This last scene was filmed in a desert in northern Spain. A great story, but nowhere near the truth. General Eisenhower hated this movie, and said so, for the record.
My grandfather was in this battle. I watched this movie with him at the age of 6 and I still love it!!! So many stars!! So good!! My grandfather said “war isn’t like this. it’s hell”
Because of this film, me and my friends played war all the time in the mid to late 70s. We thought getting dirty and drinking out of canteens was so cool.
My grandfather was a captain in the 137th 2n Battalion. They had to run back and forth northsouth from HQ to Bastone 10 times in 10 days. Though they had a break at Christmas In January, they made him. secure a crossroads at Villiers le Bonne Eaux. I only heard him say the name Malmady once, and it chilled my bones when he said it. Boy, the Germans got their ass superkicked that day. Grandpa won a bronze star
I visited the Malmedy site in the 1980s. I was probably one of few Americans stationed in nearby West Germany to care to visit. One reason was I had viewed this movie on TBS on cable in the States. "Hessler" was supposed to be SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) Joachim Peiper,. They had to change the name because he was still alive.
The technology which you are using right now my son was envisioned and developed by the same shy boy Germans along with IBM of the US plus a million other inventions of the modern world which you pyromancy marred idiots don't study about at school, library, college, home or society.
Your grandfather was as strayed a man as mine was. Real men never follow their grandfathers as living conditions (geo-politically speaking) were way more complex back then. Grow up. Learn true history. US betrayed Germany to be a super power. Now it is struggling with China and India.
I've seen & heard of worse. Marines laughing out loud & being asked to leave Sands of Iwo Jima, the military guests of The Devils Brigade walking out of the theater & of course Private Ryan's underwater bullets. Yes WWII hardware, especially tanks are nearly impossible to find but the winter of 44/45 was brutal in Belgium. Is this the back lot of Hollywood? Still, those American troops shortened the war by months and were only a 3 hour drive from where my extended family lived under Nazi occupation. Realistic or not, war is Hell.
My dad was an US Army ordinance engineering officer assigned to US First Army in December 1944 near St. Vith working with the 3rd Armored Division to manage its armored supply chain during the advance across France and Belgium, and got caught up in the Battle of the Bulge, spending 2 weeks behind German lines after being overrun by Kampfgrup Peiper on Dec. 16th. He managed to round up a bunch of US doggies and brought them back to Allied lines, for which he was awarded the BSM for Valor. We watched this movie together on CBS Sunday Night Movies around 1968. He declared it to be complete and total 'horseshit".
Having a Brother who was a tanker for over two decades in the US Army can verify that this movie got one aspect dead on, he said Tankers are some of the biggest scrounges in the Army carrying all sorts of things So Telly Savalas's Character Sgt Guffy was a TRUE depiction of a Tanker. While the makers of this film got some things wildly inaccurate Guffy was spot on !
It hid the facts about the Malmedy massacre where 84 unarmed American soldiers were machine gunned to death by the SS who had been ordered not to take any prisoners.The character, Colonel Hessler,pretended not to know about the unwritten order from Adolf Hitler but in real life Colonel Joichim Peiper did know and was tried as a war criminal at Nurenburg however he had his death sentence comuted after it was discovered he had been tortured by his American interrogators to get a confession.
@@petergray2712 that's justifiable, not many working shermans, panzer 4s and tigers in the 1960s and they didn't have the special effects tech we have today nor the budget to mask modern tanks as old ones
@BufusTurbo92 They could have at least tried to disguise them with facades like other war movies. They'll still look fake, but the effort would be appreciated.
Guffy in his Rambo modus, Martin Hessler goosestepping like it's 1942, and General Kohler looking like an Oliebol. This WW2 action movie is the 1 i like the most after a bottle of Whiskey on the Rocks.
The irony is that Columbia was working on a film "The Battle of the Bulge", which was supported by the US Army, with assistance from American and German officers. It would have been more authentic, but the project was cancelled after Warner released their schlock of a movie.
@@doublep1980yeah but easy company’s actions at Bastogne were relatively tame compared to what was happening at Elsenborn in the North and St Vith in the Center
Great movie with great actors. One of my favorite lines is Hard Right from Telly Savalas. The German tank crew singing was a great touch to a war movie showing the contrast between the Germans and good old American GIs.
