My great grandfather fought in the battle of the bulge. I still have his helmet somewhere buried away with other random crap and it has a dent in it from some shrapnel hitting him after mortars blew up a tree nearby
My Grandfather was there, a D-Day replacement radio operator attached to an artillery reserve out of Nanticoke, PA. Side note, one of my coworkers is obsessed with bowling. I said, "my grandfather was, too, but I think bowling was just his way of forgetting the liberation of Buchenwald." We both looked at each other and busted out laughing.
I had a teacher who loved everything ww2 related. And he loved to talk about General Patton. One memory sticks out to me even to this day, though, and it's about Patton's diversion that Kyle mentioned. According to my teacher, Patton was indeed sent as a distraction. However, the US also sent a bunch of inflatable tanks and airplanes with the platoon Patton was appointed to in order to make sure it looked like the main American attack was coming from Patton's location. So this means a couple nights before this big showdown the Germans were expecting between their general and Patton. A squad of US soldiers were sitting in an embankment inflating balloon tanks and airplanes. And positioning them in such a way to act as a force multiplier. Which has always stuck with me as a funny yet extremely tactically sound memory. (Edit: After some independent research, I've found that this story was real, and you can read up on it yourself. It's known as Operation Fortitude and Operation Quicksilver. Specifically Quicksilver III and Quicksilver VI)
I wonder what pattons reaction was when he saw his men weren’t gonna be dying in battle but pumping up balloons? “My fucking battalion is doing WHAT??? WHY THE FUCK AM I HERE IKE WHY DONT WE AIRDROP SOME CONDOMS OVER THE BEACH SO WE DONT CATCH THEIR SYPHILIS!!!”
Well yeah I thought most people knew this, the first step of D-Day was a huge ruse. You’ve probably seen the footage of them just appearing to flip over entire Sherman tanks lmao
Legitimately, the worst thing about Hirohito being allowed to continue being Emperor after WWII was that he wasn't just a figurehead like the Italian king that Mussolini controlled. Hirohito was all for the war, though I believe he too did not want Pearl Harbor to happen. That might be part of the reason he wasn't viewed by the world in general as such a twit as the Führer and Il Duce (more like Il Douche)
The Korean war was not a useless war, it payed off long term. South Korea is a major tech industry and economic power as well as a close ally of the US, it also allows the US to keep a major force in the China sea which is huge for having an impact on Asia or any wars to come.
They’re kind of committing cultural suicide though, in another hundred years North Korea will be able to just walk in because South Korea will be too small and old
@@dingus6317 You're not wrong yet at the same time they're doing a hell of a lot better then North Korea. That said: "North Korea will just be able to walk in" That's just a stupid thing to say considering South Korea is doubled in population right now compared to NK because they're so prosperous. You're also implying the west is going to let that happen.
Major Winters has to be one of the best combat leaders of all time….. tested himself in training performed under pressure and always loved and cared for his guys
58:07 Yeah there’s a fuck-ton: -The Navajo Wars -Pontiac’s Wars -The Texas Indian Wars -The Mexican American War -The Apache Wars -The Sioux Wars -The Rogue River Wars -The Comanche Campaign -Geronimo’s War -The Crazy Snake Rebellion -The North-West Rebellion -The Australian Frontier Wars -The South African War -The Anglo-Zulu War -The Italio-Ethiopian War -The War of The Three Kingdoms -The Civil War of Mandatory Palestine -The Chinese Communist Revolution -The Baptist War -The Xhosa Wars -Myanmar Civil War -German Invasion of Armenia
13:36 Lemme sperg out a moment. The original 8.8cm Flak 18 was developed as anti air artillery. They also came in the variant Flak 36, Flak 37 and Flak 41. It served both as AAA and as an ATG from 1940 literally to the bitter end in 1945. It was also mounted on the Elefant SPATG, the Sd.Kfz. 173 Jagdpanther and as the Pak. 43 on the Tiger II. It's one hell of a gun.
My grandfather fought consecutive days numbering 381 days. From Algeria to north africa across the Mediterranean and through Italy south to north. Made several beach landings, was pinned down for 1 month on a beach somewhere. I forger where. There was a breakout. The Wermacht had them pinned down as soon as they landed. Caught frostbite in his feet in the North Apinine mountains. In 2007 the VA gave him 60 years of back pay for frostbite. Sgt Major Hazel Boyce South Carolina National Guard 1/118 Field Artillery I have all his stuff he brought home, well half of it. 38 caliber Webley Nazi stuff / lots of old propaganda fliers etc...
@@thebrassmonkey100 I often think of what would happen today if our military had to call on America's 18 19 20 years olds. What if the young adults today were asked to serve. I'm prior service. I'm was Army and Airforce. I witnessed our military become watered down with new ways of training and new ways of thinking and a new generation of leaders. It went from being a service to others mindset to being a service to self mindset in the 8 years I served. Good soldiers are overlooked on promotion day time and time again. Gotta keep up the appearance of equal representation. Forget about being rewarded based in merit. I hate the internal atmosphere our military has created. Lots of backstabbing. Who remembers Blue Falcons? We even had a name for it. That's the modern military. Full of self worshipping egos and backstabbing ladder climbers.
