D-Day - The Secret War - Extra History - Part 2

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  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  5 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    Listen to this Extra History series as a podcast! becausegamesmatter.com/podcast

    • @sirsunu7302
      @sirsunu7302 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep my friend

    • @ryanp7782
      @ryanp7782 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Come on fhqhgads

    • @thomasboland540
      @thomasboland540 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Extra Credits I see you’ve done your best to minimize America’s role in this series. Typical of your channel

    • @rusellgonzalez3564
      @rusellgonzalez3564 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What did happened about the Uranus oparation..... eh?

    • @bl1t7theprotogenhybrid72
      @bl1t7theprotogenhybrid72 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Via ve France

  • @spindash64
    @spindash64 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5859

    4:17 to be fair, the highest award any spy can probably get is the medal of their enemy

    • @charmainesego1720
      @charmainesego1720 7 ปีที่แล้ว +401

      Fair point.

    • @Scarletraven87
      @Scarletraven87 7 ปีที่แล้ว +554

      And getting their Ubercharge

    • @xxAnaconta
      @xxAnaconta 7 ปีที่แล้ว +242

      Or both if they make it back alive.

    • @TheExalaber
      @TheExalaber 7 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Spain was "neutral"

    • @spindash64
      @spindash64 7 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      Northfield Stradford
      Point still stands. Man got a medal from Germany for losing the war for Germany.

  • @Aurora07
    @Aurora07 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2237

    Fun Fact: The cracking of the enigma machine was so successful that Bletchley Park had to 'pick and choose' which information they would follow up on so as not to make it obvious that the codes had been cracked. essentially they had to allow the Germans to make attacks against the allies knowing they could have prevented it, but in the long run it saved countless more lives,

    • @MrMarinus18
      @MrMarinus18 6 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Not really. It wasn't that it was so common but because they needed to have an excuse. It should always be possible for the British to have gotten the information elsewhere. If they made it clear they knew things that they should never know would make the Germans suspicious.

    • @rifkifanani3694
      @rifkifanani3694 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Aurora07 in allied side

    • @her209
      @her209 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yeah they stated that in the movie, The Alan Turning Project.

    • @vacaction3897
      @vacaction3897 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Actually poles had cracked enigma before the war

    • @matthewoconnell4700
      @matthewoconnell4700 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@vacaction3897 they cracked an early version which was nothing like the one used in WW2.

  • @olstar18
    @olstar18 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2436

    'If they failed tens of thousands of men would die.'
    At least there wasn't any pressure.

    • @abbababba8186
      @abbababba8186 7 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      At least they didn't have to do public speaking. Now THAT'S real pressure.

    • @user-ib4qj5tj1g
      @user-ib4qj5tj1g 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      The true irony is that the cannon fodder died either way

    • @dannypeck96
      @dannypeck96 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      you mean the americans?
      america supplied the bodies, the british supplied the brains and the russians supplied the distraction.

    • @Carewolf
      @Carewolf 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Pretty sure the Russians were the primary cannon fodder. The American were just unlucky or less skilled at land-warfare than naval warfare.

    • @olstar18
      @olstar18 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I'd say it was just a matter of luck and being in a situation that didn't allow armor to fight effectively.

  • @kevinlopez351
    @kevinlopez351 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1028

    Daughter: how did father die?
    Mother: he gave his life at the bunny hugs landing

    • @rathisuhh4198
      @rathisuhh4198 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I died of laughter when that came up

    • @suehowarddotco
      @suehowarddotco 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Mother: hug landing

    • @robertmontinat7215
      @robertmontinat7215 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@rathisuhh4198 Daughter-is he a new caracter from 5 nights at freddy's??
      Mom-wtf

    • @TrueZero2
      @TrueZero2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *Salutes*

    • @nub6202
      @nub6202 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rathisuhh4198 me too

  • @BWEEOOP
    @BWEEOOP 6 ปีที่แล้ว +307

    "Whatever Ales Ya"
    Best. Pub. Name. Ever.

    • @eamesaerospace2805
      @eamesaerospace2805 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Along with my favourite “The Drawing Board”

    • @spuditgang
      @spuditgang 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@eamesaerospace2805isn’t that from foil arms and hog

  • @roqxwalker3896
    @roqxwalker3896 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2645

    For those of you who are wondering about the crossword puzzle, the schoolmaster got his words from his pupils and one of the pupils eavesdropped on a millitary base and heard the codewords which he passed on to his schoolmaster to be in the crossword

    • @PragmaticAntithesis
      @PragmaticAntithesis 7 ปีที่แล้ว +651

      So it was *almost* a security breach.

    • @smitty2085
      @smitty2085 7 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      ALMOST

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  7 ปีที่แล้ว +484

      Thanks for sharing that extra tidbit! A quick Google search turns up more information and sources about that side of the story. Here's just one: www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/06/how-codewords-for-d-day-ended-up-in-british-newspaper-puzzles-a-month-before-the-operation-started/?.f89bce78f255
      --Belinda

    • @roqxwalker3896
      @roqxwalker3896 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Source: The World Wars

    • @GoranXII
      @GoranXII 7 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      Actually, according to "D-Day Dawn of Heroes" the crosswords had been compiled six months in advance, in some cases before the codenames had even been thought up.

  • @SpoopySquid
    @SpoopySquid 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1471

    - "Twenty Committee"
    - named after Roman numerals XX
    - "double cross"
    Well played, Britain

    • @SpoopySquid
      @SpoopySquid 7 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      Also: giving Alan Turning a pride ribbon was perfect. Thank you

    • @squashyhex9818
      @squashyhex9818 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I so agree. It was a lovely note

    • @Stephen-Fox
      @Stephen-Fox 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Indeed. Lovely acknowledgement.

