeds, it’s an amazing place. They’ve got everything you could think of that’s been used in battles from today all the way back to about the 14/15th century. I went there about 10 years ago and it’s was phenomenal, they had a Tutankhamun exhibition going on at the time. I was there all day from opening to closing and didn’t even get to the top floor, had to go back about a week later to see the rest. There’s also a room that about 4 storeys tall and the walls are just floor to ceiling covered in weapons, things as simple as sticks and stones all the way up to modern day weapon systems. If you google it you’ll know the room I mean when you see it.
Joe Wilson
2024-06-11 18:54:41 +0000 UTCI think the word is "scuttled" when they sink their own ships
Laurence P-O
2024-06-11 17:25:36 +0000 UTCmakes me so incredibly proud to be british. the left often get accused of not being patriotic but how could you not be when these men are our grandfathers. what an incredible mission, amazing men. there are so many tales of extraordinary bravery that have already been lost, such is the scale and horror of that war. The tales of chivalry in these kinds of battles always floors me, to ask that your enemy receive the highest award possible for his bravery in trying to kill you. amazing. congrats on 100K boomer!
The Everything Guy
2024-06-11 17:23:57 +0000 UTCMy one grandfather never really liked to talk about his time in World War II. The only time we discussed it relatively in depth was when I had to do a report for History in high school. He fought in North Africa, in Italy and was at Dunkirk during the evacution. He never learned to swim so thought he was done for when he couldn't swim out to reach one of the rescue vessels, but his buddy grabbed him by his pack and swam them both out to a small French fishing boat. He lived a happy life after the war and had three daughters. Unfortunately in his last few years seemingly out of nowhere he started having flashbacks and panic attacks due to his time in the war. It was heartbreaking to see this kind and generous man, who was also a Boxing champion in the army, bursting into tears. I'm welling up now just thinking about it. It doesn't matter how many people you speak to, books you read, documentaries or movies you watch, none of us will ever truly understand the horrors that these brave people went through.
(Just) Steve
2024-06-11 17:17:47 +0000 UTCActually, really good wording at the end.
Alan
2024-06-11 16:56:37 +0000 UTCMark Twain is a huge literary figure, outside of the US as well as in it
Kieran B
2024-06-11 16:45:05 +0000 UTC'Who dares wins' is the motto of the SAS who can trace their origins to the commandos. The Del Boy quote is not inappropriate here ;)
Jon
2024-06-11 16:31:16 +0000 UTCThanks KB, well done on your 100K. Almost impossible to understand what these men experienced. We are forever in their debt. P.S. don't worry about not having an extensive knowledge of how shipyards/dry docks work. Most people don't.
Fordy7169
2024-06-11 16:31:15 +0000 UTCGood stuff boomer, congrats on 100k, one left of these ww2 Clarkson documentaries left and I think its the best one, PQ17 Arctic Convoy, and has a lot of American Navy tie in also, look forward to hopefully seeing that reaction in the future one day have a good one
Dave L
2024-06-11 16:26:39 +0000 UTCGreat reaction to an incredible story. Congratulations on your 100,000 subscribers aswell 😉
Graham Hunnisett
2024-06-11 16:22:05 +0000 UTCEgghead just means geek or nerd here, someone who’s incredibly intelligent but not necessarily traditionally seen as brave etc
Kieran B
2024-06-11 16:15:39 +0000 UTCRegarding Micky Burn being a sympathiser, here's an exerpt from his Wikipedia page : By his own admission, in earlier life he "had been drawn to three autocracies: German National Socialism, Communism, and the Roman Catholic Church." A developing interest in bettering the lot of the socially and economically deprived led Burn to a brief dalliance with National Socialism at a time when Hitler was regarded by many as having cured unemployment and given Germany back her soul. He met the German leader in 1936, who signed his copy of Mein Kampf (lost, shortly thereafter). He also attended a Nazi Party Rally at Nuremberg, standing on the dais just a few feet behind the Führer himself. An unquestioning tour of Dachau crowned a period of which he later wrote that he was for a time duped by a combination of his own blindness and the "intensely organized falsehood" that would later be exposed as the engine of the 'New' Germany.
Matt Camburn
2024-06-11 15:54:15 +0000 UTCBeing a sympathiser of the Nazi party up till 1939 probably isn’t quite the same as being a sympathiser in the present day after knowing what the Germans actually did during the war (and the concentration camps weren’t death camps, that sadly came later); it was quite the fashionable thing in upper class society from ~36-38 to have dabblings with fascism as it was brand new then - and much the same with communism. But agree it’s certainly something you don’t expect to hear. I think the iconic British test pilot Winkle Brown had a similar background - spending time in Germany in the late 30s and being quite taken with it all - but ended up getting arrested by the SS in September 1939
Kieran B
2024-06-11 15:45:14 +0000 UTCSuch a fantastic documentary. You should check out PQ17 an arctic convoy disaster. It’s available on Prime. Congratulations on 100K ya muppet!
James Dowling
2024-06-11 15:24:23 +0000 UTCJezza tells a great story . Should do this whole series
Dango247
2024-06-11 15:23:09 +0000 UTC
