Week 243 - The Biggest Offensive in Japanese History - WW2 - April 22, 1944

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  • @WorldWarTwo
    @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว +502

    We were reached out to by one of our viewers with the touching news that today, April 22, 2023, the remains of Private Horace Middleton, a member of the 5307th Composite Unit (Merrill’s Marauders), will finally be laid to rest with the rest of his family in rural Pennsylvania. Horace was KIA in fighting around Myitkyina, Burma about July 12, 1944, and while his remains were collected then, he remained unidentified until October 2019 where the pandemic delayed his burial until now.
    Full story: www.standard-journal.com/news/local/article_00351a3e-4922-5608-b8d1-8761d8bdd031.html
    Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/timeghosthistory

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 ปีที่แล้ว

      😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

    • @guillaumedeschamps1087
      @guillaumedeschamps1087 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      It's good that he finally was brought home and can rest with his family.
      Solid episode! The start of Ichi-Go is going to throw a bit of a wrench in Allied planning, much as the Burma offensive, but I wager the Allies can handle it.

    • @frankbarnwell____
      @frankbarnwell____ ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks for the link. I'm taking 2 days vacation to hit the beach on D day!

    • @jharris0341
      @jharris0341 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Respect to Pvt Middleton.

    • @pshehan1
      @pshehan1 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      So few WWII veterans left. I note with satisfaction that a google search of Private Horace Middleton returns a number of items giving his story.
      I undertook an oral history interviewing veterans of the 2/14 Battalion AIF (Australian Imperial Force) in 2008. None of the men I interviewed are still with us.
      I will be attending the Battalion Association reunion lunch on Monday, April 24, the day before ANZAC Day. There will be no actual veterans attending. I will be taking along a 99 year old friend who had two relatives KIA in New Guinea serving with other units.
      The following is from the latest association news letter. Les was originally from Victoria but now lives elsewhere so he was not among those I interviewed. He must have been underage, 17, when he enlisted.
      "In January 2/14 veteran VX18984 [the V indicates a Victorian] Les Cook celebrated his 100th birthday. Les served in the Army from May 1940 to February 1947 in Crete, PNG [Papua/ New Guinea], Borneo and Japan.
      2/14 past President Graig Iskov and wife Kay had the privilege of lunching with Les, surrounded by his three daughter and their families.
      Les had a surprise visit from the Australian war Memorial Director Matt Anderson and a piper. Les led a family singalong, gave a beautiful speech and recited a 7the Division poem about Balikpapan. [I visited Balikpapan with members of the Association some years ago. Unfortunately Les was not present].
      He lives alone, manages his house and garden and goes to the gym twice a week [!!!]. Les is an absolute gentleman and an inspiration to all generations!"
      Lest we forget all who served.

  • @alexamerling79
    @alexamerling79 ปีที่แล้ว +565

    Losing Sevastopol had to have been a big morale blow to the Germans considering how long it took them to capture it before.

    • @thanos_6.0
      @thanos_6.0 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      Not only that, it is the most important port at the Blacksee. Who controls Sevastopol, controls the Black sea. Which is one of the reasons why Putin invaded the Crimea in 2014.

    • @bcvetkov8534
      @bcvetkov8534 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      ​@@thanos_6.0 technically there wasn't an invasion in Crimea. They were jointly using it at the time with Ukraine. Russia simply kicked the Ukrainians out that were stationed there in 2014.

    • @thanos_6.0
      @thanos_6.0 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@bcvetkov8534 Yeah, true

    • @davidhimmelsbach557
      @davidhimmelsbach557 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      @@AmirSatt You mean: "The Little Green Men."
      Famously, they had no military ID/ ranks on their uniforms.
      They must have come from Mars.

    • @scottgorby2307
      @scottgorby2307 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@bcvetkov8534 semantics

  • @malickfan7461
    @malickfan7461 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    Operation Ichi-Go is such an under appreciated part of the war.

    • @tigertank06
      @tigertank06 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      But the big question is: where is Ichi going? 😂.

    • @malickfan7461
      @malickfan7461 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@tigertank06 I hate myself for laughing at that. 😆

    • @pocketmarcy6990
      @pocketmarcy6990 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@tigertank06 China, apparently

    • @malickfan7461
      @malickfan7461 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BleedingUranium I was not aware of this. Thanks for the extra detail.

    • @HWDragonborn
      @HWDragonborn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@tigertank06 Luoyang, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Hengyang, Guilin

  • @WalterReimer
    @WalterReimer ปีที่แล้ว +299

    Also, on 22-23 April 1944, a Sikorsky R-4 helicopter flown by a USAAF pilot carried out the first combat search and rescue operation in Burma, rescuing a downed British liaison pilot and four soldiers. It's the first time a helicopter's been used in a combat theater.

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I actually did not know functional helicopters even existed yet at this point.

    • @tonydagostino6158
      @tonydagostino6158 ปีที่แล้ว

      WWII historian Mark Felton places the first rescue in January '45 th-cam.com/video/GjYNPPrjAnc/w-d-xo.html

    • @MrWWIIBuff
      @MrWWIIBuff ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You mentioned search and rescue in Burma. Later that year, Lt. Diebold would become a rescue parajumper going in after downed aircrews. You can read his memoir, Hell is so Green, which details quite a few of his exploits as a jumper.

    • @MrWWIIBuff
      @MrWWIIBuff ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Minor correction. The article was from October. The jump happened in August of 44.

  • @Dustz92
    @Dustz92 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    Ghiang's optimism is not entirely misplaced. In 1938, the Japanese attempted an advance along this same direction (their original plan to conquer Wuhan was through this railway, not through the river as it later happened), and the Chinese forces stopped the Japanese (hence they were forced to attack through the Yangtze instead). However he is probably forgetting that a good reason for the Chinese victory back then was the extremely controversial destruction of the Yellow river dams, that indeed helped stop the Japanese but killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians.

