Nothing comes close this. Nothing ever will. These documentaries were made in the 1970's, 80's. Long before Internet misinformation and unqualified people giving their take on WW2 with an education of a potato.
@@neganrex5693 Precisely. I've thought of the MTV comparison before, that niche programming has limited audience and can't hold people for long periods at a stretch. Maybe both were doomed as mainstream cable channels.
Excellent footage of the 88mm being brought into action, 44:50 onwards. You can get a great look at most of the support equipment - for all you modelers looking for references!
AWESOME documentary! Usually people tend to "concentrate" on tanks or tank-destroyers, but forget that without proper fast "scout" vehicles, a "Panzerdivision" was virtually blind... Some of those vehicles became legendary, no matter they were suposed to "engage only forces of similar strenght", as they say at the 7th minute, like that "PUMA", that was very probably the BEST vehicle of its type of the whole war, and was used even after the war by many countries of the "Ally"-coalition (...France in first place, if I'm not much mistaken...). Some of the best German tankers and top "Panzer-aces" were sort of ..."brought up" and trained in scout units afterall (like - if I remember well - Wittman). BIG THANKS FOR UPLOADING! Have a nice day everybody.
I know that there are many out there that love the half-track. But they never had to drive one. Realize that they are powered by a track that has no ability to steer the machine. Both tracks are either in "forward" or "reverse', all steering is done by the 2 front wheels. Now plop that machine into mud, ice or deep snow. You might be able to go forward or back OK, but turning? Not so much.
During a hurricane in South Carolina a fire department used a half-track to help rescue people. My brother and I helped. It wasn't really that bad to ride in. Rough ride though, as the rear end basically has no suspension to speak to of. Was a seriously interesting experience
wood1155 lol, Italians were not even ready for war during WW2, they got their .sses kicked quickly in Africa, they were probably the weakest Axis country lol.
I have watched a lot of WW2 documentaries and have never seen a series that goes as in depth and the video actually matches the veh/weapon they are discussing.
I couldn't agree more. I have the whole series, and have only picked up one error in the whole thing. This series and the "Battlefield" series are among the best available.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job. Good investigative research. Good reviews of the different armored vehicles. 1st class documentary.
I arrived at this video due to my fascination with the Kettenkrad. I was so glad to see the coverage and amazing video provided in this documentary. Thanks for this film.
Thanks for uploading, but I wish the people who made the video had listened to it so they would know that the music is louder than the narrator. There are some people in the house that don't want to listen to the music while I'm trying to make out what the guy is mumbling about.
Just a bit of editing to reduce the level of the background music would improve this. Otherwise, extremely interesting. I love seeing little bits of esoterica that you're not normally aware of; the air dropped fuel canisters to resupply the forward recon units was fantastic. I've never seen that before.
andrei paul Germany might have won if they hadn't declared war on the US on December the 10th 1941! Once they awoken the might of the US industrial military potential the war was lost. For Germany and Japan!
This was interesting and I appreciate the upload. The background 'music' was very piercing; too bad it couldn't have been eliminated. It would also have been good if the images could have been frozen, even for a few seconds, when a new model is mentioned and a decent shot is available. i realize it's too much to ask for a caption of the model to be included. But this is niggling - Thanks again for uploading.
I think the narrator's script may lead to confusion with the weight designations of the half-tracks, which are really 3/4 track anyway, the various ton designations do not refer to the vehicle weight at all but the weight of the intended maximum towed load. There seemed to be no mention either that all the half-tracks also had a simple peg and slot arrangement from the steering box that progressively applied track brakes after a relatively small angle of the steering wheel.
