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@abunchofss7523

5 жыл бұрын

love your videos, keep making them

@RedactedHistorian

5 жыл бұрын

@@abunchofss7523 same

@bmsomodi

5 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed your video on the last part of the North African campaign. The one thing that bugged me was The transition to operation torch felt rushed in the beginning. Overall work!

@TheArmchairHistorian

5 жыл бұрын

@@bmsomodi Unfortunately the video was a little rushed. Our budget ran really low by 1943 but I did the best I can with the time/money I had.

@serapio_90

5 жыл бұрын

Buenos trades Batalla de Kursk ????

Germany did more defending Italian colonies than Italy

@lcronovt

5 жыл бұрын

I have to wait 90 days to change my name man, you are on every history video I see.xD

@michelangelobuonarroti4958

5 жыл бұрын

Nah

@ZK-ff2ru

5 жыл бұрын

lcronovt His profile picture says it all

@skeletonrowdie1768

5 жыл бұрын

Which probably were logical strategic moves

@AunknownMan

5 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about, without Italian forces Rommel would have been fcked very fast Italy lost more and putted more efforts

Rommel Strikes Back, Return of the Allies, America Awakens, are you just parodying Star Wars titles at this point?

@supernovasbot3608

5 жыл бұрын

Now this puts a smile to my face

@user-zp8xm7qd9x

5 жыл бұрын

It is inevitable...

@dynastywarriorlord07

5 жыл бұрын

@separatist mapper More like the rise of George S Pattom

@RonnieRawdawg

3 жыл бұрын

star wars is just space jews vs space nazis, jedis vs stormtroopers come on bruh theres even incest with the jedis so u know its true

@IceRanger41

3 жыл бұрын

The pun side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be....unnatural.

You should do the Forgotten War i.e. the Burma theatre of WW2

@napoleonibonaparte7198

5 жыл бұрын

The entire Asian theatre is under-looked.

@ebowden1168

5 жыл бұрын

It’s under looked for a reason, cause it’s not as interesting

@ShiftJay08

5 жыл бұрын

@@ebowden1168 From your point of view

@Godzilla52

5 жыл бұрын

My boy Slim ftw.

@Kardia_of_Rhodes

5 жыл бұрын

@@ebowden1168 Germany: Conquers nearly all of Europe in 2 years Japan: Conquers nearly all of East Asia in 2 months You're telling me that doesn't sound interesting?!?

Frederick you magnificent bastard, I read your books! Whoops, wrong era

@Napoleonheir1805

5 жыл бұрын

That would make an amazing meme

@ethanramos4441

5 жыл бұрын

You mean “Rommel you magnificent bastard, I read you books”

@sviatoslavs.1305

5 жыл бұрын

@@ethanramos4441 He meant but finished with "wrong era" which makes that funnier.

@ethanramos4441

5 жыл бұрын

Sviatoslav S. Oh yes Frederick the Great

@hasanulhoque8012

Жыл бұрын

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Italy had their Flying Spaghetti Bombers, lest we forget.

@friedeggsdirt4971

5 жыл бұрын

Mmmmm spaghetti

@MrJJBhizzle

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Williams But we had The Flying Spaghetti Monster on our side!

@bah-be8159

5 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna go listen to some bolt thrower now

@711Writer

5 жыл бұрын

That drop gas on Ethiopia

@brunol-p_g8800

4 ай бұрын

Between the flying spaghettis and the burger 17, burger 24, burger 25, etc..

If Rommel blessed the rains, they would've won

@rayanrazane3186

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@xxlookalive239x3

5 жыл бұрын

Get out cringe boy

@decem_sagittae

5 жыл бұрын

What rains

@felixlind9045

5 жыл бұрын

@@decem_sagittae Afirica by Toto

@philliplanier6742

5 жыл бұрын

"If"

4:57 fun fact about the "fun fact in screen", Jacques-Yves Cousteau was in Toulon when the fleet was scuttled and after that he was scuba diving and working as a resistance spy in there. To anyone who don't know Cousteau, he was a famous scientist who studied sea and all forms of life in water.

@Otokichi786

5 жыл бұрын

That's Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, also known as SCUBA.

@ShadowReaper-pu2hx

Жыл бұрын

He recruited Mr. Krabs to fight the Axis.

@BearHawkful

Жыл бұрын

@@ShadowReaper-pu2hx lol

The North African campaign was really overlooked as a vital advancement for allied forces. It would, however, lead to the more notable D-Day Landings.