    • @tesstickle7267
      @tesstickle7267 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Inkswitch greatest and most risk full troll ever? ha germans were too stuck up to notice the obvious

    • @bishampandey5656
      @bishampandey5656 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      They could be the thirty comity or xxx😉

  • @adamlee6435
    @adamlee6435 7 ปีที่แล้ว +599

    On June 6th 1944, more than 2000 Americans gave their lives on Bunny Hug beach to liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny. Their sacrifice will not be forgotten. #bunnyhugbeach

    • @addadu8031
      @addadu8031 7 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      *cue ultra patriotic music*

    • @jacobs279
      @jacobs279 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Adam Lee TROLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
      let us never forget the men at Bunny Hug beach

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Adam Lee we salute the brave men who landed on Big Bear Hugville-walla that day

    • @dougbennett8592
      @dougbennett8592 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      To the brave men who gave all at Cuddly Kitten hill, your sacrifice will never be forgotten.

    • @randrazor
      @randrazor 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Adam Lee just imagine "sorry ma'am, your son was hit by artillery at the jellybean hill landing"

  • @whcolours9995
    @whcolours9995 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1550

    Garbo: Gets medal of honour of the enemy.
    Sneak 100
    Illusion 100
    Block 100

    • @hornypolice7994
      @hornypolice7994 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      You dumb bitch 100

    • @Braindamagedpotato
      @Braindamagedpotato 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      elder scrolls reference

    • @Milkster86
      @Milkster86 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Britain definitely has block 100

    • @AnnabelRoss6789
      @AnnabelRoss6789 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      *Speech 100

    • @kk2862
      @kk2862 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Intelligence 100
      Deception 100
      Mental stability 694201337 haha funni number

  • @emit5586
    @emit5586 6 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    I always love when Garbo gets the recognition he deserves.

  • @benjaminringrose536
    @benjaminringrose536 7 ปีที่แล้ว +235

    Thanks for discussing Dieppe, it's often overlooked in military history. As a Canadian, this pleases me.

    • @bitpumpkinn2923
      @bitpumpkinn2923 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Gabriel Ordones English please.
      And what is your point?

    • @bigsauce6645
      @bigsauce6645 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Our guys fought well, the british sold them out to save a few destroyers

    • @Purpleskull64
      @Purpleskull64 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@bitpumpkinn2923what did Gabriel say?

  • @somebody3143
    @somebody3143 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I do not know what was more incredible; the complexity of the Enigma machine, or the fact that the crossword in the English paper had SO MANY coincidental code names for the invasion locations and names for the operation!

    • @AlechiaTheWitch
      @AlechiaTheWitch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not coincidental but loosley inspired.

  • @acebalistic1358
    @acebalistic1358 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1354

    When a double agent gets the iron cross XD

    • @grimkidvurtex7563
      @grimkidvurtex7563 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Look man i know this is litterly a animated video about World War 2 but my Great Grandfather Died at Sword i am not trying to be mean but XD does not fit the importance of such men who helped the war effort.

    • @danaaltini4399
      @danaaltini4399 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      No that was just the neighbor

    • @hescrem9316
      @hescrem9316 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      GrimKid Vurtex as far as I can tell, they weren’t trying to be insensitive. They where simply pointing out the irony of a doube agent getting a medal from those he had double crossed. They where not saying the war was any less horrific or tragic, they where just finding humor in some irony

    • @acebalistic1358
      @acebalistic1358 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      GrimKid Vurtex my great great-grandfather also fought in WW2, so I understand your point. I did not mean to be insensitive, I was just pointing out the irony

    • @nurdeenlauddin3090
      @nurdeenlauddin3090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      GrimKid Vurtex I think your grandfather was very brave

  • @lotusjuiice
    @lotusjuiice 6 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    so happy about the little pin on Alan! though his treatment by everyone else in his time was wretched for who he was I appreciate such a small thing being added in the video.

    • @SB-iy9vn
      @SB-iy9vn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why ? So he can pin pointed soley for his sexuality and hmm idk his work.

    • @ChristopherGonzalez1280
      @ChristopherGonzalez1280 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It was a nice gesture

    • @wait_wtf
      @wait_wtf ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, you guys have to know what happened to him after they won the war. It wasn't pretty

  • @tonytromboney
    @tonytromboney 7 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
    -Winston Churchill

  • @TamTroll
    @TamTroll 7 ปีที่แล้ว +438

    fun fact: one of the C̶a̶n̶a̶d̶i̶a̶n̶ Brittish Soldiers, a man by the name of "John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, nicknamed “Mad Jack,”" had a real combat-ready broadsword and bow that belonged to his family. He brought the medieval weapons with him to D-Day, used them effectively, and survived the war.

    • @TamTroll
      @TamTroll 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      oh shit you're right, he was hong-kong born British. i must have gotten something mixed up there, sorry.

    • @araknidude
      @araknidude 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I read about this badass! He dropped the thing and said something like "no battle is complete without f&@#ing swords," turned around, picked it back up, and continued hewing Germans limb from limb! What a character!

    • @conbinspark3144
      @conbinspark3144 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      "Guns and ships, no this is WWII, we need Guns and Swords."

    • @agusti92
      @agusti92 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He didn't actually use the sword though.

    • @rubenkeizer7633
      @rubenkeizer7633 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      In fact, he never landed in Normandy. He was a commando who, indeed, did attack, and kill, Germans with a longsword and a longbow. However, he also used hand grenades. He was captured in 1944, in Yugoslavia, while aiding the partisans there.