An EXCELLENT video. WEll researched and a comprehensive coverage of the German vehicles. Don't worry about the negative comments:as some viewers aren't very bright.
chris hackney I mean, if he's going to call people "dumb ass kids who don't know anything" he should probably use correct grammar. Otherwise he looks like a dumb ass kid who doesn't know anything
+Jeffrey Rollings I see what you mean. Not sure if it is truly mounted on the left, if it is i'd like to know why. What i'm guessing is the documentary makers flipped the film during editing to make it look like all the traffic was going left to right, or from Germany to Russia. They are taught to keep the direction on the screen consistent and the shots before were left to right. Just a guess
+Jari Heiska Hitler ordered Case Anton to occupy Corsica and then the rest of the unoccupied southern zone in immediate reaction to the landing of the Allies in North Africa (Operation Torch) on 8 November 1942
My point is Germany could not produce enough good heavy semi heavy trucks with a 2 front war.The Red Army,with their logistical support was provided by hundreds of thousands of U.S.-made trucks. Indeed by 1945 nearly two-thirds of the truck strength of the Red Army was U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge 3/4 ton and Studebaker 2½ ton, were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front. The USA simply put was able to supply all its allies with trucks.
I couldn't agree more, looking at battlefield, what a great series. Although the fact they used the same slow music in every single episode wasn't something i was particularly thrilled about ;)
Thank you 🙏, I’m a history nut, love ❤️ this video. I build models and now I’m going to have to expand my diorama of North Africa Corp, I new there were variants, didn’t realize how many, very informative, my hobby store is in for some work
the tonnage given for the unarmored halftracks is NOT their weight. This vehicles were classified by the Tonnage they could pull. Hence the 18ton ZKW(Zugkraftwagen/motorized Vehicle for pulling) is to pull a weight of 18 tons.
No, it refers to the Greif Vogel, a legendary beast, the griffin, a winged horse with a falcon or eagle head. The other Rommel's command vehicle, another sdkfz 250/3 was the "Adler" for "eagle".
Fighting 3 other super powers with the same (UK) (USSR) or four times more (US) manufacturing capacity. Germany was basically fighting 6 other Germanys.
They produced a wide variety of vehicles, often to the extent of diluting their manufacturing capacity for another new vehicle, then -- particularly with the later tank designs -- came back with modifications that pushed their weight up and reliability down. And Gernany found itself having to employ its weapons outside of their intended purpose -- the Tiger was developed in response to a pre-war requirement for a heavy breakthrough tank; it was intended to be used in an initial assault, creating a breach in the enemy lines, which the regular panzertruppen would exploit while the Tiger units were pulled back to be refit and sent to the next schwerpunkt. Instead, they had to be used alongside the regular tank units to provide additional strength, kept in action far longer than their intended role, and acquired a reputation for unreliability when they could not be given their required maintenance.
FFW to 3:45 if you want to see the proper beginning of this vid. Far too much waffle in the narration, but some great footage together with descriptions of the vehicles being shown.
Happy New Year. I do the same thing. I'm actually hoping to someday own a specific piece of German WWII weaponry at some point in my life. But finding a broom handle these days is hard and pricey...
Good video. It is amazing how many vehicles (different types) were used by the Germans. 14,000 Ford trucks, haha. Me thinks old Henry made out pretty good on the war. Playing both sides against the middle. The other video about the mobile artillery is very good too. Ford didn't get to make any artillery. lol
That blockade had ended by 1919 (and in place by all btw with food shipments being allowed but delayed, heavily condemned in the UK by the opposition might i add so not "the general view" at all and was supported by all the allies and even demanded by some such as France), What i am on about was the major post war damages, such as the taking of German lands by France etc etc.
Apologies for the long string of replies but I neglected to mention the array of Soviet heavy tanks, most importantly the IS-2 in my previous post. In addition the Soviet Union also fielded several self propelled guns such as the SU-155 which was designated a "Big game hunter" designed to knock out the German "Animal" heavy tanks such as the Tiger, Panther, Royal Tiger and Ferdinand (formerly Elefant). Finally ignorance of the Gloster Meteor does not diminish its importance.
they were very well engineered and a lot roomier than the SKFZs. Very simple design using mostly off the shelf automotive components and flat plate sheet metal.
