Do a video about that one time we’re 155 Irishmen fought against 4000 Congolese

You got a cross over with the line crosser let’s gooo

Please do a video on admiral Willis Augustus Lee jr.

You liked my last message, but just in case, plEAASE do a video on Léo Major my man.

Honestly do whatever interests you that’s what has brought so many people to your channel. I may be a history nerd but certain people in war like this is super fascinating.

"Well, that escalated quickly" in armor form.

This made me have the evilest laugh

The Emperor protects

Align reticule, press trigger, make dead. As for the "it offends me" part, ask BUFF when you need to rearrange terrain. Betty doesn't tell him to "pull up" just informs him that the ground needs to go down.

Well said!

I wonder if it might be worth getting Nick to do a "Safe for Public Viewing" version and running it on a loop in the museum. If you guys do it they could use it at the Combined Services Museum in Maldon too

As an American, I find it wholly offensive that I was never taught a single thing about this man in any of my history classes in high school. I chalk it up to the failing public education system in the United States. I never even heard the name “Sir Percy Hobart” before watching this video, now I absolutely MUST read every book I can find on the man.

I was at Bovington Camp, Junior Leaders Regiment in 1969. Loved the Tank Museum, we could get in free with the uniform or I.D.. spent hours in there at weekends. I suspect I wouldn’t recognise it now though.

Bovington tank museum is fantastic! I visited a few years ago highly recommended 👌

​@@willymac5036How old are you? I'm 69 and I never heard of Hobart in school either. But, my interest in all things military lead me to learn of him.

I've been saying that the Brits invented the flail tank because they had a problem with mines on the beach. Now the Brits have a problem with idiots in orange vests. Just saying. :-)

Now, technically, using the flail-o'-doom on German infantry is one of the few times that yes, it's a war crime _even the first time_ but you can't tell me you don't kinda wanna.

@@Archris17 Sometimes when life gives you a flail you gotta thump a few guys.

@@Archris17 i mean, it's not like the bodies will be recognisable after the tanks go over them so anyway

@@Archris17I guarantee at least one German found himself meeting god after a flail tank driver saw him.

I literally clicked the notification button for this video the second it popped up

Not only the way it's taught but the information left out. It's all about controlling information.

I stopped my live stream to watch this.

I concur.

Gurl same

It was Churchill who sent Montgomery to Africa too. Churchill had a number of problems of course and wasn't liked in parliament (people either remembered his involvement with the disaster in ww1 or his other things, but he also champioed the tank in ww1), but during the war he was the leader needed

@@bionicgeekgrrl Not great on the societal aspect of being a Head of State. A lot of issues with workers rights, colonialism, etc. However, he was the man stubborn enough and crass enough for that War.

Churchill was the right man in the right place at the right time. He's still a man with many issues.

At the end of the day, Churchill remained a soldier first, a statesman third.

@@drd675 the German propaganda tried to depict Churchill as a unstable belligerently drunk thug who could be ready to go off at any moment and make everything worse for everyone, the allied forces loved the idea of this Tommy gun wielding, mob boss like leader of men who’s constantly on the sauce and ready to go at any moment.

Thank you to your grandfather for being a American Hero. Im learning now that we had a lot of badass mofo's out there doing this stuff and I feel like a bad American for not knowing this.

Oh yeah, the meth chocolate

"Hans!" "Ja?!" "Zey brought ze flammenwerfer!" "Scheiße!"

It's funny... Because it's not.😅

I think there's a term "It's funny when you're not the butt of the joke".

Considering tanks themselves got their name when British said they were water tanks as a security measure but then just kept it as an official designation that sounds about right

Hobart's Funnies were straight out of the British psyche of the time. Look up Ben McIntyre's account of Operation Mincemeat, based on a mad idea by a bloke called Ian Fleming. Or Barnes Wallis's 5 ton bomb that bounced across water. Or the wooden Mosquito bomber. Or Frank Whittle's development of the jet. Or the development of radar.

Imagine being the infantry position being overrun by a flail tank. What a terrifying way to go.

I appreciate the depth on your comment. Thank you for your service, however long or short it was. I also appreciate your double-spacing after a period.

