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Fun fact: among those thousands of those Soviet pilots, they were a few handful of experienced of Free French pilots, they were part of the Normandie-Niemen regiment and became the most decorated French squadron, in addiiton 4 of those French pilots got the Hero of Soviet Union medal.
I find this very funny considering Stalin tried to improve diplomatic ties with the UK and France before signing a non-aggression pact with Germany after the rejections the west gave the USSR, which led to France's original battle plan being made useless by Soviets trading with Germany. Nevertheless these French guys are heroes.
my grandfather fought there, he was an artillery soldier. He didn't like to recall the Great Patriotic War and his experience, he always started crying. I respect how objectively and in an engaging manner this channel enlightens the events of the war. Thank you, guys!
By the way . Kings and Generals did a great perspective on the tank side of this battle. Way to open up more light on the aerial side. We all greatly appreciate you Armchair.
@@localextremist2839 agree with achyuthan i wouldnt go so far as their war crimes were worse, unit 731 was pretty much equal to nazi experimentation or the mass rape they did in asia was comparable to the soviets, really every country did war crimes which is why i actively cringe when someone says "BUT THE (insert country) DIDNT COMMIT WAR CRIMES" some just did it intentionally and officially like the nazi persecution of jews or the soviets told to loot everything they could even if by force
@@mariolisa2832 An American fought in the Red Army, a Korean fought for the Germans in D-day and the Germans had muslims SS units, Swiss fighting in the Pacific isn’t a far fetched thing to believe.
I can imagine the tank commander in the opening thinking to himself: “Goddamn it, of all the tanks we have, why did I have to get stuck with the Ferdinand?”
@@YorkerEli An assault gun with a really poor operational record. It lacked a MG on it so if caught w/o infantry support it was a dead duck. It also had a poor engine and transmission so it broke down alot and even caught on fire just from being driven.
This video made me realize how horrifically terrifying being an airman would be in these types of wars. People often think about how scary being in a plane crash would be, but these men saw, and experienced hundreds of plane crashes in a few days. The amount of absolute Chad like balls you'd have to have to fly in this situation is immeasurable.
@@destroyerarmor OH! For sure, no doubt dude! I was in the US Army, and often thought about how I would react in a firefight (I never got deployed but I heard very detailed stories, and videos ect.) I was just saying people don't often put themselves in the mindset of flying a plane in a battle zone (at least I never really thought about it). The few seconds between your plane getting hit, and you hitting the ground has to be the scariest feeling imaginable. Just knowing you're going to die with nothing you can do to save yourself.
Still a lot better than infantry (especially soviet infantry), or tank crews. Especially for fighter pilots, where your skill can significantly affect the outcome. Artillery was probably safer. but not by much.
@@zariumsheridan3488 Actually, being a soviet infantry wasn't so bad after Stalingrad since USSR finally got more artillery -- and it's the main infantry killer on the war.
Impressive production. The animations are so clean, crisp and satisfying to watch despite being simplistic. The added radio chatter is very, very nice.
@@sooryan_1018 Now imagine a carousel of 8 to 12 such aircraft, pounding infantry from their hardpoints on each pass. It's literally the replacement of assault helicopter for WW2.
There are two/three ways that germany could win the war. But one of them requires a hell lot of factors. Though, there was a way, way bigger Chance for stalemate than a Victory. And a bigger Chance for losing than stalemate.
I had a game as Germany play out exactly like Kursk in that it was nearly impossible to push forward, I say impossible because it eventually succeeded and I encircled almost half of the soviet army, took a year of in game time though
There should be a series called "The Forgotten Battles" featuring all the forgotten, deadly battles of ww2. Edit: Calm down, I never specifically said Kursk.
@@hertzair1186 There were about 400,000 NASA members by the 1960s and 70s and only about 1,600 German scientists. Plus the Soviets took a lot German scientists as well en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim
Stukas by large didn't "trade their bombs for 37mm cannons". Those cannons were only used by limited numbers of very experienced pilots, due to their ineffectiveness and heavy drag, which made those Stukas sitting ducks.
@abis9 alpha9 That would only work if soldiers were densely packed like marching in a tight column, which would disperse immediately if a plan dived at them. The most effective anti-infantry weapon would be aerial bursting rockets loaded with shrapnel. You'd have to saturate the area because infantry is not huddled together but are spread out and taking cover in trenches/foxholes or under armored vehicles.
@abis9 alpha9 It would be like a hand grenade exploding on the ground. So no, having machine guns and regular cannons (HE shells for which also have the compatible effect) is better.
Hans Ulrich Rudel was one of those experienced fighters that used 37mm cannons under his wings to fire wolframium-core bullets to tanks, which ended up being highly effective.
