Hey Mark, I'm a Historian here in Bavaria (Contemporary German History) and i just want to let you know that your Channel and Videos on historical Subjects that are about or include German Topics are the most accurate and neutral (as in: just the Facts & no cherry-picking/leaving certain things out) on TH-cam, i always recommend your Channel to Students who plan on studying History with a Focus on the Wars and/or Germany. I hope your Channel keeps growing and if you ever run out of Ideas for Videos or need some Help in Research regarding Documents, Archival Items, Estates/Memoirs from Germany, Translations or anything else in that Terrain let me know, i'm glad to help you out! Prost and Cheers from Berchtesgaden
@old school honour and respect. ..if you are a true historian crack..you will have noticed that Mark Felton..too... is biased.. Towards British "splendor"..and for example ..CONSISTENTLY downplaying and eradicating the fights, efforts and happenings in Dutch East Indies between battle of malaya/Singapore...and start of Australia in New Guinea or British in Burma.. As if it was a BLACK HOLE...(just as the british military stepped over Java and neglected these people..despite having received ALL the military support DEI could muster in Malayan waters (subs) and sky (waterplanes and airplanes)..
@old school honour and respect. someone with bias cannot discuss bias? Your point is invalid .... oh wait nvm you already mic dropped and walked away. Goodnight.
@@MarkFeltonProductions A wheelbarrow for the furniture - three 100-car freight trains for the books (or more correctly, the harddrives containing audiobooks and videoarchives)
And all were followed by the secret service, advised by gentleman with hats and excellent manners. Shortly afterwards it was noted that his neighbour's were never burgled and wife beaters seemed to have an unusual habit of dying in domestic accidents.
@@MarkFeltonProductions lol very much the same when I moved to France ten years ago. I had even given many books away, but still the immensity of my library annoyed my wife intensely lol.
I used to pay about $80/month for cable and got two History channels, both equally worthless. I now give Mark $10/month and am constantly and pleasantly surprised by the content. A very valuable investment for history enthusiasts!
Mark: aerial rockets fired from the turret of a tank would ruin many a German day Me: i fear the man whos day isnt ruined by being shot at with rockets
I bet the person who's day ISN'T ruined by rockets would most definitely think otherwise if the incoming ordinance was from an Iowa-class battleship. :P
@@TheEDFLegacy yes, but naval shells lack style! Now, screaming rocket-assisted naval ordinance fired from a land battleship? THAT would make Hans consider packing up and retreating a ways.
I swear they have the same health as the normal Sherman because my friend had that tank and I had a tiger with apcr rounds even when he had max health I just snuck up behind him and shot him in the back twice and it destroyed the tank
Question: How on Earth do you find these marvelous stories of forgotten, incredibly interesting, history? Edit; As always, thanks for the likes! Also, for those of you who are saying that this is well known, I'm talking about his videos as a whole.
"Using an aerial rocket for ground targets is against the Geneva convention!" says the German using an 88mm anti-air flak cannon against tanks and infantry.
I've always thought complaints such as the German officer's to be ludicrous. It's wartime and warheads are being placed on a target. The warhead arrives; how it got there is irrelevant. Ludicrous, and yet not the only such complaint I've seen.
Words cannot express my gratitude for Dr Fentons history lessons, having a keen interest and having been all about Germany in my youth,I'm lucky not to have stepped on an old mine playing around honecone castle.
The Calliope !! I loved those in Company of Heroes, especially in the Hill 192 mission: I had a Calliope, a howitzer and the off-map artillery fire simultaneously onto the hilltop. It was a marvelous display of firepower, very little survived it.
A helpful tip in regards to differentiating Soviet tanks and experimental US tanks during WWII and the Cold War is the hyphen. For example, the Soviet T-34 has the hyphen between the T and the number designation. The Calliope, and the heavy tank that bore the same numerical designation, had no hyphen, and would be written as T34. Hope this helps!
