Hitler's Terrifying Rolling Sniper Catches Churchill Tanks by Surprise
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- On July 30, 1944, in Normandy, a unit of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade, equipped with Churchill tanks, became isolated from their infantry.
Developed for even the most rugged of terrains, these tanks had already proved their resilience time and time again from Dieppe to North Africa and Italy.
They moved through the dense countryside, lone and vulnerable, unaware the newest tracked weapon of the German Army lay in wait.
Three Jagdpanthers, each armed with a formidable 88-mm gun, were on the prowl. Developed just in time for the Normandy operations, these menacing machines had received the Fuhrer's personal seal of approval.
Hidden, the Jagdpanthers prepared to ambush the Churchill tanks, ready to prove that while the invasion of northern France was well underway, Germany would not back down just yet.
With this, the landscape near St. Martin de Bois witnessed the most concentrated infantry tank action in the entire war.
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The video needed a lot more content and photographs of the Jagdpanther. As it stands the video borders on clickbait and reflects sloppy research.
dark docs getting info wrong since 2016 lol
lots of turreted tank pics but not many tank destroyer pics.
This video was about the Churchill not the jagdpanther...
IT is not a tank. It's a tank destroyer
The Churchill was named after John Churchill, victor at Blenheim.
Believe it or not his father was called Winston.
Wht do you put such misleading, click bait headlines on your posts? The jagdpanthers had no effect on the D-Day invasion. Their first combat against the Westerm Allies took place over 6 weeks after the invasion took place. Also it wasn't a tank, but rather a tank destroyer. You got these facts correct in your video, but you almost ruined it with a headline which was doubly wrong.
1:13
The original purpose of tanks was infantry support.
This did not evolve as a separate purpose as you imply.
If this video is about the JagPanther why show Panthers and Panzers.
Because theres probably a lot more footage available of Panzers and Panthers than Jagdpanthers that he can access under free use
To be fair the Churchill was a less than stellar tank. Neither well armed or armoured.
And slow as all hell.
Or named!...NEW ZEALAND Gallipoli is on Churchill and Kiwis were slaughtered and STILL told to MOVE UP, MOVE FORWARD by WC. PLUS he was a RACIST POS.
Heavy armour and could climb steeper slope than any other.
By the war's end, the late model Churchill Mk VII had exceptional amounts of armour - considerably more than the German Tiger tank. However, it is acknowledged the firepower weakness was never fully addressed. Escape hatches were incorporated into the design of the panniers allowing the crew to exit quickly in the event of an emergency - for crew survivability, superb armour protection and the ability to cross terrain obstacles that most other tanks of its era could not surely makes it a rather outstanding tank?
Very confusing if you want to know what a jagdpanther looks like!
When talking about Jagdpanthers, half the time they showed videos of Panthers. But then, Dark Docs knew that. At least, I hope they did.
I just want to go back in time to a few weeks before D-day, and show to all the soldiers the current events and status of the United Kingdom and USA.
Nice tank
Dark Docs:Let me show you the JagdPanther
me: Yes pls
Dark Docs: *shows bri ish armor instead
The picture in the thumbnail is not a tank, the jagdpanzer is not a tank play tank must have a turret it is a tank destroyer
Its Jadgpanther with Pak43 8.8cm
You are both right and somewhat pedantic. :)) The US M10 had a rotating turret but was a tank destroyer.
@@peterpluim7912 Turreted tanks have less penetration, Less Fire-Rate and less accuracy as well as unreliable in certain situation as it's traverse speed sucks and it's limit is 200 meters it cannot be turn decline anything under 200 meters
@@JaHail-oy6vq What, where did you hear that?
@@shanepatrick4534 I didn't hear, I researched
Talks about the Jagdpanther and shows footage of Panthers and churchills all the time.
About half the time he talked about Jagdpanthers, they actually showed videos or still photographs of Jagdpanthers. The other half of the time, Panthers, as you say.
0:27 - cmon
No! The Churchill tank was named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
Quantity not quality seems to be Dark Docs current M.O., can't waste time on accuracy, it slows output and that would be devastating to their bottom line
Dark Docs- lets see some content on LRRPs!
Who ever wrote this? Didnt' read up on the Eastern Front battles against the J Team USSR?
so why did gmany lose, despite this terrrrrifying piece of fertilizer?
By the time of Cobra the British had all but destroyed Rommel's Army Group West, so in realty the US forces did not face many German tanks in Normandy. The British faced both JagdPanthers and Tiger II though in small numbers, most were destroyed by 17 Pounder guns, or like these Jagdpanthers were destroyed by their crew's, as damaged tanks could not be recovered. The first Tiger II tanks were destroyed by the British a few days later.
2 of the 3 Jagdpanthers were lost. One was penetrated and left not far away and another made it a bit further before it broke down and had to be left behind.
