Just think, you couldn't even make this movie today - not the way Attenborough did - today it would have to be CGI. Here we have real takes, real men, 1000 paratroop jumps, real explosions. Awesome filmmaking.
I hate these typ of films!!! Look at the german soldiers! It seems like they where all idiots! Waiting for the death without doing anything! But the germans beated most of europe so they was the best soldiers of WW II!!! It was the material and especially the Air Force from the States... If germany had the same like that in 1944 no matter how the war`s ending...
Only have I'm afraid, the rest had to suffer trough a winter of starvation. Which was so bad the Germans had to allow allied droppings of food just to keep the population alive.
Monty was of use! If it wasn't for Monty taking the Germans and Italians in Africa then we might never of reached Europe! This was a gamble, and i'm sure if Patton had a better idea it would of been chosen over Market Garden but clearly the Allied leaders favoured this, so if you are going to blame Monty, blame Eisenhower too!
I don't mean to be a gun fanatic but other than PaK 40's I see - what is that mobile self-propelled anti-tank gun at 2:11-2:18?! Was it a Marder-type? And did the British combine M24 Chafee's and basic 76mm Shermans as shown in the column of 17 pounders? I'm curious thats all...
Model was such an arrogant narcisst. Regarding the whole Allied operation an attempt to catch him...
In fact I'm living close to the woods where he shot himself.
It's ironic: My grandmother's house was eradicated in an Allied bombing raid in 1943 when she wasn't at home, she being thankful for each and every day she has seen since.
And one of Germany's highest commanders ended his life by his own will, because he didn't see a future.
Both right at my doorstep... and just a few decades ago.
But ... Montgomery was Irish And Montgomery wanted a massive push on Germany with all forces, without frittering away forces onunnecessary operations like Anvil. It was the US that insisted on a broad front advance.
Awesome action ! I wonder how much most of these war movies from the 60s and 70s must have cost. It is a shame such ''splended'' movies arent made anymore these days.
Dont forget, the Brits and the Canadians were fighting the SS Divisions to the North. Thats why it took a bit longer. So stop slagging Monty off cos he won North Africa you idiot.
@HonestBloke Patton wasn't at the D-Day landings. He didn't arrive in France until July 6, one month after D-Day and 3rd Army, the command he would hold for the rest of the war, wasn't activated and sent into action until August 1, when it became the breakout force for Operation "Cobra."
Those poor Irish vanguards were always used as cannon fodder by the British. Montgomery was such an asshole for sending them up that shoddy, narrow road that turned to mush as more tanks went through it. The Dutch underground warned them.
@MrBolas33 I agree, Monty was never really any use, he sat in the mud in Sicily, failed to break through to caen at D-day and then Market Garden. The supplies should have gone to Patton and he'd have been in Berlin in two weeks!
@ross79745 Patton was a gerneral for the ages. we were just lucky he was on our side. his oppositon? rommel, but he never did meet him in the field. pity. my money was on patton even if he was american. be was a brilliant tank commander and a brilliant general. he forsaw the cold war. he forsaw the susians as our next foe and the need to plan for it. and this before the battle for berlin. if I was presdiant.paton would have got all my supplies, and went for victory.
@ross79745 Patton had the intention to "kick the Soviets back to Moscow". But at that time, the USSR was considerd to be an allie, so Patton was on a leash from his supreme commanders. Not even a decade later both powers were in conflict in Korea. Thank God, both are now on peacefull terms, and the Cold War has ended and we have to deal with other threats like those coming from the radical Islamic movements. Make love, not war!
@ross79745 We should all have followed patton- after winning the war, US and German troops team up and attack Leningrad and then russia, then exterminate russia. World today would have been a much better place
@ModellMeister Yeah because attacking the Sovet Union has always proven to be the best tactic option. Who won the bloodiest siege in history, Leningrad? The Soviet did.
Patton was a bastard who got results, after Germany failed marching into TWICE I doubt anyone would folllow.
@ModellMeister That was the first front he fought on, he would of won if he never invaded the damnable place. The amount of people who were toppled by Russian Winter is astonding.
@PROkiller16 what are you talking about, the west european and balkan fronts were in full fighting back then, they were already sending the first units to north africa already when Barbarossa started.
