Last King Tiger Attack West - March 1945
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- As the US 3rd Armored Division fought its way towards Paderborn in late March 1945, trying to complete the encirclement of the Ruhr Pocket, one of its task forces was ambushed by a King Tiger battalion. In the resulting battle, King Tigers managed to smash up most of the task force and ended the action with the tragic shooting that took the life of the 3rd Armored's popular commander, Major-General Maurice Rose.
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Any time you hear "troops from the Eastern Front", you know these men aren't playing games. They cut their teeth in some of the fiercest combat seen anywhere in Europe and were very experienced. Combine that with the practically impervious frontal armor of the Tiger II and it's enormous gun and you have a nightmare scenario if you're in a Sherman.
😂fucking german idiots, wehrmacht would have surrendered, cause they had at least some braincells left. fucking SS killing so much civilians at the end of the war.
and yet we will still have people in the comments thinking they are military experts praise the sherman to high heavens haha
@@fosphor8920 if the king tiger doesnt break down on the way to the battlefield...
...my guy, 1. How reliable were king tigers again? What use is a broken tank in a battle?
2. Im sorry, does a medium not being able to overcome, not just a heavy tank but a HEAVY heavy tank somehow make it not worthy of praise? Isnt that literally how its supposed to work? Isnt that why the entire concept of a Heavy tank exist?
you people who champion this overrated German army just never seem to have a grasp on the entire picture when it comes to WW2 armor and the concepts that shaped it.
@@fosphor8920 depends though....sherman was more effective than it gets post war credit for and the Tigers reputations grow larger.
You'd think with all the ww2 content out there, it would be all but impossible to produce new stories. Mark, however, continues to provide unique and fascinating stories that I've never heard about. Amazing stuff, keep up the great work, Mark!
Yes sir thank you Mark so much for all of your history teachings. I’ve learned much from your channel.
He’s told this story before but not in this detail, believe at the time he said he will do a in-depth video later, here it is
This clash is referenced in the book The Last 100 Days.
Not at all, it's just that the WW2 content is all the same stories, over and over again. Especially where the Americans are concerned. So sick of Normandy '45 and Monte Cassino, but that's all you get. Try History Hustle, a smaller channel with tons of content about a WW2 you've never heard. I like all the Axis Minor content, super interesting. Also stuff like "Mexico in WW2", I was like, really? Mexico was in WW2? And on whose side?
Mark Felton is the best historian ever
I was based in Paderborn for many years. Had a battlefield tour of all the key locations in the area and stood at the location of General Rose's demise. A fascinating story...
Based as? A potato peeler?
Is there a monument the spot and easy to find?
@@KolyaNickD A monument to a foreign invader? Surely not!
My father was based in Lippstadt. I was a child - don't remember any battlefield visits, unfortunately.
@@DrLoverLover What's with the saltiness, someone pee in your cornflakes this morning?
Running into a King tiger battalion that late in the war must have quite a shock to those American troops. Brave men.
The chance of it happening was practically zero at this point of the war. And it was zero after this engagement.
During the battle around Kassel the US ran into 7 factory fresh King Tigers again. With similar results as in Paderborn.
Even on VE day the last King Tigers were still fighting in the streets of Berlin.
Brave, sure. Being too hasty to make sure he got his part of the glory. Maybe a bit of that too. Well, people remember him now, just not as the liberator of the town.
@@Alan.livingstonwho? Rambling much?
@@DrLoverLover Well Mr lover. The video is primarily about General Rose. Felton points out the Rose was near the tip of the spear because he wanted to be one of the first into the town to reap the glory. Old mate who wrote the original comment was saying that the Americans were very brave. I was saying yes, they were brave, but they were also hasty which means the general was killed rather than getting a promotion.
I’m sure you’re clever enough to have figured all that out by yourself.
I'm from Paderborn and I never heard anything about this battle until I stumbled across another history channel here on RUclips just recently after 40 years...
I was stationed in Achaffenburg for 3 years. I knew there was a battle there. But I didn't know till fifty years later when I read Felix Sparks book the whole city was almost leveled! I saw the bullet holes in the sides of buildings and thought that was the damage. Those were the surviving buildings!
@@grayharker6271Have you read about task force Baum? I believe the task force started from Aschaffenburg.
