Battle Of Ortona: The Bloodiest Fighting Of The Italian Stalingrad | War Story | War Stories 

And the Anzac troops of Australia and New Zealand! And it’s the same for WW1 and WW2.

...Dominion Nations Have Thier Character and Heroism, Unfortunately Most Times identified as English under The U.K.So Many sacrifices and Strategic Victories aren't directed back to Them , Newfoundland, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Burma, Malta, Ireland, Scotland, Australia and Canada!...Definitely made the Difference on All Fronts!!!...

@@wabankik they made a difference, not necessary “the” difference. We shouldn’t diminish the part played by anybody involved.

My great uncle said it was so bad that after the Canadian captured parts of Italy they would be pulled back and the tanks would roll in and take the credit

@@bennyboy2023 Wells aid very succinct.

🇨🇦 ✊🏻. Thank you for your service to Sir

Canadians had Ortona on the east coast, Americans had Monte Casino on the other side, both were costly.

@@IrishAmerican17 Monte Casino waZealnds American, British, Polish and New Zealanders . Read a bit more proper history.

Hussars perhaps

My grandfather was in the same unit. God bless.

This stuff irritates me so much!

Complain to RU-vid for blocking/demonetising/age restricting gory images, which are being censored. If you want to watch this on YT, you'll have to put up with it until YT changes their policy. Stop complaining if you don't understand what you're complaining about.

How does he not understand what he's complaining about 🤔 That's a rather silly comment you made.

Blame it on lily singh.

Why do you need to see men suffering or dead? Show some Respect.

We the dependable few

😂😂😂😂😂

My great uncle Johnny was also killed at Ortona. December 23, 1943. Also aged 23. Sad.

Thank You to both of these Men for their Service R.I.P. 🙏 🇨🇦

Sad man,😢 so young .

I know these brave men will be resting in the most serene of peace. The following generations are lucky 2 have had these men 2 secure their future in freedom. The debt is huge but so is the gratitude. I salute them. From an ex squaddie in England. 🫡

Damn. Hurts to read that. RIP.

We live and learn, Sir.

@@nebojsanesic5326I pray we all never stop learning from the past.

I was about to say the same thing!! I’m only 32 but shocked I had never heard of this battle! Glad we’ve found out now, better late than never

My great uncle flew B-26 Marauders over and bombed Monte Casino before the troops went in but he rarely talked about his time at war except right before he died in 2014

👎 if you fought like the Canadian then you got to march into Rome. Gen Clark made the wrong decision.

Typical yanks

I know My Grandfather's outfit was attached to General Mark Clarke's 5th Army. He was in The First Special Service Force. He said they lost a lot of Men during The Battle for Monte La Difensa.

@@maryholder3795 The British and Poles and New Zealanders all fought very bravely.

@daleupthegrove6396 Yeah it's certainly an underrated theatre.

If you showed up and contributed, you deserve recognition, on every front, and every role.

My Grandfather fought in Italy. He said that many were upset that the Italian campaign was largely forgotten after D-Day

Yes there were about three 'D Days' in the Italian campaign.

Savage fighters. We won many fierce battles vs the Germans.

@@juicyj3819You’re just a nice bunch of people. Ice Hockey helps. Married to a Finn.

@@adamaalto-mccarthy6984 aww. Thanks eh

@@juicyj3819 good sarcasm

@@adamaalto-mccarthy6984?

A term coined by a notorious appeaser, Lady Astor, who never met a dictator she didn't like.

As a Yank, it makes me ashamed that our brave Canadian brothers were disrespected in such a manner. Petty, churlish, and ungrateful. Sick indeed.

@@jim2376 No they were not!

Heroes everyone of the Canadian regiment who fought in Ortona. No Dodgers in that battle - Heroes

They didn't dodge D-Day, they were almost wiped out at Dieppe, so devastated that they were combat ineffective for years.

@@maryholder3795 Aye, Every one of them.

@@IrishAmerican17 Any account of the Canadians in WW2, is filled with Honour. All the troops who fought in Italy were called the D-Day Dodgers. But they fought under horrific conditions where every yard was paid for in blood. Their Sacrifice should never be forgotten.

