I wholeheartedly agree Majed, Indy and Team have given me an awesome history lesson to look forward to every week! Idk what I'm gonna do when it's over... Thanks Great War Team!!!
+ Jewie Snew If you remember the early days of this channel, the quality could be pretty hit and miss. WW2 is off to a flying start imo, and I expect will be absolutely on point by years end (especially after The Great War finishes).
Conrad vs Cadorna was still one of the best moments of this channel. A fight between two living memes. (living, at the time). Felt like a fight between two blind men.
The Battle of St. Mihiel! I'm looking at the WWI Memorial at UT in Austin, TX, and counting off the battles on the monument as they get mentioned in this show. That's another one!
What a weird coincidence!!! Just discovered today my great uncle Ted was in this attack. Company "C", 135th Machinegun Battalion, 73rd Infantry Brigade, 37th Div (Buckeye Div) Found a photo of the 135th MG Bn battle flag with the ribbons which confirmed it. Crazy but cool. Hint: Uncle Ted survives this action at St.Mihiel.....
Tidbit info: US Army divisions had a target strength of 28,000, much larger than other armies on the W. Front. Reason given was to make movement of replacement units easier and faster. Decisions on placement or rearranging units would be within the division. Basically a division then avoided the hassle of going through Corps or Army level to move troops especially fresh ones for casualty replacements.
Discovered that a distant cousin of mine was apart of the 167th infantry regiment, 42nd division. He died on the first day of the offensive. He is buried there to this day.
I don't know if anyone at the Great War will see this. I hope so, because it is SUPER important! I don't know how many recordings you do in advance, but I would suggest that for the next recording and every recording thereafter, you NEED to make mention of the propaganda machine in Germany at this point in the war. There are now less than 8 weeks left in the war, and it needs to be stated that the general German populous don't know how bad things are. In fact they think they are winning! When the war ends, they are stunned to find out they lost! It's one of, if not THE, main driving forces behind Hitler's ability to do whatever he wants, including starting WWII, when he comes to power 15 years later. So, among the other things you talk about, I would stress that it's super important that you mention what the German government is telling the people at home during these last few weeks. Thank you. Love the channel. It's been very informative. I know a lot more now than I ever did about the war because of the information you provided each week. Fred Strange (Former) History Teacher
In this video you touch upon something that I've often wandered about and have even asked about in the past and throughout this series, that being the conditions people in occupied territory experienced, and their general treatment by the occupants. I'm particularly interested in Northern France. You really should make a special video about this.
John Hunter Wickersham, Medal of Honor recipient Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 353rd Infantry, 89th Division Near Limey, France, 12 September 1918. Official citation: Advancing with his platoon during the St. Mihiel offensive, he was severely wounded in 4 places by the bursting of a high-explosive shell. Before receiving any aid for himself he dressed the wounds of his orderly, who was wounded at the same time. He then ordered and accompanied the further advance of his platoon, although weakened by the loss of blood. His right hand and arm being disabled by wounds, he continued to fire his revolver with his left hand until, exhausted by loss of blood, he fell and died from his wounds before aid could be administered.
When I read, "..he continued to fire his revolver with his left hand.." I immediately wondered, isn't preserving a living, useful, second lieutenant more important than firing off a couple of revolver shots? I wonder if the army had protocols training for officers, for the correct actions when one incurred wounds?
@@BergquistScott He was most likely disoriented from the concussion of the shell, and didn't realize how badly he'd been wounded. Or, he thought that leading his platoon was more important than preserving his own life. Maybe he felt that his first sergeant was unreliable. There are numerous MoH recipients who got them by covering enemy grenades with their own body, a much more sacrificial act.
The americans seem adept at taking mass German surrenders, maybe the Germans don't mind giving up to the yanks, since they don't have the long term battle history (and animosity), that they have with the other entente members.
Paul von Hindenburg. Defeated by the Entente, defeated by Hitler, defeated by Time. A rum go. I would pity him, had he not seen innocent civilians as ciphers.
"'I do not want to speak ill of the Americans, Monsieur,' he continued, 'it seems they are inexhaustibly generous and, since there has been no orchestral conductor in this war and each entered the dance considerably after the other and the Americans began when we were almost finished, they may have an ardour which four years of war has quenched among us. Even before the war they loved our country and our art and paid high prices for our masterpieces of which they have many now.'" (a character from 'Time Regained' (1927), by Marcel Proust)
This is quite true (being French myself). However you can understand why we roll our eyes everytime we hear Americans say they just always saved the day. The irony of the XXth century for France, is that we owe much more to our bitterest centuries long ennemy - Britain - that we do towards our historically longest and greatest ally - the US. This is why I am so sad of watching Trump's isolationnism : United States and France could always count on each other's aid in times of dire need. Is this all to disappear now ?