I cry a little bit every time FPS Russia says "I think that's a 37mm" as the Sherman's main gun. 37mm is a pea shooter compared to the 75mm the Sherman really has and some models have been upgraded to a high-velocity 76mm called a firefly by the brits. 37mm would make an acceptable anti air gun... The Sherman fired a 15 pound projectile at at 1,600fps as opposed to the 37mm's 1.34 pounds at 2,000fps.
1:05:38 "These are all terrible" Try WW2 Eastern Front. I love Band of Brothers as much as the next guy but few places were worse to be at that time than the Eastern European front.
Well it's my understanding that Hitler only attacked Russia after he had invaded Poland and found Soviet production facilities with massive amounts of Armor that were poised there to invade Europe. Even in the immediate after math of the German invasion of Poland he waited after finding them. But then as Soviets began amassing men and material on the polish border he began to think they would invade. Also most of the railroads built by the soviets in Poland were Built on the European gauge of rail and not the soviet one. My point is that there is a myriad of factors that could be made to make the case for why they invaded.
Why would there have been soviet armor in poland? Germans and Soviets worked together on armor, and they had a pakt to invade poland together, the germans invaded from the west and the soviets invaded from the east. Why would the soviets invade poland if they had armor production there? Makes no sense at all.
I’m surprised at the number of German Submarines that were off the coast of the United States during WW2. The U.S. didn’t have “Blackouts of Cities” which the subs could see targets illuminated by the lights. My Dad didn’t talk too much about his service, but after a training exercise went bad for him: He was in Jacksonville Florida and flying as a Radioman and Gunner in a SBD, Dauntless Dive Bomber, and after making their bomb run, the engine lost power and they made an emergency landing. Both he and the pilot had to be cut out of the plane. After that incident, he flew in a PBY Catalina Seaplane as a Radioman and Gunner in the “Blister” of that plane. They Patrolled the Coast of Florida looking for enemy submarines and ships as well as performing rescue duties. The men and women that served during WW2 were the generation that saved the world from domination by Germany and Japan.
What's really astonishing to me is the amount of actual kids that served. I couldn't imagine being 16 and going off go fight in a world War. They truly are the greatest generation to ever exist
look up the Halifax Explosion a fire started on an ammo ship bound for europe and the telegraph operator stayed to warn incoming trains rather than flee
Major winters.. he wasn't just some "vet". Dude went from d-day to the mountain fortess.. he was apart of every Major battle that happened in europe during ww2... he has one of the most impressive resumes out of anyone out there. 101st air borne was there from day 1 to the end. His/their story is astonishing to say the very least, ain't no one today doing years straight of full on battle, he/his company was the real deal.
Kyle was talking about the Hellcat it seems more modern but it's actually from World War II and the difference between a tank destroyer and a tank is a couple technicalities but the biggest one for the Hellcat is it practically has no armor you can light it up with a 50 cal machine gun and everybody on board would be dead
Task force taffy is a gnarly story also. Samuel b roberts. Deepest wreck found also. More navy ships an sailors were lost at Okinawa than at pearl harbor.
For the Abrams section, you could shoot the tracks off, you could hit the barrel and bend it, you could hit the optics, there’s a shot trap on the front of the Abrams that could be hit but not likely, I’d bet an 88 could pierce the side of an Abrams, hell a 37mm could probably pierce the ass end of an Abrams, you wouldn’t go in guns blazing, you’d sit back 3000 meters and destroy targets before they even knew you were there, hell the best way to get the most out of timetraveling an Abrams back to WW2 is if you took it back to 1939 the true start of the war and give the Americans a few years to reverse engineer it before they joined the war.
Well said, I'd also like to add that the tank would still need to clear the cities and towns which means urban close quarter combat, if the m1 is supported by infantry then the chances of survival is better like Kyle said but I think they would still encounter problems from the air and from everything you commented.
And if your with other units supporting there's a chance you may just get hit by arty becuase you have to travel slow with the infantry or they can't really cover you @@DeltaCDN
@Andrew-xq7ni controlled bridges minefields, there's so much to consider really. Kyle was right you would still need a lot of support you can't do much alone.
@@DeltaCDNand even then you can get taken out by luck of the draw. Or even friendly fire if your running around at night time. Becuase you got alot of conscripts with no ability to see at night and you see a weird shaped huge tank you probably would assume it's just a huge German tank. And some German tanks did have early nvg to drive around at night
Pak 43 and Pak 44 AT guns had excellent penetration statistics, though your best bet is large caliber (5'' or larger weapon)howitzer fire against MBT's.
