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My gramps fought in WW2 as well. He died honorably. And ever since then guard towers at concentration camps had much increased safety.

@@r.m.5548 It's a terrible thing to lose your grandfather like that. Total war was a horrible time for most people. The only reason I put that comment in there was in hopes that maybe someone may have known my grandfather or maybe their grandfather was part of that division.

@@gregburgess6884 killem all, let the dog sort them out

Your grand father veer he. Salute him and his brevry. Salute from 🇮🇳

Im really sorry for your loss buddy. I sure do have the upmost respect for the courage of those young gentlemen and we truly owe everything to their sacrifice as well as the countless other men and women of the allied forces. I served in Afghanistan and then later in Iraq and I remember thinking about the heat and I once complained to sarge about it and turned out his father served in D-Day and the battle of the bulge too and he had frost bite so bad they had removed several of his toes and part of several fingers and sarge gave us such a talking to about the virtues of staying warm no matter how warm . I felt instant regret that I opened my big mouth especially when I woke up the next morning because my legs and arms were completely exhausted from running and doing my pushup punishment lol. I didn't ever complain again though I'll tell you guys that. May all these heroes rest in peace

That’s amazing. Do you have any clue as to what battalion/company he was part of? I believe my father served with the 101st as well.

My dad was 101st 502, I'm right with you brother. Dad passed at 100 2 years ago. Question, did your dad mention Bastogne every time it was real cold out like mine did?

@@mac11380 They were all brave men you have the right to be proud, No to your question about the cold, he never mentioned the war much, kept it in. Also he had three brothers, and they all saw active duty overseas.

👍That is so cool I bet he has some amazing stories you better take care of those pictures.

That's amazing thank you for sharing

Good for you Christine! That is such a cool thing to do.

Are you filipina?

@@molloong married to Filipino. LoL last name like the falls right?

Damnit

Thanks for sharing, wow.

lies a bullet would go right through a canteen like a knife through butter 😅😅

@@larryflint8351 will the canteen is still there today in safe keeps. My relative is still alive. Because of that surviving situation. Differently not the us military guy took his helmet off our the battlefield of Omaha beaches the saving private royan action war movie. My great information for today. Have a great fabulous wonderful day.

​@@larryflint8351it has to do with the angle that the bullet strikes the canteen like sloped armor. It could have also been a pistol caliber fired.

Even back when they did focus more on actual history, it often wasn't of very good quality. For example late 1990s History Channel WW2 documentaries were not the most accurate.

You mean shooting alligators in the face isn't History?

Or Pawnshops

Technically the Wehrmacht was driving through ice here as well lol

@@WheelsRCool they were still pretty entertaining though. I love in search of and history's mysteries.

My Uncle Gordon from Ingold NC was there too

So was my Uncle Frank Cardinale share the story with the family

Jesus thats nuts

@@huasohvac Totally

My uncle PFC James G Murphy of Bryan, Texas is the guy above the star at 43:20 in this documentary. He was the loader on the Cobra King 26 Dec. 1944. Killed outright on 19 March, 1945 at the Rhine River in Germany.

80,000 Casualties from Dec 16th 44 until Jan. 25th 45. When the Bulge was back to its starting point. Most American causalities in any other war. Including any 6 week period during the American Civil War. And as you know both armies in our civil war were our own.

If I am not mistaken the invasion of Okinawa costs more American combat casualties. Also there were only about 40,000 combat deaths in the American Civil War. By far the majority of deaths were the results from other causes.

Battle of the Bulge. Greatest WW2 victory by the American army, but at a terrible cost. Hitler's last gamble failed, shortened the war in the West. Great presentation.

Yes, true, hit with an 88mm shell from a tiger

I’d hate to be in his shoes

Interesting stuff.

Ive heard part of this same story before. These hero’s didnt always talk much but i love every story they did. I wish i could thank them all still. Keeps my american sprit strong. 😊

They have a tank memorial in Salem Massachusetts for him

It’s quite amazing your Grandfather survived, that certainly wasn’t the norm for the men who went to Stalingrad.

Wow, Yeah that's insane that he survived at all Not quite sure on the numbers quick google search could fix it for me but not many men returned from the gulags who were captured at Stalingrad, like 5000? could be wrong

Glad he survived.

Very interesting. Do you know your Grandfather's unit? Was your Grandfather an officer? I'm only asking because I've read that for German enlisted men the chance of surviving Soviet captivity after surrender at Stalingrad was only 1 out of 20.

