My granpa always tells me on how the Americans arrived in his town throwing candies and chocolate to the poorest of the poors

@CheezBoyz2009

9 ай бұрын

Wow

@ahmadbintang9697

9 ай бұрын

Very cool

@Jungleali

9 ай бұрын

Yeah that was probably a great moment for them

@anthonyblack8039

9 ай бұрын

Thats was the price of their loyalty to the nation and their family, candies and chocolate

@JustARandomFio

9 ай бұрын

Same does my mother who was a little child back then. And tells how the soldiers played with the kids, and nicely asked when they needed something. This is what true liberation looks like. Eastern Europeans who were "liberated" by the Soviet counterpart were less fortunate. Sounds familiar, looking at Ukraine.

My great grandfather defended Sicilia, and told a story where as him and other Italiano soldiers waited in a trench, a fight broke out between the Anti-Tank gun crew who wanted to surrender and the infantry who wanted to keep fighting.

@TheMJBros308

3 ай бұрын

"Defended" was his fav word nein?

@anthonypastorelli5818

3 ай бұрын

​@@TheMJBros308 Shut up this isn't a joke either way if he was fighting for Italia he wouldn't be a Nazi unless he wanted to but you shouldn't make jokes about this true war is never ok to make fun of

@taulantkomini392

3 ай бұрын

Sicily*

@kopieren7351

3 ай бұрын

Sicilia in spanish@@taulantkomini392

@herecomes3608

3 ай бұрын

sicilia is how you say sicily in italian, the nation sicily is in@@taulantkomini392

Napoleon: “Italy is like a boot, you can only enter it from the top.” Allies: “Hold our cigarettes…”

@thefinal9923

9 ай бұрын

Napoleon would have gotten a kick out of landing craft

@aaroncabatingan5238

9 ай бұрын

​@@thefinal9923He's gonna get Trafalgar'ed before he gets to use it

@shahanshahpolonium

9 ай бұрын

Northern Italy is literally bordered by the mountainous alps lol.

@zumis1011

3 ай бұрын

@@shahanshahpolonium Yep, same ones that wiped out most of pretty much any invading army

@billdoor3140

2 ай бұрын

He didn't have aircraft, battleships, landings craft...

0:20 "Patton's taken Palermo" "Damn!"

@briish4615

4 ай бұрын

I see you are a man of culture aswell

“Churchill began referring to Italy as Europe‘s soft underbelly”

@GabeDejoie

23 күн бұрын

Oversimplified reference I like it

A Crazy Fact of History: Rome originally spent over *FIFTY YEARS* in a back-and-forth conflict with local Sicilians and the Carthaginians over the island before finally conquering Sicily. The Allies took the same territory in just under 40 days.

@jonbeech5158

9 ай бұрын

Romans:back in my day we didn't have full auto.

@Leo-ez1cr

9 ай бұрын

The allies got helped by italian mafiosi

@Big_Bag_of_Pus

3 ай бұрын

​@@jonbeech5158 Or air superiority.

@andrews.5212

2 ай бұрын

when the roman reconquered sicily, in the 6th century, they did it in less than a year.. they basically landed, defeated the gothic garrison and the population rose up and expelled the rest of the barbarians happy that roman forces were back in town..

It’s so nice getting a history lesson watching your vids every day you deserve much more subs

@ericmamleev

9 ай бұрын

*Friends, I did 21 pull-ups on one arm* *Support the people!*

@kamacazi8

8 ай бұрын

"history lesson" lol it's just modern "squirrel" "butterfly" for the youth. contains no substance at all besides visual numbers.... For those of us with context and history, it can provide a view point of the overall grandeur in context.. But that is it.

@W4emTP

4 ай бұрын

@@ericmamleev cap

Rest in peace for those who died in ww2 🕊️

@Coritianoo

9 ай бұрын

​@@ElizabethLibby688shhh

@BB-ez1mp

9 ай бұрын

Shout Out To Their Families.

