Iam a CANADIAN and a son of a Veteran (Navy) and this battle is likely why the Queen of England reveries the brave Canadians that made the ultimate sacrifice more than once for King and Country. The German Army was hardcore, and it took a toll on CANADIAN Troops, more than once in history. Dieppe, Somme, Passchendaele, Juno Beach, so many battles. I never have seen this particular part of our history, having paid attention to D-Day, Caen, and the North Atlantic Convoys of WWII. I could not be prouder of these honourable CANADIAN Soldiers. This series does justice to the contribution of CANADA. Thank You. SALUTE.
The Canadians really get the short end of the stick when it comes to remembering their contributions in the war. They had some of the toughest fighting of all Allied forces on the Italian and Western fronts. And they get all the points in the world in my book for it. Well done, boys. Well done indeed.
John Keegan gives Canadians credit in his book, 'Six Armies in Normandy'. He noted the 3rd Canadian Division was the only unit to make its first day objectives and stood up to armoured counter attacks.
It's basically because Canada's flag was the Union Jack at the time and so the English just took credit for all the Commonwealth moves accidentally on purpose......
@richardgraham7055 the Canadians took Juno Beach which was very lightly defended. Every unit faced counter attacks but the British and American forces faced the stiffest resistance.
I can't believe the intros for this series. The combination of the excellent narration and powerful combat visuals just make them easy to watch again and again.
Salute to the candians who fought in ww2 , they were given the toughest challanges and they come through , also robbed the glory by mark clark of liberating rome. I think monty and the brits owe these candians big time for winning them a lot of battles
Simonds : let's go through a literal gap in a forest , A.K.A a defenders paradise , what could possibly go wrong ? * German loading a flak 88 * : trust me when I say A LOT
@Shrey Doshi Why am I being portrayed with your views on what evil is. Now I don't need to explain myself to you and what you think is evil but I want you to know that I rooted for the underdogs. Also, if this is what's evil to you then I should go to hell and die a gruesome death for thinking lewd thoughts sometimes or calling someone stupid.
1st off , I love watching these . So Thankyou . I dont understand the planning of battles so i am NO expert . but one thing i noticed was . when going through the Hogwald Gap , Trees on both sides . Knowing it would be a lethal manoeuvre , why no air support to clear the trees ( just in case ) before sending tanks on a almost valley of death .
Germans had defense in depth, which means trenches behind the woods as well as in the woods. You start shelling the forest, they fall back to the secondary trenches. When the shelling stops, they reoccupy the forward position. Your shelling holes are now trenches for the infantry.
Supplies. Money. Accuracy of targets etc. It's not like now where u can call in apatche. Drone and plain strikes vs Taliban. Gotta remember radar was the third key weapon in WW2 they don't have all the night vision. Sattalites. Body heat etc equipment we have today and communication wasn't so easy french didn't even have radios like Germans and used flags for signalling enemy ahead enemy behind. Germans outdated most at the start also most or all USA aircraft were fighting Japan and on those 18 aircraft carriers we had and all the plane strips over there.i always wondered were all the airstrikes were in any of these battles
In short, combined arms was very much a rarity in WWII, so calling an airstrike was pretty rare if not impossible. One thing that they did have on the horn at most times was artillery to bring in hellfire.
Nice documentary, but one very simple piece of advice - when describing a Panther, please don’t show a picture of a King Tiger. I’m not asking for too much.
You can bet if these were British troops these attacks WOULD NOTOF BEEN DONE LIKE THIS! The woods and town would of been flattened by artillery and AirPower before the British would of even though about advancing. British would of done a reconnaissance first, and then flattened the place. Definitely not send units blindly on the attack, but these were commonwealth troops. We know from history how they’ve always been treated by the home island.
