To the commanders on his West and East, Hitler once again is refusing to authorize withdrawal. How has similar leadership interference led to battlefield disasters throughout history?
@f3nn3lgaming
11 ай бұрын
A LOT, really. One of the most famous examples would definitely be Napoleon's invasion of Russia. That shit was WILD.
@901Sherman
11 ай бұрын
Didn’t Quartermaster General Erich Luddendorf do the same after his spring offensives failed? Talk about history repeating...
@caryblack5985
11 ай бұрын
As of July i, 1944 the Germans had 2,002,070 deaths on the Eastern Front and at least 6,000,000 wounded. In the month of July they had a further 169,881 deaths and at least 520,000 additional wounded.
@bloodrave9578
11 ай бұрын
Stalin, Kiev 1941
@andmos1001
11 ай бұрын
You will be surprised… and we see similar things happening in Ukraine today
@cobbler9113
11 ай бұрын
That German Officer who was told to parachute into Vitebsk must have had a reaction similar to Captain Blackadder when being told to sit in No Man’s Land and paint pictures of the German defences.
@WalterReimer
11 ай бұрын
Without the benefit of putting underwear on his head and pencils up his nose.
@bigpoppa1234
11 ай бұрын
"Are you sure Hitler asked for me personally? I'm not even supposed to be here today."
@alpharius4434
11 ай бұрын
If I remember well, the order was never followed suit, because the commanding officer of the local Army answered to Hitler that would be him instead of the Officer he would designed, and Hitler just didn't insisted further.
@WalterReimer
11 ай бұрын
"I can't go! I've sprained my pancreas!"
@stevekaczynski3793
11 ай бұрын
He probably realised he was likely to go into Soviet captivity not long after delivering his message. It is unlikely there was any way of flying him out again.
@Doc_Tar
11 ай бұрын
Boy, will the Germans be surprised when Patton finally lands the main force at Calais.
@marcsteenbergen3254
11 ай бұрын
Yeah go Patton
@HootOwl513
11 ай бұрын
Shhhhh. First Army Group is a SECRET.
@Wayoutthere
11 ай бұрын
@@marcsteenbergen3254 Can't wait for the mad race towards Berlin.
@pnkemp
11 ай бұрын
@@Wayoutthereit will all be over by Christmas
@marcsteenbergen3254
11 ай бұрын
@@Wayoutthere spoiler alert Patton will feature in a special episode soon about a hardly known embarrassing. I Chewie in the forum worked on it.
@Cityinlead
11 ай бұрын
Crazy to think 7 years ago Indie was covering the first day of the battle of the Somme as it happened a hundred years later and now, covering the Soviets shattering Army group center
@andrewfischer8564
11 ай бұрын
when hes done i dont know what ill do? hes been a constant for near a decade
@Ramzi1944
11 ай бұрын
@@andrewfischer8564Life... finds a way
@andrewfischer8564
11 ай бұрын
@@Ramzi1944 quoting jeff goldblum in jurrasic park. clever
@archstanton6102
11 ай бұрын
@@andrewfischer8564Korea?
@LABoyko
11 ай бұрын
@archstanton6102. Entire Cold War beginning to end. Unless you have something better to do the next 46 years.
@milibaeindustries
11 ай бұрын
I feel like the week ending with the Axis in dire straits and the Allies advancing on all fronts is something we're going to hear a lot in the next few months.
@pocketmarcy6990
11 ай бұрын
Germans routed, Japan fights to the last man, Allies advance in the East and in France, China continues to have no clue what’s going on at the front
@thunderbird1921
11 ай бұрын
Eh, they may continue to have some success, but it's going to get NASTY for the Allies in the coming months. A cornered beast is the most dangerous kind, and that is precisely what the Germans and Japanese are becoming.
@eggtarts286
11 ай бұрын
Never fear, Steiner's counterattack will reverse everything
@jonbaxter2254
11 ай бұрын
Still a full year to go though...
@pocketmarcy6990
11 ай бұрын
@@jonbaxter2254 not in Europe
@rogerd777
11 ай бұрын
I looked up both the Smiths in wikipedia. Interesting that Ralph Smith lived until age 104 in 1998 and was, at his death, the oldest surviving general officer of the Army.
@brotlowskyrgseg1018
11 ай бұрын
The part about that guy who was dropped into Vitebsk feels like that Monty Python sketch about a Russian execution, where a messenger interrupts the firing squad by running up with a message from the Kremlin. "Stop, stop! An officer just parachuted in with an urgent message from Berlin. [opens letter] It's from the Führer himself... It says... 'Carry on with your suicide mission.'"
@bobbyb373
11 ай бұрын
German losses during Operation Bagration were just simply mind-boggling, more casualties in a week or so than in entire years of the early war
@frankiefierro7129
11 ай бұрын
Usually when I watch documentaries, they would always separate D-Day and Bagration into separate episodes. Now when I see them together as they happen so close together, it's interesting to see how bad of a position that the German forces were in and how important it was for both operations to happen within weeks of each other.
@markfryer9880
11 ай бұрын
Coming so close together really ramped up the pressure on the Germans. It would now be obvious that they were involved in a active two front war, with everything coming home to roost!
@adrianayala5476
11 ай бұрын
Yeah like the teams are describing it, they are pincer maneuverers that are interconnected with each other
@edwardblair4096
11 ай бұрын
Like last year when Salingrad, the second battle of Al Amine, and Guadalcanal were all happening at the same time.
@mikespangler98
11 ай бұрын
Than the Falaise pocket in August. Left, right, left.
@bobbybroadway9513
11 ай бұрын
A special salute to the moving military map makers for this one! Fascinating. A terrific show by all.
@WorldWarTwo
11 ай бұрын
And a special thanks to you from Daniel and me! -Sietse
@gunman47
11 ай бұрын
A side note this week on June 28 1944 is that the Combined Chief of Staffs of the Western Allies will discuss potential responses to recent V-1 flying bombs hitting British cities such as London. One idea that was raised was to guarantee the immunity of specified German cities from bombing if the bombardment was stopped. Another idea was to consider the use of napalm or poison gas against the launch sites. General Dwight Eisenhower promptly vetoed the ideas as did Chief of Imperial General Staff General Sir Alan Brooke.
@WorldWarTwo
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the extra info 😃
@tigertank06
11 ай бұрын
But those V1s could be shot down by fighter planes that the allies would find out about later.
@odysseusrex5908
11 ай бұрын
I didn't know napalm had been invented then.
@tobybartels8426
11 ай бұрын
@@odysseusrex5908: The Americans had invented it in 1942, but I believe that it did not get much use until the Korean War.
