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@minutemanhomestead7214

2 жыл бұрын

the hidden army of america is not its women though many men will say hold her beer its the fact that most of us are chill till you kick our bees nest then men not even fit to serve are doing whatever they can to kill the enemy even if its falsifying records to go in at 16 or falsifying records for med..... point is you kick the bee hive and you get Hiroshima and Nagasaki.... people should pay heed to pushing the american people too far god help us all when this giant reawakens

@elysianfields6350

2 жыл бұрын

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@jefferyboyce2262

2 жыл бұрын

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@lawrencemay8671

2 жыл бұрын

Conveniently left out it was George Patten that was invasion commander of North Africa.

@colliswilliams8992

2 жыл бұрын

"I like Netflix for history" said the sheep, on his way to the slaughter.

When I became sick in Vietnam. The nurses who took care of me were great. I often think about them. And I owe them a debt that I can every repay or acknowledge properly. And thank you will never or could acknowledge the gratitude I'll always owe to these ladies of compassion. Hope each and everyone of you have a wonderful life. Once again thank you very much. And youll always have a admire in me. Thanks.

@jadenhiggins7167

2 жыл бұрын

What year did u go 2 Vietnam?

@philipfreeman2863

2 жыл бұрын

@@jadenhiggins7167 I was there in late 70 to seventy one.

@Pointman-yf6or

2 жыл бұрын

@ Philip Freeman, it was our medics for me. Several of them were contientious objectors. Our unit asked for them. They were the real hero’s if there were any at all. I was severely wounded at a place about 15 miles south and west of danang feb 6 1968. We called it lz hardcore. In the first25 days of feb we lost 40 Kia and 150 wia in our infantry battalion. There are a bunch of us that would not have survived if not for our medics care. They were the very best. Peace, and welcome home brother

@zabranjenakojasko6833

2 жыл бұрын

@@jadenhiggins7167 yeah good question 🤔 but first of all why ?

@zabranjenakojasko6833

2 жыл бұрын

@@philipfreeman2863 I wish you took care of your own business

I was born in 1951. I remember my Grandfather still had his Victory Garden going. Everytime we visited he would send us home with bushel baskets full of fresh corn, peas and beans. My Dad was Career Military and fought in Europe. In fact my Dad's Brother was also a Soldier (A Marine) and was in the 1st wave of Iwo Jima. They both survived the War and during that war my Grandfather fed much of their small town from his Victory Garden. He was a strong burly man who worked for the Railroad. He was proud of it and we were always thrilled to have so much fresh vegetables to eat. We looked forward to our annual visits from our Station. We could only get leave to visit once a year because our Military Bases we were stationed, at were often halfway across the country. I now live only 20 miles from my Grandfathers old house and have driven by there many time. I often think I should stop and tell the people living there how much their home meant to me as a child. I wonder if they know their back yard had the best soil for growing vegetables?

What a wonderful tribute to our unsung heros... the women who served as nurses or supported our troops through war production.

@tomortale2333

2 жыл бұрын

YES ANNN YES

My mother worked as a physicians assistant in California during the war. She told me that after work, she and her friends would go to the local hospital and assist the nurses by bathing patients as there was a nursing shortage.

@johnindo6771

2 жыл бұрын

I worked as a nurse (RN) for about 45 years here in Houston and South Texas. There was a constant nursing shortage during all those some 45 years. There has ALWAYS been a nursing shortage , and there will always be a nursing shortage as long as there are mammals walking on 2 feet (humans) on this earth!!!

You rarely see a nurse these days help a patient in a hospital bed smoke a cigarette. How times how changed.

@aldenunion

2 жыл бұрын

"Helping him live" I noticed that as well.

I love this, my grandmother Verna dropped out of Seattle University and joined the WAVs. Vivien tested out of high school at 16 in rural Idaho so she could join the war effort in San Francisco as a seamstress. Two larger than life people I will never forget.

@tomortale2333

2 жыл бұрын

WOW ALL THE WAY FROM RURAL IDAHO TO SAN FRAN TO HELP OUT NOW THERS REAL HERO;S ..SOO MANY UNTOLD HERO'S WHO HELPED DURING WAR TIME

@tomortale2333

2 жыл бұрын

WOOW SPECIAL LADYS G.B.THEM ALLL

@johnindo6771

2 жыл бұрын

Who was Vivian?

lmfao, i randomly jumped to the part where theres jsut a table full of babies and i had an out loud exasperation of "jesus, thats a table full of babies"

@bigdaddylightning4965

2 жыл бұрын

HAHA!! Me too! i was like ...OMG!! its just a huge pile of kickin babies!!!!

Thanks to those involved in preserving historical films.

@ThePhoenix109

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@danaustin3885

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for those brave Americans.

Germany underestimated the countries that make up the commonwealth as well. They did not understand the integration between the US & Canada. How Lancaster Bombers & Mosquito Fighter Bombers, made in Canada, could be fitted with Packard Merlin's trucked from across the boarder. Once the US was in this was fast and easy. Interesting the Germans did not study the movement of people between Winsor & Detroit, a clue to integration between the 2 countries.

@keitht24

2 жыл бұрын

Not at all. Without the Germans turning their attention to Russia & declaring war on America. The British would've easily been defeated.

@papanutt1327

2 жыл бұрын

@@keitht24 Thats literally an impossible outcome

@keitht24

2 жыл бұрын

@@papanutt1327 Which part?

@laner989

2 жыл бұрын

The Commonwealth countries were like a flea on an elephants but. Germany had 100 tanks in Africa but had 16000 tanks in USSR. The only contribution the Western Allies made to WW2 was to prevent USSR from taking all of Europe.

@keitht24

2 жыл бұрын

@@laner989 They had way more than 100 tanks in North Africa. Since you like numbers so much, look what the Americans gave the Russians in war materials.

