A series on the Chinese civil war after ww2 would be interesting. But then again you would probably get calls for then CCP try to control content

Going by the title, I was expecting more Spartans...

The First war had 11 of them and this one had 0?!

Hahaha, touché! Despite no battle of the Isonzo, still an impressive masterpiece Timeghost did!

Right?? And they even had a battle of Thermopylae too....weird throwback 😂

Tito, come on, the people of Trieste and beyond are demanding an expansion of the Revolution!

Well, the average amount of battles of Isonzo per world war is 6.5, so things are still looking up

SPOILER Losing the 1945 election...

Stalin: So am I ...

Quite the "Operation" 😁

If Siblin' wouldn't have left the Major, let's not think... How does he cut out?

Exactly, he was a warmonger.

Interesting

Yup, V-2 No. 13 even got some video footage up to the peak altitude of 105 km. Previously the highest ever picture taken was from the manned balloon flight of Explorer II that hit 22 km in 1935, which was still high enough to directly document the curvature of the Earth.

Whatever happened to Robert Goddard and his ideas, the man who directly influenced Werner Von Braun.

Wild speculation. Is anyone with the technical knowledge to operate the infernal contraptions still alive? Even if they are, maybe the Russkies bagged them.

Apparently this is around the time the M18 57mm recoilless rifle was deployed, so that checks out

Yeah it's definitely not the bazooka. I know the usmc gets weapons later than the army but that wouldn't make it a new weapon in test firing so I agree wit you!

SPOILER Also one of the first weapons used by Americans in the Korean War, when a recoilless rifle was fired at oncoming North Korean T-34s on July 5, 1950 at Osan. It did not make any impression on them, but the back blast kicked up mud (it was sited on a forward slope, rather unwisely) and the mud jammed its mechanism.

@@stevekaczynski3793 Now there's an inauspicious beginning to an ugly war.

@@HairTrigger223 And I remember Little John using it in "Combat". Does anyone remember who carried the BAR?

It’s a strange feeling, is it not?

When I was in first grade, WW-II was just 15 years in the rearview mirror. I had boatloads of surplus stuff to play with. It was all over the place.

Uh... Yes. Time is linear.

@@zack875 Well, to our primitive brains, it is.

It does seem like ancient history these days. But when I was groing up in the 70's and 80's most of my grandparents' generation were still relatively young and most served in the "big one", or in Korea. Seems like a much more recent event because of that.

The "Midnight Train to Georgian SSR" is a much lesser-known song, since everyone who took it starved in the gulag.

I don't know if gulag was worse than kz.

@@Raskolnikov70 You mean they were successfully purged of bourgeois tendencies.

I didn’t quite get it. Would you mind explaining the joke?

@@Icicle_Racing kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLZgldKlmZPVnYE.html

Thank you for sharing that with us, and thank you for watching.

Bravo Vince!

And even today, the Balkans are somewhat unsettled politically.

We have gone full circle

In 1993 I was a reporter in the war in the former Yugoslavia. Near Makljen Ridge I met a Croat in a full-on WW2 Wehrmacht uniform. I commented and he replied "The man who wore this fought the communists until 1963." "And then they caught him?" I asked. "No, he went to Germany to work in the Mercedes factory."

31 years apart, millions of lives lost, and these cities/towns are 200km apart! That is some symmetry.

There has not been a moment of peace on the entire planet after WW2. It just devolved into a million smaller colonial brushwars, civil wars and wars of independence. And I am not surprised some fighting still went on. Where Allied forces could not disarm German forces right away an uneasy vacuum remained. And the many collaborators knew that upon surrendering and repatriation certain prison time, torture and DELETION would await them. So they really had nothing to lose.

The 6th Marine Divisions's fight for Sugar Loaf, which was supported by interlocking fields of fire from the Half Moon and Horshoe hills that were all part of one interconnected defensive complex, has occasionally been described as the most savage fighting of the entire Okinawa campaign. Over the course of 8 days or so the division sustained around 3,000 casualties in bitter fighting at close range that occasionally went hand-to-hand. Several times Marines fought their way to their summit only for the few survivors that made it there to be pushed back in counterattacks, and the next day would be a bloody repeat. By the time it was finally cleared and held, the Japanese regiment manning the tunnels & fortifications on Sugar Loaf had been practically wiped out to a man. The writer Eugene Sledge, who served with the 1st Marine Division, passed through the area shortly after as his unit went into bloody action against Shuri. He described the entire region as a cratered moonscape with all the trees stripped bare from artillery. He also said the entire area reeked with the purtrefaction of death and decay, with bodies of both Marines and Japanese still left where they had fallen in craters half filled with rainwater, because the near constant Japanese artillery fire made removal of the bodies near impossible. Each corpse was also covered with maggots, which wished away in foul rivers from the torrential downpours. More from Sledge: "The stench of death was overpowering. The only way I could bear the monstrous horror of it all was to look upward away from the earthly reality surrounding us, watch the leaden gray clouds go skudding over, and repeat over and over to myself that the situation was unreal - just a nightmare - that I would soon awake and find myself somewhere else. I existed from moment to moment, sometimes thinking death would have been preferable. We were in the depths of the abyss, the ultimate horror of war. . . Men struggled and fought and bled in an environment so degrading I believed we had been flung into hell's own cesspool."

