There's a good account of the ww1 whippet tank 'musical box' that went on a famous rampage. There's personal accounts from the crew also, it would make a great follow up video to this assuming you haven't covered it before. I think it features in the book 1918 - a very British victory by Peter Hart.

Mark how about addressing doctor Morell who turned hitler into a drug addict and the hypnotist Hanussen who made him speak like a raging lunatic?????

​@@datruth66392Hypnotized to sound like a raging lunatic? That would be like hypnotizing fish to like water. 🌊🐟

Not unusual comments by some. Welcome to You Tube. I put a video up on tower two, just video footage from eyewitnesses, and it was taken down on the grounds of hate speech. Yes, eyewitnesses filming the exploding tower were involved in hate speech. What the hell is going on?

Wehraboos malding as usual

He is the best! Thank goodness for Marks channel.

A WWII video game about stealing an Arado 234 prototype jet bomber with retractable wheels in March 1944 like Firefox is not such a bad idea.

It's not an obscure battle. This particular engagement has been talked about in many channels, and is quite well known, at least amongst those who know anything about the Eastern front, where the bulk of the European theatre was fought 👍. Edit: I would recommend you look it up, there's a fantastic animated video on it, I don't remember the name of the channel unfortunately, but it'll probably show up if you just search the battle.

Soto Cinematics? That could be the channel.@@rkang6531

'Panzer Operations' 41-45 by General Erhaud Raus. Its in there. Its a good book

Probably so, just so well trained and brave they knew by instinct what to do.

Word has it, they still can't hear a thing.

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@@IgorTheGreat 😅😂🤣

Probably lost their minds too, at least for a while.

This sounds better. 5000 seemed to be an enormous number so early in the war.

I think the war would've gone much differently if they had 5000 kv1 at the start!

​@@Mountain-Man-3000 yeee they would have been able to end the war the year they joined it.

@@kazmark_gl8652 they certainly would have been able to stand up a defense... ending the war would have entailed crossing rivers and the KV-1 was too heavy for most bridges, much as the later Tiger would be. That's where the lighter Panzer 3, T-34's and Sherman's excelled.

That's sounds more accurate, they quickly obsolete them too and switched to mass produce t34, later t34/85 which was fast, maneuverable medium tank with fire power of heavy tank of that era. Weak gun, cost, and weight of the kv-1 made em obsolete real quick and early in the war.

Professionals

@@osvaldoschilling9129Uhh okay

@@osvaldoschilling9129 You’re about ten years early for the KGB, but you probably mean something like a political commissar, who the Germans expressly said they would kill from the start of the war. I’m not sure if the KV’s five man crew included a political officer, but in the position these guys were in I think anyone would just be fighting to survive, especially with how bloodthirsty the German rhetoric had been towards all Russians. I’d also like to think there is something about defending your homeland on its soil, from an invasion by a country who’s core ideology called for your destruction, that causes men’s patriotism to swell and make them fight bitterly.

Soviet version of Fury.

​@@osvaldoschilling9129, of course, the KGB was watching them. And they were chained to the levers of the tank so that they would not run away from the battlefield. ☝🤯 Конечно, КГБ за ними наблюдало. А к рычагам танка они были прикованы цепями, чтоб не убежали с поля боя.

Even 2000 of those monsters would significantly inflict casualties on Germans, however the Germans with Mobility and Air dominance would still defeat the soviets in the early battles of the war

i havent been this early since the battle of tannenberg

Yawn

I haven’t been this early since I was leaving yo mommas house

Bravo sir

I shouldn’t have laughed at that statement as much as I did 🤣

The gravestone @8:20 shows two last names (Yershov P.A. / Ершов П.А and Smirnov V.A. / Смирнов В.А), one more is id'ed by initials only as Sh.N.A. / Ш.Н.А. and three more listed as unknown. Full names came from some documents dug up after the war and initials were carved on a spoon. So that's six in total of "the crew of KV-1" (including two officers based on two belts recovered). Yet the name of the village on the gravestone is Dainių, that is indeed in Raseiniai District Municipality, Lithuania.

Thats the tragic part. You can rest assured that if they had been German we would know even the names of their grandmothers and we would have 5 movies and 3 Video games.

@@gurumze8013 idiotic statement ! In Russia the guys every day working and found some German army soldiers and Russian army soldiers that found not about nationalities in war people disapiering that normal.

Ivan, Sergej, Vladimir, Andrej, Igor + 11 000 000 more.

But it had a lot of problems. Transmission was horrible. Weigh made it difficult to transport and do recovery and maintenance was a nightmare

​@@alurban1105Honestly it being so bad , together with almost all early soviet tank designs, is one of the reasons i really like Soviet tank development. Before the war, everyone was experimenting with tanks not knowing what exactly they are going to be used for. The Soviets did the same, and made a lot of designs from super heavies doomed from the start, a lot of light tanks that were mechanically much more reliable, but also the heavy KV-1 which just happened to be one of the tanks to make a noticable difference in how the German invasion carried out. The fact German progress was so rapid, and that all Soviet armour was urgently needed as it was being obliterated made the KV-1 not really have to be the best for long distance travel and just had to get to the front, or wait fkr the front to come to it. I may have prolounged my point a bit but what i mean is despite the flaws the tank had which should not be brushed aside, it was like an accidental winner of its own because it was the one tank the Soviets needed out of the vast arsenal of obsolete tanks they previously made.