- many if-not-most -? Russian POWs lost 'more' than 80 pounds in German hands

Read a time for trumpets

Saluting murderers and getting liked for it. The pinnacle of mankind.

@@marmitaa8619 what's wrong with that?

@@marmitaa8619 It was the Nazis who launched a brutal war of aggression on countries that did not desire to go to war. What were we supposed to do? Just let the Nazis take over all of Europe and then go on to possibly dominate the entire world? The allied forces were not murderers. They used NECESSARY force to defeat an evil aggressive enemy. If you can't see that then I don't have much hope for your poor soul.

@@jeffreycarroll1632 I do not blame them for that, i do blame them for the aftermath. A capitalist frenzy that hasn't stopped to this day.

Watch the this Doc about Russia's "Operation Bagration" on June 22 1944. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rJAEdLnZsgI.html Even if there was no D-Day the Russians were going to Berlin. Nothing happening in the west mattered at this stage of the war.

Oh don't worry we might get to live through some real fun yet!

Imagine being the guy walking outside the tank. For every tank in the bulge there were 1000 outside with ice and snow everywhere and you have no gloves or winter boots hoping you wake up from sleeping because the guy you are sharing a bomb crater with didn’t. Engine heat in a tank was a little help. Worst case you could heat your food with it.

@@COACHWARBLE My uncle was in the Cobra King Tank. They were like deep freezers. the warmth came from the exhaust.

The Germans were done. Once the skies cleared the thunderbolts tore them apart!

@@heinleinsghost6080 you are correct

@@heinleinsghost6080 Incorrect. Tank Crews had a much lower casualty rate compared to the Infantry. You're in an armoured box and safe from small arms, MGs, Artillery (somewhat. Direct hits will obliterate you) and potentially other Tanks.

@@heinleinsghost6080 Tank Crews had a casualty rate of 3% in WW2. Infantry had an 18%. Despite all the media to the contrary, being a Tanker was far safer than most other occupations in the war.

You act as if driving around in those 80 year old tanks was like driving around in a Rolls Royce. Aside from being one of the most dangerous jobs during the ENTIRE war, operating those tanks were EXTREMELY laborious. They were also loud, freezing cold inside, and they stunk of sweat, diesel fumes and death from past, deceased tank operators.

@@danieldevito6380 willys jeeps are actually really fun to drive. Really slow by today's standards but for the time was the perfect for off road high speed firefights.

What are you talking about? What freedoms are being given away?

@@dreamswet8019 Probably freedom to yell racial slurs at minorities. These are what triggers boomers

@@user-dd8vo7or2d more like freedom to bear arms and protect ourselves from the dregs that sometimes escape the ghetto to go and steal stuff from the suburbs. That's as racist as it gets.. and that's not racist, it's just true. Watch 1984 for further education, I would tell you to read it, but I am 100% sure that you're not a person who reads... not past Facebook posts and false rhetoric from mainstream leftwing media.

Perfect timing, I have a post right now that RU-vid won't let me post because of their inane "woke" algorithm. I'm going to have to do it in segments and isolate what's getting filtered out. If you don't see this as a problem, you don't care about free speech.

Just to clarify, where I live, our town is about 80% white, so I would use force to stop anyone that walked in my home in the middle of the night uninvited and armed, or even just uninvited and dangerously erratic in some way,

Best of mates....LOL, they supported the regime that killed millions of people and you have respect for them.....take no prisoners I say.

Fick em nazis

Men fight because they are told to So yes we have to have respect for all soldiers and what they had to endure

Exactly we dont know what they were told. Many had NO clue WHY they were fighting. They fought for what germany demanded, not unlike the US and any other military country. Soldiers and soldiers, they are not responsible for the reasoning, just the result. Nothing is more dangerous than a man in a suit

Many German prisoners were very badly treated by the Americans due to Eisenhower. They were kept in open camps. Many died from ill-treatment.

Senseless stupid wars killing young men.

Unfortunately the Russian civilians didn't have the Americans to save them from the atrocities committed by the German invaders

@@starcorpvncjdon’t pity him, the Germans treated people at concentration camps much, much worse.

Very few actually see combat. Most, by that I mean around 94% of those that serve do not see actual combat. They all have jobs that contribute to the mission, and that is important. So, your grandfathers may well have done something that helped more than they know.

I never see anyone in the comments that talk about their german grandfathers that served in the war, maybe most just dont want to talk or are even ashamed to talk about it. My great grandfather was a german soldier but i dont have much to tell about him. All I realy know is that he supposedly died in a mine field

@@ddm_gamer You should live in the US and have ancestors that fought for the Confederacy. They want to kill you.