Give you an idea of how much U.S. servicemen hated the Japanese. My Grandfather on my Dad's side. Was a Marine in WW2 who fought in New Guinea. My Grandfather watched as another Marine went up to some Japanese prisoners, and executed everyone of those prisoners. Nobody said anything about it. That was just part of the Pacific war.
I don’t doubt it for a second. Japan has nearly wiped out that entire section of their history to where young people very rarely are educated on it. They don’t even know what a Nazi swastika even is a lot of the time, which is wild. They’ve been especially revisionist with what they did in Nanking. The Germans own up to what happened under Nazi rule, America owns up to the horrors we inflicted in Vietnam, but Japan is to this day a very different country in that regard. lol they really don’t enjoy talking about that point in history.
I love how when debating the tank, sniper, Roman legion scenarios they start to ask specifics "what range? How high is the hill you are on?" Dudes we are talking about time travel with weapons pretty sure the range or elevation of your position is completely up to you in this imaginary scenario. 😊 All good fun though.
Kyle I feel like you a biiit wrong on how the americans wasnt a tad bit monsterous although nowhere near as close as Japan was. In hindsight with stuff like nam, one wonders if there wasnt some muricans that took a few concubines in ww2.
The Abrams has more than one weapon system, doesn't have to rely on its cannon solely. It is mobile, eliminating the risk of being surrounded like Taylor insists would happen. If they were actually trying to zerg swarm you for some insane reason, you run them over. Woody thinking he could get more kills with a high-powered rifle than a modern tank is so incredibly stupid.
1:33:15 so would we say Eichmann got a fair trial despite the prosecutor being a Holocaust victim? Or are we of the opinion that Nazis don’t deserve fair trials? (I don’t even know if Israel enshrines the right to a fair trial)
Often thouse kamakazi attack were used becuase they had older planes that couldnt effecivly either dog fight or bomb. Also they they often didnt habe enough trained aviaters but its easyer to train a guy to lift off and go straight into a ship
The US actually did the Kamikaze thing first. Not as a planned suicide attack ofc, but if an american plane attacking japanese ships got damaged, and it was clear they wouldn't make it back, the choice was ditching in the water (wich would probably kill you anyway, either in the crash or because the japanese were not likely to rescue you), or flying your plane into a japanese ship to go out with a bang and maybe take out that ship. This tought the japanese how effective suicide attacks with planes were. The first japanese kamikaze attack was in late 1944. Long befor that some american pilots did it cause they didnt really have another choice in a damaged plane.
Family is German-Ukrainian. A majority of my greatgrandmothers family was killed by SS, her husband later in life was a veteran partisan and was 16 in 1945, they married in the mid 50's and he died in his 30's I believe from cancer. And my Greatgrandfather fought on the eastern front was wounded and was captured by the Americans near the end of the war on the western front. My German family will tell the stories of the war. For my Ukrainian family thier stories are impossible to hear, it's a better day if those times are never mentioned.
Late Night ER or something like that around 2004. 2-4am real footage of dude in smbulsnces bones sticking out faces slashed off ye that shit was literally too real for tv.
@@RJTradess It could actually be a number of reasons. Distancing from trauma, distancing from fighting for your country and then finding out the awful things it was doing, opposition to the war and sabotaging efforts that might make him likely to suffer reprisals. A lot of Hitler youth left after since Germany was a difficult place to live after the war. Or you could just tell some random kid on the internet that his Great Grandpa was definitely a genocidér.
You don't gotta love your nation but you gotta love the people in it. They are going to protect you , you have real enemies because of the soil you live on, not because of your beliefs . I hate these three men but we can agree on one thing. Or at least cry to the same thing. Patriotism
The Roman legion VS the sniper question is stupid, the sniper would be a mile or 2 away. They'd be setting up camp and then your when your having lunch buddy will be blown in half by the 50 gal. If you're terrified, you wouldn't know what the fuck iss going on. Everybody'd be scared shitless. Meanwhile the 50 cal is just blasting away.
Its is stupid indeed. If the Legion attacks you, and you manage to take out 100 of them befor they get to you, there still be like 5900 of them left to skewer you.
@@project_ronin4789 Cool. Does the roman legion in there have multiple bolt throwing ballistas that reach 600 meters easily like the real ones had? Imagine one sniper facing 6000 legionares and their artillery. Who will be the one intimidated? xD
1 tank would not be nearly enough, the nazis were the most technologically and scientifically advanced at that time, they could deal with it quickly which they would because it would be obvious it would a problem if left unchecked, my conclusion os they would destroy it the first battle it entered but the nazis would also lose that battle in terms of casualty and advancement
I have started and stopped watching PKA atleast 4-5 times in the last 4 years. The only thing that stops me from watching continuously is Woody. Every time I think I start to like him he says something pompous and idiotic.
