Hi there! My Grandfather fought in the Netherlands after France and Belgium, and then onto Germany. He was a Sapper. He made it home after 4 years, had two great daughters. Cheers from Halifax, Nova Scotia friend! :)
I experienced your generosity and gratitude first hand. I was moved to tears to feel the love for Canadians soldiers and visiting citizens 50 years after the war!
Thank you, my dad served with 4th canadian armored division, never talked much about his experience but I mentioned I wanted to sign up and he was adamant that he served enough for the both of us.
Growing up on a Canadian Air Force base in Northern France in the late 50’s, we kids would find all kinds of interesting stuff. 50 Calibre shells and bullets all over the place. The wing of a plane sticking out of the ground, with a Maltese Cross on it. Other bits of planes. Helmets everywhere. Rotting ammo boxes. A friend and I found a jerry potato masher grenade once. We knew you were supposed to throw it so we tried that. Didn’t work thank God. I was 7 years old ffs. 139,000 Air Crew, including 49,000 pilots (my father was one of them), were trained in Canada during WW2. Canada had the world’s 3rd largest navy by the war’s end. Our army fought with distinction in Italy, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, not to mention in most of the pubs in Britain. So…yeah, we did our bit. And then some.
We were the allied forces shocktroopers in both wars. I think the reason we don't have equipment of our own is the Americans were scared we'd come and give them free Healthcare smd better education lol. If there was ever another war, pretty sure America wouldn't even charge us for equipment. They'd just arm us and let us work 😎
Thank you. Your kind words are heartwarming. Let it be known that we who know history have the same upmost respect for the American fighting men. Politics be damned, we have have fought and died side by side.
The Canadians dont get enough credit. For a smaller fighter force, they more than make up for that in their bravery. We are proud to have them as neighbors and allies thru so many wars.
I agree however they were anything but small, they were one of the largest powers involved in WW1 & 2 they had a force of over a million in WW2 bulk of them in the Army and ended up with the 4th largest Air force & 5 th largest navy at the end of the war the were pivotal in the Italian theatre and had their own beach to take in D-Day they opened the door to Rome in time for the original date proposed for D-Day (then the US had to be the ones to roll into Rome)
The more I learn of Canadian contributions during ww2,the more my respect for them increases exponentially ! Drive on brothers! Heartfelt gratitude from Texas.
@@geoffhunter7704 Thanks. I didn't mean to include everyone, just to point out that while Great Britain, Russia, and The U.S. were the primary contributors, the Canadians and Aussies did great things, too. There were many other nations' soldiers who fought with incredible valor and effectiveness. It truly was a WORLD War.
@@pickleballer1729 Certainly Kevin the first world war was against Bonaparte Europe,Sth America Africa and India were involved but WW2 was the most horrific of them all,while we lost nobody in WW1 our family lost 7 souls and 11 wounded in WW2.
There's a book (it's an older book), called 'Slaves of the son of heaven' written by RH Whitecross, an Aussie who was a prisoner of war captured by the Japanese. It's difficult to read for the atrocities they went thru. These stats will give you an idea of the number of men that died while captured. All Aussie enlistments except POWs of Japan was 967,494, total deaths 29,999 = 3.1% death rate. All Aussies captured by the Japanese 22,176 total deaths 7,829 = 35.3% death rate. All those men and let's not forget the women who went to war deserve our eternal gratitude.
My father served in a Sherman tank in WW2. He said the battle for the Schelt Estuary and the Hochwald Forest was some of the worst he experienced in the war.
Well, be happy that he doesnt had to fight at the eastern German front. All what happened on the western front was like holidays in relationship to Stalingrad and Co. A lot of people on the German West front were grandfathers and children. The best German divions died in Russia. The Russians won the war for you. America invaded when Germany was already defeated.
@@philippkoch662 “ Russians won the war for you “ that’s nonsense. Matter of fact as best divisions go the 2nd das reich waffen SS division was sent to western front along with 45 other divisions. You seem to forget it was allied bombing that crippled Germany’s ability to make more war weapons etc . Not to mention the allied were feeding Russia materials and equipment since 1942 without western front Russia would’ve lost .
@@austinmartin5446 Ohja. You send weapons. While 500.000 Americans died in the whole war (Japan war included) the Russians lost more then 20 million men. In other words, 40 Russians died when one American died. America didnt want to open a second front and Stalin was furious about it. They started the second front when Germany was already blooded out. No matter that Germany could have taken Russia, with or without American supplies. I guess then 30 or 40 Million Russians would have died. Dont let you fool by all the Hollywood movies. War was decided at the eastern front. Most German casualities were at the eastern front.
@@austinmartin5446 To the other points, best divions were in Russia. Along with the armored 6 Tank division dieing in Stalingrad. The allied bombing achieved not as much as you had hoped for. Most war factories were simply put underground. Germany is full of tunnels and mines and therefore it was absolutely no problem to produce tanks and planes under ground. Allied troops were astonished when they saw the Germans were able to produce until 1945. Bombing cities achieved little to nothing except of sometimes force a surrender (Warshaw, Rotterdam). But it never worked when the enemy had some slight chance of winning (Dresden, London). I would never speak bad of American soldiers. But the American war strategy was simply let other win the war for you and do as much as you have to do so that the Germans didnt win.
@@philippkoch662 I agree with you Phillip. The war on the Eastern front was 10 times as bloody as the Western front. Russia paid the highest price for victory in that war. I have great respect for the Russian people. I wished that we could work together better and trust each other more.
🇨🇦Fellow Canadians love our “good” history but we’re always missed, thank you for making this! as a 🇨🇦Canadian I learned lots! 🇨🇦🤘We don’t learn about this in school.
I live near Xanten as a matter of fact many parts of the surrounding forest are still closed because of old ammunition from that battle hidden in the soil and trees.
Canada punched above its weight for this war. By the end of it it had the world's third-largest navy and a 10th of Canada's population was in the military.
All three of my Canadian great grandfather's served in the second world war, the fourth was Scottish. Needless to say, I'm proud of my family history, as should any Canadian.
The Firefly was Canada’s work horse. Even Tigers got cautious when they saw those in formations, let alone in Canadian lines. Used properly, a Firefly could 1v1 a tiger with a coin flip victory. Worst case they killed each other.
@@lyndoncmp5751 That is true, but that's like saying a Mauser K98 is superior to an M1 Garand. Different usage and purpose. Edit* I read that wrong and thought you said "*A* long range Tiger was superior." Yes they had better range overall.
@@LtMadden2 Case in point was the destruction of the Canadian 28th Armoured Regiment at Estrees la Campagne on 9th August 1944 during Operation Totalize. The Canadians lost 44 Shermans including Fireflies, the vast majority of them to the long range (1,000 metres plus) sniping of a small number of Tigers that came out of Quesnay Woods. Not a single Tiger was lost. They remained out of range and picked the Shermans off one by one.