America and France should always be friends. Like individual friendships, once truly established, you don't throw them away on a whim. This series should remind us how powerful we are together.
Zachary Guillerey. NEVER! I am a true American and have loved your country since childhood, travelled extensively through it and spent several Summers in your South. I am a history grad. and culture student and hope you can see that it is only certain uneducated groups (classes?) that are so easily swayed by demagogues into anti-French rhetoric and actions. Wholesale ignorance and mean class attitudes would be impotent were it not for the rabble-rousing politics of wealthy imbeciles. The true US is not isolationist.
Started watching this series back in 2016 and thought "Oh this series will be for another 2 years." And haven't watched this for a while and suddenly it will only about 2 months until 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. How time flies.
This goes to show how powerful combined arms(tanks, infantry, artillery) tactic with close air support and observation aircraft (for artillery). This is the way to bulldoze a static defensive line rapidly and cause shock to those defenders
Yea rewatching this time and again it’s awful how much haig messed up and got his troops killed cause he couldn’t understand trench warfare but I’m assuming back then it wasn’t so obvious
Hey Indy and team! Love the show! I have a question for OOTT What is your favorite song from WW1? My personal favorites are 'It's a long way to Tipperary' and 'Pack up your troubles.' Keep up the incredible work!
US General Liggett put it like this “at St. Mihiel the German was not at his best nor his second best and the army was not yet a well-oiled, fully coordinated machine.”
I made it! One week of binge watching and I've caught up to the rest of the troupe and I'm ready to take part in the final battles! Thank you Indy and co for a fantastic show! Truly awesome
And this is why I have defended Haig for the past two years. They had to be on offense in July 16, and in summer 17. His tactics were often wooden, and his optimism annoying, but he has been shaped by it all has was his Army. And this year is why he is viewed as "The Man Who Won the War" and the only one who was convinced it could end in 1918. And it explains (along with his postwar care of the men) why he was loved (until the years, words of Liddell Hart and Lloyd George, and popular media) by those men. We have had 20/20 vision as we judge his mistakes. Again, not a great general, but by the end the man who won the war in 1918.
Can we get a Great War special on Eddie Rickenbacker? He was a great man, great driver, and great pilot. And he’s a hometown hero but that’s besides the point.
With time a little limited, I wonder if you guys will do a special on Indy's Top ten best, and top ten worst generals of ww1. Apart from some obivious best( Brusilov, Monasch, Currie, Von Bonja, Mackensen) and worst ( Cadorna, Nivelle, Von Hotzendorf) its interesting to see where Haig would be placed and why... any thoughts?
Did Douglas Haig have a catchphrase like a superhero or wrestler? He could've said, "for your crimes you're being taken...to the Haig!" or "The Haig will decide your fate!"
Pershing's shift northward away from Metz and into the Argonne Forest would repeat - or, at least, rhyme. In 1944 Patton drove obsessively for Metz, only to be ordered northward to relieve Bastogne in the Ardennes.
Was wondering if you guys could round out the Hitler and Mussolini Who did What episodes with one about British Fascist and WW1 veteran Oswald Mosley? Thanks! Also, I dindnt get to say it last week but it was nice to see Von Lettow-Vorbeck mentioned, even if briefly, insane to think he has been fighting in isolation since 1914!
Next week is Dobro Pole and after that is Doiran.O and also the soldier uprising! I hope the Great War gives justice to our last few episodes in this war.
My great grandfather was with the 310th infantry, 3rd battalion at Saint-Mihiel. He was shot up six days before the Armistice but claimed it was well worth it because the French nurses were beautiful.
Once again logistics is the deciding factor of a battle. A lot has changed. Now men are trained to supply themselves, if there is no re-supply, for continuous engagements. Also, when taking so many prisoners I thought I was going to hear SGT York, but that is another war. Great stuff, can't wait for the next one.
in his book bomk wrote that the germans were so well set in St. Meheil that they had vegetable gardens. one thing that caused confusion was there had been a conference of a machine gun school so americans found themselves capturing men from all sorts of regiments and had trouble sorting out who was there. The big take away is yet again the math. since Amien we see that although the allies are taking heavy casualties, the germans, the defenders , are taking far more.the basic math of the front has changed and germany cannot hold.
