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5:13 The Dutch guy is not part of the Waffen SS. The info you found is incorrect about him being member of the SSin the movie. Several Dutchmen also had joined other German units. Some Dutchmen prefered other units as the SS. So historical probable. What detail is overlooked that when he is burying the mine next to him is the American clone of the German folding shovel. 16:54 This glider scene is based on an actual glider. Staff -Sgt Black who crash landed in that area on the second day. He transported a jeep and a trailer and the few men who manned the jeep and a Dutch commando who was attached as a interpreter. The uniforms are correct. Apart that the gliderpilots normaly would have worn a wing above the left pocket. And the men with the helmets all have webbing chinstraps, but most would have helmets with black leather chinstraps. 21:14 that aircraft is not an Albemarle.(were used on the first day), its actually an Handley Page Halifax (a bomber). Bombers were used to tow glider. But these units were trained for airborne force units. Apart from towing gliders they also could drop paratroops and many also did special weapon drops for resistance groups. 27:26 The vehicles look like American White M3 scout cars, also used by Canadians and British and a (rare!) Canadian Otter scoutcar. 32:40 In a British infantry section 44-45 of 10 men the section commander most of the time a corporal would carry a sten. It would also contain a 3 man bren group containing 1 Bren gunner with a leader and no 2 gunner /helper In the ten men section 8 would carry an enfield rifle. In this film they carry the wrong (older) type No1 MKIII enfield should be the no4 enfield. 46:07 I also see a distict lack of the use of handgrenades. if your gonna charge first throw a load of grenades.

Unless I'm mistaken, didn't some German soldiers use their gas mask canisters as extra storage? So it wouldn't be quite so pointless to have.

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Absolutely love this. Has a Canadian myself and having former family served in this war it's that much more personal and touching. You don't get too many Canadian veiw of WW2 so I loved this film.

20:15 you should watch the whole movie. It's like a story about him and some others. He was injured in the eastern front and then sent to the west to work in office but did something wrong. So he was sent to the western front

My uncle served in the Black Watch (*The real Black Watch, Scotland) and was involved in the Market Garden Operation, and served as a Paratrooper at Arnhem, and later went to the SAS. I grew up with all sorts of useful advice and have a WW2 grenade he taught British Paratroopers how to use in the cutaway form. It's now my office paperweight and I should really donate it to the British Imperial War Museum in London, considering it's history!

Don’t be sorry that you are stopping. this is your video, your take and I like all the side notes. Makes me think differently and study history differently. Thanks for another great video

From my own limited understanding of the World Wars, I have been drawn to the conclusion that the Canadians were regarded by the British as crack assault troops capable of almost any feat of arms. This reputation, whether justified or not, began on the Western Front in the Great War.

Mate, I been watching a couple of vids from you, and you have a fun lighthearted commentary. I cannot shake this feeling in my head of how much of a heart attack you would have watching a movie like "Red Tails".

When you mentioned the Market Garden gliders, I remembered that in Brothers in Arms Hells Highway, Baker was in that extra seat instead of an extra pilot, just you said! Very cool

21:05 bruh that's a Handley Page Halifax, not an Albermarle. Albermale's have two engines, the Halifax has four. The Albermale was originally designed to be a bomber, though was never really used as one, it could still carry bombs in an internal bomb bay, and it had four defensinve machine guns guns in a dorsal turret.

4:26 it's explained in the movie that this character along with some of the boys in his village fell in love with Nazism and went to a training camp in Germany, becoming fluent in German and becoming posted to a German speaking unit. The SS units you spoke of were Dutch volunteers recruited in-country. The man that walks off to die was the last of his village buddies. He is later seen going back to his village, thanks to the intervention of a wounded Dutch lieutenant also serving in the Axis army who has become suicidal. He was going back to the front line, either on the Eastern Front or on the western front. The Lt did him a favor by pulling some strings and getting him sent home to the Netherlands instead. The commander of the town's garrison recognizes him as a local Dutchman, making him an unwilling translator and open target for the local resistance, many of whom he knew as a boy. 41:55 in the movie, before the British soldier is rescued, the Scottish Major General is indeed arguing with the Canadian commander about assaulting the causeway. The Scots have been looking for a way to cross the river to flank the Germans with no success. The movie only adds the conceit that local resistance sent a boat with a pair of female members, one of whom makes it to the Allied camp with a map of the river bed (in truth the Scots found the way themselves). The scene you reviewed may be 'inaccurate' but the movie explains some of them, as strange as they are.