@davidhimmelsbach557
11 ай бұрын
@@tobybartels8426 Nope. My Father witnessed its use against Tiger tanks by the RAF in Normandy. The psychological impact on both Brits and Jerries was horrific. Those screams -- were from Hell. Sheesh.
@FrazzP
11 ай бұрын
The Battle of Tali-Ihantala is to this day the largest battle ever fought in Northern Europe. It is considered here as the battle that decided the nation's fate.
@steffanyschwartz7801
11 ай бұрын
I’m going to assume Kirchlom or Narva is 2nd largest?
@thehistoryvideogameandgame4730
11 ай бұрын
With the fall of Bobruysk on June 29th, Konstantin Rokossovsky received his promotion and a Marshal’s Star, With it he becomes One of only 41 officers in the Soviet Union’s 69 year history to hold the rank; What a turnaround from where he was during The Great Purge
@williamgrimster1658
11 ай бұрын
Good lord I knew general stuff about Bagration but seeing it presented in detail here makes me realize what an absolute sledgehammer to the german army it was
@Wayoutthere
11 ай бұрын
RUSH B
@piarpeggio
11 ай бұрын
Even describing it as a "sledgehammer" feels underwhelming from the way entire divisions are disappearing left right and center. Such a scale of warfare will probably never be matched again. Hopefully.
@steffanyschwartz7801
11 ай бұрын
@@piarpeggiofirst the pretty much destruction of Army group south as a Offensive force (after Stallingrad to Kursk), to Army Group North’s defeats a month ago, and now the destruction of Army Group Center (the most intact one) it doesn’t look good. Not to mention the Axis nations in the Balkans and Pannonia have pretty much lost there armies in Stallingrad, Ukraine, and Crimea.
@DocBolle
11 ай бұрын
This must have been the week when my grandfather managed to swim across the Beresina to reach the German lines after his unit had been overrun by the Soviets. He managed to survive the war so that he could tell me that story.
@lc1138
11 ай бұрын
Wow. I believe he was lucky for having to do this in june. Thank you for sharing this story !
@konstantinriumin2657
11 ай бұрын
Napoleon-style!
@darvennej4495
11 ай бұрын
Ahh the Berezina ? if memory tells me where the Grand Armee of Napoleon met their fate,harassed by the Cossacks and the Russians in 1812 .what a coincidence ! Your Grandfather probably knew of that history. Only a few thousand ever made it back to France.
@stevekaczynski3793
11 ай бұрын
@@darvennej4495 In French, "bérézina" still means a total defeat, though in reality some of them got away.
@Cancoillotteman
11 ай бұрын
@@darvennej4495 It was more of the final nails in the coffin, the Grande Armée was already mostly destroyed by the Winter and Causac riders by then, but it destroyed whatever small cohesion the Armée still had left
@FuzzyMarineVet
11 ай бұрын
"Howling Mad" Smith was never the person to talk personally with a subordinate whom he dislikes. His lack of tact was well known.
@Tairusiano
11 ай бұрын
Side note: Today July 1st Brazil finishes, boarding the 2° Tactical group, the first echelon of 5.379 men, from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, and tomorrow at 06:00 am, they will depart their destination Italy, although they don't know it yet :D. (Sorry for my bad English )
@daverobins7345
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for this. I knew Brazil played a part in the war, but wasn't sure what. (Your English is fine!)
@AceMoonshot
11 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@Tairusiano
11 ай бұрын
@@daverobins7345 It is unknown even here in Brazil, people learn that we sent troops, but the campaign as a whole is little studied.
@Tairusiano
11 ай бұрын
@@AceMoonshot You're welcome, glad you like.
@thunderbird1921
11 ай бұрын
Our GI fellas in Italy could use every bit of help. Shout out to Brazil for making an effort above and beyond what benefited them in this hellish war.
@Kay2kGer
11 ай бұрын
This week the german news read, that they are looking for a massgrave of wehrmacht soldiers, killed in retaliation by the french resistance, when the ss killed french people. The last surviving member of the resistant group which was responsible for this broke his silence, age 98*, to give information where they burried the soldiers
@lc1138
11 ай бұрын
This week, you mean this actual week ?
@Kay2kGer
11 ай бұрын
@@lc1138 yes, 2023, its fitting that we hit the same week in world war two.
@alpharius4434
11 ай бұрын
@@Kay2kGer Source ? Or Link please ?
@Kay2kGer
11 ай бұрын
@@alpharius4434 i tried to post it, look like it got deleted Google for: germany begins to look for massgrave in france Or in german: suche nach wehrmacht massengrab in frankreich
@Ramzi1944
11 ай бұрын
Rip everyone involved
@WalterReimer
11 ай бұрын
The people doing the dynamic map graphics are really earning their pay.
@jimcronin2043
11 ай бұрын
The controversy between the Marines and the Army on Saipan was truly unfortunate. Holland Smith was a great general who allowed his emotions to get the better of him on this occasion. He was Nimitz' choice to head the Okinawa land campaign but with the resentment within the Army that he created Nimitz could never appoint him to a joint command and the Okinawa operation suffered for it.
@paultyson4389
11 ай бұрын
The American commander of the Okinawa invasion (Buckner (?)) was killed when he went to the Front to see how things were going. There is a photo of him minutes before it happened.
@jimcronin2043
11 ай бұрын
@@paultyson4389 Yes, he was Simon Bolivar Buckner III and he was a descendant of the confederate general who surrendered Ft. Donelson to US Grant in the Civil War.
@901Sherman
11 ай бұрын
Considering the kind of defences and resistance the Japanese pulled off, Okinawa would've been a bloodbath regardless who was in charge. The only question is how Smith would've done things compared to Buckner.
@davidhimmelsbach557
11 ай бұрын
@@901Sherman Bloodier, of course. Ask Lee Marvin... use a seance.
@HootOwl513
11 ай бұрын
@@davidhimmelsbach557 Lee was wounded on Saipan. He didn't get to Oki.
@extrahistory8956
11 ай бұрын
Is this the most detailed coverage of Bagration ever made? I can't remember anothe documentary that has covered and animated the troop movements of Bagration with THIS amount of detail.
@caryblack5985
11 ай бұрын
Bagration is mostly ignored in the West. Coverage of it is sparse not only in documentaries but also in books. In contrast to hundreds or maybe thousands of books on D Day and Normandy there is almost none on Bagration. At most it gets a mention or some pages in a book on WWII as a whole but doesn't get book length studies in western historiography.
