Comments by "Nick Danger" (@nickdanger3802) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. We have not forgotten the Civil War.
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  2.  @GeographyCzar  According to National Pornographic Atlanta was burned to destroy it as a hub of Confederate infrastructure, only slightly different from the RAF dropping incendiary's on any city in Germany and vice versa. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/nov15/burning-atlanta/
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  3. "Now they say that the allies never helped us, but it can't be denied that the Americans gave us so many goods without which we wouldn't have been able to form our reserves and continue the war," Soviet General Georgy Zhukov said after the end of the War. "We didn’t have explosives, gunpowder. We didn’t have anything to charge our rifle cartridges with. The Americans really saved us with their gunpowder and explosives. And how much sheet steel they gave us! How could we have produced our tanks without American steel? But now they make it seem as if we had an abundance of all that. Without American trucks we wouldn’t have had anything to pull our artillery with." https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/ww2/great-patriotic-war-05.htm
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  4. 2.35 "...Roosevelt says look we will reduce the amount of Lend-Lease we're sending you so that we can launch a second front in 1943 …" "Molotov says … no please we actually need the food …"
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  5. 30.05 "Moreover, the Soviet Union was already dependent by 1942 on Lend-Lease assistance (especially food and specialty petroleum products such as high-octane gasoline)."
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  6. "The Moscow Gold (Spanish: Oro de Moscú), or alternatively Gold of the Republic (Spanish: Oro de la República), was 510 tonnes of gold, corresponding to 72.6% of the total gold reserves of the Bank of Spain, that were transferred from their original location in Madrid to the Soviet Union a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War."     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_gold_(Spain)
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  7. Thanks for dragging in the US.
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  8.  @JohnSmith-mb8hi  If that is your real name. Setting aside 1st AB never got more than 800 of the 10,000 men landed near Arnhem to the bridge and 1st AB had only to take one bridge of three. The bridges over the river Waal and the bridge at Grave were three of the longest bridges in Europe at that time. The 82nd had to hold the Heights for the next days landing with the bulk of 82nd artillery and for Brownings HQ, brought in by 36 of 1st ABs gliders (normal load one battalion). In the first few hours the 82nd captured the bridge at Grave, the first bridge in the 82nd AO that would be needed by XXX Corps. In the first 24 hours 82nd captured the last intact bridge over the Maas-Waal canal and all available units were needed to repel several small and one large attack on the Heights by the 406th Inf. Div. (ersatz) with five armoured cars and three half tracks with 20mm AA guns. With the help of fighters escorting the gliders the Heights were retaken as gliders landed among the retreating Germans. On day three scout cars of XXX Corps arrived at the bridge at Grave, approx. ten miles from the river Waal bridges. XXX Corps tanks arrived two hours later at approx. 1030 hours and "back on schedule" having averaged just over one mile an hour and Approx. 25 miles to Arnhem on route taken. On day three Frosts men were so low on ammunition he ordered them to fire only to repel attacks. During the next attack a trooper shouted: "Stand still you sods, these bullets cost money!" page 188 Arnhem, Beevor On day four Frosts men ran out ammunition and lost control of the north end of the bridge. Some slipped away and made for 1st AB and some, mostly wounded, surrendered. map Grave to Arnhem https://www.bing.com/maps?q=distance+grave+to+arnhem&form=EDNTHT&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&msnews=1&rec_search=1&plvar=0&refig=077eb9f180ed452ff8f22707bc22e716&PC=HCTS&DAF1=1&sp=-1&pq=distance+grave+to+arnhem&sc=1-24&qs=n&sk=&cvid=077eb9f180ed452ff8f22707bc22e716
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  9. 23.30 the Battle of the Bulge or Ardennes Offensive was launched exactly three months after MG. German armor:  557 tanks, 667 tank destroyers and assault guns 1,261 other AFVs
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  10. "The decision to commit 1st British Airborne Corps Headquarters to the battle is a highly questionable one. Despite the fact that they landed at Nijmegen, alongside the 82nd Airborne Division, politics demanded that the 1st Airborne Division consequently lost thirty-eight gliders from its First Lift, and as such only half of the 2nd South Staffordshires were brought in on the first day." day."http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/depth_reason2.htm
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  11. "If any one factor can be singled out as to why Market Garden failed, then it is this over-optimistic attitude that the Germans were already beaten." Pegasus Archive In-Depth 29. Reasons for the Failure http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/frames.htm
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  12.  @johnburns4017  Who didn't take which bridge and when. Over six hours after landing 1st AB takes one end of a lightly defended bridge (of three) AFTER 9th SS Recon battalion crosses on it's way to Nijmegen. There were approx. 750 second echelon soldiers at the Waal bridges before 9th SS arrived plus 88mm and 20mm AA batteries. Map Arnhem day one http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/Photos/Map1ParaProg.gif
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  13. 1940 British forces "evacuated" from Norway, Belgium, France (Monty trained his men hard for evacuation) and the Channel Islands. 1941 Greece, Crete and Libya. 1942 Toburk and Dieppe.
