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some WACs wound up ferrying aircraft, though never flew direct combat as bombers or such. (At this point the USAF doesn't exist just the army air corps).
@@percamihai-marco7157 Clausewitz, or Clausewitzians, correctly argue for the principle of concentration of force to obtain overwhelming local superiority. Some carry that idea forward to the idea that a smaller army can thereby defeat a larger one through a succession of such victories, "defeat in detail": that rarely happens in practice especially in modern warfare though there are at least some ancient examples and Napoleon managed that -- for a while... until he was beaten anyway... Meanwhile, Mahan, argues that the target of naval operations must be the enemy combat fleet, not its merchantmen or ports or supply lines. Lots of theorists disagree with Mahan on those points but his view is dominant, and often subsumed into Clausewitz's. Indy is spoiling for a fight*, hinting at spoilers**. At the battle of Midway we will see Japan violate the principle of concentration of force but pursuing Mahan's strategy of seeking to destroy the enemy fleet in a decisive battle. *To spoil for a fight: English idiom meaning a person looking for a fight. **Spoilers: insightful commentary which however reveals details of the plot of a story which a viewer might not wish to know prior to seeing the film or theatric production.
Mississippi... Yikes I've seen tiny drops form right in front of my face it's so humid! I brought my daughter, from NM to MS. Oh man you should have seen her suffer!
@@ripsumrall8018 I live on the Mississippi River and we've had refugees from places in the Sahara complain about how awful it gets in the summer. And I don't blame them! It sucks!
@@sorrel7554 And the thing is unless Hundreds of dollars of AC bills are something you can afford there is NOTHING you can do! A cool shower? Well now the humidity is even worse. Someone not in the know might welcome a morning rain, I dread that! My box fan becomes useless.
Kesselring actually was very overrated in post war western oriented historians due to slow progress of Italian Campaign where instead of big hopes fullfilled afrer surrender of Italy in 1943 , there were much steady slow advance for Allies after 1943-44 winter and to explain this outcome , Kesselring as another German "genius of warfare" was invented in US and UK popular histories (just like Rommel) while main actual reasons of slow progrees of Italian Campaign were wrong decisions and downright incompatence of American and British army commanders like Clark , Lucas , Alexander , Freyberg (which they tried to cover up in Cold War legacy) , difficulty of offensive operations in mountainous terrains , low operational effectiveness of Allied armies compared to Germans due to pre war neglect in training and priorty of Allied resources transferred to Britain for D-Day in 1943-1944. Just like in North Africa where you can not publicise defeats or failures and their actual reasons because it is not convenient for establishment , you overrate and present the other side's commanders as gods of war like in cases of Rommel or Kesselring. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was too overoptimistic for his own good actually and he was one of the main Luftwaffe commanders whose mistakes and wrong decisions led loss of Battle of Britain by Germans in 1940 , unable to pacify or blockade Malta despite his presentation that "it was neutralised" in 1942 and caused collapse of Axis bridgehead in Tunisia in May 1943 where 250.000 German and Italian troops became Allied prisoners (that is more than captured in Stalingrad)
@@merdiolu Thanks for the history lesson, I did not know that the Allies would promote the abilities of mediocre German commanders to cover for their own stupid mistakes. 👍
@@merdiolu Well, all things are relative. If the Allied commanders were all mediocre and incompetent, then I guess the ordinary and overrated Germans may have seemed like gods...
Speaking of Burma i believe there's a quote by the Japanese that says: "Java is heaven, Burma is hell but from New Guinea you can't return alive". I think this just shows just how brutal and merciless the New Guinea and Burma campaign would be in this war.
@@blockmasterscott Iwo Jima is a sparse volcanic island, New Guinea is largely jungle. Fighting in jungle has a special hellishness of its own - enemies could get very close without being spotted, and disease was a much bigger problem in New Guinea, malaria killed a lot of Americans. I have seen a picture of an American machine-gun crew in New Guinea draping ammunition belts over jungle tree branches - putting them anywhere on the ground would cause them to become wet and possibly jam the gun. A challenging place even without Japanese.
I hope you guys don't skip the US 90 vs 255 division plan argument that happens within the US and by US Allies. It was started to be talked about in 1941 but the final decision is not made until 1942. So I am hoping you guys are just waiting to do a video about it or talk about it in a weekly episode. For those that don't know the 90 vs 255 division plan within the US was the argument if the US Army should create 90 divisions and just keep sending reinforcements of newly trained troops to those divisions or if the US should do what every other country in WW2 did and build a lot of divisions (in this case 255) and then rotate the divisions through combat and then reequip the beat up divisions as needed. The US went with the 90 division plan because US planners and US allies pushed for it to allow the US to keep a larger amount of people on the US homeland working on making weapons and other war equipment that all the allied countries used during WW2. The 90 division plan ended up leading to some soldiers (such as my Grandfather) in the 1st US army division seeing combat from the start of the war until the very end fighting through Africa, Sicily, Landing on Normandy Beach, fighting through France and then lastly Germany. Most US divisions didn't have it that bad but there were many that saw combat from Normandy until the end of the war in Europe as a result of the 90 division plan. On the good side of the plan it did make it so that the US needed less officers and less people in divisions that were not seeing combat and as a result the US was able to produce more equipment for the allies then they would have if they went with the 255 division plan.
While watching Band of Brothers I wondered why those poor bastards endured so much. At first, it does seems unfair to the soldiers. But it also creates a high-quality veteran army, instead of just sending completely fresh troops to the meat grind.
Much respect to your grandad, I would just point out my grandparents were fighting Hitler from 1939 and were at far higher risk of death by bombing than US soldiers were in combat. US history could do with being more mindful what we suffered in Europe while most US citzens were saying "keep out of it". Thankfully FDR understood what was what and looked out for us. So think about what you say about when the war started.
@@rodrigopaim82 It could be argued that the US did both of those things during the war. A lot of different personalities pulling in different directions, green formations were not exempt from the meatgrinder.
4:11 I think the actions of the Royal Thai Army in the Shan States in Burma are often unknown or left out in most narratives. Thanks for mentioning them here. Sometimes I forget or overlook their involvement in the Burma Campaign too.
It’s their physique. Enormous lung capacity from growing up in air somewhat lacking in oxygen and the hilly terrain which builds up muscle from an early age.
I’m really excited that you mentioned Rochefort. He was such a wonderful man who contributed so much to the success of the battle of Midway. Rochroch (he is my favorite person) deserves more attention and praise.
The whole Burma campaign is one of the most interesting conflicts during the war and unfortunately one of the least talked about. The British and allied forces who eventually won against all odds were nicknamed "The forgotten army."