@extrahistory8956
11 ай бұрын
@caryblack5985 I'm pretty aware of that, but even Soviet documentaries don't do it the justice it deserves. _Soviet Storm_ did a decent job, but it definitely falters in its maps and in coverage of the final phase of the operation, which is kinda rushed in the final few moments of the documentary.
@901Sherman
11 ай бұрын
Kinda hoping there'd be much more on Epsom. Oh well, there's still next week(; Crazy to think that after this masterpiece of an offensive is still the opening act to even more attacks that'll wash down the Ost Front like a Tsunami. Great job on showing not only the full scope of Bagration but also those involved. Everyone showers Rokossovsky with praise, as they should since he's the finest Red Army field commander of the war, while ignoring Zhukov's and Vasilevsky's rigorous coordination of the fronts involved, Bagramian's and Chernyakhovsky's devastating onslaught against Vitebsk and drive to the Berezina (the former actually had his own struggle against the Stavka to ensure that the operation had sufficient means of covering the northern flank, not unlike how Rokossovsky had to defend his complex plans against the skeptics), and Zhakarov making his sure to tie down Army Group Centre with his 2nd Belorussian Front while 3rd and 1st Belorussian Fronts pulled of the encirclement. All in all, Bagration and the Finnish operation show how much the Red Army has progressed throughout 3+ years of the war.
@AceMoonshot
11 ай бұрын
It was an incredibly clear cut victory. The tide has turned and Tsunami is right.
@Gszarco94
11 ай бұрын
This episode gave me an anxiety that I haven't felt since Kursk, wow! Bravo Indy and the whole crew!
@sleepingbee8997
11 ай бұрын
At 10:00, I wonder if anyone in that German unit (15th Panzer?) north of Lake Trasimene knew the history of that place. Did any of them reflect on the fact that 2000 years earlier an army had been utterly destroyed along those same banks? Did they feel a kinship with those outmatched Romans?
@RandomDudeOne
11 ай бұрын
Poor Finland, stuck between the likes of Hitler and Stalin. What a horrible dilemma, It's amazing they survived the war relatively intact.
@TallCasade1115
11 ай бұрын
They weren’t even nazis, they just wanted to take their clay back after the winter war
@poiuyt975
11 ай бұрын
They did, but the entire Central and Eastern Europe, and most of the Balkans, didn't; with Poland and Yugoslavia suffering the most. Ultimately that entire part of the world, apart from Finland, was sold by the Western Allies to Stalin.
@michalsawa881
11 ай бұрын
Well, they at least were Independent nation after the war
@robertosborne8694
11 ай бұрын
There is an excellent book called Finland’s War of Choice” by Henrik Lunde , which describes the balancing act that the Finns did keep their country relatively intact.
@loveroffunnyy
11 ай бұрын
@@TallCasade1115 I think siding with the nazis is bad.
@TheGuy-cf2rg
11 ай бұрын
Finally, a glimpse of the phone operator's voice after all this time. This is what we've been anticipating for so many years!!
@Raskolnikov70
11 ай бұрын
Too bad it turned out to be one of the adults from the old Peanuts cartoons from the 1960's.
@Ahrlin9
11 ай бұрын
There's a few episodes where you can hear it's Astrid (Sparty's wife) on the other end of the line.
@Mageroeth
11 ай бұрын
Your updated map graphics are great.
@bastien5589
11 ай бұрын
3:17 Am I the only one to have remarked the Tarantino-zoom like shot on Indy Neidell’s face. That was surprising but nice.
@BFDT-4
11 ай бұрын
My Dad wasn't in the first waves, but also wasn't in the way of the Bulge. Rather he was wounded near Metz, and survived, I am here to write. But it was terrible those months from July to December, and then that thing happened. Yet, men and locals maintained the hope that it would be over far quicker it started.
@vladimpaler3498
11 ай бұрын
That is almost stack wiping two Wehrmacht armies.
@TheSpartanman9
11 ай бұрын
Lol, the ven diagram for hearts of iron players and this channels' subscribers really is a circle.
@varana
11 ай бұрын
@@TheSpartanman9 Almost a circle.
@vladimpaler3498
11 ай бұрын
@@TheSpartanman9 Technically, it is my son who plays HOI4. However, his computer is next to mine in the office, so I overhear everything.
@isaacdestura7495
11 ай бұрын
Compared to the marathon of DDAY 24 hours, this is practically a cakewalk
@OrnluWolfjarl
11 ай бұрын
I'll be honest. I liked the episode for the most part, but I'm sorely disappointed that you barely talked about the preparations for one of the most important WW2 operations, Bagration. You guys did point out the Soviet bluff and some of the army movements, but you left out a lot of the detail on the fighting over marshlands, the German defense network, and the operational preparations in order to achieve the impressive Soviet push. Especially when compared to the coverage you did for D-Day, I'd expect at least a small special episode where you'd talk about these things, as you did for Barbarossa, Saturn, etc.
@caryblack5985
11 ай бұрын
Agree I am waiting to see if there are any specials regarding Bagration.
@edwardblair4096
11 ай бұрын
Another comparison would be their coverage of the preparations by the Germans of Fall Blau, the campaign to take the caucuses oil fields and that eventually ended up outside Stalingrad. There were several specials on this topic and discussions in the weekly episodes before it launched.
@RJLNetWork
11 ай бұрын
"What should we do?" "You should END THE WAR!!!" 😐
@Gufupandi09th13
11 ай бұрын
I know right but Hitler refuse to end this war😢
@MJG72a
11 ай бұрын
Thank you. Really enjoyed this episode, as usual!
@abhinabamazumder3931
11 ай бұрын
Hey Indy, Sparty, and team! First of all, congrats on the supremely well done D-Day epic. I have been watching you guys since the Great War days, but was only a student back then. Now that I finally have the financial resources, I have promoted myself from viewer to TimeGhost captain :) Thanks for the week by week coverage, and special thanks to Sparty for the War Against Humanity series (when are we getting new episodes of that btw?). As an Indian, I would like to also thank you guys for the excellent coverage of the Japanese Invasion of India and also the many atrocities of the British Raj (such as the Bengal Famine, which Sparty covered brilliantly in War Against Humanity). I grew up not far from Imphal and Kohima, and was glad that you covered so well operation U-Go, which is so oft overlooked that many of my own countrymen do not know it happened. You can count me as a TimeGhost captain for however long this war may take to finish, though I have a feeling the Axis can't keep it up much longer.
@roderickcampbell2105
11 ай бұрын
Wonderful coverage as always. Thanks.
@WorldWarTwo
11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@Valdagast
11 ай бұрын
IIRC, Monty considered Anvil/Dragoon a waste of men and resources. Edit: Why does Hitler insist on leaving a single division behind in city after city? Does he believe that it will tie up Soviet troops the way the 6th army did at Stalingrad, or is there something else going on?
