The British Lieutenant Who Burned 30 SS Soldiers Alive After They Massacred His Squadron
British SAS Archives
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#VillersBocage #WW2 #MilitaryHistory
At twenty-five past eight in the morning, one SS officer in one Tiger destroyed more British armour than any single man in the history of tank warfare. This documentary is not about him. It is about what the survivors of his regiment did to his battalion before the sun went down, and about a twenty-three-year-old lieutenant who built a plan on a haberdasher's counter and finished the day standing on a Tiger's engine deck with a jerrican of petrol in his hand.
This documentary tells the story of the Battle of Villers-Bocage on the 13th of June 1944, the ambush that gutted the 4th County of London Yeomanry, the Sharpshooters, and the counter-trap set inside the town that same afternoon. It reveals how Lieutenant Bill Cotton and four men, with a Firefly under an eave and a six-pounder hidden behind a wall of runner beans, stopped three Tigers dead in a Norman street and burned them where they stood.
Discover the full timeline of the longest day in the town, from the morning massacre on the road to Point 213, to the market-square trap, to the clock still striking over an empty town at midnight.
🔥 In this video:
The Morning: How one Tiger shredded a British column strung out along a sunken road.
The Sharpshooters: The Desert Rats caught blind in the bocage.
The Plan: A lieutenant, a folded map, and a haberdasher's counter.
The Trap: Three Tigers stopped in a Norman street.
The Jerrican: Bill Cotton, the rain, and the fires that would not restart.
Sources of Where I get my facts:
Taylor, D. (1999) Villers-Bocage Through the Lens of the German War Photographer. London: Battle of Britain International.
Forty, G. (2004) Villers Bocage. Stroud: Sutton Publishing.
Reynolds, M. (2001) Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy. Staplehurst: Spellmount.
Delaforce, P. (2003) Churchill's Desert Rats: From Normandy to Berlin with the 7th Armoured Division. Stroud: Sutton Publishing.
Marie, H. (1993) Villers-Bocage: Normandy 1944. Bayeux: Editions Heimdal.
Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes.
#VillersBocage #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #Normandy #DesertRats #TankWarfare #Tiger #BritishArmy #Sharpshooters #Firefly
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The photos are fake, the Shermsns are faje, the story os fake.
The British Lieutenant Who Burned 30 SS Soldiers Alive After They Massacred His Squadron
British SAS Archives
34,138 views
#VillersBocage #WW2 #MilitaryHistory
At twenty-five past eight in the morning, one SS officer in one Tiger destroyed more British armour than any single man in the history of tank warfare. This documentary is not about him. It is about what the survivors of his regiment did to his battalion before the sun went down, and about a twenty-three-year-old lieutenant who built a plan on a haberdasher's counter and finished the day standing on a Tiger's engine deck with a jerrican of petrol in his hand.
This documentary tells the story of the Battle of Villers-Bocage on the 13th of June 1944, the ambush that gutted the 4th County of London Yeomanry, the Sharpshooters, and the counter-trap set inside the town that same afternoon. It reveals how Lieutenant Bill Cotton and four men, with a Firefly under an eave and a six-pounder hidden behind a wall of runner beans, stopped three Tigers dead in a Norman street and burned them where they stood.
Discover the full timeline of the longest day in the town, from the morning massacre on the road to Point 213, to the market-square trap, to the clock still striking over an empty town at midnight.
🔥 In this video:
The Morning: How one Tiger shredded a British column strung out along a sunken road.
The Sharpshooters: The Desert Rats caught blind in the bocage.
The Plan: A lieutenant, a folded map, and a haberdasher's counter.
The Trap: Three Tigers stopped in a Norman street.
The Jerrican: Bill Cotton, the rain, and the fires that would not restart.
Sources of Where I get my facts:
Taylor, D. (1999) Villers-Bocage Through the Lens of the German War Photographer. London: Battle of Britain International.
Forty, G. (2004) Villers Bocage. Stroud: Sutton Publishing.
Reynolds, M. (2001) Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy. Staplehurst: Spellmount.
Delaforce, P. (2003) Churchill's Desert Rats: From Normandy to Berlin with the 7th Armoured Division. Stroud: Sutton Publishing.
Marie, H. (1993) Villers-Bocage: Normandy 1944. Bayeux: Editions Heimdal.
Disclaimer: This video is a historical documentary intended for educational purposes.
#VillersBocage #WW2 #MilitaryHistory #Normandy #DesertRats #TankWarfare #Tiger #BritishArmy #Sharpshooters #Firefly