@@Hazaerdt You MUST be an English teacher or at least a typist/typing instructor of some sort. We used to get beaten up SEVERELY by our teacher over those double spaces if we didn't do it properly. I took typing in High School back when the Apple IIc was the instructional tool of choice. Now, I put them in without even thinking twice. It does make for a much more reader friendly text though.

​@@leftistsarenotpeopletry to be concise instead of your typing speed POG.

I recall a book by a Marine sniper from the early battles of Afghanistan and Iraq who was pioneering the use of "humvee's" as mobile sniper nests. He had been working on it since the 90's, and was given the runaround by many officers who eventually stuck him with a logistics battalion. In that battalion was a man he chose to nickname "Officer Bob", a walking breathing CF who could always be counted on to give the wrong orders. When I hear about bad command officers, I now always think "Officer Bob." Anyway, the sniper's tactics worked and soon it was being used to give cover to the grunts advancing in the front line.

​@@leftistsarenotpeopleDouble spacing after a period was taught by a few while I was still in school, but it was completely done away with by the print industry decades ago and is actually grammatically incorrect. It was just something some teachers asked for because they found it easier to read.

So... Q section but for the military?

@@francisphang242 Pretty much. There biggest project was the so called Mulberry Harbours. Basically, in order to maintain the supply lines following D-Day, the allies needed harbours to dock supply and troopships, but all the harbours on the French coast were still in German hands. So, the OMW, designed pre-fabricated, floating harbours that were towed across the English channel, moored and sunk into place, to serve the allied supply chain, until the French ports could be captured.

That is the most American solution to that problem and I am both pissed and thoroughly impressed our limey cousins came up with it first.

Now THAT would make a great movie!

@@annebishop9634 One of their members especially would be worthy of a movie. Jasper "The Amazing" Mescaline, a stage magician in civilian life joined the OMW after offering his services to the war office. Initially thinking he wanted to put on shows for the troops to keep morale up, he demonstrated what he was offering by camouflaging an entire bunker in the middle of an open field, using his skills as a stage magician and the inspecting officer apparently only found the bunker after literally tripping over it. He would then go on to use his skills in stage illusion and misdirection all through the war, with his biggest trick being making the entire Suez Canal disappear.

You knew nothing because the same clique that comprised the officer corps also determined the curricula at schools around the nation. Persona non grata are rarely celebrated by the peerage and gentry regardless of how much they contribute to the success of the nation.

Seriously? I knew at least about Hobart's Funnies, and I'm an American.

The bitchy officers had probably something to do with it.

I heard about the funnies long ago but I had no idea about the tactics. You Brits, from what I've seen have some incredible engineers who are always doing quirky things that actually work. If we had those tanks before D Day we would have had alot less white crosses in Arlington

Same here, I'm a Brit and have never heard of this man

'You got trolled, you got trolled, you're in the Hague'

My 2 favourite trolls by the British 1. A British pilot escaped a POW camp, dressed in full gear, because he created a fake id that said he was a Bulgarian spy. So he walked out the front gate. The name he used?? “I. Buggeroff” 2. The Germans built a decoy airfield somewhere in France. Timber planes timber everything. It was all fake. The day after it was completed the British dropped a timber decoy bomb on it. As a way of saying “we know and you’ve wasted all your time.

Case in point, the De Havilland DH98 Mosquito.

British Intelligence pretty much clowned on the Abwehr and left it more compromised than a one dollar whore.

In gaming terms: America - Pure OP with lots of money Britain - Troll the enemy until they ragequit.

Makes you dig for more information n history because bias has caused innaccurate history to be written.

Right!?

In short, the more human they are, the harder they are to control and the aristocracy would rather control you and tell you what to do then actually take care to remind themselves that you are a human being that can do way more than what they think you can do.

When it really comes down to it, all the officers do is point the infantry in the right direction and try to stop them from committing war crimes. It's just strategic baby sitting.

Welcome to Modern Corporate Middle Management.

Sounds a bit like my experience in the trades, too. Sometimes the undeniably best workers can be rough around the edges and get screwed because others often see their own dislike of a man's personality more than they see his skill and quality

Aka something the US Marine Corps would like to hang out.