@PROkiller16 But the end of 1940 is still before the Summer of 1941 when Barbaossa began. And they werent being beaten, for the first two years it was german victories
@PROkiller16 The unoccupied parts of the USSR joined under Stalins leadership and started a war of attrition (which Germany with her few ressources could never win), the people of the occupied territories came up with guerilla warfare (and the germans had to redirect some of their anyway overstrained combat troops to fight this uprising).
I don't think your are correct.It was the opinion of the German General staff if the initial objectives of Barbarossa had been adhered to, victory was possible.Of course Hitler changed these objectives and the rest is history.......
@PROkiller16 Germany had the chance to free several ethnic groups like the Ukrainians, the Bela-russians and others, who were suppressed by Stalins terror and to bring the USSR to desintegrate in this way. But since these people were not treated like humans and had to learn that the german occupation was even worse than the communists, eve-rything was lost.
@PROkiller16 I dont think that Germany would have beaten the Sowjet Union in 1941 - even if the Wehrmacht had not to assist Italy in the Campaigns on the Balkans and in North Af-rica. The Soviet Union was simply to big to size for the overstretched german troops. It wouldnt have mattered if Moskau had been captured by the Wehrmacht still in 1941, this City was not crucial for the USSR to work as a state.
@ross79745 -- No lucrative opportunity to exploit a pretext for revolving-door business of politics, war industry & corporatism shall be ignored. Cold War was going to stimulate investments & profits if it took every underhanded intrigue, betrayal & subterfuge in the book, millions killed in dozens of spurious conflicts, scores of undeclared wars, countless dictators installed to forestall self-determinism & democratic institutions, CIA-paid Death Squads and narco-terror partnerships. Hoo-RaH!
@starmanskye The Cold War Still happened. Patton was right. We may not have fought them hand to hand, but it was still one of the longest running conflicts.
@ross79745 Oh, Montgomery had much more buffoonery to display after Caen. To save face, he launched "Operation Goodwood" which was a tactical German victory. God bless Churchill and the competent British generals for putting up with that conceited drawf.
@ross79745 Monty just didn't time this operation out wisely like when the armor divisions will get to the town the relieve those airborne boys.
I would like to have a bombing raid before the airborne units start the attacks in that wide area, while the British fights their way through German defenses.
@ross79745 Give Monty some credit, he won El-Alamein the first major allied victory of the war. In Sicily and D-day he advanced less because he and the British were taking on the majority of the German army and coming up against the most resistance. And lets be honest Patton would not have been in Berlin two weeks.
@uafchris Omaha beach was where the bulk of the Nazi forces were at D-Day. That beach was where there were most casualties. Monty fair play did win El-Alamien, but what about El-Guitar? Patton won that one.
@ross79745 Omaha beach was as thinly defended as the whole normandy coast was, Hitler not wanting to expect an attack there plus the Ostfront under major pressure lead to poorer defense the further west of Calais you go. And don't forget, Heinrich Severloh killed about 1000-1500 men on his own at Omaha; that's a truly exceptional number for just 1 man on a machine gun.
@uafchris They were both great men and generals. Monty took responsibility for Market Garden. He didn't try to blame anyone else. He was stand up and a hero Britain should always be proud of. We were lucky to have him on our side -- backing our much better Patton up. :-).
@ross79745 That is a very simplistic viewpoint of the events listed above. Monty was brillent in North Africa in 1942-43, He was good in Sciliy and In Normandy, the reason he didn't break through at Caen was he had most of the German Panzer divions opposite him as part of the plan to keep them occupied while the American broke out of the Normandy pocket near St Lo. The only bad part is Market Garden which went horribly wrong
Logistics - the KEY to military movements. If you can't get the bullets delivered Free of Charge - then one can't shoot. Gas, Food, Subsistence, replacement equipment and modifications, fresh Meat in the way of warriors - well that is what makes an army work.
What dumb-asses. The Germans just sit there and watch the British 25 pounders barrage get's closer and closer to their positions. I'm not saying that they are bad but they should have fired early to prevent such things like these.
Could you imagine, being a German gunner, having to just sit there and watch that walking barrage of 25 pounders get closer and closer and closer to your position. I'd be crapping in my pants!