@@djmech3871 nope, but I'll look into it.
40 years ?
@@tavish4699 4 x 10 = 40 years
You know it's a great day when an episode drops!!!
Boy u hav a boring days
Dr Felton I see your heart on this post.Was 83rd armored recon leading 3rd armored at Paderborn??My grandad was in company B and is buried so I can't ask him
I know, life suddenly has new meaning, colours are brighter and the air is full of bird song. Thank heavens for Mr Felton!
Hats off Mr Felton, you've done it again, the pills go straight back in the bathroom cabinet along with the razor blades, Mark Felton has released another video!!
Ive been watching mark Felton documentaries for a while now but this one seems to be different its as if mark has transformed his historical narrative into a suspense film...you can definitely feel it in this one
Exactly, i miss some important details… Were was Rose burried? Highest ranking American that was killed. What happened with the rest of the crew? And so on…
March '45 and this happened. What a waste of lives.
Yes indeed! War is all Fun and Games (and glorious medals and honors) until someone pokes an eye out and shoots a general 17 times, killing him instantly!
"All wars are bankers wars. " Ron Paul
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No one -- on either side -- wants to be the last man to die in a war
In fairness, battles like these are textbook example of the Pyrrhic Victory concept. Phyrrhus was a general who kept on fighting even after the rest of his country had already fallen to the Romans, so while his achievement was worthy of praise from a military standpoint, it ultimately proved itself useless as the war had already been lost.
In this case, by 1945, the further away you were from Berlin, the lesser the chances of having a clear chain of command were. We know for a fact that the Germans kept fighting until the bitter end because nobody wanted to tell them that the war was lost, the orders were to keep fighting because they were "winning", while the high ranking officers were either fleeing or ending their lives to avoid capture.
The US lost the most men in the last two months of the war in Europe.
@@llywrch7116 Not the first. Nor the second....
The videos about unknown battles are your best !
You're* not your lol and he isn't the best as he has made mistakes in his videos in the past. Still he is great to listen to, we all make mistakes.
@@michaelhawkins7389you’re a real intellectual aren’t you. “Your” in this instance is grammatically correct. How embarrassing for you, random internet loser
@@michaelhawkins7389 it definitely is your. You're wrong.
I see no "your" or "you're" in the original comment - maybe it was edited in the days of yore. :P
@@toolfan58 I can see that ENGLISH isn't your native language.
My comment is in response to @doktor_spritz344 who said "The videos about unknown battles are your best !"
it's battles are you're best!* NOT your.
Your: Your is used when something belongs to you.
You're: You're is short for "You are"
"You're now in London"
Americans yelled "Tiger" when they encountered any German tank. This time they encountered actual Tigers and yelled "American tanks!"
A mark 4 without side armour looks a bit like a Tiger to the inexperienced.
Love the use of a RC Tiger 2 for some of the clips!
I noticed that too.
@@scottmccloud9029 Yeah, at 3:39
Let me tell you, even that RC King Tiger is terrifying! Can you imagine running into the genuine article!
Really? I thought it lowered the standard.
@@gobalmighty7463 Overused, was my thought.
The best of days to youtube, is when there is a completly fresh video from Mark Felton!
WOW!!! Mark, if General Rose had his hands up he most likely would have survived the incident. How a series of fatal mistakes took his life at the war's end.
yes, don't reach for your gun if you don't know what the man aiming at you is saying 😓
Doubt it
Germans weren’t taking POWs
Really? I think not, maybe those Germans could have finished him off as well instead will taking him POW anymore, even if he didn't make a slight move, would they really care about you, General or not? they are for their fatherland or Shitler either just wants to kill more, I guess.
(I take no side, no opinion about it, I just have a doubt.)
@@tomhenry897 rose was only GI killed in the group he moved for his pistol for some reason a fatal mistake your discernment is lacking
@@tomhenry897 They were. Regularly. Why do you think they had to build so many Stalags?
My Saturday afternoon is complete! Cheers, Mark!