@Jetiiluigi
11 ай бұрын
They are to act as a vanguard for when the Germans counterattack. He fully believes such things are possible.
@pax6833
11 ай бұрын
Hitler has fallen prey to the trap of success. The hold fast policy worked in 1941. To some degree, it even worked in 1942. The failures of the policy in 1943 were generally masked from him by a variety of factors, least of all the German army being fairly strong (note, it was still a very bad policy in 43, but it just wasn't quite as apparent). Now though, the German army is so weak, that it cannot possibly hold fast. Previously, units would slowly buckle and fall back. Now they are either being shattered, or rendered immobilized. He keeps insisting on the hold fast policy because it's all he knows how to do. He has no grasp of how best to conduct maneuver warfare, and refuses to listen to people with greater sense than him.
@theholyone6
11 ай бұрын
@@pax6833 he also massively underestimated the 1944 red army.
@Blazo_Djurovic
11 ай бұрын
@@theholyone6 He is not alone in that. Seems like half his general staff still thought the whole Bellorisia attack was still some kind of ignorable sideshow.
@Turtle76rus
11 ай бұрын
It's less about tying troops and more about screwing Soviet logistics. Any major offensive requires a huge supply oepration - fuel, ammunition, reinforcements, etc. A single division holding a major transport junction can deny the use of roads and railways going through that city and thus significantly slow down the entire soviet army or even front. Basically Hitler is sacrificing those divisions to give other troops time to fall back to a new defensive line. It's the early concept of the Festung ('fortress') doctrine, which we'll see used all the way into 1945.
@mjs3343
11 ай бұрын
Excellent production. Very interesting.
@merdiolu
11 ай бұрын
VII and XXX Corps of Second British Army breach through Odon river , Normandy in Operation Epsom (from Epsom horse races) on 26 June - 1 July 1944 Operation Epsom, also known as the First Battle of the Odon, was a British offensive in the Second World War between 26 and 30 June 1944, during the Battle of Normandy. The offensive was intended to outflank and seize the German-occupied city of Caen, an important Allied objective, in the early stages of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of north-west Europe. Preceded by Operation Martlet to secure the right flank of the advance, Operation Epsom began early on 26 June, with units of the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division advancing behind a rolling artillery barrage. Air cover was sporadic for much of the operation, because poor weather in England forced the last-minute cancellation of bomber support. Accompanied by the 31st Tank Brigade, the 15th (Scottish) Division made steady progress and by the end of the first day had overrun much of the German outpost line, although some difficulties remained in securing the flanks. In mutually-costly fighting over the following two days, a foothold was secured across the River Odon and efforts were made to expand this, by capturing tactically valuable points around the salient and moving up the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division. By 30 June, after German counter-attacks, some of the British forces across the river were withdrawn and the captured ground consolidated, bringing the operation to a close. Many casualties were suffered by both sides but unlike General Bernard Montgomery, the Allied commander in Normandy, Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel was unable to withdraw units into reserve after the battle, as they were needed to hold the front line. The British retained the initiative, attacked several more times over the following two weeks and captured Caen in Operation Charnwood in mid-July. Interpretations of the intention and conduct of Operation Epsom differ but there is general agreement concerning its effect on the balance of forces in Normandy. The Germans contained the offensive but only by committing all their strength, including two panzer divisions just arrived in Normandy, which had been intended for an offensive against Allied positions around Bayeux. Bittrich ordered a resumption of the offensive during the night of 29-30 June, hoping to avoid Allied air support. The 19th and 20th Regiments of the 9th SS Panzer Division, renewed their attacks against Grainville-sur-Odon and le Valtru in the dark but little progress was made against the 11th Armoured Division north of the Odon and heavy British artillery bombardments. At 0120, the 10th SS Panzer Division started to move towards Hill 112 and at dawn, covered by a heavy artillery barrage they assaulted the vacated British positions. Unaware that the British had pulled back, Panzergrenadiers and tanks of the 10th SS Panzer advanced on the hill from the south and south-west and infantry from 12th SS Panzer attacked from the east and south-east. Meeting no opposition, by noon the Germans had occupied the hill. A British counter-attack and artillery fire broke up a follow-up attack towards Baron-sur-Odon. II SS Panzer Corps commander General Bittrich called off further offensive action against VIII Corps. In the evening Hausser, commanding the 7th Army, informed Rommel's headquarters that his counter-attacks had been temporarily suspended due to "tenacious enemy resistance" and intensive Allied artillery and naval gunfire. Unaware of this and believing that more German attacks would follow, Dempsey closed down Operation Epsom. The front gradually settled down save for skirmishing, although both sides spent the remainder of the day heavily shelling one another. The battleship HMS Rodney contributed by bombarding villages suspected of containing German headquarters; one was later found to have housed the headquarters of the I SS Panzer Corps. With no further British offensive moves due, in the afternoon the Gavrus bridges were given up, the Scottish defenders being withdrawn across the Odon. At 2030 the town of Villers-Bocage, a vital traffic centre for the German forces, was destroyed by 250 RAF heavy bombers. The II SS Panzer Corps resumed its counter offensive on 1 July, after spending most of the preceding 24 hours regrouping. Unaware that the British had ended their operation and with overcast weather interfering with Allied air support, Bittrich believed he had an opportunity to prevent the 11th Armoured Division continuing its advance across the Orne. Before dawn the 10th SS Panzer Division advanced, supported by heavy mortar and artillery fire. The Germans took the village of Baron-sur-Odon quickly but a counter-attack by the 31st Tank Brigade retook it by noon. Heavy shelling broke up other attacks by 10th SS Panzer from Hill 112 and British patrols later found c. 300-400 dead Panzergrenadiers on the northern slope of the hill. The 9th SS Panzer Division spent the day attempting to force the British lines between Rauray and the Odon. Supplemented by Panzergrenadiers of the 2nd SS Panzer Division and following a preliminary bombardment, tanks and infantry of 9th SS Panzer advanced behind a smoke screen and broke through the outer British defences. The Germans were stopped by secondary positions in front of Rauray and on high ground to the south-east, although some troops penetrated as far as Haut du Bosq. Further German attacks throughout the day, were met with intense artillery fire and made no progress, in the early evening a British counter-attack with Sherman and flame-throwing Churchill Crocodile tanks restored the original front line. The attacks were costly for both sides, thirty German tanks were claimed destroyed, mostly by the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division, troops of the 12th SS Panzer Division had been repulsed during the morning and artillery fire halted attacks from other formations.
