Week 293 - The Battle of Okinawa Begins - WW2 - April 6, 1945
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- It's the next step toward invading Japan's Home Islands- invading Okinawa, and it begins April 1st. Advances are easy by land, but at sea the kamikaze menace is in full swing. In Burma, plans are made to liberate Rangoon; in the west hundreds of thousands of Germans are surrounded in the Ruhr; and in the east, the Soviets begin assaults on Königsberg and Vienna.
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This week's episode is dedicated by TimeGhost Brigadier Member, Charles Mitchell, not only to his father, Tom, but also to all the South African men who shared a similar experience during the war. We thank Charles for sharing this with us and for being such a dedicated member of the TimeGhost Army.
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You are reporting week by week, from historical records , which is written with a certain level of detail matched to the length of video. How was the reporting of the war to the war leaders carried out and with what time delay I wonder.
Much reporting during the war was incomplete , false , or unintelligible by people , who must have found it difficult to grasp any event as presented.
After the War the general public had to play catch up with the details of conflict and their role in it before it became history. Thank you for presenting such huge slices of history that touched our lives yesterday and informs our lives today. Many Sons And Daughters may better understand their parents generation who won through their war to start family life.
@@bjorntorlarssonEh? Anything inherently wrong with covering the politics of the final months of the war? By all metrics, the Allies haven't exactly been depicted as clean, can't-do-no-wrong people either. Their feuds with the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai Shek, the negotiations of Allan Dules in Italy and the frank pettiness of Churchill in Greece have all been covered pretty well in this channel
Google seems not to have heard of Tom's War, at least searching for ""tom's war" "tom mitchell"" returned no relevant results.
Could you please link us to Charles book please
Google seems not to have heard of Tom's War, at least searching for ""tom's war" "tom mitchell"" returned no relevant results.
Smiling Albert Kesselring will turn this around.
Edit: The Allies are fighting with the unfair advantage of having food, ammunition, and fuel.
And sane leadership, for the most part.
Quite unsporting in my opinion
As per tradition, he isn’t “Smiling Albert.” You gotta say the full “Smiling Albert Kesselring” or just “Kesselring.”
That's not cricket
Its war. All things are fair! (well most things).
Japan: keeping the same prime minister without shenanigans challenge, 99.999% impossible
They're the only major player that kept changing its leader.
Thanks to Charles - my dad is a SA 6th Division veteran, drove a tank in the SSB in italy and was one of the first tanks to enter Florence - he is currently 99 years old living with me in Canada.
My grandfather served on the Indianapolis. He ran the breech of an 8” gun. Okinawa was his last action aboard her. She returned to San Francisco for refit and he got off. Then she carried the gadget to end the war and later be sunk.
No one ever talks about her damage taken in Okinawa. Thank you.
The USS Indianapolis is a tragic tale of what a real Shark Army can do in combat.
I'm glad your grandfather was not subjected to that horror.
The fate of the Indianapolis, was recounted in the film "Jaws."
It was the reason the character Quinn, hated sharks.
2:30 Damage to Indianapolis mentioned by Indy!
@@paulbeesley8283 I didn't realise that... or had I forgotten? Its certainly elevated the movie in my estimation.
05:00 First Cat Army deploys to Australia
antarctic defense force
🤣🤣🤣
And very stealthily! As expected of a Cat Army.
Also, this has been released a little more than half hour ago. How is it you posted your comment 17h ago?
@@ramonribascasasayas7877 Patreon's supporters can watch the videos few days before the others
@@ramonribascasasayas7877 He's trying to distract my attention from the mis-positioned Great Lakes. It worked.
Oh that's quite cute
Since your next series is about Korean War, I think it would be interesting to have a special episode about the situations on the Korean peninsula and the Koreans during the Second World War. How the powers that will be and powers that will play have spent the days of WW2, such as Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee
A great suggestion. There is a lot of significant information which led up to this forgotten war.
