Great story, one of America's heroes.

We will never see the likes of your Father and his Generation again. That WW2 Generation are all heroes, abroad and at home. 77 was too young.

Your dad (like mine and my wife) was one of the 'Golden generation' who (from all the allied nations) gave us the life we have today. We owe them so much.

So thankful for men like your Dad and the many men who fought valiantly to rid the world of the evil oppression and tyranny of the Axis Powers that threaten any country that defied them. My Dad also Served in the United States Army during WW2. May they all rest in peace. Truly the Lord God Almighty gave us great Victory!❤🙏

I’m sure that you are very proud of your dad’s accomplishments. There so many stories of this kind of heroism. It’s enlightening to hear your father’s story. Thank you.

I thank your Dad. I live in Telemark, where the Norwegian resistance destroyed the Heavy water ( Heroes of Telemark 1965) and used to live in Drøbak where Colonel Erickson sunk the German heavy cruiser Blucher, on April 9, 1940.

Much REspect for your dad.

As well as bolt action battle rifles(K98 Mausers)as opposed to US M1 Garands(semi automatic rifles/.30-06...

Shut up and surrender

Cheers & Respect from North Carolina

Bravo pour votre excellent commentaire relatif à ce documentaire. Ce documentaire explique clairement les décisions que durent prendre les Alliés dans le contexte difficile où l'armée allemande semblait invincible.

Yes and today we fight an ideaoligy we say is wrong as the US of aggression runs around the world spreading misinformation and supporting terrorism and crying each time they get arse whacked.

wrong it was once they attacked russia that it was over. remember in 1944 when the americans joined the war in Normandie, the soviets had already crushed the germans. the americans attacked by opportunisme in Normandie and to prévent the soviets from taking all of Europe leavin the americans isolated worldwide

They were defeated once they decided to attack the USSR.

a declaration facilitating submarine warfare against American boats which supplied Russia

​@annoyingbstard9407 I would disagree. The Soviets didn't turn things around till the U.S. began sending them weapons, ammo and supplies.

@@wcjeffro9849 this is true, and it might have been because of the US Lend Lease that had been being sent to Britain for the last year that influenced Hitler’s willingness to declare war on America. After all, the US had technically been at war with Germany unofficially by doing this very thing, but it was still a mistake, because troops were not involved.

It looks like a propaganda film.

These are automated subtitles, don't take it too much to heart. They always get names wrong. You can turn them off you know.

Hitler was in charge, or did that pass you by? It didn't matter what Manstein wanted; Hitler was the only person who could give the order to abandon Stalingrad, and he had no intention of giving that order.

@@captainhurricane5705 Hitler granted Gen. Von Paulus the title of Marshall on purpose saying that never before a German Marshall had been defeated. Von Paulus didn't have the balls to disobey Hitler: with an early retreat he could have saved a good portion of the men in his VI Army from death. Fat Hermann Goering was a SOB: he promised Hitler the Luftwaffe could provide air support and supply by failed miserably.

​@@RMaidla: "Von"?

É. Foi muito otimo. Tú viuno documentário pelo a Batalhão das Cobras?

That would have been an interesting job. I lived there for three years and the weather is difficult for aviation. when the Japanese attacked Dutch a Catalina was in the water just off the ramp, getting ready to take off. A fighter attacked as they attempted to take off, disabling the plane and killing several members of the crew.

Actually, it was early June of '42 when the Battle of Midway occurred, and the US scored its first major victory. But you are right, from that point forward the focus of the Japanese war effort in the Pacific shifted from offensive to defensive.

The americans did, by far, most of the heavy lifting in defeating Japan. You just don't like them, so you want to falsely minimize their contribution. Were it not for the americans (or the russians, or the british) the axis would have won. You probably owe your life to those whose contribution you seek to minimize. The ignorance is yours. Try a little gratitude for what has been done for you, with american blood.

@@dougrobbins5367 It was a joint effort goose. I suppose you think the US won the First World too.

Of course it was a "joint effort" You state the obvious, and ignore what I told you. Grow up. You also make no rebuttal to what I said. None. I don't know how anyone wins "the first world too". Goose? What does that mean? Yes, the USA was a primary contributor to victory in the first world war. Maybe learn a little history, before you go around calling others "ignorant". That's called "hypocrisy". Your comments are foolish, childlike, and you refuse to address the points I made. Were it not for the US, Japan would have destroyed China. You need look no further than the massacre at Nanking to understand that. The Americans saved chinese lives by the millions, rescued it's culture from certain destruction. Is that fact taught in chinese schools? Why not? Does china lie to it's young people? Where is the gratitude? What kind of people express little other than contempt for those who saved their lives, their country, their people? If gratitude is entirely missing, what does that say about those people? @@wangtianlong1

@@wangtianlong1 I suppose that you think NATO is a "joint" effort.

