I have a long interest in naval history. While the big battles get a lot of attention, it is these stories that bring out the grit and grind of what it takes to fight. This is key to understanding the past. I hope you and WoW do many more about the individual actions along with telling the strategic storylines.
@@endr206 When I was growing up, all I knew was that the Poles got rolled over by the Germans and held them in disdain. As I've learned some history and saw Solidarity stand up to the Soviets, I realized how awfully wrong I was.
Could not agree more, without the Poles work on the engima codes, their pilots and sailors who escaped to the uk the war could have taken a very different path
Thank You for the memory. One of my grandpas was a sailor on polish boat during Dunqerque evac and got shot while trying to throw a rope for british troops. Other grandpa survived Monte Cassino assault (squadron with the trained bear) and was refused joining the Victory Parade by the Brits. It made him a broken man. He returned home and sometimes my mom saw him crying in the evening while holding his military cap. They really tried their best to help.
The Poles were fierce fighters throughout WWII. Their naval, air and army contributions during the war has been understated in history. They may not have had the best of equipment for their military, but their intelligence services were among the best, bar none. They are the ones that gave Allies the initial access to the Enigma codes, machines and keys.
I like Nicholas Moran, but a few months ago I noticed he was doing and covering more World of Warships content. At first I was not sold on this idea, but I must say it has grown on me and now I think his switch over to World of Warships was a brilliant idea. Please continue the episode and all that he does in general. "The Chieftain" has become a everyday staple, must watch or at least see what's new on RUclips, for me almost daily. Carry On sir and I do like the idea of this format. Does anyone have a link to the "News Reel/Propaganda" footage of the German BB in Danzig, at least I believe it was there or maybe another port, blasting away with all it's weapons up close and personal?
The firstmate of that sub must've had quite a shock to arrive in the UK and realize he went from first mate, to submarine captain, to general of Poland in only a few short weeks.
Thank you for this episode. I am not a gamer and so tend to ignore this channel . However a while back I stumbled across an episode on the bofors gun then the 20 mm orlicecan . Hence the subcribe. Working my way through your stuff there is some very interesting episode's. Having been an arm chair historian for many years . Your content like this I find is refreshing , and informative with some also adding new information to what in some cases I have forgotten. Also a new context in some cases. Well done ,and please keep it up looking forward to your next presentation.
Excellent war story Nicholas👏 Your knowledge of conflicts and military hardware is vast and your enthusiastic willingness to share these details with us is very well received. You are a good narrator as well its easy to absorb your stories. Do many more of these lesser known event's of WW2!👌
I love the history and The Chieftains presentation of it, but the editors need to get out of the mid-2000s and realize that this is RUclips not cable TV. We don't need a reminder on what video we're watching in the middle of the video that were watching. We know what video it is.
one of OP nations ballanced by horrific geopolitical location and focused literally by everyone so it can't shine in the lategame. Ottomans didn't know that xD
"The most globe-spanning and bloody conflict." Media: It was caused by a videogame player who sucked at Art Simulator, and in his rage he installed Command and Conquer: Origins and became the violent dictator he always roleplayed to be.
In those few years Poland had fought to confirm its borders and had saved Germany from being invaded and taken over by the USSR by outmanouvering and destroying the army which thought it could roll up the polish army on their way past. Stalin was a general in that invasion army. Thanks a lot Poland for giving your lives to save us.
That daring escape in a submarine would make for a great movie...it would be like Das Boot-but it's the good guys! And it has a happy(ier) ending... But what would it be called? Polaski from Hell?
There's actually more, but without the happy end. ORP Orzel stopped responding to calls in May '40 on her seventh and last mission and the wreck has not been found until this day.
@@JagdWehrwolf The news about the wreck of the Orzeł touched me. Other Polish Navy submarine went down to take some pictures of old sub details to make sure it is the one.