@destomondyd4323
11 ай бұрын
Im From South Africa and get quite excited when i hear a mention of it on your channel. I am vaguely aware of thee role South Africa played in WW2,however the coverage about it is quite minimal. i know that Ian smith, a Rhodesian or more accurately THE Rhodesian was a fighter pilot in Italy and had his share of 'adventures'. Anyway i really hope you do a special of some kind on the role of South Africa and Rhodesia during the war and some of the prominent figures.
@ralphquinney2337
11 ай бұрын
Greetings from Tasmania always anticipating weekly episodes!
@marcsteenbergen3254
11 ай бұрын
Awesome I was there twice and loved it
@unl0ck998
11 ай бұрын
I love waking up on Saturday and having this in my feed.
@fv8293
11 ай бұрын
Well done, all! Definitely gives MUCH more depth and a broader picture of the whole day.
@WorldWarTwo
11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@ericcarlson3746
11 ай бұрын
ideal postlude: It's 1947 and Ralph Smith tracks Holland Smith down stateside and exacts revenge
@mgway4661
11 ай бұрын
I love Operation Bagration. Can we PLEASE get an extra regular episode for it?
@ricdintino9502
11 ай бұрын
Outstanding episode.
@veso5863
11 ай бұрын
What a quote "you should end the war" and from Rundstedt non the less...
@ahorsewithnoname773
11 ай бұрын
Some accounts (that are disputed) have it that he said, "End the war, you idiots!"
@El_Presidente_5337
9 ай бұрын
In this weeks episode: Operation Bagration: Featuring Orsha from the Steel Division 2 campaign and the two funny rivers from Hoi4 where the Soviet players build their bunkers. Also catastrophic German losses and the collapse of Army Group Center.
@jamesdunn9609
11 ай бұрын
This conflict between Smith and Smith is reminiscent of MacArthur's complete misinterpretation of the behavior of the Australian forces on New Guinea. Holland Smith seems to think that Ralph Smith's Army division should behave exactly like a Marine division in the same way MacArthur seemed to think that Australian militia units should fight exactly like seasoned Army veterans. This sort of narrow-mindedness and bias seems fairly common to military men. Robert E. Lee refused to believe the reports of his irregular cavalry scouts because they weren't "regular Army."
@mcfahk
11 ай бұрын
Brilliant stuff as always!
@AceMoonshot
11 ай бұрын
Iirc, this week my dad will start fighting in the bocage around St Lo. Then over to Brest. He was an only child of his mother and a US Civil War veteran. The closet thing he had to a sibling was his 1st cousin. That cousin will die on the July 5th, somewhere in Tuscany.
@lc1138
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing !
@poorwotan
11 ай бұрын
A Civil War vet? How old was he? It's been around 80 years since the end of the US Civil War... I know WW1 vets also fought in WW2 and I can stretch see vets of the Spanish-American war maybe still fighting in WW2, but US Civil War vets would have been in their ~90's.
@AceMoonshot
11 ай бұрын
@@poorwotan My grandfather joined when he was 16 in 63. He was in his 70s when dad was born in 21. I had half-uncles that fought in the Philippines during Spanish-American War, WW1 and even against Pancho Villa lol.
@RedbadofFrisia
11 ай бұрын
My grandad was slave labor used to construct the Brest submarine bases at the time, nice to think that your dad helped free my grandad. He was forever grateful for it. Hated germans with a passion though.
@RedbadofFrisia
11 ай бұрын
@@poorwotanread it again, son of a civil war vet, which is entirely possible.
@nicolaso.8666
11 ай бұрын
Fun Fact: Konstantin Rokossovsky was the architect of Operation Bagration, which cemented his reputation as one of the best Soviet military leaders.
@Blazo_Djurovic
11 ай бұрын
Was this the bit where, maybe apocryphaly, he had to demand several times from Stalin, despite Stalin responding that he needs to "think things over", that they NEED TWO pincers instead of the usual one breakthrough?
@nicolaso.8666
11 ай бұрын
@@Blazo_Djurovic Yes. Stalin demanded one breakthrough but Rokossovsky held firm and said, "Two breakthrough points." Stalin acquiesced and ordered the planners to go with Rokossovsky’s plan.
@Significantpower
11 ай бұрын
@@Blazo_Djurovic He was basically told by Stalin's assistant that if he kept pressing for the two direction assault (in the face of Soviet doctrine) and failed, he would be shot by the NKVD. He kept pressing, the attack succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams, and Stalin began to address him by name (quite a rarity). His entire life was quite the trip, he was nearly executed during the Great Purge.
@modest_spice6083
11 ай бұрын
@@Significantpower That's how you know that the Great Purge is one of the most idiotic events in history. It killed scientists, geneticists, military theorists that could have contributed to the USSR society. Stalin's an idiot.
@caryblack5985
11 ай бұрын
Rokossovsky had an important role in Bagration. However it was the STAVKA's plan. Rokossovsky discsussion had to do with his plan to attack Bobriusk. What people said is accurate but Rokossovsky had only part of Bagration not the armies north of him.
@conceptalfa
11 ай бұрын
Thanks 👍👍👍
@welcometonebalia
11 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@Lematth88
11 ай бұрын
This week in French news. The 25th, the CEF crosses the Orcia to prepare an offensive against Sienne. The 26th, part of the LVF (Légion des volontaires français), a unit of 2 000 French volunteers on the eastern front against the USSR, are in the front line for the first time. While they are only 600 in the active sector, they resist two days against a soviet corps, takes out 14 tanks for 40 killed in their rank. They retreat after this in Greifenberg. The 27th, in Brittany, the maquis of Saffré (300 men) is attacked by the Germans, the wounded are killed. On the 35 taken prisoners, 29 are executed and 6 deported in Germany. The 28th, Phillip Henriot is assassinated on direct order from Algiers. He has an official ceremony the 14th of July at Notre Dame and the avenue Wilson is renamed “Philippe Henriot, dead for France”. The Miliciens are even more savage against resistants and civilians. The 30th, in Jonzac, in the Charente region, second lieutenant Pierre Ruibet blew the Kriegsmarine's second largest ammunition depot in the Hurtebise quarries, even though he knew he had no chance of escaping the explosion. In Alsace, 1 000 French volunteers join the 2nd French company of the Kriegsmarine.
@WorldWarTwo
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the extra info on France 🇫🇷!
@lc1138
11 ай бұрын
Merci !
@mohammedsaysrashid3587
11 ай бұрын
Fantastic historical coverage and introduction
@WorldWarTwo
11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your support!
@paulheinrich7645
11 ай бұрын
Once again: Good job bringing history to life!!!
@sniperx4048
11 ай бұрын
What a great Episode !