@@gabrielsistonamoca6963 stuka is a specialized modification of Ju-87, armed with 2 37-mm flak-guns. This thing was introduced in something around 1942-43
Some people who really know the history... including Americans like me recognize that something like 10:1 ratio in the east as compared to the west theater. The USSR bled the Germans white. The west definitely contributed but the Soviets paid the heaviest price.
The Germans really fucked them over. Especially during Case blue after Barbarossa. The put them on the flanks without decent armor support and anti tank weapons. Minor Axis generals even complained that they wouldn’t be able to hold the hundreds of kilometers they were assigned but the Germans ignored them.
They weren't overstated. Of course that the majority were PzIVs, but the Germans never committed so many heavy tanks in a single battle before. There were more Tigers at Kursk than on the entire Western front.
Griff, keep doing what you're doing, I'm sure that as you and your team keep pushing forward you're gonna outclassed Discovery, National Geographic, and even the Smithsonian Channel the further you all push yourselves. Keep at it. - A US Navy Veteran
One interesting innovation Souviet aviation used during the Battle of Kursk was PTAB - Anti-Tank Aviation Bomb. It was very small bomb, of only 2,5kg in weight, which used cumulative charge to penetrate the armor from above. IL-2 could take as much as 4 containers of 48 PTABs each, they were also used by bombers and fighters. PTABs were dropped massively and covered quite large area; hitting a tank with one bomb was usually sufficient to take it out. By the end of the war over 14 millons of PTABs were produced.
@@unkind_grape9077 maybe not wrong so much as incomplete, but to be fair, history is such a vast field of study its impossible to sufficiently cover everything in the time most schools have, so they teach what they hope the (often disinterested) students could hopefully remember. You also figure most history teachers in public schools probably did not specialize in history as their focus of study, since education degrees often require a much broader field of subjects. I think the big thing teachers should do is teach kids in a way that they want to go and learn more, since that's really the key to teaching at any education level
@@jeffreypeters2803 no the thing is most country’s curriculum for history education is wrong especially WW2 Europe half the information about nazi Germany is wrong the only reason why Germany truly started the war was because of the treaty of versailles they lost most of their agricultural land they could not feed most of their people and so on and with Germany being an already poor country the treaty also economically ruined them to a point the Jews held more money than the country it’s self
@@hanshoffmann2582 I mean to be fair 2/3rds of the German air force was devoted to the Western Front, practically the entire German Navy on the western front, and Lend Lease quite possibly saved millions of lives in the Soviet Union whether it was decisive or not is debatable.
@@elmascapo6588 Battle of Moscow was won without US help. Germany didn't have the logistics and resources to win against the soviet union; Most of the lend-lease was trucks and food, which made the soviet offensives much more efficient, but it would still win the war. It would just be even more costly than it was IRL. But Germany had no realistic scenario to win this war.
What I find funny about the battle of Kursk is the Soviet equipment losses are much more than what they threw into the battle. Because unlike the Germans who recorded losses as in the vehicle completely wiped out of existence, the Soviet just put down any damaged machines as a loss, then they repaired it and put it back in action, then if it get damaged again they would consider it as another loss.
@@ДмитроПрищепа-д3яYeah it make sense. The Soviet were much more concerned about the ability to fight of their machines on a daily basis, so if any equipment does not available the next day, it would be count as a loss. It's a bad recording habit for future study but I think its pretty good for their commanders to make decisions. If I was a Soviet officer I would also want to know exactly how many tanks or planes I could use in the next day.
When the subject is ground attack planes on the Eastern Front, the stars are the Stukas and Sturmoviks, but some recognition should go to the Petlyakov Pe-2, one of the outstanding tactical attack aircraft of the war, that also proved successful as a heavy fighter, as a night fighter (Pe-3 variant) and as a reconnaissance aircraft. With 11,427 units the Pe-2 was most-produced dive bomber of any type. It was also the third most numerous of World War II’s twin-engine warplanes after the Ju 88 (15,000+) and the Wellington (11,462).
Would have been better if the Germans had been succesful at Kursk. Because whatever happened next, Germany would lose and this would have just slown down the Soviet advance, thus the Western Allies would have gotten much more eastward. That way millions of people would have been saved from the enslavement that lasted till late 80's. D-day is the most important, when you look at things now. If D-Day would have failed, Europe would be a undeveloped wasteland, just like most of Russia.
@@Tyu-b9i Read the brown book by Albert Norden, and you gonna understand why Franco and other nazis had a happy time under the American wing. Even today there's a lot of nazis in the so called land of freedom. Happy Juneteenth!
How much of a grain of salt should be taken with the Kill to loss numbers in the video? I've heard of german numbers being inflated and I assume soviet numbers would be the same.