"Even though it was based on the (six month) exploits of Merrill's Marauders, Objective Burma! (starring Australian Errol Flynn) was withdrawn from release in the United Kingdom after it infuriated British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and drew protests about the Americanization of an almost entirely British, Indian, and Commonwealth conflict.[23][24] An editorial in The Times said: It is essential both for the enemy and the Allies to understand how it came about that the war was won ... nations should know and appreciate the efforts other countries than their own made to the common cause." link below I guess that explains why the British made so many movies and TV shows about Indias' contribution, like It Ain't Half Hot Mum. According to one source US air support in Burma was "lavish", but you do not hear much about that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective,_Burma!#Reception
@@nickdanger3802 The majority of allied forces who fought in Burma were British and Indian. And the operation was under British command. Hence why I said "British and allied forces."
As a kid I always looked forward to Saturday mornings and watching cartoons. Now I look forward to Saturday mornings and these videos. Thankyou so much to the crew at WWT.
Indy are you guys gonna do a video on the planning and assassination of Reinhard Heydrich on the 27th May. Would be quite cool if you gave lots of detail about the assassination.
I'm just a little bummed out that you guys seem to have skipped the sinking of Potrero del Llano by the U-Boat U-564 in the Gulf of Mexico on May 13, 1942, it really was the incident that propelled Mexico to declare war on the Axis powers, that eventually led to the legendary "Escuadron 201" Mexican fighter squadron.
I think that all of us appreciate the tremendous amount of hard work that goes into these programs! Thank you so much Indy, Sparty, Astrid and all the rest of the crew! Our lives would be shallower without the entire lot of you!
I have just finished watching every episode of WW2 and Between Two Wars, which i watched first before watching this and War Against Humanity. 😥 I have been studying WW2 since my days in High School, about 35 years ago and i have over 300 books on the subject from the campaigns and battles to the people, places and culture during that time. European Theater, Pacific Theater, Med Theater, Thrid Reich, the Japanese Empire, the Armies, Navies, Air Forces, Axis and Aliies and of course, the Holocaust.😥 I will now start watching the other series such as Foxholes, the Bios and many others. I have also watched dozens of WW2 documentaries from The World At War, Crusade in the Pacific, Victory At Sea, Second World War Diary and many others. I can say this with full certainty: The way you are doing this is the absolute BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN! You have made me want to join the Time Ghost Army and i look forward to the rest of the history of this period in time of our planet where it truly was a war of good versus evil. As you approach my favorite battle of the war, I look forward to seeing how well you describe how the USA in FIVE MINUTES, ended the Japanese offensive in the Pacific at MIDWAY! Indy Neidel, you are a true historian as you truly care about the information you are providing to people that have seem to forgotten or dont know about this period in history. Spartacus Olsson and the passion he brings to WAH is so numbing, revealing and is nothing but the TRUTH! I can see tears in his eyes sometimes as he recounts the horrors of the Second World War! I know he is shaken himself by the stories he is relating to us. I didnt mean this to be so long but i needed to show my appreciation for this splendid presentation. Astrid Deinhard, i know this cant be easy for you as well to direct and produce a series of shows that describes how EVIL our world was and how HEROISM saved the day, albeit at UNBELIEVABLE COST! When all is said and done, this ENTIRE series as well as all the other supplemental series should be put on Blu-Ray. It deserves a place on everyone's shelf. Thank you again and NEVER FORGET!!!
We missed this comment - in the name of all three of us - thank you ever so much. It's comments like yours that keeps our heads above the surface, and the TimeGhost Army that keeps our production sustained. So thank you very, very much. Spartacus
@@WorldWarTwo Its my honor to be addressed from you Sir. I have joined the Time Ghost Army as a Specialist and i look forward to your videos all the time. I wish i could tell the story of these great battles and campaigns like Indy. He has so much liveliness in his step and he wants the viewer to know everything that was important at that time. You, Spartacus have so much empathy in your monologues on the Holocaust and i am Jewish by the way, so i feel every word you speak. Its also not about the murder of the Jewish race, but the deaths of Russians, Poles, Czechs, Chinese, Americans, French, British, Italians, Japanese and Germans among countless others who perished during this time. Im pretty sure not every Axis soldier was evil at heart as well as not every Allied soldier was good at heart. World War II was terrible and glorious at the same time as heroes and villians shone themselves in their own light. We can only hope that the people who watch this awesome series take your words to heart and they lead others to this channel so they can learn about this time period. Thank you again, Sir, and NEVER FORGET! 😔
Note: FDR personally appointed Nimitz to Pacific in a private White House mtg., gave him final call. Adm. King recommended "hit and run"; Nimitz overruled this in favor of concentrated carrier battles. Adm. King recommended sending battleships to the Coral Sea; Nimitz sent them to California until after Midway. Chain of command is from FDR. King hedged bets about the Midway plan, the biggest gamble of the war.
My home town of Prijedor in North-west Bosnia was liberated by partisans on this day and was held for almost a month. Final liberation of the town came on August 21.1944.
Minute 8:39 talking about the delivery of Spirfires to Malta: (very!) minor point: those are Hawker-Hurricanes. The most minor possible comment to Indie’s otherwise excellent as usual weekly Saturday presentation!
Hi Jefferson. If we can't find the specific footage for something we go for the next closest thing, sometimes it's more noticeable than others. Apologies if you found it jarring, we do try our best to find the best footage possible. We're glad you enjoyed the episode!
@@WorldWarTwo Good Lord, not jarring at all, I hugely enjoy each of your shows! And as a guy who once took an intro course in documentary film-making, I really should have known better!!
2:54 I do think its worth it to mention that the reason that Stillwell was able to retreat "without losing a man", was because his retreat was covered by Sun Liren’s 38th division, which was also retreating into India just south of him. The description in this video makes it sound like Stilwell was part of the rearguard. Any Japanese strike against Stillwell would have had to go through the Chinese first. Also, considering that Stillwell was the nominal commander of the Chinese expeditionary force, saying that he didnt "lose a man" is disingenuous; many Chinese men will still be lost at Myitkyina.
I was looking forward to a more in-depth coverage of Operation Ironclad in Madagascar - the first major allied amphibious assault, and a daring coup by the Royal Marines that turned the battle.
1942: The year of a three major battles. The war’s fate is decided on these battles but I will not named them but will share their general location, Pacific, North Africa, and Europe. May those who gave their lives and fell Rest In Peace in where they fell. Godspeed.