I'm assuming we get the preliminary episodes just like with between two wars, detailing the division of korea, establishment and consolitation of both Syngman Rhee's and Kim Il Sung's regimes.
Personally, I am wondering however, will the series have the same level of accuracy as this one, considering that North Korean archives still remain closed, while the Russian ones at least were open long enough for the western historians to take a look.
I’d be very surprised if that’s not a prelude episode.
@@blackore64To be fair, aren't Japanese archives largely closed to this day as well?
Koreans were used as labourers, sometimes on Pacific islands. They were often killed by the Americans, and sometimes by the Japanese. If they could surrender, they did. Koreans were also used to guard POWs - a despised occupation for Japanese troops. Themselves mistreated by the Japanese, they were often brutal to POWs. As Japan's military situation declined, there was an increasing tendency to use Koreans as combat troops, and a handful of Kamikaze pilots were Koreans.
5:00 Okay, I DEMAND to know that cat's name and how much mischief they cause around the timeghost offices!
She is Mindy Idle, the cat. (I'm a good guesser)
Smiling Albert?
Looks more like a Panther to me.
@@SuperRootUser Ah, but since the Timeghost studios are in Germany, that would make it a Panzer, nicht wahr?
José Paulus
Kangaroo Suzuki might be a good nickname, but Suzuki Kangaroo sounds like a sport bike.
Hirohito asks a normal question out of genuine curiosity (possibly).
The IJN: "*GASP* we have failed the Emperor, everyone disembowel your selves"
To be fair, Hirohito was right here
The army was sending troops to literalyl die fighting to the last for each island in the pacific while, from his point of view, the navy had not done anything since the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October (well apart from that naval detachmeant suicide battle in Manila).
The navy had pretty much lied to japanease high command about their actual loses for years and now, at the last battle before the japanease main islands, already on japanease soil, the navy would not contribute anything to defend the homeland?
And as cynical as it sounds using Yamato as bait to draw of US planes so a massive kamikazeattack run has better chances is propably the best use of the ship the japanease have left. There is no way for them to protect the ships against US naval bombers once these could be launched from Okinawa and freely bombevery port in southern japan anyway. There were already submarines everywhere around and between the japanease islands as the japanease would know do to shinanos fate late 1944.
If your going to lose the ship anyway sooner or later to bombers, might as well use it now.
*lie about the state of your navy, maybe he won't find out all you have left is your ship that's too big to lose, a cruiser and a fishing trawler.*
Hirohito: "Hey don't we have a navy.
"Okay lads let's fucking sink all of it."
The IJN did a little trolling
He wasn't asking a question out of curiosity. The emperor, like most regents in history, was trained to say what he was thinking indirectly. When he asked "What was the Navy doing?" it was a stinging chide for them to do more to defend the island, rather than just leave the army garrison completely without support.
What a cringeworthy comment.
You must be easily cringed...
Indie, you need to sit stroking the cat in your lap one episode, doing your best Bloefeld or Vito Corleone impression!
Dr. Evil would be a funny one.
Also today, April 6th 1945, Sarajevo is liberated.
Quite poetic considering its basically where it all started
@NicolasHaufe Faith had it that also in 1992 on April 6th the war in Sarajevo broke out.
Also, since 1945 April 6th is celebrated as the Day of Sarajevo and they also give out awards to people who had a big impact on its history
@@rankoorovic7904 well ww2 doesnt happen without ww1
@@rankoorovic7904some historians count everything from ww1 up until the fall of the Soviet Union the same interlinked event
@@rankoorovic7904You’re not wrong about all of history being interlinked. As they say, history doesn’t happen in a vacuum
My grandfather fought in the 42nd rainbow division. One of his favorite stories to tell was about the battle of Wurzburg going on this week during WW2. He died March 11, 2021, age 97.
This was the 'big one' for my grandfather. He spent a significant amount of time on the radar picket line, and his ship was attacked multiple times. His was one of a couple dozen destroyer type ships (DD, APD, DMS, DE) That emerged unscathed.
