Wow

I am good friends with a guy named goggin and in boot camp he responded to a simulated attack at night and got caught in the constantina wire. From them on he was known as goggentina. The point of the story is what he told me is the wire doesn't only just slow you down but at night when you cut it it's extremely loud and it reverberates around the entire band. That's what caused him to respond and told him that lesson although he screwed up oily they had to cut him out. The North Koreans used to cut through their wire all the time at the DMZ and they could tell what it was coming from by listening. Another thing people don't realize this but in the 80s the DMV was not a safe place. I know one tank Commander that was shot. My buddy was usually in a bunker providing OverWatch and they would circle the bullet holes with chalk at night so in the morning they can see how many new holes were there. Then the North Koreans kept building these tunnels that are big enough to fit tanks through and they were constantly blowing them up. One time I don't remember why they went down in this place but it was like a sewer and found hundreds of RPGs and AK-47s and machine guns all wrapped in plastic. Oh he's actually one of the guys that captured one of the migs that defected and landed on the highway. The South Korean showed up and they wanted it and their orders were to shoot anybody that got near that plane that wasn't an American including South Koreans. The other thing is this happened during a party so they were all wasted on soju.

Also do you know what happened to the men that were in the landing craft that sunk? Were they rescued or did they drown?

I don't know how I hadn't seen this channel until recently given the other channels I'm sub'd to but now I'm binging the old videos and am loving it! In any case, I am happy to be subscribed now and can't wait for future content. No other channel I've come across even comes close to the detailed breakdowns of unit composition. A+ content.

@@jonathanperry8331 The sunken landing craft when it was being lowered into the water were rescued by boats and other landing craft. I'm not sure what happened to the ones who were in the LCA that ran aground, although the platoon leader and a handful of others swam ashore.

Yeah I got to admit it's shocking to know someone actually carried such setup lol. I know it was popular for snipers/marksmen to carry SMGs as secondaries, I also know of guys in Pacific carrying BAR+shotgun setup, but BAR+Thompson has to be biggest overkill, especially considering those are two of heaviest guns of their class in WWII. BAR weighted ~8.5kg, Thompson 4.9kg, and he probably used it with drum mag which made it even heavier (at least that's the logic I'm guessing here seeing that other Rangers sported drum mags too on this action; he probably carried BAR for long range shooting and Thompson with drum for extra capacity in CQC). This guy must have been of top athletic condition to keep it up like that.

I was surprised / gob-smacked he moved solo so far forward. _He was in the know!_

you weren't part of the main landing operation in MOHAA, you were inserted a day earlier in order to rescue an SOE operative and continue his sabotage mission. They did include things from the main landing operation like the town, port facilities, the fort, and the nearby gun batteries

Major Jack Grillo

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ahh man..memories

Man it’s an old video game, they did their best with what they had

To be fair De Gaulle’s CNF had been leaking like a sieve, and had already led to SOE operations becoming compromised, amongst other things.

That is why they didn't tell him, he would have opposed the invasions. Clearing out North Africa was necessary for security in the Mediterranean.

Well if the French wanted to be an equal partner in the alliance maybe they shouldn't have surrendered and then become a literal Axis power lmao

@@Syndie702 Maybe if our "so called allies" don't make an habit of arrive at the end of every war...

@@Syndie702 Yeah cause that's just easy to up and do is it. Don't wanna be an Axis puppet state? Magically conjure up two 20 divisions like a HOI4 national focus reward and promptly repel their attack and roll them back to their capital

She all good now

@@BattleOrder hope she's fine

@@BattleOrder Glad your wife is doing well!

You should check TIK 9hours-long documentary on the Crusader Operation then, way prior to EL Alamein Battle. Extremely good, filthy detailed, entertaining stuff.

They didn't field large maneuver units in Europe/Med but they did have a decent role in protecting navy and state department assets, as well as amphibious warfare advisers and some other things

They'd have more likely been waiting for the arrival of the English.

@@jacobdewey2053 Like the role of USA in ww1 and ww2 ...

