This is great footage, my neighbor was one of the last of the 84th infantry still alive. Unfortunately he passed in September. But he told me some stories of his fighting. He was taken as a pow. And part of the German death march. Richard walkden

Loved how these veterans were able to tell it as it was for them. RIP and thank you!

@pavlosta7173

2 жыл бұрын

WESTERN FRONT WAS A JOKE

@natebit8130

2 жыл бұрын

​@@pavlosta7173 Which part of it? How is it a joke? It's war.

The Greatest Generation and for Great reason.. My Father and his 3 brothers all served in WWII, RIP boys...! God Bless All Soldiers , Past and Present..!!

I wonder how these great soldiers could do the fighting so well under those extreme weather conditions, cold, hungry, no sleeping, probably even sick most of the time under enemy fire. Real Supermen in the battle of the bulge. America can never forget them.

@billwilson3609

2 жыл бұрын

Their young minds and bodies adapted to the stress and strain.

@silverload3622

2 жыл бұрын

It’s cause America was a tuff place to live at the time and they lived and survived thru the Great Depression

As a 20 year US Army retired Senior NCO I am always amazed at the actions of my Army during this time. It is the small unit actions that made this victory possible....👍👍

@viking90706

3 жыл бұрын

10-4 Rules of engagement "WIN"

@yoinks9907

2 жыл бұрын

The massive Soviet wave in the east made the western victory possible

@user-di8nx7jd8e

Жыл бұрын

تظظ۶۵

Thanks for posting this fine documentary. Makes me shiver with cold watching these brave men fighting in the miserable weather.

In the early 80's I talked to Col. WINTERS at the Chicken ranch in Eastern Pennsylvania from Easy Co. WHAT A GENTLEMAN, I will never forget that!

@kimcarter6856

3 жыл бұрын

Seen several documentaries with him. Brave man

@viking90706

3 жыл бұрын

You have seen living history.

As a War vet in Iraq and Afghanistan, The WWII vets were tough as nails. These guys were the toughest SOB's. And they were citizen soldiers, and returned to our beloved country as the best of their generation. God Bless Them All.

@StephanHarz

8 жыл бұрын

+mike motamedi thank you for your service

@bigdaddyhall7196

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service!

@pattonlaughed8764

7 жыл бұрын

Rusty Shackleford "Sure you didn't get some concussions over there bruh?"? WTF?

@MS-in3sl

7 жыл бұрын

that's right, Mike, you were just a mercenary

@MS-in3sl

7 жыл бұрын

***** +Rogers Jolly. Anzacs were drafted? Or volunteered of necessity? You -- an enlistee in American imperialist venture -- are nothing but a common mercenary.

My Uncle was one of the first 10 guys across the Siegfried Line. He bent down to tie his shoe lace, and the guy next to him had his head blown off. My Uncle was awarded the Bronze Star sometime during the War. He resented my dad, who the Army sent to school for most of the war; he was a radio communications guy in 3rd Army (Patton). Not a front line combat infantry. He did get shot during the war. He never said anything about it. I always wondered about my dad scars. I did not know he got shot until my other older cousin told me during his funeral.

@merkcityboy834

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah those were real soldiers look at the ones we have today complain about everything..

@tremainetreerat5176

Жыл бұрын

How exactly did he quantify that he was one of the first ten across the West Wall? The West Wall was breached by small units fighting local actions in dozens of separate areas around the same time...The anecdote about your uncle stopping to tie his "shoe lace" (never heard of a GI wearing sneakers) like he's walking through the park, in the middle of a combat zone and then the soldier next to him being decapitated tips the scales for certain, though. Pure BS & pathetic attention seeking behavior... probably a pathological liar :D

Its great hearing from soldiers not long after the war while all the facts were still fresh in their minds rather than years later.

@Kents1969

3 жыл бұрын

Um... well... the dude said it was twenty years ago, so...

@paulredinger420

3 жыл бұрын

Peter Turner most of those things are fresh in the minds FOREVER!! Every been in combat?

@scottydog62

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulredinger420 very true watching some of these veteran interviews that are in their mid 90s late 90s even 100+ they never forget But watching this video was awesome since it was only 20 years after, and hearing from the older commanders that are long gone now

@scottydog62

3 жыл бұрын

@Scott Levy especially as traumatic as war

@AcutePanic41

3 жыл бұрын

My Grandfather served in WW2. In his 90's, he couldn't remember what he had for breakfast that day, but he could remember specific things on specific days during the war. Some things are never forgotten.

