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I live in the Eastern Belgium, right in the heart of the region where the Battle of the Bulge took place. There is a house across my street, the walls of which still bear the marks left by bullets during the battle. These events took place 76 years ago, but people in this region do remember, and the sacrifice of so many American lives on this soil is not forgotten, even though we were naturally almost all born after the war nowadays. You can hardly go through even a small village that does not have a monument honoring the fallen GI's soldiers and American flags are nothing unusual in this area. Beyond these memories of the past, this also reminds me how lucky we modern Europeans are to be born in countries that have now been living in peace for decades, and our former enemies are now friendly neighbors (the German border is only a 30-minute drive away from where I live, and visiting Germany is "normal life" for me). Let's hope that we and future European generations won't have to choose sides again. French author Paul Valéry wrote about a century ago: "War is a cross-massacre of people who do not know each other, for the sake of people who know each other but do not kill each other". So true.
For French too. 47 km, I am in Belgium, 110 and I am in Germany, 10 times a year I do it. Every year I go to the "OKTOBER FEST". I must remember than young boys Americans and others died to make me free and lucky to be.
I worked with a Sudeten German. After Germany annexed the Sudetenland, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. He was captured by the Russians and riding on a prison wagon with a female guard. She fell asleep and dropped her rifle. He jumped off the wagon, retrieved the rifle and awakened her. She gave him a big kiss and told him if she had lost her rifle they would have killed her. He was one of the few to be repatriated. Many of them died in the gulag as late as 1952.
I am appalled by "TH-cams" censoring of theis historical films! If they think that this is to protect minors from the gruesome facts of war is foolish and wrong. Everyone no mater what age need to see the full atrocities of war so as not to make the same mistakes in the future. We can not censor the facts no mater how bad.
It is not TH-cam, the channel is trying to appeal to people who like war but are not offended by the images of war! Basically means it is made for children, more views :)
@@fastyaveit So not a case of Big Brother but rather one of little brother? I guess the paranoids will have to find another example of brainwashing by those dastardly fiends running TH-cam. But thats our country today. People getting bent out of shape because they don't understand things.
@@dr.barrycohn5461 I'd make sure my 10-year child couldn't access anything that will traumatize her Barry, that is my responsibility, not the government or TH-cam channel. TH-cam doesn't censor images of war, look at the Ukraine war or the fighting in Syria, TH-cam have a habit of censuring free speech though.
I was watching a documentary on the Canadian soldiers during World War I. They were so fierce that the Germans would avoid their positions and prefer to fight the Britain's. The Canadians initially did a lot better in the war effort than the unexperienced/cocky American soldiers.
@@eveque The Canadian Cross Of Sacrifice At Arlington National Cemetery honors U.S. citizens who served in the Canadian Forces in the First, Second and Korean Wars
I hope that listeners to this video realize that the 'first person' voice (I/we) heard here is that of then General Eisenhower himself. Probably from a recording he made in retirement from his "Crusade in Europe" history.
The Jeep at 13:22 is now at the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox here in Kentucky. All that is left of the armor museum there is this small building showing all of Patton's equipment and writing. The armor was transferred to Ft. Benning some years ago but I am pleased to have seen most of it while I was soldering at a Drill Sergeant School at Knox back in 78.
@@rickybell2190 all hey did was prevent the Germans from crossing the Meuse river losing with 1000 casualties ..that's the Brits and Canucks together ..the bulk of the fighting was fought by Americans and Germans with Americans taking back all grounds lost...just can't get over that Montgomery failed operation called market garden so when the Americans won the biggest battle in the west Monty had to steal what wasn't his ...even Churchill made him apologize for his act
My grandfather fought in the Philippines he died in 2018 he and all these men would be rolling in there graves ff they saw what is happening in this country and what's happening with our military going "woke"
@@westpointsnell4167 suppose all they did at D-Day was stage the forces and launch from her shores to re take Europe... just a small part huh. Losing 1000 sons of the nation is as bad as losing 10,000.
Not so much as they could be easily stopped any supplies going in stopped any fight coming out. Bomb agriculture industrial. If really want a result faster then water treatment and such.
