The Paratrooper who fought with an Umbrella and a Bowler Hat

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Credit:
Created by Daniel Turner
Script: Conan White
Narrator:

Chris Kane

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Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Sources:

Without Tradition: 2 Para, 1941–1945
By Robert Peatling
So Near and Yet So Far
By Martin Bowman

A Bridge Too Far
By Martin W. Bowman

A Tour of the Arnhem Battlefields
By John Waddy

The Mammoth Book of Heroes
By Jon E. Lewis

Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to Operation Market Garden
By Tonie Holt

Arnhem
By R. E. Urquart

[booshyboi]

“That umbrella will not do any good.”
“But what if it rained!”
I cannot deny his assessment.

[ronaldmacdonald]

"Jodl there got his leg blown off by a landmine. Walt got his chest torn apart by an LMG. And Karl got strafed by an allied plane that spotted him."
"And Hans?"
"Oh, he got his eye poked out by some brit with an Umbrella."

[bobthebrick]

"oh my goodness pat, but what if it rains"
*Y E A H P A T W H A T I F*

[nocturnalcove]

A man who fought with an umbrella and bowler hat.
Mad Jack who used a longbow and a sword.
A Canadian who liberated an entire town by himself who wore an eyepatch and sneakers.
These three should have just teamed up and ended the war by themselves...

[blondiethatoneartificer]

“For God’s sakes, why on earth do you always have an umbrella?”

“To remind myself... that i’m English.”

[tn]

Imagine being a soldier in a tank and some dude pokes your eye with his umbrella

[vian]

"they used bugle to communicate"


*modern problems requires ancient solutions*

[layveevermillion]

"I wear a bowler hat and carry an umbrella because I dont want to forget that Im british."

-Digby (A Bridge Too Far)

[Confucios]

This has to be the most British soldier I’ve ever heard of.

[TheMisanthropistTM]

Soldier: "What's the password?"
Digby: "I don't remember, but I have this umbrella."
Soldier: "He's with us alright."

[galiad_exe]

"Sir, that umbrella wont do you any good"

"Oh my God Pat, but what if it rains?"

That is one of the funniest things I can imagine in a war scenario.

[gentlegiant]

"don't worry about the bullets, I have an umbrella"! There speaks a man who is unafraid of death, and resigned to the idea that the odds of survival are small

[maorgolan]

Digby: "i"m the most British soldier of WW2!"
Mad Jack: "Finally, a worthy opponent!
Our manners shall be legendary!"

[typenamehere]

Imagine going to war coming home and having to to tell your family that you’re eye got stabbed out by an unbrela

[blackegret]

"I SAID GOOD DAY TO YOU, SIR!"

[wackyweyland]

I like this guy, he is afraid of the real dangers of war: rain....

[shadowstorm.]

Mad Jack: “I’m the most badass British Soldier to ever live!”

This dude: “Hold my tea.”

[poab_real]

“Your tactics confuse and frighten me sir.”

[waasar]

I love how the animator put bicycles in every scene to signify "Netherlands".

[thishandleisntavailable]

"Don't worry about the bullets, I've got an umbrella"
Legend.