The Tanks of World War II - Episode 4: Panzer II
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2018
- Welcome to episode four of the Tanks of World War II series. This episode looks at the German Panzerkampwagen II.
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Came here to this channel after your joint video discussion with Military History Visualised - have to say love it, love it, love it! The level of detail is great and I really like your (what I at least feel to be) measured and reasonable approach to these things. Thank you for your videos so far, looking forward to catching up on your channel. Cheers!
Same here... only a year later. lol
Just found your channel and it's great! I'm going to binge watch all your videos ww2 related. Wish I found it earlier.
Pretty good series so far. Looking forward to the next episodes.
Great video about a much overlooked tank, which like the M3 Lee or the PzKw38t, I appreciate mostly for its aesthetics.
btw, "Luchs" pronounced like "looks" as in "If Luchs could kill..."and "Spähwagen" is more like "shpay wagon" (which I guess is what a veterinarian drives)
Thoroughly enjoyed the video 👍 by far my favorite early war tank.
Brilliant thanks for your time and effort to bring this great information to us younger gen who is interested in ww1 ww2 !
That was what i needed, thx.
I really like these videos man.
Great video buddy. Subscribed
You have a fantastic channel with great videos. You also have a new subscriber!
looking forward to panzer 3 & 4 reviews
Wow... this is the first english speaking narrator than acutally CAN pronounce "AUSFUEHRUNG" - thank you, maaan - you brought back my belief in humanity ;-)
ok, I must admit I'd been a bit quick with my praise.. well at least he knows that Ausf stands for Ausfuehrung - now he probably should be told that in german, you wouldn't say "ausf" but "ausfuehrung" just as you wouldn't say "mk" but "mark" in english.
Luchs is pronounced as 'looks'
Love your tanktalks man, keep up the good work
Its pronounced as luchs
between looks and loohs. put that k and h together and get a ch
I guess there is a reason I got straight C's in German class back in the day...
@@q0w1e2r3t4y5 no. "looks" is a perfect proxy.
Why can"t he do a voice over . Why do we have to look at him.
Found you after the MHV combo. Great video!
Ohhh, the Marder II's(Sd.kfz. 132) guns are quite a subject :D
You are pretty good at saying Fahrgestell.
The Pz II Ausf D and E were indeed worse offroad than the standard variants. (Well at least this is what I read about them.)Torsion bar suspension for tanks was still a new thing in the late 1930's and technological immaturity (maybe) was the reason why they performed poorly.
I hope the next series will be just as good and informative as this one was.
Until then, keep up the good work and have a nice day!
Tom kicks ass!!
Pz ii is my biggesssssssssssssst love !!!!!
Good video.
U need to do more of these mate
Excellent series. At 20:02 you call the Marder a "stopgag measure", in reality, it's a stopgap measure.
Yes, I don't know why I said it that way
MAGAZINE, not clip. The differences are major. A "clip" just holds cartridge cases together for feeding in a weapon, a magazine holds the cartridges as well as contains part of the feed mechanism, example the spring and follower.
I've always wondered if the Germans had given the Panzer 2 (when they were obsolete) a new turret with the MK 108 auto cannon with its high capacity Mine Shell.
I think it would have been very effective in areas with a lot of enemy infantry.
What do you guys think
I'm guessing once the tank was obsolete, they found that a better use for them was conversion to other uses such as the Marder II tank destroyer.
Throughout the war when a tank became obsolete they removed the turret and mounted as big a gun as the chassis could support. Sometimes bigger then the chassis could support for the lulz. J/K it was because they were desperate.
Nice
Put dem cue cards closer to the camera! Good series, keep it up!
Images are awesome. Really interesting chats. Could you perhaps stand to left or right of screen when talking so I can see the vehicle behind you in static shot?