Name any other country who had a working battle ready jet fighter and had ballistic missiles during ww2. Please do I am waiting. Also please tell me about how bad the tiger tanks were and how every other German tank was as poor as the Sherman.
y The so-called "Blitzkrieg" of the German Wehrmacht was carried out mainly by the Pz.I and Pz. II combat vehicles in Poland and France . During the restructuring in 1940/41, the vehicle was no longer used as a battle tank, but as a reconnaissance tank. Due to the simultaneous reduction, there were 65 Type II tanks with a target stock of 200 tanks per division. In 1942, with a target stock of 164 tanks in total, only 28 Panzer II were planned. The following year the type was finally retired. Since the German armaments industry did not succeed in providing the Wehrmacht with the intended standard tanks of the types Panzer III and Panzer IV in significant numbers until the outbreak of the Second World War, the Panzer II with almost 1,100 were operational in the first two years of the war Vehicles the backbone of the German tank weapon. At the beginning of the western campaign, the divisions deployed there had 955 Panzer II at their disposal. At the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union in June 1941 there were just under 1200 vehicles; in May of the following year this number fell to 860 vehicles. [1] The Panzer II bore the brunt of the fighting in Poland and France and it became apparent relatively quickly that, like its predecessor, it was too weakly armed and armored and could only be viewed as a makeshift tank. It only offered advantages in street fighting because of its small size. Panzer II were also used to fight partisans. The total losses can be quantified as follows: 1939: 83 pieces 1940: 240 pieces 1941: 460 pieces By April 1942 a total of 921 Panzer IIs had been recorded as total losses.
wow, only 800 of the 8 wheeled reconaissance/armoured cars were made? seems like a pretty low number, i thought they were more common than that...is that correct, can anyone else verify that?
The Ford truck plant was taken over by the German Government before WWII started. Henry Ford was defiantly anti-Semitic, and admired the German Government's way of during business in the 1930's, but by the time Germany invaded Poland, he no longer had any control over the German Ford truck plant. Also, the German car and truck maker Opel was a General Motor's subsidiary, but the German Opel truck plant had also been taken over by the German Government before WWII. Check out the WWII Japanese Navy's Type “0” Transport Model 11. It was a DC3 built before and during WWII by the Showa aircraft plant under a Douglas Aircraft license.
And the KwK 30, et al, are NOT "derived from the weapons carried on the Messerschmitt 109". The Bf 109E used two MG FF cannon, derived from the Oerlikon 20mm cannon, itself derived from the Becker cannon. The KwK 30 is derived from the Solothurn ST-5, and is unrelated although sharing certain similarities (besides both being 20mm autocannon). The later MG 151/20 is a totally different weapon altogether.
Posted it before it was finished, deleted and tried again, and youtube's anti-spam filter wouldn't let me re-post the first part. PzIV vs. T-34 Fw190g vs. Typhoon Mauser vs. Garand Nbwrfr vs. Katyusha Fw190d vs. P-51D / P-47D Me109 variants vs. Spitfire variants Ju88 / Me410 vs. Mosquito Ju87 vs. IL-2 There's no real advantage that just pops out at you.
Would there be a market for a limited production run of the Sd.Kfz. 222 to the original drawings?Just wondering (Obviously engine,transmission and final drives would be sourced from a current production vehicle so as to comply with modern emissions and "Construction and use" regulations).Ideas anyone?
This is without doubt the best documentary about German armoured cars and half-tracks ever produced.
andrew strongman do you know about another one?
Yeah, i havent found anything to top it yet, and it's been a few years
Nothing comes close this. Nothing ever will. These documentaries were made in the 1970's, 80's. Long before Internet misinformation and unqualified people giving their take on WW2 with an education of a potato.
No doubt.