Please do a search for “Wardlaw Miles,” Captain, US Army, Medal of Honor recipient and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s English professor at Princeton. A great heroic story!
Onyx1916 In France the end(or was it beginning?) of WW2 is a holiday, yet I don’t remember there being a holiday for WW1... (And I don’t want to get out the paper that we did over the holidays in France in French class)
Now the French are conspiring with the Germans to inflict French Style Governmental practices on the rest of Europe and the rest of the World via the EU.
it looks like "Ane ll A Duge" of course it's not written linearly or with the same letter sizes or spacings so you really have to look at the image if you hope to translate. I see that Ane is French for donkey and I wouldn't be surprised to see that word in a tank name. The rest is not easily translated as French. Maybe a native speaker can interpret this?
I have watched all of the videos up until now and there are two things I didn't really know about that come to my mind; First, it seems EVERYONE used chemical weapons, even the Americans! I had always for some reason thought it was limited to the Germans, I don't know why. Second, America came into the war pretty late in the game. At this point I am wondering if they really had much of an effect, other than maybe a few months time, as it seems the Germans are breaking down pretty quickly at this point, what with mass surrenders and what not... Great show though! Kudos! I am learning whilst being entertained!
In 200 total days of fighting, the AEF had captured 49,000 Germans and 1,400 guns. More than a million US troops in twenty-nine divisions saw active operations, with more than 320,000 casualties, to include over 50,000 killed and more than 193,000 wounded. By October 1918, US forces held over 101 miles of the western front, or roughly 23%. Obviously, these numbers pale in comparison to the British or French, which undoubtedly did the majority of the fighting. But for such a short conflict (1917-1918, for the Americans), they distinguished themselves.
"The finest commander on the western front." For four years I've despised him, I've thought of all the unnecessary blood dropping from his hands. I had to listen to that sentence several times to accept it may well be true.
Just because someone said it doesn't make it true, it's quite a bold statement to make when there's people like Foch or Petain around at the same time, or even Monash
Whilst this show is an excellent overview, their episodes regardings Haig's offensives often look at it from a largely Anglo-centric point of view which gives the impression of a lot of losses and little to show for it. Recent historians however have shown that battles like the Somme, Arras, and Paschendalle very well hurt the German army more than the Allies and that they often petered on the edge of collapse during these battles.
@@samarkand1585 Haig often is unfairly criticized for a lot but when you really look at it, his offensives were the ones that Ludendorff often had mental breakdowns over (Ludendorff admitted victory was gone after the Somme 1916, Arras flopped his defence-in-depth strategy, and Paschendalle ground down his already thin manpower reserves).
Haig was redeemed by General Monash, not because of his achievements. It was the King who ordered Haig to defer to Monash and to let the Australian commanders get on with the task of planning and leading mobile warfare. In fact the Australians captured so much ground in August 1918 that the British and French could not keep up with the advancing front line.
Now that the war is ending, can we have a special on the Spanish influenza? How it spread through the trenches, and how it affected mobilization and troop reserves.
I discovered that my great grandfather joined the regular army underage during the Great War. He was sent to Gallipoli and was wounded and sent back to Britain. He was then posted to France where before being sent back to Britain to join the home forces kept in reserve by David Lloyd George. He was then sent back to France in 1918 and was wounded again and kept in the field until 1919 when he was demobbed. My question is, what were the thousands of men being kept in Britain by DLG for? Were they kept there in case of an invasion? What would've been their day to day duties? Regards, Lankinator Esq (internet name; not real name
Least we forget... Happy Memorial Day. Though the last WWI veterans died in the past decade ( all at the ages of 107, 110, 110, and 111 ), we can still remember and mark the sacrifices of the estimated 65 million who took some part in that war, and the 9 750 000 military dead ( as well as countless *more* civilians ).
For Indy: during the year 1917 there were already 200.000 american soldiers. I didn't find any battle fought by the US in 1917, were there any that you know?
Plus it does not hesitate to assign blame when it is due, but also credit where it is DESERVED. In addition, it often gives an unexpected perspective on the real problems they (the Generals and staffs) faced in planning for a situation they did not fully understand the reasons for... no one did, so it's hardly a surprise that there were colossal mistakes. It is telling to note that Allenby, who was so successful in Palestine, was just as unsuccessful in France as the others.