    • @porksterbob
      @porksterbob ปีที่แล้ว +82

      He ordered that destruction so he knows.
      The big problem is that the KMT troops in general of 1944 are worse than they were in 1938.
      China wasn't fully blockaded in 1938, they still had Burma, Indochina, the soviets, and Hong Kong to receive supplies.
      All of those had been cut off by 1942.
      Barely any allied aid has made it into China over the Hump, with most of it going to the US 14th air force in China, not the Chinese army. The little bit of aid going to the army is going (by US decree) to Y force on the Burma border, not the troops in central China.
      Making things worse, there has been massive inflation in China. Most Chinese commanders are over reporting their actual troop numbers as a way of pocketing the supplies and money for the excess reported troops.
      Chiang kai shek is aware of some of this, but he not aware of how bad the problem has become.
      This is part of why he has been asking for massive loans of money from the US. He needs to stabilize China's currency. (he won't get those loans)

    • @carbonara2144
      @carbonara2144 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Chinese forces did put up a hell of a fight.

    • @johnyricco1220
      @johnyricco1220 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      The Henan Famine of 42-43 severely weakened that region. A million people died and the central government did little for them. The army relies on the local population for logistical support - transportation, construction, food. Plus many troops were local conscripts. Having your family wiped out first by flood, and then by famine, and you can’t help them because of forced conscription is demoralizing.

    • @jameshudkins2210
      @jameshudkins2210 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@porksterbob Corruption is one of the biggest causes of underdevelopment. It saps the will of an Army and government. The population looses respect because the rules are not the real way things are done. They don't understand and feel left out.

    • @porksterbob
      @porksterbob ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@jameshudkins2210 the basic math was that China was a net food importer and the government got 30 to 50% of its revenues from customs revenue.
      The Japanese blockade worked. The government printed money to keep the war going. Inflation was rampant. Many individuals felt they had to turn to corrupt means to survive.

  • @ollikoskinen1
    @ollikoskinen1 ปีที่แล้ว +317

    So... one could call the phantom fleet... A phantom menace?

  • @gunman47
    @gunman47 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    A side note this week on April 18 1944 is that Lieutenant Colonel Tommy Hitchcock, Jr will die in an air crash while flight testing an aircraft at Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. He was a famous polo player who had a successful sporting career before the war and had been instrumental in the development of the P-51 Mustang fighter plane, particularly in replacing the original Allison engine with the Packard-built Rolls-Royce Merlin.

  • @dmitrishostakovich2176
    @dmitrishostakovich2176 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    As a Chinese-speaking viewer,
    Ichi sounds like the chinese word 一起, which means together. So if you put both elements together, it sounds like go together, which is a pretty good name for something that involves two entire Japanese army groups

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว +48

      I like that a lot.
      Unrelated, but this reminds me of a meme about "The Iliad". Evidently the word is derived from "Ilium" which is the name for Troy, and "-ad" which is the suffix to indicate that it is a story about something. So it somewhat literally translates to "Troy Story", and I just find that fun.
      - T.J.

    • @erics7992
      @erics7992 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think 'ichi' means 'one' in Japanese. But I could be wrong.

    • @dmitrishostakovich2176
      @dmitrishostakovich2176 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Eric S It is, but I was just pointing out it resembled a chinese word lol

    • @erics7992
      @erics7992 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dmitrishostakovich2176 Gotcha thanks. I am naturally jealous of anyone who can speak Chinese.

    • @garcalej
      @garcalej ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@WorldWarTwo
      Achilles: Where’s my helmet?!
      Patroclus: Look…I’m Achilles! Howdy, howdy, howdy!

  • @HyperSonicX
    @HyperSonicX ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Huh...So D-Day happens in the 250th week of the war?
    Hell of a way to mark a milestone.

    • @JohnJohn-pe5kr
      @JohnJohn-pe5kr ปีที่แล้ว +24

      And Tuesday June 6th, 1944 - Tuesday June 6th, 2023

    • @Warmaker01
      @Warmaker01 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If you only look at what's happening on the Western Front for Germany, it's real bad. But the Allies had agreed to work together, unlike the Axis. The Russians planned accordingly and would conduct Operation Bagration to begin a few weeks after Operation Overlord began.

  • @finlayfraser9952
    @finlayfraser9952 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Indie, Mountbatten was a naval officer, never a general, his title was Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command. Not nit picking at all, you do a great job.

  • @sopwithsnoopy8779
    @sopwithsnoopy8779 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    ...And my father enters the War, in the landings at Hollandia. He was in an independent artillery/AA battalion (90mm) attached to Eichlebergers army.
    A couple of stories I remember him telling about Hollandia was that his Colonel in command of the brigade gave himself leave for the invasion time period, leaving his 2nd in command in charge. And then later (spoiler alert) in 1945 for the invadion at Lingayen Gulf the colonel tried to give himself leave again, but the XO put his foot down and complained to the General, who ordered the colonel to be there or be arrested.
    My father also said, at Hollandia, his battalion was supposed to be in the third wave. When they landed, an officer sent my father forward to find a place to set up their 90mm guns. He came across a patrol that told him "buddy, we are front line, first wave!"

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The Japanese were surprised we could put AAA on the beaches so early

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's good to be a colonel...

  • @GeneralSmitty91
    @GeneralSmitty91 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Solid episode! I know China has been increasingly on the mind of the community members of late and Ichi-Go coverage should satisfy their hunger. The various deception operations and D-Day build up continue to add excitement for the foreshadowed operations. Well done!

    • @HontasFarmer80
      @HontasFarmer80 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I wonder how they'll approach Operation Downfall VS the way the war really did end. Rightly Hiroshima and Nagasaki have to be WAH but should they also present the planned operations against the Japanese Home Islands as the bloodbath expected?

    • @Raskolnikov70
      @Raskolnikov70 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@HontasFarmer80 Pretty sure they'll cover it in detail. Right up until the atomic drops the entire War Department was planning and working towards Downfall, it was a massive undertaking.

  • @Bullet-Tooth-Tony-
    @Bullet-Tooth-Tony- ปีที่แล้ว +33

    The Japanese offensive was huge, involving over 500,000 troops, 15,000 vehicles
    6,000 artillery guns, 800 tanks and 100,000 horses.

    • @ericcarlson3746
      @ericcarlson3746 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      i wish we had more focus of how many troops were involved on each side.
      I have no idea how "big" these battles in Burma are, for example.
      or how many allied troops were pinned down at Anzio, etc etc

    • @UrosKovacevic91
      @UrosKovacevic91 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats the size of Grand Army of Napoleon invading Russia!