@comm___4871

5 жыл бұрын

Cali Gaming whenever we learn about WWII I always ask if we’re gonna be told about North Africa

@yoranvangils9903

5 жыл бұрын

Jordan Sharpe um you do know It was Vichy France’s colony right? It isn’t really racist in my opinion. You’re litterally saying that it’s racist that they attacked North Africa... Well if they didn’t attack North Africa then Operation Dragoon would have failed misserably...

@caligaming1732

5 жыл бұрын

Jordan Sharpe I’m sorry, how was my remark racist? I’m sorry if it was misleading to be interpreted as racist, but I had no intent of doing so. I was just acknowledging how launching an invasion from the south was key to shutting down the German machine.

@yoranvangils9903

5 жыл бұрын

Cali Gaming it wasn’t racist tho

@caligaming1732

5 жыл бұрын

Rumbo Jumbo that’s what I felt, I guess some people just have different ways of interpreting things.

"What would be the better choice? A) Keep over 200k men in Africa where they are doomed to be surrounded and captured B) Pull them back to Sicily and possibly prevent a smashing success in Dragoon" Arnim: A

@lukasscriver8312

5 жыл бұрын

Well how are you going to get all of those men over to Sicily safe ?

@armincal9834

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. Let's ignore the fact that the British navy had control of the sea and there was literally no way for the Axis to withdraw all those troops safely if at all. the reality is not like Empire total war whwn u can sail a full stack army on a single merchent ship :D

@b4nterontilt245

2 жыл бұрын

1st, Dragoon was landing operation in southern France in 1944 and 2nd... wtf? How were they supposed to pull their troops back to Europe? Allies had air and naval supperiority and still some forces were needed to hold the line so there rest could escape. Also they didn't have enough supplies and transports for that

Well done. My teen grandson just did a podcast about Operation Torch for his Advanced Placement WWII History Class & being in New Orleans did plenty of research at the National WWII Museum started by author Stephen Ambrose, my old college professor at UNO. He wrote Band of Brothers. The podcast is called Tigers By The Fire so give it a listen. He graduated with honors after his team won the State Lacrosse Championship & he is now a plebe at the US Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY.

I remember watching you from the very very beginning when you started with Tibi (can’t pronounce his real name sorry lol) but I missed how many months of this channel for various reasons but wow am I happy to see how much it’s blown up. Congratulations!

You should do a series on the Japanese invasion of Korea 1592-1598, aka the imminent war.

@cherryslat5702

5 жыл бұрын

Extra History did that from the Korean perspective with theur series about Admirial Yi.

@JayCeee509

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I've seen it but I want to see a overview on the ground side of war.

@somerandomguy4812

5 жыл бұрын

You mean the Imjin War?

@omarhab3689

3 жыл бұрын

@@JayCeee509 kings and generals covered the ground war (and the navel war)there video is awsome you must check it out

Some stuff you didn't cover. 1. FDR, when deciding between a landing in north africa in 1942 vs a landing in France in 1943 decided on north Africa because he was slagging in the polls and wanted a big military win before the midterm elections. Due to delays the landings in north Africa were just days after the midterm elections. 2. The US was worried about Spain joining the side of the axis or at least letting German forces to pass through Spain to attack Gibraltar. if Gibraltar fell then the landings in Algeria would be cut off from resupply and would have to breakout towards morocco. The British did not believe that Gibraltar could be taken. Nevertheless, a compromise was reached where a third landing force would be sent to the Moroccan coast to secure access to the Atlantic ocean should Gibraltar fall. This landing force set off from Virginia which just goes to show that as technology improves, cross Atlantic naval invasions are possible. 3. British soldiers were taught to speak French with an American accent because it was assumed that French soldiers would be less likely to shoot Americans than British.

@somerandomguyfromthebeyond1821

5 жыл бұрын

that last part gave me a chuckle

@vertergaminghd399

5 жыл бұрын

Why though ? Weren't the Brits and the French the ones that had each other's backs for decades?

