German tank crew could connect Panzer to panzer via a hot water hose to heat up the engines before starting. Also, what surprises me is that neither side came up with a radiator fed from the engine coolant system, to use the heated coolant to warm the fighting compartment. The V-2 engine in the T-34 would heat it's coolant in a few minutes. Crews also got in the habit of parking the tank on a carpet of birch branches to stop the tank tracks freezing to the ground.
Not having proper crew heat was thoroughly stupid but that era was one of desperate economic constraints for Germany and the USSR. Of course today we understand crew comfort makes the crew much more efficient but in those primitive times troops were treated as completely expendable. It would have been trivially easy to plumb a crew heater in the manner of those used on automobiles but most cars didn't have heat unless they were luxury models and their heater cores and fans were shit on a good day. Car heaters didn't become standard until the 1960s in many autos. The most sophisticated vehicles in terms of crew comfort were ships with wheeled and winged transport being neglected. Moderns forget nearly everyone in that era was dirt poor by modern standards and it was common even in the US for sharecroppers etc to live in worse poverty than many third worlders do today.
I crewed a apc in the winter. It was an ice box. I did it in non war training. I can only imagine the hardships for soldiers who had to fight in these conditions
I was a vehicle commander (section leader of a recon platoon) of two different M113s doing duty near the East German border over two winters. Neither vehicle had a working heater. My crew (driver and observer) used to abandon me at night. I had to stay to monitor the radio. I went on later to ice climbing in northern New Hampshire, where a new record low was set on Mt. Washington two days ago. There and the East German border were pretty similar insofar as the cold is concerned! Wearing lined mechanic's coveralls over the top of my field uniform helped keep me warm. or at least kept me from freezing to death.
Back in 2002 I was the XO driver and our Humvee had a hole in the drivers side floor. Negative 20 degree winter, while driving at night nearly did in my foot. I managed to stuff a MRE in the hole and kept that humvee running. Later a group of Katusas hopped in my humvee to warm up and it was packed with about 6 of us. Not sure where the XO went, but we all did just fine and toasty without him.
These guys and women who fought during the WW1, WW2 and Korea conflicts can only be imagined. They grew up very fast at 18 to 21 years of age. And in some cases, 15 and 16 years of age.
I had a 12 pound maul out in my shed the other day that I brought in to work on. It had been outside in 0 degree fahrenheit temperatures. Metal like that just pulls heat from your body. I couldn't imagine sleeping inside of a tank in those conditions.
I don’t think the crew slept in the tanks not enough space and everyone would have to sleep sitting it would make more sense to get out and set up camp
Been there, done that. Make room by the kero heater please. Tragic death of radio op (carbon monoxide) though, after we switched to plastic type camo sheeting from hessian ( even more tragic, his wife was pregnant and expecting at the time).
@@tomlewis8429 I'm guessing you're ex British Army. Was a scalie, we used kero heaters on our rebro dets. When did they stop using hessian? We used to run gennies next to our det, just outside the cam nets. If we ran the vehicle engine there was a long metal hose you put on the exhaust to direct the fumes away.
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What amazes me is no one was ever bright enough to make a Quinzee hut, basically a burrowed out pile of snow. Takes 2 hours for snow to set & done right will be shelter in at least above freezing temp 0C. with no heat source but your body. Larger with more people makes it +5-10C. For luxury a Hurricane lamp w/roof venting will cook you & your food. I tried sleeping in one during one of our worst blizzards. I wore my usual cold weather gear, no heater & had to give up after 5-6 hours because I was sweating too much. Next time I packed lighter clothes for sleeping in. If there's enough snow around, only fools & city folk will freeze to death. There's a whole world of animals living just under the snow, and they get by just fine. Try it, might save your life someday.
I saw somewhere that the US supplied special oil and grease to the Russians and this helped keep their vehicles mobile, whereas the Germans didn’t have access and had major problems.
The US gave the Soviets all sorts of cool stuff. One big aid was sending them Tetraethyl-Lead. This substance raised the "spark knock" resistance of petroleum. The Soviets could get by with less refining of their gasoline and could stretch it out further. When the US transited from leaded gasoline in the 1970s this raised up the cost of gasoline. In exchange we were not breathing lead oxide any more.