I read about this story some time ago. Some german recounts claim the germans buried them with full honors. Other claim the crew escaped during the night.

Zinoviy Kolobanov did a similar thing on a same tank

Its in 'Panzer Operations' Eastern Front 41-45 by General Erhard Raus. Its a good book, recommended.

That's Dr. Bro to you.

I mean it wasn't just one tank if you actually listen it was a combined arms counter attack with T-34 also. That one KV-1 just grabbed most of the glory.

@@JeanLucCaptain combined counter attack with everyone else dying/driven off except for this single tank. days prior

must be nice to have weekends off lol

That brings back great memories. I made quite a lot of Tamiya and other brand's models. I never purchased a Tamiya tank. It was always the smaller vehicles I'd get. Things like the Hanomag halftrack or the Schwimmwagen. :)

If you had ‘Warlord’ the boys comic they did a decent story on this KV-1.

Thanks for sharing your memories. I for one do appreciate it.

I’m pretty sure they still make that exact kit, molding and everything. It’s dated but still a good kit

@@edscmidt5193 Their products were high quality. I loved making those things.

Partially correct. The planning for a new generation of German tanks was already in full swing before Barbarossa, but was already encountering raw material bottlenecks and planning changes that, as you said, required gap fillers. Different than mostly expected, the new and modern tank models for the planned 2nd Soviet attack wave were well known to the OKW. For this reason, Hitler repeatedly pushed for an early attack on the Soviet massive deployments on the Reich border before the spring of 1941 in order to forestall the mass deployment of these new tanks. At this point in time, the relatively modern Wehrmacht was still technically equivalent to the majority of Soviet tank weapons. Only 6 or 9 months later, with hopelessly inferior tanks, a “lightning victory” would no longer have been possible. The time window for a promising surprise attack with at least equivalent technology was very small......and there were many delays due to other theaters of war......This problem of course didn't just apply to the tanks.....;)

@mikeromney4712 l Panther did not start development til 42 and deployed for kursk in 43. German Abwehr failed in many areas such as soviet division totals, t34. Kv1. They expected to see the same types employed against Finland. Blitzkrieg is a western myth perpetuated to explain French defeat in 6 weeks. German doctrine was still Vernichtungsgedanke. Germany excelled at reusing Czech chassis etc to make Marders etc. Turret less tank destroyers to save steel. See how many Pz III fought at kursk

Tiger 1, Q. When did it appear? Tiger 1 kept breaking down. Tiger 1 needed a Tiger 1 to TOW it. BUT Tiger 1 HIT YOU YOU ARE DEAD! The Difference!

Like most Soviet equipment the KV was rugged and simple. Tiger tanks by comparison were over engineered and kept breaking down.

Germans didn,t think that about the Tiger but it i sall so throue that the KV-1 was the best heavy tank in 1941. @@braxxian

​​@@braxxianthat's how Americans and Soviets won. Tiger, Panzer IV, Me-262 are all technologically advanced but they are expensive, hard to maintain and long to train on and build the M4 Sherman, P-47, T-34 and Yak-3 were not the most technologically advanced but they were reliable, cheap, easy to maintain and fast to build and learn on It's strange to see USA and EU repeat the mistakes of Germany in WWII

@@braxxian Tiger was worse but KV-1 was also bad

What's wrong with Mark Monday?

It's not a bad thing compared to some of the stupid voice overs of some videos along with endless sound effects and music inferior channels use all the time.

Because in the 1950s England was still English.

I take that as a great compliment!

"There goes Ivan to give Jerry hell!"

@@AudieHolland -"What a GREAT SIGHT, Ladies and Gentlemen!"

Kolobanov and his crew.

Don't think they planned to capture Leningrad, only cut off

Yep, Its in 'Panzer Operations' Eastern Front 41-45 by General Erhard Raus. Its a good book, recommended.

Its in 'Panzer Operations' Eastern Front 41-45 by General Erhard Raus. Its a good book, recommended.

How is that bizarre? The same situation happened at Kursk when Soviet infantry encountered Ferdinands.

War Thunder is a scam *and* is russian based. Nuf said. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Please incorporate time stamps so I can skip passed the spam adverts, thanks and love the content.

The browser plugin SponsorBlock does that for you @@MrJamesdavies085

Have you heard of Morta Man, the British soldier who took on two German tanks with a mortar pointed at them, the soldier having been badly wounded. Eventually the tanks were out of order and the crew fled

​@MrJamesdavies085 yes, how dare he try and earn an income from his work

Mr. Felton, I would not let a company that commits fraud sponsor my projects.

battle, that "stopped a whole unit" is absolutely not confirmed by documents of germans tank division and of course, Kolobanov never commanded any IS tanks, lol

Sponsored by World of Hanks.