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT VINTAGE WAR FILM. ...THESE FILMS ARE PRICELESS. ...I LOVE WATCHING THEM

Splendid documentary. Great value hearing the men who fought on my home ground. We shall remember

Incredible to see the vets so young, the events still fresh in their memory. I wonder who produced those interviews, and if the raw footage still exists in a box somewhere? Only tiny a fraction of what's actually recorded ever makes it into the doc, but they say so much.

@coleparker

2 жыл бұрын

Given the age of the interviewees, their hair cuts and the way this was filmed, this documentary was probably filmed between 55 and 61. There were a lot of these types of programs on TV at time. The reason I know that, is that I was a small kid at that time and I use to watch them with my father.

@hankochai

Жыл бұрын

I really hope there’s an archive somewhere with usable footage

My father served with the 8TH airforce. They lost 27,000 airman, more than the number of marines lost in the war. And it was the airman that made it possible to win the ground war.

@navaladmiral2962

4 жыл бұрын

All generations who serve for our country are our greatest generations! No matter what branch they are, they are all equally heroes!

@andrewmartinez7559

2 жыл бұрын

Cope. The soldiers won the war not the airmen

@russelllowry1061

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewmartinez7559 the atomic bomb was fake I guess,lol.

@chepito2443

Жыл бұрын

@@navaladmiral2962 ww2 soldiers in the allíed forces were and are in the highest in my OPIONON

@javiermartinezjr8849

Жыл бұрын

Lol you realize the reason normandy landing was successfully is because the soldiers behind the lines caused mass chaos,so majority of the SS panzer units couldn't be called to the front they were busy fighting in the hedge rows trying to find squatted squads, had that not happened Normandy woulda been another Dunkirk if not costlier

THANK YOU FOR PUBLISHING THIS GREAT VIDEO!!

Right behind/north west of Marche and Hotten is Ciney and Celles, where US 2nd armored slammed into the spearheads of the german 2nd SS panzer and destroyed them. These guys with the 84th were on their own in enemy held territory for a couple days. When 2nd armored caught back up to the 84th, they had a nasty 2 day battle at Humain just outside of marche, where the whole town was leveled and the regular german 2nd panzer was also destroyed. .Some of the heaviest fighting was around Humain, Marche, and Hotten. This was a touch and go battle and these guys had balls of steel to do this. Its absolutely incredible they were able to pull off a win.

@luxboss2388

Жыл бұрын

Wow thanks 👍🏾

Thank you for uploading this excellent documentary. I see it was filmed a little over 50 years ago. Anyone still with us would be in there 80s and 90s. Good bless everyone who served.

@Sturminfantrist

5 жыл бұрын

@Black Vitriol because God is on every side in war. Every side claimed that god was on their side

To all the 946 assholes that gave this documentary a thumbs down you don't deserve your freedom if it wasn't for these GREAT MEN THAT FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM YOU WOULDN'T HAVE YOURS I LOVE MY VETERAN'S. !!!! WE CAN'T THANK THEM ENOUGH. !!!! .

The best documentary explained of ww2

A great doc, I enjoyed the interviews of all involved.

Considering that the Germans on the Western Front in 44-45 weren't the Top Class Troops they once were in 1940, they fought astonishingly well without air cover, supplies, and never enough fuel besides their Inferior Numbers...

@nickthorp5790

5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps. But it was pointless, murderous and ruined Europe.

@norberts4356

5 жыл бұрын

Give this man a order:) The first smart Yankee of this page.

@skywayminicabs6292

4 жыл бұрын

@@norberts4356 why ? we all know that the german's are good at starting wars and murdering unarmed civilians

@norberts4356

4 жыл бұрын

@@skywayminicabs6292 The, germans starting wars🤔? Ho starting wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia.... Ho is the "Police" of the world? In ww2, germans kills prisoners, because the aliats kill germans prisoner's too! War criminals are your Air force, they bombt all german city's, with children, women's, old men's... That is genocide!

@pfcsantiago8852

3 жыл бұрын

@Derp Inshmurtz blame your mates the' French' for that.

Fighting the German was bad enough, but doing it under the weather conditions these guys had to put up with must of been pure hell. JOB WELL DONE 84TH.

@mikeromney4712

7 жыл бұрын

Imagine the conditions at Stalingrad...

@tayninh69

7 жыл бұрын

You are very correct to bring that up. I have tried to study as much as I could about that part of the war and from what I have learned, the weather conditions for both the Russian & German armies were brutal, not to mention the civilians that were caught up in it.

@suvendukarar3340

7 жыл бұрын

By the bye my holy spirit of guy jay dee , perhaps obviously German soldiers fighting alongside them are brave enough about the heart breathing as there motherland of attachment for soulmate likes are Spartan fighter campaign to immortal invisible posting on World's histree. God bless & peace for themselves nice souls of great Hearts belongs are soldiers.

