- IMPORTANT NOTICE - Since we're all busy working on our minute-by-minute coverage of Pearl Harbor, which is edging ever closer, it has been an especially challenging task to follow Operation Crusader in all its complexity. This has resulted in an error on the animated map about which we want to be transparent and honest. The current map suggests that the 2nd New Zealand Division links up with the Tobruk garrison from the south-east. In reality, it does so from the Via Balba running along the coast, along which it has advanced during the past days. Another thing to note is the position of the Allied 30th Corps, which has withdrawn further south after the Battle of Sidi Rezegh than the map shows. They are positioned near Gabr Saleh as the New Zealanders link up with Tobruk. We apologize for this inaccuracy and are working to fix this error as soon as possible. ---------- It's getting closer... 9 days from now is December 7th, and we will cover the Japanese attacks of that day right here in real time for FIVE HOURS. Pearl Harbor minute by minute will be the most exciting documentary series you've ever seen. th-cam.com/video/5D8c7YvLBUc/w-d-xo.html And in to our weekly coverage of the war right here, we also do daily coverage of it over on our instagram. Check that out at: instagram.com/ww2_day_by_day/ ...and please read our rules of conduct before you comment, it saves everyone a hassle: community.timeghost.tv/t/rules-of-conduct/4518
Remember that the MacArthur will have more planes in the Philippines than any stationed anywhere else in the Pacific when Pearl Harbor is attacked, damn it MacArthur ! You fool !
Whenever I'm down, I know I can watch your show and see a picture of the greatest general of all time in the background and learn alot about history while doing so!
If you don't mind a small correction, Solnechnogorsk at 6:34 has "ch" that should be pronounced like in the word "cheese". I think it'll come in handy once the Soviets retake that town. Thanks.
Seriously though: What drives parents to name their son that way? Did they just hate him or is there some serious Freudian crap going on? Been baffled ever since I read that name 15 years ago.
I recall a caricature in a newspaper office. It showed a monk who has elaborately drawn and painted just the first letter in an illuminated manuscript sometime in the Middle Ages. Two others have just brought him some unwelcome information. His response - "Nobody told me about any f@%^ing deadline!"
I’m so pleased by how are you stressing on Rostov counteroffensive and the “Road of Life” to Leningrad! These things are really legendary in Russia. Great show!
@@stephencody6088 Leningrad's population would have been completely totally exterminated otherwise, and German forces, fighting there, could have been relocated to other areas.
@@Overlord734 They had plenty of time to evacuate;Months even. I:m just wondering if there was a key industry that couldn't be moved like they had almost everything else.
@@stephencody6088 Tbh, half of Soviet industrial armaments were using the rails, the Red Army was using the railroad, and then there was the economy. Nothing could be spared for a population that you'd have to move to where? Yes, they could have gotten more children out but, these are the people of Leningrad. This is their home.
My wonderful wife's grandmother is from a little village North West of Moscow. In December 1941 her great grandmother was out looking for food after dark (because everyone was hungry and her great grandfather was conscripted months earlier) and the Germans shot her in the street. My wife's grandmother was 11 at the time. She had to wait until the following afternoon before she could go and drag her mother's frozen corpse back to the house where she stayed until spring came and the ground defrosted enough to bury her (she's still buried in the same place, on the family's land and we have a lovely wooden cross on her grave now). My wife's grandmother had 2 younger siblings, 9 and 6 years old at the time and, since her father wouldn't be released from the army until 1946, she had to care for herself and her two younger siblings alone. People don't really understand the sacrifice of the Russian people in that war unless you become intimately connected to some of them.. What the Russians endured was horrific on so many levels.
My great-grandfather fought in the defense of Moscow. A good deed. Otherwise what happened with her great-grandmother would have happened everywhere for years & years even more than it did..
I’m disappointed their repeating the myth about the Germans seeing the Kremlin from the suburbs of Moscow when this meme has already been debunked. I expected better research from them. 1. There’s literally taller buildings between them and the Kremlin. 2. The Kremlin visually doesn’t exist as fake artificial structure was built on top of it and other buildings and repainted to hide their shapes. They can’t claim to see what they literally cannot see.
It sure does. When will Moscow cave? When will the USA take the Soviet gold on deposit for Lend Lease, in the caverns beneath the New York Fed. Oh wait, that gold was secretly shipped to Ft Knox. Headlines. "Commie Gold in Ft Knox!" The backstories not well covered. Or, we were worried about how to keep Britain in the war as the Soviets were pretty well written off and isolationism and the feeling of let the europeans work out their own problems was still dominant, all with a strong streak of anti-bolshevism. From conversations with my parents, young American teenagers of the upper Midwest at that time, 1940. Yes, they knew there would be war, but, with who?
Both the attack on Pearl Harbor and the invasion of the Soviet Union were not logical plans. The mistake some of the Allied leadership made was believing that some of their counterparts on the other side were rational and would plan accordingly. The Axis had madmen at the wheel.
Kingdoms of Japan always fought each other and usually facing multiple enemies even though they were surrounded. It's either they negotiate or fight them. They are applying it on a global scale this time.
Driving across a thin ice with a few tonnes of stuff while under constant bombardement from aircraft and artillery? Damn,soviet truckers are on different level
They were desperate and the Soviet army didn't take kindly to people who forgot that "No" shouldn't be in their vocabulary. Still quite an achievement and in the end it helped Leningrad survive. The blow to morale if Leningrad and possibly shortly after Moscow felt would have been serious.
