Briitish Pound Caen Sector (1944)
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- National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39126, LI 208-UN-1007 - Briitish Pound Caen Sector (1944). Series: Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels, compiled 1942 - 1945. Part 1, British artillery pounds German positions in northern France and troops advance through villages and care for civilians. Tanks clear mine fields. Part 2, American troops enter Cherbourg. The 6th Airborne Div. receives supplies by parachute from British planes. Gen. J.L. Collins accepts the surrender of German officers.
These documentaries are better than Hollywood! Thunbs up for the camera man!
Talking about fake vets we had the same problem when I fought Napoleon at Waterloo
Actually Waterloo was 100 years ago so you're clearly lying as well.
@@alexrennison8070 bruh
@@AP-qr8en Whoosh.
@@alexrennison8070 r/whoosh 📸
Как я вас понимаю, мне как ветерану Куликовской битвы, тоже отказывают в законных льготах.
In my recommandation after 9 years 👍🏼
All the clever comments on here about who were the main allied fighters in the battle of Caen. I suggest you look at the war dead in the cemeteries surrounding Caen.
I am a Brit but I am not going down the road of one or two others by playing down what one side or the other did, they were Allies and brothers in arms.
The Allies in the battle for Caen suffered 83,000 dead or wounded. Read history the British army including the Canadians took on the bulk of the German forces in Normandy and prevailed.
Correct.
The British, the Poles & the Canadians ground down the German Panzers to enable the Yanks to break out & outflank in a brilliant manoeuvre. Allies forever.
Absolutely correct, the yanks did a great job in their sector though, but our lads had tough very opponents on their front.
Absolutely right!
Caen was south of Juno and Sword beaches so naturally the Canadians and Brits were responsible for fighting the Germans defending it. They were up against two Panzer divisions, both experienced. The undulating open countryside lent itself to tank warfare, especially if like the Germans were initially, you could position yourself on a ridge. Monty took the decision to grind the Germans down with artillery and airpower.
The Americans in the west faced equally tough fighting but in a different way. They were fighting in the bocage, i.e. small fields surrounded by tall hedgerows growing on top of walls. Their tanks couldn't get through so the Germans would mount machine guns on the opposite sides of the fields and mow down GIs trying to break through the hedges. They overcame the hedges after about a month by attaching hedge cutters to the front of their tanks.
If you look at an hour by hour animation of both the American and the British / Canadian fronts you will see they made very similar progress. All allies fought bravely. Operation Cobra is when things changed dramatically when the Americans broke through around the south of the Contentin Peninsular. One reason they were able to do this is because the battle for Caen kept the panzers occupied. That's not to take anything away from the Americans who fought as competently and bravely as they do now.
People often marvel at how quickly Patton was able to sweep around Brittany and back round towards Fallaise. He was obviously a brilliant attacking general, but the Germans had little fight left in them in Normandy by the time he took command.
That would suck to fight for the germans, the allies had complete control of the skies
That's why "There were No Refugees on the Roads like 1940" because P-47's Strafed Anything that Moved in Daylight
Teddy Roosevelt Jr was due to be the governor of Cherburg - but died before he knew of his appt by FDR.
Brave and great man, died of exhaustion from overwork.
R I P young heroes.
It is tragic that historic Caen was levelled. But why should thousands of Canadian and British lives be sacrificed to save historic buildings?
Let's not forget the 20,000 innocent civilians who perished.
I can remember my Uncle, Sgt James Knight, (RIP) he told me that he and 4 others were taking part in the assault on Caen, a shell exploded nearby knocking him off his feet, when he got up, he called out, “That was a close one lads” turning around, his 4 fellow soldiers had all been killed by the exploding shell.
The troops who had been fighting there wished that the town had not been bombed: ruined buildings are easier to defend.
@@freebornjohn6876around 1,700 died. I don't know where you got that absurd number
@@liamfarnell6638 - I think that the number for 20k French civilians dying is for the duration of the entire Normandy campaign. I can’t remember the exact number but it’s on the Wikipedia page for this campaign.
I want a Bren gun carrier. It would be a great vehicle on the farm.
There was a Ford plant in Somerville Massachusetts that made them during the war .
Just to be be clear - Rommel was not a Nazi he was a fighting man; have the decency to understand that.
I like how the newsreel plays leitmotifs from Wagner's Ring Cycle in the background.
