This Guy Is Bias Against The USA

I will pray to god that everyday a lecture is released the audio isn’t fucked but it always is

my Dr. for years was Maj George C Carpenter of 121 eagle squadron. I always loved the air war paintings in his office. I never knew he was a 3x ace much less a fighter pilot from ww2. He was a very humble man & never talked about it. I didn't find out his story till after his passing. I would've loved to talk to him about his historical life, if I'd only known. A squadron of fighter jets flew over his funeral which was a very exciting thing around here @ that time. May God rest his soul in peace. God bless all the brave men who fought ww2, there aren't that many left anymore.

As a film I recommend Kollberg. They use thousands of soldiers withdrawn from the WW2 front who actually move look and ride like soldiers. As a bonus you can see WW2 politician in acting roles. It's in color.

I don't think that the ME163 'Komet' was launched vertically. It had a dolly undercarriage that was jettisoned following a normal take-off run. I believe it was the Bachem BA349 'Natter' that was launched from a vertical gantry. I think there were only about 36 'Natters' produced and only one combat mission attempted which killed the pilot. The fuel required for these rocket aircraft had to be mixed just prior to flight and was so volatile and corrosive that it could dissolve a pilot in seconds or simply blow everything to fragments. The ME262 however, being a conventional jet-powered aircraft was quite phenomenal, and had it been available earlier and in sufficient numbers could, I believe, have made a significant difference to the air war.

Many of Romans still used round smaller shields as the full size scutum had not yet been adopted by the Romans.

216 not 2016.Excellent discussion, thank you.I have several questions about Roman tactis ,i would have liked to have been there! A long way to travel for a seminar from England, lol.Thank you very much. 😊

This grand strategy conspiracy theory is American paranoia. If this speaker had lived in China for any significant period of time and talked to ordinary people, rather than learning about teh CIA's view of China, she would have a clearer understanding of my country. This talk is not particularly helpful. My view from living here in China is very different. The Party is not a mere 25 people. You people need to get out more.

Don’t get me wrong. I love the Eagle Squadrons and 4th Fighter Group. But this lecture lets the uninitiated believe the Americans won the war single handedly. The ALLIES beat the Nazis. Britain, the Commonwealth nations, Free French, Polish, Czechs, Dutch, Belgians, etc and the USA.

Outstanding knowledge of subject matter! Great presentation.