Indy my notes from the book Malta the Spitfire Year have on 10 May 1942 the following losses: 2 Spitfires by Bf 109 1 Spit fire by friendly AA 1 Cant 1007 and 1 damaged beyond repair by Spitfires 4 Ju 88s shot down and 1 damaged beyond repair by Spitfires and AA 4 Ju 87s shot down by Spitfires and Hurricannes 1 Bf 109 shot down and 1 damaged beyond repair by Spitfires 1 Bf 109 lost in a collison
FINALLY caught up! Between my wife's and own account I've caught up in about 6 weeks. Will be joining the patreon as well. No better channel than yours.
Hi All, Suggested Reading. "Robinson Crusoe, USN" by George R. Tweed and Blake Clark. "American Guerilla in the Philippines" by Ira Wolfert. Watching the movie they made from this is a little strange. The main character is about 22 in real life, falls in love with a 16 year old girl. In the movie, he is about 40, and she is at least that old. I guess it was too risque for Hollywood at the time. I talked to a guy who would invade New Guinea at Buna, in the northwest. The Army recruited a bunch of hunters from Colorado and Wyoming, gave them no training worthy of the name, said go hunt people like you hunt deer. Thanks for your time, take care.
Both Axis powers got waay over extended with every advance taxing and reducing their resources at every turn. Soviets had the numbers and Stalin knew it. Losing 30,000 while Germany lost 8,000 was much worse for Germany. A million Russian POWs was a huge burden also. Neither Germany or Japan could sustain the long distance supply. Had they consolidated their gains and advanced over years instead of months there might have been a different outcome.
Just out of curiosity, on the map showing the territorial gains by the warring powers, a part of the Philippines is still under allied control. Is this the case even though the US forces in the Philippines have surrendered to the Japanese, or is it an overlooked mistake? Keep up the good work, Indy and the rest of the TimeGhost crew!
*spoilers* It's amazing that, given how much of a one-sided disaster the 1942 Burma campaign was for the Allies, their recapture of Burma in 1944-1945 was almost an equally one-sided disaster for the Japanese.
15:12 perhaps the IJN is leaning more to Sun Tzu and having one of the attacks as a distraction to the Schwerepunkt. Though, they maybe misapplying his lessons by not concentrating enough forces.
I hope that in the future the crew is gonna go on excursions again and we'll see more videos shot on locations - battlefields, museums, that kind of thing, like in The Great War series. I know that's difficult now because of the pestilence but this series is gonna go on for quite a while...
Germans: We have captured another 100,000 soldiers and inflicted casualties at a 4:1 ratio. Soviets: You have no idea idea how badly you're losing the numbers game.
Perhaps you are going to cover operation Pedestal in mid Aug But Malta was anything but safe in May 1942 if a bit better protected . Not everyone realises it was Park ( formerly of 11 group in the Battle Of Britain )who led the Malta's fightback to success . He used different tactics this time sending big groups of fighters to overwhelm the enemy .
Hi Indy and team. Another interesting week.. How much more casualties in this world war we are going to see... Sounds very sick.. Awaiting for what will happen next week.. Thanks..🙏
We see the armies moving on the map but here is a story to remind us that we shouldn't forget that these armies are filled with human beings. The 76 Infantry Division is fighting at Charkow. Exactly yesterday (15.05. 1942) the Schütze (Private) Friedrich Hodapp succumbed to his injuries in a field hospital of said division at Charkow just two months after his 20th Birthday. He had stepped on a landmine which inflicted the fatal injuries. When his mother receives the news of his Death, she faints out of shock. He is the only child of his father, who died of Tetanus, thus ending the family line. Keep in mind that these Division on the map arent abstract things, their fighting is paved by the death of many young german and Soviet solidiers, each one with their own hopes and dreams. Never Forget
I believe the WWII calamity killed people faster than the Covid pandemic that seems so awful today. I think Stalingrad alone killed 10000 a day for 5 months. The war survivors would surely be worse off too.
@@chrisdaniels3929 Yeah, its a different war but i think it fits here. The Novel "All quiet in the western front" is dedicated to the death of the war but also those who escaped the horrors of war superficially but were never the same
USA: Midway, yep, definitely Midway. now we just have to figure out exactly when... British: We might have lost Burma, but we ain't about to leave Malta!
Montreal was an important port at the time, which explains the presence of U-boats in the St. Lawrence River. There is a legend (I don’t know if it’s true) that says that German sailors were found with movie tickets and Canadian money in their pocket.
15:30 There's a difference between taking and keeping. Japan might be able to take (to grasp) but they won't have the ability to keep (hold). Bit off too big a bite in planning for war.
Indy, I have what is probably a stupid question, but it’s something I’ve always wondered about, so here goes...When Yamamoto-who had long been the central advocate for naval *air* power and carriers as the central component of the IJN rather than battleships-when Yamamoto commanded the Kido Butai and the entire Combined Japanese Fleet in the attack on Midway, *why* did he command from so very far behind the naval air squadrons, and *why* was his flagship the Battleship Yamato, rather than a large carrier such as the Akagi (a favourite of Japanese admirals and a ship he had commanded before as captain) or Kaga, or even from one of the new, purpose-built medium carriers, such as the Soryu or Hiryu? Was it simply because fusty IJN tradition demanded that the Supreme Commander lead from a battleship?
Yamato was the heaviest battleship ever made (along with sister ship) and carried the largest guns ever used on a warship, and since in public perception the battleship was king of the fleet, it made perfect sense for Yamamoto to have as flagship the biggest, coolest looking, and best armed warship they had. And his role in the whole thing was the spider in the web, and there were a lot of Japanese threads at Midway. Following pretty standard doctrine, Kido Butai would do its dirty work and then the battleships would come up and destroy whatever the Americans sent out to defend Midway, but if they knew that there was such a large Japanese force out there they might not come out and play, hence the battleships "hiding" outside of recon range. If you mean why did he not take personal command of Kido Butai, well, why would he? Chuchi Nagumo commanded it ably from Pearl up to Midway and would certainly be better tactically than Yamamoto himself, who would have had to also think about the whole rest of the fleet at the same time instead of just commanding a local engagement.