My fathers ship HMS Indefatigable was the first British carrier kamikaze'd on April first. Casualties were 21 killed and 27 wounded but they managed to clear the flight deck and resume flying with 35 minutes.
small story: my hometown of Bielefeld was liberated on April 4th by US troops. The city was taken without much resistance, thanks in part to the efforts of local priest Karl Pawlowski, who rode along the German lines on his bike, waving his talar and his cross and shouting at the soldiers to stop fighting and go home.
The mayor of Brackwede (a small town that's since been integrated into Bielefeld), Karl Bitter, tried to stop resistance and remove a tank trap but was arrested and executed for treason without a trial by SA thugs just a day before US forces took the city. They liberated not just the city but thousands of forced labourers
allegedly*. the town of Bielefeld doesn't exist.
False. your hometown wasn't liberated by US troops because it doesn't exist
After the events of 1941, Model must be thinking "this isn't as much fun when it happens to us." Thank you for another great episode, TGA! It was fun to see Indy with a guest star (5:00).
Bagration, Falaise, Romania, Hungary...
Yeah, it's been happening a lot to them lately.
I love the special dedications you are now allowing. It makes things more personal. I especially include the piece you read out.
It's great to hear that you're enjoying the special dedications! We've actually been doing them for a while but many seemed to have ended up around this period. Thanks for watching.
My grand uncle was fleet and was there. He had no kind words for them. What a kind thing the son did for his dad. I wish I had it. I’m fortunate to have heard the stories first hand from many vets long gone now. I owed them and I took my turn in the ‘modern’ era. OIF/OEF Haiti. RIP to my comrades in arms wherever they may be.
RIP future space battleship Yamato
05:00 I see I'm not the only one who has to worry about Cat attacks! XD
As a South African, that last message was very touching.
We are very happy to have been able to work with Charles on this one, thanks for watching.
If you want a different perspective on the battle of Okinawa, I highly recommend 'The Girl with the White Flag' by Tomiko Higa. She was 7-years old during the battle, literally caught in the crossfire, and survived by luck & her wits. I got to meet her in 1995 when I was stationed on Okinawa.
Thank you for the rec.
For those wondering why British carriers were better at taking kamikaze hit than American carriers, is because British carriers were designed to mostly operate in and around the north and Mediterranean seas where you are never going to bring more planes than any of the land based aircraft in range, so the question isn’t if you get hit but when. This did mean British carriers could bring fewer planes than their American counterparts due to tonnage restrictions imposed by the naval treaties.
But you have just to take a look at the pounding HMS Illustrious during operation Excess as compared to the Japanese carriers at Midway a half year later and see how she survived.
It didn't help that those escort carriers were built out of paper mache and breadsticks. They were designed to be 'disposable' for lack of a better term, built and put to sea quickly in order to fill an immediate need.
The USS Midway launched only a few weeks ago would be the first American carrier with an armored flightdeck
@@Raskolnikov70 jup, that´s why the crew often refered to them as Kaiserscoffins, as they were build in the Kaiser shipyards.
@@stranger299a Funny you should say that because the original USS Midway was the first major warship to sink due to kamikaze, she was renamed USS St. Lo a few weeks prior to free up the name that carrier.
@@Raskolnikov70 Escort carriers had the Naval designation of CVE, which the crews said stood for Combustable, Vulnerable and Expendable.
Time Cat Army!
From a comercial point of view, cat contend rules supreme.
Time to watch Hacksaw Ridge, a great movie which proves you can't pack all of Doss's heroism into a single film.
I've only managed to see clips. It's over the top with grit, mud, blood and realism. I hope to watch its entirety at some point, but I'd be inclined to a mild pre-dose of xanax or the like. It's realistic to a point and then even in the worse scenes you realize it was (in reality) far worse than can be depicted I suspect.
Doss was a great man. He's with the Lord now where he belonged all along.
