as long as they're not fighting emus.

@Slim Jim A few days ago there was a quiz show on British television called 'Pointless' The category was 'Australian Birds' It involved showing photographs of birds (feathered variety) and putting the name underneath with alternate letters missing. The first one was a long necked critter with the letters E-U underneath. Of 100 people asked, how many got I right? I assumed around 96. Actually, Fifty bloody five.

@@doaftheloaf lmfao.... those emus were bloody tough and won the war

You bet, mate, just like us frozen Canucks. btw, the word is 'harsh'. as in difficult, not 'hearty' as in sincere and warm or 'hardy' as in manly and brave.

@@goldbug7127 that's true. And you've got to know that they're good fun Neighbors when you can call their Canada geese by saying "Who wants beer, eh?".

Lol...

No. Actually it was Generals Mud and Winter!

@@despinoladasilva Maybe Hunger was still just a colonel. Added in edit: and of course, the United States had General Motors.

germans lost the war because soviets outsmart and outproduce them

Germany man for man probably had the Best military in the world man for man, but the Soviets had way more man power and tanks and economic resources to fight a long drawn out war. Germany expected to fight a quick and decisive war. Germany didn't have enough fuel and oil and didn't even have winter clothing in the first year of operation Barbarossa. Even after capturing millions of Russians in the first 6 months and completely dominating them, Germany failed to fight this long drawn out war. As a result operation Barbarossa was a failure.

if only their leaders understood the price of life

I hope we can hold out during the next war. It is coming.

@@sarcasmo57 most likely the war against the ccp in the west Pacific

@@sarcasmo57 The government doesn't care about a war, out submarine fleet is understaffed and our surface fleet is way too small. China if just going to buy all our businesses until we practically ARE China... we need to find a new trading partner ASAP so we can stop China from bullying us!

Australia is pityful these days.

Your Australian government have turned commie it appears. Took your gun rights years back now they take your hall pass.

Why did you do every flag except the Union Jack?

Hitler's "special operation"

It failed because Hitlers racial and political theories were nonsense and logistics.

3.5 million dead Germans vs. 27 million dead Russians

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To prove what ...?

There are many books about it... EDIT: I'm halfway through this documentary and there's no mention of Russia yet 😂

Russian's we're ready for the brutal winter - Germans I'll prepared .

Reference Auelutian Islands.

As a modern day Aussie veteran what actually breaks my heart, is the fact that Patton was assassinated for wanting to take the USSR. Once the German's & Japanese where defeated, Patton wanted to take out the commies. How things would be different today if Patton was allowed to continue with his campaign. Unfortunately it never happened & we're dealing with today's current situation because of it. Yet thankyou my friend.

@@saltyaussie7702 it would've gone very badly. Had hostilities broken out, the reds had the equipment, manpower and supplies to exterminate the allies in mainland europe. The only advantage the allies held was in long range bombers, which would be unable to reach the soviet industrial centers feeding war machines into the fight. We also had only 1 nuke remaining out of the 4 which were produced and Stalin had already infiltrated the Manhatten Project, enabling them to test their own weapon 4 years later.

@@saltyaussie7702 he wanted to use remaining Nazis to help fight the Russians. I don’t think that would’ve went well with the rest of the world.

A great channel for learning more on the Aussie WW2 efforts and contributions - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prqfq6iSmJavlIk.html

@@sneakyfeats2353 we would have had alot more allies than soviets

eh, close but close enough to be accurate. -OKW's objective was to destroy the Russian army in the field within 8-10 weeks. Taking Moscow was never considered until Sep when plans were started for "Typhoon". The diversion of troops to Kiev was fully supported - and ORIGINALLY suggested - by OKW because they wanted to destroy the Russian army in exchange for captured territory. But because AH authorized it, he got the "holding the bag" blame. -It didn't just "Rain and Mud" on the German side of the front. The Russians, who were far less mechanized in '41 than Germany, suffered from it just as much. -In Sept, when the planning for "Typhoon" began, OKW Logistics told Army Group Center that they could have either adequate winter clothing for the onset of winter OR Fuel and Ammo for the upcoming push to Moscow. - not both. Army Group Center said "Ammo and Fuel as, with one last push, the war will be over." -Operation Typhoon's plan was NOT to capture Moscow, but encircle it. SO even then, Army Group Center NEVER intended to to physically capture it. So, if a blame is going to be laid, Army Group Centers overconfidence is at least equal to, if not greater, than any "meddling" done by AH.