God bless the proud Canadians and all th fallen. Respect. This is historical, informative and is highly recommended for anyone who wishes to research the 2nd World War, thank you. May I also suggest that the volume muffles out a lot of what is said and I think the most important thing is to hear the voice of the veterans, loud and clear because they are the Heroes who were there, I bow.
I wonder if the one and only Holy Roller was there. The Holy Roller is a Sherman that landed on D-Day and fought all across Europe. It’s now the he only surviving WW2 veteran in London Canada. The Holy Roller sits on a plinth in Victoria Park. The old baby was recently restored, and looks great!
I am an old Marine age 77 and I have gotten the word from young marines the current Canadian Army is very professional and effective. That's high praise from the guys in the Corps. They said ditto for the English and the Aussies. 👍👍
The audio is out of balance. One track is louder than the other. This happens often on this channel. Not sure why this is difficult to notice if it is being monitored properly. Makes the otherwise great content harder to follow.
This is a video from the greatest tank battles battle for the hochwald gap posted by a different channel who if you have seen the series posted on that channel you will realize that they had bad audio almost for every greatest tank battle video. I have already seen all of them so its disappointing when i think there is a new video i could watch but its just timeline posting a video taken from the channel ive already seen with bad audio.
T. Garry Gould of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers was badly wounded there, at the Hochwald Gap, but recovered and lived to the age of 93. He was a tank commander, leading young men (18-19-year-olds) from Normandy to Holland to Germany, fighting the Nazis until they knocked him out at the Gap. (He was only 23 or 24.) He told me a few stories that aren't in any books or videos. My favorite was about his crew meeting some pretty girls in a town in the Netherlands, but they didn't even get to first base because of a German counter-attack. Those guys saw some horrible things and risked their lives day after day. We owe them a lot of respect and gratitude.
The 17 pounder was the gun the US army turned down for their Sherman's, although it was an excellent anti-tank gun. I worked with an old guy who was with the field artillery attached to the Canadian tankers during this time, he told me how their 17 pounders punched through the German armour.
@@duncanidaho2097 also Political powers behind this. The Us already had a production going on of Sherman's with the 76 M1 Gun, 250 had been shipped to the U.K prior before the D-Day landings, and were hastenly rushed to the front lines in December 1944. the M1 also is a Slighty better gun on average.
Its always government beauracracy and the desire to save a few pennies that is always the cause for our troops in having inferior weaponary and equipment. The bigger guns would have saved alot of American and Canadian lives. Shame on the US government by sending our troops to slaughterz
@@WIRobin American tanks at that time were designed and built to fight other tanks. If your a tank, and your supporting the infantry, your likely to run into enemy tanks. The Americans weren’t so stupid as to believe that their tanks wouldn’t need a gun capable of killing enemy tanks. The us m4 crews, up till late ‘44, preferred the 75mm over the much more powerful 76mm. It’s HE around had a larger explosive payload then the 76mm, and was capable of a superior rate of fire. Considering that the average M4 was fighting infantry , fortified positions, and inferior AFVs (panzer 4s, stugs, half tracks, armored cars), this made sense at the time. It wasn’t till they kept running into panthers and king tigers that they started to complain about the 75mm. The Sherman wasn’t perfect, but NO tank is perfect. The panther, for example, was less reliable, harder to maintain, and had lower survival rates then the Sherman. There’s a good reason the German transmissions are a running joke in the online ww2 history community. The panther might be more lethal, but if you can only get half your forces to the front, you might as well not have the other half.
This doc is very special to me. I have lived my intire live in this area and I do know that region very well. As a child we still coud see all the trenches and where warned about ammonition, bombs and granades in claases at school. The last evacuation in a city near by was just a few weeks ago 2021. The britisch graveyard for those soldiers are not further than 5 to 6 miles from where I live today. The white forest. Some of the tanks where later brought to a place for restauration and than to Overloon war museum. (- >Wiki) When building my house we found 3 unexploded 925 mm canadian artillry granades. Absolutly normal for my town.
Here in the USA one's supposed to phone call a utilities number to have them determine that there's no phone, electric, water and gas utilities before doing any excavation (digging). I'm wondering if there's such a service in Germany and for other European countries to check for buried unexploded ordinances from the World Wars Side note; Britain's Princess Diana's (RIP) biggest cause was to rid the world of unexploded mines.
@@captainjack8823 I grew up in that same region (born in Aachen, raised in Jülich). We have similar precautions for excavations. And thankfully the RAF documented their missions carefully. But it is impossible to keep track on every small battle. There were just to many... And let's not forget, you will find remains of every war in the 2,000 years in that area if you dig in your garden. The romans (Jülich was a roman fort called castrum iuliacum), the dark ages, the middle ages, the Thirty Year's War, the spanish occupation, the french occupation - you name it. In 1994 I had the privilege to meeting an US veteran from that war. As a kid I used to play in the ruins of a fortress from Napoleon's wars, in which he was hiding from the german artillery in 1944. A brave man, who volunteered to liberate my home country from the evil.
Thank you Canada,Australia,NZ,South Africa,India and other nations for coming to the aid of the UK in WW1 and 2,the 17 pounder was the supreme Allied Tank killer weapon from 1942 TO 1948 capable of destroying Tigers and Panthers and from 8/1944 with discarding sabot or shoe penetrating 10.5" of armour,it was replaced by the 20 pounder 84mm with a slightly better performance this gun was replaced by the 105mm tank gun which was the worlds best tank killer till replaced by the 120mm L11A1 which still today holds the world record in destroying a battle tank at 2.1 miles.
Lol um the countries listed all part of the commonwealth then and some under direct control Ike India. Lol can't exactly say we came to their aid as it was by will when it was required lol
@@terryarmbruster9719 Canada was given Self Governing Status in 1867,AU and NZ in 1900 and South Africa in 1902,India and Ceylon in 1947 and most African nations in the 1950s and 60's so you are partly correct re WW2.
@@danbray1824 Canadians are not "Colonials" they are a wonderful Patriotic People of great Renown and Resilience let down as the UK by low quality politicians and Mass Immigration!!!!
Excellent video- just one small correction: I knew his wife well and Gen. Simonds was an English Canadian and so his given name was pronounced “Guy” - rhymes with “high” or “pie” and his middle name was Granville. While I never met him, he was by all accounts, a pretty ferocious soldier.
I didn't see many flying shells. (I do remember a few, but no sparks) What I remember is the sudden "whish-boom!' of incoming 88's. (currently 97 yrs old)
@@edgarvalderrama1143 It's because of men like you many of us are able to live the free and comfortable lives we do. Makes me immensely proud of the land I call home! 🍁
My grandfather died 2 weeks before the end of the war from wounds received in the Hochwald Gap. His name is Cpl. Frederick Woodward, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Before the war, he was a milkman in Toronto.
