Jagdpanther vs. Churchill - Normandy 1944
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- Find out how three enormous Jagdpanthers surprised a battalion of Scots Guards Churchills during Operation Bluecoat, Normandy 1944, with terrifying results.
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Considering the speed of the Churchill, it's amazing it out ran any infantry at all.
Seen Jagdpanther and clicked so fast.
Maybe if you're good, you'll get a new mouse for Christmas.
New maus?
The fact that you pump out videos with absolute quality everyday just amazes me. Keep up the work.
It's an indication of his incredible dedication, research, and intellect...
[Thugz] Thedopefries , the quality is amazing, why these aren't on TV I just don't know
top 5 chanel youtub.
@@TheSpritz0 he's a fulltime historien.. he's in several dukumetery on Netflix too
...and he doesnt even monetize his videos! or youtube did that for him :(
Ah the Jagdpanther, a personal fav of mine. Gonna be a great vid as always
Funnily enough I thought the exact same thing without even pressing play .😁
Me too, it has a good gun, and ideal for ambush
I love it as well. Perfect balance of everything for ambushes. They should've never charged through!
Maximilian L ...4...👍🏼
It looks so freakin' cool, I love the design
Virgin Churchill against Chadpanther.
Nice!
10 virgins got penetrated with that pak43 that day XD
Mark, as always, well researched and well put together video. As a WWII history buff, I really enjoy the bits of history you post. Greetings from Mexico Amigo.
You are leaving us "hanging" for the next story.
Well done Dr. Felton!
Jagdpanther vs. Churchill = Probably not a good time for the Churchill.
It's more complicated question. It's the same situations as at eastern fronts. Germans had too few and too varioius panzers compared to the allies. The numbers of shermans, churcills and T-34's overpowerd the nazi panzer, which didn't have good logistics behind them. Nazis were too fond of engineering and trying many versions compared to the massproduced allied tanks. It was bad leadership from the german side.
Yikes!
ahhhh
the Jagdpanther
another one of my favorites
thanks Mark .....
I built a model of a jagdpanther some years back. Every time I see or hear of them in action it makes me glad I have the model. I minored in history in college and sometime wish I had Majored in it. Your videos are not only informative, but very interesting as well. Thanks for another great video
>well equipped
Literally had no fuel
>Brand new state of the art machines
Too big and over complicated to do quick repairs on the battlefield
Dear Mark after watching a lot of your videos, I took my family to farnborough fast museum , which you mentioned in your videos as a place where British used to asses airplanes, simply great museum highly recommended, lots of passionate people, would love to spend there all day, but with two year old son it’s quite difficult, although he loved running around and switching on rotor blades on display, keep up with your productions , they are very interesting and you just can’t stop after one video, kind regards
just imagine the horror of seeing one of these Jagdpanthers while siting in a churchill or sherman and knowing that if it sets its sights on you, you will most likely die, just like that and there is nothing you can do about it, truly terrifying in my opinion.
As an old US Army tanker, I really like your Tank on Tank stories, Thanks Mark :)
Perfect timing just finished and my favourite German tank video.
And in normandie a place I recommend anyone to visit if your into
Learning about the second world war. Excellent again and again 😁👍
These stories are absolutely EPIC.
Never seen so many Churchills in a video, I own a Diamond T 980 prime mover which coupled to the Dyson trailer were made specifically to transport the Churchill tank as nothing else at the time was weight rated at 40 tons.
Thanks as ever for sharing.
Wait so they were 10 klicks ahead of their infantry support, were discovered dismounted, received incoming artillery fire for ten minutes, followed by a two minute armored thrust that culminated in the destruction of ~80% of the unit...and they advanced to capture two of the three Jagdpanzers? Incredible.
The Churchill at 3:30 is a Churchill mk7 with 152mm of armor on the front of the hull and 95mm on the side of the hull and turret
Many people appreciate your videos with their pretty high production values and clear narration. Please can you do more longer ones, I like to settle down for about 90 minutes to these documentaries. many are too short with dramatic music and American voices. Cheers to you
As always, german tanks don't die because of the enemy, they die for themselfs
Yes enemies can't do anything against them
They die to inexperienced and demoralized crew who were readily abandoning their vehicles at the first sign of mechanical problem.
Some good examples of poor military education and fantasising about WW2 German tanks. Probably down to playing too many computer games.
no shit
@@jinglejangle3287 they don't need to, it's far easier just to kill the enormous and delicate support structure that those excessively complex machines required.