Yes, and likely the only person from any country who won a medal for valor and never used a weapon.
Operation Dracula eh? I guess those Austro-Hungarians in that forest must have been so frustrated to find that Dracula is still around 30 years later so far from the Carpathians, and that Conrad Von Hoetzendorf is still commanding them. As for the Admiral in the Ruhr, well, I mean, Horthy was an admiral without a fleet and regent of a kingdom without a king, so I guess someone had to appease the Hungarians in Germany.
Dad was a 1st Class Petty Officer and the Coxswain of a USN LCT-6 amphibious landing craft at Okinawa. Thank you for covering this invasion.
My Dad was on LCVPs there as well!
And while the Americans are occupied with Okinawa and the British with Burma, the cat attacks Australia 🥰
Finally the liberation of Vienna begins. Those were certainly no easy times for my ancestors, when the war reached the city. But in the end Vienna was lucky, that it was not totally destroyed and we can still enjoy today the splendor of the former imperial capital.
"liberation"
Austrians once again believing their own post war bullshit story...first victim my ass.
Austrians were so "anti nazi" and "victims" that they were massively over represented in the SS compared to their share of the population in the german armed forces.
Slightly over three decades before, Stalin had checked into a "pension" or small hotel in Vienna under a fake identity as a Greek named Papadopoulos, and began work on the pamphlet "Marxism And The National Question". He seems to have hardly gone out, which makes it unlikely he encountered either Hitler or Tito, though apparently both were in Vienna at the same time he was. Stalin finished the pamphlet and returned to Russia, where he was arrested, almost certainly fingered by the informer in the Bolshevik ranks Roman Malinovsky. Stalin was sent into exile in Siberia, where he spent WW1 until the Tsar's abdication.
Hope the Aussies have no hard felines about that.
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O5 = OE = Ö = Österreich = Austria. That is why the resistance group had that name.
Thank you !
The historians who think the Emperor didn't order the Navy to do something are blessed by never having had a passive-aggressive person in their lives. That wasn't just an innocent question, he humilated them with this order.
He asked a bunch of questions during that meeting.
Passive-aggressive and supposedly also divine. Quite a combination...
It wasn't "passive aggressive" so much as it was the way the emperor, like every emperor before him, had been trained to speak. They did not just casually and directly tell subordinates what do to, they made deliberate, indirect remarks that made clear their wishes. In this case, to do more to assist the Army in defending Okinawa.
It's actually a very passive-aggressive culture, by Western standards. Japanese phrasing tends not to state anything directly.
@@jamesgillen2339 The war's course is not necessarily to Japan's advantage, or something like that. Makes British understatement seem direct and abrupt...
5:15 U~~CHUU~~ SEN~~KAN~~ YA~~MA~~TO~~! * Epic music begins to play *
There was a huge blunder here sending it out before the wave motion gun was installed!
Beware Indy! At 5:10 there is a kitty shaped appearance in the lower right amongst the flags!
Dang! I really thought I would be the first to notice the cat! 🐈⬛🙀
This episode is one I've been waiting for, my Grandmother lived in Okinawa during the war. When I was young, she told me of the sky lighting up and the earth around her shaking violently. When I was 9, I went with her to Okinawa and one of the places we visited is one of the small caves she and her family stayed in during the battle. Not far away was the location where her father was shot and killed as he tried to bring food back to the cave. She passed away 2 years ago and I am sad to say that she never told me stories of the war ever again after that visit, the rest had to be pieced together by talking with the rest of the family. Thank you to the entire team for bringing so much knowledge about this time to all of us.
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In the timeline of Call of Duty World At War, USMC Sgt Roebuck, Private Polansky and Private Miller, veterans of Peleliu, will soon be in the thick of the action on Okinawa. On the Eastern Front, Sgt Victor Reznov and Private Dimitri Petrenko, veterans of Stalingrad, will soon be reunited as they push on Berlin.