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  14. The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive was launched exactly three months after Market Garden was launched. German forces: 557 tanks, 667 tank destroyers and assault guns and 1,261 other AFVs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge
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  15. "The primary source of Intelligence for Operation Market Garden was Ultra, the codename for the interception and decoding of German signals received through the Enigma machine. Ultra clearly identified the presence of the 9th and 10th S.S. Panzer Divisions, but due to the vital need to protect the system and not give the Germans cause to suspect that their codes had been broken, only a select few were privy to this information in an undiluted form. The 1st British Airborne Corps, therefore, only received a blurred suggestion that the two Divisions were in the area, but this did not necessarily mean that these units were at anything like full or half strength. During the chaotic retreat from Normandy, the German divisions that survived had been so severely mauled that many were reduced to the strength of a weak brigade. Browning advised Major-General Roy Urquhart that his total opposition would consist of nothing stronger than a Brigade Group of infantry supported by a few tanks." Pegasus Archive In Depth 29. Reasons for the Failure http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/frames.htm
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  16. DET 621 "The latter came from his second secret ear in the enemy’s communications, his own 621st Signals Battalion mobile monitoring element commanded by  Alfred Seeböhm. The British not only failed to frequently change their codes during this period but also displayed an unbelievable lack of battlefield radio discipline. According to Rommel’s chief of staff, they ‘were quite broad-minded in making speeches during combat, and we had the possibility of making important conclusions from their speeches.’ On January 21, 1942, aided by intercepts telling him he had temporary front-line armored superiority, the Desert Fox launched an offensive–advancing an impressive 300 miles in just 17 days." Intercepted Communications for Field Marshal Erwin Rommel page
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  17. Clark heard Churchill’s use of “soft underbelly” shortly after the Moscow meeting, when he and Eisenhower took up the question of where the Anglo-Americans should strike first. In autumn 1942, he and Eisenhower explained to General Marshall, U.S. Army chief of staff: A cross-channel operation was [then] utterly impossible. We could not even get across without the British showing us the way and taking us by the hand. We did not have the means. And so it was decided that we would take this matter up with Mr. Churchill, which we did. And that is where his persuasive eloquence first impressed me. He got up before a map with his pointer and he kept pointing to Gibraltar, North Africa, the Mediterranean, Sicily and Italy. Finally he said, “We should slit the soft belly of the Mediterranean.” Well, my friends, I assure you, when I landed at Salerno, I found it was a tough old gut!3 https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/soft-underbelly-fortress-europe/
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  18. How long would it take to refuel 1,438 transport aircraft (at least those that had not been shot down) and escort fighters?
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  19. "While they waited for the Typhoons, Vandeleur halted the column for lunch. He and his cousin Giles found a villa by the road with it's own swimming pool. They had a swim and revived themselves with more champagne afterwards when a young woman war correspondent joined them. Finally, two hours after the initial request, Love heard that the strike had been cancelled due to poor flying conditions. Vandeleur was livid." page 168 Arnhem Beevor
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  20.  @nicholasconder4703  Thanks. "Yet the invaders were supported by such a vast logistical "tail" that even when they reached their maximum strength in 1945, they could deploy only sixty American and twenty British and Canadian combat divisions. Air power, together with massive armoured and artillery strength, was called upon to compensate for inadequate infantry numbers." page 533 All Hell Let Loose Hastings
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  21. "Meanwhile, V weapons continued to be launched from the Neatherlands, within sight of British troops. Some went towards Britain, some went towards Antwerp, none went towards the USA." "...suggesting that the V.2s, which landed on London on the 8th. were launched from bases in Western Holland near The Hague." The Hague is 80 miles from Antwerp, so both of those statements can not be correct. If Market Garden had reached Arnhem it would have been 80 miles short of the V2 sites. You seem to be under the impression the USA was obligated to fight the war Britain started, was the entire war in Europe to be put on hold to end the V weapon threat? The RAF bombed Peenemunde in August 1943 and accomplished little. The USAAF bombed Peenemunde three times in July and August 1944, before the first V2 was launched, when those aircraft could have been supporting ground operations. link below MG was a British planned and led operation in the British AO. The USA provided 2/3 of the airborne and the vast majority of the air assets and there were millions of US service men in Britain, yet you seem to be of the opinion the USA's support was half assed because the USA didn't care about V2's because none were falling on the USA. From 1942 where did Britain's tanks, APC's and jeeps come from? "Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat." Winston Churchill In November 1942 the British Empire had it's first major land victory over the Axis in over three years at war. Montgomery refused a "request" from Churchill to attack before he had a two to one advantage in every category. In tanks and aircraft that advantage was provided by the USA through Lend Lease and brought on US flagged ships around Africa to the Red Sea. So Britain's losses prior to MG are very relevant. If Britain had been winning before then Ike may have been inclined to give Montgomery the lead. In Sicily the USA had twice the distance to Messina, but Patton got there before Montgomery and at least one British vet claimed it was because "the Americans had it easier". According to Max Hastings in 1945 the USA had 60 combat divisions in Europe and Britain and Canada combined had 20. So it was the USA's show to run and the USA was going to be in three times as many operations and have three times the losses. Bombing of Peenemünde in World War II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Peenemünde_in_World_War_II