Ohh we had a journey together for more than 3 years and half , I didn’t want it to stop, thank you so much Great War team 🤗 and thank Indy neidel
I wholeheartedly agree Majed, Indy and Team have given me an awesome history lesson to look forward to every week! Idk what I'm gonna do when it's over... Thanks Great War Team!!!
Absolutely! Although I’m sure everyone else is quite happy it’s almost November
+ Ringo 1 Start watching Between 2 Wars and World War 2?
I hope the ww2 team would reach the great war's quality.
+ Jewie Snew If you remember the early days of this channel, the quality could be pretty hit and miss. WW2 is off to a flying start imo, and I expect will be absolutely on point by years end (especially after The Great War finishes).
Poor Conrad :( Had not he been fired years ago maybe he would have been the finest commander of the Italian front :D
He would have become the finest commander of all time
Conrad vs Cadorna was still one of the best moments of this channel. A fight between two living memes. (living, at the time). Felt like a fight between two blind men.
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There will never again be a showdown in history as epic as the one between Luigi and Conrad!
Being best (Austrian) boy is suffering.
Aw Yes, the battle between Conrad and Cadorna. The ultimate test of what happens when a stoppable force meets a moveable object.
As a kid, I had a close friend and a favorite great uncle who were both wounded in this fight. Sam, Uncle Harry, I miss you both.
can we get to a million subscribers before the end of the war?
Would be great, but it seems unlikely
@@richardsinger01 I think it can be done!!!
We must immediately begin to conscript every able-bodied young man with a TH-cam account to subscribe to this channel. Deus vult!
We must do it for the kaiser
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*German imperial anthem intensifies*
🎶Heil dir im Siegerkranz... 🎶
The Battle of St. Mihiel! I'm looking at the WWI Memorial at UT in Austin, TX, and counting off the battles on the monument as they get mentioned in this show. That's another one!
Wow, that sounds really awesome! 😀
There are several memorials in my area I live in northern nj and there are several ww1 memorials with sculptures in my area
What a weird coincidence!!! Just discovered today my great uncle Ted was in this attack. Company "C", 135th Machinegun Battalion, 73rd Infantry Brigade, 37th Div (Buckeye Div) Found a photo of the 135th MG Bn battle flag with the ribbons which confirmed it. Crazy but cool. Hint: Uncle Ted survives this action at St.Mihiel.....
Tidbit info: US Army divisions had a target strength of 28,000, much larger than other armies on the W. Front. Reason given was to make movement of replacement units easier and faster. Decisions on placement or rearranging units would be within the division. Basically a division then avoided the hassle of going through Corps or Army level to move troops especially fresh ones for casualty replacements.
Discovered that a distant cousin of mine was apart of the 167th infantry regiment, 42nd division. He died on the first day of the offensive. He is buried there to this day.
Damn, interesting history. One of my great great grandads was a sergeant in Greece
I don't know if anyone at the Great War will see this. I hope so, because it is SUPER important!
I don't know how many recordings you do in advance, but I would suggest that for the next recording and every recording thereafter, you NEED to make mention of the propaganda machine in Germany at this point in the war. There are now less than 8 weeks left in the war, and it needs to be stated that the general German populous don't know how bad things are. In fact they think they are winning! When the war ends, they are stunned to find out they lost! It's one of, if not THE, main driving forces behind Hitler's ability to do whatever he wants, including starting WWII, when he comes to power 15 years later.
So, among the other things you talk about, I would stress that it's super important that you mention what the German government is telling the people at home during these last few weeks.
Thank you. Love the channel. It's been very informative. I know a lot more now than I ever did about the war because of the information you provided each week.
Fred Strange
(Former) History Teacher
We are working on some episodes that will explain the situation within Germany in detail. Thanks Fred!
Congrats on 900k subs
906k at time of reading, i swear last episode they were on 897k
here's hoping they hit 1M by the end of the war (which I think is totally doable)
We'll sure have 1 million soldiers by the first of the year. At least 2 mil by the end of 1919. You are welcome!@@ryanwickersham3513
In this video you touch upon something that I've often wandered about and have even asked about in the past and throughout this series, that being the conditions people in occupied territory experienced, and their general treatment by the occupants.
I'm particularly interested in Northern France.
You really should make a special video about this.