I just had a thought when the General was in trouble and Hitler's reply, I am a psychologist and his reaction to the news gives me an impression that he was still fighting WW1, as the situation in some way were similar, an eastern front and a belief that Germany was better overall, that he felt that with WW1 in mind that they would retake the position the next day or day after, that this was normal due to his war experience and what was happening to a degree on the battlefield. Hitler's thought - Ok, they took that, we will take it back, so don't worry too much as this happens, we can retake that - WHAT... Why are you leaving the front line? I didn't do that in WW1 even when the Arty was raining down, we didn't run or leave our position. I think this is why and why he couldn't believe what the German Generals were saying, as this didn't happen in WW1 where he has and had to experience. Hitler's belief in German resolve and the lack of a strategic retreat in plenty of time really played here, and hence Hitler's last thoughts in the bunker were that the German High Command betrayed him. And they did and him them. Why couldn't they stand and fight as we did in WW1? We all know, but he didn't.
Racism played a part as well. If you think Slavs are lesser humans then retreat can cause ideological problems. As well I think seeing numbers or tokens on a board can cause people to yell hold the line or advance when its not practical. I think its noteworthy that when Stalin tried to command the soviets lost badly and when he let his generals do their jobs the reds performed better.
You need to wait two weeks for major combat operatiıons to restart in Africa. Right now both Axis and Eighth Army are deployed before Gazala Line without any movement
Hm, Spitfires you say??? How come we only see Hawker Hurricanes on Malta? Not saying that there are no Spits there, but the displayed footage does not bear that out.
You're applying more modern times to then. Film was still a relatively new technology, so while there is a surprising amount of film of WWII out there, it is still very limited. Add in that it was a war and filming stuff for the most part wasn't a priority, especially somewhere as resource starved as Malta, and there may just not be much footage of aircraft on Malta around this time. Another example is the retreat from Burma. We see the same footage again and again, even when it's not the footage of exactly what is being talked about, because there just isn't much footage to use.
May 16, 1942. Corporal Artyom Ivanov of the 13th Guards Rifle Division sees action at Kharkov for the first time in this war. His advance which began on the 12th grinds to a halt after a couple days as he meets stiff German resistance however. Further south, German forces prepare for a counterattack.
And now Japan finally unleashes its largest battleship, Yamato. The Germans with the Bismarck and Tirpitz would make them Europe's largest battleships.
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some WACs wound up ferrying aircraft, though never flew direct combat as bombers or such. (At this point the USAF doesn't exist just the army air corps).
@@indianastan how demanding of you, next thing you'll want him to punctuate using
bullet points
What does Clausewitz mean? Indy mentioned it at the end of the video.
@@percamihai-marco7157 Clausewitz, or Clausewitzians, correctly argue for the principle of concentration of force to obtain overwhelming local superiority. Some carry that idea forward to the idea that a smaller army can thereby defeat a larger one through a succession of such victories, "defeat in detail": that rarely happens in practice especially in modern warfare though there are at least some ancient examples and Napoleon managed that -- for a while... until he was beaten anyway... Meanwhile, Mahan, argues that the target of naval operations must be the enemy combat fleet, not its merchantmen or ports or supply lines. Lots of theorists disagree with Mahan on those points but his view is dominant, and often subsumed into Clausewitz's. Indy is spoiling for a fight*, hinting at spoilers**. At the battle of Midway we will see Japan violate the principle of concentration of force but pursuing Mahan's strategy of seeking to destroy the enemy fleet in a decisive battle.
*To spoil for a fight: English idiom meaning a person looking for a fight.
**Spoilers: insightful commentary which however reveals details of the plot of a story which a viewer might not wish to know prior to seeing the film or theatric production.
"It ain't the heat, its the humidity"
Me growing up in the tropics:THIS
Mississippi... Yikes I've seen tiny drops form right in front of my face it's so humid! I brought my daughter, from NM to MS. Oh man you should have seen her suffer!
@@ripsumrall8018 I live on the Mississippi River and we've had refugees from places in the Sahara complain about how awful it gets in the summer. And I don't blame them! It sucks!
@@sorrel7554 Probably because it's dry heat in the Sahara, with low humidity.
@@sorrel7554 And the thing is unless Hundreds of dollars of AC bills are something you can afford there is NOTHING you can do! A cool shower? Well now the humidity is even worse. Someone not in the know might welcome a morning rain, I dread that! My box fan becomes useless.
But we do eat well!
11:00 "This does not deter Hitler" That pretty much sums up WWII.
Who punished him severely.
Indy: This does not deter Hitler.
Me: Of course it doesn't.
Every fool who follows the meme trope that Hitler “should’ve listened to his generals” and that splitting Army group centre was a “bad idea” drinks the semen straight out of the proverbial cocks of the German Generals who were alive after the war to still rub one out.
© Nigel Winters (on Unz)
- Adûnâi
@wulpurgis I love both Hitlerian Germany and Stalinian Russia. I am the anti-liberal. I am NazBol.
- Adûnâi
How does that globalist boot against your throat feel?
"Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one"
-Nicholas Berdyaev
Paulus, eh? He will surely learn his lessons and not be surprised again.
What lesson paulus in history surprised us every moment
Ah Paulus is a genius! Surely his army will not be encircled somewhere in the Soviet Union!
You're giving Paulus too much stick.
It wasn't just him, the high command also underestimated the bridgeheads over thr Don
@@michelangelobuonarroti4958 Paulus was actually worried about them, but Halder dismissed him
I recommend you to watch TIK
Kesselring declared Malta neutralized on the same day when British devastated Luftwaffe over that island? Well, that's a very axis thing to do.
Kesselring actually was very overrated in post war western oriented historians due to slow progress of Italian Campaign where instead of big hopes fullfilled afrer surrender of Italy in 1943 , there were much steady slow advance for Allies after 1943-44 winter and to explain this outcome , Kesselring as another German "genius of warfare" was invented in US and UK popular histories (just like Rommel) while main actual reasons of slow progrees of Italian Campaign were wrong decisions and downright incompatence of American and British army commanders like Clark , Lucas , Alexander , Freyberg (which they tried to cover up in Cold War legacy) , difficulty of offensive operations in mountainous terrains , low operational effectiveness of Allied armies compared to Germans due to pre war neglect in training and priorty of Allied resources transferred to Britain for D-Day in 1943-1944. Just like in North Africa where you can not publicise defeats or failures and their actual reasons because it is not convenient for establishment , you overrate and present the other side's commanders as gods of war like in cases of Rommel or Kesselring.
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was too overoptimistic for his own good actually and he was one of the main Luftwaffe commanders whose mistakes and wrong decisions led loss of Battle of Britain by Germans in 1940 , unable to pacify or blockade Malta despite his presentation that "it was neutralised" in 1942 and caused collapse of Axis bridgehead in Tunisia in May 1943 where 250.000 German and Italian troops became Allied prisoners (that is more than captured in Stalingrad)
@@merdiolu
Thanks for the history lesson, I did not know that the Allies would promote the abilities of mediocre German commanders to cover for their own stupid mistakes. 👍
@@merdiolu Bravo. Very insightful comment.
