40,000 Allied lives ? That alone was more than what McArthur lost in the PTO .

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Put the material according to the period it was used like showing tiger and panther during the battle of Moscow "operation typhoon "that took place in 1941 while they been in use from 1942-1943 on

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Respects to his memory and service. The lack of recognition given to the personnel who kept the USSR supplied until almost all of them had passed on was disgraceful. The UK govt repeatedly blocked the Soviet then Russian offers of awards of the "Ushakov medal" to RN sailors who had taken part in the Arctic convoys, it was only afer 2014 when again most of the veterans had passed on that the Russian awards were generally permitted.

They will continue to exist for as long as they continue to pay for the rights to show the work and programming of other networks. If it weren't for the History Channel, they'd lose half of their content. Nevermind the other sources they pluck material from.

French should just change their flag from blue red and white to full white already.

No that's the Italians.

Why does France plant trees along their roads? Because the german solidier likes to march in the shadow ;)

And New Zealand

Interesting

Tyvm to your Dad for helping to save the world!

@@RogerLewis-ey2tt Thanks Roger, Dad passed away about 10 years ago, but I'll pass your thoughts on, when next I see him! Cheers J

@@johnthorburn3712my grandad fought in Egypt with the 2nd NZEF until having his eye blown out by a grenade. He’s with your grandad John.

Same mistake the Germans made in bombing Stalingrad .

Nope. Wrong evaluation.

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He obviously wasn't that good of a pencil pusher either. No one was asking him to grab a rifle and defend the line. He just needed the IQ to understand the pen is mightier than a sword and write up ✍ a proper plan. His enemies was out there beating him with brains - not muscle.

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Considering only five thousand came back out of 91k prisoners.

@@deneshbhaskar8650 Better than 0 if they would have fought to the last man. Those survivors were needed back home to help raise their wife's new kid 🤣🤣

Absolutely

Field marshals and generals captured at Stalingrad were actually treated pretty well, they had their own headquarters under guard in Moscow. The enlisted men were marched to Siberia and other gulags. I was shocked when I learned about that. I thought they just sent them all to gulag.

A great point and one not discussed enough in my opinion. The little man...or woman....fighting back against the oppressor....We need this now too.

How can the new Zealand troops fighting in the Pacific against the Japanese be a "crucial" turning point to Hitler's downfall?

Very true .

Look at russia today it's the same thing without the camps

I think the battle of Britain was a draw. The nazis could of used those fighter planes more importantly those dead and captured airmen in Russia

Battle for Britain was won by Germany. How can we tell? Because England kept calling the US for help.

@@deneshbhaskar8650 It wasn't a draw because Germany didn't achieve air superiority. They failed. The Battle of Britain was to compel Britain to sue for peace. And/or invading Britain itself.

Not a soft underbelly. :-/

Why is it that Ive never heard of the battle of Monte Casino until today? I know all the main points of this war, studied Stalingrad, Moscow, etc. It sees like this battle is never discussed.

To be fair, the battle of Monte Casino can't even be said in the same sentence as. Stalingrad. 40,000 allied lives? really? It's tough to even care when Stalingrad alone saw the death of over a million on each side, not to mention the million lost over the entire eastern front. In general, most of the fighting was done on the eastern front, so a smaller battle on the less significant, western front is not necessarily going to make it into a curriculum that doesn't even have enough time to fully cover the battles that truly changed the course of the war and world history.@@bunjijumper5345

Monte Cassino is typical day on the Eastern front.

@@user-nr5tp2jo3u Every minute of the day on the Eastern/ Russian front ,vwhere my mom's pop was kia . He was a major in the 2nd Waffen SS "DAS REICH " Panzer Grenadier Div . .Her POP was kia in the Battle for Kursk mid -July 1943.

Wow. Heavy.

Not really

Let me guess, free ukriane too? Dull.

I was just thinking that myself. Why did they do that? No contour lines on the land maps... no discussion. Weird and boring.

What commercial?

Thing is, a lot of battles in WW2 involved multinational troops. Just as an example, if anyone has seen the movie "The Battle of Britain", at the end of the movie it lists a breakdown of the nationalities of the pilots involved. And no, they weren't all British. In fact 15 other nations also participated. And that wasn't a singuar event. Battle of the Bulge didn;t involve just Americans, but also British and Canadians. Easier to have a neutral display.