Classic guerrilla style ambush. Get them on a raised two lane road with forests and quagmires on either side, slows them down and drains supplys even if they always beat them back with airpower.
The Germans called Sherman tanks "Tommy Cookers" because they brewed up with one hit. The Sherman tank burned regular gasoline rather than diesel (god knows why they would design them like that) and burned profusely when hit by a shell. The Sherman tank was totally outclassed by German tanks and its only advantage was in its numbers. I cannot imagine the feeling British and American armored troops must have had when they knew they were going to be burned the second they were hit. Brave.
The idea was to overwhelm the Germans with many more tanks than they could destroy. After the first two or three Shermans were destroyed, the remaining one or two would try to circle around back the superior German tank and hit it from behind. This was possible because the gun turret moved more slowly than the Sherman's.
@giggedy4goo i talked to US veteran tank commander about that actually. pretty interesting guy himself. the guy said he had a high IQ and passed his training with high marks enough to be a tank commander, but he also had claustrophobia, as in scared of tight places.only 18 when he did that! can u imagine! fought in Italy at Monte Cassino as well; to this day he remembers what tank to look out for: " the ones with arrows". dont know what he meant by that though. amazing guy either way!
There is a Sherman over in Wolcott Connecticut, at the VAW Hall... I pulled into the parking lot and climbed onto the thing - HOLY CRAP, those things are TALL!! Must have been relatively easy to target.
@ross79745. DZ means drop zone.. im curious because i live near a DZ and where this all happened. i believe there are about 5 to 10 dropzones near and in the area of arnhem.
@tipmaster But if you mean the Para's at the end. The British landed just northwest of Arnhem. Probably just north of Oosterbeek which is I think Ginkelse Heide.
Once again another example, it doesn't matter how good or crappy your tanks are, it's air power that really matters.
canon21100 2 weeks ago
the Germans had tremendous fire discipline not to react to that opening order of British cannon
volvo4422 2 weeks ago
If only germany had kept hitting air fields not cities they would of won the battle of britain
xxDrGrinchxx 3 weeks ago
@xxDrGrinchxx mate fair point but the Luftwaffe didn't and at the end of the day. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, unless your enemy is us Brits!!!!
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Just think, you couldn't even make this movie today - not the way Attenborough did - today it would have to be CGI. Here we have real takes, real men, 1000 paratroop jumps, real explosions. Awesome filmmaking.
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Montgomery was an arrogant prick anyway... Good troops the Irish, most gratefull to them.
DerHasensprung 1 month ago
Props to Germany for firing discipline
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slizzler1 2 months ago
I hate these typ of films!!! Look at the german soldiers! It seems like they where all idiots! Waiting for the death without doing anything! But the germans beated most of europe so they was the best soldiers of WW II!!! It was the material and especially the Air Force from the States... If germany had the same like that in 1944 no matter how the war`s ending...
seralia1 2 months ago
@seralia1 actually, this film is really realistic. other movies are much worse than this.
BigMek456 2 months ago
brave germans soldiers nothing left to say !!!!!
Giampymike 3 months ago
the British failed at market garden just like Germany failed in the battle of Britain so
LBUK2010 3 months ago
Market Garden was a fantastic idea, but like most things in war, much can go wrong. Much of Holland was liberated, thats a positive.
QuickNick180 3 months ago
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Only have I'm afraid, the rest had to suffer trough a winter of starvation. Which was so bad the Germans had to allow allied droppings of food just to keep the population alive.
Greatherlorre 4 weeks ago
Monty was of use! If it wasn't for Monty taking the Germans and Italians in Africa then we might never of reached Europe! This was a gamble, and i'm sure if Patton had a better idea it would of been chosen over Market Garden but clearly the Allied leaders favoured this, so if you are going to blame Monty, blame Eisenhower too!
UKIrStokesLARK 4 months ago
Hope that dickface with the bad VHF crystals enjoyed his fucking biscuit!
Contractnik 5 months ago
Where are the big musical numbers?
Contractnik 5 months ago
Where are the big musical numbers?
