Hi there! My Grandfather fought in the Netherlands after France and Belgium, and then onto Germany. He was a Sapper. He made it home after 4 years, had two great daughters. Cheers from Halifax, Nova Scotia friend! :)

The love goes both ways. We are brothers always.

@@Barnes466 sappers lead the way! Cheers from a fellow sapper!

@@flipoverlife Thanks for that! I am not a sapper, it was my grandfather :) I appreciate all you guys do! Be ell in these times :)

I experienced your generosity and gratitude first hand. I was moved to tears to feel the love for Canadians soldiers and visiting citizens 50 years after the war!

I agree. The Canadians and the Aussies did some great stuff in WW2, not often recognized.

@@pickleballer1729 Don't forget the NZ Kiwi's either plus the S Africans too but they had Senior Officer Problems which let them down a bit.

@@geoffhunter7704 Thanks. I didn't mean to include everyone, just to point out that while Great Britain, Russia, and The U.S. were the primary contributors, the Canadians and Aussies did great things, too. There were many other nations' soldiers who fought with incredible valor and effectiveness. It truly was a WORLD War.

@@pickleballer1729 Certainly Kevin the first world war was against Bonaparte Europe,Sth America Africa and India were involved but WW2 was the most horrific of them all,while we lost nobody in WW1 our family lost 7 souls and 11 wounded in WW2.

There's a book (it's an older book), called 'Slaves of the son of heaven' written by RH Whitecross, an Aussie who was a prisoner of war captured by the Japanese. It's difficult to read for the atrocities they went thru. These stats will give you an idea of the number of men that died while captured. All Aussie enlistments except POWs of Japan was 967,494, total deaths 29,999 = 3.1% death rate. All Aussies captured by the Japanese 22,176 total deaths 7,829 = 35.3% death rate. All those men and let's not forget the women who went to war deserve our eternal gratitude.

All three of my Canadian great grandfather's served in the second world war, the fourth was Scottish. Needless to say, I'm proud of my family history, as should any Canadian.

And Kiska and Hong Kong. Many forget that we fought in the Pacific and Far East!

We were the allied forces shocktroopers in both wars. I think the reason we don't have equipment of our own is the Americans were scared we'd come and give them free Healthcare smd better education lol. If there was ever another war, pretty sure America wouldn't even charge us for equipment. They'd just arm us and let us work 😎

@@ToddSauve We fought in all theatres of WWII pretty much, from day one.

I love how you added "not to mention in most of the pubs in Brittain." Ahhh no doubt about that I'm sure.

I agree however they were anything but small, they were one of the largest powers involved in WW1 & 2 they had a force of over a million in WW2 bulk of them in the Army and ended up with the 4th largest Air force & 5 th largest navy at the end of the war the were pivotal in the Italian theatre and had their own beach to take in D-Day they opened the door to Rome in time for the original date proposed for D-Day (then the US had to be the ones to roll into Rome)

@@Anderson21G it was the 3rd largest navy in ww2 behind the US and Britain

Preaching a lot of BBC documentaries don't even mention us they just count us as British people I guess

WW2 Canada. Today Canada is lost as the rest of the west.

It’s always nice to talk up your small timid younger brother. ❤️

Probably true. My stepdad, and father-in-law, didn’t talk about the war. They lost close friends.

Thank you. Your kind words are heartwarming. Let it be known that we who know history have the same upmost respect for the American fighting men. Politics be damned, we have have fought and died side by side.

Well, be happy that he doesnt had to fight at the eastern German front. All what happened on the western front was like holidays in relationship to Stalingrad and Co. A lot of people on the German West front were grandfathers and children. The best German divions died in Russia. The Russians won the war for you. America invaded when Germany was already defeated.

@@philippkoch662 “ Russians won the war for you “ that’s nonsense. Matter of fact as best divisions go the 2nd das reich waffen SS division was sent to western front along with 45 other divisions. You seem to forget it was allied bombing that crippled Germany’s ability to make more war weapons etc . Not to mention the allied were feeding Russia materials and equipment since 1942 without western front Russia would’ve lost .

