"i ain't no pimp" - gen patton 😂

We will always forgive you Dr. Felton. You are only human but what a human you are. I learn as Paul Harvey "the rest of the story" about WWII and other conflicts from you. Thanks again for a the moments of enjoy you give all of us here who follow your channel.

Patton to rescue of French civilians injured in shelling Not something you hear about when talking about very high ranking military officers Show up after the events

I pointed out what Patton himself would have told you . I hit the like button on the video . I enjoy your videos very much and watch every one . Thanks .

One of the best lines in the movie Patton

True, especially since his wife had French lineage, not to mention 12% of Americans.

Well, the French are very dear to us Americans, and we do-rag on each other with a kind of glee that is reserved for family. I prefer to use the term Le Baguette since they are a people and culture that is way into food. Patton was fluent in French.

All in good fun though, Patton was agreat admirer of the French and all things French.

My grandfather was French Canadian. French was his first language. He served in France in WW2 in the American army. Apparently his Canadian accent gave him away and he got a lot of shit for this. He said, “Fucking frogs. We liberate their country and they treat me like shit.”

​@@gerardodwyer5908 Yes, which means he has an F card.

I saw that in the movie. Although my favorite quote is "You job is not to die for your country. Your job is to make the Other (SOB) Die for his country."

Read Patton's quotes. We Defeated The Wrong Enemy. "BASTARD"

Another thing that movie got wrong..... Rommel wrote a book on improved infantry tactics.

@@Manco65 Yeah, I wish they'd put more effort into being historically accurate, especially with the armor they used.

Rommel was an Infantryman. His book is Infantry Attacks.

Ha! Back around 2000 we called it the Hitler Channel cuz it was all ww2 lol

I just saw a video of Bill Maher trying to impress people because he does have a history degree, saying he watches the history channel religiously. I thought what? Bigfoot, UFO's, ancient aliens?

@@Henry_JonesYa it was 90% WWII back in the day, and we called it the Hitler Channel also, although they did some other stuff too. I remember some good revolutionary war and civil war shows. Old west too. But it was WAY better back then. Most pointless network on TV now.

It appears that Felton has a ego to rival Patton himself! The only favorites comments that praise him and I can't help but roll my eyes🙄

The History channel has been a real disappointment since ? maybe 2010, they could have had a series on the War of 1812 visiting the different battlefields and points of interest in North America from 2012 to 2014, hopefully the CBC did some kind of documentary for the Canadian audience.

I thank all your family for your service. I read your uncles MOH citation, he truly embodies what the medal stands for. It shows it’s not awarded just for taking life but for saving it as well.

@@jmage53 Thank you.

Wow, what a story! ❤

Patton was doom to to die with his men! Great Story and your family (though saddened) have some respite for your Uncles Actions! Congrats and God Rest His Soul🙏

Whats your Uncles mame?

I'm already getting an idea - I think I may walk into the sea....

It's about the only channel I watch from beginning to end. My history class.

Ivory handle

@@MarkFeltonProductions please don’t. You are too valuable, and it’s too dangerous with the u-boats lurking.

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You may be interested in looking up their other German railway guns Gustav the biggest ever, which had two railway tracks side by side specially built for it to run on and I recall was 800cm cannon! The mortar guns attached to railway bogies for transport, but that could manoeuvre when detached albeit very slowly had an 600 cm gun. I think these were given names Thor and Moser Karl. And I think they were used in the Eastern front on Sevastopol with success. The Germans used railway guns in the first world ward war also on or near the scale of the one in this video 280cm cannon and I think one was called Big Bertha. Happy hunting.

@@phillipchapman169 Yes, familiar with those monsters in Crimea but not with these in France. Thanks anyway.

@@phillipchapman169 Millimeters, not centimeters! ;)

@@phillipchapman169 The Karl mortar was a massive tracked mortar, wasn't a railway gun

Same. Not 70 years more like 25 but I never heard this either.

