I listen to these presentations all day at work. Thank you so much for uploading

@larryzigler6812

2 жыл бұрын

Were do you work ?

@toytacambery9427

4 ай бұрын

"At my job"* People who actually work don't have such luxury.

@firingallcylinders2949

2 ай бұрын

Fat L take, many jobs allow headphones in at work. I do maintenance and always listen to these at work.​@toytacambery9427

Great presentation and analysis - ww2 and the battle of the bulge has so much hype, this is somber well documented

Thanks a lot for the upload, great service!

@etwas013

4 жыл бұрын

I have trouble understanding why Panzermuseum would endorse this mockery of history? Anyone who invested minimal time in the Ardennes offensive would know that crucial facts are either misrepresented or missing from Mr. Zaloga's explanations.

@pascal4680

3 жыл бұрын

@@etwas013 Why don't you enlighten us?

@etwas013

3 жыл бұрын

@@pascal4680 Okay, here we go.. Zaloga explains Ardennes as a throughout meager German attempt, only succeeding where American lines were thinly and manned by inexperienced units and failing where facing supposed regular divisions. He only mentions two phases; initial surprise assault and failure some 50km west. What about the fluid battle in between, where Americans lost more than 500 tanks? Where a supposed experienced 7th armoured div. lost almost everything that made contact with the opponent? At Marnach, Clervaux, Hosingen, Recht, Antoniushof, Feitsch, Stoumont, Baraque de Fraiture, Belle Haie and Manhay are also those villages where US road blocks were, according to Zaloga, supposed to hinder Germans. But in fact they were all lopsided battles of fairly equal numbers where US army lost whole task forces at once. Bergström concludes in his book "Ardennes, 1944-1945" that where Americans lacked air support or massed artillery, their defensive endeavours were a failure. With this one can draw a clear distinction between US successes and failures. US army was completely incapable of fluid combat or delaying action and could only either sacrifice units at road blocks or plainly flee, which their mass motorisation and supplies enabled. Nothing much has changed from Kasserine where a maneuver warfare against Germans was attempted. Americans learned that it is futile and that reliance on numbers and attrition is their only solution. Artillery and air coordunation are topics that Zaloga should really be focusing on and perhaps begin with a more realistic assumptions of US military skills.

Very informative talk. I could listen to this guy all day long.

A good watch 👍 Regardless of all the sacrifice of the British and American armies ,it should always be remembered that the German army was ground down and destroy by the Soviets . No eastern front ,no allied invasion of the western front. 3 million well armed ,well equipped Germans would have been too much to take on .

I have long enjoyed Mr. Zaloga's book and own a large number of his works. This is a very interesting lecture that raises many good points. However, I want to inject a note of balance into his discussion of the German forces. He is correct that the quality of the German forces had declined by the winter of 1944-45. What is often overlooked is that the American forces were experiencing similar manpower issues due the demands of a fighting a two front (Europe - Pacific) war, while simultaneously producing enough to supply our own forces and those of our allies. Albeit not to as sever a degree as the Germans. For instance, to bulk out their forces, the Germans fielded units of men with similar ailments (such a ulcer). The U.S. had to take in men with conditions that normally disqualified them from service. Examples included; people with flat feet, who needed to wear glasses, who had to have their teeth pulled and be supplied with false teeth, etc. Similarly, both sides used partially trained troops transferred from other services. The Germans from their air force and navy. At first, in our case, men were taken from anti-aircraft and anti-tank units. Later as the shortage of replacements grew more dire, Eisenhower instituted the Voluntary Infantry Replacement Program, which took men from supply and other non-combat assignments, gave them a brief course in infantry skills, and then assigned them to combat units. There are additional examples of troops being committed with less than the needed training, etc. Relative Scarcity of manpower was effecting both sides, just the Germans worse than the Americans.

@rotwang2000

11 ай бұрын

It's absolutely correct that both faced manpower shortages, but the issues were fundamentally very different. For the US, the infantry had suffered far more casualties than other branches and the stream of replacements had slowed down in August-September 1944, in the belief that the fight was almost over. Another issue is that the US had cover a lot more ground than they had previously in France advancing on a broad front which meant that more units were now in the front line, making it even more pressing to have enough reserves as the Germans were starting to fight back instead of collapsing and running. The Army did end up sending more troops, but most only arrived in the closing days or after Germany had surrendered. People also tend to forget the relative swiftness corrections could be made, especially if you consider that everything and everyone had to be shipped by sea so you can criticize mistakes, but they were second to none in fixing them. The situation for the Germans was much worse, they were scraping the bottom of the barrel, looking for anyone who could hold a rifle. By the time of the Bulge they were down to 40+ year old men and 16-17 year olds to fill in the gaps. Germany still had a solid core of experienced veterans, but they were being used up at an alarming rate as the Allies continued to push. Into 1945 the situation was desperate with men and women of 50-60+ years of age and kids as young as 12-13 being mustered for the last ditch defense.

One of the big things that rarely gets mentioned in this battle is the US Army gets to use prox fuzes for the first time. That prox fuze increases artillery's effectivenss by 400%.

@johnburns4017

2 жыл бұрын

The British gave the proximity fuse to the USA via the Tizard Mission.

@bigwoody4704

2 жыл бұрын

The only thing you gave us is the resposibility ofpulling your chestnuts out of the fire.....AGAIN

@johnburns4017

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigwoody4704 Rambo, a quiz. Name the only allied army that went into retreat in the 1944/45 time period? 20 points for the correct answer.

@bigwoody4704

2 жыл бұрын

I love quizzes What so called Field Marshall didn't cross the 30 Mile so called Channel after getting driven into it for 4 FULL YEARS .It only took 16-20 days to leave? The French,Belgians,Dutch,Poles and Czechs would like to know .You're going to have to make up a whole bunch of wonderful new lies or people aren't going to want to go on reading.

@johnburns4017

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigwoody4704 *BBBZZZZZZT!* Wrong answer. The name of the only allied army that went into retreat in the 1944/45 time period, was the.... 🍾🎊🎈 *US army in the Bulge* 🍾🎊🎈 Zero points Rambo. Zero. Better Luck next time.

Thanks for uploading this. Special mention for showing his slides.