@@jacobdewey2053 That's really not what he said though. But about what you said, I'll be really curious to know why you said that "a lot of people seem to want to pretend a majority of France was involved in the resistance". Being French, I've never heard anyone who ever pretended that. The French population is rather well aware of what it meant back then to live under Nazi rule. Most of them have family stories from the occupation, it was 'only' 80 years ago. And as any other countries occupied by the Germans, the resistance has never involved the majority of the population. So who are those "lot of people"? And in France, it's also rather well known that the claim made at the liberation that France was resisting more than collaborating was a political move by de Gaulle to prevent any more popular executions of suspected collaborators and war profiteers, and get the country together to move forward after a dark era for the prestige of the nation. Not to say that no one resisted, a lot did in fact, as in all occupied nations. But never a majority as you don't fight an army with only rifles, and with innocent civilians at stake. Each occupied nation has its own names to refer to. And a large part of those resistants did not see the end of the war. As it was far more risky to be a resistant than a regular soldier. And the first assassinations of German officers in France were retaliated by the execution of 100 civilian hostages. Therefore, anyone with common sense would know that it was not a regular thing, but rather sporadic. And nobody claim it, there is no national narrative or myth about that in France. So it's rather boring to see that every time someone talks about the French resistance, there is a guy like you who need to get off topic to say that they were not the majority of the population. We all know that.

@@jacobdewey2053 French résistance litteraly cut off communication from/to Normandy and blew most railways. Not even mentioning German divisions trapped in the south and who never saw Normandy. In Algeria, free French litteraly made a coup to welcome us troops.

FM 24/29, captured from the French

It's Medal of Honor Allied Assault Main Theme. All soundtrack pieces in this video are tracks from this game: first is MoHAA "North Africa theme", 2nd is "The U-Boot" (originally made for 1999 MoH), 3rd is "Panzer Blockade" (originally made for MoH:Underground)

I heard he's got tickets to the Yankees game

Think i also heard somewhere his dad's deli makes the best pastrami sandwiches in the bronx

That he makes fun of a certain Hayseed.

American moment

Google Vichy France

France was in the allies from september 39-June 40 then after being conquered it split in three Vichy France served the German occupiers a little like the militaries of Luhansk and Donestsk in ukraine serve Russia today. Initially Germany kept it neutral abroad in the hope that by being neutral it would prevent the US and the UK from entereing the mediterenean frok north west africa. Then you had FFL Free french of the Exterior led by Degaulle who fled to london and made an appeal for free frenchmen to join him in June 1940. in France you had the FFI Free French of the Interior/ the resistance. they weren't very united initially butwere united under Jean Moulin , he was eventually tortured to death by the gestapo but the unification held. They did hit an run attacks on German units like delaying the arrival of german panzer reinforcements towards d-day. After the liberation of Paris the FFI and the FFL unified and by 1945 the French were the third largesst allied army on the western front as they went for the invasion of germany. The americans here attacked troops of Vichy France.

@@AlexC-ou4ju Luhansk and Donetsk is a bad comparison pro Russian region and France is not in the mind of people pro German at is time

@@AlexC-ou4ju Moulin was actually sent by De Gaulle to put a bit of order in the mess the interior resistance was.

After the defeat of France in June, 1940 Nazi Germany split France in two, Western France was occupied by German forces and Germany established a puppet government in southern France called Vichy France, Vichy France assisted Germany in military operations.

Large amounts of the French government became a German puppet, popularly known as Vichy France. They brought over much of the remnants of France’s military, the rest going over to French resistance and the French-in-Exile

France proper was being occupied by Germany, turned into a puppet regime called Vichy France. The country was split in three between Vichy France in the south, Germany in the North and Italy in small bits of the south east

Is no France, is vichy France

The British army held off with the French army, despite it not being their country. The Royal Navy and Merchant Navy then evacuated equal numbers of French and British personnel. Then the French forces unilaterally surrendered, but the British didn’t. And yet you view the British as the bad guys here?

​@@tomsoki5738well, rearguard was mostly french, but commanded by british officer, who told no one was left behind, while most of the rearguard was actually left behind. Pretty easier to not surrender when your country isnt fully invaded though. Not saying british was the bad guys, only few high ranked british was.

we can said the same for American when you known that France governement supply Independance's movement with equipment, fleet, artillery for example to piss of British and now because the non-engage of france in 2003 for Irak war the France is a coward country who surrender at first shot

If the French hadn’t surrendered after 6 weeks, then British wouldn’t have had to evacuate

@@jb76489 the British withdraw the 24 May with the belgian army let face Germans solo the 26 the British begin Dynamo Operation to end the 3 June. The belgian Army surrender the 28 May and the french cease fire pronouced the 17 june so the british flee before the french and belgian Surrendered. I understand the principle of withdraw for fight later but the Marne battle in 1914 is due at British who don't obey or prevent allies with their Tactical movement

Vichy France was a German puppet my guy. They were not allied to the US

American moment

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It's a pretty dumb take to state that Vichy France was "on the side of the allies". At this point, there was active resistance, and it wouldn't be for another 2 days that the Vichy forces in North Africa actually submitted to the Allies. Over 1,000 Vichy troops died during Operation Torch. The fact that the assault on Arzew went so well for the U.S. was, if any one thing, down to complete surprise.