@@genericyoutubeaccount579 My very first thought exactly. I havent watched the so-called History Channel in 6 years. Is that show even still on? Or have the masses of reality TV viewers finally tired of it?
If this series goes all the way to the conclusion of World War 2 it will honestly be the largest masterpiece in the history of TH-cam in my eyes. I don't think any project on TH-cam will have taken as much effort as this.
My grandfather served on one of Australia's four sloops. Two of them, the Paramatta, lost this week, and the Yarra were sunk with pretty much all hands. He was on one of the other two sloops, which suffered only a handful of casualties each. 50% chances of dying were common in the war, but by Australian standards, serving on a sloop was exceptionally hazardous. He was very fortunate.
Oh no the operation we named "Barbarossa" has failed like Barbarossa's crusade. Oh no the operation we named "Typhoon" has drowned in the mud because of the rains. Oh no the operation we named "Crusader" is a total clusterfuck like pretty much every crusade
@@Dustz92 Naming your most ambitious and ultimately war-deciding campaign after a former emperor who drowned in a random river far away from the actual objective of his crusade always struck me as rather odd. If this was a work of fiction we would call this some pretty heavy-handed foreshadowing -- the kind of which your editor forbids you from using because it's way too on the nose.
@@brotlowskyrgseg1018 I wondered for a few seconds in the past, if the name Barbarossa was chosen as a way to maybe make Soviet and British spies think it might be an invasion of Turkey or something. Emperor Barbarossa died around the Turkey area, and the Ottomans had their pirate Barbarossa.. But who knows lol
I just noticed this. But can we appreciate the lighting in the background. The HE-111 casting a shadow over Eastern Europe. Charging east with malicious intent. Such good framing.
As a naval history buff, I've seen the footage of HMS Barham exploding many times. It never gets any less shocking. If you watch the full sequence, you can see men running & jumping over the ship's side as she rolls.
Not only have you seen it any number of times, you e seen it any number of times UNDER THE NAMES OF OTHER SHIPS. I know I've seen it when talking about both Yamato and Musashi, for example.
As probably you know, Brit tanks were armed with the 2 pounder which did not fire a high explosive round this the heavy losses against Axis antitank guns.
@@stevekaczynski3793 And only Conrad von Hötzendorf would pull much needed divisions away from the Eastern front to counter attack on the Isonzo even when his line was holding fine.
Many of my friends who fought in WW2, Korea and Nam, etc. remarked "foresight not so good, hindsight 20 20." A number read books about the battles and wars in which they were involved to understand what they and their comrades in arms had done. Crazy!
This week, on Nov 28 1941, the Royal Navy battleship *_HMS Prince of Wales_* and her destroyer escorts *_Express_* and *_Electra_* have just reached Colombo in British Ceylon. In 2 days on Nov 30 1941, they will rendezvous with the battlecruiser *_HMS Repulse_* and destroyers *_Jupiter_* and *_Encounter_* , and set a final course for Singapore. What is interesting to note is that also on 28 Nov 1941, Japanese intelligence has become aware of *_HMS Prince of Wales's_* arrival in Colombo and in response, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto has sent a further 36 torpedo equipped Mitsubishi G4M's (Betty) aircraft to Indochina to reinforce the Kanoya and Genzan air groups that are already there.
Thank you for dispelling the myth that we knew Pearl Harbor was the target on December 7th. It could of been in a dozen other places, too, and now you've shared with us the truth. Well done- I'm sick of that worn-out Sea Tale....
Tragic as the human losses were, it still turned out better for the US that way. Japan took out a slow, obsolete battleship squadron and a few other ships but ensured that the commitment to the war effort by the US public was total and unending.
@@Kryonsmommy Well. Bruce is right. When the public is 70-100% behind a war; the shortages are more tolerable when there is shift of industry output for war and material for war. US public will vote people out, if they think war could have been avoided.
@captmitty Here you go. This is the evidence you asked for. "The memo outlined the general situation of several nations in World War II and recommended an eight-part course of action for the United States to take in regard to the Japanese Empire in the South Pacific, suggesting the United States provoke Japan into committing an "overt act of war".[2] The memo illustrates several people in the Office of Naval Intelligence promoted the idea of goading Japan into war:[3] "It is not believed that in the present state of political opinion the United States government is capable of declaring war against Japan without more ado [...] If by [the elucidated eight-point plan] Japan could be led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollum_memo
The European, African and Asian theatres of war are usually covered separately, and we don't usually realise how interconnected they all are, and some major events occurring at the same time in different parts of the world. That is what makes this series amazing when the coverage is chronological and world wide. I don't know much about the African and Middle East campaigns of the war, and I'm glad to learn new things through this channel.
I'm sure the Japanese fleet headed for Pearl Harbor is a friendly visit. Japan may be crazy but not crazy to fight literally every enemy they possibly could fight all at once
I was so blessed when I found this Program!!! When Indie told of those Flying Fortresses flying into Hawaii-I jumped! I have often wonder who- was- who in the Naval Chain of Command Where Hawaii was concerned. It was also pertinent that MacArthur was mentioned as well at this early stage of America's game. Basically, MacArthur was told to prepare and pack-hmmm. Last year i purchased "And I was there " by Adm Layton. This program so far has blown my mind in terms of detail, visualization-mapping, and just the sheer comprehensiveness of the project. My hat is off to everyone involved!