​@@ardantop132na6 I mean they loved the Bazooka tank I imagine they'd love every single one of these things as well.

​@@adarkwind4712 Marine: "I love it but it needs a little something..." (slaps on an extra .50cal) "Perfect!"

@@GhostBear3067 🤣 it's funny because it's true.

@@adarkwind4712 The marines would 100% have tried running a flail tank into a Banzai charge...

"Tankify that shit!" approach

@@Psycorde we need a tank wiafu anime where the characters are just tanks much like how those anime where the characters are boats, planes, guns hell even inanimate objects like a rumba BUT WHY NO TANK GIRLS? Imagine an anime similar to let’s say UPPOTTE full of schoolgirls who due to some magical BS or some science fiction Gobbidy gook where certain tanks ever built suddenly gets a soul, in said soul then develops into a high schooler where they go to learn and develop their tanky skills and the MC’s Harem abilities, such as the generally over inflated and egotistical abrams Chan who comes from a very wealthy family, but is a bit of an air head about is, simply by throwing tons of money at a given problem, but is someone who can be very much relied on to protect her friends and much like her cousin the Canadian leopard 2a6 can looks somewhat similar to her sister the German leopard 2a6, however CAN Chan wears glasses and speaks with a Canadian accent all the while possessing a timid and shy personality, only to become a hot headed berserker whenever she’s angry and becomes incredibly violent. The leclerc is a petite character who’s hyper energetic and is fast as hell, all the while possessing a sort of airheaded aloof sort of personality whilst having a carefree personality whilst sharing similar personalities with her Italian friend the C1- ariete who unlike Lercerc is similar in terms of personality traits but lacks the sort of energy or over going or hyper energetic characteristics of the leclerc but is a fantastic climber and is cautious around others but opens up whenever there’s food involved and gets apocalyptically enraged whenever she hears someone snapping pasta or runs away whenever chally Chan tries to cook anything Heading off to britian chally Chan is a sort of dignified and respectable woman who Carries the air of nobility around her, but much like Misaki from TO ARU NO RAILGUN, Chally Chan despite her refined personality and demeanor is in fact very very bad at sports, however she is the best when it comes to accuracy and uses a sniper rifle whilst the others use a rifle type weapon in the form well guns, whilst chally uses something similar to say a Martini Henry rifle which for those who are unaware are single shot rolling block action rifles similar to the US lever actions however unlike their America counterparts the Martini Henry fires a .303 and is a single shot rifle but is very powerful and very accurate, where Chally would have to manually reload after every shot using two piece ammunition much like what she uses in real life, whilst possessing the best accuracy she lacks any form of endurance or cross country and has a mass chest 😂. The German leopard 2a7 has a medium style haircut but also wears a monocle 🧐, shes strict, uptight and has a drinking problem as well lacking much in the way of a sense of humor and tends to not get much in the ways of jokes and tends to either over engineer or think things through, leading to Leo Chan to over ponder a joke or situation even though everyone has already moved on and left her behind, kinda like those characters who despite having a massive harem can’t tell whether or not the girls actually like him despite their many attempts to attract him he still remains ignorant towards their advances. And that’s the basis of a tank highschool anime, again be it like UPOTTE where girls are born as guns and go to a special school or you can do it like strike witches where certain school kids are given tank like abilities and are trained at a school in order to fight off an alien invasion, in which no one wonders why isn’t anyone concerned over the fact that they’re using child soldiers or the fact that the fate of the world rests on a bunch of children, the power of friendship and their absolute thirst for their male teacher😂, but hey as long as it’s not that sort of romcom typical slice of life anime where the MC, is incredibly popular for some reason or another and has a bunch of teenage girls thirsting over him with a massive rack then please just don’t buy if it’s a show simply about tanks and a cross between their countries stereotypes as well as their own culture and personality’s based in a fictional universe where aliens are invading but their only hope are bunch of child soldiers being sent out to defeat them much like darling and the frankk then I’m all too happy to see something like that become a reality 😂

I'm guessing you've been watching 'that' TV series.

@@marktaylor6491 Not sure what TV series you're referring to but I don't watch TV anyway so nope! I live near where he was from.