I hate it when gamers bring games into history.
Well like it or not, games are what got many of us into history to begin with. I don't pretend to know everything about it because I play games, but its no different to how people got into it by reading Commando comics or watching classic war films like the Great Escape. @@mitchellsmith4690
My father was wounded 3 times at Iwo Jima. He was in Guam recovering. He was told that even with 3 bullet wounds he would be involved in the invasion of Japan. He was not happy about that. That was the plan until the bombs dropped.
What bombs? 🤫
@@grlt23 The atomic bombs?
Well it was the plan until the Red Army joined the party.
@@davidwright7193 Knowing that myself. The thinking at the time and still today. The common thinking at the time was the dropping of the Atomic Bombs was the end. Even though the Gov. Japan was numb to the destruction of their cities. They were terrified of the Russians.
@@bitemenow609: Gee, you think BOTH of these factors may have contributed? People that were actually there and were involved do.
One of my uncles was a Navy Sea Bee on Okinawa. He told me a few stories about it. Just horrible.
video managed to gloss over the tens of thousands of civilians(of all ages) floating in & around the beaches who had drowned themselves prior to the landings
my grandfather was in the 24th thrown in with the Americans and had to bury stacks of children and old women
some soldiers have it easy; only being hit by bullets
That guy Stalin...y'know, I'm beginning to get a feeling that he's not all that trustworthy and maybe a little bit paranoid...
Oh no, what might have given you that idea? 😉
Given that Soviet espionage was rather good and sometimes pervasive in WW2, I wonder if details of Allied-German negotiations in Italy were being leaked to Stalin by someone among the Allied negotiators?
@@stevekaczynski3793 The Soviets had utterly penetrated British intelligence and even the US to a degree. Stalin probably knew what Churchill would have for lunch before Churchill did. Just look up the Cambridge Five.
Stalin was a lovely family man, he just had bad press😂
Your comment has displeased the Party, local bill collectors will be visting you shortly sir.
Just a matter of time before Steiner's counter attack.
And boy do I hope Indy starts things with a phone call receiving updates on the counter attack when it comes.
When I was in high school; lo, these many years ago, I worked for a guy who was a veteran of Okinawa. I still have the Japanese rifle that he brought back from there.
Does it still have the chrysanthemum symbol on the metalwork?
SPOILER
At the surrender, most such rifles had this symbol of the Emperor erased before being handed over. Rifles that still have it are rarer and more valuable.
Back in 1993, I was asked if I could drive a veteran for his checkup at the VA. It would be just a one-time thing. I said fine no problem. Westly Fulks was also a past master of Bayview Lodge # 120 A.F. & A.M. in Niantic, CT; I was the Senior Decon at the time; well, it ended up being an ongoing thing till he died in 1998. WB. Westly was a veteran of the Battle of Okinawa, and the only reason I know that is that some of the others in the waiting room asked him where he had been; he just said Okinawa, and that was all. Later on the drive home, well after 5 pm, you get to wail a few hours at the VA. His 1 pm appointments never happen on time, always around 4 to 4:30. So we get a cup of coffee, and on the way, Wes never says much, " It will not be long now," with a smile. This was in November and in January of 1996 I was to be installed as Master of Bayview Lodge. Wes never said much about Okinawa, he didn't have to, he was still having problems with that part of his life right up till he died. One time, something became one of my most treasured memories, spending time with Wes, that I otherwise would not have. World War II will soon only exist in books and in documentaries. Bayview was a seaman's lodge; many members were Submariners, fishermen, and merchant seamen.
Along with guys from the Army and Airforce, some truckers, and even a professional pilot, myself. Bayview has since, like a lot of the lodges in recent years, gone dark. The only thing I ever wore on a suit coat was a little blue "Forgetmenot," it's a little flower that is tied to less than pleasant things.
Aleksandr Vsailesky sure has a lot of chest candy. Probably got a medal just for showing up at breakfast.
