Saddam's WW2 Tanks - Invasion of Iraq 2003

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During the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, Coalition Forces found many WW2-era tanks from both the Allied and Axis sides.
Dr. Mark Felton FRHistS, FRSA, is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' and 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world, including on The History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, Quest, American Heroes Channel and RMC Decouverte. His books have formed the background to several TV and radio documentaries. More information about Mark can be found at: en.wikipedia.o...
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@MarkFeltonProductions 11 месяцев назад

CONCENTRATION LAPSE! I have mistakenly called the 2003 Invasion of Iraq 'Desert Storm' - please disregard this error. No need to keep pointing it out in the comments! Apologies to all veterans of the 2003 campaign!

@catlee8064 11 месяцев назад

There was a graveyard of WW2/soviet era tanks outside Shaiba log base...alot of them with Rad warning signs all over them from being hit with DU rds.

@flyingsword135 11 месяцев назад

Desert Storm II , electric Bugaloo

@kd5ful 11 месяцев назад

I'm sorry, I failed to read the pinned comment before commenting. Sorry for being a pratt, sir. 🤣

@patrickmcneil5089 11 месяцев назад

@@kd5fulwhat’s a Pratt?

@kd5ful 11 месяцев назад

British slang for idiot, sir.

@lokischildren8714 11 месяцев назад

As a veteran British soldier who took part in op telic .we encountered t34 and su100 plus old British radios in Basra

@markolysynchuk5264 11 месяцев назад

If I'm not mistaken, they use Su-100 to this day.

@bigblue6917 11 месяцев назад

My predictions about these tanks being used by Russia in Ukraine may be closer to the mark than I thought.

@Leny1777 11 месяцев назад

Did they do damage against western coalition?

@garrysekelli6776 11 месяцев назад

The propaganda at the time was that the Iraqi army was the 4th most powerful and largest in the world. Obviously complete lies in hindsight. However I was like 12 at the time so I couldn't exactly see behind their lies and call them out about it.

@WELLBRAN 11 месяцев назад

And you asked yourself .....well how has Iraq got weapons of mass destruction but all this old stuff ...right?

@geigertec5921 11 месяцев назад

Imagine fighting in Iraq in 2003 and seeing a US Sherman tank in original WWII colors firing at you.

@SnoopReddogg 11 месяцев назад

You'd have 'Final Countdown/Hottub Time Machine' vibes..

@haroldcarfrey4206 11 месяцев назад

That Sherman has a Panther turret...

@hertoramann 11 месяцев назад

And imagine that Sherman became furry.

@limmyk4943 11 месяцев назад

@@haroldcarfrey4206No thats a 90mm armed Sherman, the M36B1

@Trollet456 11 месяцев назад

Today putins men face the same fate in Ukraine when they sitting in their old relics and being attacked by President Zelenskys modern tanks

@mitchmatthews6713 11 месяцев назад

Never a dull moment with a Mark Felton video! Cheers, sir!

@williamharris9525 11 месяцев назад

As a tanker, when we were going into Iraq, we were informed that there was a possibility that we might be engaging our own equipment since the Iraqis had been sold not only some World War II equipment, but M113’s, and other more modern equipment.

@hertoramann 11 месяцев назад

Have you engaged any?

@williamharris9525 11 месяцев назад

@@hertoramann No. Just T-72s and 55s plus a BMP

@hertoramann 11 месяцев назад

@@williamharris9525 how was the fight ? Did they push you hard or so easy? How was the feeling that you were marching into an Iraq ?

@williamharris9525 11 месяцев назад

@@hertoramann Was there to stop the advance of the Iraqis if they so decided to move south. They fought back but not hard I guess. All I saw was through the GPS. Did the job and came home with some unwelcomed issues but this kid is still breathing. God’s blessings

@hertoramann 11 месяцев назад

@@williamharris9525 what a gps? How ? Come on man I wonder that atmosphere I wonder how the adrenaline kicked in your body and I don’t know was it like jarhead or three kings ? I grew up with ıraq war I always wonder the atmosphere and what Americans done there

@jamesfleming7338 11 месяцев назад

Played war thunder yesterday, saw markfeltongaming on my team and promptly crashed my plane in an attempt to express my thanks for the years of top tier historical content. Hats off to you Dr. Felton.

@MarkFeltonProductions 11 месяцев назад

That wasn't me.