My father served in Sicily and Italy in the Army while my mother was in defense work.

@grouchyoldman5348

2 жыл бұрын

My father was in North Africa and then in the Italy campaign. He worked in the army hospital as a tec Sargent of surgery.

IMHO Germany's biggest mistakes: 3) Allowing British army at Dunkirk to escape. 2) Switching targets from RAF facilities to civilian targets during the Battle of Britain 1) (by a MILE) Operation Barbarossa. All of it.

@loganholmberg2295

2 жыл бұрын

Militarily yes but there real problems was basing their economy on war production with no limits on spending which created shortages with a socialist economy and hardships on the civilian population even before the war and not securing natural resources like oil before even thinking of going to war. By far the thing that was always hurting them was lack of oil. From the North Afica campaign all the way to the battle of the Buldge lack of fuel ALWAYS limited German actions.

@eq1373

2 жыл бұрын

Barbarossa would have been successful if they had enlisted the Ukrainians aid instead of persecuting them.

@user6008

2 жыл бұрын

Germany's biggest and worst mistake was failing to put a bullet in the little Austrian corporal prior to 1933.

@wezacker6482

2 жыл бұрын

@@user6008 Good point. I can't argue with that!

@dougwilson6778

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed 100 percent

Their arrogance caused a series of mistakes, thank goodness.

@parallaxcontinuum7898

2 жыл бұрын

Better ,Their best general's advice was repeatedly ignored or overridden by the willfulness of an insane ,syphilitic mind.They were doomed from the outset.

I'm proud to say my grandmother was a WAC. She flew unarmed combat planes and bombers into theater staging areas while my grandfather served on a LST.

@MomMom4Cubs

2 жыл бұрын

Mine was a WAV, a pharmacist's mate.

During the Africa campaign, Rommel contacted Reichsmarshall Goering letting them know he was being pushed back by British forces using US war arms. Goering was appalled by this, believing the only good thing America made was shaving razors. Rommel responded back, "We could do with some of those razor blades, Herr Reichsmarshall."

@OMartinez91

2 жыл бұрын

What makes things funnier on a somewhat broader scale, most of Japan thought America was only good for making cars and movies and that Pearl Harbor would be making the US beg for amendments. Only Yamamoto knew they screwed up but no one listened to him

@houstontexas9463

2 жыл бұрын

@@OMartinez91 yamamoto predicted the outcome of the war before it began. He knew he'd lose but he wanted to win for a few months. He use to live in America, he knew their capabilities.

@stischer47

2 жыл бұрын

@@houstontexas9463 He said that he could run wild, winning every battle for 6 months. After that, he could not guarantee Japan would survive. Sure enough, almost exactly six months later was Midway - after which the Japanese went on the defensive until they surrendered.

A great catalog of reasons why I will never forget the debt of gratitude I owe to those who went before me so that my life could become what it is...

@denniswalsh8476

Жыл бұрын

No doubt...

I think underestimating Russia was a bigger mistake. He did not think they had the industrial power to turn this many tanks, guns and planes out of their factories

@eq1373

2 жыл бұрын

They didn't. They had American aid.

@trololoev

2 жыл бұрын

@@eq1373 80% of all american aid goes into Britain.

@dennisyoung4631

2 жыл бұрын

That, and the Russians were able to design “reasonably” effective weapons that they could produce and then operate in truly *large* numbers…

@trololoev

2 жыл бұрын

@@dennisyoung4631 "reasinable"? PPS was best machinegun, t-34 was best middle tank, su-122 was best tank destroyer, is-2 was best heavy tank etc. Also big number was on both sides, if you doesn't know.

@dennisyoung4631

2 жыл бұрын

@@trololoev the early T-34 supposedly had serious issues (e.g. with the transmission supposedly needing a mallet to shift) - and the fit and finish (in general) often was somewhat lacking. Still, though - they did work “passably”, and were able to be made and operated by the Russians of that era. You must use the people you have, especially when the situation is dire and needs *desperation measures* - which was definitely the case up until Bagration. By that time, the T-34 was a decent tank by any standards - turret had enough room for three, bigger gun, transmission worked for a reasonable period…. Oh, and the Russians could make diesel fuel far more readily than high octane gasoline. (Mostly just distill crude oil and filter, rather than extensive processing needed then and now for gas.) Logistics is a big deal in wartime - you need to make and then operate the gear. (“Better is the enemy of good enough.” Supposedly said by J.S.)

Agreed. The Axis underestimated the material and technical prowess of the United States once we got rolling: food, fuel, ammo, tanks, trucks, aircraft & ships to transport these all around the globe.

My mother during the war had collected nylons and tin for the war effort. My grandfatger was a welder in the butler shipyards in superior wisconsin, while my mother in law was a welder if the frasier shipyards in superior wisconsin. My mother in law is 96 now and doesnt know her own children, but the pictures of her welding is PRICELESS.

His other mistake was underestimating the spirit of freedom.

@captainjack8823

2 жыл бұрын

Best answer! 'Lest We Forget" - NEVER!

@yomommaahotoo264

2 жыл бұрын

Freedom is a relative term...and it's nowadays more of an illusion here in Merica.

@ChuckHickl

2 жыл бұрын

Can it and put your mask on and BTW, I need to see your VAC card.

@toserveman9317

2 жыл бұрын

Psalm tone chant, saying nothing.

@nightruler666

2 жыл бұрын

@@yomommaahotoo264 You are free to move to china or north korea

They also underestimate Russia...whom they thought might muster '180 divisions'....but wehrmact identified 300 plus divisions..

@jetpigeon8758

2 жыл бұрын

It was the allied bombing that helped the Soviets, if it hadn't been for the British and Americans bombing Germany the Soviets would have lost badly.

