1942: 21 anti-tank guns against 100 tanks - who won? 

Canadian Friendly Fire: "Sorry to interrupt, eh, but when you have a moment could you re-direct your fire at the enemy? Thanks."

lol

@@TheBananamonger *BRRRRRT noises*

I thought that would be Canadian

Haha friendly fire jokes are hilarious 😂 😃 😄 😁 🤣

are

Oh, I am so sorry love. I will notify the relevant authorities as soon as possible.

@@ori5021 Hilarious!

Just following barrage protocol, can't stop until belts are dry and barrels need changing. And then one more belt each.

@Eisen Chao That's just the RAF

Birds need no etymology, they’re just called that. Why is it called that? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

It was the first thing the guy saw that morning, and just named it. Nobody knows why.

Was woodcock occupied? Why even mark it on a map?

Now how much wood would a woodcock cock if a woodcock could cock wood?

Yeah, the Brits have funny names for birds, don't they? Here in the USA, the only time I ever saw a Blue Tit was at the zoo, when my mom spilled Berry Gatorade on her white shirt.

Isn't that the opening scene from "Batman: the Dark Knight"?

@@BrokenCurtain I think you mean "Britishman: The Pale Knight"

If it had been a Scot he would have, crep' up an set right aboot him, hittin him in the heed wi the grenade till he quit his blatherin and lay deed, an no mistake.

More like. oy Jerry EAT THIS sonny Jim and don’t ask for more. 😁😇

@@arthas640 "What doesn't kill you, simply makes you...." (Takes off mask to reveal Nigel Thornberry) "SMASHING!!!"

Thanks for the info ! My Scottish grandad was an artillery gunner at that battle.

Seriously? I grew up round there! I’ll make a point to visit next time I’m over there

@@liamdownes1475 Syndrome

It causes a significant emotional event

It causes them to be a little restless

It causes momentary incontinence

It causes erectile dysfunction.

@Senior Batman Diesel?

exactly..for all his biases etc, that's exactly why he is so captivating to listen to

@@vanpallandt5799 Biases? Well if you mean against the French, that's fair. For the most part he seems to have fairly middle-of-the-road, reasonable opinions on most topics. I can't remember anything he's said that struck me as biased.

@@somethingelse4424 well as a Taff and thus a nation that fought both against the French in English armies of Middle Ages and then aided by them agsinst the ancestral enemy😀, i do find both his and the more ignorant DM reader type comments on French military history a bit tiresome

@@vanpallandt5799 I had to look up the meaning of Taff 😆 for some context... and I will concede to your claim of bias on those grounds. I was honestly concerned that this was going someplace else, and was bracing for some extreme right wing Tucker Carlson tier nonsense.

@@somethingelse4424 thanks..its surprising how many ppl in UK dont know term or as one person tried to claim it was a term of anti Welsh abuse..certainly not in South Wales, anymore than Jock or Mick is an insult in a military context

Same lol, partly why I enjoy his content… I imagine to one degree or another, that this is what people feel like I sound when anything remotely history related comes up 😆

hold off a minute more and you can cook your eggs and bacon as well as get a brew on!

Is that how you make tea without a microwave?

@@dattebenforcer Tea in a MICROWAVE?! You dirty bloody heathen! That is truly rubbish! Tea must be steeped, man! Steeped!

Don't you just mix the powder with water and you're set?

@@dattebenforcer Good lord, he doesn't even have his tea in a proper bag! Though that is the way the Chinese did it, and they invented the stuff. Some Westerners do it that way as well, but you get little bits of tea leaves in your teeth, rather annoying... However, I do hope you mean powdered leaves, and not some dreadful artificial tea.

So do I, oddly enough people don't generally like my character

Make no mistakes, learn nothing. Make mistakes, learn something. I've always taught my kids and the guys on my various staffs over the years "If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough!."

@@deltavee2 absolutely, i was just making a joke of being a failure throghout your life, but i agree

@@deltavee2 Just learn them to make no mistakes at a first take. Its called intelligent, clever, skillful, improvising and adapting. They will never ever need to learn anything since they will get the needed knowledge right away while smart observing and some checking what s up at the google.

I'm in good company then.

In 1942, in North Africa, must have been a prototype.

No Panthers in N African campaign

The German army used Panzer III and IV tanks in North Africa. Plus a fair few captured British tanks.