Agreed
Absolutely love these German war files docs
Do wish the music wasn’t louder then the speaker
@HistoryChannel..... Plz take note ..... This is what an actual ww2 documentary looks like .....
miridian2012 agree
But where's Chumley???
miridian2012 "History Channel" is busy making trashy "reality" tv shows.
Sorry the history channel has went the way of socialist low IQ MTV. No history no music and few viewers.
@@neganrex5693 Precisely. I've thought of the MTV comparison before, that niche programming has limited audience and can't hold people for long periods at a stretch. Maybe both were doomed as mainstream cable channels.
The "German War File" series are really good and well researched without forcing a moral opinion on the viewer.
Excellent footage of the 88mm being brought into action, 44:50 onwards. You can get a great look at most of the support equipment - for all you modelers looking for references!
At last a TV doc that actually refers to the footage on screen rather than just using it for eye candy.
Did you just call Nazi stuff Eye Candy 😅
@@trueKENTUCKY.. Just because it's nazi and/or German doesn't mean it can't be pretty, nice, cool etc.
AWESOME documentary!
Usually people tend to "concentrate" on tanks or tank-destroyers, but forget that without proper fast "scout" vehicles, a "Panzerdivision" was virtually blind...
Some of those vehicles became legendary, no matter they were suposed to "engage only forces of similar strenght", as they say at the 7th minute, like that "PUMA", that was very probably the BEST vehicle of its type of the whole war, and was used even after the war by many countries of the "Ally"-coalition (...France in first place, if I'm not much mistaken...).
Some of the best German tankers and top "Panzer-aces" were sort of ..."brought up" and trained in scout units afterall (like - if I remember well - Wittman).
BIG THANKS FOR UPLOADING!
Have a nice day everybody.
It's not they forget it's just some people are very part time WW2 people and they concentrate on the main topics which is fine and understandable. 😅
Dear Military Channel-
THIS is a documentary.
My favorite scene (29.50) is the German Shepard riding shotgun in the halftrack.
yup saw that one. very col
He was actually the vehicle commander
the german shepard was like HELL YEA!
Panzer Grenadier Blitzhound !
Germans even tried to make the speak and use them as soldiers... Very interesting topic if you look deeper into it
great docu, only problem is when the music starts. its difficult to here the speaker. thanks.
It confuses copyrighted material detection.
Lee T. Walker what copyrighted material? Archive footage in the public domain?
BULLOCK what?
Crawled Out Of Plato's Cave dick
Crawled Out Of Plato's Cave insulting to dicks.....
Thank you for uploading these. Excellent documentaries with amazing footage.
This is probably the best Documentary series of WWII.
Love the Schachtellaufwerk (overlapped interleaved) track design.
I know that there are many out there that love the half-track. But they never had to drive one. Realize that they are powered by a track that has no ability to steer the machine. Both tracks are either in "forward" or "reverse', all steering is done by the 2 front wheels. Now plop that machine into mud, ice or deep snow. You might be able to go forward or back OK, but turning? Not so much.
During a hurricane in South Carolina a fire department used a half-track to help rescue people. My brother and I helped. It wasn't really that bad to ride in. Rough ride though, as the rear end basically has no suspension to speak to of. Was a seriously interesting experience
Damn the Germans had some sexy war machines!
Spoken like a *TRUE MOTORHEAD.*
Didn't get them far though! Literally speaking no oil meant no movement.
Yes...but really shockingly shite music!
DesolationAngel101 too bad their leaders (nazis) were evil animals.
wood1155 lol, Italians were not even ready for war during WW2, they got their .sses kicked quickly in Africa, they were probably the weakest Axis country lol.
I've seen all sorts of war documentaries, but never saw any of the footage utilized in this video. Very informative!
I have watched a lot of WW2 documentaries and have never seen a series that goes as in depth and the video actually matches the veh/weapon they are discussing.
These war file docs are very good i must say. Most informative and so much unseen footage, nice.