Waiting for someone to say,"That's my dad leading the column"
Yeah. It’s like when someone makes a video about the rarest personality type, everyone in the comments is suddenly that personality type. 🤣
yes and they will also say that their dad killed 50 germans with just their bare hands
@Clownface A Russain anywhere on the eastern front saw some crazy shit. Hard to picture
Sorry I am late, but guess what ! That was my Dad leading the column.
My dad was in one video. So unbelievable I spotted him! He was too young.
I was there as a child
Lest we forget.
Old men make war young men fight them.
Teddy Roosevelt Jr was 56 when he led his troops during the landings of Utah. The only general to land with his men. He was an old man fighting with the young. He died 6 days after.
Lol they made no mention of the thousands of allied troops dying in these fights, the really tried to make it seem like an easy and overpowered fight
It's called propaganda. It's necessary
@@sheevinit1490 Seriously, how would you do it differently???
I remember the war, I remember all the Gold Star flags in windows on every street! The only way we SAW the war in those days was in the newsreels at the movies, Pictures in the newspapers, wounded in the hospitals, or relatives, friends and neighbors getting a little mail from the front! RADIO and others, with men in these battles, rarely writing but giving hope to families and friends At home! It was VERY DIFFERENT, AND VERY CLOSE, BUT FEW COMPLAINED! We defended our country, our men and women in the military, we gave blood , saved the tinfoil fom gum wrappers and ANYTHING ELSE THE MILITARY MIGHT NEED! Nylon was for parachutes, so women painted their legs, no hose! did a lot of things very differently , but without much complaining because in those days of a VERY DIFFERENT WAR, little things might make a BIG DIFFERENCE TO A SOLDIER ON THE FRONT! WWII was very real, terrible, close, heartbreaking for MILLIONS OF FAMILIES, but we did our best on the homefront!
I am so glad that our military are so much better protected, informed, and guided now! It's hard to imagine what it would have meant to a cold, wet soldier in a cold, damp foxhole to be able to pull up his cell and talk to his family while bullets whizzed overhead! I'm glad they can now!
When one thinks about the amount of Slave Labour that went into these mega structures. The suffering and the death. Sick.
Looking at these historic pictures, how different war is now! Lookong just at uniforms, they are so much more protection, instruction, etc? , not just a pot , but heavier and other stuff ??? On them for ??? I don 't know, but I am so glad they are so much better
and bring more home safe!
They die just as easily.
Wondering if the the large uncompleted structure was the V3 long range gun site?
And whether it still exists ? It would take a hell of a lot to demolish it.
I saw a documentary about a long range gun that the Nazis were developing but it was located further north in France, in the Pas de Calais region. As the Nazis retreated the British discovered it and destroyed it. General de Gaulle was indignant that we had destroyed French property!! Is this the gun you were referring to? It was underground and was rocket-assisted.
Are these videos in the public domain?
Rommel in Sicily? Hube was the German commander there. Rommel move to mainland Italy from the Baltics in August, 1943.
It took a month to take this town, close to the beach.
What’s your point?
Most of the German reinforcements were sent to the Caen sector. That’s why it took time to overcome them, especially in an area which favoured the defender.
The 12th. SS Panzer Hitlerjugend (teenagers of the Hitler Youth) held onto their area well into July until they were withdrawn due to overwhelming allied forces.
@glareola Massacred no my friend, thats what the Nazi's did to kids old ladies old men, and the sick and injured. So brave you Germans. But as normal you had your arses kicked to hell again. how I laugh at your misfortune.
12 SS Hitlerjugend were the same age as the rest of the SS and army with the NCOs drawn from the Hitler youth as they became adults. It was a elite division though sadistic particularly when murdering civilians and prisoners.
@@strontiumstargazer3124 Apart from the rape & murder of a French girl ( for which the culprit was shot by the SS ) i cannot find any instances of civilian murder by HJ, also Hubert Heyer divisional chief of staff issued stern orders regarding treatment of POW & very few were shot after June 11, if you have different information please share it with us
@@strontiumstargazer3124 12 ss were Hitler youth, nco’s and officers experienced eastern front vets, for the most part. Canadians cut their teeth on them in Normandy, the experienced Canadian units were in Italy with 8th army.