30:48 during the war my grandfather was roaring along in a Churchill 4 or Churchill 6 (I'll have to look that info up later) they had captured Caen and were rumbling towards their next objective and a typhoon appeared it fired its rockets towards them in that moment The whole tank platoon had no idea if the rockets were ment for them and that the plane thought they were German... Only when the rockets flew past them did they know Just a few yards maybe 1km behind them was a German tiger platoon stalking his platoon and the typhoon was attacking the stalking tigers He said it was the closest they got to a tank on tank fight and the closest he saw of a tiger tank
@@chooyongming110 All the stories? I'll tell the ones I remember hin talking about There was one where he was going along with 2 other tanks one veired off the road to the left and struck a mine disabling it, the other veired right and got stuck in the mud he kept going straight and was fine The Churchill AVRE monument in France over looking Juno Beach (found burried under 20 feet of dirt) was his friends tank, it got hit by artillery and they had to build a bridge over it to get the other tanks across the gaping hole cause you couldn't stop you had to push the beach to secure it Also on the Juno landing they were on the 3rd wave and as their landing craft was heading to Juno they heard in the radio "take no prisoners" In 1946/47 Berlin was my grandma's and his honeymoon they celebrated it on top of a Armoured vehicle like a LAV (there's a photo of it in the British news paper, we have copies of that article and the photo of grandma climbing the vehicle in her wedding dress
A strange depiction, that Germans were fighting to defend their homeland, rather than fighting in the fear of the horrible death they feared if they refused to fight.
@Deadass, b "practically myth". Is it a myth, or is it 'practically' a myth? Where do you get your info? So the Nazis were like "you dont want to fight? You better head home then, you might get hurt." Keep telling yourself that and you might even practically believe it lol.
@@loonyloony6550 So if someone walks up to you and says go kill that person. And your excuse is they told me too. Nazi war machine worked bc the Germans wanted it to work. Or were the hundreds of thousands screaming hitlers name forced too? I doubt it
Canadian troops were stuck with bad leadership in Montgomery and then Mark Clark who made them stop a brilliant advance outside Rome so that U.S. troops could pass by them and be first into Rome which gave the germans more time to dig in and fortify their positions which cost more lives....
Keep in mind, aside from defending the homeland, no options were left-Casablanca conference decided "Unconditional Surrender"... so it truly became fight or die by those terms, no settlement possible
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The generals who dreamed up these slaughters should all be required to be in the lead tanks. Then you would see some plans that didn't involve just throwing away thousands of good men and equipment.
First it looked like a firefly (longer gun) plus they were able to hit the vulnerable lower glacis which would be difficult to hit, but his back end in the ditch, elevates the front end, exposing it. The Panthers long 75 is still a danger but by staying hull down makes for a small target.
I personally thinks.. THE MAIN REASONS WHY German lost ww2 are: -Their Main battle tanks are too few -the tank designs were over enginered for its era!! -some tank design were too complicated to build.which required special tools, machines and workers with special training or skills also. -Required long man hours to build n expensived in the cost of materials used. IF the Germans produce more of the simple,rugged but the BATTLEFIELD APPROVED tanks design like the -FAMOUS 75mm high velocity or long barrell gun PANZER 4s And if they converted as many as they can produced the 88mm pak 43 into panzer 4 And if the commanders let panzer 4 tank crews join forces together with the tank destroyers crew and devised the best tactics thwy were famous off q more often With the also famous 'STUGs 3 n 4' not the short barrel but the 75mm and 88mm long barrel high velocity gun versions. Let them loosed and wrecked havoc on the battlefield!! Same goes to the design n build of the fw190s..bf/me109.. Ta 152 etc good design of fighters n bomber but hitler n goering interrupted,AGAIN ruin what its originally design n good for like hitlers stupid ideas n blunders with ME 262!! If hitler didnt interfere with his ass kissers agrees to everything hes said n dictated that me 262 to be a schnellbomber instead of high altitude as an anti bomber fighter interceptor as Gen.Adolf Galland in his reports and his pwrsonal advised to hitler.. The war in the skies over europe HIStories will be written differently today too! Maybe we can read morw stories like for example the famous p51 mustang turns to be the famous bf/me109 k or becomes the famous fw190 gustav or Ta 152 Tank Or Me262 schwalbe the famous allied bomber shredder killer!2 second burst from 4 me262 30mm auto cannon can easily shred the slow n lumbering b17 or b24 like a paper mache.. I strongly believed that the outcome and results of the land battle will be much much more interesting than what was written or recorded in our generations history books etc.. lol..😁
You missed the most obvious reason. They were terribly unreliable. Only something like 30% of Panthers and Tigers ever even made it to the battlefield. They had a terrible straight cut drive gear that constantly failed, and a weak transmission. When they broke, it took weeks or months to repair them due to poor design, and almost nonexistent replacement parts. Overengineered, no. Underengineered. Compare to that to the Shermans, where the 3rd Army division drove 133 Shermans 160 miles north to relieve the 101st at Bastogne, and 100% of those tanks made it the 160 miles. There was no comparison as far as reliability. The Shermans always showed up to the battle, and if damaged, they were back in the field in hours due to superb engineering. The transmission was located in the front, and was able to be changed in hours. When it comes to engineering between the US and Germany, the US was very skilled at mass production. Germany was not. Their tanks had to be hand fit at the factory, and replacement parts had to be fit as well.