And now everybody in Poland learns from history books that pumping money into ships was a major mistake and the money should have been rather directed into air power. But what they forgot is, that the fleet was build mostly against the Soviets, not Germans and it's main task was to secure deliveries of cargo and ammo in case of war with Soviet Union... The problem with deliveries 20 years earlier (during 1919-1921 war with SU) affected decision to invest money into this small fleet...
Drachinifel also made some entry about the Polish Navy during WW2, in this video (part about Poland - from the start until 8:00): ruclips.net/video/nATHU6rHKsk/видео.html
The great tragedy that befell Poland wasn't just the Nazi's it was the fact that the west abandoned her to the Soviets. They had to endure another 55 years of occupation to finally be free.
@@JamesLaserpimpWalsh Leave it. It's gone. Better try to imagine that (Poland) Poles are hands down the WORST nation to occupy. It was literally a nail in the ass for Russia, Soviets, Nazis, Sweden and all others. You have constant riots and unrest. Day after day after day.. train with your army crashed the last bridge that felt just exploded and went into the river. The armory was robbed. Your best officers were killed. All your maps were stolen yesterday. Major uprising every few months. More and more of them every time. And now you just drinking a delicious yet poisoned tea... ;) I feel good for Germans and Germany that they have grown up to the state that they really want a good neighbor to trade and visit 1000x more than the death-prooven enemy. Those pesky Poles night sneaking to their bedroom with a knife and creepy smile :D Stay safe.
Great video, lots of interesting info... But please don't do side shots if The Chieftain is looking straight ahead... the effect is a bit... not really unnerving, but somehow very slightly detrimental. Two straight-on cameras (I think) are enough.
There is an amazing book. I guess the English title would sound like "ORP Orzel has lost". Orzel stands for Eagle. Maybe there is some English translation of this book. I highly recommend it. :)
@@Zretgul_timerunner He's either a troll or a dumbass who knows nothing about history bar some Soviet era propaganda, don't mind him, just let him live in his imaginary world.
I don’t play world of tanks anymore since discovering war thunder and never really got in to world or warships... but who are the 28 idiots who disliked this video?
OMG... Not "Semp" but "SĘP", it means "Vulture", and not "Orzel" (not spelled like Orzanel), but Orzeł, means "Eagle". Polish subs were named after birds of prey, while destroyers after the weather / elements of nature, like thunder (Grom), lightning (Błyskawica), gale (Wicher), hurricane (Orkan), thunderbolt (Piorun), storm (Burza). There were also other destroyers, named somehow after the regions of Poland, but those were not really Polish, but British Type-II hunter-destroyer class ships, lend over to Polish Government On Exile in the 40s and were fought alongside British.
@@zegrze Don't get me wrong, I understand if you make a spelling mistake, that's understandable considering the difficulty of learning a new language at all. Like, English is extremely easy, however it's hard to learn a new way to pronounce things and even if you master it, you will still retain some accent to it anyway. But writing, that's a different story. You've got books in front of you, you've got dictionaries, you even have an autocorrect, what stops you from double checking what you're writing, especially in a foreign language, and make corrections when necessary? Like, if I was writing a book about say, Mississippi, I'd make sure to double check it every time I write that word (which I have done right now by the way and noticed that I made an error and wrote it with one "p" less than it should have, so something like "Mississipi"). So yes, it's expected that if you make a video like this, you should at the very least double check your foreign names to make sure they're correct and you're not writing "Adolf Hortler" by accident.
@@zegrze Yes, even for us it is hard sometimes. Huge respect for anyone that spends time on correct spelling and pronunciation. Some Polish guys got this health condition with correcting more than AAEVRYTHINGG! Not me tho. ;) TBH it is not like they feel offended or sth. In most cases, it is more like helping people with our language. Check out how Marcin explains the subject over types of birds that are still our Navy names for warships. Cool?
6:48 Oksywie naval base was and is in Gdynia, not Gdańsk / Danzig. Completly diferent cities. Westerplatte is 10 miles south from Oksywie. Yes it is i Gdansk but it never was a naval base, but transit depot.