@@michaelkenny8540 I read all three were abandoned for various reasons.
The most effective German tank destroyer of the war was the Stu III. All of the bigger cats combined did diddly compared to the Stug!
2000 Tigers built, 10,000 Stug built.
Churchill or Jadgpanthers what are you doing 90% of your footage is not Churchill or Jadgpanthers. At least show the tanks you put in the description.
Jagpanther is able to get knocked out in one hit by bots in war thunder mobile 😅 I though when i got tht platoon i would do good. Until bot named playert56ct came around corner and knocked me out, one shot from the front 😅
Jagdpanzer.
Showing pics of German AFV's while talking about the Churchill, that's basic.
Der sture Emil!
This just isn't historically correct on so many levels
So in eh 1st 30s talking about the resilience of "these tanks" [Chruchills], decided to show film of several different tanks that _weren't_ Churchills. Stopped watching after that😐
Your videos need to match the narration
You just ruled out any event/action that was not filmed.
You have Stug3-4
Annoying how most of the audio is great but teh video doesnt resemble what he is saying at all.
There is no film or photographs of the engagement. We only have photos of one of the Jagdpanthers that was hit as it retreated and the crew fled and abandoned it. A second Jagdpanther made it a few miles down the road before the crew also abadoned it and fled.
@@michaelkenny8540 not the point. Still shots, engineering drawings, ….. just photos of the actual correct types of vehilces would be 100% better than seeing the wrong vehciles also not at teh same actual battle. If you are talking about a Jagdpanther but showing photos of a stug then it is ridiculous. It would be like watchikng a press conference from the President but the audio is correct but it is a cartoon of dora the explorer. If no actual video or photos of the exact battle exisit, then photos of the correct vehciles and correct places, evenif not the actual battle are still preferable to seeing completely unrelated stuff.
@@KingRat71 Its common across all these sort of films and I am at a loss why so many seem only to complain here. It seems to me a lot of 'experts' find it the only thing they know enough about to be able to complain about-so they complain!
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Churchill one of the greatest criminals of the war
He could have prevented the war, but he wanted it most of all.
I guess if you are dumb enough not to know Churchill did not become Prime Minister until May 1940 (8 months after the war started) then you at least don't realise everyone is laughing at you.
"Der Fuhrer " would have been 135 years old today 😐.
A chaotic collection of irrelevant, and often misleading videos. What isn't made clear is that the Jagdpanther was armed with the more powerful 88mm L71, rather than the Tiger 1's 88mm L56, the Churchill 7's 152mm of frontal armour could resist the 88mm L56 above close range. The Jagdpanthers should have been used as long range ambush vehicles, shooting from concealed positions, so the Churchill's infantry support was irrelevant. The Panther was originally designed to be a 30+ ton tank, the final Panther was a 46+ ton tank and was never reliable.
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The British tanks are so damn ugly. As if designed by a 7 year old.
Alla you "every picture and film clip must be accurate or the entire video is utter crap" people crack me up!
Try making a WWII video story yourself with everything 100% accurate.
Are you a kindegarten teacher ? You have the mentality.
I'd rather them show the same few correct videos and images over and over than include incorrect ones. And it's got to be confusing for those who don't know what the AFVs really look like.
This was not the greatest tank battle of ww2. It was the battle at Kurst when the Russian T 34's took on the German tanks! The Russians won by greater numbers but lost so many men and tanks!
Obviously you can not read. It says Infantry -tank' action and not 'infantry v tank action. Also you are wrong about the 'greatest' tank battle of WW2. In terms of tank density there were far more at OPERATION GODWOOD on one day (18/6/44) than there were at Kursk over a week
What subject was that supposed to be on? Churchill or Jadgpanthers? There was more info on the Churchill than the Jadgpanther.
Precisely. First images of Jagdpanthers don't appear until 5.03. I wish these documentaries would also show images relevant to the subject being narrated. M3 Lee and M4 Sherman's when discussing Churchills?
I couldnt agree more 😉
You are totally correct! Additionally, the footage of German tanks in the video was mainly the Panther!
Not a very well put together video!
The Pak 36 is not a tank. It's an anti-tank 2 wheeled towed gun. Dark Docs, I normally dont like to gripe but man your vidoes just keep getting more and more.....fiction over fact.
Title is misleading. Almost no info about the Jagdpanther. More like a doc on the Churchill than anything else.
I agree
Sorry if this is about the Jagdpather 5 minutes on the churchill tank is of no importance if its about the ambush by 3 jagdpanthers during the Normandy fighting 5 minutes on the churchill tank is not relevant. And the Jagdpather is not a tank its a tank destroyer. You'd be much better off discussing the units and use of the Jagdpather specifically in Normandy rather than going on about the churchill.
Yap yap yap
0:54 - Incorrect. Kursk (Russia 1943) was the most concentrated tank action in the "entire war."