  • @johndavenport2847
    @johndavenport2847 7 ปีที่แล้ว +869

    The treatment and persecution of Alan Turing is one of the most disgusting acts humanity has ever wrought upon itself. You can debate his influence in computing, but he was poisoned and pushed to suicide in a disgusting manner.

    • @markavtonomov1939
      @markavtonomov1939 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Kamo Only broke it, with the Enigma Machine :D

    • @tamkin007
      @tamkin007 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Operations unthinkable should explain what the polish situation was about. And as for Alan Turin what was the policy for gay men in the other allied nations at the time?

    • @jammo6645
      @jammo6645 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @Kamo Britain declared war on Germany in the defence of Poland. Do you literally not know history.

    • @dreamEternal
      @dreamEternal 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@anujkhanna2428 Don't be silly it was a rare ocurence. If this is how they treated all their heroes, there would be no England. What matters is reparations were made, as were for the Japanese after the internment camp faisco - although in both these cases ofcourse it would have been better if it had not happened, but grave mistakes are an ever present part of mankind.

    • @Kamilkime
      @Kamilkime 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@jammo6645 Yeah... And that war declaration... Did almost nothing - Poland was still by itself during over a month of battle, at the start of the war. French - almost the same. Why did Hitler attack Poland frist? He suspected that the British and French won't join the fight, but if he attacked France first - Poland would strike from the east immediately, because of the alliance.
      And the enigma - only Poles were successful in decoding it, giving all their results, and copies of the actual enigma machines, to the British and French, just before the start of the war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Polish_breakthroughs

  • @smalltime0
    @smalltime0 7 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Juan Pujol García deserves a mini series himself.
    The man was insane and yet such a pivotal character in world history.

    • @CristianFT86
      @CristianFT86 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Absolutely.
      But why is he portrayed as "a Catalan"?

    • @scareye2772
      @scareye2772 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      CristianFT86 He is called Catalan, maybe because he was born in Catalonia? As far as I know, it's a real place.

    • @CristianFT86
      @CristianFT86 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Who said It wasn't a real place?
      Im pointing out the fact that there was not a single region after the Civil War in the whole country with the privilege of being treated as a Nation other than Spain itself.
      Portray Juan Pujol García as "a Catalan" is, to all intents and purposes, historically inaccurate.
      That's how it was and how it is now, wether you like it or not and, trust me, I don't like it either.

    • @DarkGiratina96
      @DarkGiratina96 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's historically accurate. There's no need to use just the country to identify someone's place of origin. If they can be more precise by saying the region I don't get why they shouldn't.
      And besides, from what I heard, it might me a country in a few months so it's not really that weird to specify if there's already conflict over that.

    • @greatalexander3820
      @greatalexander3820 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it is a bit awkward to mention someones regional birthplace, if you want to be specific use their hometown and if you want to be broad use their nation.
      Of course that is only relevant if the regions do not have special political status (like the American states do) and Catalonia did not have any political status.

  • @turtlepenguinXkizuna
    @turtlepenguinXkizuna 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    YESSSS you included Garbo! He deserves a video all of his own.

  • @MrPolklop
    @MrPolklop 6 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    6:30 Not really a "series of coincidences" - the professor's students suggested the words to him after hanging around loose lip Allied soldiers.
    Also a lot of other information issues.

    • @isbestlizard
      @isbestlizard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I would have thought MI5 would have asked him exactly what student suggested each clue and then followed that up with all despatch to discover the Allied soldier and then discover what else they might have said and to who and then followed that up and impressed upon them the importance of not betraying your country literally until no more people were left

    • @christiniakollar8397
      @christiniakollar8397 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ah I’m going to correct people because I want to feel important

  • @khuzang
    @khuzang 7 ปีที่แล้ว +448

    _"His Death, A Tragedy,"_
    _"HIs treatment, an embarrassment"_

  • @commandernightstrike
    @commandernightstrike 7 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    the funny part was that Canadian units were actually ahead of schedule through out most of the D-Day landings

  • @googlegoogle-ye4mx
    @googlegoogle-ye4mx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +236

    "If you hear gunshots it's ok it's just the neighbors go back to bed."
    Lol

    • @m01mast3r
      @m01mast3r 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      "but... we're not is Texas! Shots aren't normal!"

    • @kimothelimo
      @kimothelimo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      i would be like:
      "okay, (lies) *hears gun shots* lemme check (≖︿≖ ) nah its just the canadian and british soliders XD

    • @SoJoever
      @SoJoever 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lazarbeam convinces his neighbors that he did not kill his willie
      Cerca 2019

    • @wingedhussars812
      @wingedhussars812 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kimothelimo Me:"Hey look a German."

    • @danaaltini4399
      @danaaltini4399 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hans your neighbors are probrabrly getting raided by the gestapo

  • @katrinka9781
    @katrinka9781 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My grandfather was a medic for the navy at D-Day. He laned on Omaha Beach and was hit in the back with shapnel pretty early on. A marine dragged him in a foxhole and hid him. He waited there for hours until they finally found him and managed to bring him back to the ship. He passed away in the fall of 2019. I miss you Doctor Ramsey.

  • @thepoppyman844
    @thepoppyman844 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The best thing about these videos is dose funny animated photos. They make learning fun.

  • @WargamingEurope
    @WargamingEurope 7 ปีที่แล้ว +613

    and we are live!

    • @CasperKersten
      @CasperKersten 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hey Wargaming, I really like your own documentaries, especially the World of Warships-related ones. Can you create some documentaries about tanks, discontinued tank concepts and tank battles as well?