@eizzeeefromstupidland 11 месяцев назад

@@MarkFeltonProductionsNOOOO

@coldcreative4601 11 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@orange8175 11 месяцев назад

that's a lie, we all know it's your account! @@MarkFeltonProductions

@alexairconditioning1581 9 месяцев назад

Ive seen that dude aswell lmao

@giantskunk 11 месяцев назад

Wow! An M36B1 is extremely rare. No wonder they rescued it.

@richardforrest8134 11 месяцев назад

what is rare about the B1 variant?

@arturneveshopner9187 11 месяцев назад

@@richardforrest8134 It is a M4 sherman with the Jackson turret

@jasonpeacock9735 11 месяцев назад

@@richardforrest8134less than 200 were converted.

@sheyrd7778 11 месяцев назад

@@arturneveshopner9187 I use that tank in World of Tanks Console version it is called the Plaguebringer. Fun tank to play. Was very happy to see that version actually existing in picture now I can say it was a real tank. :D

@arturneveshopner9187 11 месяцев назад

@@sheyrd7778 Nice :D

@udaloop86 11 месяцев назад

I was there in ‘03. I remember so much equipment, French, British, Soviet and US origin, in rows and rows especially at places like Taji. Walking around and sitting in a Mig-31 was a highlight. Massive jet.

@militanttriangle2326 11 месяцев назад

ya, Taji was wild. All those chieftains captured in the Iran Iraq war. Amx-10's, an M8 greyhound, usual Russian stuff took a few pics back in teh day.

@paulscheidler7438 11 месяцев назад

I was there in 2008 and 2009. The greyhound had been adopted by a maintenance unit on the American Base. The Iraqi Tank Brigade had one of the Vickers tanks as a gate guard. @@militanttriangle2326

@ermias75ermis2 11 месяцев назад

I think you mean ΜΙG-25 ,maybe?

@hellomoto2084 11 месяцев назад

Iraq never operated mig 31 , it although operated numerous mig 25 . An older version of mig 31.

@udaloop86 11 месяцев назад

@@hellomoto2084yeah you’re right. Mig-25 it was.

@daveb7347 11 месяцев назад

A T34 was captured by the British during Desert Storm. It now sits outside the Imperial War Museum North in Salford. You can go right up to it and feel just how solid a beast it is!

@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe 11 месяцев назад

The tank you mentioned is actually a T55, You are correct in saying it was captured in iraq by British forces, There is a T34 on display inside IWM North that was a North Korean Army vehicle given to them in the hundreds by the Soviet Union That was captured during the Korean War.

@daveb7347 11 месяцев назад

@@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe My bad. It was several years ago that I went there.

@kirbyculp3449 11 месяцев назад

IIRC, MFP did an episode about a T-34 in London. A disgruntled gent installed the T-34 tank after the local council refused to approve some other construction project.

@Moshe.Goldstein 11 месяцев назад

I was about to say , I was there in 1990-1991 “Kuwait “and never saw any T34 , on the contrary I saw T54-55, T62 and T72 (lion of Babylon) .

@SergyMilitaryRankings 11 месяцев назад

@@Moshe.Goldsteinyeah most of Iraq army was T-55 and T-62, they had some T-72 but they lost most during Iran war, the myth that Iraq was 4th strongest military in 91 is hilarious

@skeetrix5577 11 месяцев назад

Ah, perfect timing for another high quality history video:) Thank you, Dr. Felton, for helping to peak my curiosity in history

@mtkoslowski 11 месяцев назад

-PEAK- PIQUE 👍 Sorry, can’t help myself. 😅

@TomasFunes-rt8rd 11 месяцев назад

Perfect timing alright - I was just painting up my Iraqi L3 tankette models in the last several hours !!

@robklein583 11 месяцев назад

@@mtkoslowski last week on wordle...

@alexmarshall4331 11 месяцев назад

Sycophant?

@tolik5929 11 месяцев назад

Agreed , his videos are short , to the point , with good information .

@Knights_Oath 11 месяцев назад

It was not a tank, but some of my instructors in the Marine Corps were part of the 03 invasion. They managed to bring home lots of small arms they wanted by breaking them down and stashing the parts in their vehicles. The one I was the most envious of was a pair of PPSH-41 with matching stick and drum mags.

@klondikebar1640 11 месяцев назад

A couple years ago when I was doing a JRTC rotation, we had a British Army unit attached to us (Queen's Dragoon Guards) and I spoke with one of their senior Soldiers who was in Iraq back then. Told me a story of when he was on patrol in a Scimitar and they took fire from a Sherman tank that some insurgents got running. At the time they didn't know it was a Sherman, just that they were pretty far out and the incoming fire was terribly inaccurate. I can't recall what they used or called in to take it out, but when they moved up to conduct the BDA they were astonished that they were being shot by not just a tank, but a bloody M4 Sherman! Got a chuckle out of that.

