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The title is, "Ardennes 1943". I always thought it was in 1944, because the Allies hadn't even landed in Normandy in 1943.

I live in the Eastern Belgium, right in the heart of the region where the Battle of the Bulge took place. There is a house across my street, the walls of which still bear the marks left by bullets during the battle. These events took place 76 years ago, but people in this region do remember, and the sacrifice of so many American lives on this soil is not forgotten, even though we were naturally almost all born after the war nowadays. You can hardly go through even a small village that does not have a monument honoring the fallen GI's soldiers and American flags are nothing unusual in this area. Beyond these memories of the past, this also reminds me how lucky we modern Europeans are to be born in countries that have now been living in peace for decades, and our former enemies are now friendly neighbors (the German border is only a 30-minute drive away from where I live, and visiting Germany is "normal life" for me). Let's hope that we and future European generations won't have to choose sides again. French author Paul Valéry wrote about a century ago: "War is a cross-massacre of people who do not know each other, for the sake of people who know each other but do not kill each other". So true.

I worked with a Sudeten German. After Germany annexed the Sudetenland, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. He was captured by the Russians and riding on a prison wagon with a female guard. She fell asleep and dropped her rifle. He jumped off the wagon, retrieved the rifle and awakened her. She gave him a big kiss and told him if she had lost her rifle they would have killed her. He was one of the few to be repatriated. Many of them died in the gulag as late as 1952.

This is a fascinating upload. Thanks ! Haven't seen most of this filming before.

I am appalled by "KZfaqs" censoring of theis historical films! If they think that this is to protect minors from the gruesome facts of war is foolish and wrong. Everyone no mater what age need to see the full atrocities of war so as not to make the same mistakes in the future. We can not censor the facts no mater how bad.

Hey War Stories, Great Channel! Thank You.

I hope that listeners to this video realize that the 'first person' voice (I/we) heard here is that of then General Eisenhower himself. Probably from a recording he made in retirement from his "Crusade in Europe" history.

*fascinating upload, love to see it!!!!*

The Jeep at 13:22 is now at the Patton Museum at Ft. Knox here in Kentucky. All that is left of the armor museum there is this small building showing all of Patton's equipment and writing. The armor was transferred to Ft. Benning some years ago but I am pleased to have seen most of it while I was soldering at a Drill Sergeant School at Knox back in 78.

well this is rare, they actually gave us Canadians credit and not saying the British or whatever , but actually THE CANADIANS!! very nice

Great video, very different than I thought

Great Documentary. Thanks.

What a beautiful documentary film. And I haven't even watched it for a minute!

Bless those American soldiers for holding strong

Haha that guy smiling watching the French girl go by on her bicycle 🤣

I also met a tool maker at a shop in Akron, Ohio. 1996. At 6 and 7 yrs. old, he and his classmates would march on the side walks next to the troops.

Interesting for watching 👌🙏😊

A good old documentary and none of that stupid loud military music! Thanks. Also, the narrator acknowledged a few times that the USA actually had some allies, specifically a mention about the Soviet Union and their massive attack on Jan 12th. However, it's not mentioned how Germany had to immediately pull out many top German formations away from the West to fight the Soviets in the East.

Patton was a genius.

Great reference about the waning months of the war. The outcome was not decided, the battles had to be fought.

Haegenau and Foy were just brutal battles! The 101'st Screaming Eagle's held Bastogne without armour. The great General Paton knew what to do when no one else did. He turned his army 90 degrees and marched 100's of km.

Wonder why the screen grows blurry 3/4 of the movie?

"Gory-Gory what a hella of a way to die"🎵 101st Airborne Div!!

Patton guessed their move.

Thanks but I wish the video wasn't so glitchy.

at 2:49 its funny to see the soldiers reactions to the field rations. first one seems unsure. the second, definitely doesn't like it

This videos not only contains Battle of Bulge but another battles

It would appear there is some editing.

Ah, you have the wrong year in the caption, although it is correct in the description.

This would be an awesome video colorized and rendered to 4K

Adennes, 1943? You might want to change that title.

Patton's tanks were east of the Elbe River but were forced to withdraw because of the Tehran Accords. This set up the coming Cold War and the Iron Curtain.

Parts of this video showed,TRUE urban combat.

Cool dude this has inspired me to become a solider and die somehow during combat .

Montgomery and Bradley were given command over Patton which was in my opinion a terrible decision.

Amen!

American Soldier: "ENEMY INBOUND! DEFENSIVE POSITIONS!"

the furthest German advance was from the whermacht not the SS

My Dad was there. He carried a machine gun from France to Czechoslovakia.

I think you have the year wrong in the title.

Why does the title say "Ardennes, 1943"? It took place in late '44 and early '45.

At around 1:15 in this video what tracked gun was that? It's cannon would of been huge!

15:38 30 tons ice skating was fun to watch

Masya ALLAH Tabarakallah Pintarnya Menghibur 😮

Excellent quality of hype video about Excellent logistics administrators of US army during WW2...