This is classic Mark Felton content right here and we love it
... just bone chilling history... on a side note, I'm an officer in the merchant fleet 🇱🇺 and have had a grand uncle who also was. Although he was nautical/navigational as where I'm engineer/nautical. He was torpedoed near Murmansk while transporting goods to Russia for the lend lease program. Sad story ship sank beneath the waves, many good man perished, but Wim (my grand uncle) survived. He lived on to tell me about the horrors of war, about dead comrades floating near you. We've should have learned, the things we still see today are in my not so humble opinion exactly the same as this tank battle or any other conflict anywhere. PEACE
I was aware of General Rose's fate, but this story fills in so much more details. A most interesting and fascinating video! Thank you Dr. Felton!
And to die within weeks of the wars end, that blows chunks! 😥
Nobody knew the end of the war was weeks away, but I get your point.
I was thinking the same thing , not a good time to be taking huge risk !
@@MrSymbolic7 Gen. Rose led from the front from Normandy, Siegfried Line , Battle of the Bulge. Besides he already been reported KIA in 1918' during his earlier combat service from WW1 Meuse-Argonne offensive with the 353rd Infantry Regiment.
Judging by the helmet the story dont match at all, thats 2 exits back to front not as decribed shot from above a king tiger and down 3m+1m sitting on the turret ring, the physics dont match either.
I always feel extra sorry for those who lost their lives in early 1945. Imagine getting so far and also being so close to reaching the end of the war only to snuff it with a month or so left...😪
I feel the same way about those who lost their lives before even getting into combat, like in the D-Day airdrops.
Again a gripping well researched story about a coragious US general who had the bad luck of running into an experienced well led German force making a lat point before being overwhelemd by superior forces.
And on the other side of the spectrum is the Coward Tim Walz.
@@BA-gn3qb TAMPON TIM .......🤣
In all fairness the Wehrmacht on the Western Front was in total collapse and Allied troops advanced at a rate of 50km a day. The chances of a well led well equipped German force were practically nil at this point in time, and it did make sense for a general in command of a spearhead unit to be close to the rapidly moving frontline. The general was well liked by his soldiers and they did not take kindly to the SS for DELETING him. Lots of unfortunate SS grunts surrendering to 3rd Armored paid the price for that later on.
@@BA-gn3qb Because Walz never saw a battlefield?
He only served in the Army National Guard what's also honorable.
The only weapons which Vance has used during his duties were paper and pencil.
If Gustav Hasford would be still alive he would read Vance the Levites.
The general came across more as a glory hunting fool.
My Grandfather served in the 3rd Armored Division and he thought the world of General Rose. Ironically, my maternal Grandmother's maiden name was Koltermann.
it is bad that German and Americans fought each other.
A whole lotta babies have been born at Rose Medical Center here in Denver CO. I think thats a great tribute to Maj Gen Rose. Eisenhower even was at the groundbreaking ceremony.
General Rose's helmet used to be in the Third Armored Division's museum in Frankfurt, West Germany. When I was 1st posted to the 3AD in the 80's, we had to go to the museum tour. I had heard that most of the museum was transferred to the Patton museum. Great content, sir! Keep up the good work!
9:37 - Law enforcement would call that a "furtive gesture".
Love Marks Videos better then TV shows and more info in them keep up great Videos man
Great Video! Thanks Mark!
Mark, Excellent coverage of the 3rd Armored Division's final push. My Dad was a Sherman Tank driver with 83rd Recon Battalion 3rd Armored Div. As a kid (and even now as an adult) i would read cover to cover the "Spearhead in Europe" book given to all the troops that were in the 3rd Armored during WW2. I knew the fate of General Rose but Mark your video gave details leading up to why his HQ detachment encountered the German tanks. General Rose was known and admired by his men because he "lead from the front" instead of hanging back at a safe distance.
Fine work, as always, Mr. Felton
That was the last real action led by Walter Model. He was still capable of doing some real damage.
Hitler's fireman
Mark has such a high video output I’m starting to think that he made up a significant amount of WWII for RUclips content and it actually ended in 1943.
Thank you, Mark, for creating such a clear picture of this.
My father was a sergeant of infantry in the 63rd Infantry Division well to the south under Patch’s 7th Army. His company was surrounded near Güdigen, Germany in March 1945. a Lieutenant in his division earned the Medal of Honor in April 1945. Many Germans fought to the bitter end and many Yanks had no mercy for their SS counterparts. The war was over except for the fanatics. No one wanted to be the last to die in a war already decided beyond any doubt. Makes one wonder if the Germans were later killed in revenge….. another great video by PhD Felton.