@bobgriffith1810

2 жыл бұрын

Russian divisions where downsized to between 6-9 thousand men post 41

@KillerNetDog

2 жыл бұрын

@@jetpigeon8758 It was also helped by the millions of tons of war supplies the U.S. sent to Russia in fuel, ammunition, trucks, planes, food etc..

@argr

2 жыл бұрын

@@jetpigeon8758 Incorrect! The Germans were already defeated and forced to retreat before the bomb offensive.

@KillerNetDog

2 жыл бұрын

@GodBAINS Yt . 6.1M views Even then they didn't estimate right, Adolph stopped his advance and directly went against everything his generals were proposing. He was way too careful and hesitant as he badly overestimated allies resistance in Belgium and France. Wonder if that played into him underestimating allied forces from that point forward?

Look up "Soviet Storm" by Star Media for a contemporary (2011) take on The Great Patriotic War. The magnitude of the Eastern Front is amazing.

@edlawrence6553

2 жыл бұрын

Back in 2008, I went to Moscow on business. The customer manager and I had different personalities; he seemed a bit cold toward me. The first time he smiled at me was on the Friday (at the end of the week). He took me to lunch; started telling me how Americans did not appreciate Russia’s contributions during the great patriotic war. Fortunately, I am a bit of a history buff. I reminded him of Kursk. “You know about Kursk?!” He beamed. I’ve heard that more pieces of military equipment were used at Kursk than on the entire western front during the entire war. It’s well known how the bulk of the Wehrmacht was deployed on the eastern front. And it wasn’t just a war; it was a war to utterly destroy the other side.

@douglasstrother6584

2 жыл бұрын

@@edlawrence6553 That's a neat account! The magnitude and savagery of that front is under-appreciated, unless you're a WW II geek. Comparing the geographic distances on the Eastern Front to a map of the US highlights the vastness of that conflict. The East was the Land War, and the West was the Naval and Air War.

@IamDoogy

2 жыл бұрын

I know… The scale (and savagery) of that war I think, is beyond my comprehension.

@tomortale2333

2 жыл бұрын

RUSSIA IS AMAZING I MEAN WHEN GERMANY WAS AT STALINGRAD....IT LOOKED ALLL OVER FOR THEM...WOOO .....WHAT A COMEBACK,,,, G.B. RUSSIA.

America is so powerful that we could afford to send a soldier a freshly baked cake his Mother made to the front lines of Germany...You can't defeat an Army like that!

@inspectaslime

2 жыл бұрын

When you enemies are literally sitting across the trenches from you eating 5 star meals compared to yours then you know you've lost.

@marioposeidon2186

2 жыл бұрын

No one would win one on one with Germany on that time

@dougraddi908

2 жыл бұрын

America isn't powerful. They jumped in the war in Europe late and took credit for ending the war. Bs. They waited until Germany was weakened.

@ayrplanes

Жыл бұрын

A moot point now. Now there would be no ground war, no need for manufacturing, just radioactive craters.

Germany: *Declares war on the USA* America: *Rallies the Titans of industry to supply them and their allies the weapons, vehicles, and armaments for war.*

@lolofblitz6468

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm if Germany didn't invaded Soviets Imagine FULL german army vs usa I think USA wouldn't step in France lol

@dreamsofsnow6521

2 жыл бұрын

@@lolofblitz6468 ...... Imagine the U.S. not fighting Japan and putting their full might against Germany.

@anglo-nord126

2 жыл бұрын

@@dreamsofsnow6521 hahaha we'd still get smoked, da fuq.

@dreamsofsnow6521

2 жыл бұрын

@@anglo-nord126 ..... Oh since since you put it that way ok lol hahaha da fuq.

@johnnyjarrett8166

2 жыл бұрын

@@anglo-nord126 The U S had like 20 carriers that were eviscerating the "worlds best navy" in the Pacific...Germany barely had battleships...much less aircraft carriers....u boats weren't going to win a naval war.....aircraft carriers win on the water...wouldn't even had been able to reach North America...much less invade....lets just be glad that freedom trumped tyranny

Too bad we can't have everyone on the same page these days. I genuinely missed my call in life.

@RobTheNotary

2 жыл бұрын

Today its every man for himself and woman for themselves It’s not about what I can contribute it’s about what I’m entitled to

@at6686

2 жыл бұрын

The price of diversity. People with nothing in common rarely agree to do things in common. The idea that a country full of people that are all different will be stronger is the great lie of the left.

It's the nurses' tenderness that helps them to live.

Excellent post.Only in unison can we win.

@RobTheNotary

2 жыл бұрын

All cylinders of the same machine working together in producing equally

Too nice video from excellent historic channel...

Honestly, I think underestimating the Soviet Union was a bigger mistake.

@eq1373

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. Their biggest mistake was treating the Ukrainians the same way the Soviets did.

@watchingthehawks355

2 жыл бұрын

Fact.

@alanle1471

2 жыл бұрын

US supplied the USSR with warm clothes, military uniforms, jeeps, arms, refined fuel, trucks and food without which the Russians could not have mounted such an incredible comeback.

@toffanful

2 жыл бұрын

@@alanle1471 Nonsense. Total allied assistance to Soviet Union constituted just under 5% of total Soviet war expenditures. The aid helped after 1943 - motorizing 20 rifle divisions and supplying "spam in the can" daily nutrition for Soviet field troops, but the Soviets would have defeated Germany anyway. It might have taken a bit longer and cost more blood, but the end was inevitable. If anything, Russia saved capitalism and certainly saved the British from inevitable defeat.

