Comments by "Barrie Rodliffe" (@barrierodliffe4155) on "Ardennes: Hitler's Final Gamble On The Western Front | Greatest Tank Battles | War Stories" video.

Disengage? Patton was facing few Germans so not much to disengage from and it took him 5 days to reach Bastogne most of the way through US held territory and only meeting a small holding company with few tanks at Bastogne.
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@bigwoody4704 Little Blockhead, Montgomery was there not in hiding like Bradley or in the far South like Patton. Montgomery organised the US 1st and 9th armies that fought along with the British and they stopped the Germans and sent them packing while Patton was slowly going to Bastogne just in time to meet a very weak German force with few tanks.
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Little Blockhead British technology given to USA which USA didn't have, Britain took in some scientists but unlike USA we had our own very good scientists.
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@nickdanger3802 In Britain, I know it is popular in US circles to claim USA did it all but Britain made thousands of tanks, of course it is quite likely that if a Sherman managed to destroy a British tank it would be the Sherman, highly unlikely to be a Churchill tank
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@brianbreen1026 Montgomery took charge of the 1st and 9th US armies and organised them into an effective force, as Montgomery said they fought well. Why do you think Montgomery had to take over? Bradley was hiding in Luxembourg and had abandoned his headquarters leaving maps showing the US positions which fortunately Montgomery found not the Germans. Montgomery had won the invasion of Normandy then when he was no longer in charge of the US Patton got into the Lorraine and even with all of the supplies he was getting Patton was hardly moving. Eisenhower liked the idea of Market Garden and insisted it go ahead and gave the planning to two US officers for the airborne part, the only failure in Market Garden was the US 101st and 82nd failing to take their respective bridges. Overall Market Garden achieved a lot.
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The Germans maintained radio silence on the build up to the Battle of the Bulge, they waited for poor weather and moved at night, the US got caught napping.
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Americans? The British and Canadians took on most of the Germans in Normandy, especially the tanks. There was a bigger concentration of tanks per mile against the British and Canadians than at Kursk.
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@Mangoshake2021 Really? The Normandy landings were done with mostly British ships, RAF fighter cover and a lot of British equipment. The planning British and if Britain had not supplied USSR with so much equipment then they could have had more British equipment. The fact is that the British did most of the work and fighting in Normandy and didn't get pushed back into the sea. Bradley almost gave up at Omaha Beach, without the British he probably would have.
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@Mangoshake2021 Maybe you do not know much history, without you Adolf could not do much to us and without us you could not do much to Adolf.
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@cthulhu6697 Too late since Berlin surrendered to the USSR on the 2nd of May, The Germans in Denmark, Holland and the North of Germany surrendered to Montgomery on the 4th of May, the rest of Germany surrendered on the 8th of May.
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I read that too, the small German holding force with few tanks were not much of a force and the 101st were about ready to walk out.
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Patton did very little, fortunately Montgomery was able to stop the Germans in their tracks and send them packing while Patton was moving a short distance and faced very few German troops with almost no tanks, surely that should have been easy, Patton had a 6 to 1 advantage in numbers.
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The tank battles in the USSR were the biggest but the highest concentration of tanks per mile was against the British and Canadians, the US met few tanks and almost no Tiger tanks.
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@Arman-jx7hu Just the truth but you wouldn't know much about that. would you?
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What Tigers? the US hardly ever saw any Tiger tanks, only a very few that had been abandoned broken down. They did meet a few Panthers but not all that many.
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@Arman-jx7hu Was i there? No, I wasn't but a lot of soldiers were. Any video? nope, there were no video cameras back then
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Always sleeping while waiting to see who is going to win. It makes sense to join the winners.
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If it is true, but the siege was by a small holding company with few tanks, most of the Germans had carried on with their mission, they were not concerned about Bastogne.
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@peterson7082 Really the case, British and Canadians used the Firefly to good effect and took on almost all of the heavy German armour in the West, Tiger, Panther, you name it, the US faced very few tanks and no Tiger tanks.
