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@stevenclark8225

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@dudududu1926

Жыл бұрын

Forgot this game existed.

@Greatwealthgentleman

Жыл бұрын

Great game

@CBB-dg9jy

Жыл бұрын

@@dudududu1926 I've been playing for almost a year, this is what I asked for in BFV but didn't get.

@dudududu1926

Жыл бұрын

@@CBB-dg9jy You asked for predatory monetization?

"His artillery support would never come". Glad to hear some things never change.

@edmondlau511

Жыл бұрын

FDC was probably too busy playing cards and smoking cigarettes

@jacksoncross9265

Жыл бұрын

yeah, but with a force 4% the size i dont think he needed it

@RobinTheBot

Жыл бұрын

Knowing the entire offensive could have been stopped with some less cowardly tankers and some less useless artillerymen is frustrating. Like... Why do they think the Germans are not likely to try a desperate breakthrough? Obviously they would...

@arts6821

Жыл бұрын

Probably the worse feeling during combat, asking for help but being denied it and knowing without it you’re going to probably die.

@edmondlau511

Жыл бұрын

@@arts6821 when the final approval has to be from a guy in a TOC miles away from the fight, that’s what happens.

The level of effort and the rate of posting this channel has given in the last month is like shit a full blown established docu studio couldn’t do themselves. Incredible

@LaurensPP

Жыл бұрын

Well, the visuals are extremely basic and do not even come close to representing how it happened. This was reasonably fitting for the Battle of Mogadishu, but for the Battle for the Bulge or Iwo Jima it frankly does not make too much sense. I still enjoy it though.

@More_Row

Жыл бұрын

@@LaurensPP that's not a fair comment. While "basic" it's way more than what you usually get with coverage of the battle of the bulge. Would like to see you make something like this less "basic" . And still watchable. Basically, get a life.

@christiangallien3730

Жыл бұрын

Both of you guys should chill

@LaurensPP

Жыл бұрын

@@More_Row For the strategic view/scale I think it's fine. For the tactical I find it a bit silly though.

@jpnarino

Жыл бұрын

@@LaurensPPhappening

Indy and TGA crew combined with the operations room is everything I’ve ever wanted.

@elektrotehnik94

Жыл бұрын

@jacobwaddell6075

Жыл бұрын

Big facts

@PripyatTourist

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm fan-girling over here myself! 🥳🥳🥳

@wlpxx7

Жыл бұрын

It's legendary. Such a solid vid

@hugh5698

Жыл бұрын

Would you please explain who Indy and the TGA crew are?

First Iowa Jima, and now the Battle of the Buldge. Plus you got Indy? Man this channel is killing it! Thank you for the top of the line content.

@extrahistory8956

Жыл бұрын

What's with the sudden burst of Iwo and Bulge content? First Jesse Alexander and the Real Time History team make videos on these and now this channel. Not to mention the crossovers, Indy, Jesse and Drach have all collaborated with each other before, and Jesse is Indy's successor in The Great War channel.

@crabmansteve6844

Жыл бұрын

Iowa Jima, the potatoes will never taste the same after that offensive.

@redswift31

Жыл бұрын

@@crabmansteve6844 Wrong state that's Idaho...

@lg-0297

Жыл бұрын

@@extrahistory8956 I think it’s because military history has sort of become “mainstream” since Russias invasion of Ukraine. The fact this has hundreds of thousands of views already proves that. There are FAR more credible history KZreadrs now than ever before. Add the fact that WW2 and it’s battles are always going to be talked about and you get a bunch of history channels covering the same topic. Which isn’t a bad thing at all. The people who made fun of me a year ago for always studying history are now watching these kinds of documentaries, themselves. More demand = more content.

@extrahistory8956

Жыл бұрын

@@lg-0297 Oh I ain't complaining at all. I'm extremely proud of what the history side of KZread has been able to achieve over the last few years.

I hope you all enjoyed Part 1, Part 2 is already out!