@friendhui4320
11 ай бұрын
Thank you all for the informative video as per. Teach us Indy!! 🎉🎉🎉 tyty
@WorldWarTwo
11 ай бұрын
We’re happy to be of service! 😃
@SoloChinchilla
11 ай бұрын
Amazing episode!
@WorldWarTwo
11 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@andrewroberts7428
11 ай бұрын
now i really want to listen to dire straits
@Jarod-te2bi
11 ай бұрын
Salutations again Indy and happy Canada Day 🇨🇦❤️, I was hoping you were considering making a Canadian a Army video special soon.
@nicholasconder4703
11 ай бұрын
0:00 Indy, it's not a question of which Smith is watching the other Smith. It's a question of "Who's on first?"
@henryclaudia5477
11 ай бұрын
Thanks
@konst80hum
11 ай бұрын
Love the Indy's telephone interlocutor voice
@archlich4489
11 ай бұрын
Same!
@davidmajer3652
11 ай бұрын
I like the camera work today.
@konstantinriumin2657
11 ай бұрын
OKH should know by now that the main soviet attack will be at Pas de Calais
@louishiggins8881
11 ай бұрын
That is a very brave shirt you've got there 😂. Thanks for these videos, and your D-day special videos, you and your team are stars 😀.
@ralebeau
11 ай бұрын
Lloyd Fredendall, Mark Clark, Holland Smith, not to mention MacArthur, Montgomery and Hitler. There was no shortage of ego and ineptitude in this war, and, I suspect, all wars.
@merdiolu
11 ай бұрын
Patton , Admiral Halsey also had big egoes. And Montgomery led an entite army group from commanding D-Day landings to Northern Germany and before that commanding entire army from Egypt to Central Italy , was no way inept.
@ralebeau
11 ай бұрын
@@merdiolu But ego?
@ahorsewithnoname773
11 ай бұрын
@@merdiolu Patton had a big ego but was not inept, something that could also be said for Montgomery. Halsey should have been sacked and court martialed.
@steverogers8163
11 ай бұрын
I believe my great uncle lost his leg this week. trying to take some nameless hill in France
@merdiolu
11 ай бұрын
Aftermath of Operation Epsom : In 2013, Buckley wrote that by 1 July, there was a stalemate in which Second British Army advanced appox 6.5 miles and they established a bridgehead south of the Odon but had retired from Hill 112, which may have been premature. The Germans had maintained a continuous front but only by using reserves which made it impossible to begin the counter-offensive planned by Panzergruppe West, which made the offensive a considerable Allied success, as part of a strategy of attrition based on organised fire power. Looked on as an attempt to break through and force the Germans out of Caen the operation failed but in terms of Montgomery's strategy it was a costly victory. The German defence of Normandy never recovered from the damage inflicted during Epsom, the initiative was lost and German counter-attack tactics failed in the face of Allied fire power, with even greater cost than that inflicted on the British; the German command structure and assumptions on which the defence was based were undermined. The increasingly costly static defence led to disputes in the German high command. On the evening of 1 July , after reporting that last SS panzer corps attack against newly consolidated British lines at Odon ended with a German defeat , in a conversation with OKW , General Wilhelm Keitel asked what should they do , Von Rundstedt said "Make peace, you fools." Shortly afterwards, Günther von Kluge replaced him as Commander in Chief West. Due to his disagreements with Hitler over how the campaign should be conducted, Schweppenburg was replaced by Heinrich Eberbach as commander of Panzer Group West. On top of that General Dollman , commander of Seventh German Army suffered a brain hemorrage on 30th June when he heard that British reached Hill 112 and he died next day. General Paul Hauser commander of 2nd SS Panzer Corps replaced him and Wilhelm Bittrich took command of 2nd SS Panzer Corps.
@ewok40k
11 ай бұрын
Rundstedt, he had balls to say the truth...
@MAAAAAAAAAA123
11 ай бұрын
Thats the Monty “narrative” at least. The reality is their plans for a counter offensive towards Bayeux was already being forestalled when 17. SS, supposed to be a major part of the attack, got sucked into the Cotetin fighting.
@richardross7219
11 ай бұрын
A friend of mine was a 4th Division Marine, wounded on Siapan. He said that the Marines hated Howland Smith and that he never visited the island because his own marines might have shot him. Good Luck, Rick
@ahorsewithnoname773
11 ай бұрын
Holland Smith was on the island, he just didn't visit the 27th ID at the front.
@richardross7219
11 ай бұрын
@@ahorsewithnoname773 Not according to the book "Siapan". He was of the same school as Mac Arthur and Westmoreland. They didn't need facts, they thought that they knew better.
@davidhimmelsbach557
11 ай бұрын
Howlin' mad Smith had a temper problem -- hence his insertion of a go-between. My old boss was right there when this happened. ( member of the V Corps HQ; E9 Marine, super promoted during the war's expansion. ) He served in I Corps, Vietnam, in the same HQ role. (He was a master of the crazy paperwork/ office flow used by the Marines. It'd fry your brain, BTW.) Frank deemed Howlin' mad Smith to be certifiably INSANE. He was flying into tantrums most of the day through, especially on Saipan. IIRC, Marshall had to jump into this soup. Lee Marvin barely survived Howlin' mad Smith -- just one of six Marines out of 150+ in his company to do so. The US Army (i.e. the 27th Infantry Division) had to supply fresh blood because of the horrific losses in the USMC. ( 4th Division ) IIRC, this was Smith's last combat command. Stateside, he was a-coming.
@901Sherman
11 ай бұрын
Didn't he also play a role in the landing at Iwo? Guy sounds like the reason the marines have that impulsive, hothead, 'can't play nice with others', jerkass reputation. Surprised he wasn't sacked sooner.
@carbo73
11 ай бұрын
the fighting along the Beretsina river arround Borisov here in 1944 being in the same dramatic battlefield of Napoleon in 1812 is a huge historical link
@stevebarrett9357
11 ай бұрын
There has been a series of costly lessons learned by the Red Army from the summer solstice of '41 to now, but it appears that they are doing to their enemy what their enemy did to them 3 years ago though perhaps with different techniques. It has been interesting to observe these lessons as this theatre's initiative shifted from one side to the other, exhibited by the shift of tactics, improvement of equipment, the shift of air superiority, and the change to combat formation TOE's of both sides in an effort to create a winning combination against the other. The Soviet Union has been Germany's most tenacious opponent and a far cry from the “We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down”.