Apart from the great historical content, I always enjoy Indy's presentation. I'm glad a friend pointed me to your excellent Great War documentary so that I would be on hand to get my weekly hit of Indy Neidell. : ) My thanks to the visionaries that create and produce this series.
You have the best historical videos on youtube, by far...The level of sourced, detailed information has made me realize that I knew very little about WW2, even though i thought i knew more than most ppl.. Your work has renewed a desire to learn even more....THANK YOU.
I really appreciate all of your efforts in making these videos. Been following for a few years now and I never miss an episode. They are great, informative and well presented. Thank you all.
"So what is the name of your future husband?" "Husband." "Yes, your husband. You never really talked about him so I wondered what his name is." "It's husband." "..." "..."
Fascinating episode as always! I hope that there will be time for a sidebar episode or two about WW2 in the Arctic, particularly Soviet naval infantry vs German jaegers on the Norway-USSR border.
TIk youtuber has an 8 hour really really well done documentary on this battle i cant recommend it enough! the shenanigan's and confusion will really be apparent if you take the time to watch it. its one of the more crazy battles of ww2, Rommel even gets separated behind enemy lines for a night.
One of the ships hunting for merchant raider Atlantis is the light cruiser Dunedin. A U-boat heading for a resupply point with supply ship Python, working alongside Atlantis, the U-124, puts two torpedoes into Dunedin which goes down in a few minutes with the loss of around 420 of her crew and 67 survivors are rescued by a US freighter.
I'm convinced Indy is a time traveler who is actually remembering the events as they happened week by week and truly doesn't know what to except from the war until the next week comes. He sells the anticipation so well 😂
My great grandfather was one of the soldiers near Moscow and claimed to have seen glistening rooftops of Moscow through the field glasses of his commanding officer.
hey Indy, you should do some focus on the weapon systems involved. The Katyusha seems like an archaic stuff on truck nowadays, but at the time it was a top secret rocket artillery, that Zhukov described as a symphony from hell. They called it "project K" which soldiers nicknamed after a song.
I watched this episode three times in a row and got chills every time. Although that's at least partly because I need to turn the heating on. Still, it's plus 40 (F) here and I'm cold. Can't imagine what minus 40 is like.
I have watched this channel for quite some time now and enjoy it immensely. Thus, I hope that Indy will continue with other wars when WWII finally comes to an end!
I'm noticing the timeghost viewer count going up ahead of pearl harbour. This show's come a long way from the $1600/mo of 1939 and I'd like to thank Indy, Spartacus, Astrid, Anna, Eastory, The Chieftain and all the many, many interns producing this content. Long* may it continue *you get what I mean
It had been one year before I stumble across to your fantastic WW2 series on line program. Perfect 100% ! Now I have to fill the huge unread gap. I am also amused by portrait on the wall in your background --isn't it field marshal Conard of Austria? It's kind of amazing to see a "strategic genius" in play with program. Funny!
5:55 Hi Indy. Australian here. Just a note about the pronunciation of Paramatta. It’s “Para-matt-a”. The third ‘a’ doesn’t have an ‘ah’ sound. Hope that helps!
Here's my suggest companion read for this week, "Countdown to to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack" by Steve Twomey. Although you have less than twelve days to read it, it covers a depth of information on the build up to the attack on Pearl Harbour. Caution may contain spoilers :)
Robert Stinnett's book Day of Deceit disputes the timing of the Japanese naval codes being broken, as well as all claims of radio silence by the attacking fleet.
7:15 before someone asks "the kremlin or st basil's" the big spires on the kremlin wall are a similar height to the onion domes on st basil's just across red square. if you can see one, you can see the other
Hi there, First up: Great video as always. Keep up the good work. I just wanted to point out a minor mistake you made in regards to the "Totensonntag" you mentioned for the soldiers of the Africa Corps. That is actually the name of the Sunday before the first Advent in Germany and is a memorial day created by the protestant church. It was created already before the war. I guess some English historians mixed that up because they were reading about it in the diaries of German soldiers and thought it was a description for how bloody the day at the front was.
I just recently read about the commerce raider Atlantis. I'm surprised that they didn't go further into this: It's biggest contribution was capturing secret British documents from the ship Automedon which exposed how weak the British Navy was in the Far East. This information was shared with the Japanese who made good use of it.
It's always interesting to see these points in history where everything teeters on the head of a pin...a nudge or slight breeze this way or that and it all could change.
Leningrad was cut off for 900 days. It is one of the saddest and gut wrenching stories of the war. The first air raid had destroyed the grain warehouses, setting the stage for one of the worst sieges in history.
9:00 I dont know if if this an accident or games and movies really skew the picture so much, but there are basically no Mosins in this footage. You can only see SVT-40s and DP-28s
They were probably crack troops - these tended to have an above-average number of SVT-40s, which if available were often issued to NCOs. The SVT-40 was rather high maintenance and manufacturing them was de-emphasized during the war, in preference to making lots of Mosins and huge numbers of submachine-guns.
The way this war played out is like a grand epic. Superpowers of history falling in just weeks, maritime juggernauts fighting last stands against the worlds biggest navy, generals already seeing their grand prize before having to give up everything and the climactic conclusion of humanity reaching the power to destroy the world just 10000 years after the first stones had been used as a tool. Hearing Indy tell this unfolding story makes it seem like it has a need to be romanticized, something that yet again shows the importance of your "War against Humanity" sub-series and the unfortunate reality of watching some borders move. Indy, Spartacus and the team are too good for TH-cam!