John Hunter Wickersham, Medal of Honor recipient
Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, 353rd Infantry, 89th Division
Near Limey, France, 12 September 1918.
Official citation:
Advancing with his platoon during the St. Mihiel offensive, he was severely wounded in 4 places by the bursting of a high-explosive shell. Before receiving any aid for himself he dressed the wounds of his orderly, who was wounded at the same time. He then ordered and accompanied the further advance of his platoon, although weakened by the loss of blood. His right hand and arm being disabled by wounds, he continued to fire his revolver with his left hand until, exhausted by loss of blood, he fell and died from his wounds before aid could be administered.
lest we forget
Thanks for sharing this with us! 🇺🇲🎖️
When I read, "..he continued to fire his revolver with his left hand.." I immediately wondered, isn't preserving a living, useful, second lieutenant more important than firing off a couple of revolver shots? I wonder if the army had protocols training for officers, for the correct actions when one incurred wounds?
@@BergquistScott He was most likely disoriented from the concussion of the shell, and didn't realize how badly he'd been wounded. Or, he thought that leading his platoon was more important than preserving his own life. Maybe he felt that his first sergeant was unreliable. There are numerous MoH recipients who got them by covering enemy grenades with their own body, a much more sacrificial act.
I read the other day that the Siamese Expeditionary Force was at Meuse-Argonne. That is definitely an obscure warring nation if ever there was one.
Before June 6, 1944, there was September 12, 1918…America’s _first_ D-Day.
Nakrin27 Its true that battle marked the first time the US military used the terms D-day and H-hour.
Pretty succinct analogy.
And before that was September 12,1683 The polish Hussars broke the Ottoman siege of Vienna.
So what you're saying is... The Winged Hussars arrived?
Not to forget Gallipoli. The Idiot Stepbrother
The americans seem adept at taking mass German surrenders, maybe the Germans don't mind giving up to the yanks, since they don't have the long term battle history (and animosity), that they have with the other entente members.
Germans were afraid to surrender to Canadians because they were notorious for not taking prisoners
I guess after four years in the trenches without any hope of progress you would be tired of fighting too.
Many Americans were of German ancestry.
Or because a French /British Unit would have thrown a grenade (or 20) in the dugout, just to be sure.
Weren't there Germans fighting with the British against the Americans in the American Revolutionary war?
A tremor in the Force shows that something will happen very soon in the Balkans
And on the Palestine Front.
V. Athanasiou the last time I felt it, it was in the presence of Mackensen.
@@DeathOnSernpidal They must not underestimate the force
Why would the mighty nations of the world care about some damn fool thing in the balkans?
I love this channel.
There is no way the allies break through the Hindenburg line, it is too well defended. This war will end in a peace of mutual exhaustion.
Nope. Three hundred just surrendered to a Yank with an empty pistol. Not enough sausage, sauerkraut and bread to keep the army working like it could.
Paul von Hindenburg. Defeated by the Entente, defeated by Hitler, defeated by Time. A rum go. I would pity him, had he not seen innocent civilians as ciphers.
And another war starts 20 years later.
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NO SPOILERS!
@@JohnJohn-pe5kr what you can tell the future! That must be in the year 1939? Right?
I wonder if the allies could feel the momentum swinging their way, or if that only looks that way in hindsight.
they definitely felt it, starting with the 2nd Marne and Amiens
Looking at my grandfather's 'battle bar' for San Mihiel while watching.
"'I do not want to speak ill of the Americans, Monsieur,' he continued, 'it seems they are inexhaustibly generous and, since there has been no orchestral conductor in this war and each entered the dance considerably after the other and the Americans began when we were almost finished, they may have an ardour which four years of war has quenched among us. Even before the war they loved our country and our art and paid high prices for our masterpieces of which they have many now.'" (a character from 'Time Regained' (1927), by Marcel Proust)
This is quite true (being French myself). However you can understand why we roll our eyes everytime we hear Americans say they just always saved the day. The irony of the XXth century for France, is that we owe much more to our bitterest centuries long ennemy - Britain - that we do towards our historically longest and greatest ally - the US. This is why I am so sad of watching Trump's isolationnism : United States and France could always count on each other's aid in times of dire need. Is this all to disappear now ?
America and France should always be friends. Like individual friendships, once truly established, you don't throw them away on a whim. This series should remind us how powerful we are together.
Vive la France, Zacharie! We would never have won independence from Britain without French help.