Fun fact: the mg42 was capable of being fed from the left and right side. Love the videos man keep it up😀

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21:01 where you point out the aircraft, it's actually a Handley Page Halifax Bomber, they were used as Glider Tows aswell in Market Garden

At 46:15, you are correct about the grenade. When I threw a grenade in basic training, I was kind of bummed that it was nothing like how it was portrayed in the movies. A loud bang and maybe a little smoke. Pretty deadly though. I am also surprised how few grenades they used in assaulting that trench. The US Army training manual on assaulting a trench has you use a bunch of grenades.

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Glad you made this video because this is my favorite war movie.

great movie.. great camera work.. loved it

16:40 Why are there only 5 soldiers in a glider? Well. There is a camera, cameraman, director, sound guy, etc... :D :D

I’m pretty Sure you can load a mg42 from left and the right depending on the model. I know when I was in the army on the m240C you can load it on the right side but it did not have a butt stock on it, but we had them mounted on the m2A3 Bradley.

for ur question at 32:32, out of the standard 8-10 man british section there would usually be 1 or 2 sten guns used by the corporal and the lance corporal

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Actually, the battle in Zeeland (NL) was an amphibious assault with Royal Marines as well. The problem was too many actors, they should have focused on the German and British soldiers and the battle. There were also many Dutchmen in regiment "Wiking". Almost as good a review as Bacuffz!🤙😆

I found the movie fine but it tries to show to much, it shows parts of Operation Market Garden and follows the British paratroopers on this fictional foray , a Dutchman in the Wehrmacht, the Dutch Resistance, then the Canadians. The movie should have just focused on the actual Battle for the Sheldt and have the focus be on the 2nd Canadian Division's role in the battle or just the Black Watch. For the Battle of the Scheldt it really is going to take more than just one movie to tell it because not only would you have to portrayed the battle for Walcheren but also South and North Beveland, the Breskens Pocket and the operations that occurred to cut off South Beveland from the rest of the Netherlands that not only involved the Canadians but also the British, Poles and Americans. Personally I think it would take around 7-8 movie to fully tell the story of the Battle of the Scheldt.

If I remember correctly the reason y the glider pilot wants to detach is cuz how damaged the glider is would bring the aircraft down that is towing them

The Dutch guy, who fought on the eastern front has a pretty long Story. He got wounded and landed in an SS Field Hospital. Then he moved to the netherlands, as assistant of SS or Gestapo City Commander. He got fired and was send to the troops guarding the Defenses

I love to see the turtle shell helmet represented in film

Cant believe I've slept on this film! Time to check it out and now flex on my knowledge of it to those I watch it with 😉

Hello, just found out 5 Years ago my Father was in a Canadian Armoured Regiment during WWII. All I had know was bits and pieces of his whereabouts during WWII. He didn't talk about the War but would talk about, and explained, what he saw, different pieces of equipment, which he would later show me, when I was a Kid in Gagetown. Armoured Cars, played with and aimed Howitzers, Crawled around on and in Tanks. Now, he also, sometime during the War, was teaching radio operators. I knew during WWII he was in North Africa, Sicily and Italy but didn't know after Italy he would drive up the Atlantic Wall and then Liberate Holland with The 8th ( New Brunswick ) Hussars, realizing he was in a Sherman Tank. I had seen, with out knowing it, recreated Battles with His Regiment on 'Greatest Tank Battles'. There's also a Book written about The 8th Hussars called 'Steel Cavalry'. Seems there was an American General who was very impressed with Their Camo Jobs. He said the best. It was noted They were also crazy with their long range, howitzer style shots with HE. I believe it's written that about 10 Took Out, destroyed, a hole enemy infested main intersection while they were waiting around for Orders. Thought they would 'Practice', couldn't see the target, didn't think they would reach them, very rewarding 'Practice' This is all from the Book. Does anybody know of any other history of this Regiment ?

TheCanadian Black Watch had many successive battles in the 2nd ww. Not to mention being one of the best regiments in battle after battle in the first world war. They captured Mons at the end of the war and had led the battle to get there over the last few months of the war.

According to IMDB, this movie cost 14 million Euros to make. I find that amazing for the quality of movie they got. At the beginning where you point out that there is only one T-34, I think that’s all they could afford.

4:10 it can also have the early model Machinepistol 43 which was the early design of the Surmgewehr 44 (Stg 44)

Throughout the film the main british characters rifle mysteriously changes between an smle and a number 4

3:30 The one with a flat front barrel band is a Zastava 98/48, the ones with a front barrel band that has carvings to attach a bayonet are K98k. The Zastava are 98k abandoned by german (and local enlisted) garrisons in former Yougoslavia. It is likely that they took the Yugoslavian variant and added front barrels like a 98k on some of them, they are considerably less expensive.

