This is easily one of the best presentations I have ever seen on any subject. Clarkson does a magnificent job on the Victoria Cross and especially on his coverage of the VC awarded to his father in law. A splendid programme.
this documentary is bullshit they didnt even mention new zealander capt charles upham VC and bar the only combat soilder to ever revieve the award twice won his first in crete in 1941 and his second in egypt 1942
The United States Congressional Medal of Honor is every bit as high a decoration as the VC... so Mr. Clarkson's statement of the VC being the world's highest award for valor is BS !
@NamVetBuck think you'll find its higher than your shitty MoH so eat shit and don't post wank comments poxy arrogant yanks thinking they are the best and know everything as usual, Fucking keyboard warriors -_-...
@happilystoned As for you , buttclown, NO "keyboard warrior" here ! 3 tours USMC & USMCR, Life member of the American Legion & Veterans of Foreign Wars, Past Polst Commander , Past District Vice Commander , Post Adjutant, District Chaplain, Chaplain of the Year b2009 / Dept. of Washington, Legion Order of Merit Bronze Class, VFW Honor Degree...
I doubt seriously you have ever served a day, and the MOH is granted be a FREE republic, not some second rate kingdom that lost it's Empire !
@NamVetBuck seeing as u were a Chaplain go take that bible and go shove it sideways up your fucking arse you cunt as for free republic wtf are you on about the VC has been awarded soldiers from Canada, ghurkas, Australians, New Zealand , Fiji etc all members of the commonwealth. As you for mentioning the Empire little jealous are we you guys tried it and failed in Vietnam and seeing what you did to Cuba taking Guantanamo Bay land that wasn't yours not giving it back that sounds like imperialism.
@NamVetBuck couldn't think of anything else to say could we lack the skill to make a come back do we shame i guess USMC didn't teach you how not to be a little bitch then.
@happilystoned Very well, cretin...since you are so determined to demonstrate your inbred , genetically defective Eurotrash lack of fact grasping skills as pertaining to either the USMC,or the Congressional Medal of Honor , as well as a deficient level of simple grammatical structuring and punctiation usage, compounded by a miniscule capacity for rational thought that is indicative of a moronic mental state common to those of your ilk, you would fail to understand a more complicated response !
@happilystoned In short = Consider yourself typographically bitchslapped....I love having a battle of wits with an unarmed person shooting verbal blanks , but then again , that's normal for Eurotrash !
@happilystoned typical arrogant red neck yank everything your country has every done has been a pale imitation of what my country has done even this Victoria Cross is nearly older than your country's existence.
As for saying eurotrash i am British we are not part of Europe so who is the uneducated one now then?.
You live in a bankrupt, corrupt, leaderless and effete country. That's why you're lashing out. Your pride is wounded. It must be tough to be conned into believing you're the best then find out that your country is a laughing stock.
The Chinese own you. the Canadians could cut your oil off at any time and you're retreating from Afghanistan. It's tough being an American.
@feindhortmit Bankrupt ? Nope, just in debt, like the UK is. The laughing stock is infesting the Oval Office, but we can fix that in 2012, as opposed to your Bonnie Prince Charlie married to a homewrecker ...for life ! The Chinese wanna try coming over here to foreclose, they will be facing an entire country's militias armed to the teeth. You remember militias...the ones that threw the Brits outta the USA starting in 1776 ? Try telling a US Marine he's not the best...have your will made out !
The USA is bankrupt. Entitlement programmes absorb nearly all your GDP. Military spending condems you to penury. Your wealth leaves in every empty container ship headed back to China.
You'll be saddled with Obama for another four years. The GOP has nobody creditable. You're going down the toilet.
Meanwhile you prattle on about an Italo-Scot homosexual pretender, militias &1776.
You're an average American. You don't understand but you're still very arrogant.
@NamVetBuck So, just to get facts straight here; because you served 'a tour of duty', you're above average? It's been my experience that a stint in combat a genius does not make, but then.... oh right, you're a seppo.
I've served my country. Falklands War1982 (Scotts Guards) wounded at Tumbledown, Northern Ireland, Germany, Belize etc.. But unlike you I don't boast about it or feel the world owes me a living.
Your grasp of how the world works in that of a simple soldier. You should keep geo political opinions to yourself and let the grown ups talk.
