1 of America's Darkest WW2 Secrets Exposed
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- On March 27, 1945, the American and Serbian prisoners of war at OFLAG XIII-B in Hammelburg spotted German trucks and tanks racing by the compound at full speed.
With this, they knew they were about to be rescued.
Suddenly, American tanks burst through the barbed-wire fences in several places, firing their guns overhead and to each side. As shells exploded around the camp's perimeter, the prisoners were overwhelmed by a joyous feeling of liberation.
Amidst the euphoria of the apparent rescue, a figure emerged from one of the tanks - Captain Abraham Baum, the young leader of the daring Task Force Baum. His eyes scanned the sea of prisoners, searching for one man in particular: Lieutenant Colonel John K. Waters.
But as the two men shook hands, a flicker of concern crossed Baum's face. The camp held far more prisoners than intelligence had suggested - nearly 1,500 instead of the expected 300.
The Captain’s small task force, already battered from the relentless German resistance they had faced on their journey to Hammelburg, was ill-equipped to evacuate such a vast number of prisoners.
Over 50 miles into enemy territory, the daunting reality set in for the Captain: the odds of a successful extraction were dangerously low.
In fact, Task Force Baum was about to become one of the biggest disasters of the final stages of World War 2.
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To save someone's son-in-law sounds like an illegal order not mission worthy.
So naive…🥱
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When you’re connected, you can do whatever you want (impunity)
@@LBdreamin Ordering citizens to violate the Constitution is unlawful.
I've heard of this mission but I never realized that it was this much of a cluster you-know-what.
This raid is like the complete opposite of the raid on Cabanatuan in the Philippines. This was an embarrassing train wreck.
One ego trying to outdo another ego to rescue one guy.
Now, for the rest of the story.
The boy who became General George S. Patton was one of the wealthiest officers ever to serve in the American Army. He was dyslexic. Every summer a former Confederate office named John Mosby would come and teach young Patton about the battles of the War Between the States.
In a daring raid through Union lines, Mosby and his 29 men had captured a Union general, two captains, 30 enlisted men, and 58 horses without firing a shot.
Patton was not a 5 star, consensus General. He was an action general. At the time of the Battle of Bastogne, Patton's army was only a couple of days from jumping off and going through the Siegried Line. He begged to go in that direction, but ordered to take his ready troops do a 90 degree turn and march north.
The raid to the POW camp was not successful. However, take a moment and reflect what would have happened if Patton had been left to follow the attack on the Siegfried Line. Most of the heavy guns had been moved by the Germans to Normandy much earlier.
I don't think that it was arrogance on his part.
Another assignment for people who swallow assumptions and indoctrination. Do your the research and you will learn that prior to May 1940, the French came out from the Maginot Line and invaded Germany. The resistance was slight. The Germans did not have any armor facing the French. However, the French retreated because it could not establish a supply line east of the Maginot Line. The biggest failure lay in the fact that the French had occupied a portion of German until the mid 1930s and did not have an intelligence network in Germany to advise the French that there would not be significant opposition for a while.
So, stop with the b.s. about how the French couldn't wait to waive a white flag. The Belgian King abrogated an agreement with France and G,B. The defensive positions in Belgium existed. The original agreement was that at the first sign of war, the French and British armies would move into established positions in Belgium. The King changed that to not allowing the troops in until after Belgium was attacked. So, the French and British armies were only on the march. If they had been in position, the French train system (as proven in WW1) could move an entire army in three days to anywhere in the west against the Germans. So, now you can do some other research.
Hammelburg? Patten could have liberated Stalag 13 along the way. A certain Col. Hogan and his force could have been liberated, and a few more seasons of zany antics perpetuated.
I had the good fortune to hear this story first hand from one of the survivors who was not captured. Having had nothing but cigarettes to eat in several days because he was almost captured when he tried to get food from a German farm house that turned out to have German soldiers in it, he got back to US lines where the American soldiers thought he was a German spy in a US uniform and wanted to shoot him on the spot. They then resorted to asking him about baseball. Unfortunately he was a farm boy from rural Virginia and not a baseball fan, thus reinforcing the desire to shoot him. He reasoned with them that any German spy would have been trained to know all about baseball so that was actually proof that he was an American and pleaded with them to contact headquarters before shooting him. The mission was so secret that few at headquarters knew anything about it until someone showed up to confirm he was legit. He was not a fan of General Patton.
Typical Officers getting their men killed to just have fame and a medal.
Patton was a self-absorbed drama queen, exactly the type of personality that should NEVER be in charge of peoples lives
Hubris is a price paid by others.
Why are there always asinine comments on these historical films? Is there no more pride in being an American?
Blame Canada
Stumbling into German units you didn’t know were there is also what happened in Market Garden
Nope, dutch resistance warned them about an ss panzer division being in the area, but they chose to ignore this information
The most important part of running decoy is that you do not know that you are the decoy.
All for Pattons son in law.
Nice move George.
any mission where your bandits cannot rob something is termed as worst mission
Decent video Dark keep it up
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Thank You.