Did the Japanese people living in Nagasaki and Hiroshima know that they were in an active war with the United States? How exactly is that similar to 9/11 in any conceivable way besides civilians dying? Which has occured during literally every single battle of every single war ever fought in human history. If you think less civilians were going to die over a several year long invasion if the Japanese mainland you are completely delusional. All you do by not dropping those bombs is ensure that not only do MORE civilians die, and probably worse before that, but so do hundreds of thousands of our own troops. I hate to break it to everyone, but when your at war with someone your obligation is to lose as few of YOUR people as possible. You do not have an obligation to the people your at war with to make sure you dont kill too many of them. If anything 9/11 is more similar to pearl harbor, since both acted as a "declaration" of war against the U.S. Even then the Japanese at least attacked a military target. Out of the three events, one of them is so obviously the most morally wrong one that its insane to ehek compare.
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Shoutout to major winters.
Shoutout sean ranklin
Curahee
Shoutout to colonel autumn
My grandpa served in the Pacific and one of his confirmed kills was a whale that his ship's crew mistook for a Japanese submarine.
I both love and hate the idea that someone, somewhere depth charged a fuckin humpback😂
It's true, I was there.
@@richcheckmakerI can see by your ww2 veteran hat
I bet there was a lot of confirmation in the water it was a whale when they hit it
Doubt it@@jacksong5896
"The barrel will lose its rifling" ah yes the rifled smoothbore
Not even 2 minutes in, and Kyle almost cried twice
Bruh Taylor got me dying by 1:30 “they’re so deep and alone 😢” I started dying laughing bro 😂
18 more episodes until he transitions
Damn so he’s not a psychopath like I thought
@@dewwwd3431 no no, he's definitely on the spectrum of sociopath. I wont go into details but it's channel lore.
@@paddington1670 yeah he gives me “I killed someone over nothing, but it’s not my fault they shouldn’t have made me angry” vibes
Listening to such heroic tales of sacrifice while watching Woody have a minor facial stroke 😅
@Spitsworthdoes woody have to be in every video that’s the real question we should be asking
@@caylumhenderson9396Foreal tho 😂 I skip every time he talks
My great grandfather fought in the battle of the bulge. I still have his helmet somewhere buried away with other random crap and it has a dent in it from some shrapnel hitting him after mortars blew up a tree nearby
My Grandfather was there, a D-Day replacement radio operator attached to an artillery reserve out of Nanticoke, PA.
Side note, one of my coworkers is obsessed with bowling. I said, "my grandfather was, too, but I think bowling was just his way of forgetting the liberation of Buchenwald." We both looked at each other and busted out laughing.
Can we show some respect for either the edit, or the timing of Taylor with the grandpa speech at the start! That was on point!
0:16 When the Band of Brothers music kicks in. I can’t 😂
Abrams has a 120mm smoothbore shooting fine stabilized rounds, it would never loose it's rifling.
Can’t lose what ya don’t have lol
Yeah one would need to have Rifling to lose it one would think
no they said it so it must be true
I wonder why they never rifled it, if its just not necesary or cost prohibitive
@@eriktruchinskas3747Puts too much spin on an APFSDS round and costs velocity. Can reduce its effectiveness at penetrating too.
I had a teacher who loved everything ww2 related. And he loved to talk about General Patton. One memory sticks out to me even to this day, though, and it's about Patton's diversion that Kyle mentioned. According to my teacher, Patton was indeed sent as a distraction. However, the US also sent a bunch of inflatable tanks and airplanes with the platoon Patton was appointed to in order to make sure it looked like the main American attack was coming from Patton's location. So this means a couple nights before this big showdown the Germans were expecting between their general and Patton. A squad of US soldiers were sitting in an embankment inflating balloon tanks and airplanes. And positioning them in such a way to act as a force multiplier. Which has always stuck with me as a funny yet extremely tactically sound memory. (Edit: After some independent research, I've found that this story was real, and you can read up on it yourself. It's known as Operation Fortitude and Operation Quicksilver. Specifically Quicksilver III and Quicksilver VI)
It was to convince the Reich we were attacking from Caliais. Operation Fortitude and Operation Bodyguard, I think.
Patton was the guy going to the hospital slapping sick soldiers cause he thought they were simulating right?
I wonder what pattons reaction was when he saw his men weren’t gonna be dying in battle but pumping up balloons?
“My fucking battalion is doing WHAT??? WHY THE FUCK AM I HERE IKE WHY DONT WE AIRDROP SOME CONDOMS OVER THE BEACH SO WE DONT CATCH THEIR SYPHILIS!!!”
Well yeah I thought most people knew this, the first step of D-Day was a huge ruse. You’ve probably seen the footage of them just appearing to flip over entire Sherman tanks lmao
17:45 The M1A1's main gun is smoothbore, this is for HEAT and sabot reasons.
This video helped me realize that not only does Woody fail to fundamentally understand the present but the past as well.
He’s such a smarmy bitch why is he on this show
It's really scary how twisted his historical "knowledge" (more like opinion) is.
Yeah woody is the ultimate dipshit on planet earth
People like him having the right to vote is why modern egalitarian democratic systems are fundamentaly flawed.
Genuinely despise him.