    • @kereckelizabeth3625
      @kereckelizabeth3625 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@UrosKovacevic91 No. Napeleon deployed more tanks and vehicles. But typically french, he didn't know how to make good use of it . at the battle of Borodino, they were wrongly deployed.

    • @JGD185
      @JGD185 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Chinese could lose 500k soldiers every day for a month and still keep fighting

    • @extrahistory8956
      @extrahistory8956 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@Eric Carlson They did repeatedly mention the number of Japanese troops that went to Burma (roughly 100,000) in three divisions with three large regiments in each. As for the Britishz they had less, bit with the air drop of both the 5th and 2nd Parachute Divisions, it has now roughly the same amount of troops.

  • @pocketmarcy6990
    @pocketmarcy6990 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    And this, this offensive is one of the prime reasons why the Republic of China is currently in exile on Taiwan and not in control of the whole country

    • @derrickthewhite1
      @derrickthewhite1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've heard that. I'm interested to watch it in the detail time ghost is promising us!

  • @wildcolonialman
    @wildcolonialman ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Excellent. Kohima is a battle that fascinates this man to this day. A truly astonishing blood bath of repeated frontal attacks on Allied positions, with a tennis court the scene of the most barbaric hand to hand combat battles. A remarkable victory was secured there.

  • @alansewell7810
    @alansewell7810 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thanks for the information on Ichi-Go, Imphal/Kohima, and the deception operation Wedlock. I had not heard of them. These must have been enormous operations in their own right, but are overshadowed by the larger war enveloping them.

  • @obsidianjane4413
    @obsidianjane4413 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    The stripping of Japanese garrisons in NE China for Ichi-Go, taking pressure off of Mao and his army, might have consequences after the war...

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Well, that's a bridge we'll burn when we get to it...

    • @jliller
      @jliller ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Not only after the war, but suppose the Soviets were to finally enter the war against Japan with the Japanese Army busy in central China. Also, probably makes it harder to move troops from the mainland back to the home islands if the Allies threaten an invasion there.

    • @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623
      @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Ichi-Go savaging the Nationalist armies was the greatest gift Japan could give to Mao for after the war. We might not have a PRC today if it weren't for Ichi-Go. That is why it is among the 3 great offensives of 1944 that determined the post-war world.

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don’t think so
      So many Chinese were tierd of the old government and believed what the communist were saying

    • @mikloridden8276
      @mikloridden8276 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Yupp! It didn’t help that when they surrendered both sides employed the Japanese troops even to the point of forgiving the crimes. So you had troops that ravaged Nanking in the Chinese military. Accounts state of how awkward it was for everyone can’t imagine that.

  • @peterh5165
    @peterh5165 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Another good video! Thanks for making videos available to the general public! Love your animated maps showing how battles unfold: your maps are some of the best I have seen.

  • @George_M_
    @George_M_ ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Honestly the Japanese are better at secret planning than the Germans by far. The allies were always reading the Germans mail, while the Japanese were continually underestimated in intention and intensity. Even to the end, when it turned out the forces held for defense of the home islands were formidable.

    • @jason200912
      @jason200912 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Meanwhile every single Japanese navy transmission was intercepted

    • @HWDragonborn
      @HWDragonborn ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Forces held for the defense of the home islands were formidable"
      Yes, the children with bamboo spears will definitely turned the tide of the war against US

    • @rayyansagheer6
      @rayyansagheer6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@HWDragonborn Even the british began arming civilians back in 1940 when it looked like the germans were about to invade the home islands, desperate times require desperate measures. Besides, the japanese had about 2000 tanks, more than a 1000 planes etc and much more military equipment to deal with or at least make the invasion of the home islands as costly as possible. Stop just infusing your history with assumptions you get from memes and such. The Japanese had been expecting an invasion since the Doolittle Raids and had been preparing as such and this was also one of the reasons why the Atomic Bombings took place. The allies recognized the readiness of the Japanese nation and were not in a position to have 2 or 3 more years added to an already long war.

    • @centurymemes1208
      @centurymemes1208 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HWDragonbornOr use them to wear down the enemy. if im going down ill kill as many as i could mentality is scary

  • @themarine9009
    @themarine9009 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    After weeks of watching these series I finaly caught up to date
    Thank you so much for all the information I learned here

    • @luisvaldes1568
      @luisvaldes1568 ปีที่แล้ว

      i did that last year. Only thing is events are a year in the future. 1944 dates during 2023.

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 ปีที่แล้ว

      In just about 370 days, Hitler shoots the Führer of Germany.

    • @maximumtaco2298
      @maximumtaco2298 ปีที่แล้ว

      This was me a few months ago. Not gonna lie I miss binging these videos when I initially stumbled on the series. Now I've gotta wait every week like everyone else!

  • @Dinosaur_News_Center
    @Dinosaur_News_Center ปีที่แล้ว +12

    BTW, I know you guys addressed the issue with the war in China, but I think it would be useful to at least update once a month and give it a mention even if nothing happened. It could be just 1 sentence mentioning it. That would help and also let people who didn't see the other video know that it's not forgotten.

    •  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "All quiet on the far eastern front"

  • @trajan75
    @trajan75 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hollandia was part of MacArthur's brilliant New Guinea campaign. During that campaign,and in general, Macarthur took more land with fewer casualties than any other Allied Commander. As William Manchester points out in his biography "American Casar" this was a direct result of MacArthur's use of the tactic of envelopment. He conducted 81 amphibious operations, with unparalleled success. This is also documented in James Duffy's "The War at the of the World".

    • @seanlander9321
      @seanlander9321 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      MacArthur’s plan was developed with the Australian command who carried out the most successful amphibious victories of the war.

    • @trajan75
      @trajan75 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agreeThe Australian contribution was very important

    • @Wayne.J
      @Wayne.J ปีที่แล้ว

      Also Ultra, he could hit the Japanese where they weren't. He obviously could read the JN-25 from 1942 and would know that japanese navy was not going to stop him. And he was lucky that Aussies found the Japanese Army Code book buried in a creek bed at Saidor on 19th of January 1944. So he could now read the Army and naval codes via FruMel.
      Biak and Admiralties were a close run thing, but that's the advantage of intelligence

    • @trajan75
      @trajan75 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Wayne.J Inteligence is the great tool, but MacArthur's accomplishment.

