@@randylahey1822trigger happiness? Do you hear any happiness here? Go say that to a dutchman who was liberated after 5 yrs of german occupation. You are just demonstrating how ignorant you are
I had always highly respected and honoured my father for what he and his comrades in the allied forces had achieved on D-Day - my Dad landed on the first day of the invasion on Juno Beach with a Royal Air Force Forward Air Control unit attached to the Canadian forces - but in my later years, after reading more about the Normandy campaign as a whole, it astounds me that he not only survived the campaign, but came out of it unwounded. I say that because his FAC unit was always at the front line providing close air support for the army - although in Normandy everywhere was the front line, the enclosed allied forces suffering continuous German artillery barrages and occasional Luftwaffe air attacks. One of the most horrendous parts of the campaign in his mind however, he told me once, was what he experienced and saw at the Falaise Gap. It was this experience and many others he went through until the end of the war that must have caused the PTSD he terribly suffered from his whole life afterwards. My father passed away in 2012, aged 87, and I hope that he now has found the eternal peace that he deserved. RIP Dearest Dad, in eternal love. ❤❤❤
My uncle was an artillery officer with the Canadian army, and was in England from 1940 to D-Day; he was at Falaise. He opened up his copy of the regimental history one November 11 when I happened to be visiting- around 1982. He mentioned that the day they were bombed by the British and American air forces was the worst day of the war. "We were in a quarry, and most of the guys were able to get into the tunnels when the bombing started. We lost more that day than any other day in the whole war. But I never could understand how the pilots didn't notice that all the guns were pointed south." He talked about his experiences for a few hours. The next day his wife, my aunt told me- "he's never spoken about the war before."
The cartoonist Bill Mauldin in his book mentions he had a better appreciation of what and who was on the ground than the pilots who took him up. I guess pilots exist to fly and ground pounders pay closer attention to just who is who on the other side of the hill.
Really fascinating to see German perspectives on this operation. Very rare to see that. Gives you more to think about regarding the psychologies of soldiers on each side.
My uncle was at Bastogne, when he got back home after the war he married his sweetheart, anyway he came home from work one day, his wife stopped him at the front door where a big spider had made a web, my aunt said kill it, my uncle sonny got some welding gloves and moved spider and web to back yard, he couldn't,t kill anymore,. True story
Although I obviously don’t know him, your Uncle is my Hero! Not just for what he did for our country and God Bless Him for that! But bc After All he went through, he had the Kindness in his heart to save a little spider- As a woman, I Of Course have never been in combat, But I’m the Same Way as your Uncle- I Cannot and Will Not kill an innocent creature- Despite Everyone making fun of me for it for my Entire life- I’ve saved More spiders, wasps, mice, and snakes then anybody that I’ve Ever Known- True Story 😁
I always admire and honour Canadian soldiers. My grandmother's only brother emigrated to Canada in 1912, he joined up in 1914 and came back with the Canadian Army and was lost on the Somme with no known grave. God bless all Canadian Great War veterans and all World War Two veterans.
Another excellent documentary by you guys and your narrator, weaving personal stories with archival footage, youthful pictures, music, maps...a real nice comprehensive glimpse into the heartbreaking experiences of these gentlemen. Sincere thanks 🙏🕊
This isn't a comprehensive treatment of the battle, but includes much first hand. The second half of this video is about the Battle of the Scheldt. The stories of the men, then just boys, who fought, saw their companions die, were wounded and captured and escaped, really touched me. Outstanding.
What a wonderful program" I'm 70 all of my uncles were in World War II, I don't understand why the 50 year old and younger don't care what happened in World War II especially in Germany! My father's generation of men were real men" they had balls, and love for their fellow Brothers!👍 again great program❤
There is a well known photo of SS troops marching through the rubble of Caen. The NCO in the lead is carrying a PPSH-41. The US Army Signal Corps took photos of the weapon collection point after the Battle. French, Belgian, Polish and Russian weapons are very common. T-34's to my knowledge were used by Das Reich but only in Russia and that was in '43 at Kursk.
Mr LeReverend ... What a balanced understanding man ... He saw his enemy as people... & Clearly a good heart towards animals... What a great soul ... You can see that he is honestly haunted by his experiences .. Sadly their not enough people who strive to be like him ... Utmost respect..