I heard that for a soldier to be awarded a VC he needs to undertake an action for which he has to have something like an 80% chance of dying (from memory, it might be completely different). It shows how much guts these guys have. The Australian SASR has received 2 VCs recently, such as Mark Donaldson who ran through a storm of Taliban fire to rescue an interpreter, I guess that warrants a VC. But I dunno about Donaldson being in a Vic Bitter advert, afterwards, hahahah
read my friends about polish Virtuti Militari order - the oldest (created 1792) and one of most prestigous military decorations in the history.
excluding communism years in poland in 20century (which tried to decrease it's prestige and gave it to many soviets traitors who were in polish army) it was only awarded in cases of the biggest bravery.
The Allied command should have studied the course if the German paratroopers attack on the Netherlands in May 1940 before engaging in operation Market garden.
not that i even want to incinuate the americans being on a par with the british military, but he says the VC is the worlds highest medal for bravery. surely the congressional medal of honour is on a par?
@bowyer56 would have to agree - the description for earning it is pretty similar to that for a VC as far as I can tell. Maybe a bit of British pride was biasing that statement slightly!
read my friend about polish Virtuti Militari order - the oldest (created 1792) and one of most prestigous military decorations in the history.
excluding communism years in poland in 20century (which tried to decrease it's prestige and gave it to many soviets traitors who were in polish army) it was only awarded in cases of the biggest bravery.
@167ray I am not sure, but I do know that the VC goes mostly to men who have been killed in the act of valour. You might get an idea about each one by doing a tally of the people living who have one and the ones who died getting one.
@bowyer56 as a comparison something like 3600+ MoH have been given compared to about 1550 VC's. So it is seen as a much more difficult award to fulfill the requirements for.
@mkopp88 Well, i might be speaking from a point of view of patriotism, but from what i've read more people have been awarded the Medal Of Honour than the Victoria Cross (3474,compared to 1351) and 14 people have been awarded the Medal Of Honor twice. Not only that but as Jeremy said, the survival rate for a VC action is only 1 in 10.
I've read some of the MoH award citations and whilst the soldiers that won them are incredibly brave, VC winners seem to have to do more to win one.
@Droakner After looking around and actually watching the whole program, you Brits might be right. I don't think it is because of the numbers because almost half of the MOH have awarded in our civil war and during that time and WWII the US military was much larger. I do think now with the current conflicts they are on more of an equal footing. Also i will never understand why you guys use whilst and we don't.
@mkopp88 True, the US millitary has always been larger. I think though that Britain has fought in a handfull more conflicts, before the introduction of modern warfare, yet their are still fewer VC's earned. And why does the US not have the word whilst?
they can be taken of you not sure what king it was but he sayed it should be wearable on the gallows but there is still a way for it to be took away from you if you earn it
Blenheim, Trafalgar, Waterloo, Caen, Falaise, Arnhem. Every time when things got out of control, you British were there. I'm Dutch, I was born long after the last global conflict but I will remember Arnhem as long as I live. Thank you Winston! Thank you Great Britain! Thank you First Airborne! You could not hold the bridge but you tried at high costs and that is something we'll always remember. God save the Queen!
@cyberprutser WOW. A european thanking the british for their war actions. I think that's the first time I've seen that on YouTube. Very impressive, you deserve a medal for knowing it wasn't the US who saved western europe, it was the ALLIES (who were mostly british empire forces).
It is bloody hard to earn a VC in modern warfare, hence why hardly anyone recieves them. But the guy from Aus who won the VC earned it for drawing taliban fire to himself rather than his team.
New Zealand has earned only 1 VC since WWll in essence you must have been shot at shot or died in the pursuit of saving someone elses life most are given post homusly
New Zealand has earned only 1 VC since WWll in essence you must have been shot at shot or died in the pursuit of saving someone elses life most are given post homusly
@Lachausis- Well, out of top decorations for valour awarded by the various countries on Earth, I doubt any surpass the Victoria Cross in terms of fame and prestige. The HSU, for example, is a joke. They tossed those things out like people fling pennies about in America.
@Lachausis I thought that, perhaps he's basing that gainst the other top Valour medal, the Americans CMH... which there are more of than VC's? Only explaination I can think of
A handful of Sihk Indians were awrded it during WW11 and the Partition. When you hear their stories you really understand how crazy brave you had to be to be awarded it.
