Battle of Monte Cassino All Parts | Italy 1944 

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As a proud son of the youngest polish 2nd corps tank commander who survived this battel but succumbed to corvid 19 I thank you for the insight of what he endured and somehow survived .

My father was with the PPCLI (Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry) at Monte Casino. After the battle was over, 18 of his company answered roll call. I'm grateful my Dad made it!

The best documentary about the Monte Casino fights .Thank you and God rest the souls of those who fought and died there , both allies and germans .

My dad saw the bombing of Monte Cassino. He was in the Calgary Tank Regiment of the 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade which attacked past Cassino up the Liri Valley. He said when passing the town of Casino there were so many bodies in the ruins that the stench was terrible.

I remember watching these a year ago. Very good series about a usually forgotten battle during the italian campaign. Bravo.

A seriously under appreciated channel. It’s hard to come by quality content of seemingly forgotten fronts that aren’t just reruns of biased history channel docs or glance over ten minuet videos that never get follow ups.

Speaking as a grizzled wargaming veteran of the old "cardboard mapboard & unit counters" days, this is a terrific video... Would love to see your channel cover the Battle of Salerno!

Wow,what a battle.Thanks for posting this great video.

My grandfather fought in montecassino with the polish corps. He was only 16.

Awesome video mate. Love your work. Keep it up!

Is no one gonna mention how the 34th Division fought well in this Battle? Look it took the combined forces of 5 Allied Divisions to finish what the U.S 34th Division had almost accomplish on its own

youre unironically my favorite youtube channel

Allies: we cant captured that Mountain. Its impossible. Poles: Potrzymaj mi Wojtka.

As an Indian we are happy to have our part mentioned in this battle

Indians fought like lions during Diadem, securing the bridgehead for Canadian armour to pass was horrifyingly challenging.

Mark Clarke was a glory hound he ordered the Polish and Canadians to halt their advance so the Americans could swan into Rome.

It's ironic that with the taking of Rome, the allies had basically reduced the Axis armies by nearly one of their nations (Italy, forcing Mussolini into northern Italy). It's a pity that it's not remembered more. Thanks for doing this video. I'd love to see a video like this showing how the allies managed to secure to Anzio beachhead and create a base of operations there.

My grandfather was wounded at casino. He said it was Hell on Earth.

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My great grandad fought here with the 1/4 Bat essex reg after he left Egypt . He survived but sadly died two years before i was born .

Nice video ! I Saved it for a long time !

great video !

My uncle Gene was one of the 770 POWs saved the day after the Rapido crossing. He survived being shot by an MG 42 and being bayonetted by a Falschimjagger in the calf. Right after the failed attack, the FJ were ordered to 'dispose' of the wounded. My uncle knew he had to be still or he would be killed. He didn't flinch when he was stabbed. Elsewise, he would not have meet my aunt who was a nurse for the Afrika Korps. But, that's another story.

Great Video!!!!

This video helped alot, information about Monte Cassino is hard to come by on the internet!

On February 6th, 1944 the 2nd Battalion, 135th Infantry Regiment made the assault on Hill 593. The initial attacked failed. Second Lieutenant (later Major) Sylvester J. Hunter of Company-G, rallied a platoon of 18 soldiers to dislodge the German 1st Paratrooper Division; which they did upon reaching the wall at the crest of the hill. 10 soldiers were killed. For the next two days Lieutenant Hunter and seven soldiers held the position against six counterattacks. Captain Alden S. Lance of Company-F described the engagement as; “…a particularly wild, unorthodox, grenade and rifle fight that raged for days…”

My Dziadzio was there in the 3rd Carpathian unit of Poland.

Fantastic!

In spite of the stiffening enemy resistance, the 2nd Moroccan Division penetrated the Gustave [sic] Line in less than two-day's [sic] fighting. The next 48 hours on the French front were decisive. The knife-wielding Goumiers swarmed over the hills, particularly at night and General Juin's entire force showed an aggressiveness hour after hour that the Germans could not withstand. Cerasola, San Giorgio, Mt. D'Oro, Ausonia and Esperia were seized in one of the most brilliant and daring advances of the war in Italy ... For this performance, which was to be a key to the success of the entire drive on Rome, I shall always be a grateful admirer of General Juin and his magnificent FEC. give the moroccans credit where credit is due

I'm Polish. My grandfather lost his leg in the battle of Monte Cassino. I have never met him though...

This battle is like a religion to us Poles. We have proved time and time again that if you give us time to train and proper equipment we will destroy everyone. A Polish soldier fights bravely to the death but also fights with honour and respects the rules of war. Its not only this battle, there is still the tale of the 1st Armoured Division in the West under Gen. Maczek who fiercely defended the germans in 1939 and managed to escape to romania with his whole division and equipment, achieved impossible objectives during the French campaign on french armour without time to retrain the crews. This was seen by the British and they allowed us to form the 1st Armoured who had one of the most impressive battle trails in the west. They started off in Normandy during Overlord and ended the war in Wilhemshaven (Germany) and secured the Polish occupied zone of germany on the Dutch border. Even recalled 1 city to Maczkow and populated it with Polish slave labour that was working in the area. On the way to Wilhemshaven they liberated cities like Ieper, Ghent, Antwerpen, Breda, Tilburg, Emmen and other minor ones. Real Heroes

This battle was famous for adding Private Wojtek Smiling Warrior a brown bear that scared Germans under Hitler so badly they fled.