@candowe4926

Жыл бұрын

nice

@jamesknight1587

Жыл бұрын

Whoooooooo!

@charliedaood444

Жыл бұрын

Yoooo. hype

@CWallace268

Жыл бұрын

You are the 🐐

@adambutler3266

Жыл бұрын

Part One demolished, must secure part 2 at 7 😂

12:17 seeing all the flags pop up like that while the prisoners are slaughtered and have no where to go is pretty harrowing

@rameygardner4782

Жыл бұрын

Makes me angry

@Oscar-ds2vb

Жыл бұрын

should've stayed on your side of the atlantic.

@TOXICDUB1

Жыл бұрын

The US stopped taking prisoners after this aswell. War brings out the worst

@Tom_Cruise_Missile

Жыл бұрын

@@Oscar-ds2vb Germany got what it deserved in the end. Should've stayed in your own country.

@TheKsalad

Жыл бұрын

@@Oscar-ds2vb Germans still lost the war lmao, cry some more Fritz

The scene of the massacre was done well and was everything you described chilling and rage inducing

@Oscar-ds2vb

Жыл бұрын

lol

@guerillagorilla4423

Жыл бұрын

@@Oscar-ds2vb What?

@doncolor3473

Жыл бұрын

@@guerillagorilla4423 maybe he Like to point Out, that the "masacre" is questionable.

@Chuked

Жыл бұрын

@@doncolor3473 it was still a war crime, no point in attempting to say any different

@doncolor3473

Жыл бұрын

@@Chuked thats what i ment, ist is not so save that it was one. There is an interesting Doku about it called "Über Galgen wächst kein Gras". kzread.info/dash/bejne/imuszM6Ml8K1e9o.html Long thing short, the pow was Shot because some start running after Piper was leaving and told the pow to wait for the Infantry because he had not enough men to guard them. The following Infantry saw running soldier and Shoot. I don' t say that this Version is true , but at least questionable. Anyway , there were two more massacre that should be mentioned . The Wereth and Chenogne. Anyway, I don't want to reduce the Work of this Channel here but there are often more than one point of View 🙏🏻

Thank you for mentioning St Vith. Most documentaries are all like "the Bulge started on the 16th, the 106th got railroaded.....Bastogne!". The defenders that held the town for 6 days before being ordered out by Monty earned a Presidential Unit Citation. My grandfather escaped across the bridge at Vielsalm very early on the 24th as part of the last group out, Task force Jones. The 82nd Airborne blew the bridge soon after. Never forget!

@jackthorton10

Жыл бұрын

Never Give Up, Never Surrender! Airborne all the way!

@Shaboomquisa

Жыл бұрын

my great great uncle was general sink of the 506. then col sink

@SantaClaus-kk8zr

Жыл бұрын

Dunno if you'll see this but my great grandfather, rest his soul, was in the 82nd. He fought his way through Normandy, Market Garden, and then served in a multitude of places including Bastogne briefly. He never spoke much of it though, but I do wonder if he was a part of that in some way. All I have of him now is his pump shotgun from when he hunted, and a handful of photos.

@justonemori

Жыл бұрын

@@L_Train I'll be sure to read that. My current favorite book is "Loss and Redemption at St Vith" by Gregory Fontenot. He has a couple long discussions here on youtube about the book, good stuff.

@L_Train

Жыл бұрын

@@justonemori cool I just looked him up and realized that I've listened to a couple of his talks on desert storm. Didn't know he wrote a book I might have to check it out.

"Let them come" Man, Bradley really ate his own words there

@jordansamson6071

Жыл бұрын

History shall remember him was being a tremendous ass.

@Jagonath

Жыл бұрын

Well I mean technically he was right. But you're certainly more right than he was.

Hearing the Panzer 4 Ausf. H's side skirts actually be effective against HEAT warheads when they were designed against AT rifles is actually amazing. Never heard of this encounter before.

@nyssfairchild2244

Жыл бұрын

It's effectively spaced armor. Additionally the rockets seemed to be coming in at a rather steep angle, so there's also that. Either way, it's interesting how despite not being designed for it, they worked regardless.