Zhukov had more medals.
They didn't get to eat breakfast all that often, so they got medals instead.
In the red army as an officer, under Stalin during the 1930s, making it through to breakfast was probably an achievement worthy of a medal
The Soviets really loved their chest candy. They may have been godless communists, but they understood that military pomp and regalia was better for Red Army morale then international worker solidarity.
He is wearing a Red Army dress uniform tunic in "sea green". It was the same colour as a dress uniform in the Tsarist army called "Tsar's green" but for political reasons the colour's name was changed. Postwar, a double-breasted service uniform tunic was adopted in khaki that made it easier to wear large numbers of medals. In 1984 I actually saw Soviet WW2 veterans wearing it with their medals, although others did the same while wearing civilian suit jackets. Some were rather shabbily dressed, but their medals were well-polished and gleamed in the sunlight.
And so comes our family's closest connection to the war. My grandfather, a member of the Seabees, arrived on Okinawa after the invasion. We have his chest within which we have dozens of photos he took while on the island. An amazing piece of history.
That's not to ignore the experiences of my grandmother, who fled the Parisian suburbs in 1940. Return in 1944 but left for the United States a few years later.
The action at around 05:00 at the continent of Australia is paw-some ...
Good video ... as usual!
With the start of the Battle of Okinawa, this week may be a good time to watch the 2016 film *Hacksaw Ridge* , which tells of the experiences of US Army combat medic Desmond Doss during his time there in the battle unarmed due to his status as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian.
This may also be a good time to watch Part Nine, “Okinawa”, of the 2010 HBO miniseries *The Pacific* , with Eugene Sledge and Shelton being rather cynical towards the Japanese by this stage of the Pacific War during the Battle of Okinawa. The use of human shields by the Japanese is also shown in this episode.
It may also be worth watching the 2005 Japanese film *Yamato* , depicting the lives of the crew of the battleship Yamato as it eventually goes to its demise during Operation Ten-Go on April 7 1945.
A British officer in Burma stated that the bravest men he had ever seen were US conscientious objectors serving as medics.
@@grahvis There were British conscientious objectors who served in North Africa. They worked with the Friends Ambulance Service, and by all accounts acquitted themselves extremely well.
My dad, Patrick Henry McLaughlin was with the Rhodesian Armed Cars which worked with Pappa Britts and the SA Division in El Alamien. Like Tom's dad, my dad was also wounded in Italy. His tank was hit at Monte Cassino. He returned to Rhodesia where he met and married my mom. A picture of him sitting atop his Sherman is shown in the book "The Desert Rats."
As everyone knows, the Soviet Union sent forces to Okinawa to assist, namely Nikolai Bazarin's Fifth Shark Army. Very useful indeed to have surrounding Japan.
Unfortunately, I do not know much other than this, but my great grandfather on my mother's side died around this time on the eastern front. Apparently they never found out where and he never had a funeral, I never knew my great grandmother but even if I did I'm not certain I'd have the courage to ask about that time in germany.
The ghost of the Iron Curtain seems to materialise more and more every week.
Stalin was always very suspicious, he trusted no one, hence all the purges. He didn't believe it when given the date of the original German invasion.
4:59 !!!!!!!! KITTY !!!!!!!!
My grandfather in law served on the destroyer USS Putnam and was at both Iwo Jima and Okinawa. the destroyer herself has a storied history and he brought back some very interesting history-currency and weapons.
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication. The Time Ghost team are modern heroes for these videos.
The quote from “Tom’s War” was a touching conclusion.
I love the fact that your cat roams freely during filming. Adorable.
I always watch this videos after I finish my work. As a teacher I teach teenagers Russian language , and, after I'm done, I go to the Russian McDonalds, buy coffee and watch about ww2.
I would say this is a much better and full version of events compared to what your students can find in a history books. After watching this series from the start I wish this type of coverage is compulsory for all students, including war against humanity.