@somerandomguyfromthebeyond1821

5 жыл бұрын

@@vertergaminghd399 lets just say before the North African campaign the Royal Navy may had destroyed the French Navy to prevent the Nazi's from getting it. which did not sat well with the French

@vertergaminghd399

5 жыл бұрын

@@somerandomguyfromthebeyond1821 yeah, that might have been slightly frowned upon

@attilakatona-bugner1140

5 жыл бұрын

They may have disliked the idea of 1000 dead sailors, also they never really trusted eachother, not even today

My grandfather was part of the wave of American soldiers that arrived at North Africa by boat. He told my dad that the water was so choppy that they got tossed around like rag dolls in that thing and he broke his glasses forcing him to only see out of one eye for half of his tour there since they didn’t give him a new pair until six months later. He had been drafted and was only given five weeks of basic training and didn’t even know how to clean his gun

The revolutions by Bolivar and San Martin would be nice. A vid about my grandpa Kim Il-sung would be nice too

@hateoverlove1

5 жыл бұрын

LOL

@martincastro6051

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Can you make invasion of Yugoslavia?

@lucasarellano5835

5 жыл бұрын

I have time, I think we can invade Yugoslavia

@akhashdhillon2159

5 жыл бұрын

Errr sure. Let me get my Panzer

@danielwebb4713

5 жыл бұрын

Count me in.

@lsd-rickb-1728

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah let me call in my 7th army warhmact

@asianlifter

4 жыл бұрын

Josip Croatia, and Bosnia are also Yugoslavian, though

“Rommel Strikes Back” “Return of The Allies “America Awakens” hmm....

@alexv6324

5 жыл бұрын

We'll forget about The Last Ally.

@pyeitme508

4 жыл бұрын

WHY IT HAS TO BE STAR WARS?!

@alexv6324

4 жыл бұрын

@@pyeitme508 Terrible plot. The allies survive, but Eisenhower sacrifices his life by force projecting himself all the way from England.

@tl256

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexv6324 'The Last Ally' should be about the battle of Britain lol

my god the animation is absolutely stunning that i had to comment on it

The Italian Campaign would be a good follow up series after this.

Nice touch with the Tiger being Tiger 131, the last operational Tiger left.

I like how his animator(s) make the characters look like the commanders from World Conqueror 4 :P

@cherryslat5702

5 жыл бұрын

Thought he animated it.

@Victor-07-04

2 жыл бұрын

I'm more a World Conqueror 3 guy

@hasanulhoque8012

Жыл бұрын

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Can you cover the Warsaw uprising? This would be awesome :)

@Coolidge2329

2 жыл бұрын

He doesn’t like Jews

It’s crazy how quickly ww2 was wrapped up. But with so much carnage and death I’m sure it felt like an eternity for the survivors that fought in it

This is brilliant! Thank you for making this.

This video was really high quality. Good job on this one.

Great series about North African Campaign. I also wanted to know about this but I only had limited information about this. Thank you for these videos and keep up the good work.

Been waiting for this video

THE BURMA THEATER WHEN

6:04 131, the only tiger survived that can move on its own power. Great referance there

Stupendous video. The true essence of your word elaboration and descriptions of the innumerable books and events cannot be overlooked. Thank you and keep up the good work.

The worst mistake Hitler made during the war was not demanding Mussolini join the allies.

@aspielm759

5 жыл бұрын

Derek Bignell should’ve invaded Italy and then put someone good in charge.

@paullytle1904

4 жыл бұрын

@@aspielm759 with what army a two front war is hard enough

My uncle served in the Sherwood Foresters in North Africa, 5th Battalion. Wounded in North Africa in 1943 February. He fought under Monty. I think the Desert Rats.

@hasanulhoque8012

Жыл бұрын

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Very good video, thanks Griffin.

Great work !! Thank you sir !! 👍 👍

So which theater is next? Italy, France or Pacific?

@TheArmchairHistorian

5 жыл бұрын

Hmm. For June and July, we're going to be experimenting a bit with theater/time period. You'll see what I mean soon.

@zlatko8051

4 жыл бұрын

The Armchair Historian And then,The flag flew over mount surrabachi.

Great video today

Hell yeah its here

Love these new bit longer videos

I enjoyed your presentation, including the ads.

Nice intro! Very chill

I love your channel man

Nice subtle nod to TIger 131!

Nice video guys good work . I would absolutely LOVEEEE to see Greek Revolution 1821 !!!!

you forgot to mention the brave actions of the italian army led by Messe who defended Tunisi till the last man. After the battle Messe was captured and was sent to italy to fight for the italian king Vittorio Emanuele III against the nazi and fascist forces.

Excellent!

