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Broomfield Veterans Museum
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2011
The Broomfield Veterans Museum seeks to preserve the memories of America’s military history and strengthen the bonds to the community by facilitating the stories of veterans, as supported by displays and artifacts for the benefit and education of generations to come.
0139 Ed Gitlin
The World War II Experiences of Ed Gitlin
Combat Infantryman and Prisoner of War.
European Theater 1944-45
11/18/15
Combat Infantryman and Prisoner of War.
European Theater 1944-45
11/18/15
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Actually, the definition of Finland as a geographical area only happened in 1809, when Finland became an autonomous Grand Duchy, a part of Russian empire. Prior to this, it was just eastern proovinces of Sweden. People living in the area were mostly ethnic Finns, majority of them spoke Finnish, they had Finnish culture, but there was really no common national identity before early 1800's. A geographical area called Finland has been in maps since 1400's, but it was actually not the whole area populated by ethnic Finns, but just one small region in the southwestern part of modern-day Finland. Currently this region called "Finland Proper".
My father was on the YRBM 21. 1970-1971. Boatswain mate 1st class.
Strange enough, same people say war in ukraine happened in a vacuum and don't really want to speak of the event that lead to 2014...
On vikings... From wikipedia. "The Viking Age (about 800-1050 CE)"
8:11 - oh, i know it.. he means haiti .. but the haitians did not yet have their uprising... good morning america, your have your "colonies" as well in todays day and age - and you treat them like dirt, one of them is haiti. No voting rights, no sovereignity either.... but lets not talk about it, eh? lets talk about russia and sweden instead.
Thank you for uploading this!
Simo Häyhä was the sniper!
There was one basic error in this lesson. Matt Ake said, that Stalin made an error because he didn't occupy Finland. The truth is, that the Finns would have continued fighting with all their force to avoid the occupation. The Finnish losses would have been big, but the Soviet losses even much bigger. The French air planes might have bombarded Baku, and there would have been an increased risk, that the Soviet Union would have been dragged to a war against France and England, That Stalin didn't surely want to happen. So he stopped the war, before the Red army would have got a total victory. Stalin would have needed perhaps four months for that total victory, and two months more, if the Western countries would have greatly increased their military support to Finland. He didn't have those extra months. So he had to swallow, that Finland would exist in the world map at least a few months more. Matt didn't mention the hard Soviet political pressure against Finland immediately after the Winter War. Keep also in mind, that the Red army occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in June 1940. Stalin made an ultimatum to Romania a bit later and Romania gave Bessarabia and Bukovina to avoid a war with the Soviet Union. Finland was very worried, that her turn would be next to Romania and searched backing from Germany. Germany was the only big country, which was willing and able to support Finland - but naturally not without some political, economical and military compensations. When Finland had successfully pushed the Germans out from Finland, the basic tactics of Stalin towards Finland changed clearly to a more constructive one. It seems, that the Soviet leaders were satisfied with this minimum military win, which meant, that Finland was a part of the outer defensive sphere of the Soviet Union. This situation continued until the Soviet Union collapsed and Finland joined EU. Some spelling mistakes : Oulu and Suomussalmi - Raate battle.
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One question, why someone who is not having all the information and needs to do more research, has a lecture on some topic he is not entirely familiar?
I guess to share his interest on the subject
Someone needs to run this audio file through Audacity to remove the pops. It is not listenable right now.
54:58 Finland does not have permafrost and it is not mud in the spring or summer as much as what we now see for example in Ukraine. The Finnish terrain has forests, lakes and swamps. The motorized Russian army could move only through the roads, summer or winter. The Finnish army could move in the forest and especially across the frozen lakes and swamps in the winter with skis and horses.
Have to fck the dot a tiny bit "Suomessa saattaa olla ikiroutaa Lapin palsasoilla.". Might be so you can't exclude it but else we have what you said.
@@amadeuz819 😀 Sure. There IS permafrost in certain swamps in the northernmost Lapland. 🙂Those swamps are known by those frozen formations or palsa. That information is totally irrelevant to this lecture as there was no permafrost in the regions where Soviet army invaded in 1939. 🙂 In the 1940s there were more of palsasuo than now. Now they are disappearing. th-cam.com/video/4PjGY13BwS0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tzMEPdZAFoTBM9PU
@@amadeuz819 fuck the dot :'D
31:30 It is not mentioned, that the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact had a Secret Protocol (revealed only later, after WWII) where Germany and Russia divided certain regions. Therefore the occupation and division of Poland happened so smoothly in September. And so in December, Russia just tried to take Finland like they had agreed with Germany.
29:50 The map in the interwar slide is showing the current border, not the one in 1917-1939 when Karelia was a lot more part of Finland.