Despite my comparative youth to these men I'm thankful that I have never, and likely will ever, live through days like theirs. I wept at points with the emotion these guys conveyed across. We all are guilty of remembering with relish the war and the heroes who fought but it's only films like this that bring home the awful experiences that were endured. An amazing generation which is, unfortunately, being lost as time passes. We shall never forget
My grandfather who served in WW1 and WW2 said it's great to have the Americans on our flanks, but never trust them if they are behind or overhead; they had trouble with navigation. Now I'm sure the opposite is true with US technology.Thankyou.🇨🇦
Keep looking for Art Boon, my Sgt in the Perths then Warrant in 3 RCR from '61 to '71. He manned a 50 cal on top of a tank; somehow he got in at age 15 in '39. On D-day his tank had trouble reaching shore because of the dead and wounded infantry. He finally was wounded after most of the action in Holland. Sad for all the young Allied and German boys.Jees their wearing the same wool battledress we wore in the 60's. Don't know how they managed it was so hot and then heavy when wet. 🇨🇦
The statement "literally possible to walk for hundred yards stepping on nothing but dead and decaying flesh" is true. During germans retreat, they stolen my Grand Pa's dad the 2 only horses he got. Hearing that the huge ballte happend close to our house some days ago, he moved their to grab back 2 horses ("and not more" as he told me). He came to that area and told me that in some little road he was not able to touch the floor for hundred of meters, only walking on melted corps, dead horses, exploded vehicules. From that day, he was really sensible to strong smells. The area was even declared quarantine zone for 1 year because of the numbers of decaying corps. Even aviators were able to smell that by flying above, so they avoided the area as well.
It is a shame that it took so long to close the pocket. Far too many quality German soldiers were able to escape and reconfigure at the Siegfried Line. The Canadian forces should have been built up so that they could have closed their part of the pocket a little quicker. The Germans were very good at rearguard tactics and the Canadians were not there in a strong enough force to be able to push the pocket closed. They fought bravely and did the best they could with what they had. It was still the biggest defeat that the Germans had on the Western Front.
Canadian units had been in action continuously since June 6th and were badly understrength. Additionally, many were suffering from dysentry. Veterans have said that the forces available were simply insufficient.
Can you imagine being a German soldier stuck in that salient, hundreds of typhoons are rocketing you, artillery is surrounding you, you’re 90% trapped, you’re surrounded by dead comrades and some ahole in Berlin is saying don’t retreat, hold your ground. Ya right…
Yet when you read their memoirs most wanted to escape and just go home and they made every possible effort to do so. Even though they were surrounded , being absolutely hammered by air attack, artillery and tank gunfire, they fought on. Surrender was the last thing on their mind. They were soldiers just like any other, may they RIP.
@@frankvandergoes298 i guess peer pressure and propaganda are effective. in the battle for the scheldt estuary they were told that if they surrendered there would be reprisals against their families by the gestapo.
@sblack48 German soldiers surrendered all the time, including Waffen SS and Fallschirmjager, I,m not aware of there ever being reprisals against their families.
CANADA Oh GOD keep Our Country Free. Incredible Series that puts Canada and her troops in the light she deserves. Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth loved these "Canadians."
A thrilled watching documentary about Canadian, Polish, and British soldiers participated in Falias pocet assault during WW2....montey Bradley saurdness caused too many casualties of Britain commonwealth side
The German are still militaristic, but they decided for good to act it out only on behalf of Big Brother USA. Actually, the German government is hellbent on starting war with Russia. Too bad for us!
I think surviving comes down to half luck and half something done different. Like the guy said. His buddy right beside him died. It was luck the shell hit where it did. It was also that his buddy laid where he did instead of him. Sometimes it's knowing how to do that something different and sometimes it's not knowing you did something different.
It was the counter attack against 1st Polish armoured by 3rd battalion Der Fuhrer regiment supported by 1 Panther tank which opened the pocket allowing 10,000 men to escape. After the Panther knocked out 5 Shermans and disabled 3 more the gap was opened.
Well, it was France's fault. The Polish tanker crews were on one hill top, and the French were on the other. The evening before the battle the were called away, so they could be part of the liberation of Paris. A little known fact is that Canadians could have liberated Paris, but were called back so that the French and the Americans could. It is understandable that the French should but the Americans.