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  22.  @bigwoody4704  Leo Major "For this accomplishment he was chosen to be honored with a DCM (Distinguished Conduct Medal) but he refused, his reason being that Field Marshall Montgomery (the man giving out the medal) was “incompetent” and that he’d made an awful mistake for which Léo disliked him. And so, Léo Major refused the award held second only to the Victoria Cross, because Montgomery would be the one to give it to him." link below Leo Major Canadas' most decorated soldier. Canada in the 20th Century http://chc2dv-04.weebly.com/telling-a-soldiers-story---leacuteo-major.html
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  23. "The 82nd Airborne Division, however, certainly does not deserve any particular criticism for this as their priorities appear to be a further product of the blind optimism that dogged Operation Market Garden, of which everyone involved was guilty. At Nijmegen, as with everywhere else, the assumption was that resistance would be light and so the main concern of the airborne units was to make the advance of the ground forces as rapid and as uncomplicated as possible, instead of devoting all their attention to primary objectives. Furthermore, it should be understood that the 82nd Airborne Division had by far the most complicated plan of any of the Airborne units involved with Market Garden, their troops being required to capture numerous objectives over a considerable expanse of terrain." link below Grave to Heumen to Waal bridges: 15 miles. Arnhem LZ-Z to rail bridge: 3 miles. Pegasus Archive In Depth  30. Reasons for the Failure http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/frames.htm
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  24. 43.00 All available 82nd units were required to drive 2,300 Grade B Germans with five armored cars, three half tracks with quad 20mm, "just 24 medium mortars" and more than a few MG42's off of the Heights as gliders landed among the retreating Germans. pages 98-99 Nijmegen US 82nd Airborne & Guards Armoured Division
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  25. 11.08 XXX Corps arrived at Grave at 0820 on day three and was "back on schedule". Up to that point It had averaged just over one mile per hour and it was still 24 miles from Arnhem bridge. 11 hours later XXX Corps was on the north side of the River Waal, how is that 36 hours?
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  26. "The 82nd Airborne Division, however, certainly does not deserve any particular criticism for this as their priorities appear to be a further product of the blind optimism that dogged Operation Market Garden, of which everyone involved was guilty. At Nijmegen, as with everywhere else, the assumption was that resistance would be light and so the main concern of the airborne units was to make the advance of the ground forces as rapid and as uncomplicated as possible, instead of devoting all their attention to primary objectives. Furthermore, it should be understood that the 82nd Airborne Division had by far the most complicated plan of any of the Airborne units involved with Market Garden, their troops being required to capture numerous objectives over a considerable expanse of terrain." Pegasus Archive 30. Reasons for the Failure page
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  27.  @bigwoody4704  Arnhem Day One 1300 Glider landings begin 1500 Reconnaissance Squadron moves from the landing zone, 2nd Battalion moves off the landing grounds, 3rd Battalion moves out 1530 1st Battalion starts its advance 1700 2nd Battalion arrives near the rail bridge (4 miles/6k from LZ Z), it is blown up 2000 Frost's 2nd Battalion arrives at the road bridge (740 men total) page 34 Operation Market Garden 1944 (2) The British Airborne Missions
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  28. 21.55 "..eight miles away …" According to page 26 of OPERATION MARKET GARDEN 1944 (2) the landings zone farthest from the road bridge was 8 miles. The rail bridge was about 3 miles away. The landing zone near Wolfheze was 4 miles from Arnhem. It does not state how far it was from the bridges. The 82nd took the bridge at Grave, one of the longest bridges in Europe, within the first few hours. The River Waal bridge and the Heights are ten miles from there. It also captured a bridge over the Maas Wall canal and repelled an attack by 2,300 second echelon Germans with armored cars on the Heights on the morning of day two, which had to be held for the follow on gliders because Nijmegen is between two river valleys. map Arnhem day one http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/Photos/Map1ParaPlan.gif
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  29. 1940 British forces "evacuated" from Norway, Belgium and France. 1941 Greece, Crete and Libya. 1942 Tobruk and Dieppe 1943 Leros
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  30. 10.00 The 406th Infantry Division had 2,300 men, five armoured cars and three half tracks with quad 20mm flak guns. At the same time Kampfgruppe Gobel with "just 24 medium mortars" attacked Reithorst. page 98 Nijmegen US 82nd Airborne & Guards Armoured Division As I understand it most of 82nd artillery was due on the second lift. With the help of the fighters escorting the gliders, the Germans were driven off the Heights as gliders landed among them.