Little note on the side: "Totensonntag" has nothing to do with Operation Crusader. Its an evangelical day to commemorate the dead, kind of like All Soul's Day for catholics. It just so happens that the germans sustained heavy losses on the 23rd, which just so happened to be Totensonntag in 1941.
I just want to point out that in Germany, "Totensonntag" is actually a clerical holiday, the last sunday before first advent. It just so happened that the Afrikakorps was fighting a particularly bloody battle on this day, but it would have been known as the same day nevertheless.
- IMPORTANT NOTICE -
Since we're all busy working on our minute-by-minute coverage of Pearl Harbor, which is edging ever closer, it has been an especially challenging task to follow Operation Crusader in all its complexity. This has resulted in an error on the animated map about which we want to be transparent and honest.
The current map suggests that the 2nd New Zealand Division links up with the Tobruk garrison from the south-east. In reality, it does so from the Via Balba running along the coast, along which it has advanced during the past days. Another thing to note is the position of the Allied 30th Corps, which has withdrawn further south after the Battle of Sidi Rezegh than the map shows. They are positioned near Gabr Saleh as the New Zealanders link up with Tobruk.
We apologize for this inaccuracy and are working to fix this error as soon as possible.
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It's getting closer... 9 days from now is December 7th, and we will cover the Japanese attacks of that day right here in real time for FIVE HOURS. Pearl Harbor minute by minute will be the most exciting documentary series you've ever seen.
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5:55 para-matter
Remember that the MacArthur will have more planes in the Philippines than any stationed anywhere else in the Pacific when Pearl Harbor is attacked, damn it MacArthur ! You fool !
Whenever I'm down, I know I can watch your show and see a picture of the greatest general of all time in the background and learn alot about history while doing so!
If you don't mind a small correction, Solnechnogorsk at 6:34 has "ch" that should be pronounced like in the word "cheese". I think it'll come in handy once the Soviets retake that town. Thanks.
@@DATA-qt3nb I didn't see George Patton anywhere??
Must have missed him.
World: so is japan going for tin and rubber? Oil? Or the burma road?
Japan: YES
"Let's go for all of it plus the Americans! I mean what are they gonna do about it? Build 150 aircraft carriers?"
@@yourstruly4817 Henry Kaiser: "You rang?"
Japan: BANZAIII!!
Japan: "All in."
@@mjbull5156 USA: "Call and raise 50% of the global GDP."
It's not winter - if your troops are not wearing winter clothes ;) ;)
BIG BRAIN. VERY BIG BRAIN.
In the same manner, the Germans aren't losing if they don't report their losses at home~
Italy isn't losing as long as they have a chance to switch sides
He it worked for Enver Pascha and Konrad :)) NOT
It’s not retreating if you plan on returning.
FACTS. Lol.
"Who's he?"
"Oh, he's my husband, Husband"
Yes, but what is his name, lady?
@joseaca Do not be so short!
Oh, Gen Short is the army commander in Hawaii.
@joseaca I know thaaat. But what is his name????
@@erickissinger3011 And what is the name of his sister?
Seriously though: What drives parents to name their son that way? Did they just hate him or is there some serious Freudian crap going on? Been baffled ever since I read that name 15 years ago.
"What deadline?"
- Indy Neidell, summarising the experience of every university student everywhere, everytime.
I’m in this comment and I don’t like it
I jumped from my chair just by reading this.
Do i know you ?
Shit my math exam
I recall a caricature in a newspaper office. It showed a monk who has elaborately drawn and painted just the first letter in an illuminated manuscript sometime in the Middle Ages. Two others have just brought him some unwelcome information. His response - "Nobody told me about any f@%^ing deadline!"
Ah yes, Przemysl. Old memories. Can't believe it was 6 years ago.
27 not 6.
viva la bohemia?
Keitel: "Look how old you've become."
Hötzendorf: "Something far worse has happened to you!"
@@ugrasergun I suppose that taufiqutomo is talking about the video release date, not the actual siege of Przemysl
You meant Presmil? Peresyl? Premsil? :D
I’m so pleased by how are you stressing on Rostov counteroffensive and the “Road of Life” to Leningrad! These things are really legendary in Russia. Great show!
Rbh never heard about Rostov counteroffensive. But "Road of life"... Yea
I've always wondered if Leningrad was that strategically important that it was worth holding on to.It's amazing they did!
@@stephencody6088 Leningrad's population would have been completely totally exterminated otherwise, and German forces, fighting there, could have been relocated to other areas.
@@Overlord734 They had plenty of time to evacuate;Months even. I:m just wondering if there was a key industry that couldn't be moved like they had almost everything else.
@@stephencody6088 Tbh, half of Soviet industrial armaments were using the rails, the Red Army was using the railroad, and then there was the economy. Nothing could be spared for a population that you'd have to move to where? Yes, they could have gotten more children out but, these are the people of Leningrad. This is their home.
Husband Kimmel sounds like a character from a Blackadder series that was never made, doesn't he Darling.
"Captain Darling? Funny name for a guy, isn't it?"
@@jeffreyval9665 Your comments are going to make Wife Kimmel very upset.
**body twitches in response to trigger of life-long trauma**
It's _Captain_ Darling to you!
BEH!
Gen. Melchett
@@jeffreyval9665 Oh, they probably just called him, "Hubby!" Or maybe, "Hussy!"
Very old-school colour scheme on this tie, with some very odd shapes... This is definitely a unique number. 4/5
You like to sweat the small stuff.