Germany had too many men & machines fighting or stationed in other places. Logistics, supply & manpower were all concerns the generals understood but were overlooked by the OKW. Overconfidence (due to racist beliefs) and underestimating the enemy were Germany's undoing.

The advance should not have been done full stop . Germany had got used to easy victories ion western Europe and thought likewise in theEast and they were wrong They had left hundreds of Soviet troops in their rear who harrassed their supply lines and rendered the frontline in Moscow and other cities . 100000 men were left in Kiev alone and these were like a boil under the skin of the Germans. So the advance was artificial than real they cut through the enemy leaving him behind them which their supply left their supply line vulnerable

It didn't matter, German logistics couldn't supply a large army in the Moscow region.

Inadequate winter gear and supplies made for a slow death for many of those poor men

even the videos i've seen on kododa gloss over milne bay

Former member of 25RQR?

Just so you know they don’t make these documentaries therefore they don’t decide what battles to cover.

@A C H But you didn't say combined....

@History Tank They were actually a mix of regulars & "chocos"

Don’t forget the non combat engineers who kept the RED BULL EXPRESS ROLLING! My Grandpa was Ford mechanic thou he never killed the enemy he saved lives of our soldiers with his hands on repairing engines and maintenance. I’d give anything to have a couple hours now, just talking about the war, however, he died when I was 6 years old.

@@reptiliancyst878 Wasn't it the red ball express? Signified by the posters with a red ball on them showing the route?

@@Mustang1984 correct it was Red Ball. Redbull is a beverage

They were puppets like all soldiers are.

@@andrem.thomas332 like you are

Bro, this is a great comment and im gonna look that book up now. Also, why were you in jail if you dont mind me asking?

Prisoners pulled of the jail and chained to machine guns in pillboxes

@@SteveKarpali Kiwi slang for luxury hotel room perhaps?

Read most of that series great books they did make a film of wheels of terror. Was okay but the usually film based on a book.

Are you referring to the Dirlewanger SS-brigade?

The German soldiers were not given winter gear due to the fact that they were supposed to conquer Russia in a few months , but the Russian soldiers were not trained to the level of the Germans, and literally would pick up the guns that their fallen comrade dropped when killed by the Germans because they didn’t have a gun before then. Americans(me) aren’t really told about the most brutal/ lives lost front being the eastern front. The bulk of fatalities(soldier wise) was in Russia and Ukraine… the amount of Germans and soviets killed in those short years is mind blowing.

Ukraine

@@edwardballard5896 😂

Unity of all human beings. If your not into that, there's your sign! Lol

@@gregfrench1254 no

Watch "Europa The Last Battle", "In The Name Of Zion" and "The Greatest Story Never Told" on bitchute if reality interests you.

@Oscar Pinto from those who won like always. If you want to write history , win

Look harder, military strategy was being deliberately obfuscated lest the cameramen was aware of OXO tactical propaganda, the resulting confusion was indescribable apparently

Aye, the lesser known campaigns were real enough for those who served. The Finns? they made the soviets suffer on the Raate Road.

The British and French etc (I am a Kiwi and we declared war before Britain - if you count the time difference) declared war because Germany invaded Poland. Fair enough. They then did nothing and Poland was a slave state for the next 50 years. The British also did nothing when Stalin invaded Finland. I guess they knew they would need the Soviets. After Finland's treatment by Stalin, why didn't they help the Nazis out at Leningrad? The course of human history could be very different (not better, just different).

@@tonylove4800 ANZACS are too strong brother, people may not recognise our contribution in Africa and Kokoda but it sure was important to us!!!

If you want the truth about WW2, you can only find it by studying Stalin? AIF 2/15 battalion from Queensland Australia were the first to defeat the Germans in land battle at Tobruk. The Aussies were also the first to defeat the Japanese in land battle at Milne bay PNG. My uncle Tommy RIP fought there.

Ripped Hoff, yes Australians are some of the best soldiers as they have a high kill per death ratio and are very tough

Its the Kokada track not trail

@@dianneblack4395 . It is recognized by the PNG Government and the Australian war memorial as the Kokoda Trail.

@@MJTAUTOMOTIVE Actually, preferred official usage is Track and it was originally only known as Track. Trial is an Americanisation creeping into the language and should be resisted, not least for the veterans sake (the yanks had a habit of claiming everything for themselves - let's at least keep the Kokoda story our own by retaining the correct name).