@@andreyverbin I have been watching it since July 44, I can't force myself to watch 41 or 42, it's the worst time for my nation ever. Not only because of Nazis, but because our own authorities eather.
@@AlexJukkI mean, you would still miss put on a lot of interesting details of the military campaigns in the Balkans, East Africa, the Pacific and China
@@extrahistory8956 I know it, but I really suffer while watching 41-43 years. It's horrible
Privet from Rostov-on-Don))
13:50 12th army walther wenck moving trough the harz mountains, only to be send to help steiner in berlin..
It was a paper army anyway. Barely above Steiner's ghost army group.
Was just watching your " blitzkrieg in the West" May 18th, 1940. At the beginning, Indy says it is a double length special episode. This is 7 minutes longer than that and almost 20 minutes longer than the first episode. We are near the end and have a 27 minute video. The end of this war is brutal. Why would the generals allow this. Fear probably but
They die twice when we forget their names.
I'm surprised you didn't report on the Kaiju attack on Australia and New Zealand!
27:08 - South African troops often wore a sort of squat version of a pith helmet in the summer months. It was their most distinctive item of uniform - generally speaking their uniforms resembled those of the British Army.
World War Two channel staff is researching for relatives of the cat. So far, they have found 1762 descendants, but no luck on the cats name so far.
Some reports claim that cat has two watches on his paw
The cat in Red Dwarf started like this
For the liberation of Hungary the Romanian Army used over 200 000 soldiers, and lost over 43 000.
The second time in the 20th century. In 1919 Romanian troops had entered Hungary to help remove the Hungarian Soviet Republic, this time they are in fact helping to establish the Mark II version. Eljen, eljen Rakosi elvtars ("Long live, long live Comrade Rakosi")...
As an amateur history buff, these history recounts are great!
It's hard to believe that after all these years, all these battles, and all these casualties that the war is just now getting to the battle that my then 19, an anti-aircraft gunner, was wounded by a kamikaze.
This program just keeps getting more and more solid. Great presentation, as always.
Kangaroo Suzuki, Jose Paulus and "smiling" Albert Kesselring. The set is complete.
In continuation of the theme, Jose Paulus and Kangaroo Suzuki. Is Montgomery's nickname Monty Python an invention of famous British comedians in the late 60s or was it called that before?
By the way, Operation Iceberg is the first major engagement of The 6th Marine Division (The only marine division that were set up and later disbanded without setting foot in America)
At the mention of the USS Indianapolis, I was reminded of the book I read on it, called Left for Dead by Pete Nelson. It's a tragic but compelling story and I wonder if there'll be some content here about it. Could be the topic of a special episode.
Then Indy can talk about what a shark army actually does.....
Im sorry as soon as the cat showed up I couldn’t pay attention to anything he was saying😂
I never even noticed the cat until I read all the comments and went back to see for myself...
People, something about that tells me you're not focusing on Indie... 😂😂😂
Who doesn't get distracted when a cat walks through the frame of a video? You see it on reality TV cop shows all the time, and the camera operator always swings towards and zooms in on the cat. It's an involuntary reflex!
The wife of Baldur von Schirach, Henriette von Schirach, was an interesting character as she was one of the few (I don't know any other) known to have confronted Hitler about his treatment of the Jews.
One of her grandchild is Ferdinand von Schirach who is an interesting writer of true crime stories in German.
The initials of the German Girls' League (BDM) supposedly stood for "Baldur, drück mich" ("Baldur, squeeze me"), according to a wartime joke.
SPOILER
At Nuremberg, the psychologist Gustave Gilbert told an American judge, Francis Biddle, that three of the defendants, Schirach, Funk and Fritzsche, were homosexuals. Gilbert was Jewish and his assessment may have been based on little more than animosity.
5:05 CAT!
Jose and the Kangaroo...I'm thinking a quirky, private detective period piece set in early 1960's San Francisco. Two WWII vets that just don't get these modern kids and their rock 'n' roll music...