Same man who after the war said the Italians should build a statue of him after all the war crimes he committed there...
@@merdiolu Well, all things are relative. If the Allied commanders were all mediocre and incompetent, then I guess the ordinary and overrated Germans may have seemed like gods...
My great grandfather was a part of the 404th in Crimea, never realised he was that lucky to escape
Thanks to your grandfather and other Soviet soldiers, we have all got rid of the Nazis
may he rest in peace
Tough men these were.. Much respect
Never to be found again.
@always maga Dude literally every person in Eastern Europe had a relative who fought the war and it is highly likely he's telling the truth.
Speaking of Burma i believe there's a quote by the Japanese that says:
"Java is heaven, Burma is hell but from New Guinea you can't return alive". I think this just shows just how brutal and merciless the New Guinea and Burma campaign would be in this war.
When the trees start smelling of tea, curry and beer...
And you can hear the faintest echoes of Nepalese. From behind you.
Burma was indeed hell and malaria also took a considerable toll on both sides in New Guinea.
@@blockmasterscott Iwo Jima is a sparse volcanic island, New Guinea is largely jungle. Fighting in jungle has a special hellishness of its own - enemies could get very close without being spotted, and disease was a much bigger problem in New Guinea, malaria killed a lot of Americans.
I have seen a picture of an American machine-gun crew in New Guinea draping ammunition belts over jungle tree branches - putting them anywhere on the ground would cause them to become wet and possibly jam the gun. A challenging place even without Japanese.
The Japanese came to call Guadalcanal- 'Starvation Island'.
i think that midway soon need some fresh watersupply
I see what you did there
Yeah. I heard that their water plant is broken.
Captain of the water tanker: Do you guys need water or not!?
Commander of Midway: no but do you mind if I jump in and take a bath!?
[MO's water supply is broken...]
You mean a condenser for the fresh water still? Yup, they definitely will send messages regading that.
I hope you guys don't skip the US 90 vs 255 division plan argument that happens within the US and by US Allies. It was started to be talked about in 1941 but the final decision is not made until 1942. So I am hoping you guys are just waiting to do a video about it or talk about it in a weekly episode.
For those that don't know the 90 vs 255 division plan within the US was the argument if the US Army should create 90 divisions and just keep sending reinforcements of newly trained troops to those divisions or if the US should do what every other country in WW2 did and build a lot of divisions (in this case 255) and then rotate the divisions through combat and then reequip the beat up divisions as needed. The US went with the 90 division plan because US planners and US allies pushed for it to allow the US to keep a larger amount of people on the US homeland working on making weapons and other war equipment that all the allied countries used during WW2.
The 90 division plan ended up leading to some soldiers (such as my Grandfather) in the 1st US army division seeing combat from the start of the war until the very end fighting through Africa, Sicily, Landing on Normandy Beach, fighting through France and then lastly Germany. Most US divisions didn't have it that bad but there were many that saw combat from Normandy until the end of the war in Europe as a result of the 90 division plan. On the good side of the plan it did make it so that the US needed less officers and less people in divisions that were not seeing combat and as a result the US was able to produce more equipment for the allies then they would have if they went with the 255 division plan.
While watching Band of Brothers I wondered why those poor bastards endured so much. At first, it does seems unfair to the soldiers. But it also creates a high-quality veteran army, instead of just sending completely fresh troops to the meat grind.
Much respect to your grandad, I would just point out my grandparents were fighting Hitler from 1939 and were at far higher risk of death by bombing than US soldiers were in combat. US history could do with being more mindful what we suffered in Europe while most US citzens were saying "keep out of it". Thankfully FDR understood what was what and looked out for us. So think about what you say about when the war started.
@@johnnyfortpants1415 Was there an agreement of some kind that would have required the USA to do something before Hitler declared war on the USA?
@@rodrigopaim82 It could be argued that the US did both of those things during the war. A lot of different personalities pulling in different directions, green formations were not exempt from the meatgrinder.
Also less officers especially lower ranks means more stability in politics
4:11 I think the actions of the Royal Thai Army in the Shan States in Burma are often unknown or left out in most narratives. Thanks for mentioning them here. Sometimes I forget or overlook their involvement in the Burma Campaign too.
hardly mentioned in relation to the American war (aka Vietnam) too.
Are you going to do a special episode on the Nepalese Gurkha elite commandos? Their bravery is legendary and almost superhuman-like.
@Muhhahha Not true.
@Muhhahha The history of war is strewn with the bodies of those who could "easily defeat" their enemy.
@Muhhahha no the Pathans failed
It’s their physique. Enormous lung capacity from growing up in air somewhat lacking in oxygen and the hilly terrain which builds up muscle from an early age.
Virtually everyone thinks the world of the Gurkhas!
I’m really excited that you mentioned Rochefort. He was such a wonderful man who contributed so much to the success of the battle of Midway. Rochroch (he is my favorite person) deserves more attention and praise.
"Maybe they have so much force that in the end it doesn´t matter, right? Maybe that. Maybe."
*Stares into your soul*
who knew what would have happened if the japanese were actually competnt and put all 6 fleet carriers in one strike??
@@Ronald98 ahh, scratch 2 more flat-tops!
lol it was so funny 🤣
Can’t wait to see what you have lined up for Midway!
I wish we'd get some quotes from the "Shattered Sword"
Get the Sabaton ready.
What about it? Surely another easy Japanese victory, the Americans will never see it coming!
Oh, the humidity
@wulpurgis More like the Hindenburg, actually: ruclips.net/video/NZNHUzPzGMY/видео.html&ab_channel=EricStewart
The whole Burma campaign is one of the most interesting conflicts during the war and unfortunately one of the least talked about. The British and allied forces who eventually won against all odds were nicknamed "The forgotten army."
Winning? C'mon, the Japanese are on a rampage, they'll steamroll the Allied forces.
"Even though it was based on the (six month) exploits of Merrill's Marauders, Objective Burma! (starring Australian Errol Flynn) was withdrawn from release in the United Kingdom after it infuriated British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and drew protests about the Americanization of an almost entirely British, Indian, and Commonwealth conflict.[23][24] An editorial in The Times said:
It is essential both for the enemy and the Allies to understand how it came about that the war was won ... nations should know and appreciate the efforts other countries than their own made to the common cause." link below
I guess that explains why the British made so many movies and TV shows about Indias' contribution, like It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
According to one source US air support in Burma was "lavish", but you do not hear much about that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective,_Burma!#Reception
@@nickdanger3802 The majority of allied forces who fought in Burma were British and Indian. And the operation was under British command. Hence why I said "British and allied forces."