@dariomladenovski7047

9 ай бұрын

@@ElizabethLibby688 RIP G

@Alduintheworldeater

9 ай бұрын

Yes

@Alduintheworldeater

9 ай бұрын

@@ElizabethLibby688bro

Why are the Italians so good at football???? Because it involves switching sides halfway through

@d.m.8465

8 ай бұрын

Jaja muy bueno 😂

@Speed249

5 ай бұрын

XD

@AtlasAugustus

25 күн бұрын

Germans defended Italy better than Italians lol

This was AWESOME! Great work.

So surreal watching this. My nanna when she was a girl in Malta remembers the Americans massing for this invasion and her cultural shock of seeing an "African American" soldier.

@ImperialDiecast

9 ай бұрын

isnt malta like 200km off the coast of north africa? youre telling me nobody came over before?

@goldeagle8051

9 ай бұрын

@@ImperialDiecastno-one that lived to tell the tale in those days probably, lol

@ahtes2458

9 ай бұрын

@@ImperialDiecastNorth Africans aren’t black.

@13ased_American

9 ай бұрын

She's never seen a black person?

@TheMaltesefalcon204

9 ай бұрын

So in short, malta in the 20's wasn't some trade hub as it was back under the knights. So yes, there was probably the odd african here and there but rarely did they sail to malta. I mean, my great uncle use to sail to Tunisia and buy cheap donkies. Didn't speak arabic, just winged it with Maltese.

hannibal would be proud

@AmirSatt

9 ай бұрын

after 2000+ years, he got his revenge (the invasion was from Tunisia)

@warbler1984

9 ай бұрын

Hannibal was American

@Stuff_centeral

9 ай бұрын

@@warbler1984 are you being ironic?

@ForeskinWillis

3 ай бұрын

@@Stuff_centeral No he is not. Hannibal Barca was indeed an American patriot.

@NguyenMinh-vs1vm

22 күн бұрын

@@ForeskinWillisMan was being American even before America is a thing

My great-grandfather was in the Italian Navy during the war (they even gave him a medal for surviving a sinking), he was not in Sicily but was stationed at the naval base of Taranto and when the English invaded he was taken prisoner, but luckily the surrender agreement between the Allies and the Marshal Badoglio prevented him from being taken into captivity in England, instead he and his men were put to guard a fuel depot that the English had built in the port of Taranto. My other great grandfather (who was about 21 years old at the time) however was stationed in Greece in a coastal artillery unit. But after 8 September 1943, his commander ordered my great-grandfather and his comrades to escape and he first went up the Balkans, then crossed the Alps and crossed the entire Republic of Salò, finally reaching Naples (from where in the meantime the Germans had retreated) and he was reunited with his family. And as far as I'm concerned he made the right choice, after all he was still young and this was no longer his war.

Liddle Hart observed that Kesserling was really happy that the Allied never tried to trap the Axis' troops in Sicily. Because he did not have enough soldiers to defend the Calabria.

Outstanding

I LOVE YOUR VIDS😀

Can you do the battle of Seelow heights??? unless you already did....

My father took part in the psychological warfare as a non-combattant. He never got over his love for Italy and Italians.

Epic video of Carthage winning the 1°Punnic War.

The problem in Sicily was that many axis forces could get back to Italy bia the strait. 0:50 This happened because of USA general Patton🇺🇲 rivalry against Brittish general Montgomery🇬🇧. They viewed Sicily more as a race to capture the important cities instead of securing the island and trap as many axis armies as they could. Finally, this problem lead, I'm sure, to a harder advance in Italy with the Axis reinforcing their defensive lines: Gothic and Gustav

@sasquatch7234

9 ай бұрын

Patton and Montgomery were so alike. Egotistical, arrogant, brash war generals.

@aaroncabatingan5238

9 ай бұрын

Monty did took the road that Patton's Army was supposed to used to get to Messina. You can actually see it on the map when the British sector moved westward just a bit. While that doesn't sound like a big deal, note that Sicily is a mountainous island and roads are required for tanks to move forward.