First time watching this series GTB. Right off got to say these Canadians, heroes all. Their courage is just amazing and damn glad they were on our side. At the same time feel I have to comment on this battle. Though they get my respect no question, but still, watching this portrayal is heart wrenching. I mean maybe it is how they're presenting it, but seems there has to come a point where after taking such a battering with so many losses it would have been entirely reasonable and highly recommended to abandon the field. I mean come on, what about living: Living to fight another day. Like I said maybe it's in the way the producers are telling it, but this is solely reminiscent of Tennyson's, Light Brigade. All the survivors received the VC right!?!
A can’t help getting emotional about this battle, the colossal loss of lives suffered by the Canadian forces makes me very morose and angry, it seems to me that the Canadian and allied top brass had a case of pushonitis, they were just ordering men into an almost guaranteed death situation, and they didn’t seem to have the ability to change tactics, they knew that the Sherman tanks couldn’t survive an encounter with the Panther, Tiger, King Tiger or 88mm anti tank guns, yes they had the overwhelming numerical men and machines, but if you just keep throwing it at the Germans then that erodes that advantage down to nothing. RIP all those who made the ultimate sacrifice for us, Lest We Forget.
Hopefully not to be forgotten by Canadian sons and daughters. My dad was RCAF, survived the war, but his nephew, 20yr old RCAF PO, AE West of Vancouver BC, did not. Canadian freedoms are being given up lightly, that were paid for so dearly by our forefathers. They are gone now, and the cycle begins again.
I'm glad to see some Canadian battles and the stories behind them. I understand that America has a bigger presence, but they seem to be the only ones covered most of the time. So thanks for shining a light on our boys here in the north.
There’s something wrong with the sound making the battle sounds drown out the voices. While I realize the explosions are fun, it’s more important to hear what the soldiers had to say, especially those of the brave Canadians!
Yeah, I want to watch this but the music and sound effects are just too loud. The stories these guys have to tell are more than enough to hold our attention, we don't need all the MTV window dressing.
The reality is... that the Germans deserved everything they got, all of it. As a regime they were monsters that we can't even imagine in modern life. Absolute monsters, as a regime, perhaps not the individual soldier.
@@brustar5152 Where was he born? Dunkirk (Fr. spelling Dunkerque) The production team and scouting locations were chosen before Nolan and Thomas solicited Warner Bros. Pictures to make the film.[17] wiki How much did it cost to make Bomb Girls?
Min 2:50 is wrong, there was never a Bridge over the Rhine in Xanten. The only existing bridge over the Rhine in Xanten was build by the allied troops. The brige over the Rhine was in Wesel
Fusiliers Mont-Royal. That’s the infantry unit that participated in that battle. It still exist in the Canadian army Reserve. I was the RSM a couples of year ago.
They also often had the greatest level of artillery support, in both wars in fact. That helped greatly. But yes very good troops, as good as any others.
Like so many modern productions, the sound effects (do we really need a pop-up noise for everything?) and ADHD shifting of visuals totally gets in the way of trying to hear a story. Wanted to learn about this battle, but gave up.
Jabo's the bain have read where those rockets equaled 8 inch naval guns. Any way you stretch it those battles tried men and the ones lucky enough to walk away from it in the end made us all better. Salute. 🎖
Yes, the M4 Sherman, tank on tank wasn't in the same class as the Panther and was hopelessly outclassed by the Tiger. But as Stalin was reported to have said about his vast amounts of Soviet war material, when compared to the better quality German material, "Quantity has a quality all of it's own". In battle, numbers count.
Yeah, but don't forget about Allied-Communist tankers burned and maimed in their inferior tanks. Okay, so there's a 6th Sherman, what if it was you sitting in the 5th? I hate this narrative, that it's the numbers that count. Soldiers' lives count, that's why tank has to have decent firepower and protection, and then we can talk about everything else. Of course Stalin said quantity has a quality of its own, like he would lose any sleep about 100 000 AFVs he lost in WW2.
What was over engineered about Panzer IIIs, IVs, Stugs etc? Germany already started losing the war when these AFVs were what they mostly had. They didnt lose the war due to over engineered Tigers and Panthers etc. No Tigers and Panthers at Stalingrad and El Alamein. Just saying.
Blind Nationalism and racism leads to poor planning and over confidence. Add a crazy Dictator with delusions of grandeur, who no one could give bad news too, doomed Germany from the start. Almost same story with Japan, maybe even worse.
Seems as though the Canadians led the British army in Italy, France and Germany. The Australians led the British army in the pacific and India troops in Burma. Aussies, India and South Africa in North Africa Guess the British were mainly in the ROYAL navy and RAF.
By this time the Germans had No air force to speak of, WTH didn't they brought the Allied air force to deal with the German tanks n artillery? Why sacrifice so many Canadians?
They did for 2 month. Didn't worked. The area outside of the towns where so muddy that the bombs didn't detonated in many cases. As well as the granades. The villages where destroyed about to 80 an 98%. Monty complained once that the destruction of the towns had cost him more men and time than undestroyed.
@@Yulo2000Leyje Sadly this is war Not right Not moral but its the unfortunate thing that happens in wars, lets hope it never happens again on this scale ever time to make wars Illegal
If I was in charge the entire area would have been depopulated. And I wouldn't have stopped there. What these animals did no mercy should have been given.
I wish producers would drop the 90s History Channel motif. Dial back the dramatic orchestral scores, let the footage play longer before cutting to another snippet. Who are they making this for?
I am a proud Canadian. In BOTH World Wars we stepped up to the mark at the very beginning of each. Plus, our population is about a tenth of that of the United States. As has been remarked in earlier comments, our forces were those that had a reputation to be reckoned with. However, it makes me banana wackies, as a friend of mine would say, when the Americans take credit for winning both world wars. Certainly their contribution was essential and yet, had the rest of the Allies who showed up ON TIME not bothered to there would not have been anything TO win. And … had the Americans showed up at the beginning with the rest of us, one might assume that both wars would have been much shorter with fewer casualties. Sorry for venting but this subject ALWAYS sets me right off!
Those old timers are so freaking calm, and matter-of-fact about the whole thing. Dignified men. They're a breed apart from the loud mouth, aggressive buffoons we see too often today.
Maybe you should think about lowering the volume on the background noise and music because I can't even hear people talk and I have to find another video
Amazing Video of Topical tanks Battel of that times . Shared by Excellent Historical Channel...Through looking at Isolated Map of this Operation (Block Buster) Far From whole allies Armies Mobilizing. (Operation showing Bravery Movement ( as Sacrifices status)to wards Evil Mouth & beyond its Teethes For separating enemy attention
My Dad Trained with the Canadian troops. He Said they were "Gentleman with Balls of Steel.!" He thought they were Great guys..! Cheers All kim in Oz.! 😎
This is another version of a story out a long time, and the audio is even worse; lower voice level and higher battle sound, and its harder to hear. The Armor Piercing were not shells, they were bolts, "solids."