@@jamallabarge2665 The truth of life is that Soviet technology did not use high-octane gasoline. So the United States, in fact, supplied gasoline for the equipment that they transferred.
@@НиколайНикакоюс-л2ь "The truth of life is that Soviet technology did not use high-octane gasoline" I think that the Soviets did for their high altitude high performance aircraft. I'd be surprised if the Sturmovik didn't need high octane gasoline. Odds are that we Americans just enhanced Soviet supplies of tetra ethyl lead. The Sturmovik was a frightening aircraft. Scared everyone, unless you were in a tight spot with a Panzer fixing to put your lights out. I met one Red Army Vet who nodded with approval and then said, "The Sturmovik saved my life many times".
I've served on tanks at -25C and they're cold, if you're the driver and you're driving heads out they've extremely cold but if you've driven for any period of time and you get a tank sheet over the back decks you can sleep in a relatively warm place at least until you fall asleep. Tanks are not a fun place to be in very cold weather, or hot weather really but they're probably no worse most of the time unless you're moving than the conditions an infantry man would be in. When you're moving it's damn cold or extremely dusty and hot or maybe very wet but it's one of the best jobs I ever had.
This morning was -30 here, my forklift stated outside started every week until today. I remember watching old wsr documentaries about the German invasion of Russia, soldiers making fires under the Tanks to keep it warm. So hard to imagine. My forklifts engine block was frozen solid, my to electric heaters died, one shorted, one malfunctioned. Had to go buy a new one, it took the new heater and an pld school plug in spot light that gave off crazy heat under the oil pan for 4 hrs to get it started. All I could think of was times like this video was describing. All I could think was things could be worse. I could be digging a trench getting shelled or sleeping In a frozen tank in ww2. Crazy.
On this topic i can say that land-leased tanks needed additional heat source, not the SU own. I talk about Matilda's and Churchill's that was fitted with little potbelly stove's known as "буржуйка".
I was on a training op for winter warfare with tracked vehicle's. It was so cold we decided to use the propane stove inside. If the order to move out hadn't come down we would of died. Sick as hell the next few days. I was told the temperature was 100 below.
_tracked vehicle's_ - tracked vehicles - plural, not Saxon genitive. _we would of died_ - we would HAVE died (of poisoning) And no, I'm not the language police - it just... "amuses" me, let's say, when native English speakers make such... glaring and obvious mistakes. _the temperature was 100 below_ - below what? : ) NEGATIVE (or "minus") 100°F (-73°C)in Midwest USA? In Oymyakon, Yakutia, the coldest inhabited town on Earth, the lowest temperature ever was just above -96°F (-71°C) in 1924. For lower than that you'd need to go to Antarctic, nod US Midwest. Auntie Wiki says: _The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at the then-Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983 by ground measurements._ _On 10 August 2010, satellite observations showed a surface temperature of −93.2 °C (−135.8 °F; 180.0 K) ... along a ridge between Dome Argus and Dome Fuji, at 3,900 m (12,800 ft) elevation._
@@MrKotBonifacy irregardless of the grammar, the tale was understood. In military field operations, as long as the message is comprehended, communication methods are adaptable at all times.
@@kemobile1923 Well, yes. As long as the message is understood, yes. "No, nurse! I said PRICK HIS BOIL!" went some funny ad I saw on a bus in London... some time ago (make it 25 yrs for easy counting). But I digress here, and yes, you can write as you please, and I can live with that. Still, "would have" IS NOT the same as "would of", and "vehicle's" carries entirely different meaning than "vehicles". And, oh, BTW - its either "irrelevant" or "regardless". Fun fact - I'm not a native English speaker, but then who gives. Have a nice one, and enjoy your Friday to the fullest. Cheers : )
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I remember one of our M1's with a dead heater in winter- the frost in the tank turned into ice about 1/4" thick and it felt bone chillingly cold inside. I don't even like to think what these men went through.
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Its crazy these tanks didnt have heaters in them . I mean how much weight and effort would it take put in a small heater connected to the backup engine or whatever its called . Crazy .