@benismann
11 ай бұрын
surprisingly ppl are a lot less likely to surrender when that will cost them their life
@jkelsey555
11 ай бұрын
hearing that 50,000 German troops were killed during the opening week or so of Bagration, always makes me think of how mind bogglingly devastating the Battle of Cannae was. At a time when the world had maybe 1/10th the people it did in 1944, 70,000 were killed in a day. And the Romans simply did not even consider negotiating
@mikhailiagacesa3406
11 ай бұрын
I didn't know Hannibal negotiated with Romans!
@Dustz92
11 ай бұрын
x10 that and you get the casualties of the 1941 battle of Kiev, which was pretty much a Cannae in a giant scale. And like the Romans, the USSR still won.
@jkelsey555
11 ай бұрын
@@mikhailiagacesa3406 he sent envoys to Rome to negotiate what he assumed would be a victorious peace treaty.
@icarian553
11 ай бұрын
Battle of Cannae was nothing. During first Punic war Romans lost their fleet three times to storms. Hundreds of ships and about 200 000 - 300 000 men. Every single time, Romans just shrugged and rebuilt their fleet.
@jkelsey555
11 ай бұрын
@@icarian553 yeah but those aremostly sailors and oarsmen. Romans considered them barely worth anything compared to legionnaires and officers.
@merdiolu
11 ай бұрын
Second British Army launched Operation Martlet on 25 June 1944 and Operation Epsom on Normandy Campaign during 26 June - 1 July 1944 Operation Martlet (also known as Operation Dauntless) was part of a series of British attacks to capture the French town of Caen and its environs from German forces during the Battle of Normandy of World War II begun by the Allies. It was a preliminary operation undertaken on 25 June 1944 by XXX Corps of the British Second Army, to capture Rauray and the area around Noyers. The attack was to protect the right flank of VIII Corps as it began Operation Epsom, an offensive into the Odon Valley west of Caen, on 26 June. The 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division and the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division were to capture Juvigny-sur-Seulles, Vendes and Rauray, to prevent German counter-attacks against VIII Corps from the area of the Rauray Spur and then extend the attack towards Noyers and Aunay-sur-Odon. It was the first time in Normandy that the 49th (West Riding) Division operated as a division. The attack front was held by the right flank of the Panzer Lehr Division and the left flank of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, with the support of 60-80 88 mm guns of the III Flakkorps. The attack failed to achieve its objectives by the end of 25 June and the 49th (West Riding) Division continued the operation until 1 July, when the division in return , defeated a counter-attack by Kampfgruppe Weidinger of 2nd SS-Panzer Division Das Reich and the 9th SS-Panzer Division Hohenstaufen, which lost c. 45 tanks and other armoured vehicles. The II SS Panzerkorps, had been intended for a counter-offensive west of Caen towards Bayeux but was so depleted by the losses of operations Martlet and Epsom and the danger of another British offensive near Caen, that it was reduced to the static defence of the Odon valley. (from wikipedia) In 2003, Terry Copp wrote that the German counter-attack against the ground captured by XXX Corps was a costly failure and that the Germans holding the remaining positions on the Rauray Spur were reduced to passive defence. German armoured units had encountered the same problems of lack of observation and room for manoeuvre as the Allies. A shortage of infantry and the effect of Allied artillery fire made co-operation much more difficult and made direct command almost impossible. Operation Martlet had achieved its purpose in distracting and inflicting attrition on the German forces opposite. Ian Daglish wrote in 2007, that although XXX Corps had failed to reach its objective, German attention was diverted from the area of Operation Epsom and that tanks in the area had been sent westwards to counter-attack the gap forced by the 49th Division, leaving them out of position when the main attack by VIII Corps began. In a report on the battle of 1 July written the same day, Lieutenant-Colonel A. E. Warhurst called the German repulse a severe defeat, in which c. 50 tanks had been committed. Warhurst estimated that c. 35 German tanks had been knocked out, ten to the Tyneside Scottish, eleven to the 24th Lancers, six to the 217th Battery, 55th Anti-tank Regiment and five to a barrage from the medium artillery; five Shermans were lost by the 24th Lancers. Each of the mortars of the Tyneside Irish fired c. 600 bombs and the artillery inflicted many losses on the Germans because the British were able to maintain excellent signal communications all day, while German radio operators had to be stationed at a distance from their headquarters, due to the speed with which British wireless listening posts plotted their positions and directed artillery fire onto them. In 2013, John Buckley wrote that the German defence against Martlet had been poorly co-ordinated and was costly against the firepower at the disposal of the British, a tactical phenomenon encountered by the Germans all through the Normandy campaign. Martlet had succeeded in diverting German forces from Operation Epsom but the German success in holding Rauray Ridge was a British failure,
@merdiolu
11 ай бұрын
In 2003, Terry Copp wrote that the German counter-attack against the ground captured by XXX Corps was a costly failure and that the Germans holding the remaining positions on the Rauray Spur were reduced to passive defence. German armoured units had encountered the same problems of lack of observation and room for manoeuvre as the Allies. A shortage of infantry and the effect of Allied artillery fire made co-operation much more difficult and made direct command almost impossible. Operation Martlet had achieved its purpose in distracting and inflicting attrition on the German forces opposite. Ian Daglish wrote in 2007, that although XXX Corps had failed to reach its objective, German attention was diverted from the area of Operation Epsom and that tanks in the area had been sent westwards to counter-attack the gap forced by the 49th Division, leaving them out of position when the main attack by VIII Corps began. In a report on the battle of 1 July written the same day, Lieutenant-Colonel A. E. Warhurst called the German repulse a severe defeat, in which c. 50 tanks had been committed. Warhurst estimated that c. 35 German tanks had been knocked out, ten to the Tyneside Scottish, eleven to the 24th Lancers, six to the 217th Battery, 55th Anti-tank Regiment and five to a barrage from the medium artillery; five Shermans were lost by the 24th Lancers. Each of the mortars of the Tyneside Irish fired c. 600 bombs and the artillery inflicted many losses on the Germans because the British were able to maintain excellent signal communications all day, while German radio operators had to be stationed at a distance from their headquarters, due to the speed with which British wireless listening posts plotted their positions and directed artillery fire onto them. In 2013, John Buckley wrote that the German defence against Martlet had been poorly co-ordinated and was costly against the firepower at the disposal of the British, a tactical phenomenon encountered by the Germans all through the Normandy campaign. Martlet had succeeded in diverting German forces from Operation Epsom but the German success in holding Rauray Ridge was a British failure,
@angusmacdonald7187
11 ай бұрын
My father was in US Navy in WWII. In the 1990s he made a trip to mainland Europe, the first time he had been there since the war. He went to Hamburg, mainly because it was a port and he knew of it. They were having a show at their history museum: Hamburg During WWII. My dad found it very interesting overall, but at the end of it they had about four or five dozen photo albums. Each album had 40 leaves; each leaf had 8 pictures. All of these men had come from Hamburg. And there was one question printed on the walls of the room: These Men Were Lost On The Eastern Front. Do You Have Any Information About What Happened To Them? My dad told me that two thoughts ran through his mind. "OMG, all of these men were lost and no one knows what happened to them. Their poor families!" ... followed quickly by, "You stupid b*****ds, you brought this on yourselves!" It was a sobering day for him.