Eisenhower had every right to be upset with this movie. The men who fought and died at the Battle of the Bulge were his soldiers. And this movie portrayed them like clowns. Its an insult and a crime.
Even as a 9 year old I wondered how a tank turret could be blown apart and deformed like it was made from marzipan, but the crew survive with scratches!
I saw this as a kid, in "Cinerama", it was amazing, on this giant panoramic screen, and I still have the LP soundtrack album. Very, very good music in this film. Watching it 50 years later, it's got so much wrong, but, hey, some great performances..! Robert Shaw and his batman being introduced to the young tank crews, sceptical, until one of them breaks into song. Very powerful scene in a movie that mostly dumbs-down and fictionalises what was actually a crucial battle fought in the most difficult terrain in deep winter. But that's showbiz, folks!
Robert shaw plays a great part along with his personal assistant. Its December and i always think about the bulge and what those guys went through this time of year. The m47s look awsome. Guffey plays a great role. Yeah, some of the acting gi 's getting shot and falling look pretty lame but it even says in the movie captions that its mainly trying to capture the fighting spirit of the historical event.i think that it does. Charles bronson is buried here in vermont ,i went and visited his beautiful gravesite a few months back. A classic! Good documentary vid of the making of this film on youtube.
Lovely clear blue sky ! In reality planes couldn't fly because of the low cloud, fog and thick snow ! Still, don't let facts get in the way of a good story.
While this was a good movie, it was so historically inaccurate that Dwight Eisenhower walked out of it halfway through it and condemned it for completely ignoring the facts of the battle so badly. You know it’s bad when the commander & chief of the battle & then the country walks out of your movie showing
What were they realistically thinking ? Capture a fuel dump when all it takes to ruin those plans is a match, a grenade, a mortar round... artillery.. an airstrike..
Nazi Germany was suffering from fuel shortages by this time. Synthetic fuel production couldn't make up for the loss of the Romanian oilfields and the Allied bombing of the normal and synthetic fuel plants. The rail network was also collapsing under the weight of repeated Allied bombing damage. Nazi Germany was slowly grinding to a halt, at the Fronts and at the Home Production Front. Dispersal of production facilities may have kept them safe from bombing, but without a working transportation system, parts and components couldn't be moved to the underground factories or finished items to the Fronts. Chaos everywhere. Mark from Melbourne Australia
I have read many times how many inaccuracies there are in this movie. I read 1 time there is some truth to this fuel scene. Something like men filled a trench with fuel and lit it so tanks did not pass; but I cannot find it again. Is it true? Where can I find it, if it exists?
I don't quite get why the Germans bothered to have infiltrators dressed as Americans take the depot. They could have just used regular Wehrmacht troops. Or had them put on the correct uniforms after capturing the depot.
johnny farmer drove a truck for jp stevens textiles in the carolinas before the war - he was part of a bunch of north carolinian woodsmen that fought heer in the hurtgen forest sept-dec 1944 - after the war he married my aunt ethel and they founded their own little trucking company and he never again went hunting in the woods
One British Brigade at the Meuse River was all that fought in the Bulge. Every other unit was U.S. Army. Don't believe Montgomery's idea that the British saved the day because he was given command of 1st Army on the North shoulder. 3rd Armored Division blunted the deepest penetrative by 2nd Panzer Division. The vaulted SS Panzer Divisions never broke through the North shoulder lines.
How was it bad? Most WW2 movies like Fury showed how like a single squad or tank ended up taking down like 5-10 times of enemy forces. Like even 90% of their allies dropped like flies the remaining 10% "heroes" will end up performing at sth like 300+% efficiency anyway
Comments: "Man the Ardennes sure looks a lot like Spain, lol" Me: Realizing they shot this 20 years after World War 2, 3 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis and DURING the Vietnam War. I doubt they could get anywhere close to the Ardennes, with tanks, without creating an International incident. Or invoking some serious PTSD with the locals
You'll find plenty of Allied WW2 vehicles in Europe. Because the Americans left most of their worn material behind. Though there are probably more restored vehicles now than in the 1960s. th-cam.com/video/K0KKeEmSfMg/w-d-xo.html German non-combattant equipment, cars, trucks, etc isn't such a problem either though the "star" in Bastogne this year was a visiting King Tiger . th-cam.com/video/plFzG2sHcYg/w-d-xo.html As for PTSD, the locals found or bought these vehicles from dumps, repurposed some for civilian duties and other ones ended up in the hands of collectors.