A lot. The Nazis did not report losses by actual losses but only by how many were left after reinforcements. There were cases the Germans would lose over 500 tanks and come out with no losses as they replaced all of them.
@@sclice8680 The tide turned when Germany ran out of leather and had to stop giving its soldiers jackboots, replacing them with ankle boots and gaiters. On that subject, isn't it weird that movies only portrayed Germans wearing the 1940 uniform, even until the fall of Berlin. Like, by '44 they were already using a short breast coat similar to the Eisenhower jacket. I just thought it was odd.
@@Foreign0817 That was just one of the many factors that guaranteed imminent defeat after the tide has already been turned at Stalingrad. The city was one of the most strategic and morally important locations in the war where nearly 150,000 to 250,000 Germans died in that battle alone and many more captured.
up next on documentaries about wars/battles you heard of from perspectives you never thought of: The second Sino-Japanese war from the naval perspective
To my knowledge, no, though some American planes were sent to the USSR as lend-lease. Britain tried selling them the Hawker Hurricane fighter, but the soviets were unsatisfied with its performance.
There was at least one French squadron (Normandy-Neman), but I haven't heard of any other Western allies participating in aerial battles of the Eastern front.
@@aleks6977 plenty of British aircraft made it in lend lease to the USSR, not sold, hampden bombers, spitfires and hurricanes, but they were not happy with the armaments (303. mostly) and found them insufficient preferring much higher calibre cannons.
I been playing battlefield 5 alot recently and I miss that they didnt include the russian front at all. It was a major part of ww2, its like not including the burma campaign or better yet the battle of Britain
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Ah hello comrades
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Your artists are epic
Greetings repliers
This is literally a free documentary at this point.
its also better than most of the woke garbage put on nat geo or the history channel now of days
Put a sock in it. Lets enjoy
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@@shutup2751 I am Corporal Emma and I have two mom's
@@boshinimperialofficer3250 at least they had entertainment sorted in the CCP headquarters that night
Its so sad that TH-cam often demonetises such extremely high quality educational videos.
The people who work at TH-cam failed history class
I think he has sorted out his demonitisation problems by now
@@johnpaulabocad6941 facts
I think they just want ww2 history to be forgotten for ever to prevent future generation to do the same thing again
@@randomapche7478 that’s the exact opposite of what would happen, history repeats itself if we do not learn from it
This was a very enjoyable video, the animation also keeps improving with every new video :D
Hello my favorite war thunder TH-camr!
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Same with yarnhub lol
Ofc none other than the Warthunder TH-camr here to watch an ariel fight documentary
I Know right!
Fun fact: among those thousands of those Soviet pilots, they were a few handful of experienced of Free French pilots, they were part of the Normandie-Niemen regiment and became the most decorated French squadron, in addiiton 4 of those French pilots got the Hero of Soviet Union medal.
can I know one of em,or perhaps send me a source to read?
@Daniel Petrus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escadron_de_Chasse_2/30_Normandie-Niemen
I find this very funny considering Stalin tried to improve diplomatic ties with the UK and France before signing a non-aggression pact with Germany after the rejections the west gave the USSR, which led to France's original battle plan being made useless by Soviets trading with Germany.
Nevertheless these French guys are heroes.
@@Echani3007
Almost as funny as the west handing over all of Europe to the Nazis
In fact Stalin allowed the French pilots to keep their airplanes and on their return to France the French Government confiscated the airplanes
my grandfather fought there, he was an artillery soldier. He didn't like to recall the Great Patriotic War and his experience, he always started crying. I respect how objectively and in an engaging manner this channel enlightens the events of the war. Thank you, guys!
У меня то же и дед не любил говорить тоже, а военные фильмы не смотрел совсем
WAR 2 WAS DEATH RUN BY GLOBILISTS JUST LIKE ALL WARS AND AS TODAY MANY WILL DIE.
By the way . Kings and Generals did a great perspective on the tank side of this battle. Way to open up more light on the aerial side. We all greatly appreciate you Armchair.
Luftwaffe made British Londonistan residents hide in tunnels with rats out of fear during the blitz
@@wiseman3132 wut
@@wiseman3132 Write that in proper English please.
@@wiseman3132 What's wrong with innocent civilians bracing for their lives during bombing raids?
@@wiseman3132 not so wise
Operation Ichi-go It was one of the 3 major offensives of 1944 but is rarely spoken about
the chinese front in general is barely spoken about
@@kulot-ki1tu and the Japanese got away with their war crimes which were worse than the Nazis
Probably because it didnt really achieve much in the end( for the japanese that is, it was a great win for Mao)
@@localextremist2839 wouldn't go as far as to say worse than, but definitely equal to
@@localextremist2839 agree with achyuthan i wouldnt go so far as their war crimes were worse, unit 731 was pretty much equal to nazi experimentation or the mass rape they did in asia was comparable to the soviets, really every country did war crimes which is why i actively cringe when someone says "BUT THE (insert country) DIDNT COMMIT WAR CRIMES" some just did it intentionally and officially like the nazi persecution of jews or the soviets told to loot everything they could even if by force
I can't believe the evolution of your animations, hats off to you and your team!