I spit my coffee everywhere within the first 15 seconds
thank god for pka clip channels
Love the intro 😂
Winter mouth moved but Taylor's voice came out and I LOST IT😂😂😂
"If you want to be a warrior... make sure you drink hot apple tea..." - Sam Hyde
What i got from these clips is that kyle really likes men in the military. Especially those Navy guys...
(Imsert military joke that very few civilians much less soldiers would understand here) I know right! That Kyle's a real homersensual
imagine next episode Finnster dresses up in BDUs
Legitimately, the worst thing about Hirohito being allowed to continue being Emperor after WWII was that he wasn't just a figurehead like the Italian king that Mussolini controlled. Hirohito was all for the war, though I believe he too did not want Pearl Harbor to happen. That might be part of the reason he wasn't viewed by the world in general as such a twit as the Führer and Il Duce (more like Il Douche)
I think he’s viewed positively because he lived so long and did so much after the war. He died in 1989 if I’m not mistaken
The Korean war was not a useless war, it payed off long term. South Korea is a major tech industry and economic power as well as a close ally of the US, it also allows the US to keep a major force in the China sea which is huge for having an impact on Asia or any wars to come.
They’re kind of committing cultural suicide though, in another hundred years North Korea will be able to just walk in because South Korea will be too small and old
@@dingus6317 You're not wrong yet at the same time they're doing a hell of a lot better then North Korea. That said:
"North Korea will just be able to walk in"
That's just a stupid thing to say considering South Korea is doubled in population right now compared to NK because they're so prosperous. You're also implying the west is going to let that happen.
I just realized this but Taylor looks like Bobby Singer from Supernatural 😂
Major Winters has to be one of the best combat leaders of all time….. tested himself in training performed under pressure and always loved and cared for his guys
If Taylor had been in ww2 he’s definitely sieging Bastogne with the boys of easy company.
He would have made the 14th member of the filthy 13 😂
He looks like the guy who shot himself accidently with the luger
Say what you will about Kyle but he's one hell of a patriot some times.
Imagine your country ruining your life over a plant then still being a patriot
Couldnt be me! Lmaoooo
@@darthralik9835imagine being that sad of a man.
@@darthralik9835wasn’t the country. It was the shitty government running it.
Good Goy.
but he’s gay
banger homie banger!!!!!
0:59 Hope you're restin' well with the rest of Easy Company Major Winters, CURAHEE!
58:07 Yeah there’s a fuck-ton:
-The Navajo Wars
-Pontiac’s Wars
-The Texas Indian Wars
-The Mexican American War
-The Apache Wars
-The Sioux Wars
-The Rogue River Wars
-The Comanche Campaign
-Geronimo’s War
-The Crazy Snake Rebellion
-The North-West Rebellion
-The Australian Frontier Wars
-The South African War
-The Anglo-Zulu War
-The Italio-Ethiopian War
-The War of The Three Kingdoms
-The Civil War of Mandatory Palestine
-The Chinese Communist Revolution
-The Baptist War
-The Xhosa Wars
-Myanmar Civil War
-German Invasion of Armenia
Lmfao the editing! Good stuffs
Glad you enjoyed it
7 million now. Wow. Inflation be affecting everything.
6 gorillion
Glad you liked my edit enough to put it first in your comp!
Thank you for your service.
13:36 Lemme sperg out a moment. The original 8.8cm Flak 18 was developed as anti air artillery. They also came in the variant Flak 36, Flak 37 and Flak 41. It served both as AAA and as an ATG from 1940 literally to the bitter end in 1945. It was also mounted on the Elefant SPATG, the Sd.Kfz. 173 Jagdpanther and as the Pak. 43 on the Tiger II. It's one hell of a gun.
My grandfather fought consecutive days numbering 381 days. From Algeria to north africa across the Mediterranean and through Italy south to north. Made several beach landings, was pinned down for 1 month on a beach somewhere. I forger where. There was a breakout. The Wermacht had them pinned down as soon as they landed. Caught frostbite in his feet in the North Apinine mountains. In 2007 the VA gave him 60 years of back pay for frostbite.
Sgt Major Hazel Boyce
South Carolina National Guard
1/118 Field Artillery
I have all his stuff he brought home, well half of it.
38 caliber Webley
Nazi stuff / lots of old propaganda fliers etc...
Dude that's legit cool as hell. The balls they had back then were immeasurable.
@@thebrassmonkey100
I often think of what would happen today if our military had to call on America's 18 19 20 years olds. What if the young adults today were asked to serve. I'm prior service. I'm was Army and Airforce. I witnessed our military become watered down with new ways of training and new ways of thinking and a new generation of leaders. It went from being a service to others mindset to being a service to self mindset in the 8 years I served. Good soldiers are overlooked on promotion day time and time again. Gotta keep up the appearance of equal representation. Forget about being rewarded based in merit. I hate the internal atmosphere our military has created. Lots of backstabbing. Who remembers Blue Falcons? We even had a name for it. That's the modern military. Full of self worshipping egos and backstabbing ladder climbers.