  • @alexhussinger3550
    @alexhussinger3550 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Interesting question--Why aren't the Kuril Islands more of a serious Allied Target? If the whole point of the Island-hopping campaign is to get in range of the Japanese Home Islands, you would think that the comparatively shorter distance going over the Northern Pacific would be more attractive than the South or Central. Is it a supply issue?

    • @Dustz92
      @Dustz92 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      I think it's more than the main objective of the island hopping campaign at this stage was to isolate Japan from it's resource rich conquests, not necessarily reach Japan itself.

    • @CrazyYurie
      @CrazyYurie ปีที่แล้ว +31

      It may also be that the supply lines to the Kuril's would be pretty long. Where would supplies be shipped from? Hawaii? Alaska? That's alot of sea to cross and to guard, especially with how close the Kuril's are to Japan itself.

    • @warwatcher91
      @warwatcher91 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Plus the environment and weather in that part of the Pacific could be nicely described as wretched.
      Aircraft and ships can barely operate as is.

    • @michaelkovacic2608
      @michaelkovacic2608 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@warwatcher91 I had no idea, is the Kurile area really that bad?

    • @kemarisite
      @kemarisite ปีที่แล้ว +14

      ​@@michaelkovacic2608 it's just one data point, but both sides at the Kommandorski Islands the previous year requested air support but neither side's aircraft were able to take off because of the wretched weather.

  • @naveenraj2008eee
    @naveenraj2008eee ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hi Indy
    Another great week.
    Lots of information. This war entered new chapter,also your channel achieved new milestone.
    Thanks for another great week.

  • @jasonmussett2129
    @jasonmussett2129 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I' ve been following you guys since Week one. I can't believe we've come this far. It's been one great journey👍

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jason Mussett
      Thanks for keeping up with us for so long! We’re happy to have you on this journey!

    • @jasonmussett2129
      @jasonmussett2129 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@WorldWarTwo you're welcome👍

  • @luisvaldes1568
    @luisvaldes1568 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a nightmare at Kahima. And this is just a basic telling of the siege. "A blanket of fly's" makes my skin crawl.

  • @greg4367
    @greg4367 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Greetings from San Francisco. I look forward to Saturday mornings and you guys never fail to deliver. Thank you.

    • @OLDMANWAFFLES
      @OLDMANWAFFLES ปีที่แล้ว

      Greetings from the Outer Mission District!

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว

      @Greg
      Salutations from New York! Glad you are able to join us!

  • @genericyoutubeaccount579
    @genericyoutubeaccount579 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Montagu Stopford was related to the infamous Frederick Stopford who bungled the invasion of Gallipoli! Frederick Stopford's grandfather and Montagu Stopford's great grandfather was James Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown. That makes them First cousins once removed.

    • @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623
      @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Then Stopford must have been a far better commander then his cousin. He at least lead XXXIII Corps throughout the Burma campaign and got promoted to command the 12th Army after victory in Burma had been achieved. Good for the family name I suppose.

    • @albiagioni100
      @albiagioni100 ปีที่แล้ว

      I always thought Stopford was a good name for someone who stalled the troops advance

  • @louisshann8497
    @louisshann8497 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the detailed accounts of these massive and important battles in Asia and the specific that I just didn't know alot about. Been following this series along with WWI and Between The Wars. Thank you all for these series.

    • @WorldWarTwo
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  • @mmurray821
    @mmurray821 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My Grandfather landed at Hollandia with the 41st Infantry Division for his first action of the war.

  • @alexamerling79
    @alexamerling79 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "Happy Birthday Adolf. No more chrome for you."-Turkey

  • @larryjohnson1675
    @larryjohnson1675 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the series. So glad I got in on it early. You guys are a rock that anchors Saturdays. Love Indy and the crew

  • @shakey2023
    @shakey2023 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    "And then the enemy did this which the general thought was impossible." If I had a nickel for every single time that was Said, I could single handly fund the time ghost army. People really need to stop using that word

    • @rajeshkanungo6627
      @rajeshkanungo6627 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      “Inconceivable!"
      "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

  • @bogusia65
    @bogusia65 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love your weekly videos, Indy...But Operation Ichi-Go begins on April 19 (not on April 17). Keep up the GOOD work! 😄😎👍

  • @aww2historian
    @aww2historian ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this war is supersaturated with events. incredible research!

  • @rwagingsloth9528
    @rwagingsloth9528 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The maps this week were phenomenally animated, they did a really good job showcasing just how MASSIVE China really is and the folly of Japanese military heads to think they could sweep through it

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you! I’ll pass that along to our map team, they’ll appreciate it! ❤️
      -Will

    • @mukhtarsyajaratun1025
      @mukhtarsyajaratun1025 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its almost the size of entire Europe combined

  • @ceberskie119
    @ceberskie119 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    On a map Ichi-Go looks..small especially compared to how big china is. But then you look up pictures of Henan province and it'd hard to imagine how anyone could fight in such numbers on that terrain. Ridiculous mountains and massive river basins. Nightmarish to be sure.

    • @extrahistory8956
      @extrahistory8956 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Indeed. No wonder the maneuver of the 3rd Japanese Mechanized Division several episodes later took the Chinese troops by surprise. Maneuvering your mechanized troops through a mountainous region to catch the enemy by the flank is not easy, especially when Chinese infrastructure was very bad around this era.

  • @SizarieldoR
    @SizarieldoR ปีที่แล้ว +1

    12:54 I must be nitpicky here - were there really Tiger tanks in the Crimea? I mean, the footage suggests so, but I doubt it was the case.

  • @tmack11
    @tmack11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Montagu Stopford is a top 10 name.

  • @alehaim
    @alehaim ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What I am most looking forward to is Stillwell being kicked and being replaced by the much better Wedemeyer, because Stillwell had no right be anywhere outside a drill/training camp

  • @thanos_6.0
    @thanos_6.0 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I really am looking forward to what will be going on China the next couple of months. Since Ichi go, although beeing Japans largest offensive in history, is barely known about.

