Comments by "Shaun Steele" (@shaunsteele4968) on "When The British u0026 The Nazis Fought For North Africa | Greatest Tank Battles" video.

  1. That man would be sir Winston.
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  2.  Hoa Tattis  well Max Hastings is a British historian who traditionally head the f$%# Patton club. Do you have any evidence mr Hastings. Yeah. Everything Omar Bradley and ernie Pyle said. OK Mr Hastings. Lebron is the world's number oneish basketball player.
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  3. I'll make it real simple in one. You're walking around telling people Montgomery was a better Patton. This is incorrect and false info. Montgomery is more like Eisenhower and that's not complimentary.
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  4. Most Americans today have the impression that Japan was just kind of a lackey. We've not been taught on a general basis about Burma. The mention of a Burmese holocaust will get an American to say, you mean hitlers. So, not me, but to most Americans, you're going to have to explain what made you so nervous. They will say things like did you think they were not going to see you on the road and hit you?
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  5. I am self taught. Reading books that wouldve never been a part of my educational curriculum in school.
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  6. Rommel did not love his men. I mean he did. Every general values his men's lives but he was not a close general of the men like you think. If you watch verbal interviews of the men under him. It seems to be more of a picture of rommels guts. Our blood. Not half casualty rates. One lt outright says he was a poor general and tells a story of rommel falling under artillery fire with him driving and another officer passenger taking shrapnel in the back and falling out wounded badly but not dead. He said rommel immediately became fearful for self and ordered to be driven out. He said he pointed out the man was not dead and offered to stay with him. Rommel consented and had another officer drive himself to safety. Both men survived and all rommel told the wounded man on recovery is I can't believe your alive. And walked away.
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  7. I like to compare rommel to luscian Truscott. Both men did some fine assaults. One was repeatedly called the desert fox. One shouldve been called the seal of the meditterean. One was repeatedly called one of those things. One gets remembered.
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  8. I would actually encourage the person to go read some Ladislas farago Patton or more modernly. Carlo d'este who is both patton and eisenhowers military historian and keep a fairer view than he made me put on an uncomfortable helmet. Like a modern day mask freaker
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  9.  @danielmocsny5066  I've done this before actually. I think you wrong commented there.
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  10.  @danielmocsny5066  oh lol. If you reread my comment I was likening Ernest Pyle to a modern day mask freaker. That's someone who takes being asked to wear a piece of safety equipment way too far. For poor Ernest. It ended with a bullet in his head. So no. I was not trying to take an anti mask stance. Patton would be for the safety equipment, so am I. But you just freaked out yourself there a bit.
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  11.  @danielmocsny5066  actually it's an excellent lesson for these people in following safety precautions. Ernie did not. Was not made to by other members of high command. Unfairly tried to paint Patton in a bad light over it. And ended up dead in the mud with a bullet in the thing he was asked to cover with a helmet.
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  12. And I will say. When high command issued the condem directive to all allied men and made it orders to wear protection for sexual intercourse. Patton was the general to issue the directive, "as long as your helmet is on and your knees are out of the dirt, you are in no violation of orders in this army.
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  13. These same freedom loving Americans I just saw shopping in full body et suits a year ago. When they were told their sweet sweet a$$e$ might be on the line. Nothing happened. Now they've removed their helmets and are showing their a$$e$ keep it off as you get a sobering lesson in epidemiology.
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  14.  @danielmocsny5066  trust me when I say sir. That in one to two years. These same freedom loving Americans that refused a mask now...will make you feel underdressed yourself when you go out. And then this will be a silly moment in history.
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  15. The dems will bring up the silly unmasking. The Republicans will counter with Afghanistan and we'll all sit around and laugh about the mess.
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  16. Or you'll be dead.
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  17.  @danielmocsny5066  you have a short memory. Remember back at first. These people were the very embodiment of the song "I'm going to live, until I die." They never saw corpses hit the ground. Wait for it. Wait for it.
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  18.  @danielmocsny5066  I work in Healthcare sir. And the day we were being told about the covid virus coming and trump putting a lockdown in effect. It was the non maskers now, who actually asked my boss. "If this thing is dangerous, can I take time off and come back when it'd done?" And had to be reminded by my boss they got into healthcare to help people and now was the chance. They thought they were just living, until they died.
