Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1.  @garymartin1040  Ask Patton for advice? Please! Read some history and stop going by Hollywood.
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  2. Not this mixed up American kid again. The British did not steal the Falkland Islands. They discovered them and occupied them at various times. Colonialism was not oppression.
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  3. There was no armour in the Arnhem area on the jump day. That is myth.
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  4. Is it Montgomery being the most successful general in WW2 that irks you?
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  5.  @Bullet-Tooth-Tony-  Bad plan by the Americans for sure. But when the plan was enacted, it should have succeeded because the Germans were in disarray. The failure points were that two US para units failed to seize their bridges.
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  6.  @bigwoody4704  BZZZZZZT! Wrong answer. Rambo, the name of the bridge XXX Corps had to seize for the US 82nd, was... 🍾🩸🎊 Nijmegen bridge 🍾🩸🎊 Zero points Rambo. Zero. Better luck next time.
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  7.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo, a quiz. Name the bridge the 101st failed to seize? 20 points for the correct answer.
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  8.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo, a quiz. Name the general who took control of two shambolic US armies in the German Bulge attack? 20 points for the correct answer. 10 bonus points for the names of the armies.
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  9.  @garymartin1040  You have comprehension problems.
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  10.  @garymartin1040  Get these problems sorted ASAP. You cannot go through life like this.
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  11.  @garymartin1040  Been around a long time eh. I understand now, senility is setting in.
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  12. If Gavin of the US 82nd had seized Nijmegen bridge immediately, as was supposed to, the operation would have been a success. The failure point was Gavin.
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  13. Sharpen up sunshine. Canadians were not in Market Garden.
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  14.  @FrostySire  Brereton and Williams of the USAAF were the planners.
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  15.  @jimwalsh8520  Again..... Brereton and Williams of the USAAF were the planners.
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  16. Change British to American in your post. Then you are about right.
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  17. The Luftwaffe lost the air battle over Dunkirk.
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  18. Monty wanted it cancelled. Einsenhower insisted it goes ahead.
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  19. Market Garden was a success: ▪ It kept Antwerp out of German artillery range. ▪ It created a 60 mile buffer between Antwerp and German forces. Antwerp was the only port taken intact. This buffer proved itself in the German Bulge attack right through US lines. The German went through a forest rather than the direct route, which would have been through the Market Garden salient. ▪ It created a staging point to move into Germany at Nijmegen, which was used. ▪ It eliminated V rocket launching sites aimed at London. ▪ It isolated the German 15th army in Holland. ▪ They reached the Rhine. ▪ The salient was fleshed out to the Meuse. ▪ The Germans never retook one mm of ground taken. ▪ It captured the important Philips radio factory at Eindhoven. All this while Patton was stalled at Metz moving 10 miles in three months against a 2nd rate German army. Also US forces were stopped before Aachen and eventually defeated at Hurtgen Forest - you know that engagement, the US historians and History channels ignore. To flesh out the salient the US 7th armor was sent into Overloon. They were so bad they were extracted with British forces sent in to take the town. The Germans never thought Market Garden was a failure. It punched a 60 mile salient right into their lines in a few days, right on their border. They saw it as a staging area to jump into Germany - which it was. In late '44/early '45, the longest allied advance was the 60 mile Market Garden advance. The only operation to fully achieve its goals in that time period was Monty's clearing of the Scheldt. 'It is interesting to consider how far we failed in this operation. It should be remembered that the Arnhem bridgehead was only a part of the whole. We had gained a great deal in spite of this local set-back. The Nijmegen bridge was ours, and it proved of immense value later on. And the brilliant advance by XXX Corps led the way to the liberation of a large part of Holland, not to speak of providing a stepping stone to the successful battles of the Rhineland.' - OPERATION VICTORY by MAJOR-GENERAL DEGUINGAND, 1947, page 419.
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  20.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo, a quiz. Name the British general who had to take command of two US armies in the German Bulge attack? 20 points for the correct answer.
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  21.  @piotr004  The Poles never did much anyway.