Top notch video as always! Keep up your amazing work!
the jagdpanther was the equivalent of the german uniforms. sleek and sexy
Yes almost as sexy as uncle Adolph only the jagdpanther had a real canon....
"....while I'll be taking...THE JAAAAAG.." Jeremy Clarkson.
Great work Mark keep them coming your videos are amazing buddy.
Hey Mark. Thanks for the quality content. Your German is really good btw. Almost no accent.
Always great videos. Might want to double check the Normandy beaches and their invasion divisions on the map at the beginning. Great channel - Keep it up!
My old boss served as a tank driver during the dessert campaigns in WW11 . He had no sense of smell he had lost it ; due he was told , of the effect of being confined next to the engine diesel fumes along with the ambient conditions. He could however now taste smells. He told me of an incidence of a tarp being slung from his tank to give shade to enable a doctor to operate on a soldier with a gut wound while he held up the plasma bottle. He was amazed he said,that when the innards were put back inside they were just as he said put in anyhow ,the doc saying they will soon find their proper place.
Mark, you do an excellent job =) Thank you!
I'd love to see you do a top 5 tanks at the tank museum. Great vid as always
Great video featuring one of my favorite tanks, the chur... Hah, sorry. Pulling your leg there, it's the Jagdpanther.
Simply excellent work!
I love your content.. DAMN THOSE RAW FOOTAGE
You organize ALL YOUR VIDEOS in ONE PLAYLIST ...and you HAVE THE MOST COMPELLING, ENTERTAINING and VERY ACCURATE HISTORICAL WAR MOVIE - very probably - the Best War-genre movie of all times!!! XD :D
PS.
Thank You for your (excellent) work! :)
Another interesting video. Good example of what happens to any armor trying to advance without air cover. The slow speed of the Churchill made escape once they discovered the German ambush.
What do you mean? The Churchills unsupported advance allowed them to reach their days objective, which they successfully held until the infantry arrived and consolidated. The German ambush was ultimately a failure, it didn't take back the hill or seal off the breach. By any standard a 10 kilometer advance which took a key geographical position would be a huge success, and while the German tanks mauled one squadron of tanks, the regiment had three other squadrons and was back in action the next day pushing forward. The Ambush was a setback in an otherwise wildly successful attack.
Churchill said of the Churchill tank: "It has more [flaws] than I do." The turret would be jammed if the tread skirt lifted just a bit.
Great content m8, loved it 👍
Excellent Episode Indeed. The Germans could have done with a couple of Bergepanthers to recover their formidable Jagdpanthers that suffered track damage in this famous Normandy engagement!
GREAT AS ALWAYS !!! I hope I can increase my Patreon to you after first of the year , had to give something to show I really like what you do !
Jagdpanther is the most beautiful tank ever.
Hi Mark, Your first graphic (at 29 second mark), shows the US 1st Infantry Division landing on Utah Beach and the US 4th Infantry Division landing on Omaha Beach. I think you've got these two backwards, i.e. the 4th Inf Div actually landed on Utah Beach, while the 1st Inf Div landed on Omaha Beach!
Again fantastic interesting video thanks Mark
eventhough german tanks are considered over-engineered.. they are still effective tank killing vehicles!!!
"How Churchill himself took out a German Jagdpanther"
Doctor Felton, this is why I admire this channel so much. You give the complete picture. The good, the bad, and the ugly, and this was ugly. Yet, very few accounts of this brief skirmish exists anywhere! Most accounts of the 6 June, 1944 operations make it appear that the Allies simply marched in, drove through Europe and forced Hitler to kill himself. No swear. Yet, your channel pounds the viewers back to reality in that you present the truth in all of its details, or as much as you can dig up!
This channel is really something. I have shared many videos on other social media and history channels and people are very inquisitive as to you and your channel. With only 381,000 subscribers as of today, this seems like you should have two to three million. What can we do to make this happen?
Also, thank you for the quality that you are bringing out in your accounts! Nothing kills me more than a great story and very poor or non-existent graphics or images. You clearly have a mind and heart for this!!! Thank you for this!!!!!!!!
Danke für das hochladen sehr interessant
Sorry it was flat battery on my headset, good video thank you.
As always, great and thorough content! Thanks for the post!
Well done video. Two thumbs up.
Solid work there m8.
Great story! Thank you!