Sicher. Siehe Rheinwiesen Lager.
Hat mein Vater mit knapp 18 überlebt.
Hat mit erzählt, wie sich die Ami Schweine aufgeführt haben: nix zu fressen und zu trinken, und Gefangene teilweise erschlagen und erschossen.
Dem Roten Kreuz wurde der Zugang verwehrt.
Soviel zu unseren "Befreiern"
Tiger tanks name itself gives shiver in the spine. Appearance itself gives shiver to enemies. Still powerful like our T-90 tanks. Great invention by the Germans about 80 years ago. Salute to the Tiger .
"The only way I have to keep them Tigers busy is to let them shoot holes in me." -- Oddball Rest easy Donald Sutherland
Mark, march 1945 rhur pocket is my favourite aspect of ww2 how they trapped Walther model etc I didn’t even know about king tigers. !!! Brilliant video again
Another Fantastic Felton Production
Another embellishment!!!!!
Love your narration 🤝
Never heard of this attack before. Super interesting.
Sounds like a tactical masterpiece of the german tank battailion. Risky but very well executed.
Having a little fire going, made coffee, roasting some meat, dr.Felton drops an excellent vid again.. man .. Life is Good 👍
Where are you from, sir?
I’m late for the history lesson today. My punishment will be to watch, listen, and like the video. Greetings from Michigan, hope everyone is well.
Thanks Dr Felton, your videos are great.
Top quality content! 👌
Love your vids Mark!✨🙌🏼
Whoohoo. A lazy, sunny Saturday afternoon, kettle is boiling and Mark drops a new video. Life is good.😊
I am from Paderborn. My late Grandmother told me about this, because she was in that area at that time and saw those ad hoc units. (SS Brigade Westfalen) they where mostly put together at Sennelager, wich is just around the corner from here.
The reason war history is so fascinating is that nobody fighting knows when or how it will end.
Huh?
Just bought a King Tiger model kit last week and even looking at a scaled down version, it's a monster. Can't imagine how terrifying it would have been to come up against one in actual combat!
Another fantastic video with unparalleled information and visual aids for references.
Hauptmann Wolfgang Koltermann was born in 1917 in Schönlanke (now Trzcianka, Poland) and died in 1994 aged 77 in Augsburg, Bavaria having survived the war as a highly decorated veteran.
MG Maurice Rose was the only American armored division commander to be KIA during the war.
Rose was also the highest ranking Jewish American officer to be killed in combat during WWII in the European Theater. American 'dog tags' of that time were stamped with name, rank, service number, blood type and religion, if desired. Many Jewish personnel who served in Europe either omitted their religion from the dog tag or chose another religion in place of 'J' for Jewish. Rose chose to have 'P' for 'Protestant' stamped on his dog tags, for obvious reasons. After the war there was some suspicion that the Germans had captured Rose, learned he was Jewish and murdered him for that reason. The US Army Judge Advocate General's office placed Leon Jaworski in charge of the investigation into Rose's death. Jaworski concluded that there was no evidence that Rose was killed because of his religion. It appears that the Germans who were present when Rose was killed were not even aware that he was a general. Jaworski himself would make for a good video. During WWII Jaworski prosecuted German POWs for murdering a fellow German 'traitor'. Jaworski also prosecuted black American service personnel accused of murdering an Italian POW. After the war Jaworski , who was Jewish, refused to be involved in the Nuremberg Trials on the grounds that the prosecution was based on laws that did not exist at the time the alleged crimes were committed. On November 1, 1973, Jaworski became the Special Prosecutor in the Watergate scandal investigating then sitting president Richard Nixon.
We have a hospital here in Denver that is named after general Rose .
Amazing content as usual Dr Felton! Keep the great videos coming! :)
Imagine how nerve wrecking it must had been for those 3rd Armoured boys who survived since Normandy months ago. Hoping to get out the war alive in the final days to then have that happen.
My dad is one of them and he sitting here right next to me at this very moment!
Another Mark Felton production about a battle I have never even heard of. Thanks again.
Thank you for another great video.