Reminds me of a tie my grandfather used to wear quite a lot
man knows his ties
@@aaabatteries9948 I try
My wonderful wife's grandmother is from a little village North West of Moscow. In December 1941 her great grandmother was out looking for food after dark (because everyone was hungry and her great grandfather was conscripted months earlier) and the Germans shot her in the street. My wife's grandmother was 11 at the time. She had to wait until the following afternoon before she could go and drag her mother's frozen corpse back to the house where she stayed until spring came and the ground defrosted enough to bury her (she's still buried in the same place, on the family's land and we have a lovely wooden cross on her grave now). My wife's grandmother had 2 younger siblings, 9 and 6 years old at the time and, since her father wouldn't be released from the army until 1946, she had to care for herself and her two younger siblings alone. People don't really understand the sacrifice of the Russian people in that war unless you become intimately connected to some of them.. What the Russians endured was horrific on so many levels.
What a horror! Sadly, there are too many stories like that.
My great-grandfather fought in the defense of Moscow. A good deed.
Otherwise what happened with her great-grandmother would have happened everywhere for years & years even more than it did..
Thank you for sharing your family story. God Bless.
I'm sorry but I can't help but ask, did the body stay in the house with 3 children for nearly 4-5 months? Why?
@@bbcmotd To be buried. What else do you do with a body during the winter?
To think this time two years ago we were getting excited about the USSR invading Finland...
Its been a long time
*insert PERKELE here*
I mean, to be fair, I think that was so exiting as nothing else was really happening in the world at the time.
I’m disappointed their repeating the myth about the Germans seeing the Kremlin from the suburbs of Moscow when this meme has already been debunked. I expected better research from them. 1. There’s literally taller buildings between them and the Kremlin. 2. The Kremlin visually doesn’t exist as fake artificial structure was built on top of it and other buildings and repainted to hide their shapes. They can’t claim to see what they literally cannot see.
@@zeitgeistx5239 it was just a saying from the time, relax
Looks like the battle for Moscow will be over before Christmas.
The Germans will be home before the leaves fall
Except, there is no Christmas in Soviet Union! Checkmate, Germans!
Technically u are correct
It sure does. When will Moscow cave? When will the USA take the Soviet gold on deposit for Lend Lease, in the caverns beneath the New York Fed.
Oh wait, that gold was secretly shipped to Ft Knox.
Headlines. "Commie Gold in Ft Knox!"
The backstories not well covered.
Or, we were worried about how to keep Britain in the war as the Soviets were pretty well written off and isolationism and the feeling of let the europeans work out their own problems was still dominant, all with a strong streak of anti-bolshevism.
From conversations with my parents, young American teenagers of the upper Midwest at that time, 1940.
Yes, they knew there would be war, but, with who?
Which Christmas?
"Japan wouldn't want to be at war with The US, the UK and China at the same time, that would be crazy, right?"
-Indy Neidell 2020
-Any US or UK politician 1941
Japan: Crazy is my middle name old man
Both the attack on Pearl Harbor and the invasion of the Soviet Union were not logical plans. The mistake some of the Allied leadership made was believing that some of their counterparts on the other side were rational and would plan accordingly. The Axis had madmen at the wheel.
It`s WW2. There is A LOT of crazy going on...
Kingdoms of Japan always fought each other and usually facing multiple enemies even though they were surrounded. It's either they negotiate or fight them. They are applying it on a global scale this time.
Driving across a thin ice with a few tonnes of stuff while under constant bombardement from aircraft and artillery? Damn,soviet truckers are on different level
I would watch SOVIET ICE ROAD TRUCKERS.
Something like one vehicle in four went through the ice.
They were desperate and the Soviet army didn't take kindly to people who forgot that "No" shouldn't be in their vocabulary.
Still quite an achievement and in the end it helped Leningrad survive. The blow to morale if Leningrad and possibly shortly after Moscow felt would have been serious.
@@genericyoutubeaccount579 My very first thought exactly. I havent watched the so-called History Channel in 6 years. Is that show even still on? Or have the masses of reality TV viewers finally tired of it?
Well its not like the Drivers had a choice.
If the alternatives are fighting in a penal battalion or death in a gluag I know what i would've picked.
If this series goes all the way to the conclusion of World War 2 it will honestly be the largest masterpiece in the history of TH-cam in my eyes. I don't think any project on TH-cam will have taken as much effort as this.
Thanks!
15:12 This time Rohan did not answer for Gondar call of aid.
Saruman`s influence again, for sure.
These episodes are getting extra long and much better styled, I seriously love this series.
They're going to be an hour long by next year. I'm not complaining.....
My grandfather served on one of Australia's four sloops. Two of them, the Paramatta, lost this week, and the Yarra were sunk with pretty much all hands. He was on one of the other two sloops, which suffered only a handful of casualties each. 50% chances of dying were common in the war, but by Australian standards, serving on a sloop was exceptionally hazardous. He was very fortunate.
Oh no the ship we named "Atlantis" has sank into the sea.
Oh no the operation we named "Barbarossa" has failed like Barbarossa's crusade.
Oh no the operation we named "Typhoon" has drowned in the mud because of the rains.
Oh no the operation we named "Crusader" is a total clusterfuck like pretty much every crusade
Operation Downfall thankful is yet to be planned.
@@Dustz92 Operation Uranus: Oh no.