@scarsofhonor6333

Жыл бұрын

Every little helps with armor, a glancing hit to a helmet is better than a glancing hit to the skull, even if it was designed for shrapnel.

@jackthorton10

Жыл бұрын

Better you are protected, Better Chance for you to shrug off the hits, and return fire

@calebr908

Жыл бұрын

Ya it cant penetrate unless the angle is good and the contact is a specific distance from the armor. Thats why people use things like slat armor etc.

@steved5495

Жыл бұрын

If the rocket is coming in straight enough, the side skirts actually improve the penetration, because stand-off distance wasn't understood at the time. It also depends whether the rockets had the pointed nose or the rounded one. The former had a greater chance to slide off where the latter would detonate.

I love how this goes all the way from strategic to tactical overview. From whole countries and armies, to single soldiers, buildings, vehicles and foxholes.

The Indy Neidell collaboration was unexpected lol

@alitlweird

Жыл бұрын

They did that on purpose! 🤘😆🤘 *EasterEgg!!*

@failtolawl

Жыл бұрын

Yea almost ruined the whole video, luckily he didn't have much to say

@icygaming20

Жыл бұрын

@@failtolawl wtf, indy is awesome

@camg6400

Жыл бұрын

@@failtolawl Bah! Indy is the best, you are the worst my friend

@failtolawl

Жыл бұрын

@@camg6400 yes I'm well aware his internet persona is so enticing to many

"We are paratroopers Lieutenant, we are supposed to be surrounded." - Captain Winters.

@maryholder3795

2 күн бұрын

Love that comment by Captain Winters, it was spot on.

My grandfather, Leon Wikoff, was in the battle of the bulge near the Ardennes. He spent 3 days hiding in a wine cellar with his squad surrounded by Germans. It's amazing to see this battle in such detail.

@quaygrass6212

Жыл бұрын

Oh, you‘re not bsing. He died in 2003?

@teller1290

Жыл бұрын

My late uncle was cut off with one squad mate for several days. My uncle, big outdoorsman, killed a dear with M-1 finally to eat, despite risk. No one knew where they were for sure in the chaos. They were almost killed early on due signalling to "an American tank" by waiving something overhead from a distance. But the tank column was German and long-range m.g. cracked overhead in the branches! They successfully fled and his until somehow hearing or spitting U.S. forces.

@visassess8607

Жыл бұрын

With a name like that I thought you were gonna say he fought for Germany

@cd5927

Жыл бұрын

@@visassess8607 Nope, Wikoff is Danish, not German. Plus he was an American born citizen at that point.

@cd5927

Жыл бұрын

@@quaygrass6212 More like 1993. I was too young when he died to remember having met him.

Great video and thanks. Cliff Claven Trivia: "Bulge" was the only offensive were the Germans did not use Enigma in both the prep and offensive. Because of this, Allied CMD wrongly assumed that the Germans had discovered their ability to decode and therefore the Allies stopped using it for the remainder of the war.

@sjonnieplayfull5859

Жыл бұрын

*Enigma. Ultra was the code breaking effort

@mathewm7136

Жыл бұрын

@@sjonnieplayfull5859 Thank you. Correction made. As to why Enigma wasn't used for the Bulge has never been factually determined. But many theorize that: As OKH would broadcast all Enigma messages on the same freq for all military forces (minus naval), army cdr's would often use it to monitor the orders for neighboring commands. Therefore (as the theory goes), AH and OKH feared that by using Enigma, the Eastern commanders would have discovered the massing of men, armor and logistics in the West while they were fighting just to survive each day on the Eastern front (quote "Crosses of Iron" heroism was now an everyday occurrence for most.) and would have, at minimum "Blown a flippin' head gasket" or, at worse, just capitulated. So OKH used landlines and direct curriers to coordinate.

@jimrobinette1036

Жыл бұрын

Didn’t need to as necessary commo was all via courier for plans transmission and realtime coordination was via landlines within Germany itself.