Vichy France was not on the side of the allies. They surrendered as the allied force had surprise and overwhelming but only locally. The French garrison in Tunisia let Germany reinforce and land tens of thousands of troops in the opening days. Even though Admiral Darlan had ordered a ceasefire against the US and UK, he didn't order the garrison to fight the Germans. It would have been easy as shooting troop transports out of the sky who are trying to land on your runways isn't that hard. Had he done so, the Germans would have had no ability to reinforce in Tunisia and the North African campaign ends months sooner. If the commander in North Africa refused to order the French to fight the Germans and if local commanders refused to order their men to fight the Germans, then by no means is it accurate to say that Vichy France was on the Allies side. They spent two years collaborating with Germany and their inaction/cowardice enabled Germany to prolong the campaign in Tunisia.

@Voltigeur ​That does not change the fact that Darlan didn't give the order. Maybe army units wouldn't have followed it, but there was a period where he was okay with ordering the troops to stop fighting the Allies but wasn't willing to order them to fight the Axis. It's also endogenous to the problem of his support: his commitment to the Vichy regime and half-hearted support of the Allies earned him detractors. Had he not continued German inspired laws of discrimination, the interment of resistance fighters, and his lack of remorse for supporting Vichy perhaps fewer Frenchmen would have wanted him dead. That said, his assassin was part of a monarchist plot to put the self proclaimed pretender and "Count of Paris" to the throne and not really part of any major power structure or entity within the resistance or French government in exile.

Nothing you said has any historical merit. Why do you lie? For pride?

@Voltigeur then riddle me this frog. Why did they fire upon the American and why didn't they defect to the Free French of they are not Vichyist? Whatever Vichyist means

@Voltigeur The defection of small elements of vichy forces in isolated cases really proves nothing. If there was a strong desire to abandon the continuation of the pre-wae French Governemnt based in Vichy Operation Torch wouldn't have been necessary.

@@dwarvensphere1094 For the good sake of the operation, the French Army of North Africa couldn't be informed that allies would come. Also they were officially in the side of Germany and opening your arms to US soldiers would have caused a lot of troubles down in Metropolitan France - Paxton wrote about it if I remember correctly. US guys knew that they would have to fight when landing there.

@Voltigeur except legally it was. Or instead that would imply that the Vichy French forces had defected to thos new Vichy Government from the legitimate government of France

@Voltigeur also there is the fact that a lot of them tought that Vichy with Petain would launch an attack against german at any moment

nice joke boomer

He’s probably American. They are always dissing the French so nobody points out the fact they themselves cowered on the other side of the Atlantic for years of not one but two world wars.

@@Alan.livingston WW1, no reason to enter the war of aristocratic family disputes until Germany decided to fuck around with America. Europe literally send the commoners to die by the millions and forever changed its gene pool and demographics. WW2, we saved the world, you’re welcome. What did the French do? Surrender to whoever comes knocking. Poland fought way harder against both USSR and Germany. What happened to the French fleet? Destroyed at harbor by the English. Not only did they not have the courage to join the Allies, they didn’t even have the courage to defend themselves. Thousands of French died with 4 British casualties. What a joke. What’s Charles de Gaulle’s legacy? An airport named after him. If De Gaulle is to run today, he will be a far-far right candidate.

@@JackZeroZ haha. Triggered much there. You just keep telling yourself you saved the world and not just sat back and let the Russians do the real fighting while you profited off selling arms. What’s that? While the French were doing this and that the yanks were still trading with Germany? Clear up until ‘41. Go back and read how the fascist loving elements in the Republican Party lauded the Nazi’s. While these things are true in a sense, I am of course just winding you up, but seriously, no side came out of either of those wars with some magic moral high ground. Just lots of grubby imperialists slaughtering each other over access to markets.

@@JackZeroZ The US played the right hand staying out of the wars. It allowed you to swoop in and hoover up everyone else's empires ones they had knocked the stuffing out of each other. It was imperialist opportunism at its finest.

The French who won ww1. Open a book.