Britain has been more or less completely written out of the Battle of the Bulge, deliberately, but we were there too. In fact, Field-Marshal Montgomery was about to take his first Christmas leave at home since the start of the war, when he heard the panicked radio traffic, he put his plans on hold: he took control of the 1st and 9th US Armies with Eisenhower's support. the commander of 9US was General Bill Simpson, one of the few American officers to respect Montgomery. Those two armies stopped the mass retreat and stopped the Germans in their tracks while Patton drove south to relieve Bastogne. Montgomery stayed with the two American armies all the way to Berlin. Meanwhile, the British Army was moving east over the north of the bulge, and they had their hands full all the way. The end of the battle, which is not publicised much, was the British in the north linking up with the Americans in the south, thus pinching off the bulge. The first meet-up resulted in a bit of friendly fire: a furious British officer stomped up to an American Sherman tank and rapped angrily on the hull with his swagger stick. As the bemused tank commander, evidently recognising the man as an ally because he was dressed in khaki rather than German Feldgrau, opened up his hatch, the British officer said, in an inimitably British way, "I say, you've just browned off my Number Two tank!" Now, there were a lot more Americans involved in the battle than there were British, but please don't write us off. No, we didn't win the battle for you, but at least we were there, guarding your northern flank and keeping German forces occupied..

@kucingmiumiu854

4 жыл бұрын

Yup! WW2 is a team efforts. The defense of the Ardennes Offensive is no difference.

@platinumk17

4 жыл бұрын

Monty was still in trouble for market garden, that might have something to do with his being kept in the background

@marctempler3250

4 жыл бұрын

Ahhh...Montgomery who? Oh yeah...the Brit general who beat Rommel a few miles east of Alexandria...whom he outnumbered by fifty percent in men and two to one in tanks? No doubt - the best Britain had!

@Mauriziobarenboim

4 жыл бұрын

@@marctempler3250 Rommel was incompetent... I use to like him, and I still like his morality, but he was an incompetent tank general.

@thevillaaston7811

3 жыл бұрын

@@marctempler3250 Shall we look at when a US General beat Rommel?..

"Sh......Shnectady, NY." Man, don't do that to us, we have it bad enough as it is....

Thank you. So much information; one has to concentrate hard to get it all. Big difference between being in a battle and studying it later. Most vets do not know what, where, why when it is all happening but you have made it all so clear for them and for us!

Fantastic presentation. Thank you for making it available.

exceptionally good presentation. no superficial stuff - really detailed and to the point

Lecture starts at 2:45

@larryzigler6812

2 жыл бұрын

so

@b00tysmith

2 жыл бұрын

@@larryzigler6812 so we don't have to listen to pointless ego stroking

@larryzigler6812

2 жыл бұрын

@@b00tysmith Are you sure it's pointless ?

@b00tysmith

2 жыл бұрын

@@larryzigler6812 it is to me and to 49 other people as well apparently

@larryzigler6812

2 жыл бұрын

@@b00tysmith There go's your ego again.

The comment at 57:35 onwards about engineer equipment and tank dozers reminded me of the US reserve units in Desert Shield with their Unimog front-end loader/backhoes. Strange little vehicles, but they went around trading holes in the ground for plywood, tents, and other supplies that weren't coming to them ordinarily.

Excellent analysis, and yes, in your summary the disparity between German and US/UK artillery capability by this stage in the war was stark. Also in 1940 the Luftwaffe's contribution was critical enabling the Wermacht to overcome numerous strong points, whereas in 1944 the USAAF and RAF always had a significant advantage.

Fascinating lecture. Clearly it needed to be longer as Steve had a lot more to say, but a good introduction to the top of the early days of the german offensive.

@TheNordhammer

4 жыл бұрын

Nothing new though,just repeating some excellent works such as- Charles B MacDonald's "A Time for Trumpets" and Hubert Meyer's "The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division'" vol 1 & - just to mention two....

@nickbrough8335

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheNordhammer I know what you mean. I've read many histories in the past and whilst the defeat of the Northern offensive isn't new, my recollection is that the initial actions were covered in little detail and passed over relatively quickly. I though the idea that the southern offensive was largely pointless as there was no direct route to the ultimate target was not something I remember being raised before either.

@larryzigler6812

2 жыл бұрын

Read books

This story that we were never told has changed my view point on the Battle of the Bulge, thank you.

Very interesting presentation - just ordered his book, and looking forward to reading it!

Now, approaching the 75th anniversary, its important for me to know this so I can pass it along. I am not forgetting Market-Garden or Huertgen Forest. Units from these battles have to do it all over again in the Ardennes.

great lecture great questions

If only we had the map when hes pointing instead of a guy talking with a lazer pointer

@Herintruththelies

4 жыл бұрын

Almost every lecture on KZread is like that unfortunately.

@stephenmichalski2643

4 жыл бұрын

only one thing worse than a book which drones on and on about this happening here and that happening there and no map to reference with........a lecture that does the same

@drgeorgek

3 жыл бұрын

Agree ... one day I guess. There’s worse things in life

@williampockets

9 ай бұрын

Why r they all like this. It's so frustrating

I wish there were more talks by Steven Zaloga on KZread. I’ve only found one other one

@BigMeechEJ25

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah there's not a lot. If you haven't watched Operation Think Tank id recommend that.

Remember Zaloga when I first heard his contribution to board wargames back in the 70's.

@michaelsommers2356

3 жыл бұрын

What was his role?

@broznkyra4853

3 жыл бұрын

...he was a master armor modeler at the time also...

Thank you.

wish the cameraman (person) wasn't so confused, about what how to film a lecture

After I got home from the Army in Grrnany in mid 1974 I used'ta go to a place on IIRC West 36th St in Manhattan called Gateway Hobbies..you took a rickety elevator to the second floor ...it was a hole in the wall hobby shop but the guy had all the latest armor kits and related magazines...along eith a great display if armor vignettes and "dioramas" in the back section of the shop...Steve's magnificent work was always in display...used'ta spend serious time admiring his work...I was familiar with much of it as he was a contributor to many if the modeling magazines of the day...it was always nicer to actually see his work than to just look at photos on a page...BTW...I still have many of those old magazine..

Very well put together presentation. Zaloga is a brilliant historian with a vast range of knowledge. Thank you for making this lecture available to us all.

I wonder if there were many German soldiers who had fought in the Ardennes during the battle of France in 1940 and then again in the Battle of the Bulge over 4 years later.

The German offensive also has a very critical timeline to succeed, just like the Allies' Operation Market-Garden in September.

@bigwoody4704

4 жыл бұрын

and brought on the hunger winter from german reprisals for the failed operation

@explorenew1839

4 жыл бұрын

@John Cornell - & they even had the heavier 57 - Ton Tiger tanks, .. more bridges would collapse..!

@tonyromano6220

4 жыл бұрын

Douglas Strother worse

@tonyromano6220

4 жыл бұрын

John Cornell yep

Excellent video!

So cool to see Mr Zaloga in the flesh, after seeing his name in print for so many years.

It was Walter Bedell Smith who first approach Montgomery on behalf of Ike requesting he take control of the northern sector.

