210 - The War is Four Years Old this week - WW2 - September 3, 1943
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Four years of war and no real end in sight, but as the week ends the Allies land their first troops on Italy, actively committing themselves to a front in Western Europe. In the USSR the Soviets are taking heavy casualties but still pushing back the enemy with big partisan help and in Pacific plans are made for offensive against yet more Japanese held islands.
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Four years of covering this war. It's hard to describe what that means to all of us that have worked on this project, but the improvements we have made between episodes 1 and 210 sum things up pretty well.
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Just thought you should know, it says September 2nd when it's September 3rd. Apart from that, awesome vid, keep up the good work.
being a boomer and a WWII semi buff your presentations really give a fresh look to it. people that are just now taking an interest will be really well served. this conflict truly changed the world as it was known in it's time and reverberates and echoes the changes to this day. well done all.
A survivor mentioned briefly how it was a terrible time, and I tried to sympathize as best I could, but years later I wish I had also encouraged her to have recorded anything she thought the world should remember.
Gustave Bertrand in 1940-1945 was against germans and regime Vichy? He was a communist?
Charles Delestraint was communist?
Another sidenote on August 31 1943 is that submarine USS Muskallunge participates in a test of the Mark 14 torpedo’s contact exploders by firing three torpedoes at the underwater cliffs of Kahoolawe Island in Hawaii. Two exploded while one did not. US Navy Commander Charles Momsen dove into the water to recover the faulty but live torpedo. After delicate dismantling, he found design flaws that caused the failure to explode, and this would result in fixes and an increase in reliability.
My parents house sits at the end of an old torpedo testing range. When we cleaned out one of the walls we found the typical newspaper insulation. A few stories about torpedoes hitting the beach and ending up in front of peoples houses. There was even a little testing schedule notice for days to stay off the beach.
I knew of the Momsen lung, an apparatus to escape from a sunken submarine.
The Momsen lung was replaced by the Steinke hood beginning in 1962. The British Royal Navy used the similar Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus, but it was clumsy to use. They adopted the practice of "blow and go" in which the sailor would exhale before ascent to avoid air over-expanding the lungs, which could cause them to rupture. This has since been found to be higher risk than a constant relaxed exhalation during ascent. Walter F. Schlech, Jr. and others examined submerged escape without breathing devices and discovered that ascent was possible from as deep as 300 ft (91 m). One writer suggested that "the Momsen Lung concept may have killed far more submariners than it rescued".[13]
@@pauleohl Most people ought to be capable of performing a continuous swimming ascent from 18m to the surface while exhaling a single breath. That is the rationale for the basic open water diving qualifications certification having a depth limit of 18m. I am sure you can go from further down if you are starting from a 1 bar pressure so you don’t have to worry about the bends
At fucking last
Is there a reason why the submarine has a german name or is it just RUclips shenanigans?
Wow. Has it really been four years since The Polish-German War of 1939 dropped back in 2018? That's hard to believe. I've been following this channel since the beginning and can't begin to tell you how much I've learned about the Second World War thanks to your team's efforts. Bravo! Only (spoiler alert) two years more to go.
Only two more years to go? Not if Jack Churchill (not related to Winston) has his way...
Two years! You got to be kidding :)
Bring on D Day and Bagration.
Two years? Are you from the future? 😉
Ok, you only partly spoiled it, don't tell me who wins.
This time in 1943 my father was a 20 year old fighter pilot in New Guinea (49th FG 9th FS). He survived the War, and was one of the P-38 fighter escorts of the Japanese surrender envoys in their "Surrender Betty" bombers flying from Japan to Ie Shima, where they were flown on to Manila in US aircraft. Today he is a surprisingly healthy 99 year old.
As always it is great to see Indy, and gang in action.
He must be an amazing man and dad! 🙃💘👌
I'm so happy your father is still alive and healthy. Enjoy the time you have together ❤️
@@ToddSauve I think he is, and so do most folks who know him. One of his strongest WWII memories etched in his mind was that of his crew chief SSgt. Jack Hodgepath, who was shot off the wing of his P-38 and killed at Tacloban air field, Leyte in 1944 by a strafing A6M Zero. We have hopes and plans to celebrate his 100th birthday next year.
@@herbieklein2271 Thank you. We speak daily via FaceTime.
@@leonardoglesby1730 Wow! That is terrific and that he is so vital at 99!
My uncle Joe was on Kiska in the Aleutians with the Canadian army in September 1943. He told me about one of the lieutenants in his unit picking up a telephone in an abandoned Japanese cave and it blowing up, smearing the poor guy all over the cave ceiling. Uncle Joe was just a 20 year old kid at the time.
I have been watching this channel every week for 4 years. Feels weird, this has become a regular routine. I hope Indy and Sparty dosent plan on retiring after this series is done.
I prefer the Korean War as my grandfather was snipped while setting up the roads up to porkchop hill.
I really want to see a Vietnam War series
@@Nootathotep Vietnam week by week would be an insane undertaking. I’d expect a Korean War series first.
Ww3 live
Yeah. I was like “hmm, when’s the sat video coming out?”
