Operation Plunder: US 3rd Army Crosses Rhine river - March 1945 [ WWII Documentary ]

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

Комментарии • 10

  • @imbok
    @imbok 5 дней назад

    It's refreshing to see the more mundane, deliberate side of running a war. Slowly, step by step, the army crosses the river and takes another step toward its objective. The MP at the end was a great character study.

  • @mrkitty1367
    @mrkitty1367 5 дней назад

    thanks for posting this stuff !

  • @schitthe
    @schitthe 5 дней назад

    I live at Nierstein, German, where this Rhine crossing took place, only some hundred meters from my house. Great to see this footage now!

  • @MaxTSanches
    @MaxTSanches 6 дней назад +1

    The most shocking thing to me was, that at this point in the war, the US Army was able to use an armoured half-track not as a combat vehicle but as a supply carrier (11:02).

  • @sandovalperry2895
    @sandovalperry2895 3 дня назад

    You’ll never see an operation like this again on the modern battlefield. There would be a swarm of drones taking out the bridge before the first pontoon was put in the water.

  • @sailordude2094
    @sailordude2094 6 дней назад +3

    If Hitler had watched this footage he would have had a meltdown! Thanks for the history.

    • @MaxTSanches
      @MaxTSanches 6 дней назад +1

      And there were no horses!

  • @timwerner7771
    @timwerner7771 5 дней назад

    @6:50 it looks like they are making that white smoke on purpose to screen their movements. Is that correct?

    • @sandovalperry2895
      @sandovalperry2895 3 дня назад

      It looks like smoke generators, they dirty burn fuel to mask movements. The problem is the operation is dependent upon the winds, a slight breeze can shift depending upon the terrain, the suns heat, etc.