The Cologne Tank Duel 

German "must be the new panzerkampfwagen model"

XD

They thought it was German cuz it was a secret weapon and it looked like a disguised German tank But it wasn’t xD Edit: also small wheels lol

I guess kraut seen Sherman and Stuart too much

The Pershing's numbers were on the front and rear facing exactly 90-degrees away from the Panther's field of viewr. The Pershing's army stars were turned exactly 90 degrees away from the Panther's field of view. The Pershing was also a rare sight on the battlefield and most German tank commanders likely thought they were another German tank model.

I like how the panther crew didn't notice that their tank have big wheels and murican Pershing has small wheels

@@yuno1707 Yeah i bet you will definitely notice the wheels on a tank that doesn't have a good sophisticated view port in a battlefield that is in rubble, burning and lot of smoke (watch the real footage of it) and being in a heat of battle where you are expected die in any second.

Hahaha!

Ludwig don't shoot, it's one of ours *BOOM*

Don't worry Hanz it'z too advanced for a simple american tank, maybe itz one of those new Kuningstüiger-

Oooooo self motivation! Those ones are motivational

I mean can you blame them with all the crazy proposed tanks and infinite adjustments they made too their existing models lol

They didnt need to. Germans already had the best tanks

@@baseformrolf6710 american: *start build sherman* german 1939: the american got a new tank (sherman) 1940, german: a sherman... whit new armor 1941: a sherman whit a longer gun, 1942: a sherman, 1943: a sherman, god damn our tanks are too much good for them. 1944: oh there a new tank, its not a sherman and it look powerfull so it most be ours, but maybe berlin didn't got time to told us.

@@atomalfa7883 I mean honestly given hitlers obsession with big ass tanks I wouldnt be suprised if he firmly believed the only way forward for the m4 was the m4 ll with extra armor and a bigger gun

Tank gunner: OMFG you imbecil!

@@MadSkull "You've doomed us all!"

@@casematecardinal "apologies"

@@professorklampenborg you got it my friend!

@@casematecardinal only the cultured shall stand tall

Lmao, 'disappointing' "Awwww, man... I thought it was friendly"

I’m not sure how they could’ve known anything the German crew said.

*me testing friendly fire*

That's very embarrassing

Yea I game them talking with the spirits like “man why did you not tell us to shoot?!” “I thought it was a Allie!” “But it isn’t” “shut up over there let’s watch this war like a movie now”

lmao

@@skoda4564 xd

WEE WOO WEE WOO

the reporter ran towards them: WEE WOOO WEE WOOO

LOL

1000th like

Him: *Gottverdammt*

Directed by Michael bay

Luckyly he survived

MAYBE NOT

Yeah they ate too much panzerchokolade

Yooooo!!! Good catch!

lol

Yes

Looool

Bruh

LMAO THAT FLIP IN THE BACKGROUND

Glad someone else saw that too

Lmao I didn’t even see that ahahah

lmao made the sane comment as u but only got 1 like i done it 20 mins before u lmao

That's exactly what I was coming down to comment about hahaha

Read the book spearhead by Adam makos

Same! I was in the Halftrack if you remember seeing that!

I was in the panther

Parkour!

When pervitin hits hard

@@dave_sic1365 Pervitin? *Aimo Koivunen intensifies*

@@AlreadyTakenTag crystal meth pills which were widely used in Germany. Like coffeein is today. It was common to send soldiers a box of pervitin pills (crystal meth)

@@dave_sic1365 yeah i know

@@dave_sic1365 my comment was supposed to be a joke about that one finnish guy who took a shitton of pervitin pills during the war

Yea, probably because they are prepared for this a lot. The thing is, if you disguise your war vehicle better than the enemy, you will mostly win

He could have thought that it was a new design of their tank , or in a panic he couldn't notice

Wait really? If so I find ww2 tankers' ability to identify enemy tanks, or enemy units in general, hilariously terrible.

@@adamtruong1759 for example, American tank crews reporting that they were fighting a tiger tank, but was actually fighting panzer IV's or something like that.

I Think the commander was slightly confused. During combat your focus is going to be shaken, so he probably saw the box-like shape of the Mantlet, and assumed it was a Tiger 1 or other heavy

He was tryna give that milf some sweets XD

imagine being charged for lack of candy🤦🏽‍♂️ in the middle of a war of all places

What is really sad is Allied Pilots were known to drop candy to waiting children. That was during the Berlin Airlift after the war. But who is the enemy?

