Comments by "Bullet-Tooth Tony" (@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-) on "TIKhistory" channel.

Will you do a video on the Falaise Pocket TIK?
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@executivedirector7467 The one thing the Japanese had that made them tough on land was fighting spirit from their Samurai Warrior tradition, but that alone doesn't stop tanks and close air support.
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@hernerweisenberg7052 Yes the Germans did have more u-boats thats true, but the Kido Butai was formidable.
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@Anthony-jo7up Was the A6M Zero better than the BF 109? I think the Zero was more maneuverable in the air sure, but the 109 had more fire power and was not as vulnerable to being taken out as the paper thin Zero. Fighting a non industrial nation in China is not the same as fighting industrialised ones ( Britain, France, Soviet Union) an average Japanese division would get chewed up against a Panzer division.
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@randylucas2458 You know it's funny you say that, as British forces fought in every single major theatre from start to finish. Not only was the war on our doorstep, we remained standing as the ONLY European nation taking on Germany and in fine fashion. Read some of the German accounts of the RAF bombings of major German cities, namely Hamburg and Cologne who were the first in history to endure a 1,000 bomber raid in a single night, those bombings happened every single night, year after year with the likes of Speer and Hitler himself commenting on their effectiveness. Not only that but the RAF were hitting Germany hard in the skies too, such as during the Battle of Britain in which the security of Britain for the remainder of the war was ensured before the US had even entered the war and plans for a British invasion were abandoned by Hitler and he focused on Russia. Which now gets me on to what we did to make sure they were also coping on the Eastern front, such as all the aid supplied to them for FREE. 3,000+ Hurricanes, 4,000+ other aircraft, 27 naval vessels, 5,218 tanks (including 1,380 Valentines from Canada), 5,000+ anti-tank guns, 4,020 ambulances and trucks, 323 machinery trucks, 1,212 Universal Carriers and Loyd Carriers (with another 1,348 from Canada ), 1,721 motorcycles, £1.15bn worth of aircraft engines, 1,474 radar sets, 4,338 radio sets, 600 naval radar and sonar sets, hundreds of naval guns and 15 million pairs of boots. In total 4 million tonnes of war material including food and medical supplies were delivered. The munitions totaled £308m (not including naval munitions supplied), the food and raw materials totalled £120m in 1946 index. If that wasn't enough, the British ships returning from Russia were carrying gold to pay the *US*. Campaigns in Africa and India were failures? Ah give it a rest you muppet, Montgomery alone sought the removal of Rommel from North Africa following El Alamein and Bill Slim did the same with the Japanese at Kohima and Imphal. "the only people you've ever been able to beat were the French the world's losers at war you could not beat Germany but we did." Nope, In the final 100 days of the Great War the BEF engaged, and defeated, 99 of the 197 German Divisions in the West. ♦The Battle of Amiens, 8 August 1918 ('the black day of the German Army'); ♦The Battle of Albert, 21 August (the day on which Haig told Churchill 'we ought to do our utmost to get a decision this autumn'); ♦The Battle of the Scarpe, 26 August; ♦The Battles of Havrincourt and Epehy, 12 September (the approaches to the HindenburgLine); ♦The Breaking of the Hindenburg Line, 27 September - 5 October (35,000 prisoners & 380 guns taken, the British Army's greatest feat of arms in all its history); ♦The Battle of Flanders, 28 September; ♦The Second Battle of Le Cateau, 6 October; ♦The Battle of the Selle, 17 October; ♦The Battle of the Sambre, 1-11 November. These were Haig's victories, handsomely acknowledged by French Marshal Foch: |*Never at any time in history has the British army* achieved greater results in attack than in this unbroken offensive The victory was indeed complete, thanks to the Commanders of Armies, Corps and Divisions, thanks above all to the unselfishness, to the wise, loyal and energetic policy of their Commander-in-Chief, who made easy a great combination and sanctioned a prolonged and gigantic effort And furthermore look how many German forces surrendered to Montgomery in 1945 in the Netherlands, northwest Germany including all islands, and Denmark. Overall in WW2, it was the Russians who tore the guts out of the German army, they annihilated over 200 German divisions.
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@artemidont9197 The caution in refusing to counter attack is somewhat justified by the anti tank screens that Rommel often set up to bait the Allies into charging only to be ambushed
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@nickdanger3802 If all went to plan, the war would've been shortened.
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@nickdanger3802 "How was XXX Corps, with supply line over 400 miles back to Normandy, going to win the logistics battle with Germany when Arnhem is 67 miles from Krupp Werks in Essen?" By taking the ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam to supply the armies from a shorter distance. The whole point of Market Garden was that it was a way to continue the Allies advance without placing too much further strain on the failing logistic chain through France which was causing the main broad front advance to falter.
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@TotensBurntCorpse The Russians had one army to use, the Allies were operating with five armies.
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@bigwoody4704 Various eminent historians such as Max Hastings, William Weidner Carlo D’este have cast a poor light on the performance of 21st Army Group in NW Europe, characterising it as clinging onto WW1 attritional warfare methods and not learning from the combined arms doctrine adopted by the German and American armies. This is of course nonsense. The very fact that 21st Army Group defeated an obdurate and tactically enlightened German opponent in the difficult country of Normandy, Flanders and Holland in less than 6 months should point to that fact. Although there is much focus on the grinding battles of attrition around Caen in June-July 1944, and the heroic failure of Operation Market Garden in September, there are three much less well known major Commonwealth operational successes that stand out before the Rhine crossings. The airborne landings and combined operations of Richard Gale’s 6th Airborne Division and Commandos on the Orne river flank during and after D-Day (in particular the Battle of Breville from 7–13th June which secured the eastern flank of the invasion); Operation Bluecoat, the British breakout from Normandy on Bradley’s flank in late July and early August 1944 Operation Infatuate, the amphibious assault on Walcheren Island in the Scheldt estuary in November 1944.
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@bigwoody4704 "Imagine what this yapping jackel Repeate would say about IKE if he lost say 200,000 @ Dunkirk or 81,000 @ Singapore or 25-30,000 @ Tobruk but who the hell has losses like that?" We didn't lose 200,000 men at Dunkirk, British losses were 3,500 killed. so technically the worst battle for the British is Singapore.
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@thevillaaston7811 Looks like it's kicking off on here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHDKQed6rKc
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@bigwoody4704 Didn't the Auk suffer heavier casualties at 1st El Alamein though? Last time I checked, 13,250 losses to Rommels 10,000.
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@Baskerville22 Yeah, I think they should have took a leaf out of Morshead's tactics with his night patrols and defence in depth etc. Ah well, at least the Allies redeemed themselves at El Alamein twice.
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I would trust Montgomery, you know why? Because he had excellent staff like Philip Roberts, Richard O Connor, Miles Dempsey and Brian Horrocks under him to carry out such plans. I don't know why you think Monty is the one commanding tactically on the ground, he is a strategist, it would be his corps commanders doing the job ( the 4 generals above)
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@petervote7914 China, US, UK.
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