Black Baron: The Fall Of The Legendary WW2 Tank Ace | Battlefield Mysteries | War Stories

Unravel the mystery surrounding the demise of Germany's highest-scoring Panzer ace, Michael Wittmann, known as the Black Baron. Explore the 1944 Normandy battlefield where Wittmann met his fate, and join the investigation into who really took down the legendary tank commander. Was it the British, a Typhoon aircraft, or the Canadians? Delve into historical evidence, battlefield analysis, and eyewitness accounts to piece together the events leading to the fall of the Black Baron.
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  • @davidroberts5577
    @davidroberts55774 ай бұрын

    Excellent documentary, i agree with the gentleman's statement at the end : "anyone invades another country is a criminal".

  • @marewanmahmod1190

    @marewanmahmod1190

    4 ай бұрын

    Yes thanks !!! I thenk God Solder dont ✨️🐾🎲 have youer Mental!!! War dont have Moral ☠️🥀🥀

  • @RockyFear123

    @RockyFear123

    3 ай бұрын

    And I'm glad we don't all have your intellectual capacity or your grammar

  • @robertdelacruz2951
    @robertdelacruz29514 ай бұрын

    I've seen this one before. I'll watch again, it's a very good documentary.

  • @brockbeckstedt6483
    @brockbeckstedt64834 ай бұрын

    Wittman, the Farmer boy grew up farmering the land in Germany and died on a farm field in another country, ironic.

  • @CameronMcCreary
    @CameronMcCreary4 ай бұрын

    All this because of one man. People need to think for themselves and not for others.

  • @Switcharoo12
    @Switcharoo124 ай бұрын

    The blur out of getting a little out of hand.

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy14 ай бұрын

    his tiger failed him

  • @froot6086

    @froot6086

    4 ай бұрын

    No, a 76mm shell penned his turret and failed him. He wasn’t gonna survive that in any armored vehicle

  • @DAVELAD101

    @DAVELAD101

    4 ай бұрын

    No he actually turned his tiger into a monster the dude had so many confirmed kills it’s outrageous

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid35874 ай бұрын

    It was a third time I saw this wonderful episode about infamous Black Baron.... Thank you for sharing

  • @daveybyrden3936

    @daveybyrden3936

    4 ай бұрын

    He was not called "Black Baron". And why would he be, anyway? Since he wasn't a baron.

  • @Puppy_Puppington
    @Puppy_Puppington4 ай бұрын

    lol. The disdain that French old man had for the “stupid” British “accident” at the chateau

  • @ronaldringler1497
    @ronaldringler14973 ай бұрын

    Fascinating. A brave and skillful soldier, enemy or not.

  • @anonymousperson8487
    @anonymousperson84874 ай бұрын

    Seen this a few times

  • @TheOsfania
    @TheOsfania4 ай бұрын

    1:23 nice po-po

  • @stargazer5784
    @stargazer57844 ай бұрын

    Having a tank that totally out classed the allies gave him a good record. He wasn't necessarily brilliant, just aggressive.

  • @froot6086

    @froot6086

    4 ай бұрын

    Being a tank ace doesn’t just happen from being aggressive.

  • @stargazer5784

    @stargazer5784

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@froot6086Sorry, had to step away for a while. At the end of the day, being in a tank that was no longer superior to the enemy took him out. Had he faced an equally equipped adversary from the onset of the war, we would likely have never heard of him. Imho.

  • @opinionatedpossum1945

    @opinionatedpossum1945

    4 ай бұрын

    @@stargazer5784 Perfectly said. Whether we're talking air aces or tank aces, nobody ever became a high-scorer in an inferior machine. Superior machines go a long way to making aces.

  • @froot6086
    @froot60864 ай бұрын

    Why are y’all uploading footage in a documentary then blurring it out……

  • @jh2309
    @jh23094 ай бұрын

    Just a thought here but was the field ever checked for land mines? I wonder if there was a few of them possibly in the ground and if so could that how taken Whitman’s Tiger out. They were famous for being knocked by mines.

  • @RebelScum1996
    @RebelScum19964 ай бұрын

    He caught for the bad guys. Remember that. (Bad guy)

  • @blackhawkorg
    @blackhawkorg4 ай бұрын

    At that distance I highly doubt the Firefly tank could take out one Tiger let alone 4. Bombs, rockets (?) or land mines.