@Voltigeur a very French reply 🥱

The entire history of French warfare says different.

France still has some of the best soldiers in the world but hay ig your the expert 😂😂😂

@@rumrain838 they also had better tanks in 1940 😂😂😂

@@raphaelrahman9019 France is so bad that it is the country with the most military victory in the world. Imagine if France would have been strong in war. The sun never sets in France.

Et c'est drôle?

@@tictac2therevenge291 non c est magnifique 😃

@@adelaidesngan604 va te faire aider mec

Vive la division Charlemagne 😃

@@adelaidesngan604 la division Charlemagne ce sont du mec sans repère qui sont sous le choc de la défaite et veule garder leur honneur donc combatte pour les vainqueurs ou des fachiste notoire donc proche idéologiquement du 3em reich ou des alsaciens pro germain donc ce que fait donc d'eux des Traitres!!!, car ils combattent pour l'ennemie et de fachiste pure et dur, parce qu'il se batte pour un pays autoritaire à partie unique ou la différence et un facteur d'extermination ..... donc si j'ai bien compris, tu es un admirateur du 3em reich qui a besoin de s'identifier à quelque chose qui lui ressemble pour exister et vu que tue et francophone pour toi la division Charlemagne et un facteur de rattachements idéologiques, car tu as besoin de te sentir attacher à quelque chose de fort part tes propres contradictions et ta faiblesse d'esprit bref l'histoire nous montre que tu as déjà perdu !🤣🤣donc gloire aux alliés et URSS d'avoir sonné le glas de ton idéologie qui est aujourd'hui qu'un sujet de sketch pour humoriste en panne d'inspiration...

Then how about YOU come up with a design for a NEW channel icon, instead of hanging round long enough to make another "cringe, bitch-about-this," and take maybe a more pro-active, and positive stance, instead of just finding something you've obviously never seen before, and immediately finding fault with it!!

Mom, come pick me up. Rainbow horse with helmet scare me.

@@copter2000 Ha ha ha, funny AF, mate!! Have a "like"!! LMFAO!!

@@frenzalrhomb6919 I have nothing against the main design - 2D chess horse-icon, with a British helmet. But, I'm disappointed of the channel holder for adding the silly rainbow outline. What does it have to do with the channel's content?!

@@evy2432 Oh, I get it now, you're afraid it may "turn you Gay", by mere exposure or proximity to the "Colours of the Rainbow" is that it, sweetheart? ... And STILL no original idea from you, apart from "what about the rainbow colours?" I might catch Gay from it ...

France #1 in military victories fool

All of it has to be true. It’s too good not to be! Lol…

"Defeating the French isn't a military accomplishment 🙄." Weird how you spread flat inaccurate statements and talk about speaking facts. The Free French military fought incredibly well in WW2 given the situation they found themselves in and historically France has done quite well militarily. If your issue is with the Vichies then you should specify that otherwise you just look like someone with a weird bigotry against France.

What you just said is just abominable, my great-grandfather died in action in the suburbs of Dunkirk with his entire unit to allow the British to return home warm, they fought for honor, c It's still quite funny to say that for a guy who is probably obese and who has accomplished nothing with his life, apart from sitting in a gaming chair and giving his opinion on the internet on subjects that he doesn't even know and that everyone feels sheet Pour nos morts !!!!!

@@true8007 I served for 22 years buddy, ur kin served not u so get off that horse. I have trained with the Germans, French and other European countries and I am not impressed. Poland might be (now) the one European country that could be ready. Germany? F NO! Them guys can't even get radios to work. The French think Mali was an Op worth bragging about. South korean, same... weak and unmotivated since they just buy time while in for their 24 month or 18 month commitment. Australians, a little better but only cause china is in their back yard. Taiwan, getting better but without help, they will fold. Ukrainians were a suprised to some but I even said good luck taking over that country, they will fight. I speak from experience not out of my rear end. I am retired now and I am glad that I am. The US military is also now, getting weaker with the wokeness, this is also why we lack in recruiting. As far as your gamer comment, yeah I do game but I am not fat. I suggest you sign up, pick up a rifle and put your boots on and see for yourself how the so called NATO militaries, train. It is a joke and not ready for a true war. Trump was right about it yet many vilified the guy but he spoke the truth. After all, not many of them spend the 2% GDP required to maintain and equip a shell of a fighting force, case in point, Germany. So before you speak, do your research and stop being an idealistic my feelings were hurt snowflake and put your boots on, son or whatever u are.