You fight under the color of your flag...period - irrespective of what nationality your are.@@lisahesslink2267

@lisahesslink2267 But in the Battle of Britain the air force was singular. The Royal Air Force. There weren't other air forces and non British planes involved. 80% of the pilots and 100% of the planes, radar stations and ground spotters were British.

Government Math.

How can "lightly armed" troops of any kind "decimate" armoured vehicles? Did they take their skis off and smash the tanks up with them? Your reading is so shallow, you don't even know that they had no AT really, apart from a really good, but impractical AT rifle and improvised devices like molotov cocktails and sticky bombs, right? Do you think you can just send it with ski troops straight into stalled armoured columns, because the machine guns on those tanks would make mincemeat out of them, which was why the Finnish troops never did that. It was instead like a snowy Vietnam where the Finnish troops used hit and run tactics or always stayed very well hidden, and that was what stalled the Red army, which is not the Russian army, you seem to be confused like the Americans are about that. Do you think that by Operation Bagration or when they took Berlin, something the Allies could not do, that they had the same problems, or that they were not by then experts in deep penetration into enemy territory, because they were and had the equipment for it, unlike in the Winter war, when they were also so badly purged since 1938, they basically did not have officers, right, because most historians say that about the Red army of the Winter EWar to account for that, as opposed to your "theory" (sic) that they still do not know about battle formations like column and line to this day somehow. So you are also wrong that the Red army and later Russian army never could do that. Why the stalled operation outside of Kiev was such a travesty to Russian doctrine was that they have trained in Ukraine for many decades and know the land exactly, every single road and track from their old Warsaw Pact maps. They also have extensive vehicles and tanks that can operate off-road and can even be amphibious, because of how bad the Russian and Ukrainian roads are. You can't get a factoid from this while watching it, then add that to some news you saw last year and then try to mash them together into some sort of inexpert opinion about weapons and tactics like that, since you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Columns on roads always get "flanked" as you mangle it, that has been happening since the 18th Century and was why back then there is column formation for faster travel on road and a broad formation to engage the enemy. Drones do not make that even more the case, word salad; now go and read a book and stop wasting people's time on your tenuous fairy stories. However, it was the Russians who used drones first since 2014, that is why the trenches there are covered, because the Russians were using drones to drop grenades into them. It was a new tactic then, if you could read you would know that and not blunder so easily into that counterfactual either.

Rant much??

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まるでアメリカ自身は野蛮人でないかのような言い方だな。

@@Tokyocitizens all is fair in love and war

''These people were barbaric.'' you mean like the US army that slaugthered women and children in My Lai?

@@Tokyocitizens The Americans were not even close to as cruel, they weren't conducting vivisection on live pregnant women for example. Please, for the memory of their millions of brutalized, enslaved, and raped victims, educate yourself on the atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Government.

@@pleasedisregardthefollowin5568 原子爆弾で何万人もの人を蒸発死させることはそれほど残酷ではないのですか？実際、日本統治下で在日米兵は多くの日本人女性を犯したことを知らないあなたこそ歴史の勉強をちゃんとしてください。

Why he didn't just quit while he was ahead. He invaded a few countries and the league of nations didn't do $hit in the beginning. No one wanted another World war but he already decided long time ago that he was going to continue to push his luck and see where it takes him 😢

The Volga was a considerable obstacle to be crossing at thte end of a VERY precarious supply line, and the terrain east of the river at that point is marshland for hundreds of miles. The Soviets held the only road leading to Stalingrad from the east, the rest being impassible, like the Pripet marshes in Byelorussia / Ukraine.

@@blackmamba___ Do you think the allies would just let him quietly consolidate what the nazis had conquered? From 1943 onwards the nazis were fighting defensively on all fronts.

The germans destroyed a lot of their supplies during the retreat. I've read about it in multiple different memoirs of German soldiers who were actually there.

Did you khnow how people suffer in temperature-30? More that from hunger. Is posible that thay burn food worm body

Yeah, but then again: even Auschwitz isn’t actually pronounced “Auschwitz”; It’s “Oświęcim” in Polish. Butchering names and places is something that is almost inevitable: You can’t expect people to pronounce everything correctly, even though it would show more respect.

​@@kristofvandycke6687 Didn't mean to make any sort of serious claim with that, and not really implying any sort of disrespect on the part of the video producer. Just thought it was funny that the narrator would have never heard that word pronounced out loud before, if anybody has ever watched A Bridge Too Far or even Band of Brothers they would know.