@@Dustz92 Naming your most ambitious and ultimately war-deciding campaign after a former emperor who drowned in a random river far away from the actual objective of his crusade always struck me as rather odd. If this was a work of fiction we would call this some pretty heavy-handed foreshadowing -- the kind of which your editor forbids you from using because it's way too on the nose.
@@brotlowskyrgseg1018 I wondered for a few seconds in the past, if the name Barbarossa was chosen as a way to maybe make Soviet and British spies think it might be an invasion of Turkey or something. Emperor Barbarossa died around the Turkey area, and the Ottomans had their pirate Barbarossa.. But who knows lol
I just noticed this. But can we appreciate the lighting in the background. The HE-111 casting a shadow over Eastern Europe. Charging east with malicious intent. Such good framing.
As a naval history buff, I've seen the footage of HMS Barham exploding many times. It never gets any less shocking. If you watch the full sequence, you can see men running & jumping over the ship's side as she rolls.
Not only have you seen it any number of times, you e seen it any number of times UNDER THE NAMES OF OTHER SHIPS. I know I've seen it when talking about both Yamato and Musashi, for example.
British Desert tank tactics?
“Two forward, one back, bags of smoke”.
As probably you know, Brit tanks were armed with the 2 pounder which did not fire a high explosive round this the heavy losses against Axis antitank guns.
Better than Italian tank tactics
"One forward, five back."
That's what you do in the army its the undefeatable tactic of 2 up 1 back and lots of smoke with troops too
@@Darwinek Oh yes the unfunny joke
@@thecommentaryking It's not a joke.
Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts. - Lando mollari
And only Cadorna would attack the Isonzo eleven times :)
@@stevekaczynski3793 And only Conrad von Hötzendorf would pull much needed divisions away from the Eastern front to counter attack on the Isonzo even when his line was holding fine.
Londo*
@@miked2232 Well I can't fix it now ;)
Centauri ambassador to Babylon 5
Many of my friends who fought in WW2, Korea and Nam, etc. remarked "foresight not so good, hindsight 20 20." A number read books about the battles and wars in which they were involved to understand what they and their comrades in arms had done. Crazy!
This week, on Nov 28 1941, the Royal Navy battleship *_HMS Prince of Wales_* and her destroyer escorts *_Express_* and *_Electra_* have just reached Colombo in British Ceylon. In 2 days on Nov 30 1941, they will rendezvous with the battlecruiser *_HMS Repulse_* and destroyers *_Jupiter_* and *_Encounter_* , and set a final course for Singapore.
What is interesting to note is that also on 28 Nov 1941, Japanese intelligence has become aware of *_HMS Prince of Wales's_* arrival in Colombo and in response, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto has sent a further 36 torpedo equipped Mitsubishi G4M's (Betty) aircraft to Indochina to reinforce the Kanoya and Genzan air groups that are already there.
And soon the world will be forced to admit that battleships had been obsolete by the start of the war.
@@bkjeong4302 Sounds like it. Why else would the Japanese place Betty G4M bombers so close to British Malaya?
The shadow of that plane over USSR just gave me goosebumps
The quality of this show is very much in line or above major network productions, I really enjoy watching and follow this show. Thumbs up!
Thanks!
Thank you for dispelling the myth that we knew Pearl Harbor was the target on December 7th. It could of been in a dozen other places, too, and now you've shared with us the truth. Well done- I'm sick of that worn-out Sea Tale....
"If hostilities cannot be avoided, the United States desires that Japan commits the first overt act." - Be careful what you wish for.
Tragic as the human losses were, it still turned out better for the US that way. Japan took out a slow, obsolete battleship squadron and a few other ships but ensured that the commitment to the war effort by the US public was total and unending.
@@brucetucker4847 thank you for pointing out the obvious Bruce
@@Kryonsmommy Well. Bruce is right. When the public is 70-100% behind a war; the shortages are more tolerable when there is shift of industry output for war and material for war. US public will vote people out, if they think war could have been avoided.
@captmitty Here you go. This is the evidence you asked for.
"The memo outlined the general situation of several nations in World War II and recommended an eight-part course of action for the United States to take in regard to the Japanese Empire in the South Pacific, suggesting the United States provoke Japan into committing an "overt act of war".[2] The memo illustrates several people in the Office of Naval Intelligence promoted the idea of goading Japan into war:[3] "It is not believed that in the present state of political opinion the United States government is capable of declaring war against Japan without more ado [...] If by [the elucidated eight-point plan] Japan could be led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollum_memo
@@Kryonsmommy It's not that obvious to everyone. Not everyone here is super knowledgeable about this stuff. I'm one example.
The European, African and Asian theatres of war are usually covered separately, and we don't usually realise how interconnected they all are, and some major events occurring at the same time in different parts of the world. That is what makes this series amazing when the coverage is chronological and world wide. I don't know much about the African and Middle East campaigns of the war, and I'm glad to learn new things through this channel.
Ice Road Truckers: 1941 Edition
Soviet Edition
Indy doesn't mention that, but this ice road was called (and still known as) 'Road of Life'.
*Insert isorrowproduction jokes about Trucking to moscow*
Russians just want to get the job done!
Whoever came up with the set designs on the channel and your other channels deserves a lot of credit they are almost as distracting as Indy’s ties 👍
Fairly sure it's Astrid, Spartacus's wife.
It’s nice that the US Navy let both Harold Stark and his husband Kimmel achieve significant positions. Very progressive of them.
Her husband - Stark's nickname was Betty.