The Italian people say "Basta!"
Leave us to our wine, cheese and pasta
Albert cracks a grin
Says we're stepping in
Exiting the Axis will cost ya!
Poor Badoglio is in quite the imbroglio!
Another fine episode...grande lavoro!
Wayne! Thank you for gracing us with another wonderful limerick!
*Nods, laughs, and gestures approval in Italian*
The Soviet theatre is so incredibly vast. It's basically a WW1 level conflict on its own.
in terms of men dying, it's bigger than all of WW1
@@willyreeves319 I would counter that it's really been the civilian death toll that's the striking difference between this and earlier continental wars. Maybe this is the most outwardly brutal European conflict since the 30 years war.
The Eastern Front truly was a war within a war. Completely different from the one in the West in scope and human suffering. Of course there were many such wars within wars in the Pacific too. The Island hopping campaign of Nimitz and McArthur was completely different from the British Burma campaigns or the war in China. But the Eastern Front still dwarfs all in comparison on scale alone.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623
But that's why WW2 is so interesting...
Caribbean subs, Norwegian convoys, African coasts, Malta, Gibraltar, the Indian Ocean, the Philippines, the Aleutian campaign, Manchukuo, Midway, New Guinea, Indochina, Walarchen, and the Normandy battles all happened and still had very little to do with the vastness of the Eastern Front battlefield. Or the titanic struggle for dominance there. The whole planet was engaged in one way or the other, somewhere.
The sheer amount of untold heroism everywhere is even now just coming to light...
Yes the Vastness of the Front ! Its awe-inspired to view and read about it . Just 3 yards and a cloud of dust Wishbone Attack ,on and on ,and on .
That is just a glorious tie, Indy. Those colours... I don't really have the words to describe it. The rare 5/5
I know nothing about ties. But even I got the feeling that it looks marvelous in combination with the shirt!
@@peterspatling3151You are a man of immaculate taste, Peter
5/5 for a pretty important episode!
Gianni I was wondering what you'd think of this one! You're a 5/5 every time. Stay tuned.
@@WorldWarTwo ^^
I started watching this show the day I began high school. I started college last week now. Personally gives great perspective on how long the war has actually been. Fantastic work as always.
😢 Indeed. We know the outcome of this war, but those of yesteryear did not. Never Forget 💐!
Matea THANK YOU for watching these great many weeks, and congratulations on your hard work in getting to this next stage in your education. Stay tuned and keep up the good work, I wish you luck in college and I hope we'll hear from you further down the line!
A sidenote this week on August 31 1943 is that the Independence-class light aircraft carrier *USS Langley* (CVL-27) is commissioned into service in the United States Navy. She would serve in the Pacific Theater during the war, supporting operations in places from Peleliu to Okinawa. She would later be transferred post-war to the French Navy under the name *La Fayette* and participate in conflicts in Indochina and Algeria before being scrapped in 1964.
Ho hum.
You were there, weren't you?
This man is RUclipss grandfather
Great piece of info, thank you Dickson. This is your 954th comment on our channel, and we can't thank you enough for your amazing support over the years. You're usually the first on our livestreams and often in the comments, and we could not have gotten this far without you. Thanks and please stay tuned, we'll see you next episode
@@WorldWarTwo Wow, I didn't know the team actually kept track of how many comments were posted haha. I didn't realize that I posted that many comments over the years! Well, I shall keep up the good fight and see you guys in the next episode too!
The Panther-Stellung- a line from Estonia to the Sea of Azov, of over 2000km/1200 miles, or Double the entire length of Germany. It is clear Hitler had no idea just how big this Russia he wanted to conquer is.
all that Lebensraum! What a pickle they're in!
I am sure it will be as solid and impenetrable as the Atlantic Wall.
When this series started, I was settling down into a new highschool. I'm now in my freshman year of college. This series has been an absolute pleasure to follow so far - and has significantly improved some of my days when I needed it. Thanks, WW2 team - here's to two more years!
Kezzie Thank you for watching the war with us so many years, and congratulations on your hard work and foray into secondary education!! Your comment is humbling and refreshing, and I can only thank you for being part of this amazing community. I wish you continued success in your studies, keep up the good work, and stay tuned with us through all of it - who knows how long this war will last and where you'll be by then??
Masatake Okumiya wrote in his great book "Zero" that what was shocking the Japanese military at this point was how quickly Americans had built functional airfields after they took over islands. He said that the Japanese had spent months digging and chopping with hand tools on Guadalcanal trying to build an airfield and were stunned to see American mowing down trees with bulldozers and completing a runway with steel grates in just a week or two. This happened island after island at a speed they never thought possible.
The Naval Construction Battalions, nicknamed the Seabees, can do. That was the slogan on their logo, and oh boy they could deliver. Then US Marine Corps (the leathernecks) aviation would dish it out with vengeance.
@@abrahamlevi3556 Yep they sure could drive a bulldozer.
another great example of how utterly doomed the japanese war effort was once the american war machine got going, thanks
This was one example of a key secret to the success of the allies; the economies of the core ally countries were much more efficient than those of the axis powers. It was not just airfields though, the bulldozers to make them; the transports to get people to them; and the planes to fly from them were simply produced at a speed and scale that was beyond the axis powers.