@@frankvandergoes298 The division committed its first massacre while en route to Normandy. The division executed 86 French men on 1 April 1944 in Ascq, France, in a reprisal against the civilian population after the railway they were on was sabotaged. The commander of the convoy, SS-Obersturmführer Walter Hauck, ordered troops to search and arrest all male members of the houses on both sides of the track. Altogether, 70 men were shot beside the railway line and another 16 killed in the village. In 1949, Hauck was put on trial in Lille, France, and was sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. He was freed in 1957 after a further sentence reduction.
MOST OF THE SOLDIERS GOING AFTER CAEN WERE CANADIAN..
US ARMY had to circle back to bail your asses out you fail to take CAEN after four attempts!!!
@@bubbajoe9799 SO SAYS U.S HISTORY, GO THERE AND SEE THE MONUMENTS, THERE IS NONE TO THE U.S. IN CAEN
@@jerryswallow my bad! You are 100 percent correct! I apologize I was wrong sir!!
@@bubbajoe9799 / I SALUTE YOU MY FRIEND, NOT MANY WOULD COME BACK WITH THAT COMMENT, HISTORY IS MIXED UP IN A LOT OF THESE FILMS, THANK YOU, KIND REGARDS, AND EXCUSE THE CAPS, MY KEYBOARD IS MESSED UP..CHEERS
@bubba joe/ PS, WHAT I MEANT TO WAS IN THE FILM, MOST ARE CANADIAN, THE SHOULDER PATCHES AND A FEW OTHER THINGS GIVE IT AWAY..
Never seen mention of that 750foot ramp before
المانيا قهرت بريطانيا خمسة سنوات
A lot of those 15 and 16 year olds were part of the 12th SS hitlerjügend (the baby division), they got mauled at Chan due to thier young age, reckless courage and indecisive leadership losing 70% thier tanks, 60% artillery, and nearly all of their trucks and vehicles and suffering thousands dead and wounded, over a quarter of the division which was 20 thousand strong before they went into Normandy.
Yes the 12 Panzer were babies, my dad was one. He never spoke about the war. He was in Russia, in Paris, Caen I think, and Juno Beach before being captured. I would love to know more about this.
@@ingridbacsamott6899 - there are loads of books on the Normandy campaign, so it should be easy to find out more about your father’s exploits. There’s also lots of stuff online.
Look at 5:19, there is a parachutist that fall very fast .............
Yes that's truth . 😲
WOW! The Nazis built that launching platform just to attack us. I feel honored. That shows how much they thought of us to build something so big.
So, you are honored that they found us a credible threat - that they would use slave labor to build platforms to fight us. Notably the German generals made fun of American fighting prowess through Ardennes defeat.
@@lynn0MA You are aware that the Germans lost the war and surrendered?. Who cares about what German Generals think. It's not like they won any big, important wars. They're not even relevant, except to laugh at when they're arrested, taken away and have their mug shots taken at Nuremburg.
9:53 General Baby Face is more fitting
any writers in here interested in collaborating a graphic novel????
A lot slower & with much heavier Allied losses, incl. 600 tanks, than this suggests.
Yes because they were facing heavy armoured divisions
@Renoir We? You were there? With superior Allied forces , it should have been managed with fewer casualties in 10 days. Monty ballsed up much of North Africa, N.W. Europe, including Market Garden.
@@dhss333 buddy he said "they"
@@dhss333 - Monty led the first crushing victory against the Nazis in North Africa at El Alamein. He then successfully pushed back the major part of the Afrika Korps and Italians all the way to Tunisia, a distance of over 1,200 miles. The British and Canadians also took on the bulk of the German army in Sicily on the eastern flank. And in Normandy, the British and Canadians took on the bulk of the German armour and most of the elite SS and Panzer regiments. You need to be re-educated.
@@28pbtkh23 None of which disproves or contradicts my statement on losses and speed of advance in Normandy.
When it became clear that Germany lost, all the allies immediately came. And they shot a heroic movie.
Yeah the british were hiding on their Island saving their soldiers up, waiting until all the experienced germans died and the russians and americans were close enough
@@PrvnCoke The British were fighting the Germans while the Russians were allied with Germany, jointly carving up Poland between the Soviets and the Nazis. Nice work! Meanwhile the Americans were loafing at home, saying we don't want to get involved. Learn some history, beatch!
Tradutor
@@28pbtkh23the Soviet and German alliance ended quickly so the Soviet only attacked poland and then attacked Germany
@@crazygamingyt7245 - the Soviets were in Poland for roughly 22 months and in that time they executed in cold blood almost the entire officer corps of the Polish army. They also slaughtered thousands of the Polish cultural and intellectual class. They were evil filth.