I suspect hannibal scared more about his men's lives than patton. So if by genius getting a bunch of his men killed to rescue one man, his son in law. If that's what you mean by genius then you're correct. Always remember Omar Bradley started under patton and end up superior to patton. Not to take away from patton he had value but was too reckless imo
A good old documentary and none of that stupid loud military music! Thanks. Also, the narrator acknowledged a few times that the USA actually had some allies, specifically a mention about the Soviet Union and their massive attack on Jan 12th. However, it's not mentioned how Germany had to immediately pull out many top German formations away from the West to fight the Soviets in the East.
He actually had an intelligence officer who figured out a German offensive in the Ardennes was likely. He listened to him and made preparations which was what allowed him to mobilize third army so quickly.
Haegenau and Foy were just brutal battles! The 101'st Screaming Eagle's held Bastogne without armour. The great General Paton knew what to do when no one else did. He turned his army 90 degrees and marched 100's of km.
Well actually there was a conference headed by Eisenhower. Eisenhower knew what to do and ordered Patton to move his army north to engage the southern flank of the German assault. He asked how soon Patton could commence movement and Patton said 24 hours. Eisenhower said "Come on George give me a realistic timeframe." Patton said "24 hours because I anticipated your order and ordered preparations to be commenced before I left the formation to attend here." So Patton was able to support the defense with an attack at least 24 hours sooner than anyone had imagined he could.
It was political - Patton had recently cussed out, and possibly slapped, a grunt suffering from "battle fatigue" (PTSD) in a rear area hospital. Unfortunately, he did it in front of the press and RedCross volunteers. They complained and Eisenhower had to sack him for appearances...
@@bavery6957 They didn't sack him. Eisenhower threatened to sack him and kept him away from combat in Italy for quite awhile. I believe he was only given command of another real army after Normandy had succeeded.
Patton didn't guess anything! He ALWAYS CHECKED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS. THATS HOW HE GOT TO THE BULGE SO FAST. HE WAS ABLE TO TURN THE WHOLE 3RD ARMY NORTH AND GET THERE IN 24 HRS. HE WAS A GENIUS AT WAR, JUST A P.R. NIGHTMARE!! LOL
I still do not really understand why the Allies were caught by such surprise when the Germans attacked through the Ardennes. It wasn't by any means the first time they had done it, having attacked succesfully through the same area in May 1940, ultimately causing the fall of France in just six weeks.
Patton's tanks were east of the Elbe River but were forced to withdraw because of the Tehran Accords. This set up the coming Cold War and the Iron Curtain.
My grandfather fought in the Philippines he died in 2018 he and all these men would be rolling in there graves ff they saw what is happening in this country and what's happening with our military going "woke"
Right, forget the fact that the average US infantryman is currently better trained, better funded, carries more equipment and has more tools at their disposal than their WW2 GI counterpart. We all know one commercial means that the military is "woke"...😒
I was viewing a video when it was freezing cold that some AMERICANS froze to death at the front lines. How could the AMERICANS and Germans fight in such terrible weather?! Unbelievable!
The Germans had to attack in the worst possible weather to counter Allied air supremacy. Had the Germans attacked during good flying weather they would have been slaughtered by thousands of Allied fighter-bombers. The Americans who were on the ground had no choice but to fight when the Germans attacked them. This was a change in tactics for the Germans who earlier in the war had launched their major offensives in spring or summer. But that was when the Luftwaffe had superiority or at least parity. By late 1944 the Allies were greatly out-producing the Axis nations in most categories of weapons and materiel.
Any organized resistance stopped, though many German soldiers in the East fought west to surrender to the Western Allies…as the Soviets were particularly ruthless to German prisoners.
Sorry about your uncle. One of the saddest thing about this war was that so many good people had to die when the outcome was obvious. The Nazis couldn’t stop killing until their own capital was in complete ruins.
The Ardennes was a trap. Patton let the cat out of the bag by saying Let them go all the way to Paris. Then we'll really have them in the bag. Or, by the balls. He and Ike knee the Germans worst general couldn't resist a stroke of genius.