@@fat1fared Okumiya said he felt it was some kind of mental block with his military colleagues. They could have used farm tractors on airfields but they never thought of it. They could have used steel grates like they did on bridges but they never thought of it. The main theme in his book is they just couldn't change their thinking and the example of this he kept using was the Zero. It had been the best war plane in the world and even in 1945 they couldn't accept that new allied fighters could be better.
I can’t believe it’s been 4 years already. When I first started watching, I had just graduated high school… now I have graduated college and still haven’t missed an episode😅 thank you Indy and the rest of the TimeGhost team for making my Saturdays entertaining after long weekdays in class. I always look forward to each new episode!
THANK YOU for your amazing support through all these weeks and those years of school. And Congratulations!! That's some incredible work you've done and I wish you luck on your future endeavors, wherever life takes you. Stay tuned to see where the war takes us!
The city of Stalino is now known as Donetsk. Despite the name predating Stalin, as the city was named because of its steel production, its name was changed by Khrushchev's destalinisation policy.
Never knew that bit. I think everyone's first instinct is to assume that it was named after Stalin, makes sense that Krushchev changed it
If I remember correctly, the reason that city even existed was because some foreigner established a steel mill there...
shouldn't your profile name be Duc de Lorraine?
Likewise Kharkov = Kharkiv. Most WWII histories use the Russified versions of Ukrainian placenames that have been changed since 1991 with the retransliterations only coming into wide use in the West after the Russian invasion of Feb. 2022. Kiev pronounced "key-ev" being replaced with Kyiv pronounced "keev" is another example.
@@nlpnt Haha stay mad.
Let’s be honest, wtf does eastern and southern Ukraine have to do with Ukraine ?
Odessa and Kharkov ?
Both of these were literally built by Russians.
4 years... thats insane. Ive been watching since 2014 on the Great War channel, an its insane how much work was put into this. I firmly belive that you created a valuable guideline for historical research. I myself have used your sources and videos to point me in the right direction when writing my seminar work.
It's one of the best things I have ever seen. Big props to all the people working on this. It's amazing.
Same here!
Daniel Thank you for your steadfast support through all these weeks, and we're humbled reading comments like yours that appreciate the historical value of this grand project of ours. Thanks again and stay tuned
Watching the map of the eastern front is like watching a calving glacier, bits here bits there come away but you know that at some point the whole face is gonna shift, then fall away with a huge violent crash!
When he mentioned Lisichansk and I saw Bakhmut on that map a shiver went down my spine.
I watched Indy hosting The Great War channel for 4 years between 2014 & 2018, and today I realized that I watched him in WWTwo series for the same duration. I will definitely keep watching the show and enjoying learning about the 2nd World War until it finishes. Keep up your great work Indy, Sparty, Astrid & team!
Thank you Rabih for your amazing support for these many, many weeks and years of war. This was your 237th comment on our channel, and surely many more from TGW too! That is incredible and I can't thank you enough for being part of the TimeGhost Army here in the comments and helping make the community great.
8:43 I love how the dude asks for more artillery shells, and Stalin is like "No reload, only shoot"
Wow, 4 years,4 years,to me it is the most interesting part that is yet to come, but it gives me great anxiety knowing that sooner or later the best channel I know of by far will end
Stay tuned to see how much longer it can go on. Thank you for your very kind words.
@@WorldWarTwo I'm deffinetly staying tuned, while I don't know anything about the Pacific in the 43-45 timeframe your videos will and have deffinetly changed that.A theater of operations that I do know a lot about is the Eastern front.I find the period while the Germans are on the defensive more- interesting, you see everyone covers how well the Germans took the land in the USSR nobody covers their very good defense.Admittedly there were some flat out terrible ideas like all of the "fortress tactic" otherwise the Germans were just as good on defense as they were on offence.Think about it sure on face value a massive stunning invasion seems more impressive but the holding of said area was very impressive too.
I'd argue that the Germans late war were had it harder to defend than the Soviets early war.On top of all of that what the Germans took in some 6 months the Soviets took in 2 years.
Thank you all for the amazing content and thank you even more for reading my stupid ass comments.
It almost feels strange to see the germans getting battered this badly across the entire line after all these years of offensive. I am sure they could see it too at the time so it begs the question. Why fighting until the bitter end ?
Survival rates for POWSs on the eastern front were extremely low. German Propaganda exaggerated that fact further. On a large scale, the allies had decided that there wont be any peace negotiations with germany anyway. Only unconditional surrender.
There was allegdly a german saying from the last months of the war along the lines of "Enjoy the war as long you can. For the Peace will be much worse."
Good question broh
Allies demanding unconditional surrender although the minor Axis powers
SPOILER
will try to peel off and even change sides if they can. Germans are not going to give up in the face of unconditional surrender demands when they still control most of Europe. German retreats in the winter of 1943/4 were often grim and their morale fairly low. Next winter, with the front line approaching Germany, their morale will often be better, which seems paradoxical, but it will be the courage of desperation.