@@Bakaroo-lo7rg Ja, sicherlich, schrieb ich doch auch. Erst ab der Bundeswehr wurde aus dem Gratwerfer, der früher mal ein Minenwerfer gewesen war, ein Mörser *. . .*
Similar outraged comments was addressed to a fellow tank commander of my wife's father regarding the use Churchill Crocodile Flamethrower tank. He was admonished by a surrendering German Officer, lambasted that this terrible and demoralising weapon was "unfair, unsporting and un-English!". Many dispirited and poorly trained Heer by the time Mike was in action in Germany capitulated at the mere knowledge that these tanks were in the vicinity.
especialy because there were 2 tanks which were called T34 in the U.S. arsenal during ww2. The T34 Calliope and this big boy: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/T34Heavy_tank_in_Aberdeen_Proving_Ground_1947.jpg
@@themaus3847 Um he's referring to 2 different American T34s: the Rocket Shermans that we see here & I'm guessing a prototype project Heavy Tank that looks like a variant of the T29 (Guessing they gave T34 Heavy version a bigger gun or something like that)
@Loko Mike no he doesn't and quit spreading your regurgitated bs talking points here in a respectable history channel. Facts don't matter to you so I'm surprised to see someone like you here. Or have you came to spread fake theories and create your own reality? Whatever it is you should take your poison somewhere else
@@coldmexican288 You can find that he in fact does want to ban many of the weapons hundreds of thousands of Americans own today on his own website. He's also the same guy that said all you need is a double barrel shotgun. He also wants to force you to register all your weapons, which _if you paid any attention to history_ was exactly what every tyrannical government has done in the past. Even the Nazis. They say you can keep your weapon if you register them, then a few months later decide to ban them and end up knocking on your door.
@@andrewoliver8930 No. It may have been a propaganda piece. In 1928 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the British Army. He was with the Highland Light Infantry in Malta for a bit, but that was in the early 30's. At the outbreak of WW2 Niven returned to the U.K. and rejoined the British Army. His book, "The Moon is a Balloon" contains some great anecdotes.
I get an alert that Mark Felton has posted another historical video, I know it´s going to be interesting. Hands down the best history channel on literally any media.
So Lucas ripped off audio as well as visual references to WW2. Not surprising. Filmmakers have often sought to hide the familiar within a novel vehicle, etc. It lets the audience relate because there's an unconscious familiarity.
"Having a couple of aerial rockets normally fired from typhoons, lobbed at them by tanks, certainly ruined many a German's day" Is the reason i'm subscribed to this amazing channel
things i hate: 1, when people comment before watching the video 2,lists 3,people being hypocritical in an attempt to be funny 4, when theres no more mark felton to watch and you have to wait for anothe upload
Growing up I built more than one plastic Sherman tank with attached missile tubes. They were called "Screaming Mimi". Thanks for another interesting video.
Sorry Dr. Felton, I cant hear you over the sound of the Calliope's WOOSH WOOSH WOOSH WOOSH....maybe have the gunner chill out a little bit =D First T-34, then T-72!?? Lol, I find it almost hilarious how were cold war enemies, but the US and Russia use alot of the same nomenclature for thier equipment.
IIRC, the "T" designation was used by the US Army for experimental or prototype vehicles. For example, the M4 was called the T6 during testing. It is interesting that they chose the same numbers, though.
"One German officer actually complained that using aerial rockets, launched from tanks, was against the Geneva convention. Or, as he should have said …" Me: Yes! He's going to say it, *HAGUE* convention! "… 'It's just not cricket!'" Me: 😬
@@Bakaroo-lo7rg I wouldn't say I have a problem with it, maybe I have a pet peeve. A lot of times when people say Geneva convention they mean the Hague convention, e.g. the restrictions on the use of expanding bullets and chemical warfare are part of the Hague convention (the restrictions on lightweight explosive munitions even date back to the St. Petersburg declaration of 1868), while the Geneva convention e.g. covers things like treatment of neutral medical personnel ("red cross") and POWs. So people use "Geneva convention" as an ahistoric umbrella term for just about anything relating to human rights in warfare, which isn't accurate.
My dad was in the US Army infantry during WW2. Italy, (Yes: at Monte' Cassino), France & Germany. I remember him calling the Nebelwerfer "Screeming Meemies"
I remember just a few years ago when this man had about 70k subscribers. I did not watch him for about a year and a half and look at him now. Congrats dude
There were also a Nebelwerfer version that could be fired directly from their packing cases. Just stack them up, attach the wire and fire it. And if the enemy artillery opened fire, all you would lose would be nothing more than a few wooden crates.
