EARLY EPISODE: The Zeebrugge Raid
Untrained soldiers and suicide submarines raid a port during WWI with mothballed ships, reinforced with armor made from used mattresses and sandbags.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/war_sea_gallery_06.shtml
https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-12161
https://issuu.com/faircountmedia/docs/special-operations-outlook-2018/s/72765
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/zeebrugge-a-gallant-raid-on-saint-georges-day/
Comments (25)
If I'm on the island with the adult Harry potter fans, am I armed? Asking for a friend
“I’ve never met an annoying adult Disney fan.” Tell me you’ve never lived in Florida without telling me you’ve never lived in Florida.
it's true
I think every online fandom has right-wing chuds trying to do culture war shit, and Star Wars has a lot of them just because it's so well-known. But Star Wars itself was a deliberately anti-fascist work. Although that's gotten a bit lost in recent years in favor of bashing the action figures together, except the TV series "Andor" whose whole thesis was "This is why fascists suck. Hit them in the face with a brick."
The fact that this is an actual map on Battlefield 1 💀
Disney world has it's own Führerbunker. Honestly not surprised...
So McCoy AFB was one of those Revolutionary War airports Trump was talking about.
The Magic Kingdom tunnel system was built like that for several reasons. 1) To hide park operations from guests. 2) To stop it sinking into the Swamp. 3) Orlando International Airport used to be McCoy Air Force Base, a SAC bomber base up until 1775. The tunnels would function as fallout shelters in case of nuclear attack on the base.
I'm sorry to say but Joe's pronunciation of Zeebrugge isn't correct. It should be more like "Zay" than an English "Zee"
When the bomb took out the bicycle unit I imagine a huge, discordant, high pitched "CLANG" of bicycle bells
Whilst ww1 is on my mind we need to consider a Zimmerman Telegram episode.
Given the description, I choose to assume that every single German death occurred due to either the submarine or that accidental suicide bomber.
I love a Francis Episode.
RIP to Nate who was lost on the breakwater of dad sickness
The most annoying Disney people are just really twee. The worst Potter people are doing bathroom blood and soil
The worst Potter people are doing regular blood and soil too.
This is the most Orkz-ass Navy operation I have ever heard of
If you are interested in the weirder parts of naval combat in World War 1, the history of the SMS Emden, and the return of its survivors is a pretty interesting one.
I looked it up and yeah, this Stuart is a distant cousin of Helena Bonham Carter
The probably not related rule is generally inverted when it comes to posh British families
I got a question for y’all. What is your most embarrassing high school moment? I don’t mind reading out who ask this question. Love y’all’s show.
Fun fact on the battlefield comparison: zebrugge was a DLC map for battlefield 1.
Fun fact: all parts of a daffodil are toxic and people who work with a lot of them need to wear gloves to handle them
ok armenia, thailand, vanuatu, the countries that do the best transition care get airforces
Yessss... This is one of my favorite forgotten and/or overlooked incidents in history