Hitler, Goering, Himmler, Goebbels et al knew that they would not be treated like Napoleon or the Kaiser, but would be hanged, so the decision to fight on was their only hope of avoiding the hangman.
If you have been victorious, it takes time to adjust to the opposite being inevitable ir normal. Hitler kept information about economics and industry from his commanders, and the "wonder weapons" projects were a big morale booster. Panther and Tiger tanks, jet fighters, V1s and V2s... all this was "just around the corner".
Additionally, it is vital for a soldier to keep fighting when the situation appears hopeless, it is intrinsic to military honour. Archibald Wavell called it THE most vital characteristic for a successful commander (and, man, he knew about it!).
Add to that, the experience all these men had of previous wars: in particular, World War One seemed pretty hopeless for Germany through 1917, but in spring 1918 Russia was knocked out of the war and the French and British were close to panic. Army leaders had absorbed the myth that only backstabbers, socialists and Jews lost heart and thus the war. With decisive Nazi leadership, that would surely not happen again!
As always, we must think about it from their perspective in 1943, not our perspective much later.
This comment is not the most original one. There are countless of these under this episode alone. Each one of these appreciation posts is well deserved. I've followed this community since 2014 and i am at awe with it every week. You guys truly are top notch content creators. Not only in your week by week coverage, but also in your subseries. Sadly, i am in no position to support you in a financial way (although i am the proud owner of a cup with indy's magnificent appearance on it). Still i hope these words reach you and all members of the Time Ghost Army. Your work is important and is valued by every single one of us.
Never forget.
And it’s people like you who are the most valuable of all to us. Financial support is nice, sure, but the diehard people like you are worth more. It is you that is why I’m doing this.
Good job! I am a Patreon supporter. I watched all of WW1 and the between years and am doing all of WW2. You are doing a great service to the entire world with this in depth educational service. Thank you.
THANK YOU for your generosity Craig! Thank you for believing in this huge project of ours, and being part of it with your time and support. We do it for history enthusiasts like you, and we appreciate your kind words. Do stay tuned
The thing I love the most about this and the great war series is the way you get a completely different kind of perspective on the whole thing. The way I always read the battle of Kursk is not different per se, but I never realized just how quickly the German offensive was halted, and how much of a push the Soviets managed to do afterwards (and might continue to in the upcoming weeks.) I am really looking forward to deepening my knowledge about the Bagration offensive next year as that is one I do not know too much about.
Spoiler: bad for Germany.
Whenever you hear the tired old trope that the Red Army only won by herding men into battle, NKVD bayonets in their backs, one rifle for ten men, endless Lend Lease floating them to Berlin... the story of Bagration is worth remembering.
@@lllordllloyd Oh I know all about that, I am quite knowledgeable beyond the old tired misconceptions. More that the conception of time gets a lot more realized through this show, a long with a lot of details that are new to me.
Bagration will be impressive, as it's required study at military colleges still. But the late summer to fall and winter campaigns of the Red Army should be equally interesting, as they set up the stage for Bagration, and also because they have been quite neglected.
Thank you for your very kind words! We appreciate telling this history in new ways, and the fact that so many history enthusiasts like you are along with us warms our hearts. Thank you for joining us these many weeks and Stay tuned, however long this war lasts!
Happy 4 year anniversary Time Ghost Team. Your work doesn't go unappreciated.
Thank you Roy! We know you all appreciate this project of ours, and we can't thank you enough for your steadfast support through so many weeks and years. This is your 72nd comment on our channel, and that's huge! We couldn't make it happen without our amazing audience, so thanks again & please stay tuned for more every week
The other day I helped an elderly man find his car (Wiseman's ferry Australia) & I waited for his wife to return their to meet him (to make sure he had the correct car) I got chatting with him and I commented on his Yorkshire accent, he told me he was born in 1928 and signed up (lied) under aged and stormed the Beaches at Arromanches Normandy France when he was 16. He was so vibrant for a 94 year old & a real character. I was disappointed when his wife turned up because I knew it would be the last time I would ever talk to him or possibly someone of his standing.
Thank you for sharing about him, and for listening to a bit of his life story. It warms my heart to know he's lived such a long life and still taking trips out with his wife.
I absolutely love you guys, no one makes content thats this entertaining, consistent, informative and enjoyable to watch.
We love you too hellguard!
@@WorldWarTwo keep up the amazing work
at 01:50 is a map error, it is Naples where your Salerno marker is, Salerno is further south, sw of the Amlfi coast. Great content though!
This wonderful series has become a habit for me every week for years now 😊. I was kind of worried when this episode got a little delayed to launch , I was really missing it !
Thank you for watching through all these years. Sometimes we do premiere a bit late, it's just because we want to make sure to the best of our ability that we deliver you a great episode. Thanks for your loyal support, and please stay tuned
At 1:51 the location on the map is in fact not Salerno, but Naples City west of the Vesuvio. Salerno is far more south east (North of the dark written city of ‚Battipaglia‘)
Nevertheless, keep up the great work!
