Great that you pay attention to the Dutch aircraft in WW2. BTW the Fokker C10 was incorrectly deemed obsellecent by the Dutch who in part used them correctly flying low. The commander at Bergen airfield escaped the fate of the G1's by having been smart enough to have the hangars hidden in the treeline. Not having a decent intercome and radio system was a dire inexcusable error for a country with Philips. The Fins proved that the C10 was the Apache helicopter of its day. Flying not to high or low as an armed scout plane along the seemingly quite parts of the front attacking targets of opportunity. When bounced by fighters it would cross the T and cross rudders. As soon as the enemy fighter was just about to open fire a snap role pointint straight down and in pull up toward the fighter made it impossible to pull lead. None were shot down by fighters. Most survived the war. I think two or more were built in ...1944 ..... due to losses mostly by accidents. It soldiered on after the war in Finish service. The Germans/ Dutch engineers drew the correct lessons after WW1 off the Bristol Fighter success in the C5 and C10. The British got it wrong with the Defiant and Roc turreted fighters. The C10 had 3 wing options fighter, recon and light bomber. As far as I know only the latter was ever built. Yet, it was the greatest danger for small artillery spotter planes being able to fly the Bristol Fighter WW1 way. 0:32

Wow

Not casted. Cast only.

You sound like someone reading directly from Wikipedia and using pathe for footage

4:33 The suspension of the Sentinel was based off French Hotchkiss designs not the M3 , considering a French guy was the main designer ......... probably where the cast design came from too , although that could have been industrial limitations of not being able to roll plate

Australia having a shortage of Nickel is so hilarious these days , we're amongst the largest producers these days

Quite strange that they were concentrating on German armour and not just worrying about what the Japanese had. We're they considering that the Germans might defeat Britain, and Australia might become a redoubt??

General Monash was using combined arms concepts back in WW1.

Given the go-karts the japs used as "tanks"... The AC was good enough.

Love your videos covering individual countries ww2 armor Take care friend ☮️🫶

The overwhelming vast majority of the tanks were light tanks so it doesnt compare to Kursk and Normandy.

6.20The first12 tanks did not have "serious defects in the armor", they were intentionally mild steel.

Very good video bro

the man who designed the sentinel also worked in the design group that designed the original MK1 it was also designed for the English 76 from the start with the Matilda could you imagine being a Japanese solider at Milne Bay having run roughshod over everyone with your Hago's and then running into a real tank employed by combat veterans

NO conscription in AUSTRALIA, WW1,WW2 All Volunteer Army,Navy and Airforce. NO Shermans used by Australia. Grants,Stuarts >

from what i heard and read the ACIII was only ever a test tank equipped with single or twin 25 pounders to see if it could withstand the recoil as it was equivalent to the recoil of the 17 pounder, Britain didn't supply any 17 pounder guns to Australia but gave the technical data for it to be constructed there instead, and all technical data learned through ACIV developed sped up the implementation of 17 pounder into creation of the Firefly, the recoil system was a that of a modified 6 pounder gun breach was sideways making loading "easier" too there was also some Matilda II tanks armed with 3inch howitzers that were traded from New Zealand for original Matilda II

Enjoyed the video. 😀

The German A7 tank is in the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. It has been preserved and is worth seeing.

Top Stuff, it is great to see a good informative doco on our endeavours in this field 👍

The Sentinel was cancelled because of the availability of Matildas and M3's. The Sherman was never taken into service, although one was tested after the war in Bougainville.

I expect that you might include the use of the Stuart light tank and M3 Grant in Australian service. You mentioned the M4 several times, but it was never taken on. The Australian Armour and Artillery museum has some very good videos on Grant restoration, which shows the numerous modifications made to the Grants in Australia.

Sentinel was a good looking tank.

Australian Corporal Lance de Mole was acknowledged by the British as the inventor of the tank during WWI.

pet peeve: "casted" isn't the word you're looking for. it's cast or it's a casting. firearms cartridges tend to have specific names that aren't always equal to their size. I believe the MGs were .303 caliber,. 7.7mm usually refers to a Japanese cartridge.

Haha we still got that German ww1 tank

What's up with the sound? There's a heavy droning bass sound in the background going on for up to 30 seconds then off for 1 second and on again?

Aussies can only wish they had a Semple!

The Aciii would have been a decent bumker buster, with 200 ish hulls already cast it was a shame to end it just to keep US and uk production lines going.

Quality content 🎉

Ha, first one here.

I research this and watch this due to armor age game. I just got this tank. Man hungary really made some dopplegang taks like Zyrinyi or even 44 tas which looks like a panther

Young turks, cup and sultan husein shariff of makkah = sellouts + traitors🙄

The aircraft shown from 0:50 to 1:40 aren’t actual DXXI’s. They are modified North American Harvards used in the film Soldaat van Oranje to represent DXXI’s. Since last year there is an actual flying DXXI in the netherlands. Built from scratch by a team of volunteers at the airfield of Hoogeveen. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o-B9YLpo3N6yeas.htmlsi=hkEa1Cf3-JB6QuK2

TBF the D-XXI was indeed - as the video mentioned - specified as a fighter for the Dutch East-Indies. As such the requirements asked for a rugged, simply to maintain fighter as there was little infrastructure there for complex maintenance. Choosing a fixed undercarriage contributed to that simplicity. It was never meant to face cutting-edge fighters like the Bf-109; it lacked the speed and the armament to do so.

I love those dutch designs..

Nice to see interest in Dutch warplanes. Alas several mistakes. The D21 had two times two machineguns in the wings. It was of mixed construction. Because we Dutch needed to import engines we didn't have engines in the 1000 hp range. The D21 could compete Me 109e even though 200 hp less. The D23 tryed to solve the same issue. Yet with aircooled engines this never would have worked. The video with Tros in de corner are Harvard T6 trainers representing D21 for a film. 15:44 The G1 was akin the much later Mosquito made from woud. The prototype shown in the video had counter rotating props. Later used by Lockeed in the P38 with the nose gear of the D23.

That was an excellent video ! The vintage film clips really give the viewer good details of the various aircraft. Well done !

Awesome!

Thanks you for this video! It's rare to find good English videos about secondary nations in WW2. My family is from north Transylvania and one of my grandparents was in the tank crew

Very interesting thank you! Do you have some recommended reading material on the subject?

thx!

Aviation was born in Romania, look like you don't know nothing. You may pretend as an inocent but at your age this is called stupidity ! ...disgusting missinformations, disgusting history filted with shameless lies. 2000 bolshevic aircrafts and american turned to scrap and 600 airplanes losted in WW2 by romanian air force....what about this ? ...any clue ?

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great as always

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I wonder if Stalin had "invaded" Poland first....would the Germans have been the "protectors" of the Polish nobility? 🤔

7:10 They did that in Ukraine as well

Absent from this narrative is the destruction of the Italian Chaberton fort, a kind of mountain battleship with 8 turrets. But its guns were only of 150mm in caliber. The French used a heavy spigot mortar of ww1 vintage.

Wow this channel is really underrated You can tell how much research he did

The Italian alpine troops in Greece suffered from being thrown too hastily into battle, & from the enemy-underestimating Benito who thought but of the Athens victory parade.