I think until Paddy Mayne should get at least 2 VC - paddy mayne destroyed 100 aircraft - that's valour and saved his squard in 1945, this VC selection process is a pugwash to say some very brave people don't get it -The governement should have nothing to do with the decision - serving soldiers should decide who gets it - not bigwigs in the safefy of whitehall drinking tea during WWII. Audie Murphy is on par with Paddy Mayne and Amercians hasn't even heard of Paddy Mayne!!
@theapeman10 agreed, Blair Mayne was one of the most astonishing soldiers ever and never got the VC because of his attitude to his so called superior officers, a true shame but his statue still exists where he is admired the most, SAS headquarters in Hereford
@lickstickly - I agreed and I watched a program about 8 years about him and not one of friends knew of him, when I sent them a link they were like is this guy a ninja or what. It makes you wonder why they don't make a feature film of him. It would be an amazing film, probably the best war film ever. A brdige too far is the best so far since it based on fact. but Mr Cain was a amazing guy and certainly deserved his VC. Thanks for your reply cheers. Good luck :-)
@theapeman10 As I recall, it can only be awarded IF the act of gallantry is observed by an officer? That would explain why certain instances when one would think an award was due result in no award.
@Factnotfictionpeople - Your find people who served with Mayne confirm his actions and that even his own men feared him. But they were glad to have him with them in a fight. An officer has to submit the report, backed by witnesses, but the officer doesn't need to have been there watch?v=T6_GA5DP1oY&feature=related
@theapeman10 I see, thanks for that. I think the other problem with Blair Mayne, was that he wasn't adverse to punching the odd officer on the nose(!) and could be just a little unorthodox! :-)
@Factnotfictionpeople - Yes the very man that Mayne hit was Geoffrey Keyes who went on to be awarded a VC and was killed in action. It's not for me to say that Keys shouldn't been awarded the VC he was a brave guy who died in action. When you read the how he won it, you wonder how comes he got the VC and Mayne didn't get a VC When Mayne rescued his men and lead from the front. I honest think The powers to be didn't understand the SAS tactics, but the question is who downgraded his VC to a DSO
@theapeman10 Was it now - lol! Well maybe thats why he was denied his medal! :-( As for the powers that be not understanding the SAS methods - very little changes! Apparently, 'Stormin' Norman' Swchartzkopf didn't really rate the methods of the SAS in the first Iraq war - until they showed, in action, just how good they were.
I've watched this documentary 5 or 6 times now - it's very well made, engaging and informative. I would have loved to have seen this develop into a series, where each week they'd highlight a few of the stories of certain VC recipients.
Sorry to be pedantic..but the example of Lt West; he can't have been in the RAF as it wasn't formed until after the first world war. It was the Royal flying corps in WW1.
But yes, all VC earners were/are astonishingly brave. We owe so much to our armed forces.
The RAF was formed in April 1918 with the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. Thus the RAF fought for the last 8 months of the First World War.
@peterm3964 I understood your point - its not like a game. My point is that the bravery of people who fight in conflict if often not recognised. You cannot know whats really going on in someones mind at the time and what fear they are having to cope with. Receiving a medal is therefore its a bit of a lottery. But 'earned' also not quite right. Do you think that getting a medals or an honour is appropriate remuneration for such heroic acts?. I don't.
@167ray Actually, you *have* missed the first 37 seconds, in which Clarkson gives a proper introduction to the subject. Listening to your upload, it clearly sounds odd that his first words are "12,000 airborne troops came by glider and parachute to fight for the bridge" - well, what bridge? In those missing 37 seconds, he explains that it's September 1944 and it's a bridge over the river Rhine in the Dutch town of Arnhem.
Whats the song that plays at 1:30-1:55? By the way, excellent doc on the VC.
MrLlurati 4 days ago
This is easily one of the best presentations I have ever seen on any subject. Clarkson does a magnificent job on the Victoria Cross and especially on his coverage of the VC awarded to his father in law. A splendid programme.
Ivanhoe2 2 weeks ago
Can anyone tell me what beautiful song is at 6:00 to 6:32??