Military leadership being idiots, happens everywhere and pretty much runs rampant all across time

Oh yes. Hahahaha what a great post. You get a youtube star. Hahaha

🤣🤣🤣

@@robertcrawshaw9978 nope, was it a real event?

little detail of yarnhub vid.

Some animator wanted to flex

bored CGI programmer put an Easter Egg in I see :)

Indeed bro

You copy from Kiel Playz :(

@@Boypogikami132 I copied only the quote

Lol WHAT

hei

Hello. Can I ask you how you first heard of Clarence? I happen to know him and I’m just curious how people know of him.

@@rabes87 hey nate I'm an history teacher here in France and I was researching informations about Adam Marko's book "spearhead". Then I heard about his name :)

@@Nicolas-qr3zd wonderful. Thanks so much.

To be fair, if I only lived in a place where only mosquitos and bees exist, I'd probably mistake dragonflies for giant mosquitos and bees for colored flies.....

I bet the German also have yet to see the American m103 heavy tank and t95 tank destroyer as well had those tiger crews see those they would withdraw instantly.

Or some British tanks

@@g0nnagety0u52 And out of those 2 one never saw combat and the other is a 2 unit prototype. Too much world of tanks? Also, the role of the T28 super heavy tank was to combat german defenses aka. buker buster, not as a tank destroyer

​@@g1g3l You got a point there with the T28 but let's be honest if you managed to get that 105 to look at a German, they'll be shitting their pants.

German flip

XD

*why is that so funny*

I wondering if someone else saw that or I was going crazy.

i didn't notice that lmao

Noice

Underrated

Stupid the chance there was another german tank was slim to none.

I'm dead 😂

criminally underrated

That just rhymes so well at the end

@@theodamirchi8672 lol i didnt see that

Germans painted Panthers green with white stars and welded on sheet metal to the turrets to make them look like M18 tank destroyers. Panther Commander may have assumed that It was one of them

@@sjannlanda1498 ik but idk if the germans would have still had them since the war was ending

@@sjannlanda1498 not like m18. m10 or m36

I salute to you while being your first reply when you got a heart and reply by every single history youtuber you’ve commented on.

Ikr

Tanks and anime? Just what I like too

I honestly am not surprised you are here anymore, it’s just common nowadays.

Same

The Author of the book Adam Makos is a friend of the channel and we did this with his help

LOL Tf2 meme

I am je spy

Mentalgen

Did any of you happen to blow up an American tank on the way here?

@@fall3166 No? Then we still have a problem.

uhh because they do? xD

ye they german so absolutely yes

technically, the germans did and still do

I guess they still believed the US army was going to be defeated some day

War thunder tank RB battles in a nutshell

Happened to me but I was a tiger and the panther was a is 1

​@@Jeremy_aviation_real happened to me on my Avenger, then an FV4202 has it's barrel directly hitted my engine.

Das ist eine Lüge

Lüge ist ein hartes Wort. Nennen wir es Übertreibung. Zumindest kennt jeder Kölner mit etwas Sinn für Geschichte (und Allgemeinbildung) diese Story.

@@noopgamerify Keine Lüge, es gibt Fotos...

Really nice. Stories of the heroic invaders defeating your people being told to you. I guess they are really enjoying the fruits of their victory as Euroopan peoples are being replaced in their homelands. American people facing the same issues.

@@raunoheiskanen7742 I feel bad for all the old people who realized what really happened after they had already slaughtered their “enemy” and bombed their families

I'm waiting

A fact is told by you.

True! I've watched it several times now. Still amazes me

Just do some research and you will find this video he is talking about. There are lots of versions of it.

Now with the power of 2020 tech I want that duel colorized

It’s refreshing to hear a Russian say this. More often Russians say the Western Allies waited too long, and didn’t contribute much. And did it for selfish reasons, etc. The West contributed what they could. Yes I know the Soviets made the largest sacrifice by far, but the West contributed and earned a mention. Приятно слышать это от россиянина. Россияне чаще говорят, что западные союзники слишком долго ждали и не внесли большого вклада. И сделали это из корыстных соображений и т. д. Запад внес, что мог. Да, я знаю, что Советский Союз принес самую большую жертву, но Запад внес свой вклад и заслуживает упоминания.