@johnburns4017

2 жыл бұрын

Three SHAEF officers told Bedell Smith give the two shambolic US armies, First and Ninth, to Monty. They visited the armies HQs seeing the shambles. Hodges had ran away from his CP, leaving vital maps on the walls. If they did not, there was an excellent chance the two US armies would be annihilated. A SHAEF officer named Strong approached Bradley telling him of the German build up on the other side of the lines. Bradley said, _"let 'em come"._ They did, to devastating effect.

19:16 "logging trail.."; 26:30 training of tank crews; 31:30 infantry come from Luftwaffe

The Dragon's Teeth: The US engineers didn't blow them up; they got the Dozers out and Buried them!

@alexhayden2303

4 жыл бұрын

@joe jitsu www.abebooks.co.uk/photographs/VINTAGE-WW2-DRAGONS-TEETH-TANK-TRAPS/30219326686/bd

I thought the viewers of this presentation on the 12 SS Panzer division might find it interesting to discover what happened to them in Normandy. This only covers a bit of it but it is instructive as to what the tank warfare was like in Normandy and in the Juno beach region. It is interesting to note that as Montgomery drew up his plans for the Normandy campaign, the Canadians found themselves assigned to the toughest section of the Normandy front. Why was it the toughest? Because it was so wide open in so many places that it was regarded as by far the most favourable territory for tank warfare. So the very terrain of the Juno Beach regions was far and away recognised as the worst for infantry. Hedgerows were fewer or farther between, but the wide open access for the excellent German armoured divisions made it a terrible place to fight for the generally inferior Allied armour. In response to this, D-Day plans called for double the number of artillery pieces to be landed on Juno than on any other beach and immediately put into action, coordinated with the forward-most Canadian infantry units-the Regina Rifles and the Winnipeg Rifles-both of whom had previously stormed the beach early on June 6. It was in precisely this sector of the Canadian front that the Germans planned to mass their armoured divisions and try to push the Canadians back into the sea, and then spread left and right to attack Gold and Sword beaches. This is what Montgomery realised when he drew up the plans for the Normandy campaign. The terrain literally dictated the Nazi’s strategy. During the lynch-pin Battle for Bretteville (June 7-10, 1944) this artillery support was vital and broke up numerous German infantry and 12 SS Panzer attacks. That and the sheer guts and unbelievable determination of the two aforementioned infantry regiments saved the day. These were some tough Canadian kids from the Prairies who took on the German SS Panzer divisions and beat them. The commander of the 12 SS Panzer division, Kurt Meyer, had smugly concluded that his men would sweep the Canadians back into the English Channel like so many “little fishes.” Needless to say, Meyer and his 12 SS Panzers were the ones licking their wounds and howling in misery when they finally fled from Bretteville-minus 43 dead, 99 wounded, 10 missing and 29 panzers destroyed including a good number of Panther Mark Vs. And other than the 29 lost panzers, that was just on the first night! It was here and at nearby Abbey d’Ardenne that Kurt Meyer’s 12 SS and the Canadians began executing each other’s prisoners tit for tat, with no quarter given. The two sides really hated each other and this made for likely the bitterest fighting in Normandy. Here is a limited account of the terrible fighting at Bretteville: www.canadiansoldiers.com/history/battlehonours/northwesteurope/brettevillelorgueilleuse.htm And here is an excellent and much more detailed scholarly account of the Battle of Bretteville in .pdf format: scholars.wlu.ca/cmh/vol16/iss4/2/ [Be prepared to meet Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott of the original Star Trek series fame, as he was actually right in the area, being a Canadian artillery officer who landed on Juno Beach on D-Day. I bet you didn’t know that! ;)] In fact, the Canadians made the greatest penetration of the German lines on D-Day, beating them back almost seven whole miles in the first 24 hours. Neither the Americans nor the British came anywhere close. Indeed, three Sherman tanks of the Canadian 1 Hussars actually reached their assigned D-Day objective-the Caen-Bayeux highway next to Carpiquet airfield-before having to pull back when they could not make radio contact with army HQ and request reinforcements. (And it was hard fighting with the Canadians losing 359 men killed landing on the first day alone-second only to Omaha for men KIA.) Perhaps the great progress was because the Canadian army was the only Allied army in Normandy that was entirely volunteer. (Originally Juno beach was to be called Jelly, but Churchill forbade it noting it was a sorely inappropriate name for a place where so many men were going to die.) And yes, the two British and one Canadian beaches faced the bulk of the German armour-something like 70% of all German armoured divisions in Normandy faced us around Caen. Indeed, German armour was lined up virtually cheek by jowl. Historians have carefully investigated the numbers involved and the Germans, Canadians and British had more tanks per square mile all around Caen than the Russians and Germans had at Kursk! Around Caen and Carpiquet alone, the Germans had seven panzer divisions supplemented by an additional battalion of more than 100 Mark V Panthers! They were Panzer Lehr, 2 Panzer, 9 Panzer, 116 Panzer, 1 SS Panzer, 9 SS Panzer and 12 SS Panzer. Though few people understand this, these were the heaviest, most concentrated tank battles of WW2! In his analysis of the fighting against the Canadians of the Regina Rifles Regiment at Bretteville (which contained a number of Sherman and Firefly tanks, as did virtually every Canadian and British regiment), Hubert Meyer, the commanding general of the 12 SS Panzer division (after Kurt Meyer had been captured in September 1944) wrote later in “The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division, Volume 1” that: “The tactic of surprise, using mobile, fast infantry and Panzers even in small, numerically inferior Kampfgruppen, had often been practiced and proven in Russia. This tactic, however, had not resulted in the expected success here against a courageous and determined enemy, who was ready for defense and well equipped. Through good battle field observation, the enemy had recognized the outlines of the preparations for the attack and drawn his own conclusions. The deployment of D Company [of the Regina Rifles] to Cardonville had prevented a breakthrough by 2./26 [of the 12 SS] from the farm south of the rail line to Bretteville, only 1,000 meters away. The anti-tank defenses all around the village were strong enough to thwart all attempts by the Panzers to by-pass the town to the south and north. The surprising use of parachute flares with glaring magnesium light blinded the Panthers and clearly outlined them to the enemy Pak [anti-tank guns like 6 and 17 pounders]. This enemy was especially strong in the defense and could not be taken by surprise. He fought with determination and courage.” [pages 186-87] One is unlikely to find higher praise from the SS than 12 SS Panzer General Hubert Meyer had for the Regina Rifles Regiment of the Royal Canadian Army! And finally, let's look at the private sentiments of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. In a rarely noted statement from him, cited by historian Andrew Roberts in his “History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900,” 2007, on page 343, he points out a little-known quotation from Eisenhower that “man-for-man the Canadians were the best soldiers in his army.” In hindsight, it is something of a feather in Montgomery’s hat that he beat his own estimate of 90 days for capturing Caen and destroying the German armies-by two full weeks minus one day-but who is counting when numbers are so great and the opposition so terrible? And finally, Montgomery (and all the Allied generals) had insights into overall German strategy and counterattack plans through the Ultra intercepts at Bletchley Park, England. On many occasions he chose to withdraw his forces a short distance in order to preserve them, when informed that much superior German armoured divisions were being moved up to recapture territory lost. This was only sensible. You do not throw away large masses of men and armour to be ground up by superior numbers of enemy armour simply to display your bravado. No, you withdraw and rebuild your own forces until you can overcome what you positively 100% know is a much stronger force facing you only a short distance away. Many have questioned Montgomery’s leadership, perhaps with some reason. But how many know that he had to preserve his forces (as much as he could anyway) when Ultra intelligence revealed that not doing so would only be a futile gesture and the deliberate squandering of many men’s lives? Moreover, London had already told him that infantry reserves were virtually nil (though armour was abundant) and he had better save as many of his men as possible. So let’s try to be a little bit fairer in our criticisms of him. My hat comes off to the many, many brave and excellent fighting men from the US and Britain. They fought as hard as anyone else but it was a team effort between the three great English speaking nations of the world that defeated Nazi Germany in Normandy, as well as the many brave French, Polish and other freedom loving European soldiers who fought alongside us. Bravo to all involved! PS I am not trying to glorify war here, just so anyone who might think this to be so can understand that I do not approve of war-for all the good this will do.