They shot tons of WWII movies in Europe during the 1960´s & 70´s. Hell, most of them where shot in former Yugoslavia, which was part of the Eastern Block and suffered under German occupation ffs! Former Yugoslavia had lots of military equipment from WWII still lying around and the government of Marshal Tito, welcomed Hollywood & British movie productions to the country, because they paid well. Steiner-The Iron Cross, which is a movie from the German perspective was even filmed there, also Kelly´s Heroes, which is ironically more accurate that this here, despite being a dark comedy about the war. The people who produced this movie just didn´t give a flying f*ck about being even remotely accurate, don´t make excuses for them. Even Eisenhower was angered after watching it.
@@doublep1980 That's fair, I assumed the time period might've had a hand in 'just' the location issues. It isn't a good movie at all, but everyone commenting on just the location I felt like taking a surface level gander at why that would be.
@@doublep1980 The same was true for Spain, a dictator willing to lend his army and its equipment for filming (for a few dollars of course). They even had Spanish built versions of German WW2 airplanes (HE111 and ME109). Probably for Franco it was also an attempt to restore some of the country's credibility and reputation in Europe. Which was somewhat tainted after the Spanish interpretation of "neutrality" during WW2
It had star filled cast with tough guys actors except John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, Brunson and Savalas were WW 2 veterans and Shaw and Savalas starred together in crazy 🤣 western about murderous Mexican town called A Town called Hell 😊
Un véritable pastiche de cette bataille un film d’accord mais bourré d’erreur historique quand on veux faire un film sur cet événement terrible on respecte l’histoire et surtout ne j’allais oublier les dizaines de milliers de soldats américain mort blessés et disparus
I seriously do not know how they could make this wildly inaccurate movie when the guys who fought the actual battle were still young enough to strangle them. This movie was an insult to anyone who served.
As a native Belgian i think the Ardennes look a bit strange in this movie
I mean, nothing about this movie is accurate, lol.
Nah, it's perfectly OK after 3 gallons of Whiskey .........
Captain 👩✈️: Hang on.
@@sammywestenberger9303 Captain's never tasted defeat!
This last scene was filmed in a desert in northern Spain. A great story, but nowhere near the truth. General Eisenhower hated this movie, and said so, for the record.
Battle of the Ardenne desert.
Ardennes
Colonel: Good 😊
I heard it was Spain in the summer
I never knew how sandy Belgium was in winter!😂
And so mountainous!
That's what a Belgian winter looks like? 🙄
😅😅😅😅😅😅
Hollywood at it worst
It’s beautiful. That’s the Ardennes without snow, thick forests, and with sand
I love this movie
My grandfather was in this battle. I watched this movie with him at the age of 6 and I still love it!!! So many stars!! So good!! My grandfather said “war isn’t like this. it’s hell”
I love this Film too despite the inaccurates.
Inaccuracies is an understatement. It's fiction.
A watchable film with some good acting and action despite the obvious inaccuracies.
Because of this film, me and my friends played war all the time in the mid to late 70s. We thought getting dirty and drinking out of canteens was so cool.
My grandfather was a captain in the 137th 2n Battalion. They had to run back and forth northsouth from HQ to Bastone 10 times in 10 days. Though they had a break at Christmas In January, they made him. secure a crossroads at Villiers le Bonne Eaux. I only heard him say the name Malmady once, and it chilled my bones when he said it. Boy, the Germans got their ass superkicked that day. Grandpa won a bronze star
I visited the Malmedy site in the 1980s. I was probably one of few Americans stationed in nearby West Germany to care to visit. One reason was I had viewed this movie on TBS on cable in the States. "Hessler" was supposed to be SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) Joachim Peiper,. They had to change the name because he was still alive.