The first troops that attacked Polish posts on Westerplatte were actly not German in meaning of III reich. They were troops of Free City of Danzig's militia. They were smoked off by Polish defenders, beaten severely thus replaced urgently by Wehrmaht and Kriegsmarine regular units.
@adobo777. Nope, there were no action against soviets since in official terms Poland and Ussr were NOT in state of war... however some skirmishes especially at the Poland's eastern border do take place.
Chieftain, I have heard you refer to sailors as "that kind of guy." Does it feel strange to talk about nautical subjects and "that kind of guy?" I'm not complaining, I'd listen to you presenting a dance contest, something I consider as pleasant as chemotherapy.
The great Lord of story telling Chieftan should hopefully make a Naval Legends for a Soviet DD, or maybe the Kongo class ships or Kagerou class DDs Wargaming please make this happen!!!!
Germans attacked Poland. None of Allies hold true to promise on paper to counterattack germany, as Polish troops tired to hold as long as they can they gave 2-3 times more time that it was expected , while under numbered and under equipped. Allies was afraid of taking any action , hoping Hitler will be happy taking Danzig only. But well , we all know what happened next. Russians attacked Poland from east. Killing polish troops and citizens. They hold Poland lands up to Wisła and Polish capital Warszawa. And they stay there. They watched as Germans where killing poles. They watched as Germans where building mass murder camps. They watched as polish man and women bravely rebel in capital against german occupation. They watched Warszawa burn to ash , and losing 95% of city structures. But to be fair Russians did not only watch. They murdered poles too. They took polish scientists , officers , teachers , artists, and killed them by bullet at back of head. They took tens of thousands and send them in cattle wagons deep into Russian no-man lands. Where walls where not necessary , emptiness of Siberia killed most anyway. Yet here we are. We still exist. And we will not forget.
Maybe because of conducting very bad politics by the ministry of foreign affair Beck who got such a poor allies - Britain that had no real land forces and their warships were not for the Baltic Sea operation, and France that just invested in Maginot line. And neglected forming a truss with Germany against Soviets.
"Allies was afraid of taking any action , hoping Hitler will be happy taking Danzig only" Are yous tupid or something? The Allies declared war. Hitler would have stayed in Poland, he just wanted the robbed territories back. That's why he tried 17 times to get peace with UK and France. But they declined every time. >.>
@@KubusSc7 Taking action would be sending planes with BOMBS not pamphlets. French could go straight into Berlin , German had only reserves and skeletal crews on western front. But all they did was little "bike stealing" raids into german territory. There where planes on paper what will be done if Germany start war. EXACT plans of Poland holding ground for a week so Allied forces can start moving . Yet nothing had happen.
@@KubusSc7 also these requests for peace included: -retreat from all conquered europe sole except those majorly settled by germans (like west prussia, bohemia, austria) even leaving east-prussia to the polish! -letting the brits "order" the Wehrmacht if they would request them in imperial affairs arround the globe. -helping the frensh to rebuild france and to give them complete autonomy back over france (except the alsace which would remain german) ALL these offers where given before 1941- so before the russian campaign - the germans looked like where winning that war at that time.
If there is any translation of the book titled "ORP Orzel lost" (don't know the actual English title tho), go for it. Writing style, story about this ORP Eagle (Orzel) sub is second to none.
What about the German unit that attacked Poland a week early and pulled back when they were told of the error? They attacked on time with little resistance. Way to go Poland!!
Well, yes and no, Poland was the start of something big, but if you are Chinese that whole war thing started much earlier and although we did not battle the Japanese at that time militarily, we certainly did economically, finally leading them down the path to perdition. Good stuff Chieftain!
