I miss the old History channel days!!! I used to love them so much.

The guy with the British accent at the start of this video, Andy Robertshaw, was very much in ERROR when he referred to the US WWII 155 ‘Long Tom’ gun as a ‘Howitzer’. The ‘Long Tom’ was a ‘Field Gun’ NOT a ‘Howitzer’! A howitzer has a much shorter barrel and is capable of high angle plunging fire. A field gun has a longer barrel and fires at a much lower trajectory, but for a longer distance. How do I know? I am a school trained Artillery man. It never ceases to amaze me how the producers of these “documentaries” try passing off some ignorant fool as an “expert”.

the bloke at 0:49 looks like an artillery shell

R.I.P Soldiers ears

0:06, He can boogie down!

The US artillery fire and control network is what made it superior to other nations (aside from having more artillery pieces and ammunition at their disposal). The ability to quickly bring multiple batteries to bear on a particular target and respond to changing battle conditions. The system was made more survivable and reliable by decentralizing and multiplying the routing of communications, both wireless and wired.

Artillery brings dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl - Fredrick the Great of Prussia.

5:47 I have been on that ship and I even got to sleep overnight in the cabins when I was in Boy Scouts...

Blew my ears out the second I hit play.

The "Long Tom" was NOT a howitzer. It was a field gun. There WAS an American 155 mm howitzer but it was not the Long Tom.

more like atillery of the USA

I am a history buff, I love technical weapons , my late brother in law was in the Marine corps, and fought in Vietnam, he told me about puff the magic dragon. A deadly war plane with special gatling guns too.

I was a 13B1P. I love this video thank you

VERY DRAMATIC!!

Such a nice music choice :D

Heaviest shell at the longest range is still held by the HMS Lorde Clive which had the ww1 British 18" gun fired an even heavier shell than yamato

I love the narattors Voice

Awesome!!!!

Never thought war was this awesome!

I've been on the Battleship New Jersey and staring at those guns made me feel so dizzy.

Only the americans had artillery?

This isn't about field artillery, it is about naval gunnery, specifically the battleship USS New Jersey.

I have a few large shell casings from WW2. Think the biggest one is 112mm across. 105mm and cant remember the last one. Just to think the power that these things are capable of.

Artillery cheap, easy to use and destructive

The 155mm is STILL an integral part of our Army and Marine units. We use the Mech Artillery significantly today with all the armor units we use

0:27 music to my ears

Wonder where Long Tom's cousin Short Tim went.

USA had the most advanced artillery of the war the German guns were big but no match for time on target which from my knowledge the whole battalion could even fire at the target

Wow, that hand held wiggley video is horrific. Amatuerish.

Where are the german weapons?

So now the question , which one is better : artillery or missiles ?? and why ??

to be honest, i only watch these videos when i am full as a beach howitzer. (actual german saying to say that you are drunk, still today)

3:19 rough landing holy crap!

Want a first-hand account of what the 155 and other arty was capable of try reading the journal of a ww2 German officers experience when they were caught trying to pull out of Cherbourg during ww2. You can find it in the CARL Library. Scary stuff.

"75 mm PAK Howitzer" WHAT?!

Great. You made a documentary about WW2 artillery and you talk about SP Art without mentioning Sturmgeschutz nor Manstein. Not even once. Good job.

Damn artillery fire every 30 seconds from a Battleship? Gawd there’s no way you’re gonna survive that artillery fire

The New Jersey was used to fire inland in Vietnam, but I guess they decided it just wasn't being that effective.

How were the powder bags ignited in the barrels?

school: WE HAVE A NEW SUBJECT! me: ah shit here we go again school: it called weaponology suhan: *DAB* YEAAAAHHHHH!!!

My father was in ww2 Navy in a submarine and his brother was in a ship .

Artillery only

I miss old MilitaryChannel

About the 16" naval guns, what temperatures reached the barrel with a fire rate of 1 every 30 seconds and was any chance the bags of powder can self ignite.