@@MacMeaties Shame, because if you did. I would have recommended to you the excellent 'SAS: Rogue Heroes'. It's about the founding of The SAS in the desert during WWII. It features paddy Mayne as one of its three main characters, and yes. He is the stuff of legends.

@@marktaylor6491 oh nice, I'll have a look for it, bound to be on a streaming service somewhere!

Game recognize game

We criticize your higher leadership, like we criticize our own higher leadership. There's some fucking amazing stories about the british side of WW2 that never get mentioned. My fav is one of the Scot antiheroes who literally walked out of a POW camp, twice, and told the guards to fuck off when they caught up to him, AND THEY DID!

@@the_fat_electricianI love your videos. Keep up the good work.

I mean considering how often you guys like to do that to Americans it isn't to much of surprise

@@phoenixmastm Say WHAT?! Scottish Badass:"Fook off" Nazi Prison Guard:"... Not paid enough for this shit. You know what? Fine!"

America is doing the same thing and it pisses me off! Well.. to be honest, we're awarding the lowest in the damned barrel, not even mediocre! I have to take a break from thinking on it because it is just so infuriating that it turns me into a bit of a hag 😂. Like my grandma when she got old and crotchety lol!

Here is the question. How do we honor these doers (WWII} that made a great safe society for us? For myself, It’s just about you community and being a part of that. I do think values have been changed for no ones benifit.

@@capeclint by making your environment a product of you rather than you being a product of your environment. Oh and remain dangerous and free

Hobarts rule. Yes.

Good job Mom! We are gonna need all these kids that Nick turns into Patriots because sadly we are at the "weak men create bad times" portion of the scenario so we MUST build "the strong men" from scratch in order to get back to "the good times".

Hell yeah, dropping less profanity, so the kids can Actually Learn HISTORY.

13:10 amphibious tank 14:00 road Placer tank to roll the (probably) not so red metal carpet (silly looking but effective) 14:56 weed/mine/barbed wire wacker tank 15:34 tank with bigger gun (not much to joke about that wasn't said) 16:00 flamethrower tank (extra scary if you are out in the open) 16:31 bridge tank, just drop a bridge on the hole they made 16:52 stick filler tank

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@@jwdundon I mean as a child I learned history from people swearing and smacking me upside the head to make sure I was respectful.

I mean they are good videos, but that’s to far lol

@@MKZ3003 I disagree. He is telling the true stories of how individuals made contributions that won the wars. My history classes never mentioned any of this and said it was sheer numbers and logistics that won those wars when in truth it was individual rogue men who found a better way to do battle that actually made a huge difference. Percy's teaching of his men in Egypt the how's and whys of their campaigns are still used very effectively today.

@@elonever.2.071 I don’t care if you disagree, you’re wrong

@@MKZ3003 No... No it's not. In an age where it's trendy to be ignorant as hell. Ignorance makes a population gullible or desperate. A gullible or desperate population is capable of all levels of sheer insanity. Just look at how people behaved during all of 2020. The ruinous effects are still felt today. *For those that don't know history are DOOMED to repeat it.* History shows this so damn often it should be an official law of physics! But the opposite is also true, as many scholars have said, "those that *know* history are destined to shape it." That is the power of the knowledge of history. EDIT: That willful ignorance makes you even more dangerous to civilization as well...

Fine troops the Canadians, scary bastards in battle.

@@Kili121416 3 of the top 10 longest sniper shots in the world, belong to us Canadians. #7 Arron Perry in 2002 2310m #6 Rob Furlong in 2002 2430m & #2 (unk Canadian) May 2017 3540m and being outed by Viacheslav Kovalskyi from the Ukraine, Nov 2023 with an impressive 3800m (3.8 km or 2.3 miles)

Truly the Canadians are the reason for the Genevea Convention after WW1. Salute, you Canucks.

Hollywood doesn’t show Canadian contributions because Hollywood is an American establishment, making movies for Americans. Hollywood isn’t obligated to make movies for foreigners. Hollywood makes movies for money, and making movies for foreigners doesn’t make as much movies as movies for Americans. It’s simple economics. If you don’t like it, make your own movie.