Germans: We have ten rocket tubes on a halftrack. Americans: Raise you 50, and we'll throw in tank armor for good measure! If that's not enough, we have new ones coming which can fire their main guns too! Enjoy!
I remember building this model kit as a kid... Monogram I believe. You could set it up as a regular Sherman or a calliope mounted one. Ahhh... those were the days. ;)
I knew about the rocket ships used during D-Day, but rocket tanks. Never heard of them! Again Dr. Felton demonstrates his superior knowledge of history.
German officer:"using aerial rockets, launched from tanks, was against the Geneva convention" British officer"ok but what does the Geneva convention say about intercontinental V2 rockets?
@@danielaramburo7648 US response. Sweet, tech we can steal from people we can steal it from but we need to lie to our friends and say Oh looks, not much here. Also, we need to use people we can't officially use because of the deeds they have done, no matter, let's overlook the past of those people and just lie some more. But the ones we don't need, charge all those wearing the same uniform with crimes. US rocket and space program only got as far as it did because of German scientists that were either officially part of or honorary parts of the SS rocket program. The same organisation the US vowed would never be allowed freedom or respite from persecution.
From Franz Frisch: A Panzer Soldier’s World War II Memories: The sounds of danger were everywhere - enemy guns, aircraft, artillery shells, and a sound known only in Russia, the Katyusha rocket launcher, which we called ‘the Stalin organ’ - a set of eight rockets shooting at the same time. It was the most shocking and terrifying thing I ever encountered. The only good thing about it was the nice smoke fan behind, so that the enemy’s position was easily recognized, and we could do something if we had enough ammunition.
As someone who had good history teachers. History is story telling and should be presented as entertainment. And like my favorite College teacher had us write essays for grade. So none of the boring memorization that kills history for many.
@@panther7584 I have no idea what you’re going on about. You said it’s “T34, not T-34,” but you will find that both the American and Soviet tanks could be written either way. Hence I asked why you’re splitting hairs over dash. For the record, Mark wrote it out as “T-34” in the title.
The sound of the rockets being fired from either the Panzerwerfer or the T-34 Calliope must have been terrifying for enemy troops. The problem for the crews of those machines was certainly how to hide. The crews of Soviet KV-2 tanks had a similar problem. Yet another great and accurate video Mark!
Nebelwerfer translation: "Oh sh*t! its screaming meemies!" Player Germany: "You can't use aircraft rockets on tanks, it's against the Geneva Convention!" (Player England reported for hacks)
Hey Mark, I'm a Historian here in Bavaria (Contemporary German History) and i just want to let you know that your Channel and Videos on historical Subjects that are about or include German Topics are the most accurate and neutral (as in: just the Facts & no cherry-picking/leaving certain things out) on TH-cam, i always recommend your Channel to Students who plan on studying History with a Focus on the Wars and/or Germany.
I hope your Channel keeps growing and if you ever run out of Ideas for Videos or need some Help in Research regarding Documents, Archival Items, Estates/Memoirs from Germany, Translations or anything else in that Terrain let me know, i'm glad to help you out!
Prost and Cheers from Berchtesgaden
@old school honour and respect. ..if you are a true historian crack..you will have noticed that Mark Felton..too... is biased..
Towards British "splendor"..and for example ..CONSISTENTLY downplaying and eradicating the fights, efforts and happenings in Dutch East Indies between battle of malaya/Singapore...and start of Australia in New Guinea or British in Burma..
As if it was a BLACK HOLE...(just as the british military stepped over Java and neglected these people..despite having received ALL the military support DEI could muster in Malayan waters (subs) and sky (waterplanes and airplanes)..
Prost and Cheers from Berchtesgaden
That Sounds familiar
@old school honour and respect. someone with bias cannot discuss bias? Your point is invalid .... oh wait nvm you already mic dropped and walked away. Goodnight.
Well said 👏🏼 @chartreaux
Man... I wish I lived in Berchtesgaden...
Last time Mark moved house he used 100 removal vans, 1 was for furniture the other 99 to transport his WW2 history book collection.!
You are not far wrong!
@@MarkFeltonProductions A wheelbarrow for the furniture - three 100-car freight trains for the books (or more correctly, the harddrives containing audiobooks and videoarchives)
He actually used a German train with a small German security detail and 3 flak guns
And all were followed by the secret service, advised by gentleman with hats and excellent manners. Shortly afterwards it was noted that his neighbour's were never burgled and wife beaters seemed to have an unusual habit of dying in domestic accidents.