155 mm gun M1 is a howitzer?

sure propels a salvo

Artillery only !!! :))

Where is gustav and dora?i think that is the biggest artilery up until now

95 pound projectile shoots over 15 MILES?? WTF??? CRAZY !!!

lefh 18/40 my fav from ww2

when area full of building get hit by artillery, after that the building become good hide for sniper, mg nest and ambushes

Field artillery and mortars caused 70% even 80% of casualties during WW2. On the other hand air bombardment hardly more than 2-4%. But of course air power had much more strategic and long range logistic targets. There has been lots of over hype about tanks. However tanks without infantry support were very vulnerable. And when artillery could eliminate infantry following those tanks whole offensive was doomed to fail. Artillery need intelligence, reckon, signal and logistics quality.

Iowa clas battleships had computers. Admitedly not digital. Analogue integraters, resolvers, servos. These fire control tables cost a million in todays prices, probably more. You compute for your heading and speed, their heading and speed, number of rounds fired, wind strength and direction, temperature, pressure, humidity, Coriolis effect and the other one pulling it down. Flight time over a minute. At full range the hit rate was pitiful, very low percents. Better at blasting land targets that are hard, do not move and have insufficient range to hurt you. Late war, get a monitor with a mahusive gun and drop all the tonnage you can on the trenches and hard points.

Huh. Turns the ocean is one dimensional. Neat.

Ah yes the great story of the priest and the Sexton

Crazy story my aunts husband was from dover as a kid in ww2, he told me that usually around summer time or when the weather was calm and perfect no wind or any other hemispherical conditions thered be a warden knock the doors and advise people to go to the air raid shelter or sometimes just hear the air raid warning and the brits and germans would be dualing with 18 inch guns across the channel at each other.....

3:10 *POCHINKI*

THE VOICE OF THE GUNS by Gilbert Frankau We are the guns, and your masters! Saw ye our flashes? Heard ye the scream of our shells in the night, and the shuddering crashes? Saw ye our work by the roadside, the shrouded things lying, Moaning to God that He made them - the maimed and the dying? Husbands or sons, fathers or lovers, we break them. We are the guns! We are the guns and ye serve us. Dare ye grow weary, Steadfast at night-time, at noon-time; or waking, when dawn winds blow dreary Over the fields and the flats and the reeds of the barrier-water, To wait on the hour of our choosing, the minute decided for slaughter? Swift, the clock runs; Yea, to the ultimate second. Stand to your guns! We are the guns, and we need you; here, in the timbered Pits that are screened by the crest, and the copse where at dusk ye unlimbered; Pits that one found us - and, finding, gave life (Did he flinch from the giving?); Laboured by moonlight when wraith of the dead brooded yet o'er the living; Ere, with the sun's Rising, the sorrowful spirit abandoned its guns. Who but the guns shall avenge him? Battery - Action! Load us and lay to the centremost hair of the dial's refraction; Set your quick hands to our levers to compass the sped soul's assoiling; Brace your taut limbs to the shock when the thrust of the barrel recoiling Deafens and stuns! Vengeance is ours for our servants: trust ye the guns! Least of our bond-slaves or greatest, grudge ye the burden? Hard, is this service of ours which has only our service for guerdon: Grow the limbs lax, and unsteady the hands, which aforetime we trusted; Dominant ones, Are we not tried serfs and proven - true to our guns? Ye are the guns! Are we worthy? Shall not these speak for us, Out of the wood where the tree-trunks are slashed with the vain bolts that seek for us, Thunder of batteries firing in unison, swish of shell flighting, Hissing that rushes to silence and breaks to the thud of alighting; Death that outruns Horseman and foot? Are we justified? Answer, O guns! Yea! by your works are ye justified -- toil unrelievéd; Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achievéd; Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeignéd; Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known, faced, and distainéd; Courage that shuns Only foolhardiness; even by these, are ye worthy your guns. Wherefore, - and unto ye only - power hath been given; Yea! beyond man, over men, over desolate cities and riven; Yea! beyond space, over earth and the seas and the sky's high dominions; Yea! beyond time, over Hell and the fiends and the Death-Angel's pinions. Vigilant ones, Loose them, and shatter, and spare not. We are the guns!