What's that old saying, it's not gay if it's underway? The Navy was always ahead of the curve :)
@@Raskolnikov70 lol good one
At the start Saburo Kurusu was on the other end of the line. Puts the phone down. Mutters "Neidell-san is asking too many questions!"
shoutout to your set design. Setting up that He-111 to cast it's shadow across the Soviet Union is genius!
Thank you!
I'm sure the Japanese fleet headed for Pearl Harbor is a friendly visit. Japan may be crazy but not crazy to fight literally every enemy they possibly could fight all at once
2:10 November 23rd 1941 literally was "Totensonntag", a Protestant religious holiday in Germany.
The figure of speech is what counts here, not the exact details.
I wanted to check this out but thank you for doing it. Still not a very augurous day.
9:37 That road over the frozen lake Ladoga was called "The Road of Life."
I really love the content. Ive been a patron for a while and I really appreciate it. Thank you!
You are welcome!
15:54 - 16:46 i loved this part
The scene with the woman embracing red army soldiers was very wholesome, almost brought a tear to my eye
I was so blessed when I found this Program!!! When Indie told of those Flying Fortresses flying into Hawaii-I jumped! I have often wonder who- was- who in the Naval Chain of Command Where Hawaii was concerned. It was also pertinent that MacArthur was mentioned as well at this early stage of America's game. Basically, MacArthur was told to prepare and pack-hmmm. Last year i purchased "And I was there " by Adm Layton. This program so far has blown my mind in terms of detail, visualization-mapping, and just the sheer comprehensiveness of the project. My hat is off to everyone involved!
Thanks Indy. Outstanding presentation sir.
I like the portrait of Konrad Von Hotzendorf in the background
Apart from the great historical content, I always enjoy Indy's presentation. I'm glad a friend pointed me to your excellent Great War documentary so that I would be on hand to get my weekly hit of Indy Neidell. : ) My thanks to the visionaries that create and produce this series.
That HMS Barham footage will never ceases to be amazing. The scale is breathtaking.
It has now become a tradition of watching this show, every Saturday. Every episode keeps gettibg better. Great show.
Thanks!
You have the best historical videos on youtube, by far...The level of sourced, detailed information has made me realize that I knew very little about WW2, even though i thought i knew more than most ppl.. Your work has renewed a desire to learn even more....THANK YOU.
You're welcome!
I really appreciate all of your efforts in making these videos. Been following for a few years now and I never miss an episode. They are great, informative and well presented. Thank you all.
"So what is the name of your future husband?"
"Husband."
"Yes, your husband. You never really talked about him so I wondered what his name is."
"It's husband."
"..."
"..."
Would be even better if his last name were Darling.
Fascinating episode as always! I hope that there will be time for a sidebar episode or two about WW2 in the Arctic, particularly Soviet naval infantry vs German jaegers on the Norway-USSR border.
TIk youtuber has an 8 hour really really well done documentary on this battle i cant recommend it enough! the shenanigan's and confusion will really be apparent if you take the time to watch it. its one of the more crazy battles of ww2, Rommel even gets separated behind enemy lines for a night.
One of the ships hunting for merchant raider Atlantis is the light cruiser Dunedin. A U-boat heading for a resupply point with supply ship Python, working alongside Atlantis, the U-124, puts two torpedoes into Dunedin which goes down in a few minutes with the loss of around 420 of her crew and 67 survivors are rescued by a US freighter.
I'm convinced Indy is a time traveler who is actually remembering the events as they happened week by week and truly doesn't know what to except from the war until the next week comes. He sells the anticipation so well 😂
15:37 , italian bersaglieri with an MG, is that a breda mod.37?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat%E2%80%93Revelli_Modello_1935?wprov=sfla1
It's very interesting to see how your map symbols and animation has evolved between Week 118 and Week 298.
"Husband Kimmel"...theres a child with parents who did not love him :D
Maybe his name derives from something else. But yeah, this is cruel.
Can you imagine his prom date? Mom, dad, Husband just asked me to go with him!!
If Wikipedia is correct he was familiarly called "Kim", "Hubbie" or "Mustafa" (the last a reference to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk).
I guess Husband Darling would be worse.
Luckily Christian names were not used too much back then
This is my favorite site! Keep up the great work
My great grandfather was one of the soldiers near Moscow and claimed to have seen glistening rooftops of Moscow through the field glasses of his commanding officer.
Pilum? I didn't expect to see you here
@@ClawedAsh I am everywhere
hey Indy, you should do some focus on the weapon systems involved. The Katyusha seems like an archaic stuff on truck nowadays, but at the time it was a top secret rocket artillery, that Zhukov described as a symphony from hell. They called it "project K" which soldiers nicknamed after a song.
cool.
I just made coffee.
this is exactly what I was looking for.
thanks.
Pu Erh tea
15:56
Hideki Tojo: Yes.
I watched this episode three times in a row and got chills every time. Although that's at least partly because I need to turn the heating on. Still, it's plus 40 (F) here and I'm cold. Can't imagine what minus 40 is like.
I have watched this channel for quite some time now and enjoy it immensely.
Thus, I hope that Indy will continue with other wars when WWII finally comes to an end!
"If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it." -Erwin Rommel.
Did he really say that?
Australians love taking what a New Zealander is holding :p
I am very happy about this new series, keep the good work guys. ❤👍🏻
Haven't seen a 'On The Homefront' video in a while.....