@just_one_opinion

3 жыл бұрын

HJ were kids. That was not a crack force the SS moniker makes people believe. They had good leadership and fought good but allies had better resources all around.

@just_one_opinion

3 жыл бұрын

Canadians did awesome in Normandy, I visited HULL regiment across the river in Ottawa. You guys should be PROUD!

@ToddSauve

3 жыл бұрын

@@just_one_opinion The 12 SS were mainly notorious as murderers of POWs (even among other German divisions), but many, many fought very well indeed. As you mentioned, their leadership were seasoned on the Russian front and really knew how to dig in. But the Canadians also faced Panzer Lehr in the Bretteville-Putot area, and both SS divisions had superior tanks to anything the Allies had. It was nip and tuck for the first five days of the Normandy campaign at Juno. And yes, the entire Allied strategy was to pump men and resources into the five beach heads faster than the Nazis could and thereby blast them out of the entire region. A lot of very young men were killed whose lives would have been much better served not being expended in a war. But that is the case with every war, isn't it? Happy Memorial Day to our American cousins in the Lower 48! And Alaska and Hawaii too!

@ToddSauve

3 жыл бұрын

@@just_one_opinion Historian Marc Milner of the University of New Brunswick has published a new study of the Normandy campaign and its planning called "Stopping the Panzers; the Untold Story of D Day" from the University of Kansas Press in 2014. It really ought to be on the bookshelf of every serious student of the Normandy campaign. In it he goes into details that are literally unknown about the campaign, using primary documents from the British archives. This is a _genuine_ revision of history, not a publicity seeking one that falls apart upon examination. I think you will enjoy it Milan and it will give you a real leg up in your conversations with other enthusiasts and historians!

Lanzereth...Lyle Bouck in command. 99th I&R platoon. Most decorated platoon in WWII. Bouck, youngest Lt. In the army.

really worthwhile though, worth listening to, really interesting, both details and big picture.

I have a number of Mr. Zaloga's publications. It was good to hear him.

@bradleydavies4781

2 жыл бұрын

His book on the Sherman tank is outstanding .

Thank you for your presentation. Watch on the Rhein failed on many levels. Realistically, in hindsight, it should not have been attempted.

My grandpa and his unit displayed many heroic actions there. 1st Bn 9th IR Keep Up The Fire

I thought Jane Fonda's dad won that battle by figuring out the Germans were low on gas. I remember seeing a documentary on t matter on TV when I was a kid.

@BobSmith-dk8nw

4 жыл бұрын

That wasn't a documentary - it was the Movie The Battle of The Bulge and ... that movie had very little to do with reality. Though - the Germans did run out of Gas - Piper's 1st SS ran out of gas and had to destroy their vehicles. The Germans did want to capture American fuel supplies - but they didn't know where they were. There was a large fuel dump right behind the northern shoulder that the Americans were running trucks in and out of moving that fuel dump. .

@frankkolton1780

4 жыл бұрын

@@BobSmith-dk8nw LOL! The comment made by Paul Babcock was very obviously made in jest. "Jane Fonda's dad" should be a very big clue to you.

@BobSmith-dk8nw

4 жыл бұрын

@@frankkolton1780 Eh ... I think there's a good chance that you are right ... but ... I've heard so many ... less than knowledgeable things that ... I'm not surprised by anything people say ... Still ... yeah ... he was probably joking ... I think you're right. .

@robertkaslow3720

4 жыл бұрын

The spirit of Patton was in that Documentary he was in the tiger tanks, no wait....

@BobSmith-dk8nw

4 жыл бұрын

@me hee No. What happened with some of these visits to the POW's was that they did things, during these visits, the North Vietnamese didn't like - and they were tortured for that. One thing they did was when they were all supposed to smile for a picture - they extended their middle fingers. The North Vietnamese asked what that meant - and the Americans said it was something like a Hawaiian Good Luck sign. When the North Vietnamese found out what The Finger really meant - they were pissed and tortured the men involved. Another thing that they did was try to get information out about what was really happening in those prisons and the North Vietnamese didn't like that either. The movie Hanoi Hilton en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanoi_Hilton_(film) about American POW's in North Vietnam has something on her and her husband Tom Hayden's visit to the POW's. What Jane Fonda did - was allowed herself to be used as a propaganda tool by the Communists, sitting on a North Vietnamese Anti-Aircraft Gun and saying "I wish I had one of the bastards in my sights." (something not in her version of the incident ...). She did not fire the guns though - it was just a picture taking session but she did make some radio broadcasts where she accused the US military personnel of being war criminals. She has since apologized for sitting on the anti-aircraft gun - but only for that picture - not for anything else she did. Recently on The View she was promoting some documentary about herself and seemed quite proud of her anti-war stance. So - she's still the same stupid bitch she always was. .

20:14 It got knocked down, but it did not get up again. It drank a yager drink ...

Lots of good info, good talk. But when are folks going to understand that you can't see a laser pointer in a video? Sometimes you have to go back to older tech. A pointy stick would have served better.