@@MarkFeltonProductions lol very much the same when I moved to France ten years ago. I had even given many books away, but still the immensity of my library annoyed my wife intensely lol.
If the Katyusha was Stalin's Organ. This would be Roosevelt's Harmonica
was in fact called the Sherman Calliope.
and the Sherman tulips would Churchill's megaphone
GOOD 😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌😌
So Panzerwerfer will be Hitler's Triumphet.
@@azravalencia4577 I'd call them Hitler's lawn darts.
I used to pay about $80/month for cable and got two History channels, both equally worthless. I now give Mark $10/month and am constantly and pleasantly surprised by the content. A very valuable investment for history enthusiasts!
Can get 15,000 more subs for Mark...I can't wait until he gets his golden recognition. He truly deserves it..for his long commitment and hard work
And the hard work of other authors mark reads on missing lynx website
Many a poor bastard never knew what hit him. Mark Felton could have told him.
The title when I clicked on it gave the impression it would be about Americans using Russian tanks. But as always, you fail to disappoint
It's really called T34.
@El Guapo mas macho I like it better now.
@El Guapo mas macho The normies :p
@@0_1_2 on the phone notification it doesn’t show an image. It just shows a the title and account that posted it
@El Guapo mas macho in Harlem it's called tre thirdy fo
May I just say I love how one of the soldiers prepared a shell while having a cigerette in his hand.
Mark: aerial rockets fired from the turret of a tank would ruin many a German day
Me: i fear the man whos day isnt ruined by being shot at with rockets
If his day wasn't ruined, his pants sure were.
@@hdezn26 thats why you always pack an extra pair of brown pants
Pervitin: Does a body courage.
I bet the person who's day ISN'T ruined by rockets would most definitely think otherwise if the incoming ordinance was from an Iowa-class battleship. :P
@@TheEDFLegacy yes, but naval shells lack style! Now, screaming rocket-assisted naval ordinance fired from a land battleship?
THAT would make Hans consider packing up and retreating a ways.
"T-34 'CALLIOPE' READY"
*entire squad: REDEPLOY*
Who needs a JB-2 when you can 64 smaller rockets
Bruh that me I’m snatching that then I get lunge mined
*Laughs in Land Mattress with WP rockets*
man the third person view is horrible in the t34
I swear they have the same health as the normal Sherman because my friend had that tank and I had a tiger with apcr rounds even when he had max health I just snuck up behind him and shot him in the back twice and it destroyed the tank
Question: How on Earth do you find these marvelous stories of forgotten, incredibly interesting, history?
Edit; As always, thanks for the likes!
Also, for those of you who are saying that this is well known, I'm talking about his videos as a whole.
Hes a historian and has made several books, im sure he has friends who tell him about stories, or he has just experience and a ton of books.
Bing.
You get paid to do it and do your job everyday.. Iam shure he makes more than my neighbor who makes 42 bucks an hour climbing telephone poles.
@@Mr_Fancypants dam speaking of forgotten 😂
Time machine
"Using an aerial rocket for ground targets is against the Geneva convention!" says the German using an 88mm anti-air flak cannon against tanks and infantry.
I don't know Geneva convention has sections on those specific weapons
I've always thought complaints such as the German officer's to be ludicrous.
It's wartime and warheads are being placed on a target. The warhead arrives; how it got there is irrelevant.
Ludicrous, and yet not the only such complaint I've seen.
I love that Panzerwerfer. Looks like it would be right at home in Warhammer 40,000.
where do you think Games Workshop gets their inspiration from :)
Words cannot express my gratitude for Dr Fentons history lessons, having a keen interest and having been all about Germany in my youth,I'm lucky not to have stepped on an old mine playing around honecone castle.
Mark Felton: Supreme source of everything you never knew about history!
*FINALLY!* Some much deserved fanservice of this awesome tank.
Why is it so underrated?! It such a cool vehicle
"Demolition rockets." That just sounds so awesome.
The Calliope !! I loved those in Company of Heroes, especially in the Hill 192 mission: I had a Calliope, a howitzer and the off-map artillery fire simultaneously onto the hilltop. It was a marvelous display of firepower, very little survived it.
