My Great Grandfather fought on the Eastern Front. Fortunately for my family to come, he survived up until the complete collapse of the German war effort, and was captured by Americans. He came to the UK, and lived out the rest of his life until 1996. My Father said of him that: he never spoke of the war. He would've been 16-17 when he started to fight. We recognise that people of that age shouldn't drink, drive or vote, yet we're prepared to hold them responsible for their actions as a soldier? It feels immoral to me, especially if they're guilty by association and not outright acts of inhumanity.

@ThemoonsFullofgoons-qn9xl

13 күн бұрын

Honestly you speak to anyone with sense they’ll agree that not everyone who was a nazi was evil and not everyone in allies was a good guy

Oh baby an hour and half of pure DommytheGay goodness.

1:00:53 I'll never forget how well Ace Combat 4 did their story. It's all from the perspective of a kid who stuck around with the occupying enemy air force after his family got killed by a shot down fighter hitting their house. The enemies were all perfectly normal people. They treated him well and liked having him around. All the main antagonist wanted was a strong enemy to face. He was 100% the most loveable enemy in the series and I still hate having to shoot him down after like 20 years of playing the game.

@TheDarkWarrior137

9 ай бұрын

Beginning of the game: >

Great video

11:30 thank you. Eisenhower is a very underrated general in world history and one of the best presidents in American history. His leadership was essential to defeating the Axis powers.

31:00 fun fact about the balloon tanks, the army purchased them from the same company that made the balloons for the macys thanksgiving day parade

41:41 Right, there is a prime example of you should trust the expert in that field (stagg and not someone who isn't (the montgomery) when it comes to gathering specific information.

If you've never seen it I recommend the video of jeremy clarkson about the victoria cross or the st nazaire raid

The logistics and planning for D-Day was bat sh*t crazy. The invasion was one of the most complicated military things in the history of warfare. EDIT: Tommy is right. The real life footage in the video is really damn good.

@Reshiram32Zekrom23

Жыл бұрын

we know

@Trippyisop

11 күн бұрын

You sounded intelligent until you called it “the most complicated military thing” thing???

One and a half hour of pure joy

My family imagrated to America from Germany but my great great grandfather stayed and was a SS police officer in Warsaw. He was a pow and charged with crimes against humanity and hung. He did horrible things but they were brain washed. A very sad time in history.

@TN-zh8uh

Жыл бұрын

You should be proud of your heritage regardless of what history calls them. History is written by the victors.

@xate3131

Жыл бұрын

Although we are talking aboght Nazis however

@GriffithVA

Жыл бұрын

@@TN-zh8uh bro what

@jtpenn9169

Жыл бұрын

@@TN-zh8uh Huh?

@dingus6317

Жыл бұрын

@@TN-zh8uh He fought to the death for what he believed in and that is admirable.

1:06:40 what is the book called wich he has written?

This is the kind of shit that makes me glad my great great grandparents immigrated shortly after WW1 to the US. My great grandfather was a translator in his unit during WW2. Never spoke about the war, but my great grandfather in the eastern theater would tell me bed time stories about killing Japanese soldiers. I swear it was some shit out of Major Payne.

As a german, i felt the same way....

one of my mothers patients (shes a nurse) was captured during the raid and he made a book about it and gave it to me. I think his name was Jack Poolton

Both my Great grandfather's died in WW2 One was a stabbed at some beach apparently And the other was a Luftwaffle pilot and got shot down over Lyon 💀

Tommy should watch Generation War (German title is Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter). It's an honest depiction of the german side during WW2.

@buggle6118

Жыл бұрын

I don't think he can watch a full 4 ½ hours of German movie production on stream

@dingus6317

Жыл бұрын

@@buggle6118 Could watch it at like 30 mins-hour at a time across four streams

@radium6962

Ай бұрын

He has, he's talked about it in this very video, though he refers to it with its german name's English translation. "Our mothers, our fathers"

i cant wait for ghots army to finish D-day special

My great grandpa flew a glider in Italy

Coh 3 coming soon boys!

As a British person, I understand why you think we would have fought harder than France because Winston Churchill already had quite a bit of experience.

@justchangethenameyoutubegeez

Жыл бұрын

Fr, and it's not like in 1940 that the Brits fought HARDER than the French, they just had the English Channel between them and the Swastika. France mobilized over 3 million men to defend itself in 1940, while the Brits only sent their expeditionary force of around 500,000, which was was swallowed up, encircled, and forced to be relieved by sea almost instantly by the Germans.

@yougoslavia

Жыл бұрын

@@justchangethenameyoutubegeez It's a shame that France didn't see it coming.

@Sotsufferer

Жыл бұрын

@@justchangethenameyoutubegeezYeah but France was fighting for itself whilst Britain was fighting in a foreign country.

People overlook Britain in this error they were absolutely fundamental.

@brilobox2

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean *era*?

My grandma has tons of letters from the first and second world war

Interesting Ike smoked something like 2-3 packs of cigarettes a day. Don’t know how he did it.

This video is proof while the Canadians are probably the nicest people in the world but don't F with them. Their national sport is centered around extreme violence despite being the nicest people on the planet.

@ronmailloux8655

9 ай бұрын

Vimy Ortona Juno beach and Holland attest to your observation .

anyone watching on the 80th anniversary?

18:27 is that a Japanese MG?

@TheCookie69

Жыл бұрын

It looks like a Benet-Mercie to me.

@wesleys4507

Жыл бұрын

@@TheCookie69 could also be that. Might be similar

D-Day was only possible because the Soviets were drawing western German troops to the east constantly. The war wasn't solely won by anyone. But the Eastern Front and D-Day played a crucial role in Europe's liberation

@stuckingachahell

Жыл бұрын

didnt the allies only plan dday because Stalin asked for a new front in the west since the italy campaign stagnated?

twitch chat is so braindead

Don't get offended by german side WW2 Hollywood movie. Even the Brit complain Hollywood doesn't portray them adequately

I tried to count how many times Tommy paused within the first 10 minutes of the video. I quickly gave up.

@nubnubdubdeh

Жыл бұрын

what a weird thing to complain about

@rupertsmith5815

Жыл бұрын

So why not watch the original video ????? You’re here to see his point of view of it

@nubnubdubdeh

Жыл бұрын

@@rupertsmith5815 many people do this shut the fuck up

69th nice

Using ''german'' than tommykay for views

first

D-Day was kinda unimportant when you think about it

@chuckn4851

Жыл бұрын

🤓🤓🤓🤡🤡🤡

@johnrode43

Жыл бұрын

How?

@Gooning312

Жыл бұрын

@@johnrode43 Politically it was actually really important, because if d day hadnt happened probably all of europe would be communist. Militaryily germany was gonna lose anyway, this just made it a little quicker

@dingus6317

Жыл бұрын

Would there be a Berlin wall without DDay? Would the Soviet Union collapse?

@enriqueperezarce5485

Жыл бұрын

@@Gooning312 False europe wouldn’t be communist everbody forgets about supply, but yes they would’ve captured a bit more of Germany then exhaust themselves.