I'm waiting on the highly anticipated "Pacific Theater from the Swiss Perspective" video
Wait were they really Swiss in the Pacific?
@@raptordoniv6779 maybe one guy.
"damn this war is crazy. good luck to y'all but im gonna dip"
@@paleozoey More like I'm gonna stay neutral.
@@raptordoniv6779A wild joke flies over head...
@@mariolisa2832 An American fought in the Red Army, a Korean fought for the Germans in D-day and the Germans had muslims SS units, Swiss fighting in the Pacific isn’t a far fetched thing to believe.
"Neither Air Force has been able to claim a desiceive victory"
Sounds like a WT air battle to me
Yeah with the last planes hanging out in space
@@republic0_032 True
@@republic0_032- Hans, IL-2 Sturmovik is at 8K Meters.
- Damn it, Adolf. Activate "Blind Hunt"
I can imagine the tank commander in the opening thinking to himself: “Goddamn it, of all the tanks we have, why did I have to get stuck with the Ferdinand?”
ferdinand?
@@YorkerEli The tank from the begining of the Video.
I can also imagine him thinking "Ironic it's called the Ferdinand, because I want someone to shoot me now!"
@@wiseman3132 Aww, triggered Nazi spotted
@@YorkerEli An assault gun with a really poor operational record. It lacked a MG on it so if caught w/o infantry support it was a dead duck. It also had a poor engine and transmission so it broke down alot and even caught on fire just from being driven.
*_ONCE THE BATTLE STARTED, THERES NO TURNING BACK_*
The end of the third Reich draws near
It’s time has come to an end...
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@@dinodragon72 The end of an era is here
It's time to attack
@@ItsNotKitsu INTO THE MOTHERLAND, THE GERMAN ARMY MARCH! COMRADES STAND SIDE BY SIDE TO STOP THE NAZI CHARGE!
THE END OF THE THIRD REICH GROWS NEAR
“Not capable of a decisive victory.” Ladies and gentlemen, the Luftwaffe
They fought 4 to 1 odds and walked away with 10 to 1 kill ratio. Plus superior ground support. Sit down kids.
@@MrRinoHunter tough talk from the losers...
@@MrRinoHunter that’s why they won right?
@@MrRinoHunter spoted the closet nazo
So anyways, I started blasting.
This video made me realize how horrifically terrifying being an airman would be in these types of wars. People often think about how scary being in a plane crash would be, but these men saw, and experienced hundreds of plane crashes in a few days. The amount of absolute Chad like balls you'd have to have to fly in this situation is immeasurable.
Groundwar still sucks for the infantry
@@destroyerarmor OH! For sure, no doubt dude! I was in the US Army, and often thought about how I would react in a firefight (I never got deployed but I heard very detailed stories, and videos ect.) I was just saying people don't often put themselves in the mindset of flying a plane in a battle zone (at least I never really thought about it). The few seconds between your plane getting hit, and you hitting the ground has to be the scariest feeling imaginable. Just knowing you're going to die with nothing you can do to save yourself.
Still a lot better than infantry (especially soviet infantry), or tank crews. Especially for fighter pilots, where your skill can significantly affect the outcome. Artillery was probably safer. but not by much.
@@zariumsheridan3488 Actually, being a soviet infantry wasn't so bad after Stalingrad since USSR finally got more artillery -- and it's the main infantry killer on the war.
@@ShadeAKAhayate Soviet generals did not start to value the lives of their soldiers more though. So maybe it was only marginally better.
Impressive production. The animations are so clean, crisp and satisfying to watch despite being simplistic. The added radio chatter is very, very nice.
Finally, Hoi4 players and world of tanks players can rejoice.
Warthunder players: *Coughs*
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warthunder is more fun
Imagine comparing two games of different types and judging people for playing them
@Jack Renders imagine thinking war thunder doesn't use HP bar
Me at 3am: I should have slept hours ago
Armchair Historian: *uploads
Me: *18 more minutes isn't so bad, right?*
lol where do you live ?
For me its 1:47 am becuase i live in the philipines
It's 8:03 p.m here
11:20 a.m. here
23:40 here.