Just discovered channel! Love the amazing content!! Thanks for the information! I'm only halfway thru but I have a question regarding the panzer 2 J? DID THE 2J ACTUALLY EXIST PAST BLUEPRINTS? IT WAS PRETTY COOL LOOKING BABY TIGER 1 HAHA thanks again I've subbed and bell clicked
Thank you for the kind words. According to a quick search online, 22 Pz II ausf J tanks were built, so it was a pretty small production run.
I have always thought the Ferdinand AT should have had the Pz. 1 twin-mg turret on top for anti-infantry ... way up there they could have seen everything ...
It's 1923 on March 19, 2019. I selected episode #4 instead of searching out Scotty Kilmer's automotive advice. On to Germany's second tank, instead of Poland's whatever-it-was.
The book War Without Garlands recounts a story of a Panzer II forcing the crew of a T-34 to surrender. The 20mm shells hitting the turret sounded like a gong inside the T-34 and as the Panzer kept firing the T-34 crew couldn't stand the noise.
good story. I actually have a copy of that book that I picked up at a discount bookstore but I never got around to reading it. I may have to take a look at it.
Oops. I'm rereading the book and it was actually a 20mm flak gun mounted on a half track. The story is in the section on the reduction of the Kiev kessel.
I don't know what to do with my hands
Maybe I overheard it, but I didn't find it... what was maximal turret rotating speed in degrees per sec?
No Idea. As far as I know, it had a manual turret traverse system, so I guess it was based on how fast the gunner could turn the traverse gear/mechanism.
Is a stopgag a term for describing tanks?
(Not trolling)
Good video. Thanks for the information!
I'm buying a Panzer 2 and gonna convert it and drive it on the roads
Convert it?
They are getting hard to find on Craigslist.
Excellent content. Love it. One thing though. Are you saying “stop gag” instead of “stopgap”? Sorry to be a pedant. I’d want someone to tell me, that’s all :)
Хороший рассказ. Лайк тебе автор и привет из России )
I bet the Panzer II fucked up infantry big time, even though it was a 20mm gun, I think back to Saving Private Ryan. That scene were a 20mm Gatling just completely fucks up those airborne troops on the tiger tank.
Proper pronunciation: "loox". Not "looches". PS - Good video!
At 21:45 you say the "Light" division was unique to the Polish campaign. But this isn't quite right. Rommel had a "Light" division in the AK. Also see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_divisions_in_World_War_II#Light_divisions.
I see you've moved whatever device you are using as a teleprompter into the vicinity of the camera. It is a great improvement. But the reason for not using just voiceover eludes me.
Correction: 23:45.
ahh more proof that the youtube algorithm is broken. How has a channel like this has been around for a year without ever making into my recommendations ( found this channel through other users) and only has 1.2k subs? I guess they just really want me to watch jimmy fallon and people making giant gummy worms.
I know you are saying 'Panzer', but it sounds like 'Panther'.
It's hard since they are so close. I'll have to be careful when we finally get to the Panther episode, although that one won't be fore quite a while.
I had the same issue, if I didn't know that he was talking about the PzKpfw II some of the time I would have thought that he was talking about a Panter II.
One has to wonder why they didn't put a 37mm gun in these tanks.
DIdn't fit in the turret. The whole turret and potentially chassis would have to be redesigned to fit a 37mm gun or bigger - which they did with the Marder II (and the Pz. III when they redesigned the whole thing)
And for god sake... If you are making historical program, make an effort and check how to spell German words! "Luchs" is not American tank, but German.., soooo? It's "luhhHHHhhs", like Luke, but with clear "H". Damn it... "Lutches"?? :) I hope not to hear how you spell "Nashorn", "Stug" or "Stuh". ;)
Don't say "Ausf.", sounds stupid for german ears. Say "Ausführung" or just model in english.
If you read the please, don't pretend you remember the text.. It looks creepy. Better way is to talk from memory and from time to time take a look openly on notes... Even if you would have to cut videos. This is horrible...
Obviously, you have not watched my videos where I talk from memory...
And it would be nice if you would show us more tanks you talking about, not you reading tekst. Sorry. :(