@@gloverfox9135 Canada is called Hollywood North for a reason. Most of the "Blockbuster movies" are filmed in Canada. Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) is Canadian. Reenu Reeves (John Wick) is also Canadian. Along with Michael Cera, Kim Cattrall, Ryan Gosling, Seth Rogen, etc. etc.

one Brit officer approached a German bunker under a white flag of Parley. He told the German officer he had a flame thrower tank. The germans had a choice, they could fight, and he'd have them all roasted alive, or they could surrender. He politely asked for their surrender because he didn't want to burn them all to death. they surrendered.

@@MrSGL21 I would think everyone would start telling the germans that even if they didn't have one.

@@skurdibbles7913but what if they do have one. I don’t want to fight a flamethrower tank

@@MrSGL21 A similar thing happenned in the pacific war. It did not go well for those british officers.

@@KingofDiamonds117 A sane offer does not go well when fighting indoctrinated nutjobs who want to die for "honour" . The war didnt end well for the Japanese did it.

Preach. And Rommel himself was no slouch. Hobart might have written the book on tank warfare, but Rommel put it into practice VERY well and wrote his OWN book on INFANTRY warfare. He's not called The Desert Fox for nothing!

I call bull on that one. Monash was not well known for The integration of Combined arms warfare, he was well known for making sure as hell that shit arrives in time. For example, hot chow being fed to the troops while in the middle of a battle. That speaks more about his good organizational and logistical Acumen. NOT blitzkrieg! Combined Arms warfare or Blitzkrieg had always been the wet dream of any semi-competent commander. Modern application and working theorems however, had to be reapplied and reconsidered due to the battlefield expanding in one more dimension: Air. But even during Monash's time it was a nothing but a dream. The lack of portable radios was the deathknell hampered seamless integration. All that didn't mean that he didn't try, he did likely intended to achieve the application of CAW which is why his troops noted the timely arrival of supplies compared to usual.

@@vondantalingting The battle of Hamel saw the combined use of tanks, air power (used as CAS as well as supply by dropping munitions and other vital equipment to the advancing forces) infantry, artillery and the all important pigeon. As information came in Monash adjusted on the fly as was seen when the troops outran the telephone lines.

I think dankula did a mad lads video on him

I think Fat Electrician already did one on Mad Jack

Also got the last reported longbow kill in warfare

I'm asking because I don't know: landings were in Norway? or Normandy? For all I know it could be both.

@@julieenslow5915 there were in both Norway and Normandy but in this case I do explicitly refer to Norway in December of 1941 or about 2 1/2 years before June 6th 1944 (D-day Normandy).

Ok.. I hear you … German blitz… stolen from lessons learned of British Tell me how Monash fits in Need to know

No hobart single handidly created the concept of the armored engineering vehicle. The germans created modern armored warfare to the point the US military literally copied rommel during gulf 1 evwn going ao far that they had pictures of rommel around to make people remember.

@@Banthisyoutube-zs6sx That's because everybody knows about Rommel. If you were to ask somebody if they knew about Erwin Rommel, chances are they would. Ask them about Hobart, they'd more than likely just go "Huh?"

@@airplanemaniacgaming7877 this is very true i remember hobart more for his specialist vehicles and cause i am a tank nerd. As far as ideas go Hobart may have come up withbit but he couldn't execute and i would argue execution is more important. Anyone can say "hey this would be a really awesome thing" but if you can't bring it to life......its just a fantasy. Semantics i know but life runs on semantics. Now we can blame british high command this is true butbit was the germans that said "this is some good shit" and built a gameplan around it. With the execption of the desert rats the brits really weren't that successful tankwise. Blame ot on the detioration of the wehrmacht in europe, point to the far wider use of fighter-bombers by the allies, just chock it up to the bocage. The western allies really only had the african theatre to have eastern front-esque armor battles. And thw germans shit kicked the americans at kasserine and rommel almost had the brits in egypt. But i am armchair quarterbacking here.

Mine-killer tanks to this day still use the basic mine flail chain spindle in the front. It's a perfect example of getting the idea perfectly the first time.