Why the failed reporting of soldiers of color significant role played in this campaign? As a veteran, these war stories refusal to integrate and give credit to the sacrifice and valor of our colored soldiers, is a constant reminder of the disdain the military and white-American have for us. Despite these tremendous obstacles placed ib solduers of color participation, treatment by field commanders, such as Patton, and white soldiers, we remaind faithful to America!!!!
I agree to a point. But we all know the horrific racist past of America. Isn't the goal to make race irrelevant? If we keep talking about it then it remains relevant. The subject is covered on YT. Not sure race has to be brought into discussion every time. Believe it or not, but what was happening in the world at the time was much bigger and much worse than racism in America.
I have a close relative with native American looks who is easily mistaken for an Asian. Kind of odd though, its not the whites who are the biggest bigots. However the US army has a reputation as the most integrated institution in American society. No one has given more opportunity to poc than the US military.
@@dickmonkey-king1271 "But we all know the horrific racist past of America." If you don't address it, you'll be doomed repeat it. Plain and simple. "Isn't the goal to make race irrelevant?" Yes, eventually. If you try to wipe the slate clean and "just start over" without acknowledging your past, you are, again, doomed to failure. Acknowledge. Rectify. Move forward. 'That was then, this is now (even though it's the same now as then) let's forget about that and carry on'. eh? Who/what is actually "irrelevant" in this scenario? You're showing your hand. "Believe it or not, but what was happening in the world at the time was much bigger and much worse than racism in America." I believe it not. That's a complete falsehood you're offering. What was going on here in America, to people of color, was EXACTLY the same as what was going on in those places of the world where horrific "race-based" animus and atrocities were being visited upon citizens by their own countries. Bigger? Yes. Worse? Absolutely NOT...
"Care must be taken in telling our proud tale not to claim for the British Army an undue share what is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war, and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever famous American victory.” - Sir Winston Churchill, addressing the House of Commons on January 18, 1945
Churchill Care must be taken in telling our proud tale not to claim for the British Army an undue share of what is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever famous American victory. below 416 Hansard WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN POLICY HC Deb 18 January 1945 page
I was trained and qualified as top infantry radioman but got there at the bulge and was thrown into a foxhole in the Ardennes! A news photographer snapped me licking a long icicle while walking up a frozen river. I've never seen the picture. Has anybody here?
You're a part of history! I haven't seen that photo but I'd like to know where you were and what it was like. I'm teaching my kids what their ancestors went through to protect our freedom. Thank you for sacrificing for us!
@@terrysmith9362 my Grandfather was in Patton Army in France and the battle of the Bulge all the way to Germany as boy he told me story's about his Experience about the war.
@@chipkohler8422 I appreciate your grandfather's service we stand on the shoulders of giants but that does not make Patton the greatest US general. Collins, Truscott and Simpson were also giants but did not have a press pack follow him around. Patton's pertormance at Metz when his troops advanced 12 miles in over 2 months causing 50000 plus US casualties is a very big black mark
The German attack through the Ardennes never had a chance - they lacked enough fuel to sustain an attack and they had almost no air force left to support the army. The war was already lost as the Russian juggernaut could not be stopped.
_Time after time during the Battle of the Bulge German soldiers outfought their American opponents. They were not supermen. They blundered, probably about as often as the Americans. And there seems little doubt that the best of the Americans were every bit as good as the best of the Germans. Furthermore, the Americans won the battle and, eventually, the war. Yet at the height of the battle for Bastogne, on 4 January 1945, General Patton wrote in his diary: "We can still lose this war….The Germans are colder and hungrier than we are, but they fight better."_ -Trevor N. Dupuy _et al._ _Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January 1945_
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Little known fact...the US Army boot caused more casualties due to injury than combat or disease.
Drop the comparisons with Netflix. Hardly a beacon of entertainment ✨️
I live in the Eastern Belgium, right in the heart of the region where the Battle of the Bulge took place. There is a house across my street, the walls of which still bear the marks left by bullets during the battle. These events took place 76 years ago, but people in this region do remember, and the sacrifice of so many American lives on this soil is not forgotten, even though we were naturally almost all born after the war nowadays. You can hardly go through even a small village that does not have a monument honoring the fallen GI's soldiers and American flags are nothing unusual in this area.