@Valicroix

2 жыл бұрын

@@alanle1471 Lend Lease may have helped shorten the war but most of it didn't arrive in the Soviet Union until after the battle of Stalingrad. The Soviets built over 35,000 T-34 tanks. At the battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 the Russians fielded 2,500,000 men and over 7,000 tanks.

The influence of the English speaking world should never be underestimated.

@montysearancke4657

2 жыл бұрын

@John Beige can I put any on

@amazingsrilanka7358

2 жыл бұрын

No you are false indeed

@amazingsrilanka7358

2 жыл бұрын

I can prove "it is not"

@papanutt1327

2 жыл бұрын

@@amazingsrilanka7358 how?

@forcesightknight

2 жыл бұрын

If being able to communicate to organize proper defenses, assaults, and disrupting the enemies forward progress, English has it. Sheer numbers of non English-speaking people though, pretty sure English is waukesha out numbered. Semper fi Earthlings

Jimmy Stewart's narrative is compelling. As an Army Flight Lieutenant I wrote personally, to parents or wives, that fateful letter. "the Secretary of the Army regrets to inform you..."

@kim79710

2 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Stewart was a WW2 bomber pilot

@morenofranco9235

2 жыл бұрын

@@kim79710 WWII was a "white mans war". Does not change the fact that war is FUTILE. And in 100 years? Who will care? War is terrible. I have seen it. You can be any color you like. You will be just as damaged, scarred and dead.

@kim79710

2 жыл бұрын

@@morenofranco9235 My father fought in WW2, my brother was killed in Vietnam, and my most recent was Iraq 2003-08, we have seen it as well

@stevek8829

2 жыл бұрын

@@morenofranco9235 you should tell the Chinese, SE Asians, Japanese, Filipinos, Ethiopians, Pacific Islanders and etc this revelation.

America, no army. No navy. America. Hold my Bud.

He attacked Russia before he took England, big mistake.

@garyschultz7768

2 жыл бұрын

yeah it was a mad mans mistake invading Russia ...but only bcuz of the USA...had america not been involved A.H. could have beaten both at the same time...both were on the ropes....

@youraveragescotsman7119

2 жыл бұрын

As if he COULD take the UK. Remember the significantly more powerful Royal Navy? The RAF?

@alexcarter8807

2 жыл бұрын

The US was not going to let them take England. Plus the English had a not-so-secret weapon: Winston Churchill. The English aristocrats were ready to give up to Germany if they got to keep their wealth, but Churchill put the kibosh on that. His "We'll fight them on the beaches..." speech was a heads-up not just to the English people and to the Allies, but to the English aristocracy whom were really surprised by it.

@garyschultz7768

2 жыл бұрын

america saved Britain...

@youraveragescotsman7119

2 жыл бұрын

@@garyschultz7768 The Germans stopped all attempts at invasion before the US got involved.

They under estimated all the allies, especially Russia.....

@ReySchultz121

2 жыл бұрын

*THE RED HORDE BE LIKE*

@eq1373

2 жыл бұрын

No they didn't. If they had not treated the Ukrainians the same way the Soviets did.....

@daleburrell6273

2 жыл бұрын

@@eq1373 ...AND IF MY AUNT HAD BALLS- SHE'D BE MY UNCLE!!!

The US fought a three front war, the Pacific Theater, the European Theater and supplying the allies with the tools and logistics needed to fight. The US was the largest economy from 1890 forward.

@victoriapruitt1209

2 жыл бұрын

And the air war over Europe that people keep misunderstanding the importance of in bringing victory. Without the daily/nightly air war over Germany Russia wouldn't have had a chance to win.

@nofrackingzone7479

2 жыл бұрын

@@victoriapruitt1209 Agreed. Without the US, Germany would have fought Russia to a stalemate and the UK would have to sue for armistice.

@yoinks9907

2 жыл бұрын

Yea but the us only inflicted 217 thousand German casualties Soviet Union inflicted 5.5 million

@zabranjenakojasko6833

2 жыл бұрын

@@victoriapruitt1209 sure 👍 without you the world would be completely different place

@_Hluxe

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget about the African front as well

The nurse lights the wounded soldier's chesterfield.

Fun fact: Prior to the war, there wasn't much of a market for home power tools. The manufacturers didn't think men would pay for a power saw or drill when they had a cheaper manual version. During the war, they realized women were borrowing the tools to do maintenance or DIY projects at home themselves. When the war ended, the companies started making home versions of their power tools, and the rest is history.

@MIXMASTERBJB1

2 жыл бұрын

Sure... They dangled the carrot all thru north Philadelphia and then hit em with the stick by sending all the jobs to China.. go figure

I wish that pride in the flag and country still existed today.

@RobTheNotary

2 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of the disdain for the flag of the country for which it stands can be found no further than our media in our politicians who can’t be trusted

@RobTheNotary

2 жыл бұрын

And that goes for both parties

@grouchyoldman5348

2 жыл бұрын

People still love the country, they just hate each other over differences. Just remember everyone has different wants needs and ideas. Respect

@jake42ner

Жыл бұрын

It does, its the maga movement

The war was won on the Eastern Front not the Western Front. Germany underestimated the Soviets.

@doug814

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. Russia won the European theater.

@jetpigeon8758

2 жыл бұрын

@@doug814 The only reason that the Russians defeated the Nazis was that the Germans were running very low on spare parts and equipment, and supplies in general, this was due to British and American bombers destroying their factories and smashing their cities, without the help of allied bombing raids Germany would have easily defeated the Soviets.

@michaelwilson9849

2 жыл бұрын

I think the more accurate statement is that Germany lost because Hilter stupidly decided to fight a war on two fronts at once. Was Russia’s contribution to the defeat of Germany significant? Absolutely! Would it have been as significant if Germany hadn’t had to divide men & resources to two fronts? Could Germany’s outcomes on the eastern front been different? What if Germany could have concentrated on only one enemy, Russia? With no assistance or supplies from England or the United States…would your suggestion that Russia won WWII still be valid?