The technology which you are using right now my son was envisioned and developed by the same shy boy Germans along with IBM of the US plus a million other inventions of the modern world which you pyromancy marred idiots don't study about at school, library, college, home or society.
Your grandfather was as strayed a man as mine was. Real men never follow their grandfathers as living conditions (geo-politically speaking) were way more complex back then. Grow up. Learn true history. US betrayed Germany to be a super power. Now it is struggling with China and India.
Saw this with my dad back when it came out. As an 8 year old, I was enthralled. lol
Me too I was same age
Inaccurate as it is, it still has a great musical score.
Are you kidding me? This held the title for "Most Historically Accurate Movie EVER" till Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" came out.
I've seen & heard of worse. Marines laughing out loud & being asked to leave Sands of Iwo Jima, the military guests of The Devils Brigade walking out of the theater & of course Private Ryan's underwater bullets. Yes WWII hardware, especially tanks are nearly impossible to find but the winter of 44/45 was brutal in Belgium. Is this the back lot of Hollywood? Still, those American troops shortened the war by months and were only a 3 hour drive from where my extended family lived under Nazi occupation. Realistic or not, war is Hell.
Captain 👩✈️: Yeah 👍
Panzer Lied Song
If we talk about scores, nothing beats "A Bridge Too Far".
My dad was an US Army ordinance engineering officer assigned to US First Army in December 1944 near St. Vith working with the 3rd Armored Division to manage its armored supply chain during the advance across France and Belgium, and got caught up in the Battle of the Bulge, spending 2 weeks behind German lines after being overrun by Kampfgrup Peiper on Dec. 16th. He managed to round up a bunch of US doggies and brought them back to Allied lines, for which he was awarded the BSM for Valor. We watched this movie together on CBS Sunday Night Movies around 1968. He declared it to be complete and total 'horseshit".
..like your story here?
“Book ‘em Danno”. If you know, you know.
This was 2 years before Hawaii Five-O.
Ya, that gasoline would do nothing to any tank other than to take the paint off.
Don't forget when he was a boy,his debut at Tarzan
When Danno met Kojak. 😊
@@albertooda92 and Swiss Family Robinson too.
I like how Battle of the Bulge was fought in a forest with no trees, using tanks made in the 1950s , and Germans that don't speak German.
Poor Robert Shaw, always getting it. My dad loved this movie, but it is historically challenged.
Yeah! That's the Ardennes forest in winter. Sandy and desert like with almost no trees.👍😄
Quint: “Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”.
Having a Brother who was a tanker for over two decades in the US Army can verify that this movie got one aspect dead on, he said Tankers are some of the biggest scrounges in the Army carrying all sorts of things So Telly Savalas's Character Sgt Guffy was a TRUE depiction of a Tanker. While the makers of this film got some things wildly inaccurate Guffy was spot on !
My favourite war film! Please bring it to 4k blu-ray.
You got to be kidding
I know it's not accurate but still one of my favorites.
It hid the facts about the Malmedy massacre where 84 unarmed American soldiers were machine gunned to death by the SS who had been ordered not to take any prisoners.The character, Colonel Hessler,pretended not to know about the unwritten order from Adolf Hitler but in real life Colonel Joichim Peiper did know and was tried as a war criminal at Nurenburg however he had his death sentence comuted after it was discovered he had been tortured by his American interrogators to get a confession.
ah yes, the battle of the bulge.
Shot in Spain without a centimetre of snow in sight.
So…
Using American tanks. Including M47 Pattons on the "German" side.
@@petergray2712 that's justifiable, not many working shermans, panzer 4s and tigers in the 1960s and they didn't have the special effects tech we have today nor the budget to mask modern tanks as old ones
@BufusTurbo92 They could have at least tried to disguise them with facades like other war movies. They'll still look fake, but the effort would be appreciated.
@@petergray2712 I agree but their target audience wasn't us bunch of nit-picking history enthusiasts
Adored this movie growing up.
Guffy in his Rambo modus, Martin Hessler goosestepping like it's 1942, and General Kohler looking like an Oliebol. This WW2 action movie is the 1 i like the most after a bottle of Whiskey on the Rocks.
Amazed that the fire didn’t go up the hill toward the depot.