At the rate things are going it shouldn't take more than a few weeks to mop up Italy. A few months at the most. The Axis forces there aren't organized enough to maintain a solid defensive line from across the peninsula. And even if they do, the Allies could just land forces behind the Axis lines, breaking any stalemate. It's as simple as that.
Yep the 8th Army will just take a bus to Rimini and will soon be bathing in the Po
yup - that "soft underbelly" is looking for an easy evisceration ...
Most likely the Rapido crossing will only take until lunchtime, then it's cigars and gelato all the way north. Can practically see the Papacy from here...
Perhaps it could have been almost as simple as that, had the Anglo-American Allies thrown their full might into Italy instead of stockpiling most of their forces and equipment for the upcoming invasions of France. But having taken Italy, the Allies would then have faced the daunting prospect of fighting the Germans northward through the Alps, a defender's paradise compared to the northern European plains. When the enemy knows you have only a few narrow routes out of Italy (e.g. the Brenner Pass), defensive planning becomes consderably simpler. But had the Anglo-Americans taken that route, they might have ended up with large forces positioned farther east and south on VE Day, perhaps altering the post-war political situation.
Remarkable. Here I am, graduated from high school and going through the pipeline to join the military, and just 4 years ago, when I first found out about this channel, I was a young, out-of-shape freshman terrified of gym class xD
Comments like yours are incredibly humbling and heartwarming, I just replied to another similar comment of someone watching since freshman year going into college. Congratulations on all your hard work and achievements so far, and I wish you the best of luck and safety wherever you go with the military and beyond.
Thank you for being with us all this time as we cover this war, and please stay tuned however long it may last!
@@WorldWarTwo when I enlist I’m cancelling all my subscriptions, but one I’m keeping is my donation to the timeghost army. Carry on making this outstanding videos!
I've been watching this channel without missing for the last 3 years and it's pretty crazy to me (like probably many of other people watching this) that as I go through my day-to-day life, I'm just living World War II in my head. Thanks for the great content, it's very important work.
Thanks for describing our project so well & succinctly, Starkada. We love how many amazing history enthusiasts our channel brings together every week. And it means the world to us having you here. Do stay tuned, lots more to come.
4 years. Wow. Been here since the beginning. Heck, I started watching the Great War since 1915 (or whenever that BF1 ad breakdown video you did)
And been watching everything in-between
Thank you Victor! That's an incredible time you've spent with us, and I'm so glad we can share it with wonderful enthusiastic students of history like you. I hope you'll stay tuned to the end of this war… whenever that may be!
Today is my birthday, and this same day in the year 1943 my deceased grandma was also on her 10th birthday. She was born in a country city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This city where she was born, and where I still live, gave five volunteers to the Brazilian Expedition Force. All of them returned safely to their homes, scarred, but unharmed as far she could remember.
Happy birthday!
I have to say that while your coverage of the Eastern Front is awesome and genuinely impressive, the incredible detail can be eye-crossing sometimes.
It's just a tip of the iceberg of the potential coverage of that front
Major thanks to everyone in Time Ghost History for covering the war with so much passion! It's crazy to see the amount of events covered every week, and I think the episodes will be almost 30-minutes long in the coming months or years. Nevertheless, I'll be here!
elbeto Thank you for your wonderful support and kind words as we move through this war. Stay tuned to see how long it lasts!
I love the Smiling tag for Mr Kesselring but my favourite name has to be Konstantin Rokossovsky. It just sounds so cool
Great video as always, only a minor correction you put Salerno where Napoli is located at 1:50 (in reality it is in the gulf below).
Sorry for the bad english, excellent channel
Thank you! Sometimes things like that do slip through
Nice of a special guest to drop in at 2:51-2:54!
Little bit of an oopsie with the map at 1:50: what you show as Salerno is in fact Naples. Congrats on the milestone anyway!
Thanks!
4 years of coverage and 4 years of my support on Patreon. Keep up the good work!
THANK YOU for your amazing support! We could not have done it so far without you, and I hope you'll stay tuned for ever more weeks of this incredible war
3:25 - not mentioned in the video is that the new fast carrier task force features an airplane new to the Pacific Theater getting its first combat kill: the Grumman F6F Hellcat. Several of them flying from the USS Indepence (CVL-22) engage and shoot down a Kawanishi H8K "Emily" flying boat on September 1, 1943. Until now, the US Navy's main carrier-based fighter aircraft, the Grumman F4F Wildcat, has struggled against the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero, the most technically advanced carrier-based fighter aircraft in the opening years of the war. The Hellcat was specifically designed to counter the Zero; we'll have to see how it does.
Excellent work. Keep going.
Thank you Simon, we will.
Amazing job summarizing WWII. Thank you!
Thank you!
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Thank you!
CraZy to think I’ve been watching this longer then the WW1 channel. Really makes you take stock about how HUGE WW2 was
Thank you for watching through all these years, in both wars! Stay tuned to see how long it can last
Thanks!
Thank you William!
I always felt like one of the things that separated World War 2 from 1 was hatred.