Do the Stauffenberg Attempt

@TheArmchairHistorian

5 жыл бұрын

We're going to have a video on that on Historynet next week. Check the community tab for updates.

The Tiger 131 reference is perfect. Love it.

Those 4 guys carried a balloon tank all over north Africa for like 3 years lmao

The music is a nice touch :)

1:06 Union Jack wrong way round under the little ships :-), nice series though, thanks.

This video was published and released on my birthday! This is so cool LMAO I just realized this.

Would love a collab between you and TIK on the North African front. Maybe a podcast to discus your perspectives?

@apropercuppa8612

5 жыл бұрын

друг It might be restricted on KZread though. It’s probably best uploaded to pornhub.

Just as I started my heart's of iron 3 black Ice campaign as Italy. 👍

@vexintersect1312

5 жыл бұрын

Hope you have better luck than Italy IRL!

@hasanulhoque8012

Жыл бұрын

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I'd enjoy hearing your take on Lloyd Fredendall's abysmal leadership at the Battle of Kassarine Pass.

Your great thank you

A Band of Brothers/The Pacific style mini-series about the North Africa campaign would be cool

Can you do a video on why the Ottomans where so bad in WW1

@hensolo8825

5 жыл бұрын

But they won in Gallipolli and humiliated the brits, despite their situation

@knight4347

5 жыл бұрын

That is true but just look at the invasion of the Caucuses and the attempt to capture the Suez canal and others. True they won at Gallipolli,but their losses greatly out weigh their victories.

@muhammad.zeeshanuddin1935

4 жыл бұрын

@@knight4347 Their empire was crippling. The arabs rebeled against Ottoman rule and devastated their oil supply

@muhammad.zeeshanuddin1935

3 жыл бұрын

@تشارلز حكمة Why are you happy? That incident divided the last muslim ummah. After the europeans fooled the arabs, they split them into small countries and ruled over them, instead of giving them the independence that they wanted.

@hasanulhoque8012

Жыл бұрын

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von Arnim: 'Paulus just got promoted to Field Marshall before surrendering at Stalingrad. Can I also get a promotion when my situation is hopeless?'

God bless you!

LOL. "If you want to avoid being implicated in a coup d'etat..." What a smooth transition to a sponsorship! Brilliant!

Those tactic graphics look like you remade them from hoi4

@Nonaryfame

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

Dune music is a cool touch.

A little-known fact is that the British No. 6 Commando unit was outfitted with US uniforms and weapons for political reasons. My father saw it with his own eyes as a cabin boy on one of the transport ships. This was a war secret for years, and was only openly talked about relatively recently.

@Hew.Jarsol

Ай бұрын

Yes I just posted in here about this!

Von Arnhem's own caution is what ruined Rommel's plan. He always held back forces for future battles, even though Rommel warned him that the only way for the plan to work was to go for broke. Arnhem frittered away his chance. More importantly, Von Arnhem had a moustache not unlike the Gestapo general from "Hogan's Heroes ".😂

My grandpa was a volunteer tank engineer in Paton's army from beginning to end. Died years later of Malaria he had caught there

Here we go.

Hey dude please do history on Canadian battles in 1800’s battle of cut knife and battle of batoche

@tristendaigneault112

5 жыл бұрын

I did a lot of research if you like me to show you some research I be glad to

Can you make a video on RSI army divisions/units, their operations, as well as the same for the Italian waffen SS division & Karst Jaegar 24th SS division. Also it would be swell to see one on the Italian invasion of southern france, yugoslavia, greece, and it's administration. Also the italian 8th army on the eastern front would be great. Also a video on the volksdeutsche which were extracted from eastern Europe to compose a number of waffen grenadier divisions would be awesome bro. Thanks! Oh and a video on german operations against the partisans in the Balkans, with emphasis on the prince Eugen gebirgs division, german jaegar divisions, the bosnian ss corps, the White Russia army axis divisions, and the cossack divisions i believe were also there.the ss fallschirmjaegar regiment, and collaborationist axis units in the theatre, basically all formations subordinate to Army group E, and also any part bulgaria played in helping the axis in that theatre.

6:02 Notice Tiger 131 there. Nice detail. ;P

Gear In 1940, 41 and most of 42 the Heer had: Rifle squads with K98's, one smg and one MG34. The only AT gun was the 37mm, DP 88's belonged to the Luftwaffe. Tanks were the PZ I, PZ II, PZ III, PZ 38t and PZ IV with the low velocity 75mm. And air superiority. From late 42 the Heer had: A higher ratio of smg's and some MG 42's. Some 50mm and 75mm AT guns. Some up gunned PZ III's and PZ IV's and Tigers. US forces had no air support at Kasserine Pass.