@@DVAcmeI think the only real next step is some form of wave or energy device that would trigger mines at a distance, but until that, the flails will feast

@@drd675 **smiles in Mine Clearing Line Charge**

That's some straight up HFY story material - "When humans both weaponized the ground and then beat it into submission"

It's a tale as old as time. happens in corporate too.

Establishment doesnt like him its sad

The book I've got that mentions the Hobart's Funnies mentions them as 'Hobart's Funnies', but yea, no info on the man behind them.

"THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE!!"

"We had a problem that we couldn't send enough bang to the enemy, so now we decided to just throw the whole canister of it into them"

Modern ish would be a CEV, right,

@@mikethurman3147 Yup! :D

Also the Brits had another flamethrower vehicle, the Wasp. Basically you take a Universal Carrier, which is essentially a tracked battlefield taxi designed to go in, drop off ammo and extra dudes, pick up wounded and leave, and you replace the seating and cargo space with a flamethrower and pressure tank. So if you were A Brit in WWII and you wanted armoured flamethrower support it came in two flavours: The featherweight and the heavyweight, and both of them were 100% going to ruin someone's day.

@@AusFirewing had a ford v8 lump and was light weight, they could take off going over hills, most bust the exhaust because when they landed they'd twat the exhaust pipe and rip it off xD

and could climb insane hills and go over massive ditches

@@AusFirewing there isn't enough money on the planet to get me to drive that into combat. It had to attract ALL the enemy rounds from everything with line of sight. And it doesn't have any armor to speak of.

@@ImezRuezOnly thing is: it requires the Germans to have the weapons handy to take it out at range, or to get close enough to use other weapons. Meanwhile you can convince them that getting too close is a very.....bad idea.

So say I'm a complete fuckin moron but, what does that mean?

​@@RickyDeanGaming8 inches but not all at the same time.

Hands down the funniest shit I've heard all month and it's the 7th 😂😂😂😂

​@@RickyDeanGaming I salute you for asking this question in my stead, if you are a moron so am I! Morons stand together!

Fully sent me on that one

Of the seven deadly sins, Vanity is by far the most dangerous it stokes Greed, breeds Jealousy, and feeds Wrath.

​@@msihcs8171 Remember Pride from Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. There's a reason he was the eldest and most powerful among his siblings. The author of the story knew that pride was the strongest sin and what it could do to a man was scary.

And every other organization on the face of the earth. People are PETTY.

It's called protecting their little fiefdoms. Nothing new its an age old problem even in 2024!

"Scientific Progress is made one fuberal at a time" is a famous quote for a reason. There is no one more dedicated to holding up new ideas than the former champions of new ideas that have become the old ideas.

Tut Tut

One hour , 63 ,400 + views .

3 hours and over 120k people came by. I tend to double dip his content. My watch time on his videos are probably around 190%-210%. Deviance due to good or bad "for sponsor videos."

7 hours. 225k

16 hours and 333.5k visitors.

@@elonever.2.071 A day ago and 401k. Awesome.

Or, like they show in Band of brothers, the british tank commander saying "We can't bloody well shoot something we can't see" even though the troops were telling him just blast a hole in the building. Tank is on the other side.🤦‍♂️ Like, yeah. With bombs blowing up, bullets flying everywhere, the literal WORLD is at war, but we stopped you because we thought it would be funny to get you to blast a hole in a house.

The incompetence of British officers as the rule rather than the exception is exaggerated. You dont get to build the biggest Empire the world has ever seen by being led entirely by idiots and duffers who dont know how to innovate and adapt.

It was also a British officer who developed the Bailey Bridge. Basically an erector set that let you assemble pieces to make a bridge strong enough to cross tanks in just a few hours. Yet each of the individual pieces were small enough to be man handled into place by 6 guys with no need for cranes or other machinery (all though the engineers would take the heavy equipment if it was on offer;).

Except HE DID NOT. What TFE fails to mention here is Hobart was part of the 'all the army needs is tanks' crowd. He literally believed Artillery and Infantry were obsolete. He was one of those who proposed the Tank carrier, and if you think that is a ground vehicle acting as a tank carrier much as aircraft carriers do for aircraft you would be absolutely right. Yes, he actually proposed the idea. Seriously. The development of British Armoured Doctrine was not down to one man, it certainly was NOT down to Hobart and Hobart alone. The man did have some genuinely good ideas, but he also has some abjectly shit ones as well. Hobart was not sidelined because the British senior Officers were throwbacks ignoring a genius, he was sidelined because he was an unmitigated douchebag that literally no one could work with unless he deemed they thought similarly to him. The guy was a complete tosspot. Laying the foundation for modern warfare my pimpled arse....