During the first Russians would jump out of their trenches and greet their German enemy with kind messages and gifts, now they're barely human in each others eyes.
Not to mention the actual unthinkable atrocities and abuse of POWs across the world, that this wonderful channel has covered so well.
More a feature of war weariness in 1917 and it was even more common when encountering Austro-Hungarian troops, many of whom were Slavs.
I know, but when I look at these maps I see millions of terrified 18 year old boys fighting each other, and millions of civilians being abused every day. I'm sure that there was plenty of hatred, but fear might be an even bigger factor.
The Great War was a traditional imperial conflict not unlike those of the 18th century. The empires of Europe were fighting simply to expand their power and influence as they always had. It was unexpectedly destructive because of a failure to account for innovations in military equipment, not by intention. It was the ‘general European war’ spoken of by statesmen since the Crimean War, in which due to the long lasting peace of the late 19th century the powers of Europe threw their lot in hoping to claim as much as they could. War had become infrequent in Europe after Napoleon and Vienna, and there was no reason to believe WWI would change that. This is why neither side was willing to surrender or go for white peace for so long, they knew this was their only chance to acquire further empire and wanted to get as much as possible. By the time the Second World War begins, the world has become ideologically charged. The age of empires is over, and now it is a clash of people and ideas, which seemed inseparable to fascists and communists alike. This played into the Nazis’ race ideology as well. Thus the war was savage and brutal on a scale only rarely seen before in history. It was more uncommon than most realize that a whole peoples would be destroyed before WWII. The aims and goals of WWII for especially the Germans and Soviets were far removed from traditional wars of influence and power. The endgame. It’s why I have a hard time watching this show as it goes on, the brutality is hard to stomach and was so tragically wasteful. Unfortunately world events since 1945 lead me to think that if there is to be a Third World War, it will play out more similar to the second than the first.
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Thanks for watching
A supercut of all these episodes, even without the other content like WAH, and even without the starting and ending recaps, would probably be over 40 hours long by now. That's just utterly insane! and probably over 100 hours if everything is included!!
Just wait til the end of the war… whenever that is! It'll be a huge project, thanks for being here and being part of it!
Perhaps at the end of the war/series, the team might make a documentary on how the series was made, what tools were used for the maps and diagrams and so on - but for now - again - splendid effort. This series is a tour de force.
I'd like them to go into the Cold War as soon as this is over
I started really watching during the battle of France. It has been quite a ride and I habe learned a lot. Thank you all
Thank you for watching through all these weeks of war!
3 years here 4 at the great war thats 7 years that indy and spatricus and the ladies have been a part of my life. thanks for the education and the entertainment
Thank you for making us part of your life, and watching through these many many weeks of war. Please stay tuned, Andrew. Much more to come
Erickson's books were a great read.
Indeed
I notice you have not mentioned much about the Chinese theatre recently. As someone who knows little about that part of the war, your coverage of it in the early days was always very interesting to me. Is there nothing worth talking about hapening there now or is there just no time to cover it?
After Pearl Harbor in late 1941, the Chinese front went pretty quiet, since neither side could really fight each other anymore. Between 1942-43, the Chinese and Japanese would only fight a total of 3 battles (Anhui, West Hunan and Changsa). Anhui and West Hunan have already been covered, but action will pick up on China in late 1943 and into 1944.
China was an important ally because it tied down large numbers of Axis formations, but unlike the Soviet front they would not be able to successfully encircle and destroy enemy forces in the field. Perhaps a large reason for this difference is that China could not receive lend-lease. In any case, the Japanese were content to leave it as a static front because all available manpower, material, and resources were being sent to the Pacific.
There is an other YT channel that discusses the future japanese Operation Ichi-Go.
Extra History alluded to that.
@@Anthony-jo7up Another reason is that Chiang Kai-Shek was reluctant to engage the Japanese, even when he did locally have large supplies of men and weapons, because he wanted to preserve all of his forces against the Communists once the war against Japan was over. He squirreled away huge caches of American supplies away from the front. It had a certain logic to it, even though it infuriated the Americans. Of course, it was hardly a war-winning strategy, and we all know how it turned out. Ironically, much smaller communist Chinese forces were often the only ones meaningfully engaging the Japanese.
I keep mentioning Harry Summers' book "On Strategy" which focuses on the idea of "friction". Both sides have to endure a lot of "friction" just to get at each other.
There is a comment in the book "No Bugles, No Drums" by Charles Durden. "What are we doing here?" "We're patrolling, didn't you pay attention in basic?".
There might have been small units "patrolling", but the logistics to go anywhere wasn't really there.
Final book, "Close Quarters" by Larry Heinemann. M113's and heavy machine guns.
Always excellent and enlightening, many thanks. Four years? It really doesn't feel like it, although I bet it felt much, much longer at the time.
A suggestion, if you agree it's worthwhile. Would it be an idea to pick out the rivers on your maps a little more prominently? A small thing I know, but it might help to make more sense of movements on the ground. If that's a good idea highlighting important terrain more obviously too? Many thanks.