@MainstreamPoPsucks3

7 жыл бұрын

+jay dee Just that the Soviet soldiers would be used to the cold since parts of russia and Ukraine have extremely cold winters and they would have better uniforms and be better prepared at the cold.

@marinazagrai1623

6 жыл бұрын

You can bet they all ended up with trench foot (although they must have been glad for not getting frost bite; you have to think of something more positive when faced with such nasty weather). You can get trench foot without being in a trench.

God bless every one of these guys. You were America's best!! You will never be forgotten !! Thank you is all I can say. My grandpal was there. He never talked about it. Now I know why.

@yoinks9907

2 жыл бұрын

Thought he had it bad eastern front was 10x worse and those men still tell their stories

Thanks for the upload

Who were these camera men who filmed such dangerous & difficult wars? I think the wars camera mem were among the most braves & the world owe them a huge gratitude for allowing us to see what actually happened.

@mikehiggins946

Жыл бұрын

There's a great documentary on Netflix called 5 Came Back. It's about 5 famous Hollywood directors who went to war. It's very well done.

Very good footage here, I have been looking for the 71st infantry division , my uncle served in it until Jan.1st 1945 in Woelfling France where he saw action against the S.S. Panzers units , he dispatched four machine gun nests single handed and was wounded in the action. I would like to see the general area near Woelfling in France but I guess it all looks alike now, anyway he survived the war , awarded the medal of honor for his bravery, saved his entire squad and went on to live until his 83th year and is buried at Arlington . He was 26 when he fought this battle , he told me this but he was not one to talk a lot about the war. He lived in Boston for most of his life but he started out as a Canadian ,born in P.E.I. went to USA and became an American citizen just before the war. Sargent Charles a. MacGillivary , my fathers brother, God Bless them both , very good people, gone now but not forgotten. He once said " War is a nasty business and if you can stay out of it you are better off " also said " the real hero's never saw their home's again , many were so young, who died over there. May they rest in Peace,all of them. Thanks

@robertdedoroy7634

7 жыл бұрын

GILLEBRATH ymista mista . tagalog movie mista

@zenoist2399

7 жыл бұрын

Your uncle sounds like a very brave man. You can be proud of him. I have the highest respect for soldiers and ex soldiers.

@arkansaswookie

6 жыл бұрын

Your uncle was a brave and outstanding tough guy. His Wikipedia page explains his MOH actions. I got a chuckle out of his comment: "I thought that if was going to fight for this country, I should be a U.S citizen" Thank you for posting that about your uncle. With much respect to the Greatest Generation. Check out the U.S.-Canadian 1st Special Service Force and their actions during WW2. Cheers Gillebrath.

@candyextreme8406

6 жыл бұрын

4 machine gun nests single handed? Jeez.Must of got a medal for that!

@thor8580

6 жыл бұрын

GILLEBRATH You father and uncle came from a time that I believe was the greatest generation in my life time. Thanks for sharing. God bless you and your family.

One of my uncles here in Texas volunteered for the US Army during the Second World War. His first assignment was fighting his way onto Omaha Beach, from a landing craft, in Normandy on D Day. He said he saw some horrible things happen that day all around him. He made it safely to the beach despite all odds and his unit (sadly I can't remember it but he had told me back in the 1970s) regrouped and headed inland. My uncle said the one overpowering thing he could never forget was when they had got up high on a hill and looked out to the ocean it was completely blood red. His description was so vivid and scary it made me feel like I had been there myself. The next major event for him was celebrating his seventeenth birthday in winter weather during Battle of the Bulge. My uncle said it was so cold there that their wool socks froze to their feet and boots. He told me about the steady attacks on them by the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe. The third and final major event in which he participated was his group joined with General George Patton's army. They started liberating as many concentration camps as they could and as quickly as possible. My uncle hardly ever talked about that war because what he had been through was very traumatic for him. He tried to talk about fun things he had seen or done. Being a veteran from 1990 to 1991 I salute my uncle plus all the men and women of all countries involved in that war and all wars.

a good friend of my parents ( Claiborne Watkins Craddock>>Claybo) as i grew older a friend of mine was in WW2 i never knew he was in Company C 347th Infantry 87th Division> fighting on the Centraal European Front and participating in the Battle of the Bulge. He has passed away now i wish i would of known so i could hear his story on what he encountered>> ( if he even wanted to talk about it ) he passed away in 2012 but i remember him as a very intelligent and humble person he had a since of humor that would brighten anyone's day up in a second. I think of old Claybo every once and awhile and when i do it always putts a smile on my face !! Heres to you my friend i will never forget you !!! >>>> Your Friend JBS

These are great, Thanks

When my grandpa was 19 he was with the 84th during the Battle of the Bulge. I have his letters from the war and he wrote about the Russians being on the otherside of the river later on. RIP. Very interesting documentary!