Why did the Canadian commander fail to order air support behind a second rolling artillery barrage, once German panzers made their appearance? Yes, the weather was adverse, but Typhoons have flown in worse weather, and the Shermans were no match for what faced them. As if that were not enough, the final Allied ground attack was at night, when no air or effective artillery support was possible. What was Gen. Simmons thinking? Even worse, to order a tank column into the Hochwald gap was to set up a shooting gallery.for every German gun which could bear-- even Panzerfausts. All the brave Canadian tankers understood immediately what they faced. All this suggests Simmons suffered a poor understanding of the terrain ahead, and did not make the most of his air and artillery assets in support of troops and armor. The high number of Hochwald casualties recalls the British commander in the Battle of the Somme who sent Tommies to march against entrenched German machine guns. Some 20,000 were killed, and his response was to "press on".
@@westpointsnell4167 Canadian commander Simmons could be criticized, but not for boldness, but for appalling tactical incompetence. Patton's "boldness" is not a synonym for tactical brilliance-- such boldness invites needless casualties, recalling Custer and the US Seventh Cavalry. Both praise and criticism have been fired at Patton. Probably, he did not care in the slightest-- Patton was in it for personal glory, and was the egocentric American version of Montgomery.
I will always hold respect for the brave Canadians that fought for our nation. I refuse to allow socialist/communist/globalist factions to destroy what has made Canada strong.
@@alpearson9158 There is an 'edit' function: if you place your cursor on your post, three vertical dots will appear to the right of your post - click on them and you'll get 'Edit' - click on that and you can correct your post.
Truth be known it wasn't actually Zhukov that "opened the gates to Berlin" either, it was another Soviet General that did that, don't expect me to remember his name because I'm not very good with names from that region and his is a long one, but he was Polish born, he drove the Red Army across Eastern Germany faster and further than Zhukov did, but at the last minute the Soviet high command held him back so Moscow could have their Russian born golden boy roll into Berlin and take the credit for the sake of the history books.
The background soundscape (the "dramatic" music, various sound effects, and artillery) is so loud that it threatens to drown out the voices and narration. It certainly makes it difficult to follow.
I was a U.S.tanker for 12 yrs and in my humble opinion the canadien commander in charge of this operation should have been relieved of command for using his armor and infantry as cannon fodder.Poor leadership,to say the least!
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Canada is so awesome. In my country they are heroes cause they liberated us in WW2 and saved us from starvation.
Love from Netherlands
Hi there! My Grandfather fought in the Netherlands after France and Belgium, and then onto Germany. He was a Sapper. He made it home after 4 years, had two great daughters. Cheers from Halifax, Nova Scotia friend! :)
The love goes both ways. We are brothers always.
@@Barnes466 sappers lead the way! Cheers from a fellow sapper!
@@flipoverlife Thanks for that! I am not a sapper, it was my grandfather :) I appreciate all you guys do! Be ell in these times :)
I experienced your generosity and gratitude first hand. I was moved to tears to feel the love for Canadians soldiers and visiting citizens 50 years after the war!
Best allies we had our neighbors to the north. The Canadians gave the Germans a fight and they fought ferociously
Thank you, my dad served with 4th canadian armored division, never talked much about his experience but I mentioned I wanted to sign up and he was adamant that he served enough for the both of us.
Probably true. My stepdad, and father-in-law, didn’t talk about the war.
They lost close friends.
Growing up on a Canadian Air Force base in Northern France in the late 50’s, we kids would find all kinds of interesting stuff. 50 Calibre shells and bullets all over the place. The wing of a plane sticking out of the ground, with a Maltese Cross on it. Other bits of planes. Helmets everywhere. Rotting ammo boxes. A friend and I found a jerry potato masher grenade once. We knew you were supposed to throw it so we tried that. Didn’t work thank God. I was 7 years old ffs.
139,000 Air Crew, including 49,000 pilots (my father was one of them), were trained in Canada during WW2. Canada had the world’s 3rd largest navy by the war’s end. Our army fought with distinction in Italy, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, not to mention in most of the pubs in Britain.
So…yeah, we did our bit. And then some.
And Kiska and Hong Kong. Many forget that we fought in the Pacific and Far East!
We were the allied forces shocktroopers in both wars. I think the reason we don't have equipment of our own is the Americans were scared we'd come and give them free Healthcare smd better education lol. If there was ever another war, pretty sure America wouldn't even charge us for equipment. They'd just arm us and let us work 😎
@@ToddSauve We fought in all theatres of WWII pretty much, from day one.
I love how you added "not to mention in most of the pubs in Brittain." Ahhh no doubt about that I'm sure.
Thank God for the bravery and courage of our Canadian neighbors. Such men will never be forgotten whether it be here on earth or beyond.
Thank you. Your kind words are heartwarming. Let it be known that we who know history have the same upmost respect for the American fighting men. Politics be damned, we have have fought and died side by side.
The Canadians dont get enough credit. For a smaller fighter force, they more than make up for that in their bravery. We are proud to have them as neighbors and allies thru so many wars.
I agree however they were anything but small, they were one of the largest powers involved in WW1 & 2 they had a force of over a million in WW2 bulk of them in the Army and ended up with the 4th largest Air force & 5 th largest navy at the end of the war the were pivotal in the Italian theatre and had their own beach to take in D-Day they opened the door to Rome in time for the original date proposed for D-Day (then the US had to be the ones to roll into Rome)
@@Anderson21G it was the 3rd largest navy in ww2 behind the US and Britain
Preaching a lot of BBC documentaries don't even mention us they just count us as British people I guess
WW2 Canada.
Today Canada is lost as the rest of the west.
It’s always nice to talk up your small timid younger brother. ❤️
The more I learn of Canadian contributions during ww2,the more my respect for them increases exponentially ! Drive on brothers!
Heartfelt gratitude from Texas.
I agree. The Canadians and the Aussies did some great stuff in WW2, not often recognized.
@@pickleballer1729 Don't forget the NZ Kiwi's either plus the S Africans too but they had Senior Officer Problems which let them down a bit.
@@geoffhunter7704 Thanks. I didn't mean to include everyone, just to point out that while Great Britain, Russia, and The U.S. were the primary contributors, the Canadians and Aussies did great things, too. There were many other nations' soldiers who fought with incredible valor and effectiveness. It truly was a WORLD War.
@@pickleballer1729 Certainly Kevin the first world war was against Bonaparte Europe,Sth America Africa and India were involved but WW2 was the most horrific of them all,while we lost nobody in WW1 our family lost 7 souls and 11 wounded in WW2.