Great video!
*German tanks are like your girlfriend:*
Beautiful to look
Effective in *"combat (😈)"*
Awesome
But:
The need to much resources to keep it going 😂😂
Good video. Thanks!
Thanks for using international metrics . I have seen many vids presenting data only in Imperial System of metrics or US system , therefore a 10 min. clip took me at least 20 min. to watch it , pausing the player every few seconds and converting all data .
Fantastic stuff
Thanks for the story!
Nothings said about how minced up those poor guys in the hit Churchills would've been.
Yeah, it can't have ended well for them.
Crew of 5 with a cumbersome escape hatches . I fear that most would lose full team each time ?
Has anyone else noticed The tank driving alongside the narrow gauge rail beside the wall has the surrounding floatation bag still attached after the initial landing if you wan to look it is at the 53 seccond point on the time bar
Exactly what one expects with tier V tanks in tier VII matchmaking.
@Mark Felton - what happened to the captured example of the Jagdpanther? Great work as usual!
amazing video!
Top quality videos as always, I wish I had enough money to donate to you. ✌️
Well done!
Excellent video.
Wow? I'm early! Another great video...
Nice documentary, thank you.
Grüße aus Deutschland. o7
Just pumping em out Mark
First The Scots Greys Charge and now this? Tut tut Scotty.
thanks
It would be a real pucker moment to see a pack of Jagdpanthers rolling over the crest of a hill at you. 😬
I get a feeling that you love your tanks
German tanks posing just as much a threat to themselves as their enemy.
Beautiful tank.
I would really love if you did a video on Oskin's T34-85 ambush on Tiger 2's of the 501st Heavy Tank Battalion near Ogledow in Poland.
Interesting to see Sherman DDs. Cheers!
Have you ever done a video on translators during the war?
This shows that the tracks are the Achilles's heal of tanks. No matter how much armor you have, the tracks are unprotected. Shot tracks ends the mobility, and thus the life, of any tank.
Excellent video as usual. Of course the Churchill was an infantry tank so didn't need to be fast. I believe it had the best survivability for crew of any tank type of WWII but I don't have the direct source for that. Seeing the Jagdpanther up close at the Imperial War museum was an impressive sight.
I seem to remember seeing the same Jagdpanther there too when i was a kid, sure it had a shell hole in its side? did you see that?
"Find out how three enormous Jagdpanthers surprised a battalion of Scots Guards Churchills"
Well, sort of.
In a planned counter attack, a platoon of German tanks, apparently unsupported, managed to outflank and surprise an unsupported company of British infantry tanks at rest and badly deployed. They charged through the British position, knocking out several but failed to achieve their objective (driving the Brits off their newly won ground) despite having gained total tactical surprise. And having retreated it turns out that they managed to lose two thirds of their attacking force in the process of this failure; one captured intact by the enemy.
Not exactly an example of overwhelming Wehrmacht success and brilliance then. This isn't total wehraboo but getting close.
Jagdpanther on my Christmas list how about it mark at least one more vid on them
Beauty vs Ugly. Jagdpanther vs Churchill...
And thus was born . . . Jagermeister. To deal with the shock of tangling with the Jagdpanthers.
Mark snuck in a selfie!
Hi Mark great video!
Any chance of a story on the Foo Fighters of WW2 please?
Many thanks.
Amazing story
89mm up front detail in 1944? Pfff... It is like a paper. Not a problem even for KwK40 for close distance(
If only the Centurion had been ready by D-Day!
The History Channel desperately needs you Mr. Felton! Please contact them .
Best video ever
This story seems to be typical of a lot of tank engagements in WWII - heavy German armour inflicts high damage but then they abandon their vehicles for relatively minor reasons because they lack support. Truly, logistics wins out in warfare - but few want to read a book on that over a book on heavy Panzers!
No wonder the Germans ran out of resources, they were clearly spamming gold ammo.
The advances in tank technology from 1939 thru 1945 are absolutely mind blowing.
It's funny but the Churchill tank is visually a lot like Churchill himself.
"Alright lads, staff meeting. Round up the tanks. First order of business, we need to address why I hear boss music."
