THE REINFORCED TANK BATTALION IN THE ATTACK U.S. ARMY TRAINING FILM 23784
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2016
- This 1947 U.S. Army training film deals with the staging of tank battalions and shows a re-enactment of the U.S. 50th Tank Battalion preparing for battle. The film was made just after World War II and features many battle scenes and explosions. Some real. Some staged. The job of the 50th is to knock out a German communications center.
At time code 3:27 we see a flash back of the general briefing session the day before the attack begins. Lots of Generals and Colonels talking to troops, writing on blackboards and looking at maps. At time code 13:02 prep begins with troops and commanders studying more maps and driving to commandeered farm houses being used as command posts. At time code 18:34 the soldiers are out in the field scouting the objective.
At time code 29:06 the attack begins at 0-6 00, followed by various battle scenes; tanks rolling and firing, explosions, ground fire and troops engaged in rifle combat. In the end, the objective is met. The communications outpost is captured by the Allies.
The 50th Armored Division was a division of the Army National Guard from July 1946 until 1993. On 13 October 1945 the War Department published a postwar policy statement for the entire Army, calling for a 27-division Army National Guard structure with 25 infantry divisions and 2 armored divisions to accommodate the desires of all the states. Once the process of negotiation was complete, among the new formations formed, for the first time in the National Guard, were armored divisions, the 49th and 50th. The 50th Armored Division replaced the 44th Infantry Division within the New Jersey Army National Guard. New Jersey, which had supported part of the 44th Division before the war, now supported the 50th Armored Division, which became nicknamed the "Jersey Blues." Therefore, most of its elements 'inherited' the history of the organic units of the old 44th, and elements of the new 44th perpetuated the history and traditions of former units in Illinois.
In a 1968 reorganization, the 48th and 49th Armored Divisions were disbanded but not the 50th, which from that point was joined by the 27th Armored Brigade from New York, the remnant of the 27th Armored Division. At this point, the division lost its 'Jersey Blues' nickname. Following efforts by Army Chief of Staff General Frederick C. Weyand to raise the readiness of the Army National Guard, the 50th Armored Division was reorganized as a bi-state division in New Jersey and Vermont. At the time, individual armor battalions in NJ and VT were issued 90-mm M48A1 and M48A3 medium tanks.
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For me?! The best of these Boots on the ground videos the military made????
The helmets the enemy wore! That Spike That goes front to back!
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Dang, flashbacks of being on a Armor BN staff in W. Germany in the 80's. Outside of the changes in uniforms and equipment, pretty close to how we did it back then. We still had the maps covered with acetate, but we used alcohol markers instead of grease pens. Good demonstration on what the BN commander should be doing after he gets the operations order, (OPORD) from the Brigade commander (The film still used the WW II era Armored Division organized into two Combat Commands, A and B, commanded by a Brigadier General). The key thing is to not to waste any time, The scene of the CRD trying to eat and work on his OPORD is pretty realistic. However we would normally bring the S2 (Intelligence) and the S3 (Operations) officers to the BDE OPORD briefing. That way the S2 and S3 shop could start analyzing the mission and situation, come up with some options and ideas for the concept of the operation, and start fleshing out the OPORD while the Commanders are on their recon. With a commander who trusted his staff and a staff that understood how the commander thought, the OPORD could be quickly finalized upon the CDRs return from the recon. Something that wasn't brought out very well was issuing Warning Orders (WARORD) as quickly as possible to subordinate units, to allow them as much time as possiable for planning, logistics and movement. In this example, a commander and staff would at least issue a WARNORD soon after the commander was notified of the Combat Commander's briefing, on his return from the meeting and after his return from the recon.
If you have never been on a army field staff, this is a good film to watch to see how a real commander and staff plans a attack. I do have to say though, the officers in this film are sure not as stressed and much better rested than any staff I had ever been on, even in the peacetime army. By Day 3 of a NTC, JRTC or Hoenfeld's rotation there would be some serious ass chewing going on or maybe a fist fight between a company commander and the BN motor officer or S4. Good times.
Tell me another story, please!
@@murkypuddle33- no, why don't you tell us one of yours. Oh - you don't have any? Roger.
As an artillery man I like the smoke and HE fire mission
Right, you got the order of movement, Smitty? You just yell, Colonel, we'll put plenty of smoke and HE on the target. Yeah, see, we'll hit 'em really hard, see, then breakout, see.
Brotha that's the word!
18 minutes to go. The tank commander is tense with responsibility.
*smoking intensifies*
G2 has reported serious enemy armor flanking the dog shit out of us here, to the northwest, and even though there's a picture about to fall off the wall next to my head, I'll keep on talking like I'm on a morphine and valium IV. You boys just carry the ball and I shouldn't have anything to worry about. 😄
To be fair that's a great mix especially IV
Having Pershing's instead of Sherman's is a big help.
I've never seen an officer of such high rank talk so softly. he was dang near whispering. How are his men supposed to hear the vital info this film places so high of importance on?
"You can smoke if you like"...………making the world safe for Lucky Strike!
To bad life isn't like that . We all jump in jeeps drive to objective looking all around . No bad guys anywhere should have left that day
WTF at 2:36 that's actor James Gregory...Inspector Frank Luger from Barney Miller, he was also in a ton of movies.
One guy in there looks like Richard Jaeckle.
the enemy helmets are awesome
its just an M1 with a french-like fin or ridge used by OPFOR for training, you can have one simply by buying a surplus M1 and then cutting a piece of metal or wood in the shape any particular fin or ridge you prefer and simply nailing, bolting, or gluing it onto the M1, then apply paint! ^.^
One question sir. What's a battle?
12:53 what's the science guy doing in a war zone??
Quite a good film spoiled by having the enemy dressed as circus clowns.
I didn't know that they were using the Pershing in Italy with American styling houses with the enemy using funny helmets 😅😂
Make do with whatcha got...
Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
The enemy is somewhere around here, to our northwest, butyou'll just continue onto the objective and hope they don't push our HQ. If they do, I'll be up in my plane anyway, see, and I'll be just fine, see.
Never understood why the Us thought it was a good idea to paint rank shaped targets on the front of their helmets!
It was a practice we largely dropped in practice, or made them smaller and quickly faded them with mud.
Everybody smokes. I wonder how many got cancer many years later.
They didnt care about cancer i think..
Back in those days the danger of tobacco was either ignored or downplayed to the point where you can actually see advertisements for "Pharmacist recommended" cigarettes from the 40s and 50s. It wasn't really until decades later that we really accepted the reality of smoking tobacco.
This film is a promotion for cigarettes?
Most 40s and 50s films were.
@@colonelkurtz2269 But besides this it was considered fashionable and modern, especially for women. As we now know about smoking people can be manipulated into about any thing if the information is overwhelming reason.