There's a book (it's an older book), called 'Slaves of the son of heaven' written by RH Whitecross, an Aussie who was a prisoner of war captured by the Japanese. It's difficult to read for the atrocities they went thru. These stats will give you an idea of the number of men that died while captured. All Aussie enlistments except POWs of Japan was 967,494, total deaths 29,999 = 3.1% death rate. All Aussies captured by the Japanese 22,176 total deaths 7,829 = 35.3% death rate. All those men and let's not forget the women who went to war deserve our eternal gratitude.
My father served in a Sherman tank in WW2. He said the battle for the Schelt Estuary and the Hochwald Forest was some of the worst he experienced in the war.
Well, be happy that he doesnt had to fight at the eastern German front.
All what happened on the western front was like holidays in relationship to Stalingrad and Co. A lot of people on the German West front were grandfathers and children.
The best German divions died in Russia. The Russians won the war for you.
America invaded when Germany was already defeated.
@@philippkoch662 “ Russians won the war for you “ that’s nonsense. Matter of fact as best divisions go the 2nd das reich waffen SS division was sent to western front along with 45 other divisions. You seem to forget it was allied bombing that crippled Germany’s ability to make more war weapons etc . Not to mention the allied were feeding Russia materials and equipment since 1942 without western front Russia would’ve lost .
@@austinmartin5446 Ohja. You send weapons.
While 500.000 Americans died in the whole war (Japan war included) the Russians lost more then 20 million men.
In other words, 40 Russians died when one American died.
America didnt want to open a second front and Stalin was furious about it.
They started the second front when Germany was already blooded out.
No matter that Germany could have taken Russia, with or without American supplies.
I guess then 30 or 40 Million Russians would have died.
Dont let you fool by all the Hollywood movies. War was decided at the eastern front. Most German casualities were at the eastern front.
@@austinmartin5446 To the other points, best divions were in Russia. Along with the armored 6 Tank division dieing in Stalingrad.
The allied bombing achieved not as much as you had hoped for. Most war factories were simply put underground.
Germany is full of tunnels and mines and therefore it was absolutely no problem to produce tanks and planes under ground. Allied troops were astonished when they saw the Germans were able to produce until 1945.
Bombing cities achieved little to nothing except of sometimes force a surrender (Warshaw, Rotterdam).
But it never worked when the enemy had some slight chance of winning (Dresden, London).
I would never speak bad of American soldiers. But the American war strategy was simply let other win the war for you and do as much as you have to do so that the Germans didnt win.
@@philippkoch662 I agree with you Phillip. The war on the Eastern front was 10 times as bloody as the Western front. Russia paid the highest price for victory in that war. I have great respect for the Russian people. I wished that we could work together better and trust each other more.
It is sad that at school we don't learn enough about what we did in WW1 and WW2.
Hear, hear!
🇨🇦Fellow Canadians love our “good” history but we’re always missed, thank you for making this! as a 🇨🇦Canadian I learned lots! 🇨🇦🤘We don’t learn about this in school.
I’m honored for them as our north neighbors. From America!
I live near Xanten as a matter of fact many parts of the surrounding forest are still closed because of old ammunition from that battle hidden in the soil and trees.
So sad, after so many years the war still affects your daily lives in such a way!
That's soldiering of the first class. Greetings from America in honor of the bravery of Canadian soldiers.
A-men Jt! Thanks Canadian brothers!
Thanks mate . From a Digger who appreciates people like you .
Amen. Maple Leaf Up! 👍
Wait a minute, what you mean is greetings from the U.S. in honor of the bravery of Canadian soldiers !
Honour & Respect . Lest we forget .
Canada punched above its weight for this war. By the end of it it had the world's third-largest navy and a 10th of Canada's population was in the military.
All three of my Canadian great grandfather's served in the second world war, the fourth was Scottish. Needless to say, I'm proud of my family history, as should any Canadian.
The background noise often drowns out the narrators.
I know, so I just click on the 'CC' setting to compensate. It`s not always accurate with what`s being said, but sometimes it helps.
yes the voice over mix is horrible...
@@WillieMcphee you'll have to send your complaints to Breakthrough Entertainment, whom this channel licensed the content from 🤷♂️
@@evan5935 no real complaints just could have been easier to listen to and enjoyable production nonetheless
It's really bad in the intro but it's not as bad during the rest of the doc.
Two times you don't mess with Canada: 1. Hockey. 2. War.
The Firefly was Canada’s work horse. Even Tigers got cautious when they saw those in formations, let alone in Canadian lines. Used properly, a Firefly could 1v1 a tiger with a coin flip victory. Worst case they killed each other.
At very long range the Tiger was superior.
@@lyndoncmp5751 That is true, but that's like saying a Mauser K98 is superior to an M1 Garand. Different usage and purpose. Edit* I read that wrong and thought you said "*A* long range Tiger was superior." Yes they had better range overall.
@@LtMadden2 Case in point was the destruction of the Canadian 28th Armoured Regiment at Estrees la Campagne on 9th August 1944 during Operation Totalize. The Canadians lost 44 Shermans including Fireflies, the vast majority of them to the long range (1,000 metres plus) sniping of a small number of Tigers that came out of Quesnay Woods. Not a single Tiger was lost. They remained out of range and picked the Shermans off one by one.
God bless the proud Canadians and all th fallen. Respect.
This is historical, informative and is highly recommended for anyone who wishes to research the 2nd World War, thank you.
May I also suggest that the volume muffles out a lot of what is said and I think the most important thing is to hear the voice of the veterans, loud and clear because they are the Heroes who were there, I bow.
I wonder if the one and only Holy Roller was there. The Holy Roller is a Sherman that landed on D-Day and fought all across Europe. It’s now the he only surviving WW2 veteran in London Canada.
The Holy Roller sits on a plinth in Victoria Park. The old baby was recently restored, and looks great!
Probably if the plaque is correct.
@@gordonshrubb7155
It is. Our historical society and the army confirmed serial numbers with documents.
I am an old Marine age 77 and I have gotten the word from young marines the current Canadian Army is very professional and effective. That's high praise from the guys in the Corps. They said ditto for the English and the Aussies. 👍👍
The audio is out of balance. One track is louder than the other. This happens often on this channel.
Not sure why this is difficult to notice if it is being monitored properly.
Makes the otherwise great content harder to follow.
Cos it posts other peoples content
This is a video from the greatest tank battles battle for the hochwald gap posted by a different channel who if you have seen the series posted on that channel you will realize that they had bad audio almost for every greatest tank battle video. I have already seen all of them so its disappointing when i think there is a new video i could watch but its just timeline posting a video taken from the channel ive already seen with bad audio.