Beyond these memories of the past, this also reminds me how lucky we modern Europeans are to be born in countries that have now been living in peace for decades, and our former enemies are now friendly neighbors (the German border is only a 30-minute drive away from where I live, and visiting Germany is "normal life" for me). Let's hope that we and future European generations won't have to choose sides again. French author Paul Valéry wrote about a century ago: "War is a cross-massacre of people who do not know each other, for the sake of people who know each other but do not kill each other". So true.
For French too. 47 km, I am in Belgium, 110 and I am in Germany, 10 times a year I do it. Every year I go to the "OKTOBER FEST".
I must remember than young boys Americans and others died to make me free and lucky to be.
@@gillesguillaumin6603 yeah lmao. You lost, your country are now majority imigrans.
The enemys were the americans
Look at Europe now, we are done
Im from Germany and Im pretty glad, things turned out the way they did 😅Imagine living in a world, where the Nazis won the war...
The title is, "Ardennes 1943". I always thought it was in 1944, because the Allies hadn't even landed in Normandy in 1943.
Bro got that hawk eye ..good catch on title though
Actually it was the last 2 weeks of 1944 and the 1st month of 1945 before the Allies had pushed the Germans back to their starting point.
From 16 december 1944 til 25 januari 1945
Don’t confuse then with factual data, it hurts their self esteem, and I need these to help me go to sleep. The droning voice is what does it.
I worked with a Sudeten German. After Germany annexed the Sudetenland, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. He was captured by the Russians and riding on a prison wagon with a female guard. She fell asleep and dropped her rifle. He jumped off the wagon, retrieved the rifle and awakened her. She gave him a big kiss and told him if she had lost her rifle they would have killed her. He was one of the few to be repatriated. Many of them died in the gulag as late as 1952.
Russian war criminals
I am appalled by "TH-cams" censoring of theis historical films! If they think that this is to protect minors from the gruesome facts of war is foolish and wrong. Everyone no mater what age need to see the full atrocities of war so as not to make the same mistakes in the future. We can not censor the facts no mater how bad.
It is not TH-cam, the channel is trying to appeal to people who like war but are not offended by the images of war!
Basically means it is made for children, more views :)
@@fastyaveit So not a case of Big Brother but rather one of little brother?
I guess the paranoids will have to find another example of brainwashing by those dastardly fiends running TH-cam. But thats our country today. People getting bent out of shape because they don't understand things.
There's no American blood shown on a Democrat documentary.
So, when your 10 year child is traumatized by war images, and he can't unsee an image you'll console him how?
@@dr.barrycohn5461 I'd make sure my 10-year child couldn't access anything that will traumatize her Barry, that is my responsibility, not the government or TH-cam channel.
TH-cam doesn't censor images of war, look at the Ukraine war or the fighting in Syria, TH-cam have a habit of censuring free speech though.
This is a fascinating upload. Thanks ! Haven't seen most of this filming before.
well this is rare, they actually gave us Canadians credit and not saying the British or whatever , but actually THE CANADIANS!! very nice
I was watching a documentary on the Canadian soldiers during World War I. They were so fierce that the Germans would avoid their positions and prefer to fight the Britain's. The Canadians initially did a lot better in the war effort than the unexperienced/cocky American soldiers.
@@eveque The Canadian Cross Of Sacrifice At Arlington National Cemetery honors U.S. citizens who served in the Canadian Forces in the First, Second and Korean Wars
Canadians refused to take SS prisoners in many cases
I just found out that the Canadians fought the Germans on the Italian front for 11 months before D Day. They got a break then had to fight more.
@@eveque If not for those cocky, inexperienced American soldiers, Western Europe would now be speaking fluent German. Grow up.
Hey War Stories,
Great Channel! Thank You.
I hope that listeners to this video realize that the 'first person' voice (I/we) heard here is that of then General Eisenhower himself. Probably from a recording he made in retirement from his "Crusade in Europe" history.
thank you very much!