The main reasons why Germany lost the war are because they broke multiple treaties and declared war on 3 super powers at once. No amount of Panzer IVs or StuGs would stop the Germans from running out of experienced tank crews, and no amount of Me 262s would stop the Germans from running out of experienced pilots and aviation fuel. Germany sacrificed so many people and resources in their failed invasion of the USSR (among other pointless fronts) that by the end of the war, no amount of fancy toys or tactics changes would make a significant difference in the grand scheme of things.
The tigers and panthers , jag models, etc, all had the same basic problems. Their final drives were way too weak for the power they needed for the weight they had to move. They broke final drives very easily. Even the extra drag mud caused could break the final drive gears. A problem no tank crewman could fix. The shape if the panther was likely the best design of ww2. And best looking imho. But it was over engineered with too many weak gears. Had they ironed out the Panthers problems beforehand, the panther would have been a hellish opponent for anything the Allies had. But they wasted too much time on multiple vehicles, and wasted too many resources on hitlers fantasy junk. Patton told the war department in 1942 we didnt need the Pershing. HAAAA? The hell we didnt Georgie. Only after Hodges and Bradley demanded the 90mm Pershing in late 1943 did we finally start getting them in the fall of 1944. After the slaughter of the medium Sherman tank in Normandy they finally put a rush on the HEAVY 90mm Pershing. Patton was supposedly the tank expert, and the war department ignored everyone elses opinions. One of Pattons biggest mistakes imo.
More accurate is that Patton accurately knew that bigger tanks with bigger barrels take up a lot of space in a cargo ship and the materials used in them was of much better use in making very formidable but multi-purpose fighter bombers.
@@markgarrett3647 im not sure if patton would have been concerned much about that. Patton had his own ideas about tactics that was mostly just brute force. The mystery would be WHY patton didnt use combined arms tactics. Hodges was using combined arms right from D Day until wars end. 1st army, 2nd & 3rd armored had dedicated fighter bomber support with air, artillery, armor & infantry liason officer all mixed among everyone. Patton maintained that tanks DONT fight tanks so we didnt need the Pershing, (a claim he made publically to the war department) and really never embraced the combined arms tactics, which proved so successful in US 1st army. It was a strange line of thinking. Who knows what patton was thinking, but his methods were certainly different than other US generals who were very successful. A who knows how many tankers lives may or may not have been saved in north africa, sicily, or normandy , had we had the Pershing in 1943. It was always my thought that the sherman should have had a high velocity 76mm or 90mm gun on it all along. The real problem with high velocity guns was they didnt last long as the days poor metalurgy, the shell tore the lands and riflings out of the barrels very quickly. A common problem on our 105mm M7s.
@@riftraft2015 Brute force? Being against tanks with heavier armour and bigger guns is being for brute force? Didn't want to use combined arms? What? Didn't you read about the Third Army's spectacular advance in the exploitation phase of Operation Cobra and across northern France and in Alsace-Lorraine and how it had an excellent relationship with the XIX Tactical Wing under General Otto P. Weyland?
@@riftraft2015 Also in WWII were engaged in a two front war across two vast oceans one of which doesn't have much of a need for tanks with heavier armour and bigger guns so it makes more sense to invest more resources in producing more formidable fighter bombers that would be very useful on both fronts.
Patton and 3rd army went across central France. 3rd Army was not even activated until AFTER the St Lo break through. You clearly dont know your war history fella. Im also not sure you know what "combined arms" tactics actually is. Have a nice day. To be clear, im not bashing patton, but he had his faults and mistakes just like every other general did. For whzt Patton did in WW2, he was the right man for the job in the right places, at the right times.
What amazes me is that a video editor was paid a great deal of money to make a video with unintelligible narration and overwhelming effects and background music. My first edit project in school was better than this mess. Shame, because it really is great content.
@@warhero23212 The Sherman in general weren't pathetic, only the early war models with the 75mm gun started having troubles when they came to face German tanks with increased armor. That wasn't an issue when, like you said, the Sherman was upgraded with the 76mm gun.