Japan and Germany had their own nuclear programs but didn't care much about them luckily

We could have blockaded Japan into surrender. Incinerating tens of thousands of non-combatants with nuclear weapons was pointless.

@@yankeedoodle1963, you are absolutely right. The Japanese expressed their readiness to surrender immediately after the USSR entered the war, because they were well aware that they could not fight on two fronts. This is indicated by archival documents. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is just the first act of the Cold War. Japan was on its last legs, nuclear bombing was not required to force it to surrender, the United States simply needed to demonstrate its new weapons to the USSR. Roosevelt, if he were alive, would not have done this. Вы абсолютно правы. Японцы выразили готовность сдаться сразу же после вступления СССР в войну, потому что прекрасно осознавали, что не могут воевать на два фронта. Об этом говорят архивные документы. Бомбёжка Хиросимы и Нагасаки - это просто первый акт "холодной войны". Япония была на последнем издыхании, чтоб заставить её сдаться ядерных бомбардировок не требовалось, США просто было нужно продемонстрировать СССР своё новое оружие. Рузвельт, если бы был жив, этого бы не сделал.

@@DmitryTihomirow So why didn't Japan surrender before the bombings - since archival documents show they were warned ahead of time? And then why didn't they immediately surrender after Hiroshima bombing?

@@yankeedoodle1963 Mass starvation of tens of millions is not a preferable alternative to incinerating tens of thousands of non-combatants.

Then I suggest you are American

I’m an American and I laughed at both of these comments. Because you are not an American,you think you have know more and suffered more, think again. On the bottom we’re all the same.@@terryzanger7152

After ww2 the US was much better off than it was before the war . WW2 ended the 1930s great depression .

@@Crashed131963 yeah, but the US lost its freedom in exchange. The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) emerged thanks to WW2. The non-interventionalist tendency it people had before the conflict dissappeared and the US became the official rival to the USSR for global influence. The MIC gained more influence over american politics, with a world war budget that never deflated after being scaled to that proportion for 'emergency and temporary' measures in order to win the war. I'd argue the US lost more than many, whilst not in lives. Again, there are no victors in war. Only lesser losers.

He was good at painting buildings.

Germany was gonna throw down again but the holacost probably wouldn't have happened

That may work, jews love money....

Oh my, and there you are in Vienna, Austria with Reichsmark...the wrong currency! Americans, too ignorant to do anything.

I suppose you failed.

Or maybe a 2 storey extension at the back of the Reichstag would have been more suitable?

My grandpa was there they called it the island wars! He was awarded a silver star and 2 Purple Hearts for his time in the Philippines and Japan.

@@tammyforbes2101 Did he mean "The Island Wars " as far as the Island archipilego of the Phillipines , or of the Island hoping campaigns on the PTO ?

I once had an uncle who visited Guam.

@@johnlawler4241 Your uncle was in the USA Army , or USMC , because those two military branches were savagely fighting the Imperialist / Japanese dug in those mountainous caves . The rough topography was idea for hidden machine gun nests , and sniper kill zones , hidden artillery guns , motors , and booby traps . The Marines there , fighting in Guam would later be formed , or integrated into the 3rd Marine Division that took part in "The Battle for/ ( of) Iwo - Jima . A battle that claimed nearly 5 1/2 USA Marine lives , and where the famous US of As flag was raised on My. Suribachi about mid 2/1945 , and with another PTO battle for an Island ahead Okinawa around early4/1945 . That island conflict cost nearly 9 1/2 American lives .

@@tammyforbes2101 I don't know if I inquired about this before , but what USA Army infantry Division he served under ? The Phillipines was mostly USA regular Army fighting the Imperialist / Fascist Japanese there ; a tough fight against a tough/ tenacious enemy the Japanese were deeply hunkered in , and had to be flushed out . Interestingly enough the Japanese were starting to surrender : a quite a few startling the Allied/ American troops .

Again won by Russia 😂

​@@JASHVEER22May Putin get the Mussolini treatment he deserves, and may his serfs' reality crumble again.

@@neilhillis9858 keep wishing 🤣

Sorted out by the Polish 2nd corp.

Just go to Ukraine 🇺🇦 right now. I know it's not the same as going back in time, but I'm sure you'll be able to still live out the emotions that those people were feeling at the time day after day.