A shockingly bad presentation, all the more appalling as it involved a former paratrooper and resident of Uden, who you would think would know better than anyone watching this presentation. It would take anoher 51 minute presentation to list all the errors and corrections, but I would offer just a few highlights: 1. "Major Julian" did not jump on the drop zone at Grave. Major Julian Cook's 3rd Battalion 504th PIR jumped on the main drop zone at Overasselt with the rest of the regiment, except for Easy Company in the 2nd Battalion. Easy 504th dropped on the special drop zone at Grave after regiment CO Colonel Reuben Tucker insisted on a drop zone south of the Maas bridge so it could be taken from both ends. The 3rd Battalion's initial task was to clear the drop zone and establish strongpoints on the main highway between Grave and the Maas-Waal canal. After they were relieved by XXX Corps units, the entire 504th went into reserve and camped in the Jonkersbos woods on the eastern side of the canal, which is where they received the news they would making an assault crossing of the River Waal, at this point only a short march to the north. This plan to use the 504th was entirely General Gavin's idea and he had proposed it twice following the failure of the 508th to secure the Waal highway bridge at Nijmegen on the first day. Initially it was rejected by Browning when first proposed at the linkup with XXX Corps, and then after two unsuccessful combined attacks through the city, Gavin proposed the idea again and it was accepted. XXX Corps' default plan for this scenario was for 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division to conduct a river assault with one or two brigades up, in an operation called 'BASIL', and unlike the paratroopers they were trained and equipped for this task, and had been on standby to move up the corridor to conduct it. It's not clear why the default plan was not put into operation, but it may be because Gavin had reserve troops already in place and this would be quicker than bringing up the 43rd Division. In the event, only assault boats belonging to the Royal Engineers were called up the corridor, unaware the Royal Engineers in the Guards Division already had 26 boats in Nijmegen. 2. There was no 36-hour delay at Son as a result of the bridge having to be replaced by a Bailey Bridge. Construction took 10 hours entirely during the hours of darkness, when it was doctrine not to advance tanks in WW2, so the actual delay was effectively zero hours. "36 hours" is a quote from the Hollywood film, which was incorrect - the whole film is only 50% historically accurate - the 36-hour delay occurred at Nijmegen as a result of the 82nd failing to capture the bridge on the first day. 3. The bridge at Best on the Wilhelmina canal was an alternative crossing to Son selected as a target by General Taylor, although Dempsey's 2nd Army had not requested or had a use for the bridge. It was not still intact, but was also demolished by the Germans as soon as it was threatened. This was because the canal was the secondary defence line and held by Fallschirmjäger Regiment Hübner, a parachute unit of General Student's 1.Fallschirm-Armee that was the former training unit Flieger-Regiment 52. All the remaining canal bridges were prepared for demolition with standing orders to detonate when threatened. The platoon sent to capture this bridge got pinned down, and despite the bridge being blown, the battle sucked in the rest of the company, battalion, and eventually most of the 502nd PIR resulting in high casualties. 4. Drop zones at Arnhem closer to the bridge not used? You need to do your research more thoroughly. The drop zone scheduled for the Polish Brigade south of the Arnhem highway bridge was polder criss-crossd by numerous drainage ditches, unsuitable for glider landings and vehicle extraction. The zone was also flanked by two heavy Flak batteries belonging to gemischte.Flak-Abteilung 591, with six captured French 75mm Schneider M.36 guns each, and supported by one or two platoons of three 2cm light Flak kanon, and there was more 2cm Flak at the southern end of the nearby Arnhem bridge. Just to add injury to insult, the zone was also crossed by high tension lines (!!) from the Arnhem power station. For these reasons it was deemed to be completely unsuitable for 1st Parachute Brigade on the first day, but was scheduled to be used by the Poles on D+2 as it was assumed the area would be controlled by 1st Para Brigade and the Flak suppressed and the Royal Engineers in control of the power station to cut power to the lines. The other zone pointed to on the map was Supply Drop Zone 'V', an area of smaller fields bounded by trees and divided by hedgerows, unsuitable for gliders or large parachute landings, and also flanked by another heavy Flak position belonging to gem.Flak-Abt. 591, which had four heavy batteries located north, east, south and west of the town. 5. The errors made by the planners in 1st Allied Airborne Army (General Lewis Brereton) and US IX Troop Carrier Command (General Paul Williams) were to remove key features of General Browning's original operation COMET plan, which is not even mentioned in this presentation or the Hollywood film. COMET was an all-British and Polish operation landing at Arnhem, Nijmegen, and Grave, with just 1st Airborne and the Polish Brigade. It was cancelled by Montgomery at 0200 hrs on 10 September as men were boarding their aircraft, because he had received intelligence II.SS-Panzerkorps had moved into the Arnhem area to refit and the Airborne element was not strong enough to deal with them. By proposing the addition of the US Airborne Divisions to secure the corridor at Eindhoven, Grave, and Nijmegen, the British and Poles could concentrate their superior anti-tank gun resources at Arnhem (the American Airborne Divisions were stronger in field artillery). As this proposal now involved all the divisions in 1st Allied Airborne Army, Browning's COMET plan was turned over to Brereton, who deleted the double airlift on the first day due to a lack of night-trained navigators in the USAAF, and deleted Browning's dawn glider coup de main assaults on the Arnhem, Nijmegen, and Grave bridges, deemed to be too dangerous in broad daylight. Furthermore, according to Gavin's 1967 interview with Cornelius Ryan for his book A Bridge Too Far (published 1974), "The British wanted him, he said, to drop a battalion on the northern end of the bridge and take it by coup de main. Gavin toyed with the idea and then discarded it because of his experience in Sicily. There, his units had been scattered and he found himself commanding four or five men on the first day. For days afterward, the division was completely disorganized." Gavin further compounded this decision by assigning the capture of the Bridge as well as the Groesbeek ridge to the problematic (in Normandy) 508th PIR, instead of the more aggressive and experienced 505th, for such a crucial mission. 6. The captured "plans" from the crashed glider (near Student's headquarters at Vught) were apparently only a resupply schedule for 101st Airborne. The officer carrying the documents was the 101st's liaison officer to Browning's Corps HQ at Groesbeek and his comms team, the reason Browning had no communication with the division. Student realised the significance of the translated document, and as an experienced airborne commander was able to extrapolate the airlifts for all three divisions. Model was unconvinced, as shown in the Hollywood film, but Student used his Luftwaffe chain of command to have fighter aircraft over the drop zones at the scheduled times. The weather-delayed airlifts actually resulted in the fighters being caught refuelling back at their bases in Germany when the transports arrived. 7. The quote "to have this much power" while observing the Allied air armada was made by Student as the planes flew over his HQ at Vught. Student was not cast in the Hollywood film, so this line was given to Bittrich, despite his HQ being miles to the east at Doetinchem. 8. The Guards' halt after capturing the Nijmegen highway bridge was after dark, while the disputed confrontation played out in the film was done in broad daylight. Tanks cannot fight and can barely be moved at night. Overnight reconnaissance by the Household Cavalry confirmed a German blocking line at Ressen, and the Guards waited to resume the advance after a delay of 6 hours of daylight (not "24 hours") at 1300 hrs on 21 September as 43rd Division were delayed in moving up to lead the advance over terrain unsuited to armour. All of which was fallout from the German resistance in Nijmegen and the failure to secure the bridge on D-Day. It beggars belief that XXX Corps were "slow" knowing British Airborne troops were fighting for their lives at Arnhem. The British soldier makes tea whenever he is stopped, not stops to make tea, as in Hollywood mythology. I'm sorry, but the wall to wall rubbish in this presentation just goes on and on and on. Hollywood has a great deal to answer for creating a lot of the mythology about this operation, and most of it is anti-British propaganda.

