Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

@morrismonet3554 "It's all that repressed "toxic masculinity" coming out due to being polite all the time at home." Riiight. How about general competence, better educations and growing up in a more cohesive society coming out?
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There is a fascinating story about the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and how they (literally) saved Denmark. The Russians were moving fast into Germany and they were obviously going to grab Denmark, as well (contrary to Yalta). The Canadians raced to the German town of Wismar and cut them off, wouldn't let them by and risked engaging the Red Army to keep them out of Denmark ... May 2nd 1945.
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@simonrancourt7834 If only you knew what Canadian soldiers thought about British officers ... I worked for a WWII retired Army Captain at one point and we'd talked about military matters because I had served for a time. (I remember him telling me what he thought about Zombie draftees!) Anyway, they were addressed by Monty in England one day and thousands of Canadians came away thinking "what a pompous asshole". He didn't resonate with North Americans in general. He said that at the end of his speech about his greatness, Montgomery grabbed two handsful of cigarettes and threw them into the crowd like a Medieval King with a bag of coins. . That might have worked with the Brits and their severe rationing for years but the Canadians were insulted. They had more cigarettes (and everything else) than they could ever smoke as the Canadian Army did their own vittling and didn't rely on their allies. I might also add that the WWI Canadian Corps became steadily more successful as Canadian officers took over and they phased out the British ones. By the end of the War, Arthur Currie was the British PMs choice to replace Haig because he won battles.
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@JoshSees After the War, the Canadian veterans (almost all volunteers) came home and went about their lives, again. I knew many of them ... hundreds of them over the course of my life and they saw it as "something that had to be done". Our English speaking allies announced their greatness to each other and everybody else from the rooftops with megaphones for decades. I attribute that to them mostly being conscripts.
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@guywerry6614 There are conscripts at the end of the war, primarily because of the high loses suffered by the Canadian Army in France and Holland and also they were anticipating the need to invade the Japanese home islands. The Canadian soldiers DID NOT like conscripts, referred to them as "Zombies". Draftees were not seen as fit for combat and the men didn't want them in their squads. Very few of them ended up fighting. They mostly stayed in Canada "guarding shitters on the Alaska Highway" and POW camps, etc. There were no conscrits in the particularly successful Canadian Corps of WWI either. We don't draft people in Canada. Draftees aren't up to the job. We have our standards.
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I just marched at a remembrance ceremony today, with my (all Cold War era) navy veterans. We had one old chap there who landed on Juno Beach on D-Day. He was a 17 year old Brit. infantryman charged with clearing the breach, thus he was in the first wave.
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@tacfoley Awesome regiment!
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@dosmundos3830 The biggest entertainment in Shilo is getting bombed.
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@bigwoody4704 It's a Brit thing to do that.
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The newly commissioned HMCS William Hall (AOPV 433) was slowing cruising back and forth just off of Juno Beach, D-Day +80, June 6 2024. It's a good sized ship in a class of ice breaking warships named after Canadian naval heroes.
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@ShadowOfTheHawke "Chipping in?" Thanks for finally joining us in our battle against fascism at half time, persons of Murica.
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@ShadowOfTheHawke You didn't d"decide to fight". The Japanese and then the Third Reich both declared war on the United States, not the other way around. You had no choice but to fight. The superpowers of the time both declared war on you. Do learn some real history, not the Tru Gutz Commix stuff that you're spoon fed down in the US.
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@kidmohair8151 There were canals from the sea to Lake Superior before the Seaway. The Lachine and Soulange Canals got ships to the Upper St Lawrence and Lake Ontario and the Welland and Sault Ste Marie canals got them all the way to the Upper Lakes. ... smaller ships than today, though and parts of it were not the safest ride.
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@kidmohair8151 Oh, the Europeans made extensive use of the canoe routes, don't you worry. You're not going to successfully portage a lot of the planet's grain supply over the old Voyageur routes, though. Practicality had to kick in during the 19th century, no matter how romantic canoes are.
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@kidmohair8151 Yo shouldn't be. Alternate histories don't actually exist.
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@bigwoody4704 Guy Simmonds and Crerar were both under Monty.
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