They are hiding the fact that they made a deal with the Devil in WW2 to save themselves against Germany. Like even when allied with the Soviet they accepted Soviet taking even more but they never talk about that and only sometimes mention that some generals said "Did we defeat the right enemy". Its like they can't do for them the right thing if it included wrong things done so they "shove it under the carpet" instead of just stating out the price they paid. The price was paid even later in all the proxy wars and the countries that was given to Soviet did not have a lovely time like the liberated French or the saved Jews. They sort of exchanged lives for lives but never talk or want to show the reality thus probably using today's country maps when wanting to show the Soviet "influence"(this too should be named enslavement or at least a more negative word than influence because force was used and people seized to exist). It's not only the other side that uses propaganda to paint a romanticized picture. Like how many times did you have to salute the flag in school "to become patriotic"...
17:07 The Finns have always been able to speak in Finnish. Yes, the relationship with the administration, government and the Finnish language changed under the Russian rule in the 19th century, but like said, the language was there.
Finns have always spoken Fin(not the same Fin until a FinSwe wrote it down but similar to each other), like it was never forbidden just not spoken in government. So we have had Finns changing to FinSwe and FinSwe changing to Fin during the years depending on the governing language(not heard of a time when Finns would have freely changed to Rus but we do have those speaking Fin today with Rus speaking past, then if they were enslaved Uralic people before or real Slavs I do not know. I have heard of Finns fighting on the red side then moving to Russia to get the gift of lead to their head). Like if we would have agreed to speak Russian like all the now extinct groups in current Russia, we would probably also be extinct like them. So in good or bad, Sweden becoming a Kingdom and getting the right to our land from the church saved us from the fate of our siblings on the Russian side.
@@amadeuz819 Swedes actively discouraged finnish language as they deemed finnish lesser being. Russia gave a encouragement to speak finnish and the idea to have it finally as governing language (fennomania) because they wanted to discourage swedish influence. Autonomy was a russian idea which lead to independent thought. Swedes would have done the same thing as the did to the forest finns so as history is proof, thank god Russia invaded in 1809 :)
@@kallekallenen4346 There have been times in Finland when they have tried to push Fin, there have been times they have tried to push Swe. Russia tried to erase our people like they have tried in every place they have occupied. There is a reason why children here is told "If you do not behave you end up in Siberia" instead of "If you do not behave you end up in Hell". Don't feed that Bull milk to me, we drink Cow milk here so you can enjoy your Bull milk in Russia. Governmental language was Swe and we were the same country with Sweden. Saami still exist within Sweden and Norway, even if the Finns turned Swedes. In the Baltic's all languages still exist. Lets take a peak on Russia, none exists in the western parts. Novgorod was still a co existing country. How about Tver next to the Baltic's or Ingria or even Karelia that still border similar people? Perm is probably soon gone and all the ones that were protected in Siberia because the distance was too long for the Muscovians to erase them. Really the only thing Finland got from being part of Russia was a border with Sweden to split the old country but if we hadn't got out in 1917 then we would not exist today. So your logic is really twisted. "Nothing good comes from the east except the sunrise". Our history speaks of darkness when it speaks about Muscovia. What happened to the Finnic people that helped Muscovia push out the horde? I assume according to your logic they have schools in Russia speaking their finnic language? Go feed your Bull Milk to someone else.
Thanks for sharing this. My father fought in this war and later was wounded. It was a heavy war for Finns. The Russians had more than 50 divisions prepared for this against the Finnish 9 divisions. Near the end of the war, Stalin ordered ALL divisions of Russia to be ready to attack and many of them were moved to the borders. Finns destroyed numerous Russian divisions (each 18 000 soldiers). The weather was on the Finnish side with -45 C and lots of snow. The Soviets were not really prepared for this. Finland had no women soldiers.
The Soviets plan was to take over the whole of Finland (as they did with the Baltic states). This was also mentioned in the addendum of the Stalin-Ribbentrop pact. The Soviets even formed a puppy government of Finland in a border village right after the Winter War started. Therefore, the result was not that Finland lost more land than the Soviets wanted before the war. The result was that Finland remained as an independent nation.
Vikings happened several centuries earlier.
Vikings failed to conquer Finland. The Norse Viking leader Olav Haraldsson raided the coasts of Finland but his army was ambushed by the Finns in the woods, and he was almost killed in the battle around 1008. He was later King of Norway (1015-1028). Besides Finnish witches casted storms when the Vikings tried to navigate their ships. But the Finns had useful trade relations with Vikings like selling high quality furs.
Great great interview
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The biggest reason the USSR attacked when they did and how they did, with a 2 week timetable, is that they wanted a parade in Helsinki for Stalin's birthday on the 18th of December.