T. Garry Gould of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers was badly wounded there, at the Hochwald Gap, but recovered and lived to the age of 93. He was a tank commander, leading young men (18-19-year-olds) from Normandy to Holland to Germany, fighting the Nazis until they knocked him out at the Gap. (He was only 23 or 24.) He told me a few stories that aren't in any books or videos. My favorite was about his crew meeting some pretty girls in a town in the Netherlands, but they didn't even get to first base because of a German counter-attack. Those guys saw some horrible things and risked their lives day after day. We owe them a lot of respect and gratitude.
The 17 pounder was the gun the US army turned down for their Sherman's, although it was an excellent anti-tank gun. I worked with an old guy who was with the field artillery attached to the Canadian tankers during this time, he told me how their 17 pounders punched through the German armour.
There were fitment issues with that beast of a gun in the small turret that the Brits eventually overcame but was also punishing to the tank crews.
@@duncanidaho2097 also Political powers behind this. The Us already had a production going on of Sherman's with the 76 M1 Gun, 250 had been shipped to the U.K prior before the D-Day landings, and were hastenly rushed to the front lines in December 1944. the M1 also is a Slighty better gun on average.
Plus US doctrine at that time tanks were mainly for infantry support so they didn't need the bigger gun at first.
Its always government beauracracy and the desire to save a few pennies that is always the cause for our troops in having inferior weaponary and equipment. The bigger guns would have saved alot of American and Canadian lives. Shame on the US government by sending our troops to slaughterz
@@WIRobin American tanks at that time were designed and built to fight other tanks. If your a tank, and your supporting the infantry, your likely to run into enemy tanks. The Americans weren’t so stupid as to believe that their tanks wouldn’t need a gun capable of killing enemy tanks.
The us m4 crews, up till late ‘44, preferred the 75mm over the much more powerful 76mm. It’s HE around had a larger explosive payload then the 76mm, and was capable of a superior rate of fire. Considering that the average M4 was fighting infantry , fortified positions, and inferior AFVs (panzer 4s, stugs, half tracks, armored cars), this made sense at the time. It wasn’t till they kept running into panthers and king tigers that they started to complain about the 75mm.
The Sherman wasn’t perfect, but NO tank is perfect. The panther, for example, was less reliable, harder to maintain, and had lower survival rates then the Sherman. There’s a good reason the German transmissions are a running joke in the online ww2 history community. The panther might be more lethal, but if you can only get half your forces to the front, you might as well not have the other half.
This doc is very special to me. I have lived my intire live in this area and I do know that region very well. As a child we still coud see all the trenches and where warned about ammonition, bombs and granades in claases at school. The last evacuation in a city near by was just a few weeks ago 2021. The britisch graveyard for those soldiers are not further than 5 to 6 miles from where I live today. The white forest. Some of the tanks where later brought to a place for restauration and than to Overloon war museum. (- >Wiki) When building my house we found 3 unexploded 925 mm canadian artillry granades. Absolutly normal for my town.
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@@kangmw94 Yes. But my surname is dutch as my fathers ancesters and the dialect of that region. :-)
Absolutely incredible. Brave men on both sides
Here in the USA one's supposed to phone call a utilities number to have them determine that there's no phone, electric, water and gas utilities before doing any excavation (digging).
I'm wondering if there's such a service in Germany and for other European countries to check for buried unexploded ordinances from the World Wars
Side note; Britain's Princess Diana's (RIP) biggest cause was to rid the world of unexploded mines.
@@captainjack8823
I grew up in that same region (born in Aachen, raised in Jülich). We have similar precautions for excavations. And thankfully the RAF documented their missions carefully. But it is impossible to keep track on every small battle. There were just to many... And let's not forget, you will find remains of every war in the 2,000 years in that area if you dig in your garden. The romans (Jülich was a roman fort called castrum iuliacum), the dark ages, the middle ages, the Thirty Year's War, the spanish occupation, the french occupation - you name it.
In 1994 I had the privilege to meeting an US veteran from that war. As a kid I used to play in the ruins of a fortress from Napoleon's wars, in which he was hiding from the german artillery in 1944. A brave man, who volunteered to liberate my home country from the evil.
Thank you Canada,Australia,NZ,South Africa,India and other nations for coming to the aid of the UK in WW1 and 2,the 17 pounder was the supreme Allied Tank killer weapon from 1942 TO 1948 capable of destroying Tigers and Panthers and from 8/1944 with discarding sabot or shoe penetrating 10.5" of armour,it was replaced by the 20 pounder 84mm with a slightly better performance this gun was replaced by the 105mm tank gun which was the worlds best tank killer till replaced by the 120mm L11A1 which still today holds the world record in destroying a battle tank at 2.1 miles.
Lol um the countries listed all part of the commonwealth then and some under direct control Ike India. Lol can't exactly say we came to their aid as it was by will when it was required lol
@@terryarmbruster9719 Canada was given Self Governing Status in 1867,AU and NZ in 1900 and South Africa in 1902,India and Ceylon in 1947 and most African nations in the 1950s and 60's so you are partly correct re WW2.
Canada is all walks. Colonials who earned it. And always will
@@danbray1824 Canadians are not "Colonials" they are a wonderful Patriotic People of great Renown and Resilience let down as the UK by low quality politicians and Mass Immigration!!!!
@@geoffhunter7704 I'm from alberta brother. We're filthy colonials! 🤪
Excellent video- just one small correction: I knew his wife well and Gen. Simonds was an English Canadian and so his given name was pronounced “Guy” - rhymes with “high” or “pie” and his middle name was Granville. While I never met him, he was by all accounts, a pretty ferocious soldier.
What a story to live to tell: Seeing an 88 shell coming at you, sparks flying.
The story starts at about 14:50 mark. I think it is an amazing story. I don't think anything else in the world would scare a person after that.
I didn't see many flying shells. (I do remember a few, but no sparks)
What I remember is the sudden "whish-boom!' of incoming 88's.
(currently 97 yrs old)
@@edgarvalderrama1143 May God give you honour and peace Edgar. 😉👌
@@edgarvalderrama1143 It's because of men like you many of us are able to live the free and comfortable lives we do. Makes me immensely proud of the land I call home! 🍁
If you put all the Canadians action together, u see a most effective, brave and memorable allied group.
I think that old german man is in every episode saying "...they wanted to take a few more to the grave..."
My grandfather died 2 weeks before the end of the war from wounds received in the Hochwald Gap. His name is Cpl. Frederick Woodward, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Before the war, he was a milkman in Toronto.
First time watching this series GTB. Right off got to say these Canadians, heroes all. Their courage is just amazing and damn glad they were on our side. At the same time feel I have to comment on this battle. Though they get my respect no question, but still, watching this portrayal is heart wrenching. I mean maybe it is how they're presenting it, but seems there has to come a point where after taking such a battering with so many losses it would have been entirely reasonable and highly recommended to abandon the field. I mean come on, what about living: Living to fight another day. Like I said maybe it's in the way the producers are telling it, but this is solely reminiscent of Tennyson's, Light Brigade. All the survivors received the VC right!?!