@@dominikbt7891 I'm not certain why that would be a cause for laughter. People lose a spouse either to death or divorce and remarry. What is so unusual about that? If the L was instead referring to his military service in some way, sounds like he a was a heroic man who played his part in saving lives and contributing to Allied victory on Sugar Loaf. That's a W.

@@ahorsewithnoname773 Sugarloaf hill is referenced in planning documents for Kyushu. Similar defensive areas were observed all over the invasion sites. Think how catastrophic the casualties would've been.

What's a plank holder?

@@plisskin117 It is a Navy term from the days of wooden ships, which were made of "planks". A plank holder is one of the original members of a ship's company or in this case, a military unit.

I thought the same exact thing lol

Amateurs study tactics.

Is it really his first mention in this series!? That is pretty crazy to think about now

@@Cityinlead I think he was mentioned before when Indy was pointing out the 5 star US generals and admirals.

The Chief of Staff is always the mastermind of the military. What good is the commander if the commander doesn’t have a good plan to execute? I think this is a very underrated reason why the Germans performed relatively well at the operational level against multiple major powers on multiple fronts in the world wars, especially the first. They had a more decentralized staff structure that could organically work with whoever was needed for the job to get a task done on the fly. The French in 1914 were bloated by military bureaucracy while the BEF was paralyzed as their commander had a nervous breakdown.

He became a bit of a persona non grata for American history writers since Leahy called the U.S. barbaric for dropping a he atomic bombs he saw no use or necessity for…

Case in point, the wikipedia entry is very very short.

@@nickhtk6285 Wikipedia is run by marxists, so.....

@@dominikbt7891 cope

​@@dominikbt7891 je l' ukusna zemlja blajburška?

Actually, it was the M18, 57mm Recoilless Rifle. But the 106 came by the Korean War. The 75mm was the next step after the 57mm

@@longrider42 I stand corrected, I fired the 106 and 90 mm recoilless rifles in 1968 at Ft Polk, I was an 11H. The weapons, especially the 106 had a tremendous back blast.

I see what you did there.

Hmm You know, that might make for an interesting alt.history channel series.

@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw More depressing than anything else. Documents show the Japanese were very well prepared for that invasion, and would have taken a horrific toll on the invading forces (note all the Purple Hearts that were minted because of that plan).

I fully expect it and will be disappointed if we don't see it. 🙂

@@johnf7683 It's probably for the best that it did not happen. I still think it would make for an interesting alt.history series. And no more depressing then the first 3 years of this channel when the Germans were winning.

If anything they could keep the channel going with no breaks as there would still be a war going on somewhere in the world. When Japan surrendered the Chinese civil war would reignite and the wars of independence in Indo China and the Dutch East Indies would ignite. Civil war in Greece soon after, the Jewish insurgency in Palestine, the 1st war between Israel and its Arab neighbors anti-cession revolt in Sarawak, Berlin Blockade, the Malayan Emergency, the partition of India and the 1st Kashmir war. And that's just mostly stuff that involves the British, all before Korea.

It might get some reference during the Korean War series. During the battle of the Chosin Reservoir a lot of the men who were thrown against the Marines in human wave attacks, like cannon fodder, had been former nationalist soldiers in WW2 and the civil war.

@@ahorsewithnoname773 Large parts of the Chinese forces in the Korean War generally had once been in the Nationalist army. Defeated soldiers in the Civil War often changed sides, and the disintegration of the Nationalist cause was partly caused by that. As the best way of keeping an eye on them, the Communists enrolled them in their army but also appointed commissars to supervise them, and a large number were sent to Korea. On the whole they do not seem to have fought worse than the troops who had never been Nationalist, though if taken prisoner they quite often opted for Taiwan when offered the choice at the end of the Korean War.

@@ahorsewithnoname773 I am not so sure about that. The Chinese expeditionary army in Korea was not that large to waste massive numbers of soldiers in human wave attacks. Just like German generals in WW2 American generals refused to admit that they got outgeneraled and beaten by the Chinese, which they saw as inferior, and blamed it on massive human wave attacks instead. Despite lacking American firepower, air and armor support the Chinese infantry was very skillful in small unit tactics and used infiltration and concentration at decisive points to devastating attacks.

@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw The science fiction novel "The Mercenary" by Jerry Pournelle uses a factual battle for the climactic scene.

They released "what's coming next" and it sounds like they'll be covering the lead up to the war so hopefully that will be included as well

@@dawnpalmby5100 I'm sure they'll cover it broadly since it forms such an important part of the Korean conflict, but probably outside the scope of that series to go into in detail.

Lol

Supposed to be great, thanks for the recommendation.

@@WorldWarTwo The pacific episode could be based on the rain, mud and maggots quite by Indy. It's quite disgusting to watch but as it's set late in the month it depicts exactly what was described in this episode.

Thanks for watching!

That's why I'm glad they're continuing to cover it and not just stop everything on V-E day. The immediate post-war recovery period is fascinating, but even in college courses it gets glossed over and they skip right to the Berlin Blockade.