@SuiLagadema
11 ай бұрын
Oh god the battle for Caen should be heating up next week. Really wanna see how Indy and his team approach this one.
@dragonstormdipro1013
11 ай бұрын
It got overshadowed by Bagration. Bagration is truly something to behold.
@LeftToWrite006
11 ай бұрын
I like that you can hear the chipmunk sounds like someone is talking on the other end of the phone line.
@sealove79able
11 ай бұрын
A great video.The USA had the diplomatic relaions with Finland until 1944?That is interesting.Have a good one.
@rajeshkanungo6627
11 ай бұрын
Diplomacy never stops. Fortunately. It just moves to Switzerland.
@thunderbird1921
11 ай бұрын
People would be surprised how much diplomatic work our country has done, both in the past and now. Even though we don't have an embassy in Pyongyang or even really recognize them, we sometimes do talks with North Korea at the UN Headquarters since they have an office there as a member state.
@sealove79able
11 ай бұрын
@@thunderbird1921 Thank you.
@sealove79able
11 ай бұрын
@@rajeshkanungo6627 Thank you.
@CinemaDemocratica
11 ай бұрын
The way that phone call ends is how I would like to end every single phone call I have ever had in my life.
@marcholmquist3089
11 ай бұрын
Finally I hear someone on the other end of the phone!!! 😎😎😎
@VFRSTREETFIGHTER
11 ай бұрын
I'm relived to see your coverage of the Battle of Saipan doesn't follow the old myth that the Army's 27th Infantry Division wouldn't or couldn't fight and instead points out Holland Smith's strange animosity.
@ahorsewithnoname773
11 ай бұрын
There was a small kernel of truth to it. Holland Smith got it wrong in accusing the 27th ID of fighting poorly, but there were doctrinal differences between the Army & Marines that contributed to the controversy. The Army favored slow & methodical reduction of enemy strongpoints with heavy use of artillery while the Marines favored rapid movement involving more aggressive action by the infantry. Marines would also bypass some bunkers and the like and leave them from troops coming behind to clear while the Army tended to clear every strong point before pushing forward again. This all should have been taken into account by Holland Smith and it was not, and combined with not also going to the 27th ID's front to evaluate in person the "slow" progress of the 27th ID was misunderstood.
@VFRSTREETFIGHTER
11 ай бұрын
@@ahorsewithnoname773 It also didn't help that Holland Smith kept the 27th drastically understrength almost the whole battle in order to compensate for marine losses. I think the only problem was Holland Smith and his prejudice towards the Army.
@astrobullivant5908
11 ай бұрын
This is the first point in the war where we can clearly see that the Allies are likely to decisively win.
@istvansipos9940
11 ай бұрын
come on! NO spoilers! :- )
@akshatprakash871
11 ай бұрын
No....., Stiener's counterattack will surely succeed.
@Shadowman4710
11 ай бұрын
@@istvansipos9940 Pssst... "Rosebud" is a sled.
@Raskolnikov70
11 ай бұрын
@@istvansipos9940 Snape kills Dumbledore.
@hillbillykoi5534
11 ай бұрын
Army Group Center can pull it off! They will march in Moscow!!
@BleedingUranium
11 ай бұрын
I love that "We did a special the other year" is a phrase that can be said on this channel haha.
@billskinner623
11 ай бұрын
Those German experts never did seem to understand the importance of supply. Or resupply. They could plan and win a battle but weren't able to follow up on a lot of their successes.
@Raskolnikov70
11 ай бұрын
I think they understood, but didn't have the means to properly supply their armies in the field even at the outset of the war with the USSR in '41.
@MikeyD8716
11 ай бұрын
“You should end the war”! Awesome.
@raduboean7754
11 ай бұрын
Will you cover op.walkirie?
@retrospectivestudios
11 ай бұрын
Editing choices like at 12:35 don't add much to the equation. Noticing more of this style since D-Day coverage.
@WorldWarTwo
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for your feedback!
@PripyatTourist
11 ай бұрын
The war is hitting 26 minutes, lads!
@abdullahabdulrahman3856
11 ай бұрын
I really wish they used the battlefield 1943 theme as background music 🎵🎶
@thewidow7864
Ай бұрын
The Soviets be like: "they see me steamrollin', they hatin'..."
@JPMadden
2 ай бұрын
You probably get quite a few messages like this, but here goes anyway. About 20 years ago, a WW2 vet told me an amazing story. I've often wondered if it is known by any historians, assuming it's true. He told me he was an NCO in a combat engineering unit of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division. I confirmed that he did serve in the 9th. When the Allies captured Cherbourg, the port facilities urgently needed to be made operable, because the Germans had done damage and placed booby-traps. This veteran and his squad or platoon were ordered to do some of the work. He told me they removed some demolition charges and put them in their extra truck. They then found a warehouse containing very large quantities of Cognac, Champagne, and possibly more, all marked "for the Wehrmacht." He said they emptied the truck of explosives, put up a warning sign, refilled the truck with booze, and returned to base. He told me that generals from all over the ETO called in favors to try to get some. Have you ever heard this story?
@wietse1113
11 ай бұрын
The axis really is collapsing
@franglish7014
11 ай бұрын
is the WAH series coming back ? Last episode was in April... Hope Sparty's ok
@sithtrooper1948
11 ай бұрын
Spartys fine, they were just all on hands on deck for the D-Day special, I’m sure WAH is coming back this month or so
@finnwolffkaysfeld7000
11 ай бұрын
For some time now, most of your weeks do not show up on my Google TV 4K Chromecast, where I usually watch KZitem. This one did not show up, only on my Android phone, but 256, 255 & 252 did show up. Some settings must be wrong in the missing videos. Also most of the D- day series is also missing except for the first hour and the first 5 hour episode.
@joezephyr
11 ай бұрын
Indy, like Churchill, can use his experience in the Great War, do to a fabulous job in his chosen profession.
@timl.b.2095
11 ай бұрын
Sweet words to start: "the breaking of Army Group Center."
@a84c1
11 ай бұрын
Just remember operation valkyrie is 2 and a half weeks away.
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