While that was going on, the British were fighting Italy, another Axis member, in the Western Desert as well as in the Horn of Africa. And then we fought Nazis in North Africa as well.
The piecemeal defence wasn't Rommel's idea.
how many german pow s were shot without the camera and before malmedy ?
ronald48 the criminal allies killed more people after 45 than during the war.
According the historical research of independent (=not government-employed) historians there were 16 million German victims in WW2 (military and civilian):
Their historical research proved that...
6 million German soldiers were killed.
But only 3 million of them were killed in combat,
whereas 3 million German soldiers were murdered as POWs.
9,4 millions German civilians were killed during WW2 (mostly women and children).
5,7 million of them were killed by starvation and total lack of medical care 1944 - 1949 during Allied occupation.
2,8 million of them (also only women and children and very old men) were murdered by Russians, Polish and Czechs during the expulsion of German civilians from the eastern parts of Germany to steal their land and cities.
0.6 million women and children were burned alive by terror air raids on German cities full of civilians
0.3 million women and girls and old people were killed by raping and butchering during the conquest and occupation of German cities.
Additionally 0.5 million ethnic Germans living outside of Germany were murdered at the end and directly after the war.
Source: Professor Bellinger, Berlin Deutsche Kriegsopfer des Zweiten Weltkriegs und danach (www.professor-bellinger-berlin.de/hist_ma30.html)
Bellinger's sources are precise and evidenced by the typical meticulous German civil registries for instance
War is horrible. The aftermath of war is horrible on the losing side. Lesson: don't start a damn war.
sven r Criminal allies? What the hell are you talking about? I'm getting sick of idiots spouting a bunch of stupidity.
Ronald48 Who cares !
It seems there are still so much hatred towards German until today
My Home because you’re writing Nazi comments everywhere. You still need to pay for your sins for generations to come - we have forgiven, but not forgotten. You started two world wars, so now be quiet for once. Devil’s tears don’t work.
My Home cause everyone only knows the allied propaganda and never questioned the history books regarding the narrative, or the overall outcome for the First World War and the Second World War just may have been written by the victors... And no one tells on themselves nor snitches on their country when they’ve been swore to secrecy knowing violating such an order would get you court marshal soon after in front of a firing squad for treason..
IMO To truly understand either World War One needs to study European history for the last 300 years.
@@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim most of the Nazi comments come from non-germans..especially fom US-americans.And to blame any post war german is completely ridiculous and stupid.Are you paying for 'your sins'?
@@slimbim77 I agree with you, Germans don't have to feel guilty for their ancesters and as a neighbour (from France) they are now fine and trustfull 👍❤
There are only bad attitudes towards the Germans from ignorant people and those lacking in education. My father served in the merchant navy during war and he didn’t hold any grudges against either the Germans or the Japs, despite seeing nearby ships going down.
2:08 you can see someone running
This narrator is certainly up on the word 'Nazi'.
Probably muttered the word during his sleep too.
ÓTIMAS HISTÓRIAS DA GUERRA, BRASIL OK
7:14 what a Bullshit Lie !!!
Indeed it was but these types of comments were required, unbelievably still, to convince American people that they should commit to the War.
@@johncrichton4341
as Dave Chappell said: 9ger had Aluminum Tubes!! Aluminum Tubes....
@@charles1964 Do you know what the FUCK you can do with an aluminum tube??
Who are the Briitish?
Cowards and destroyers of europe and the western world
5:23 parachute failure
Oh my God....far left....poor soul
03:59 "the liberators have been trained and equipped magnificently": except the (regular) Sherman tanks weren't a match for the German armour. See th-cam.com/video/Ns6l7sCoWX4/w-d-xo.html
50,000 Shermans beat 1,000 King Tigers.
Depends on which Sherman ...
Firing sight for missiles aimed at America?
That was their ultimate goal
✌and ❤ to the 🌏.Let the 🇺🇳 nations be United.One L 💜ve, One Aim,One Destiny.🕊🕊🕊
Cean is were the Germans though the allied force was going to attack , and if they had they most definitely would have been destroyed, this is of encirclement after d day!
Good (very good) for the british, and for the world, to blast hitler's germany. Only wish I had a time-machine for which to transport to that battlefield, Trump and his facists, Putin and his facists, along with Qanon or whatever they are calling themselves these days. We would all rejoice, including Merkel's germany (god bless her and keep her).