The IL2 was one of the most produced aircraft ever, it deserves a video dedicated to it
There are already quite a few documentaries about il-2
I literally got killed twice in one Ground RB battle by an IL2 in WT 2 days ago (Before I shot him with my M3 light tank)
@@sooryan_1018 Now imagine a carousel of 8 to 12 such aircraft, pounding infantry from their hardpoints on each pass. It's literally the replacement of assault helicopter for WW2.
Thank you for making this content available for free, the animation and sound design keeps getting better and better by each video. Props to you guys!
My great grandfather lost a leg to a sniper at Kursk. Thank you so much for the clarity that this video brought!
Gotta love the determination of the lads trying to push a 65t tank out of the mud with their bare hands.
About as possible as actually winning the war.
@@MrMlinmlin must’ve been pretty possible then
@@MrMlinmlin Lol, good comment. It really does sum up the Germans entire invasion of the USSR.
There are two/three ways that germany could win the war. But one of them requires a hell lot of factors. Though, there was a way, way bigger Chance for stalemate than a Victory. And a bigger Chance for losing than stalemate.
При чем толкают в разные стороны.. чувак с другой стороны тоже толкал😂😂😂
Sounds like Hoi4 when your trying to encircle the soviets.
I had a game as Germany play out exactly like Kursk in that it was nearly impossible to push forward, I say impossible because it eventually succeeded and I encircled almost half of the soviet army, took a year of in game time though
Luftwaffe pilots made 3 million british leave london out of fear and then comes British man to say Hermann goring was no good leader
@@wiseman3132 You expected civillians to stay in a warzone where they could die from bombs falling from the sky ?
It's doesn't sound like HOI4...
HOI4 sound like it!
@@randomstranger9442 His name doesnt match with his words
This channel deserves mire than 10 million subs! THE QUALITY!
There should be a series called "The Forgotten Battles" featuring all the forgotten, deadly battles of ww2.
Edit: Calm down, I never specifically said Kursk.
Kursk a forgotten battle wtf ???
@@alexandrebenoin40 Get a pair of reading glasses and read his comment again.
@@firemangan2731 the comment is under a battle of kursk video, so I presume he was considering kursk as a forgotten battle no ?
How is the biggest battle in ww2 forgotten?
There is a classic game of that name (Forgetten Battles) where you get to fly the IL-2 Sturmovik plus many other WWII planes.
Somehow your animation is continually getting better after every single video. Thank you for sharing these with us completely free!
I hope Armchair Historian will one time cover the Burma Campaign The forgotten front
Which war?
@@fan9775 yeah, that is why they call it the forgotten front...
The Japanese determination in the jungle was insane, it should definitely be covered
@@fan9775 the japanese war against indians, brits, australians, and freaking crocodiles
@@wtfbros5110 Lmao, Imagine losing more men to crocadiles than to bullets.
Imagine if he did a series on the moon landing/space race!
That would be very cool
Hell yeah that would be awesome especially for me cuz i am absolutely obsessed with space!
Tbh one of the only positives of the cold war that stifled scientific progress
Yes, and it would still be the Germans vs the Russians, as most of NASA was directed by German rocket scientists
@@hertzair1186 There were about 400,000 NASA members by the 1960s and 70s and only about 1,600 German scientists.
Plus the Soviets took a lot German scientists as well en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim
0:40 are those guys actually trying to push a 65-ton tank?
Of course. And that story is true.
16 year old ”Aryans” on meth be like:
😂
You never know, they might be able to push the tank because of the superiority of the Aryan race.
@@BatCostumeGuy HmMmMMmMMm
Stukas by large didn't "trade their bombs for 37mm cannons". Those cannons were only used by limited numbers of very experienced pilots, due to their ineffectiveness and heavy drag, which made those Stukas sitting ducks.
@abis9 alpha9 That would only work if soldiers were densely packed like marching in a tight column, which would disperse immediately if a plan dived at them. The most effective anti-infantry weapon would be aerial bursting rockets loaded with shrapnel. You'd have to saturate the area because infantry is not huddled together but are spread out and taking cover in trenches/foxholes or under armored vehicles.
@abis9 alpha9 It would be like a hand grenade exploding on the ground. So no, having machine guns and regular cannons (HE shells for which also have the compatible effect) is better.
Hans Ulrich Rudel was one of those experienced fighters that used 37mm cannons under his wings to fire wolframium-core bullets to tanks, which ended up being highly effective.
"The earth is flat"
"Pigs can fly"
"Germany won the war"
"The Stuka was outdated by 1940 already"
bruh
from airmen pov probably outdated but for the ground forces pov it serves it purpose very well
@@gabrielsistonamoca6963 stuka is a specialized modification of Ju-87, armed with 2 37-mm flak-guns. This thing was introduced in something around 1942-43
@@literallymeme it’s called the junkers ju 87 g.