@@davidelliott5843 also some PzKpfw VI "Tiger" I believe that is where the famous tiger 131 was captured.

And some people rolled a critital failure on their perception check for a joke.

The Bovington Jagdpanther came directly from the factory and never saw action.

@@TTTT-oc4eb think he may be confused with the Deutches Panzermuseum whose Jadpanther has its mantlet penetrated by a 6pdr sabot hit

That's not a jagdpanther,thats the tiger 131 captured in Tunísia,by the luckiest shot Ever. The Tiger wasnt knocked out in any shape or form,the crew that was very young when Saw that tiny Shell stuck on mantlet panic and just Run away with the Tigger still running. If it was an Experience crew they were able to solve that little problem and continue is mission. PS: never could have been an Jagdpanther because that machine didin't had a rotating tower,so there was no mantlet. Was a single huge block of steel,with the most Powerfull AT gun of the war, the Pak 43 8,8 cm.

That is the Tiger 131 captured in Tunísia. And he wasns't knocked out,he was still running in perfect order when the very young crew in Panic abandoned the tank. If was an Experience crew,they were able to solve the problem of that tiny Shell stuck there,and continue the mission. PS: Never could have been a Jagdpanther because,the Jagdpanther was a solid big block of steel with no rotating tower ,so without a mantlet. What he had,was the most Powerfull AT tank of the war.The Pak 43 8,8cm.

@@jpmtlhead39 Pic 5 down: hzes.blogspot.com/2011/08/day-28-deutsches-panzermuseum.html

"Tanks that weren't on fire. Now they are tanks that ARE on fire."

Big. Steel. With guns on them.

They were rather warm scrap tanks saaaaaah.

@John Smith it they were moving, they weren't italian.

The German's didn't have many German tanks in Africa. Most of them were either captured enemy tanks or canibalised/improvised from transport vehicles.

UK law requires compliance with accessibility for disablities, including being French.

@@mandowarrior123 Well played.

Yanks also need it..

"about 2.5km" would have done the trick, that's 1.55343 miles (just to be compliant to the UK law)

"Roughly" modifies "direction," not distance. They were off in terms of *degrees*

Yep.

Twas but a minor scuffle. 😉

I appreciate the slightly hyperbolic "forever"

I believe us Irish have them beat. At the time people famously referred to WW2 just as "The Emergency". Not to mention that all out war in NI was and still is universally referred to as "The Troubles"

@@eoghancasserly3626 I believe my parents got the Irish beat: They just tend to call me a "genetic dead end", which is an understatement if I've ever seen one.

@robert mcghie And I know why we had the snipe (or snip in dutch) on our previous currency.

Only thing he wrong is that Snipe are for eating, they arent just shot for sport, they are a tasty game bird like pheasant and partridge.

Snipe are very tasty and closely related to the woodcock>

funny isn't it. just when you have essentially fully considered yourself a certifiable knowledgeable 100% military/war nerd and then here comes good old lloyd to humbly put you in your place by teaching you one simple fact. a fact, I might add, of which you are ashamed at yourself for not previously already knowing.

@robert mcghie Double barrel shotguns came about in the 1860's or so, whereas this term dates from British India in the 1770's as a verb, and as a noun for a good shot from the 1820's, predating the shotgun by a fair while, so whilst your story is rather fun, it's unlikely accurate, or at least were attributed far later than the initial adoption of the terms. As an aside, the genus Scolopax includes both Woodcock and Snipe, the old species name for the common Snipe is Scolopax gallinago (now been changed to Gallinago gallinago, lit. looking like a hen). The Woodcock's species name is Scolopax rusticola, So, if they'd used the older Latin names for the birds, the areas of British deployment in this video would both have been called Scolopax. The English name 'Snipe' itself comes from middle-English, which in turn came from the Norse name for the moor snipe, 'mýrisnípa'. While we're at it, Snipe Eels are named after the bird, because their jaws look similar to the beak of a Snipe. All useless information, but interesting in the correct context, I suppose.

"Last one to die's a big girl's blouse!" - Captain Ash

Nosmo90 that’s a US marine quote there at the end. During the Battle of Belleau Wood during WW1 a USMC gunnery sergeant was leading a charge up a hill and his men were pinned down so he turned to his men and yelled “Come on you sons of bitches, you wanna live forever???”

@@drinks1019 which is a quote used more famously by Frederick the Great of Prussia.