As a Pole who grew up elsewhere and only recently learning of my uncle who was forcibly conscripted into the German army at 19, I would love to learn more of the fate of these men and where they were sent, who they fought?
My father was somewhat luckier, after being imprisoned by the Soviets he made it to fight in the British Army, across the Middle East and most notably, Monte Cassino.
But the fate of the occupied conscripts is mostly a blank to me.
As a postscript to an earlier post and a thanks to Dr. Felton for the ❤, my mother who rode out the occupation, celebrated her centenary. A metaphorical two fingers to the Nazis who tried several times, but never got her.
I love your videos on WW2 and trust you as a historian. Please keep up that high standrad. The details of your warstories is amazing. Thank you.
Love from Portugal
Many Thanks Dr.Felton, as always your outstanding content makes us very pleased.
I did my AOBC at Knox. Was lucky to have spent a lot of time in the Patton Museum, plus I had access to its motorpool where it kept a lot of German armor that was being restored and not on exhibit. General Rose's helmet was there. Sad.
My father was there in a 3rd armored M24 Chaffee and he always said the loss of Rose was devastating to them.
Thank you for making my weekend ❤
Thanks for another great presentation, Professor. And congrats - I am seeing the views climb as I watch - 14,124 in TWO hours since this upload!
General Rose was the highest ranking Allied officer to lose his life in combat in WW2.
There’s a very good book called “The Panzer Killers” about the 3rd armored and specifically Gen. Rose. It recounts this whole battle in greater detail and is a fascinating look into the working of the 3rd armored division and its officer corps.
Glad there is no Warthunder Publicity in this Documentary. Calling Warthunder a "realistic Game" is doing a disservice to Dr.Felton`s serious work.
If it helps Dr. Felton pay some bills, so what?
WT used to be realistic, for an mmo anyway. Sincerely - an old guard.
I live in Etteln, the last headquarter of General Rose. The US armoured columns made good progress from Marburg but couldn't reach Paderborn in one day as scheduled. The one wich could have made it was stopped by the discovery of a champagne warehouse in Brilon. The group had to stop in a forest for the night.
Richardson's column was stopped again by fierce resistence in the village of Borchen south of Paderborn which was called 'Bazooka-Town' by the US troops. In a house of an aunt of my father, a machine gunner team had it's post. When a Sherman showed up on the ridge of the opposing hill, they tickled the armoured vehicle. As a response, the tank fired back. The aunt reported that the whole place was so splattered with blood that it looked as if they had slaughtered a dozen of chickens.
In Etteln, my hometown, the resistance against the Welborn was not so strong. The SS had ordered the civilians to erect barricades and taken position with panzerfaust etc. But the experienced US soldiers made quick work of those obstacles and shot down the houses where fire came from. In the village there was a second ambush which had to be cleared. They even had made a rapid ditch but one GI flanked them and eliminated them from behind. My father had seen a German soldier with a head wound holding a bandage before the battle. After the fight he had another head wound and his brain scattered all over the place. The civilians had to load all fallen Germans onto carts. An American jumped on one car, took a leather holster from one fallen German and kicked him. When he saw my father looking at him, he explained: "SS, SS!"
My grandma always told me how they left their cellar that they had fled to. An US soldier shouted: 'Deutsche Soldaten raus! - German soldiers out!' He was shivering heavily fearing for his life.
Four SS men had hidden into the cellar of one house. When they were ordered to leave, three got upstairs and were immeadiately shot. The last one changed to civil clothes, got spared and lived in the village for some months.
The families had to gather in some houses to make room for the American soldiers. Those rough and hardened guys cut open all sofas to find valuables and especially alcohol but didn't find any in my grandma's house.
Posts were erected to guard the headquarter when General Rose arrived.
Then Rose got the message of the ambush on Welborn group. Welborne had tried to reach Paderborn by going through the woods via Eggeringhausen. But they were greeted by a column of enemy tanks in that village. So they evaded by turning west back into the woods and then to the street to the embattled Borchen. And there, another German tank group und Koltermann was guarding the street. This story is told in this video.
It is interesting that the German tank gunners let commander Welborn pass. Maybe the column was so long that the Germans waited for the last tank to appear before they began shooting, usually the first and the last vehicle at first. Welborn escaped to Castle Hamborn and was not harmed because all the vehicles of his small head group were armoured.