@youtubechannelidk 11 месяцев назад

you are my favourite history youtube channel, I understand you probably won't see this but I love the lesser known topics you cover in your videos, thanks and I will wait till your next upload!

@displacedyankee7819 11 месяцев назад

Camp Taji had a great collection of captured armor and artillery. There were 25pounders, WW2 US 155MM. Only WW2 vehicle I remember seeing was a decrepit M8 Greyhound.

@benx6264 11 месяцев назад

I was at Taji, 4th Inf Div. We had both a M4 Sherman and what I think is a M24 Chaffee outside our BN HQ

@kippamip 11 месяцев назад

Just before they started building IEDs we saw locals taking all the ball bearings from the wheels of all the T54/55 gate guards they had. Especially in Maysan as they had a large army and ordnance depot there which we later took over and made camp Abu naji. At the time we thought they were just stealing the wheels to make cart's and other pieces of stuff for scrap. Little did we know it was to put the ball bearings in the bombs to cause maximum damage. It didn't take them long either to get them stripped. I went in 03/04 and 06/07, the place was an absolute mess, hopefully these days things are getting a little better.

@faithlesshound5621 11 месяцев назад

The initial US-led civil administration sacked all the Iraqi soldiers, but allowed them to keep their weaponry as they were happy to allow civilians to "bear arms" as in the USA. Guess where ISIS got its equipment from?

@wessamali482 11 месяцев назад

I was a first lieutenant in the Republican Guard Shield in the command of the Medina forces, and it was a camp in the city of Essaouira in Kut. Yes, we used these tanks from World War II to deceive the enemy with heat traps so that we could hunt the enemy’s tanks and vehicles, using T72 tank guns, as well as using the Kornet missiles that we obtained. They were attacked in limited numbers and were very influential, as evidenced by the infliction of heavy losses on the enemy south of Nasiriyah. Likewise, there were losses on the enemy of soldiers and vehicles in the west of Nasiriyah.

@obsidianjane4413 11 месяцев назад

Cool story brah.

@wessamali482 11 месяцев назад

@@obsidianjane4413 It has certainly become a thing of the past and has become a story

@t2av159 11 месяцев назад

Awesome! Thanks for sharing

@Indylimburg 11 месяцев назад

What was it like knowing you were up against the US military? What was the level of moral among your troops?

@wessamali482 11 месяцев назад

@@t2av159 you are welcome

@jamest2401 11 месяцев назад

Mark, I love it when you alternate your opening music with the other theme ever so often. It reminds me of some of your content several years ago, when I first discovered your channel and was simply over the moon about it. Not that I’m not still, but you know it was sort of the “puppy love” stage, for lack of a better term. You last used it on 'Eva Braun's Secret Pistol', and on your last 'War Stories' installment.

@kirbyculp3449 11 месяцев назад

Not too long ago Eva Braun's underwear was put up for auction. Otto Skorzeny's post-war passports were sold at auction. The weirdness is out there.

@notmenotme614 11 месяцев назад

It’s crazy how variations of the Sherman tank were still found in warzones in 2003

@brutter602 11 месяцев назад

Please note, the last Sherman in the video has VVSS suspension with standard barrow track and not HVSS as stated. VVSS means Vertical Volute Spring Suspension (standard narrow track which was used by most Shermans) HVSS means Horizontal Volute Spring Suspension (Late war wide track. Springs can be seen lying on their sides in each suspension bogie, hence the term Horizontal)

@thediddymen1408 11 месяцев назад

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the earlier Mk4's use the VVSS and the later 'Easy 8's use the HVSS !

@brutter602 11 месяцев назад

@@thediddymen1408 Spot on! Easy Eight was the nickname given to the late war M4A3E8 model of Sherman which had the HVSS suspension. In addition it had the Ford V8 engine and mounted a long barrel 76mm gun. I own a Chrysler Hybrid hulled M4 manufactured in late 1943 which has the earlier VVSS suspension.

@brendondickerson9563 11 месяцев назад

I scrolled just to make sure I wasn't the only one who noticed that.

@BA-gn3qb 11 месяцев назад

This difference is now causing me years of therapy. Now watch the VA deny my claim.