Zachary Guillerey. NEVER! I am a true American and have loved your country since childhood, travelled extensively through it and spent several Summers in your South. I am a history grad. and culture student and hope you can see that it is only certain uneducated groups (classes?) that are so easily swayed by demagogues into anti-French rhetoric and actions. Wholesale ignorance and mean class attitudes would be impotent were it not for the rabble-rousing politics of wealthy imbeciles. The true US is not isolationist.
@@Cancoillotteman I would like your comment if the whole "America thinks it won the war by itself" thing wasn't a myth.
Started watching this series back in 2016 and thought "Oh this series will be for another 2 years." And haven't watched this for a while and suddenly it will only about 2 months until 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. How time flies.
This goes to show how powerful combined arms(tanks, infantry, artillery) tactic with close air support and observation aircraft (for artillery). This is the way to bulldoze a static defensive line rapidly and cause shock to those defenders
Doug Haig - The finest Commander of the best Commanders on the Western Front, Currie and Monash.
Butcher of the somme
Yea rewatching this time and again it’s awful how much haig messed up and got his troops killed cause he couldn’t understand trench warfare but I’m assuming back then it wasn’t so obvious
I instinctively waved back at the soldier at 2:13 ....
You waved at someone who could possibly of been dead for 100 years...
Better late than never.
Hey Indy and team! Love the show! I have a question for OOTT
What is your favorite song from WW1? My personal favorites are 'It's a long way to Tipperary' and 'Pack up your troubles.'
Keep up the incredible work!
Definitely Tipperary and Over There
@@ethanhatcher5533 It was really hard for me to pick just two. Over There is great!
It took 3 months but I’m finally caught up! Great series! Hope there are more wars in the future
Visiting St Mihiel and absolutely had to watch this again
US General Liggett put it like this “at St. Mihiel the German was not at his best nor his second best and the army was not yet a well-oiled, fully coordinated machine.”
I made it! One week of binge watching and I've caught up to the rest of the troupe and I'm ready to take part in the final battles! Thank you Indy and co for a fantastic show! Truly awesome
And this is why I have defended Haig for the past two years. They had to be on offense in July 16, and in summer 17. His tactics were often wooden, and his optimism annoying, but he has been shaped by it all has was his Army. And this year is why he is viewed as "The Man Who Won the War" and the only one who was convinced it could end in 1918. And it explains (along with his postwar care of the men) why he was loved (until the years, words of Liddell Hart and Lloyd George, and popular media) by those men. We have had 20/20 vision as we judge his mistakes. Again, not a great general, but by the end the man who won the war in 1918.
Can we get a Great War special on Eddie Rickenbacker? He was a great man, great driver, and great pilot.
And he’s a hometown hero but that’s besides the point.
one of the most well known names in America when it comes to wwi. maybe just as much or more than Pershing?
With time a little limited, I wonder if you guys will do a special on Indy's Top ten best, and top ten worst generals of ww1. Apart from some obivious best( Brusilov, Monasch, Currie, Von Bonja, Mackensen) and worst ( Cadorna, Nivelle, Von Hotzendorf) its interesting to see where Haig would be placed and why... any thoughts?
Probably in the middle
Put Patton at the top. Even if he wasn't a general yet.
My great grandfather was wounded/gassed in this battle, I still have the discharge papers. Very interesting to see what he was dealing with
Harry J. Adams' story is truly unbelievable. Taking alone 300 German prisoners with an empty pistol. wow
Great series and much praise
6:15 here we see a candid photo of a soldier sitting with his commander.
You guys are awesome
This should be shown in schools!
Did Douglas Haig have a catchphrase like a superhero or wrestler? He could've said, "for your crimes you're being taken...to the Haig!" or "The Haig will decide your fate!"
😂😂😂😂
Awesome video
Pershing's shift northward away from Metz and into the Argonne Forest would repeat - or, at least, rhyme. In 1944 Patton drove obsessively for Metz, only to be ordered northward to relieve Bastogne in the Ardennes.
My great great grandfather fought here in the US 5th Infantry Division.
The pistol anecdote is fantastic.
4:03 that is some insane numbers for this war.
The great fracture of modern history. So many wasted lives. And more to come...
WWI is the direct reason for the state of the world today.
Every catastrophe since then until today precipitates from it.
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I agree with you on that interpretation. This is evident in the Middle East today.