@@drinks1019 Actually that is every non-com to ever see combat. It was possiblely recorded on parchment that a Roman centurian named Bigus Dikus said it.

@@markhorton3994 Bigus Dickus???? * holds back laughter *

Lol your pic got me thinking of gremblo for the first time in years

@@scottr291 I thought about erdogan XD

What a Russian style of attack. Sure, it worked at Stalingrad, but I still do not think that this is the most brilliant military idea in history.

​@@simonspacek3670 It worked at Stalingrad because they had 9 million people, including civilians, to chuck into the woodchipper. What a senseless carnage. And a horrible tactic. I'm not bashing _you_ or anything, don't take it that way, I'm just amazed and disgusted how people can think Operation Meat Shield is profitable in any way.

@@kristofevarsson6903 That is why I called it "not the most brilliant idea in military history." But Stalingrad was not the only place where they used that, very famous battle of the Dukla pass was more or less the same. People even say that Russians were giving equipment in special order there, one soldier got rifle, the next one got 5 rounds for it. And still they managed to win, because they had more soldiers then enemy has bullets.

I heard an interview on BBC Radio 4 when his book was released, l had gone shopping but spent an hour in the carpark listening to his exploits, what a Legend & absolutely lucky fella to survive what he did. He certainly went through a lot that was horrific. I loved the fact that he was a decent working class bloke with a strong sense of right & wrong.

better than a PANTHER!!

It was specifically designed for anti-armor, so it was pretty good.

To the point where the US, which lives by the creed "Not invented here", adopted it and used it to the end of the war, despite development of better guns like the 17 pounder.

Alec Blunden, the US has a particular set of needs for equipment: be able to work in every climate on Earth, be fairly easy to support, and be better than the enemy’s equipment.

Other than not mentioning the fact that the 6pounder was rubbish at greater ranges, Lindybeige is right. The 6pounder was great. At close range.

Unkempt? Fuck you, Lloyd is the perfect man and you're just jealous

@@nedisahonkey simp Just kidding lol

I'm an unapologetic simp for Lloyd, full stop 😤

@@nedisahonkey found the yank

@@shurdi3 🤢

The British Army exists on tea and if the boys couldn't get a brew how could you possibly ask them to fight properly? (Please see "Asterix in Britain" for further explanation of this phenomenon...)

@@douglasherron7534 Asterix in Britain is a valuable historical resource regarding Anglo French relations. A great book.

@@SuperMYSHKIN Certainly is. It should be 'required reading'for British and French politicians...!

sounds like a far better man than Lilly Allen’s brother Alfie.

My uncle George was a brengunner that sat in them

It is like reading Daily Gondor.

except guess who the elves are lol bad santa or not

My friend's old history teacher always uses different scenes of LotR when talking about WWI and WWII. It seems to work quite well!

Sisters can be so cruel.

Helped build a barn in my youth. Never did find that lumber stretcher.

@@danielwyvern5 Ok Lancel Lannister, would you understand a breastplate stretcher reference if I made it? "GO FIND THE BREASTPLATE STRETCHER!!!" -Robert Baratheon

Lol love the sisters comment

My aunt ran the radiology department at a hospital. Initiation there involved sending new orderlies to the supply department to fetch some red and green Fallopian tubes.

Charles Yuditsky Naturally, especially when British officers get free rides for not ducking

Please do! I will fly to London from the Detroit just to take such a taxi

And they are old enough they'll be road tax and congestion charge exempt.

Driving a Universal Carrier is a real bastard. I admit that I am wet and a weed (Nigel Molesworth quote ) but my stronger companions had trouble with them too.

Unfortunately the name has been taken by a Taxi company in the town of Battle (near Hastings, Sussex). I can only hope that he's a fan! www.sussexonthenet.co.uk/Battle/Taxi%20Firms.php

In Alaska we actually hunt snipe to eat, sone calm it woodcock

Funny how language does that. It is a bird for me and something snipers do, shoot from a concealed position.

I've heard "wet blanket" used in that context here in the States.

I knew of the term but was nice to see the origin

@@GoblinKnightLeo Yep. Don't be a wet blanket. Alternatively stick in the mud.