"will we get to a point where someone doesn't feel like it needs to expand"? This is why with military you also need to explain the political background. Napoleon was the leader of the French revolutionary army. Everyone else in Europe against him were old aristocracy. They declared war on France out of fear that revolution will spread to their countries. So it's not like Napoleon was in war just for sake of conquest, far from it. They were in alliance against what he represents, he basically had no other choice but to fight them.

My father was an RAF engineer on 121 Squadron until about 1942 when USA joined WW2. He then got transferred to a night fighter squadron as 121 Squadron joined the USAAF.

Thank you Sir for a great account of the battle. I would have been enthusiastic to hear how, in your opinion, the sunken road impacted the French cavalry charge, before they encountered the squares, the effect that this had upon their disengagement from the squares and the eventual outcome of this aspect of the battle. In my opinion the sunken road disrupted the assault on the British, but how much did it affect the French withdrawal?

5000 American ships?....I think he means 5000 British ships.

The eagle squadrons had a march written for them, it was the last march written by the great Kenneth Alford, I've linked in a performance by the Bands of the Royal marines at the mountbatten festival of music at the Royal Albert Hall ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zVrM4tt5KBM.htmlsi=v5J54gyCW4nC5Hu8

You are stretching the definition of "lake" by not calling the Mediterranean a 'sea'. Sea by name, sea by nature.. it is filled with salty sea water after all.

A lot of empty seats in the auditorium.. That seems to show a big lack of understanding of or disregard for and of the significance of these issues. It's as if it's an uninformed reaction to the differences between the "two sides", assuming that this is to be expected. I was born and raised in HK and am not "pleased" with what's happened, but wouldn't pretend to ignore any progress going forward, that would just validate an "attitude of rejection" that would ignore any possibility of progress. The speaker is very well informed and has a very realistic approach.

This guy got a few things wrong. It was decided before the general bombing started to leave 4 or 5 cities undamaged. Mostly because the Manhattan project was a giant science experiment. Intact city would be easier to measure the A-Bomb effects. All part of the plan. Even after the A-bombing of 2 cities half the Japanese military were going to fight on. There was no UNCONDITIONAL surrender.....The Japanese wanted to keep the Emperor and we agreed to their demand. BTW the thought of the Soviets conquering their country was almost as unacceptable as the A Bombing of their cities. It is was like the hordes of Genghis Khan again invading.

Weird--for a historian, this presentation is rife with errors. Some are semantic, such as describing Marshall as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs when the direct predecessor office to the CJCS, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, was William Leahy...Admiral Leahy remained in that post from 1942 until slightly into Truman's second term, in March 1949. Some are less semantic--Nimitz, MacArthur, Arnold and LeMay went on the record exposing that the atomic bombs were unnecessary to compell Japan to surrender. Historians did not start the argument over whether the atomic bombs were moral or not; they instead were channeling the assertions of the top commanders in the Pacific (though the record from the Japanese doesn't support the admirals and generals either--the Big Six remained hopelessly deadlocked for almost a week after Nagasaki, only for the final surrender decided by the failure of the Army's Kyujo coup d'etat). But most bizarre is the flawed history of the RAF. Before the first 1000 bomber raid against Cologne in May 1942, RAF Coastal Command had torpedoed the German battleship Gneisenau on 6 April 1941 in Brest Harbor, before Bomber Command blasted her with four hits four days later and did the same to the battleship's sister ship Scharnhorst at La Pallice with five bomb hits on 24 July 1941. With both German battleships badly damaged and in need of work back in Germany's drydocks, both dashed down the Channel successfully in February 1942...only for Bomber Command to blow up Gneisenau's forward magazines in a raid on Kiel on 26 February 1942. Bomber Harris claimed his bombers couldn't hit anything accurately--the Kriegsmarine begged to differ, as the RAF was the bane of Gneisenau and Scharnhorst's existences before RAF Lancasters really got to work in 1944-45, Tallboy-ing Tirpitz, Admiral Hipper, Admiral Scheer and Lutzow to death.