Should've had reporters say "What last stand? The last stand of your intelligence?"

@@ZackarySchejbalCODBO2RGM2What? That just seems like a needless insult.

@@motleyzadot6867 You just responded to a 9 month old comment homie

@@ZackarySchejbalCODBO2RGM2 RU-vid is timeless. Myself and others will respond to 15 year old comments (or more), and the discussion continues like it was yesterday.

Scars from a war long since over

Hey thank you for that neat fact

@@gofortnightshipley4464 No Problem

The Reichstag is also still damaged, a lot of buildings wear the scars of old battles with a new coat of paint.

@@TraustiGeir yea true

XDDDDD

Quantity over quality

@@seantaggart7382 cccp

@@tsiagian6610 "Use gun, if that don't work use more gun" -The engineer

Soviet Russia: We have 55 and another batch in the making

Amogtank

Suszer (sus panzer)

True

True

True

The fact that YarbHub loved the comment 😂😂

The tank models feels like it's from warthunder

Hans made a dramatic escape xD hahaha

Hans knows what he's doing lul That man is a legend

lol

Hans has gotten the exaggerated swagger

I was going to point that out to lol

Panther gunner and loders may be on meth 3 sheels in 45 sec

Oh my goodness yes. Fury is garbage lol.

@Jouie Ginez world of tanks vs warthunder in a nut shell panther WOT pershing warthunder

@@corvuscorax8459 if fury based actuall tiger vs sherman the whole platoon will be fucked up and ended the movie,i still respect fury though they brought us the ugly side of war and real tiger tank

Fury was a stupid cartoon of a movie and i'm ashamed to have seen it

@@gradychristian6414 fury was okay it just that bothered when they showed dozens of panzerfaust rocket launchers and not asingle one was uesd in the final battle

What a German

German parkour

Yeah, judging from what happened here, that Sun Tzu guy def was onto something 😏

Oh yes

Nesprávné

The song is titled "Curb your Enthusiasm"

Lol Curb your tank engagements

Bomber crew intensifies

@@mrchicken3078 if you look it up he got his parachute on fire and crawled with third degree burns for almost a mile to a village also they thought he died and unhooked him from the plane

@@sabertoothgaming7973 this would be sick video not gonna lie

Wasn't it a wellington tho?

@@emilbt7588 no it's a Lancaster

Nah but they can't see the friendly or enemy tanks through the walls can they g

Thought the same thing

Me too I was dissapointed they went fighting of a bottle of dracar noir

I would have sent in an entire armored unit for a bottle of Ralph Lauren Polo.

Lmao, Same 😂😂😂 And, When It said duel... I literally expected a few shots to be traded.... Some Bounces and close calls.. stuff like that

I thought they fired cans of cologne XD

🤣🤣🤣🤣

German: Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !

Right....

Panther: 'that tank is sus" Pershing: "i am not the imposter!'

Действительно, товарищ, американцы все-таки не такие тупые.

You are still alive, how

Well he didint say its a tiger he thought it was one of a german tank. And in this stressful situation and the unexperience of the Leutnant helped the American.

Hab Ich vorher noch nie von gehört...und Ich bin aus Köln...

Honestly I give him props for modeling it at all. do you know how long it takes to model that city even with the assets already done would take at least a week and if not months.

Thats a BIG mouthfull of text

Same

Jeder? Frag ma einen Kölnerkanacken ob er es kennt

Spearhead was so good. I literally finished it within 24 hours, I was so glued to it.

Same! It’s one of my favorite books!

I read it too. Great book!

Yes

I really liked it too but it would also be cool if Yarnhub also mentioned the Eagle 7s cologne encounter with the panzer 4( but hey it’s still good)

"It's ya boy!"

Panther: *Confused screaming*

*sherman jumbo*

Sherman just need to flank the Panther, while Pershing is a disappointing little shit

Nashorn joins the chat Pershing: *confused screaming*

Hello. Can I ask you how you first heard of Clarence? I happen to know him and I’m just curious how people know of him.

@@rabes87 I think my first exposure as with many was that awesome footage captured by the army photographer, showing the Panther taking shots and burning up. After that, I'd looked more into it, then found out about Adam Makos' book, "Spearhead" which covers the event from Clarence's perspective, as well as Gustav Schaefer's, who was in the Panther. Really worth a read.

@@Nickowar Thanks so much. I did read the book, it inspiring. Thanks again for your time.