Iam a CANADIAN and a son of a Veteran (Navy) and this battle is likely why the Queen of England reveries the brave Canadians that made the ultimate sacrifice more than once for King and Country. The German Army was hardcore, and it took a toll on CANADIAN Troops, more than once in history. Dieppe, Somme, Passchendaele, Juno Beach, so many battles.
I never have seen this particular part of our history, having paid attention to D-Day, Caen, and the North Atlantic Convoys of WWII. I could not be prouder of these honourable CANADIAN Soldiers. This series does justice to the contribution of CANADA. Thank You. SALUTE.
The Canadians really get the short end of the stick when it comes to remembering their contributions in the war. They had some of the toughest fighting of all Allied forces on the Italian and Western fronts. And they get all the points in the world in my book for it.
Well done, boys. Well done indeed.
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John Keegan gives Canadians credit in his book, 'Six Armies in Normandy'. He noted the 3rd Canadian Division was the only unit to make its first day objectives and stood up to armoured counter attacks.
It's basically because Canada's flag was the Union Jack at the time and so the English just took credit for all the Commonwealth moves accidentally on purpose......
@richardgraham7055 the Canadians took Juno Beach which was very lightly defended. Every unit faced counter attacks but the British and American forces faced the stiffest resistance.
You r totally right. 🇨🇦👍
I can't believe the intros for this series. The combination of the excellent narration and powerful combat visuals just make them easy to watch again and again.
I know I can listen to it over and over
I totally agree with you. I watched these videos at least a dozen each
recognize the voice? you should... his name is BILL MOYER. yove heard it more than you know. he's great
Salute to the candians who fought in ww2 , they were given the toughest challanges and they come through , also robbed the glory by mark clark of liberating rome. I think monty and the brits owe these candians big time for winning them a lot of battles
Simonds : let's go through a literal gap in a forest , A.K.A a defenders paradise , what could possibly go wrong ?
* German loading a flak 88 * : trust me when I say A LOT
Proud Canadian Right here
@Shrey Doshi how am I evil for being proud of my country's soldiers
@Shrey Doshi Why am I being portrayed with your views on what evil is. Now I don't need to explain myself to you and what you think is evil but I want you to know that I rooted for the underdogs. Also, if this is what's evil to you then I should go to hell and die a gruesome death for thinking lewd thoughts sometimes or calling someone stupid.
@Shrey Doshi get yourself a mental check because your view on what evil is is screwed up
@Shrey Doshi simple answer : you aren't
I think he is just trolling , and if he isn't your suggestion of a mental evaluation seems rather neccessary
@Shrey Doshi and this is relevant to the previous discussion in what way ?
1st off , I love watching these . So Thankyou . I dont understand the planning of battles so i am NO expert . but one thing i noticed was . when going through the Hogwald Gap , Trees on both sides . Knowing it would be a lethal manoeuvre , why no air support to clear the trees ( just in case ) before sending tanks on a almost valley of death .
Germans had defense in depth, which means trenches behind the woods as well as in the woods. You start shelling the forest, they fall back to the secondary trenches. When the shelling stops, they reoccupy the forward position. Your shelling holes are now trenches for the infantry.
Supplies. Money. Accuracy of targets etc. It's not like now where u can call in apatche. Drone and plain strikes vs Taliban. Gotta remember radar was the third key weapon in WW2 they don't have all the night vision. Sattalites. Body heat etc equipment we have today and communication wasn't so easy french didn't even have radios like Germans and used flags for signalling enemy ahead enemy behind. Germans outdated most at the start also most or all USA aircraft were fighting Japan and on those 18 aircraft carriers we had and all the plane strips over there.i always wondered were all the airstrikes were in any of these battles
@@markkringle9144 so just try nothing and rush headlong into as many enemy positions as possible?
More than likely it was probably weather that stopped them from using air support.
In short, combined arms was very much a rarity in WWII, so calling an airstrike was pretty rare if not impossible. One thing that they did have on the horn at most times was artillery to bring in hellfire.
Nice documentary, but one very simple piece of advice - when describing a Panther, please don’t show a picture of a King Tiger. I’m not asking for too much.
That's to keep you on your toes if a war ever breaks out again.
To make sure you're paying attention!!!
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it was a video of a king tiger not a picture
Yeah, I noticed that too, but I notice these things, to the annoyance of my friends.