Brilliant breakdown of a critical battle doing justice to all participants. Kudos.

Great Channel

The greatest generation. Absolutely impressive. Thankfully, it will come again.

It is so sad that this battle took place because the Allies believed the Germans were using the abbey as an observation post to direct fire when that is in fact false. They used the hills around the Abbey. Many men of many nations died for no reason at all. So in a twist of irony the allies killed their own men by sending them up to die on the slopes over a lie.

Just recently found out that my grandpa was at Monte Cassino

My father was hit by mortar fire on that mountain, it took most of his calf off, God Bless all those great men

Pro Gamer Move when the Germans used red smoke to get supplies

My Grandfather was a Canadian member of The First Special Service Force (The Black Devil's). He was in Italy at Anzio,The Mussolini Canal Monte La Difensa and the drive to Rome. I don't know if he was at Cassino or participated in that Battle. He told me The U.S. Airforce carpet bombed Monte Cassino into Rubble and the Germans used the Ruins of The abbey to their advantage. The Polish and New Zealanders got the credit for taking Cassino I believe.

Dude change the thumbnail, put something else I was scrolling up and down and did not even see it.

Poles did NOT kill prisoners of war! In WW2 it was German specialty approved by Wehrmacht generals. Why in this somewhat superficial documentary it was not clearly stated that Polisch troops did not execute even one German soldier? Poles fought bravely and with honour. Which was as ussual. There is beautiful Polish war cementary on Monte Cassino. And famous song was composed after this heroic battle "Red Poppies on Monte Cassino".

i really liked ww2 battle explanation like this....a mapping tnx for this...its like panzer campaign or conflict series android game

I found a old book about the 337th and the 85th infantry Division. And in that book talking about hills 66-69 “mostly 69” a man wrote in pencil around paragraphs “I was here” “Germans ran out of there fox holes and we killed them all” “40 out of 200 men walked off hill 69.” He wrote by tons of peoples names in the book stuff like “He was killed in the hole next to mine” “Severely wounded” “Killed by GI” “Killed” He wrote many times next to some paragraphs talking about food and water and rations and how there were none. He also wrote down next to some paragraphs talking about the 92 infantry division? He wrote next to it in 2 places saying “All Black” and “No good” All the names he marked by that died where from may 12-15th. Absolutely crazy I found this with all this hand written notes in it. He said in there he became a casualty on May 16th at 4pm and got to the hospital the next day at 3 am. If you have any more information on hill 69 that would be awesome. Thanks for the video as well :)

My dad's uncle was there in the seaforth highlander trod on a land mine buried in minturno war cemetery

A good graphic-map's overview of the battle.. Also: Peter Caddic-Adams: Monte Cassino.Ten Armies in Hell, 2012. An important detail on the ferocity of the battle: after capturing the Monte hill, the Polish paramedic was knifed to death.by a wounded German soldier while trying to help him.

a black bear named Wojtek fight this battle with Polish forces enlisted at the rank of corporal

I just wanted to point out that despite being bombed and attacked from multiple directions. The Germans, particularly the Fallschirmjaeger, still gave the Allies hell. Great video.

can you do a aummary version please. Would help a lot with my school work.

20:22 thats what i call big brain move

What's the name of music at 14:14 ??

Go Poland! 😀🤘🏻

This video is a little harsh on Freyberg. He was expected to take Cassino with a 3 division corp. This was never going to happen. When it was finally taken, it was by a much larger unit over a much wider front (and at that stage the Germans were significantly worn down). Nevertheless, if you read German reports, Freyberg nearly succeeded.

Clarke was a Diva and a complete Asp Whole.

My grandfather fought in this battle w the 88th Blue Devil infantry

The narrator for this is SO familiar but I cant place where Ive heard him before. Edit: Simple History maybe?

.my Mother's 1st Husband, 3rd FALLSCHIRMJAEGER Regiment, Fought at MONTE CASSINO, where he Survived to Die in action , march 1945 , at FRANKFURT am Main .R.I.V .., Left me a half sister HEIDI .

My grandfather was here one of the Polish army but he never talked about it so I don't know what he did all I do know from my gram was he lost a bunch of friends after the war was over they moved to the states anyone know where I could look him up his name was B.Patykowski if anyone can find anything or has any info I could u.z

An excellent account of this is The Battle of Cassino by Fred Majdalany. Hard to understand why the strategy was to constantly throw your best troops against the Germans strongest point with all the terrain in their favor. Horrendous amount of friendly fire casualties compounded the problem

Lots of similarities with the italian failed invasion of Greece in the Pindus mountain in 1941.

22:55 "surely the last thing the germans didn't expect was an armoured attack at 500 meters height" Ermmm, that was exactly what the Germans did in the Ardennes offensive.......

Hay my was on point 202 ! Apparently the Germans had not relinquished

my father received his first purple heart there.