The Jeep at 13:22 is now at the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox here in Kentucky. All that is left of the armor museum there is this small building showing all of Patton's equipment and writing. The armor was transferred to Ft. Benning some years ago but I am pleased to have seen most of it while I was soldering at a Drill Sergeant School at Knox back in 78.
*fascinating upload, love to see it!!!!*
Haha that guy smiling watching the French girl go by on her bicycle 🤣
Sniper killed her.
Nothing new!
Great video, very different than I thought
Great Documentary. Thanks.
Bless those American soldiers for holding strong
And don't forget to thank the brits. ....yes they were there and due to politics they were convenitley left out.
@@rickybell2190 all hey did was prevent the Germans from crossing the Meuse river losing with 1000 casualties ..that's the Brits and Canucks together ..the bulk of the fighting was fought by Americans and Germans with Americans taking back all grounds lost...just can't get over that Montgomery failed operation called market garden so when the Americans won the biggest battle in the west Monty had to steal what wasn't his ...even Churchill made him apologize for his act
That's what the American soldiers do... my uncle was a lt. Commander of Navy Seal team 6 during desert storm
My grandfather fought in the Philippines he died in 2018 he and all these men would be rolling in there graves ff they saw what is happening in this country and what's happening with our military going "woke"
@@westpointsnell4167 suppose all they did at D-Day was stage the forces and launch from her shores to re take Europe... just a small part huh. Losing 1000 sons of the nation is as bad as losing 10,000.
What a beautiful documentary film. And I haven't even watched it for a minute!
😆 LOL did you ever get around to watching it yet lol
I also met a tool maker at a shop in Akron, Ohio. 1996. At 6 and 7 yrs. old, he and his classmates would march on the side walks next to the troops.
Interesting for watching 👌🙏😊
Great reference about the waning months of the war. The outcome was not decided, the battles had to be fought.
Not so much as they could be easily stopped any supplies going in stopped any fight coming out. Bomb agriculture industrial. If really want a result faster then water treatment and such.
Patton was a genius.
He was a very good war general, then we paid him back by assassinating him!
@@DennisWilliams-nf2gn 😭
I suspect hannibal scared more about his men's lives than patton. So if by genius getting a bunch of his men killed to rescue one man, his son in law. If that's what you mean by genius then you're correct. Always remember Omar Bradley started under patton and end up superior to patton. Not to take away from patton he had value but was too reckless imo
@@chadrowe8452 thank you for your opinion, what troops did you command in combat?
@@marcustulliuscicero.5856 trolling motor
A good old documentary and none of that stupid loud military music! Thanks. Also, the narrator acknowledged a few times that the USA actually had some allies, specifically a mention about the Soviet Union and their massive attack on Jan 12th. However, it's not mentioned how Germany had to immediately pull out many top German formations away from the West to fight the Soviets in the East.
Patton guessed their move.
He actually had an intelligence officer who figured out a German offensive in the Ardennes was likely. He listened to him and made preparations which was what allowed him to mobilize third army so quickly.
@@highdesertutah if we only had the same thinking today
Wonder why the screen grows blurry 3/4 of the movie?
Haegenau and Foy were just brutal battles! The 101'st Screaming Eagle's held Bastogne without armour.
The great General Paton knew what to do when no one else did. He turned his army 90 degrees and marched 100's of km.
And he did that OVERNIGHT during a blizzard.
Well actually there was a conference headed by Eisenhower. Eisenhower knew what to do and ordered Patton to move his army north to engage the southern flank of the German assault. He asked how soon Patton could commence movement and Patton said 24 hours. Eisenhower said "Come on George give me a realistic timeframe." Patton said "24 hours because I anticipated your order and ordered preparations to be commenced before I left the formation to attend here." So Patton was able to support the defense with an attack at least 24 hours sooner than anyone had imagined he could.
"Gory-Gory what a hella of a way to die"🎵 101st Airborne Div!!
at 2:49 its funny to see the soldiers reactions to the field rations. first one seems unsure. the second, definitely doesn't like it
yes thanks 👊
You haven't tasted sh++ until you've eaten Lima beans C-Rations.