@tomctutor

4 жыл бұрын

And Zaloga, when he turned his head to face the audience, sound level dropped. Found that hard to follow because of this. Just nit picking his content was excellent though. My father served with Monty crowd further up (in the REME) and said the whole German situation turned into a shambles with fighting all over the place and no one sure where they were or where they should go!

just taking a moment to salute the sideburns at the start.

@danewikinger6256

4 жыл бұрын

....epic

Interesting insights

Allied soldiers tended to call every German tank a Tiger. To be fair, a Panzer IV is superficially similar and extremely capable. LindyBeige tells the interesting tale during the desert campaign of British Six Pounders taking out German Panzer IVs with relative ease. Things had moved on by 1944, but the six pounder was still a viable weapon that could be set up far more easily than the more powerful 25 pounders or German 88s.

@just_one_opinion

3 жыл бұрын

14.5mm AT rifle can stop a panther (must add schootzen ya!) so....yeah

Did not the genesis for the Offensive come in August, not September?

Program starts at 2:42.

1:00:15 the tongue-snapping is annoying. To answer about the STG-44 - barely 200K were made (100K were made after 1\1\45, and not widely issued to troops - poor logistics records exist that show their issuance. It did have a potential, but it was not widely issued to troops. The MG-42 was a different story. It had been available since late 1942, but the Heer realized it was a double-edged sword. High rate of fire, but, that caused the barrels to heat rapidly (1200rnds\min is a lot). Heer realized control was needed, since the overheating, and the limited ammo the MG teams could carry.

@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs

4 жыл бұрын

Chris McNab in "German Automatic Rifles 1941-45 gives annual production of Sturmgewehr is as follow: 1943 19501, 1944 281860, 1945 124616. Production targets had been set at 100,000 month in January 1944 but although Hitler got behind the weapon his early scepticism of the concept prevented production commencement in 1943 when it might have made a difference. The German squad varied between 9-14 men with the smaller numbers appearing latter in the war as the NCO that lead them became less experienced at leading men. a/ The NCO who lead the squad was probably carrying a MP40 submachine gun with a second MP40 gun available on their horse drawn carriage or AFV if needed. b/ Two men were involved with the MG42, the assistant had a pistol as a personal weapon. c/ Two men likely had the semi-automatic GwR 43 rifle with a 4X optical telescopic sight. This allowed them a rapid fire sniping up to 600m though beyond that the bolt action rifle was more accurate. d/ That left the balance of the squad using K98 rifles. Given that the 3 best shots in the squad had the MG42 and the GwR 43 the squad had pretty good and accurate fire power especially at long range. The NCO with the submachine gun could protect against hidden surprises and the second submachine gun brought out in an assault if needed. When firing from a rifle its a good idea to take cover between shots so the bolt action isn't such a bad thing. e/ Of course many squads were issued the StG 44 and they loved it. When the MG42 was being moved they were able to keep up effective covering fire. The StG 44 and the 2 other rifles developed (StG 45 and MKb 42(H) had developed were a game changer. Had production commenced in early 1943 and production rates of 100,000/month been achieved it would have greatly slowed Soviet and Western allies.

@torbjornbengtsson7748

4 жыл бұрын

@@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs There is a reason why the Germans still produce the MG. Also' ..-The Stg ...copied by Russia. The same german company also designed the AK 4 for the Swedish army.

thank you for a very informative talk. Is it true to say the Battle of the Bulge was won on the planes of Normandy?

@thewhite8uard

2 жыл бұрын

As far as I know the most important role for Allies was played by artillery, and the Bulge is not an exception. Air superiority provided better air recon for artillery. During the Battle of the Bulge the planes delivered artillery ammunition to surrounded troops in the first place.

"Lets use logging trails to push through with armored divisions in the middle of the winter, what's the worst that could happen?" Is anyone but me getting reminded of the winter war?

@ZnenTitan

4 жыл бұрын

Do you mean in Finland?

@henrik3291

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZnenTitan Yes ;)

@henrik3291

4 жыл бұрын

@Evan Moyer Yeah I guess the Nazi war effort was pretty doomed all together by then.

what does ETO mean? In this case of 59:37

@catfish552

4 жыл бұрын

European Theater of Operation. In the same vein there is the MTO (Mediterranean, i.e. North Africa and Italy) and the PTO (Pacific).

@travislighty7360

4 жыл бұрын

@@catfish552 thank you so much. Casually throwing out an acronym that gives dozens of hits on Google isn't helpful.

@travislighty7360

4 жыл бұрын

@Evan Moyer Christmas 1944: tired soldiers from the 101st airborne and 3rd SS panzer division set down their weapons. Using walkies as instruments Intiate the first electronic dance rave.

Watch on Rhein? I thought it became more Guard at the Rhein?

I am picturing 18-year olds commanding Jagdpanthers with half a tank of gas, eight rounds of ammo and two weeks of training. Not going to end well.

@sichere

4 жыл бұрын

The deadliest weapon in the world is a 19 year old Marine and his rifle

@terraflow__bryanburdo4547

4 жыл бұрын

@@sichere Actually in WWII it was a U.S. artillery spotter and his radio,

@sichere

4 жыл бұрын

@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 General John Pershing - Marine go take out that US Spotter Spotter - But I'm on your side and have the back up of artillery Marine - kzread.info/dash/bejne/dn-hyKqIgMmZibg.html

@LS-rw9yp

2 жыл бұрын

@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 LMAO, no it wasn’t!

Zaloga : Exists Spookston : *Can i milk you?*

My thinking is that the Germans would have enjoyed greater mobility had there offensive bee comprised of the lighter, up-gunned, panzer mk III for the offensive through the gap. The heavier panzers should have been held back for battles on open ground where they excel. Air power of the allies was so dominant that the Germans should have learned to night fight.

58:000 why excessive focus on Bastogne

When Zaloga speaks, people listen.

Very interesting details, thank you so much for sharing...it matches up with my summary view of the war at that time, being; The German army units on the western front were basically cobbled together for this final effort and were also severely under equipped/supplied; the bulk of the German army frontline units (as they were) were still on the eastern front. I am an American and mostly through the movies we have been led to believe we somehow won the war during this campaign, but the truth is by winter of 44 the war outcome was already a fait accompli. Not taking anything away from the heroic fighting that American units did, but they were fighting a shell of the German army by this time ( an old U.S. Marine vet. and Ph.D. Engineer who works for a large American defense contractor's Missile Systems company.

