81 Years Ago Today | B1 Bis Part 3

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As we expanded upon in our previous video of the series, the French B1 Bis tank was a very peculiar design - one which, on paper, appeared to be one of the strongest tank of the 1930s, but which featured a number of sometimes superficial, sometimes critical flaws which would end up vastly hampering its use in operations - which is what we are going to see now: The B1 Bis’s use in combat during the campaign of France, and beyond.
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Sources:
Trackstory n°13: Le Char B1, Editions du Barbotin, Pascal Danjou
Tous les blindés de l’Armée Française 1914-1940, François Vauvillier, Histoire & Collection editions
GBM N°107 (January-February-March 2014), Histoire & Collections editions, “Les voies difficultueuses du char de bataille”, Stéphane Ferrard
Ateliers de Construction de Rueil - Services des Etudes - Char B1 Bis - Notice sur la description et l’entretien des matériels
Panzer IV vs Char B1 bis: France 1940 (Duel), Steven J. Zaloga, 2011
Panzer Tracts No.19 Beute-Panzerkampfwagen, Thomas L.Jentz & Werner Regenberg, 2007
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An article by Marisa Belhote
Narrated by PBLK Wood
Edited by Pavel Alexe

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@galahad-history 3 года назад

France: Char B1 Bis - Stonne Russia: KV-1 destroying entire german columns during Operation Barbarossa Poland: freaking tankette annihiliating entire german column with just 20mm auto cannon

@kobeh6185 3 года назад

I love that each tank has a name

@Initial_Gopnik 3 года назад

Yo, word.

@GunFatal 3 года назад

Great video. The music with the footage gave me chills.

@mikoajstanaszek7979 3 года назад

I want video about first world war tanks.

@jspec-vz3mc 3 года назад

@@mikoajstanaszek7979 I want a million dollars.

@tekis0 3 года назад

Nicely done! The narration was exemplary. 👍

@cfox7811 26 дней назад

Excellent presentation.

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

Lorraines were actually capable. French tracked support rightly was not half tracked and included tractors for arty and apcs for infantry.

@ptonpc 3 года назад

Some good points, some flaws, I would not want to have fought in one but it does feel as if the main problem was logistics and often absurd orders (Wither that be due to lack of good comms, not understanding the battlefield etc).

@cyrilscordia9565 3 года назад

and the sky almost free for the german ( 1 against 4 ratio on fighter class ) and the air recon was very efficient (called "mouchard!!!!! " translating by ""snitches!!!!!"" )

@ptonpc 3 года назад

@@cyrilscordia9565 Yes. I don't expect the French air force was in a much better position than the army.

@Werrf1 2 года назад

Poor logistics and ineffectual high command definitely didn't help, but make no mistake - the Char b1 was a bad tank. It had thick armour and a decent gun, sure, but the engine was underpowered, it was both archaic _and_ over complicated, and the crew was very poorly utilised, with the radio operator and loader having little to do while the commander and driver were badly overtasked. In its defence, it was designed to fight a war that never happened; a re-run of WWI, fought between two sets of fortifications. It was never designed to fight a highly mobile war against enemy armoured divisions. That said, that isn't much of a defence, since it probably wouldn't have worked very well in that war _either._

@neilosborne8781 3 года назад

great Series as well as other Topics well done !

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

Trolling aside: you clearly have a good grasp of the tactical conditions and historical facts. Unfortunately, no maps or unit tables. I suggest you contact Eastory / Eastory kot and do a collaboration, he brilliantly illustrates war maps and your knowledge of the actual tactical situation would be much better elucidated were there only maps (and tables of organization and equipment).

@NathanDudani 3 года назад

Great video!

@CZ350tuner 3 года назад

Dinant = Dee-Naunt. Stonne = Ston. Meuse = Mer-se.

@NathanDudani 3 года назад

Apt and helpful

@pavelalexe9254 3 года назад

The events presented in the article happened during this very period of May in which we are now, hence the title

@Ralphieboy 3 года назад

Germans won because they understood the concept of combined arms and pitting their own strengths against the enemy's weaknesses

@ottovonbismarck2443 3 года назад

And the Germans knew their tanks. Many Char B and Somua S-35 crews were not yet properly trained on their tanks.

@Ralphieboy 3 года назад

And Jerrycans. Germans could bring up gasoline as needed wherever needed, in any sort of vehicle, the French relied on tank trucks, which was time-consuming.