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  19. Mother earth did not create this thing to encourage us to use our sexual genitalia even more. Quite the opposite. Wait for it good sir. Have some popcorn in the meantime.
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  20.  @danielmocsny5066  and speaking of ww2. The German fuhrer can tell you. You don't earn anyone fearful respect by leaving the whole carton of eggs intact. This thing has a little more respect to earn for itself.
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  21. Its sad because the director of Patton does a forward in the movie version of Patton. Francis Ford Coppola. And in it. He explains. I made it in the seventies and you had to understand the times. I had to get 2 versions of America to spend money on a movie. The hippie kids who hated war. And the older parents and vets who respected it and respected him. He felt that he couldn't be openly flattering of Patton without turning off the hippies to the squares movie. So he did a jekyll and Hyde with Patton on the whole theme of war. He had to make up a lot more Hyde than jekyll and he acknowledges that.
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  22. I told that story so I could offer a better rommel from a different war. Thomas stonewall Jackson. A story reminiscent of what you get with stonewall.
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  23. I know he's basically never gonna have big fans across the pond for basically demasculating your people the entire war. But the delusional behavior about it needs to stop. It happened. You can't just pretend like it didn't and say Montgomery was better. Burlap sacks only work one time.
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  24. Rommel was more like Patton than any allied general. They all respected him a whole heck of a lot more than each other. Montgomery kept a portrait of him at his field hq. He called Patton "an old man of about 60" the first time he saw him. Gave him credit for being the only American officer to attend his preparatory briefings. The British hate was actually Omar Bradley's to bear. We can prove that from his journos. He transferred it to the dead Patton so it would be properly represented in ww2 somehow without him being tied to it.
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  25.  @lyndoncmp5751  Patton and Montgomery met when Patton attended one of montys pre Sicily planning meeting that every other American officer blew off. Montgomery called him an old man of about 60.
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  26.  Hoa Tattis  hahahahahahahaha. Max Hastings is that you? You got to give up the ghost. You sound like a lebron fan.
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  27.  Hoa Tattis  well again, as I've told others here on this page. I am backing any claim I'm making. With referencing as much material as I can for you. You and others are making declaratory statements with no reference. I will give you credit though. You at least are not pretending to be the institution of Leavenworth with no reference or experience given.
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  28.  Hoa Tattis  you don't have to. And again..Monty did reach a position in the British and German military that does not exist in the American. But back to one of my original points. Had rommel been a master of war on d day. He might not have reached that position. Rommel was a lover boy on d day.
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  29.  Hoa Tattis  yeah Patton was a 5 month soldier dude. They said. Oh your a confederate. We are jumping you from private to general. He was a colonel in ww1. Come on dude. You have some fact that will change something or do you just plan to sit here and badmouth him with no real reason to.
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  30. Then he's good enough for me. No questions asked. Patton probably felt the same. As he attended the meetings. Omar Bradley did not and rants and raves about the British control of the war throughout his journos.
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  31. And I that respect both men share a duality. They were both option b. Patton had to babysit the sultan of morrocco until ikes best friends had royally screwed up.
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  32.  Hoa Tattis  also hoa, I understand why he needed to be so cautious unlike most historians. Churchill was to the point of shaming and head taking in desperation. So he can't just swing big where Americans weren't under that kind of pressure yet.
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  33. But AFTER d day. He's STILL got other armies literally stealing gas that the majority is marked to go to him and he's saying "not enough" I, like churchill would, fail, to comprehend that at all.
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  34.  Hoa Tattis  sorry my child had my phone until now. To address both comments. Firstly. I've not had to Google any of this. It's up here. And yes I was aware. I'm aware of us participation at the end of ww1. You do know the politicians declare the war, the soldiers fight it?
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  35. And as far as your name calling of the British pm. I'm sure if he was here he would say he's been called worse by better. He wouldn't give austrailia men, that he did not have, until japan showed up in austrailia. MacArthur wanted men for manilla. Got the same denial.
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  36. Quite frankly, I would be more upset with the America on that one. That is where men could've realistically came from. You should be blaming us. Not him. We had plenty. He has the last of the British youth fighting the war.
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  37. You call churchill a slug for not having men. You make the same mistake a historian does when they criticize Montgomery early in the war for being cautious. They do NOT have it.