@guymorris1963

3 жыл бұрын

One of my uncles here in Texas landed on Omaha Beach during D Day when he was seventeen years old. He celebrated his eighteenth birthday in a fox hole during winter weather during Battle of the Bulge. The last thing he did before he came back to Texas was help General George Patton's army liberate concentration camps.

@yoinks9907

2 жыл бұрын

They weren’t Russians they were soviets not every person tat served in the Soviet army was Russian

Gielenkirken was behind the Siegfried line, the 2nd Armored Div. and 117th and 116th Inf. Div. Launched an attack last week of Sept 44 through the first week of Oct 44, when the line was breached in several places, this battle was a month later and had nothing to do with the Sigfrield line. The battle for the first breach of the Sigfried line was near Castle Rimsburg along the Wurm river into the town of Ubach,Palenburg.

A gripping documentary - probably the best I've seen

A tragedy that so many soldiers fell during the last days of WW II...

The GI at 36:25 is having to manually eject rounds from M1 Garand rifle. These were great performing weapons but when exposed to cold and lack of maintenance they were known to fail to eject. I don't know if anyone has mentioned yet but the actor Paul Newman that is narrating was a tail gunner on Navy Dauntless single engine bomber in WW2.

@desertsand4797

8 жыл бұрын

cannot agree with your assessment of the m1 garand, this rifle was, and is still known for its incredible reliability in all conditions ,from the steaming jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal ,to the deserts of North Africa, to frozen sold battlefields of Europe and Korea it's performance is unmatched by any other semi automatic rifle ever made,it is still used world wide to this day,,and any weapon will fail to feed with no maintenance and full of dirt or ice

@kainhall

8 жыл бұрын

i own an m1 garand...1943. i think you should look at the mud test that "in range" or "forgotten weapons" did......on both the m1 and m14. it jammed up. plus, modern ammo will bend the op rod unless you but an adjustable gas plug......and in the war they had to cut a relief notch in the op rod as they were snapping in too... they are damn great guns....but .25 moa never jamming miracle guns? no. hell, they even taught people to fall and keep their rifle out of the mud....where to place your hand to cover the holes in hte reciever. and in the m 16 mud test.... it passed with flying colors.

@desertsand4797

8 жыл бұрын

They are called rifles or weapons, not guns ,and who besides you mentioned never jamming miracle weapons? You should try getting your information first hand from infantry veterans that were in these wars past and present, instead of TV shows, KZread, Wikipedia or these lame weapons testing websites or magazines or range heads that never take their weapons out unless it's to shoot paper targets or bottles and cans and count that as experience,, and good luck operating in serious mud with any weapons system of any era

@kainhall

8 жыл бұрын

+desert sand except the ar15 takes mud just fine.....and I don't even like ar 15s (223 is just not enough) when both the 1943 field manuel and training films talk about and show how mud and sand in the bolt rails, or hole below the rear sight on the right side... when they get shit in their....it stops the gun. it's open....it's exposed....and training prevented it. also...the guys who do "in range" and "forgotten weapons" arnt fps russia. they are real shooters who reload ammo, gun smith, and know more history, and have talked to more experts, active and ex military.... I think they know their shit. and are quick to say when they don't. go watch the fucking mud test videos. just because grandpa used it doesn't make it "the best fighting weapon ever devised". the m1 was a DAMN great rifle.... but it does have problems....weak parts like the op rod....and VERY open to mud ingress. period, end of story....it's like your telling me the m1 doesn't have external bolt rails and a large hole that leads right into the fire control group....

@desertsand4797

8 жыл бұрын

Since you're so easily upset and start using profanity to try and strengthen your argument, and you end it with" period ,end of story" you obviously know more by watching your videos than any combat vet or armorer,there is no need to discuss weapons any further ,and I find your lack of respect for the men who fought and still fight for you ,by calling them grandpa, utterly disgusting , you have exposed yourself as just another armchair ""gun expert"" who has never gone anywhere or done anything

Amazing to see the veterans so young.

World War II refugee scenes are the best 2a ads

My Father fought in that and suffered shrapnel wounds and cold injuries to his legs. Was sent to the hospital in Liege where his hospital was hit by a buzz bomb.

@merkcityboy834

2 жыл бұрын

Was his name Cotton Hill?

War has no crimes .. the only war crime is the war itself -My grandpa

@garygraham4679

6 жыл бұрын

Wise man.

@iszjhxsbxb

6 жыл бұрын

War is not a crime its a art

@61zulu77

6 жыл бұрын

War is a crime against humanity if you consider the atrocity committed against by soldiers of BOTH sides against civilians and other soldiers.