I cry a little bit every time FPS Russia says "I think that's a 37mm" as the Sherman's main gun. 37mm is a pea shooter compared to the 75mm the Sherman really has and some models have been upgraded to a high-velocity 76mm called a firefly by the brits. 37mm would make an acceptable anti air gun... The Sherman fired a 15 pound projectile at at 1,600fps as opposed to the 37mm's 1.34 pounds at 2,000fps.
1:05:38 "These are all terrible"
Try WW2 Eastern Front. I love Band of Brothers as much as the next guy but few places were worse to be at that time than the Eastern European front.
Pacific front was probably worse
I'll never be failed to be impressed by Taylor's timing on that
Well it's my understanding that Hitler only attacked Russia after he had invaded Poland and found Soviet production facilities with massive amounts of Armor that were poised there to invade Europe. Even in the immediate after math of the German invasion of Poland he waited after finding them. But then as Soviets began amassing men and material on the polish border he began to think they would invade. Also most of the railroads built by the soviets in Poland were Built on the European gauge of rail and not the soviet one. My point is that there is a myriad of factors that could be made to make the case for why they invaded.
Why would there have been soviet armor in poland? Germans and Soviets worked together on armor, and they had a pakt to invade poland together, the germans invaded from the west and the soviets invaded from the east. Why would the soviets invade poland if they had armor production there? Makes no sense at all.
@@hernerweisenberg7052yeah I’ve never heard this anywhere before
@@RJTradesscope harder, fairy.
I’m surprised at the number of German Submarines that were off the coast of the United States during WW2. The U.S. didn’t have “Blackouts of Cities” which the subs could see targets illuminated by the lights.
My Dad didn’t talk too much about his service, but after a training exercise went bad for him: He was in Jacksonville Florida and flying as a Radioman and Gunner in a SBD, Dauntless Dive Bomber, and after making their bomb run, the engine lost power and they made an emergency landing. Both he and the pilot had to be cut out of the plane.
After that incident, he flew in a PBY Catalina Seaplane as a Radioman and Gunner in the “Blister” of that plane. They Patrolled the Coast of Florida looking for enemy submarines and ships as well as performing rescue duties.
The men and women that served during WW2 were the generation that saved the world from domination by Germany and Japan.
What's really astonishing to me is the amount of actual kids that served. I couldn't imagine being 16 and going off go fight in a world War. They truly are the greatest generation to ever exist
“I think World War Two was my favorite war”
Phil Hartman, Small Soldiers
Small soldiers really depicts the horrors of war. Movie changed me.
look up the Halifax Explosion a fire started on an ammo ship bound for europe and the telegraph operator stayed to warn incoming trains rather than flee
I don't know if the clip is edited but if not Taylor somehow also got the pacing of the vet
Major winters.. he wasn't just some "vet". Dude went from d-day to the mountain fortess.. he was apart of every Major battle that happened in europe during ww2... he has one of the most impressive resumes out of anyone out there. 101st air borne was there from day 1 to the end. His/their story is astonishing to say the very least, ain't no one today doing years straight of full on battle, he/his company was the real deal.
17:45 the Abrams is a smooth bore it has no rifling
These are the absolute best interrupters.
Kyle was talking about the Hellcat it seems more modern but it's actually from World War II and the difference between a tank destroyer and a tank is a couple technicalities but the biggest one for the Hellcat is it practically has no armor you can light it up with a 50 cal machine gun and everybody on board would be dead
Task force taffy is a gnarly story also. Samuel b roberts. Deepest wreck found also. More navy ships an sailors were lost at Okinawa than at pearl harbor.
The main difference between a tank and a tank destroyer is a tank destroyer usually has a fixed gun not a turret also usually has a lower profile
thanks, tips
The late model King Tiger tank with the superior longer barreled 88mm gun had a reload of 6-8 rounds per minute
You can’t be qualified as a reloader in the m1 with anything slower than 7 second reload speed.
@@PhilipaCardanoz the 120mm round probably weighs more too
For the Abrams section, you could shoot the tracks off, you could hit the barrel and bend it, you could hit the optics, there’s a shot trap on the front of the Abrams that could be hit but not likely, I’d bet an 88 could pierce the side of an Abrams, hell a 37mm could probably pierce the ass end of an Abrams, you wouldn’t go in guns blazing, you’d sit back 3000 meters and destroy targets before they even knew you were there, hell the best way to get the most out of timetraveling an Abrams back to WW2 is if you took it back to 1939 the true start of the war and give the Americans a few years to reverse engineer it before they joined the war.
Well said, I'd also like to add that the tank would still need to clear the cities and towns which means urban close quarter combat, if the m1 is supported by infantry then the chances of survival is better like Kyle said but I think they would still encounter problems from the air and from everything you commented.