@@austinmartin5446 Ohja. You send weapons. While 500.000 Americans died in the whole war (Japan war included) the Russians lost more then 20 million men. In other words, 40 Russians died when one American died. America didnt want to open a second front and Stalin was furious about it. They started the second front when Germany was already blooded out. No matter that Germany could have taken Russia, with or without American supplies. I guess then 30 or 40 Million Russians would have died. Dont let you fool by all the Hollywood movies. War was decided at the eastern front. Most German casualities were at the eastern front.

@@austinmartin5446 To the other points, best divions were in Russia. Along with the armored 6 Tank division dieing in Stalingrad. The allied bombing achieved not as much as you had hoped for. Most war factories were simply put underground. Germany is full of tunnels and mines and therefore it was absolutely no problem to produce tanks and planes under ground. Allied troops were astonished when they saw the Germans were able to produce until 1945. Bombing cities achieved little to nothing except of sometimes force a surrender (Warshaw, Rotterdam). But it never worked when the enemy had some slight chance of winning (Dresden, London). I would never speak bad of American soldiers. But the American war strategy was simply let other win the war for you and do as much as you have to do so that the Germans didnt win.

@@philippkoch662 I agree with you Phillip. The war on the Eastern front was 10 times as bloody as the Western front. Russia paid the highest price for victory in that war. I have great respect for the Russian people. I wished that we could work together better and trust each other more.

Hear, hear!

So sad, after so many years the war still affects your daily lives in such a way!

Yes I kept thinking what about the Infantry.

Fair point but this show is called Greatest TANK Battles

Lies

But the infantry formations around this battle was British not Canadian? 😂😂 was a Canadian tank brigade another KZfaq comment shittalker

@@TommyEgg-wp8is 4th canadian armoured division also contained infantry regiments, the Algonquin Regiment, for example, would have fought alongside the 4th armoured throughout the war up through the coast of the Netherlands and through the Hochwald gap. This is part of the problem with Canadian representation and recognition in WWII. Popular history waters down our contributions to "British" far too often.

A-men Jt! Thanks Canadian brothers!

Thanks mate . From a Digger who appreciates people like you .

Amen. Maple Leaf Up! 👍

Wait a minute, what you mean is greetings from the U.S. in honor of the bravery of Canadian soldiers !

Honour & Respect . Lest we forget .

I know, so I just click on the 'CC' setting to compensate. It`s not always accurate with what`s being said, but sometimes it helps.

yes the voice over mix is horrible...

@@WillieMcphee you'll have to send your complaints to Breakthrough Entertainment, whom this channel licensed the content from 🤷‍♂️

@@evan5935 no real complaints just could have been easier to listen to and enjoyable production nonetheless

It's really bad in the intro but it's not as bad during the rest of the doc.

Probably if the plaque is correct.

@@gordonshrubb7155 It is. Our historical society and the army confirmed serial numbers with documents.

Lol um the countries listed all part of the commonwealth then and some under direct control Ike India. Lol can't exactly say we came to their aid as it was by will when it was required lol

@@terryarmbruster9719 Canada was given Self Governing Status in 1867,AU and NZ in 1900 and South Africa in 1902,India and Ceylon in 1947 and most African nations in the 1950s and 60's so you are partly correct re WW2.

Canada is all walks. Colonials who earned it. And always will

@@danbray1824 Canadians are not "Colonials" they are a wonderful Patriotic People of great Renown and Resilience let down as the UK by low quality politicians and Mass Immigration!!!!

@@geoffhunter7704 I'm from alberta brother. We're filthy colonials! 🤪

At very long range the Tiger was superior.

@@lyndoncmp5751 That is true, but that's like saying a Mauser K98 is superior to an M1 Garand. Different usage and purpose. Edit* I read that wrong and thought you said "*A* long range Tiger was superior." Yes they had better range overall.

​@@LtMadden2 Case in point was the destruction of the Canadian 28th Armoured Regiment at Estrees la Campagne on 9th August 1944 during Operation Totalize. The Canadians lost 44 Shermans including Fireflies, the vast majority of them to the long range (1,000 metres plus) sniping of a small number of Tigers that came out of Quesnay Woods. Not a single Tiger was lost. They remained out of range and picked the Shermans off one by one.