I guess inside a tank could be as warm as inside an igloo. There would be some interesting thermodynamics going on. Of course lighting a fire inside a tank could be problematic. Warming the mechanism of the tank so it would function would be a different issue.
How is that supposed to work? Igloos are made of snow, which is a huge amount of air trapped inside some frozen water structure. Therefore a pretty good insulator to trap heat inside. A tank is completely made out of steel, which is, like nearly all metals, a very good heat-conductor. So you are sitting in a metal box that basically has outside temperature.
Germany could not make any specific cold weather preparations for Barbarossa. The reason is simple........German industry was thoroughly penetrated by soviet spies that would have been able to gather and report any information on the developments of cold weather fuel,lubricating oils etc directly to the USSR. Previous to 1933, Germany had millions of seriously committed members of the communist party, and in the 1920's entire cities had been taken over by communist uprisings,leading to the confrontations with the Freikorp and later the Nazis. Barbarosa only had the smallest chance of success, with a surprise attack, any forewarning of such, would have given the USSR the entire upper hand. The Red Army was never incompetent, or poorly equipped, it was in reality the best blitz krieg Army supported by the most well prepared,gigantic military industrial base anywhere on the entire planet in 1940-1941.
Doesn't explain Ivan's poor performance early in ww2. I'm sure nazis knew of cold weather needs in 1941. Logistics magnifiedbthe problem and 1941 Germany not on total war footing. Naive and you'll lose thebwar
During the 1930s, any Russian officer who showed competence, due to Stalin's paranoia, was arrested and likely executed. This trained the rest of the army "don't stick you head up". When the Germans attacked, the paralyzed Russian army could not react swiftly to due fear that they would be executed. Couple that with Stalin's paranoia and thinking that everything was a ruse, resulted in an army that could not effectively react.
@@capnkwick4286 the commissars were a big problem early war, they meddled in decisions that officers needed to make in the field, which resulted in paralysis. Stalin himself did not believe the reports, that Germany had crossed the frontier for some days, believing it was "agent provocateurs". Stalin had also positioned his forces close to the frontier, in preparation for invading western europe in mere weeks. In the first weeks of Barbarossa....the USSR lost 47,000 rail cars of ammo, and 17,000 rail cars of fuel, packed into rail sidings a short distance from the frontier. As were airfields packed with aircraft and most of the Red Army, in large concentrated formations. This is not a military positioned for defense, but for attack....and when it is caught by surprise, it is in an entirely vulnerable position to have its logistics wiped out, and formations trapped by pincer attacks carried out by the Germans. It is not the fault of the Red Army, or its officers.....it is entirely a result of Stalins ambitions which through the 1930's had been greatly assisted by the USA which knew exactly what was going on in the USSR, the Americans designed and supervised the construction of many factories which were 100% only for war industry.
I don’t know what version is true but heard story the other day that Russian troops had came across a broken down German tank, crew surrendered but as act of cruelty, the Russians forced the crew back into tank and welded all the hatches shut; However I couldn’t see front line soldiers chugging around a welder though. The other version which is more likely given how brutally cold winters were was they soldiers had found what appeared to be broken down/abandoned tank but upon inspection it was discovered that the crew was dead, apparently frozen to death.
From my time as a mechanic in the US Army, and being from the upper Midwest with below 0° F winters I always wondered how the crew stayed warm inside a big box of metal in the winter. Your video answered that. Thanks again
In the places where you used the word "somehow" You should have used "somewhat" "it is somewhat warmer than earlier" Saying it is somehow warmer would imply that it got warmer and you don't know why.
Thank you brother for this very nice video.Russian soldiers in 44 and 45 we're tough as NAILS,and we're driven thru the heart of baby antichrist Adolph.
There’s several stories from US m4 Sherman tank crews…. Ripping copper pipe or tubing from whatever the could find….. and wrapping it around a spent shell…. They would then connect the copper line to the cooling system… and run it inside the tank…. They would use it to heat the tank and also to heat water for coffee….