Man I miss the show so much!!! I own both seasons ! Is their a 3rd season anywhere guys???
Love to the Netherlands from 🇨🇦
A can’t help getting emotional about this battle, the colossal loss of lives suffered by the Canadian forces makes me very morose and angry, it seems to me that the Canadian and allied top brass had a case of pushonitis, they were just ordering men into an almost guaranteed death situation, and they didn’t seem to have the ability to change tactics, they knew that the Sherman tanks couldn’t survive an encounter with the Panther, Tiger, King Tiger or 88mm anti tank guns, yes they had the overwhelming numerical men and machines, but if you just keep throwing it at the Germans then that erodes that advantage down to nothing. RIP all those who made the ultimate sacrifice for us, Lest We Forget.
Don't forget about Dieppe.
I won’t, that’s a promise.
Hopefully not to be forgotten by Canadian sons and daughters. My dad was RCAF, survived the war, but his nephew, 20yr old RCAF PO, AE West of Vancouver BC, did not. Canadian freedoms are being given up lightly, that were paid for so dearly by our forefathers. They are gone now, and the cycle begins again.
What is up with the audio with the last few uploads. I cant watch it without feeling underwater.
I agree.
I'm glad to see some Canadian battles and the stories behind them. I understand that America has a bigger presence, but they seem to be the only ones covered most of the time. So thanks for shining a light on our boys here in the north.
I was in the Canadian Reserves. and my Regiment, the Lincoln Welland regiment was involved in this battle, sadly many did not come home
There’s nothing worse than war, except loss of one’s freedom
There’s something wrong with the sound making the battle sounds drown out the voices. While I realize the explosions are fun, it’s more important to hear what the soldiers had to say, especially those of the brave Canadians!
Yeah, I want to watch this but the music and sound effects are just too loud. The stories these guys have to tell are more than enough to hold our attention, we don't need all the MTV window dressing.
At the going dow of the sun we will remember them . RIP
The reality is... that the Germans deserved everything they got, all of it. As a regime they were monsters that we can't even imagine in modern life. Absolute monsters, as a regime, perhaps not the individual soldier.
I remember watching this 20 years ago on the History channel when they actually did shows on history
In some battles the terrain just favors the defender disproportionately.
I don't understand why they didn't try and flank the Germans and go behind them -the Canadian tactics seem odd.
A film as high caliber as Saving Private Ryan needs to be made about these events. Much respect to those involved… ✌️ 💪 🫡
Leo Major
Never happen! Hollywood could never produce a film that didn't feature American exceptionalism in all things.
@@nickdanger3802 His amazing story will remain untold by the American film industry - he was a Canadian.
@@brustar5152 Where was he born?
Dunkirk (Fr. spelling Dunkerque) The production team and scouting locations were chosen before Nolan and Thomas solicited Warner Bros. Pictures to make the film.[17] wiki
How much did it cost to make Bomb Girls?
@@brustar5152 Canadians can tell the story.
Fantastic documentary
Min 2:50 is wrong, there was never a Bridge over the Rhine in Xanten. The only existing bridge over the Rhine in Xanten was build by the allied troops. The brige over the Rhine was in Wesel
Fusiliers Mont-Royal. That’s the infantry unit that participated in that battle. It still exist in the Canadian army Reserve. I was the RSM a couples of year ago.
The Canadians were the best troops in the European theater, especially the armored divisions.
They also often had the greatest level of artillery support, in both wars in fact. That helped greatly. But yes very good troops, as good as any others.
Like so many modern productions, the sound effects (do we really need a pop-up noise for everything?) and ADHD shifting of visuals totally gets in the way of trying to hear a story. Wanted to learn about this battle, but gave up.
Jabo's the bain have read where those rockets equaled 8 inch naval guns. Any way you stretch it those battles tried men and the ones lucky enough to walk away from it in the end made us all better. Salute. 🎖
Yes, the M4 Sherman, tank on tank wasn't in the same class as the Panther and was hopelessly outclassed by the Tiger. But as Stalin was reported to have said about his vast amounts of Soviet war material, when compared to the better quality German material, "Quantity has a quality all of it's own". In battle, numbers count.
A comment attributed to a German tank crewman was " a panther was equal to 5 Sherman's , the problem was that there were always 6 "
How many Leopard tanks did the German Wehrmacht have in these last battles?
Yeah, but don't forget about Allied-Communist tankers burned and maimed in their inferior tanks. Okay, so there's a 6th Sherman, what if it was you sitting in the 5th? I hate this narrative, that it's the numbers that count. Soldiers' lives count, that's why tank has to have decent firepower and protection, and then we can talk about everything else. Of course Stalin said quantity has a quality of its own, like he would lose any sleep about 100 000 AFVs he lost in WW2.
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@@outinthesticks1035 20 to 1 advantage
What an awesome story to hear
Is that German soldier at 5:55 carrying an M-1 cabine?!
Ironic that credit was given to the British and Americans, but yet the efforts and victories of the Canadians seems to have been erased from history.
DAMN! Yall got the sound effects music all the way up!!
The sound is pretty bad. Explosions are too loud compared to narration
I really wanted to watch this but can't hear the dialog and found the music and sound effects too loud.
Nobody can say the Germans didn't have grit. If they didn't over-engineer their equipment so much, it may have been a different war.
What was over engineered about Panzer IIIs, IVs, Stugs etc?
Germany already started losing the war when these AFVs were what they mostly had. They didnt lose the war due to over engineered Tigers and Panthers etc. No Tigers and Panthers at Stalingrad and El Alamein.
Just saying.
False, it was strategy and logistical problems, not over engineering
They did have grit and touched it out
War factory capacity also
Blind Nationalism and racism leads to poor planning and over confidence. Add a crazy Dictator with delusions of grandeur, who no one could give bad news too, doomed Germany from the start. Almost same story with Japan, maybe even worse.
The Panther was also a mechanical maintenance nightmare.
How did I not hear of this battle with 1000 Sherman tanks
Seems as though the Canadians led the British army in Italy, France and Germany. The Australians led the British army in the pacific and India troops in Burma. Aussies, India and South Africa in North Africa Guess the British were mainly in the ROYAL navy and RAF.
New Zealand
22 American divisions, 15 british, 1 polish (half way through) and 2 Canadian, let alone the french, but if you say so.
In france.
I’m sorry, but the music is loud enough to mask the voices. Too bad, it is such a fine documentary.
Mamoa in the thumbnail is epic
By this time the Germans had No air force to speak of, WTH didn't they brought the Allied air force to deal with the German tanks n artillery? Why sacrifice so many Canadians?
Should've just carpet bombed the German countryside. That would take care of the tank problem wouldn't it?