@Fallopia5150

2 жыл бұрын

And their massive production line of T34s!

@KillerNetDog

2 жыл бұрын

It was won on both fronts, and the millions of tons of war supplies and equipment sent to the USSR by the U.S. to help their war effort. The equivalent of 180 billion dollars in today's money. Including 400,000 trucks and jeeps, 14,000 planes, 13,000 tanks, 8,000 tractors, 15 million pairs of boots, 2.7 millions tons of fuel, 4.5 million tons of food etc... Without which things might have turned out differently.

Excellent....Thanks

Grandmother worked at a vehicle Depot in new Jersey loading military vehicles on the ships, yards, etc... I learned to drive stick in my pre school year by shifting the pattern for her to and from the church school everyday in my uncle's then brand new rx-7 (1989). She said the jeeps we're all 3 speed. By 9 years old I could fluently drive the farm trucks on our property..my first car was a 5 speed mustang.. owed all to my grandmother and her efforts at that jeep depot so many years before ..

The biggest mistake was hoping England and then the U.S. would not enter the War after Germany broke the Treaty of Versailles.

@Crashed131963

2 жыл бұрын

Germany declared war on the US first.

@mjp29

2 жыл бұрын

The Treaty had nothing to do with it - the Japanese caused the U.S. to enter a war that they didn't want to enter.

Underestimating the USSR's army bring up new reserves all through course of ww2, continuously, and undisruptingly supplying it's fronts, and the determination not only to win, BUT to smash the enemy. Nothing more, nothing less.

@RaysNewLife

2 жыл бұрын

every russian marched in american made boots we supplied them everything. Stalin gave up russia to build up reserves...

@alexcarter8807

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. The USSR won the war against Germany. The US helped.

@jrus690

2 жыл бұрын

No, Germany underestimated their own requirement for maintaining their war machine. Germany was only outnumbered 3-1 by the USSR, and at the start they were taking out the Soviets at 5 or 10-1 ratios. Had the Germans simply not been so arrogant in their own abilities; had they produced more equipment every month, trained new troops at a continuous pace, and had proper top strategy, they would have won. They failed at all these things so they lost the war; the generals after the war used Adolf as a scapegoat, Adolf cost us the war by meddling in military affairs. Those generals did amazing things, almost impossible things, but it all came to nothing, because their top strategy was flawed, and the Soviets was superb.

@grantbuchanan7295

2 жыл бұрын

@@jrus690 very true, the Soviets had a similar problem with their political leadership as well

@michaeladams9641

2 жыл бұрын

If not for supplies from America they would have failed.

In 1943 pennies were made of steel since all of the copper was being used to make brass for ammo for the war effort.

"Funny question... We're in a jam, aren't we?"

COME ON !!!!!! If you read and understand just a little history, you will learn the Germans underestimated the Soviet Union. The war was lost in the east; the Soviets lost 25 million dead !!!!!!!!!

@nickdanger3802

2 жыл бұрын

When you play golf is the person with the highest score the winner?

@EricFapton

2 жыл бұрын

America produced munitions and supplies for Russians, Americans, and Brits.

@MrRichardbryan

2 жыл бұрын

Yep ,,, you need to read a little history. Why was the German Army marching to Stalingrad ? Why was there so much interest in the Volga ? Hum . How did the Soviet Army pursue the German Army over 1000 miles back to Berlin in such a fast paced manner,,,,, by horse ? Read my friend, you can lose millions of men by poor military decisions and not be the key to victory. The Germans would have slaughtered the Soviets without the Western front.

@johnmorton1430

2 жыл бұрын

There is no way Russia comes close to defeating Germany without the US. First, Two thirds of the Luftwaffe casualties were in the west. The Soviets had no victories while the Germans had air superiority. Second, the US provided the Russian Army with three quarters of its trucks half of its rolling stock half of its gun powder and explosives, half of its steel, most of its food all of its boots all of its aviation fuel etc etc etc. Without the US it would have been 1918 all over again which given that Russia effectively started WWII and was its biggest loser is poetic justice.

@daleburrell6273

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrRichardbryan ...I THINK THAT'S AN EXAGGERATION- THE GERMANS EXHAUSTED THEMSELVES OUTSIDE THE GATES OF MOSCOW!!! AND EVEN IF THE GERMANS HAD MANAGED TO CONQUER THE USSR- WHETHER THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HOLD ON TO IT- WAS ANOTHER MATTER...RUSSIA WAS JUST TOO DAM BIG- AND THERE WERE TOO MANY RUSSIANS- EVEN THE NAZIS COULD KILL THEM FAST ENOUGH!!!

"Underestimating America" - likewise, the Japanese thought the Americans cannot fight because they were fun-loving.

@culturalliberator9425

2 жыл бұрын

And soon we we're the ones they feared most. For nothing is hotter then lead blessed by American rage.

@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677

2 жыл бұрын

And they thought we were big and dumb

@glennmcdonald2028

2 жыл бұрын

Yamamoto said that after sinking the fleet at Pearl Harbor, he'd have 6 months to run wild before the US would begin to outproduce and overwhelm Japan...

@aw7853

2 жыл бұрын

@@glennmcdonald2028 thank goodness that Japan is an island 😂 if they had the same population, land mass and resources that Germany did the pacific theater would’ve been a lot harder to win.

@RobTheNotary

2 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine was telling me that somehow somewhere someway that I don’t know how true this is but that they have the jobs were threatened and Al Capone and a Saint Valentine’s Day massacre gang and all those types of people were the ones that were going to be sent to Japan and that scared them again I don’t know how true it is but it was going to be one pretty interesting marketing ploy for the war effort

Excelente!