There were fitment issues with that beast of a gun in the small turret that the Brits eventually overcame but was also punishing to the tank crews.

@@duncanidaho2097 also Political powers behind this. The Us already had a production going on of Sherman's with the 76 M1 Gun, 250 had been shipped to the U.K prior before the D-Day landings, and were hastenly rushed to the front lines in December 1944. the M1 also is a Slighty better gun on average.

Plus US doctrine at that time tanks were mainly for infantry support so they didn't need the bigger gun at first.

Its always government beauracracy and the desire to save a few pennies that is always the cause for our troops in having inferior weaponary and equipment. The bigger guns would have saved alot of American and Canadian lives. Shame on the US government by sending our troops to slaughterz

@@WIRobin American tanks at that time were designed and built to fight other tanks. If your a tank, and your supporting the infantry, your likely to run into enemy tanks. The Americans weren’t so stupid as to believe that their tanks wouldn’t need a gun capable of killing enemy tanks. The us m4 crews, up till late ‘44, preferred the 75mm over the much more powerful 76mm. It’s HE around had a larger explosive payload then the 76mm, and was capable of a superior rate of fire. Considering that the average M4 was fighting infantry , fortified positions, and inferior AFVs (panzer 4s, stugs, half tracks, armored cars), this made sense at the time. It wasn’t till they kept running into panthers and king tigers that they started to complain about the 75mm. The Sherman wasn’t perfect, but NO tank is perfect. The panther, for example, was less reliable, harder to maintain, and had lower survival rates then the Sherman. There’s a good reason the German transmissions are a running joke in the online ww2 history community. The panther might be more lethal, but if you can only get half your forces to the front, you might as well not have the other half.

The story starts at about 14:50 mark. I think it is an amazing story. I don't think anything else in the world would scare a person after that.

I didn't see many flying shells. (I do remember a few, but no sparks) What I remember is the sudden "whish-boom!' of incoming 88's. (currently 97 yrs old)

@@edgarvalderrama1143 May God give you honour and peace Edgar. 😉👌

@@edgarvalderrama1143 It's because of men like you many of us are able to live the free and comfortable lives we do. Makes me immensely proud of the land I call home! 🍁

Oh､Are You a German? I'm a Korean. I too like Germany､Nice to meet you!! 🤠🤠👋👋

@@kangmw94 Yes. But my surname is dutch as my fathers ancesters and the dialect of that region. :-)

Absolutely incredible. Brave men on both sides

Here in the USA one's supposed to phone call a utilities number to have them determine that there's no phone, electric, water and gas utilities before doing any excavation (digging). I'm wondering if there's such a service in Germany and for other European countries to check for buried unexploded ordinances from the World Wars Side note; Britain's Princess Diana's (RIP) biggest cause was to rid the world of unexploded mines.

@@captainjack8823 I grew up in that same region (born in Aachen, raised in Jülich). We have similar precautions for excavations. And thankfully the RAF documented their missions carefully. But it is impossible to keep track on every small battle. There were just to many... And let's not forget, you will find remains of every war in the 2,000 years in that area if you dig in your garden. The romans (Jülich was a roman fort called castrum iuliacum), the dark ages, the middle ages, the Thirty Year's War, the spanish occupation, the french occupation - you name it. In 1994 I had the privilege to meeting an US veteran from that war. As a kid I used to play in the ruins of a fortress from Napoleon's wars, in which he was hiding from the german artillery in 1944. A brave man, who volunteered to liberate my home country from the evil.

These documentaries were not mixed to be viewed over cellphones, dude. These were indeed made for television audiences.

Cos it posts other peoples content

This is a video from the greatest tank battles battle for the hochwald gap posted by a different channel who if you have seen the series posted on that channel you will realize that they had bad audio almost for every greatest tank battle video. I have already seen all of them so its disappointing when i think there is a new video i could watch but its just timeline posting a video taken from the channel ive already seen with bad audio.

Those were my thoughts exactly.... I wonder how many are still alive? Our boys sacrificed so much in this war.