Orno: Did he die during the battle, or after the war?

@@StevenKeery thank you for asking! he lived, and was sent home. I still have the purple heart and telegram that they sent my grandmother. He had a good life, lived to be 81 but he always walked with a limp. They wouldn’t take the bullets out as they were too close to an artery.

@orno8906 amazing story to hear about thanks for sharing

@@orno8906 : God bless him, I'm glad he lived to a ripe old age and had time to spend with his family. I'm sure your Grandmother must have been relieved to have him back home.

My dad almost lost his lower leg in France when his army truck he was riding in back, hit a mine.

Just wait till you see Europa: The Last Battle

@@urwrstntmregot a link?

Right, hearing the real Patton voice is a shock especially if you're used to George C. Scott's portrayal. The producers of the the film knew what the real Patton sounded like but correctly assumed audiences wouldn't accept an accurate rendition of Patton's voice. I'll tell you, Patton would have killed to have had a voice like Scott's!

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 It is like pretty much everyone who has ever portrayed Lincoln. His voice was much like Pattons

@@gruntforever7437 Right, Lincoln's voice was reportedly high-pitched which led to a problem for the Disney people coming up with the "Hall of Presidents" pavilion for the New York World's Fair of 1964-1965. If the Lincoln voice for their audio-animatronic robot was too high pitched viewers would have found it a turn-off. So they used the voice of character actor Royal Dano (look him up) whose voice was a bit high-pitched but not too much, and had an interesting "crackle" to it you'd expect someone of Lincoln's background would have had. Having heard it first-hand I can tell you it worked! And I'll never forget one line of the speech that was made up of Lincoln quotes: "If destruction be our lot it will be of our own doing. As a nation of free men we must live forever, or die by suicide."

Leave it to follywood to totally distort history in the worst ways possible.

​@@wayneantoniazzi2706Royal Dano even bore a physical resemblence to Lincoln. He was an excellent character actor.

And it was 'nickel' plated not chrome. If I remember right.

Correct he said a new Orleans pimp at that!

Mark has had to put a post because of people like you tediously pointing this out ad nauseum 😂

You beat me to it.

@@arostwocents Calling us "pedantic" no less. Das glaube ich nicht Doktor.

Scott's voice was more masculine than Patton's--who had a surprsingly mousey voice.

@@willyboyw.5771 Plus, Patton wasn't always gruff and stoic. He literally got nauseous seeing the concentration camps (and told Eisenhower he couldn't go in any more of the buildings without throwing up).

George C Scott's depiction of Patton is nothing more than fantasy.

Patton’s family apparently wouldn’t allow any depiction of his personal life in the movie. However, they thought that Scott had captured the man perfectly.

Scott was great. Better movie than the real man deserved, probably. Everyone walks away with a sympathetic view of that old warhorse, because they didn't want to show his racism and antisemitism. And the part about Germans being obsessed with him is dubious. The bit in the beginning about Arabs looting American dead is an invention.

Patton did admit that nothing scared him as much as artillery fire. "I suppose I'll never get used to it." Any GI would have agreed. The worst part is some guy's shooting at you from miles away and you don't have the satisfaction of being able to shoot back.

​@@wayneantoniazzi2706 Às Napoleon said " Artillery is the queen of the battlefield"

@@user-km3yu9dx9c Boney should have known, he was a cannon-cocker by trade!

Big Joe: ...There's no booze, there's no broads, there's no action! Captain Maitland: That's another thing - don't fool around with the women. Their husbands carry guns. And don't forget, the penalty for looting is death. Big Joe: Loot what? There's nothing here to loot!

“Nancy, Tell me about the hotels …” “There are three, two are defended by units of the …” “I DON’T WANNA KNOW ABOUT DEFENDERS! Which is the most comfortable?!”