Day one of the war airplane scouting destroyers showing their movements and foiling their battle plan as well let's dive bombing innocent chips with no AA or just trying to do their job fantastic
Polish names are very hard to pronounce in English, he should have just called it Vulture. WoWs players have the same problem with Błyskawica, we nicknamed her "Bliss" but we should actually call her Lightning.
What do you think about the new episode?
Love it can you guys talk about the battle of Norway that whould be awsome they did have a strong navy
*Why this comment is 1 day old*
4:07 sęp not semp please use translator next time ;-)
I have a long interest in naval history. While the big battles get a lot of attention, it is these stories that bring out the grit and grind of what it takes to fight. This is key to understanding the past. I hope you and WoW do many more about the individual actions along with telling the strategic storylines.
We need more of these!
I look forward to more. The Free Poles fought with insane courage, and deserve recognition.
Thank you for your kind words. Shadows of the past are still present in many polish families.
@@endr206 When I was growing up, all I knew was that the Poles got rolled over by the Germans and held them in disdain. As I've learned some history and saw Solidarity stand up to the Soviets, I realized how awfully wrong I was.
Could not agree more, without the Poles work on the engima codes, their pilots and sailors who escaped to the uk the war could have taken a very different path
Thank You for the memory. One of my grandpas was a sailor on polish boat during Dunqerque evac and got shot while trying to throw a rope for british troops. Other grandpa survived Monte Cassino assault (squadron with the trained bear) and was refused joining the Victory Parade by the Brits. It made him a broken man. He returned home and sometimes my mom saw him crying in the evening while holding his military cap. They really tried their best to help.
That would be fun achieve in the game - Mark of Piorun. Keep your solo destroyer within range of Battleship (Bismark) main guns for a whole night.
The Poles were fierce fighters throughout WWII. Their naval, air and army contributions during the war has been understated in history. They may not have had the best of equipment for their military, but their intelligence services were among the best, bar none. They are the ones that gave Allies the initial access to the Enigma codes, machines and keys.
True
I like Nicholas Moran, but a few months ago I noticed he was doing and covering more World of Warships content. At first I was not sold on this idea, but I must say it has grown on me and now I think his switch over to World of Warships was a brilliant idea. Please continue the episode and all that he does in general. "The Chieftain" has become a everyday staple, must watch or at least see what's new on RUclips, for me almost daily. Carry On sir and I do like the idea of this format. Does anyone have a link to the "News Reel/Propaganda" footage of the German BB in Danzig, at least I believe it was there or maybe another port, blasting away with all it's weapons up close and personal?
Thanks Chieftan for another great video, we want more :)
The firstmate of that sub must've had quite a shock to arrive in the UK and realize he went from first mate, to submarine captain, to general of Poland in only a few short weeks.
An excellent in-depth historical naval warfare discussion. Most interesting story of submarine Orzeł.
Thank you for this episode. I am not a gamer and so tend to ignore this channel .
However a while back I stumbled across an episode on the bofors gun then the 20 mm orlicecan . Hence the subcribe. Working my way through your stuff there is some very interesting episode's.
Having been an arm chair historian for many years . Your content like this I find is refreshing , and informative with some also adding new information to what in some cases I have forgotten. Also a new context in some cases.
Well done ,and please keep it up looking forward to your next presentation.
Fantastic, I expected a brief look at the video, but stayed until the end.
Excellent war story Nicholas👏
Your knowledge of conflicts and military hardware is vast and your enthusiastic willingness to share these details with us is very well received. You are a good narrator as well its easy to absorb your stories. Do many more of these lesser known event's of WW2!👌
I don't know if there is any machinery that Chieftain is not an expert on. Great video. Appreciate the longer format!
I love the history and The Chieftains presentation of it, but the editors need to get out of the mid-2000s and realize that this is RUclips not cable TV. We don't need a reminder on what video we're watching in the middle of the video that were watching. We know what video it is.
never mind annoying music, like I honestly cant deal with it
Thanks a lot for this video Chieftain.