Great movie great cast and action scenes
When watching this as a kid in the late 1970s, I had no idea how utterly factious this storyline was, vs the real story of the BotB
The irony is that Columbia was working on a film "The Battle of the Bulge", which was supported by the US Army, with assistance from American and German officers. It would have been more authentic, but the project was cancelled after Warner released their schlock of a movie.
They need to remake this film but realistically.
Band of Brothers, pretty much did this.
@@doublep1980yeah but easy company’s actions at Bastogne were relatively tame compared to what was happening at Elsenborn in the North and St Vith in the Center
This was a GAWDAFUL movie. Anybody who knows the LEAST bit about WWII should know that.
This film could have stood on its own as a largely fictional story if not for its inaccurate title.
Great movie with great actors. One of my favorite lines is Hard Right from Telly Savalas. The German tank crew singing was a great touch to a war movie showing the contrast between the Germans and good old American GIs.
I remember Robert Shaw's character in that movie. The dude couldn't live without war. That's how he had to go out.😮
From a German tank commander to Quint.... remarkable range for Robert Shaw ....
Not to mention British Spitfire pilot in The Battle of Britain.
@@markfryer9880 And the assassin from SPECTRE in From Russia With Love.
And the mastermind hijacker in The Taking of Pelham 123.
Or as the only not american actor who played Gen Custer.
@@markfryer9880 Indirectly as Adolph G.Malan.
Arrest him Dano😂😂❤
So the tradition of the turret toss actually goes back quite a bit
It took me years to find out this was inaccurate. But the spearhead going deep into Belgium did actually run out of gas.
“We’ve reached Antwerp,now what?” “Um!”
“Tiger, Tiger, burning bright, in the forests of the night.” - William Blake.
No.Patton,Patton would surely be more proper.
@@albertooda92 Wasn't referring to the tank when using the quote.
@@matas9458 just for fun.I know that is too much expensive to have a decent prop in a motion pic,unless gi.
I was there. This movie captures it exactly.
You mean the Germans drove Pershing tanks?
आज भी प्रभाव शाली है सुंदर चित्रण था क्लिप बेहतरीन है
Fun fact: America designed hand grenades to simulate baseballs because the game was so popular in America at the time.
Eisenhower had every right to be upset with this movie. The men who fought and died at the Battle of the Bulge were his soldiers. And this movie portrayed them like clowns. Its an insult and a crime.
On both sides!
You're going to need a bigger tank😅
Even as a 9 year old I wondered how a tank turret could be blown apart and deformed like it was made from marzipan, but the crew survive with scratches!
When I saw this as a kid and understood how harsh life was in the Army, I decided right then to join the Navy 😆
I'm not really a good swimmer so the navy wasn't an option for me. Choose tanks, got M109A2 SP's, artillery.
@flitsertheo I had a Chief Petty Officer who couldn't swim to save his life. But he was a Chief Petty Officer lol
I saw this as a kid, in "Cinerama", it was amazing, on this giant panoramic screen, and I still have the LP soundtrack album. Very, very good music in this film.
Watching it 50 years later, it's got so much wrong, but, hey, some great performances..! Robert Shaw and his batman being introduced to the young tank crews, sceptical, until one of them breaks into song.
Very powerful scene in a movie that mostly dumbs-down and fictionalises what was actually a crucial battle fought in the most difficult terrain in deep winter.
But that's showbiz, folks!
Eisenhower criticized this movie, plus the actual battle took around a month.
Good movie!
Robert Shaw looked like the poster child of the perfect Aryan.
Who's here for the comments 🤣🤣🤣
Robert shaw plays a great part along with his personal assistant. Its December and i always think about the bulge and what those guys went through this time of year. The m47s look awsome. Guffey plays a great role. Yeah, some of the acting gi 's getting shot and falling look pretty lame but it even says in the movie captions that its mainly trying to capture the fighting spirit of the historical event.i think that it does. Charles bronson is buried here in vermont ,i went and visited his beautiful gravesite a few months back. A classic! Good documentary vid of the making of this film on youtube.
Robert Shaw was born in 1927, he was 38 when the film was released in December 1965.