Ardinx 1 month ago
@Ardinx
Craig Armstrong - Business
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this documentary is bullshit they didnt even mention new zealander capt charles upham VC and bar the only combat soilder to ever revieve the award twice won his first in crete in 1941 and his second in egypt 1942
boxing238 1 month ago
interestiing to see him presenting something when it doesn't contain a v8
AstonMartin427 1 month ago
IMO Jeremy could have mentioned the Legion D'honeur
1315229 1 month ago
@1315229 - the Legion d'Honneur is awarded to officers. NCOs and normal soldiers get the Croix de Guerre.
kealyc1 1 month ago
lol, what's with all the UK vs USA? We're fucking allies.
testtestthisisatest 2 months ago 11
The United States Congressional Medal of Honor is every bit as high a decoration as the VC... so Mr. Clarkson's statement of the VC being the world's highest award for valor is BS !
NamVetBuck 5 months ago
@NamVetBuck think you'll find its higher than your shitty MoH so eat shit and don't post wank comments poxy arrogant yanks thinking they are the best and know everything as usual, Fucking keyboard warriors -_-...
happilystoned 4 months ago
@happilystoned As for you , buttclown, NO "keyboard warrior" here ! 3 tours USMC & USMCR, Life member of the American Legion & Veterans of Foreign Wars, Past Polst Commander , Past District Vice Commander , Post Adjutant, District Chaplain, Chaplain of the Year b2009 / Dept. of Washington, Legion Order of Merit Bronze Class, VFW Honor Degree...
I doubt seriously you have ever served a day, and the MOH is granted be a FREE republic, not some second rate kingdom that lost it's Empire !
NamVetBuck 4 months ago
@NamVetBuck seeing as u were a Chaplain go take that bible and go shove it sideways up your fucking arse you cunt as for free republic wtf are you on about the VC has been awarded soldiers from Canada, ghurkas, Australians, New Zealand , Fiji etc all members of the commonwealth. As you for mentioning the Empire little jealous are we you guys tried it and failed in Vietnam and seeing what you did to Cuba taking Guantanamo Bay land that wasn't yours not giving it back that sounds like imperialism.
happilystoned 4 months ago
@happilystoned Tsk, tsk, tsk...should have expected such language from an uneducated cretin...you get many visitors out there in the Twilight Zone ?
NamVetBuck 4 months ago
@NamVetBuck couldn't think of anything else to say could we lack the skill to make a come back do we shame i guess USMC didn't teach you how not to be a little bitch then.
happilystoned 4 months ago
@happilystoned Very well, cretin...since you are so determined to demonstrate your inbred , genetically defective Eurotrash lack of fact grasping skills as pertaining to either the USMC,or the Congressional Medal of Honor , as well as a deficient level of simple grammatical structuring and punctiation usage, compounded by a miniscule capacity for rational thought that is indicative of a moronic mental state common to those of your ilk, you would fail to understand a more complicated response !
NamVetBuck 4 months ago
@happilystoned In short = Consider yourself typographically bitchslapped....I love having a battle of wits with an unarmed person shooting verbal blanks , but then again , that's normal for Eurotrash !
NamVetBuck 4 months ago
@NamVetBuck - well said !
kealyc1 1 month ago
@happilystoned typical arrogant red neck yank everything your country has every done has been a pale imitation of what my country has done even this Victoria Cross is nearly older than your country's existence.
As for saying eurotrash i am British we are not part of Europe so who is the uneducated one now then?.
happilystoned 4 months ago
@happilystoned Stupid ass the American Medal of Honor is older than the VC, it was established 10 years before in the Mexican American war.
njdevil281 3 months ago
@njdevil281 were you born a dickhead yeah or did your shitty upbringing make you one.
Tell you what i'll just paste Wikipedia the victoria cross Established 29 January 1856 first awarded 1856.
The medal of honor Established July 12, 1862 and first awarded American Civil War (1861–1865).
If your gonna try and act hard and say something smart fucking get your shit right you cunt.
happilystoned 3 months ago 2
@NamVetBuck
You sound very insecure.
feindhortmit 4 months ago
@feindhortmit Nope ...a US Marine has NO insecurity problems whatsoever !
NamVetBuck 4 months ago
@NamVetBuck
You live in a bankrupt, corrupt, leaderless and effete country. That's why you're lashing out. Your pride is wounded. It must be tough to be conned into believing you're the best then find out that your country is a laughing stock.