    • @TheRadioativeBones
      @TheRadioativeBones 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Terribly sorry good sir, but it would appear that the game known as "War Thunder"
      Is much better than your "World of Tanks"

    • @scheise4433
      @scheise4433 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Raafy so true!

    • @joaquingonzalez834
      @joaquingonzalez834 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      im just getting world of tanks and war thunder in Steam

    • @gojoPart2
      @gojoPart2 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Woow

  • @N0rsche
    @N0rsche 7 ปีที่แล้ว +637

    Wait, Operation Foritude? 1:21 Someone was sleepy when they were making the slides for this episode.

    • @applelachian
      @applelachian 7 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      It was Walpole!

    • @proto303
      @proto303 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      took me a second, but yeah

    • @alwinpriven2400
      @alwinpriven2400 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      what's the actual name then?

    • @earthman7088
      @earthman7088 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Alwin Priven it's operation fortitude they forgot the T

    • @MrDUneven
      @MrDUneven 7 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Some Brittish drank the t.

  • @CornishCreamtea07
    @CornishCreamtea07 7 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    I would proudly give my life at the Bunny Hug Landing.

    • @andmos1001
      @andmos1001 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      CornishCreamtea07 Mr and Ms Average, your son have been killed by German guns at the assault of Bonny Hop land. He fought bravely with his troops to the bitter end

    • @goldenexperiencerequiem4714
      @goldenexperiencerequiem4714 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      HUGGED TO DEATH!!!

    • @zuboy4272
      @zuboy4272 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He fought very bravely but bunnies were too furious and hugged him till his death

    • @QUACKHEAD23GAMING
      @QUACKHEAD23GAMING 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CornishCreamtea07 ik this is an old post but still miss and misses whoo haa your son has died doing what he told to do to get his squad mates out of the line of fire on bunny hug landing his loss will not be in bunny hugs vain

    • @TheMyopicFed
      @TheMyopicFed 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      United States Military Officer: "Mr. and Mrs. Smith, your son was torpedoed into oblivion by the Germans at Coca-Cola Lake. We are sorry for the loss of your son. By the way, we're voting on a tax on texts, you wanna come and shout cuss word like a sailor and shit on the sidewalk?!!"
      Door slam

  • @somebody3143
    @somebody3143 6 ปีที่แล้ว +548

    “If you hear any guns or explosions, it’s just the neighbors again, go back to sleep!” Lmao, WTF kind of neighbors does this narrator have!?

    • @whatshappeninganymore2473
      @whatshappeninganymore2473 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      The ones who fire automatics on New Years.

    • @Somm_RJ
      @Somm_RJ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      They were in France. The neighbors are French. Rebels.

    • @Somm_RJ
      @Somm_RJ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@C104-x9s sorry, you must've mistaken that I replied to you. I was replying to the OP.

    • @doopboop8359
      @doopboop8359 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@whatshappeninganymore2473 oh yeah i have one of those neighbours
      I only fire pistols

    • @azelfdaboi5265
      @azelfdaboi5265 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Americans

  • @reevefelisilda5812
    @reevefelisilda5812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I appreciate the rainbow ribbon on Alan Turing.. A small detail but a powerful symbol. He was brilliant man. One of the brightest in the world, in fact. It's just a shame his end had to be tragic one..

    • @SB-iy9vn
      @SB-iy9vn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      a lItTle rAiNbOw pIn
      My god do you not care about anything else than sexuality

  • @demit189
    @demit189 7 ปีที่แล้ว +373

    I wonder who will win?

    • @dr_jj
      @dr_jj 7 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Ofc the germans! Everyone know that the allies winning was a conspiracy theory right?

    • @internetalias1613
      @internetalias1613 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Nuziburt 3rd Do you even have to ask? Of course the Axis are just preparing a defence in the east and D-Day was just a fluke; watch in the next episode because everyone knows the Allies will be pushed out of Europe.

    • @jonbaxter2254
      @jonbaxter2254 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      devised by Walpole of course

    • @xdarkwing104x
      @xdarkwing104x 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol, the fact that you aren't speaking german should tell you....

    • @deamon6681
      @deamon6681 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's the crux with historic tellings, no matter how hard you're trying to tell the happenings as captivating or dramatic as possible, the ending is already known.

  • @briandalke5946
    @briandalke5946 7 ปีที่แล้ว +356

    Kind of disappointed that the Canadians again get lumped in with the British as a minor partner. The Americans, British, and French get most of the focus on D-Day, and rightly so, but Canadians drove deeper into France than any other army and even met a few of their D-Day objectives. Was hoping with several countries getting episodes that we'd get some love.
    Maybe one day Extra History will do a series on us one day. :)

    • @jackrichmond2691
      @jackrichmond2691 7 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      The Canadians were part of the British 2nd Army, that's why.

    • @seriously8277
      @seriously8277 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Also it wasn't that many Canadans

    • @DrWena123
      @DrWena123 7 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      At least you guys got a decent mention, Australia and New Zealand barely get mentioned at all by these channels

    • @rustyshackleford5536
      @rustyshackleford5536 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      What do you expect from Extra History? 4,000 Canadians dead at Dieppe? 907. 907 Canadians were KIA at Dieppe. There weren't even 4,000 Canadian casualties total during Jubilee.

    • @amateruss
      @amateruss 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The Canadians killed the Nazis using their kind words.