"Any breakout from the lodgement area would require the insightful and creative use of air power, including bomber aircraft such as the American B-17 and B-24 and the British Halifax and Lancaster operating in a troop-support role. Altogether there were six major raids by heavy bombers in support of breakout operations in Normandy. The first of these involved 457 Halifax and Lancaster bombers from RAF Bomber Command on July 7, in support of Montgomery's assault on Caen. The second was an even larger raid by 1,676 heavy bombers and 343 light and medium bombers on july 18. On the 25th, American bombers of the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces struck at Saint-Lô, preparatory to the First Army's breakout. A fourth attack on the 30th supported the Second British Army south of Caumont. Then an Anglo-American raid on August 7-8 supported the attack of the First Canadian Army toward Falaise --20-- from Caen, and the sixth raid, again supporting the attack on Falaise, followed on August 14." Hyperwar D-Day 1944 Air Power Over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond
Flamethrowers were definitely the most inhumane and horrendous weapon used in WW2, by all sides mind you. The British AVRE "Crocodile" flame throwing tank was of course due to its size and reach the most devastating weapon of this kind.
US bomber forces were notorious for bombing their own troops and allies. This was mostly caused by flying too high to avoid flak resulting in inaccurate bombing of enemy positions and hitting instead own troops and allies. The tactical airforces which provided ground support were a lot better.
@@nickdanger3802 both heavies were commandedby narcissistic sociopathic personalities who thought they could win the war, which made them difficult to control. Ultimately they had to comply with orders from above. They had specialist formations such as the Pathfinder force and high precision units such as the Mosquito squadrons.
@@michaelmazowiecki9195 And those personalities also made it difficult for combined arms operations as they were not always willing to work with the army on the ground due to to childish inter service rivalry.
Yes there is a time for forgiveness. But in times of war it "was kill or be killed". But afterwards, no not a pretty sight, the stuff of nightmare to or the survivors
@@maryholder3795 Agree 💯... Well I had family who fought on multiple sides & in the moment your enemy is your enemy but sometimes your family can be with the enemy.. Then what... There comes a time years after where such events should be reconciled with yet not forgotten. However bitterness is a bad tasting pill. That gentleman made generalisations based on an entire nation... Certain individuals on all sides did diabolical things yet we must not blanket entire group for people based on what a select group might do ... At least one gentleman also referred strongly to the suffering of animals which is Rare for anyone to mention in such a situation...
More than 10k got out..most of the german troops got out 10k were killed in the gap..4 SS panzer divisions kept the gap open suffering heavy casualties..they ended up refitting in arnhem area after..which is why the airborne invasions failed
Before D-Day the Allied Commanders would have been ecstatic if the German collapse would have take less than 90 days ….initially the Germans showed they usual fighting prowess and they had to be Bled dry …..which is what happened..
Think of a 16 year old you know and imagine then having to be responsible and accountable enough to go through that then come out the other side of that as a functional person society doesn't provide people tough enough callused enough to make it in that environment and I hate to say it but that includes me I'm of war fighting age and don't know that I could handle it the mental strain
@@PKM_69what? Wasn’t their fault they were thrown in to a war by their tyrannical leader. And this is coming from someone who lost polish, Jewish family in the war.
All Canadian combatants were volunteers- they all enlisted! there was a draft in Canada, but those people were not used in combat uunless they volunteered for it. Canada had 1,100,000 in their military from a cpuntry of 11,000,000 in WW2!
When Antwerp opened and the first ship came in Monty was there and there was a ceremony with reporters. Nobody from the Canadian army who had opened the Scheldt in the costliest Canadian campaign of the war was invited.
This story unfortunately doesn't detail the decisions of the leaders, especially Montgomery, whose egotism and ineptitude cost so many Canadian, Polish and British and even American lives. Montgomery allowed more than 50,000 Germans, many of the most vicious, to escape the Falaise Pocket and cause further killing of Allies, Belgians and Dutch. His failure to take the north side of the Scheldt immediately after freeing Antwerp created logistical chaos for the allies and cost tens of thousands of lives. After many years of studying WWII, I can only conclude that Monty's ego sent Canadians, Poles and Americans to their deaths to promote himself and to save the lives of his sacred British fellows. How sick.
You need to understand the situation with British soldiers and the British public after the slaughter of WW1. You also need to remove your anti British glasses. Monty organised Dday yet never gets credit. Yet he gets slaughtered for Market Garden even though he didn't plan it. How about American pilots bombing the allies, missing the costal defenses on DDay or misdropping paratroopers on Dday.. nevertheless spoken about either.
@@TheCheshireWanderer The regular complaint is also unfair as the German's were fighting a desperate rear-guard action to keep the gap open. In fact, Bradley has admitted that the reason he held his own units back was he feared that they might be overrun. He preferred, in his own words: " a solid shoulder at Argentan to a broken neck at Falaise."