Rose who later tried the same escape route, was not so lucky since he only had jeeps.
I often drive past the battlefield since the area near Hamborn is one of the best for hiking around Paderborn. I didn't know about the extent of the battle a few years ago. And it was not taught in school in my time. Today the landscape is pittoresque, lush and inviting. Hamborn is known for it's anthroposophical culture including biodynamic farming, boarding school and retirement homes. No signs of war exept an sign that prohibits the entrance for military personal and the 2022 memory stone for General Mayor Maurice Rose.
The Tigers did not get away completely unscathed, according to Col. Belton Cooper in his book Death Traps. At least one King Tiger was hit by a Sherman 76mm gun in the rear panel, setting fire to the crew compartment.
At least one or two other Tigers were fired upon with white phosphorous shells; the German crews abandoned their tanks thinking they were on fire as the burning smoke seeped inside.
Cooper also lamented that none of the new M-26 Pershings were with the trapped column.
Still, a tragic battle for the 3rd Armored Division with the loss of it's very respected commander General Rose.
The encounter very remeniscent of Villers-Bocage the previous summer in Normandy.
In both the book Spearhead and tiger vs pershing of zeloga there are accounts and photo of a knock out pershing by artillery fire the pershing was later recovered and put back in service
The Pershing was too little too late.
In 1944 the Americans apparently did not consider German heavy armour as a threat, so delayed construction of a suitable heavy tank of their own.
The M-26 did fairly well in some engagements with Tigers and Panthers, but its very high profile made it a big target.
@@CzechImp Also I believe initially there were only 20 Pershings sent on a trial basis to Europe in early 1945, and that they were divided 10 each to both the 2nd and 3rd US Armored Divisions (with one of the latter mounting a long-barrelled 90/L 74 gun and being modified in the field with the cut-out 80mm glacis plates of knocked out Panther tanks mounted in the front and on the turret). Many more were shipped over in the Spring, but arrived too late to see action.
As you mentioned, the tanks were still rather too high, and somewhat underpowered. They certainly would of been welcomed earlier, not to replace but to supplement the Shermans.
@@christophermancini7380 I don't know why the Americans didn't want to use Churchills. They were the best Allied heavy tank - low profile and amazing across country.
You had me at "not unscathed" but lost me with "Belton Cooper" "Death Traps"
Thanks for bringing this battle to life Mark. I appreciate it. As I've mentioned before, both my uncle, and my father were sergeants. My uncle with the SS, and my father with Third Armored. I look forward to obtaining my fathers military record, thats not in question, but how to obtain my uncles record? I assume that I would need to contact todays German military in Berlin? But before I try that route, perhaps you, or one of your viewers, might be able to provide me with some direction in this matter? I would be filled with gratitude for such a kindness.
(At least they both made it through the war alive and intact.)
All the best!
An excellent video as always. I had thought they were down to the lesser sized tanks by then? This was extremely interesting, thanks.
On a lighter note. I don't know how many times I've seen it in documentaries? But that scene with the soldier driving the jeep in the woods with the backend on fire has been used so much. You wonder if anyone is getting royalties for it. 😆
Thank you for the upload Mr. Felton
Another in a long line of fascinating stories, always told with great detail and balance
Love the model tanks ,being used here lol ,keep up the good history
Info cheers
Respect ✊🏻
You jus made my day Mark! I love it when you drop a new one!
The RC King Tiger was a great addition to this episode. 👍
Thank you Dr Felton!
Watched a tiger 1 being transported south on a flatbed 18 wheeler last week on us highway 411..still impressive. King Tigers are even more impressive, and I saw one at the German army tank museum years ago
If it was Tiger 205, that is a very well executed reproduction based on a T-55. It was a rather prominent feature at the Veteran's Day event "Operation Valor" near Friendsville, TN.
Impressive but not very practical. Hitler was obsessed by his heavy tanks, but the Panther was by far the best they had.
@@CzechImp The Tiger 1 was practical. It was faster than most models of Shermans and better armored than the Churchill. The Churchill was an impractical tank so slow infantry had to walk slower than marching pace so they could keep up thats an example of how to not make a heavy tank.