Contractnik 5 months ago
I don't mean to be a gun fanatic but other than PaK 40's I see - what is that mobile self-propelled anti-tank gun at 2:11-2:18?! Was it a Marder-type? And did the British combine M24 Chafee's and basic 76mm Shermans as shown in the column of 17 pounders? I'm curious thats all...
HeirofGojira91 5 months ago
Model was such an arrogant narcisst. Regarding the whole Allied operation an attempt to catch him...
In fact I'm living close to the woods where he shot himself.
It's ironic: My grandmother's house was eradicated in an Allied bombing raid in 1943 when she wasn't at home, she being thankful for each and every day she has seen since.
And one of Germany's highest commanders ended his life by his own will, because he didn't see a future.
Both right at my doorstep... and just a few decades ago.
Parzival85 5 months ago
But ... Montgomery was Irish And Montgomery wanted a massive push on Germany with all forces, without frittering away forces onunnecessary operations like Anvil. It was the US that insisted on a broad front advance.
tippuni 6 months ago
lolz even the germans thought the plan was to stupid to be true:) 8.38
DutchPetriot 7 months ago
Without the Airpower the Irish vanguard wouldnt even have made it through that ambush.
DutchPetriot 7 months ago
Awesome action ! I wonder how much most of these war movies from the 60s and 70s must have cost. It is a shame such ''splended'' movies arent made anymore these days.
DutchPetriot 7 months ago
Does anyone know, why they shot violet smoke? For the artillery lookouts?
BTW the German MGs are shootig far to slow..... seems, they used the sound of American or Britisch MGs.
wasistdaswasdasist 8 months ago
@wasistdaswasdasist It is purple smoke for air support. They were MG-34s, slower fire but more accurate.
PROkiller16 7 months ago
Dont forget, the Brits and the Canadians were fighting the SS Divisions to the North. Thats why it took a bit longer. So stop slagging Monty off cos he won North Africa you idiot.
sim0b 8 months ago
Patton had it easy after the d day landings.
The americans were facing nobody german troops on flat ground while the brits under monty were up against ss devisions at caen in defenceable terrain
But aah yes the american commenters here dont read history, they just see hollybullshit movies and think thats history.
HonestBloke 10 months ago
@HonestBloke Patton>Monty this been proven over and over again, so just stfu
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@HonestBloke Patton wasn't at the D-Day landings. He didn't arrive in France until July 6, one month after D-Day and 3rd Army, the command he would hold for the rest of the war, wasn't activated and sent into action until August 1, when it became the breakout force for Operation "Cobra."
Lrcarver2 9 months ago
looks like the irish arnt so lucky after all
mrjack037907 11 months ago
Those poor Irish vanguards were always used as cannon fodder by the British. Montgomery was such an asshole for sending them up that shoddy, narrow road that turned to mush as more tanks went through it. The Dutch underground warned them.
MrBolas33 11 months ago 8
@MrBolas33 I agree, Monty was never really any use, he sat in the mud in Sicily, failed to break through to caen at D-day and then Market Garden. The supplies should have gone to Patton and he'd have been in Berlin in two weeks!
ross79745 11 months ago 6
@ross79745 "The supplies should have gone to Patton and he'd have been in Berlin in two weeks!"
Yes and then onto Moscow.
Danny77uk 11 months ago 16
@Danny77uk Everyone forgets, Patton said we're going to fight the Russians one day, and what happened a few decades later? Oh look the Cold War.
ross79745 11 months ago 8
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@ross79745 "Patton said we're going to fight the Russians one day, and what happened a few decades later?"
Right. WW3 against Russia. Wait...THAT NEVER HAPPENED. Idiot.
Danny77uk 11 months ago
@ross79745 Patton was a gerneral for the ages. we were just lucky he was on our side. his oppositon? rommel, but he never did meet him in the field. pity. my money was on patton even if he was american. be was a brilliant tank commander and a brilliant general. he forsaw the cold war. he forsaw the susians as our next foe and the need to plan for it. and this before the battle for berlin. if I was presdiant.paton would have got all my supplies, and went for victory.
0Zolrender0 10 months ago
@ross79745 Patton had the intention to "kick the Soviets back to Moscow". But at that time, the USSR was considerd to be an allie, so Patton was on a leash from his supreme commanders. Not even a decade later both powers were in conflict in Korea. Thank God, both are now on peacefull terms, and the Cold War has ended and we have to deal with other threats like those coming from the radical Islamic movements. Make love, not war!