Let's not forget the M26 Pershing armed with rockets, that's when you take it next level
Excuse me what? Pershing with rockets?
Also nice pfp.
PS: Oh wow, a Pershing with T99 Rocket Launcher.
A helpful tip in regards to differentiating Soviet tanks and experimental US tanks during WWII and the Cold War is the hyphen. For example, the Soviet T-34 has the hyphen between the T and the number designation. The Calliope, and the heavy tank that bore the same numerical designation, had no hyphen, and would be written as T34. Hope this helps!
Mark's sense of humour is just next level
Nebelwerfer means more something like "fog thrower" or "smoke thrower". A "mortar" in German would be a "Mörser".
Here mortar would be translated to Granatwerfer *. . .*
@@letoubib21 Ein Mörser ist ein Granatwerfer.
@@Bakaroo-lo7rg Ja, sicherlich, schrieb ich doch auch. Erst ab der Bundeswehr wurde aus dem Gratwerfer, der früher mal ein Minenwerfer gewesen war, ein Mörser *. . .*
@@letoubib21 Naja- dann ist es doch richtig. Eine Nebelgranate ist doch auch eine Granate. Wo ist das Problem?
Known as 'Moaning Minnie' by British Army,
Nebelwerfer's rockets were stabilized via spin, not fins.
What gave it the spin ?
Well spotted.
@@balaclavabob001 I don't remember for certain, but I think the rocket motors themselves spun it. I think they were mounted on an offset or something.
Depends on the variant
@@windwaik3r689 What variant has fins?
This is the deepest insight into Company of Heros 2 i've ever seen! Im sure Mark plays.
"That's just not Cricket"
My senior USMC Drill Instructor:
The only fair fight is the one you lose.
Similar outraged comments was addressed to a fellow tank commander of my wife's father regarding the use Churchill Crocodile Flamethrower tank. He was admonished by a surrendering German Officer, lambasted that this terrible and demoralising weapon was "unfair, unsporting and un-English!".
Many dispirited and poorly trained Heer by the time Mike was in action in Germany capitulated at the mere knowledge that these tanks were in the vicinity.
Marines aren't taught to fight fair. That's why I tell folks who want to start a fight with that I don't box.
Well, I always heard that in war, a fair fight means someone screwed up
"Calliope," what a pretty name for what looks like an absolute murder machine.
This title is quite cursed just like a jadgsherman.
especialy because there were 2 tanks which were called T34 in the U.S. arsenal during ww2. The T34 Calliope and this big boy:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/T34Heavy_tank_in_Aberdeen_Proving_Ground_1947.jpg
@@jakobc.2558 The dash(-) makes a difference, the one without it is american, and the one with the dash is soviet.
@@themaus3847 Exactly
@@themaus3847 Um he's referring to 2 different American T34s: the Rocket Shermans that we see here & I'm guessing a prototype project Heavy Tank that looks like a variant of the T29 (Guessing they gave T34 Heavy version a bigger gun or something like that)
@@hoohaa5088 yeah
German officer: Sherman Tulip is OP. Please nerf.
Americans: You can't nerf Freedom!
joe biden: hold my mask
@@LTPottenger *No masker detected*
@Loko Mike no he doesn't and quit spreading your regurgitated bs talking points here in a respectable history channel. Facts don't matter to you so I'm surprised to see someone like you here. Or have you came to spread fake theories and create your own reality? Whatever it is you should take your poison somewhere else
@@coldmexican288 You can find that he in fact does want to ban many of the weapons hundreds of thousands of Americans own today on his own website. He's also the same guy that said all you need is a double barrel shotgun.
He also wants to force you to register all your weapons, which _if you paid any attention to history_ was exactly what every tyrannical government has done in the past. Even the Nazis. They say you can keep your weapon if you register them, then a few months later decide to ban them and end up knocking on your door.
Lets keep politics out of Mark's channel please
Fascinating how you find these minutiae of history and proceed to make them essential viewing!! Great work, Mark!
Famed actor, and veteran, David Niven wrote that if he had known about Nebelwerfers that he'd never have joined the Army.
Great actor. The streaker interrupting his Oscar speech is hilarious.
"Obviously he's proud of his shortcomings."