@Nemo7The7Pirate7

5 жыл бұрын

what nasty things your grandad must have done to adopt such an opinion on the war crimes.

@toxic9525

5 жыл бұрын

@LSSJ that was good for the world.... Colonialism was done after that

one of the best ww2 films thanks for make it posible i give yuo and a plus love it,,,,

Excellent footage

the crazy thing is men from both sides would be disgusted if they could see their nations today.

@starlite1100

5 жыл бұрын

TheGOATVegeta no side fought for what's happening. If they had only known, God knows what would have happened.

@pbg6979

5 жыл бұрын

bhauger1 so did the Germans it’s called WAR buddy u stupid idiot

@ratbatnufftime2861

5 жыл бұрын

Is this gonna be some bullshit about multiculturslism and immigration again???

@ratbatnufftime2861

5 жыл бұрын

@Lang Hansen white nationalism, which is really racism, facism and xenophobia is the true bullshit.

@guiseppe46

5 жыл бұрын

@@ratbatnufftime2861 People like you are the BS. No one and i mean no one hates like a liberal. No one. The biggest racist on earth. Degenerate left!

I was born too late. I would loved to have fought in the European Theater. I got stuck with Vietnam, a War we were not allowed to Win.

@sornevolution2263

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service in Vietnam

@jeanwood6392

3 жыл бұрын

Robert Bru would that be in the 50s Malaya ?

@dhss333

3 жыл бұрын

No the Viet Cong NVA didn't allow you to win, you cook/clerk/ Logistics Rear Echelon M.....

@dhss333

3 жыл бұрын

You were born a million years too early.

@dhss333

3 жыл бұрын

You couldn't find even S.E. Asia on the map; the only Vietnamese you ever saw were in a restaurant. Watch that pipe doesn't choke you!

Even though the people that is in involved in this brutal war may not see this but thank you for your service for fighting for America to make history. Murica the home of the brave and free.

Great documentary

From 00:00 to 00:30 I then expected The A-Team theme song to kick in.....

@JasonSmith-ec6bu

7 жыл бұрын

Why r u doing this?

@1337fraggzb00N

7 жыл бұрын

LOL

@coylehetrick1857

7 жыл бұрын

Jason Smith has a new car

god bless the men who gave their young lives for the usa, you have done more for our freedom than anyone..

@cutsrosescents4950

7 жыл бұрын

Elios Electric The Germans thank you giving thanks to the sacrifices their armies made for freedom from a Bolshevik States of America

@constitution_8939

3 жыл бұрын

@@cutsrosescents4950 Read my reply!

@dhss333

3 жыл бұрын

Freedom to poison yourselves with Coca Cola, have the greatest narcotics addiction, TV addiction, the biggest prison population, the highest crime rate in the World! SUUUUURE! GO FOR IT! ENJOY! HAVE A NICE DAY!

@dhss333

3 жыл бұрын

Keepin' the Wuild safe for da Yanqui $

@chepito2443

Жыл бұрын

@@dhss333 im mexican so i cant relate

Thanks for the uplaod. Those images tells a lot. Thanks for all those brave soldiers, who liberate Europe.

A n excellent documentary,RIP To all the soldiers who gave there lives.

Definitely the greatest generation

Looks like the artillery was a life saver more than once . American, queen of the battlefield in the war. Had a uncle who was in Pattons Third Army and made it all the way to Czechoslovakia! He brought some neat stuff back They Were the greatest generation. The Battle of the Bulge was where the US Army made its greatest stand. Didnt realize how vital the 84th Div was at holding March Hotten line.

@yoinks9907

2 жыл бұрын

It’s greatest stand against a outnumbered weak out of fuel out of an airforce out of guns ammo and food enemy real great stand that is

@frankmontez6853

2 жыл бұрын

@@yoinks9907 if you weren't so ignorant and hateful of History you'd know that the Germans marshalled heavy concentration of forces for this Battle of the Bulge.

Right after the narrator said ".. this is their story.", I was really hoping to hear the theme song for The A-Team

I like this..Im used to these interviews being with the vets of more recent conflicts like vietnam..my guess these were conducted between the years of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts..

@constitution_8939

3 жыл бұрын

These interviews were conducted around 1964-66 judging from time frames spoken of by at least 2 of the American Vet's who took part in the European Theater because one distinctly said "twenty year's ago" and his Buzz Cut hairstyle was most popular around those years. The interviews happened No later than 1966, I'm pretty positive of that.

its amazing how heroic these young men were.

@TimesRadio977

6 жыл бұрын

wesley belisle absolutely correct... but why should the innocent ppl must die..

