Just like it witnesses, ask any policeman

How is it they toss around titles for running around a track but this young lady, who spent so much time in war zones that her appearance jokingly became a precursor to "Invasion", gets nothing.

Kraxus - you think CBE and DL are "nothing"?

@@kraxus03 She's neither young, not under appreciated. She's over 70, and was awarded an OBE and CBE.

@@kraxus03 I'm a bit confused, how is she considered jokingly, I say this because you replied under my comment, I thought she was a great narrator.

It was the media who made it a joke that if Kate appeared, there would be action .@@joebudde3302

1 - Company 3 - Platoon 1 - Team The number identifies the tank within the structure of their unit. Number 1 is also mostly assigned to the platoon commander. The callsigns on the radio nets are the same as the number on the turret. On the company net you would call 3-1 to reach the tank, while the brigade would call 1-3-1. Within the platoon net you would just call -1. For some strange reason the brigade would want to talk with the gunner on 131, they would call for 131-2, with the commander being 131-1, driver 131-3 and driver 131-4. With the Tiger having 5 crew members, this would be a little bit different but the structure would have been the same. So definately not a random number :-)

Rolf Nilsen r

@@rolfnilsen6385 Thanks for the breakdown, makes a lot of sense.

@@rolfnilsen6385 Had no idea, thanks very much for the explanation.

@@rolfnilsen6385 Thank you. Learn something new every day.

LMAO... Still laughing while commenting :)

Next on History Channel: The secret Alien Hitler advisor.

@Captainconkerboy1 But, but, Pawn Stars is good tho, totally not staged.

Premièring on History / National Geographic Channel: 'Hitlers Secret Nazi Hunt for the Lost Evil Alien Jesus Treasure Code' Written and narrated by Moishe Jehuda Produced by Subvetec Global inc

glad to hear you enjoyed this video

Not even called the History Channel anymore. Just History.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

She adds a welcome addition to the Historians able to tell a good story that makes you not only watch it to the end but to save to your favorites to re-watch and share with friends. She is a rare find for a woman to be interested in Tanks and that you don’t have to have greasy hands and smashed knuckles to enjoy and understand these things . She is one of us who Hate war but love to study it !

Great balls of steel?

Mike Gerringer titanium plated tungsten balls!

An honest comment by Mr Gerringer. Thank you

ALL PIAT operators were heroes. The PIAT launcher weighed more than 10 kilos, and had only a weak propellant charge, which meant that it had extremely short range for an Anti-Tank weapon - 60 or 80 meters. And the shell, with it's awkward contact fuse on a stem, required a straight-on hit, to be effective(the one fired at Tiger 131 glanced off and was ineffective.)

@@DavidSmith-ss1cg If you look at the German systems, the range on those were actually about the same as the PIAT, its range was comparable, and often greater than the systems most commonly used by the Germans. Sure, the PIAT had disadvantages, it was, as you said, heavy, and to reload it you had to compress the spring, which was not an easy job, especially if prone, and a recoil that has been described as various versions of horrible, however, it also had some advantages. The propellant charge was only part of the launch system, the other part was the aforementioned spring so it had little to no back blast, which made it VERY difficult for the enemy tank crew to spot where the PIAT operator was, it was also relatively quiet in comparison to a bazooka or a panzerfaust. It could, unlike those two, be used in confined positions due to the lack of back blast without cooking the rest of the occupants. It really was not a bad system, it had no real future though, as technology got better systems like RPG only got better, but the spigot mortar style system of the PIAT could never really be developed beyond a certain point.

Everyone forgets, England could have lost the war at this point. Fear of lose...... Discipline, courage, honor, are all shown here.

What other choice would they have?

Yea and imagine if you were the first squad in the attack! U have to push the objective and draw all the fire on our selves! The size of balls those guys had was astronomical!

Tigers weren't the only tanks the British and Commonwealth Troops faced in the open terrain of the North African Desert.

@@knutdergroe9757 the UK or Britain mate not England

I agree that it is brilliant, however, nothing beats the 'stash of David Fletcher. He stars in the best videos they make...

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Tiger was a good tank, until it met the IS-2, then it was just in pieces.

@@SMGJohn IS-2 wasnt that good.