Brera011 9 months ago
@ross79745 We should all have followed patton- after winning the war, US and German troops team up and attack Leningrad and then russia, then exterminate russia. World today would have been a much better place
ModellMeister 9 months ago
@ModellMeister Yeah because attacking the Sovet Union has always proven to be the best tactic option. Who won the bloodiest siege in history, Leningrad? The Soviet did.
Patton was a bastard who got results, after Germany failed marching into TWICE I doubt anyone would folllow.
PROkiller16 7 months ago
@PROkiller16 perhaps if hitler had waited until the other fronts were closed, he might have been more sucessfule.
ModellMeister 7 months ago
@ModellMeister That was the first front he fought on, he would of won if he never invaded the damnable place. The amount of people who were toppled by Russian Winter is astonding.
PROkiller16 7 months ago
@PROkiller16 what are you talking about, the west european and balkan fronts were in full fighting back then, they were already sending the first units to north africa already when Barbarossa started.
ModellMeister 7 months ago
@ModellMeister France doesn't really count, that was a wash out. Germany wasn't comitted in Africa until the end of 1940 when the were being beaten.
PROkiller16 7 months ago
@PROkiller16 But the end of 1940 is still before the Summer of 1941 when Barbaossa began. And they werent being beaten, for the first two years it was german victories
ModellMeister 7 months ago
@ModellMeister I mean in Africa with the Italians, you could destroy their tankettes with a steel bat.
PROkiller16 7 months ago
@PROkiller16 and THATS why the germans went to help them, in 1940..
ModellMeister 7 months ago
@ModellMeister 1941. That was the first combat of the Germans in Africa.
PROkiller16 7 months ago
@PROkiller16 In 1940 Zerstorerunits were already there, under the command of Fritz Dickow, ZG 26.
ModellMeister 7 months ago
@ModellMeister However actual full German military contact was in 1941.
PROkiller16 7 months ago
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MisterKleinheit 2 months ago
@PROkiller16 The unoccupied parts of the USSR joined under Stalins leadership and started a war of attrition (which Germany with her few ressources could never win), the people of the occupied territories came up with guerilla warfare (and the germans had to redirect some of their anyway overstrained combat troops to fight this uprising).
MisterKleinheit 2 months ago
@MisterKleinheit oops, I spelled Soviet Union wrong xD
MisterKleinheit 2 months ago
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I don't think your are correct.It was the opinion of the German General staff if the initial objectives of Barbarossa had been adhered to, victory was possible.Of course Hitler changed these objectives and the rest is history.......
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@PROkiller16 Germany had the chance to free several ethnic groups like the Ukrainians, the Bela-russians and others, who were suppressed by Stalins terror and to bring the USSR to desintegrate in this way. But since these people were not treated like humans and had to learn that the german occupation was even worse than the communists, eve-rything was lost.
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@PROkiller16 I dont think that Germany would have beaten the Sowjet Union in 1941 - even if the Wehrmacht had not to assist Italy in the Campaigns on the Balkans and in North Af-rica. The Soviet Union was simply to big to size for the overstretched german troops. It wouldnt have mattered if Moskau had been captured by the Wehrmacht still in 1941, this City was not crucial for the USSR to work as a state.
MisterKleinheit 2 months ago
@ross79745 -- No lucrative opportunity to exploit a pretext for revolving-door business of politics, war industry & corporatism shall be ignored. Cold War was going to stimulate investments & profits if it took every underhanded intrigue, betrayal & subterfuge in the book, millions killed in dozens of spurious conflicts, scores of undeclared wars, countless dictators installed to forestall self-determinism & democratic institutions, CIA-paid Death Squads and narco-terror partnerships. Hoo-RaH!
starmanskye 5 months ago
@starmanskye The Cold War Still happened. Patton was right. We may not have fought them hand to hand, but it was still one of the longest running conflicts.
ross79745 5 months ago
@ross79745 Oh, Montgomery had much more buffoonery to display after Caen. To save face, he launched "Operation Goodwood" which was a tactical German victory. God bless Churchill and the competent British generals for putting up with that conceited drawf.