10:30 One of the most understated strengths of the allies, specifically the US- logistics. To be able to react that quickly and move that much men/material to the front is incredible.

@SStoj

Жыл бұрын

Or the opposite Soviet feat of moving all the men/material away from the front.

@hobojakobo

Жыл бұрын

@@SStoj absolutely. The Soviets were successfully moving entire factories hundreds of miles to avoid the German advance. Pretty amazing.

@lyndoncmp5751

11 ай бұрын

The Germans also reacted very quickly to Market Garden. Nearly all of the German armour that fought in Market Garden wasn't even in the Netherlands when the paras were dropped. These armoured units were quickly sent in from Germany, in some cases over 200km away such as the Tigers of Kompanie Hummel in Beielefeld and 400km away such as the King Tigers of Abteilung 506 in Ohrdruf.

@looinrims

8 ай бұрын

Literally everyone talks about it, what do you mean ‘understated’

@goxyeagle8446

Ай бұрын

US lost 80,000 men during German counteroffensive, weak Germany after 5 years of fighting

Earnest Hemingway’s account at the end describes the situation perfectly. My grandpa was an MP and said they went through every non combat unit and picked every other man for 4 weeks of infantry training and they were sent up as reinforcements. The morning he was waiting to move up to the front a LT pulled up and pulled him for traffic duty behind the lines. He said he never knew why he was spared, but that he thanked god.

The actor Charles Durning was among the few that survived the Malmedy massacre and carried a fellow wounded soldier to safety. He recived a Silver star for his action in the war

The bit about Ernest Hemingway packing a Thompson to return to the front made me laugh so hard. Randy Feltface gave a very fast, short, and summed up biography of his life in one of his shows and that just fits right into it. What a gigachad.

The recent uptick in videos both in quantity and quality have been astounding, hats off to the whole team behind these productions!

Fun fact, the schürzen on the Panzer IV were initially not designed to protect against shaped charges but against anti tank rifles. That they offered protection against bazooka and the likes was a welcomed side effect

@gotanon9659

Жыл бұрын

They did not offer protection against bazooka it actually helped the bazooka penetrate better much to the shock of the germans.

Indy showing up put a huge smile on my face. What an amazing collaboration! Thank you for that

I'm an old geezer now, (67 before this month is out), and I've been fascinated with WW2 history since I was a kid. This video is great, and the way the facts are presented make my history loving soul, tingle. Thank you! I worked at a major telephone company and while doing so one of my co-workers turned out to be the son of the top Seargent in the entire 101st Airborne during the war. He told me some of the things his dad had told him about being surounded in Bastonge. My co-worker was named after General Marshall, head of the then version of the Joint Chief's of Staff.

12:30 The mountain of flags is somehow tame and respectful as a sign of death but just horrifying to see so many

First Drachinifel and now Indy Neidell, man keep those collabs coming!

@TheOperationsRoom

Жыл бұрын

More to come :)

The Battle of the Bulge, this is going to be an amazing one!! Keep up the top quality work guys!!

@oasis1282

Жыл бұрын

Very true

The realistic map and topography is a huge step up in quality and really adds to the viewing experience. Good work!

@collaborativelearning1

Жыл бұрын

My sentiments exactly, thank you!

If you havent seen Band of Brothers I seriously urge you to see it. Its a HBO production, 10 episode series covering the 101st Airborne's Easy Companies involvement. Including their involvement of the battle of the bulge. I can't give it enough praise, By far and away the best series or film alike I've ever seen. IMDB has given it a 9.4/10. For one I agree entirely.

@lyndoncmp5751

11 ай бұрын

Its overrated. Id rather watch Frasier.

@user-wt9qr1zj1e

7 ай бұрын

Ending is boring. Like last 2 episodes are about a car accident. But it is peak ww2 film

@justandy333

7 ай бұрын

@@user-wt9qr1zj1e I agree, it just fizzled out at the end. But that's how it happened. Many soldiers were stuck in Germany as an occupying force with nothing much to do and couldn't go home because they didn't have the points required. You say boring, I say realistic.