@peterrhodes5663 11 месяцев назад

Reading some of the comments below, it appears that some contributors missed your video:-The Pole vs. The Prince: TKS Tankette Action 1939. In the right hands those 'cockroaches' were very useful. I have a photo of my grandfather giving the salute at a parade of them somewhere in Poland, in the 1930's.

@hasnfyf 7 месяцев назад

Who called me cockroaches? 😡

@alnka1974 11 месяцев назад

As an Iraqi I say this: curse the day England left Iraq and curse the day we lost the King Faisal. Once again thank you Mark for this video, at 1:07 I've seen that tank during my deployment in 2006 with the US army, it is located at camp Taji AKA Camp CSM Cook.

@captaingenius-o1c 11 месяцев назад

From your perspective, why did England leave Iraq?

@yacinekcl 11 месяцев назад

do you like being under the European boot?

@yacinekcl 11 месяцев назад

the same Britain that supported the US invasion in 2003, you just have a slave mentality

@faithlesshound5621 11 месяцев назад

@@captaingenius-o1c As a group of provinces of the former Turkish Empire, Iraq was "mandated" to the UK by the League of Nations to prepare it for independence. It was not meant to be a British colony for ever. They followed the 19th century model of the Balkans by importing extraneous royals to hold down a mix of disparate communities by force.

@u2beuser714 11 месяцев назад

I as an iraqi what you said is like a pole saying "curse the ussr for leaving" dont be subservient have some balls ffs

@timothyodonnell8591 11 месяцев назад

Thank you, Mr. Felton, for teaching us about topics we didn't know we needed but having seen them think it's fascinating!

@_Alfa.Bravo_ 9 месяцев назад

Happy New Year Professor Felton !!! And thank you so much for your great effortsband films !!! Greetings from germany

@sid2112 11 месяцев назад

The next British WWII miniseries really should have you in a cameo role.

@AmosLasry 11 месяцев назад

It's amazing what kind of vehicles turn up during these wars! Thank you Dr. Felton for another wonderful video!

@echohunter4199 11 месяцев назад

I was in 2-6 INF, 1st AD where we deployed to Iraq in May 2003 and relieved 3rd ID. We found a lot of weird stuff when we got to the Al Rashid Iraqi Army base where we set up the task force. I found an old British QE-2 howitzer and put it at the entrance of our Bn TOC, wish we could’ve brought it back with us. At the Iraqi armor school, they had old WWII tanks and told the students that this is what we currently used so again, it was weird. The base was a former training center so there was manuals and training aids everywhere, some are in our Division museum now. The Iraqis still used the old British Bailey bridges for roads over canals so it was interesting to see those still in use.

@hertoramann 11 месяцев назад

Tell me whatever you see man. I always wonder it. What else you could find and see in battlefield

@lrayvick 11 месяцев назад

The US Army used Bailey bridges extensively in Viet Nam. We were a Bailey bridge company.

@echohunter4199 11 месяцев назад

@@lrayvick I didn’t know we used them that much. The day I drove across one was with a friend who took me with him in his M1 Abrams as we drove the FOB perimeter looking for IED’s and we crossed a Bailey that was doubled up to support the 64 ton tank, we had to crunch a small Iraqi van a bit because he wouldn’t move it but, he was warned.

@lrayvick 11 месяцев назад

@echohunter4199 near tonsenute there was even an eifel bridge.

@paulscheidler7438 11 месяцев назад

As a combat advisor at Taji, my Iraqi counterpart was always using parts of bailey bridge to decorate his parade field, build fences etc. It was crazy!

@BHuang92 11 месяцев назад

Forgot to mention one example of an ISU-152 found in Iraq in 2003. It was still operational during that time and was used as a SPG!

@kaing5074 11 месяцев назад

Incredible. How on earth did they manufacture specific shells for its gun i wonder...

@obsidianjane4413 11 месяцев назад

And ISU-152 would probably have been still in the active inventory.

@obsidianjane4413 11 месяцев назад

@@kaing5074 Iraq had its own domestic artillery production capacity, plus there is a healthy international arms market in addition to Russian and Chinese governments who don't really care much for Western sanctions.

@LuvBorderCollies 11 месяцев назад

@@kaing5074 Between WW1, WW2 and the Cold War in general there is so much ordnance stacked up around the world you wouldn't believe it. The Soviets were the world leaders in hoarding "old" stuff, in fact I think they invented hoarded. They were way too generous with shiploads of new "agricultural parts" shipped to everyone who would be their friend. Russia still has warehouses of captured Axis weaponry, including underground warehouses made from old mining shafts. The amount of new in the box USA hardware from Lend-Lease in WW2 is staggering.