MrBolas33 11 months ago
@ross79745 Because he didn't win in Africa did he? Or get slowed down like everyone else at D-Day.
PROkiller16 7 months ago
@ross79745 Monty just didn't time this operation out wisely like when the armor divisions will get to the town the relieve those airborne boys.
I would like to have a bombing raid before the airborne units start the attacks in that wide area, while the British fights their way through German defenses.
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@ross79745 Give Monty some credit, he won El-Alamein the first major allied victory of the war. In Sicily and D-day he advanced less because he and the British were taking on the majority of the German army and coming up against the most resistance. And lets be honest Patton would not have been in Berlin two weeks.
uafchris 5 months ago
@uafchris Omaha beach was where the bulk of the Nazi forces were at D-Day. That beach was where there were most casualties. Monty fair play did win El-Alamien, but what about El-Guitar? Patton won that one.
ross79745 5 months ago
@ross79745 Omaha beach was as thinly defended as the whole normandy coast was, Hitler not wanting to expect an attack there plus the Ostfront under major pressure lead to poorer defense the further west of Calais you go. And don't forget, Heinrich Severloh killed about 1000-1500 men on his own at Omaha; that's a truly exceptional number for just 1 man on a machine gun.
FrontlinerCdV 3 months ago
@uafchris They were both great men and generals. Monty took responsibility for Market Garden. He didn't try to blame anyone else. He was stand up and a hero Britain should always be proud of. We were lucky to have him on our side -- backing our much better Patton up. :-).
Contractnik 5 months ago
@ross79745 That is a very simplistic viewpoint of the events listed above. Monty was brillent in North Africa in 1942-43, He was good in Sciliy and In Normandy, the reason he didn't break through at Caen was he had most of the German Panzer divions opposite him as part of the plan to keep them occupied while the American broke out of the Normandy pocket near St Lo. The only bad part is Market Garden which went horribly wrong
wedgeantillies66 3 months ago
Logistics - the KEY to military movements. If you can't get the bullets delivered Free of Charge - then one can't shoot. Gas, Food, Subsistence, replacement equipment and modifications, fresh Meat in the way of warriors - well that is what makes an army work.
resculptit 1 year ago 2
What dumb-asses. The Germans just sit there and watch the British 25 pounders barrage get's closer and closer to their positions. I'm not saying that they are bad but they should have fired early to prevent such things like these.
Hperman09 1 year ago
You have got to love air superiority.
Prime4571 1 year ago
That would be the most terrifying thing, just seeing all those artillery shells come closer every secound (Sorry for my spelling and grammar)
MisterSam1000 1 year ago 4
DZ Means Drop Zone
jgkooiker 1 year ago
Creeping barrage. Brilliant :D
Isaacxilia1 1 year ago
Could you imagine, being a German gunner, having to just sit there and watch that walking barrage of 25 pounders get closer and closer and closer to your position. I'd be crapping in my pants!
rredhawk 1 year ago
@rredhawk id be runing while crapping
usafisasome 1 year ago
Sucks to be the lead Sherman.
MGBandit75 1 year ago
Classic guerrilla style ambush. Get them on a raised two lane road with forests and quagmires on either side, slows them down and drains supplys even if they always beat them back with airpower.
TheGroundedAviator 1 year ago
i love metaldetecting. everytime i go there,i have found shells/granades/german helmets/medals/coins.
2008VauxhallVectra 1 year ago
the dropzone was the Ginkelse Heide near the town of Ede.
2008VauxhallVectra 1 year ago
The Germans called Sherman tanks "Tommy Cookers" because they brewed up with one hit. The Sherman tank burned regular gasoline rather than diesel (god knows why they would design them like that) and burned profusely when hit by a shell. The Sherman tank was totally outclassed by German tanks and its only advantage was in its numbers. I cannot imagine the feeling British and American armored troops must have had when they knew they were going to be burned the second they were hit. Brave.
giggedy4goo 1 year ago 6
@giggedy4goo
The idea was to overwhelm the Germans with many more tanks than they could destroy. After the first two or three Shermans were destroyed, the remaining one or two would try to circle around back the superior German tank and hit it from behind. This was possible because the gun turret moved more slowly than the Sherman's.