Europe is a cold place. Icey spray in the air.

God have mercy on those souls Lost. Thousands and millions at a time. Gracias LY. Your s John boy. Walton

To all who served many people service in E. M T. Church s. Choir s. Some way. People. Loving people. Enemy of. Evil

People. Loving. People. God bless us. All. Everyone. Christmas Carrol. Welcome 🤗🤗🤬😡🤬🤬🤬

the best part is the Germans were genuinely confused

originally he said nuts to express his lack of options and the dismal situation... as in oh damn we are screwed ....

If it is true, but the siege was by a small holding company with few tanks, most of the Germans had carried on with their mission, they were not concerned about Bastogne.

The young new soldiers were thrown into a brutal mess and were not prepared. Repo depo

You were lucky to hear them. my pop was fighting in the Philippines......crazy to hear those stories....

And you?

God bless him and God Bless America 🇺🇸

God bless him

Those men are a testament of a bygone era

Idk why, there was only a couple produced that were used in the war and they were SO big they actually became useless. Also, they werent used til damn near the end of the war

This is the time when i realized that Tiger II's were massive af

Pls elaborate about those Kardashians,who were they?...

No tank was away from fuel for days. Most of the battles within battles during the bulge were finished in a day and a half max. Fuel is the main factor today as it was then, armor has to have it.

@@akgeronimo501 if you watch the video he talks about how he was lost behind enemy lines. So ya, i wonder how they got fuel too.

I had the same question; my dad said they just shut down the engine whenever they're not moving to save fuel. But he was in the far east, in the tropics, so with the engine off, at least they wouldn't freeze. I don't know how long the inside of the tank would stay warm in the Ardenne forest, without the engine running, but perhaps because there's so much hot metal, it would stay at least a little warm?

I’ll be honest I’m no one to call the man out but it sounds like a lot of his story is quite unbelievable, but as I said I can’t call the man out on it he’s done more than I probably ever will for his country

@@notme7486 Yeah, there are thousands and thousands of fights in war that are so incredible, that it wouldn't be believable if made into a movie. If you can find them, read the declassified after action reports of the SEAL teams combat operations in Vietnam. Also Green Berets and LRRPS.

Yeah, but magnesium is BETTER 😭🤦‍♂️⚔🤦‍♂️😭

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During the Battle of Lyte gulf one of the destroyers having run out HE and AP rounds fired Star Shells, which are normally used for illumination at night, at the Japanese ship. They turned out to be suprisingly effective at setting the supertructure on fire.

@@readhistory2023 that's because they burned so hot... & if you put water on something like magnesium when it's burning, it only burns HOTTER, which makes fire-fighting a nightmare...

Brilliant comment 👍 Lol 😂

lol funniest comment ever

And this is why art is a mess today

If there were any art school left

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Found it on Google maps, it’s located in houffalize, Belgium on the corner of Rus du bourg & Rue du Tilleul

La guerre c'est la honte des humains. Pas cool

Maybe the american commander should have arranged A xmas truce rather than a surrender Celebrate as fellow anglo saxons Then politely tell the germans to Disengage and go hold back the Ruskies

That wasn’t the actual word he used. It wasn’t that elegant which is why Patton, with a penchant for profanity, commended him so.

@@mat4410 well, if you have more insight, I'm all ears. That's the story that's always been pushed, since forever.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 truth

What about the stupid "Storage Wars" show LMAO? I don't even understand why that channel is still called the History Channel. It's absolutely ridiculous.

@@horsepower523 Yeah someone should be fired.

but it's complete fantasy

I’ll take sword making over 10 plus hours of storage wars, alien invasions and conspiracy theories, and pawn stars.

wrong. It was one of the most incredible displays of strategy and desperation ever in the history of warfare. THIS was the straw that broke the back of Germany.

@@philwaller4379 I beg your pardon, it was so desperate, it was based on capturing Allied fuel supplies for the plan to even work, it was last ditch attempt! And as you say yourself, it was the last straw and it didn't work! No brilliant strategy, just a all out desperate attempt.

Disengage? Patton was facing few Germans so not much to disengage from and it took him 5 days to reach Bastogne most of the way through US held territory and only meeting a small holding company with few tanks at Bastogne.

@@barrierodliffe4155 there is the fog of war, so he did not know that for certain. Otherwise, why wouldn't he had advanced? (which he eventually did. ) I am not a fan of Patton per se and I do think he expended men's lives for glory whether they wanted it or not.