*The ugly thing is .... that the battle for the way to the top of the Monte Cassino Monastery ...., unfortunately it was partially the Polish - "Polish" kinda battle !!!! Why ?? Because that gallant German Parachute Unit partially contained native Poles. They were being drafted by force by German occupants into the German Army. Those Poles in German uniforms, they were originated from occupied Polish territories of Pomerania and Silesia Regions. These Polish territories had being incorporated into the III Reich, after successful to Germans & Soviets the Polish September campaign in 1939 !!!! It was the time, when the whole World WAR the second just started, with the German and Soviet invasions on the territory of the Second Republic of Poland !!!!*

Is this where that bear soldier was stationed lol ?

My dad killed an escapee ! From the C company 28 battalion! ,! He was from C company! 24 battalion He went in / up /\ on the IDs of march ! C company 28 Battalion! ( Māori) joined the attack on the 18th of March 1944’ ! My dad was watching that side of the hill ! Down ! Behind where they actually were !

the most of the work was done by colonys and not colonisers wich show us that ww2 was mostly by the colonys

The Allies decide to bomb the village and area surrounding Monte Casino, then the rain did the rest, the Germans had the high ground, the rest is obvious.

HEAD!! ON!! NORTH!!!

Went up hill 15 -03-1944’ in the town of monte Cassino Came do wounded ! 24-03- 1944’ ! 28 cee company 18’th of March !!! Three days later! Was the date C company 28 went in ! And was wiped out , ! But took the last survivors of two German Companies to heaven !!!! In the cellars

A great "pack"!

Who's the narrator? I definitely recognise that voice

Clark did not capture Rome. The Germans declared it an open city.

There was no Arabs in Algerians and Moroccans divisions they were all Berbers from the Atlas Mountains.

Dear narrator there is no D in Italy!😂

Did Italians help fight in monte cassino?

Not even a mention to Brazil?

Hitler's regime knew how to squeeze the Prussian virtues into the German youth and thereby turn them into hard, disiplinated soldiers who fought to the point of self-defeat. In the end, the survivors had a rude awakening. That was also the case for my father. He was born in 1924. Hitler boy at the age of 14 and then into the Wehrmacht at the age of 17 and full of enthusiasm. He fought as Tank soldier in Africa and then came into French captivity. He did not tell anything about the events of the war. Only occasionally funny stories from captivity. In his few stories he paid tribute to the English soldiers. He considered the Americans to be very spoiled and the Italians, sorry, too fun-loving and not very willing to fight. He also liked the French, which was probably due to the fact that they treated the captured Wehrmacht soldiers well. My father was a man who judged other people by their character and not by the color of their skin.

BRASIL LUTOU 2 ANOS DE GUERRA

Gen Freyberg was indeed a Brave Man He had been awarded a VC during WWI....but in 1944 He should have been herding sheep back in NZ.

BRASIL FOI 25.000 SOLDADOS PARA O FRONTE ITALIA

What a waste of good men. I am somewhat reminded of Galepoli. At least there was some progress in Italy.

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Mi stupisce come i commenti siano improntati su come si sono distinte le varie divisioni su chi è stato più bravo, ma qui non si è trattata di una guerra di soldatini di plastica ma di persone vere, senza contare delle grosse problematiche che sono state create alla popolazione che se non era per i tedeschi che hanno aiutato nell'equazione credo che ora c'era un 4°cimitero di guerra quello della popolazione. Ecco perché non se ne parla tanto

3 failed attacks NOT involving the Poles. 4th attack: "...the arrogance of the Poles..."?

15.000 SOLDADOS ALEMAES SE RENDERAL AOS SOLDADOS BRASILEIROS

MONTESE CASSINO E MONTE CASTELO FOI OS SOLDADOS BRASILEIROS QUE CONQUISTOU DERROTOU OS ALEMAES

All parts ? Not complete ! 😂

Polacy, bardzo dumny i nie pokonany narod

Did any Italian fascist soldiers fought in the battle of Monte Casino?

That stupid frame is very distracting. 🤪

americans, polish, algerians, british, french, morrocan, kiwis, australians, indians and a few more nations, superiority in man, armament, logistic and much more and the only reason the allied could take the monastery was because SE germans left !!!!

Algerians and morrocans are fighting on the streets of paris😂😂😂

The Moroccan army was so brave !!

SOLDADOS BRASILEIROS ERA SOLIDARIO COM CIVIS ITALIANOS DIVIDIA A COMIDA SOLDADO BRASILEIRO NEGRO E BRANCO LUTAVS JUNTO NO MESMO PELOTÃO NÃO ERA RACISTA JÁ AMERICANOS LUTAVA SEPARADOS BRANCO RACISTAS

SOLDADOS BRASIL A COBRA FUMOU

The Germans defended intelligently!

Fallschirmjager is the standard of scientific management of german army and us army by general mark clark this is standard of onest and leality army long live for germany and us army this is my opinion by tecnic of principles of scientific management by friederick winslov Taylor usa and by tecnic fallschirmjager german army by bundeswehr by vai Luciano robella Asti Europa

27:10 & 28:45 😉