@@handsomeman-pm9vyNope. Next inane question?

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Eventually....

Twaddle. Papua New Guinea was a series of Australian victories after Britain had turned on it. The Americans arrived for Dutch New Guinea, not the Australian colony of Papua. Borneo was completely an Australian conquest with a very minor naval contribution from America as they were using the Australian navy elsewhere.

There was Major British Australian and US Air Support, yes you are correct about that the Major Battles were done by the Aussies but that is what the point I was trying to make , to the Americans they won the War but of course WE know better in that part of the World as for winning the War in Europe that was the Intense and Brave Russian onslaught that cost so many lives that won that. Thank God for them I say. are you a Aussie or New Zealander, my Uncle was a Chindit in Burma having fought in France in 1940 then in North Africa till 1942, he was then Chosen as a Sergeant for the Special force to go to Burma and one of his Friends was an Australian chosen with him his name was Turnbull and he and my uncle were in the same Column together, but they both had a Torrid time I know that, my Uncle won the MM in Mogaung , but he hated the Japanese more than anyone else, he seen so much of their cruelty. The Americans fought bravely that can be said in the Pacific and in other theatres but Today they tend to think they did it all Wish you a happy new year. Pob Hwyl

that battle was june 1942 MIDWAY and it was in the middle of the Pacific thats why the island was called MIDWAY

he was in the TORCH campaign not the egypt and libya war in the western desert there were no american troops in that conflict

not the English people, the British people

BRITISH not ENGLISH

before pearl harbour that was dec 7 1941 the north african campaign called operation TORCH was oct 1942 and it was churchills battle plan not roosevelts he wanted to attack france and churchill said it was not possible after the canadians and british tried it at Dieppe in august 1942 and got slaughtered on the beaches

I don't think it's a crime to fight the enemy with the same barabaric tactics that they used. The nazis pioneered the use of terror bombing (Gurnica, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, London, Moscow) to they only got what they theselves dished out. The Japanese pioneered the enslavement and murder of civilians in their captured territories. They got what they dished out. Ah, u might say ... but what about innocent civilians. U childish arguement. I'm quite sure that if laser guided smart bombs had been invented in WWII, that could find and kill only soldiers, then they would have been used. The Allies could only use the weapons and methods available - and one of the most powerful weapons they had was bombs.

@gordonbennet1094 And yet you are here to state things, while purely innocent human beings across many decades of war were not alive to give their impressions, were they? No. They were decimated. Destroyed. You have a certain Machiavellian attitude, I'd say. I understand that war will happen in spite of the best efforts, but in war, there are people who have nothing to do with the conflict whatsoever, who have lived innocently and helpfully, and who die all the same-- because in war, the chieftains of war commonly reduce innocent human beings into objects of casual erasure, standing unfortunately in the way of some great cause. It could have been you. It could have been your child, your wife. I urge you to never lose sight of the value of human life, and never let the sophistry of war strategy compromise your own humanity.

@@bretfisher7286 I haven't lost sight of the value of human life. I have a Mother, Father, wife, and son. None of that alters the fact that when one country declares war on another, and uses barabaric methods to wage war, other countries have no choice but to fight like with like. The Nazis, and the German population in general, revelled in their arrogance and power. The German nation cheered and saluted Hitler when he was over-running and destroying other countries with bombs, flame throwers, and terror. Total War was a fine thing for them - so long as it was happening to others. But when Total War came home to the Germans, they immediately - and for ever after - whined and complained about how dreadful and unfair it was.

@@gordonbennet1094 Be well.

​@@gordonbennet1094Sehr gut ! Sie ersparen mir einen Kommentar . Danke !

Not in you life time. That is not the Human way!

​@@handsomeman-pm9vyQuite unfortunately .

Heh.. I think def a dry lip moment or a slight nose snort! All the best.. Liam Dale (Narrator)

there was no war in western europe in 1942 apart from the RAF and then the USAAF in 1943

The axis powers controlled Messina and mainland Italy at that time. The allies would have been trying to move into an area where they would have been immediately surrounded.

There were many errors made in the Italian campaign that delayed victory and cost a lot of lives. Sicily, Anzio, Rome, Monte Cassino, Po River.

Thats right...Japan launched some 9,000 balloons during a five-month period, to be carried by high altitude winds more than 6,000 miles eastward across the Pacific to North America. Perhaps a thousand of these reached this continent, but there were only about 285 reported incidents.

wrong

Agreed! If not for D-Day the Russians would have rolled all the way to the channel. ALONE, and unaided.

Stalin was a dictator and he didn’t care for his for us at all so don’t blame us for the cold war. It was Stalin.

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