@bufatutagnoistes8876 Yes, which generally leads to complaints about the American efforts. Then, the Canadians get lambasted for a while since they were heavily involved. In the end it seems the only group not at fault were the Polish units which were present and well represented.
@@TheCheshireWanderer I have mostly nothing but respect for the British and and even more for the Canadians in WWII. The Canadians suffered heroically but terribly for Monty's failure to take the Scheldt before the German's had built it up after Antwerp. My complaint is with Montgomery and to a lesser extent with Dempsey and Alan Brooke. Bradley was always a bit too diplomatic to publicly to tell it like it is viz. Monty. I put MacArthur in the same category as Monty: Too much ego and too much politics end up costing more soldiers lives in the end.
Here you talk about war - soldiers against soldiers - Germans killed en mass Polish cilinas - unarmed...... around 6 milions alltogether with soviet army....Polamd was dlatted - and for next 50 years occupied. Now we drive VAG cars, MB's, BMW's............
There were nice guy's on every side there were good Soldiers on every side so don't make docummentary's for one side make docummentary's for All side's!!!
80 years still hasn’t diminished these men’s glory.
Time...never will
80 years of trigger happiness
Or their trauma
@@randylahey1822trigger happiness? Do you hear any happiness here? Go say that to a dutchman who was liberated after 5 yrs of german occupation. You are just demonstrating how ignorant you are
There's no 'glory'. Just plenty of gory.
I had always highly respected and honoured my father for what he and his comrades in the allied forces had achieved on D-Day - my Dad landed on the first day of the invasion on Juno Beach with a Royal Air Force Forward Air Control unit attached to the Canadian forces - but in my later years, after reading more about the Normandy campaign as a whole, it astounds me that he not only survived the campaign, but came out of it unwounded. I say that because his FAC unit was always at the front line providing close air support for the army - although in Normandy everywhere was the front line, the enclosed allied forces suffering continuous German artillery barrages and occasional Luftwaffe air attacks. One of the most horrendous parts of the campaign in his mind however, he told me once, was what he experienced and saw at the Falaise Gap. It was this experience and many others he went through until the end of the war that must have caused the PTSD he terribly suffered from his whole life afterwards. My father passed away in 2012, aged 87, and I hope that he now has found the eternal peace that he deserved. RIP Dearest Dad, in eternal love.
❤❤❤
Let us never forget.
This was a very moving and powerful story. Very brave men and so young.
My uncle was an artillery officer with the Canadian army, and was in England from 1940 to D-Day; he was at Falaise. He opened up his copy of the regimental history one November 11 when I happened to be visiting- around 1982. He mentioned that the day they were bombed by the British and American air forces was the worst day of the war. "We were in a quarry, and most of the guys were able to get into the tunnels when the bombing started. We lost more that day than any other day in the whole war. But I never could understand how the pilots didn't notice that all the guns were pointed south."
He talked about his experiences for a few hours.
The next day his wife, my aunt told me- "he's never spoken about the war before."
The cartoonist Bill Mauldin in his book mentions he had a better appreciation of what and who was on the ground than the pilots who took him up. I guess pilots exist to fly and ground pounders pay closer attention to just who is who on the other side of the hill.
There are some things that you have to keep inside you because they are almost impossible to express.
@@murrayscott9546yet I will bet the veteran in question was glad to share his experiences. A heavy weight eased.
Honor for all of our Canadian cousins!
The Canadians never get the credit they deserve.
Love the videos that keep getting produced from this channel
Really fascinating to see German perspectives on this operation. Very rare to see that. Gives you more to think about regarding the psychologies of soldiers on each side.
You should watch "Generation: War". It's a mini-series based on the German perspective of ww2 (both civilian and soldier).
Floyd H Durrell was with the royal Regina rifles there RIP Dad
My uncle was at Bastogne, when he got back home after the war he married his sweetheart, anyway he came home from work one day, his wife stopped him at the front door where a big spider had made a web, my aunt said kill it, my uncle sonny got some welding gloves and moved spider and web to back yard, he couldn't,t kill anymore,. True story
He new the cost.
Although I obviously don’t know him, your Uncle is my Hero! Not just for what he did for our country and God Bless Him for that! But bc After All he went through, he had the Kindness in his heart to save a little spider- As a woman, I Of Course have never been in combat, But I’m the Same Way as your Uncle- I Cannot and Will Not kill an innocent creature- Despite Everyone making fun of me for it for my Entire life- I’ve saved More spiders, wasps, mice, and snakes then anybody that I’ve Ever Known- True Story 😁
I always admire and honour Canadian soldiers.
