On the morning of August 29, 1940, amidst the ferocious Battle of Britain that roared in the skies, a select group of men, handpicked by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, boarded an ocean liner and departed the country. At that moment, this British team on board the vessel represented the last glimmer of hope for a beleaguered Europe.
Comprising the United Kingdom’s foremost civilian and military scientists, the group embarked on a journey to Washington, DC, in an attempt to turn the tide of the war, which had been heavily favoring Nazi Germany until then.
Officially designated the British Technical and Scientific Mission, the men informally referred to it as the Tizard Mission, named after their leader, Sir Henry Tizard, the chairman of Britain’s Aeronautical Research Committee. Their objective was to share Britain’s latest military technological breakthroughs with the hesitant American government in exchange for access to the United State’s vast industrial capacity, thus facilitating the production of weapons derived from the research.
Among the many secrets transported across the Atlantic was a critical piece of hardware invented only months prior. As several historians have noted, the Tizard Mission helped bring incredibly valuable cargo to the shores of America…
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Always weird to hear the Norden bomb sight described as "accurate". Maybe if you count the chance that you MIGHT hit the ZIP code you intended.
Britain was right to be reluctant to share technology with America. The British gave all their nuclear research to America. America refused to reciprocate after the war. America helped Britain but also helped themselves win the war in the Pacific. Britain did not need the Norden bombsight. It was rubbish.
Why… send the metal trunk by ship rather than plane?
It's always good to see research and development from early stages, too: things can go wrong or right from any point.
The long term, and especially post-war period, is often overlooked.
President Theodore Roosevelt?
Ugh, could not make it through. The pounding music was just too much… What is this supposed to be, an action movie, or a documentary???
SONAR?
Theodore Roosevelt 🤦♂️
What i have learned from a number of documentary's, is that the Norden bombsite was not an instant succes. It failed many times in accuracy, like we here in the Netherlands have experienced. Only later in the war it was succesful.
I read somewhere that an American scientist looked at the UK's secret new magnetron and said, "Oh, I see. It's a whistle."
The Norden bombsight was largely myth. The British bombsight was equal to the Norden one. Actually the Sperry company made a bombsight which actually was better than the Norden one, but politics played its usual nasty game and the Norden item was the one that got the major contract.
You said Theodore and not Franklin in your monologue.
Cavity magnatron? I thought they were going to say the lost ark, based on the photo and the caption…😅
The sad part is how so many died to the benefit of so few.
After you couldn't get Roosevelt's first name correct, I quit watching.
Theodore Roosevelt? Such a basic mistake. Embarrassing!
NOW AMERICA IS BEING OVERRUN BY CHINESE SPIES WHO SABOTAGE US!!!! CHINESE SPECIA FORCESL HAVE BEEN SEEN WALKING OVER OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!!!!
ROOSEVELT USED PEARL HARBOR TO GET AMERICA INTO THE WAR. ITS TOO OBVIOUS TO ME!!!!
The Battle of Britain was, as Sir Winston Churchill said, Britain's finest hour. And I don't mean the generals & admirals & politicians, but the little bloke. The average citizen from the brilliant scientists to the guy on the street. And of course their military. God bless them all. 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️ 🫡 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Then we (USA) paid the British back by shutting them out of the atomic secrets, that their scientists worked on. Windscale was partially our fault as they didn't know some critical things about graphite piles.
There is a mistake in the video at 3:21 you say president Theodore Roosevelt, when it was FDR st that time, Theodore was much earlier.
The Germans acquired a Norden Bombsite but decided their own Bombsite was superior.!
Very informative, I knew about a degree of cooperation, but this gave details, thx
Boy we sure are lucky the good guys won both world wars!
Victor Davis Hanson said that the collaboration between GB and the US was one of the keys to Allied success. They collaborated on electronics, cannon barrels for tanks, aircraft engines, etc. Germany, Italy and Japan did almost no collaboration.
3:18 President FRANKLIN Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt was President from 1901-1909.