@@curious5661 Reality shows a different story tankarchives.blogspot.com/2013/03/is-2-vs-german-big-cats.html?m=1

@@SMGJohn it's unreliable though

I think the tiger and is2 were both equally unreliable, but each had their advantages. A German crew would most likely have more training/ experience, and so would be able to perform advanced tactics. A Russian crew may not be as skilled, but their armor was slightly more protective and hits were more survivable.

Alpha Jawline on that man. 💪

I say old chap, I don't ALWAYS capture Jerry Tanks, but when I do they're bally Tigers ! @@charris5700

At first I believed it was an actual Tiger, found somewhere. It looked the part. But the one in the film looks fine, and convincing.

But the fighterplane, a Harward, like a poodel, trying to look like a doberman

@@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188 mo

Was funny when Oddball hit the Tiger with Paint!

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Tacticalsquad 5 ah fellow man of culture yeeeeeeess

From "Many Miles Away" perhaps?

@@endlesnights3817 You fool! It is his Majesty, Lord Squire who quote'th such word!

…and the crew surrendered to join the Coldstream Guards.

Jim Leonardson To get some proper training

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Working as a civilian for the Dutch MOD, I suspected that military men were keen to go to war. But time and again, they told me that they were the last ones to warmonger as they knew exactly how terrible war is. That is food for thought. Any comment with the words "glory" "national pride" and the like are from people who simply are ignorant.

You're making it sound like tanks have a mind of their own and killed people. It's a machine, and just like any other machine there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a "fanboy" of it.

@@sam8404 Clearly you dont have a clue about war and death in war. I wont waste time trying to convince you otherwise. You seem to be the essence of a "fanboy".

@@jammer3618 calm down you manchild, get off your high horse. Guns/tanks don't kill people, people kill people.

@@sam8404 I noticed that one loses any sense of objectivity as a fan and idolizes the object of affection. A typical example is that the idolized object can do no wrong.

Oh look, it's a damn tank pedant. I mock you guys in one of my own comments.

Fuzzy Dunlop hm?

Yeah, you're in a Tiger with a 1km range so you charge the puny Sherman's....... At the end none of those SS guys had Panzerfaust no? lmfao

@@LordInter Tbh they had two 76's in the platoon and could just of easily have taken out the tiger, infact Fury fails to penetrate the tigers front plate before the tiger begins it's unrealistic ricochets on Fury. The Shermans didn't need to advance, nor go round the back of the tiger either ad testing showed the american 76mm M1 could take a tiger out frontally at 1000m.

@@willmarcheselli1986 this is a good point

David Fletcher always wins that one sir...but this is one of the best for sure and Kate was brilliant!

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i thought the same thing. after all it's a tank. it can move. I keep wondering why they don't consider that possibility... it seems a pretty naturel assumption to me

also given the very limited and slow production of Tigers, hom many Tigers are there possibly going to be in a radius of 10 miles?(of cours his churchill could have been knocked out by a 88Flak 38 or Pak 43 (idk if they had the pak yet tbh) but we don't know that)

That's what they were implying at the end of the video.

I mean the tank regiment of tiger 131, 504th Schwere Heerespanzerabteilung, and the tanks that lead the attack on Djebel Djaffa were the same batallion, although that doesnt mean they were the same tanks

Hmm seams plausable

Actually, if referring to Tigers and Panthers, my money's on mechanical breakdown, not enemy fire...

That's what I call performing a Monty!

@@Alopex1 or enemy fire knocking a faulty part inside loose enough to break

You've forgotten anti-tank mines, which were a major cause of tank kills.

'you can be sure that tanks and pilots will claim anything that was destroyed was done by them, by orders of magnitude. ' lol, why do you think that German pilots and tank crews usually top the charts for most kills by several times the runner up? The Nazis were reportedly very fond of inflating kill scores to make their military look more deadly.

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A captured captured shhad been short 75, that retrofitted into a German mount - complete with twin skin crew splinter shield.

Nya?

OwO Miwitawy Hwistowy Wisuawized

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Well hello there, MHV, kinda expected you to be in the comments to be honest.