My grandmother's only brother emigrated to Canada in 1912, he joined up in 1914 and came back with the Canadian Army and was lost on the Somme with no known grave.
God bless all Canadian Great War veterans and all World War Two veterans.
Such brave men. I’m sure their grand children are so grateful to have them as I was my brave WWII vet grand father.
Visit the excellent museum at Mt Ormel. The Poles were cut off with the Germans attacking from outside the pocket as well as trying to break out.
Stupendous documentary of what some of our Canadian boys experienced. Thank you so much to those who worked on this project.
There's no way to truly understand it unless you exerience it. I'll always respect all vets .
Amazing documentary. One of the best I have ever seen.
Another excellent documentary by you guys and your narrator, weaving personal stories with archival footage, youthful pictures, music, maps...a real nice comprehensive glimpse into the heartbreaking experiences of these gentlemen. Sincere thanks 🙏🕊
These Canadian soldiers fill me with awe. They are the best of the best. To our fallen, we will never forget you.
Canadian ballz! Thank you from your southern cousin.
This isn't a comprehensive treatment of the battle, but includes much first hand. The second half of this video is about the Battle of the Scheldt. The stories of the men, then just boys, who fought, saw their companions die, were wounded and captured and escaped, really touched me. Outstanding.
Powerful documentary!
The horrible things that these boys went through.
What a wonderful program" I'm 70 all of my uncles were in World War II,
I don't understand why the 50 year old and younger don't care what happened in World War II especially in Germany!
My father's generation of men were real men" they had balls, and love for their fellow Brothers!👍 again great program❤
I never realised that T-34's were used in Normandy. (16:55)
There is a well known photo of SS troops marching through the rubble of Caen. The NCO in the lead is carrying a PPSH-41. The US Army Signal Corps took photos of the weapon collection point after the Battle. French, Belgian, Polish and Russian weapons are very common. T-34's to my knowledge were used by Das Reich but only in Russia and that was in '43 at Kursk.
Nice to see this testimonial from a soldier of the famous Black Watch regiment. My late grandfather was liberated by one of theirs!
This is difficult to listen to without crying.
Mr LeReverend ... What a balanced understanding man ... He saw his enemy as people... & Clearly a good heart towards animals... What a great soul ... You can see that he is honestly haunted by his experiences .. Sadly their not enough people who strive to be like him ... Utmost respect..
Respect to Mr LeReverend, after all that time he still remembers clearly.
@@maryholder3795 Indeed...
Germans gave up humanity in 1939. They would gladly kill you if they had chance. I understand this guy, nonetheless as I said above.
Despite my comparative youth to these men I'm thankful that I have never, and likely will ever, live through days like theirs. I wept at points with the emotion these guys conveyed across. We all are guilty of remembering with relish the war and the heroes who fought but it's only films like this that bring home the awful experiences that were endured. An amazing generation which is, unfortunately, being lost as time passes. We shall never forget
Very powerful and moving
My grandfather who served in WW1 and WW2 said it's great to have the Americans on our flanks, but never trust them if they are behind or overhead; they had trouble with navigation. Now I'm sure the opposite is true with US technology.Thankyou.🇨🇦
Excellently made documentary ...........first class
Brave as Canadians front and centre valour all the way
Great interviews. Gives an interesting perspective from everyone
Keep looking for Art Boon, my Sgt in the Perths then Warrant in 3 RCR from '61 to '71. He manned a 50 cal on top of a tank; somehow he got in at age 15 in '39. On D-day his tank had trouble reaching shore because of the dead and wounded infantry. He finally was wounded after most of the action in Holland. Sad for all the young Allied and German boys.Jees their wearing the same wool battledress we wore in the 60's. Don't know how they managed it was so hot and then heavy when wet. 🇨🇦
German soldiers: "Brits to the left of me, Canadians to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you...."
Don't forget the poles in front
Lest We Forget
The statement "literally possible to walk for hundred yards stepping on nothing but dead and decaying flesh" is true.
During germans retreat, they stolen my Grand Pa's dad the 2 only horses he got.
Hearing that the huge ballte happend close to our house some days ago, he moved their to grab back 2 horses ("and not more" as he told me).