@@markkringle9144 silence boy.
You might think so, Rose.
You can bet if these were British troops these attacks WOULD NOTOF BEEN DONE LIKE THIS! The woods and town would of been flattened by artillery and AirPower before the British would of even though about advancing. British would of done a reconnaissance first, and then flattened the place. Definitely not send units blindly on the attack, but these were commonwealth troops. We know from history how they’ve always been treated by the home island.
This sent shivers down my spine knowing my Dad was there as a gunner with Kangaroo regiment.
I am USA army retired M1A1 Tanker, the mud reminds me of Germany, Hoenfells training area.
Those 17,pounders were a beast.
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Smoke grenades are always clutch
30:48 during the war my grandfather was roaring along in a Churchill 4 or Churchill 6 (I'll have to look that info up later) they had captured Caen and were rumbling towards their next objective and a typhoon appeared it fired its rockets towards them in that moment The whole tank platoon had no idea if the rockets were ment for them and that the plane thought they were German...
Only when the rockets flew past them did they know
Just a few yards maybe 1km behind them was a German tiger platoon stalking his platoon and the typhoon was attacking the stalking tigers
He said it was the closest they got to a tank on tank fight and the closest he saw of a tiger tank
My grandfather had a lot of war stories from D-day Juno Beach to cean to Berlin
@@StaceyIsles say them
@@chooyongming110
All the stories?
I'll tell the ones I remember hin talking about
There was one where he was going along with 2 other tanks one veired off the road to the left and struck a mine disabling it, the other veired right and got stuck in the mud he kept going straight and was fine
The Churchill AVRE monument in France over looking Juno Beach (found burried under 20 feet of dirt) was his friends tank, it got hit by artillery and they had to build a bridge over it to get the other tanks across the gaping hole cause you couldn't stop you had to push the beach to secure it
Also on the Juno landing they were on the 3rd wave and as their landing craft was heading to Juno they heard in the radio "take no prisoners"
In 1946/47 Berlin was my grandma's and his honeymoon they celebrated it on top of a Armoured vehicle like a LAV (there's a photo of it in the British news paper, we have copies of that article and the photo of grandma climbing the vehicle in her wedding dress
@@StaceyIsles nice story, do you still have those photos?
A strange depiction, that Germans were fighting to defend their homeland, rather than fighting in the fear of the horrible death they feared if they refused to fight.
@Deadass, b "practically myth". Is it a myth, or is it 'practically' a myth? Where do you get your info? So the Nazis were like "you dont want to fight? You better head home then, you might get hurt." Keep telling yourself that and you might even practically believe it lol.
@Deadass, b and the Germans invaded Russia, not the other way around. You think the Russians should have stopped at the border? Lol.
@@loonyloony6550 So if someone walks up to you and says go kill that person. And your excuse is they told me too. Nazi war machine worked bc the Germans wanted it to work. Or were the hundreds of thousands screaming hitlers name forced too? I doubt it
@@pissonthe0fighteverybody276 what? Your undecipherable jiberish is useless to me, I can make no sense of it.
@@loonyloony6550 You know exactly what it said and meant.
Canadian troops were stuck with bad leadership in Montgomery and then Mark Clark who made them stop a brilliant advance outside Rome so that U.S. troops could pass by them and be first into Rome which gave the germans more time to dig in and fortify their positions which cost more lives....
Keep in mind, aside from defending the homeland, no options were left-Casablanca conference decided "Unconditional Surrender"... so it truly became fight or die by those terms, no settlement possible
Armies fight on their stomachs.
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Some one tell Sgt. Hans herbst don’t let that Sherman get behind his massive 38 ton superior tank
I think there's a commentary behind the sound effects.
the strange sound was the shell becoming non aerodynamic
The generals who dreamed up these slaughters should all be required to be in the lead tanks. Then you would see some plans that didn't involve just throwing away thousands of good men and equipment.
the generals have their place at the command post. They got their rank because they did their time at the front already.
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Lucky that typhon airplane was a terrible shot
Greatest Tank Battles (Season 1/Episode 5) in February 1945
Me literally every time i play war thunder
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Germany should have decided on continuing the panzer 4 and made standardized parts and been able to interchange parts from one manufacturer to another
Still wouldn't've helped them win. They were outnumbered and low on fuel for their vehicles.