  • @marewanmahmod1190
    @marewanmahmod11904 ай бұрын

    He is go same Champiun in 2 World war Wittman ✍️👑👑👑☀️☀️☀️

  • @billballbuster7186
    @billballbuster71864 ай бұрын

    There is no mystery if you do the research. The battle were Wittman was killed is recorded in the War Diary (day to day military record) of the 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry. Three Tiger tanks were observed at 12;47 and destroyed by Sgt Brown's Sherman Firefly by gunner Joe Ekins, in 12 minutes. The turret numbers were recorded as 312, 007 and 314, Wittmanns tank was 007 on that day. In contrast the Canadian account is completely undocumented and is based largly on speculation made by Brian Reid when he visited the site in 2005. There are discrepancies in the Canadian account, Reid claimed the British tanks were 1,200 to 1,300 meters away, where as the War Diary states 800 to 1,100 meters. Reid has no proof where the Sherbrooke Fusillers were located or the time of the engagement?

  • @michaelkenny8540

    @michaelkenny8540

    4 ай бұрын

    The Canadian Regiments War Diary was destroyed when the vehicle carrying it was destroyed.

  • @billballbuster7186

    @billballbuster7186

    4 ай бұрын

    @@michaelkenny8540 Yes, the Canadian Sherbrooke Fusiliers lost their war diary. Confirming that the only documented account of the battle is the British one. The video is based on Brian Reid's speculative investigation in 2005. Reid's account has many discrepancies with the earlier British / French one in 1985. 1. The Canadians are not mentioned in the British war diary, though they overlooked the position Reid claimed they were. 2. The British only reported 3 Tigers in the field, all destroyed by Ekins, not 7 stated by the Canadians. 3. The wreaks are marked in different locations 1985 to 2005. 4. The presenter clearly says says "I thought that according to the map Wittmann's Tiger was 450 meters further up the slope" making it near the location of Ekins second kill?

  • @michaelkenny8540

    @michaelkenny8540

    4 ай бұрын

    @@billballbuster7186 I don't really care who 'gets the credit' as it's not important. I have some of of Boardmans' 1994 replies to letters asking who was where and when on that day in the earliest attempts to work out who was the most likely to have hit which Tiger and a transcript of Radley-Walters interviews with Reid for his book. Radley-Walters is convinced he knocked out 2 Panthers from Lehr and captured an Officer from the division. He remembers telling Meyer about this officer only to be told Lehr were not in the area. Radley-walters says he did hit two Lehr Panthers and take a POW!

  • @USAACbrat
    @USAACbrat4 ай бұрын

    87 stories about 1 guy need another one?

  • @Switcharoo12

    @Switcharoo12

    4 ай бұрын

    I second that

  • @marewanmahmod1190

    @marewanmahmod1190

    4 ай бұрын

    Perfekt koment thanks 🎶🎶✍️

  • @nguyennguyenkennobi9029
    @nguyennguyenkennobi90294 ай бұрын

    In the war many hero and criminal.

  • @ryleeculla5570
    @ryleeculla55704 ай бұрын

    Heavy panzer battalions and panzer divisions share kills Whitman possibly took all the credit and also their are more legendary tank aces that have been left to dust cause of some kill rate and propaganda faces

  • @user-ko5bk9xe3r
    @user-ko5bk9xe3r4 ай бұрын

    I call BS on the tanks killing MW, I think it more than likely he was hit from a fighter/bomber 🤔

  • @DAVELAD101
    @DAVELAD1014 ай бұрын

    The Canadians got him WITH the help of the pommies Simple :)

  • @billballbuster7186

    @billballbuster7186

    4 ай бұрын

    No, this video is an old one and it has many errors. It does not mention that the entire battle was recorded in the 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry war diary. The three tanks Ekins destroyed were turret numbers 312, 314 and 007, the last one being Wittmanns. The British account written at the time of the battle only mentions 3 Tigers in the field and makes no mention of the Canadian Sherbrooke Fusiliers being near by? The Canadian account is purely speculation, no documentation or proof.

  • @givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

    @givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

    4 ай бұрын

    You cannot just blindly accept every speculative video as being 'the new truth'.

  • @billballbuster7186

    @billballbuster7186

    4 ай бұрын

    @@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Exactly, Brian Reid stirred up the whole controversy to sell his book.

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