He came to that area and told me that in some little road he was not able to touch the floor for hundred of meters, only walking on melted corps, dead horses, exploded vehicules.
From that day, he was really sensible to strong smells.
The area was even declared quarantine zone for 1 year because of the numbers of decaying corps.
Even aviators were able to smell that by flying above, so they avoided the area as well.
Brave Canadian 💪🏾🙏🏾
This is probably the most horrendous detailing of the veterans experiences of the war and the saddest too.
God bless these brave veterans... 80th anniversary of D Day...
MIDTOWN SACRAMENTO SALUTES the CANADIANS !!
I hope one day no one has to experience war anymore
I am interested in which polish 🇵🇱 troops held the MT Ormel which faced the gap ? Forgive me the 2nd PAR. I didn’t wait enough before sending!
It is a shame that it took so long to close the pocket. Far too many quality German soldiers were able to escape and reconfigure at the Siegfried Line. The Canadian forces should have been built up so that they could have closed their part of the pocket a little quicker. The Germans were very good at rearguard tactics and the Canadians were not there in a strong enough force to be able to push the pocket closed. They fought bravely and did the best they could with what they had. It was still the biggest defeat that the Germans had on the Western Front.
The number was less than 40000
@@saxonwarrior3736 What were they then???
And yet.... the criticism. WTH ?
Canadian units had been in action continuously since June 6th and were badly understrength. Additionally, many were suffering from dysentry. Veterans have said that the forces available were simply insufficient.
Can you imagine being a German soldier stuck in that salient, hundreds of typhoons are rocketing you, artillery is surrounding you, you’re 90% trapped, you’re surrounded by dead comrades and some ahole in Berlin is saying don’t retreat, hold your ground. Ya right…
Yet when you read their memoirs most wanted to escape and just go home and they made every possible effort to do so.
Even though they were surrounded , being absolutely hammered by air attack, artillery and tank gunfire, they fought on.
Surrender was the last thing on their mind.
They were soldiers just like any other, may they RIP.
@@frankvandergoes298 i guess peer pressure and propaganda are effective. in the battle for the scheldt estuary they were told that if they surrendered there would be reprisals against their families by the gestapo.
@sblack48 German soldiers surrendered all the time, including Waffen SS and Fallschirmjager, I,m not aware of there ever being reprisals against their families.
@@frankvandergoes298 they were probably empty threats
@@frankvandergoes298 it was in the book “terrible victory” by Mark Zeuhlke
Great documentary.
Thank you brave Canadian boys for your servicd.
Why are you blurring out parts? Not necessary.
TH-cam does that
Ah! Ok
Wow.
"As long as we live they to will live we will not forget"
CANADA Oh GOD keep Our Country Free. Incredible Series that puts Canada and her troops in the light she deserves. Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth loved these "Canadians."
I like that they call Germans Germans and not Nazis. In those days, there was no such thing as Nazis.
Wtf you are talking about.
Why censor? This must be seen!
A thrilled watching documentary about Canadian, Polish, and British soldiers participated in Falias pocet assault during WW2....montey Bradley saurdness caused too many casualties of Britain commonwealth side
Is there any mention of the British forces involved? Or is it all supposed to just be Canadian and US?
Someone had to say it didn't they? M,M,M.m,m,m 's the weirwarord Lt.General Sir? Bernard
@@andyholburn Have they stopped teaching written English in UK schools now? Damn those corporate globalists !!!!
@@andyholburn Stop drinking Meths Andy.
Some Germans still say don't ever trust us.
The German are still militaristic, but they decided for good to act it out only on behalf of Big Brother USA. Actually, the German government is hellbent on starting war with Russia. Too bad for us!
Legends.
I think surviving comes down to half luck and half something done different. Like the guy said. His buddy right beside him died. It was luck the shell hit where it did. It was also that his buddy laid where he did instead of him. Sometimes it's knowing how to do that something different and sometimes it's not knowing you did something different.
Luck is most important. Skill increases your odds to survive by small margins
There's a new movie called The Forgotten War, about the Scheldt estuary. A very costly battle for the Canadians.
This documentary has so many men stating their guttural expressions of emotions - it makes anyone viewing feel and consider: what it if it were me?
So sorry for what those boys went through…….
And now….we are whining if there aren’t gender neutral toilets 😢😢😢
Werent the poles 1st armoured finishing of the ss panzer units?