He was in the RAF in Malta. I saw a black and white documentary about it.
😉
@@andrewoliver8930 No. It may have been a propaganda piece. In 1928 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the British Army. He was with the Highland Light Infantry in Malta for a bit, but that was in the early 30's. At the outbreak of WW2 Niven returned to the U.K. and rejoined the British Army. His book, "The Moon is a Balloon" contains some great anecdotes.
@@Panzer4F2 I was only joking. I was referring to The Malta Story where he's a Spitfire pilot.
@@andrewoliver8930 Niven wasn't in The Malta Story. Check with Imdb
I'd hate to have to get out of that tank in a hurry, especially the later ones which look like the commanders hatch is covered.
Mark Felton is a historic genius and the man. Thank you.
Me playing Steel division 44 Normandy: oh yeah
Company of heroes too, I love both of the 2 games!!!👍
@@dimvalsgames9721 God the first Company of Heroes and Steel Division 2 are masterpieces.
@@albinospino3089 agreed.👏
This was the best 8 minutes of my day.
I get an alert that Mark Felton has posted another historical video, I know it´s going to be interesting. Hands down the best history channel on literally any media.
Baddest man alive: 0:01. Thanks for your content, Mark. 👍
Thank you Mr. Felton for another fascinating history lesson with impeccable editing .
The Calliope was one of my favourites models I built as a kid. Many thanks for the backstory on it, Dr. Felton!
You know, the Nebelwafer almost sounds like a TIE Fighter.
You mean the tie fighter sounds like a nebelwafer
In a galaxy long time ago... Get your timeline straight
So Lucas ripped off audio as well as visual references to WW2. Not surprising. Filmmakers have often sought to hide the familiar within a novel vehicle, etc. It lets the audience relate because there's an unconscious familiarity.
"Having a couple of aerial rockets normally fired from typhoons, lobbed at them by tanks, certainly ruined many a German's day" Is the reason i'm subscribed to this amazing channel
things i hate:
1, when people comment before watching the video
2,lists
3,people being hypocritical in an attempt to be funny
4, when theres no more mark felton to watch and you have to wait for anothe upload
this is very wise Kars
@@comradekenobi6908 Privyet!
I always hate it when people reply to comments, but don't really say anything.
@@aarayskirata3420 Comrade Captain Rex!
5. This.
Cant get bored of your work also your voice fit perfectly has a historian narator
“ That’s just not cricket” is Exactly what I was thinking one second before you said it
Growing up I built more than one plastic Sherman tank with attached missile tubes. They were called "Screaming Mimi". Thanks for another interesting video.
Sorry Dr. Felton, I cant hear you over the sound of the Calliope's WOOSH WOOSH WOOSH WOOSH....maybe have the gunner chill out a little bit =D
First T-34, then T-72!?? Lol, I find it almost hilarious how were cold war enemies, but the US and Russia use alot of the same nomenclature for thier equipment.
IIRC, the "T" designation was used by the US Army for experimental or prototype vehicles. For example, the M4 was called the T6 during testing. It is interesting that they chose the same numbers, though.
and normally without the --
Got to say it.........Not only a smooth voice but a bloody good looking bloke !!!! xx Keep Safe!
Ah, yes, the Katyusha: Freedom Edition
they even named it *T-34* Calliope lol
should have had a fourth of july paint job XD
Should have a P.A. blaring the Star-Spangled Banner too.
Word
Katyusha: Deluxe Edition
There is so much to this war, learning new stuff all the time! Thanks for sharing.
"One German officer actually complained that using aerial rockets, launched from tanks, was against the Geneva convention. Or, as he should have said …"
Me: Yes! He's going to say it, *HAGUE* convention!
"… 'It's just not cricket!'"
Me: 😬
I cant see your problem. The Geneva convention is the successor of the Hague convention.
@@Bakaroo-lo7rg I wouldn't say I have a problem with it, maybe I have a pet peeve. A lot of times when people say Geneva convention they mean the Hague convention, e.g. the restrictions on the use of expanding bullets and chemical warfare are part of the Hague convention (the restrictions on lightweight explosive munitions even date back to the St. Petersburg declaration of 1868), while the Geneva convention e.g. covers things like treatment of neutral medical personnel ("red cross") and POWs. So people use "Geneva convention" as an ahistoric umbrella term for just about anything relating to human rights in warfare, which isn't accurate.