Churchill called it "The Soft Underbelly" While The Soldiers that Fought & Bled & Died up the Boot called it "The Tough Old Gut"

Clark basked in his glory for less than 2 days - the D Day happened 2 days after the liberation of Rome and all eyes looked away from Italy 🙃

Americans and many others, like Brits, Kiwis, Indians, and Poles earned the glory too. As long as the stories are told and understood, I think it's all good.

And because he went to Rome instead of cutting off the retreat of thousands of Germans, American and Canadian lives were lost fighting them all the way up Italy.

Dieppe was a lost battle. But not the war

We have to be grateful for grand allies. we could not have done it without them. That said, we were great allies and partners.

They lost their whole country to mr.Trudeau,the enemy from within.

Bragging about war is not good

Relatives of the US 36th (Texas) Infantry are not fans of General Markie! Those veterans got a Congressional Hearing held on Clark, but he got thru the hearing without censure, perhaps with the help of Ike.

@@hutxn At least Karma got him when no one in the end gave a sh*** that he took Rome after the Allies kicked the Germans out of Normandy 🤣

HE wanted to show Patton Mongomery and who ever else he was great he was not. His primadona actions cost thousands of lives.

Clarke was warned and told bypass casino but he ignored the advice and look how that turned out, then at Anzio he just turned for Rome like the glory useless hound he was.

@@isisnmagic1812 Ike should have sacked him!!!

Yeah, few people have good things to say about old Marky. Including American soldiers who served under him.

South Africans played a vital role too, much respect!

Yes It was a Very disparaging Label to be put on The Veterans of The Italian Campaign.

The last Australian ww2 veteran has passed.

I enrolled in 92. On Remembrance Day the parade scare was full of these heroes. I was posted in Valcartier with R22R and after the parade we would go back our Mess had a blast with these old men. Got my shirt sleeves rip off by 2 of em. 😂. Now looking back, such a privilege to have that interaction. Today! sadly time goes on. 🫡

Some of these channels do and some of them don't. I watched a video on Battleground I think it was and nothing was censored no matter how gory it was.

@@daleupthegrove6396 Monetisation is the likely difference.

I don’t doubt the gallantry and guts of the Canadians but, the Battle of Ortona lasted 7 days, the of Stalingrad lasted more than 6 months which involved hundreds of thousand of troops. Calling Ortona Canada’s Stalingrad is Hype on very tall stilts. Calm down in the rhetoric.

Ortona had even more than half of the Canadians killed compared to Dieppe, too few people know about it.

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If only the politicians that started the wars had to also fight them, they would NOT be so common.

My Grandfather happened to be one of The Canadians into Rome. He was a member of The U.S./Canada First Special Service Force.

Lessons will never be learned when the people and the subject matter never change. It all began with the fall of humanity in the Garden of Eden when Cain killed his brother Abel. There was a time when all the people in this world spoke the same language, and that all changed at the Tower of Babel. Men tried to build a tower to the heights of heaven in an attempt to be like God. Because of the arrogance of man, God confused the language of man and scattered them all over the land. You may not believe this, but how do you account for the different languages and cultures in this world. You take the separation of men and the changing of languages and the development of different cultures and you throw in man's sinful nature and you have a toxic brew that throughout the centuries that have brought us to this point. There is no other explanation, before the fall in the garden as He created the things in the world God looked at all that He made and said it was good. We then see the creation of Adam and Eve and all was good, as a result of their sin God removed them from the garden and nothing has been the same ever since. Man has been stained by sin ever since then, passing from one generation to the next. Sin is passed on through the seed of man. How do I know that Mary the mother of Jesus was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit and since no man's seed was involved in the birth of Jesus He was sinless. What are you going to do with Jesus, he preached the gospel and fed the poor he healed the lame but He came not so much to live but to die. God came down and was born in human flesh, so why was he crucified, it says in the Bible without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin. He paid the price for humanity when God placed all the sins of the world on Him, and he shed his sinless blood while being crucified. Why did God do this, ever since the fall in the garden man's sin has separated him from God. The question I have for you if you died tonight where would you spend eternity? Would you like peace, and joy in your life, how about a new heart and new mind and eternity with God? It is a free gift of God showing us His mercy and love, as God is holy and righteous no man can stand before Him, when you reject his offer of forgiveness you're telling God that you want no part of Him. God gives you the desire of your heart an eternity separated from Him. The question is do you want to be saved? If you love your sin, keep doing what you are doing. What must a person do to be saved, confess your sins and repent of them meaning turn away from the things you're doing and make Jesus your Lord and Savior. The reason most people don't become Christians is not because of a lack of knowledge or a lack of faith it is because of pride. People aren't willing to admit to themselves that they have sinned in their life much less God. They try and save themselves through good works or religion or numbing their mind and bodies with the things of this world. Know this, the only thing you can contribute to your sin is your salvation, and God is only as far away as your knees are to the floor.