Charles thank you for watching all these years. And our maps team is always working hard and improving, thanks for the suggestion
I noticed on the map of the Eastern Front that there was fighting near Bakhmut in Ukraine around this time in 1943. It's tragic that the city is once again engulfed in conflict 79 years later as the Ukrainians are currently trying to defend it against Russian attacks.
Great coverage as always you guys are better then Netflix
Thank you Ali, we really appreciate your kind words
The people working in this series are amazing. This series is as good as the war was bad. Love you to bits.
Thank you Harry. We love you too, and we appreciate your very kind words
As always a great video, already looking forward to the next video!
Thank you! Stay tuned, more coming every week
That little raid on Marcus Island is a herald of something great to come. For the first time, the USN Essex-class aircraft carriers are in action.
The US began the war with six fleet carriers, but lost four of them in the first year. At this point, they've received two replacements. But how many more Essexes are on the way?
22. Twenty-two fleet carriers, some finishing training, some under construction, some only ordered. The US industrial machine has finally gotten into speed, and it can't be stopped.
I’ll add that the US produced more ships in 1943 than every other country in the whole world combined produced throughout the entire war. To say this has reached the point of no return for the Axis would be an understatement.
God bless America.
Something I've missed from the weekly episodes is Finland and their front with the Soviet Union.
It has been trench warfare for the last year and a half. Things will pick up in 1944.
Thanks for another excellent video; very informative and well done.
Thank you George!
Just found this channel after the Great War series, and let’s just say I wasn’t disappointed.
Very glad you found our channel!! Thanks for watching TGW and I hope you'll stick around here as we move through WWII every single week, 79 years later! And please tell your friends to come check us out, so we can make more specials & put more into the production every week. Welcome to the channel, we're glad to have you with us!
Excellent stuff bro
Thank you Clarence
thank you indi
Just what the German High Command didnt want! A war fought on two Fronts Russia Italy where next i wonder !??
Cheers Indy and Team Always look forward to Saturday's when a new Episode comes out!
it's amazing the work you guys have been doing and realize there are still 2 years ahead of content. So many bad things ahead still...
Thank you andre… we can't see the future but stay tuned for all the action, however much longer this war drags on…
Another incredible video! Wow!!!!
Thank you ryan!
Nice video. Hearing a blow by blow account of this war on the main fronts is always going to be interesting to listen too.
Thank you for your wonderful comments every week, Broken Bridge. Your name is one I know I'll see every week, usually more than once. This is your 548th comment on our channel, which is absolutely astonishing! I can't thank you enough for your steadfast support, and I hope you'll continue watching every week as we move through this war, no matter how long it lasts.
You're not a broken bridge at all, you build bridges in the TimeGhost community and the whole crew is thankful to you for that!
@@WorldWarTwo----Your very much welcome. That is much appreciated.
RUclips didn't notify me on this one or the other to I went to look why you hadn't put one out. So now I'm watching all 3
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
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And i discovered this Channel 3 years ago, and i like your job
Thank you for watching all these weeks in those 3 years, and I hope you'll stick with us as we move through the next ones, however many there may be!
This is a fantastic series and I really hope that you guys do a special about the rescue of Mussolini by German special forces. Thanks
Thank you, stay tuned to see what specials come next
Hi Indy
Awesome episode.
Its unbelievable this war is four years world.
Been watching since first episode.
Learned a lot.
Thanks to your team.
Your team hardwork getting paid.
Waiting for more awesome content.
Thanks.
Thank you for being here through all these weeks. Yours is a name I know we'll see every week, and I can't thank you enough for your gracious comments and steadfast support of our channel. Thank you Naveen Raj, I wish you a wonderful day and please stay tuned, however long this war lasts!
I should probably, this on a more recent video and I will when I get there but I really hope the weekly series persist after WWII offically ends
so much happens in it's aftermath, I want the post war years!
I'm hoping we'll get the weekly series at least through the end of 45' and perhaps a biweekly series after but thats just hopes
keep up the great work no matter what indy!
Excellent content as always!
Thank you Chance!
This is a million times greater than the history Channel
Thank you for your work.
Thank you for your very kind words, Oasis
Awesome episode as always guys! Really loving the content
Thank you SockGiant!
Great stuff!
Thank you!
Hi Y'all,
Firearms Primer, Extractors and Ejectors.
To pull the spent case out of the chamber, there is often a thin piece of metal, attached to the side of the bolt, that reaches out and catches on the rear part of the case.
When the bolt moves back, it pulls it out or not. It needs to be as thin as possible, to allow proper sealing of the chamber, but that means it is prone to breakage.
When the bolt moves as far back as its going to, a little button comes out of the face of the bolt, on the opposite side from the extractor, and "ejects" the case out of the ejector slot.
The extractor is still holding onto the back of the case, so the case if flipped out of the firearm.
Thanks for your time, take care.
Very interesting Gordy, thank you
Man that Eastern front looks like a battle between two armies made up of flags, and yet each flag represents thousands or tens of thousands of men and machines. It's unimaginable.
Great video thanks
Thank you Lewis
Excellent Introducing ....thanks
Thank you for watching as always
5:14 These moments will never stop being super creepy to me.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!