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Japanese already killed millions of civilians, and was killing 100,000 a month in 1945.

It's BRITAIN, not 'England'!

In my opinion the real reason the U.S. dropped the bombs on Japan was because of international political pressure and racism. There was no reason to bomb a civilian city and port with nuclear bombs at this point in the war. The Japaneses were already negotiating for conditional surrender. The Truman administration however was rebuking all of the Japanese terms demanding only "Unconditional Surrender". The Russians realizing that Japan was on the verge of surrendering to the U.S. decided to take advantage of the situation and declared war on Japan shortly after V.E. day as agreed upon at the Yalta Conference. The Truman administration now fearing the Russians would demand a part in the political and geographical reconstruction of Japan as they did in Europe decided they needed to end the war quickly before any Russian set foot in the Pacific Theater against Japan. It was a different time in the 1940's. Racism reign supreme. It was open, widespread and ugly. The Japanese, like most other minorities were not considered intelligent or superior. As a result, thousands of Japanese-Americans, men, women and children, were rounded up, stripped of their constitutional rights and property without due process and interned in Japanese concentration camps throughout the U.S.!!! With these facts in mind it's obvious to me that the decision to drop the bombs on innocent civilians was simply a cold deliberate political and racist act to offset the Russians declaration of war, not a righteous decision to save our homeland. In my opinion Truman, his administration, the Enola Gay and Bockscar crews and all involved should have been charged with War Crimes and executed immediately afterwards for the deliberate murder of millions of "Non Combatants" May they all continue all Rot in Hell!!!!

talk about logistics--you guys really need to figure how to do sound for a lecture, I have the volume turned maximum and you can still barely hear it

Japs were not going to keep anything , They were lucky to keep the Emperor.

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I met some of these great gentlemen in 1992. We lived in The plough public house in Debden for many years and these men used to frequent the pub during the war. There was a book written about them by colonel James a Goodson and Norman franks called over paid, over sexed and over here. These gentlemen came to the pub for the book launch and to visit raf Debden. I sat and heard the story’s from these great men as a child. Andrew Lacy’s story touched me the most as it seemed to hard to comprehend as a young boy. Now I realize the importance of them and truly believe they were the greatest fighter wing in history. I still have the book which is signed personally by some of these men, one being Andrew and his wife I believe Mary lacy. Also William (bill) Spencer’s and some others. This video was great to watch as I knew all the contents before hand from reading the book as a child but this is very accurate to the book and my personal experience from chatting to some of these gents. Thank you for sharing this video

What you seem to conveniently forget is,the P51 was an RAF requirement,and until the merlin was fitted,the mustang was just an AVERAGE aircraft,the Merlin made the Mustang,one very good book to read is by Vern Haugland,called the Eagle squadrons.

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Did you mention Major General Carroll McColpin. My father in law was on all three Eagle Squadrons.

Any chance you guys can upload his Pearl Harbor lecture? I have very much enjoyed his and many other lectures on your channel. Hope you guys are well.

Audio is missing for a good chunk of this

From 1931 onward Japan waged war in China. Again. After WWII, Japan was ordered to release all Chinese POW they had. They did. All 37 of them. Estimates of the dead caused by Japan in China: Somewhere near 10 million. And that does not include Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia etc. Case closed. Edit: Japan could not have signed the Geneva convention as it was from 1949. Japan did sign the Geneva Protocol of 1925. And the Hague convention of 1907.

Cannot state enough how much I love this!

so he basically blamed him for her death??? how come? things are far more complicated than that.

this guy's a prick!!! how does he know?

Very interesting, I have an interest in China and this really opened up my eyes to some of their history and the troubles they went through. Thank you Donald.

Excellent presentation by David Lavere. Recommend his book, Tuscarora War.

There is no moral act that can be done in war. The only moral act to preform in war is to end it.

Americans do it ALL themselves-are they no wonderful if not sickening.

I agree with your analysis and conclusions. I have always believed it was necessary. The anti nuclear crowd loves to hijack history and suit it to their own device. There is a neurosis of western self hate and the need to tear down our history. It’s shameful.

I wonder if Colonial life Jonathan Lawson is kin?

It's today!

The German counter-attack was clumsy at best. Ultra knowing everything the Germans were doing pretty much nailed that final nail in the coffin in the Third Reich's glory for Empire.

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Wall to wall rubbish.