The Chinese own you. the Canadians could cut your oil off at any time and you're retreating from Afghanistan. It's tough being an American.
feindhortmit 4 months ago
@feindhortmit Bankrupt ? Nope, just in debt, like the UK is. The laughing stock is infesting the Oval Office, but we can fix that in 2012, as opposed to your Bonnie Prince Charlie married to a homewrecker ...for life ! The Chinese wanna try coming over here to foreclose, they will be facing an entire country's militias armed to the teeth. You remember militias...the ones that threw the Brits outta the USA starting in 1776 ? Try telling a US Marine he's not the best...have your will made out !
NamVetBuck 4 months ago
@NamVetBuck
The USA is bankrupt. Entitlement programmes absorb nearly all your GDP. Military spending condems you to penury. Your wealth leaves in every empty container ship headed back to China.
You'll be saddled with Obama for another four years. The GOP has nobody creditable. You're going down the toilet.
Meanwhile you prattle on about an Italo-Scot homosexual pretender, militias &1776.
You're an average American. You don't understand but you're still very arrogant.
feindhortmit 4 months ago
@feindhortmit ( Sigh ) OK, time for your realty check...
1. Bonnie Prince Charlie has big ears and married a horse named Camilla, idiot !
2. Nope, Osambo is done for, watch it happen .
3, You fail to grasp info exept possibly on a very basic level , so here goes = China bad , we no pay debt, they can do nothing !
4. Hardly " average"... a US Marine vet...ever get off your computer and go serve a tour of duty ? No ? Then SHADDUP !
4. 1776 = when militias beat a world class army. get it now ?
NamVetBuck 4 months ago
@NamVetBuck So, just to get facts straight here; because you served 'a tour of duty', you're above average? It's been my experience that a stint in combat a genius does not make, but then.... oh right, you're a seppo.
creevey82 1 month ago
@feindhortmit
I've served my country. Falklands War1982 (Scotts Guards) wounded at Tumbledown, Northern Ireland, Germany, Belize etc.. But unlike you I don't boast about it or feel the world owes me a living.
Your grasp of how the world works in that of a simple soldier. You should keep geo political opinions to yourself and let the grown ups talk.
feindhortmit 4 months ago
he mentions that it can never be taken away... can most british military metals be stripped away if you commit a serious crime?
IcyScythe 5 months ago
@IcyScythe Soldiers who've been awarded the VC have gone to the gallows still wearing them.
Anders2185 5 months ago
makes me proud to be British
kingbillyj 5 months ago
Three cheers for Jezza! Woot Woot!!!
joshtheriddler 6 months ago
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Zero7evenX 6 months ago
I heard that for a soldier to be awarded a VC he needs to undertake an action for which he has to have something like an 80% chance of dying (from memory, it might be completely different). It shows how much guts these guys have. The Australian SASR has received 2 VCs recently, such as Mark Donaldson who ran through a storm of Taliban fire to rescue an interpreter, I guess that warrants a VC. But I dunno about Donaldson being in a Vic Bitter advert, afterwards, hahahah
trixwiz7 7 months ago
is that the top gear guy?
ImSoOffended 7 months ago
I like this guy. I have never seen Top Gear, but doesn't he get a lot of shit from laborites for that show?
yaknbo 8 months ago
Anyone know what the second piece of music playing? (in between 'by any other name' and the chile peppers)
davidjohntovell 9 months ago
Does anyone know the name of the track in the background that begins at 1:00? I hear it all the time but never know what its called.
hairesonyourchest 9 months ago
read my friends about polish Virtuti Militari order - the oldest (created 1792) and one of most prestigous military decorations in the history.
excluding communism years in poland in 20century (which tried to decrease it's prestige and gave it to many soviets traitors who were in polish army) it was only awarded in cases of the biggest bravery.
mx19idlewilder 9 months ago
Since when is the VC the highest award for valour of the world?
DutchPetriot 9 months ago
Since when is the VC the highest award for valour?
DutchPetriot 9 months ago
The Allied command should have studied the course if the German paratroopers attack on the Netherlands in May 1940 before engaging in operation Market garden.
