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Benito went wrong, that’s all.

Thanks a lot for this! Cheers, from Canada!

This is what never really changes.

Well done mate. Loved it!

you'll have teouble in winter

your family is weak

you are weak

Nice one.

My neighbor was recruited as a 16 year old into the Italian Army in the last days of the war. He lived in a large city in the north of Italy and even at 90 odd years old would whenever he heard a propeller-driven airplane look up instinctively to make sure it wasn't a B-17. As the American troops were approaching his Commander sent him to his position and told him to dig in. In his own words he said: I digga the hole so deep nobody find me till 3 days after the battle. Later he fought with UN forces in Korea . Rest in paradise Aldo

A small but interesting expedition! Thanks for your research. Might I suggest the addition of a scale of distance to your maps? That would be very helpful.

+ 90% WERE FORCED TO FIGHT WITH DEATH IF THEY DIDNT FIGHT - MY DAUGHTERS FATHER IN LAW WAS AN ITALIAN HE WAS CAPTURED IN EGYPT THERE LEADERS WERE VERY POOR

Whose gonna miss them? They were white colonial racists.

... and for what? Harsh lessons are clearly lost upon our psychopathic young politicos.

My brother has been doing the family history thing and discovered that my great uncle was killed playing the pipes at the Somme. That was my mothers dads brother and, at the same time, my mothers mums father was hiding in a dead horse during the Somme after the rest of his unit were wiped out. Makes it all very real. It’s like the other day I was chatting to my mate who runs a guitar shop in Whitley Bay. He just mentioned that his grandfather was killed on board HMS Hood. Kind of slaps you in the gob when you hear things like that.

Thank you for a very well executed and informative video.

The Dutch were put to bed by the 'B' team.

The tactics were adopted by design because of the circumstances, the same was true when Nelson copied them for the same reason.

Very informative video. I was fascinated by this battle after reading "The Fort" by Bernard Cornwell". I once looked at the ruins of Fort George on Google Maps and could see the shape of the walls, as well as the shape of a baseball diamond (much later I assume) in the walls of the fort.

Afode German ,Italian Submarines, or French Submarines??

The Italian front line fighting man was poorly armed, trained, and supplied. Their morale was very low. Do I blame them? No, the top brass was to blame. They were inept, pompous, and utterly corrupt. Fascist Italy was ruled over by oligarchs. These ppl saw war as a profit generator (much like the U.S arms industry does today) and that's it. They didn't care about the quality or quantity of the arms that they produced. Only about profit for each unit of sale. They ripped off the nation of Italy with their over priced under produced outdated garbage.

You should visit Burlington VT and see the lake sometime. Absolutely beautiful.

They might have had shit officers, but I bet the Italians turned up in designer uniforms and incredible cars.

Just don't put them behind a steering wheel because they all think they are Mario Andretti, even when driving a tank.

70 odd divisions ? Mussolini came n/up with the "binary" division, 2 instead of 3 infantry regiments, that allowed for an increase in the number of divisions while greatly reducing their combat strength. The most numerous tank the L33-2 man crew, 2 machine guns. In his diaries Ciano refers repeatedly to Italy's unpreparedness in 1940.

Thank you for this

But it took the allies 3 yrs to beat the Italians in North Africa for a so called useless force......