Chieftain looks like a HOI4 commander portrait in this thumbnail
Mod please
Nicholas is a fantastic presenter, great choice.
Poland is underrated
Poland is intentionally berated by very powerful enemies constantly. Not underrated.
one of OP nations ballanced by horrific geopolitical location and focused literally by everyone so it can't shine in the lategame. Ottomans didn't know that xD
The Chieftan makes these history nuggets so digestible.
"The most globe-spanning and bloody conflict."
Media: It was caused by a videogame player who sucked at Art Simulator, and in his rage he installed Command and Conquer: Origins and became the violent dictator he always roleplayed to be.
Based on a true story.
r/gamercirclejerk
This was on outstanding video. More please
Another exciting and informative chapter of the Chieftain!
Thank you for very informative video. I didn' know there were sea battles during German-Polish war.
Really interesting! Completely unknown history to me - well done the Poles!
Omg 80 years. It's already 80 years.
It seems just yesterday...
My sister gave me a hand
Awesome video als always Nicholas
Adding some sketches draws of this story will not take so many work and should be better ;-)
Great video - the Chieftain is a true pro - only missing some of that sweet video of appropriate ships from World of Warships
loved it! and loved tne escape of Orzel!
In those few years Poland had fought to confirm its borders and had saved Germany from being invaded and taken over by the USSR by outmanouvering and destroying the army which thought it could roll up the polish army on their way past. Stalin was a general in that invasion army. Thanks a lot Poland for giving your lives to save us.
That daring escape in a submarine would make for a great movie...it would be like Das Boot-but it's the good guys! And it has a happy(ier) ending...
But what would it be called?
Polaski from Hell?
There's actually more, but without the happy end. ORP Orzel stopped responding to calls in May '40 on her seventh and last mission and the wreck has not been found until this day.
@@JagdWehrwolf The news about the wreck of the Orzeł touched me. Other Polish Navy submarine went down to take some pictures of old sub details to make sure it is the one.
Thanks!
Love how the chieftain explains things
Good job thank you for talking about true history and about defending Poland and Germans agression
And now everybody in Poland learns from history books that pumping money into ships was a major mistake and the money should have been rather directed into air power. But what they forgot is, that the fleet was build mostly against the Soviets, not Germans and it's main task was to secure deliveries of cargo and ammo in case of war with Soviet Union... The problem with deliveries 20 years earlier (during 1919-1921 war with SU) affected decision to invest money into this small fleet...
If remember right most of the Polish Air Force was caught on the ground
More planes wouldn’t help
Great video chief.
Poland can into space ! (UK)
POLEN STRONKK!
Drachinifel also made some entry about the Polish Navy during WW2, in this video (part about Poland - from the start until 8:00):
ruclips.net/video/nATHU6rHKsk/видео.html
The great tragedy that befell Poland wasn't just the Nazi's it was the fact that the west abandoned her to the Soviets. They had to endure another 55 years of occupation to finally be free.
They were hung out to dry by everyone. I am surprised they aren't still very bitter about it.
@@JamesLaserpimpWalsh Leave it. It's gone.
Better try to imagine that (Poland) Poles are hands down the WORST nation to occupy. It was literally a nail in the ass for Russia, Soviets, Nazis, Sweden and all others.
You have constant riots and unrest. Day after day after day.. train with your army crashed the last bridge that felt just exploded and went into the river. The armory was robbed. Your best officers were killed. All your maps were stolen yesterday. Major uprising every few months. More and more of them every time.
And now you just drinking a delicious yet poisoned tea... ;)
I feel good for Germans and Germany that they have grown up to the state that they really want a good neighbor to trade and visit 1000x more than the death-prooven enemy. Those pesky Poles night sneaking to their bedroom with a knife and creepy smile :D
Stay safe.
There was simply no option to pull Poland off from soviet hands after WW2, and as a Pole I understand it very well.
Oksywie is part of Gdynia, not Gdańsk. Besides that, and some minor mistakes in names very interesting
And Westerplatte was not an naval base.