Victory in Burma 546,951 views•Feb 14, 2021
ruclips.net/video/nrAIxbGj9FA/видео.html
Vera Lynn visited the "Forgotten Army" in Burma during the fighting.
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/67/a5943567.shtml
-Bad News
As a kid I always looked forward to Saturday mornings and watching cartoons. Now I look forward to Saturday mornings and these videos. Thankyou so much to the crew at WWT.
Indy are you guys gonna do a video on the planning and assassination of Reinhard Heydrich on the 27th May. Would be quite cool if you gave lots of detail about the assassination.
Pretty sure they will cover it in the weekly episode later this month. Would be a good time to watch the 2016 Anthropoid movie though.
@@gunman47 even better why not watch the Man with the iron heart !!
@@cookingwithchefluc7173 Good recommendation too, I didn't know there was this film. Shall go take a look on this one...
@@gunman47 I've seen it. It is pretty good, and relatively close to the actual historical events.
One Nazi got assassinated and a lot of Czechs had to die for it although the Germans would lose the war anyway
I'm just a little bummed out that you guys seem to have skipped the sinking of Potrero del Llano by the U-Boat U-564 in the Gulf of Mexico on May 13, 1942, it really was the incident that propelled Mexico to declare war on the Axis powers, that eventually led to the legendary "Escuadron 201" Mexican fighter squadron.
Second that
Yep.
They covered it in the ww2 day by day series on Instagram on May 21...the day Mexico declared a war on Germany
Thanks!
This will not be the last week Paulus and the 6th army will be in trouble.
I think that all of us appreciate the tremendous amount of hard work that goes into these programs! Thank you so much Indy, Sparty, Astrid and all the rest of the crew! Our lives would be shallower without the entire lot of you!
I have just finished watching every episode of WW2 and Between Two Wars, which i watched first before watching this and War Against Humanity. 😥
I have been studying WW2 since my days in High School, about 35 years ago and i have over 300 books on the subject from the campaigns and battles to the people, places and culture during that time.
European Theater, Pacific Theater, Med Theater, Thrid Reich, the Japanese Empire, the Armies, Navies, Air Forces, Axis and Aliies and of course, the Holocaust.😥
I will now start watching the other series such as Foxholes, the Bios and many others.
I have also watched dozens of WW2 documentaries from The World At War, Crusade in the Pacific, Victory At Sea, Second World War Diary and many others.
I can say this with full certainty: The way you are doing this is the absolute BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN!
You have made me want to join the Time Ghost Army and i look forward to the rest of the history of this period in time of our planet where it truly was a war of good versus evil.
As you approach my favorite battle of the war, I look forward to seeing how well you describe how the USA in FIVE MINUTES, ended the Japanese offensive in the Pacific at MIDWAY!
Indy Neidel, you are a true historian as you truly care about the information you are providing to people that have seem to forgotten or dont know about this period in history.
Spartacus Olsson and the passion he brings to WAH is so numbing, revealing and is nothing but the TRUTH!
I can see tears in his eyes sometimes as he recounts the horrors of the Second World War!
I know he is shaken himself by the stories he is relating to us.
I didnt mean this to be so long but i needed to show my appreciation for this splendid presentation.
Astrid Deinhard, i know this cant be easy for you as well to direct and produce a series of shows that describes how EVIL our world was and how HEROISM saved the day, albeit at UNBELIEVABLE COST!
When all is said and done, this ENTIRE series as well as all the other supplemental series should be put on Blu-Ray.
It deserves a place on everyone's shelf.
Thank you again and NEVER FORGET!!!
We missed this comment - in the name of all three of us - thank you ever so much. It's comments like yours that keeps our heads above the surface, and the TimeGhost Army that keeps our production sustained. So thank you very, very much.
Spartacus
@@WorldWarTwo Its my honor to be addressed from you Sir. I have joined the Time Ghost Army as a Specialist and i look forward to your videos all the time. I wish i could tell the story of these great battles and campaigns like Indy. He has so much liveliness in his step and he wants the viewer to know everything that was important at that time. You, Spartacus have so much empathy in your monologues on the Holocaust and i am Jewish by the way, so i feel every word you speak. Its also not about the murder of the Jewish race, but the deaths of Russians, Poles, Czechs, Chinese, Americans, French, British, Italians, Japanese and Germans among countless others who perished during this time. Im pretty sure not every Axis soldier was evil at heart as well as not every Allied soldier was good at heart. World War II was terrible and glorious at the same time as heroes and villians shone themselves in their own light. We can only hope that the people who watch this awesome series take your words to heart and they lead others to this channel so they can learn about this time period. Thank you again, Sir, and NEVER FORGET! 😔
Awesome episode!!! Kharkov, Crimea, Pacific, Malta - everything covered in detail, that’s a real gift!
As an amateur writer writing historical fiction about World War 2, this channel is a gold mine.
Note: FDR personally appointed Nimitz to Pacific in a private White House mtg., gave him final call. Adm. King recommended "hit and run"; Nimitz overruled this in favor of concentrated carrier battles. Adm. King recommended sending battleships to the Coral Sea; Nimitz sent them to California until after Midway. Chain of command is from FDR. King hedged bets about the Midway plan, the biggest gamble of the war.
“One island that is very much under attack this week, like basically every week, is Malta.”
My thoughts exactly.
My home town of Prijedor in North-west Bosnia was liberated by partisans on this day and was held for almost a month. Final liberation of the town came on August 21.1944.
That final "Maybe", that lateral look... superb acting by Indy, as usual, he should be in movies, he even looks like Michael Caine a lot 👏👏👏
Why, thank you very much!
For a tiny island Malta had such an impact on history it was as important during the Crusades as it was in WW2.
I read "Malta: The Thorn in Rommel's Side". Very engaging and informative book I've seen regarding Malta.
Here is hoping Indy and the team do a Korean war week by week after this, these videos are so well done.
Loved seeing the Hawker Hurricanes in the Malta segment on Spitfires...(an old model plane builder)...
Noticed the same. Talking about Spitfires and Hurricanes on film.
Feels good to watch an episode as it comes out
I like that smile so much, Indy, that it made my Patreon tier jump up a level. ;)
Is it just me or did the production quality improve once again? 😃
Minute 8:39 talking about the delivery of Spirfires to Malta: (very!) minor point: those are Hawker-Hurricanes. The most minor possible comment to Indie’s otherwise excellent as usual weekly Saturday presentation!