I always though the Russian tankers and German tanks had internal heaters but germans eventually incorporated internal heaters good for them,,,,damn Russians had it in 1970s wow very late
For a guy that claimed to be a student of Napolean Bonaparte, why did Hitler continue his attack on Russia, deep in the winter? I guess he never said he was a good student of Napolean Bonaparte.
I mean really, that is Russian technology at its best to have this bloody lump of na engine at the back and not to think about any kind of heating. Fuxxk it… new soldiers were always available.
Well, it won’t be a problem with Russia’s current war. There are now much improved methods of warming a tank. Unfortunately, carbon monoxide will be the least of there worries.
@@easternfrontwar is it true there in no substance abuse programs in russia and you go to prison fucking smoking cannabis? no wonder Putin is fucked up you Russians need cannabis for sure
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it's just as cold as outside, what else?
Worse because the metal does not get warm.
German tank crew could connect Panzer to panzer via a hot water hose to heat up the engines before starting. Also, what surprises me is that neither side came up with a radiator fed from the engine coolant system, to use the heated coolant to warm the fighting compartment. The V-2 engine in the T-34 would heat it's coolant in a few minutes. Crews also got in the habit of parking the tank on a carpet of birch branches to stop the tank tracks freezing to the ground.
Not having proper crew heat was thoroughly stupid but that era was one of desperate economic constraints for Germany and the USSR.
Of course today we understand crew comfort makes the crew much more efficient but in those primitive times troops were treated as completely expendable. It would have been trivially easy to plumb a crew heater in the manner of those used on automobiles but most cars didn't have heat unless they were luxury models and their heater cores and fans were shit on a good day. Car heaters didn't become standard until the 1960s in many autos. The most sophisticated vehicles in terms of crew comfort were ships with wheeled and winged transport being neglected. Moderns forget nearly everyone in that era was dirt poor by modern standards and it was common even in the US for sharecroppers etc to live in worse poverty than many third worlders do today.
@@obfuscated3090 that's what they want you to think alright
Not true.
The German's had the Kampfraumheizung, it redirects warm air from the radiators to the crew.
@@Broman-es4sx What part does who want us to think?
I crewed a apc in the winter. It was an ice box. I did it in non war training. I can only imagine the hardships for soldiers who had to fight in these conditions
I was a vehicle commander (section leader of a recon platoon) of two different M113s doing duty near the East German border over two winters. Neither vehicle had a working heater. My crew (driver and observer) used to abandon me at night. I had to stay to monitor the radio. I went on later to ice climbing in northern New Hampshire, where a new record low was set on Mt. Washington two days ago. There and the East German border were pretty similar insofar as the cold is concerned! Wearing lined mechanic's coveralls over the top of my field uniform helped keep me warm. or at least kept me from freezing to death.
Back in 2002 I was the XO driver and our Humvee had a hole in the drivers side floor. Negative 20 degree winter, while driving at night nearly did in my foot. I managed to stuff a MRE in the hole and kept that humvee running. Later a group of Katusas hopped in my humvee to warm up and it was packed with about 6 of us. Not sure where the XO went, but we all did just fine and toasty without him.
One can only imagine the cold endured by these men.
That’s awesome 😂
These guys and women who fought during the WW1, WW2 and Korea conflicts can only be imagined. They grew up very fast at 18 to 21 years of age. And in some cases, 15 and 16 years of age.
Don't remember woman getting drafted
@@joesmoth2610 A large number of Soviet women were drafted in WWII
@@koifish7476 referring to the United states
I had a 12 pound maul out in my shed the other day that I brought in to work on. It had been outside in 0 degree fahrenheit temperatures. Metal like that just pulls heat from your body. I couldn't imagine sleeping inside of a tank in those conditions.
I don’t think the crew slept in the tanks not enough space and everyone would have to sleep sitting it would make more sense to get out and set up camp
You have never been cold until you crewed a tank and pulled radio watch in Germany in February at night! :(
Does sitting in Moscow airport after flying in from Singapore waiting for a connecting flight for 6 hours on Boxing Day morning count?
Been there, done that. Make room by the kero heater please.
Tragic death of radio op (carbon monoxide) though, after we switched to plastic type camo sheeting from hessian ( even more tragic, his wife was pregnant and expecting at the time).