Great video, lots of interesting info... But please don't do side shots if The Chieftain is looking straight ahead... the effect is a bit... not really unnerving, but somehow very slightly detrimental. Two straight-on cameras (I think) are enough.
Love the story about that sub.
There is an amazing book. I guess the English title would sound like "ORP Orzel has lost". Orzel stands for Eagle. Maybe there is some English translation of this book. I highly recommend it. :)
Love how he is buchering Polish ship names :D:D:D Wicher and Burza
He'd do much better with something like ' tankietka'
Wicher is almost Witcher, which is Polish too :)
Where can we buy that polo shirt?
"Wicher" is pronounced "Viher". However, Nick's pronounciation "Wi(t)cher" is more epic :D
So will we see the Grom and or Gryf in the future for WoWS?
Don't forgot Wicher and many more.
If you played Blyskawica, you played Grom. They were sister ships of the same class.
If the Polish Navy had been able to hold out until late October or November, they could have said - _"we fought until Hel froze over"_
-Why no mention of the Russian participation in the invasion of Poland????
Thats is the 17th, its the first when the video is relased, so its for the 1st
What about Poland participation in the invasion of Czechoslovakia, a USSR Ally.
@@bmc7434 what czechoslovakia didnt exist by this time only the puppet state sloval republic the rest was annexed by germany.
@@bmc7434 You again? Not done lying through your teeth yet?
@@Zretgul_timerunner He's either a troll or a dumbass who knows nothing about history bar some Soviet era propaganda, don't mind him, just let him live in his imaginary world.
Can’t wait for him to cover the Norwegian campaign
I don’t play world of tanks anymore since discovering war thunder and never really got in to world or warships... but who are the 28 idiots who disliked this video?
OMG... Not "Semp" but "SĘP", it means "Vulture", and not "Orzel" (not spelled like Orzanel), but Orzeł, means "Eagle". Polish subs were named after birds of prey, while destroyers after the weather / elements of nature, like thunder (Grom), lightning (Błyskawica), gale (Wicher), hurricane (Orkan), thunderbolt (Piorun), storm (Burza). There were also other destroyers, named somehow after the regions of Poland, but those were not really Polish, but British Type-II hunter-destroyer class ships, lend over to Polish Government On Exile in the 40s and were fought alongside British.
OMG... Polish is one of the world's most difficult languages. Marcin, perhaps you could get past a few spelling errors and pronunciation mistakes. :)
@@zegrze Don't get me wrong, I understand if you make a spelling mistake, that's understandable considering the difficulty of learning a new language at all. Like, English is extremely easy, however it's hard to learn a new way to pronounce things and even if you master it, you will still retain some accent to it anyway.
But writing, that's a different story. You've got books in front of you, you've got dictionaries, you even have an autocorrect, what stops you from double checking what you're writing, especially in a foreign language, and make corrections when necessary? Like, if I was writing a book about say, Mississippi, I'd make sure to double check it every time I write that word (which I have done right now by the way and noticed that I made an error and wrote it with one "p" less than it should have, so something like "Mississipi").
So yes, it's expected that if you make a video like this, you should at the very least double check your foreign names to make sure they're correct and you're not writing "Adolf Hortler" by accident.
@@zegrze Yes, even for us it is hard sometimes. Huge respect for anyone that spends time on correct spelling and pronunciation. Some Polish guys got this health condition with correcting more than AAEVRYTHINGG!
Not me tho. ;)
TBH it is not like they feel offended or sth. In most cases, it is more like helping people with our language. Check out how Marcin explains the subject over types of birds that are still our Navy names for warships. Cool?
It's "Sęp", (vulture), not "Semp"
An average Pole would pronounce it "semp"
@@arc46789 and an average Japanese would pronounce it "sem-pu", still, what about it? WG fucked up, that's all there is to it.
@Barcel - eh, close enough.