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@peterson7082 True not just in Normandy but also for the rest of the war. Lorraine which was after Normandy and Patton faced a very weak German force with almost no tanks. Patton’s Third Army was almost always where the best German divisions in the west were NOT. Who did the 3rd Army defeat? In the Lorraine 3rd Army faced a rabble. Even the German commander of Army Group G in the Lorraine, Herman Black, who took over in September 1944 said: “I have never been in command of such irregularly assembled and ill-equipped troops. The fact that we have been able to straighten out the situation again..... can only be attributed to the bad and hesitating command of the Americans. Within my zone, the Americans never once exploited a success. Often Von Mellenthin, my chief of staff and I, would stand in front of the map and say “Patton is helping us: he failed to exploit another success”. Then at the Battle of the Bulge Patton was neither on the advance nor being heavily engaged at the time he turned north to Bastogne when the Germans pounded through the US lines. The Us 1st and 9th had to be put under Montgomery’s control. The 9th stayed under his control until the end of the war. US Air Force units were put under RAF command-Coningham. Only when Patton got near to Bastogne did he face some German armour but it wasn’t a great deal of German armour. The Fuhrer Grenadier Brigade wasn’t one of the best armoured units, while the 26th Volks-Grenadier had only a dozen Hetzers, and the tiny element of Panzer Lehr (Kampfgruppe 901) left behind only a small group of tanks operational. It’s not as if Patton had to smash through full Panzer divisions or Tiger battalions on his way to Bastogne. Patton’s armoured forces outnumbered the Germans by at least 6 to 1. Patton faced comparatively very little German armour when he broke through to Bastogne the vast majority of the German 5th Panzer Army had already left Bastogne, moving westwards to the River Meuse, where they were still engaging forces under Montgomery’s 21st Army group. Leading German elements were engaging the Americans and British under Montgomery’s command near Dinant by the Meuse.
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@peterson7082 Of course not, the US 1st and 9th were, but they were well commanded by Montgomery along with the British.
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The famous imaginary Tiger tank.
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hognoxious It was rather obvious to all but the US who were not there four years before. Fortunately Montgomery was awake and ready having the British troops on hand when he found the US headquarters abandoned. Eisenhower couldn't get in touch with Bradley who was hiding and asked Montgomery to take charge of the US 1st and 9th armies, Montgomery already knew where they were since he had found US maps at the abandoned headquarters.
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@opoxious1592 In no way was the loss of 90,000 US troops pivotal, The death of many US troops was due to the US being caught trousers down at the time. Berlin surrendered to the USSR on the 2nd of May, The Germans in Denmark, Holland and North Germany surrendered to Montgomery on the 4th of May and the rest of Germany on the 8th of May but just as many people seem to think USA won the Battle of the Bulge on their own they think USA won the war in Europe.
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The Sherman could not do much to a Tiger tank unless it could get close behind. The British did put an effective gun in many of their Shermans until the far better Comet was available, the funny thing is that Britain was replacing the Firefly at the time USA ordered some Fireflies having faced a few German tanks for the first time in the Battle of the Bulge.
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@charlestidwell5361 Britain did, Canada did and USA did even if they stuffed up at Omaha.
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@bigwoody4704 Montgomery never thought Caen would be easy, in fact he diverted forces due to attack Caen and sent them to Corentin to help the US, Caen was defended by the biggest concentration of German tanks including Tigers, more per mile than Kursk. The whole campaign went ahead of Montgomery's schedule.
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Little Blockhead and a history lesson is a big joke. The Germans were in Caen which they were desperate to hold onto, The bulk of the best German forces and almost all of the armour were fighting the British and Canadians. To quote Eisenhower " Montgomery took us into France and he kept us there" The GI's were only in France thanks to Montgomery planning and commanding the operation. Just as well because the Germans tried to reach the coast with tanks, you know the little things that the US hardly ever saw and were driven back by the British while the US were making a mess of Omaha beach, even British had to help out there too.
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Little Blockhead Montgomery found the US headquarters left empty by Bradley. You really are very ignorant. How is your friend snoring tractor getting on?
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There was little German army left, they caught the US trousers down again.
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@angrydoggy9170 The weak German forces with few tanks, most of the Germans had passed by Bastogne and had to be stopped and sent packing by the US and British forces under Montgomery.
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@nickdanger3802 Montgomery proposed Market Garden, Eisenhower insisted it go ahead then had the planning done by two US Officers who messed up the airborne side.
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With Patton we could have lost the war, fortunately he was not in charge of the important battles.
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The biggest concentration of German tanks per mile, far more than Kursk was in Normandy against the British and Canadians. In the Bulge the British also took on many of the German tanks, few of which were at Bastogne.
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@brucenadeau2172 The US were in a mess and saved by the British but your Hollywood version doesn't tell the truth.
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@Arman-jx7hu Nope, I am not American, I do not get caught trousers down
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They would meet the British at the bridges, which they did and were stopped and sent packing by the British and the US 1st and 9th armies under Montgomery.
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