    • @jliller
      @jliller ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This channel's coverage of the early Africa Campaign, Burma, and Ichi-Go are the kinds of relatively obscure campaigns that are normally overlooked.

  • @Arashmickey
    @Arashmickey ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fun fnact: Ultra intercepts reveal Guderian visited a place called Lulu's during his inspection tour through France. Much to the regret of the allies later this year, that little secret leaked.

  • @Steveross2851
    @Steveross2851 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Japan's huge offensive in China is in a way a sign of weakness since at first glance the forces used for it could help defend Japan's Pacific Ocean empire. But the Imperial Japanese Navy is being smashed by the Americans and would be unable to supply forces of the size being used for Japan's new China offensive. So Japan has apparently decided that rather than "waste" those forces defending the home islands or eastern China (an unmistakable indication to people back home that Japan is losing the war badly) they might as well be used in China. There Japan hopes to supply them and unhinge the Allies in China.

  • @juankovacs6033
    @juankovacs6033 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Germany has enough chromium is storage to keep up production for the next 18 months"
    *Me, who knows they won't last 18 months
    - We will see about that...

  • @merdiolu
    @merdiolu ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It is interesting that British - Indian Army , or rather Forgotten 14th Army in Burma India frontier finally mastered their trade and crushing Japanese. Renya Mutugachi is a real piece of work. Just to save face he would let entire 15th Japanese Army to starve even if it was not surrounded or encircled , it was just overstretched and over extended by U-Go offensive.

    • @Raskolnikov70
      @Raskolnikov70 ปีที่แล้ว

      To be fair, most of the Japanese forces in the area were starving before they were committed to the assault.....

    • @Wayne.J
      @Wayne.J ปีที่แล้ว

      The Japanese were relying on picking up Allied supplies when they withdrew from an area.
      Plus if u launch an offensive, u have less mouths to feed after it!

    • @LibeliumDragonfly
      @LibeliumDragonfly ปีที่แล้ว

      The dude's a superfan of Genghis Khan, can your really blame him?

  • @teryshaw7370
    @teryshaw7370 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It seems like such a short time ago that we were hearing how the US fleet had such shortages of warships in the South Pacific. It would be interesting to learn how they became such an overwhelming force.

  • @jasonmussett2129
    @jasonmussett2129 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely brilliant narration 😀

  • @TheSonOfDumb
    @TheSonOfDumb ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Haven't been watching for a while. Christ, we're at 1944 now? Time's going by fast.

    • @thanos_6.0
      @thanos_6.0 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I also can't believe it. Time flies so quickly.

    • @randomviewer6216
      @randomviewer6216 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I’ve been following it for 3years and even i can’t believe it’s 1944 now…indeed times fly

    • @rrice1705
      @rrice1705 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed. Don't blink or the Allies will be in Paris.

    • @Raskolnikov70
      @Raskolnikov70 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive Yeah, can't have anyone saying any naughty words while we're watching a video about war and starvation and people being blasted to smithereens.....

    • @OLDMANWAFFLES
      @OLDMANWAFFLES ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive Prove to me that god exists without using the Bible. Also, if I get shot on the battlefield is Jesus gonna come and give me morphine?

  • @jack_L858
    @jack_L858 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Production quality gets better ever week! Cant wait for Overlord!

  • @avanticurecanti9998
    @avanticurecanti9998 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You better mention Ernest Hemingway's battlefield activities in northern France when the time comes. He helped map out the safest route to Paris and likely saved many lives.

  • @JV-the-Tossh
    @JV-the-Tossh ปีที่แล้ว +30

    How kind of Turkey to give Hitler a birthday gift of trying to help him quit his Chrome addiction.

    • @WalterReimer
      @WalterReimer ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Chrome addiction? He should've went with a Mac . . .

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There is and was a significant amount of chrome in Albania - accessible as long as it remains under Axis control...

    • @KKKKKKK777js
      @KKKKKKK777js ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not sure running out of Chrome will be the main thing on Hitlers mind in 18 months.

    • @loveroffunnyy
      @loveroffunnyy ปีที่แล้ว +3

      should have used Bing instead.

    • @brucetucker4847
      @brucetucker4847 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      On the bright side, an 18-month supply of chrome was more than the Third Reich would end up needing.

  • @jackkerfoot8693
    @jackkerfoot8693 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A master piece of work documenting WWII. Well don3e.

  • @jozef_chocholacek
    @jozef_chocholacek ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Again a pronunciation nitpicking, but 一号作戦 (Operation number one) reads ichi-go, not ishi-go. Ichi means one, ishi means 石 stone (or 医師 doctor, or some ten other meanings, depending on context and used kanji)

    • @Southsideindy
      @Southsideindy ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Noted. Thanks.
      Though I've already filmed the next few weeks.

    • @petergray7576
      @petergray7576 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Operation Strawberry (Ichigo)!

    • @jozef_chocholacek
      @jozef_chocholacek ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@petergray7576 🤣🤣🤣🍓

    • @LightFykki
      @LightFykki ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@petergray7576 Kurosaki

  • @petorian343
    @petorian343 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is TH-cam really deliberately trying to suppress this channel? I watch it regularly but I almost never see these videos in my recommended section, and I DO see videos recommended that are related to things I watched one-off months and months ago

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We are always disappointed to hear about this happening :/
      Unfortunately whether or not our videos are considered ad-friendly, get recommended, or get age restricted is constantly in flux depending on the whim of (usually) an automatic TH-cam review. This is why we’re so grateful to the TimeGhost Army, since without them, this project would simply not be viable.

  • @matthewmcmacken6716
    @matthewmcmacken6716 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I understood that in the beginning, 'ULTRA' was aided with so many German Commands wishing their Furher a Happy Birthday by operators who didn't bother to properly rotate the dials/cogs on their coding machines. The irony of it all.

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 ปีที่แล้ว

      Predictable or stereotypical aspects often give codebreakers an "in" into deciphering a message.

  • @NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek
    @NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant Report!!!