  • @Sturmdude
    @Sturmdude 7 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    6:52 Good Homestar reference 10/10

    • @kas9402
      @kas9402 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I noticed that and was like NO WAY and I had to go through a lot of comments to find this one >_> apparently nobody else remembered T_T

    • @davidsan9654
      @davidsan9654 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I said come...on..fhqwhgads...I said come on fhqwhgaaads

    • @Sean1Lima
      @Sean1Lima 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Everybody to the limit, everybody to the limit, everybody come on Fhqwhgads

    • @davidsan9654
      @davidsan9654 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Sean1Lima I dont know who it is...but it probably is fhqwhagahds

    • @tehbonehead
      @tehbonehead 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I see you jockin me... tryin to pretend like
      U
      KNO
      ME!

  • @randomknight2585
    @randomknight2585 5 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    7:02 look at Turing’s chest
    You are now crying if you know what happened to him

    • @OlliOtter
      @OlliOtter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I know exactly what happened to him and I’m completely fine.

    • @randomknight2585
      @randomknight2585 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      OlliOtter1004 *then your soulless*

    • @OlliOtter
      @OlliOtter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Also hi Susan Wojcicki! Can you stop demonitizing people please?

    • @randomknight2585
      @randomknight2585 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      OlliOtter1004 I don’t get it and I just did the whole soulless thing as a satire joke

    • @NacnudPinky
      @NacnudPinky 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I at least thought that the ribbon was a nice touch and that Alan should be appreciated both for his achievements and his sexuality what happened was horrible but he is still fondly remembered and respected

  • @christianperkins9508
    @christianperkins9508 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    6:52 Homestar Runner reference! Cracking that one must have pushed everybody to the limit.

  • @JelloApocalypse
    @JelloApocalypse 7 ปีที่แล้ว +330

    6:54
    Come on, fhqwhgads.
    I say come on, fhqwhgads.

    • @kierandahle7714
      @kierandahle7714 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The cheat is to the limit everybody a fhgwhgads

    • @AngelDame17
      @AngelDame17 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      I do love when Extra history dumps Old and New Internet Memes on the sly~ X3

    • @jackharris8661
      @jackharris8661 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      JelloApocalypse kkk

    • @alfaw.8107
      @alfaw.8107 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      JelloApocalypse I

    • @PommyDragon2525
      @PommyDragon2525 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      The British had quite the network telling the Germans that other locations and people were to the limit.

  • @jameswhite7704
    @jameswhite7704 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    it was on juno beach that James doohan, who later played scotty on the original star trek, had his combat debut and also lost part of his finger

    • @lib556
      @lib556 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Doohan = Canadian

  • @nicholasford4820
    @nicholasford4820 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Nice touch getting the different Canadian uniform & webbing colors and the Mk.III helmets right.

  • @CrownedLime747
    @CrownedLime747 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    10:04 When a teacher asks for the homework you didn't do.

  • @guesstime6445
    @guesstime6445 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Rest in Peace for the 4,000 Canadians who gave there lives for the future of there families and the world

  • @Yahriel
    @Yahriel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Why didn't we learn about this massive, epic deception in history class? How come we never hear about all the interesting bits, the drama, the feats of victory and the horrific losses? We just get "yeah, this event happened at this date, for these political reasons. There will be a test next Monday."
    History has NEVER been as interesting as when you guys do it, EC!

  • @TomKellyXY
    @TomKellyXY 7 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    D-Day: "Ten of thousand men would die"
    Battle of Somme: * hold my beer *

    • @Michael-wk7ug
      @Michael-wk7ug 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So mean but funny. My god...

    • @gutsjoestar7450
      @gutsjoestar7450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Stalingrad : Hold my vodka

  • @KnownNiche1999
    @KnownNiche1999 7 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    7:51 Why London is a freaking lake?

    • @taherbertolinirodrigues9104
      @taherbertolinirodrigues9104 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Well, It was once a fucking swamp

    • @antimatter_nvf
      @antimatter_nvf 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      heh, seems like germans bormbarded london to such a degree that it was reduced to sea level

    • @nickkhaira8819
      @nickkhaira8819 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      at least the British where off thier shes from the start of the war unlike the Americans

    • @Phobos_Anomaly
      @Phobos_Anomaly 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought it was a lake ;)

    • @baron0319
      @baron0319 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes

  • @isentient666
    @isentient666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Extra Credit draws me in to the story more than any other history TH-cam channel.

  • @ballsoup896
    @ballsoup896 6 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Not to mention that the Poles cracked the Enigma

    • @kinggoldcatter9932
      @kinggoldcatter9932 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      To be honest it did not help them much

    • @openthinker6562
      @openthinker6562 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      The Germans had different Enigmas for different branches. The Poles had the Enigma at the beginning, but the Germans updated and upgraded the code.

    • @fulcrum2951
      @fulcrum2951 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      And the codes was broken again

    • @ethanrobitaille7733
      @ethanrobitaille7733 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      All because of a double agent in the Reich working with the french... He gave them monthly codes, and design for enigma, (The Spy in Hitler's Inner Circle, Paul Paillole).

  • @TheAgamemnon911
    @TheAgamemnon911 7 ปีที่แล้ว +441

    Nice touch giving Turing a rainbow ribbon.

    • @Pyrofessional
      @Pyrofessional 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Agamemnon Yes it was, not forced or in your face.

    • @ZoeAlleyne
      @ZoeAlleyne 7 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      Creepcast roger he could have been wearing a flag and riding a unicorn and it wouldn't be forced or in your face. He was gay and was persecuted and died for it. his sexuality is relevant.

    • @cheedrifin2925
      @cheedrifin2925 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      thank you.

    • @kiramoth2766
      @kiramoth2766 7 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      It should be forced on every faces. Homophobia at the time killed one of the greatest mind of the 20th century for who he loved. We should never forget that.