21:45 Thought I'd point this out, why are the two pilots moving the yoke (Control Stick) at the same time? The flight controls are all connected, at this point they aren't fighting the aircraft for control anymore, they're fighting each other for control lol.

Watched this a couple months ago. Great movie

0:50 "now they are SCREWED because HI and welcome to History Legends" that transition was so unexpected 😂

I think it is easely to overlook the human factor of war, soldiers can get scared to, human instinct can kick in as well

Hello HistoryLegends. Could you please make video about german ground army struction? There are many videos but pretty confusing and you can explain well. Thank you

RE gun question at 3:50. IMHO the guy has a yugoslav version of 98K called M-48 or revorked original gun revorked as the front sight had round ring protection. Other mausers in the scene seem to me without said front sight ring protector.

Could you consider doing a video of the 2015 Estonian WW2 film called 1944 for your next reaction? Love your content by the way.

What film would u recommend that is the most accurate down to the uniforms tactics equipment ad weaponry of ww2

The German soldier did leave the replica entrenching tool standing in the dirt next to the mine, marking its location for both sides, I guess.

In 7:49 you can see at the tips that the ammunition they used was training ammunition.

4:20 that M1903 springfield help by the german on the left interresting

Hey Alex one small Detail.. in the scene with the Glieders..they are towed bye normal ropes.. in real it was steel cables 😊

you are incorrect that there should be a diversity in weapons in 1944. As well as the positioning of the MGs German tactics centered around the MG team. it was standard practice for a platoon to consist of 18 riflemen, 1-2 mg teams, a radio and a section leader with the highest ranking NCO being second in command. MP40s and STG44s were hard to come by even in 1944 as productions could not meet demand, therefore usually only the squad and section leaders had MP44s or MP40s. The majority of riflemen were issued a variant of the K98k or Czech copy (both you see in the start scene of this movie) The idea of the german squad was the MGs would lay down the firepower and the infantry were there to either flank or prevent flankings of the MG, which is opposite to how US squads fought Therefore it is far more accurate for everyone to have a K98k than an MP40 and for the MG42 to be at the centre of the defence as thats how German infantry were trained to fight.

I find it highly improbable that the glider wouldn't have simply lost lift, snapped the tow cable and spiralled into the ground when it lost it's left wing.

theirs another in acracy in the use of the mg42 after firing when they reloaded the mg they would also change the barrel because it would get red hot and if they didnt cool it off if would warp it making the mg useless

The section leaders like nco’s where the only ones who had a sten gun but many nco’s used the lee enfield rifle to blend in with the regular troops

When you're talking about the island you've visited, you're talking about Walcheren right? You seem to pronounce it close to fallschirm when it's closer to like walker-en with the hard G sound instead of the k

Nice to see people from other countries watching our movies we don’t get that much. Also the battles in WW2 in my country are.. forgotten that’s why I love this movie 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱 also nice that the Canadians helped us and the Brits. Also a lot of Young Dutch man fledge the UK in boats that’s why there is a Dutch one. Anyway love this movie thank you for watching it

I had a Great uncle in 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich ,he was a tank commander involved in the Invasion of The Soviet Union ,Operation Barbarossa ,Etc . He was captured after The Battle of Kursk .

I think you missed that the Invasion stripes shouldn't be on the aircraft anymore during Market Garden.

Did you noticed that in the opening scene, there's a modern canadian flag and 50 star us flag.

One thing that bothered me, but was probably linked to budget, is the fact that during the combat scene of the walcheren causeway, they switched from lee enfield mk. 4 (which we can see during non combat scenes) to mk. 3. Idk why they did this but they were phased off before normandy. Also idk but the canadian troops also felt "naked" without any backpack and equipment for an assault like this. No mortar or heavy mg, felt weird.

Could you review" danger close battle of long tan" Because of an assault like this you would have a large amount of sten guns and even Thompson machine guns

if u look at MG u will see that imige is flipped from time to time, sometimes it is loaded from right, sometimes from left.

the glider scene was like a nightmare for me as a man severely afraid of heights

Re: 21:05 Those aren't Albemarle aircraft, they are Halifax bombers (Mk III based on the radial engines), some of which were converted to the airborne role (glider towing) and used for airborne operations, along with some which were purpose-built for the airborne role. In some of the shots you can see the bulge under the center of the fuselage which was the H2S radar installation, which I think were removed from airborne-role Halifax bombers as it wasn't needed (so showing them on the aircraft would be a mistake by the filmmakers).

The second scene was actually the most expensive to make, so it isn't very weird that it is a good scene.