Yo that Roman legionarie in the background looks dope where can I get on

TotallynotpartofoperationValkyrie. The funnest youtube ads I have ever seen...

this history channel fr popped outta nowhere

Excellent video.Can you do one about the War of the Triple Alliance?

Watching this as a catch up, before Indy and WW2 cover it

Can you sell your artwork? Like a montage of all the drawings we see in places like the intro?

Germany: so we’re fine, as long as no one attacks America Japan: question Germany: what is your question Japan? Japan: I attacked America Germany: YOU DID WHAT

Reckognised Dune's main theme ^^

Sad end for the greatest and most respectful german general

@apropercuppa8612

5 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t Von Manstein considered to be the best German Field Marshal?

@yavyav2281

5 жыл бұрын

A Proper Cuppa Yes Von Manstein was a really good Field Marshal but Rommel was even better as a general, see how he led the african campaign and he was respectful of pows. Hitler said after the murder of Heidrich by commandos that every commando squad that is captured must be put to death without question, Rommel like few, never complied to this order, its why I say he was a good man

@apropercuppa8612

5 жыл бұрын

Yav Yav He over-stretched their lines on a number of occasions, which severely hampered their progress and plan in N. Africa. Sometimes, it was going against orders of those above him or on par with him. He failed to inform that Italian leader (don’t remember the name) on certain things, just leading his troops into battle, and he supported Nazism. I’m lead to believe he knew of, and did nothing about the concentration camps and the extermination of many people. Seems a little bit contradictory or hypocritical, no?

@yavyav2281

5 жыл бұрын

A Proper Cuppa well, very true I agree, but say one german general that wasnt at very least supportive of the nazi regime and Ill reconsider my opinion. He led his troops ( the german at least ) to victory for several months even if he was largerly outnumbered thank also to his lieutenants like Oberst Ponath. As far as I know him, he wasnt a bad man like Heidrich or Sepp Dietrich.

@zacksima8333

5 жыл бұрын

A Proper Cuppa if you were a German (or frankly myself) in the 1930s it’s very likely you’d have been tolerant of the Nazis (in the Soviet Union the communists.) You can’t blame a man for living in a bad regime, just like how you can’t really criticize a North Korean that lives in North Korea but doesn’t hate the government.

Good jokes in the sponsored bit

Make video about Balkan wars

Long live George S Patton

Patton: macarthur I don't feel so good

"Patton's II corps". Wot no love for Fredendall?

@Kurvaux

5 жыл бұрын

Jim Laker Wot no love for Ryder? In all seriousness tho I don’t see why he constantly mentions Patton.Patton didn’t really do that much until Sicily and France.

I love it when the allies prank the axis with fake tanks

@sirborkington1052

5 жыл бұрын

There is a camera there, there, there and tanks on your less prepared fronts

5:57 Tiger 131 was captured in north Africa, i see what you did there xD

So glad you lied about this being last North Africa video and put one out 2 weeks ago!

As nice as the giveaway sounds, I don't even know why I bother, bcuz I know for a fact I'm not getting anything. deserves a GGWP on Arm chair and Ironside's part.

wanna know a fun fact? in Tunisia, we never learned about any of the battles that happened in our country during ww2. in fact, ww2 is hardly touched on in our history curruculum XD

@ShadowReaper-pu2hx

Жыл бұрын

Do you guys learn about the Punic Wars?

you should do the war in Yugoslavia

So when we can expect "The Last Rommel" - full video about that failed coup d'etat.

Do Operation Husky (Allied invasion of Sicily)

@zlatko8051

5 жыл бұрын

Mincemeat has been eaten.Release the husky.

Bernard Montgomery is my favorite commander of the war

Rommel was literally the kid others looked at when they got in trouble.

Do battle of monte cassino

Fox on the run? Sounds like a sevenitys pick up song!

Tiger 131 is at Bovington and in Fury

The part where you talk about Franco's Spain getting involved on the German side seems like a stretch to me. From what I read, Spain at the time was heavily reliant on the US (grain imports, telephone communications, oil etc.).

2:08 incorrect rank for this campaign. Patton did not receive his 4th star until near the end of the war in Germany.