A HUGE reason as to why Sweden didn't join NATO back in 49' and decided to build a strong army instead was because we (Sweden) knew that if we enter NATO we put Finland in a very bad spot. So we decided not to because Finland are our brothers and sisters, and that's also the reason we applied to join together. Fun fact: After we lost Finland we felt that Gustav IV (Swedish king during the Finnish war) had let both us and the Finns down so since then we've had the first button on the sleeve's of our uniforms unbuttoned and leave it unbuttoned until Sweden and Finland are united again(we still do this today). When we got accepted to NATO Anders Adlercreutz (Finland's Minister of Education and a direct descendant of Generalmajor Carl Johan Adlercreutz who fought in the Finnish war against Russia) put out a congtratulation video to us swedes, and then buttoned the first button on his suit cause now we're finally reunited again. And this explains Sweden and Finlands relationship pretty good if you ask me.
There were the Swedish Volunteer Corps in the Winter War that fought especially in Finnish Lapland. For instance the Swedish Voluntary Air Force operated from Kemi in northern Finland for the last 62 days of the Winter War. The aircraft also came from the Swedish Air Force inventory.
@@dirreeN very interesting about the button! Thanks for writing that
Yeah, when Finland was fighting for its existence during the Winter War, Sweden honored this "everlasting brotherhood" by preventing British&French military aid coming to Finland. That military aid included 50,000 soldiers, 200 aircraft, countless artillery units, etc. not to mention ammunitions. But hey, maybe Finland didn't have a need for them so, no hard feelings, right? The Finns have nothing against Sweden but Sweden's promises of military aid have always been a joke here. Sorry, that's just a fact.
@@x-wing8785 Britain and France didn't declare war to the Soviet Union when the Red Army attacked to eastern Poland on 17 September 1939 even if they had declaced war to Germany for the same reason a couple weeks earlier. For Poland Hitler and Stalin were equally bad options. Britain and France wanted to have an access to the Swedish iron mines because they were important for weapons production. There was actually a Franco-British plan to invade Norway and Sweden to prevent Swedish iron ore to go to Germany. But Stalin also wanted to avoid the military conflict with Britain and France, and it made him more agreeable to make an armistice with Finland in March 1940. The Swedish economic aid to Finland was twice as big as the Finnish own military budget including all kinds of rifles, machine guns, ammunition, anti-aircraft guns, sea mines, depth charges, trucks, etc. Sweden helped Finland more than it did when the Wehrmacht attacked to Denmark and Norway in April 1940.
@@lucone2937 Perhaps it is better to look at what Finnish leaders said in 1940 about Sweden's role in the winter war: Mannerheim: "Finland's defeat in the winter war was entirely Sweden's fault." J. K. Paasikivi was bit more direct in his words: "Sweden is a shit country and every Swede is a shithead." Their words were not particularly polite but give a good picture of what the situation was at that time. No one denies Swedish military aid to Finland, but Sweden's entire role during the war was more against Finland than for it. Before the war, Finland and Sweden had already agreed on defense cooperation(and Finland trusted it). When the Soviet Union's attack on Finland began to look likely, Sweden suddenly announced that it would not come to aid if the Soviet Union declares war. At the same time, Sweden gave up Åland, whose status was still unclear at the time, so defence of Åland also fell entirely for Finland. At least it cemented Åland to become part of Finland after war, so there was sometinhin good about it. Anyway, all this caused more harm for Finland that later military aid could compencate.
Finland refused Marshall plan. This was done due Soviet influence. Then again Sweden accepted Marshall plan even Sweden did not fight in the war and Swedes helped Finland also after the war
You say that finland refused the marshall plan due to soviet influence. That's 100 % the same as saying it was not allowed.
@@thelistener0 Yeah, Finland couldn¨t' accept the Marshall Plan because the Soviet Union was against it. Instead Finland had to pay war reparations to the Soviet Union that were originally worth US$300,000,000 at 1938 prices (equivalent to US$6.49 billion in 2023). The last dispatched train of the deliveries paying the war reparations crossed the border between Finland and the Soviet Union on 18 September 1952.
Though Finland got various type of other assistance from the US but it was outside the Marshall plan... like loans, Fulbright scholarships, cargo ships etc.
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Sorry to say this but Finland was NOT a colony in any way under Sweden, so typical strange view, Finland which wasnt called Finland by that time was a part of Sweden like all other counties, they had same right and same system like all Swedes. Sweden second biggest city was for a long time in Finland, no, not Helsinki but Åbo. Also Sweden didnt become rulers of what is called Finland today in 14th century as you said, it goes ev3n further back in history to 12th century. Also Novgorod mentioned was a country created by Swedish Vikings called Rus, later Swedish Vikings also created Kievian-Rus which became Russia and stayed under Swedish influence until Moscovitj dutchy took over during 17th century.
@@roxpace swedish reign totally started as a colonization but later turned into annexing the area into the kingdom properly.