W E T

I too am American and Lindybeige might be the most British person to ever exist. (Insert British stereotype here)

Also the French may have had troublesome tanks, but their 25mm and 47mm AT guns were pretty solid

I heard that was actually the Poles, not the French. The French were the ones with the flash cards that said "I surrender" in 70 different languages. Now... I've *heard* the French hate that joke, but I suspect they just hate Americans because we were the first ones to show their grandmothers what it's like to sleep with a winner who doesn't call her 'fraulein'. :D

@Gian Grimaldi we are not going to see this happen very soon also. Don't worry & stay safe my friend.

@no suky for u Start learning on some history books. You know, those made of paper? You'll discover how wrong you are.

Whilst being blown to smithereens by a grueling barrage and endless machine gun fire: - It's ten to five, Sir! - Oh my, so it is. Carry on! - Yes Sir! Make no mistake: teatime is teatime 🧐

The fire was called a Tommy Cooker eventually applied to the Sherman tank.

I was very shocked when I checked where I was in the video thinking I was only about 15-20 minutes in, and found that I was 45 minutes in lol

Was it okay afterwards?

Your door got sniped 🤣 I'll show myself out . . .

The question is, was it being carried by an African swallow or a European swallow.

@@Electracion oop.... I don't know that! *AAAAAAAHHHHHH*

@Dokz Doesn't sound British to me either. Perhaps we are missing something.

@North Texan95, I never heard that expression. Care to explain?

It refers to the coconut stall at the fairground. You throw balls at coconuts some distance away and depending how many you knock over you win a prize.

It'll be all over for whoever spilt the tea!

It would have been what? Over.

Well us brits do gain super powers from the stuff

@Charles Yuditsky it,s allready in the army training manual, bottom of page 23 ;-)

@Charles Yuditsky but then you need to be sure they actually have your tea. Otherwise they will turn to you.

That is interesting, didn't know Rommel had anything published.

@@garethbaus5471 I was lucky enough to pick up a first edition at a flea market but copies are available on Amazon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rommel_Papers www.amazon.com/Rommel-Papers-B-H-Liddell-Hart/dp/0306801574

Again with the tired commonplace of Italians always surrendering...Italy won 7 out of 9 wars from its unification to 1945. So what? The fact that surrendered in the last and the biggest maybe can explain the survival of this rather inaccurate and offensive commonplace but a bit of accuracy in a history oriented channel is expected and respect to a people with a history like Italy is DUE.

@Colin Cleveland If I had to write one, it'd be that the generals didn't know enough/ weren't worth enough to trade. Maybe something like they could have the garlic for free, but the generals were only worth an onion each.

@Chris... That's NUTS, post-war revisionist drivel. Rommel held Italians in complete disdain. He wouldn't even slot them near his boys. He earned his P de Merit by capturing an entire Italian company in WWI. Hitler chose him for North Africa -- and the Italian theater -- PRECISELY because he knew of such sentiments. BTW, the French, Germans, Americans and British ALSO held the Italians in low regard. With rare exception, the Italians sent to Libya were from SOUTHERN Italy. Most could not read nor write. Their army boots were the first shoes they'd ever worn! That's why O'Connor found a sea of empty boots at the Libyan-Egyptian border during the rout. In the film "Patton" the title character tells the world's press that the Italians didn't know what a latrine was until: "I showed them." This was TRUE. The Germans, French, British and Americans were offended by Italian troops crapping all over the place. No latrines for them! The French hazed the Italians so badly that Bradley had to kick them out, to deploy American guards for said PoWs. No-one wanted to pull that duty, BTW. As for the Italian generals -- they hated their troops. The generals came from northern Italy, a totally different culture. They didn't even regard Sicily as being part of Italy. But then, Venice still hates Florence -- and vice versa.

Why would you do that? Nikolas is the master of tangents!

Oh no! Please never do that! I should post warning.

That's the Lindybeige guarantee!

You need a liver transplant.

It is a one hour video, man... Didnt you remember that tangent full of tangent because he saw gladiator helmets online he wanted to talk about.....

Mind your head!

Heh heh, I remember watching that one.

"That vehicle offends me, remove it!"

@All my subscribers are in gulag yes

Ya think that Lloyd knows the Cheiftan?

Hummel To be fair, if you take 1940, the French had some notable successes with their tanks. It’s just that they, like the British, were let down by their use and tactics.