  • @GerLeahy
    @GerLeahy ปีที่แล้ว

    10:56 Detective McNulty always has your back

  • @autarchprinceps
    @autarchprinceps ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why did the allies only fake an attack from the north? Seems to me, that if you want to island hop to get to the heart of Japan, going the north route would have taken a lot less battles to get there.

    • @Raskolnikov70
      @Raskolnikov70 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Logistics and weather. They would have had to build up huge staging bases in the Aleutians under pretty horrible conditions, even without the threat of Japanese attacks. Those bases were already being built in the south and central Pacific as part of the advances there.

    • @erics7992
      @erics7992 ปีที่แล้ว

      Think of how the world would have been different if it had been the Americans who had occupied the Kurils and not other people.

    • @Raskolnikov70
      @Raskolnikov70 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@erics7992 How do you think things would have been different? I'm genuinely curious what you think because I can't come up with any scenario where it changes anything on a larger historical scale. Assuming the US held onto them at the end of WWII, they almost certainly would have given them back to Japan as part of the peace treaty, probably holding on to a few for military bases similar to their arrangement in Okinawa. Such bases would be seen as a threat to the USSR but they also saw US bases in South Korea and Japan the same way. And as far as any Soviet threat to either of those nations, Vladivistok is a much better jumping-off point for any military action against them than the Kurils.
      Again, it's a genuine question, do you think it would have altered the course of the Cold War and if so, how?

    • @erics7992
      @erics7992 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Raskolnikov70 What you point out is good and maybe I should have thought it through more. I suppose I was thinking that it would have hemmed in Vladivostok completely and dramatically reduced Soviet access to the Pacific. I suppose that what I was really thinking is that it might have shortened the war in the Pacific and if Japan had been defeated before Germany then the Soviets would not have had the opportunity to intervene in Manchuria which may well have changed the history of China or at the very least the Korean peninsula. But then again maybe not. I have to think the logistics of a Kuril islands campaign would have been a nightmare. Basing it out of the Aleutians would make more sense than Hawaii anyways.

    • @Raskolnikov70
      @Raskolnikov70 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@erics7992 I see what you're getting at. The Kurils would be a great place to monitor Soviet sub traffic and be a thorn in their side during the Cold War. If things ever went hot though, I doubt any US bases there would survive more than a few days at best even if things stayed conventional - they're just too close to the USSR and too far from US support in any direction.
      They also would have made a good launching point for an invasion of norhthern Japan if that's what the Allies wanted to do prior to the USSR declaring war against Japan. They're definitely closer than Okinawa or Iwo Jima (I'm looking at a map while writing this and kind of guesstimating distances with my thumb) but the only good place to attack the Kurils from would be the Aleutians, and that's where the weather and distance issues kick in. I'm sure the Allies considered it and did the math and figured that the island hopping campaign in the south would take less time to advance that close than trying to build up forces in the north. The other issue is if things go horribly wrong in the Kurils it's a very long way back to Attu or Midway or Hawaii, while a failure in the south during Downfall would just push them back to Okinawa (or Formosa, if they used that as their launching point) and leave them in a good position to try again. Of course the events of August 1945 rendered that all moot, but it's interesting to consider.
      Would a northern attack have shortened the war in the Pacific? Someone smarter than me will have to do the math on that one. I always defer to the fact that the Allies chose to do it in the south at the time, but MacArthur's influence was a big part of that decision. If he hadn't been involved, would they have chosen to skip the Phillipines and gone north instead? Hmm....

  • @RKGrizz
    @RKGrizz ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Did the Japanese ever outright win an engagement on the Pacific islands? It feels like they lose every contested island without success. Sure they cause heavy casualties but they can never seem to retake or hold against the Allies.

    • @extrahistory8956
      @extrahistory8956 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Their only victories were in 1942. After that, every military engagement in the islands was a Japanese defeat. Their Navy was further damaged by Midway and the Guadacanal campaign, but would lose all their power at the Philippines Sea and Leyte Gulf.

    • @TacticusPrime
      @TacticusPrime ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They did back in 1942. But now they are on the back foot. Keep in mind that they continued to occupy many Pacific Islands right to the end of the war. The campaign in New Guinea that has now taken off will continue right until the emperor declares their surrender.

    • @ahorsewithnoname773
      @ahorsewithnoname773 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Victory in the Pacific islands was ultimately determined by events at sea. The side that had naval superiority tended to win. Japan had the naval advantage through the first half of 1942 and won all the Pacific battles. The Allies suffered devastating losses during that period, the largest defeats in fact in British and American history (the fall of Singapore & the Philippines respectively).
      After Midway the advantage shifted to the Allies so now they're the ones advancing and capturing territory. That said the Gaudalcanal campaign was very closely run and might have gone the other way. That was very hotly contested, for a time the IJN did cut off the US Marines from resupply, and there were seven major naval battles in addition to all the fighting on the ground.
      Spoiler alert...Japan isn't done with it's offensives and in June of 1944, with US forces landed in Saipan, the IJN wil sally out to engage the US Fleet in what Japan hopes will be a decisive turning point. It results in the largest carrier battle in history. It does not however go well for Japan.

    • @Raskolnikov70
      @Raskolnikov70 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TacticusPrime Yep, and most of those islands were self-administering POW camps by the end of the war since they had no contact or resupply from the home islands. All they could do was farm taro and watch the US Navy sail past towards Japan.

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 ปีที่แล้ว

      After Guadalcanal they lacked the resources to reinforce

  • @1415J
    @1415J ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:51 Why are there six crosses on 1st army? Isn't an army supposed to have only four?

    • @extrahistory8956
      @extrahistory8956 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is an Army Area, which is composed of 5 Army Groups, which is composed of 3 Armies each. But because the Chinese are so understaffed and under equipped, their Army Areas were roughly the size of a Japanese Army, and their Armies were the equivalent of a Japanese Corp.

  • @friendhui4320
    @friendhui4320 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you Indy❤ Teach us.

  • @ianblake815
    @ianblake815 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome presentation as always ✌️

  • @danielnavarro537
    @danielnavarro537 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In the months previously, the war in China has been quiet and inactive until now. The situation facing the Japanese Empire is critical. With the Allies advancing on all sides, the Japanese is slowly being squeezed. They have fought tooth and nail for ever single piece of land. And even though the Japanese is weakened, they still have their ability to fight. The Allies began to think what they can do to their enemy, not what the enemy can do to them. They will be proven wrong. The Allies now will have to be ready to fight a brutal battle against a tough enemy. Godspeed to those who perished during the Asiatic-Pacific theatre of the Second World War.