You and people like you would fix everything, Huh?
They pounded Caen alright. Right after they finished their tea and crumpets.
The Brits and Canadians faces 8 divs and 700 tanks compared to the 2 divisions and 200 tanks the Americans faced.
so stop making stupod points and recognise the valour of both Brits Canadians and US forces
Breakfast is important.
3:55 wt happen with them? frozen in summer???
they made it look like German soldiers would surrender at the drop of a hat, did German troops really give up that quickly?
of course not. Typical propaganda...
GoodTimeBuddies Why not? British raids throughout the war saw significant German prisoners taken...been listening to too much youtubers you blokes. Funny, but you won't learn anything history wise.
No way Jose
Propaganda? I didn't get that feeling from the video at all. Could it be you see it that way because of your love for Nazism?
Yes of course they did, they were just as afraid of dying as anybody. Forget the bullshit written about the Nazi soldier. They were not the fighting machine that you have been led to believe. Look at the facts they actually lost every front that they fought on. North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, Russia, and every where in between. Speaks for its self does it not.
Con el respeto que se merecen todos los seres vivientes. Creo que la naturaleza sabe lo que ase. Por que las guerras es un mal necesario para controlar la sobrepoblacion humana nos matamos o nos mata la naturaleza en nuestra planeta o del espacio. La pregunta es que país defiende a los animales por que ellos no pueden armarse. Creo que a ningún país le interesa la vida de los animales.
Nazi and British met face to face in desert and after that in France but before that time they met in 1940 in Dunkirk
THE BEST FITERS GERMANY
Hardly
Umm, no, Chrisitan, the Germans lost to the citizen-soldiers of the Allies. You'll have noticed that this communication is in English, and not German. Could be there's a reason for that.
@@bluerock4456 the germans are great fightsr even they lost
@@cyrosubod2317 yep, excellent for brainwashed, cruel murdering sociopaths! Not bright though, twice before they got the message not to pick a fight with the world! Take note chrisitan rath.
That's my dad 8:45
Saw mine too
wats with all the phoney battle noise
You should show also British captive being march and led into prison camps.
Why would you want to see that unless you're watching a German production? They lost!
Слава Советскому Союзу! Слава Красной Армии!
I'm voting for Josh Hawley...thanks for the reminder...
This is the most accurate photograph of that war. Это самые правильные фотографии о той войне.
images.app.goo.gl/fq3XvVxKnuYnFKNL6
The were no British war machine,just B17s and Lancasters dropping tons of high explosives then caen falls🤔
The whole story about us British being involved in some kind of a Soviet/American war against Germany is a conspiracy theory probably thought up by Alex Jones or David Ike. Why would a peaceful Muslim country like Britain get involved in a war with Germany over mere anti-Semitism. This video was quite obviously the old territorial army made up of a mysteriously disappeared native people while training on Salisbury plain long before we colonised the island during the late 20th century.
And some of that shit came down on their own troops! :-))
British troops fought incredible and defeated the germans a fact on foot
Thick ignorant comment try educating yourself before making stupid comments.
Ý :) g Nni
God bless England.
Fighting Force
God fuck England. .
God fuck Paul Mauer
glareola the Major of London is a muslim. Yes? The Major of Berlin is a german. You see the difference?
Götz v. Überlingen Tell me what are the mayors of Berlin, cologne, Hamburg et al are doing to stop German girls being raped?
starg. ????
This was before rommel was looked at with sympathy dont forget he had waffen ss in his command
Faze speak yanki no speed in war.Yanki laked money
Делали деньги
For you ze var is over
Sank you! Now we Germans can win se peace...have you ever heared from our overwhelming economic new power weapon? No? Well, wait and see Tommy...! We´ll kick you out of OUR Europe, that´s for sure!
Manfred Schmidt “Our Europe”, have you told the French yet? I thought not.
Manfred Schmidt ach, vell...you zink you’ll win ze THIRD time around? Keep dreaming, kraut...fourth, fifth Reich? null Reich 😂
Paris
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The “liberators”. 😂
Che fortuna che avete avuto che disgrazia per l'umanità
What propaganda! They made it sound like Brit had the war in the bag. They would all be speaking German if the US hadn't got involved. And Germany was fighting too many fronts. Wasn't so easy as this propaganda video makes it look!
You're wasting your time Sidney; he's been watching too many Mel Gibson movies!