@@frankanderson5012 to be fair the British were only really let down by their cocky worthless general "Monty" that guy was such an utter disgrace. For one no real general or leader goes off an puts men at risk like he did with market garden man f that guy he was a little cocky prick with such arrogance that in a line up he was off two feet his reply was to move his company and formation two feet to his position that little flair of arrogance paints the prick in perfect light and as for his disastrous plan of utter failure, notice he does it when we had at that point made up the largest number of allied forces so the way I see it that pos put many American GIs at risk and death and the biggest insult the cunt (that's right I said it) still felt he should been supreme commander ike by contrast was not so reckless or willing to put us or British soldiers at risk and was pressured to OK the operations market garden and to point out ike was a real leader and a great and underrated president. Monty was an asshole

Churchill gets a pass with me he was a badass smoke drank and was a sneaky fucker in the best way and our ally on top of that his speeches were passionate and genuine he would smoke and drink and just go on tangents like Hitler but better and with class plus his famous qoutes to a Nobel "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." Bulldog indeed

@@jamieanaya6483 That is the standard American viewpoint, Don't just reel it off, find your own opinion, one that isn't biased. You'll find the truth is quite different from standard stories you are taught.

@@yereverluvinuncleber first off pal part of what I said was a joke and that's clear or does your country. Not understand humor now I love the irony of you putting me in a group of the american stereotype let me break it down as to why your reply is hilarious and bias masking itself in morality but really its cowardice and pathetic attempt to scold my so called ignorance and your bias and child like attempt at asserting you're superior in intelligence. For one you don't know me or my opinions 2 would you be a real intellectual you would not come with a cute little statement hoping to cause me to be taken back by such god like intelligence so spare me instead you would have engaged and made it open to discussion of ideas without ego and need to belittle me my nationality and make bold claims to think you know what any general consensus that we may share pal because if you knew anything about america or its people you'd know some key points one what we are taught? You're cute our educational system is a joke no one teaches you shit and history is sadly a subject most do not care about so there is no ideology or bias when you're not even participating second I'm a minority in this country that puts me in a lower economic group where my kin are to busy trying to survive and make an honest living than unfortunately have time or drive knowledge that isn't a short term gain in money. But really I love history and study it for fun. In a broad subjects further making your ignorance amusing you basically just got on here RU-vid where its def not a place where people have truly engaging discussions on subjects and wanted to assert you have a bigger peepee than I telling me what I said that wasn't a truth that you agree when it wasn't a truth of mine at all you just assumed and wasn't ann invitation to you and your answer to me which is nothing more than you wanting to say you're smart and I'm dumb and I should become better educsted. You called me out in the lamest way and you're the bias ignorant one who came at me with grounds of intelligence and used my nation in inadequate education as you portrayed it was a weak cheapshot and weak like you clearly are so maybe you should be the one to educate yourself and learn humility ey asshole? So don't tell me what I know believe or what I should do I don't go to your job smack the spatula out of your hand . glad we had this talk

Felt more like half an hour to me but that's because I had it on 2x speed.

Yeah, the Boy Scouts' snipe hunts are rarely the literal kind, and the term extends beyond the Boy Scouts as well. Nowadays, being sent on a snipe hunt _is_ a rite of passage in a sense, but it's less a character-building exercise and more a case of your colleagues having a laugh at your expense. Often the thing you're being sent to retrieve or inspect does not actually exist: a radiator hose for a '71 Volkswagen Beetle (which has no radiator), a water shot (submariner lingo for test-firing a torpedo tube without a torpedo in it), a box of grid squares (which are a feature of maps and not something you can really have a box of), the infamous breastplate stretcher from Game of Thrones, and so on.

@@yetanother9127 - I think that the Boy Scout version of the snipe hunt involves taking one of the Tenderfoots out into the woods and convincing them to wait in one location with a net while the others fan out to flush the snipes towards them. In actuality, the others just go back to camp and see how long before the poor Tenderfoot comes crawling back.

www.dailymotion.com/video/x71a9zg

@@yetanother9127 My favorites are a left-handed monkey wrench, and prop wash. Prop wash is the air that's blown backwards by an aircraft's propeller, but it's common for new guys to be sent to supply for a bucket of prop wash. Another variant is the "exhaust sample," which must be taken with a large trash bag while standing behind a jet engine. You hold it open and catch a sample of the exhaust, which is then "sent to a laboratory for analysis." The fact that aircraft engine oil is occasionally sampled and sent to a lab for analysis (they tell you when to change the oil, it's not set) lends credence to this particular task.