26:17 I guess you could say it was now a jagdtiger
1:38 i thought the war was already over by the winter of 1945
The war in europe didnt officially end until April 30th, 1945. The war didn't officially end until September of 1945.
Freezing weather and lack of food ruined the French in Russia.
Hitler- "guys great idea", Where gonna invade the soviet union on the exact same day as napoleons failed expedition"
Generals- " I LOVE IT LETS GO"
German "they couldn't compare to the panzer" puts hands up.....
Lost so many good men, on both sides
They forgot about those Premium-Gold-Rounds @ 37:00
Cringe
how did they kill the panther frontally with the short barrel 75
First it looked like a firefly (longer gun) plus they were able to hit the vulnerable lower glacis which would be difficult to hit, but his back end in the ditch, elevates the front end, exposing it. The Panthers long 75 is still a danger but by staying hull down makes for a small target.
turret shot panther had horribly protected turret
They prayed.
They should making movie is goan be good,jJAG TIGER,,120,ML,AND 88 FLAK GUN,GOOD
I personally thinks..
THE MAIN REASONS WHY German lost ww2 are:
-Their Main battle tanks are too few
-the tank designs were over enginered for its era!!
-some tank design were too complicated to build.which required special tools, machines and workers with special training or skills also.
-Required long man hours to build n expensived in the cost of materials used.
IF the Germans produce more of the simple,rugged but the BATTLEFIELD APPROVED tanks design like the
-FAMOUS 75mm high velocity or long barrell gun PANZER 4s And if they converted as many as they can produced the 88mm pak 43 into panzer 4
And if the commanders let panzer 4 tank crews join forces together with the tank destroyers crew and devised the best tactics thwy were famous off q more often With the also famous 'STUGs 3 n 4' not the short barrel but the 75mm and 88mm long barrel high velocity gun versions.
Let them loosed and wrecked havoc on the battlefield!!
Same goes to the design n build of the fw190s..bf/me109.. Ta 152 etc good design of fighters n bomber but hitler n goering interrupted,AGAIN ruin what its originally design n good for like hitlers stupid ideas n blunders with ME 262!!
If hitler didnt interfere with his ass kissers agrees to everything hes said n dictated that me 262 to be a schnellbomber instead of high altitude as an anti bomber fighter interceptor as Gen.Adolf Galland in his reports and his pwrsonal advised to hitler..
The war in the skies over europe HIStories will be written differently today too!
Maybe we can read morw stories like for example the famous p51 mustang turns to be the famous bf/me109 k or becomes the famous fw190 gustav or Ta 152 Tank
Or Me262 schwalbe the famous allied bomber shredder killer!2 second burst from 4 me262 30mm auto cannon can easily shred the slow n lumbering b17 or b24 like a paper mache..
I strongly believed that the outcome and results of the land battle will be much much more interesting than what was written or recorded in our generations history books etc.. lol..😁
Oil, ressources and logistics. evry other problem comes from that ^^
They'd have still lost, just many more people would've had to die.
You missed the most obvious reason. They were terribly unreliable. Only something like 30% of Panthers and Tigers ever even made it to the battlefield. They had a terrible straight cut drive gear that constantly failed, and a weak transmission. When they broke, it took weeks or months to repair them due to poor design, and almost nonexistent replacement parts. Overengineered, no. Underengineered. Compare to that to the Shermans, where the 3rd Army division drove 133 Shermans 160 miles north to relieve the 101st at Bastogne, and 100% of those tanks made it the 160 miles. There was no comparison as far as reliability. The Shermans always showed up to the battle, and if damaged, they were back in the field in hours due to superb engineering. The transmission was located in the front, and was able to be changed in hours. When it comes to engineering between the US and Germany, the US was very skilled at mass production. Germany was not. Their tanks had to be hand fit at the factory, and replacement parts had to be fit as well.
The main reason both sides took horrendous amounts of casualties was their commanders inexperience and arrogance
The main reasons why Germany lost the war are because they broke multiple treaties and declared war on 3 super powers at once. No amount of Panzer IVs or StuGs would stop the Germans from running out of experienced tank crews, and no amount of Me 262s would stop the Germans from running out of experienced pilots and aviation fuel. Germany sacrificed so many people and resources in their failed invasion of the USSR (among other pointless fronts) that by the end of the war, no amount of fancy toys or tactics changes would make a significant difference in the grand scheme of things.
That Tiffy pilot is pissing me off.