@@tomlewis8429 I'm guessing you're ex British Army. Was a scalie, we used kero heaters on our rebro dets. When did they stop using hessian? We used to run gennies next to our det, just outside the cam nets. If we ran the vehicle engine there was a long metal hose you put on the exhaust to direct the fumes away.
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Northern Sweden in the Middle of winter is incredibly cold, some of the coldest shit I’ve ever experienced.
Some T-34 tanks had an electric starter, a crank start, and a shotgun shell start. I guess they did not want to be left without options.
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What amazes me is no one was ever bright enough to make a Quinzee hut, basically a burrowed out pile of snow. Takes 2 hours for snow to set & done right will be shelter in at least above freezing temp 0C. with no heat source but your body. Larger with more people makes it +5-10C. For luxury a Hurricane lamp w/roof venting will cook you & your food. I tried sleeping in one during one of our worst blizzards. I wore my usual cold weather gear, no heater & had to give up after 5-6 hours because I was sweating too much. Next time I packed lighter clothes for sleeping in. If there's enough snow around, only fools & city folk will freeze to death. There's a whole world of animals living just under the snow, and they get by just fine. Try it, might save your life someday.
Excellent video! Thank you!
I saw somewhere that the US supplied special oil and grease to the Russians and this helped keep their vehicles mobile, whereas the Germans didn’t have access and had major problems.
The US gave the Soviets all sorts of cool stuff.
One big aid was sending them Tetraethyl-Lead. This substance raised the "spark knock" resistance of petroleum. The Soviets could get by with less refining of their gasoline and could stretch it out further.
When the US transited from leaded gasoline in the 1970s this raised up the cost of gasoline. In exchange we were not breathing lead oxide any more.
Yes, we’ve been greasing the Russians for quite some time to try to get them to resolve our conflicts
@@jamallabarge2665
The truth of life is that Soviet technology did not use high-octane gasoline. So the United States, in fact, supplied gasoline for the equipment that they transferred.
@@НиколайНикакоюс-л2ь "The truth of life is that Soviet technology did not use high-octane gasoline"
I think that the Soviets did for their high altitude high performance aircraft. I'd be surprised if the Sturmovik didn't need high octane gasoline. Odds are that we Americans just enhanced Soviet supplies of tetra ethyl lead.
The Sturmovik was a frightening aircraft. Scared everyone, unless you were in a tight spot with a Panzer fixing to put your lights out.
I met one Red Army Vet who nodded with approval and then said, "The Sturmovik saved my life many times".
Nikolai I have never seen anyone with your last name.
Ni-ka-ko-yus. It's an interesting family name.
>>How COLD was in T-34 Tank in Winter Time?
Good job with the information! Looking forward to many more videos.
One good thing about the M60A3 was its heater for your filtered air gas mask connection and feed line.
IYKYK
In Denmark a privat man has a large collection of former eastern tracked equipment, and several of those have a small wood burner - oven to the side.
Any links or information to share? I'm interested in finding out more!
There is photo in internet with such devices.
Love the sub-titles! At 3.40 it says "The farting compartment.." That'll do it folks. Nothing like a few Dutch Oven's to warm a room..
It is AI of Google and my terrible pronounce:)
@@easternfrontwar On the other hand, by getting it wrong you got it right. Light a few of those up & you're warm in no time.
Noticed this too but new it was a translation error. Subtitles often have misspelled words
Awesome information!
I've served on tanks at -25C and they're cold, if you're the driver and you're driving heads out they've extremely cold but if you've driven for any period of time and you get a tank sheet over the back decks you can sleep in a relatively warm place at least until you fall asleep. Tanks are not a fun place to be in very cold weather, or hot weather really but they're probably no worse most of the time unless you're moving than the conditions an infantry man would be in. When you're moving it's damn cold or extremely dusty and hot or maybe very wet but it's one of the best jobs I ever had.
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This morning was -30 here, my forklift stated outside started every week until today.