And if your with other units supporting there's a chance you may just get hit by arty becuase you have to travel slow with the infantry or they can't really cover you @@DeltaCDN
@Andrew-xq7ni controlled bridges minefields, there's so much to consider really. Kyle was right you would still need a lot of support you can't do much alone.
@@DeltaCDNand even then you can get taken out by luck of the draw. Or even friendly fire if your running around at night time. Becuase you got alot of conscripts with no ability to see at night and you see a weird shaped huge tank you probably would assume it's just a huge German tank. And some German tanks did have early nvg to drive around at night
Pak 43 and Pak 44 AT guns had excellent penetration statistics, though your best bet is large caliber (5'' or larger weapon)howitzer fire against MBT's.
11:42 Taylor dropping Kendrick lines
Band of Brothers is a masterpiece.
The Pacific is also fantastic, and Masters of the Air has been awesome thus far.
17:46 the M1 Abrams is smoothbore, no rifling
Kyle is probably talking about tarawa, a bloody battle for a small atoll
56:38 Japan was worse than Germany in some ways in WWII, unit 731 and the rape of Nanking to name just two examples. I had to fast forward here smh…
2:31:50 shiettttt went through a whole rabbet whole of the great wars 😂😂
Give you an idea of how much U.S. servicemen hated the Japanese.
My Grandfather on my Dad's side. Was a Marine in WW2 who fought in New Guinea. My Grandfather watched as another Marine went up to some Japanese prisoners, and executed everyone of those prisoners. Nobody said anything about it. That was just part of the Pacific war.
I don’t doubt it for a second.
Japan has nearly wiped out that entire section of their history to where young people very rarely are educated on it.
They don’t even know what a Nazi swastika even is a lot of the time, which is wild.
They’ve been especially revisionist with what they did in Nanking.
The Germans own up to what happened under Nazi rule, America owns up to the horrors we inflicted in Vietnam, but Japan is to this day a very different country in that regard.
lol they really don’t enjoy talking about that point in history.
We fought the wrong side - General Patton
Patton was insane
I’d much rather have what we did over the past 80 years than fascism spreading across the world
Are you slow @thomas8733
@@SavingPvtBryan32do you have anything intelligent to say about my comment or are you only capable of using insults? What makes you think I am a slow?
@@thomasb8733 what makes you think I’m a slow 🤌
Christ Taylor had a massive glow up didn’t he? The beard turned him from a big ass 12 year old into a giga chad adult
1:59:00 because Canada and Poland think the Geneva convention is the Geneva checklist
I love how when debating the tank, sniper, Roman legion scenarios they start to ask specifics "what range? How high is the hill you are on?"
Dudes we are talking about time travel with weapons pretty sure the range or elevation of your position is completely up to you in this imaginary scenario. 😊
All good fun though.
Ngl i teared up
Kyle I feel like you a biiit wrong on how the americans wasnt a tad bit monsterous although nowhere near as close as Japan was.
In hindsight with stuff like nam, one wonders if there wasnt some muricans that took a few concubines in ww2.
Kyle sounds crazy different in old episodes
I still wonder, did you edit the first minute or was taylor just fucking spot on with the quote? It literally looks lipsynched.
The Abrams has more than one weapon system, doesn't have to rely on its cannon solely. It is mobile, eliminating the risk of being surrounded like Taylor insists would happen. If they were actually trying to zerg swarm you for some insane reason, you run them over.
Woody thinking he could get more kills with a high-powered rifle than a modern tank is so incredibly stupid.
1:52:24 incredibly based Kyle moment
I would definitely say WWII is type 2 fun.
"PKA talks about WW2" and immediately starts with Korean War and WW1. 😂😂
SAME THING
um... @@paddington1670
Can't armour tracks and predict artillery/ aircraft bombings/anti tank mines ect
Combined arms is a hell of a thing
Abrams would be swamped
If woody says I rock one more time
Forgot how plump Kyle got lol.
Wouldnt the M1 Abrahams still get effed up by air strikes
You are getting straight up bombed if you show up in an m1 Abraham
Kyle is insane to suggest one modern tank would be a major advantage in ww2. Mr. Gun-guy seems to be ignorant to the weapons the otherside had
“Shooting towards them” Kyle stated many times they was behind him just too close for his comfort woody is so damn annoying
He really is 😂
That woody speach about Iraq didn’t end well
1:33:15 so would we say Eichmann got a fair trial despite the prosecutor being a Holocaust victim? Or are we of the opinion that Nazis don’t deserve fair trials? (I don’t even know if Israel enshrines the right to a fair trial)
Often thouse kamakazi attack were used becuase they had older planes that couldnt effecivly either dog fight or bomb. Also they they often didnt habe enough trained aviaters but its easyer to train a guy to lift off and go straight into a ship
The US actually did the Kamikaze thing first. Not as a planned suicide attack ofc, but if an american plane attacking japanese ships got damaged, and it was clear they wouldn't make it back, the choice was ditching in the water (wich would probably kill you anyway, either in the crash or because the japanese were not likely to rescue you), or flying your plane into a japanese ship to go out with a bang and maybe take out that ship. This tought the japanese how effective suicide attacks with planes were. The first japanese kamikaze attack was in late 1944. Long befor that some american pilots did it cause they didnt really have another choice in a damaged plane.