@tomterry2139

9 ай бұрын

Patton was removed before they invaded Italy, he never would have been stuck at Gothic and Gustav, he would have bypassed them.

@apropercuppa8612

6 ай бұрын

@@tomterry2139 Highly unlikely given the God-awful terrain of Italy. Very mountainous, with long, winding roads, solid stone buildings and many, many rivers to cross. The terrain was a Tank's worst nightmare and couple that with the weather as well. Come Winter, it rains and rains a lot, bogging everything down and flooding said rivers. It's partly why Germany was able to hold on so well for so long, it's perfect Defensive terrain. Solid weight in numbers and material is what would and did win it for the Allies.

I first read it as "alien invasion of sicily."

@RobertProductionsX

9 ай бұрын

same

I never see anyone discussing a “what if” on had the Allies failed to take Sicily.

@fetusofetuso2122

9 ай бұрын

because it had little impact on the war. Ultimately the invasion of Italy was an incredible grind. Germany was able to defend effectively with relatively few resources, and the allies didn't reach the alps in 2 years. The only real impact was staging strategic bombing runs into southern Germany and Austria

@poffy02

9 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@fetusofetuso2122it wasn’t that Germany defended it well, it was the strategic landscape that affected the invasion of Italy

@yates667

9 ай бұрын

@@fetusofetuso2122 You bring up some good points on how Italy was a grind. I think the Allies loosing men and material could have had an impact other places.

@saldjkalskdjasldkja

9 ай бұрын

@@yates667 German commanders actually thought the invasion of Italy was a good idea... on one condition, if they had invaded the northern part rather than the southern. The middle of the country is quite mountainous. You could say it was a moral victory though and definitely secured the Mediterranean.

@loganwilliams9104

9 ай бұрын

D day would've just happened sooner.

0:52 funny detail or oversight here, as soon as winston churchill says "unconditional surrender" an italian army in the north surrenders

My mom & grandmother lived in Messina when this happened.

Es difícil de comprender,visto desde hoy,que con la inmensa superioridad aeronaval de los aliados, alemanes e italianos pudieran evacuar de Sicilia a la península tantas tropas. Cierto que el estrecho de Messina no son muchos kilómetros, pero no deja de ser sorprendente que dejaran escapar tantas tropas que,poco después,les esperarían en Salerno.

@ebonaparte3853

9 ай бұрын

Too many anti aircraft guns around the strait.

@ericmamleev

9 ай бұрын

*Friends, I did 21 pull-ups on one arm* *Support the people!*

@KrMorgan12

9 ай бұрын

I used to swim from Piale to Messina for school.

One of my family members got a silver star for throwing a grenade into a nazi pillbox during the invasion of Italy or invasion of Sicily

Later on, my people the brazilians would help in the war in the allied side, we sent over 25,000 troops to help fight in Italy. Fought many battles, gave civilians food and we din't have much to give, we suffered more than 2,500 casualties, we have a beautiful story in ww2. Thank you Italy for building the The Pistoia Brazilian war cemetery.

can you do tobruk next pls

Fun fact: Winston Churchill said the fight in the fields speech right after France surrendered

You should do battle of castiglione

Can you please do 1922 Battle of Sakarya?

My grandpa remembers it as well, how the America's rolled in and said: ‘hey boy, do you want some chocolate’. He’s still talking about it to this day.

This reminds when I didn’t know how to play HOI4 , just carelessly wasting millions of men trying to take Sicily as Germany, lol

@montenegrinfootballfan

8 ай бұрын

Same bro lol

I like how theres more german troops defending italy then italian troops defending italy

Hi can you please do battle of fort meigs

Great!

how can I create this video and which program with?

you would say an island like sicily would be easy to defend

@swr3092

9 ай бұрын

Not for italians.