    • @lolmandos
      @lolmandos 7 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      +ZoeAlleyne He was also a brilliant mathematician and the father of modern computer science. He probably would rather want to be remembered by that, not by the fact that he was gay or prosecuted for it.

  • @ThatIrishLass
    @ThatIrishLass 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love the tiny little touch of giving Turing a rainbow ribbon. Good on you guys.

  • @gonvillebromhead2865
    @gonvillebromhead2865 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Impressed they got the differing colours of otherwise more or less identical Canadian and British uniforms

  • @masonglennon1757
    @masonglennon1757 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    SWORD?! Covenant owns that now!

  • @n0rdlys_40
    @n0rdlys_40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    MI5: Creates the most elaborate anti-intelligence system, employs the best agents to ensure secrecy and spreads false intel to the enemy.
    Also MI5: Idk, it's not enough

    • @cb41503
      @cb41503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They were like Kylo Ren in the last Jedi
      An MI5 operative: sir we've done enough to fool the Germans.
      MI5 command: MORE!!!!!!!

  • @shindean
    @shindean 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I've heard about Alan Turning, but I was curious about the Pride ribbon you illustrated on him so i looked it up.
    His story was so sad, to think that a man that was so important to winning this war was being chemically tortured for his sexuality. Thank you for displaying that, to think that people can be so indifferent about these issues when a historic hero was submitted to such a cruel punishment for simply being born.

    • @SB-iy9vn
      @SB-iy9vn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Again why praised some thing he could not control rather than his work

  • @jonathanstringer8901
    @jonathanstringer8901 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love that you gave Garbo some love. You could do a multi part series on him and his insane spycraft.

  • @Zyk0tiK
    @Zyk0tiK 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    You guys should do an entire series on Garbo alone, it's absolutely fascinating.

  • @pegmay7209
    @pegmay7209 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    GHOST ARMY!
    My great great Uncle, Lacy Barton, died at Omaha. He got to safety, but a buddy from home started crying for help after he had been shot in the leg.
    He went back for him.....they stepped on a mine on the way back...
    ......A lot of good people die to war and conflict...in the end we are only left with the lucky ones or the spineless.

  • @thesturgon3980
    @thesturgon3980 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fun Fact: Canada was credited with liberating the first house on European soil. The house was being used as an MG position and was responsible for the majority of the deaths at Juno. It was later re-named Canada House and still remains there today.

  • @Gilhelmi
    @Gilhelmi 7 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I like PM Churchill. I would not want to give my last at "bunny hop hill" either.

    • @hkchan1339
      @hkchan1339 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i'd love to have "bunny" on my tombstone

  • @plifal7799
    @plifal7799 7 ปีที่แล้ว +664

    Just keep sponsoring these episodes wargaming. I won't ever play your games, but sponsor these series anyway.

    • @Kampfgorillagear
      @Kampfgorillagear 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      lol

    • @sarasamaletdin4574
      @sarasamaletdin4574 7 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      Shh, they might be reading these.

    • @Corey_Brandt
      @Corey_Brandt 7 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Sssh! Don’t say that!

    • @aziouss2863
      @aziouss2863 7 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      hey dont be rude this is a cool way to to do ads

    • @knottheory79220
      @knottheory79220 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      They know not everyone will, that's just how it works.

  • @Pilgrim1st
    @Pilgrim1st 7 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    7:51 Why is London a pond?

  • @Markus-zb5zd
    @Markus-zb5zd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The codebook didn't break the Enigma.. it was a little technical thing... Abused by the Turing "bomb"

  • @NetITGeeks
    @NetITGeeks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Juan Pujol García sounds like an awesome agent! What a great guy.

  • @BoboMagroto26
    @BoboMagroto26 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    4:10 “If you hear any guns or shouting over there, just relax, it’s just the neighbours again, go back to sleep!”
    XD I laughed so hard, that was gold!

  • @NghiaNguyen-gw1vs
    @NghiaNguyen-gw1vs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Haha haha 8:12 tho
    Mailman: I’m sorry ma’am your son has lost his life at the bunny hugs landing
    Mother:*GASP* not my little Timmy how could you le- wait did you say bunny hugs landing?

  • @beegmaan1306
    @beegmaan1306 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    2:59 fishman and baldy together finding Berlin on a map

  • @multiversepatriot3148
    @multiversepatriot3148 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    WAR: okay, so your heavy equipment and most of the strike force are under the waves. You should probably go ho-
    British Commandos: captures the battery anyway
    WAR: am I a joke to you?

    • @NJFireDepartment
      @NJFireDepartment 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Commandos: Yes, Yes you are.

  • @ehs1452
    @ehs1452 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man the British intelligence in this war was something else. It wasn't just D-day where the British had fooled the Germans, when they had artillery set up to strike London, a double agent had falsely informed them that the bombs were hitting their targets, when they were doing little to no damage in the countryside. The Germans continued to miss London thinking it was In ruins (after artists had worked together to make the city look as if it was in ruins) and London was able to quickly recover thanks to this after the war.

  • @pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4344
    @pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4344 7 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    And all of this because of a sandwich.

  • @mortman200
    @mortman200 7 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    4000 Canadian casualties, not deaths. 900 or so fatalities

    • @lib556
      @lib556 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes. Just under 1K killed, 1.5 K returned and 2.5 K taken prisoner at Dieppe.

  • @alexgibson781
    @alexgibson781 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    7:00 Ok, am I literally the only person that saw the rainbow ribbon they gave Turing?

    • @JustANoob1
      @JustANoob1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes my man deserved better.

  • @triangulum8869
    @triangulum8869 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This channel is the best historical channel on TH-cam, period. I love all of your videos, keep up the amazing work

  • @takshashila2995
    @takshashila2995 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "If you hear Gunshots,explosives then it's just the Neighbours again,Go,Back to sleep."
    You Living in Syria bro?