@Werrf1 2 года назад

Germans won because they lost. Britain and France came out of WWI thinking that they pretty much understood how to fight a modern war: Trenches or fortifications to stop the other side, artillery to batter him, tanks to break through his lines. Germany came out of WWI thinking well, we lost the last war, so let's learn from our mistakes. Britain and France planned their doctrine, tactics, and equipment to re-fight the last war, while Germany planned their doctrine, tactics, and equipment to _avoid_ re-fighting the last war.

@BFVK 11 месяцев назад

It's not so easy. This schematic statement pollute the real understanding of the battle of France and of the tanks in general. French understood combined warfare, they already did it in 1918. It's the extreme defensive state of mind that lead the french into a bad building of the entire army. The tactic and strategy of France was not bad in 1940, but it's impossible to acheive anything with an army as bad as french army in 1939-40

@majorbloodnok6659 3 года назад

Thank you

@dadinkle 2 года назад

Nirvana reference earned my like and bell button activation lolol noice

@lonedruid9869 3 года назад

Char B1 tank was one of those types of creations that had multiple flaws but made up in terms of mass innovative influence and its impressive early kick in tank development during interwar more than the other allies. The French would’ve been the near German equivalent of the allies

@ottovonbismarck2443 3 года назад

The British invented the theory of tank divisions (Fuller & Hobart). Though in every country it was a group of "younger" officers who embraced these theories. The highest ranks usually were more conservative towards this new stuff. In 1940, the French DLMs (not the DCRs !) were as close to a German Panzer division as you could get. DLM = Division Légère Méchanique.

@BFVK 11 месяцев назад

The influence of the B1bis: "Do not copy me !" B1bis is everything you must not do for a tank.

@Mestari1Gaming 3 года назад

29:53 What are those tanks behind the Char B1? Are they Char D1's or 2's?

@marisacursedisame8413 3 года назад

Somua S35s.

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

yeah fuckers where we're going there are no friends, just survivors. let's go!

@johnfisk811 6 месяцев назад

They were used in 1944 against the airborne units at Arnhem by the Germans, opposed by towed 6 Pounder AT guns and Infantry PIATS.

@skyninjaslayer337 3 года назад

Big w

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

4:20 Sharl DeGhoul ok you better be trolling on that one omfglol lmao sharl de gaul. if that's tough try sharl de goal

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

CHARLIE WAS A FUCKING GHOUL!

@buttbiter3139 3 года назад

@@QuizmasterLaw Hey there smooth skin…

@avnrulz8587 3 года назад

25:24 JU-87, not GU-87.

@ottovonbismarck2443 3 года назад

in both Junkers and JU pronounced like "you".

@avnrulz8587 3 года назад

@@ottovonbismarck2443 narrator said 'G'.

@ottovonbismarck2443 3 года назад

@@avnrulz8587 I know, but he is not a native German speaker; I just underlined your perfectly correct comment. :-)

@pandjitandyolegowo3588 3 года назад

nirvana!

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

Oise is pronounced this way: Wahz. If I did not know this all I would have no idea what you were saying.

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

Kwee-Rass-Ay (fr) or cureasiers. (engl) i'm not even gonna try to write out what you said..

@Tempestora01 Год назад

Just a Comment

@keithplymale2374 3 года назад

German's quickly learned to maneuver to gain LOS on the grill on the side opposite the crew door towards the rear. This was over the engine compartment and could not be as well protected as the side armor. So shooting and penetrating that would result in a mobility kill and possibly an engine fire.

@1joshjosh1 2 года назад

I am so sick of the Google pixel 6 advertisements. Piss off Google pixel 6

@warhawk4494 3 года назад

If France hadn't had such a poor command structure and horrid battle strategies,terrible production and manufacturing (which was full of commies) who knows how the battle of France would have went.

@ottovonbismarck2443 3 года назад

Main reason was bad communications. Orders were ussued by couriers instead of phone or radio. Now imagine how long it took to get orders from the army HQ down to a battalion. By the time orders were issued (IF they were issued !), situations often had completely changed. On the rare occasions on which everything worked out, the French army was very capable to stop German attacks. The "sabotage" of production by "commies" is questionable, though it is not off the table. Stalin was a clever bastard after all.

@BFVK 11 месяцев назад

Traduction: "If french army were not bad, maybe she could have resist"

@99thBattalion 3 года назад

Please never speak a language other than English ever again. Like, my dude, at least use Google translate to try to get a grip on how to pronounce funny foreign words you don't understand.

@PBLKGaming 3 года назад

Your criticism is noted, and while I did use Google to look up pronunciation I will ask the native speakers in the community for guidance in future french tank videos. I minored in Spanish not French. Sorry! Haha Thanks! - WOOD