@@JRL6211 …huhuhuh…so many positive waves in the comment section, babe. 👍🏻

Time to play the theme song from "Kelly's Heroes": "Buring Bridges."

Take it easy @@d.s.archer5903 …some of these guys have sensitive feelings. 😉👍🏻

If FDR, Truman & Eisenhower were not doing back room with commies & the bankers Europe would be in the state that it is,

google operation unthinkable.

@@johndawes9337and Patton absolutely would have carried out that operation had the CIA not killed him

@@johndawes9337 Wow that's insane. No way Britain really thought they could take on the USSR themselves after defeating Germany hahah. And so crazy for them to consider that now and not before the lend lease was happening in the USSR which helped their war economy so much .

​@@MaryamofShomalLogistics say otherwise.

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Unlike their illustrious leader😂

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That's what my dad used to say!

There's a very good possibility Patton was dyslexic but at this late date there's no way to be 100% sure. But if he was it should only increase our admiration of the man for his ability to overcome the handicap and rise as far as he did.

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 exactly what I was trying to put our there..and he had allegedly had dyagraphia ( I think that's what its called ) but it basically means you have trouble reading signs...imagine how difficult it must've been in wartime Europe to read signs 🤯🤯

@SuperDiablo101 ---> Doubtful that he was dyslexic. Where did you get that from? He said he could not pronounce the names of many German cities/towns. Who can, except for a German speaker?! Finding German words/placenames difficult to pronounce does NOT make a person dyslexic. Gen. G.S. Patton Jr. was a graduate of the U.S.A.M.A. at West Point, New York, a 4-year institution of higher learning with very high standards in the late 1800's / early 1900's. Most people could not get in, let alone graduate from West Point.

While I am not a great fan of Patton, he had commanded in North Africa, Sicily, and France, so I find it hard to believe that German knowledge of the US Army excluded extensive knowledge of Patton. While I agree on the "need for a hero", surely Patton was what we ALL are - flawed human beings? What jumped out to me was Patton's number of 40,000 US dead as a result of his NW Europe operations. Whereas British commanders took the greatest possible care on casualties, perhaps Patton less so? / Many Americans attack Montgomery over Market Garden, due to the heroic failure at Arnhem, but forget that the advance did greatly improve the overall position. They also forget the huge US casualties in the Hurtgen Forest, and other operations, where care for one's own troops was not as high as it might have been? / Then the Ardennes Offensive demonstrated all that was wrong with the US Army. Given terrain previously used for a German attack, and a defender's dream, The US was caught with it's pants down, and panic at the highest levels. Montgomery's practiced eyes knew at once what was required, and instead of acknowledging this, it was, and is, resented. US casualties were horrendous, making Market Garden a walk in the park in comparison. British casualties are rarely mentioned. / There is no doubt that Patton thrived on challenges, and rose to the occasion in the Ardennes, while much of the US Army fought well, but it should never have happened. That it happened at all, is due to failures at multiple levels of all commands. / War is full of surprises, and the Germans were masters of war, achieving complete surprise. To do this, given allied air superiority, access to German ciphers, and the largest intelligence-gathering apparatus up to that time, is the measure of that achievement. /

That seems to have been a common thing throughout the forces on most sides. My father was in the British Army Royal Corp of Signals in WWII and he was at Monte Casino. He really would only give out very very scant details about that and other aspects of the battles he was involved in. Sometimes it was just the funny stuff, like going fishing with German potatomasher hand grenades. He never would open up about anything grim.

sadly so many people are Hollywood historians.

Austrians would say - that is for not pronouncing Austrian cities correctly 😁 Greetings from an Austrian in Austria.

friendly fire was on

@yesyesyesyes1600 fancy bavaria

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Anything with George C Scott I watch his scene. A sad shame he should have played as the captain of the Titanic in James Cameron's version then Bernad Hill.

@@RoyJNg He did play Captain Smith in the Titanic mini series (1996) that came out right before James Cameron's Titanic.