@@literallymeme bruh, the Stuka is the nickname of ALL Ju-87s, the modification was named the Ju-87 G Kanonevogel
Once again you guys bring us quality history content we so much need. Love the content and hope to see so much more like this
The animation and quality of these videos improves every time even when you think it can’t get better. Amazing video.
1:44 this madlad is browsing through his phone while flying
Mans gotta post some stories before divebombing
@@igorlukyan206 "bombing fritz with the boys"
Apparently, it's a lend-lease phone. If it was a soviet domestic version, it would have a red star.
@@user-cq6kh5om7c Their hashtags be like -
#Battleofkursk #Redarmy #Stalin #Killallnazis #Hardbass #Uraa
@@sooryan_1018 #ANAB #ForTheMotherland #Soviet #Vodka
man, im just impressed at the speed of bringing these videos out
Who come here because of battle of kursk 2024
Me lol
"All was not sunshine and sauerkraut for the German's"
had me dying man! 🤣🤣
the intro lets you know that a youtuber you've been with since the start has improved so so much great videos love all your content keep it up!
I love how this guy is like the only guy ever who aprricates how WW2 was decided on the eastern front
Most historians will say it was russian blood that won the war
You mean the War in Europe, right?
@@achowdhury47 yes. Eastern front is called the front between ussr and nazi germany
Some people who really know the history... including Americans like me recognize that something like 10:1 ratio in the east as compared to the west theater. The USSR bled the Germans white. The west definitely contributed but the Soviets paid the heaviest price.
I Love how Americans really dont know that everybody Outside the US knows this
This came out faster than I expected!
Good job The Armchair Historian team! Keep the good work on!
Omg the Always Sunny reference cracked me up 😂
"So anyway I started blasting" - Soviet Frank
Next Video : Minor Axis Powers contribution in Operation Barbarossa
The senate will decided that.
The Germans really fucked them over. Especially during Case blue after Barbarossa. The put them on the flanks without decent armor support and anti tank weapons. Minor Axis generals even complained that they wouldn’t be able to hold the hundreds of kilometers they were assigned but the Germans ignored them.
@@lif3andthings763 true but surprisingly the italians fought very well in places like stalingrad compared to africa and the west
The Germans blamed them for their failures, I guess that's quite an important contribution
been waiting for this video for ever!
Your animations are getting better and better,keep up the good work!
German heavies were overstated in the battle of kursk more panzer 3s and 4s were used rather then the big cats
They also say the Russians 'anticipated the attack'- in reality they were told about it by the British who had cracked Ultra.
@@catinthehat906 so in the end the soviets anticipated the attack thanks to ally's intelligence. You didnt really do much here
They weren't overstated. Of course that the majority were PzIVs, but the Germans never committed so many heavy tanks in a single battle before.
There were more Tigers at Kursk than on the entire Western front.
After watching your whole catalog. Each video seems to improve on the last. It's impressive 👏🏻
Me waking up:
A new video of the armchair historian
Me:
:)
@Hawg Hathword no,
*you*
When I lose all my medium tanks and get red air. "My time has come"
Just end the game at that point 😂
I do a no air only tank mobile warefare USSR with 24 40 width mediums in 1941. I am the definition of insane
@@thecommunistdoggo1008 yeah ive done that one too, it is funny seeing your tank roll over Europe in a heartbeat
@@ngnxtan Very much so who needs planes when I have 2 or 3 times the tanks hehehehe
Amazing video! You have great content with a very well-put-together story format.
Amazing how these videos keep getting better every week, keep it up Griff
The animation, narration and production level of your videos is insane!!!
Griff, keep doing what you're doing, I'm sure that as you and your team keep pushing forward you're gonna outclassed Discovery, National Geographic, and even the Smithsonian Channel the further you all push yourselves. Keep at it.
- A US Navy Veteran
The best history channel ever ngl.
Yeah it is but this channel not for lego kids
Let me give you another channel to try out sometime if you're a fan of history: th-cam.com/channels/fCKvREB11-fxyotS1ONgww.html
@@celticfox ik this guy
@@celticfox 👍
One interesting innovation Souviet aviation used during the Battle of Kursk was PTAB - Anti-Tank Aviation Bomb. It was very small bomb, of only 2,5kg in weight, which used cumulative charge to penetrate the armor from above. IL-2 could take as much as 4 containers of 48 PTABs each, they were also used by bombers and fighters. PTABs were dropped massively and covered quite large area; hitting a tank with one bomb was usually sufficient to take it out. By the end of the war over 14 millons of PTABs were produced.
love your channel for years. the production quality improves every time.
We just gotta keep supporting our favorite history channels and that quality just keeps going up and up.
Amazing. And happy fathers day.