@BlastinRope 11 месяцев назад

thanks again Mark, your sublevel knowledge of military history is unrivaled on youtube

@sheyrd7778 11 месяцев назад

Great Video Mark. About 10 years ago I saw a photo of about 36 M36's in prestine condition that was found during that war. Was hoping to see it again in your video.

@phonecallsarejustoverquali1556 11 месяцев назад

Well, it made me look up Desert Storm again just to see if my memory was all wrong. The propability of Mark Felton knowing something that I didn't was and is so much greater than that of me remembering something that I am actually old enough to have watched in the news.

@tottinger3839 11 месяцев назад

What? WHAT?! During my time at Speicher, I was asked to write the historical narratives on a few of the pieces at the static display that opened sometime in 2010, namely, the Tankette featured in the video (I have so many pix of the inside that thing). It was, possibly, the only time I've been allowed to use my History degree while in the Army--ha! It's unbelievably frustrating to think how easily Speicher fell to ISIS, that all of the little synopses I wrote were probably destroyed within hours of capitulation. Great work, Mark--you rock, as always!

@steveadams6010 11 месяцев назад

As always, this was a great and comprehensive view on the World War II tanks. Aside from this video this makes me think of what happened in Austria 100 years ago November 8th and 9th. It's a shame you did not have a 100-year review on the Beer Hall Putsch, you would have done a marvelous job on that. Thank you for excellent reviews and commentary over the years.

@biker_dan 11 месяцев назад

Another fantastic video.. thanks

@TheTacticalHillbilly 11 месяцев назад

I was with Bco 1-30INF 3ID during the invasion. We found a bunch of these. We also found a stockpile of old firearms from WW1. We also found Maxim machines guns still in the box.

@SnoopReddogg 11 месяцев назад

Those old dictators are notorious for not throwing out stuff.

@brysonkuervers2570 11 месяцев назад

@@SnoopReddoggwhy throw out perfectly good weapons? Might be old but they’re still gold!!! Haha!

@ThreeLittleBirds111 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the interesting information T.Hillbilly It's interesting to read comments from guys like yourself who were actually there and able to share some of your experiences...cheers...

@kamalmohammed3439 9 месяцев назад

where exactly I'm curious

@TheTacticalHillbilly 9 месяцев назад

@@kamalmohammed3439 It was at a school that we cleared we also found chemical weapons in there. It was just north of baghdad international airport.

@paulscheidler7438 11 месяцев назад

In 2008 and 2009 I served at Taji Base north of Baghdad. In the bone yards around the Iraqi and American bases I counted one Greyhound armored car, two DUKW's, Many captured Iranian centurions, an entire field of 25 pounder field guns and limbers with 1940's data plates, as well as dozens and dozens of damaged post World War II soviet era vehicles such as the BTR-50. I also had my hands on the two famous British First World War 17 pounders that were repurposed from being gate guards to help defend an airfield. A certain American Division had placed them in 20-foot containers and attempted to ship them back to the United States. They were at the captured weapons depot at Taji after they were confiscated. I contacted the Royal Artillery Museum to let them know the guns were there but rotated home before anything was resolved. I hope they were not just left behind.

@calumcookson740 11 месяцев назад

Excellent work, Sir

@bobhill3941 11 месяцев назад

Yes, this is amazing, I never knew about Saddam's tanks.

@terrywright9765 11 месяцев назад

Great job, as usual, Mark. Love your stuff.

@miguelbernal4640 11 месяцев назад

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was not called “Desert Storm”: that was the name of the 1991 invasion to liberate Kuwait. The 2003 operation was called “Enduring Freedom”.

@rickfink464 11 месяцев назад

Pretty sure it was Operation Iraqi Freedom.... Operation Enduring Freedom was Afghanistan

@blackhawk7r221 11 месяцев назад

OIF got the T-shirt

@lingerslongest 11 месяцев назад

06:04 Stripping it for scrap and getting the going rate for some old steel; one can only ponder how much a rich collector would have paid for it.

@sheyrd7778 11 месяцев назад

They probably got very little for pay and just enough money to buy a meal like Rei in Star Wars Episode 7 lol

@robertpontisso4953 11 месяцев назад

Another great video from Dr Mark Felton the best history professor on the internet.

@savagex466-qt1io 11 месяцев назад

Congrads on your 2 mill sub ! WoW !

@wheels-n-tires1846 11 месяцев назад

Just when you think all the WWII armor has been found...