I feel it should be pointed out that the 8,8cm gun on the Jagdpanther and King Tiger was not the same as the famous 88mm, the one that is usually seen in the tall multi-purpose mount with a large rectangular shield, or on the Tiger I. The latter was the 8,8cm Flak 18, 36 and 37, with the Tiger mounted one being the KwK (literally tank cannon) 36, all these guns maintaining a 56 caliber barrel. The gun on the Jagdtpanther and King Tiger on the other hand was never a multi-purpose gun, but was only built as an anti-tank gun (the Pak 43) or a tank gun (the KwK 43), and had a significantly longer 71 caliber barrel. The KwK/Pak 43 also fired a much more powerful shell, measuring 88mm by 882mm in length, compared to the 571mm length of the Flak 18/36/37 and KwK 36. This meant that the Tiger I's gun would achieve a muzzle velocity of about 820 m/s, compared to about 1130 m/s of the Jagtpanther/King Tiger's gun.
For comparsion:
The Tiger I couldn't penetrate the Churchill VII's frontal armor (hull and turret) at almost any range (when firing APCBC), while the King Tiger/Jagdtpanther could penetrate the frontal armor of a Churchill VII at 2 kilometers. The tanks engaged here were Churchill IV's, with barely half the armor of the Mark VII's, so these Jagdpanthers at these ranges were probably able to blow holes straight through the entire tank (if the bursting charge in the shells didn't go off, of course). The KwK 43 was the most insane tank/anti-tank gun deployed during WWII, and probably one of the most, if not the most, powerful anti-tank guns for firing regular (non-saboted) ammunition ever made.
Žiga Auer Awesome information. Thank you. There was a lot there I didn’t know that I didn’t know. You learn something new every day. Thanks again.
Emprahs Finest Well not much except that the KwK 44 was the 128mm gun on the Jagttiger, the Pak was the field gun/anti tank gun version. Had a much shorter barrel, and not as much propellent (relative to the shell diameter and mass) as the Pak/KwK 43, so the muzzle veocity was much lower, around 950 m/s. But the main problem with that gun was simply that the field gun version was stupidly heavy for AT use, needing the heavy Sd.Kfz 8 or 9 halftracks to move them, which were already needed for moving the heavy artillery, and this resulting in them being cumbersome to deploy in a fashion thats necessary for AT guns (eg certain flexibility and ability to react quickly to changing battlefield situations)
The other use was the Jagtiger, which was just a mechanical mess. So in essence the gun was never really succesfully deployed, even though it did put even the 8,8/71 to shame, especially at long range.
It was the magnum version of the old 88, same caliber, but much more propellant. It was the German equivalent of the post war British 20 pounder or the Soviet late war 100mm that equipped frontline tanks like the Centurion and T-55 and regarded as excellent until the 1960s.
@@ChaplainDMK Thanks for the detailed information. Very interesting.
Where do you get your figures from? The frontal plate armor of the Hull of a Churchill was between 102-152mm FLAT.. no angle. The Turret 89mm to 152mm front, again FLAT no Angle. The 8.8 cm KwK 36 using the following respectively. Pzgr.39 (APCBC) @ 2000m can penetrate 83mm at 30* degree angle and Pzgr.40 (APCR) @ 2000 m can penetrate 110mm @ 30* degrees of angle. Thomas L. Jentz. The figures are even better at closer range, and although the Churchill has massive armor.. its flat, one flaw the Germans corrected with the Tiger I to the Tiger II. Panzer Mark IV could knock out Churchill's on the flank with relative ease.
The Churchill was an infantry support tank, which was a role it did surprisingly well and of course a platform for many 'funnies', the Jagdpanther was a specialised ambush tank killer, in an engagement like this the result was not unexpected.
Love your stuff, just one suggestion, when you show a map could you highlight the place your referring to?
The Jagd could literally reach 50 kph
yes those static maps are not oriented well and a more automated map would be pleasant to understand in the brief viewing period.
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My Grandfathers Battalion, he was there that day.
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did you do it? Having a Jadpanther?
yes...
What did it cost?
11 Churchill
This is what happens when the Germans don't have support&maintenance units to repair tanks
They didn't have anything big enough to tow them & from what I've seen on other channels, overcomplicated engineering meant field maintenance was very time consuming or even impossible. Lucky for the free world they couldn't get their act together.
Most Jagdpanthers were lost to technical failure than to combat!
Also the design with the wheels overlapping each other..had to remove more than one to repair lol...what's the German word for #$%^#%^%#^?
Kurdiatcha Man fritz what’s ze state of ze transmission? Zits what! Hans fetch za Luger!
@@q9920867 And lucky for Russia.