NICE PICTURES NOY OFTEN SEEN 👌 GOOD FULL DOCUMENTARY ON WHAT WAS PRODUCED .
I couldn't agree more. I have the whole series, and have only picked up one error in the whole thing. This series and the "Battlefield" series are among the best available.
Very interesting review of important vehicles that are mostly overshadowed by Tanks.
This doc is very good , maybe one of the best on this specific topic .
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job. Good investigative research. Good reviews of the different armored vehicles. 1st class documentary.
Great documentary thanks for posting
Great document, the Wermacht had so many variations it´s a vast inventory some really great, like the Blitz or the puma
Guess it was a logistic nightmare tough
+MTXwhites for sure a real nightmare...
I arrived at this video due to my fascination with the Kettenkrad. I was so glad to see the coverage and amazing video provided in this documentary. Thanks for this film.
Great footage, we'll never see the likes of these vehicles again.
You will never see it on the history channel anymore. They only have dumb shit like MTV.
Thank you for posting these different WW 2 Videos. WW2 TH-cam buff here!
Thanks for uploading, but I wish the people who made the video had listened to it so they would know that the music is louder than the narrator. There are some people in the house that don't want to listen to the music while I'm trying to make out what the guy is mumbling about.
I found that ear phones help. I agree, the music is very distracting and annoying.
It's just the intro and outro. There's little music inside the vid.
Great video, thanks for posting it! I wish they had done one on Allied arms too.
Just a bit of editing to reduce the level of the background music would improve this. Otherwise, extremely interesting. I love seeing little bits of esoterica that you're not normally aware of; the air dropped fuel canisters to resupply the forward recon units was fantastic. I've never seen that before.
Indeed. Objective documentaries are a rarity these days.
Extremely interesting. Thanks very much for posting this.
Germany made some bad ass vehicles...
Alex Sturm maybe, but they couldn't keep up with the Allied military production machine!!
Patton3003 Well, you said it correctly. Allies= URSS +UK+ USA; of course they couldn't fight alone against 3 countries.
andrei paul
then why plunge the country in an unwindable war?
andrei paul
Germany might have won if they hadn't declared war on the US on December the 10th 1941! Once they awoken the might of the US industrial military potential the war was lost. For Germany and Japan!
Patton3003 And yet your US waited untill 44 to actually help in war.
So shut it.Russia carried the war.
Both are equally formidable, and are not to be underestimated.
Those who do are left in complete defeat.
I think so too. This video is just about engineering, so you shouldn't distract from this to policy and the ethical side.
even Odder, Maxim's Machine Gun was used by Every side in WW1, he made a fortune
I like this series because they are not repeating for the thousandth time same and same clips.
This was interesting and I appreciate the upload. The background 'music' was very piercing; too bad it couldn't have been eliminated. It would also have been good if the images could have been frozen, even for a few seconds, when a new model is mentioned and a decent shot is available. i realize it's too much to ask for a caption of the model to be included. But this is niggling - Thanks again for uploading.
I think the narrator's script may lead to confusion with the weight designations of the half-tracks, which are really 3/4 track anyway, the various ton designations do not refer to the vehicle weight at all but the weight of the intended maximum towed load.
There seemed to be no mention either that all the half-tracks also had a simple peg and slot arrangement from the steering box that progressively applied track brakes after a relatively small angle of the steering wheel.
No, he was saying how Ford and other American manufacturers built mules similar in design to the German half track trucks.
They describe vehicles being produced in the hundreds while allies were turning out vehicles by the thousands or tens of thousands
I never really ponder the half track, but this is very good.
I've built a few models of German halftracks because they are ridiculous. Great documentary. These are often overlooked in favor of the wunderwaffels.
How dare you insult sdk.frz 251
An EXCELLENT video. WEll researched and a comprehensive coverage of the German vehicles. Don't worry about the negative comments:as some viewers aren't very bright.