Or called “Fury”, starring Brad Pitt

They'd never be chosen as a Hollywood tank crew. Too young.

Sadly, I can imagine that! 🥹 But 'Hold the Phone!'. As Russian forces used women in combat, whose to say there wasn't a woman amongst the crew? I value your comment even more. 👍🏼

Instead we will see a Russian movie in 10 years that is overacted and uses way too much slow motion

Just the West doing Western things...

​Ohh! Read the Molotov Ribbentrop pakt, kid! Remember bout soviet-reich merchantry! East doing westish things? @@interpl6089

In a bit of irony Hans Ulrich Rudel helped design the A10

Stukas

Germany had much more people and resources. The population and resources of the whole of Europe were at Germany's disposal. The USSR had fewer resources, but used them more efficiently.

@@MarMar-nq9ii The population of "the whole Europe" were certainly not at Germany's disposal. And look at the casualties of the Russians, no other military would find them acceptable. Their men were absolutely disposable masses thrown into the meat grinder wave after wave. Not even a hint of efficiency, it was all volume.

@@MarMar-nq9ii "The population and resources of the whole of Europe were at Germany's disposal." Considering that a lot of Europe was under occupation and not exacty willing to help the germans this is a rather gross overstatement.

actually in 1941-43 they were very low on all strategic materials due to heavy territorial and material losses and the relocation of industrial sites., wasn't until 44-45 when the relocated factories got up and running again that they were able to start replacing all the lost stuff. Lend Leese had barely kept them in the game up to that point.

The German advance in 1941-42 took over the most developed/populated areas. Soviets actually had a smaller population than USA until they liberated territory in 1943.

Its in 'Panzer Operations' Eastern Front 41-45 by General Erhard Raus. Its a good book, recommended.

I dont think Felton creates any fiction stories on his channel.

​@@TheOldGuy2000it's not fiction, they have to use tnt satchel in night to destroy the kv-2 after day of staying in battle

​@@TheOldGuy2000It is said that the battle of this KV2 took place in the southern part of Riga near a village

M10 go vroom

Who was the traitor T34

Lovely profile pic!

Cringe

@@Narcan885 Yea so?

Plz edit again

One thing that annoyed me about history class in school is they never go into detail how much damage the Polish army did to the Germans during the blitzkrieg.

No Retrained and defeated the French and BEF

Indeed, they destroyed twenty five per cent of the German arrmour that was deployed against them.@@robertmaguire1067

The Soviets had around 600 KVs when Germans invaded. 5000 Is the total number of produced KVs 1939-1945

all of the armies of earth prepare for war. With your logic anyone can attack anyone else that owns an army.

Or they were too scared to go back home and state that their tanks were not as glorious and powerful as they were 'pumped up' to be?

​@@David-yo5wsnein nein

I thought it was the other way around? Soviet engineers went to a German tank factory and were shown Pz III & IV and don’t believe the Germans that those were their MBTs.

No it was German officials visiting a Soviet tank factory it's recorded in several books I read and magazines

You need to read a lot of real history instead of writing the deal you just did like "the T34 won the war for the Allies". That has to be one of the most idiotic statements I've seen in a while, and the rest of your comment is leaving out an awful lot that you either don't know or discard to fit your narrative.

@@killercat5231 The very fact that his statement about T-34 and KV-1 is still in the spotlight of that exact historical discussion, supports his argument quite well. What enlightenment do *you* have on the subject?

Hey, I'm a Republican, profit-motivated capitalist, from New Jersey, in the U.S., and I agree with you that many of the individual Soviet soldiers fought bravely--and often to the death. But, the Soviet system was a political and economic NIGHTMARE, with very few at the top, making all the decisions, for the millions below, resulting in a huge number of errors, in the Soviet military. This was only compensated for, by even more errors, from the other top-down dictatorship, at the time, in Nazi Germany--and the help given to the Soviets, by their Western Allies, at the time. Even so, the Soviet Union suffered 27 million dead, during WWII, partly because of so many bad decisions, made at the top, by so few. Yes, the Red Army eventually accounted for a lot of Axis casualties, but suffered a lot in return. But the Axis had no chance, whatsoever, once they were fighting the British Empire, the Soviet Union AND the United States of America--all at once! Once our Republican free-market capitalist, industrialists got involved in Allied weapons production--it was "all over"--for the Axis! By the end of the war, 70% of all weapons in Russian, British and American hands, were "made in the USA", and we had 14 million men, in the American military, under arms. Plus, we invented, and were the first to use, atomic weapons, as well. Americans fought in the Pacific, in the Atlantic, in the Mediterranean, in North Africa, in Sicily, in Italy, in Southern France, and in Normandy--all the way to the heart of Germany. Soviets were brave, and heroic--but, without our help--they might STILL be fighting the Third Reich...