F**K that s**t I'm out!

there is one tank that prevented the germans and japanese from invading. one tank so vile that they dont include it in games, just so the enemy have a chance. Bob Semple tank!

stolen

Classic German humour. Just shoot at the allies for fun xD

Eagle 7 didn't have stars on the hull, and the gun was aimed at the Panther, so Bartelborth probably couldn't see the stars on the sides of the turret. This was also 1945, there was no standard paint color for German tanks anymore, there were still tanks with Desert or Eastern Front camo that were redistributed to western divisions (in the book, the other German crew it follows got a "new" Pz.IV still in Italian Campaign camo). No one had seen the T26 before, he saw that long gun and muzzle brake and probably thought it was a Tiger at first.

imagine stealing a comment

Think all it took was a couple second hesitation and bang…they got the first shot.

Wtf does this comment even mean

@@Patadude100 he is commenting about graphic

The soldiers look like they’re from 2005

@@T34theAmericanheavy Crysis was released in 2007

@@kharkovluzhin8333 he is commenting about graphic

chances are his grandchildren will see it first, then show it to Mr Smoyer

@@nitsu2947 that's what I'm kind of hoping for as the chances of himself finding it are very low

I did, im not the gunner tho

@@eurobeat5332 Not THE Clarence, but at least A Clarence.

A Higher Call, another book by Markos, is one of my absolute favorite books!

i just got Spearhead for Christmas, can't wait to read it

@@LemSat87 It will make you laugh, and probably make you cry too. It's very worth reading.

Is that the story which a German lady civilian has been shot by an American tank in her car by mistake, and neither of the two know if she survived or not?

@@michaelkevinmirasol8256 yeah I believe that is also mentioned at the end.

The german tanker was the radioman/bow gunner. The german guy was also in a Panther, not a Panzer 4

@@Cpl.potato no in the book at the end he was givien a panzer 4 and was a bow gunner but was also a tank gunner before hand

If he had turned his front armour towards where he wanted to fire, they might have been able to get a shot on the Pershing.

@@Suo_kongque The round would've still gone through with how close range the fight is but yeah, they'll definitely have better chances at shooting back that way

@@Suo_kongque A regular sherman probably. A 15ft long 90mm gun? Good luck

Sounds like emperor palpatine

I know I'm a bit late... but.... yeah... the M4 was a tank that had to _work_ a literal ocean away from where it was built, thus, the designers made damn sure that nothing went into a production tank unless it worked as advertised. There was also the mindset of the tanks needing to be easy to get in, and out. So even though it was easy for a Panther or Tiger to knock out a Sherman, there was a good chance that many of the guys inside one would survive to fight another day. And even better for the Sherman, all of the parts were standardized to fit the tanks, which made repairs and regular maintenance very easy for the crews. So, for all the flak the Sherman gets for being a "Death Trap"... it was actually quite dependable, functionally immune to most German tank guns at battle ranges from the front(only the longer 75 on the Panther, and the 88s or bigger could reliably penetrate the Sherman from the front), and easily repairable should something happen. And most importantly, if the tank was hit and burning, evacuation was incredibly easy. An intact crew can get another tank and fight on after all.

Take away is vast numerical superiority and masses of air and artillery support and its merely a so so tank.

@Tank50us 3 out of the 5 Sherman crewmen were killed by the Panther shots. 2 out of the 5 Panther crewmen were killed by the Pershing shots. The Panther crewmen get out no slower. There is this unfortunate new myth now that declares the Sherman to be the most survivable tank of WW2 and the easiest to get out of. Yet a British medical report showed that even the Cromwell was safer and more survivable.

When you use tanks so bad the enemy doesn't believe you can come up with something better

Memento Mori Unus Annus #wewerehere

Mark felton said that this was not a panther but a panzer 4

@@4orange843 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ji-PGwxkk_g.html

@@4orange843 I think you mix it with the superpershing Vs king tiger this is a different duel which is capture on camera

Both present the same story, but with small variations. Not surprising, I suppose. (I watch a lot of Dr. Felton’s videos on both his channels.)

You're wrong. You can actually see him not having a leg. Play the scene at 0.25.

@@noked-lee6301 mabye it’s still hard to tell

welp if the 2020/2021 pandemic isn't the time to post them, then they never will. Get on it.

also hope clarence reacts to this is AMAZING

It depends entirely on the tank type, and distance.