Harry Johnson And there just dumb ass kids, know nothings.
+Rick Velocity: that should read they're (they are), not there.
chris hackney I mean, if he's going to call people "dumb ass kids who don't know anything" he should probably use correct grammar. Otherwise he looks like a dumb ass kid who doesn't know anything
@chris hackney They could be from Mars. I wounder if they are full of dumb asses there like we have here..
@@neganrex5693 two dumb asses revealed LOL
Splendid presentation!
Thanks for sharing just picked up a couple of these in 1/35 by Tamiya and AFV
Surprised to see the motorcycle outfit at 9.16 has the chair mounted on the left.
+Jeffrey Rollings I see what you mean. Not sure if it is truly mounted on the left, if it is i'd like to know why. What i'm guessing is the documentary makers flipped the film during editing to make it look like all the traffic was going left to right, or from Germany to Russia. They are taught to keep the direction on the screen consistent and the shots before were left to right. Just a guess
I love this type of uploads, thank you you tube and geesusdb :)
A note on about 10:00, Vichy was not occupied?
+Jari Heiska Hitler ordered Case Anton to occupy Corsica and then the rest of the unoccupied southern zone in immediate reaction to the landing of the Allies in North Africa (Operation Torch) on 8 November 1942
Cian Merne Oh! I didn't recall that. :|
This great series will be even greater, when it is colourised!!
Very nice documentary. Needless to say some of those same designs have been mimic by the Allies after the WWII.
My point is Germany could not produce enough good heavy semi heavy trucks with a 2 front war.The Red Army,with their logistical support was provided by hundreds of thousands of U.S.-made trucks. Indeed by 1945 nearly two-thirds of the truck strength of the Red Army was U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge 3/4 ton and Studebaker 2½ ton, were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front.
The USA simply put was able to supply all its allies with trucks.
I couldn't agree more, looking at battlefield, what a great series.
Although the fact they used the same slow music in every single episode wasn't something i was particularly thrilled about ;)
Thank you 🙏, I’m a history nut, love ❤️ this video. I build models and now I’m going to have to expand my diorama of North Africa Corp, I new there were variants, didn’t realize how many, very informative, my hobby store is in for some work
the tonnage given for the unarmored halftracks is NOT their weight.
This vehicles were classified by the Tonnage they could pull.
Hence the 18ton ZKW(Zugkraftwagen/motorized Vehicle for pulling) is to pull a weight of 18 tons.
The word 'Greif' on the side of Rommel's Sdkfz 250 meant 'take' or 'seize' - not 'Griffin' as stated.
Yep, it means "grip", like in wrestling ;-)
No, it refers to the Greif Vogel, a legendary beast, the griffin, a winged horse with a falcon or eagle head. The other Rommel's command vehicle, another sdkfz 250/3 was the "Adler" for "eagle".
great video. Never imagined how many armored vehicle where involved how the heck did they lose??
Fighting 3 other super powers with the same (UK) (USSR) or four times more (US) manufacturing capacity. Germany was basically fighting 6 other Germanys.
They produced a wide variety of vehicles, often to the extent of diluting their manufacturing capacity for another new vehicle, then -- particularly with the later tank designs -- came back with modifications that pushed their weight up and reliability down. And Gernany found itself having to employ its weapons outside of their intended purpose -- the Tiger was developed in response to a pre-war requirement for a heavy breakthrough tank; it was intended to be used in an initial assault, creating a breach in the enemy lines, which the regular panzertruppen would exploit while the Tiger units were pulled back to be refit and sent to the next schwerpunkt. Instead, they had to be used alongside the regular tank units to provide additional strength, kept in action far longer than their intended role, and acquired a reputation for unreliability when they could not be given their required maintenance.
Logistics. Logistics. Logistics.
I think you would be surprised how many horse drawn trailers the Germans used and also horse drawn artillery.
Interesting film but background music is too loud
Take out the overwhelming load music.. Gud Lawd! Fantastic film footage.