This also went horribly wrong.
helmuthoorn 9 months ago
not that i even want to incinuate the americans being on a par with the british military, but he says the VC is the worlds highest medal for bravery. surely the congressional medal of honour is on a par?
bowyer56 10 months ago 6
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@bowyer56 would have to agree - the description for earning it is pretty similar to that for a VC as far as I can tell. Maybe a bit of British pride was biasing that statement slightly!
167ray 10 months ago
@167ray The VC is seen as a more impressive award, and it gains the highest prices in auctions.
maureenOWW 9 months ago
@maureenOWW You wont find real MOH's in any auction...kinda says which one is held in higher regard !
NamVetBuck 4 months ago
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@167ray
read my friend about polish Virtuti Militari order - the oldest (created 1792) and one of most prestigous military decorations in the history.
excluding communism years in poland in 20century (which tried to decrease it's prestige and gave it to many soviets traitors who were in polish army) it was only awarded in cases of the biggest bravery.
mx19idlewilder 9 months ago
@167ray I am not sure, but I do know that the VC goes mostly to men who have been killed in the act of valour. You might get an idea about each one by doing a tally of the people living who have one and the ones who died getting one.
studley2436 7 months ago
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mrfanlogan 7 months ago
@167ray @bowyer56
The difference is the British created it and we American's, like so many other times, copied their lead.
ajhume 7 months ago 20
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@ajhume the Americans created the idea first with the Badge of Military Merit
mkopp88 7 months ago
@ajhume you're a stupid fuck
njdevil281 3 months ago
@bowyer56 He may be basing it on the fact that more CMH's have been awarded than VC's.. they are on par but there're more CMH's
Suprahampton 9 months ago
@bowyer56 Absolutely. National bias aside, they represent the same thing.
wesmatron 9 months ago in playlist Clarkson VC
@bowyer56 as a comparison something like 3600+ MoH have been given compared to about 1550 VC's. So it is seen as a much more difficult award to fulfill the requirements for.
CumbyOnThePiss 8 months ago
@bowyer56 The Medal of Honour does come close, but it's still more difficult to win a VC.
Droakner 7 months ago
@Droakner just how is it more difficult
mkopp88 7 months ago
@mkopp88 Well, i might be speaking from a point of view of patriotism, but from what i've read more people have been awarded the Medal Of Honour than the Victoria Cross (3474,compared to 1351) and 14 people have been awarded the Medal Of Honor twice. Not only that but as Jeremy said, the survival rate for a VC action is only 1 in 10.
I've read some of the MoH award citations and whilst the soldiers that won them are incredibly brave, VC winners seem to have to do more to win one.
Droakner 7 months ago 6
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@Droakner After looking around and actually watching the whole program, you Brits might be right. I don't think it is because of the numbers because almost half of the MOH have awarded in our civil war and during that time and WWII the US military was much larger. I do think now with the current conflicts they are on more of an equal footing. Also i will never understand why you guys use whilst and we don't.
mkopp88 7 months ago
@mkopp88 True, the US millitary has always been larger. I think though that Britain has fought in a handfull more conflicts, before the introduction of modern warfare, yet their are still fewer VC's earned. And why does the US not have the word whilst?
Droakner 7 months ago 3
Say what you like about Jeremy Clarkson good or bad but when he is doing documentaries he is very very good.
james0797 10 months ago 2
they can be taken of you not sure what king it was but he sayed it should be wearable on the gallows but there is still a way for it to be took away from you if you earn it
kingnick104 10 months ago
ah jeremy standing at the cemetary in Oosterbeek....
BigRooster747 11 months ago
ah jeremy standing at the cemetary in Oosterbeek....
BigRooster747 11 months ago
Blenheim, Trafalgar, Waterloo, Caen, Falaise, Arnhem. Every time when things got out of control, you British were there. I'm Dutch, I was born long after the last global conflict but I will remember Arnhem as long as I live. Thank you Winston! Thank you Great Britain! Thank you First Airborne! You could not hold the bridge but you tried at high costs and that is something we'll always remember. God save the Queen!
cyberprutser 1 year ago 38
@cyberprutser WOW. A european thanking the british for their war actions. I think that's the first time I've seen that on YouTube. Very impressive, you deserve a medal for knowing it wasn't the US who saved western europe, it was the ALLIES (who were mostly british empire forces).
maureenOWW 9 months ago 4
@cyberprutser Best be thanking the 101st Airborne ( USA) as well...