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  31. Greatest "Allied" mistake was FDR propping up Britain from 1939 leading to Germany and Italy declaring war on the USA so Limeys could bitch about how the US did not fall into line like other "colonials" so Monty could use them for cannon fodder.
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  32. 11.40 XXX Corps scout cars arrived at GRAVE, 13 miles from the Waal bridges (on current map by route taken). At this point XXX Corps had averaged just over one mile per hour, if it had continued at that pace it would have arrived at Arnhem bridge at around 0800 on the day Frosts' men ran out of ammo and lost control of the north end. Current maps have distance at 70 miles and not the 64 usually cited. photo Arnhem bridge https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsonTzeWYAAabjc.jpg:large
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  33. "If any one factor can be singled out as to why Market Garden failed, then it is this over-optimistic attitude that the Germans were already beaten." Pegasus Archive In-Depth 29. Reasons for the Failure http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/frames.htm
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  34. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev wrote in his autobiography, “Without Spam, we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army.” https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/war-won-spam-things/
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  35.  @normanacree1635  As I understand it Bomber Command used Mossys for decoy raids. They would have had to mimic heavys until they were near the city they wanted the LW diverted to then they could use their speed to exit. First RAF raid on Peenemunde for ex.
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  36.  @TheNoonish  "The real problem at Arnhem was poor planning and leadership. The 1st Airborne Division’s strategy was for the first troops on the ground to remain at the drop zone until the second lift arrived 24 hours later, with the exception of Brigadier Gerald Lathbury’s 1st Parachute Brigade. The unit was to detach from the main body immediately and advance into Arnhem. Unfortunately, Lathbury planned to drop his units along three widely spaced routes to half-a-dozen isolated objectives. This virtually guaranteed the brigade would be overwhelmed piecemeal. Lathbury also wasted precious time by holding his troops back at the landing area for over an hour. Later, he drove back and forth harassing his commanders to move faster until he was cut off with part of the brigade and badly wounded." "Division commander Major-General Roy Urquhart knew even less about airborne operations, having been promoted as a Montgomery protégé with zero experience leading paratroops. He made no effort to tailor his plan to the specific mission like the two U.S. divisions, and the idea that he could simply move into Arnhem after giving the Germans 24 hours’ notice was rooted in conventional operational procedures and fanciful at best." "This was compounded by a series of poor decisions that included abruptly leaving his headquarters in response to a baseless rumour, deliberately severing his sole radio link in the process and then being cut off from his formation for 48 hours after an eventual and ill-advised attempt to regain his headquarters." "Urquhart had not properly grasped the essential difference between airborne and conventional operations, and by the time he returned to his command post the Arnhem portion of Market had effectively failed and his division was cut off with little prospect of relief." https://militaryhistorynow.com/2019/06/16/debacle-at-arnhem-five-reasons-for-the-failure-of-operation-market-garden/
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  37. Rotterdam
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  38.  @jonathanjonathansen  By the standards of the day the Civil War was close to catastrophic with killed and wounded (post war one southern state spent 50 per cent of it's annual budget on artificial limbs) being almost 2 per cent of the 1860 population. The government estimated total dead for the USSR was 25 million and everyone who died in that time was counted as war dead. All dead from country's that became part of the USSR, before or after the war, were counted as USSR dead. Soldiers who died fighting the USSR, but were from areas that became part of the USSR after the war, were counted as both enemy killed and as USSR dead. As I understand it.