@@yetanother9127 Knew a mechanic who always sent the poor new guy from the parts store on a chase for a "double reverse chrome muffler bearing." The suppliers were in on it and it would go on for a while.

whelk My Dad was in the 629th Tank Destroyer Battalion (self propelled), he did not think much of the 57mm anti-tank guns.

It’s a shame there wasn’t an HE rd (until way late) and that the 57mm wouldn’t fit in the Stuart turret

Every Boy Scout earns rifle and shotgun merit badge.

Wouldnt a 57mm be woefully underpowered by post war standards?

@@robertharris6092 If a 37mm can kill a king tiger (allegedly), then I'm sure a 57mm would be just fine for a light tank.

Ore listening to The Clash. ;-)

Your friend: "So me and Mary were standing there waiting to be called up and I..." You, internally: Terrible display

the reason why italians didnt have good guns was it would reduce their ability to surrender.

Indeed, the French also underestimated the fine British archers! Oops, wrong battle 😉

Yes and the third eagles on top of tanks. Exactly.

*BACK SCABBARD* !!!!

I MEAN THEY'RE JUST SO COOL, LIKE LASERS!

That's because Lindy is great at introducing context, and at making that context interesting.

You never bothered to study and be interested at least a bit in historical topics then.

Remember that he's at LEAST as likely to be wrong on lots of "facts" as History teachers in schools. He picks facts he agrees with and discards facts he doesn't. He's VERY much a British Nationalist, when it comes to WW2. A Britaboo, if you wish.

Total War, Europa Universalis, Sabaton and Lindybeige has taught me all the history I need to know.

@@Zathaghil Lloyd is very well researched on the topics he covers and isn't restricted to the woeful UK History curriculum. He teaches pride in being British through good storytelling. Much better than the current curriculum which tells kids to be ashamed of their country. I plan to use Lloyd's videos as a teaching tool to home school my daughter.

There are an awful lot of them.......Sorry

@@somersethuscarl2938 (Transl - Not sorry :o) )

@@davethompson3326 like I said there are an awful lot of them lamo

@@somersethuscarl2938 Living near York, I am broadly aware of that, I was making a humorous comment, bless your little heart

North American English speakers appreciate explanations as well.

I'd _heard_ of El Alamein, but never knew anything about it.

specially in deserts that means extra beige

Perhaps the uncle has seen remains of soldiers during those recoveries. Those who have seen the horrors of war do not like to talk about them. The ones who like to talk about how he was brave during the war tend to be liars.

And that it was in fact only... three!

Sven Olsson ikr, remember according to lindy German mg42 we’re so inaccurate they couldn’t hit a thing.

@@shanek6582 I think he said that they were mostly used for suppression, which makes sense. Of course, look at the D-Day landings, but they were very effective at suppressing people, a little more than being used as sharpshooter rifles.

@@shanek6582 As inaccurate as your grammar...

Well spotted. To paraphrase Churchill, Snipe wasn't the end, nor was it the beginning of the end, it wasn't even the end of the beginning. But it was the bit near the end of the end of the beginning. Probably. Sorry...

If the axis had waited to bring the US into the mix until after the allied forces were more or less defeated it might have been somewhat different, even other military blunders being made.

@@garethbaus5471 Germany wasn't winning before the US came into the fray They had victories, yes, but not ones that spelled a victorious overall outcome, the 2nd Battle of El Alamein was the end of the western desert campaign which was a clear victory for the British forces and even without operation torch, would in the long run have driven the Axis out of North Africa Especially since the Soviets were building up steam by this point

@@garethbaus5471 They lost the battle of Moscow about the time America entered the war so they were not going to beat the Soviets. They lost Stalingrad and were therefore going to lose the war anyway even before American supplies to Russia became a torrent in 43 and 44. So America's involvement speeded up Germany's defeat, probably by at least a year, but they would still have lost to the Soviets anyway.

Midway happened 6 months after pearl harbor which meant Japan had lost the war, it was just a matter of grinding them out of their island fortresses!

Hitler lost the war in 1941 the moment he attacked Russia. The biggest issue to the German forces was Hitler was an inexperienced commander and refused to listen to his advisors. It has been documented he was hesitant and indecisive, meaning by the time he gave an order it was too late, there was no hope of Germany actually winning this war. Hitler was hell bent on getting Britain to surrender I think he took it personally when Churchill refused his alliance offer. The thought process behind the attack on Russia was if he won than Britain would surrender. TLDR: Germany was never winning due to inexperienced leadership.