Outstanding program but why the bloody music drowning out the narrative?????
FFW to 3:45 if you want to see the proper beginning of this vid. Far too much waffle in the narration, but some great footage together with descriptions of the vehicles being shown.
Happy New Year. I do the same thing. I'm actually hoping to someday own a specific piece of German WWII weaponry at some point in my life. But finding a broom handle these days is hard and pricey...
I bought a K98 several years ago for $200 and now they sell for $900+ (USD)
Good video. It is amazing how many vehicles (different types) were used by the Germans. 14,000 Ford trucks, haha. Me thinks old Henry made out pretty good on the war. Playing both sides against the middle. The other video about the mobile artillery is very good too. Ford didn't get to make any artillery. lol
That blockade had ended by 1919 (and in place by all btw with food shipments being allowed but delayed, heavily condemned in the UK by the opposition might i add so not "the general view" at all and was supported by all the allies and even demanded by some such as France), What i am on about was the major post war damages, such as the taking of German lands by France etc etc.
This might be favorite of the series. ❤
the music is WAY too loud
I liked it very much
llVIU Indeed
Sweegy Swag no, he says it like whoever originally put this series together made the music too loud in the mix
We can assume this is because this was cut in the traditional sense and then spoken over; there's no mixing when your audio is analogue.
I can hear everything and I'm half deaf.
Apologies for the long string of replies but I neglected to mention the array of Soviet heavy tanks, most importantly the IS-2 in my previous post. In addition the Soviet Union also fielded several self propelled guns such as the SU-155 which was designated a "Big game hunter" designed to knock out the German "Animal" heavy tanks such as the Tiger, Panther, Royal Tiger and Ferdinand (formerly Elefant). Finally ignorance of the Gloster Meteor does not diminish its importance.
damn, why is the music this loud? not just this one but two of your others, too.
Didn't Rommel like US halftracks? I remember seeing a video where he was quite taken with one.
My uncle was in a American half-track under Pattons Command but ran out of fuel,hand to hand combat etc.
they were very well engineered and a lot roomier than the SKFZs. Very simple design using mostly off the shelf automotive components and flat plate sheet metal.
Name any other country who had a working battle ready jet fighter and had ballistic missiles during ww2. Please do I am waiting. Also please tell me about how bad the tiger tanks were and how every other German tank was as poor as the Sherman.
Man, at 22:25, that looks like a modern day US Army Stryker vehicle. At least from my little knowledge. !!!!
y The so-called "Blitzkrieg" of the German Wehrmacht was carried out mainly by the Pz.I and Pz. II combat vehicles in Poland and France . During the restructuring in 1940/41, the vehicle was no longer used as a battle tank, but as a reconnaissance tank. Due to the simultaneous reduction, there were 65 Type II tanks with a target stock of 200 tanks per division. In 1942, with a target stock of 164 tanks in total, only 28 Panzer II were planned. The following year the type was finally retired.
Since the German armaments industry did not succeed in providing the Wehrmacht with the intended standard tanks of the types Panzer III and Panzer IV in significant numbers until the outbreak of the Second World War, the Panzer II with almost 1,100 were operational in the first two years of the war Vehicles the backbone of the German tank weapon. At the beginning of the western campaign, the divisions deployed there had 955 Panzer II at their disposal. At the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union in June 1941 there were just under 1200 vehicles; in May of the following year this number fell to 860 vehicles. [1] The Panzer II bore the brunt of the fighting in Poland and France and it became apparent relatively quickly that, like its predecessor, it was too weakly armed and armored and could only be viewed as a makeshift tank. It only offered advantages in street fighting because of its small size. Panzer II were also used to fight partisans. The total losses can be quantified as follows:
1939: 83 pieces
1940: 240 pieces
1941: 460 pieces
By April 1942 a total of 921 Panzer IIs had been recorded as total losses.