Hi Jefferson. If we can't find the specific footage for something we go for the next closest thing, sometimes it's more noticeable than others. Apologies if you found it jarring, we do try our best to find the best footage possible. We're glad you enjoyed the episode!
@@WorldWarTwo Good Lord, not jarring at all, I hugely enjoy each of your shows! And as a guy who once took an intro course in documentary film-making, I really should have known better!!
Indy's outfit is always like gentleman. Good informative video though as always.
"It ain't the heat, it's the humility." - Yogi Berra
Another outstanding chapter of World War II. Midway is coming and I am so looking forward to that episode!
2:54 I do think its worth it to mention that the reason that Stillwell was able to retreat "without losing a man", was because his retreat was covered by Sun Liren’s 38th division, which was also retreating into India just south of him. The description in this video makes it sound like Stilwell was part of the rearguard. Any Japanese strike against Stillwell would have had to go through the Chinese first.
Also, considering that Stillwell was the nominal commander of the Chinese expeditionary force, saying that he didnt "lose a man" is disingenuous; many Chinese men will still be lost at Myitkyina.
Indy:"numbers are tricky"
Also Indy two seconds later
*German total casualties are 7588*
My favourite series on RUclips.
I started watching a few weeks ago, finally caught up. Now I’ll have to wait one week each episode. I guess I can check out the Great War.
"I'm pretty much always waiting for the (ww2) saturday morning serial, but if at work, then i'm waiting all day...!"
5:08 yaaaa-maaaaa-tooooo
I was looking forward to a more in-depth coverage of Operation Ironclad in Madagascar - the first major allied amphibious assault, and a daring coup by the Royal Marines that turned the battle.
1942: The year of a three major battles. The war’s fate is decided on these battles but I will not named them but will share their general location, Pacific, North Africa, and Europe. May those who gave their lives and fell Rest In Peace in where they fell. Godspeed.
1st El Alamein and Stalingrad?
Indy my notes from the book Malta the Spitfire Year have on 10 May 1942 the following losses:
2 Spitfires by Bf 109 1 Spit fire by friendly AA
1 Cant 1007 and 1 damaged beyond repair by Spitfires
4 Ju 88s shot down and 1 damaged beyond repair by Spitfires and AA
4 Ju 87s shot down by Spitfires and Hurricannes
1 Bf 109 shot down and 1 damaged beyond repair by Spitfires
1 Bf 109 lost in a collison
I'm gonna do a marathon of The Great War, Between two Wars, and World War Two, someday. SOMEDAY.
FINALLY caught up! Between my wife's and own account I've caught up in about 6 weeks. Will be joining the patreon as well. No better channel than yours.
Welcome!
What about the battle of aaraakaan by the forgotten army? Please do even cover the first time the tricolour that will fly over Imphal and Kohima
Don't the nation markers used in in the episode at the 14:23 mark look like the markers used in Axis and allies game? Could this be true?
Many lovely images of Hurricanes, while talking about Spitfires. ;)
I'd be nice if you team up with the channel operation room for the upcoming naval battles.
5:56 the pacific lookin kinda sussy over there
This looks like the book my girlfriend and I had to flip through when we picked new curtains. 3/5
Brutal, but accurate
@@ralflewandowski7641 That's what she said
Good to know Gianni’s out there, takin’ it easy for all us sinners.
@wulpurgis he reviews Indy's ties
Hi All, Suggested Reading. "Robinson Crusoe, USN" by George R. Tweed and Blake Clark.
"American Guerilla in the Philippines" by Ira Wolfert.
Watching the movie they made from this is a little strange. The main character is about 22 in real life, falls in love with a 16 year old girl. In the movie, he is about 40, and she is at least that old. I guess it was too risque for Hollywood at the time.
I talked to a guy who would invade New Guinea at Buna, in the northwest. The Army recruited a bunch of hunters from Colorado and Wyoming, gave them no training worthy of the name, said go hunt people like you hunt deer.
Thanks for your time, take care.
"I don't care if he consults coffee grounds while doing the Boogie-Woogie!" --Adm. Chester Nimitz
Brilliant video 📹 thanks 😊
Both Axis powers got waay over extended with every advance taxing and reducing their resources at every turn. Soviets had the numbers and Stalin knew it. Losing 30,000 while Germany lost 8,000 was much worse for Germany. A million Russian POWs was a huge burden also. Neither Germany or Japan could sustain the long distance supply. Had they consolidated their gains and advanced over years instead of months there might have been a different outcome.
Just out of curiosity, on the map showing the territorial gains by the warring powers, a part of the Philippines is still under allied control. Is this the case even though the US forces in the Philippines have surrendered to the Japanese, or is it an overlooked mistake? Keep up the good work, Indy and the rest of the TimeGhost crew!
Don't split the party: Carl von Clausewitz
Clausewitz: “War is a mere continuation of politics by other means.”
Wehrmacht Generals: “BUH ME NO POLITICKY!”
*spoilers*
It's amazing that, given how much of a one-sided disaster the 1942 Burma campaign was for the Allies, their recapture of Burma in 1944-1945 was almost an equally one-sided disaster for the Japanese.
15:12 perhaps the IJN is leaning more to Sun Tzu and having one of the attacks as a distraction to the Schwerepunkt. Though, they maybe misapplying his lessons by not concentrating enough forces.
definitely they didn't lean on Mahan rule to never divide the fleet
That picture of Stalin is incredible, the Sea of Azov is delectably moist.
loving this series.
I hope that in the future the crew is gonna go on excursions again and we'll see more videos shot on locations - battlefields, museums, that kind of thing, like in The Great War series. I know that's difficult now because of the pestilence but this series is gonna go on for quite a while...
Germans: We have captured another 100,000 soldiers and inflicted casualties at a 4:1 ratio.
Soviets: You have no idea idea how badly you're losing the numbers game.
Perhaps you are going to cover operation Pedestal in mid Aug But Malta was anything but safe in May 1942 if a bit better protected . Not everyone realises it was Park ( formerly of 11 group in the Battle Of Britain )who led the Malta's fightback to success . He used different tactics this time sending big groups of fighters to overwhelm the enemy .
It may come on tomorrow’s episode but any word from the Kholm & Demyansk pockets?
Hi Indy and team.
Another interesting week..
How much more casualties in this world war we are going to see...
Sounds very sick..
Awaiting for what will happen next week..
Thanks..🙏
Wait for Stalingrad..
Great video. Thanks, Indy.
Great episode!