@danando2

6 ай бұрын

​@@lyndoncmp5751it's overrated , I rather watch big bang theory

@lyndoncmp5751

5 ай бұрын

@@danando2 Only children watch Big Bang Theory.

I can't wait for Patton's 90 degrees wheel offense to rescue the 101st Airborne guys at Bastogne, although those Paras didn't need any rescuing.

There is a book I read about Lt. Bouch's platoon called "The Longest Winter". If you found it unbelievable that none of the 18 men died in that outnumbered fight, get this: all 18 of them lived through brutal POW conditions to the end of the war. The details of the book are great too, I believe there were first hand accounts from the Germans who were there who were astonished at the Americans tenacity and marksmanship. They definitely thought they were engaging a much larger force!

@L_Train

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I just posted about this book all over this comments section. The audiobook is actually on KZread if you search for it. The Longest Winter by Alex Kershaw

This battle put the slogan *We are airborne , we meant tobe surrounded* to reality

@Luis-be9mi

Жыл бұрын

“We’re paratroopers lieutenant, we’re supposed to be surrounded” - Dick Winters Band of Brothers Or my personal favorites when I was in the 101st: “If we’re not surrounded that means we missdropped.” Or “We’re paratroopers, we ain’t happy until we’re surrounded!”

@bolobalaman

Жыл бұрын

@@Luis-be9mi That’s awesome. The line i heard was actually a airborne unit line whenever you click on them in Company of Heroes lol

I did not expect to hear Indy here, this is a crossover we needed

Yes!!!! You mentioned the most important Unit in HISTORY!!!! So Proud of LeBouck and his original RECON Platoon, defending thatr ridge forever@!!!! True heroes

The work you guys put in is insane! Great work

I am enthralled already in the first minute. How you put this together not only with facts and entertainment is beyond me. Please keep up the good work.

@bossaudio12

Жыл бұрын

First minute is an ad

@Roberto-tu5re

Жыл бұрын

@@bossaudio12 Correct maybe I should have dumbed it down for you to the definition of the first minute of the actual video.

My great uncle Granville H Brewer was in the 393rd 99th Infantry Div. He was killed in action on Dec 27, 1944 in the Battle of the Bulge a long way from home in Eastern Kentucky.

It's a story I've heard so many times, but feels so dramatic watching you narrate all the pieces. Thanks again.

My 2 favorite WW2 channels working together is just amazing! The Operations Room Channel has been skyrocketing up the list of historical war channels because of how great it is!

Your recent mini series focusing on individual actions has been above and beyond! Excellent detailed narrative and illustrations. Absolutely top quality!

Really fantastic stuff. These animations really explain things in a way that words just rarely can.

My man Indy showing up to narrate, I couldn't believe my ears. I'm so thankful that he explained The Great War so well to me and is here now.

Always great content. But having Indy narrate some of it, and having Drach do part of the Iwo videos we’re gravy. Thank you as always!

The quality of understanding in your videos is going exponential! Thanks for the hard work!

Hell yeah bringing Indy over for this was awesome

Great visuals and having Indy do a cameo was awesome. Love your channel

Indy from Time Ghost is voicing some of this! Awesome!

I’m glad people like this take the time to chronicle these events. Very important.

My great grandfather fought in this battle. Thank you for taking a close look at it and sharing this story.

This and the iwo Jima series are fantastic. I have always loved your videos but this is on a whole 'nother level. Amazing job!

Superb animated re-telling of a part of this operation that not a lot of of people had heard about. Looking forward to part 2.👍

@TheOperationsRoom

Жыл бұрын

Part 2 is already out 🙂

Love to listen to this while I work. Thank you for your amazing effort and shout out to Indy for his amazing presence in the military history community.

Beautiful animations and bloody awesome collaborations. Thank you!

Wow this is EXCELLENT! Thank you Ops Room for your first rate production, visuals and storytelling.