LET'S BE OBJECTIVE!! The main military powers that fought for years in WW2 were six :On one side Germany ,Italy and Japan .On the other side USA ,Russia,UK .That's it .Italy fought on two continents and four seas with 3.400.000 men (considering army ,navy ,aviation ,auxiliaries).Let's see some points: 1)First of all this video doesn't explain that before the ww2 Italy had two war campaignes in Ethiopia(1935-1936) and Spain civil war(1936-1939) and used a lot of resources to fight and finish those campaignes, for this reason wasn't ready in 1940. 2) REGIA MARINA:The Italian fleet was the fourth in the world in 1940, it had the same tonnage of navy like France .The Littorio Class was the backbone of the navy with the 3 huge battleships: Littorio ,Vittorio Veneto and Roma(in 1940 they were considered the most powerful battleships in the world like artillery.). The Regia Marina had very great successes with submarines ,they fought in fourth different seas:Mediterranean Sea, in the Red Sea,in the Persian Gulf and in the Atlantic Ocean. ,with 1750 missions and the sinking of 132 merchant ships and 18 military ships,Italy lost 128 submarines of the totaly 172.The X Mas ,was a special unit of assault and raid of the Regia Marina ,with great success of sinking to the Royal Navy. 3)REGIA AERONAUTICA:The Italian Air Force had in 1940: 1300 medium bomber ,1160 fighter aircaftt, 500 recoinassence aircraft .It had very good warfighters like Macchi 202 and Macchi 205,Fiat G 55 and the Reggiane RE 2005 (maybe the most beautiful airplane of the WW2) .Italy built from (1940 to 1943) 11508 airplanes(always less in comparison with the othern nations). Only the fourth squadron destroyed 585 airplanes plus 215 probably .The SM 79 was an amazing medium bomber ,very effcient as torpedo bomber ,infact sinked a lot of military ships (Fearless ,Bedouin ,Nestor ,Foresight,Pozarica ecc).The sum of the official ranking of the(only) flying aces is of 1225 shooting down aircrafts.(The highest is Franco Lucchini with 26). 4)REGIO ESERCITO AND SPECIAL FORCES The Italian Army fought in Russia,Yugoslavia,Greece,North Africa ,and South -East Africa with 1.800000 soldiers in 75 divisions(not all well-equipped). Very good were the machine guns Breda 30 and 36, the mortar 81mm, Beretta 38 submachine .Italy built very good armoured cars like the autoblinda 40 and 41 and the SPA Viberti AS 42 ,and only the the tank 105/25 m43.The Special forces like Folgore ,Bersaglieri ,Alpini ,The X Mas ecc were very combative .The Folgore fought in North Africa for 3 years stopping the best English troops. 5)VICTORIES AND HEROIC BATTLE: - El Alamein in the 1942 -The last charge of Izbusenskij of the cavalry Savoy in Croazia in the 1942 - The sinking of the Queen Elizabeth and Valiant by the X Mas in the 1941 -Pantelleria air-naval battle with the sinking of the Burdwan ,Chan and Kentucky and the damage of many others in the 1942 -The battle of August 1942 with the sinking of Manchester ,Cairo and the damage of Nigeria ,Kenya ,Brisbane ecc -The sinking of York and Pericles in the Sudan Bay by the X Mas 1941 - Italian conquest of British Somalia - 1940 -Italian conquest of Cassala,Gallabat and Kurmuk (British-Egypt Sudan)1940; So there are a lot of victories of Italy in ww2(i have wrote only some) ,but Italy lost the war and the winners write the history for this reason there are a lot of fake videos like this .For sure Italy wasn't so bad, but don't worry you can read books(as "Courage Alone" of Chris Dunning) and check on internet .And don't forget ITALY was the first nation to use airplanes in combat in Libia in 1911 and to built the first jet plane Campini Caproni without propeller. Also did a lot of world air records in the 30s .Bye

either every depiction i have seen of Theas ships are wrong or the narrator is wrong there is a difference between lateen and gaff rigged gaff rigged is what is depicted on the models shown on screen and was the more common and modern choice at that time.

The trains did not run on time

I love this video , great job of explaining all the factors involved . Thanks .

I live here in Plattsburgh. Right on Margaret st. It was here during this battle. Happy 200th anniversary today!

The cadets made a great stand

Good video. As a Marylander, I always fly my 15 star flag for Defender's Day. A minor point: while Baltimore is the biggest city in Maryland, and thus its commercial capital, the political capital is Annapolis.

A lot of these Italian officers were not trained to be officers a lot of godfathers in different territories of Italy wanted dear sons to be officers, even though they had no formal training they made them offers they couldn’t refuse😂😂😂😂😂

There is a pretty decent strip club on Lundy's Lane now.

Never heard of the battle until it was mentioned in a film, and I'm from Lowestoft too.

Grant started out as a Colonel in 1861. By Belmont, he was a Brigadier General in command about 3000 troops. He commanded 15,000 troops at Fort Henry, and about 30,000 troops at Fort Donaldson. Both 3 months later.

Are you wondering what went wrong with the Italians during World War II? The answer can be found in article 16 of the Paris dicktat of 10 February 1947 (which is still hypocritically defined as a peace treaty when it is not such at all). That treatise consists of 150 points and you can also find it online. But be careful! Article 17 should also be considered. Well, if you carefully read these articles 16 and 17 (which could also be articles 1 and 2 or 4 and 5 for example) and do a simple arithmetic operation (addition) it will make a certain sum, a certain number (33) which, in this case, takes on a very important and delicate meaning. The history of Italy's entry into the war needs to be completely rewritten. Above all, the very serious behavior of several high-ranking military leaders and certain industrial and financial circles who determined, in a very serious way, Italy's defeat. A defeat that was not only material but above all moral. And Mussolini, despite having been warned in advance of this disastrous situation, remained incredibly blocked. When he attempted to react, July 25, 1943, it was already gravely too late.

I've read a lot of WWII History. Mainly by Americans. Some few by German soldiers and just a few by Russian soldiers. I've never read anything by an Italian author; no history, no biographies, nor any personal experiences by the Italian rank and file. That's a great loss to all of us.

This was absolutely fascinsting. Thanks so much!

Perfect. Thank you.

Well done and thank you!

My goodness, excellent work reporting on this operation! I appreciate your addition of many relevant photographs.

Too bad people just can't get along.

ASKED MUSSOLINI..THE INCAPABLE STUPID JOKER.

My 2nd Great Grandfather was part of the Twenty-fifth Infantry (Heck's Regiment) and later in the war the 62nd Mounted Infantry. Thanks for the video.

This entire conflict seems to have been about who had the best ‘tash!

Very good program explaining their lack of capability.

Another Zinger?!🤔

Italy had ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS go to war in 1940. Their economy was just getting by and not capable of properly supporting any military campaigns, witness the 1930s African debacle!