@@alganhar1 Could you point out the source for those ideas? Sounds like it could be an interesting read.

JPJ also invaded England one time

That's a "no" on John Paul Jones. He raped a 10 year old Russian girl during his time in Russia. An investigation found that the girl's accusations were founded. The American and French governments pressured Russia and Catherine the Great into only exiling him, rather than charging him. Jones' defence was that the 10 year old girl was a whire who lived in a brothel and was asking for it. Any military greatness takes a backseat to the rape of a 10 year old girl.

It is a crime against humanity that only one of those listed has a Sabaton song after them.

*Törni.

I'm fairly certain Mad Jack is actually credited with being the last man to kill another combatant via Longbow.

😂😂😂

Makes you wonder if the interviewer went home 5 years later & found a guest was already there.

You SGT was a smart man :)

Especially when his wife has a cameo. I always die laughing.

@@michaelmartin4874 Yeah that always cracks me up, definitely need and episode with her as a guest host, that be fun

my great grandfather and great uncle both served they just didn't enter France till the 10th and in July of 44 my great uncle was killed they where in the royal Winnipeg rifles there engineer core made landings on juno tho witch is cool

Canadians were pretty fucking awesome in both world wars, in WW1 one of their "snipers" (technically wasn't a real thing at that point) had the record for most kills at the end. His name is Francis Pegahmagabow (Sabaton also has a song about him, Ghost in the Trenches). My dad is Canadian, and is very glad that he got out of there when he did though.

As an American who spent a lot of time in Canada……. I still feel that if push came to shove you Canucks will raise to the occasion. Maybe not right away, but our neighbors to the north still have some spunk in them. All that being said, I understand your frustration

Don't worry, buds. Apples don't fall far from their trees, and those tough men and women from the 30s had to rise to the occasion, and we can still do that today.

Trust me, we in the US feel the same about the state of our country 😭

Im working on having older videos censored and ill launch a clean channel

@@the_fat_electrician Curious why you would want to have them censored. Just leave them up and use your other channel. It wouldn't be TOO hard to edit previous content with a little different lexicon.

@@the_fat_electrician welp THAT'S gonna cut the video run time in half! 🤣

@@chipsawdust5816 no that is what im doing like all my videos stay up but ill have clean versioms om a diff channel

@@the_fat_electrician Does that mean you’ll change your name to “the kidnap resistant electrician”?

I definitely didn't catch those references the first time I watched SPR, but now looking back, it turns out there are a few references to this. As another YT guy points out at about 20:40 of his video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nJukgdp_lqyYiqc.html, MOST of the tanks sunk, but a few, like maybe 3 made it. Sure enough, included in SPR, there is the bit of dialogue, where an officer tells Capt Miller, "I gotta clear these obstacles; Make holes for the tanks." to which Miller responds, "all the armor is floundering in the channel!" Of course, not ALL the armor, just MOST of it, which is hinted at, by the fact that faintly in the background of that very scene, you can make out ONE tank, still crawling up the beach.

Your CO was a smart men.

The flails & the bridge aren't "armor" anymore but moved to engineering companies and still used everywhere. I wonder if he's taught more there then armor school. Went through basic at Knox in 02-03 and didn't hear his name mentioned.

That's because American Army officers don't like to give credit to other military officers!

Must have been fat that brought me here.

If he was my history teacher I’d have a hard time skipping class. Lol. He makes it funny and interesting and highlights a lot of stuff that they glossed over in school.

That reference is probably over the head of anyone under 35. I like it.

Yeah, Australian here. Know him well.

Haha, yes the 'Funnies' man

Another kiwi and yes know him well

🇬🇧 Here with a Dad who landed on Gold Beach in 69th Brigade and I of course, know Hobart The Flail tank was indispensable.