Discover how British intelligence uncovered and jammed Germany’s secret radio beams during the Blitz. This untold WWII story reveals brilliant detective work that helped turn the tide of war.
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It was a forgotten war, it was not discussed.
Wizard War? Alexander Palace's TV transmitter!
This was a good one. Most interesting and informative.
That shortage of aircraft is why my father did his pilot training in a Gypsy moth, as it was considered too old, too slow, and not at all capable of being a fighter aircraft. He probably also still owes then some money, seeing as he crashed it, after an engine failure during take off. They never asked him about that Lancaster he signed for though, that sort of fell apart around him by Lake Constance.
How much Vaseline have you smeared over the lens today, Simon?
Weezer wars …
16:39 This seems highly suspicious TBH as if he knew they were on the right track and was trying to convince them otherwise.
Damn, so the Germans basically invented the ILS that every commercial plane uses for landing nowadays? Did not know that one!
Nickerbean ??
Oh, c'mon, Edna! Our children need to be taught "Tek War" sometime!
I’m going through these short videos today just about to spend 4 hours on the latest Casual criminalist episode😂😂😂😂😂
Oh that T-shirt is soooo…. Gay
Halo Glowing Simon
back then tech bro's were tech men!
Have a look at the BBC TV Series 'The Secret War'.
I love the music used to close this video. While I wasn't trying to sleep to this episode, I often fall asleep to Simon's voice and this music is very good for that purpose.
Thanx for finally giving me some useful info.
So based on the way information was presented on the first location of the beam, I'm of the understanding that the Germans would have the beam turned on when not being used by a bombing mission. That seems like it would be terrible operation security if accurate.
I was unfamiliar with this system. Thank you for the great deep dive !
Really didn't like the tall, skinny font choice. Too hard to read along with.
oh my god is that shirt ever gay!
Simon has the guns out😂
Oh I thought this would be about those pagers..
your so called scientists were counting their loot from asia or africa instead of inventing radar etc
The Polish Airforce deserve a lot of credit for Britain winning the Battle of Britain. Without their help we'd probably have lost it and the war would have taken a very different direction.
WTF , i thouught cov was known but kept secret so as not to let the germans know we crackedit [that day,]….not simple frqency mistakes, Brilliant thanks
Hilarious~! The English face a similar problem in 2024.
The "superior beings" from the PM down…. are kidding themselves.
Resolve it quickly beloved indigenous English folk.
My credibility? I own a genuine spitfire altimeter. 😂 Go hard Poms! <3
Now its the battle of the beans. Jamming bluetooth speakers from Spanish music.
Careful how you pronounce the name of that beam
while i accidentally clicked when trying to add to que Simmion's voice had the Ken Burns effect and, i was instantly interested. Keep up the great work on all 708 channels!!! I may be replacing memories of childhood with variety of trivial facts but, how good could it have been anyway.
It's funny that you can see the line from the FE channels claiming that knickerbeam disproves curvature to Simon's writers. YouTube is a tiny place now.
Some of the technology that was used back then was really pretty incredible