@@michaelmclachlan1650 you are correct ,thanks . Robert shaw was only 51 when he died onf a heart attack. :/ My other fav role he played was in jaws
This movie was filmed in Spain.
With American tanks.
Great Christmas movie!
"Battleground" (1949) was filmed in Hollywood sound stages and backlots and still did a much better depiction of this winter battle.
Sure open the valves on the truck in the middle of stacks of fuel...guess the fire WOULDN'T scream back to the truck! BOOM*!
Apparently Eisenhower disliked this film intensely.
I believe coming out and saying it was completely wrong was plenty from him
The film was shot in Spain 😊
hans Christian Blech who play Conrad was a real Veteran of WW2 he served with Germany Wermacht
Yoo vill vatch dis movie unt you vill like it!!
We stopped Panzer tanks from getting our Gasolines!
i enjoyed the telepathic tank drivers - they knew, without any command, what the commander wanted them to do - amazing, really 😅
Yes That is good that you continue with Tom and jerry
At least Kelly's Hero's had real Tiger Tanks.
🤣🤣fury did well using the bovington one tbf 👍
.. more convincing fakes would be more accurate
Close, closer than these American M-47s, but Kelly's Heroes mocked up some Russian tanks, T-34s I think, to at least LOOK like Tiger tanks
Question.... Why did the Germans want an American fuel dump full of gasoline when they used diesel engines???
They used petrol engines
They didn't use diesel engines. A stupid myth that just won't die.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Ardennes take place in the winter
US tanks standing in for German tanks always take me out of the movie.
The worst thing about this film is that is not suppused to be a comedy.
My late grandfather Jessie Harris was wounded during the battle of the bulge
Pretty hokey movie all told but the Yanks and kids loved it.
Well done scene, but not even a little historically accurate.
Robert Shaw, Wigan's finest.
当時、真冬のベルギ―南部での戦いなのに、何故か積雪や降雪が無くなってしまう映画 ｗ
確か、撮影したときは真夏だったとか。
@@トルネードらん But the actual battle took place in a very cold winter.
Ardennes Forest was next to tree-less plain!
No cgi!
Lovely clear blue sky ! In reality planes couldn't fly because of the low cloud, fog and thick snow ! Still, don't let facts get in the way of a good story.
This movie was recorded in Spain !
2:30 that man with the mustache looks like the man who played Col. Crittendon on Hogans Heroes
Was not a bad movie.
Just had almost nothing to do with the battle.
While this was a good movie, it was so historically inaccurate that Dwight Eisenhower walked out of it halfway through it and condemned it for completely ignoring the facts of the battle so badly.
You know it’s bad when the commander & chief of the battle & then the country walks out of your movie showing
What were they realistically thinking ? Capture a fuel dump when all it takes to ruin those plans is a match, a grenade, a mortar round... artillery.. an airstrike..
Nazi Germany was suffering from fuel shortages by this time. Synthetic fuel production couldn't make up for the loss of the Romanian oilfields and the Allied bombing of the normal and synthetic fuel plants. The rail network was also collapsing under the weight of repeated Allied bombing damage. Nazi Germany was slowly grinding to a halt, at the Fronts and at the Home Production Front. Dispersal of production facilities may have kept them safe from bombing, but without a working transportation system, parts and components couldn't be moved to the underground factories or finished items to the Fronts.
Chaos everywhere.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
Bruh I never knew Germans used the patton tank (idk which patton my guess is the m46) in 1944
I have read many times how many inaccuracies there are in this movie.
I read 1 time there is some truth to this fuel scene. Something like men filled a trench with fuel and lit it so tanks did not pass; but I cannot find it again. Is it true? Where can I find it, if it exists?
I don't quite get why the Germans bothered to have infiltrators dressed as Americans take the depot. They could have just used regular Wehrmacht troops. Or had them put on the correct uniforms after capturing the depot.