@@TruthNerds Ok - and where exactly now is your problem?
by then the Germans should have just shut up, considering all the crap they did
@@paulpowell4871 No doubt about that.
still cant get over how good your intro song is.
My dad was in the US Army infantry during WW2. Italy, (Yes: at Monte' Cassino), France & Germany. I remember him calling the Nebelwerfer "Screeming Meemies"
I like Wiz Bang! American names were straight forward and right to the point!
Gotta love a German complaining that something constitutes a war crime.
Like the American shotgun
I'm pretty sure every side committed war crimes to some degree
My brain actual had a meltdown when he said wtf LOL
Meanwhile in the first WW1 lets use gas !
@@46FreddieMercury91 "I'm pretty sure every side committed war crimes to some degree" -- Please don't start this BS.
Bang on it! Mark Felton posts a video....Straight in.
Germans:Is against the Geneva Convention!
Me:You started it all
Kinda like the USA using shotguns during the first World war
Bonjour du Canada Geneva convention forbiden dum dum bullet but said
nothing about flame thrower
@@thefatjapanesepufferfish1906 ?
I remember just a few years ago when this man had about 70k subscribers. I did not watch him for about a year and a half and look at him now. Congrats dude
Geneva Convention! Oh the irony 🤭
Great video as ever Mark, thank you
Rockets had come a long way from the Congreve. Obscure vehicles, thanks for sharing.
it just looks like a sherman holding up a boombox, and I only knew about this one because it is one of the weirder sherman variants in war thunder
Another fascinating video segment, thanks Dr. Felton..
Last time I was this Early, the Germans were still advancing across the Soviet Union.
That’s what she said.
LOL 😂
I never heard of ANY of these weapons! Thanks for sharing.
There were also a Nebelwerfer version that could be fired directly from their packing cases. Just stack them up, attach the wire and fire it. And if the enemy artillery opened fire, all you would lose would be nothing more than a few wooden crates.
Another fascinating treatment of a sector of our forces that is little known. Thanks
Germans: We have ten rocket tubes on a halftrack.
Americans: Raise you 50, and we'll throw in tank armor for good measure! If that's not enough, we have new ones coming which can fire their main guns too! Enjoy!
Love getting out of class to see a new Mark Felton video! Made my day and thank you for the videos!
I remember building this model kit as a kid... Monogram I believe. You could set it up as a regular Sherman or a calliope mounted one.
Ahhh... those were the days.
;)
Mark, I can always depend on you to give me something that I never knew before. Thanks so much for this.
"Hans look a shooting star!"
"Hm. It's getting bigger..."
"Otto, I don't think that's a shooting star..."
"Otto, run now! I've experienced this at the Eastern Front, and its gonna rip our asses off!"
When I was in Iraq, an incoming rocket at night does look like a meteor. One time, I mistaken a real meteor for incoming rocket and hit the ground!
@@anaveragesoviettankfromthe70s "Oh no, not again!"
That noise from launch is incredible!
It was mark... all along.. 0:02
I knew about the rocket ships used during D-Day, but rocket tanks. Never heard of them! Again Dr. Felton demonstrates his superior knowledge of history.
German officer:"using aerial rockets, launched from tanks, was against the Geneva convention"
British officer"ok but what does the Geneva convention say about intercontinental V2 rockets?
The Geneva convention states that V2 rockets are just not cricket
US: and? Like we care.
@@danielaramburo7648 US response. Sweet, tech we can steal from people we can steal it from but we need to lie to our friends and say Oh looks, not much here. Also, we need to use people we can't officially use because of the deeds they have done, no matter, let's overlook the past of those people and just lie some more. But the ones we don't need, charge all those wearing the same uniform with crimes. US rocket and space program only got as far as it did because of German scientists that were either officially part of or honorary parts of the SS rocket program. The same organisation the US vowed would never be allowed freedom or respite from persecution.
I am always ready for a Mark Felton video.
So, we had the T-34 after the Soviets, but the T-72 first. LOL
Once the Russians had their T-72, they turned it into a modern version of rocket launching tanks: the "Blazing Sun".
BM-13 Katyusha: am I a joke to you, Mr. Felton?
so basically the Germans said “Let’s put this on a Truck.” And the Americans said “Let’s put this on a Tank.”