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  22.  John Cornell  100,000 in the Bulge, 50,000 at Lorraine and 33,000 at Hurtgen Forest. 183,000. That is not counting Normandy and Aachen, etc.
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  23.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo, you have been told about making things up. FACT. XXX Corps had to take the Nijmegen bridge for the 82nd.
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  24.  @bigwoody4704  Hi Rambo. I never understood a word of the obsessive ramblings of what you wrote. That goes for most of your posts really.
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  25.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo, I still cannot make any sense of what you are writing. Rambo, it is best you go disco dancing on a Saturday night. This will settle you down.
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  26. Monty was underrated? Being the finest general of WW2.
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  27. Rambo, get therapy quick. Please.
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  28.  @Blaidd_1401  Sosabowski initially refused to take in his men. He was later fired because of it by his army leader Brereton.
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  29.  Sleipner 33  It is in the quality books on MG.
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  30.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo, a quiz. Name the Allied General that moved thru nine countries without a reverse? 20 points for the correct answer.
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  31. That was fiction.
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  32.  @link8296  It was mainly fictional stories written around real events. Take the whole series with a pinch of salt. Ambrose is known for exaggeration and at times total lies when writing his supposed non-fiction. So his fictional stuff will be historically way out.
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  33.  @link8296  You are naive! Want to buy a bridge in Brooklyn? Cash deal, $3,000.
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  34.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo a quiz. Name the bridge the 82nd failed to seize on Operation Market Garden.? 20 points for the correct answer.
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  35. This is garbage, put together by an Anglophobe.
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  36.  @johncasy5212  Monty was exceptional - his factual record clearly indicates so.
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  37.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo a quiz. Name the British general who planned and command all ground forces at Normandy? 20 points for the correct answer.
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  38.  @TheFreshman321  Browning was in the air when the 82nd should have been moving towards the bridge. When he saw the bridge was not taken he was very concerned telling Gavin to seize it. Gavin said Germans were coming in from the east and 1,000 tanks were there. Browning agreed to sort that out but the bridge must be seized before XXX Corps arrived. Browning did not tell Gavin to pull all his troops out of Nijmegen completely. The 82nd men had actually held the southern approaches to the bridge overnight. Pulling out of Nijmegen allowed the Germans to hold the town, which was full of rubble after the USAAF bombed it by mistake.
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  39. But Patton was not in this operation.
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  40.  @jpmtlhead39  Wrote: The most overrated general in Military history. A Vain, Arrogant, Entitled, Incompetent Man. He only cared about his own Image, regardless his atrocious mistakes, with The thousands of death soldiers, that died following his "genius" Operations. A very Stupid man. That is Patton.
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  41.  @jpmtlhead39  US supplies to Britain in WW2 was 11%, mainly raw materials and machine tools. Read British War Production by Postan.
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  42.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo a quiz. Name the British general who had to take command of two shambolic US armies in the German Bulge attack? 20 points for the correct answer.
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  43.  @thevillaaston7811  wrote: "Montgomery won at Almein with less than 7% casualties. Compare that to US casualty figures in their battles with the Germans..." The casualty rate of US armies run by amateur generals was horrific.
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  44.  @bigwoody4704  BZZZZZT! Wrong answer. The name the general who took control of two shambolic US armies in the German Bulge attack was... 🎊🎈🍾🍸 General Montgomery 🎊🎈🍾🍸 Zero points Rambo. Zero. Better luck next time.
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  45.  @sean640307  Do you know you have been conversing with Rambo, a nut job.
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  46.  @Pugiron  True. Lies will not change history. So keep away from Hollywood films.
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  47.  @bradyelich2745  Canadians were involved in running over ropes and the likes.
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  48.  Asif Ifas  Britain's buffer zone is the English Channel.
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  49.  @bradyelich2745  The Canadians were not involved in the fighting at Market Garden.
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  50.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo, Gavin was a total disgrace! XXX Corps had to take the bridge for the 82nd. Shameful indeed Rambo. Shameful.
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