They did for 2 month. Didn't worked. The area outside of the towns where so muddy that the bombs didn't detonated in many cases. As well as the granades. The villages where destroyed about to 80 an 98%. Monty complained once that the destruction of the towns had cost him more men and time than undestroyed.
@@Yulo2000Leyje Sadly this is war Not right Not moral but its the unfortunate thing that happens in wars, lets hope it never happens again on this scale ever time to make wars Illegal
@@Yulo2000Leyje Ah I see so, since there were no large urban areas there to obliterate and Germans to murder they stopped that tactic.
If I was in charge the entire area would have been depopulated.
And I wouldn't have stopped there.
What these animals did no mercy should have been given.
I didn't know Jason Mamoa was a veteran of WW2, wow!
I was wondering if anyone noticed. 😅
Looking for this exact comment
Thank you
I wish producers would drop the 90s History Channel motif. Dial back the dramatic orchestral scores, let the footage play longer before cutting to another snippet. Who are they making this for?
I am a proud Canadian. In BOTH World Wars we stepped up to the mark at the very beginning of each. Plus, our population is about a tenth of that of the United States. As has been remarked in earlier comments, our forces were those that had a reputation to be reckoned with. However, it makes me banana wackies, as a friend of mine would say, when the Americans take credit for winning both world wars. Certainly their contribution was essential and yet, had the rest of the Allies who showed up ON TIME not bothered to there would not have been anything TO win. And … had the Americans showed up at the beginning with the rest of us, one might assume that both wars would have been much shorter with fewer casualties. Sorry for venting but this subject ALWAYS sets me right off!
Logistics, logistics, logistics. That's how a war is won.
Interesting to see the german at 5:56 using an M1 Carbine...
The music is great, the graphics marvelous, but you don't understand a single word of the comments due to the use of them extensively...
Those old timers are so freaking calm, and matter-of-fact about the whole thing. Dignified men.
They're a breed apart from the loud mouth, aggressive buffoons we see too often today.
Maybe you should think about lowering the volume on the background noise and music because I can't even hear people talk and I have to find another video
Amazing Video of Topical tanks Battel of that times . Shared by Excellent Historical Channel...Through looking at Isolated Map of this Operation (Block Buster) Far From whole allies Armies Mobilizing. (Operation showing Bravery Movement ( as Sacrifices status)to wards Evil Mouth & beyond its Teethes For separating enemy attention
What is the music for apart from driving watchers away
never can figure out why the background soundtrack has to be so over-bearing
Veey interesting as always, thanks
Very nice
Interesting video. The music and sound effects are way out front in mix, drowns the narration track. Maybe it's a degrading upload issue.
The audio production on this video is horrible. You can barely hear the narrator over background sound effects.
My Dad Trained with the Canadian troops. He Said they were "Gentleman with Balls of Steel.!" He thought they were Great guys..!
Cheers All kim in Oz.! 😎
Jason Momoa really is in everything.
Waiting to see if I needed to say it 🤣 cheers dude.
Almost half an hour of good material crammed into forty-five minutes.
That was Jason Mamoa
This is another version of a story out a long time, and the audio is even worse; lower voice level and higher battle sound, and its harder to hear. The Armor Piercing were not shells, they were bolts, "solids."
Thank - you . ( 2022 / May / 22 )
Im there everyweek with my metal detector, we are finding some serious things.
Why did the Canadian commander fail to order air support behind a second rolling artillery barrage, once German panzers made their appearance? Yes, the weather was adverse, but Typhoons have flown in worse weather, and the Shermans were no match for what faced them.
As if that were not enough, the final Allied ground attack was at night, when no air or effective artillery support was possible. What was Gen. Simmons thinking?
Even worse, to order a tank column into the Hochwald gap was to set up a shooting gallery.for every German gun which could bear-- even Panzerfausts. All the brave Canadian tankers understood immediately what they faced.
All this suggests Simmons suffered a poor understanding of the terrain ahead, and did not make the most of his air and artillery assets in support of troops and armor.
The high number of Hochwald casualties recalls the British commander in the Battle of the Somme who sent Tommies to march against entrenched German machine guns. Some 20,000 were killed, and his response was to "press on".
And everyone criticizes Patton for his bold moves
@@westpointsnell4167 Canadian commander Simmons could be criticized, but not for boldness, but for appalling tactical incompetence.
Patton's "boldness" is not a synonym for tactical brilliance-- such boldness invites needless casualties, recalling Custer and the US Seventh Cavalry. Both praise and criticism have been fired at Patton. Probably, he did not care in the slightest-- Patton was in it for personal glory, and was the egocentric American version of Montgomery.
I gotta say it.. its driving me up the wall ...
That guy in the thumbnail... Jason Momoa? lmao
Logistics,production capacity, telling factors.
I will always hold respect for the brave Canadians that fought for our nation. I refuse to allow socialist/communist/globalist factions to destroy what has made Canada strong.
That's funny - because I refuse to allow a handful of trucknutz and a Reich-whinge lunatic fringe to destroy what has made Canada strong.
then you better understand that your hero conservatives have been involved unless tragged in screaming in any war
never been
unless dragged
@@alpearson9158 There is an 'edit' function: if you place your cursor on your post, three vertical dots will appear to the right of your post - click on them and you'll get 'Edit' - click on that and you can correct your post.
The history of this battle is portrayed well enough, the music and drama stuff not so much!
Anyone else thinking Jason Momoa is some kind of time traveler with the thumb nail solider ?
The under rated Canadians and Aussies
"It was Canadians and British that opened the gates to Berlin".
Marshal Zhukov: Hold my vodka!
Most places have more than one gate! 😉
Truth be known it wasn't actually Zhukov that "opened the gates to Berlin" either, it was another Soviet General that did that, don't expect me to remember his name because I'm not very good with names from that region and his is a long one, but he was Polish born, he drove the Red Army across Eastern Germany faster and further than Zhukov did, but at the last minute the Soviet high command held him back so Moscow could have their Russian born golden boy roll into Berlin and take the credit for the sake of the history books.
@@dukecraig2402 - Ivan Konev. Not that long, lol.
The yak's did the same thing to the Brit's and Canuck's with Paris.
@@danosverige
Who's "lol" now huh?
@@dukecraig2402 nope, it wasn’t Rokossovsky. It was another Russian - marshal Konev’s forces entered Berlin first.
I didn't realize Jason Mamoa was in the Wehrmacht.
Music is great you can almost hear them speaking.
Real heroes that fought barbarians with superior weapons
The background soundscape (the "dramatic" music, various sound effects, and artillery) is so loud that it threatens to drown out the voices and narration. It certainly makes it difficult to follow.
I was a U.S.tanker for 12 yrs and in my humble opinion the canadien commander in charge of this operation should have been relieved of command for using his armor and infantry as cannon fodder.Poor leadership,to say the least!