Do not forget to mention "General von Steuben" under George Washington... and Admiral Chester Nimitz who spoke fluent German... 😂

@@stubi1103 Certainly, so many to choose from!

Already have years ago

War is hell. Many soldiers have died because their commanders were too cautious and hesitated too long out of concern for their men.

Task Force Baum was the worst thing Patton ever did, in my opinion. Pretty hard to forgive. Impossible to justify.

@@BruceK10032 My father (still with us) was there. He and another guy got separated from the group. The other guy tried to swim across a small canal and disappeared in the current, which was much stronger than it looked apparently. My future-father was alone, first thing you MUST DO is get rid of all weapons and ammo. If you didn't do that, the German snipers had a field day. Task Force Baum is the most obvious of Patton's excesses but certainly not the worst by any means. Patton was a monster, would not be surprised if his demise was a "hit" because his prosecution as a war criminal (would have probably happened 5 or even 10 years AFTER the war) would have been painful to all the families and the nation. He delighted in dead soldiers, more the better.

Zero chance Patton would have been court martialed after the war.

You're obviously not a Patton fan. Who do you think is the biggest prick - Patton or MacArthur? I know, not an easy one. My favourite US president is Truman, because he had the balls to sack MacArthur. Oh, he was also penniless when he left the White House.

Generals on the winning side don’t get prosecuted for “war crimes.”

Eisenhower extended the war with the Broadfront strategy.

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- Eisenhower believed the best way to defeat Nazi Germany was a broadfront strategy that essentially 'gobbled up' the nation, leaving no possibility for German flank counterattacks. Imagine a virus slowly enveloping the entire organism. Eisenhower could not predict from where or towards what any German counterattack might form. Therefore, preventing it by overwhelming territory prevented that, forcing the remaining German military forces backwards, taking more casualties and becoming restricted in movement. It was a slow, bloody grind, however, that was controversial in its own. That the Allies won the war in just a few months put paid to the controversy over whether a broadfront strategy was the best or whether the rapier thrust advocated by Field Marshal Montgomery would have been faster. Certainly Montgomery had had his chance with Operation Market Garden. Had Market Garden worked, the advantages for the Allies would have been immense. The Allied Army Groups would swing north and down through the heart of Nazi Germany, possibly ending the war before Christmas 1944. But so much bad luck, ill fortune, bad timing, loss of a crucial bridge and the slow slog of the British 30th Army (basically a tank and motorized army) made it seem the Fates intended the war drag on longer until the end of April when Adolf Hitler took his own life and the final unconditional surrender of May 8, 1945.

But Eisenhower had to be half politician and half military. He had the tough job to keep the allied commanders together, and communicate the war results to the American president and people. I think he did a hell of a job! ❤

The goal of quickly liberating France from occupation required a broad front. When Eisenhower did allow Montgomery the resources for Market-Garden, it didn’t go well. We can speculate those resources going to Patton would have militarily been a better choice. However this was a coalition war. Eisenhower was chosen precisely because he could manage a coalition. However War is politics by other means. Eisenhower was politically adapt.

@@Idahoguy10157 I doubt they would have been a better choice considering the gains that would have been made seizing the Industrial heart of Germany in the North. The South was mostly irrelevant. The Broad Front failed with Market Garden, it continued to fail with clearing of the Scheldt Estuary, 6th Army Group proved its failure in the slow process to secure the Alsace region, it went on failing as the 3rd US Army banged it's head against the fortress of Metz for three months, and it was still failing as 1st US Army fought a WW1 style pointless battle of attrition in the Hurtgen Forest when the Ardennes Offensive was launched.

Mark left off the word “American.” He was the only American general the Germans feared.

@@PaulMcElligott they never heard of him till Metz and that was a clusterphook

Yeah, I noticed that too. First and only time I've seen that one.

Had sirens on all his vehicles

Me too.

Great book!