Gustav VS Us battleship After a few minutes the battleship suddenly went missing and never came back

II Heard that the US Navy is Going to Revive the Battle Ships.

I see pennywise is also a naval munitions expert.

1:01 look at the rims on that trailer tho!! Lol jk made me laugh when i saw it though, i imagined spinning rims on it rolling through chicago or something goffy like that... Also at 3:20 made me laugh, nothing like good ol head trauma as you land in enemy territory

The primary WWII value of the "King of Battle" was the American Fire Control system.

There were computers involved in naval gunnery. They were Analog but they were Computers.

America placed such an emphasis on artillery in WW2. We rarely made a move without zero'd Arty.

I didn't quote catch how much the shells weigh on the USS New Jersey...did he even mention it? ;)

Artillery are great weapons at War

These are real men

0:05 What gun?

even to date, those Battleships look more Terrifying than the modern Ships of 21 century. i look at ships in the drydock and it's all hidden nothing to see here, there's no, umm well you see, there are no words to describe, as you would with WW1 or WW2 ship there just to Awesome.

What about the railway guns the 800mm super gun named " Schwerer Gustav "

Give me imperial space battle ship yamoto!

6:16 "meta' munster".

Murica self stroking :p

Someone forget the battleship that have 18.1 inch gun with full auto loader? But, I'm so surprisingly Iowa still manually load of ammo...

155mm long tom is not a howitzer.They do have a 155 howitzer.The gun he refers to is a long range rifled cannon designed to precision fire at long distances. My fathers unit -36th FA Battalion was first equipped with thr WW1 FRench 155 the GPF. They were rearmed with the US MOdel 1 155 before leaving the US to invade North AFRica

What about the German anti aircraft / anti-tank gun that was put on the king tiger and panther?

6:34 praise Odin look at the size of those shells! We have become very good at ensuring our own destruction.

No su series? no sturm series? Only western front allies?

A component by component examination of American and German artillery shows that almost from the beginning of America’s participation in the conflict the U.S. Army had the superior system. American artillerymen did not try to combat the enemy’s artillery by building bigger guns. The approach from the beginning was to build a better system and it worked. That was clear to thoughtful observers at the time. Viewing the Italian campaign, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commented, “The enemy’s tremendous superiority in artillery, and even more in the air, has broken the front open.” During the Normandy campaign, Rommel added, “Also in evidence is their great superiority in artillery and outstandingly large supply of ammunition.” By any reasonable standard, especially during the latter part of World War II, the American artillery arm was very clearly superior to that of the Germans.

Rip our amazing wars we once had now wars are just boring drines

May I have a direct contact please?

The baked potato is back ! At 0.49

6:03 "NO SMOKING" BUT... WHY?

We had one at our post in Germany in the quad.

Flying artillery did not help in "Market Garden". It was a disaster thanks to Montgomery

you talk about artillery without the Flak 37 ?

Что здесь делает Михалков?

Artillery is king of war

one dimensional chessboard 5:25

One of These killed the father of my grandma 😢

Name of documentary please.

Here's one thing i have in mind. How on earth could they even see let alone calculate the angle in order to hit something in 23 miles away accurately completely analog?

They probably spent so much time talking about America because the interviewed American experts like that bloke talking about the New Jersey for half to the video. Honestly I don’t blame them

Priest SPAG?

5:39 so apparently few ships could match the Iowa class huh *cough* German Bismarck & Japanese Yamato *cough*

fuck ya Jersey represent

i think these artilleries can fire the bald man's head.

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2700 lbs shell AP 1900 lbs shell HE