Funny how, apparently, they used to call it the ¨Alliance¨ back then. We´re more used to the Allies.

Why is 1943 in the front picture? Isnt it 1944/1945!?

Thank god for The Marshall Plan!

Why is the GI sitting in a French restaurant sitting down sipping wine with his field outfit on and a helmet on?

American tactical leadership and strategic planning

My grandfather fought in the Philippines he died in 2018 he and all these men would be rolling in there graves ff they saw what is happening in this country and what's happening with our military going "woke"

What's up with 11:40 when they were talking about superior American cigarettes LOL check it out

That took place in 1944/45. Not 1943

This title is pretty funny if you take it a different way....

Patton was my grandpop from 1954 two he past away he fild my head with war kill kill kill 👀

it was Dec 16 1944... not 1943

I still do not really understand why the Allies were caught by such surprise when the Germans attacked through the Ardennes. It wasn't by any means the first time they had done it, having attacked succesfully through the same area in May 1940, ultimately causing the fall of France in just six weeks.

Patton didn't guess anything! He ALWAYS CHECKED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS. THATS HOW HE GOT TO THE BULGE SO FAST. HE WAS ABLE TO TURN THE WHOLE 3RD ARMY NORTH AND GET THERE IN 24 HRS. HE WAS A GENIUS AT WAR, JUST A P.R. NIGHTMARE!! LOL

why does the title of this video say 1943?

1944, not 43....

Just came here to comment on the year the battle of the bulge took place. December 1944 to Jan 1945.

Hm, Gen. Patton would roll in his grave if he'd be aware how much Americans are currently in dire need of fighting back their 'bulge'.

6:30 14:00

It wasn’t 1943, but winter 1944

Do I even bother watching this when they can't even get the year of the Battle of the Bulge correct?

My Uncle wAs killed in the bulge everyone says he was a good man I would have been terrified

1943? Howabout 1944 instead.

God bless the USA 🇺🇲 and her eternal allies 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇫🇷🇮🇳🇨🇳🇹🇼🇧🇷🇷🇺🇳🇱🇧🇪🇵🇱🇬🇷 🇷🇸🇭🇷🇸🇮🇲🇪🇧🇦🇲🇰

Great film, a bit annoying how “allies” is pronounced

Ardennes, 1943? I don't think so.

I was viewing a video when it was freezing cold that some AMERICANS froze to death at the front lines. How could the AMERICANS and Germans fight in such terrible weather?! Unbelievable!

Did the fighting really stopped after the generals signed the surrender pieces of papers??

They should have been there in may 1940!

It's allied not alied Mr narrator.

The Ardennes was a trap. Patton let the cat out of the bag by saying Let them go all the way to Paris. Then we'll really have them in the bag. Or, by the balls. He and Ike knee the Germans worst general couldn't resist a stroke of genius.

frinking sensors of history

Thank God for all the men and women who fought and died in WW TWO>

Sickening censorship in this video! FAIL. 😎

It's supposed to be today right guys

“Allies”

It was in 1944...

R&R

Why the failed reporting of soldiers of color significant role played in this campaign? As a veteran, these war stories refusal to integrate and give credit to the sacrifice and valor of our colored soldiers, is a constant reminder of the disdain the military and white-American have for us. Despite these tremendous obstacles placed ib solduers of color participation, treatment by field commanders, such as Patton, and white soldiers, we remaind faithful to America!!!!

I think it’s 1944

Ardennes 1943??? It’s 1944. If you can’t get the date right it doesn’t say much for this presentation.

Churchill Care must be taken in telling our proud tale not to claim for the British Army an undue share of what is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever famous American victory. below 416 Hansard WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN POLICY HC Deb 18 January 1945 page

1944?

The greatest General the United States has ever had hands down!!

We can't fight the bulge anymore due McDonald's.

I shook hands with a WW2 veteran, who shook hands with General Patton.

_Time after time during the Battle of the Bulge German soldiers outfought their American opponents. They were not supermen. They blundered, probably about as often as the Americans. And there seems little doubt that the best of the Americans were every bit as good as the best of the Germans. Furthermore, the Americans won the battle and, eventually, the war. Yet at the height of the battle for Bastogne, on 4 January 1945, General Patton wrote in his diary: "We can still lose this war….The Germans are colder and hungrier than we are, but they fight better."_ -Trevor N. Dupuy _et al._ _Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January 1945_

I was trained and qualified as top infantry radioman but got there at the bulge and was thrown into a foxhole in the Ardennes! A news photographer snapped me licking a long icicle while walking up a frozen river. I've never seen the picture. Has anybody here?

heavily censored what has 2021 become? a world of nandie pandies

Why in europe they can able to defeat the enemy?in vietnam they cannot??

Yes they knew to hold for we knew the operational commands coming from the german enigma code. Bravo 🙄

The German attack through the Ardennes never had a chance - they lacked enough fuel to sustain an attack and they had almost no air force left to support the army. The war was already lost as the Russian juggernaut could not be stopped.

I don't like censored doco's.

I thought this was a diet episode.

1943???????