That depends on what you judge to be the area of 'Kursk'. On square mileage the Normandy front was the greatest concentration of tanks in WW2. On D-Day alone over 1500 tanks were landed and by July 6 there were 5,000 Allied tanks in a salient 70 miles by 15. You could fit the entire Normandy battlefield area (for July) into the Kursk bulge about 10 times.
The most concentrated INFANTRY TANK action. This was one of the few battles where Churchills were used en masse. Goodwood mostly used Shermans and the Cromwells of the 7th Armoured division.
@@scotsbillhicks What exactly prevented stating this at the start of the video?
At 2.25. The Dieppe raid was on 19 August 1942, NOT 1943 ! The tanks were a failure.
Dolfy's birthday today
reaching
Dieppe wassn't about testing Landing in France. (I know its the official story, told after the failed attack).
The real reason was to obtain the new improved Enigma machine ( the one with 4 wheels ) But that was a long kept secret. Got that info from WW2tv. dont remember which episode. (sorry)
You must learn to separate a sub-task from the main aim of the operation. There were other much less risky ways to capture enigma machines. Look up where the actual captured machines were taken.
Canadians at Diep but became British at Juno beach Normandy. Normally it just Americans that fought and won in WW2. Cheers from CANADA!
Don't forget the Soviets took out 4/5 of the Nazties.
Still the best looking AFV of WWII
my best looking girlfriend can't cook worth a s--t
Interesting vid but your background music volume needs to come down a bit
You mean the one they couldn't keep running for the thumbnail?!
Well done some of the vehicles shown are actually those discussed in the video , most aren’t but a few are .
I believe the raid was August 1942. Please check your records.
but why are you in a pipe? it's 420 yeah. but sounds like you actually are in a pipe. echo
are you stuck
nevermind.. I think it's me. if not, I hope you get out of that pipe.
yeahh... its me 🎉
Most concentrated infantry-tank action in the entire war? That is a whole lot of BS
Not To Worry! Montgomery ALWAYS found a way to waste the Natural Bravery, Toughness and Bravery of the British "Tommy"! Always Admired British Soldiers and (Usually) their Line Officers...
Why doesn't the video match the narrative? Only 40 seconds in and already you've talked about Churchills but show us Grants, Shermans and Matildas, then you talk about Jagdpanthers but show us Panthers?! What a load of clickbait tosh.
incorrect the Churchill tank was not named after Winston Churchill but his ancestor the Duke of Marlborough
Would have been nice to see something about Jagdpanther s, some film of them instead of the normal Panther tanks. A good bit of decent info about Churchill tanks though, so thanks for that.
Get your images right
If you show up on my feed again I’ll be cancelling my subscription
The English tanks was terrible compared to the tiger and panther they had no chance in a tank to tank battle
I’m 4 minutes in. Where’s the Jagdpanther? Come on mate. You can do better than this.
This is a bull s it upload of other clips and misleading info disliked reported
Little or no connection between Narrative and footage.
Dieppe was a disaster for the Churchill tank.
Click bait
Germans being guarded by their own mg.
How silly..
I can't tell you how bad this is.....
That's obvious...because you didn't.
can't you tell how many of your tanks it killed?
We got a heavily defended port we want to see if we can land troops and capture it….so they threw the best they had at it to learn it wasn’t possible. What a waste. Respect to the troops who knew what was ahead and still charged forward….
I hear you. One who has never experienced battle can never know the feeling of walking into imminent danger.
Agreed. That s.o.b. Mountbatten never knew what it was like either
You'd think that those brass arseholes would have learnt from past exploits - the Crimean war, the First World war. Cannon fodder.
@@PMC47Huh? He saw action as a naval officer in WWI and WWII.
@briancoleman971 I was referring to the Dieppe raid where Mountbatten thoughtlessly fed Canadian men to the meat grinder. No worries. The Irish paid him back for us. Furthermore, the selection process in ww1 for officers often came down to aristocratic bloodlines, regardless if said commander was a lofty useless idiot with no concept of human life. Kind of exactly like the 3 inbred cousins that effectively started ww1.
"from Dieppe"....really. They even were not capable to get out of the shingle beach,and that is a reliable and resilient Tank..??!! Well,opinions.
Please talk about the Jagdpanther..Tank Destroyer instead of other Tanks and subjects..
Interesting, but most of the footage is so out of line with the subject that it makes it hard to watch.
The jagpenther one of my favourite tanks. The size and power is incredible
Der dicke Max!
Named after John Churchill, not Winston Churchill
Did the Sherman assault tank aka fatty, ever used against German armor..?
So the British sacrificed the Colonials again.
Like must German “wonder weapons”, too little, and too late.
7000 British tanks... nice
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knew a little about the jagdpanther but almost nothing about the churchhills and the part they played in the allied victory very interesting vid as usual⚛😀