American Soldier: "ENEMY INBOUND! DEFENSIVE POSITIONS!"
2021democrats be like. Its racist not to equally welcome these equals
Let me introduce you to Gen. Patton and the USA Third Army.
@@nwga.5327 Hey there bro; you fr. MTG's district? Tnx.
You can come get your mother. We're all finished with her.
It would appear there is some editing.
This would be an awesome video colorized and rendered to 4K
Yea. Then you could pretend it was a video game. And not real footage of people fighting and dying.
Ah, you have the wrong year in the caption, although it is correct in the description.
Montgomery and Bradley were given command over Patton which was in my opinion a terrible decision.
It was political - Patton had recently cussed out, and possibly slapped, a grunt suffering from "battle fatigue" (PTSD) in a rear area hospital. Unfortunately, he did it in front of the press and RedCross volunteers. They complained and Eisenhower had to sack him for appearances...
Your opinion has been noted. Now go and lay down before any more thoughts come to you.
Also he recently accidentally insulted the Russians
@@bavery6957
They didn't sack him. Eisenhower threatened to sack him and kept him away from combat in Italy for quite awhile.
I believe he was only given command of another real army after Normandy had succeeded.
ABSOLUTLY CORRECT CASEY!! GOOD CALL!!!!
Patton didn't guess anything! He ALWAYS CHECKED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS. THATS HOW HE GOT TO THE BULGE SO FAST. HE WAS ABLE TO TURN THE WHOLE 3RD ARMY NORTH AND GET THERE IN 24 HRS. HE WAS A GENIUS AT WAR, JUST A P.R. NIGHTMARE!! LOL
Yes indeed! Patton had a superb intelligence staff; his G-2 was Oscar Koch, a brilliant official.
Wrong
@@michaelbrennan1294 Cogent argument.
That’s not at all how it happened.
@@bryanrankin83 well? Don't leave me hangin'! LMAO
Adennes, 1943? You might want to change that title.
Parts of this video showed,TRUE urban combat.
Thanks but I wish the video wasn't so glitchy.
My Dad was there. He carried a machine gun from France to Czechoslovakia.
I still do not really understand why the Allies were caught by such surprise when the Germans attacked through the Ardennes. It wasn't by any means the first time they had done it, having attacked succesfully through the same area in May 1940, ultimately causing the fall of France in just six weeks.
Thank god for The Marshall Plan!
Patton's tanks were east of the Elbe River but were forced to withdraw because of the Tehran Accords. This set up the coming Cold War and the Iron Curtain.
He fought wrong enemy
Why does the title say "Ardennes, 1943"? It took place in late '44 and early '45.
Cool dude this has inspired me to become a solider and die somehow during combat .
you don't have to wait that long bro, go to war with yourself!
My condolences.
Your 'duty' as a soldier - is to fight for your buddies - who would want to be in battle with you if you wanna die ?
Excellent quality of hype video about Excellent logistics administrators of US army during WW2...
the furthest German advance was from the whermacht not the SS
Masya ALLAH Tabarakallah Pintarnya Menghibur 😮
I think you have the year wrong in the title.
Amen!
My grandfather fought in the Philippines he died in 2018 he and all these men would be rolling in there graves ff they saw what is happening in this country and what's happening with our military going "woke"
Among the most fervent of communist murderers were the Russian sailors of the Black Sea Fleet. Lenin purposely planted his agitators among them.
Right, forget the fact that the average US infantryman is currently better trained, better funded, carries more equipment and has more tools at their disposal than their WW2 GI counterpart. We all know one commercial means that the military is "woke"...😒
@@visassess8607This comment didn't age well...
@@jeremyk_541 What I said is still true. Of course you're welcome to actually try to explain what exactly is wrong with my point
Why is 1943 in the front picture? Isnt it 1944/1945!?
15:38 30 tons ice skating was fun to watch
At around 1:15 in this video what tracked gun was that? It's cannon would of been huge!
M12 155mm Self propelled gun
Why is the GI sitting in a French restaurant sitting down sipping wine with his field outfit on and a helmet on?
