Technically the true kill ratios were at least double what you are stating because at least 50% of all Tiger I losses were due to mechanical issues and abandonment while mired in swampy terrain, not to actual destruction by the enemy. Also the Panzer IIIMs were used for anti-tank gun and anti-infantry protection for the Tigers. Thank you for this great video.
A great set of videos that explain the German defeat. Thank you. First of all, a tank needs a main gun round that will penetrate the enemy at a long distance. Second they need a good optical system that will determine the range correctly and allow the gunner to make a good shot. Most of all the round has to be accurate. You want that first or second round to end the fight.
were these the tanks Manstein used in his 43-44 winter counter offensives?/? AND WHEN will you do a video on his greatest defensive battles? (43-44 winter)
There were no winter 43/44 German counter-offensive . Manstein was defeated and replaced that winter, never to have command again. You probably think of 42/43 Kharkov battles (not many Tigers at that time, no Panthers at all) .
@@aleksazunjic9672 if hitler were not greedy n kept listen to their general . they may sustained their prowess for a bit long-term . not making such a silly decision mistake by his own thought .
There were no "43-44 winter counter offensives" by Manstein, that was a year before. In the winter of 1943-44, Manstein's battered force (Army Group South) was engaged in the battle of survival, trying to prevent a heavy defeat from turning into outright catastrophe. By April 1944, Manstein was dismissed by Hitler.
It's insane to think those panzer aces scored over a 100 enemy kills. The technological and training cap was seviere. What would be the highest amount of enemy tanks destroyed is US Irag war? Abrams vs T-72. I doubt not mutch more than 10.
Because they did not 😁 Germans tended to .. exaggerate ... things a little . And gullible Western public believed them, because there was no data from Soviet side (losses, numerical status of units) .
At 3:30 we are told "they arrived in the area (Leningrad) with more armour, until two companies could be formed, the 2nd company being sent urgently to Rostov." That is not true. The second company was sent directly from Germany to Rostov. It was not formed out of Tigers delivered to Leningrad.
At 1:26 we are told the first battalions should have "about 25" Tigers. That's wrong. Their structure was spelt out in documents : it was 20 Tigers. The 501 and 503 were set up with exactly those numbers.
Never enough of the brutes to make a difference in the outcome. Where the Tigers brought about many tactical victories, their small numbers made no strategic gains to any front. No matter how many tanks the Tigers took out, there was always one more allied tank to take out the Tiger. Germany could never win the logistics war against the world especially against the United States.
Decent try i give you that...but you made some mistakes.. when you talked about Kurt the picture shown was Richard von Rosen who's battalion got wiped out near normandy by allied carpet bombing Whiteout fire a single shot.he served 502and503..these two knocked out thousands of russian tanks Way more you said...and some other mistakes but yeah good try..
The Kursk operation didn't so much as "fail" as it was called off by Hitler. Manstein believed that the Germans, whose casualties and material losses were not substantial, could have carried the day. But even if they had closed the bulge defeating the Russians it would have in all likelihood only gained them a couple months breathing room. Kursk was one of the very few times where Hitler had a better grip on the reality of the situation than did his generals. Cheers!
Comparing kill and loss ratios is tough when the terrain types etc the battalions fought on, from what you say, were probably different since they fought in completely different sectors of the German front line. We also dont know what types of Russian tanks they were engaged with and how well they were led.
They were not that great . The Germans were not able to make very many, the tank sunk to the turrets in the mud and the transmissions failed at 200 km of service.
It wouldn't have changed the outcome of the war. It would have only prolonged it. The Allies in general and the Americans in particular could produce weapons in numbers which Germany could not possibly hope to have matched.
@gregorymilla9213 2/3 of German expenditure and resources went on their air and sea forces and these were largely destroyed in the west. If the British were not in the war then the European Axis would have grown larger, more powerful and with more resources and would have controlled everywhere from the Azores to Iran. Britain, and later the USA in the war was crucial.
What is the name of th music in the beginning of the video and keep it in every video you do about ww2 because its very good to start a video about ww2 with that music in the beginning
There is a magical moment at 5:25. The Tiger on the screen is one of the Tigers that the narrator is talking about. There is another such moment at 10:05. For the rest of the video, the Tiger images are generic, nothing to do with the narrative. Even at 6:50, when the narration is about a specific Tiger - the first one captured - some other random Tiger is displayed on the screen. But are any photos of the captured Tiger available? Only about thirty of them. I really don't like this attitude of "use any old photo, they will never know the difference". At 11:00 the man in the photo is not Kurt Knispel.