@bigwoody4704

4 жыл бұрын

No they weren't Hitler moved much of the Army West thinking the Anglo-Americans would come to the peace table.Thus buying him time in the East,as usual - he's wrong

@MrChickennugget360

4 жыл бұрын

its not that the German army were "fighting in the east" at this point but that the entire German Army was a shell. There is a reason why it did not last another 6 months after this battle. Most Germany Divisions ANYWHERE were only suitable for defensive operations at best.

@MrChickennugget360

4 жыл бұрын

people need to realize that 1944 both on the western front and the eastern front was a blood bath for the German army. the defeats they had on both flanks were greater than at places like Stalingrad or even the 1941-42 defeat. Germany was on the road to total defeat

@stevefowler2112

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigwoody4704 Not correct...the vast majority of the panzer and mechanized units still intact were on the eastern front...this last ditch effort (Battle of the Bulge) was mostly made up of units not graded as capable of offensive actions and those that were had such numerical and supply limitations they could only fight for about 7 days. The units were at about half strength at best and literally made up of boys and old men.

@bigwoody4704

4 жыл бұрын

No for the Bulge Hitler moved more forces west.I think I read it in Zalogas book.I know it was in Hastings and Beevors also - I've read it,The Russians had stopped because of weather and refitting

46.10 "the 19th of December there's just no hope of redeeming it"

34:50 muddy fields force panzers to stick to the roads

Nice presentation. Unfortunately no reference made to the impact of the British code breaking effort which was reading all the German coded messages. Shooting of prisoners unfortunately was a common practice. Malmedy got the publicity. War is hell!!!!

@curtisc6429

4 жыл бұрын

It’s mentioned in another presentation on this channel, hitler knew something was up with enigma by this point so the entirety of the planning of this operation was essentially kept out of the enigma loop

would be interesting if instead of 12th hitler youth division they used panzer lehr , ss viking or das treich and used the 12th in a reserve role

@sugarnads

4 жыл бұрын

feereel almost like u wanted the nazis to win.

@khurdur2939

4 жыл бұрын

WIking might have done a bit better, the overall quality of the division was better at that stage, but the main issue was the bottleneck; any Panzer div without any serious engineer support was doomed

One point is missing, the major one that ENIGMA / ULTRA did not show evidence of such plans cause this time they did no use radios but kradmelder which means motorbike riders delivering the commands. Therefore the big surprise succeeded.

Hilarious trying to follow a presso with a laser pointer that does not show up in the presso. I found it rather hard to follow.

I wish someone had asked if the code-breakers gave the allies any warning of the offensive.

@platinumk17

4 жыл бұрын

One of the other lectures they talk about how hitler had begun to avoid using the enigma for specific things instead having courieers hand deliver messages, as a result it didnt show up on ultra and at the time the allies put a little too much stock in ultra

@platinumk17

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/X31skpWnk9Hcfbw.html

@marksummers463

4 жыл бұрын

They didnt. To maintain security, the Germans scrupulously avoided talking about the offensive on the radio. It was ONLY discussed via telephone lines and couriers which we couldn't intercept.

Nice presentation of an enormous head.

That guy asking the question about the Fg42 and the STG is 100% wehraboo. You can tell by his voice that he is SO upset that the superior nazis lost, they even had these wonder weapons!

@SVSky

4 жыл бұрын

He's a gamer. That's basically the deal.

@darthioan

11 ай бұрын

The guy in the front row is annoying the entire lecture.

The German Generals realized the battle was unwinnable while they were arguing with Hitler not to execute the stupid plan...

I really like Sepp Dietrich. I like what Von Rundstedt said about his leadership skills LOL!

@larryzigler6812

2 жыл бұрын

Are your parents Nazi's too ?

@just_one_opinion

2 жыл бұрын

@@larryzigler6812 do yours keep palestinians in concentration camps?

@just_one_opinion

2 жыл бұрын

@@larryzigler6812 zigleberg ziglowitz ziglerstein did your parents change your name?

@DogeickBateman

7 ай бұрын

@@just_one_opinion Ok nazi

Excellent - more info and insights than any treatment on this battle I've seen before. Most treatments are done by stupid clods.

@larryzigler6812

2 жыл бұрын

Like yourself

We're all guy in the front sometimes

@Milton_Waddams.

3 жыл бұрын

Haha. He’s so pumped to be there. I love it

The Americans did not do their homework and left the door open for Hitler to use the Ardennes as he did in 1940. Fortunately it did not quite work this time.

After the Hurtgen, Bradley and Hodges should have been fired, but because Ike was his buddy his incompetence was allowed to persist. Hodges should have been fired after abandoning his HQ in Spa and fleeing to Liege and then locking himself away its a disgrace.

@MS-gr2nv

4 жыл бұрын

Just like that coward McArthur, leaving Wainwright and rest of our boys in PI...

@nickbrough8335

4 жыл бұрын

At a strategic level couldn't you argue that personal rivalries messed up the entire offensive to a significant degree. Patton's dash across France and then into Germany wasn't along a strategically important axis. With the fuel shortage, could the allies afford 3 separate offensives in France (ie northern axis into the low countries, Patton and northwards along the Rhone valley in 44 ? Opening the ports Rotterdam and Antwerp were surely logistically the highest priority after Sept 44. Did Eisenhower exercise enough control over the strategic objectives or did he surrender too much authority to his field commanders ? It would be an interesting study to ask what would Soviet commanders have done next and how would they have proceeded after Normandy.

I don't understand the German perspective at 48:58 where the reports indicated a dismissive tone about the efficacy of the US army, particularly when the focus of this segment is that the German army in the winter of 44 is not the same qualitatively or quantitatively as it was 6mo earlier in summer of 44. If you got your TOE trashed to the extent that is being portrayed here, wouldn't that force some hard earned lessons about the capability of the people your fighting? Wouldn't all the arrogant and dismissive officers kind of be gone, one way or another, by winter of 44?

@dontrotter1099

4 жыл бұрын

They evidently did think it, or why else did they attempt it? All Hitlers yes men told him to go ahead with it. The fact that the 106th was put into a "Quiet" sector, was a contributing factor to the start of this. total failure of high commands intel on this whole assault. You are talking about some pig headed ss leaders here. they thought they were better than any other countries armed forces. Yet even thought ole sep deitreck(sp) survived the war and died of old age. com eon here.

"the final offensive the Wehrmacht attempted during World War II" - havent Americans heard of Lake Balaton in Hungary in 1945?

How can the speaker not know the S is silent in Ardennes?

I suppose we should be gratefull he mentioned the British at all. The considerable contribution of airborn and specialised troops in the north was supressed for "political" reasons.

If you have Keith ablow counseling Artie and high pitch mike that would be cool

Your pointer, laser or otherwise, is not working. This program should be edited so that we know on the map what you're talkin about. Someone should follow up and do this job. Without it it is unclear what you're talkin about on the maps.