Thanks Oliver! Stay tuned, we'll be here!!
@@WorldWarTwo of course, your videos always make my day and will continue to do so 👍
This is the best. So much I didn’t know
Thank you for watching, Jimmy. We appreciate so many history enthusiasts being part of this huge project with us
Thanks, Indy and team for four years of riveting WWII coverage. I have to admit I had a little panic when I fired up my laptop this morning only to find no new episode. "Was ist los?!" I wondered! I'm sure Hitler was thinking the same thing about both Italy and the Eastern Front. 😉
Yeshead Thank you for your support every week, and stay tuned to see what surprised come next for that mustachio'd menace
Very cool episode
Thanks David!
@@WorldWarTwo :)
Denmark may have fallen without much of a struggle, but at least the government did everything they could to collaborate as little as possible with the Nazis, unlike the Vichy French traitors who couldn't do enough to appease their new overlords. Yeah, they scuttled the fleet, but they should have done that as soon as if was clear France was going to fall or sent it to join the British.
Man! I’ve fallen way behind! I haven’t seen an episode in quite awhile.
As the big tomato said to the little tomato: ketchup!
1:49 the map shows Salerno in place of Naples. Actually Salerno is further south (you can see the Gulf of Salerno in the map).
Hey Indy, your map placed the Salerno marker wrong... It landed on Naples it seems, instead of Salerno, which is a bay a little further to the south along the coast.
You're right, sometimes errors do slip through.
In every Saturday I know what always takes me 20 minutes(more or less).
Annoys me that the Sicilly invasion is downplayed by people commenting in this site. It was very quick and successful no matter the later troubles on the mainland. Those were caused a lot by going off plan or bad later plans. The actual invasion had many bad effects for the Axis,
Germanys main ally in Europe lost its leader and signed an treaty with the Allies.
Germany elsewhere lost the use of Italian troops on the Eastern front
Germany not only had to do without, but worse, had to replace those troops from other units or countries.
Germany itself had to bolster the Italian front.
Moral for the Allies kept getting higher.
Kept the Allies in the European war to appease Stalin
Secured equipment! Aircraft, Ships even manpower.
Pretty much gave the allies free reign in the Med and further opened shipping routes to resup themselves via Gib and Suez, and resupply the Soviets.
Kept the Axis worrying about the Balkans and Greece, taking away from the Eastern front.
Destroyed equipment and captured enemies.
All verses what? Sitting in North Africa twiddling their thumbs, DDay was only happening in 44 come what may, and its preparation was already going ahead.
Very useful positives even if the Italian campaign didn't go as easily as thought, The fact that it was a campaign meant all these positives came about.
There was a disappointment in wartime media and post war military thinkers that Italian Campaign was not an Allied Blitzkrieg that would look good on headlines.
@@merdiolu Generally yes, the expectation was high after the march across Africa and Germanys woes in the east, But this underadvertising hid a lot of benefits for the European theatre allies, that wouldn't be doing much else before a pretty settled D Day timeframe.
And true, Germans in Northern Europe was a better headline prospect for the papers, than half destroying an ancient and architecturally important landscape of the lesser enemy, much further away.
13:33 aarhaus. Isn't that the place madness sing about ?
Thanks for the video.
Thanks for your support! I love Sands. You're nice and gracious and you get everywhere
Since there was no early access this week I missed this episode due to time difference when it was released here in midnight. Too bad. Only thing I would add I agree with Monty that Operation Baytown was non starter since it could be bottled up very quickly with road , bridge , tunnel demolitions and mine sowing. Besides most landing craft was shifted to Avalanche landings to the way further north on Salerno at the edge even out of Allied tactical air force range. Landing a little bit further north of Calabria where Allied air cover still available would be smarter and preferrable alas Eisenhower , Alexander duo preferred Calabria , toes of of Italy. Ironically it would be Eighth Army that would advance from Reggio di Calabria quickly to capture Southern Italy and advance and relieve Salerno beachead that was in crisis.
Battle of Atlantic
Last week we saw U-tanker , U-847 commanded by Herbert Kuppisch was sunk by aircraft from USA jeep carrier USS Card in mid Atlantic. One of the six u-boats that Kuppisch refueled on August 27 did not make it home. She was the Type VII submarine U-634, commanded by Eberhard Dahlhaus. On August 30, while U-634 was sailing north in company with Siegmann in U-230, she found a convoy, Sierra Leone SL 135 off Portugal, and maneuvered close to shoot. Two Royal Navy escort ships of the convoy, the sloop HMS Stork (G.W.E. Casteus) and the corvette HMS Stonecrop (J. Patrick Smythe) located , depth charged and, sank U-634 with the loss of all hands.
merdiolu Apologies for the no early access! We're currently between intern classes so the old crew (me!) is bridging the gap before the new crew starts. It crunches everything a bit, so we appreciate your patience while we get everyone up to speed with our production process.
Thanks once more for always bringing such great excerpts and comments to our episodes, you really add a level of depth here in the comments that we wouldn't get otherwise.