@nickyhyde4238

9 ай бұрын

Maybe about 2000 years ago when rome didnt have a navy yet

@SCARRIOR

9 ай бұрын

@@nickyhyde4238 Eh? Rome had a great navy during it's republic era through the punic wars 264 - 146 BC. It conquered Corsica and Sardinia from Carthage because of it. Nonsense to say that Rome didn't have a navy until afterr the supposed birth of christ.

@AmirSatt

9 ай бұрын

That is what total naval and air inferiority does to a mf

@nickyhyde4238

9 ай бұрын

@@SCARRIOR i meant before they had a ship rocked up on their shore and copied it they had a hard time supplying their forces in sicily in the first punic war as that was their first time crossing a body of water to invade

First Guy Speaking - Churchill Second Guy- Hitler Third Guy - Mussolini Fourth Guy - Roosevelt

I wonder if the allies could have landed on the toe of Italy and cut off the German retreat. That would have trapped a lot of German troops.

Can you do the Allied invasion of France

Don't know Y I watched this but good vid thanks

Without the support of mafia never the americans can invaded sicily.

Don Calo's words have the Power...

the army who didnt arrive in time pissed me off

I wonder how many Italian American soldiers found relatives who stayed behind in Italy

My grandfathers uncle was in the American slicy he died in slicy and got ww2 metel

One troop squadron conquered, three islands rewatch you watch the video to see

how do you make these videos?

Ike regretted not flanking the retreating Axis by invading the toe of Italy too. would have trapped many divisions they had to later face the next 2 years.

@aaroncabatingan5238

9 ай бұрын

Planning amphibious invasions is not a simple task. Ike may wish to have an amphibious invasion of Calabria, but that doesn't mean that it's possible.

@capitan_gorgonzolazola

8 ай бұрын

With what logistics??? Had anything gone wrong it would make worse than Dunkirk

Once siciliy and.italy fell, it was game over

🔥

America got there first, baby! Go Patton!

how do you make the animation in high quality?

WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER! -Winston Churchill

Hot summer for Allies.

Wow 😮

How did you do this

It’s Basically The First Punic War, But Opposite

How do you do this

from where these numbers come from?

My Grandpa fought in this exact war he also tells me and my brother how he spotted a German looking for his helmet after he got blinded from a flash grenade and he then helped the German find his helmet then he gave the German a piece of the leftover bread he had and they became friends even tho they were enemies unfortunately the German died in 2017 after having a stroke

@Abovepinic

4 ай бұрын

Btw he also told us how the German told him they Forced him to join the army

Let goooo

First also love your work ❤

Allied planners included the 1st Canadian Infantry Division and the 1st Canadian Army Tank Brigade in the initial assault force, a total of 26,000 troops including supporting arms and ancillary units. Please update your unit flags to represent Canada. We are not British and fought under our own banner after Dieppe.

Every time I hear Churchill's voice I have goosebumps and tears almost start to fall

@diverman1023

3 ай бұрын

The problem is that this recording was from 1940, so it's not really appropriate for this battle

@Khan-up2uz

3 ай бұрын

He wasn’t a good leader

@Bonk_RN

2 ай бұрын

@@Khan-up2uz led the british through the majority of ww2 and still managed to maintain the country after the war🤷

@alaeus2310

Ай бұрын

@@Bonk_RN He was voted out of office the literal second the war in europe was won, just saying.

Well Patton was incredible

@Haryad-11

9 ай бұрын

He was racist and committed many war crimes in Italy

@redaug4212

9 ай бұрын

@@Haryad-11 >"A LE RACIST PERSON IN 1943?! AHHHH I'M GOING INSANE!"

@lightfootpathfinder8218

9 ай бұрын

You do realize Patton wasn't in command of the invasion?. The allied 15th army group was commanded by British General Harold Alexander and half of the Allied forces in Sicily were the British eight army.

@ganod1220

9 ай бұрын

@@lightfootpathfinder8218 yea but he doesn't command 15th he command 7th army united states

@lightfootpathfinder8218

9 ай бұрын

@@ganod1220 the allied 15th army group consists of the US 7th army and the British 8th army. The overall commander was General Harold Alexander

Why did they attack the places where the troops were? It would be easier to land where there is no one

Missing are the Canadian Flags. The Canadians were also there .