I remember watching old wsr documentaries about the German invasion of Russia, soldiers making fires under the Tanks to keep it warm. So hard to imagine. My forklifts engine block was frozen solid, my to electric heaters died, one shorted, one malfunctioned. Had to go buy a new one, it took the new heater and an pld school plug in spot light that gave off crazy heat under the oil pan for 4 hrs to get it started. All I could think of was times like this video was describing. All I could think was things could be worse. I could be digging a trench getting shelled or sleeping In a frozen tank in ww2. Crazy.
My phones auto correct sucks. Not fixing all those errors sorry!
Thanks
On this topic i can say that land-leased tanks needed additional heat source, not the SU own. I talk about Matilda's and Churchill's that was fitted with little potbelly stove's known as "буржуйка".
Буржуйка:) Right we still have it.
I was on a training op for winter warfare with tracked vehicle's. It was so cold we decided to use the propane stove inside. If the order to move out hadn't come down we would of died. Sick as hell the next few days. I was told the temperature was 100 below.
Where it was?
@@easternfrontwar Midwest USA, Minnesota to be precise. The lake froze so hard we drove over it.
_tracked vehicle's_ - tracked vehicles - plural, not Saxon genitive.
_we would of died_ - we would HAVE died (of poisoning)
And no, I'm not the language police - it just... "amuses" me, let's say, when native English speakers make such... glaring and obvious mistakes.
_the temperature was 100 below_ - below what? : )
NEGATIVE (or "minus") 100°F (-73°C)in Midwest USA? In Oymyakon, Yakutia, the coldest inhabited town on Earth, the lowest temperature ever was just above -96°F (-71°C) in 1924. For lower than that you'd need to go to Antarctic, nod US Midwest.
Auntie Wiki says:
_The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at the then-Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983 by ground measurements._
_On 10 August 2010, satellite observations showed a surface temperature of −93.2 °C (−135.8 °F; 180.0 K) ... along a ridge between Dome Argus and Dome Fuji, at 3,900 m (12,800 ft) elevation._
@@MrKotBonifacy irregardless of the grammar, the tale was understood. In military field operations, as long as the message is comprehended, communication methods are adaptable at all times.
@@kemobile1923 Well, yes. As long as the message is understood, yes.
"No, nurse! I said PRICK HIS BOIL!" went some funny ad I saw on a bus in London... some time ago (make it 25 yrs for easy counting).
But I digress here, and yes, you can write as you please, and I can live with that. Still, "would have" IS NOT the same as "would of", and "vehicle's" carries entirely different meaning than "vehicles".
And, oh, BTW - its either "irrelevant" or "regardless".
Fun fact - I'm not a native English speaker, but then who gives.
Have a nice one, and enjoy your Friday to the fullest. Cheers : )
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I remember one of our M1's with a dead heater in winter- the frost in the tank turned into ice about 1/4" thick and it felt bone chillingly cold inside. I don't even like to think what these men went through.
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I figured they would have parked the tank over hot coals but never really knew.
i heard that done with the T34 somewhere but i can't remember
Its crazy these tanks didnt have heaters in them . I mean how much weight and effort would it take put in a small heater connected to the backup engine or whatever its called . Crazy .
It's time and cost that was the driver in making those decisions.
I trained at Ft Knox in Armor in winter 1977, it sucked ass freezing our ball off
Winter of 1977-78 was so cold for so long the Ohio River froze solid enough to drive vehicles across the ice.
@@rishz7857 The Great Blizzard of '78. I didn't go to school for a whole week!
Crazy not to have heaters, would have been more productive
Nice. I never knew of this before.
good stuff
I guess inside a tank could be as warm as inside an igloo. There would be some interesting thermodynamics going on. Of course lighting a fire inside a tank could be problematic. Warming the mechanism of the tank so it would function would be a different issue.
How is that supposed to work? Igloos are made of snow, which is a huge amount of air trapped inside some frozen water structure. Therefore a pretty good insulator to trap heat inside. A tank is completely made out of steel, which is, like nearly all metals, a very good heat-conductor. So you are sitting in a metal box that basically has outside temperature.
Zee alvays keep zee fire in zee ammunition compartment comrade
Yea....how do you dig a small trench at -20C...? Soil is frozen rock hard.