shanghaibenny2 1 year ago
@shanghaibenny2 but isnt losing several tanks to take out maybe just 1 or 2 german tanks kinda pricey?
saberslash127 1 year ago
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Yes. It was a giant game of chess. And, for the "expendable" pawns inside the tanks, a horror. Such is the calculation of war.
shanghaibenny2 1 year ago
@giggedy4goo Americans called them `Ronson Lighters` because they "light first time" just like the popular advert said.
toyotasera55 1 year ago
@giggedy4goo The Germans also had gasoline engines in their mkII and mkIII tanks.
meigsman59 1 year ago
@giggedy4goo i talked to US veteran tank commander about that actually. pretty interesting guy himself. the guy said he had a high IQ and passed his training with high marks enough to be a tank commander, but he also had claustrophobia, as in scared of tight places.only 18 when he did that! can u imagine! fought in Italy at Monte Cassino as well; to this day he remembers what tank to look out for: " the ones with arrows". dont know what he meant by that though. amazing guy either way!
Sidewinder5O4 7 months ago
There is a Sherman over in Wolcott Connecticut, at the VAW Hall... I pulled into the parking lot and climbed onto the thing - HOLY CRAP, those things are TALL!! Must have been relatively easy to target.
StephanusTacitus 1 year ago
Nothing like a barrage from a battery of QF 25pounders to ruin your day.
BLyons40 1 year ago
WTF i thought the british used Hawker Typhoons 4 ground attacks???
MyNameIsMargo123 1 year ago
P-48 thunderbolt
fucking up your shit since 1943
petergreg101 1 year ago
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Actually the planes are supposed to be RAF Hawker Typhoons, but I do not think there are any flying examples left, could be wrong....
gorbag283 1 year ago
@petergreg101 too right mate
jangotrooper 1 year ago
anybody knows which DZ this is???
tipmaster 1 year ago
@tipmaster What does DZ mean?
ross79745 1 year ago
@ross79745. DZ means drop zone.. im curious because i live near a DZ and where this all happened. i believe there are about 5 to 10 dropzones near and in the area of arnhem.
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GunBunny13B 1 year ago
@ross79745 Drop Zone.
Kenisi1 1 year ago
@ross79745 DZ means drop zone... the place chosen for the paratroopers to land.
francisgouveia 1 year ago
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Drop zone
3picsandwich 1 year ago
@ross79745 Isn`t DZ short for" dropping zone!
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@ross79745
Drop Zone
JM7704 1 year ago
@ross79745 Dropzone.
AmersfoortTristan 1 year ago
@ross79745 Drop Zone
mrjack037907 11 months ago
@ross79745 DZ means drop zone
0oDAVo0 11 months ago
@ross79745
Drop Zone
snakes3425 10 months ago
@ross79745 Drop Zone.
cpj93070 10 months ago
@ross79745 drop zone? i do beleive
arctrooper24 9 months ago
@ross79745 Drop Zone
Krautkiller223 9 months ago
@ross79745 Drop Zone maybe....
hangfire0352 8 months ago
@ross79745 drop zone(where glinders and parachuters drop)
MrSAS1997 5 months ago
@tipmaster
DZ= Drop Zone
KaiserofGermany 1 year ago
@tipmaster No Dropzone. This is apparently 30th Corps that is en route to Eindhoven. This is probably supposedly in the Dutch/Belgian border region.
AmersfoortTristan 1 year ago
@tipmaster But if you mean the Para's at the end. The British landed just northwest of Arnhem. Probably just north of Oosterbeek which is I think Ginkelse Heide.
AmersfoortTristan 1 year ago
@tipmaster DZ = Drop Zone
faos65 6 months ago
Junior officer taps his CO: 'Sir, how the hell...'
CO puts down field glasses and takes off his radio headset.
'How the hell do they expect us to keep to schedule on a road like this?'
CO: 'You don't know the worst. This bit we're on now...'
Junior officer: 'Yes?'
CO: 'It's the wide part.'
LOL
AndWhatRoughBeast 1 year ago
Great movie I love this part!
Sccuba182 1 year ago