@@itseperkele181 I would not define that as colonization, even Swedish Vikings had settlements there in southwest I think, so the presence was there before the so called "colonization"
@@roxpace well it was a outside power coming in and changing the local ways to theirs. Sounds like colonization to me. Just to be clear, I'm not saying they colonized like, for example, the british did. Maybe colonization-light would be a better description lol
@@itseperkele181 Finland grew as a part of Kingdom of Sweden. "Colonization" was done before real states even existed. And folks in Finland did not have infrastructure to be a nation. I suppose you could say that Sweden annexed Finland by starting to build limited infrastructure to Finland. But colony to Sweden? Definitely no. By the time Sweden turned a European superpower Finland just a part of the kingdom.
I live in Finland. Finns stress that Finland was treated as a fairly equal part of the Swedish kingdom in the 1700s, but that was only partly true, and things were very different in the 5 preceding centuries. The area now called Finland was definitely colonized during and after the Swedish crusades against Finns, Tavastians, and Karelians during the period from 1150 to 1293. The Finnish upper class lost its position and lands to new Swedish and German nobility and to the Catholic Church.[1] The Swedish colonisation of some coastal areas of Finland with Christian population was a way to retain power in former pagan areas that had been conquered. It has been estimated that there were thousands of colonists.[2] Colonisation led to several conflicts between the colonists and local population which have been recorded in the 14th century. In colonised areas the Finnish population principally lost its fishing and cultivation rights to the colonists.[3][4] Though the Finnish provinces were an integral part of the Kingdom of Sweden with the same legal rights and duties as the rest of the realm, Finnish-speaking Swedish subjects faced comparative challenges in dealing with the authorities as Swedish was established as the sole official language of government. In fact, it remained a widely accepted view in Sweden proper that the Finns were in principle a separate and conquered people and therefore not necessarily entitled to be treated equitably with Swedes. Swedish kings visited Finland rarely and in Swedish contemporary texts Finns were often portrayed as primitive and their language inferior.[5] Approximately half of the taxes collected in Finland was used in the country, while the other half was transferred to Stockholm.[6] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_under_Swedish_rule
56:20 nope, no female units of sniper in finnish army. That was a russian thing. The sniper that the lecturer is talking about is Simo Häyhä.
And im pretty sure it was only a thing bit later on in ww2 when they were desperate for manpower.
Never heard any soviet female soldier in winterwar.
17:12 nope! But then again, finnish prnounciations are completely different to how 'muricans speak so no worries there.
8:30 vikings werent really a thing anymore in the 1300s.
yeah.i'd say you need to go back in time for a few hundred years more.
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This is a standout interview with great conversationalist. Mr Thornton seems to be a real salt of the earth man. 35 missions mostly in a tiny cramped ball turret with nothing but plexiglass between himself and flak shards and bullets. Thank you for posting. 🇮🇪
What a story! What an American.
very beautiful
Why do you talk like we 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮 Arw bad people if your father was put in prison hes traitor or dis something against FINLAND.
Howard Keith Beasley was wounded in action on 11 May 1945, according to the USMC Casualty Indexes 1940-1958. Ignore the troll.
This guy is a clown and not credible
That's my grandpa!! Thank you so much for posting this. I miss him so much it hurts. It's so amazing to hear his voice and his stories again. He was my best friend. ❤
Corpsman until wounded May 1967, Delta 3. 18 miles south of Da Nang, RVN.
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A great American woman.
Amazing story, I will be recommending this channel to my friends. I love war story's.
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Devil is in the details. Molotov-ribbentrop pact also established spheres of influence between the two empires. And the soviet proposal included clause that Finland should demolish all of it's defensive fortifications on Karelian isthmus. Soviets could simply have steamrolled the defenses after that. And why Nato; Ukraine matters for Finland as a border country of Russia Finns of course feel empathy and feel that we could be in the same position. And it's not that far - Kiev is about as far from Helsinki as the most nothern parts of Finland with units that were on Finnish border were sent there, and some of the bombing runs start from the airfields close to Finland.
Great American. 32 missions!
Finally, my dear friends were Okinawan - Americans, they came over in the 1930's working produce truck farms . They were interned in Manzanar by President Roosevelt, despite their loyalty to being naturalized Americans They said the Japanese treated them terribly, thinking the Okinawan were an inferior race. Despite internment in Manzanar, they loved America and said they would go through emigration and internment to live in America.
Whatever this man wanted in life, I hope he received double. God bless him. We and subsequent generations owe him more than we can repay
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This is a chilling account of a draftee's brave year in Vietnam. It's an incredibly sad commentary on the signal war of my generation when we consider how incompetently our national leadership conducted what was otherwise winnable with the proper application of air power against North Vietnam.
Thanks for sharing this. My uncle Bob lally was in the 102nd ozarks. He shared many stories with me . He passed few years back. Truly these men were from the greatest generation. He shared a few stories on line.
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