Grenade?
pickaxe
After the fire is started it begins to melt the dirt. Dig as it becomes possible…
Germany could not make any specific cold weather preparations for Barbarossa. The reason is simple........German industry was thoroughly penetrated by soviet spies that would have been able to gather and report any information on the developments of cold weather fuel,lubricating oils etc directly to the USSR. Previous to 1933, Germany had millions of seriously committed members of the communist party, and in the 1920's entire cities had been taken over by communist uprisings,leading to the confrontations with the Freikorp and later the Nazis. Barbarosa only had the smallest chance of success, with a surprise attack, any forewarning of such, would have given the USSR the entire upper hand. The Red Army was never incompetent, or poorly equipped, it was in reality the best blitz krieg Army supported by the most well prepared,gigantic military industrial base anywhere on the entire planet in 1940-1941.
Germany had suitable greases and oils from their aero industry but not capable of operating at 40 below.
Doesn't explain Ivan's poor performance early in ww2. I'm sure nazis knew of cold weather needs in 1941. Logistics magnifiedbthe problem and 1941 Germany not on total war footing. Naive and you'll lose thebwar
During the 1930s, any Russian officer who showed competence, due to Stalin's paranoia, was arrested and likely executed. This trained the rest of the army "don't stick you head up".
When the Germans attacked, the paralyzed Russian army could not react swiftly to due fear that they would be executed.
Couple that with Stalin's paranoia and thinking that everything was a ruse, resulted in an army that could not effectively react.
@@capnkwick4286 the commissars were a big problem early war, they meddled in decisions that officers needed to make in the field, which resulted in paralysis. Stalin himself did not believe the reports, that Germany had crossed the frontier for some days, believing it was "agent provocateurs". Stalin had also positioned his forces close to the frontier, in preparation for invading western europe in mere weeks. In the first weeks of Barbarossa....the USSR lost 47,000 rail cars of ammo, and 17,000 rail cars of fuel, packed into rail sidings a short distance from the frontier. As were airfields packed with aircraft and most of the Red Army, in large concentrated formations. This is not a military positioned for defense, but for attack....and when it is caught by surprise, it is in an entirely vulnerable position to have its logistics wiped out, and formations trapped by pincer attacks carried out by the Germans. It is not the fault of the Red Army, or its officers.....it is entirely a result of Stalins ambitions which through the 1930's had been greatly assisted by the USA which knew exactly what was going on in the USSR, the Americans designed and supervised the construction of many factories which were 100% only for war industry.
I don’t think you know this but the fuel tank is next to the driver
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And my girlfriend complaining about 20°C at home 😐, shes freezing below 22°. She raises the bill.
With the average service life in combat of a t-34, there wasn't time for it to get cold.
a friend of mine was t72 tank driver in the NVA (east germanys army). he told me in winter he made a fire under hs seat to keep warm.
It was during training?
Yes, during training. They luckily never had to fight. 😎👍
I don’t know what version is true but heard story the other day that Russian troops had came across a broken down German tank, crew surrendered but as act of cruelty, the Russians forced the crew back into tank and welded all the hatches shut; However I couldn’t see front line soldiers chugging around a welder though. The other version which is more likely given how brutally cold winters were was they soldiers had found what appeared to be broken down/abandoned tank but upon inspection it was discovered that the crew was dead, apparently frozen to death.
stuck in a swemp XD, sorry for laughing at your bad english there but it was to funny, great video man!
I am glad that I make you laughing. it is one of the worst works for me to pronounce laught because it sounds like love? Insane for me:)))
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Германия не готовилась воевать зимой.И очень поплатилась за это.Медаль за Московскую битву 1941 года называлась" Мороженное мясо".
Makes you wonder if there was any advantage in having a tank at all.!!
Thank you.
Welcome!
From my time as a mechanic in the US Army, and being from the upper Midwest with below 0° F winters I always wondered how the crew stayed warm inside a big box of metal in the winter.
Your video answered that. Thanks again
They are brutal hot in summer and cold in winter we just learned to deal with it. The coals in an ammo can worked well for us.
How they dug a trench in frozen earth?
thank you to the singing explanations...
welcome
How do you dig a trench in frozen ground?
bomb?