Finally i managed to catch up after binge watching for so long
Welcome to April! Thanks for watching.
The Yamato mission wouldn't be too out of place in World War I.
Sopron (Hungary) is 75 km from the centre of Vienna on modern roads. Considering simulatenously there was a push for Pressburg, the writing on the wall was clear for anyone in Vienna this week 79 years ago
My grandfather served on the USS Casa Grande (a LSD) at the Okinawa landings
I can't believe Indy didn't turn Stalin's plans into an "April Fools" phone gag.
I hope he hasn't ditched the phone gags altogether.
5:00 Hi kitty cat.
Highlight of the week: Cat joining the operation room
I think (and would like confirmation) that this last IJN foray used crude oil (unrefined) rather than refined bunker grade oil. Refined naval fuels were just not available anymore on the home islands. Raw crude will burn but severely damages burners. Indeed a one-way trip.
My uncle served as gun crew on HMS Howe, one of the two BPF (British Pacific Fleet) battleships (HMS King George V being the other) involved in the shore bombardment of Okinawa. I'd be so grateful if you can mention the part that the BPF played as part of Task Force 57, and even more so if you can mention HMS Howe's role in your next episode.
Thanks
Thank you for sharing. I don't know if HMS Howe will be mentioned, I guess we have to wait and see. Greetings.
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And Kassel has been liberated. Home to the henschel factories
That was a very touching last segment Indy, Thank you
Really interesting episode as always, always enjoy hearing about the resistance movements and would love to see more about the Austrian
Who is the cat @5:00? And why is this the first we've seen?
Best episode. Features cat.
Guys I think the western front is falling apart
Amazing storytelling as always Sir!
This week in French news.
The 31th, the Alps Group Detachment is authorized by the American to push until 20km after the Italian frontier but must keep contact with the enemy to keep them distracted from the offensive in the rest of Italy. The same day, after one week of fighting to take it, the Black Rock (North of the Alps, leading to the Aosta Valley) is taken but the main objective, the Petit-Saint-Bernard pass is still in German hands.
At the beginning of the month, Jean Sainteny, Resistance member since 1940, is sent to Kunming in China to take the direction of a “study and research department”. It is in reality to reorganize the hundreds of french troops in Kunming to return to Indochina.
The 4th of April, Operation Independance, to retake the Royan pocket, is renamed operation Vénérable and is set for next Sunday.
The same day, in the Alps, Operation Izard is launched. Objectives are to take the pass of Mont-Cenis and Mont-Froid, and to launch the 9th, the big offensive in all the front. However, having better position, the German knows the attack is coming. After taking Mont-Froid, a german Gebirge unit retake it. The American decides to stop any operative supply after this failure.
The 5th, Pierre Mendès France, Minister of Finances, officially resigns, in complete disagreament in the economical and financial politic of the government. Minister of the Economy Pleven absorbs his minister.
The same day, Pétain writes to Hitler in order to demand to be released to appear at his trial in France to save his honor by telling he did not flee but was made prisoner.
Thank you Tom!
My uncle told a story of two navy planes closely chasing a kamikaze over the fleet. All three were shot down. Desperate times.
I landed at Okinawa on the afternoon of April 6th, 1984. It happened to be my birthday. We took off from Okinawa and flew into the night to Alaska and landed on the morning of April 6th. Then we switched planes and landed in Oakland California on the afternoon of April 6th!
What a day! -TimeGhost Ambassador
When I was stationed at Kadena AB, Okinawa, we did a battle site tour. I couldn't imagine having to fight on that terrain.
The Yamato was the largest battleship in the world. A testament to WWI thinking. It was sent on what everyone in Japan knew was a suicide mission. There were several other ways it could have been used if far more effectiveness.
thanks indy and crew i love you all
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
The Secret Cat Weapon was sprung on the invasion force. Glad you didn't edit it out.
He is on a top-secret mission -TimeGhost Ambassador