But yeah the Tiger was actually faster than the Pz4 and most Sherman models. The Panther despite being heavier than a Jumbo Sherman could keep up with a Hellcat.
German engines were extremely powerful its a misconception that German heavies were slow like allied heavies.
@@off6848 Nonsense. The Churchill was much faster marching pace!
It was considered the best cross-country tank. Its lower profile made it less of the big ready target that the Sheman was. Churchills took on and beat Tigers in North Africa and Normandy.
The Churchills armour was actually thicker than the Tiger I, but the latter was better because it was sloping.
But the main thing to remember is that maximum speed was not important - the tanks needed infantry support, which is why panzergrenadiers were so effective.
Most British tanks (including the Churchill) were designated as infantry tanks, i.e. they supported infantry in attacks.
As usual, superb.
Loved the footage, particuly of the King Tiger model, nicely done.
It must have taken some real grit to drive into battle in a Sherman knowing that, if you encountered a Tiger, King Tiger, Panther or Jagdpanther, your day was almost certainly going to be ruined.
The Shermans destroyed plenty of Panthers at the Battle of Arracourt.
@@richardstephens5570 Panthers destroyed many more on more occasions for example Puffendorf.
The guys point remains generally not a good time.
@@richardstephens5570 they did, but Panthers destroyed much more
@@richardstephens5570one battle compared to the many Sherman's destroyed in the entire war. The Panthers still come out on top.
Relax already, there,there...@@richardstephens5570
That moving jeep on fire clip is probably the most overused WWII clips ever. lol
Best RUclipsr!!
Stunning research and presentation of a major armour battle. Worth the listen.
6:22 Anyone noticed the „Ehrenblattspange des Heeres“ on this guys EKII ribbon?
What is the significance of that? Thank you.
An honor roll clasp. Given to individuals who distinguished themselves and already received the iron cross 1st and 2nd class.
@@Blueboy0316 No. This was given to individuals who were explicitly mentioned in the Wehrmachtsbericht. Since it came with the nature of the things (one being brave and lucky enough to live through several actions) it came almost as a given that the individual usually had both Iron Crosses already.
The allied equivalent to that would be „mention in despatches“ (I think).
@@libertyvilleguy2903 It’s pretty rare.
I love the smaller stuff,
The details…as it were…
Thanks Mark!
The fog of war.......Thank you Sir......
Shoe🇺🇸
I do a lot of paperwork for my job and I think I have ADHD and get distracted- these videos help me stay on task- something feels so natural about listening to wwii stuff and typing up reports
Maurice Rose was a damn good General, the Third Armoured Division gave as good as it got, The General just stumbled into the wrong place at the wrong time, the fog of war at it's most basic.
Very much the case of they won the battle but lost the war . Thanks Mark Felton - always enjoy your videos. In which museum is the generals helmet?
Yes new vid
It's amazing just how many new and interesting tidbits of information Mark keeps bringing us! Excellent work!
My favorite channel!
Great storytelling! I had never heard of this battle and his retelling of the story was great. I was interrupted several times watching it, and each time I couldn't wait to get back to hear how it all ended. Thanks for making history come alive.
Stopping my day to watch this!!
Another part of history I had never heard before. Thanks again Mark for letting me know what really happened back then.
imagine driving through king tigers in the dark. spooky
Got halfway through
There were a couple of soft cover books which covered this battle but hardly any information was available back in the late 1970's. From what I recall the troops were allegedly SS troops from the training facility. I am impressed by Dr. FELTON that the unit was the s.Pz.Abt. 507 of the German Army and the force assembled (14 Konigstiger and other AFV) inflicted all this damage. By March, most panzer divisions did not have this many operational tanks so this was one big engagement. Wow!
Like that smokey black & white footage of a toy remote control King Tiger
Great video as always Mark! Just goes to show that the Germans fought hard right until the very end, maximising any opportunity they had.
Just goes to show that even at five minutes to the end of the match ( or even less than five minutes), the germans could still throw a punch.
Another first-rate chapter in your work, Mark! Thank you!
9:40 maybe it was to grab his gun!
Than he was an idiot.
Never forget, the victors write the history.
underrated comment.
Also the victors has a long history of invading and attacking other countries
Marvelous work Dr. Felton