Jeremy Clarkson's the Greatest Raid of All - the FULL documentary
Added 2025-02-12 15:00:11 +0000 UTCComments
Knock him down; spoil his prospects (kick him in the balls) 🤣
Steve Small
2025-03-28 16:46:34 +0000 UTCMy Dad was at school with Sergeant Tom Durrant VC. He came from Farnborough Kent. There is a road there named after him - Durrant Way. He was a true hero - to my Dad but to all of those who knew of him. This documentary along with the one about the Victoria Cross are the best of their type ever.
David Bingham
2025-03-08 00:30:56 +0000 UTCThere are two films , Gift Horse and iron coast , so it was known , but clearly not in this detail .
mark barratt
2025-02-12 21:00:38 +0000 UTCI think a lot of what happened here , showed they had God on their side . That was something else to watch honestly . I haven’t seen that before .
Erica
2025-02-12 20:36:50 +0000 UTCI was out with my Dad last week and we passed the old house that his Dad grew up in, (my great-grandad bought the house in the 1920's) he told me that during the blitz his Dad was sat on a public bench with his best friend when a German bomb was dropped across the way on the main road, they were both on the floor after the blast, my Grandad survived but a piece of shrapnel had flown right at his best friend, scalping him. 😢 This was just down the road from me in Greater Manchester.
White Dwarf
2025-02-12 20:34:59 +0000 UTCHa! I’m a retired journalist. 42 years in daily newspapers.
Thomas
2025-02-12 20:30:33 +0000 UTCWhen the Germans bombed Coventry in the English midlands, my home town of Nuneaton was also hit by bombs, and we were at least 10 miles away.
Young Dougy
2025-02-12 20:10:20 +0000 UTC+1 for Guy Martin documentaries. He's a classic Brit.
Alan
2025-02-12 20:04:40 +0000 UTCCompletely agree. Most journalists are despicable, and he's one of the best of those.
Alan
2025-02-12 20:01:09 +0000 UTCWhat a great reaction from you both! I've seen this so many times and it was a pleasure to watch it with you. Such incredible men the commandos (and later SAS) were. We owe this generation a tremendous debt of gratitude and I will never, ever forget what they did for us. My Grandfather was a medic for the Lancashire Fusiliers and served on a hospital ship on D-Day. I can't imagine some the horrors he must've witnessed.
White Dwarf
2025-02-12 19:59:52 +0000 UTCFive of them made it out of the town and 350 miles to Spain. Wow.
Alan
2025-02-12 19:57:30 +0000 UTCThis is such an amazing story and a very well done documentary! Glad you got to see it as I’m sure there are loads that maybe will never hear this story in their lifetime as they live their relatively free lives without knowing the sacrifices so many gave for us to be as we are today! ❤️
Ianoo23
2025-02-12 19:35:46 +0000 UTCThey had very good airiel photographed by unarmed spitfires
mark barratt
2025-02-12 18:49:04 +0000 UTCThe 13 Hours That Saved Britain 🇬🇧 please react to that if you haven't already, very similar to this but about the Battle of Britain.
White Dwarf
2025-02-12 18:40:51 +0000 UTCAgain, a lovely and thoughtful reaction to a great documentary. Thank you for taking the time!
Dryfesands
2025-02-12 18:25:18 +0000 UTCLove him or loathe him (I’m very much on the fence), you have to admit that Jeremy Clarkson is a great storyteller. Al Murray has also made some fantastic war documentaries. Sometimes he does them with a split screen with him engaging in conversation on battles with his alter-ego, the pub landlord.
Thomas
2025-02-12 18:18:38 +0000 UTCThis made me think of my dad who served throughout the entire war. He wasn’t a commando, just an ordinary soldier and he never spoke of what he did in the war. He certainly got about, leaving campaign medals from France, Italy and North Africa. He joined the Army Boys Service at the age of 14. His dad, a sergeant in the Royal Fusilliers, was killed at the age of 27 in the Battle of the Somme in WWI, when my dad was less than a year-old. I’ve never even seen a photo of my grandfather. I love how humble these brave men in the film were. What a special generation.
Thomas
2025-02-12 18:04:29 +0000 UTCIncredible video. Loved the reaction, thank you.
Craig Humphries
2025-02-12 16:34:56 +0000 UTCA truly incredible story and while I’m not a military expert I’m sure the title of the greatest raid of all is well deserved.
Rob G
2025-02-12 16:29:07 +0000 UTCI’m so glad you reacted to both of these documentaries. It was myself who added them to your list, and I think they are something that everyone should see at least once. Those men embodied everything that is great about humanity, and what we should all strive to be. Not in a military sense, but to stand up to adversity, when all the odds are stacked against you, believing in yourself and making sacrifices for the betterment of humanity. These men were, and still are such a powerful inspiration and wonderful role models. I’ve not met anyone who has watched both these (VC and Greatest Raid) and not been touched by the stories! I know they are both long episodes, so I appreciate you setting aside the time to react to both!
James Hyde
2025-02-12 16:24:51 +0000 UTCDambusters…great (real life) story, great film and great theme.
Terrahawk
2025-02-12 16:20:54 +0000 UTCI think the keep calm and carry on thing is very real amongst most Brits, making jokes in the bleakest of situations. There’s also a famous instance of British understatement from the Korean War - look up the Glosters and the Battle of Imjin
Kieran B
2025-02-12 16:15:03 +0000 UTCBombing did get much more accurate after this (that statement is early war), especially with the development of ground radar by the British, the Pathfinders etc. The way the aerial photography was done and analysed was phenomenal too, and something the Germans didn’t bother to do to nearly the same extent. You should look into the Dambusters / 617 Squadron too I think you’d both absolutely love Guy Martin’s documentaries (he was also a TT racer coincidentally)
Kieran B
2025-02-12 15:18:59 +0000 UTC