@@montecarlo1651 "Kokoda Trail" and "Kokoda Track" have been used interchangeably since the Second World War and the former was adopted by the Battles Nomenclature Committee as the official British Commonwealth battle honour in October 1957. Kokoda Trail Campaign www.awm.gov.au/collection/E84663

@@nickdanger3802 Thanks for bringing this to my attention, certainly the first I have heard of it. I don't have a reference but I thought I heard the AWM was promoting Track as correct usage, by the link you provided, seems either my memory fails me or I'm straight up wrong. I appreciate your adding the link.

Ha!

One of my coworkers has a shirt that says, "Lest we don't forget." I asked him how substantial was the discount?

so was the next 5 minutes, and the next 2 minutes after that.

Much like my 1st marriage marriage

Earth time says 11 min 54 seconds, the moon where you are is slowed by half, clearly.

As far as what Australia contributed towards winning the war, I think they were more than generous with time allotment.

@@thelordgold * laughs in the rats of Tobruk*

jamesplease1980 - Must be standard practice. The history they teach at schools regarding WW2 contains plenty of 'corrections' as well.

THE BATTLE OF AUSTRALIA equivalent THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

To be fair, it did little justice to ANY of the operations described in the video! Virtually no one in the UK knows anything of the fighting that 14th Army went through for example. Despite the unit designations there were a lot of British troops there, African and Indian Army Brigades were generally made up of two African or Indian Battalions, and a British Battalion. As a result at least a third of the troops fighting in those actions were British (though many would attempt to say otherwise).

Why bother a 10 minute half arsed account of that campaign isn't worth putting up on ANZAC DAY! It's not a celebration either, it's a day to remember your fallen mates!

Beside, they be at each others throats , that is why they teach them to fight together, in between times.

@@paulbaker9277 That is not true.

@@johayes7529 You wouldn't have even ten minutes if Australian troops hadn't stopped them and given their lives for you to express yourself, but I like your last sentiment.

THEY LOST BECAUSE THE WORLD COULD SEE THAT THEY WERE DISGUSTING SCUM AND HAD TO BE STOMPED IN TO THE GROUND KNOW MATTER WHAT. THANK THE LORD FOR SAVING THE WORLD FROM THEM. ITS TO BAD SO MANY NAZIS GOT AWAY.

TOTAL BS! Germany of all powers was not engaged in total war? MY FOOT! Ever heard the infamous Goebbels speech?

This is a really good summary

Agreed.

Winter absolutely stopped the Germans in 41. And mud…..

@@tonyromano6220 winter pushed the germans all the way back to Berlin?

Keep telling yourself that and you might just believe it as for russia defeating Germany yea along with America England and it's empire France Canada Australia and on and on and yea the weather in russia stopped the German army at the gates of Moscow Fact

Heroic people of the USSR!

Yeah, I passed it on to my girlfriend to improve her recipe for meatloaf. Her meatloaf is much better now thanks to this video.

@@jaredprince4772 lmao

Strongly agree. The funny thing is it doesn't even make sense to make the title about Russian Winters. Something just seems off...

@@ovadiadan They seemed to have changed the title since I was here last 🙃

It was very humorous to me as well

Like russia now invading Ukraine

Agreed

Yeah, it's like someone found the video somewhere not knowing what it was, then watched the first few minutes of the video when deciding what to call it. I was looking forward to an entire hour dedicated to a lesser known part of the war as well.

i enjoyed what i got for free

Some context not established in this video is the fact that the majority of Australia's main forces were stuck in North Africa and Europe, defending various fronts. The Australians were always weary of the Japanese and were nervous about contributing so much to Europe under British assurances that Singapore would hold.... No one predicted the Japanese to push through South East Asia relatively uncontested and so quickly. When Singapore fell Australia went into full panic mode. Most of the forces left in Australia were reservists, conscripted and injured/retired/veterans. The unique defensible position of the Australian continent led the American's to base their main Pacific operations command in Brisbane and the Australian Government, given their vulnerable position, gave over command of the remaining Australian groups to General MacArthur.

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The Gurkha are renowned for their discipline, honour, tenacity, training, bravery etc.......... and every other positive adjective that could be used to describe a superlative military unit.

Their apparent budding romance was either to arouse interest or remind us of the horrors of war. I'm not sure which.

also home advantage/growing up in that environment, like you said definitely terrible for both sides the russians were more molded to it

The Russians also had better cold-weather equipment: overcoats, etc. Also, their tanks. planes, vehicles, etc. were simpler and better designed for harsh conditions.