@BricknoseF250resto 11 месяцев назад

I love your videos man

@tashuntka 11 месяцев назад

That intro music gets me intensely prepared for excellence ✨️ ✨️✨️✨️❤️

@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b 11 месяцев назад

Cool topic, thanks Mark! I served at Camp Victory Iraq in 2004 (Al Faw Palace, Sadam's personal estate near Baghdad) and they had Soviet era personnel carriers and quad anti aircraft static displays but I didn't see any WW2 stuff. Probably airlifted out by 2004 as war trophies? Would have been a cool picture!

@lukefriesenhahn8186 11 месяцев назад

I think a tank restoration group should obtain the 15cm sFH 13/1 (Sf) auf GW Lorraine Schlepper(f) as it is one of the rarest on the list.

@ajayKumarajayKumar-hr7sj 11 месяцев назад

It's not so easy dear. From what I read on Shadock's website, it's located in relatively unsafe area of Iraq.

@lukefriesenhahn8186 11 месяцев назад

@@ajayKumarajayKumar-hr7sj I know that Iraq is not safe, most of it isn't. I find it odd that you call me "dear" when I myself am a man. 😂 All jokes aside, I personally think a western military company could easily retrieve it as the U.S. has a military presence in Iraq. The U.S. military engineers have the right equipment, protection, and skill to easily retrieve this tank. From there the SPG could be flown out to Europe, the U.S. or Australia as all three have world renown tank restoration crews. I would like to point out that the Australian Armor and Artillery Museum has a good group of restorers, and they even have their own RU-vid channel.

@ajayKumarajayKumar-hr7sj 11 месяцев назад

@@lukefriesenhahn8186 Indeed, sir. Actually my calling you dear wasn't related to gender. In India, it is very often used to refer to someone who is very well known to you (regardless of gender). But yes, at times, it just used without this context as well. Just a way of saying, nothing much.

@lukefriesenhahn8186 11 месяцев назад

@@ajayKumarajayKumar-hr7sj Ok, thank you for the clarification. 👍

@alastairbarkley6572 11 месяцев назад

People, aka Yanks, just don't get the Churchill tank. It was never intended as a main battle tank, it was never intended to be comparable with the M4 Sherman, the PzIV, the Cromwell etc. An 'I' or Infantry tank has a special role - trading speed for armour, it's designed to directly support Infantry in attacks against concealed positions such as dug-in machine gun, mortar and artillery positions and including anti-tank guns. An 'I' tank doesn't need a lot of speed because the infantry doesn't move very fast. It doesn't need a heavy gun for engaging main battle tanks. 15mph is plenty fast enough. The Churchill design came into being pre-War when British planners, reasonably, believed that France could hold her own and that WWII would be a rerun of WWI - trench warfare across 900 miles of Europe from Switzerland to the North Sea. As such, the Churchill would have been a very useful tank. Blitzkrieg and the unexpected collapse of the French military in 1940 had Britain scrambling to rethink armoured doctrine. Churchills came into their own in the Reichswald forest fighting in late 1944, the only tanks that could effectively go off-road (well, off muddy track) and penetrate through trees and forest foliage. You will find photos of late model Churchill tanks supporting/transporting American infantry (principally 82nd and 101st Airborne Divs) as part of this rather grim (and sparsely written about) phase of the Rhine Campaign.

@davidkretz8323 11 месяцев назад

In the spring of 2004 I explored the remains of an Iraqi armored near Musayib. I remember seeing a Churchill and several Patton and Chieftans along with all the Soviet types.

@NikhilUpadhyay-z1h 11 месяцев назад

my first time watching mark felton. U have just earned a new subscription

@jimc.goodfellas 11 месяцев назад

I don't know how he does it but he is always cranking out interesting content

@jasonmussett2129 11 месяцев назад

Amazing video👍

@dapre 11 месяцев назад

1:43 I bet the Americans lost quite a lot M1 Abrams tank to those powerful Italian CV33 Tankette. Scary stuff...

@SunKing968 11 месяцев назад

BRAVO, you did it Mark! You finally covered the gorgeous Crusader a bit! Thanks!!! I've been waiting : )

@irishwind1971 11 месяцев назад

In 2006 I found an M24 Chaffee as a gate guard in Taji. It was a surprise considering I grew up in the city where the tank was built.

@paulscheidler7438 11 месяцев назад

It was gone by the time I was there in 2008 and 2009. Hopefully it was brought back to the US.

@kirbyculp3449 11 месяцев назад

Maybe one your relatives helped to build it!?