NamVetBuck 4 months ago
@cyberprutser Thank you I am a proud Brit and it warms my heart to hear people say this.
serridgeas 3 months ago
@cyberprutser try to say that when she puts her hairy ladymeat into your mouth!...
iamatumor 1 month ago
my great grandad got the victoria cross, we have a replica of it aswell
squiral247 1 year ago
the reason clarkson focuses on robert cain in this programme is because he is his farther-in-law
anypoerir 1 year ago
@anypoerir nice1 dickhead ruin it for every1
2bsom1 1 year ago
It is bloody hard to earn a VC in modern warfare, hence why hardly anyone recieves them. But the guy from Aus who won the VC earned it for drawing taliban fire to himself rather than his team.
MilitaryAircraft101 1 year ago
New Zealand has earned only 1 VC since WWll in essence you must have been shot at shot or died in the pursuit of saving someone elses life most are given post homusly
hakaboy6924 1 year ago
@hakaboy6924
The NZ winner wasn't killed. He's still serving in that country's SAS. And one of only three double winners of the VC was a New Zealander.
faeembrugh 1 year ago
New Zealand has earned only 1 VC since WWll in essence you must have been shot at shot or died in the pursuit of saving someone elses life most are given post homusly
hakaboy6924 1 year ago
New Zealand has earned only 1 VC since WWll
hakaboy6924 1 year ago
Victoria Cross is highest British military award for valour, not the world's highest award. A bit of jumping too high there...
Lachausis 1 year ago
@Lachausis- Well, out of top decorations for valour awarded by the various countries on Earth, I doubt any surpass the Victoria Cross in terms of fame and prestige. The HSU, for example, is a joke. They tossed those things out like people fling pennies about in America.
Jurassic0Al 1 year ago
@Lachausis I thought that, perhaps he's basing that gainst the other top Valour medal, the Americans CMH... which there are more of than VC's? Only explaination I can think of
Suprahampton 1 year ago
@Lachausis
Dot forget canada, austrailia and new zealand and many many common wealth countries all have the Victoria cross.
Isthisthelongestname 1 year ago
@Isthisthelongestname
A handful of Sihk Indians were awrded it during WW11 and the Partition. When you hear their stories you really understand how crazy brave you had to be to be awarded it.
lesterclaypool1 1 year ago
What was the song playing at about 3:03? It sounds familiar.
sixtydesoto 1 year ago
@sixtydesoto Dosed, Red Hot Chili Peppers.
who65536 1 year ago
Some days you['re] the bug, some days you['re] the windshield"—Private Johnson Beharry, VC.
mynthon11 1 year ago
I think until Paddy Mayne should get at least 2 VC - paddy mayne destroyed 100 aircraft - that's valour and saved his squard in 1945, this VC selection process is a pugwash to say some very brave people don't get it -The governement should have nothing to do with the decision - serving soldiers should decide who gets it - not bigwigs in the safefy of whitehall drinking tea during WWII. Audie Murphy is on par with Paddy Mayne and Amercians hasn't even heard of Paddy Mayne!!
theapeman10 1 year ago
@theapeman10 agreed, Blair Mayne was one of the most astonishing soldiers ever and never got the VC because of his attitude to his so called superior officers, a true shame but his statue still exists where he is admired the most, SAS headquarters in Hereford
lickstickly 1 year ago
@lickstickly - I agreed and I watched a program about 8 years about him and not one of friends knew of him, when I sent them a link they were like is this guy a ninja or what. It makes you wonder why they don't make a feature film of him. It would be an amazing film, probably the best war film ever. A brdige too far is the best so far since it based on fact. but Mr Cain was a amazing guy and certainly deserved his VC. Thanks for your reply cheers. Good luck :-)
theapeman10 1 year ago
@theapeman10 As I recall, it can only be awarded IF the act of gallantry is observed by an officer? That would explain why certain instances when one would think an award was due result in no award.