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  39.  @jonathanjonathansen  Some of the major reasons I do not put the same "Value" on the USSR's Great Patriotic War losses as some people. The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р; Голодомо́р в Украї́ні;[a][2] derived from морити голодом, "to kill by starvation")[3][4][5] was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Russian: Большой террор) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938. Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact USSR sold oil, wheat and manganese ore to Germany while Germany conquered half of Poland (USSR the other half), Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete and lay siege to Britain with U boats and bombers. Winter War 1939-1940 USSR took 10 per cent of Finland, territory taken is part of Russia today.  Katyn Massacre    Over 20,000 Poles were murdered by the Soviet Army in the Katyn Forest of western Russia. November 1941 Lend Lease extended to USSR. December 1941 Hitler declared war on the "neutral" USA. USSR received 11 Billion 1944 USD in goods and services and paid next to nothing. This does not bother me, but USSR fan boys who claim it didn't make any difference and/or everything was paid for, that does bother me. 175,000 Red Army soldiers were executed for crimes as minor as being AWOL for a few hours because they didn't speak Russian. Great Patriotic War "The term is not generally used outside the former Soviet Union, and the closest term is Eastern Front of World War II (1941-1945). Both terms do not cover the initial phase of World War II in Eastern Europe during which the USSR, then still in a non-aggression pact with Germany, occupied East part of Poland (1939), the Baltic states (1940), and Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940) and fought with Finland (1939-1940)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Patriotic_War_(term)
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  40. It was unfortunate Britian had the clueless Americans for allies. If only FDR had not propped up Britain until Hitler declared war on the United States, British land forces would have been able to return to the Continent in 1947.
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  41. From 0630 on day two all available units were required to repel attacks in different areas. The Heights landing zone was retaken at 1330 as gliders landed among the retreating Germans. Most of 82nd artillery was on that lift. map Nijmegen day one https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d1/fa/bb/d1fabb09d7b032564d98331e871cf633.jpg
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  42. "both Rauter, the SS Security chief for the Netherlands, and one of the officers of Helle’s Dutch SS battalion at Arnhem told him that a British officer was captured on D-Day with the plans for the ground markers and smoke signals. The Germans also listened in to British radio signals on No.68P sets which captured paratroopers had not destroyed." page 48/12 pdf Airborne Communications in Operation Market Garden David Bennett
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  43. The bridge at Grave, one of the longest road bridges in Europe and ten miles from the River Waal bridges (one sixth of the distance from XXX Corps start point to Arnhem) on the last intact bridge over the Maas-Waal canal, was captured within hours. Within 24 hours the 82nd had captured all of the bridges in it's AO that had not been destroyed except the River Waal bridges and recaptured the landing zones on the Heights from "... a force of 2,300 Germans along with five armoured cars and three half tracks mounting quad 20mm Flak guns..." page 98 NIJMEGEN US 82nd Airborne & Guards Armoured Division, Pen & Sword Books Limited, South Yorkshire. The John S. Thompson Bridge, the 11th bridge of Operation Market Garden near Grave in the Netherlands https://www.landmarkscout.com/the-john-s-thompson-bridge-one-of-the-bridges-of-market-garden-near-grave-in-the-netherlands/
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  44. As I understand it. XXX Corps had averaged just over 2 miles/3k per daylight hour when it arrived at Grave, 25 miles from Arnhem on current map, at 0820 on day three. If it had proceeded at that pace, it would have been a few miles south of Arnhem road bridge at sundown (1830) on day three. Due to lack of ammo on day three Frosts' men were ordered to fire only if fired upon. Frosts' men lost control of the bridge at about 0900 on day four The Tank Museum did a reenactment of XXX Corps advance. They arrived at Driel, six miles short of Arnhem, on day five. Tank Convoy | Operation Market Garden 75 | The Tank Museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKY6ms6V2FI
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  45.  @a.p.3004  Operation Bagration 22 June – 19 August 1944
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  46.  @michaelkenny8540  Churchill is referencing M7 105mm SP guns named "priest" by the British. The British tried to fit the 25pdr but that failed then they used the same M3 medium tank chassis (made "under license" in Canada) for Sexton. Here is a photo of what Britain had for a fully tracked SP gun before M7's https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/IWM-E-17430-Bishop-SP-gun-19420925.jpg
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  47.  @a.p.3004  Battle of the Bulge 16 December 1944 – 28 January 1945
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  48. Why Tankers preferred 75 over 76mm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZKxmlpbwqk
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  49. How long would it take to refuel the thousands of aircraft? All pilots and aircraft were scheduled to fly every day until the mission was over and after for resupply because there was only one road.
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  50. "Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey with Field Marshall Montgomery, who ignored his urgent requests to secure the Scheldt estuary to open the port of Antwerp." caption photo opposite page 106, Arnhem, Beevor
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