The oligarchs who want the wars never have their own families in the war.

The banks only love money. 🔯

Who's we?

It seems you're some sort of bot

RIP to all our allies. 🇨🇦✊🏻

Don't say that to Australians they've been saying that they were the best since Gallipoli 😂

As a Canadian whose father-in-law flew out of India against the Japanese, much respect back to the Aussies and New Zealanders, who fought both the Japanese and Germans with ferocity and courage. The father-in-law was a bombadier in a B-24, skipping bombs into the sides of ships from 50 feet off the deck. VERY hairy stuff!

Much respect, considering how much Aus sacrificed in both world wars.

Thank you for your kind words about our Canadian Veterans 🇨🇦 Thank you as Well To The Australian Veterans 🙏🇭🇲

His whole series of books on WWII should be read.

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Not true they were as equally tuff ,the SS PANZER DIVISIONS were no joke in France.

Agreed!

All to protect the narrative of 🏳️‍🌈🚩🇮🇱

Yea that annoyed me too.

The winner is whoever is still standing at the end of it all. War happens when negotiation becomes impossible, either through ideology or impossible demands by one or both sides. There is only one honourable form of warfare, and that is whatever way gives you the quickest victory.

@@avroarchitect1793 some wars need to be fought but in our day and age we should look to the past to see our future and our future is looking bleak 🫡

@@lyndallsymons9767 I agree. My point is that the only moral form of war is whatever makes it shortest.

What fkry you mean there are no winners in war?

Glory Hound he was. You'd think the Citadel would address

I served in the Canadian infantry & my best friend in the world was a US Army Ranger. We know who our allies are.

It wasn't necessarily intentional, it was geographical. The British and Canadians went up the east side, the US went up the west side and faced Monte Casino. There was a whole mountain range between them.

I'm not defending what Mark Clark did But there was Canadians in the Liberation of Rome. My Grandfather marched into the City as a member of The U.S./Canada First Special Service Force.

Nothing like the nonsense of huge ego's, military campaigning and flying steel. It's a guaranteed nasty mess for the soldier.

Not being able to kill doesn't make you a coward, friend. Just look at Desmond Doss.

I served & no sane person wants a war. Not wanting to go to war & kill doesn't make you a coward. People who don't know a damn thing about the military or war are the ones who cheer for a war.

My Father-in-law a gunner on tank in the Canadian military, also loss hearing after firing for 10 hours over the Rhine.

the americans were not late at all.

The yanks only do something when it benefits them every time, Vietnam was a big shock to their ARROGANT ATTITUDE.

@@TheMrherbgreen America entered the war in Dec of 41. Canadians had been fighting since 39 so how do you figure that man?

@@bruce8321 explain to me why America is required to fight in wars? Was America required to be involved in the Franco Prussian war?

@@TheMrherbgreen Its a little thing called saving democracy and all of our Freedom. We all fought for that so you could spout of all you want like now. These were called WORLD WARS FOR A REASON. You need to start reading.

The Place was the Pole Valley and the Pole River, where they were hit, Recon Patrol while the 10th Mountain Division seeked out the 88s on the Pole Mountains.

It’s not. I would call it a mini Stalingrad.

@@donaldatherton319 That is what they called it back then, mini Stalingrad.

What's your issue? Where is there censorship?

JB ..... Canadian. MERDACCE!?.

Montys ego was nothing compared to Patons and General Clark's stupidity.

*Mark Clarks ego* corrected it for you.