For the record, Mongomery did the same thing, except in his case it was swinging Horrocks south. Neither Patton or Montgomery waited for, well, *orders* before doing the right thing ;)

Patton was so overrated. He never actually faced a significant enemy armoured force anywhere.

@@douglapointe6810 there were significant German armour in the battle of the bulge, whether they were spent by the time Patton had gotten in, is likely. But in terms of doctrine, it's not a bad thing. Strike where opponents are weakest and let them spend their energy on your strongest defenses. If Patton and Montgomery didn't have such massive egos, they could have worked together to end the war. Monty's tendency to lure enemy forces in one direction to create create weak points for someone else to exploit would have been a good complement to Patton's drive forward. But no, in the end, it was just wearing down the Germans and luck.

The Battle of the Buldge lasted for nine days. It took about 90 days for American forces to secure Okinawa.

Not many of Hitler’s decisions had anything to do with wise strategy. Had he listened to his generals more he may have actually gotten a lot further. The one thing about evil is that it has a propensity to overreach.

Change the course of the war in the "West" for a moment they could have, the east and the Soviets didn't matter at that moment.

@@berd2485 yeah true after defeating the americans, some regemints would go to the easter front. But at the end it was the lack of petrol that the attacked missed, also after that offensiv germans had barly reserves at the west front so americans could mostly go easy

I like the noise buy yeah I get what you meant

@hajime2k I disagree. Operation Barbarossa was the definitive turning point. The germans simply could not win a war of attrition on the scale they encountered in the east, and each subsequently year blead the wehrmacht dry until there wasnt much left when Bagration begann. In no way I intend to downplay the sucess and scale of Bagration (after all it culminated in the destruction of Army group Center and the liberation of Belarus und Eastern), but the whole „Lets invade the soviets, guys“ started the slow and painfull process of the downfall of the Third Reich.

@@averagehans9190 The Lend-Lease Act of the USA supplied the Soviet Union with more than 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 14,000 aircraft, 8,000 tractors and 300,000 vehicles, and 13,000 battle tanks and Boots, clothing material, radios etc. Totalling $180 billion in today's currency, The Military might of America won the war .

@@Petal4822 Not really... Half of the 14,000 tanks supplied to Russia were British. This should be set against Soviet tank production of 105,000. The numbers of aircraft supplied ws 18,000, of which 7,000 came from Britain. Soviet aircraft production amounted to 143,000. The boots came from Britain - 15 million pairs. The wheeled vehicles amounted to one third of Russian vehicles - in February 1945. Russia was invaded by Germany, Britain was bombed, blockaded, and it had the Germans 21 miles away for four years. The USA was 3,000 miles from any threat to its homeland.

In my extremely humble Canadian opinion, you’re both wrong. Clearly Canada won the war. And to back up my pronouncement I will now label off a bunch of even numbers that have no footnotes denoting where I am getting my data from. FURTHERMORE Eh! I will leave this comment thread with an attitude of smugness that makes everyone more annoyed and with a feeling that they have to respond IMMINENTLY! to my self righteous rightness! To everyone I say Ha Ha! You are less right than I!!!!! ??????!!!!!!

What? Including the performances of Bradley and Hodges.

Absolutely, and all through WW2... God Bless America 🇺🇸

Why ???

Because it caused the Germans to thin their Eastern Front, resulting in a major Russian breakthrough and advancement that together with the later American successful campaign helped end the war at-least three months earlier than if the Germans had used its troops to stop the Russian advancement and held them behind the Fortified German defenses.

@@alanle1471 Many of the German formations that fought in the Bulge were created in the Autumn of 1944. After Eisenhower had given the the Germans the two things they most wanted then, time and space. Montgomery warned that Eisenhower that his policies would leave the allied forces too thinly spread out, one of Bradley's subordinate commanders, Patton specifically warned about the danger in the Ardennes just before the German attack. Come the battle, Bradley lost control of events, Hodges went to ground. To his credit, Eisenhower seems to have learned by previous mistakes, he went straight to Montgomerey, who postponed Operation Veritable and sorted out the northern half of the bulge. The American troops on the ground seem to have acquitted themselves well. Here is Alanbrooke's observation on the battle. ‘There was no doubt that the Americans had had a severe shock. Their commanders had chosen to ignore the two most elementary rules of war - concentration and the possession of a reserve to counter the enemy’s moves and keep the initiative.’ German commanders had given the German plan at best a 5% chance of success. The later successful campaign was British, Canadian, French and US.

