The Battle of Leuven - 1940 

My father was a young boy at the time and living in Tildonk just beside Leuven. Thank you for adding the names of the regiments and their tactics to his stories. Can not wait to here and see your work on the liberation of Leuven. Remarkeble, thanks again!

Very interesting and nobody speaks about these battles. Good job sir!

Fascinating research, I enjoy how you break it down to the actual military units that were present..... Thank you for sharing

Another excellent accounting of the 1940 campaign! Leuven was one of the battles the BEF & Belgian army won until they were sadly outflanked. I learned something new today, so thank you again young man!

Excellent presentation again Ace. I knew a little about this previously, but I know a lot more now, thanks to you. Also, many thanks for the work you do in finding lost soldiers. It is truly humbling. Thank you.

Excellent. I lived there and didn’t know it had been the site of a major battle. You can’t tell by looking at the buildings.

You deserve many more likes for all your hard work. It has encouraged me to read and research and increase my own knowledge. Respects and regards from the UK.

Outstanding as always! Cheer

Your battle maps get better every episode!

Thanks for another excellent video on a battle about which I knew nothing! Your presentation and choice of subject are fantastic. 👍

Beeindruckendes Video. Gut gemacht.

Another well done video...I love learning about battles that I dont know about. Thanks so much....hope all is well... God Bless

Interesting video, thank you Ace!

I was in Leuven last year on a study trip. Was very interesting to listed about the little-known battle surrounding this city. Great video!

Thank you for covering this action in 1940.

Keep them coming bro.

Excellent job well done

excellent!

8:51 Very nice Ace Desroyer of the use of the Shell logo to coincide with the narration. Noticed and appreciated!

5:09 Wow! A 1939 Tatra! That's a super rare car whose handling characteristics killed many Nazis who commandeered them. They where eventually ordered not to touch them.

ANOTHER BRILLIANT VID. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Love it!

I've worked in Leuven for a couple of years and this descriptive video was really interesting with many fine details. Now, I wonder how and when Leuven was recovered back to the ally forces.

Right up there with Indy and Dr. Mark

Looks like AD hadn't read the comments yet, so I'm gonna start ranting 😂 First off AD, I finished watching most of your videos and I loved them. I love tank battles in particular so a lot of your videos are among my favourites. Your voice is also very pleasant to the ear and relaxing, and I was surprised to find out that you're not a native English speaker. I'm not either, so I usually have some trouble understanding other non native English speakers.. but your English is pretty much perfect imo. And I have a request, let's say.. to be honest, this was another subscriber's request and I'm repeating it in case you read this comment.. can you make a video about the third and fourth battles in/around Kharkov, in 1943? Apparently, there's a lot of footage from both sides. Aww too late, he already hearted most comments 😕 maybe next video

My father was a soldier in the 2nd battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles and fought in the battle of Leuven. He was severely wounded and never really spoke about his experience in his war service.Sixty years later his grandson ( my son ) graduated from the Katholic University of Leuven. I had no idea my father was there during the war as I only researched his war records a couple of years ago. I visited my son a few times and wished I had known their history.

10:06, the german forces on the Martelarenplein, ironically in front of the memorial in remembrance of the casualties during the first world war. Mooi kanaal trouwens Michiel! Ontdenk het nu pas.

Watching this in Leuven and thinking of the stuff that happened near my home and the places where I go get my coffees, or my ice creams. :p

A good one!

Bedankt voor deze unieke, ongeevenaarde Belgische inhoud! Merci bien.

Finely a battle that I know and wher iv been to, thank you so much for de interesting video

Excellent, as always. But, might it be possible to translate military unit names into English?

My father’s regiment the 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles got a commendation from King George V1 for their valiant efforts on halting the Germans. But we’re forced to retreat due to taking a lot of casualties and being outflanked.

G'day, Yay Team ! Some of those Cathedrals were so overdecorated they seem almost gaudy...! The version of the story we got hereabouts was that Belgium was so careful to avoid "provoking" Germany into invading that they effectively made it impossible for France & Britain to do anything to help when the inevitable Attack finallt came - because the BEF had to wait in France and wait till Germany picked their moment - and then "Run towards the sound of Gunfire", madly trying to race the Germans to meet up and fight each other wherever they met each other in the middle of Belgium. So, it was a "Defence" which was foredoomed to be as ineffective as it was possible to imagine - short of running up a Bedsheet & scattering Rose-Petals for the Panzers to roll over (!). So, the British Empire's Media has tended to kind of gloss over Belgium & concentrate on how wicked was the bombing of Rotterdam and how Dunkirk was a miraculous "Victory" if one but squinted at it for long enough (rather like the way in which Oz dreams on endlessly about our great Glorious and VICTORIOUS 1915 invasion of Turkey - whereinat the Very CLEVEREST part was when we ran away in the middle of the night.., after only 9 months of gloriously running up a Cliff face into massed Rifle & Machinegun fire, Grenades & Mortars, while capturing about 5.7 square centimetres of Turkey for every one of the 15,000 Casualties incurred...!). So it's good to see a bit of detail as to what actually went on...; thankyou for posting this. Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

Loving the vids man you ever thought of writing a book

My phone alerts woke me up a while ago telling me there was a new AceDestroyer video waiting for me. Sleep won over, sorry bud! Let me tell you though, it was a tough decision! 😜

Very well done! I really enjoyed it a lot. If you ever consider doing something around the Bridgehead Ghent, let me know ;-) I can give you a copy of a very good book called "Mei 1940 - Ten zuiden van Gent" Its based on the Belgian and German military reports and start more or less where this mini docu ends. Keep up the good work man!!!

Ik hou van Leven voor altijd

ACE DESTROYER Video alert! Stop the brekkie--grab the coffee!

Je kan de kogelgaten nog zien aan de keizersberg en in zowat elk historisch gebouw.

"Your request has been denied, because we are very busy eating our delicious chocolate"

7:50: getting fire from above

9:50. It is good to see the German troops tidying up after themselves.

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Are you from belgium my friend, well i am and you made me question that you say jager perfect in Belgium accent tbh

Very interesting content and I am pretty sure the content at 7:47 is taken in my home town Herent at this spot: goo.gl/maps/pWGRpnzbxBsuZHGT7 Thanks for the ongoing stream of quality content!

I miss playing WorldWarIIonline remembering all the names of citys on the map. Was a MMO with all forces in cluded air, land and naval. Was way ahead of its time. Back in 2000

Blitzkrieg. No answer to it, dads British army mate told dad they were armed with Bren gun carriers against Panzers.

but who burned the library?

Excellent pronunciation of Dutch (Belgian) names! 'Roeselberg' is pronounced 'Rooselbarg' (minor nitpick)

Ok.

Fight ,fight with bombs, guns , rifles, artillery, navy, air , army

Explain: Why are the Belgians not defend their country? They are retreating in the face of the enemy?

The enemy was the same but the flag different eagle to swastika.

Is it me, or does he sound like he's doing a poor George harrison impression?

Well done germany stellar effort. 6 weeks campaign beat 3 armies!

"Ill co-ordination". Sounds like the United Nations!

interesting to see black soldiers

In this terrible war, the Brits didnt win any big battle, except North Africa and aerial bombing. Now, they left the EU, they are real winner!