Very Cold
Thank you for collecting the photos and movies of the war. Just reading about it doesn’t show the hardships that they suffered.
Thx for commenting it is really help!
In the places where you used the word "somehow"
You should have used "somewhat"
"it is somewhat warmer than earlier"
Saying it is somehow warmer would imply that it got warmer and you don't know why.
Thank you brother for this very nice video.Russian soldiers in 44 and 45 we're tough as NAILS,and we're driven thru the heart of baby antichrist Adolph.
The tank was made out of steel can you imagine how cold or hot it could get inside ?
Only if Mister Frost knock in to the armor and tanker let him come in inside.
You mean, how cold was it in the---------
And here the British could make tea in the Centurion tanks at the end of the war.
How do you dig a trench in -20C??!!
The ground is solid frozen.
One round of munitions fired straight up into the air. The back up 30ft while you wait for gravity to help out . Repeat until desired depth.
horrible time ..
Set Playback speed at 1.25. Thank me later.
better 1.5 I always watch at this rate
There’s several stories from US m4 Sherman tank crews…. Ripping copper pipe or tubing from whatever the could find….. and wrapping it around a spent shell…. They would then connect the copper line to the cooling system… and run it inside the tank…. They would use it to heat the tank and also to heat water for coffee….
Tank fall on crews?
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This channel kicks asd
Lol
asd?
A hole in frost. Not easy
grenade?
I always though the Russian tankers and German tanks had internal heaters but germans eventually incorporated internal heaters good for them,,,,damn Russians had it in 1970s wow very late
sometimes comfort doesn't help
Goes to show just how every government thinks of their people.. and yet we still trust them.
it was as cold as an outside
That's an deep zhit.
It was very cold, until it got lit up by an anti tank gun! That’s obvious! 🤣
how cold was *A
Only in Russia can a designer be killed form not fitting a heater
Why?
@@easternfrontwar He got pneumonia from test driving the T34 in the frezzcold as he had no time to fit a heater..
Thank you for very informative video. Ive often thought about heating for armor crews.
war is hell...
i guess it wasnt so bad in winter, since it was hot there during summer and spring
why you think so?
I agree, they could try doing what bears do by hibernating…
For a guy that claimed to be a student of Napolean Bonaparte, why did Hitler continue his attack on Russia, deep in the winter? I guess he never said he was a good student of Napolean Bonaparte.
He skip the lessons:)
@@easternfrontwar Germany had to win before usa entered the war
I mean really, that is Russian technology at its best to have this bloody lump of na engine at the back and not to think about any kind of heating. Fuxxk it… new soldiers were always available.
no time for heating. battle all the time...
I thought they kept warm with large doses of methamphetamine.
maybe germans?
Beyond grim
Absolutely miserable
Well, it won’t be a problem with Russia’s current war.
There are now much improved methods of warming a tank.
Unfortunately, carbon monoxide will be the least of there worries.
It had to be terrible.
Thx fro comment!
@@easternfrontwar very welcome and I make sure that I share all the videos. I love history.
Vodka ??
why not:)
Kanal ,, Tribun timur,, 🇺🇦🔥🇷🇺
Красная Армия всех сильней .
Yes it won't fail in Ukraine
it was as cold as putins heart.
Putin learned how front-line soldiers suffered in the icy battlefield while he was dodging the draft in law school.
trump's buddy.
Reds v nazis winner winter
Winter is on the reds side:)
@@easternfrontwar tell that to the conscript frozen to the floor
@@rebelrat3594 floor or in tank?
@@easternfrontwar floor of tank
the speaker sounded like he is on weed. And he never answered the question, as expected.
😆
Terrible narration
Why?
Ya why lol tf
Does the Sherman have a heater?
don't know
please stop trying English dude it's frustrating understanding
learn Russian English:) it is right time lol
@@easternfrontwar is it true there in no substance abuse programs in russia and you go to prison fucking smoking cannabis? no wonder Putin is fucked up you Russians need cannabis for sure
He speaks English very well, funny you criticize him. Your sentence isn't even structured properly😂
English is likely his second or third language and uses it as well if not better than you
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