Factnotfictionpeople 8 months ago
@Factnotfictionpeople - Your find people who served with Mayne confirm his actions and that even his own men feared him. But they were glad to have him with them in a fight. An officer has to submit the report, backed by witnesses, but the officer doesn't need to have been there watch?v=T6_GA5DP1oY&feature=related
theapeman10 8 months ago
@theapeman10 I see, thanks for that. I think the other problem with Blair Mayne, was that he wasn't adverse to punching the odd officer on the nose(!) and could be just a little unorthodox! :-)
Factnotfictionpeople 8 months ago
@Factnotfictionpeople - Yes the very man that Mayne hit was Geoffrey Keyes who went on to be awarded a VC and was killed in action. It's not for me to say that Keys shouldn't been awarded the VC he was a brave guy who died in action. When you read the how he won it, you wonder how comes he got the VC and Mayne didn't get a VC When Mayne rescued his men and lead from the front. I honest think The powers to be didn't understand the SAS tactics, but the question is who downgraded his VC to a DSO
theapeman10 8 months ago
@theapeman10 Was it now - lol! Well maybe thats why he was denied his medal! :-( As for the powers that be not understanding the SAS methods - very little changes! Apparently, 'Stormin' Norman' Swchartzkopf didn't really rate the methods of the SAS in the first Iraq war - until they showed, in action, just how good they were.
Factnotfictionpeople 8 months ago
Thanks for posting this, when i couldn't find this on you tube it gave me a stark reminder on how much I rely on people like you.
qw56q 1 year ago
thank you for uploading this , ive been looking for it forever :) , love stories of bravery , i shall watch them all
007HomeBoy 1 year ago
I've watched this documentary 5 or 6 times now - it's very well made, engaging and informative. I would have loved to have seen this develop into a series, where each week they'd highlight a few of the stories of certain VC recipients.
avastyelandlubber 1 year ago 24
yep, i could definitely watch a few more of these.
smoochym 1 year ago
@avastyelandlubber Have you watched his follow up documentary about the St Nazaire raid? I highly recommend it
Suprahampton 1 year ago
Sorry to be pedantic..but the example of Lt West; he can't have been in the RAF as it wasn't formed until after the first world war. It was the Royal flying corps in WW1.
But yes, all VC earners were/are astonishingly brave. We owe so much to our armed forces.
daddyofjames 1 year ago
The RAF was formed in April 1918 with the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. Thus the RAF fought for the last 8 months of the First World War.
Kampfer1445 1 year ago
Nobody' WINS' a V.C. They are earned.
peterm3964 1 year ago 59
@peterm3964 No no no! Surely awarded!? :-)
STOPTHEEU 1 year ago
Perhaps those who receive the VC 'win' it because there are many from before its time and since who had earned it but are unrecognised.
ruddypeasant 6 months ago
@ruddypeasant Wow... How did you miss my point . thats a whole new level of stupid .
peterm3964 6 months ago
@peterm3964 I understood your point - its not like a game. My point is that the bravery of people who fight in conflict if often not recognised. You cannot know whats really going on in someones mind at the time and what fear they are having to cope with. Receiving a medal is therefore its a bit of a lottery. But 'earned' also not quite right. Do you think that getting a medals or an honour is appropriate remuneration for such heroic acts?. I don't.
ruddypeasant 6 months ago
Company of 22 men? Something is wrong there!
Kampfer1445 1 year ago
@Kampfer1445
He might be referring to Kain's smaller HQ company rather than the full rifle company but it's still a bit light on numbers!
faeembrugh 1 year ago
Possible, but still, a company commander would only have a headquarters section, of 10 or fewer men.
Kampfer1445 1 year ago
thanks for re-posting but did you miss the start of the programme?
lickstickly 1 year ago 3
@lickstickly .no thats just how it starts - the titles r like a minute or two in. i was confused to begin with as well lol
167ray 1 year ago 10
@167ray Actually, you *have* missed the first 37 seconds, in which Clarkson gives a proper introduction to the subject. Listening to your upload, it clearly sounds odd that his first words are "12,000 airborne troops came by glider and parachute to fight for the bridge" - well, what bridge? In those missing 37 seconds, he explains that it's September 1944 and it's a bridge over the river Rhine in the Dutch town of Arnhem.
dunebasher1971 6 months ago
Been looking for this for ages,,, THANK YOU for uploading
Suprahampton 1 year ago
Thanks, great program
marko6282 1 year ago
thankyou....great vids!!
bedds1 1 year ago