Some. The German front collapsed and It was everyone for themselves trying to escape the onslaught. Luckily many ss units were decimated
It was the counter attack against 1st Polish armoured by 3rd battalion Der Fuhrer regiment supported by 1 Panther tank which opened the pocket allowing 10,000 men to escape. After the Panther knocked out 5 Shermans and disabled 3 more the gap was opened.
War is horrible and sadly it is embedded in our DNA. I often wonder how these men survive psychologically after witnessing war.
Marvelous men.
Are the blurred images a TH-cam guideline, or a choice by the creators?
Yep….
Well, it was France's fault. The Polish tanker crews were on one hill top, and the French were on the other. The evening before the battle the were called away, so they could be part of the liberation of Paris. A little known fact is that Canadians could have liberated Paris, but were called back so that the French and the Americans could. It is understandable that the French should but the Americans.
How in the world can in a video about the western allies on the NormandyFrench front, be some T 34's???
Why the music when veterans speak? Flutes is it?
Just think of all the people murdered by the Nazis
"Any breakout from the lodgement area would require the insightful and creative use of air power, including bomber aircraft such as the American B-17 and B-24 and the British Halifax and Lancaster operating in a troop-support role. Altogether there were six major raids by heavy bombers in support of breakout operations in Normandy. The first of these involved 457 Halifax and Lancaster bombers from RAF Bomber Command on July 7, in support of Montgomery's assault on Caen. The second was an even larger raid by 1,676 heavy bombers and 343 light and medium bombers on july 18. On the 25th, American bombers of the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces struck at Saint-Lô, preparatory to the First Army's breakout. A fourth attack on the 30th supported the Second British Army south of Caumont.
Then an Anglo-American raid on August 7-8 supported the attack of the First Canadian Army toward Falaise
--20--
from Caen, and the sixth raid, again supporting the attack on Falaise, followed on August 14."
Hyperwar D-Day 1944 Air Power Over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond
16:56 where there many T-34s in the Falaise pocket?
Flamethrowers were definitely the most inhumane and horrendous weapon used in WW2, by all sides mind you. The British AVRE "Crocodile" flame throwing tank was of course due to its size and reach the most devastating weapon of this kind.
Where did the Russian tanks come from?
Russia
US bomber forces were notorious for bombing their own troops and allies. This was mostly caused by flying too high to avoid flak resulting in inaccurate bombing of enemy positions and hitting instead own troops and allies. The tactical airforces which provided ground support were a lot better.
RAF and USAAF heavies had not trained for TAC AIR, leaders of both did not want to do it.
@@nickdanger3802 both heavies were commandedby narcissistic sociopathic personalities who thought they could win the war, which made them difficult to control. Ultimately they had to comply with orders from above. They had specialist formations such as the Pathfinder force and high precision units such as the Mosquito squadrons.
@@michaelmazowiecki9195 And those personalities also made it difficult for combined arms operations as they were not always willing to work with the army on the ground due to to childish inter service rivalry.
Y a-t-il des falaises à Falaise ?
I hear Mr Jim Wilkinson's point but there comes a time for forgiveness..
Yes there is a time for forgiveness. But in times of war it "was kill or be killed". But afterwards, no not a pretty sight, the stuff of nightmare to or the survivors
@@maryholder3795 Agree 💯... Well I had family who fought on multiple sides & in the moment your enemy is your enemy but sometimes your family can be with the enemy.. Then what... There comes a time years after where such events should be reconciled with yet not forgotten. However bitterness is a bad tasting pill. That gentleman made generalisations based on an entire nation... Certain individuals on all sides did diabolical things yet we must not blanket entire group for people based on what a select group might do ... At least one gentleman also referred strongly to the suffering of animals which is Rare for anyone to mention in such a situation...
I see the point of not showing the actual bodies - but why bother showing blurred pictures in place of them? Pointless.
Jesus the 39:00 story got me shaking...
About 10 thousand German manage to escape due to the Allies concern bout heavy casuaties😮
While 400,000 were killed and wounded in France. A small fraction escaped and most had no heavy equipment so they weren't much use.
when you fight at the start of the war, you dont have much manpower left near to the end of it... your comment is dumb
More than 10k got out..most of the german troops got out 10k were killed in the gap..4 SS panzer divisions kept the gap open suffering heavy casualties..they ended up refitting in arnhem area after..which is why the airborne invasions failed
Not dumb , i just read it in our school history, 😂😂
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The subtitles are ridiculous
God is on the side of the best artillery
Real MEN
Before D-Day the Allied Commanders would have been ecstatic if the German collapse would have take less than 90 days ….initially the Germans showed they usual fighting prowess and they had to be Bled dry …..which is what happened..
how old are you now? I'm still 18
Think of a 16 year old you know and imagine then having to be responsible and accountable enough to go through that then come out the other side of that as a functional person society doesn't provide people tough enough callused enough to make it in that environment and I hate to say it but that includes me I'm of war fighting age and don't know that I could handle it the mental strain
The Wilkinson guy forgets what Americans did to the Red Indians...