@t.paquet264

9 ай бұрын

My father was a Major with the PPCLI . Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. He got injured in the city of Leonforte .

@Free_Bobux-1988

9 ай бұрын

The Canadians Were a Commonwealth of Britain So it Will Make Sense For Them To Be part of The British Flag

@MaskofAgamemnon

9 ай бұрын

@@Free_Bobux-1988 No, it doesn't - they didn't fight under the Union Jack - NOT EVEN IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR

@Free_Bobux-1988

9 ай бұрын

@@MaskofAgamemnon Oh Really?! Hm Ok So I Guess he Really Forgotten About The Canadians

@rockylps9999

Ай бұрын

The Canadians kicked a lot of asses. Both of my grandfathers fought in Italy and absolutely loved the Maple Boys.

Vito Scaletto was there😂

I read the title as Alien invasion of Sicily.

0:24 imagine if the allies do another naval in their back and close the connection hoi4 players probably understand what I am talking about

I didn't knew im this early till i look commentes

Is that USA is different? At the down corner, USA have some kind of flag and I think is super USA and British?

Once again Canada gets left out

Brazil: bruh

@semideias8971

9 ай бұрын

?

@user-fj7yk2lf3e

9 ай бұрын

​@@semideias8971what he meant is that brazil also help in the invasion of Sicily

@semideias8971

9 ай бұрын

O Brasil não participou da invasão da Sicilia

@user-fj7yk2lf3e

9 ай бұрын

@@semideias8971 brazil DID participate in the invasion of Sicily you really don't know history at all I suggest you focus more on your education

@redaug4212

9 ай бұрын

Brazilians did not participate in the invasion of Sicily. The FEB didn't arrive in Europe until mid-1944, well after Sicily was liberated.

Pls do Syrian civil war

I live in the USA and the UK

Can you do turkish war of independence next

I don't know if you know, but the Brazilians also invaded ItalyItaly

Terms for Germany was unconditional surrender where we in Afghanistan well

how do you do battles on google maps?

@Free_Bobux-1988

9 ай бұрын

Probably He Screenshots The Maps Then He Edits Them

App name not google earth like how do you do the thing he’s doing on google earth

Where is french troops

My dumbass read allies as aliens and just went W H A T .

i had a great grandpa who used to tell me hes childhood of him running away with hes family killed by the nazi Bombing in everyway as possible but he told me that some american person helped him out of the tunnel where he went to hide from the nazi but the one that helped him died because it was stucked after the tunnel collapsed and he was the survivor of the tunnel but idk maybe he became a soldier one day?

How to make this?im need pls say

were like bacteria taking over a petri dish

Rest in peace those Brave men and women. British, American, Russian etc who stopped the Nazis

Canada: why am I Not in the ww2 videos you make I HELP!

@martynnotman3467

9 ай бұрын

Canada is a myth. Like the Yeti or Loch Ness monster..

How do you do this on google earth

What is the black mark on throes flags

@MRB91542

3 ай бұрын

Its either the tanks or artillery

How to make battles in google earth plsssss tell me plssss

And Campaign of Lorraine ?

RAGUSA GONNA BE DESTROYED

USA: i eat spam😊 GER:

adolf,s voice is so funny🤣

Glad to see the Canadian 1st Division is shown as British /s

@showsjohn

9 ай бұрын

They routinely take credit for the actions of the commonwealth and their colonized nations

@IamProcool

9 ай бұрын

they should credit all countries

@kravic5003

9 ай бұрын

Canadians are british

@hughledger7835

9 ай бұрын

@kravic5003 No we are not.

@Englishman-_-Mongolia2022

9 ай бұрын

Media talking about WW2 is always American dominated

There is an error the mafia's flag is missing those cowards made a huge contribution

They forgot the Brazilian army fighting with Britain and USA