When the covid restrictions will be over, we'll continue the series
@@WorldWarTwo Thank you :)
Wow!!!! This is the best documentary series on WWII I've ever watched!!! Very well done!!!
Thanks @rockbay79 !
The movie come and see made me happy to see snow.
7:38..." Restore the Situation @ any cost "
Will you do similar coverage for the big naval battles (coral sea, midway, etc. ) if the pearl harbor coverage is a success?
I didn't know I needed indys intros in my life but now that they're here I can't live without them
I'm noticing the timeghost viewer count going up ahead of pearl harbour. This show's come a long way from the $1600/mo of 1939 and I'd like to thank Indy, Spartacus, Astrid, Anna, Eastory, The Chieftain and all the many, many interns producing this content. Long* may it continue
*you get what I mean
Great episode, especially your coverage of the North Africa Campaign
Poor Conrad gets less and less space in a frame on that wall.
It had been one year before I stumble across to your fantastic WW2 series on line program.
Perfect 100% !
Now I have to fill the huge unread gap.
I am also amused by portrait on the wall in your background --isn't it field marshal Conard of Austria?
It's kind of amazing to see a "strategic genius" in play with program. Funny!
Thank you for watching with us!
5:55 Hi Indy. Australian here. Just a note about the pronunciation of Paramatta. It’s “Para-matt-a”. The third ‘a’ doesn’t have an ‘ah’ sound. Hope that helps!
My Dad was in Mersa Matruh and Siidi Barani ,Cairo and all over North Africa with the British Army. He came back with a great tan!
Here's my suggest companion read for this week, "Countdown to to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack" by Steve Twomey. Although you have less than twelve days to read it, it covers a depth of information on the build up to the attack on Pearl Harbour. Caution may contain spoilers :)
It's a fairly good book. It was one of the sources we used for the five hour Pearl Harbor in real time coverage we have coming out December 7th.
I Love this series. Very Educational.
Robert Stinnett's book Day of Deceit disputes the timing of the Japanese naval codes being broken, as well as all claims of radio silence by the attacking fleet.
Excellent episode.
7:15 before someone asks "the kremlin or st basil's" the big spires on the kremlin wall are a similar height to the onion domes on st basil's just across red square. if you can see one, you can see the other
Hi there,
First up: Great video as always. Keep up the good work.
I just wanted to point out a minor mistake you made in regards to the "Totensonntag" you mentioned for the soldiers of the Africa Corps. That is actually the name of the Sunday before the first Advent in Germany and is a memorial day created by the protestant church. It was created already before the war. I guess some English historians mixed that up because they were reading about it in the diaries of German soldiers and thought it was a description for how bloody the day at the front was.
The figure of speech is what counts here, not the exact details.
I just recently read about the commerce raider Atlantis. I'm surprised that they didn't go further into this: It's biggest contribution was capturing secret British documents from the ship Automedon which exposed how weak the British Navy was in the Far East. This information was shared with the Japanese who made good use of it.
I have heard more information on this than my parents would have heard on the radio on the West Coast in 1941
Thanks
Random German Soldier: Hans I can see it well be celebrating in Moscow by Christmas
Stalin: I'm stop you right there
Obligatory upvote to promote your channel, but dude.....
spoilers.
In a POW compound?
Happy to see Indy healthly and full of energy!
It's always interesting to see these points in history where everything teeters on the head of a pin...a nudge or slight breeze this way or that and it all could change.
Leningrad was cut off for 900 days. It is one of the saddest and gut wrenching stories of the war. The first air raid had destroyed the grain warehouses, setting the stage for one of the worst sieges in history.
Billy Joel has some song about it.
9:00 I dont know if if this an accident or games and movies really skew the picture so much, but there are basically no Mosins in this footage. You can only see SVT-40s and DP-28s
They were probably crack troops - these tended to have an above-average number of SVT-40s, which if available were often issued to NCOs. The SVT-40 was rather high maintenance and manufacturing them was de-emphasized during the war, in preference to making lots of Mosins and huge numbers of submachine-guns.
The way this war played out is like a grand epic.
Superpowers of history falling in just weeks, maritime juggernauts fighting last stands against the worlds biggest navy, generals already seeing their grand prize before having to give up everything and the climactic conclusion of humanity reaching the power to destroy the world just 10000 years after the first stones had been used as a tool.
Hearing Indy tell this unfolding story makes it seem like it has a need to be romanticized, something that yet again shows the importance of your "War against Humanity" sub-series and the unfortunate reality of watching some borders move.
Indy, Spartacus and the team are too good for TH-cam!
Little note on the side: "Totensonntag" has nothing to do with Operation Crusader. Its an evangelical day to commemorate the dead, kind of like All Soul's Day for catholics. It just so happens that the germans sustained heavy losses on the 23rd, which just so happened to be Totensonntag in 1941.
What a great series 👍👍. Thanks and God bless y’all ✌️
"Road of life" *activated*
Trivia. Cordell Hull represented the area of TN where Alvin York grew up and lived post WWI.
"We did it boys! we can see the Kremlin Spires! next stop: Caviar and vodka feast while resting in Stalins personal chair" :)
Huge fan of your videos. Keep up the great work!
I just want to point out that in Germany, "Totensonntag" is actually a clerical holiday, the last sunday before first advent. It just so happened that the Afrikakorps was fighting a particularly bloody battle on this day, but it would have been known as the same day nevertheless.
The figure of speech is what counts here, not the exact details.
Man... i cant wait for next week