Guten Tag, Herr Doctor Professor Military History Visualized, what a surprise to see you "catting around" the Tank Museum's comments section. I wonder if you think that the crew of Tiger 131 was unimpressed with the 6-pounder hits from the Churchill tanks - at only 57mm, those shells may have reminded the Tiger crew of the 37mm guns(the "door-knockers") that the Panzerwaffe faced in 1940 in France. And then, the hit - from a German 75mm, a famously vigourous round - convinced them to bail out of their disabled Pzkw VI, whose electrical system was temporarily disabled. However it happened, this tank is now at the Bovington Tank Museum, and you may have been allowed to climb on it, and maybe to get inside. This vehicle, and it is surprisingly heavy, is an example of the German military technology of the Nazi era at it's most considerable height. This metal beast is an example of why the whole world had to gang up on the Germans to defeat them. I'm subscribed to your channel for a few years, now. So now the world knows the whole story of the capture of Tiger 131. It has taken a long time, but this epochal event is now entirely understood, like the deaths of the Red Baron, or Michael Wittmann. Good Fortune attend you, and keep up the good work, with your KZfaq empire(!).

Those guys have more balls than i have.

Don't rain on the Brit bias its all they got :)

She said it was the first tiger captured by the western allies intact

@@aidanmatthews1175 yes she said that at 1:12

@@heldk7357 Well I guess saying "Western Allies" doesn't meant anything. Apparently the Soviet Union is part of the West in your bias.

@@dyu8184 When I wrote "00:10", I was referring to the point 00 minutes and 10 seconds into the video.

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While a cool tank, I'd say the Panther is my favorite tank, even though it had a smaller gun and less armor, it had the advantage of being a good bit faster, and angled armor of course.

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@Gus Goose I don't mean to put you out, but I don't think that's applicable in this case, since both 'won' - if anything this is more of a 'those who wish to write the history books write the history books'. Additionally, I find the saying itself to be flawed - it'd be much more accurate to say that 'the survivors write the history books' because in two prominent examples - the American Civil War and the Second World War - the official historiography was written heavily by the losers. The American Civil War was eventually rewritten within the American popular memory in the early 20th century by the history movement known as 'Lost-Cause revisionism' in which the children of Confederate veterans largely wrote their parent's stories in an attempt to reframe the confederate cause as heroic and just, if doomed - it's only very recently that this has lost favor with the everyday American in the popular historiography. Additionally, the West's narrative of the Second World War - particularly as it pertains to the war in the East - was heavily influenced by German generals such as Manstein and Halder. Manstein wrote an influential memoir while awaiting trial (I believe he was executed if I'm not mistaken) and his was part of a whole genre of 'nazi memoirs' which fascinated the Western public - almost morbidly so - this is the same sort of fascination which had people campaigning for Speer's early release. Halder actually became the US Army's official historian of the conflict. Since the Iron Curtain had descended, there was little counter-claims and criticism coming from the Soviet Union and so the German accounts (until the renaissance in the early 1990's with the Russian archives opening to Western historians) held a virtual monopoly on the history of the Eastern Front - in fact we call it 'The Eastern Front' mostly because that's what the Germans called it. The Ostfront. These are examples of the 'losers' writing the histories so I've had a hard time reconciling the saying with reality.

This likewise extends to the Mediterranean theater - in the dealings of the Italians and the Germans, the West almost completely came to rely on the German side of things and almost unconsciously disregarded the Italians - for quite a few reasons I wont digress into - this led to the conception of the Italians - well, as we regard the Italians in the war as the Germans used them as scapegoats for their own failures. Blaming things on them which, when put up to scrutiny, appear much more nuanced. One example would be that the Italian snafu in Greece holding back the Germans, and thus it is their fault that Barbarossa failed since they could not complete the offensive before winter. This view neglects to mention that the weather itself - the Rasputitsa - held back the Germans to a considerable degree. Much more-so than the Italian misadventure in Greece. This also ignores that being able to capture Moscow may have been a false victory that would not have led to Soviet capitulation (interestingly, the 'if we only captured Moscow!' view is another trumpeted by the German Generals when even Hitler knew the real prize was the oil held in the South) and it also ignores that part of the blame for the poor timing of the Italian campaign was the fault of the Germans themselves, as they neglected to communicate effectively with the Italians and both sides were generally mistrustful of the other. In this instance, it was not only that the 'Losers' wrote the history, it's that their views were accepted even over other 'winners' in this case Italy. In fact, the junior European allies of the Axis were almost universally disregarded until recently. Simply because nobody outside of the region seemed to care much to challenge the traditional German view.