@glareola Nonsense! Without American aid U-boats would starved your island into submission.
LouisSypher66.For your information, we Brits already speak German its the basis of English today. The U S didn't save 'our asses' as you say. Hitler knew he could never invade Britain and went East to the soviet union instead.
If you're American, no wonder you got Trump. You're probably not American though, just ignorant.
👍🏽 you are right
This is a film made by the Americans to show what the British and Canadians were doing in their sectors. No doubt there were films made by the Americans which concentrated on the American troops.
GOTT MIT UNS
Yet God didn't let you win?
Got mittens too
Things Britain has given the world, DNA profiling, www, railways, postal service, TV, radio, areo engine, soccer, tennis, rugby, cricket, golf, the Beatles , rolling stones, police force, just a few to mention, I'm glad we've decided to leave your Europe, you might not miss us but you will miss our $35,000,000 contribution each week
You are still European and closest relatives are Scandinavian and German of origin , there is something else that controlling and dictating who is with who and who is not , called special interest...
John Cornell Ha Ha I could go on and on all day I suppose
John Cornell I really don't know why sometimes we underestimate ourselves
If you live in freedom today, thank the British Empire.
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Forgive me, but I think NZ was part of the British Empire? It's not about narrow nationalism, brits v canadians, brits v australians, brits v new zealanders. We were all one. We all have common heritage and are all the source of these good things. Its that we should be celebrating. Just because comparatively recently we were betrayed into believing the brits in the 'home islands' were 'european' by quislings and traitors, does not negate that history. Indeed, during that first betrayal, about 40 years ago, it was predicted that the brits would eventually see through the lies of the politicians and get out from under the jackboot of the eu. That is what is happening today. We have a weasel of a prime minister who has tried to pull the wool over our eyes again, but whose legacy is a name like Treason May, Appeaser May, sharia May. Make no mistake we will leave the eu. The anger in the country of the duplicity of our elected quislings is very high.
One last thing about the Yanks, they were part of the British empire. They are also the ones who ended the British Empire as well. They forced 'managed decline' on us after WWII and this policy was used by our quislings to 'manage' our joining the eu. They said at the time that Britain would now be a small fish in a big pond and our interests were best served by abandoning our family of nations for what has become a German dominated trading block and soon to be a German controlled military force as well.
Now chinazi look
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BRITISH POUND CAEN ?....did they FORGET our GRANDFATHER was there FIGHTING as well....OUI ! and the limey'$ WHINE about YANK'$ forgetting them ???.......P$ CANADA isn't YOUR COLONY anymore...OUI !
@Tiny mod WE came from the disputed territory of CANADA , we METIS DID NOT surrender to anyone...good lord so many that we SAVED are fcUK'n STUPID...eh
Excuse me but this is an American made film and the script is probably written by an American. So don’t blame the Brits if no one mentioned the Canadians.
Market Garden indeed , we would have our $alad To$$ed for decades after WWII by over immigration to Canada VIA U.K....@@28pbtkh23
Les Anglos sont très forts --en propagande !
No matter how long and hard it will take for any military confrontation against the US they always get to the top.
Tell me wich war they have won by 1 vs 1?
But not in Vietnam! Not so good
the british war machine...nice joke
Hi Granny. Are you referring to the British war machine which produced the first great victories against the Nazis and their Italian allies? The Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, the Battle of Cape Matapan, the raid on Taranto, the Battle of Alam el Halfa and the Battle of El Alamein? Yes, that war machine which produced all of those great victories!!!
@@28pbtkh23 thanks for replying to this 3 year old comment. Actually I'm a big fan of the UK and their military tradition and I'm quite sad about the state of their troops (just like in Germany). I'm even invested in some traditional and great british defence contractors like Babcock and Rolls-Royce (no investment advice :D). However even remotely claiming that the defeat of the 3rd Reich was the accomplishment of "the british war machine" was and is an utter joke
@@grannygrandma5185 - I have only just seen your reply. Thank you for your appreciative comments. Please bear in mind that this is an American film made for both the troops and the civilians back home. So if any wild claims are made, then they were written by an American script writer … probably.
....whats a Briitish?
Brutish
Caen. This is where the Britist 7th Armour Division get kicked their ass by Tiger Tank Batallion. after previous years 'political' won in North Africa front. Allied (Britist) entering Caen with only small tank (Crusader, matilda) Churchill with completely unknown with the tank they are up against. The results is clear: disaster. Britist tanks got K.O. without chance to fight back.
