General Slim speaks at Fourteenth Army reunion (1947)
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General William Slim makes a speech at a reunion of the 14th Army at Royal Albert Hall
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SLATE INFORMATION: The 14th Army Meet Again in London
ENGLAND: London: City of Westminster: Royal Albert Hall:
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ALBERT HALL 14th Army meet in the Albert Hall. Sung to by Vera Lynn and adressed by Gen. Slim
MILITARY BRITISH 14th Army meet in Albert Hall for Re-union. Shots of Jungle shots (very good)
SLIM Maj-Gen Gen Slim addresses 14th Army re-union in Albert Hall
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reunion, General, Generals, speech, Burma, speeches, veterans
Background: General William Slim makes a speech at a reunion of the 14th Army at Royal Albert Hall
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Slim combined the best attributes of a leader: he always had a plan, both strategic and tactical, he worked hard to prepare and train his men to carry out his plans, he didn't keep them on the front lines until they fell apart, he studied how to improve military operations in a very challenging environment characterized by sketchy logistics and geographic barriers--and he made it a point to meet his troops as much as possible. It's not a surprise his men loved him. All around, he was the best of the Allied WWII generals.
The best! agreed.
Slim sexually abused children.
Plus, and I was surprised by this, men of all ranks who came close to him in person say that he was more impressive than they expected despite his friendly manner. He was our Grant without the cigars.
General Slim was one of the finest British generals in British history.
Slim sexually abused children.
What a commander!
Yes the best.
My father who fought in Burma had the utmost admiration for General Slim
Terrific leader. My great-uncle fought in the 14th Army with Slim, whose book, Defeat Into Victory, is one of the best military memoirs ever written.
I am going to ask the local library to get it for me with the library loan program.
My uncle was in the CBI theater. He was a guy from a little mining town in Nevada. He was very much impressed with the British people he knew. He picked up British mannerisms and phrases, often repeating them to us. A hot day was "Beastly weather," said in a British accent : -)
One of our best generals, yet few people have heard of him. Which gives a clue as to his self effacing personality. Unlike some I could mention.
Slim not Montgomery was Britain's greatest WW2 General!
@@vanjimbo He did twice as much with nowhere near the resources of Montgomery. As far as I know, unlike Montgomery, never a defeat.
Yes agreed.
I think he's got a strong claim as the best Allied WWII general, not just British. His campaign wasn't won by overwhelming force, as in the West, but by technical ingenuity, good planning and toughness. But still - I think the reason he's not that well known is that the Burma campaign itself isn't that well known; plus, it must be admitted - in the scheme of things it wasn't that important. The American defeat of Japan would have happened even without it, and the territories won back were independent within a few years.
It's very interesting to see / hear him speak, even for a couple of minutes. Tells you more about someone than any amount of writing.
@@dp-sr1fd Slim was defeated 'comprehensively', as he said himself, in the first phase of the Burma campaign. Admittedly, anything else would have been a miracle in the circumstances. And I'm not sure you can say Monty was ever defeated - frustrated, yes. Or in other words, perhaps tactically, but not strategically.
My Grandfather fought in the Forgotten 14th. He survived but I unfortunately never met him as he passed before I was born.
What a humble man!
He was also one of the few British that both understood and took care of logistics for his Army.
I do enjoy the speech from General Slim.
REspect to a fantastic general, army and set of squaddies and i have just seen my dad
Best commander of ww2
A great Army!
I'm just reading his war memoir. What an honest, clear thinking man.
Slim sexually abused children.
@@MarkHarrison733 Liar
@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- He abused many children in Australia.
My Grandads cousin and a fact I didn't find out until it was too late to ask him more about this family link sadly.
I believe the 14th had the most Victoria Crosses of any British army .
The british who fought the Japanese soldiers in the burma campaign, consider them excellent fighting men, highly disciplined motivated soldiers brutality disciplined under the japanese code of Bushido, and indoctrinated with constant anti western teaching that the japaneses were a superior race and the white race were weak, underlying this training they also experience the barbaric nature and treatment to captured allied prisoners of war,
After 1942 nobody surrendered to japanese forces, certainty the british soldiers in the Burma war knew there fate if captured deep in the jungle, they fought till they dropped, no mercy was shown to the japanese soldier specially during the retreat by the japanese army pushed back by the british 14th army under general slim, when they came across british soldiers captured in early battles , they seen what the japanees left for the advancing british/indian forces mutilated desecrated bodies, at the end of the war my grandad who fought in the Burma war in the 14Th army, under what is consider britians greatest general field Marshall slim came home. From what I was told about him he was a very quite man and never spoke of the war when he passed away and all his belongings from the war they found small box full of war medals one was the Burma star awarded to all who served in the that conflict, the brutality of war throughout the ages of mankind ...
Did you know that there were only 2 british divisions in Burma. 80% of the 14th army troops were from india in about 14 indian divisions
Why wasn't this entire event filmed, in whole, for posterity? Does it exist?
I would guess for private reasons, or because of how things were in those days. Doubtlessly, their would have been more filmed, then cut, but still more lying about after. Could have been used, lost, destroyed or so on, though if they have this bit, some more is out there, though who it belongs to i cant say.
For my money it's the Duke of Wellington, then Bill Slim as the finest military commanders in British history. Second to the man that defeated Napoleon ain't bad.
I think Kutusow, Schwarzenberg and Blücher had a few words about that,
@@thodan467 the key words were 'British history'. I agree those gentlemen you mentioned were excellent but they were not British. Having said that, I live in an ex mining area and the coal mines were named at the whim of the owners, and the villages that sprung around them were names after the mine. Blucher is a village two miles away from me.
@@ronhall9394
Second to the man that defeated Napoleon ain't bad.
Napoleon was defeated in russia and maybe at Leipzig
Mountbatten sent a recorded message, why didn’t he show up? Anyone know.
He was Viceroy of India at that time. He was in Delhi