Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "War Academy" channel.

  1. Les Goumiers Marocains. Also read about the Italian Marocchinate
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  2. Just a question, when you say the luftwaffe had established air control over the battlefield, how come the VVS launched wide scale air attacks across the 2 German "schwerpunkts" an hour before the Germans launched zitadelle, throwing their initial assault into no small degree of chaos?
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  3.  @randallturner9094  Nice pomposity. Why exactly is my question silly when you type yourself "The Luftwaffe was successful in the opening days of the battle", when the fact is on THE opening day of the battle the VVS pre-empted the initial assault.... or do air forces only begin their fight for air superiority AFTER the tanks start rolling? Maybe the German's should have launched operation Seelöwe before the battle of Britain began? Read any book on zitadelle, there's plenty of them, they'll tell you the same thing.
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  4. More dreadful inhuman "AI" voiceovers.
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  5. In much the same way as the Dec 1944 Ardennes offensive did in the west.
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  6.  @randallturner9094  WShat are my sources.... every book I've read on the subject over the last 20 years. Face it you were caught out talking bullshit.
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  7. "The UK led Market Garden by Montgomery was ridiculously bad"... caused almost completely by the dreadful performance of the US 82nd airborne division at Nijmegen. The Market Garden plan ordered that immediately upon landing that the 82nd airborne was to strike out for the Nijmegen bridge over the river Waal and seize it. What did the 82nd airborne do instead? Landed to the south east of the town as planned, and then immediately dug into positions on the Groesbeek Heights to defend against non existent German forces in the Reichwald forest, thereby allowing German forces to the north of Nijmegen who had been taken completely by surprise to move into defensive positions around the Waal bridge and hold up the allied 30th corps advance for two whole days, thereby bringing the whole of Market Garden to its knees. Stupid bloody yanks.
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  8.  @tom80  No, any plan where one of the key players doesn't act as he has been ordered, is simply cast into the lap of the gods. Imagine if in 1940, that if instead of following the "Manstein plan" and striking for the channel coast as he had been ordered, Guderian had, without informing his superiors, instead followed the Schlieffen plan and instead struck towards Paris. The course of 20th century European history would have taken a most different turn. P.S As for "Yanks saving Britain" save your BS for people who don't know the history. The US, being neutral, did absolutely FUCK ALL to save Great Britain. Britain simply bought supplies from the US who happily stripped Britain of its remaining wealth, territories and cutting edge scientific research. For example, If it wasn't for the British "tube alloys" nuclear research project (the world's FIRST nuclear weapons research program), then the US "Manhattan project" would have taken a further 10 years to complete and many many hundreds of thousands of rednecks would have died on the beaches of Japan if operation"downfall" had had to be put into effect. If the US had REALLY wanted to "help Britain", then instead of bleeding the British empire dry and causing its collapse, they could have for example sold a production license for Tetra Ethyl Lead (The compound required for the production of hi-octane fuels) to Britain when we applied to purchase one prewar. ... instead they refused to sell one to "their British cousins"... A "special relationship" indeed. Where there nazi sympathies in the Standard Oil boardroom? The truth is so unsavoury were the business practices of the US "Standard Oil" company (such as seeking furtive routes and brokering shady deals to supply nazi Germany with fuel and oil via neutral nations during the war) that it's activities were investigated and closely monitored by the US Govt... but only AFTER the they had been DRAGGED into WW2 in Dec 1941 by the German delcaration of war on the US!!! The "Standard Oil of Jersey City" company had NO qualms though about providing the exact same licence to the nazis prewar. But when it came to Britain the US preferred to strip the British of ALL their gold, cutting edge technology and military bases around the world during the British "hour of need" in return for a supply of amongst other things, US produced hi-octane fuel. The US "business community" engaged in VERY profitable business dealings with BOTH sides throughout WW2. US corporations such as Ford, General Motors, US Standard Oil, IBM, Kodak, Chase Bank (to name but a few) carried on "business as usual" with nazi Germany THROUGHOUT WW2. Ford's auto production facility in Cologne and General Motor's Opel subsiduary plant in Berlin were both busy working 24/7 THROUGHOUT WW2 furnishing the nazis with approximately 60% of the Wehrmacht's military transportation needs, as well as a sizeable chunk of the Luftwaffe's aero engine requirements... all the better for attacking Britain with eh? The "ALuminum COrporation of America" (ALCOA) for instance supplied SO much aircraft grade aluminium to nazi Germany in the late 1930s and into the early 1940s that it actually caused shortfalls within the US government's own military aircraft production schedules, so much so that in June 1941 the situation prompted Harold Ickes, US Secretary of the Interior, to go on record as saying “If America loses this coming war, it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of America”. With "friends" like the US "business community" who needs enemies?
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