Charleston Heston back then

240,000 according to VA

Timeline doesn't make these docs.

Don't forget about Dieppe.

I won’t, that’s a promise.

Yeah, I want to watch this but the music and sound effects are just too loud. The stories these guys have to tell are more than enough to hold our attention, we don't need all the MTV window dressing.

agreed but are we FREE??? We the USA have commies in control now,, ole USN vet

It is part of the evolving warfare, tanks appearing to support the infantry in trench warfare. They are supposed to protect the man from machine guns, mines, and barbed wire.

yeah, ok. were they especially heroic or something?

They also often had the greatest level of artillery support, in both wars in fact. That helped greatly. But yes very good troops, as good as any others.

yeah, I could still hear the narration a little bit

I agree.

I don't understand why they didn't try and flank the Germans and go behind them -the Canadian tactics seem odd.

Leo Major

Never happen! Hollywood could never produce a film that didn't feature American exceptionalism in all things.

@@nickdanger3802 His amazing story will remain untold by the American film industry - he was a Canadian.

@@brustar5152 Where was he born? Dunkirk (Fr. spelling Dunkerque) The production team and scouting locations were chosen before Nolan and Thomas solicited Warner Bros. Pictures to make the film.[17] wiki How much did it cost to make Bomb Girls?

@@brustar5152 Canadians can tell the story.

What was over engineered about Panzer IIIs, IVs, Stugs etc? Germany already started losing the war when these AFVs were what they mostly had. They didnt lose the war due to over engineered Tigers and Panthers etc. No Tigers and Panthers at Stalingrad and El Alamein. Just saying.

False, it was strategy and logistical problems, not over engineering

They did have grit and touched it out

War factory capacity also

Blind Nationalism and racism leads to poor planning and over confidence. Add a crazy Dictator with delusions of grandeur, who no one could give bad news too, doomed Germany from the start. Almost same story with Japan, maybe even worse.

A comment attributed to a German tank crewman was " a panther was equal to 5 Sherman's , the problem was that there were always 6 "

How many Leopard tanks did the German Wehrmacht have in these last battles?

Yeah, but don't forget about Allied-Communist tankers burned and maimed in their inferior tanks. Okay, so there's a 6th Sherman, what if it was you sitting in the 5th? I hate this narrative, that it's the numbers that count. Soldiers' lives count, that's why tank has to have decent firepower and protection, and then we can talk about everything else. Of course Stalin said quantity has a quality of its own, like he would lose any sleep about 100 000 AFVs he lost in WW2.

@@Kevin-bl6lg None

@@outinthesticks1035 20 to 1 advantage

New Zealand

22 American divisions, 15 british, 1 polish (half way through) and 2 Canadian, let alone the french, but if you say so.

In france.

Should've just carpet bombed the German countryside. That would take care of the tank problem wouldn't it?

They did for 2 month. Didn't worked. The area outside of the towns where so muddy that the bombs didn't detonated in many cases. As well as the granades. The villages where destroyed about to 80 an 98%. Monty complained once that the destruction of the towns had cost him more men and time than undestroyed.

@@Yulo2000Leyje Sadly this is war Not right Not moral but its the unfortunate thing that happens in wars, lets hope it never happens again on this scale ever time to make wars Illegal

@@Yulo2000Leyje Ah I see so, since there were no large urban areas there to obliterate and Germans to murder they stopped that tactic.

If I was in charge the entire area would have been depopulated. And I wouldn't have stopped there. What these animals did no mercy should have been given.

Americans: They're crazy! We're going to a safe spot called "the Ardenne Forest"!

@@danosverige LOL, touche!

@@danosverige Nice try but this was months after the Battle of the Bulge.

@@dukecraig2402 - Whoosh! 😉

@@danosverige No, nothing went over my head I just figured I'd hit you with a fact. Bang!!!

I guess they used whatever you could find and pick up. The Carbine is a great little firearm, I have tons of fun shooting mine at the range

I was wondering if anyone noticed. 😅

Looking for this exact comment

never can figure out why the background soundtrack has to be so over-bearing