My grandma made bullets in a factory converted for the war.

Thank you also to all the woman who assisted these brave men that gave there lives to sustain pour way of life.

Yamamoto and Rommel were well aware of the fact that american industry would be decisive....Yamamoto gave japan 6 months after pearl harbor, Rommel said the war was all but over as soon as american equipment made its presence felt on the battlefield. There were, for example, at least 30 shermans( and t-34s ) for each 1 panzer. Multiply that in artillery, ships, and aircraft.......but then again, we fought a country the size of texas.

@jasonbell6234

2 жыл бұрын

A country size of Texas with entire mainland Europe at its disposal

Nice documentry

Rosie the Riveter puts this whole charade to rest.

23:10 "In her there is the tenderness of all women" this is so true. Its pretty sad seeing the opposite in today's military. These statements are being made without the blinds of political correctness. It recognises that men and women are indeed different, yet equal. The tender touch of a woman after a man was wounded in combat is a genius and moral boosting move for those guys. Its seems to be opposite in today's military.

@alcoholfree6381

2 жыл бұрын

This is so true!! Thank God, we are made different. As a father I could never do what my wife was so adept at. She’s an RN and I’m a doctor in reality. Her role is as vital as mine. Thanks for you great points!

@jamesdykes517

2 жыл бұрын

The idea today is that a woman or man shouldn't be restricted to abstract ideas of gender identity because you miss out on the potential for them to perform other tasks than what their gender role was. That's literally the point of this video, women didn't have these jobs because of a preconceived notion of gender roles, yet that role was changed when needed. There's a reason Rosie the riveter is dressed masculine while striking a traditional male pose for strength. I have dated plenty of old crows who think a gentle touch is choking something to death.

@RobTheNotary

2 жыл бұрын

The wind beneath the wings

Lady's of America I love you !!!

Anyone else think the pile of babies at 3:53 was kinda shocking haha

I had a laugh when they were talking about the nurse and how she helped the health of the men and the video was showing a nurse setting up an ashtray on a bracket so it could be right in front of the injured man in bed, she put a cigarette in it and lit it.

@greyhound371

2 жыл бұрын

Back then they did not know its affects so for all they knew they were making him happy (I think they did not know its affect I did not due research, so don't think as fact)

@Homer4prez

2 жыл бұрын

@@greyhound371 Yes, I know this but I still thought it was funny.

It's good that they covered the story of the american women workforce. They contributed more than they have been given credit for.

@johnthompson3664

2 жыл бұрын

That is a true statement, but if you look further into the American woman's contribution to the war effort you will find in many instances women serving in a technical role as well. The U.S needed quick battlefield calculations, and they theorized about the use of the E.N.I.A.C computer ( developed by Klaus Van Neuman ) and it was originally classified as secretarial instead of engineering. These women made it work to the advantage of the U.S, but when the project showed potential it was reclassified as engineering.

@edwardschmitt5710

2 жыл бұрын

Not these days, that credit has been pointed out ad nauseam.

It was an understandable mistake for the axis to underestimate the USA. Japan had a much stronger Navy than the US in 1941 and the Germans had a much stronger Army and Air Force than the US. Also, the US was still in a depression.

@Crashed131963

2 жыл бұрын

But the US industrial capacity 3 times that of Germany and 6 times of Japan. Its was inevitable the US would have the largest Navy and Airforce no matter what.

@dachicagoan8185

2 жыл бұрын

@@Crashed131963 yes, but Germany and Japan had no way of knowing that. We had to build the factories and shipyards to manufacture tanks, planes and warships. I'm sure they were just as surprised as we were of our industrial output.

@vivians9392

2 жыл бұрын

WWII ended the depression.

@vivians9392

2 жыл бұрын

@@dachicagoan8185 They didn't consider the women in America stepping up to fill those jobs during the war!

@Crashed131963

2 жыл бұрын

@@vivians9392 The US still had 50 million more people than Germany in 1940 even if the women did not step in.

Britain was underestimated also .

People say invading Russia was the mistake. He really had no choice. He needed the oil. People always leave that out.

@tomortale2333

2 жыл бұрын

N OO HE WAS GREEDY N DIDNT HAVE SENSE TO '''STAY IN UR OWN BACKYARD''

@4079907

2 жыл бұрын

And they leave out the fact that invading Russia was Hitler's ultimate goal..... ala Lebensraum

REED HADLEY of course doing HIS fantastic NARRATION once again and helping out in the war effort for AMERICANS********HE also was the reporter talking with the SOLDIER,S at*** GUADALCANAL DIARY 1943*** also with RICHARD CONTE/ANTHONY QUINN/PRESTON FOSTET/WILLIAM BENDIX!

We have underappreciated women.

The Soviet/German non-aggression pact was his biggest mistake. No pact = no ww2.

Churchill "Their very best tanks-the Shermans-were just coming out of the factories. The first batch had been newly placed in the hands of their divisions who had been waiting for them and looking forward to receiving them. The President took a large number of these tanks back from the troops to whom they had just been given. They were placed on board ship in the early days of July and they sailed direct to Suez under American escort for a considerable part of the voyage. 22 The President also sent us a large number of self-propelled 105 mm. guns, which are most useful weapons for contending with the 88 mm. high velocity guns, of which the Germans have made so much use. One ship in this convoy-this precious convoy-was sunk by a U-boat, but immediately, without being asked, the United States replaced it with another ship carrying an equal number of these weapons." The US Army had M3 mediums in North Africa. The M7 was the first modern purpose built self propelled gun in British service. Hansard Debate on the address 11 November 1942 on line

The British and Commonwealth set the pace employing their women in industry. America smartly followed this example.