At last: substantial progress on the western front!!? Expertly told - thanks Indy
I will truly be heart broken when this show ends 😓
Was wondering if you guys could round out the Hitler and Mussolini Who did What episodes with one about British Fascist and WW1 veteran Oswald Mosley? Thanks!
Also, I dindnt get to say it last week but it was nice to see Von Lettow-Vorbeck mentioned, even if briefly, insane to think he has been fighting in isolation since 1914!
Great video. Great job.
1 mill is in view! So excited
My great grandfather fought at Saint-Mihiel, he was in the artillery and I have a trench art lamp he made from an old shell casing.
I don't want it to be over!
@Immolation Liquidation
Indy is such a warmonger!
I always feel weird when Indy talk about place i live near.
Heh, weirdo!
You live in Pershing too?
@@andypants1000 no i live near St-Mihiel
Next week is Dobro Pole and after that is Doiran.O and also the soldier uprising! I hope the Great War gives justice to our last few episodes in this war.
George Patton was also in the attack at Saint-Mihiel if I remember correctly.
He was leading a tank Platoon I believe ,he was shot and wounded
Today is John Pershing's birthday
Saint-Mihiel was also where future Generals Douglas MacArther and George S Patton met for the first time.
My great grandfather was with the 310th infantry, 3rd battalion at Saint-Mihiel. He was shot up six days before the Armistice but claimed it was well worth it because the French nurses were beautiful.
The end is near ;-;
I'm so sad.
Yeah well ww2 series already started
I did it my way?
What
I love cockatiels!
I friend of mine just visited the WWI memorial in Glasgow. The thing that struck me the most were the words “Patria Mori” - not the entire phrase.
Once again logistics is the deciding factor of a battle. A lot has changed. Now men are trained to supply themselves, if there is no re-supply, for continuous engagements. Also, when taking so many prisoners I thought I was going to hear SGT York, but that is another war. Great stuff, can't wait for the next one.
SGT York was in this one.
No, Sgt. York is WWI. Audie Murphy was WWII.
in his book bomk wrote that the germans were so well set in St. Meheil that they had vegetable gardens. one thing that caused confusion was there had been a conference of a machine gun school so americans found themselves capturing men from all sorts of regiments and had trouble sorting out who was there.
The big take away is yet again the math. since Amien we see that although the allies are taking heavy casualties, the germans, the defenders , are taking far more.the basic math of the front has changed and germany cannot hold.
At 7:20 is that fort Douaumont?
Got to admire American’s organizational skills.
Please do a search for “Wardlaw Miles,” Captain, US Army, Medal of Honor recipient and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s English professor at Princeton.
A great heroic story!
I have an original photograph of an ft-17 stuck in the mud at St. Miguel, as written on the back "St. Mihiels drive, 1918"
RIP Emile
Yah!
My great grandfather was in this battle. K Company in the 30th regiment.
The US role in WWI gets largely forgotten in the states. But the French have NOT forgotten us. Nor. have we forgotten them.
Vive la France!
Vive la Liberté
Freedom fries anyone?
Onyx1916
In France the end(or was it beginning?) of WW2 is a holiday, yet I don’t remember there being a holiday for WW1...
(And I don’t want to get out the paper that we did over the holidays in France in French class)
Nov 11th is also a holiday in France.
Now the French are conspiring with the Germans to inflict French Style Governmental practices on the rest of Europe and the rest of the World via the EU.
Can anyone make what this tank in 03:44 writes on its back ? Really interesting detail.
it looks like "Ane ll A Duge" of course it's not written linearly or with the same letter sizes or spacings so you really have to look at the image if you hope to translate. I see that Ane is French for donkey and I wouldn't be surprised to see that word in a tank name. The rest is not easily translated as French. Maybe a native speaker can interpret this?
What's the music at 5:30?
Are you not going to cover the Salonika front?
Two days before my birthday. Två dagar före min födelsedag.
valiant hearts
There is no substitute for experience.
I have watched all of the videos up until now and there are two things I didn't really know about that come to my mind; First, it seems EVERYONE used chemical weapons, even the Americans! I had always for some reason thought it was limited to the Germans, I don't know why. Second, America came into the war pretty late in the game. At this point I am wondering if they really had much of an effect, other than maybe a few months time, as it seems the Germans are breaking down pretty quickly at this point, what with mass surrenders and what not... Great show though! Kudos! I am learning whilst being entertained!
Their active combat participation came pretty late but they were in the war economically for much longer.