Patton was my grandpop from 1954 two he past away he fild my head with war kill kill kill 👀
What's up with 11:40 when they were talking about superior American cigarettes LOL check it out
why does the title of this video say 1943?
Funny how, apparently, they used to call it the ¨Alliance¨ back then. We´re more used to the Allies.
A minute in, narrator used the word Allies.
This title is pretty funny if you take it a different way....
That took place in 1944/45. Not 1943
I was viewing a video when it was freezing cold that some AMERICANS froze to death at the front lines. How could the AMERICANS and Germans fight in such terrible weather?! Unbelievable!
The Germans had to attack in the worst possible weather to counter Allied air supremacy. Had the Germans attacked during good flying weather they would have been slaughtered by thousands of Allied fighter-bombers. The Americans who were on the ground had no choice but to fight when the Germans attacked them. This was a change in tactics for the Germans who earlier in the war had launched their major offensives in spring or summer. But that was when the Luftwaffe had superiority or at least parity. By late 1944 the Allies were greatly out-producing the Axis nations in most categories of weapons and materiel.
it was Dec 16 1944... not 1943
1944, not 43....
Just came here to comment on the year the battle of the bulge took place. December 1944 to Jan 1945.
God bless the USA 🇺🇲 and her eternal allies 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇫🇷🇮🇳🇨🇳🇹🇼🇧🇷🇷🇺🇳🇱🇧🇪🇵🇱🇬🇷 🇷🇸🇭🇷🇸🇮🇲🇪🇧🇦🇲🇰
American tactical leadership and strategic planning
Ardennes, 1943? I don't think so.
It wasn’t 1943, but winter 1944
Do I even bother watching this when they can't even get the year of the Battle of the Bulge correct?
6:30 14:00
Hm, Gen. Patton would roll in his grave if he'd be aware how much Americans are currently in dire need of fighting back their 'bulge'.
Did the fighting really stopped after the generals signed the surrender pieces of papers??
Any organized resistance stopped, though many German soldiers in the East fought west to surrender to the Western Allies…as the Soviets were particularly ruthless to German prisoners.
@@jimreilly917 Retribution on the German populace was ruthless for quite a few years.
@@theplinkerslodge6361 I’m sure it was…especially in the East.
Whomever was responsible for your education should be whipped.
@@stevek8829 Really, the the war story became and education lesson or what?
1943? Howabout 1944 instead.
They should have been there in may 1940!
Great film, a bit annoying how “allies” is pronounced
My Uncle wAs killed in the bulge everyone says he was a good man I would have been terrified
Sorry about your uncle. One of the saddest thing about this war was that so many good people had to die when the outcome was obvious. The Nazis couldn’t stop killing until their own capital was in complete ruins.
We can't fight the bulge anymore due McDonald's.
Or that one ya get when ya wake up...get the Mrs to battle that bulge
Thank God for all the men and women who fought and died in WW TWO>
The Ardennes was a trap. Patton let the cat out of the bag by saying Let them go all the way to Paris. Then we'll really have them in the bag. Or, by the balls. He and Ike knee the Germans worst general couldn't resist a stroke of genius.
It's allied not alied Mr narrator.
Sickening censorship in this video! FAIL. 😎
It was in 1944...
frinking sensors of history
Why the failed reporting of soldiers of color significant role played in this campaign? As a veteran, these war stories refusal to integrate and give credit to the sacrifice and valor of our colored soldiers, is a constant reminder of the disdain the military and white-American have for us. Despite these tremendous obstacles
placed ib solduers of color participation, treatment by field commanders, such as Patton, and white soldiers, we remaind faithful to America!!!!
I agree to a point. But we all know the horrific racist past of America. Isn't the goal to make race irrelevant? If we keep talking about it then it remains relevant. The subject is covered on YT. Not sure race has to be brought into discussion every time. Believe it or not, but what was happening in the world at the time was much bigger and much worse than racism in America.
I have a close relative with native American looks who is easily mistaken for an Asian. Kind of odd though, its not the whites who are the biggest bigots. However the US army has a reputation as the most integrated institution in American society. No one has given more opportunity to poc than the US military.