And Zipper could have happened a lot sooner too, but got postponed twice. First by London allowing British soldiers with the most service time to be discharged back home, which put back the timetable for Zipper as SEA Command lost its most experienced soldiers that had to be replaced. And later when Japan surrendered and that gloryhound McArthur demanded that no local surrenders could be taken until said gloryhound had his moment to shine in Tokyo Bay. The British could have landed in Malaya and Singapore weeks earlier, while Allied POW's kept DELETING from Japanese maltreatment and local Japanese commanders even prepared plans to DELETE all those POW's out of revenge for the surrender.

Right there with ya, Jamey….

It was insane for us here too!

Great to hear!

If you enjoyed Dr Felton’s lengthy musings on Heinrich’s last days, you’ll simply LOVE David Irving’s accusations / conclusions, etc., much of which were ( are ? ) available on KZfaq…

I had heard something about the Georgians in Texel. I encountered an elderly Georgian who was begging in Antwerp, Belgium, in the 1990s. I spoke to him in Russian. I did not ask if he had any involvement in the Texel events but he looked the right age though that does not necessarily mean he was there.

another rather "fun" fact, the water authority there had 2 DUKW's, left after ww2... they were used for many years after the war to bring out "zinkstukken" (big mats to keep the sandy bottom in place, there is a strong current along the coast of the North sea that depletes the sand that makes up the beaches in a high rate) which are kept in place by dumping tons of rock on them. these loads of rocks were also brought out to sea by the DUKW's. i don't know if they are still in use now, but it would not surprise me, i'll look it up or give the water authority a call about this topic...

I wonder if anyone of them survived going back to soviet union and eventually returned to their families in Georgia 🙁

@@mclurr3197 Kinds surprised this wasn't addressed.

Thank you so much!

Thanks for watching!

Indeed it was! Still plenty more to go though.

@@WorldWarTwo And I will follow you till there and beyond.

The Japanese were slightly more willing to surrender in proportional terms in 1944 and 1945 (prior to the overall capitulation) than earlier in the war, but Slim's comment is appropriate. He said generals everywhere talk about their troops fighting to the death. "The Japanese actually did."

I don't think i've ever quite looked forward to the fourth of july as much as I do for this year.

Looking like a Labour victory in both timelines as well.

Thanks for watching!

If you don't already know about this, look into Operation Keelhaul. It's much worse than you think.

Apparently it was a mix of gulag and rehabilitation. Got off pretty lucky

Yep. Not the only group of "two-uniforms" from the East Front that happened to.

@@TheOtherOne122 No crap? Stalin must have had a soft spot for his old tribe.

@@MM22966 The rehabilitation IIRC largely happened post-Destalinization, so there’s that.

3 Georgians took a small boat to England at the beginning at the revolt to discuss surrender with the British, who weren't interested for whatever reason. Those 3 were sent to a POW camp and I think escaped repatriation to the USSR.

Thank you so much!

And thank you for watching.

The M18, a 57mm Recoilless Rifle could be shoulder fired, and was used in WW2.

Otto performed jaw-dropping feats & fought in battles that none of the Japanese ‘officer class’, none,.came remotely close to approaching in ambition, gumption, & skill.

Don't stop believing!

Will be interesting to see indies great-grandchildren covering that...

Nope, Emu War special series needs to come first. Priorities, man......

@@Raskolnikov70 Yeah where is that anglophonic Aussie turd that comes on here spouting his rubbish? bet he keeps quite if you mention the Emu War to him. 😂😂

I have a similar story, my grandfather was offered a Squad leader job for his performance in the Battle of the Bulge. Turns out every officer is his platoon was KIA a week later (officers lead the way). He was lucky to be wounded early in the fighting and evacuated to a field hospital.

@@Lonovavir Thanks for relating your grandfather's story.

Thank you very much!

Seriously. I was watching a documentary about the atomic bombings, and it got to the part after the bombings where the Japanese leaders were discussing whether to surrender or not. You can really tell that they barely cared about what would happen to their own civilian population.

@@Mr110074 Before the atomic bombings they were talking about how many million people they were willing to have die to avoid surrendering.

Thanks for watching! It really was an amazing project. -TimeGhost Ambassador

@@WorldWarTwo I think there were three of us that made it through the whole thing in one go that night. A great time all around.

Nice! I kinda want to binge it with energy drinks and pizza. I listened to it over a week while at work off and on the first time and a few select episodes again since then. -TimeGhost Ambassador

@@WorldWarTwo Took some planning... getting that day and the next off from work to make the timing line up. Still barely made it. Was an amazing experience.

Thanks for watching!

Thank you for watching!

The Gaulle quickly learned and made it his core policy that whenever the UK had to chose between making common cause with France or going against the Americans, the British would side with the Americans. Henceforth when back in power he did everything to keep the British out of the EEC, the forerunner of the EU. Knowing fully well they would always be America's Trojan Horse. He's probably spinning in his grave like crazy knowing that Sarkozy and Macron have been trying for France to replace the UK as America's lapdog in Europe.

That really must be the last F you that Britain did to France in warfare right? 😂😂