Close enough.
I am much more saddened by "Burza" being pronounced as "Bur-za"
6:48 Oksywie naval base was and is in Gdynia, not Gdańsk / Danzig. Completly diferent cities. Westerplatte is 10 miles south from Oksywie. Yes it is i Gdansk but it never was a naval base, but transit depot.
Krzysztofie, nieładnie tak...
The first troops that attacked Polish posts on Westerplatte were actly not German in meaning of III reich. They were troops of Free City of Danzig's militia. They were smoked off by Polish defenders, beaten severely thus replaced urgently by Wehrmaht and Kriegsmarine regular units.
i want more of this!
how do i get the Atlanta ship on PS4
That was excellent!
quick feedback : the background music is too loud / distractive : it makes it harder to focus on what you say
Excellent
Sir, well done. Some art and video clips would enhance your presentation. Thank you for your time.
What is the music in the Background?
annoying
I would listen to Nick talk about litterally anything
"Re-located to Hel" - what a line!
The ordeal of the Orzel would make a helluva movie
FULL EPISODE ON ORP ORZEL
Were there any actions against Soviet vessels/land targets during the Soviet part of the Invasion of Poland?
As a duty cames before the pleasure, German vessels ware the primary target.
@adobo777. Nope, there were no action against soviets since in official terms Poland and Ussr were NOT in state of war... however some skirmishes especially at the Poland's eastern border do take place.
Think by then there was no Polish navy
The new chair of wisdom?
Really cool video
Less music, more maps and photos.
A note for the Polish native speakers: turn the captions on. As much as I love Nick, the pronunciation is somewhat lacking there :D
Just some of the things the poles can be proud of from ww2.
What happened to Blysckwicha?
It's the monument in a Polish harbour. You can visit her.
Too much random camera angle changes and zoom in/zoom out. Superb content and delivery though. I do reiterate the editor needs a slap though!
Now bring us Polish DD or submarines or both
I'd like to see some more of these made WoW. Get on it.
Chieftain, I have heard you refer to sailors as "that kind of guy." Does it feel strange to talk about nautical subjects and "that kind of guy?" I'm not complaining, I'd listen to you presenting a dance contest, something I consider as pleasant as chemotherapy.
65 million was the number dead. There were many, many other casualties which were the wounded and POWS.
And many others who died later after the war from morphine addiction, poverty, and suicide...as a direct result of the war*
That was interesting.
.
The great Lord of story telling Chieftan should hopefully make a Naval Legends for a Soviet DD, or maybe the Kongo class ships or Kagerou class DDs
Wargaming please make this happen!!!!
Germans attacked Poland. None of Allies hold true to promise on paper to counterattack germany, as Polish troops tired to hold as long as they can they gave 2-3 times more time that it was expected , while under numbered and under equipped. Allies was afraid of taking any action , hoping Hitler will be happy taking Danzig only. But well , we all know what happened next. Russians attacked Poland from east. Killing polish troops and citizens. They hold Poland lands up to Wisła and Polish capital Warszawa. And they stay there.
They watched as Germans where killing poles.
They watched as Germans where building mass murder camps.
They watched as polish man and women bravely rebel in capital against german occupation.
They watched Warszawa burn to ash , and losing 95% of city structures.
But to be fair Russians did not only watch. They murdered poles too. They took polish scientists , officers , teachers , artists, and killed them by bullet at back of head.
They took tens of thousands and send them in cattle wagons deep into Russian no-man lands. Where walls where not necessary , emptiness of Siberia killed most anyway.
Yet here we are. We still exist. And we will not forget.
Maybe because of conducting very bad politics by the ministry of foreign affair Beck who got such a poor allies - Britain that had no real land forces and their warships were not for the Baltic Sea operation, and France that just invested in Maginot line. And neglected forming a truss with Germany against Soviets.