Ah the good old propaganda of yesteryear. I miss it.

@POPJack1717

2 жыл бұрын

You still see it if you watch American mainstream media.

@lynnwood7205

2 жыл бұрын

@@POPJack1717 nah, what you describe is the propaganda of now. Not even as artistic.

@willyD200

2 жыл бұрын

Yesteryears propaganda àlways had a smidgen of truth behind it , now it's 100 % total lies , blatant lies that are or would be comical if they weren't so insidious. People are waking up to the malfeasance of todays agenda. We see the corporate elitists, puppet politicians and media clowns for what they are, parasitic fraudsters without a grain of integrity.

Actually, the Navy, was in pretty good shape in 1939.

@johnmurkwater1064

2 жыл бұрын

We had less than 400 active surface ships in 1939, compared to 6,000+ by 1944.

What we know now is the vital part played by intelligence especially by a place called Bletchley Park. If you are a student of WW2 history it is necessary to fill in the blank space. The space that could not be filled in before the 1990's because of the Cold War.

@nickdanger3802

2 жыл бұрын

1975

Me as a slav: 😑 well ok...

@ThePhoenix109

2 жыл бұрын

You ukainian?

@user-pq4kg4zu1p

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePhoenix109 Nein, watachiva from Россия, friendo.

3:50 "How different than the German women" .... who wasn't utilized in German production until Germany was on its back heels.

@IamDoogy

2 жыл бұрын

German women didn't have to join the war effort because Germany had intentionally planned and followed through with a strategy to enslave Poland for farming/food production. There and elsewhere, they enslaved whole populations for war production.

In the fight against the Axis, Russia may have been the muscle and Britain the brains, but America was the heart and soul

These workshops produced the supply trucks the Soviets used to perfect the Deep Battle Doctrine that destroyed the Werhmacht on the Eastern Front. These men and women rock!

@stevek8829

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, a couple hundred thousand free trucks.

What was IBMs role in ww2?

@michaelturner5919

2 жыл бұрын

HAL or H.A.L. see if you can figure it out?!

@tlt3921

2 жыл бұрын

IBM provided the punch card and primitive computers which allowed Germany to run very efficient train schedules (the holocaust) before, during and after the war. Not making this up it is a fact. Look it up.

@IamDoogy

2 жыл бұрын

Just a guess but I know there were calculations made for firing solutions for torpedoes and artillery. The more accurate the calculations, the more accurate the munition.

@greorbowlfinder7078

2 жыл бұрын

@@IamDoogy what were the tattoos used for in concentration camps? How were they used? What did those tatoo numbers mean?

@IamDoogy

2 жыл бұрын

@@greorbowlfinder7078 I don't know.

This is silly period propaganda! Actually, the German high command feared US entry into the war, as described in the memoirs of Ott Helmut von Lossitzzner, head of R&D @ Mauser. He described in detail a meeting called by Georing with the major industrial heads, just before the war started, wherein Georing set out the timetable to invade Poland and the rest of Europe. Georing expressly stated that, given their experience in the 1914-18 Great War, the entry of America into the war would surely result in defeat for Germany due to the USA's industrial base. For that reason, the upcoming war was planned to progress so rapidly that total victory in Europe would be Germany's before the USA could be brought into the conflict. That timetable, however, was upset with Britain's repulse of Germany's Luftwaffe as well as the Soviet Union's continued resistance.

James Stewart monologue spoke with the soft power of America.

Great history

To everyone talking about Russia, just remember that 2/3 of all Russian war equipment/vehicles were given to them by America

@williampaz2092

2 жыл бұрын

And half of the remaining, except for tanks and fighter aircraft, came from the UK.

@kipdon

2 жыл бұрын

Not "given".... Was sold to. Our government did not let them participate in the lend lease program that we gave to Britain and maybe France

@lilmike2710

2 жыл бұрын

The ones yelling about Russia mostly have no idea what they're talking about. They think they do though lol. But full of 💩.

@renatovonschumacher3511

2 жыл бұрын

I have never heard of this. Which way would they have shifted all the equipment to Russia ? By the North Sea ? By the Mediterranean ? No way. And most of the time Russia's harbours were locked by ice, anyway.

@lilmike2710

2 жыл бұрын

@@renatovonschumacher3511 Just because you never heard of sonething dosen't mean it isn't true. In this case, a well known FACT.. What, you think you know everything? .. *Ahem* The scope of the aid is detailed by Russia Beyond, an online publication of Russia’s state newspaper (Rossiyskaya Gazeta), and also by many historians, including U.S. policy analyst Albert L. Weeks in his 2004 book Russia’s Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the USSR in World War II. In the final tally, America sent its Russian ally the following military equipment: 400,000 jeeps and trucks 14,000 airplanes 8,000 tractors 13,000 tanks And these supplies: More than 1.5 million blankets 15 million pairs of army boots 107,000 tons of cotton 2.7 million tons of petroleum products (to fuel airplanes, trucks, and tanks) 4.5 million tons of food. Americans also sent guns, ammunition, explosives, copper, steel, aluminum, medicine, field radios, radar tools, books and other items. The U.S. even transported an entire Ford Company tire factory, which made tires for military vehicles, to the Soviet Union. From 1941 through 1945, the U.S. sent $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in 2016 dollars, in goods and services to the Soviets. In a November 1941 letter to Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin wrote: “Your decision, Mr. President, to give the Soviet Union an interest-free credit of $1 billion in the form of materiel supplies and raw materials has been accepted by the Soviet government with heartfelt gratitude as urgent aid to the Soviet Union in its enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy - bloodthirsty Hitlerism. At a dinner toast with Allied leaders during the Tehran Conference in December 1943, Stalin added: “The United States … is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, agreed with Stalin’s assessment. In his memoirs, Khrushchev described how Stalin stressed the value of Lend-Lease aid: “He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war.” Decades earlier, addressing the U.K. House of Commons shortly after Roosevelt’s death in April 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill hailed the late president for ensuring the delivery of U.S. aid to the Allies during the largest armed conflict in human history. Now.. Is there anytning else that YOU DIDN'T KNOW that I can help you with?