It's like a comic made into a film. Animations are just getting better, good work!
Screw my history teacher,I'm watching this channel from now on.
To be honest with you most stuff history teachers teach you us wrong so there is a higher chance that this channel will tell the truth
@@unkind_grape9077 maybe not wrong so much as incomplete, but to be fair, history is such a vast field of study its impossible to sufficiently cover everything in the time most schools have, so they teach what they hope the (often disinterested) students could hopefully remember. You also figure most history teachers in public schools probably did not specialize in history as their focus of study, since education degrees often require a much broader field of subjects. I think the big thing teachers should do is teach kids in a way that they want to go and learn more, since that's really the key to teaching at any education level
@@jeffreypeters2803 no the thing is most country’s curriculum for history education is wrong especially WW2 Europe half the information about nazi Germany is wrong the only reason why Germany truly started the war was because of the treaty of versailles they lost most of their agricultural land they could not feed most of their people and so on and with Germany being an already poor country the treaty also economically ruined them to a point the Jews held more money than the country it’s self
"It's always sunny in Leningrad" and the soviet Danny DeVito drawing took me by surprise, love it! xD
Nice video! Ur animations are getting more realistic every day keep it up!
Great Battlefield analysis probably the best and most accurate explanation of the Battle of Kursk I have ever seen. Please keep up the good work
These animation start to get better than the average Netflix film
Why?
History repeating itself in front of our own eyes,dammn
-German- Russian pilots at Kursk *AYO WHY'S THE SKY SPEAKING LATIN?!*
AYO WHY’S THE SKY SPEAKING SPANISH GUITAR
The v2 was a real thing
Soviets: watch yo jet bro, watch yo jet, WATCH YO JET.
German pilots at Kurstk *AYO WHY'S THE SKY SPEAKING HARDBASS?!*
"Sunshine and sauerkraut/stroganoff" made me chuckle, great video as always!
OMG The animations and production are getting better with time Keep it up All Support to you and your team
seeing Stalin throw hitler is what I needed in my life
Read 3 books about this battle of the war. WWII isn't taught in no right way in the West.
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kursk was a collection of battles, most people in the west still think it's just one battle
@@hanshoffmann2582 I mean to be fair 2/3rds of the German air force was devoted to the Western Front, practically the entire German Navy on the western front, and Lend Lease quite possibly saved millions of lives in the Soviet Union whether it was decisive or not is debatable.
@@elmascapo6588 Battle of Moscow was won without US help. Germany didn't have the logistics and resources to win against the soviet union; Most of the lend-lease was trucks and food, which made the soviet offensives much more efficient, but it would still win the war. It would just be even more costly than it was IRL. But Germany had no realistic scenario to win this war.
Go to RT then. Why you complaining?
What I find funny about the battle of Kursk is the Soviet equipment losses are much more than what they threw into the battle. Because unlike the Germans who recorded losses as in the vehicle completely wiped out of existence, the Soviet just put down any damaged machines as a loss, then they repaired it and put it back in action, then if it get damaged again they would consider it as another loss.
I read somewhere, that even if a tank got stuck in the mud it counted as a loss to the soviets because it didn't arrive to the assault in time.
@@ДмитроПрищепа-д3яYeah it make sense. The Soviet were much more concerned about the ability to fight of their machines on a daily basis, so if any equipment does not available the next day, it would be count as a loss.
It's a bad recording habit for future study but I think its pretty good for their commanders to make decisions. If I was a Soviet officer I would also want to know exactly how many tanks or planes I could use in the next day.
So funny. That German commander had his cigarette backwards, smoking the filter lmfaooo 7:58
You keep improving as a narrator as well. The food humor was great. As usual your research is thorough. Better animation. Nice job
When the subject is ground attack planes on the Eastern Front, the stars are the Stukas and Sturmoviks, but some recognition should go to the Petlyakov Pe-2, one of the outstanding tactical attack aircraft of the war, that also proved successful as a heavy fighter, as a night fighter (Pe-3 variant) and as a reconnaissance aircraft.
With 11,427 units the Pe-2 was most-produced dive bomber of any type. It was also the third most numerous of World War II’s twin-engine warplanes after the Ju 88 (15,000+) and the Wellington (11,462).
When an American tells you that D-day is the most important battle of ww2.
it wasn't the most important battle but it was important
Would have been better if the Germans had been succesful at Kursk. Because whatever happened next, Germany would lose and this would have just slown down the Soviet advance, thus the Western Allies would have gotten much more eastward. That way millions of people would have been saved from the enslavement that lasted till late 80's.
D-day is the most important, when you look at things now. If D-Day would have failed, Europe would be a undeveloped wasteland, just like most of Russia.
