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

  1. They are not called British forces, as all they were all `British` in British America, they are Crown forces.
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  2. A good bold plan for the time. It failed by a whisker. The failure point was that Nijmegen bridge was not captured immediately. The 82nd never moved towards it, until too late.
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  3.  @HA1LILPALAZZO  XXX Corps were held up 12 hours at Son because the 101st did not seize the bridge. XXX Corps reached Nijmegen just ahead of schedule making up the time - only to find the bridge was still in German hands. XXX Corps had to seize the bridge themselves. This delayed the operation 36 hours, which meant the allied forces could not form a foothold over the Rhine.
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  4.  LeRoter Roter  But you are wrong.
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  5. Strange, as he never lost a battle. You must be a conditioned Yank.
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  6. Rambo, please get therapy, please.
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  7.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo, Eisenhower was in charge. You got the wrong fella.
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  8. Rambo, again for you, Eisenhower was in charge. You got the wrong fella.
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  9.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo, Yanks planned Market Garden, Williams and Brereton. Monty and Dempsey wanted to reach Wessel, which would have meant one less bridge, but the Yanks insisted on Arnhem. Eisenhower would not allocate enough resources to the operation either, with one corps above Eindhoven. But despite the incompetence of the Yanks, Market Garden failed by a whisker. The biggest screw up was by the US 82nd, who failed to seize the Nijmegen bridge. XXX Corps had to do it for them. Shocking state of affairs Rambo. Shocking.
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  10. Rambo, you have lost man. Lost it.
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  11. Rambo, Monty had little involvement in Market Garden in planning or execution. But the Yanks screwed up big time again. What is new there? Shocking Rambo. Shocking.
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  12. Rambo, it so sad to see people drop into the abyss of life - pull out man, pull out.
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  13.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo here has a scatological obsession. This is treatable I believe. So there is hope.
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  14.  @nickdanger3802  Rambo, you have been told about making things up and being other people.
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  15. Rambo, ‘At the September 10 conference in Brussels Field-Marshall Montgomery was therefore authorised to defer the clearing out of the Antwerp approaches in an effort to seize the Bridgehead I wanted.' - Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe. Page 336
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  16.  @bigwoody4704  Hi Rambo!
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  17.  @lee8830  The US had the best navy and fighter planes in 1940? Are you kidding?
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  18.  @MaximKretsch  The British had a large air force, especially bombers, and the largest nay in the world. All these consumed many, many men.
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  19.  @zxKAOS1  When NAZI POW's were taken to the UK at war's end, they were also shocked at just how untouched the UK was.
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  20.  @MaximKretsch  The French had a massive army, with more and better tanks than the Germans. The British were to concentrate on air and sea. That was pre-arranged. The British only had 9% of all ground forces.
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  21.  @MaximKretsch  The British were decoding the German enigma all through WW2. They knew pretty well what the German position was and what the French position was. General Gort had no faith in the French army, considering it mostly a shambles, although they did have some very good units as the Germans found out. Gort decided to pull his men out rather than allow them to be POWs. Gort's force could not defeat the millions of Germans coming his way. One third of British casualties in France were on the troopship the Lancastria in St.Nazaire. A screw up allowing a lone German plane in.
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  22.  @MaximKretsch  The British did warn the French with the French knowing themselves through air reconnaissance. British forces were on the coast. They thought it was too wooded to go through, as did the US forces in 1944, who again were informed by the British of the build up. But the French and British totally underestimated the build up. To the French the British forces were the junior members, below the Belgians, who had larger forces than the British on the ground. Wages of Destruction by Prof Adam Tooze Page 378 "If Allied bombers had penetrated the German fighter screen over the Ardennes they could have wreaked havoc amongst the slow-moving traffic. Never before had so many motor vehicles been concentrated on such a small segment of the European road network, and the potential for gridlock loomed far larger amongst German worries than the supposedly impassable terrain of the Ardennes. On both 11 and 12 May 1940 the advance of Panzer Group Kleist threatened to degenerate into the world's worst traffic jam." "highly inflammable fuel tankers were interspersed with the fighting vehicles at the very front with the armoured fighting vehicles" "The plan called for the German armoured columns to drive for three days and nights without interruption". ....The drivers were put on "speed" pills. Tooze: "in the East, no single disaster of the Red Army can compare to the Anglo-French debacle of May 1940. Bitter fighting continued across the French heartland for another month, but the battle was over." Through allied incompetence, rather than anything special the Germans had done, the Germans achieved a victory beyond their wildest dreams.. They could not believe what they had done. They were in a euphoric haze.