I thought Omar Bradley was Pattons Immediate supervisor? Why on earth did they go through towns instead of just going around them then keeping large groups of the enemy from noticing them! They should have send back roads the entire way.
The German civilians were waving at them as they drove through towns. I guess they had no idea they were Americans.
Because there aren't many roads that do not go through German Towns.
Even in the United States at the time, roads mostly went through cities and towns.
While the autobahn existed, it was very limited, and even those connected cities and towns. The idea of bypassing a city is a more modern way of building transportation.
It wasn't a filled raid at all it exploited weaknesses in the German lines and we were able to break through the Germans thought it was a genius way because they thought that was patent's third army that they surrounded but they didn't know that Patton was on the other side right behind them sometimes you have to sacrifice some so many may live
Patton and MacArthur are no angels. Read about what they both did to the Bonus Army.
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Could not the former POWs been used to reinforce the rescuers? Even without arms they could have been helpful and some could have been provided with arms from men taken out of action or from captured weapons.
Says a lot about Patton
General Pattons idea.
Sounds like the cost was maybe not so high, how much would they have lost if 4th Armoured had to gone straight through those that did surround TF Baum. Maybe this was a cheaper outcome?
Patton needed a distraction, bet he knew there were 1500 pow, just needed the german force there to come out of the trenches and chase the raiding party.
risk the lives of many to free one 💀
never heard of this, thanks dark docs!
The thumbnail: a red arrow pointing at a red circle surrounding a fighter plane in the heat of a battle - having nothing to do with the video's subject at hand. So, the worst mission was a... plane?
Why? .....just shut up and enjoy the gideo
@@MonkeyTube-pj8gh no.
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He has a point. The thumbnail (and the title) are trash.@@MonkeyTube-pj8gh
@@MonkeyTube-pj8gh You know that, man! Otherwise, he can put together a video, gather up all the clips, narrate it, edit it, and so on! 🙂
So by your click bait title America was apparently DESTROYED in WW2 ?????
Yeah we lost don't u remember? Lop
So he needed to save his daughter’s husband?
Again a story to blame Patton. He still needs to be some kinda controversy. I he only had been in charge in stead of all those who were, that war would have kept many soldiers alive. Taking risks are always easy to critisize, and those actions Pattons others 'colleages' undertook were never so meticulously critisized. Why? Why was Patton murdered? I am sure my comment will be vanished soon.
Brass always sacrificing grunts on the altar of ego, pride and personal gains.
Always have, always will.
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I don’t understand this title.
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Every time someone tells me how great patton was I always brings this up...American soldiers slaughtered over his fucking ego like many other calls he made 🙄
And the Americans let almost all the enemy go home after the war, with nothing but a bad mark on their permanent records.
Ahh ya forgot the instant USA citizens.... von braun..and friends
@@miguelcastaneda7257 Also look up "Operation Osoaviakhim," on the internet. Some of these German scientists became high ranking Communist officials in Soviet satellite nations in Eastern Europe, after fulfilling their duties in the Soviet Union.
@@miguelcastaneda7257 The post-war US faced off vs the Soviet Union under Joe Stalin. The USSR had just killed many millions of its own citizens and maintained a vast system of gulags and a military structure -- which would eventually bankrupt it -- capable of sweeping across Europe and Asia. Peace and freedom for the western world hung in the balance.
But you want the Americans to send Von Braun home instead of using his knowledge? Childish. Insincere.
America was pretty good at annihilating themselves a number of times during WW2. From the useless assaults in southern Italy, to Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Saipan, and Okinawa. To Market Garden and Hurtgen Forest, and the failure to take out pill boxes on the shores of Normandy at Omaha and Utah. America was doing just fine sacrificing their own men and didn't need any help from Germany.
That's why they won the war
We learned from the best…the Brits.
The Germans lost six million soldiers, while the US lost 500,000. We learned from our mistakes, took control, and set up a lot of bases, and that’s why you’re writing in English instead of German. 🫡 🇺🇸
Strange that you'd include Saipan and Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima saved the lives of thousands of US bomber crewmen by converting it from a Japanese fighter base on the bombing routes to Japan to a US fighter base and emergency landing station. Saipan was part of the island chain from which the US ended the war by bombing Hiroshima.
Even stranger that you'd include Market Garden. This was the brain child and plan of the British General Montgomery. The US lent the 82nd and 101st as additional airborne divisions were needed. But it wasn't a US operation at all.
Utah beach was fairly uneventful. Omaha was a bloody mess because of the terrain.
Although the landings in Italy did not lead to breakthroughs into Germany, they were useful in tying down large numbers of German troops and supplies. When you have greater resources than the enemy, it makes sense to stretch the enemy out even if some attacks fail.
You say that America was good at sacrificing her own men when, in fact, US forces were known to suffer very low casualties.
You really don't know much about the war, do you?
Nice edgy yet very narrow view of a global conflict with far more context that you either choose to leave out or are too ignorant to understand the scale that led to historical decision-making and events.
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USA wasn’t annihilated. They still survived……unfortunately.
Cope and seethe.
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