@seanohare5488

Жыл бұрын

I agree

My grand father told me that the "Red Ball Express" was a fine group of African American motor transport division

@Tiebor12

8 жыл бұрын

+Yuri Meyer -------------there's a movie with that name about that group of men also...1952.....and a documentary 2001 of the same name

@yurimeyer7549

8 жыл бұрын

Michael Terrell Thanks man - I'll check it out today

@yurimeyer7549

8 жыл бұрын

Despiser Despised I know it was a motor transport unit , but not clear as to the inter aspects

@yurimeyer7549

8 жыл бұрын

wavygr good info

@otiscarter1356

8 жыл бұрын

+Yuri Meyer My uncle was there. They brought supplies out to the front and once they emptied their supplies, they brought back the bodies of those G.I.'s killed in action. He was haunted by the images until the day he died.

Wavygr, I see that too. Its the way it is unfortunately. I say that as the Nephew of Gabriel Bottella , a grunt in the 101st. My fathers war has never been documented except for The PT 109 story. My dad was a 17 yr old gunners mate that lied about his age and volunteered, from a farm in Md. Never seen the Ocean until the war. He spent a lot of time dealing with the Tokyo express, and Fought everywhere from. Luzon, to The Coral Sea attached to Bull Halsey. Every story from my late Father was a documentary on its own. The P.Ts took and gave hell. Fighting amongst Battle Wagons who's shockwaves alone from the 17 inch guns could splinter a PT into pieces. Lots of screws to replace. A fascinating and exciting branch of the Navy during the Pacific War that goes mostly untold. Fast boats with guns are always cool.

That's a man that cares for his men to relax them so they could rest

God bless America for the 2nd front and land-lease. My grandfather told me that the US Studebaker is the best lorry. He was a Soviet Army driver...We were allies, hope we`ll never be enemies...

@priscllamccain1423

2 жыл бұрын

I hope we shall always be friends. I have known many Russian people and I could not find better people or finer friends.

@billwilson3609

2 жыл бұрын

It was the best because the doors had wing windows!

@pesokpesok

2 жыл бұрын

couldnt agree more

@pabloeskabar365

2 жыл бұрын

💪 Thank you, we return those well wishes. We also thank the Red Army for entertaining the Nazi's until the men from 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇺🇸 could assemble the world's largest invasion force. My grandpa enjoys Russian salad dressing.

@seanpartrid58

2 жыл бұрын

@@pabloeskabar365 you do understand that the Russians broke the back of the nazis correct? The Russians took on the majority of the wehrmacht. The Germans lost approximately 5.1 million solider KIA and 4.5 million captured. The soviets lost approximately 8.7 to 10 million killed and over 5.7 million captured. The most brutal combat ever known to man was seen on the eastern front. Can you tell me who conquered Berlin the heart of nazi Germany?

Soldier's say they were told "We're in a fluid situation"! That's when the Officer's don't know what's going on or what to do. And that's when the NCOs take over and run the show.

Thanks for a great doco. Was hoping for more from the German perspective though.

Без, Нас , не было Победы!

How could Americans and Germans fight so well in battles when FREZZING cold!? They must have been so well trained! In the Korean War, Americans crossed over lines and captured Chinese armies, unbelievable, in ZERO weather, unbelievable, but true!

@williammontroy9024

5 жыл бұрын

The combat part is part of how they didn't freeze . You stay warmer if you're moving . You'd be surprised what you can do when you have to.. these fine brave men are incredible examples of that.

@Vic-mv8iz

5 жыл бұрын

It seems from youtube than the Americans won the war on there own what about the British Russians and Canadians

@krisshaw9464

5 жыл бұрын

@@Vic-mv8iz theres docs about that 2

@philjr5714

5 жыл бұрын

Kris Shaw plenty of mention of other soldiers from other countries. They even had a guy obviously not American giving his side of joining the 84th. Listen up.

@davidquinningan8352

5 жыл бұрын

Majority of the Chinese who fought in the Korean were in fact mostly former Koumintang troops who were conscripted to fight the Americans. And everyone knew the Koumintang to be less motivated than the PLA Communists. The Americans killed many anti-Communist Koumintang soldiers while most of the original PLA were intact.

these American soldiers were incredibility heroic they saw death in front of them and kept going forward to face it under the hardest circumstances, those were boys of the greatest generation ever; may God bless their souls.

@yoinks9907

2 жыл бұрын

Considering at the time the western front came around the Germans were practically out of fuel guns food and ammo I wouldn’t say it was the hardest circumstances. Try facing Germany in Stalingrad then tell me what the worse circumstances were

@seanohare5488

Жыл бұрын

So true

Amazing footage.

great channel

I thought it a rather curious detail that the vehicle at 0:38 is named "Lundy's Lane" - a battle in the War of 1812.