  • @bwhitetemp
    @bwhitetemp 7 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    I said come on Fhqwhgads
    I said come on Fhqwhgads
    Everybody to the limit
    Everybody to the limit
    Everybody come on Fhqwhgads

    • @Ironfrenzy217
      @Ironfrenzy217 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The Cheat is to the limit!

    • @iamymai
      @iamymai 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Everybody, come on Fhqwhgads!

    • @BraninT
      @BraninT 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Come on Fhqwhgads
      I see you jockin' me
      Tryin' to play like
      You NO me

    • @Rick586
      @Rick586 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      YES

    • @ZorlockDarksoul
      @ZorlockDarksoul 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I asked my friend Joe
      I asked my friend Jake
      They said it was fhqwhgads

  • @TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs
    @TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs 7 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    4:13 that bed is cute

    • @nicolas44991
      @nicolas44991 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs Go back to make landing videos
      JK, i love your videos man :)

    • @gamehubcc5130
      @gamehubcc5130 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I argree it is cute

    • @thesupertsar4473
      @thesupertsar4473 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ich got it from mein garäge sale.

    • @ianruotsalainen
      @ianruotsalainen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Iron Armenian aka G.I. Haigs lol

    • @therealgamingderps9608
      @therealgamingderps9608 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      where do I get it?

  • @komandorbentus2731
    @komandorbentus2731 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Alan Turing only continued Stefan Banach researches. One Enigma (no in 100% complete) used by Werhmacht( was different than used in Kriegsmarine) was transported by Polish AK soldiers from Poland in cooperation with RAF. Later British people found fully complete Kriegsmarine Enigma with code book. That was the final of breaking Enigma mystery :)

    • @Artur_M.
      @Artur_M. 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Komandor Bentus Stefan Banach, while great and influential Polish mathematician, had nothing to do with cracking the Enigma. Don't you mean Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski?
      Also, aren't you mixing Enigma with Operation Most III (when British got parts of the V2 rocket thanks to AK).
      If I remember correctly, Enigma machine they got from us was a copy of older version, build before the war, based on information gathered by our and French intelligences.

    • @komandorbentus2731
      @komandorbentus2731 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, it was Stefan Banach and others mathematician like Rejewski, Różycki and Zygalski,. You're right, I meant an older version of Enigma based on Polish-French inteligences information. Thanks for notice, you made it more precise. Old type Enigma from Werhmacht was carried to London before war.

  • @shroomesh6456
    @shroomesh6456 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Parent: dont lie, you will always be caught
    Garbo: am I a joke too you?

  • @Bariom_dome
    @Bariom_dome 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Every episode ending gives me goosebumps. So good and epic

  • @filipfilip3335
    @filipfilip3335 6 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Reminder. Actually the Poles broke the Enigma even before war. And they have informed allies about that.

    • @themadhammer3305
      @themadhammer3305 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Kind of, they had broken a previous version of Enigma prior to the war. But by the start of the war the Germans were using upgraded machines that Poland had yet to crack. They did provide a huge amount of the early research though which absolutely made the job of the UKs code breakers far easier

    • @emilyyeoh3897
      @emilyyeoh3897 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      But the germans changed the code

    • @nerdomatic2489
      @nerdomatic2489 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yet another Polish slavaboo fanboy boasting about accomplishments despite being misinformed.
      Poland cracked the EARLIEST enigma - Germans later upgraded and updated the code. And before you bring up the bs that "Enigma cracking machines in Bletchley Park were from Poles" I will just say no.

  • @abrohm2983
    @abrohm2983 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    No mention of just how well the canadians did? We're they the only beach to complete all their objectives?

    • @nooneinparticular2638
      @nooneinparticular2638 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The narrator said that it is an American perspective of the war

    • @kevintran4918
      @kevintran4918 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A1B7C R3R21S13Y15G this one is the British

    • @kevintran4918
      @kevintran4918 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A1B7C R3R21S13Y15G the 1st was the American one

  • @bananaboiy1751
    @bananaboiy1751 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    8:12
    I died of laughter 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @gamehood7751
    @gamehood7751 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I miss the reader wherever he is I hope he is happy and successful

  • @liambraw8302
    @liambraw8302 ปีที่แล้ว

    Every intro of this channel is so cold and satisfying

  • @somebody3143
    @somebody3143 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “D Day,” is a historical event that makes me truly proud to be an American...

    • @kinggil4181
      @kinggil4181 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      or anybody from a country that sided with the allies

  • @Michael-wk7ug
    @Michael-wk7ug 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    1:28
    Can’t stop freaking laughing. The face of the Canadian. It’s priceless

  • @deltafrombnet9393
    @deltafrombnet9393 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    8:22 sounds like a topic for a Sabaton song

  • @methatanchatchawan2426
    @methatanchatchawan2426 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love ur animation I also love the extra knowlegde. WW2 is my fav part of learning history

  • @captainemerald7477
    @captainemerald7477 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow someone who actually talks about the Canadians for more then 2 seconds thank you

  • @whatnot3474
    @whatnot3474 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Always nice to hear about the ridiculous lengths the British went with fake intel for D-Day. Would of been nice to hear a bit more about the British Funnie tanks as well though - they were pretty amazing (floating tanks anyone?).