@Gus Goose “History is written by the victors” is a lazy argument that is usually deployed in the absence of historical evidence to defend claims about the past.

@@fuzzydunlop7928 the lost cause narrative of the Civil War is nauseating especially since I have ancestors from both of my parents sides who were escaped slaves who fought for the Union. One of them was killed during the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863. World War II has so many variables it's uncanny. Folks are still finding out about stuff that happened during the war. My father told me about what went on during his WWII service. He was a tanker with the 761st Tank Battalion. They too went up against Tiger Tanks. I remember my father telling me that he saw a Tiger Tank blow up two Sherman Tanks with one blast. And like other tankers he said hitting it was like throwing oranges at it unless the Sherman went for the engine in the back.

*WE DIDINT EVEN SCRATCH EM*

as an american i never heard of her. in looking her up i can see she is a woman of great character

So true and so funny!

The 131 was already fired at....does that count?

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those nazi sympathizers don't know sh*t about history.

Not quite sure how that makes them Nazi sympathizers. If anything, it would make them allied/Democratic sympathizers for saying Western allied captured it instead of the Communists.

Well good thing they specify this one was the first capped by the Western Allies.

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@@thetankmuseum I think I have seen them all a couple of times :) Keep them coming and I'll keep watching! Cheers!

There was probably a mistake on exactly what was captured. Possibly a panzer 3 or 4 misidentified as a tiger.

@@jasonirwin4631 Or the for that weeks mini-campaign of battles, Djebel was the nearest main location compared to Hill 174, and so someone remembering where they was specifically looking at a non-wartime map years later after the maelstrom of combat, would more likely spot Djebel from their memories - IMHO.

That's a really important question. At the moment, it looks like the Djebel Jaffa Tiger is "712" which is in the USA. But we have inconclusive evidence.

@@jasonirwin4631 the Panzer IV and Tiger I have uncannily similar silhouettes especially since the former was eventually fitted with a longer 75mm gun.

I think you mean "under engineered". "Over engineering" something means to make it very efficiently and otherwise to exceed requirements..."over engineering" is the opposite of poor engineering.

I’ll stick with my smle and Matilda II.

@@PeteCourtier I prefer the P14, vastly superior to the SMLE.

Duke Craig I’ll cover you with my Webley service revolver! Hang on, maybe the vickers heavy machine gun would be more suitable.🤡🤪

@@PeteCourtier Oh man, I love those Webleys.

No Tigers were captured intact by the Russians there. The Germans self destroyed them. The Soviets didn't capture their first intact Tiger until 1943.

If they were close and in the middle of an advance. I'm leaning towards they were shot down either way.

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That's very relevant info. Can you tell us the source?

Yhe UK couldn't get kicked out it has a veto and controls too much of it (oh the irony) lol

Lord Inter Who cares about your veto. Start driving on the correct sides of roads. And stop digging tunnels from your Island.

Don Jonson Probably working too much with the Polish 😂

It's a box with a gun

One Inactive Boi no all German tanks

@@chadjustice8560 exactly

It's pretty ugly on the inside though

@@mladtheimpaler Every tank is ugly on the inside.

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It was stated that the crew panicked, meaning that they were probably inexperienced.

Perhaps they were inexperienced and simply panicked.

A decision taken in haste that obviously cost them their lives. A desperate act of instinct.

I mean, the transmission probably shattered like glass when anything larger than a .50 cal hit it xD

6ft from enemy lines, several Churchills with 6pounders closing all around the front, maneuvering to take cover behind a ridge in the middle of a bunch of hostile infantry, when they get hit twice in quick succession, once with a piat, and then an almighty bang on the other side which jams the turret in place, probably hellish noises and more coming from the traverse motor, with the tank still poking slightly over the ridge and unable to return fire. You can reverse your chuffing huge shell magnet away making it the biggest target on the battlefield as soon as those Churchills get to the ridge, or you can bail while you’re partially in cover and take your chances. I suspect any of us would have bailed, panic or not. The Tiger tank is strong, but it’s not impervious.

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