@constitution_8939

3 жыл бұрын

Because Both most likely happened in Belgium.

@rpm1796

3 жыл бұрын

@@constitution_8939 Lundy's Lane is in Canada, at Niagara Falls.

@constitution_8939

3 жыл бұрын

@@rpm1796 T.Y. for the correction!

Wow. They talk about the Battle of the Bulge like they were ordering dinner even though this was one hell of a bloody week for the US Army with 20.000 dead comrades.

@yummyyum2026

4 жыл бұрын

German Officer: lets go to Bulge michael wittmann : Let me get my Tiger Tank! Panzer Vor!! U.S Soldier : Oh shit The Black Baron!!

@goodplenty534

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. Fighting for Uncle Joe in Russia.

@hugbug4408

2 жыл бұрын

@@goodplenty534 Isn't that something? Uncle Joe Stalin lost 22 to 27 million people, 1/2 his on doing , during ww2!

@hugbug4408

2 жыл бұрын

@@yummyyum2026 Nearly 20,000 GIs were killed in the Batlle of the Bulge! That's about 1/3 rd of the soldiers kia in Vietnam! I'm in no way down playing the Vietnam War, which was as bad as other wars too. General Tecumseh Sherman was frank in saying that "War is Hell." General McArthur thought the Bulge a screw up on the higher echelons of the allies eto.

@billwilson3609

2 жыл бұрын

That fight went on for a few months.

Great Documentary!

Thank you for all the men who serve this war today we have peace and freedom because all the great men who win this war for us we all your grand children.thank you may god with yours all.thank you for your greatness.

Our last war that made sense , Thank you all who served and may you rest in piece

@tehjamerz

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Whisman yes

@jeffmoore9487

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Whisman Vote for Bernie!

@Dogmeat1950

8 жыл бұрын

+Stevo2o6 First gulf war made sense, so did Korea. problem with Korea was the U.S not setting an end goal same with Vietnam. we can kick the shit out of people all day but need to have goals

@jeffmoore9487

8 жыл бұрын

***** You mean world dominance? Might sound hyperbolic but with 1500 foreign bases, and a 75% share of the world arms trade, its not too big a stretch.

@Dogmeat1950

8 жыл бұрын

Jeff Moore many of those bases have less then 200 people lol. some are just communication stastions. most of the bases aren't that big. only about 200 of them out side the USA are "Big"

Italy wasn't relentless advance. The beginning of the end, was even before they got to Stalingrad.

I downloaded this Thank you

Very well explained documentary they tell it like it was

"American soldiers, on the whole I believe, find it very difficult to hate..." if only he'd seen the Pacific theater.

@shanemoore8055

5 жыл бұрын

wid a wery heazy German akzent

Imagine all the most powerful countrys in the world attacking one country and still having a hell of a time trying to win that was ww2.

@sirius-petrusse5716

6 жыл бұрын

N'oublie jamais c'est Franco Mussolini et Hitler qui ont commencés les hostilités!

@kimcarter6856

3 жыл бұрын

The US was supplying Russian and UK, while fighting a second front in the Pacific

@typhoon2827

2 жыл бұрын

Well, not quite. Germany attacked France and later that afternoon France was occupied. Something like that anyway. 😉

@typhoon2827

2 жыл бұрын

@@kimcarter6856 ...eventually. fun fact; WWII actually started in 1939

@wyattsdad8561

Жыл бұрын

Thank god for the Vichy prostitutes who collaborated with the Nazis. Bastards.

I can't imagine the hell these men went through. Bless them all

Foi uma geração de notáveis soldados essa que participou da segunda guerra mundial. Não poderia também deixar de enaltecer o efetivo de 25.000 bravos soldados do exército brasileiro que combateram junto ao V Exército norte-americano na tomada da linha gótica (Itália), em 1944 e 1945.

Loved that final comment...Nothing left to fight with and nothing left to fight for. On the last comment, there never had been!

I love US soldiers. Especially the lost ones. They're really fallen stars.

great documentary!!

My grandpa(dad's POP) was on the UD of As 82nd A/B Div. He was a medic w/ captains rank.He jumped in Normandy (DDAY 6/6/1944)., @ mid 9/1944 was in "Operation Market Garden" . A near disaster planned by Allied Field Marshall General Bernard Montgomery ! The Brits got mauled at Arnhem ! The 101, and 82nd A/B Div.s faired slightly better , but for meager gains took high casualties ., Then , the USA A/B units with newly arrived USA troops , had to defend a small piece of real - estate at cost of high casualties! Grandpa sustained a wound wen , the vehicle he was I'm hit a mine kia driver , and soldier behind driver, and wounding my grandpa ,,and soldier behind him.Both had laid on side of road until picked up by Americans on patrol. He was lucky , for Colonel Joachim Pieper of the 1st Waffen SS "Leibstandarte " who was responsible for the cold blooded murfer of about 120 USA troops @Malmedy Belgium . He was patched up and by 4/45 he saw Soviet Union troops , who he despised , and sed General George S. Patton was right with his not caring for the Soviet Union. He was very reluctant about discussing the WW2 ETO , for it brought bad memories , and had PSTD problems .