Do you know anything about M specials? More secret than Z force but same command about 30 men directly under Macarthur, Australian, NZ, UK and Dutch. You might have seen the picture of M Special Unit Sergeant Leonard Siffleet being executed by the japanese in the last days of WW2 ..Bushido.

it's not the only ballsed-up archive footage in the docus here...right at the start, RAAF A20s are shown in the air as the Japanese first land in NG.. you see this kind of thing on all network channel docus, why they are unable to have the archive film selections edited/vetted by someone who has some idea wtf they are looking at, I don't know..there are 11YOs making plastic model airplanes who would have enough knowledge to know better.. how many times have we seen USN SBDs and TBMs attacking Pearl Harbor??

The Finns are warriors man. I'm from Texas my dna is mostly Scottish, Scandinavian and German with 2% Finnish. They smashed the Russians

That’s a thought and it’s probably true for all (was going to say Commonwealth) allied forces. This was the result of fighting an enemy who had been secretly planning for it for a decade. We must heed the lessons of the past!

There was nothing bad about the performance of the Australian divisions in the middle east.

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@@Maxyshadow far east you mean

@@eliasjarjoura445 No, Max means middle east where Rommel couldn't beat them.

Same here, ausie,ausie, ow,ow,ow

Errol Flynn Rod Taylor!!!

@Baby Sama 48 Australian and proud of it by an exNational servicmen.

Proud Brit here.

@@dianneblack4395 Ex 16th light horse reg Perth WA here...

Actually not correct. The 39th Battalion that met the Japanese at Kokoda were militia but they became a highly successful force. Two other militia battalions failed against the Japanese. The 39th were reinforced at Isurava by the 2/14th Battalion, part of the 7th Division that had returned from the Middle East. Further reinforcements arrived in the 2/16th Battalion and later the 2/25th. All of these battalions had fighting experience, but not in the jungle. By the time the Japanese had reached the limit of their advance, these three battalions (I think about 2500 men) were so depleted by death, wounding or illness that they could only muster around 150 fit men who became "Chaforce" and were part of the force that defeated the Japanese at Gona. My father-in-law was in the 2/14th and Chaforce.

The 9th Division remained in North Africa, but the 6th & 7th returned in early 1942. In exchange for retaining the 9th, the British undertook to expand the RAAF to 73 squadrons, and the US to send additional US troops to Australia. The 9th Division returned to Australia in January 1943.

Certainly not old home guard - they were young conscripts rounded up off the streets of Sydney and Melbourne and they held and then gave a fighting retreat to the Japanese until reinforced when they counterattacked and annihilated the Japanese at Buna Gona.

@@ronjohnson1658 Correct, nothing like a Home Guard. They were conscripted for limited service in Australia and the nearby islands. The AIF on the other hand was a wholly volunteer service. There was a lot of movement from the CMF to the AIF during the war too as men elected to transfer, ie: volunteer.

"They shall not grow old, as we who are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, At the going down of the Sun, and in the morning, we will remember them: We WILL Remember Them." ---Laurence Binyon. To My Aussie ANZAC Cousins, Eternal Respect ! Kind and Respectful Regards, Uyraell, NZ.

@@uyraellsensenmann8931 Sadly we get all the kudos, Kiwis were better than us by and large....only just, lol.

@@blakemortellaro I find your comment annoying. 🤬

Interesting, but it honored the Australians and not many others have bothered to make any films about them at all

Correct and the Militia also came from Sydney, conscripted into the 39th battalion. Actually 15,000 Japanese troops participated

You wouldn't respect Russians if you knew what horrors they are gleefully inflicting on Ukrainians and kidnapped women and children the Orcs are trafficking for cash to fund their illegal war of aggression and conquest.

@@evangelicalsnever-lie9792 I’m talking about history not today. Plus not every single person in a country is a monster. When Auschwitz was liberated (which wasn’t in their orders) some of the soldiers stayed behind for months helping the 7,000+ heavily malnourished prisoners

​@@evangelicalsnever-lie9792 If I give you an email, will you send proof of this? Thanks to the Russian national trait of secretiveness and the American national trait of bombast and general ignorance, getting at the full, unvarnished truth of anything is rare these days. I'm serious if you are, I'll post a video review of the information you provide for the internet to chew on.

.....and not much to do with Australia or Japan

Can't see that. Thought it was good. Try adapting.