  • @NaturalLanguageLearning
    @NaturalLanguageLearning ปีที่แล้ว +1

    15:05 Fegelein?

  • @horacio0206
    @horacio0206 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent episode, although threre is not a single new about the front of the Mediterranean Sea and Italy during the last 3 episodes

    • @jliller
      @jliller ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Because the front has been static.

    • @caryblack5985
      @caryblack5985 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Theopped to regroup and plan further offensives.

  • @danielgreen3715
    @danielgreen3715 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a young Lad in my village One of my Neighbour's had Fought at Kohima And somehow survived the terrible siege there Despite the Privations and conditions that both sides went through He suffered until his Death with various Tropical Diseases And although He survived the War His Quality of life suffered afterwards due to the conditions that He and his Colleagues went through in the Jungles of Southeast Asia In many instances a Bullet or Shrapnel Burst was the least of your worries when one compares it to all the Bugs and suchlike that you find in the Jungles over there.

  • @CrimsonTemplar2
    @CrimsonTemplar2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent episode Indy & team.

  •  ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice Episode. And I am finally all caught up after a few weeks of slipping behind :)

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you!
      We’re happy you’re up to speed!

  • @traversyn
    @traversyn ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank You

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for watching, Traversy.

  • @annehersey9895
    @annehersey9895 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Re: The landings on New Guinea: 'There are however, problems with the local terrain.' Doesn't this about sum up the entire problem with the whole Pacific Campaign? I don't know yet of one Island where the local terrain wasn't as much an enemy as the Japanese themselves! From the coral reef around Tarawa to the thick, impassable volcanic 'soil' on Iwo Jima, the elements were as much a problem as the Japanese..

  • @KriegsmarineGrossadmiral
    @KriegsmarineGrossadmiral ปีที่แล้ว

    13:50 Who is this "Black sea fleet admiral"?

  • @nathanmiles8314
    @nathanmiles8314 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have been to Aitape in PNG and everyone there calls it AYE-tah-pay (not aye-TAH-pay). I have never been to Bouganville, but everyone I know that has been there pronounces it BOW-gan-ville.

  • @joel445720
    @joel445720 ปีที่แล้ว

    I read somewhere that 18,000 men died in TRAINING for the Army Air Corps during WWII. Is this number correct? If training deaths are excluded which branch of the US Armed Forces suffered the greatest percentage of casualties? Also, my father was stationed in the Aleutians during WW II right after the Japanese abandoned their islands. What was the casualty rate for Navy and Army planes flying in the Aleutians? I understand most casualties were from planes being lost to bad weather and "unknown causes" rather than combat. Love your series.

  • @desslokbasileus571
    @desslokbasileus571 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    11:40 Renya Mutaguchi... this Japanese commander... while the Japanese soldiers on the front lines were suffering from starvation , he himself was in a cool place with a woman (geisha) , drinking the whiskey he stole from the British. 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

  • @jasonz7788
    @jasonz7788 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool thanks

  • @ricardoaguirre6126
    @ricardoaguirre6126 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never knew about the 9th fleet deception.

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The more you know! 🌈

  • @jliller
    @jliller ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm reminded of that classic tune by the West Hunan Army Musicians...
    Your artillery puts the boom-boom into my heart (ooh-ooh)
    Your explosions send my soul sky-high
    When your aerial bombin' starts
    Jitterbug into my brain (yeah-yeah)
    Goes a bang-bang-bang
    'Til my bunkers do the same
    But something's bugging me
    Something ain't right
    My intelligence officer told me
    What you did last night
    You left me sleeping in my barracks
    I was dreaming
    But I should've been with you instead
    Wake me up before you Ichi-go-go
    Don't leave me hanging on like Sebastopol
    Wake me up before you Ichi-go-go
    I don't wanna miss it when you hit that high
    Wake me up before you Ichi-go-go
    'Cause I'm not planning on going back to Tokyo
    Wake me up before you Ichi-go-go, ah
    Take me invading tonight
    I wanna hit that high, yeah, yeah

  • @Wayne.J
    @Wayne.J ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hollandia landings
    No British cruisers, HMS Shropshire was gifted to Australia in April 1943 to replace HMAS Canberra. Shropshire was manned by an Australian crew.
    Other cruisers were Australia and Hobart, both Australian
    Speaking of a paper 9th Fleet, the Japanese 9th Fleet created 15Nov1943 was a basically paper fleet from it start and was totally destroyed at Hollandia in the US invasion.
    And Mountbatten was a Admiral not a General.

    • @lightfootpathfinder8218
      @lightfootpathfinder8218 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for clearing that up 👍 I thought I'd never heard of Royal navy cruisers in the later new guinea campaign

  • @jeffersonwright6249
    @jeffersonwright6249 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The best ground eye view of the Imphal campaign: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartered_Safe_Out_Here

  • @pnutz_2
    @pnutz_2 ปีที่แล้ว

    16:08 A communications disruption can mean only one thing - invasion

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Allies would not dare go that far...

  • @johnwright291
    @johnwright291 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hmm wedlock ? Thats where I was born. Somewhere outside wedlock. Benny Hill gets the credit for that gag.

  • @alancrews2066
    @alancrews2066 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great stuff. Thnx.

  • @SoloChinchilla
    @SoloChinchilla ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome episode!

  • @djquinn11
    @djquinn11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hope that’s a secure line that Indy is using.

  • @MBP1918
    @MBP1918 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh no

  • @keithlewis1881
    @keithlewis1881 ปีที่แล้ว

    I thought Louis Mountbatten was a Rear Admiral?

  • @sealove79able
    @sealove79able ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A great very interesting video.