No one mentions the huge toll in aviation units lost trying to attack the Germans to relieve Bastogne. It’s a crying shame.
johnny farmer drove a truck for jp stevens textiles in the carolinas before the war - he was part of a bunch of north carolinian woodsmen that fought heer in the hurtgen forest sept-dec 1944 - after the war he married my aunt ethel and they founded their own little trucking company and he never again went hunting in the woods
Не знал что немцы на Патонах воевали ))
Seems like most of our ww2 movies showing how bad we were, how good were the Germans or Japanese, but we still won somehow won🤔
Yeah just the Yanks on their own. No one else 😂
One British Brigade at the Meuse River was all that fought in the Bulge. Every other unit was U.S. Army. Don't believe Montgomery's idea that the British saved the day because he was given command of 1st Army on the North shoulder. 3rd Armored Division blunted the deepest penetrative by 2nd Panzer Division. The vaulted SS Panzer Divisions never broke through the North shoulder lines.
Colonel: Good 😊
How was it bad? Most WW2 movies like Fury showed how like a single squad or tank ended up taking down like 5-10 times of enemy forces. Like even 90% of their allies dropped like flies the remaining 10% "heroes" will end up performing at sth like 300+% efficiency anyway
@ okey, not every move!
Comments: "Man the Ardennes sure looks a lot like Spain, lol"
Me: Realizing they shot this 20 years after World War 2, 3 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis and DURING the Vietnam War. I doubt they could get anywhere close to the Ardennes, with tanks, without creating an International incident. Or invoking some serious PTSD with the locals
You'll find plenty of Allied WW2 vehicles in Europe. Because the Americans left most of their worn material behind. Though there are probably more restored vehicles now than in the 1960s.
th-cam.com/video/K0KKeEmSfMg/w-d-xo.html
German non-combattant equipment, cars, trucks, etc isn't such a problem either though the "star" in Bastogne this year was a visiting King Tiger .
th-cam.com/video/plFzG2sHcYg/w-d-xo.html
As for PTSD, the locals found or bought these vehicles from dumps, repurposed some for civilian duties and other ones ended up in the hands of collectors.
They shot tons of WWII movies in Europe during the 1960´s & 70´s.
Hell, most of them where shot in former Yugoslavia, which was part of the Eastern Block and suffered under German occupation ffs! Former Yugoslavia had lots of military equipment from WWII still lying around and the government of Marshal Tito, welcomed Hollywood & British movie productions to the country, because they paid well.
Steiner-The Iron Cross, which is a movie from the German perspective was even filmed there, also Kelly´s Heroes, which is ironically more accurate that this here, despite being a dark comedy about the war.
The people who produced this movie just didn´t give a flying f*ck about being even remotely accurate, don´t make excuses for them. Even Eisenhower was angered after watching it.
@@doublep1980 That's fair, I assumed the time period might've had a hand in 'just' the location issues. It isn't a good movie at all, but everyone commenting on just the location I felt like taking a surface level gander at why that would be.
@@doublep1980 The same was true for Spain, a dictator willing to lend his army and its equipment for filming (for a few dollars of course). They even had Spanish built versions of German WW2 airplanes (HE111 and ME109).
Probably for Franco it was also an attempt to restore some of the country's credibility and reputation in Europe. Which was somewhat tainted after the Spanish interpretation of "neutrality" during WW2
La bataille des Ardennes.
James MacArthur was very good in this. In my opinion his talent was totally wasted on Hawaii 5-0.
Ardennes was a forested area
It had star filled cast with tough guys actors except John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, Brunson and Savalas were WW 2 veterans and Shaw and Savalas starred together in crazy 🤣 western about murderous Mexican town called A Town called Hell 😊
Lol......gas drums were so much deadlier to tanks back then!
Do a Tom & Jerry episode called "Hiccup Pup"
how come they didnt capture all those Germans marching back to Germany, empty handed?
Ah, the Panzerkampfwagen Patton.
Un véritable pastiche de cette bataille un film d’accord mais bourré d’erreur historique quand on veux faire un film sur cet événement terrible on respecte l’histoire et surtout ne j’allais oublier les dizaines de milliers de soldats américain mort blessés et disparus
I seriously do not know how they could make this wildly inaccurate movie when the guys who fought the actual battle were still young enough to strangle them. This movie was an insult to anyone who served.
アルデンヌの攻勢は12月やのに雪がちっともない。
No problemo.
In the begin of december 1944 there was no snow.
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Hessler made fried panzers in 4 days from Patton tanks.
Hahaha
I thought German tanks ran on diesel not gasoline