I always thought is bizarre that the Americans in 1944 forgot (or ignored) the lessons of 1940. I'm really surprised that the British didn't raise a warning about being complacent about the Ardennes.

@fuzzydunlop7928

5 жыл бұрын

On the one hand this is after years of numerically-baffling warfare on the Eastern Front and in the Mediterranean. I mean, the Axis lost a ridiculous amount of personnel and material in the East and an almost-equal amount in North Africa, they'd schwacked almost an entire army group in the Falaise Pocket, and reduced German capabilities all throughout France - in addition to bogging down (and getting bogged down) in static warfare on the Italian peninsula. I could see how they would wager that the Germans would prioritize offensives in the East and fight nothing but rear-guards in the West. On the other hand, they'd recently been surprised by German capabilities during Market/Garden and had been intercepting German communications for a large chunk of the war. Perhaps it was confirmation bias, or an infectious optimism among the Allied commanders. Perhaps the rift between the Allied forces made them distrustful and disorganized. I consider it an intelligence failure more than anything.

@BobSmith-dk8nw

4 жыл бұрын

OK ... going through the Ardennes was stupid. It was stupid in 1940 and it was stupid in 1944. The difference was - that in 1940 - there was almost no one there. The Belgians were expecting the Germans to come through the flat terrain to the North - which was originally what they were going to do so that was where they had all their good units. But also - the Belgians didn't have enough units in their Army to line their borders. IF the Belgians had invited the British and French in before the Germans attacked - THEN - you could have had a line of French Infantry Corp going through the Ardennes and - stopped the Germans cold in 1940 - but - with nothing but two Belgian Cavalry Divisions there the Germans just rolled right through them. In 1944 - the Americans did have a solid line of Infantry Divisions going through the Ardennes. The 106th was brand new and extremely exposed out on the Schnee Eifel and the 2nd and 28th Infantry Divisions were recovering from losses in the Hurtgen Forest - but they were there. The Germans pushed them back and got a deep penetration but ... they were never going to get far. On those terrible roads. The closest they got to the Meuse River was one unit that came up a road - and the lead tank was knocked out by an anti tank gun. The next tank tried to go around it on one side and was knocked out too. The the next tank tried the other side - and was knocked out. That was the end of that because those three knocked out tanks blocked the road and the rest of the German unit couldn't get by them - because they couldn't go off the roads. .

@PanzehVideos

4 жыл бұрын

@Evan Moyer Yeah, I think the problem is that no one wants a unit like the 106 ID on an active sector but giving it a massively stretched bunch of sector to hold was also a mistake. It's just an awkward reality of the limitations of manpower on the Allied side in late 1944, give that both of the sectors adjoining the Ardennes were in active operations. The Allied force was still significantly stronger than the French cavalry screen that got brushed aside and they responded reasonably quickly. There's a huge difference in quality in allied troops between the ones that got to spend years training in England and the ones that get formed up in the States and got shipped in pretty quickly- the 99 ID was fortunate to be supported by two very good infantry divisions, depleted as they were from the Hurtgen Forest.

18:38 no more breaching engineering equipment

As if a couple of Stg44's and Fg42's would have made a difference lol. Hell the Germans had King Tigers and all's they did was breakdown, get stuck in the mud and run out of gas.

@MrChickennugget360

4 жыл бұрын

lots of young people are thinking in terms of video games. in real life most battles are decided by cold brutal artillery. shit even on the eastern front that was normally the case. the infantry's job was more often than not to die in the mud

@TheSkinnyTwig

3 жыл бұрын

That’s kids question gave me cancer..... he had no idea what he was talking about. Even with the presenter’s response I bet he was still scratching his head lol

I like the way Steven dismisses Bastogne, as a side issue, which it was. Patton was not advancing or being heavily engaged at the time he turned north to Bastogne when the Germans pounded through US lines in the Ardennes. Bastogne was on the very southern German flank, their focus being west. The strategic significance of the stand at Bastogne, is over exaggerated. The 18,000 did not change the course of the battle. The German's bypassed Bastogne, placing a containment force around the town. Only when Patton neared Bastogne did he engage _some_ German armour but not a great deal at all. Patton's ride to Bastogne was mainly through US held territory, with the road from Luxembourg to Bastogne having few German forces. The Fuhrer Grenadier Brigade was far from being one of the best German armoured units with about 80 tanks, 26th Volks-Grenadier having about 12 Hetzers, and the small element of Panzer Lehr (Kampfgruppe 901) left behind with a small number of operational tanks. Patton did not have to smash through full panzer divisions or Tiger battalions on his way to Bastogne. Patton's armoured forces outnumbered the Germans by at least 6 to 1. Patton faced very little German armour when he broke through to Bastogne because the vast majority of the German 5th Panzer Army had already left Bastogne in their rear moving westwards to the River Meuse. They were engaging forces under Montgomery's 21st Army Group near Dinant by the Meuse. Monty's armies halted the German advance pushing them back. On the night of the 22 December 1944, Patton ordered Combat Command B of 4th Armored Division to advance through the village of Chaumont in the night. A small number of German troops with anti tank weapons stopped the American attack who pulled back. The next day, fighter bombers strafed the village of Chaumont weakening the defenders enabling the attack to resume the next afternoon. However, a German counter attack north of Chaumont knocked out 12 Shermans with Combat Command B again retreating. It took Patton almost *three days* just to get through the village of Chaumont. They didn't get through Chaumont village until Christmas Day. Hardly racing at breakneck speed. Patton had less than 20 km of German held ground to cover during his actual _'attack'_ towards Bastogne, with the vast majority of his move towards Bastogne through American held lines devoid of the enemy. His start line for the attack was at Vaux-les-Rosieres, 15km southwest of Bastogne and yet he still took him five days to get through to Bastogne. After the German attack in the Ardennes, US air force units were put under Coningham of the RAF, who gave Patton massive ground attack support and he still *stalled.* Patton's failure to concentrate his forces on a narrow front and his decision to commit two green divisions to battle without adequate reconnaissance resulted in his *stall.* US historian Roger Cirillo said, _"Patton launched attack, after attack, after attack, after attack, that failed. Because he never waited to concentrate"._ The 18,000 men in Bastogne pretty well walked out, even the commander of the US 101st stated that. The Germans had vacated the area heading west.

@bigwoody4704

2 жыл бұрын

Burns out of sympathy the GIs allowed your laggards to tag along,just to feel like a victor one last time.4 yrs to come across a 30 mile channel? Tell your twisted tale's to the Europeans who were taking bullets while Monty was taking to the gangplanks

@thewhiteknightman

5 ай бұрын

Because his book was about the Northern Shoulder? Maybe?