"I was to heavy for the WAC" " my foreman told me I was worth my weight in gold" - big girl around 13min in Lol my lord imagine the backlash if a director told a female worker to say those lines now everybody would be up in arms tlkin abt their feelings

@tomortale2333

2 жыл бұрын

IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT SHE WEIGHS....JUST BEING THERE....WORTH EVERYTHING!!

@RobTheNotary

2 жыл бұрын

It’s because she looked at the positive side of things instead of dwelling on the negative which is what to many do today

God bless your 🇺🇸❤️🙏🏾

My grandma lied about her birthday and became a army nurse at 15 in 1942 and was only discovered at wars end. But I think I might not be here typing this if she didn't. For my grandpa her husband got shrapnel in his shoulder from an unexploded bombs in the turret he was working on that was thought defused. She was on the surgical team and one look at her befor lights out said your hot and im going to marry you (there words to me). Well here I am

Thank you. I enjoyed this movie. I shall say no more 😏

@thereilneid2868

2 жыл бұрын

What Doug Ohaver said...👌

The also way underestimated Russia!

@averagetonker5952

2 жыл бұрын

they got a horde of T-34 tanks

@averagetonker5952

2 жыл бұрын

@carlos bond well different timeline and commander but the same tactic I guess

Before WWII we had a tiny military and were committed to isolation ..we have been at war ever since ...

@RichardL.1453

2 жыл бұрын

Just like Yamamoto said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant". And boy did they. USA has now been the sole superpower in the world since ww2.

In 1938 the us military didnt have an Air Force. It was called the army air Corps

As a medic I took care of it lol of soldiers, airman and marines. As far as I know they s all made out of country.

Germanys biggest misstake was a guy named Adolf.

@sammic9647

2 жыл бұрын

Treaty of Versailles. “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.” General Ferdinand Foch

His biggest mistake was discounting a nuclear weapons program early on.

@youraveragescotsman7119

2 жыл бұрын

They didn't have the industry, nor Heavy Bomber, required to create and use a nuclear weapon.

It’s not the first time America was underestimated and won’t be the last.

IN WARFARE ! IT IS IMPORTANT NOT TO UNDERESTIMATE ANY ENEMY ! THIS ACTION MAY VERY WELL RESULT IN LOSING THE BATTLE TO YOUR OPPONENTS !

@user-pu1xq9ef9u

2 жыл бұрын

Stfu!! U a combat veteran?

I m so proud to be an American

@ReySchultz121

2 жыл бұрын

Hidden enemy: exists SIG: dials the phone *UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WHAT'S YOUR EMERGENCY?*

Actually the Germans resisted enlisting women into war production - opposite of what the film stated. They enlisted slave labor through conquered countries.

WE OWE SO MUCH TO THE WWII MEN AND WOMEN, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD

I love me some ww2 propaganda in the evening

Yeah its true but it is second biggest mistake 1st is underestimating and invading USSR🙄

@geraldmiller8973

2 жыл бұрын

saw what a german soldier said about the russians. the russians would capture a german and beat him to death with their rifle butts. a bullet was too quick a death.

Note to self: never ever clash with America and Americans, don't even think about it!

REED HADLEY doing the narration as always back in the war years and the 1950s*he was the reporter in the film GUADALCANAL DIARY interviewing the soldiers on the sailing ships on the way to GUADALCANAL* guadalcanal diary 1943 featured:RICHARD CONTE,WILLIAM BENDIX,PRESTON FOSTER,LLOYD NOLAN,ANTHONEY QUINN*and see if YOU TUBE is now showing RACKET SQUAD with REED HADLEY from the mid 1950,s!

I thought the big German mistake was under estimating the Soviets. Despite losing 20m in the fighting, including 8.9m military, they killed 6.8m Germans. That’s where Germany lost the War.

@johnmorton1430

2 жыл бұрын

Russia never had a victory against Germany prior to the Battle of Kursk. The 1941 “victory” in front of Moscow was actually a consolidation of the German lines due to massive supply problems. Russian casualties in this battle were many times German casualties. In 1942 the Russian “victory” at Stalingrad was a case of two German Army groups being supplied over one rail bridge. Russian casualties at Stalingrad again were many times German casualties. At the same time as Stalingrad Russia suffered defeat after defeat after defeat in front of Moscow with staggering casualties. Even after Stalingrad Russia suffered a major defeat at Kharkov. Russia won at Kursk because of lend lease, and powerful German units being sent west to fight the Allies in Italy and the removal of aircraft and 88 mm flak units to defend Germany from Allied Air Forces. Twice as many German aircraft were lost in the west as in the east.

@craigbeatty8565

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnmorton1430 Stalingrad. It broke the Wehrmacht.

Underestimating American production and military capacity was very short sighted given WW1.

Allowing Britain/Allies to escape at Dunkirk.

@youraveragescotsman7119

2 жыл бұрын

They didn't allow it. The Germans, at the time, were in no state to be charging headlong into an Urban area and Kill Zones. The German Divisions around Dunkirk had been fighting for 3 days without rest, had outrun Infantry and Artillery support and were suffering over 50% attrition rates for their Tanks. If they went into Dunkirk, the Germans would get mauled.

@keitht24

2 жыл бұрын

Dunkirk is irrelevant to the war's final outcome. The British would've lost the war if Germany doesn't declare war in Russia & America.