@@Tyu-b9i Read the brown book by Albert Norden, and you gonna understand why Franco and other nazis had a happy time under the American wing. Even today there's a lot of nazis in the so called land of freedom. Happy Juneteenth!
@B Whit Germanies industrial heartland had already been destroyed by allied bombing
None told you that, you created that story to gain thumbs up through Anti Americanism cliches.
There is nothing I love better than a good history lesson!
This channel is a blessing
Looool at 8:00 the luftewaffe surgeon is so focused on the sky above him he’s smoking his cigarette backwards
How much of a grain of salt should be taken with the Kill to loss numbers in the video? I've heard of german numbers being inflated and I assume soviet numbers would be the same.
K/D numbers have to be based on losses records, not claims of enemies downed.
A lot. The Nazis did not report losses by actual losses but only by how many were left after reinforcements. There were cases the Germans would lose over 500 tanks and come out with no losses as they replaced all of them.
@@RouGeZH The Nazis based loss records only by replacement and thus most of their losses are highly undercounted
@@dwarow2508 ROFL that's a weird one, never read that kind of bs theory before.
@@RouGeZH LMAO, that's some new level of bs "based on losses, not claims" Ahahahah
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History repeats
The animation on this channel is second to none. SO immersive and so detailed. I love it. Props to you Mr. Armchair Historian!(:
These videos are getting better and better
History does not repeat but it does rhyme. And those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
7:59 the smoke of that man is the wrong way 😆
Finally someone else notices lol. That was driving me crazy
Great video.
One correction 14:05 T-34-85 appeared only after the battle of Kursk, in 1944
Thats a t-34-57
@@lazr9672 Take a look at the turret. That's clearly the 3-man turret from T-34-85 (designed for T-43).
T-34-57 still had the small 2-man turret.
"Reminder: Watching the Armchair Historian while dog fighting will result in a plane crash!"
Can confirm was flying my Phantom FGR.2 and slammed into a Mig 21
Soviet General: "We lost 300 planes"
Stalin: "No problem, here's 10,000 more"
You can tell a LOT of work and effort was placed in this video. Amazing video.
Around that time there must've been fighting in Sicily. Alas, the tide was finally beginning to turn...
It was turned at Stalingrad. Most historians put that battle as the turning point of WW2.
@@sclice8680 The tide turned when Germany ran out of leather and had to stop giving its soldiers jackboots, replacing them with ankle boots and gaiters.
On that subject, isn't it weird that movies only portrayed Germans wearing the 1940 uniform, even until the fall of Berlin. Like, by '44 they were already using a short breast coat similar to the Eisenhower jacket. I just thought it was odd.
The tide was already turned before the war started
@@Foreign0817 That was just one of the many factors that guaranteed imminent defeat after the tide has already been turned at Stalingrad. The city was one of the most strategic and morally important locations in the war where nearly 150,000 to 250,000 Germans died in that battle alone and many more captured.
@@Foreign0817 I have a feeling it's either for show or cause there's a lot more of the older uniforms being made.
up next on documentaries about wars/battles you heard of from perspectives you never thought of:
The second Sino-Japanese war from the naval perspective
Did the Republic of China even have warships?
@@longyu9336, yes. China bought battleships.
@@-_Hatred_- Bruh such an battle would be tragically lopsided
Now we have a sequel but with futuristic drones and gadgets.
Notification from armchair historian always give me hype 👍👍👍
I love these videos so much. Keep up the great work! Props to the animator as well.
One of those 'the draw goes to the defending team' fights
question - did any allied air forces take part in aerial battles on the eastern front ?
Yes spitfires but they were piloted by soviets
To my knowledge, no, though some American planes were sent to the USSR as lend-lease.
Britain tried selling them the Hawker Hurricane fighter, but the soviets were unsatisfied with its performance.
There was at least one French squadron (Normandy-Neman), but I haven't heard of any other Western allies participating in aerial battles of the Eastern front.
@@aleks6977 plenty of British aircraft made it in lend lease to the USSR, not sold, hampden bombers, spitfires and hurricanes, but they were not happy with the armaments (303. mostly) and found them insufficient preferring much higher calibre cannons.
@@Mmjk_12 they liked the P-39 for that reason
14:43 "anyway, I started blasting"
Nothing stops Soviet Frank
hooooah...thanks for all the hard work that went into this great video! Your channel is awesome!
Excellent research, production and presentation - keep it going!
A very convenient time to have this video recommended to me lmao
I been playing battlefield 5 alot recently and I miss that they didnt include the russian front at all. It was a major part of ww2, its like not including the burma campaign or better yet the battle of Britain
Loved the reference of any way I Started blasting meme.
LOVE these WW2 video's, keep em coming! Like to see some of the lesser known/covered events like this.