11:54 humanity right there , god bless him

@jebbroham1776

4 жыл бұрын

This was the last war in which personal honor and truces were respected by both opposing sides in Western Europe. Medics were not typically fired upon and ceasefires to bury dead and exchange prisoners was quite common, especially during the great battles during the Ardennes Offensive.

It makes you feel so sad that so many of these young American troops died so far from their homes.

@angrybird7324

8 жыл бұрын

+neil henderson Yeah so many died because of other countries imperialism... so right after the war what USA did was... create their own empire... LOL

@sarediv

8 жыл бұрын

+Frederic Lemoyne really ture

@Chopstorm.

8 жыл бұрын

+Frederic Lemoyne Honestly, if the Americans didn't expand then the Soviets would have. Would you rather have the Soviets in control of all of America's holdings?

@angrybird7324

8 жыл бұрын

***** It's impossible to tell because if Soviets wouldve conquered all then today we would be happy to be soviets and would say "would you imagine how it would be if americans won!".

@MrChickennugget360

8 жыл бұрын

+Frederic Lemoyne accept the US does not have an empire

that artillery is music to my ears

@sirius-petrusse5716

6 жыл бұрын

Je préfère Berlioz!

amazing video!!!

You know the banner photo you have for this video? That's not an original photo. I know, since I took it. At a reenactment. :D

@BOB-wx3fq

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao Well played

@brent123456yo

3 жыл бұрын

Why does he have the back of the gun up to his face

@snallkriminell

3 жыл бұрын

@@brent123456yo zeroing/sighting?

@BOB-wx3fq

3 жыл бұрын

@@brent123456yo so he can catch the brass in his mouth

Among the G.I.s ,there were many German Americans that spoke the tongue of the enemy.Who knows,maybe they fought against their relatives.

@AWOLcause

3 жыл бұрын

My Grandfather Charles Heil was a Captain of a battle ship at the Battle of Normandy full German American Captain! Toughest mfer ive ever known!. Im lucky to have his genetics....

@douglasturner6153

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Eisenhower and Chester Nimitz in the Pacific. Even Goebbels bragged about their German ancestry.

@merkcityboy834

2 жыл бұрын

Some American Germans went back to fight on the German side.

49:00 Truer words were never spoken. My mum used to tell us kids the same thing. Fritz Kramer is so right. Bitching about the food when you're unaccustomed to the same fare at home.

Great Vid

Could anyone please determine the dates of the interviews by the participants? I make it for late 50s or early 60s.

@hlf_coder6272

5 жыл бұрын

Im pretty sure it’s 1965. That’s definitely Paul Newman doing the narration and he did a series of WWII documentaries in 65. Plus at one point one of the guys says, “this m1 is heavier than it was 20 years ago”, which seems to confirm it.

The commentator said that the Anglo British forces were going up Italy! The Canadians were there too and did good with their tanks as well!

@chepito2443

Жыл бұрын

Yes the canadians had balls of Steel also same as the pols

11:50 awesome heroics!

Hey ...At 7mins 44, was that Sinatra starting the attack? He always was an aggressive bugger!

A big thank you. From the banksters. War makes us richer after all.

@goodplenty534

4 жыл бұрын

And Uncle Joe.

@BadWolf762

3 жыл бұрын

War is a Racket.

sounds like Paul Newman

@TheDocumenteriesTube

7 жыл бұрын

Yepper.

Thank God for this generation of brave men.

Do you know of any other documentary’s like this? Maybe from the 50’s with veteran interviews?

Say what you want about Adolf(with an A) he always gave his pencils back.

@Kents1969

3 жыл бұрын

I dont get it.

brothers killed brothers and the banks got rich !! #saynomoretowars

@joemctaggart3920

4 жыл бұрын

@Mr and Mrs. Smith what he means is the financiers controlling world banks

@briansobey4621

4 жыл бұрын

@Mr and Mrs. Smith Banks loaned money to both sides in the war.

@abidabi4363

4 жыл бұрын

@Mr and Mrs. Smith Your comment is total failure. You're in the uneducated minority here.

If soldiers are fresh and not damaged by ten years of war - I believe they treat their enemies and civilians better.

What TV documentary is this from? Are there any others?