Absolutely, the nasties were pretty much a spent force by the time Hitlers lunatic offensive was launched.

without western trucks and trains there push would not have got as far and the western bomber offene pull german combat airplane to defend the homeland

Agree totally, too late to make any difference. In fact likely shortened the war by expending material in a futile assault instead of a dogged defence.

You could say it was pivotal in that it was a major use of supplies and manpower that the country was in serious lack of. This useless push to the sea made the defense of Germany itself even more futile.

The intent of the offensive was, first to capture Allied supply depots, thereby keeping the tanks moving. Second, to capture Antwerp and thereby force the Allies to the negotiation table. Third, once peace was concluded with the USA and Great Britain, to turn the whole of Germany's remaining military toward the Eastern front. It was never going to work.

Probably due to unwillingness to give any credit to Montgomery.

Prior to the battle it was considered safe enough for war correspondents and many of them were not evacuated.

I think the telling point about Patton is West Point has a statue of him, Eisenhower and MacArthur but not Bradley. Patton was America's hero of WW2 and wasn't backward in praising the many US soldiers who lost their lives.

@@peterlewerin4213 "Although Léo Major (Canadas' most decorated soldier) was offered a Distinguished Conduct Medal, an award second only to the Victoria Cross, he refused it. Allegedly this was due to his low opinion of General Montgomery, who would have been the one to give him the medal." A Mad Major: The Canadian Hero Who Captured A City page

@@nickdanger3802 Sources differ: * he didn't get it * he got it and accepted it * he got it and refused it * he got it with a seven-day leave, and came back late and so wasn't awarded it I wouldn't be surprised if Major disliked Montgomery personally: a lot of people did. I'm sure I would have if I had been in his command.

Unless you’re in a jumbo

Considering that the Germans bypassed most of Bastogne, it's a bit of a stretch to say that Patton was a major factor in stopping the Offensive. By the time he arrived, the Germans had run out of steam and were slowly on the backfoot. Sure, without Patton it would've taken a bit longer to push them back to their start lines, but he wasn't incredibly vital to actually stopping the offensive.

It was Montgomery, in command of US 1st Army from the 20th December, who directed most of the fighting in the Bulge. Patton was a periphery figure around Bastogne in the very south. Most of the German units were nowhere near Bastogne.

The Germans should had realized after the American residence strengthen should have stopped and pulled back over the rine , the weather still kept the air blank

@@lyndoncmp5751 he didn't command all of the 1st army just the northern bit that got cut off from communication with Bradley. The only reason he took command was because he was the closest officer in the area. I will not take away the fact he took a bunch of isolated men and reorganized them I to a sturdy defense. But the claim (one that I've heard multiple times not just by you) that he took control of 1st division is factually not true. He took control of PART of 1st division

@@youraveragescotsman7119 this is true to a degree. The thi.g is Patton was able to move 3 divisons in about 48 hours. The first 32 Sherman tanks arrived to the battle in about 24 hours. It was the largest movement of men and material in such short notice to an active front. In fact not even Monty could have gotten troops in that sort of time frame and he had men closer to the actual bulge itself. Patton coming in from the south prevented more panzers and soldiers from joint the fight at Bastogne and the actual front itself. It took resources away as they had to actual put up some defense to stall Pattons 3rd army. So while yes Patton was not technically needed. His actions and ability to rally his troops to push all day amd night to reach the front amd force the German army to put resources on their southern flank, resources they could have used elsewhere, and relieving Bastogne after the Germans were about to redouble their efforts on capturing the town were quite important in the grand scheme of things. Also remember he was able to move these men away from ongoing battles he was having on his part of the front.

I looked your uncle up. It looks like he was killed a few days after the Battle of the Bulge. He was a Co Pilot in a B-17 bomber in Frankfurt Germany. My uncle was killed in his tank at the Rhine River in Germany. He is actually in this documentary at the 43:20 mark just above the star in his tank. God Bless them both.

@@TEXCAP Hi Roland, you know I was just 6 years old when I heard this, probably heard wrong, but I was pretty close to story. I am happy to hear you found the correct info on my uncle. Sorry to hear about your uncle, like you said. God Bless them both. They sacrificed their lives. Just out of curiosity what part of the U.S you all from.😊

@@marilyngotti6276 My uncle was from an unincorporated town in Texas called Edge, Tx. He hitchhiked to High School to Madisonville, Tx. and finished one year at Sam Houston State College Enlisted out of Bryan, TX. James G. Murphy. KIA 19 March 1945