Scale modelers are ecstatic. Copious thanks for these great videos.
Super great show. I like the fact that it is strictly informative without all the politics and B.S. Thanks for posting!!!
I can hardly imagine keeping a useful inventory of spare parts for all these machines.
As a kid when I saw pictures of the puma I thought it couldn't be a WW2 vehicle, it looked to futuristic. Still one of my favorite WW2 designs.
What are the rails or racks on top of some used for?
@51:23 - Did I just spot a naval officer, standing just left of center, on one of the half-tracks?
Excellent documentary just wish the music was a lower volume as it drowns the narrator out
It's amazing how futuristic some of these vehicles look ,
The sloped armor is a blueprint for pretty much all subsequent armoured vehicles
wow, only 800 of the 8 wheeled reconaissance/armoured cars were made? seems like a pretty low number, i thought they were more common than that...is that correct, can anyone else verify that?
In my last Panzer General II campaign, two Sd.Kfz. 234 platoon's survived years of combat and were easily worth their weight in gold.
beautiful
🏆🏆🏆✌️🇺🇲🙏
Always wonder what became of these men and their machines 😟
Thank you for sharing.
I had no idea Ford was still building vehicles for Germany in 1944 or did I hear that wrong?
It's true and well documented
The Ford truck plant was taken over by the German Government before WWII started. Henry Ford was defiantly anti-Semitic, and admired the German Government's way of during business in the 1930's, but by the time Germany invaded Poland, he no longer had any control over the German Ford truck plant. Also, the German car and truck maker Opel was a General Motor's subsidiary, but the German Opel truck plant had also been taken over by the German Government before WWII. Check out the WWII Japanese Navy's Type “0” Transport Model 11. It was a DC3 built before and during WWII by the Showa aircraft plant under a Douglas Aircraft license.
background music is louder than the announcer's voice and then there is some German language that enters and then there is confusion.
Fun fact: the Sdkfz. 251 was one source of inspiration for the Star Wars Walker.
Any videos about how many times the horse yes the horse towed support and artillery.
I enjoy background music in documentaries. So if one *can get through the first **15:30** or so one can actually HEAR the narrator.*
And the KwK 30, et al, are NOT "derived from the weapons carried on the Messerschmitt 109". The Bf 109E used two MG FF cannon, derived from the Oerlikon 20mm cannon, itself derived from the Becker cannon. The KwK 30 is derived from the Solothurn ST-5, and is unrelated although sharing certain similarities (besides both being 20mm autocannon). The later MG 151/20 is a totally different weapon altogether.
+justforever96 Well spotted. The KwK 30 was derived from the FlaK 30, and fired the same ammunition as the Flak 30 and the later Flak 38.
The Puma is rarely acknowledge for it's invaluable service for the Werhmacht.
Posted it before it was finished, deleted and tried again, and youtube's anti-spam filter wouldn't let me re-post the first part.
PzIV vs. T-34
Fw190g vs. Typhoon
Mauser vs. Garand
Nbwrfr vs. Katyusha
Fw190d vs. P-51D / P-47D
Me109 variants vs. Spitfire variants
Ju88 / Me410 vs. Mosquito
Ju87 vs. IL-2
There's no real advantage that just pops out at you.
Would there be a market for a limited production run of the Sd.Kfz. 222 to the original drawings?Just wondering (Obviously engine,transmission and final drives would be sourced from a current production vehicle so as to comply with modern emissions and "Construction and use" regulations).Ideas anyone?
you said it yourself emissions would be the killer. for the movies they use wooden vehicle or miniature models which are very convincing
Very well done. Thank you
*lol* That German Shepherd commanded that SdKfz very good. XD
Excelent video - thanks!
I've always heard him called "Bomber Harris", I've not heard the "butcher" epitaph.
too bad there is no interview with that dawg
At 8:01, dure looks like a young M. Wittmann in armored cars, latter to become the Black Knight.