@@dickmonkey-king1271 "But we all know the horrific racist past of America." If you don't address it, you'll be doomed repeat it. Plain and simple.
"Isn't the goal to make race irrelevant?"
Yes, eventually. If you try to wipe the slate clean and "just start over" without acknowledging your past, you are, again, doomed to failure. Acknowledge. Rectify. Move forward. 'That was then, this is now (even though it's the same now as then) let's forget about that and carry on'. eh? Who/what is actually "irrelevant" in this scenario? You're showing your hand.
"Believe it or not, but what was happening in the world at the time was much bigger and much worse than racism in America."
I believe it not. That's a complete falsehood you're offering. What was going on here in America, to people of color, was EXACTLY the same as what was going on in those places of the world where horrific "race-based" animus and atrocities were being visited upon citizens by their own countries.
Bigger? Yes. Worse? Absolutely NOT...
@@dickmonkey-king1271 It was 40s and racist time
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It's supposed to be today right guys
“Allies”
"Care must be taken in telling our proud tale not to claim for the British Army an undue share what is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war, and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever famous American victory.” - Sir Winston Churchill, addressing the House of Commons on January 18, 1945
Churchill Care must be taken in telling our proud tale not to claim for the British Army an undue share of what is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever famous American victory. below 416
Hansard WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN POLICY HC Deb 18 January 1945 page
I think it’s 1944
I was trained and qualified as top infantry radioman but got there at the bulge and was thrown into a foxhole in the Ardennes!
A news photographer snapped me licking a long icicle while walking up a frozen river. I've never seen the picture. Has anybody here?
You're a part of history! I haven't seen that photo but I'd like to know where you were and what it was like. I'm teaching my kids what their ancestors went through to protect our freedom. Thank you for sacrificing for us!
@@fazole I want to know where to post my war stories so they'll be read!
I posted one here, but it seems to be unoticed!
The greatest General the United States has ever had hands down!!
oh for goodness sake another Hollywood fan
@@terrysmith9362 my Grandfather was in Patton Army in France and the battle of the Bulge all the way to Germany as boy he told me story's about his Experience about the war.
@@chipkohler8422 I appreciate your grandfather's service we stand on the shoulders of giants but that does not make Patton the greatest US general.
Collins, Truscott and Simpson were also giants but did not have a press pack follow him around.
Patton's pertormance at Metz when his troops advanced 12 miles in over 2 months causing 50000 plus US casualties is a very big black mark
@@terrysmith9362 yes metz was a Disaster for Patton I agree 💯
@@chipkohler8422 I genuinely do not want to diminish your grandfather's service. Those guys of all the allies did fantastic jobs
heavily censored what has 2021 become? a world of nandie pandies
Ardennes 1943??? It’s 1944. If you can’t get the date right it doesn’t say much for this presentation.
Shut up and keep watching pal.
Yes they knew to hold for we knew the operational commands coming from the german enigma code.
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1944?
Why in europe they can able to defeat the enemy?in vietnam they cannot??
I shook hands with a WW2 veteran, who shook hands with General Patton.
I don't like censored doco's.
The German attack through the Ardennes never had a chance - they lacked enough fuel to sustain an attack and they had almost no air force left to support the army. The war was already lost as the Russian juggernaut could not be stopped.
Another example of Hitler's delusional fantasies.
They still had thousands of planes but only hundreds of pilots
Title. Ardennes, 1943 : Hitler's Failed Final Campaign. Really now?? 🤣
I thought this was a diet episode.
_Time after time during the Battle of the Bulge German soldiers outfought their American opponents. They were not supermen. They blundered, probably about as often as the Americans. And there seems little doubt that the best of the Americans were every bit as good as the best of the Germans. Furthermore, the Americans won the battle and, eventually, the war. Yet at the height of the battle for Bastogne, on 4 January 1945, General Patton wrote in his diary: "We can still lose this war….The Germans are colder and hungrier than we are, but they fight better."_
-Trevor N. Dupuy _et al._
_Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January 1945_
1943???????