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  38. Your parents have the same issue as so many others with Winston. You can't get him to say he was wrong. Cuz he wasn't. Ask your parents if the Japanese landed on your homeland.
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  39. Had churchill been wrong. That wouldve been a stop on MacArthurs vine. I assure you. So either way. They ain't there long.
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  40. America has lost any memory of the Japanese holocaust. To the point you won't bring it up because they all seem to think if that actually happened, they had the finest education. They wouldve known.
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  41.  Hoa Tattis  but as far as my bro from another mo Patton is concerned. I will leave you with the most d%@*ing piece of evidence. The German high command. At Nuremberg. "If there was a factor at all in command to the side b of our war, it would be George s Patton. And that's it"
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  42. What this essentially mirrors is the Civil War. The mighty South. Struck out. Fallen. And giving more credit to Sherman than they would grant the butcher.
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  43.  Hoa Tattis  I do my research well ahead of time. And I don't call men that saved MY bacon bad generals and slugs. I think you need to history on hoa. History on.
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  44. Also hoa. Look at Montys later life. Now he was acquitted. I don't think acquitted is the right word. I believe the child was ignored. No way would he. And that's fine. I wasn't there. I don't accuse the innocent. I would point out his reputation would be sunk in today's America at the first peep from a child.
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  45. He michael jacksoned a boy in today's sense later in life according to like one child. I've read the accusations so they're there. Google that.
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  46. Let's get something straight as an arrow. Right here. Right now. Patton was...by far....universes...a better commander than sir Bernard Montgomery. Anyone that thinks differently is sipping that Pyle, you don't tell me to wear a helmet, kool aid.
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  47.  @thevillaaston7811  straightened out the us army. Got it into fighting discipline. Gave them confidence the German could be beaten and never got held up but for a month at fort triant in metz
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  48. And let's get something else straight. Rommel was a shaming instrument from the prime Minister who gave him his sobriquet. He was undersupplied in Africa. But he sure wasn't on d day. He was giving his wife shoes. Had he had his head in the ballgame that day. Ike serves his little letter very rightfully for listening to Montgomery. We have another anzio and Patton is asked for one last miracle down the pas de Calais. For such a genius. He couldn't outwit a man that would later lose to a tree on a pro golf course.
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  49. So rommels biggest sin as a general. Keeping ike at strike 2 in that war.
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  50. Let Carlo d'este explain why we get so many versions of Patton and his is so much different himself. He too opted to disregard Bradley and Pyle as accurate sources beyond a general battlefield expertise. For the aforementioned reasons. Read and figure out which man he is the expert on that he covers, that he prefers.
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  51. We get it. Nobody puts Ernest Pyle in a corner and tells him to wear safety gear in a high risk situation. We get it. So for 25 years we get the stories and the hawkish mean Patton that did not cooperate. But the stats. Ernie Pyles good generals of that war have double the casualties of Patton. That's double the men killed. Double the men wounded. And double the men taking prisoner. Will rap please say it with me for some of the unhip white folks in here. Men lie. I wasn't sleeping with my driver. She's my friend. Women lie. He's just a really fun guy to hang out with and drive. Alone. But numbers never will.
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  52. To give a modern day person a perspective on Montgomery vs Patton it's basically Durant vs James in the NBA for goat. One is doing all the talking and getting his way behind the scenes. One kept their mouth shut and listened to Nike. Not their main representative.
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  53. And now that I've bashed the brits repeatedly. Let me tell you. I've got 2 portraits on my wall. One of George Patton. But the other is the finest politician of the century. He won't win GOAT. The German does. But in being tossed out. He proved a lot of silly liberalism wrong at that time. And the lion fought his way back and won history. He is in my opinion. The stonewall Jackson of politics. A bit eccentric but always right. Great man. I am no Omar Bradley. Neither was Patton.
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  54. Montgomery would say these shoulders were built for a reason. Take all the troops. Take all the gas. And sit there. And say he had decided he didn't have enough and ask for more help. One just did with what he had. Maybe lebron and Jordan would be the better comparison. Just not same era.
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  55. And to most major historians, it is von manstien who put together the plan for the taking of France like napoleon but also defended better than Robert e Lee against Russia who is the GOAT of all warfare.
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