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To all german soldiers of WW2. Thank you for your service. You gave it all. Respect and RIP.
@@PKM_69what? Wasn’t their fault they were thrown in to a war by their tyrannical leader.
And this is coming from someone who lost polish, Jewish family in the war.
If you watch what we are commenting on it seems that it's not a good thing to compliment the Nazis am I right? Or wrong?
The wehrmacht and the nazis were not the same thing.
Wehraboos are so stupid.
On neighborhood crip
All Canadian combatants were volunteers- they all enlisted! there was a draft in Canada, but those people were not used in combat uunless they volunteered for it. Canada had 1,100,000 in their military from a cpuntry of 11,000,000 in WW2!
Don't forget the contribution made by AirPower . The NAZIs were used as target practice...
Don't Care for Your Censorship
When Antwerp opened and the first ship came in Monty was there and there was a ceremony with reporters. Nobody from the Canadian army who had opened the Scheldt in the costliest Canadian campaign of the war was invited.
That was 1995
This story unfortunately doesn't detail the decisions of the leaders, especially Montgomery, whose egotism and ineptitude cost so many Canadian, Polish and British and even American lives. Montgomery allowed more than 50,000 Germans, many of the most vicious, to escape the Falaise Pocket and cause further killing of Allies, Belgians and Dutch. His failure to take the north side of the Scheldt immediately after freeing Antwerp created logistical chaos for the allies and cost tens of thousands of lives. After many years of studying WWII, I can only conclude that Monty's ego sent Canadians, Poles and Americans to their deaths to promote himself and to save the lives of his sacred British fellows. How sick.
You need to understand the situation with British soldiers and the British public after the slaughter of WW1. You also need to remove your anti British glasses. Monty organised Dday yet never gets credit. Yet he gets slaughtered for Market Garden even though he didn't plan it. How about American pilots bombing the allies, missing the costal defenses on DDay or misdropping paratroopers on Dday.. nevertheless spoken about either.
@@TheCheshireWanderer The regular complaint is also unfair as the German's were fighting a desperate rear-guard action to keep the gap open.
In fact, Bradley has admitted that the reason he held his own units back was he feared that they might be overrun. He preferred, in his own words: " a solid shoulder at Argentan to a broken neck at Falaise."
@bufatutagnoistes8876 Yes, which generally leads to complaints about the American efforts. Then, the Canadians get lambasted for a while since they were heavily involved.
In the end it seems the only group not at fault were the Polish units which were present and well represented.
@@TheCheshireWanderer I have mostly nothing but respect for the British and and even more for the Canadians in WWII. The Canadians suffered heroically but terribly for Monty's failure to take the Scheldt before the German's had built it up after Antwerp. My complaint is with Montgomery and to a lesser extent with Dempsey and Alan Brooke. Bradley was always a bit too diplomatic to publicly to tell it like it is viz. Monty. I put MacArthur in the same category as Monty: Too much ego and too much politics end up costing more soldiers lives in the end.
@@bufatutuagonistes8876 who was the most successful general in the ETO and MTO?
A shocking waste of life, again. Lest we forget.
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Here you talk about war - soldiers against soldiers - Germans killed en mass Polish cilinas - unarmed...... around 6 milions alltogether with soviet army....Polamd was dlatted - and for next 50 years occupied. Now we drive VAG cars, MB's, BMW's............
There were nice guy's on every side there were good Soldiers on every side so don't make docummentary's for one side make docummentary's for All side's!!!
Go raise your own money to make documentary programs that meet you needs 43:07
I refuse to watch any videos with German shoulders and their opinions! Never know what they knew or did to us! 🇺🇸
Most were boys/very young men, forced to fight by their government and just as scared as the allies.
How can we not repeat history if we refuse to learn the tragedies of history.
Germans shoulders knees and toes
@@lyndoncmp5751they weren’t forced to at the Falaise pocket, they were Hitlerjugend SS
I am not pleased listening to germans. Their only regret is that they lost.