BBC - The Secret War - episode 5 "if"

Germany a fully funded , organisation... great Britain ..shoe string budget,borrowing staff, organisation still in biplane mentally

Don't make stuff like this anymore...shame...the war has been over for many decades...yet so many what ifs,and if only...and yet only yesterday no saw Hitler at Aldi's

Love old BBC's documentaries .they don't make them like this anymore

Those transports were hacked down by the allies in 1943 north Africa

Ahhh I remember 1977 watching this with me Dad in Figtree, Wollongong, australia.fantastic series not that I knew much being 9

Fantastic; amazing.

the comet should have had removable fuel tanks.

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"loire rhone engines.... Which had recently become surplus to the needs of the French Air force..." 🤣🤣🤣

The krauts had a lot of kit that they fortunately didn’t utilise to their full potential.

Nice video showing all countries whose in war struggles to producing best abilities of flyers weapons...same samples were successful others failures...most successful country was USA, 2nd one was Britain...thanks for sending

Never seen Hanna Reitsch interviewed. Didn’t know she knew English. A great pilot- also a hard-core Nazi.

Great Series , I can recommend.
The Footage of this Video is really amazing and sometimes unique !
Thank You for uploading this !

Thank you for making this available. I remember watching it over forty years ago when it was first screened. Remarkable footage and interviews especially Hanna Reitsch

The "i" in "Gigant" is to be pronounced like "ee" in 'bee".

Hanna Reitsch should have done 20 years for war crimes. The crimes being : 1.) Being a Nazi 2.) Talking in a loud and annoying manner

Conclusion, Germany wasn't meant to win!

What about my mates freight crate, that twatted Mach 1 in 1936!

An awesome series of documentaries. I remember watching each week when first broadcast back in 1977. I bought the videos as soon as they came out (still have them) and watched several times over the years. Watched the full series of seven programmes again a couple of times here in FB. Brilliant

The narrator is fantastic.

What about the Hortons flying wings?

Among all the inventions, I have always wondered why no one didn't come up with the simple idea of using
shields while assaulting beaches. Like at Normandy... Omaha etc. The men jumped off the boats and away they went, running up the beach all while they got mowed down by german machine guns.
Why didn't anyone think....."Hey, what if the boys try holding some kind of shield in front of them?"

A shield wouldn't help against mortar fire, but what really killed them were the machine gun fire from the pill boxes. Why didn't anyone come up with that idea? There must have been material light and string enough to withstand that kind of fire for a time. ?????????.

37.30 Meteor could have been in service in 1942.

The Kapock Landin stage and Argos, wereresearch tools.The landing stage developed forusein Mulberry and Argos provided a test rig for amphibious vehicles. Headcorn Musuem, at Headcornairfield in Kent have a U Boat autogiro and a manned V1, on display. The RAF used Autogirosfro Radar calibration.

History channel take note in how it should be done.....

really a good show pleasant narration

Where are the remaining?

If the Germans had gotten the 252 earlier then Whittle would have gotten all the money he needed with the RAF screaming at him for being slow.

Woollard's hairdo is a war crime.

Hanna Reitsch was an unrepentant Nazi till the day she died but she was also one of the best pilots in the world at that time,holding numerous flying records and even flying into Berlin in the final days of World War Two in an attempt to save Hitler,which was an outstanding flying feat.

NEVER COUNT YOUR CHICKENS ETC--