Goddam Limey open your eyes.
Those Canadians are prolly mad about how their country turned out.
if you do not attack your neighbor they do not destroy your home
german started the war
They did not started the
Too much music
Doctrine Differences:
Canadians: Charge the Gap between the woods.
Americans: (Smiles in Artillery) Make the woods go away…….
The tigers and panthers , jag models, etc, all had the same basic problems.
Their final drives were way too weak for the power they needed for the weight they had to move.
They broke final drives very easily. Even the extra drag mud caused could break the final drive gears.
A problem no tank crewman could fix.
The shape if the panther was likely the best design of ww2. And best looking imho.
But it was over engineered with too many weak gears.
Had they ironed out the
Panthers problems beforehand, the panther would have been a hellish opponent for anything the Allies had.
But they wasted too much time on multiple vehicles, and wasted too many resources on hitlers fantasy junk.
Patton told the war department in 1942 we didnt need the Pershing.
HAAAA? The hell we didnt Georgie.
Only after Hodges and Bradley demanded the 90mm Pershing in late 1943 did we finally start getting them in the fall of 1944. After the slaughter of the medium Sherman tank in Normandy they finally put a rush on the HEAVY 90mm Pershing.
Patton was supposedly the tank expert, and the war department ignored everyone elses opinions. One of Pattons biggest mistakes imo.
More accurate is that Patton accurately knew that bigger tanks with bigger barrels take up a lot of space in a cargo ship and the materials used in them was of much better use in making very formidable but multi-purpose fighter bombers.
@@markgarrett3647 im not sure if patton would have been concerned much about that. Patton had his own ideas about tactics that was mostly just brute force.
The mystery would be WHY patton didnt use combined arms tactics.
Hodges was using combined arms right from D Day until wars end. 1st army, 2nd & 3rd armored had dedicated fighter bomber support with air, artillery, armor & infantry liason officer all mixed among everyone.
Patton maintained that tanks DONT fight tanks so we didnt need the Pershing, (a claim he made publically to the war department) and really never embraced the combined arms tactics, which proved so successful in US 1st army.
It was a strange line of thinking.
Who knows what patton was thinking, but his methods were certainly different than other US generals who were very successful.
A who knows how many tankers lives may or may not have been saved in north africa, sicily, or normandy , had we had the Pershing in 1943.
It was always my thought that the sherman should have had a high velocity 76mm or 90mm gun on it all along.
The real problem with high velocity guns was they didnt last long as the days poor metalurgy, the shell tore the lands and riflings out of the barrels very quickly.
A common problem on our 105mm M7s.
@@riftraft2015 Brute force? Being against tanks with heavier armour and bigger guns is being for brute force?
Didn't want to use combined arms? What? Didn't you read about the Third Army's spectacular advance in the exploitation phase of Operation Cobra and across northern France and in Alsace-Lorraine and how it had an excellent relationship with the XIX Tactical Wing under General Otto P. Weyland?
@@riftraft2015 Also in WWII were engaged in a two front war across two vast oceans one of which doesn't have much of a need for tanks with heavier armour and bigger guns so it makes more sense to invest more resources in producing more formidable fighter bombers that would be very useful on both fronts.
Patton and 3rd army went across central France.
3rd Army was not even activated until AFTER the St Lo break through.
You clearly dont know your war history fella. Im also not sure you know what "combined arms" tactics actually is. Have a nice day.
To be clear, im not bashing patton, but he had his faults and mistakes just like every other general did.
For whzt Patton did in WW2, he was the right man for the job in the right places, at the right times.
WW1 tang
What amazes me is that a video editor was paid a great deal of money to make a video with unintelligible narration and overwhelming effects and background music. My first edit project in school was better than this mess. Shame, because it really is great content.
too many booms QUIET
To many commercials
That's why you use an adblocker
the allies sucked wish spain invaded gibraltar.
To many ads. This channel sucks
How can there be great tank battles when our (USA) tanks were so pathetic?
easy 8, jumbo 76 were not pathetic
@@warhero23212 The Sherman in general weren't pathetic, only the early war models with the 75mm gun started having troubles when they came to face German tanks with increased armor. That wasn't an issue when, like you said, the Sherman was upgraded with the 76mm gun.
@@Figwumberton the 75 was a great infantry support vehicle and could take on panzer 4s and everything so yeah u right
I am not a brave man I would have shit my pants