    • @kchishol1970
      @kchishol1970 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not just the amphibious tanks, but the mine-flayers, the bunker busters with a cannon so big it had to be loaded from the outside, the bridge layers for medium length gaps. Even more badass were the tanks whose job was to drive into ant-tank trenches, lower the ramps fore and after to serve as a quick bridge for regular tanks pass over with the crew wait it out inside from before before moving. Finally, there were the armored bulldozers who had to do the grunt work clearing obstacles to enable the regular tanks to advance. In fact, this collection deserves a video in and of itself.

    • @whatnot3474
      @whatnot3474 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally right - there were an amazing number of tanks the British created. I've always been interested in if their is an analysis of there effectiveness (it's worth noting that the US, for the most part, didn't use them and had the most trouble capturing their beaches, but you can't draw conclusions for this).
      The main reason I mentioned the amphibious tanks is because I love their nick names. They were called DD tanks, so of course the troops nicknamed them Donald Ducks!

  • @aplane9248
    @aplane9248 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    lol the Germans at 5:36 was hilarious

  • @zartan2298
    @zartan2298 7 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    1:20 operation for*I*tude

  • @soaringsquid0.129
    @soaringsquid0.129 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like how good the animation is in the intro

  • @jojonas5463
    @jojonas5463 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When Mi5 dislikes your crossword puzzle again for some reason

  • @Cheshire1501
    @Cheshire1501 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Wait, so we had an Oscar winning movie for Argo and we don't have a movie version of THIS?

    • @sarasamaletdin4574
      @sarasamaletdin4574 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      There are plenty of movies about these things. The Imitation Game for example was about the Egima and Patton movie dealt with the Germans thinking he was going to lead the attack for example.

    • @joshcorbett4787
      @joshcorbett4787 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cheshire1501 what about the imitation game. It's about the British cracking the enigma machine

    • @dernwine
      @dernwine 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Which part? The Longest Day is a good movie about the invasion day from the sides of most of the nations taking part (including the germans).
      ...as for the cloak and dagger stuff...um.... the new dads army movie maybe?
      There was also that abomination of an American movie that claimed the US navy stole the enigma machine....

    • @ramyousef1620
      @ramyousef1620 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Cheshire1501 dunkirk's coming out

    • @GriffinPilgrim
      @GriffinPilgrim 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If you mean the disinformation campaign not sure how much of a movie you could do. It's interesting as history but visually it'd just be a whole bunch of people talking total nonsense for two hours odd.

  • @Isolder74
    @Isolder74 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Patton's helmet should only have three stars.

  • @abnegazher
    @abnegazher 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "MACGREEEEEGOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!" - Cap. John Price.

  • @RyanTheHero3
    @RyanTheHero3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ‘Fake wooden aircraft’
    *DeHavilland Mosquito has left the chat*

  • @jessegrisham
    @jessegrisham 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    6:53 - Come on fhqwhgads, I said come on fhqwhgads. Everybody to the limit the cheat is to the limit everybody come on fhqwhgads!
    10/10 Homestar reference. That was a deep cut. Well played.

  • @stevenchoza6391
    @stevenchoza6391 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    One of the things that made Fortitude a success was having Patton made a commander of the fictitious army. The Germans believed him to be the best Allied General and, as a result, were terrified of him.

    • @colinkelly5420
      @colinkelly5420 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Actually the Germans for the most part didn't know who Patton was. Harry Yeide did a Bio on Patton, and looking through the German archives found very few references to him, even when he was in actual command of 3rd Army in Europe. In fact, even in 1945 the Germans were often unaware who the commander of 3rd Army was. The notion he was well known and feared by the Germans is a product of the movie "Patton" and "A Bridge Too Far". In reality, archival evidence suggests he was significantly less well known then Monty, Eisenhower or Bradley to the Germans, in large part because those men created the strategy of which men like Patton carried out.
      Patton was used in Fortitude because he was without command after slapping shell-shocked soldiers, so he was available to sit in England until well after D-day. There is also evidence that the US command thought the Germans had a higher respect/level of knowledge of Patton then they really did. In reality, German intel didn't even pick up on Patton being the head of the fictitious US army until after D-day had begun, so we know his "reputation" played no role in Fortitude's success.

    • @dernwine
      @dernwine 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Joseph Sosa agreed, although I think Pattons overrating comes in popular culture rather than military academies (since it's hugely influenced by the movie "Patton" which lets face it, was baisically pro-Patton, anti everyone else propaganda.)

    • @marypusineri6291
      @marypusineri6291 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      dernwine overrated as he is, he was still one of the best allied commanders

    • @stevenchoza6391
      @stevenchoza6391 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Really? I could've sworn I read documents saying otherwise, though it was a while back when I did so. In any case, the US leadership thought otherwise so let's just blame the Allied High Command for my mistake.
      And I was aware of the slapping incident and Patton's punishment; I just assumed it to be a very convenient excuse for the Allies to place him where he was in Operation Fortitude.

    • @dernwine
      @dernwine 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mary that's a rather debatable position to take. Patton mostly faced comparative light opposition and usually had freedom of maneuver on his allies flanks, a situation most cavalry commanders would have loved to be given. His style was flashy, made headlines, and was the stuff of holywood (and so the public ate it up [and as mentioned it does help when you have a movie that essentially is made to worship you]) but nothing that made him "the best" really at anything. It's interesting to note that he never got promoted past command of an army while his equals and subordinates got up to army group level.
      And I'm only looking at people in the west, I don't think he really even compares with people like Zhukov or Rokossovsky.

  • @Zandonus
    @Zandonus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    All warfare is based on deception. -Sun Tzu , 2017

  • @harryanderson1726
    @harryanderson1726 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love this channel so much!!!!

  • @swedishbloke
    @swedishbloke 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have watched this video many times but never noticed the pride pin on Alan until now. Thank you EC for including that (heart empji)