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  23.  @akgeronimo501  Rambo is talking to himself. Hi Rambo!
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  24.  @akgeronimo501  Hi Rambo!
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  25.  @akgeronimo501  Hi Rambo,. How any people are you today? Are you a whole platoon's worth?
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  26.  @arty5876  Who are the God's in the other 9 places?
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  27.  @josephliu9091  Will you explain that in English please.
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  28. The German advance on Dunkirk was because the British and French were falling back to the ships, a controlled retreat, rather than anything wonderful the Germans were doing. Montgomery was in command of a corps, destroying all bridges behind him taking his corps intact to the beaches. The Germans still lost a lot of men at Dunkirk and in France overall. More research is needed on this vid.
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  29. TheFreshman321 Browning did order Gavin to seize the bridge ASAP as soon as he found no one had moved for it. Browning was in command of three para units, he was busy communicating with heads of each, or attempting to communicate with them, on initially landing. Browning was in the air when the 82nd should have been moving towards the bridge - the responsibility of General Gavin. Gavin was a general and in command. He should have ensured the prime target, the bridge, had troops moving towards it. Browning would have had faith in Gavin to do his duty.
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  30.  @rafaelwillems3244  Nope!
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  31.  @rafaelwillems3244  You must not make things up.
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  32.  @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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  33.  @bigwoody4704  BZZZZZT! Wrong answer. Rambo the name of the British general who had to take command 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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  34. Oh No! Caen was category B objective - if it could be easily taken, then take it, otherwise let the RAF bomber deal with it. Monty's plan was for the British and Canadian. on the left flank, to stay static drawing in German armour and destroying it, keeping it away from the right flank, the Americans. The American were to break out. 90% of German armour on the west was destroyed by the British. This is what happened. This plan was laid out at St.Paul's school in London prior to the operation.
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  35.  John Cornell  Market Garden was an American blunder.
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  36.  @maximilienfrancoisderobesp202  What? Yes.
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  37.  @garymartin1040  You must feel embarrassed as well.
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  38.  @anthonyendack3138  He wrote his name was ken Walker.
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  39.  @garymartin1040  You really need to get to know some history. Sad, very sad. The RAF had to send planes to protect NYC Harbor. Sad, very sad.
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  40.  @garymartin1040  The US Army was a poor army.
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  41.  @garymartin1040  The Brits saved the Yanks. The American Army was a poor army. Look at the Bulge. Then the debacles in Lorraine and operation Queen, with horrendous casualties. They were last off the beaches, Kassarine, etc, also with horrendous casualties. Rommel described the Americans as Britain’s Italians. Then the egotistical, amateur, buffoon US commanders. What a shambles.
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  42.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo, a quiz. Name the country USA forces were driven from in the South China Sea? 20 points for the correct answer.
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  43.  @bigwoody4704  BZZZZZT! Wrong answer. Rambo the name the country USA forces were driven from in the South China Sea, was...... 🪄🎉🍾 The Philippines 🪄🎉🍾 Zero points, zero. Better luck next time.
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  44. @ bigwoody Rambo, I am the only quizzing quizzer. I am the only one who asks the questions. You know the rules.
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  45. @ bigwoody4704 Rambo, a quiz. Name the US president who wants to join the British Commonwealth? 20 points for the correct answer.
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  46.  @bigwoody4704  Rambo, you know I am the only quizzing quizzer. I am the only one who asks the questions.
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  47. Books by Ambrose and Beevor? I never knew you were into comics.
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  48. What nonsense. Patton was turned back in the Lorraine, suffering 52,000 casualties. Eventually he had to enter Germany further north in Luxembourg.
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  49. He never, Gavin of the US 82nd did.
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  50. Monty never lied.
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