I very much appreciate your correct pronunciation of place names. Publishing part 2 quickly adds to the feeling of urgency of the Allied response. 👍🏻❤️🇦🇺

Really nice effect with the larger overview map zooming and filling in to the individual battlefield maps

I love these guys! I really hope you get an award for all this incredible content.

Indy!!! Omg 😲 my two favorite channels just casually collaborated?!?!

Possibly the best (quality, production, research) effort yet. YOU NEED A MILLION SUBS!. THANK YOU

You guys are the best. I hope eventually you guys move into covering ancient battles and wars with this level of production. Channels like this are why I love history.

NICE collaboration! This is how I wish I learned about these battles in school.

Last time I heard someone reference Hemingway it was in a boring manner. Now I find out he strapped up a Tommy gun and ran to the Ardennes to be on the frontline for the Battle of the Bulge. He's a cooler dude than I thought.

Man you are the freaking best. The animations,informations,description, narration.. everything is well done. My favorite history channel

Thanks for creating this. I especially appreciated the animated maps to accompany your narrative.

Hell yeah, Im so excited for this series.

One of the most underrated things about this channel, is the music in the backround

You guys are so damn good. Absolutely top notch work!

Operations Room you are dropping heat after heat! 🙌🏼 Please keep these videos coming 😁

These are top tier content on KZread

the transition between strategic and tactical map looks awesome! well done

These animations give me a lot of nostalgia for the Close Combat Series. Especially for the Battle Of The Bulge addition. Excellent work as always!

One mans gut feeling could have been one of the only things that kept the bulge from being a breakout

@scottgiles7546

Жыл бұрын

Might to have something to do with why he was named Supreme Allied Commander.

@kassthered8452

Жыл бұрын

Nah the germans were running out of fuel with or without Patton. They would never get even close to their goals either way...

@chardaskie

Жыл бұрын

@@kassthered8452 Ah yes the master historian KassTheRed he knows for sure what happened and would've happened

@guerillagorilla4423

Жыл бұрын

@@chardaskie Yes. Haven't you heard about him before?

ugh i didnt want this to end! GOING TO PART 2!!!!

Another amazing piece of content. After the previous series I'm already looking forward to watch this one. Such level of detail! And to have Indy Neidell as a guest narrator was a nice little bonus. Keep up this great and inspiring work!

Thanks for all you do to educate us on these amazing historical events!

One of the key points of this battle was the resistance of the engineers at Trois Ponts. This stopped kampfgruppe Piper's advance in its tracks.

@jackthorton10

Жыл бұрын

Engineers… Defenders with not guns but tools, a scary thought considering they know how to wreck just about every bit of infrastructure, bridge or not with just few well placed explosives

@georgesakellaropoulos8162

Жыл бұрын

@@jackthorton10 If I remember correctly, they had two 57mm antitank guns and a bazooka, plus some mines that they used to very good effect.

@jackthorton10

Жыл бұрын

@@georgesakellaropoulos8162 Nothing more fearful than a band of men with a bit of luck, the tools of the trade, and a determined grit to send the enemy a proper wake up call that they are no longer in the right

My grandpa was in the 106th and was actually shot in the face as they were evacuating from their original positions. Walked it off like a champ tho 👍🏼

@antloveforever2972

Жыл бұрын

The grandpa of my friend was shot in the head and survived too, he was fighting in the Blue Division on the eastern front (Im from Spain)

I’m loving these series! Great work 🎉

It's cool to hear that you're so much help. I really love your channel and I'm excited to see what you all do with it. :D I can't wait for more Operations Room

Will you ever do a video on the behind-the-scenes of these documentaries? Everything is very well researched, and I would love to gain some perspective on how much effort is put into each one.

@contrapasta2454

Жыл бұрын

He has a secondary channel, The Intel Report.

Really great to hear Bastogne pronbounced correctly, unlike in "Band of Brothers", "Battle of the Bulge", and other American films. Well done.