Later in Vier Bocage, 17 tanks & APC of element from 7th armour division was wiped out by German tiger ace, Wittman in only 10 minutes. Since then, 7th Armour Div halt their advance and use only infantery squad to form their advance up.
glareola: You are a idiot.
@John CornellMontgomery never won Schidt without American lend-lease. Rommel never got "chased". He withdrew from N. Africa to avoid a second front as the Operation Torch troops were closing in. El Alamein was actually an American bought and paid for victory. You are just another brit windbag living in your fantasy world believing you still rule the world.
@@psilvakimo Yes Rommel "withdrew" from North Africa .... Leaving almost the entire Afrika Korps behind as POWs!
@@psilvakimo - you are such a prize bunt. El Alamein was the first great defeat inflicted upon the Germans, fought entirely by the troops of the British Empire and a contingent of the Free French and Greeks. It was Britain who bought the victory: Britain bought some arms and munitions from the USA, i.e. Britain paid for them. America did not donate them out of the kindness of its heart, you dumbcluck. America sold and Britain bought. Moreover, we supplied our own artillery, trucks, armoured cars and anti-tank guns. Most of the aircraft in our airforce were British designed and built. Lastly, victory was paid for with the blood of British troops, and troops from India, New Zealand, Australia, Rhodesia and other parts of the Empire. Not a fucking Yank in sight. But shysters like you have always been jealous that the first great defeats inflicted upon the Nazis were by the British and their Empire allies. Toodle pip!
Wittmann’s last action of 3 or 4 Tigers was destroyed by the Canadian and British tanks. All German counter-attacks against the British & Canadians were repulsed. Many of the Allied attacks were stopped by the Nazis. But in the end the British and Canadians successfully pushed the Germans back in their sectors and destroyed the majority of the German armour in Normandy. Even though we may have had tanks that weren’t as good as the Tigers, we had more of them and had learned how to overcome superior German tanks.
America took all of France while the Brits barely got off the beach. Caen was a day one objective for Monty.
Ha, ha. Channel ports then the Brits liberated Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and then into northern Germany. The German High Command surrendered to MONTGOMERY at Luneburg. What a wit you are...
The Brits we're fighting
From 1939
By themselves.
Before the yanks came Into the war.
Yankee doodle..
@@pennylane9730
What he said about the "Americans taking all of France" is about as ridiculous of "Britain Stands Alone" (with Canada; India; S. Africa; Australia; NZ and American Lend Lease)
Sam Radowick, you are missing the BIG point mate, Caen was far away the biggest German defended city, after several weeks of trying to enter the city, eventually the RAF had to carpet bomb with great loss of civilian lives, this was so unexpected by the Allies, Montgomery to his credit, tried to capture the city without so much civilian casualties, but the Germans were determined to fight to the last man.
@@davidmichaels8934 Should've surrounded it rather than bomb it, I imagine Richard O Connor would've opted for a different approach.
Don't mess with the U.S .
nor Ivan.
I would say, dont mess at the same time with so many countrys. USA/russian allone, were no match for the Germans.
@@wolfmuller6737 Hürtgenwald. ;-)
Er, this movie is about British troops.
Britain was saved by the US Army...twice! 1917/18 and 1944/45. and both were successful because of the Red Army, only.
Who told you that. The US Army played no part in saving Britain. By the time the US Army arrived in Britain half way through the war it was to bolster the man power numbers in preparation for offensive operations in Europe, along with the Canadians, Poles, Free French and others. Incidentaly the Red Army played no part in defending Britain from German invasion, played no part in keeping the Germans out of the Libyan oilfields, played no part in ousting the Germans from North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Greece, France, Holland, Belgium and Denmark, played no part in the bombing campaign that was methodically turning the German war industry into rubble, played no part in the allied convoys supplying Russia with much of its fighting capability and played no part in setting up resistance networks right across all the occupied lands.
russia only survived the war because of british supplies and hitlers mistakes
Bitter
@@dougie1943 - your comment is GOLD!!! I have had to make similar corrections to ignorant people who were watching this video. It never ends.
@@tedmaxeffs - in the early stages of the war - yes. But then the Americans stepped in big time to supply the Soviets with thousands of trucks, and even re-supplied their factories with modern equipment.
Like german Propaganda more lol 😂😂