"Allies was afraid of taking any action , hoping Hitler will be happy taking Danzig only"
Are yous tupid or something? The Allies declared war. Hitler would have stayed in Poland, he just wanted the robbed territories back. That's why he tried 17 times to get peace with UK and France. But they declined every time. >.>
to be fair, the polish are unkillable
@@KubusSc7 Taking action would be sending planes with BOMBS not pamphlets. French could go straight into Berlin , German had only reserves and skeletal crews on western front. But all they did was little "bike stealing" raids into german territory. There where planes on paper what will be done if Germany start war. EXACT plans of Poland holding ground for a week so Allied forces can start moving . Yet nothing had happen.
@@KubusSc7 also these requests for peace included:
-retreat from all conquered europe sole except those majorly settled by germans (like west prussia, bohemia, austria) even leaving east-prussia to the polish!
-letting the brits "order" the Wehrmacht if they would request them in imperial affairs arround the globe.
-helping the frensh to rebuild france and to give them complete autonomy back over france (except the alsace which would remain german)
ALL these offers where given before 1941- so before the russian campaign - the germans looked like where winning that war at that time.
Wait, the second sub was named "simp"?
Epic stuff! Great job colonel; ever thought about doing this sort of thing, professionally? :-)
colonel? I thought Chieftain was a major.
@@A.J.K87 Major? Wow, that is some serious shit out there. He is such big fish in US Aarmy (land forces), US Marines or National Guard?
National guard I believe.
@@A.J.K87 Texas Army National Guard and has just pinned on his light colonel gold oak leaves
@@colbeausabre8842 True, but my comment was made 2 years ago, when he was still a major :)
Did you have fun with the Polish pronunciations?
Yep. But its good that someone talk about it.
Top Block Officer there.
I didn't know there was a lot of naval activity in the invasion of Poland :^)
If there is any translation of the book titled "ORP Orzel lost" (don't know the actual English title tho), go for it. Writing style, story about this ORP Eagle (Orzel) sub is second to none.
4:08 'Sęp' not 'Semp' xD
Yep. No "Semp" word in polish dictionary. Well for sure in some grade schooler notebook. But not really anywhere else.
Xd prawda
´´ę´´ have the sound of ´´em´´ so is right (we all Polish colony in Brazil is the same for us :p)
@@Hanimichal But In Polish you WRITE this "SĘP"
any one know the music that is at 22.51
4:07 not semp its sęp
Is there an ADHD-friendly version without background music?
What about the German unit that attacked Poland a week early and pulled back when they were told of the error? They attacked on time with little resistance. Way to go Poland!!
No joke here: There is(used to be?) bus line numer 666 to Hel.
Well, yes and no, Poland was the start of something big, but if you are Chinese that whole war thing started much earlier and although we did not battle the Japanese at that time militarily, we certainly did economically, finally leading them down the path to perdition. Good stuff Chieftain!
Nice
A gray chieftain. Huh. Urban camo.
Day one of the war airplane scouting destroyers showing their movements and foiling their battle plan as well let's dive bombing innocent chips with no AA or just trying to do their job fantastic
There's no such thing as innocents in war, only collateral damage.
Italian branch next please!
Music in intro 0:02
Darude sandstorm
Polish submarine ORP "Sęp", not "Semp" ;)
Polish names are very hard to pronounce in English, he should have just called it Vulture.
WoWs players have the same problem with Błyskawica, we nicknamed her "Bliss" but we should actually call her Lightning.
@@Dr_V it's not about pronunciation, in 4:06 there is "Sęp" wrote as "Semp", they wrote it incorrect
It’s good I like it
BRING BACK OLD CV GAME PLAY AND OLD CVs....ASAP!!
I want old Kaga back!
@@Tasukete_22 i know many people who want them all back. Only played less than 10 games after the change. Used to play 6-10 h/week....
Superbe piece of little known naval history, but God that pseudo heroic shopping mall music is annoying.
me eyes!!! pls stop zoom in zoom out cameraman