In 200 total days of fighting, the AEF had captured 49,000 Germans and 1,400 guns. More than a million US troops in twenty-nine divisions saw active operations, with more than 320,000 casualties, to include over 50,000 killed and more than 193,000 wounded. By October 1918, US forces held over 101 miles of the western front, or roughly 23%. Obviously, these numbers pale in comparison to the British or French, which undoubtedly did the majority of the fighting. But for such a short conflict (1917-1918, for the Americans), they distinguished themselves.
"The finest commander on the western front." For four years I've despised him, I've thought of all the unnecessary blood dropping from his hands. I had to listen to that sentence several times to accept it may well be true.
Just because someone said it doesn't make it true, it's quite a bold statement to make when there's people like Foch or Petain around at the same time, or even Monash
Whilst this show is an excellent overview, their episodes regardings Haig's offensives often look at it from a largely Anglo-centric point of view which gives the impression of a lot of losses and little to show for it. Recent historians however have shown that battles like the Somme, Arras, and Paschendalle very well hurt the German army more than the Allies and that they often petered on the edge of collapse during these battles.
@@samarkand1585 Haig often is unfairly criticized for a lot but when you really look at it, his offensives were the ones that Ludendorff often had mental breakdowns over (Ludendorff admitted victory was gone after the Somme 1916, Arras flopped his defence-in-depth strategy, and Paschendalle ground down his already thin manpower reserves).
Will this series continue and cover the inter-war period?
when is the lost battalion going to be brought up cant wait to hear about it
Haig was redeemed by General Monash, not because of his achievements. It was the King who ordered Haig to defer to Monash and to let the Australian commanders get on with the task of planning and leading mobile warfare. In fact the Australians captured so much ground in August 1918 that the British and French could not keep up with the advancing front line.
Sgt. Harry J. Adams - awarded the title "Balls of Steel" (or should have been)
let's see if you'll cover Salonica as should be covered
Now that the war is ending, can we have a special on the Spanish influenza? How it spread through the trenches, and how it affected mobilization and troop reserves.
6:16 - Jaydubs?
"How's it goin' donkey?"
See the WW I Museum and Memorial for presentations on this battle and others
Will you guys talk about the hundred days of canada in this series?
I discovered that my great grandfather joined the regular army underage during the Great War. He was sent to Gallipoli and was wounded and sent back to Britain. He was then posted to France where before being sent back to Britain to join the home forces kept in reserve by David Lloyd George. He was then sent back to France in 1918 and was wounded again and kept in the field until 1919 when he was demobbed.
My question is, what were the thousands of men being kept in Britain by DLG for? Were they kept there in case of an invasion? What would've been their day to day duties?
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After the 11th, will you then make further video's 'bout interbellum?
Hey Indy and Creeeeew. A question for OOTT. How truthful were the confirmed kills? By that I mean how easily could a pilot lie about their "hits"
Least we forget...
Happy Memorial Day.
Though the last WWI veterans died in the past decade ( all at the ages of 107, 110, 110, and 111 ), we can still remember and mark the sacrifices of the estimated 65 million who took some part in that war, and the 9 750 000 military dead ( as well as countless *more* civilians ).
Ah... Argonne mentioned. It'll be helluvan fight.
What's happened to Paul Von Hindenburg at this point in the war? We don't hear much of him now.
For Indy: during the year 1917 there were already 200.000 american soldiers. I didn't find any battle fought by the US in 1917, were there any that you know?
Thanks Indy
Where can i find the background music ?????
Why aren't you talking about breakthrough of Thessaloniki front???
I wonder why cavalry wasn't used as a counterattack force against approaching enemy soldiers
What will u do after the war ends?
I could see Field Marshal Haig saying something like this: "If we win this next battle then this war is over!"
What will happen to this channel after November?
I have read the book "The great War generals of the Western front" It is a fine book
Plus it does not hesitate to assign blame when it is due, but also credit where it is DESERVED. In addition, it often gives an unexpected perspective on the real problems they (the Generals and staffs) faced in planning for a situation they did not fully understand the reasons for... no one did, so it's hardly a surprise that there were colossal mistakes. It is telling to note that Allenby, who was so successful in Palestine, was just as unsuccessful in France as the others.
Hi guys, just a question but what type of fuel was use during the war as you have mentioned the use of petrol as well as gasoline?
Petrol is the same as gasoline. Is this a joke?
In german "Petroleum" was used for lamps, not vehicles, maybe in Russian it is similar