@johnburns4017

5 ай бұрын

@@thewhiteknightman He still dismisses Bastogne. It was a side show.

@thewhiteknightman

5 ай бұрын

@@johnburns4017 It's still a book about the Northern Shoulder.

@johnburns4017

5 ай бұрын

@@thewhiteknightman The northern Shoulder *was* basically _the_ Bulge fight. Eisenhower library... Ardennes: Translation of Written Questions Answered by Generaloberst Alfred Jodl and Approved by General Feldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel, July 20, 1945 [Walter Bedell Smith Collection of World War II Documents, Box 41, Interviews with High-Ranking German Officers (2); NAID #12130736] The answers said Bastogne _"did not play much part"._

I must have missed something. If Bastogne meant nothing to the Germans, why did their southern spearhead go that way?

@parthiacrassus3521

4 жыл бұрын

Second attempt to breakthrough.

@richardjohnson3748

4 жыл бұрын

Bastogne is/was a major road junction necessary for Germany to have any chance to succeed in the Ardennes. What most get wrong is that 101st Abn was solely responsible for Bastogne success. 10th Armored Division (one Combat Command) held line long enough for 101st to arrive and get situated. The Tiger Division is the unsung hero of the Bulge.

@Industrialitis

4 жыл бұрын

@@richardjohnson3748 Spot on www.stitcher.com/podcast/ww2-podcast/ww2-podcasy/e/52578799?autoplay=true

Nifty

For the algorithm

A bit simplistic with some of this stuff. It’s not correct that 5th Panzer Army specifically used infiltration tactics and 6th Panzer Army didn’t, look at the American order of battle, it simply wasn’t possible to use it up north. 2nd, 9th, and 99th Infantry Divisions, 102nd cavalry group and elements of 7th Armored defending Elsenborn. Compare that to 5th Panzer Army’s opposition, 28th and 106th Divisions covering a far larger front. Switch the sectors of the 6th and 5th Panzer Army and 6th reaches the Meuse while the 5th gets held up everywhere accept the Losheim gap.

@silentotto5099

3 жыл бұрын

While the 6th Panzer Army might have had the tougher nut to crack, everything I've read suggests that Manteuffel did have his leading units infiltrating through the American lines on the night of Dec. 15/16 in the 5th Panzer Army's zone. As you noted, the front in front of the 5th Panzer Army was sparsely held, (and with the 106th division being forward deployed in the Schnee Eifel, they weren't really a factor in the defense), but even so the 28th division gave a good account of themselves on the first day of the fight and largely managed to hold the Germans until their forward units began to run low on ammunition. And, the reason their forward units were running low on ammunition is that there were already Germans to their rear astride their normal supply routes to the front. The accounts of the retreat from 28th division members bear this out too. They wrote that there were Germans everywhere, behind them, in front of them, off to their flanks. Many had harrowing tales of extracting themselves after the front had collapsed. One guy wrote that he felt like he'd been running from Germans his entire life! Had the 28th lines of supply remained unmolested, they may have been able to hold up Manteuffel far longer than they did historically. Manteuffel's tactics payed dividends, I think.

As per this video, the "turning point" of the the German Ardennes Offensive, the Battle of the Bulge, was not at the town of Bastogne, but was much earlier on 23rd. Dec. 1944, as the American forces had stopped and delayed the German main Panzer units in the Elseborn sector. The Germans had greatly under estimated the capability of the American forces, rating them as per their poor performance in the past at the Battle of Kasserine Pass, in Tunsia, North Africa, , in the summer of 1943, (as if they had not learned anything since that time.) The German artillery was not so effective, but the American Artillery crippled the German infantary at Elseborn sector, & US arms team was also successful in their village defenses. The Panzer Div. were not as capable as they used to be before in 1944. The Panzers had to cross Meuse on 19th. Dec., but the 12.SS-Pz. Div. was still entangled in Krindelt-Rocherath, & KG Peiper, 1.SS-Pz. Div. trapped at La Gleze. As per this Historian:- The superiority of Allies in air, and especially American artillery was one of the most important advantages the Allies had in the war in Europe. American artillery in the European Theater was flexible, accurate, lethal, and highly mobile. At best, the German artillery arm was “competent but uninspired.” - As Historian Michael Doubler put it in his book, Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944-1945, “By the summer of 1944 the field artillery had proven itself to be the most brilliant performer in the American combined arms team.” The effectiveness of American artillery, even at this early stage of American involvement in North Africa, had impressed Rommel, as on 18 February 1943, he mentioned this fact in a letter to his wife. Most people think the Battle of the Bulge was a tank battle, but it actually was more of an Artillery Battle:- Later in the Battle of the Bulge, artillery provided the same protection as it did in Caen, Normandy. In addition, it hampered German attacks by separating infantry from its accompanying armor. German Tanks unsupported by infantry were regularly taken out by American antitank guns and bazookas.

would of been a diferent story if monty (British ) didnt stop the breakout heading them off at River Meuse

@MrProsat

4 жыл бұрын

Baloney, germans were stopped well short of the meuse.

@andrewnorgrove6487

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrProsat On December 19, American general Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, temporarily placed all units north of a line between the towns of Givet and Prum under the command of British field marshal Bernard Montgomery. The field marshal ordered British XXX Corps, led by Lieutenant General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, from Holland to block the advancing Germans from crossing the Meuse River. On December 24, 3rd Royal Tank Regiment joined American tanks, crossed the Meuse and, with support from the Royal Air Force (RAF) halted the advance of the 2nd Panzer Division.

up "here" ????????????????

You could really use a pointer on your maps, and also better labeling. It is not clear what exactly you are talking about at many points during your presentation.

Did he say : "hitler joigend" ? 😚

The only Panzers Americans "smashed" were Tamiya models in 1:35 scale.

@bigwoody4704

2 жыл бұрын

That army came from the eatern front as the Russians stopped to refit and wait for spring.Get you nose out of Monty's backside and into a book

We've all been there, unknown awkward butterbar/master's student/whatever

12SS was destroyed in the summer...... It is amazing they reconstituted it. It was defeated by St Vith pretty much on day 2. 2 minutes into lecture......we shall see how I did.

@trevorholcroft8649

4 жыл бұрын

Its equipment was lost ... but a lot of the troops survived.

@JohnHannigan-wx8ng

4 ай бұрын

12th SS murderus psychopaths check what atrocities they committed against Canadian POWs .

57'58" WTF is "Historiography"?

@FOXHOUNDProductions91

3 жыл бұрын

The history of the geography of that particular region in history.

Putz at the beginning can't read. SMH

01:01:00 aprox German small arms