@jjr7773 11 месяцев назад

Excellent and well done video, however Mr Felton, Desert Storm took place in 1991, Operation Iraqi Freedom took place in 2003. Love your videos Sir.

@jjr7773 11 месяцев назад

Apologies, I didn’t read the previous comments.

@andysvehiclehistorychannel 11 месяцев назад

An amazing video i hope that the Vickers and Tankett were shipped to museums it's sad about the German one but still an amazing history well done Mark.

@scottbush4952 11 месяцев назад

Mark. Thank you. Your videos are fantastic.

@PaperThinArmor 11 месяцев назад

So sad to see that the rare German SPG got entirely stripped. Hopefully most of those British and Italian tanks got rescued though or at the very least they sit as monuments undisturbed

@-.Steven 11 месяцев назад

Always a great day when a Mark Felton video is released!

@tigertanktoo 11 месяцев назад

I worked at Camp Taji for awhile and have pictures of me with that little Vickers Mk VI tank at the 3:15 mark. I also found a British 25 pound artillery piece, an M8 Grayhound, an M4 sherman and a german 105 howitzer while looking around the camp.

@Wideoval73 11 месяцев назад

Another really good video! I had no idea that these old vehicles existed. Thanks

@wojo44frompl 11 месяцев назад

One M36 (model with Sherman hull) has been sent to Poland. It has been (after some exterior cosmetics) placed in town Żagań on so called "Tankers Square" in front of military base. Unfortunately someone decided to put markings of Polish 1st Armored Division, probably as ersatz for real M4.

@Martin2024hiithere 11 месяцев назад

Hi mark i was wondering if u have or would do a video on William joyce lord haw haw thanks again for ur brilliant videos

@MarkFeltonProductions 11 месяцев назад

Yes I have

@AtheistOrphan 11 месяцев назад

I love the little Italian tankettes, they look so cute!

@ausnorman8050 11 месяцев назад

2M Subs ! Well done Mark.

@FIBagent 11 месяцев назад

Wow! Quite interesting that second world war tanks found themselves in 2003 Iraq!

@FIBagent 11 месяцев назад

@@Elatenl That's true, because quite a lot of them are cheap or reliable (such as the T-34). Its the same with weapons like the Kalashnikov line or the Mosoin Nagant.

@bigblue6917 11 месяцев назад

Adds to the German tanks used in Syria against Israel.

@FIBagent 11 месяцев назад

@@bigblue6917unless I'm wrong, I don't believe the Syrian Arab Republic has directly attacked Israel.

@yacinekcl 11 месяцев назад

@@FIBagentbut israel attacked Syria.

@FIBagent 11 месяцев назад

@@yacinekcl Yes, but not a land invasion. They did theoretically launch rockets and guided missiles at Syrian territories, so they did technically attack them.

@rich_john 11 месяцев назад

Great video

@Swagmaster07 11 месяцев назад

The Vickers Mark 6 did not weigh 16 tons, you may have confused it with a Mark 3, it just sounds absurd that a Machine gun light tank would weight 16 tons, especially of that size.

@johnelliott7375 11 месяцев назад

As always top notch work, thank you as always for great work

@amilcarbarca5545 11 месяцев назад

Muy buenos videos. Saludos de Uruguay.

@ThreeLittleBirds111 11 месяцев назад

I see a new Mark Felton video I get excited and watch it right away, They are always super interesting and never disappointing. A huge Thank You to all the people at Mark Felton Productions, You make awesome Videos.

@randomcoyote8807 11 месяцев назад

At Taji/Camp Cooke, I found a small arms warehouse the Iraqis left that had Lewis guns. It looked like there were more old machineguns that had been in various state of repair when the people abandoned the facility. I even managed to... 'secure', let's say, a pair of old magazines from a WW1 French 'Chauchat" machinegun.

@sealove79able 11 месяцев назад

a great ver interesting video as always Mr.Felton.Have a good one.

@1940shistorian 11 месяцев назад

In late 2006 or early 2007, I was at Diwaniyah at Camp Scania, and we saw two Sherman tanks in Iraqi colors on transport being taken up towards Baghdad on MSR Tampa. They weren't in bad shape.

@nassermj7671 11 месяцев назад

Another rare gem. Keeps connectivity geographically

@Nodwick123 11 месяцев назад

Whit regards to the Lorraine Schlepper when I was there whit the Danish army(Dancon hold 4+5) I think around in Feb-mar 2005 it still had its armor on and there was a lot of talk about moving it to Denmark but shortly after its armor was gone and I was told one of the other company spend 2 weeks recovering it from the locals.