The abrams is smooth bore there is no rifling
17:16 😂😂
Family is German-Ukrainian. A majority of my greatgrandmothers family was killed by SS, her husband later in life was a veteran partisan and was 16 in 1945, they married in the mid 50's and he died in his 30's I believe from cancer. And my Greatgrandfather fought on the eastern front was wounded and was captured by the Americans near the end of the war on the western front. My German family will tell the stories of the war. For my Ukrainian family thier stories are impossible to hear, it's a better day if those times are never mentioned.
Why avoid history just because your family was forced to live it? Embrace it so you learn how to avoid it.
Late Night ER or something like that around 2004. 2-4am real footage of dude in smbulsnces bones sticking out faces slashed off ye that shit was literally too real for tv.
10:17 will you be. My kaishakunin
My Great Grandfather was full German and left Germany to go to Mexico after the war we still don’t know the reason he fled
I’m pretty sure you know exactly why lol there’s only one reason for that dude your grandpa was a Not See
@@RJTradess It could actually be a number of reasons. Distancing from trauma, distancing from fighting for your country and then finding out the awful things it was doing, opposition to the war and sabotaging efforts that might make him likely to suffer reprisals. A lot of Hitler youth left after since Germany was a difficult place to live after the war. Or you could just tell some random kid on the internet that his Great Grandpa was definitely a genocidér.
58:42 woody this didn’t age well
Kyle is way funnier than Joe Rogan
You don't gotta love your nation but you gotta love the people in it. They are going to protect you , you have real enemies because of the soil you live on, not because of your beliefs . I hate these three men but we can agree on one thing. Or at least cry to the same thing. Patriotism
God I’m so fucking stupid I was about to look for part 1
ww1 comp coming soon
Truly retarded, and you should be proud of that ✊
Do you guys think Tim Kennedy believes this stuff? I go back and forth
“I’m not gonna let the Russians get blondie” -Kyle
rip Josh
DR. LA LA LA LA LAAAH.
The Roman legion VS the sniper question is stupid, the sniper would be a mile or 2 away. They'd be setting up camp and then your when your having lunch buddy will be blown in half by the 50 gal. If you're terrified, you wouldn't know what the fuck iss going on. Everybody'd be scared shitless. Meanwhile the 50 cal is just blasting away.
Its is stupid indeed. If the Legion attacks you, and you manage to take out 100 of them befor they get to you, there still be like 5900 of them left to skewer you.
@hernerweisenberg7052 there's an anime called gate and one thing it shows really well is how scary it is to have no way to retaliate against guns
@@project_ronin4789 Cool. Does the roman legion in there have multiple bolt throwing ballistas that reach 600 meters easily like the real ones had? Imagine one sniper facing 6000 legionares and their artillery. Who will be the one intimidated? xD
1 tank would not be nearly enough, the nazis were the most technologically and scientifically advanced at that time, they could deal with it quickly which they would because it would be obvious it would a problem if left unchecked, my conclusion os they would destroy it the first battle it entered but the nazis would also lose that battle in terms of casualty and advancement
In Saving Private Ryan the German who is spared at the radio station is the one who shoots Captain Miller.
No it’s not 😂
@@Coltydabrewski Watch it again, 100% it's the guy from the radio station. He even calls out Upham's name right before Upham shoots him.
PKA talking about Jews but ignoring the fact that 114 countries have gave them the boot
You watched a Hathcock video 2 years ago and now you’re acting like you’ve never heard of him.. You’re not who I thought you were.
I love these guys but damn, they do not know this part of history.
Time traveler to fight in ww2 yea id do it but it wouldn't be on the American side lol
I have started and stopped watching PKA atleast 4-5 times in the last 4 years. The only thing that stops me from watching continuously is Woody. Every time I think I start to like him he says something pompous and idiotic.
badly remembered history
Did the Japanese people living in Nagasaki and Hiroshima know that they were in an active war with the United States? How exactly is that similar to 9/11 in any conceivable way besides civilians dying? Which has occured during literally every single battle of every single war ever fought in human history. If you think less civilians were going to die over a several year long invasion if the Japanese mainland you are completely delusional. All you do by not dropping those bombs is ensure that not only do MORE civilians die, and probably worse before that, but so do hundreds of thousands of our own troops. I hate to break it to everyone, but when your at war with someone your obligation is to lose as few of YOUR people as possible. You do not have an obligation to the people your at war with to make sure you dont kill too many of them. If anything 9/11 is more similar to pearl harbor, since both acted as a "declaration" of war against the U.S. Even then the Japanese at least attacked a military target. Out of the three events, one of them is so obviously the most morally wrong one that its insane to ehek compare.