If I may ... so basically the Germans said “Let’s put this on a Truck.” And the Americans said “Hold my beer"
@@baseballguy2001 Much Better Hahah
@@baseballguy2001 I would say liquor due to the time but none the less
Bravo Dr Mark. I didn’t know there was another “animal” called the T-34. Never seen this before in all my years of studying WW2/Great Patriotic War.
German officer: "Rockets? That's not fair!"
US Army: "I'm not sure sure you understand how this works."
Neither do you apparently.
I think these are in War Thunder as a prize vehicle. Nice to see my gaming experience coincide with my love of history.
From Franz Frisch: A Panzer Soldier’s World War II Memories:
The sounds of danger were everywhere - enemy guns, aircraft, artillery shells, and a sound known only in Russia, the Katyusha rocket launcher, which we called ‘the Stalin organ’ - a set of eight rockets shooting at the same time. It was the most shocking and terrifying thing I ever encountered. The only good thing about it was the nice smoke fan behind, so that the enemy’s position was easily recognized, and we could do something if we had enough ammunition.
Your channel helped me in my History quiz! Thanks Dr. Mark
Normies: OMG!! HISTORY IS SOOO LAME!!!!
Mark: *Oh, I don’t think so*
History is life. You cant know where you're going if you dont know where you're from.
As someone who had good history teachers. History is story telling and should be presented as entertainment.
And like my favorite College teacher had us write essays for grade. So none of the boring memorization that kills history for many.
That’s some serious fire power !!!💥Thank you Mark for another great upload!
The Nebelwerfer sounds like one of my old Bosses , noisy , lots of hot air and not very accurate . Cool vide as always Mr Felton :-)
I think I had the same boss..... they must have a factory for them somewhere.
@@wbnc66 LOL lets hope it closed a long time ago , unless they are out there breeding .... :-O
I nominate Dr Felton for teacher of the year!!!
the english translation, which you said was "smoke mortar", is actually a lot cooler if translated literally: it means "fog thrower"
every contents in the morning from Mark Felton gives me a good entertainment in the morning...I have a great support for this channel...love from Asia
*Americans:* “Come check out our new tank, we call it the T34.”
*Red Army:* “Well it can’t possibly look more intimidating than our T-34! ...Oh.”
@yeoldebiggetee Look cooler and terrifying when T-34 charge massively. Even Tiger 1 out of ammo shooting at them.
To be fair, it's called T34, not T-34. There are two T34 but Calliope is commonly known more than heavy tank Americans made.
@@panther7584 Could you split hairs any finer?
@@messmeister92 Mark is a well known historian so why wouldn't he use correct names? T34 Calliope. That's it.
@@panther7584 I have no idea what you’re going on about.
You said it’s “T34, not T-34,” but you will find that both the American and Soviet tanks could be written either way. Hence I asked why you’re splitting hairs over dash.
For the record, Mark wrote it out as “T-34” in the title.
Great work!! Thank you Mark!!
Your channel is the very first I decided to support on Patreon.
Thanks for so much for such incredibly interesting content Professor Mark!
Much appreciated!
Tanks, Mark.
Mark: uploads
Me: In some class
Also Me: Ah well, I don't learn anything at all around here anyway
teacher: *S A D N E S S*
The sound of the rockets being fired from either the Panzerwerfer or the T-34 Calliope must have been terrifying for enemy troops. The problem for the crews of those machines was certainly how to hide. The crews of Soviet KV-2 tanks had a similar problem. Yet another great and accurate video Mark!
I'm well aware of the Calliope, but I didn't know that the Germans used some Nebelwerfers on their half tracks! :o
They put many things on half track mounts...81mm mortars, quad cannons, and even pak 42
@@andybrennand1576 Interesting!
...Now I'm picturing a King Tiger with a Neb on it.
...Now I want to curl up in the fetal position.
Another top mark Felton production video 🙂🙂🙂
The German rockets sounded much more intimidating.
Another fascinating film. Great research and archive stills and film. Well done!
Nebelwerfer translation: "Oh sh*t! its screaming meemies!"
Player Germany: "You can't use aircraft rockets on tanks, it's against the Geneva Convention!" (Player England reported for hacks)
Outstanding work as usual, Dr Felton!