@UHHHHHHChannelName 11 месяцев назад

Great Video As always.

@PurpleCat9794 11 месяцев назад

The Iraqi Eagle looks very much like German counterpart.

@asintonic 11 месяцев назад

Yahwol

@mtkoslowski 11 месяцев назад

Right. Many, many countries chose the awesome and majestic eagle for their national symbol.

@leddielive 11 месяцев назад

Funny you should say that because Saddams rise to power was very similar to that of Adolf Hitler, I've often wondered if Hussain had studied Hitler & copied in order to gain power?

@FIBagent 11 месяцев назад

There was a German presence in Iraq. There even was a Luftwaffe Squadron called Fliegerfuhrer Irak.

@someguy4512 11 месяцев назад

@@leddielive what 0 history knowledge does to mf

@brealistic3542 11 месяцев назад

always great videos thanks Mark

@rivvabear9748 11 месяцев назад

"Damnit, I got uptiered again."

@anasevi9456 11 месяцев назад

love a video on obscure war curios, thanks Mark.

@HM2SGT 11 месяцев назад

*The CV 33 & 35 were also great at keeping out rain!*

@guyh.4553 11 месяцев назад

Very neat presentation Mark. Very informative.

@kimwit1307 11 месяцев назад

I'm no tank-expert, but I honestly thought the tank shown at 1:00 and 7:08 was a Sherman with the cupola of a Panther-tank mounted on it...

@fishingthelist4017 11 месяцев назад

A tank destroyer turret?

@kimwit1307 11 месяцев назад

@surakapopendeka No, it's not a firefly. That still has the sherman turret, just with the bigger gun attached to it.

@Ich-will-doch-nur-einen-Namen 11 месяцев назад

7:19 Why is there the barrel of an G36. Maybe you will make a video about it

@jerometanguay8375 11 месяцев назад

Great video Dr. Felton. Much appreciated . Very intriguing yet not surprising entirely

@empirednw6624 11 месяцев назад

You things are bad when you have to break out the museum pieces.

@brennanleadbetter9708 11 месяцев назад

Love your videos, keep it up!

@yodawg3469 11 месяцев назад

I took pics of several ww2 era vehicles at an abandoned iraqi airbase in april/may of '03,there was also a good sized bomb crater as well.

@leroycharles9751 11 месяцев назад

Another great video. Thank you.

@coreydarr8464 11 месяцев назад

I was in Iraq in 2003-2004 saw many older tanks and other weapons!

@johncole2469 11 месяцев назад

I was a field artillery battery commander in the 3ID during OIF-1. There was a ton of WW2 equipment. I took pictures: STG-44, MP-38, C-96 Mauser pistol, Kar98K rifles, C-93 Borchardt pistols (two with consecutive serial numbers), M38 Beretta SMGs, P-08 Luger, Artillery Luger, M1928 Thompson SMG, M1A1 Thompson, British-proofed Colt M1911A1 pistol, FN Browning High Powers, British SMLEs of all types. Sadly, I could not bring anything home.

@Exerillo 11 месяцев назад

"Brad, is that a Sherman in front of us?"

@Tanquista120 11 месяцев назад

7:26 is that a Spanish army G36E? need some background on that photo! Awesome video.

@bigblue6917 11 месяцев назад

Thanks, Mark. I'm pleased some of these old warhorses are going back home I wonder if there will be a future episode with T-34s and BT-7s are found in Crimea when the Russian finally leave.

@AtheistOrphan 11 месяцев назад

Going? I think they’ve arrived by now, this was 20 years ago!

@hippiesaboteur2556 11 месяцев назад

Not sure where you're acquiring your information on the subject, but they probably won't ever be leaving again. Just fyi

@akriegguardsman 11 месяцев назад

T-34 and BTs won't be used because ammo production for the 85mm and 45mm have ceased, T-55 are still in use because there's ammo for it and T-62 have NK ammo

@plingket 11 месяцев назад

I love the nice portrait with intense music intro

@WilliamCooper-l6f 11 месяцев назад

Almost every vehicle you mentioned, I never once heard of. This was a real eye opener.

@5hr00mtea 11 месяцев назад

So these must be the 'Weapons of mass destruction' that Tony Bliar was on about.

@faithlesshound5621 11 месяцев назад

At the same time, the aliens on "Doctor Who" were threatening to destroy London with "Massive Weapons of Destruction." London was not destroyed. We all got the joke.