Great analysis video. I've often said the vast majority of soldiers that die in war die because of incompetent leadership planning. This mission was as dumb as they come, which of course resulted in massive casualties. But nobody wants to believe their loved ones needlessly died in war, so we call it heroic instead of tragic.

Could you review danger close next? Thanks!

32:44 Apparently British Army officers would be taught to stand up in combat.

20:04 this guy was injured in combat in that first scene you watched then when he recovered from his wounds he was assigned to another unit in whatever this place is

i can tell you from living next to a air field that has ww2 planes that they are LOUD, one B-25 flew over my house and my room shook, i couldn't imagine what it was like to have 300 fly over my house or anywhere for that matter.

I find the aircraft formation strange, gliders and c-47s randomly together, also fighter escort flying in the middle of the formation.

31:08 can anyone point out what kind of machine gun this is? It looks to me like a Russian made DShK

7:08 blanks on this mg 42, and hooted cases was also blanks.

19:55 i'm a Norwegian and yes this is completely true, in my coastal town there is a cannon near the coast in the Trondenes area that is named "The Adolf cannon" there is more cannons in the area and a few bunkers, right beside the town's most famous church, the Trondenes church is the remains of a WW2 prisoner camp where the Germans kept soviet POW's, there is also a memorial a bit closer to the curch, from the remains we can see where there have been buildings that the soviet prisoners lived in, we can see the remains of one or two watchtowers and i think a house that might have been a German barrack or something, you can visit the remains of the camp and the bunkers in the area, but the Adolf cannon is located in a now Norwegian military controlled area, rules for tourists and visitors have gotten a bit stricter so its now quite difficult/expensive to visit the cannon

The real forgotten battle would be anything involving ABDA Command. Especially since the wrecks of the warships lost are being completely cut up and hauled off by metal salvagers who simply aren't concerned that they are also war graves. : (

Its not useless to cary the gasmask container, sometimes they store somethimg more important in this little handy gasmask container and have the mask in a other pocket or something, at this point it isnt useless. But yes, it isnt realistic that the dont have any equipment

36:32 Wait you can use the 88 as an anti infantry artillery ?

This Proves that there needs to be a movie about Operation Varsity. The 17th Airborne is not well known. A good book on the subject is 4 hours of fury by James Fenelon

The armored Vehicles look like C15 armored trucks. they were a CMP (Canadian militarized pattern) vehicle designed in Canada for the allied forces but were mostly used by the Canadians in the war.

"...and of course a couple of STG44s" STG44s were usually not distributed evenly to all units, but instead concentrated in a few elite units, in which all the regular riflemen were equipped with STG44s. So either you should see no STG44s or all STG44s

Could you rate the videos you are reacting to (from a scale to 1 to10)?

@11:05 he was right, the gun on the front of the tank is now on the left like it should be

I noticed in a lot of ww2 movies, the gray uniforms, are always what's shown. There are so many variations. And the weapons. Where is a gw 43? Stg44, mp40? A panzer shriek?

This movie really made me cry

36:55 literally the phrase "in time of war every hole is a trench"

The bravest are screwed because welcome to history legend

This was a Canadian battle on Walcairan island. My father was there.

Can you have a look of dark blue world?

Can you react to Unknown Soldier, i think its pretty realistic movie. And nice vid btw :)

2:17 but isn’t a little unrealistic that the front of the aircraft didn’t completely crash after falling. I mean they were probably falling with over 300 km/h, the front of the plane is made by mostly glass and these rather thin metal barrier stuff, while if car crashed at even less than half that speed on a wall, it would recked and anyone sitting in the front, would have little hope of surviving.

I would love another movie/mini series about the battle of the scheldt. It could focus on a Canadian infantryman and a commando.

3:24 yeah dude I feel you, I get mad when I watch war movies and see that nobody has full webbing.

Could you cover snoopy's career during WWI how good of pilot was he?

I was kind of confused as in the Netherlands the movie is called “De slag om de Schelden” wich means the battle of the Schelden

the gunner's position of the tank switched into the left side

7:00 the MG 42 is firing a whole belt of blanks

let me add up, @34:25 - there should be a marksman within the Canadian infantry section, get that sniper away from the main infantry body, to at least pin a bullet on any of the machine gunners' heads since they're pinned by the German defense lines.

Glider units could deliver more troops with heavier equipment and more arms and required less training as compared to parachute units.

5:14 that dude has a weird looking lower jaw/teeth. 31:46 The bit of bs is that there was a jet flying in the background, look at those jet engine trails lol. Also you pronounced 'Nederland' pretty good :D

0:15 diversity of guns. I loved it