  • @LightFykki
    @LightFykki ปีที่แล้ว +11

    To think that one year from now Hitler will be woken on his birthday from the Soviet's medium-range artillery, and yet there is still so much left to happen in the war until that time comes. Truly like Indy said, a new chapter has begun

    • @pocketmarcy6990
      @pocketmarcy6990 ปีที่แล้ว

      For a second I thought you were talking about to other thing to happen to Hitler in April 1945

  • @istvanszoke381
    @istvanszoke381 ปีที่แล้ว

    My old english manager Andy used to have them fake conservations with his imaginery opponents regularly humiliating and threatening them. It was kinda funny as he pointed in the air many times, raised his voice, called it Young Sir or Anthony and his face even turned red most of the time!

  • @topjets5616
    @topjets5616 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great Video :)

  • @MatthewClarke-ni
    @MatthewClarke-ni ปีที่แล้ว

    Whatever happened to the timeline of the troubles after the Suez and Cuban ones?

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't you know there's a war on?!
      Really though, it's all hands on deck for WW2 right now, but once this bloody war comes to a close there will be other projects in the works.
      Don't worry, we haven't forgotten about the rest of history...
      - T.J.

  • @rags417
    @rags417 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just a query. It is my understanding that the NATO standard icon for a Corps is three crosses (XXX), for an Army four and for an Army group of Front (eg First Ukrainian Front) is five. What do six crosses mean ?

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  ปีที่แล้ว

      Those are super rare to see on maps, mostly because wartime maps don't tend to zoom out that far and still be useful, but "XXXXXX" would indicate an entire theatre, or a "combatant command region" in NATO terms.
      - T.J.

    • @rags417
      @rags417 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@WorldWarTwo I asked because the Chinese Armies were all shown with six crosses when they should probably have four or five.

  • @jojo3NNN
    @jojo3NNN ปีที่แล้ว

    I recognize the thumbnail art! I've seen it on Bolt Action japanese boxes. Now that would be a cool sponsorship/crossover.

  • @davidhimmelsbach557
    @davidhimmelsbach557 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Indy -- you skipped Guderian's birthday gift: the 116th Panzer Division.
    Quite the booby prize, it's larded with anti-Hitlerist officers, expressly to give Rommel a counter-SS force should a coup occur after the Allies land.
    During the campaign -- it's the LAST panzer division committed to battle. At all times, Rommel/ Kluge kept it in reserve. Cute.
    It's only committed after The Breakout. Then it's -- essentially -- destroyed.

    • @Southsideindy
      @Southsideindy ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have to save something for the D Day series!

  • @pshehan1
    @pshehan1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hate to nitpick but it was not General Mountbatten. It was Admiral Mountbatten.
    Original name Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, prince of Battenberg, The German name was changed to Mountbatten during the WWI when the British Royal family name was changed to Windsor.
    In command of the destroyer Kelly and the 5th destroyer flotilla at the outbreak of World War II, he was appointed commander of an aircraft carrier in 1941.
    In April 1942 he was named chief of combined operations and became acting vice admiral and a de facto member of the chiefs of staff. From this position he was appointed supreme allied commander for Southeast Asia (1943-46), prompting complaints of nepotism against his cousin the king.
    He was the uncle of naval Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, later consort of Elizabeth II
    After the war he was made 1st Earl Mountbatten. He was the last Viceroy of India.

    • @Southsideindy
      @Southsideindy ปีที่แล้ว +6

      See, I hate to nitpick too, but this is how quotations work, and I guess you missed that at school. When I quote someone, I read their words, right? I don't change them into other words; if I did then it would not be a quotation. He is called 'General' in a quotation.
      But man, I have talked about him so very many times this series that I'm pretty sure everyone out there knows by now exactly what posts, offices, and ranks he holds and has held for the duration of the war.
      So I just raised your nitpick by one.

    • @Raskolnikov70
      @Raskolnikov70 ปีที่แล้ว

      You missed the part where the IRA took him out with a walkie talkie and a few pounds of boom-boom.

    • @pshehan1
      @pshehan1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Southsideindy Apologies. I missed that it was a quotation. But in terms of alerting the viewers, the correction stands.

    • @pshehan1
      @pshehan1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Raskolnikov70 There is more to his biography that I could have included such as the fact that he eventually became First Sea Lord, the professional head of the Royal Navy.
      Not saying I entirely agree but one critic said Mountbatten made a mess of every job he held. He was responsible for the Dieppe raid, and oversaw the chaotic and bloody partition of India.
      Bill Slim was responsible for the victories in Burma and India. One assessment by a panel of military historian i saw said he was Britain's greatest ever General, beating out Wellington and Marlborough. But Slim was leading a "forgotten army" in a largely forgotten campaign. Slim became Governor General of Australia, representing the Monarch as de facto head of state.
      There was a series made in the 70's, The Life and Times of Lord louis Mountbatten, It is available on TH-cam, where he gives his own take on his experiences. He defends the Dieppe raid as something which had to be tried, and as a result the D-Day invasion did not attempt to capture a port. The allies brought their own Mulberry harbours.
      Post script.
      Links to Mountbatten series and the award of Britain's greatest General.
      th-cam.com/video/Ff6sH24DlQ8/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/XLpRQ3nTmrw/w-d-xo.html

    • @pshehan1
      @pshehan1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Southsideindy Post Script. I am a great fan of your work. By way of an appeasement gesture I am increasing my rank in the Time ghost Army to Army Specialist.
      I am a now retired research scientist, thus somewhat constrained from purchasing a commission (a former practice in the British army). I did recently receive an inheritance so am pleased to be able to increase my subscription.
      I have a long standing interest in history including military history as you may note from my other comments here.
      I became involved with the 2/14 Battalion Association through my alma mater, undertaking the oral history project.
      Keep up the great work.

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 ปีที่แล้ว

    Glad to hear about some offensive action in China. I can't wait to see where this goes.

  • @johnsamsungs7570
    @johnsamsungs7570 ปีที่แล้ว

    Itapi (Itapee) New Guinea.

  • @CARL_093
    @CARL_093 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thanks indy i m waiting for the china series

  • @andrewsoboeiro6979
    @andrewsoboeiro6979 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want Indy to know that I appreciate the "Nelsonian blind eye" deep cut

  • @pnutz_2
    @pnutz_2 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:50 Operation Wedlock is also known in hoi4 circles as "I'm crap and japan's too much of a pita to invade with 120 divisions on it"