First battle of Kharkov. Soviets did not realize that there were two panzer divisions, almost fully refit, preparing to start their own offensive.
So... still no activity in North Africa? How come it's so silent over there?
Takes way more time to prepare down there.
We see the armies moving on the map but here is a story to remind us that we shouldn't forget that these armies are filled with human beings. The 76 Infantry Division is fighting at Charkow. Exactly yesterday (15.05. 1942) the Schütze (Private) Friedrich Hodapp succumbed to his injuries in a field hospital of said division at Charkow just two months after his 20th Birthday. He had stepped on a landmine which inflicted the fatal injuries. When his mother receives the news of his Death, she faints out of shock. He is the only child of his father, who died of Tetanus, thus ending the family line. Keep in mind that these Division on the map arent abstract things, their fighting is paved by the death of many young german and Soviet solidiers, each one with their own hopes and dreams. Never Forget
I believe the WWII calamity killed people faster than the Covid pandemic that seems so awful today.
I think Stalingrad alone killed 10000 a day for 5 months.
The war survivors would surely be worse off too.
@@chrisdaniels3929 Yeah, its a different war but i think it fits here. The Novel "All quiet in the western front" is dedicated to the death of the war but also those who escaped the horrors of war superficially but were never the same
Welcome to the jungle we got mosquitoes and games
We got fungus an' games.
@@nickdanger3802 even better
Excellent job
We need more about Malta.
Nice vid, thanks!
It's amazing how many Stukas were used against the Soviets!!
Love the smile Indy.😀
USA: Midway, yep, definitely Midway. now we just have to figure out exactly when...
British: We might have lost Burma, but we ain't about to leave Malta!
Montreal was an important port at the time, which explains the presence of U-boats in the St. Lawrence River.
There is a legend (I don’t know if it’s true) that says that German sailors were found with movie tickets and Canadian money in their pocket.
15:30 There's a difference between taking and keeping. Japan might be able to take (to grasp) but they won't have the ability to keep (hold). Bit off too big a bite in planning for war.
Indy, I have what is probably a stupid question, but it’s something I’ve always wondered about, so here goes...When Yamamoto-who had long been the central advocate for naval *air* power and carriers as the central component of the IJN rather than battleships-when Yamamoto commanded the Kido Butai and the entire Combined Japanese Fleet in the attack on Midway, *why* did he command from so very far behind the naval air squadrons, and *why* was his flagship the Battleship Yamato, rather than a large carrier such as the Akagi (a favourite of Japanese admirals and a ship he had commanded before as captain) or Kaga, or even from one of the new, purpose-built medium carriers, such as the Soryu or Hiryu? Was it simply because fusty IJN tradition demanded that the Supreme Commander lead from a battleship?
Yamato was the heaviest battleship ever made (along with sister ship) and carried the largest guns ever used on a warship, and since in public perception the battleship was king of the fleet, it made perfect sense for Yamamoto to have as flagship the biggest, coolest looking, and best armed warship they had.
And his role in the whole thing was the spider in the web, and there were a lot of Japanese threads at Midway. Following pretty standard doctrine, Kido Butai would do its dirty work and then the battleships would come up and destroy whatever the Americans sent out to defend Midway, but if they knew that there was such a large Japanese force out there they might not come out and play, hence the battleships "hiding" outside of recon range.
If you mean why did he not take personal command of Kido Butai, well, why would he? Chuchi Nagumo commanded it ably from Pearl up to Midway and would certainly be better tactically than Yamamoto himself, who would have had to also think about the whole rest of the fleet at the same time instead of just commanding a local engagement.
Do a special about "Buzz" Beurling please.
08:51 - finally things are swinging the other way a bit. Great news.
Someone should check on the water situation is on Midway.
I just had a thought when the General was in trouble and Hitler's reply, I am a psychologist and his reaction to the news gives me an impression that he was still fighting WW1, as the situation in some way were similar, an eastern front and a belief that Germany was better overall, that he felt that with WW1 in mind that they would retake the position the next day or day after, that this was normal due to his war experience and what was happening to a degree on the battlefield.
Hitler's thought - Ok, they took that, we will take it back, so don't worry too much as this happens, we can retake that - WHAT... Why are you leaving the front line? I didn't do that in WW1 even when the Arty was raining down, we didn't run or leave our position.
I think this is why and why he couldn't believe what the German Generals were saying, as this didn't happen in WW1 where he has and had to experience. Hitler's belief in German resolve and the lack of a strategic retreat in plenty of time really played here, and hence Hitler's last thoughts in the bunker were that the German High Command betrayed him. And they did and him them.
Why couldn't they stand and fight as we did in WW1?
We all know, but he didn't.
Racism played a part as well. If you think Slavs are lesser humans then retreat can cause ideological problems. As well I think seeing numbers or tokens on a board can cause people to yell hold the line or advance when its not practical. I think its noteworthy that when Stalin tried to command the soviets lost badly and when he let his generals do their jobs the reds performed better.
@@asdafkgmify Hitler was more inclined to issue "stand fast" orders on the Eastern Front than others. For whatever reason.
Hi Indy. You have not mentioned the african front at Libya for a while now. Is it quite or is it simply minor compared to the rest of the fronts?
You need to wait two weeks for major combat operatiıons to restart in Africa. Right now both Axis and Eighth Army are deployed before Gazala Line without any movement
@@merdiolu Thanks for the reply!
boy of boy with all of this activity it is hard to keep track of it all...
Hm, Spitfires you say??? How come we only see Hawker Hurricanes on Malta? Not saying that there are no Spits there, but the displayed footage does not bear that out.
i don't think the footage is from Malta they are definitely Hurricanes though
You're applying more modern times to then. Film was still a relatively new technology, so while there is a surprising amount of film of WWII out there, it is still very limited.
Add in that it was a war and filming stuff for the most part wasn't a priority, especially somewhere as resource starved as Malta, and there may just not be much footage of aircraft on Malta around this time.
Another example is the retreat from Burma. We see the same footage again and again, even when it's not the footage of exactly what is being talked about, because there just isn't much footage to use.
How do you get to lead a squadron of men? Give an army to Stillwell...
May 16, 1942.
Corporal Artyom Ivanov of the 13th Guards Rifle Division sees action at Kharkov for the first time in this war. His advance which began on the 12th grinds to a halt after a couple days as he meets stiff German resistance however. Further south, German forces prepare for a counterattack.
another great episode :)
Amazing as always!
And now Japan finally unleashes its largest battleship, Yamato.
The Germans with the Bismarck and Tirpitz would make them Europe's largest battleships.