@specialopssoldier1

Жыл бұрын

who cares? let people say it however they want karen

@JunHector

Жыл бұрын

@@specialopssoldier1 What are you even on about?

@muadddib

3 ай бұрын

I always thought its just more a reality that most soldiers did neither speak french nor german, hence they pronounced it the way that made sense to them. And even if you knew better, it would probably have been better to just stick to the name everyone could understand.

@Demun1649

3 ай бұрын

@@specialopssoldier1 `You Trumpanzee cult-worshipping Servants of Satan are a breed apart. Left behind by the pre-Neanderthal.

@Demun1649

3 ай бұрын

@@muadddib Yup, the constant cry of the under-educated, particularly that strange place between civilised Canada, and civilised Mexico.

Great job depicting the scale of this battle. Massive!!! Love the channel and everything ya post!

Indy!! I love seeing some of my favorite history channels collaborating! Makes already great content even better!

Guys, smacking it out of the park with number of uploads, thanks so much for your time, effort and passion. Big love

Funny how much weight is given to the Malmedy Massacre when a near identical massacre was carried out at Chenogne by the US 11th Armored Division, and yet not a single person was even reprimanded for it.

@lanceamadantebonife3987

9 ай бұрын

well it might be because at that time it was considered retaliation for the malmedy massacre

Great work. I was also riveted to your coverage of the Iwo Jima operation and the Battle of Midway. Most effective use of media.

Seeing battles I’ve read about in detail from this point of view just adds so much to my understanding

My great uncle was at the Battle of the Bulge. He was separated from his squad about 30 minutes into the attack and had to hide for a few minutes in a half frozen pond to escape detection from a German squad that was in the area

I am glad that you mentioned that some of the american soldiers had been in the hurtgen forest[what a blood bath that was]....as a Brit , i was kinda contemptuous of the american effort here..believing most units pretty much incompetent....its only abit older when i started to read books about the battle...that i learn[particularly after reading books about the battles around hurtgen forest] that some of the divisions that had been hurled into that battle, been decimated hurled into german defences with in many cases , massive losses and several morale loss and then had been moved to a "quieter area" of the front, and most of their considerable losses had been made up[in some cases] with green recruits.....when this onslaught had been unleashed upon them...its always worth a deeper look before you condemn a fighting force to more accurately understand the stresses and strains upon them

Love the visuals. I’ve been to all these locations when I was stationed in Europe. Great way to visualize the details of what happened in the battle. Highly recommend visiting these places. Great channel.

Both of my grandfathers were in the Battle of the Bulge, Big Red One and 3rd AD. It's crazy they both survived, although one took shrapnel and got to go home with a purple heart. God bless every soul who fought in the ardennes.

Again (after the Iwa Jima episodes last week) our American friends fight tenaciously against massed enemy forces I'd say the massacre of the 285th POWs to my mind absolutely changed the mindset of the American forces. The Americans were never going to surrender after that. No matter what. The resolve of the Americans very clear

I absolutely love your work! But I would love to see some time and date in the video as sometimes it is hard to follow how long an offensive takes.

Thank you for excellent detailed video of Battle of the Buldge. A great synopsis. Such sacrifices!!! I'm recommending to others.

I was so excited about this when it was announced, and now that I have seen the first episode, all I can say is WOW! Your attention to detail is incredible. I can not wait to see this series, as well as your companion series on The Intel Report. (Such a great idea to come up with that sister channel to drive more in-depth analysis!)

My grandfather was part of the 28th infantry division. Although shot in both arms, he survived along with only 7 others of that division.

Seeing the warcrimes being committed was actually a shock

Well done! As a belgian living 30 miles from Bastogne i say thank you for your work.

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belgium is lost^^

This channel is amazing and just gets better and better, the Iwo Jima series was superb and I'm very excited for the battle of the bulge series

German Falliscrimjager units: We're gonna take that position. Lieutenant Lyle Duke: Yeah, no. Not today. US GI: LT! They outnumber us 22 to 1! Lieutenant Duke: Then it is an even fight!