Comments by "TheVilla Aston" (@thevillaaston7811) on "Why The Allies Struggled To Break Out After D-Day | Normandy '44: | War Stories" video.

'Title of this video should be “British they/them general continues to lose and beg America to save them”' Why? That did not happen.
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@broncoteno7181 Have it your own way. When did the British 'beg America to save them'?.. 'Can you name any successful British only WWII campaigns?' Can you name any successful American only campaigns in the Second World War? 'The British lost every battle other than Battle of Britain (arguably still a loss)' The idea that the Battle of Britain was 'arguably still a loss' is absurd. The Germans went into the Battle of Britain with 2,550 aircraft in order to to give Germany the aerial superiority it would need for an invasion of Great Britain. When the Battle of Britain ended on 31st October, 1940, Britain had won a resounding victory, the most important allied victory of the entire war, in which Germany lost 1,977 aircraft. The German airforce would never be as powerful again in relation to its opponents, and the tasks it faced, as it was in the summer of 1940, both in quality and quantity. Half of the German fighter Aces of the entire war fought in the Battle of Britain. By the middle of the SIX war (1942), four of the six aircraft types that the Germans used in the battle were obsolete - a state of affairs that their own Hossbach Memorandum of November 1937 had predicted. Just over eight months after the Battle of Britain ended, Germany invaded Russia with just 2,400 aircraft. Before you decide to answer this comment, consider this... What do you think the chances are that you will know more about this subject than me?
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@KrisBurns22 'how many world wars did American have to save Britain from losing ???' None.
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@KrisBurns22 'You really think after Russia left the battlefield in WW1 Britain and france could stop Germany without the American expedition force ???' The US contribution to the allied war effort in the First World War was miniscule, and did not even make any sort of impact until September 1918 with the Meuse–Argonne offensive, which has been described thus: 'The offensive was the principal engagement of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I. It was one of a series of Allied attacks, known as the Hundred Days Offensive, which brought the war to an end. It was the largest and bloodiest operation of World War I for the AEF even though, given the scale of other battles on the Western Front, its size was limited and the operation itself secondary, being far from the main offensive axis.' The sacrifice of British, French, and Russian troops, along with the Royal Navy blockade of Germany did for the Kaiser. The USA turned up when it was time for the victory parades, and the sharing out of the spoils of victory. Harsh but fair.
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@KrisBurns22 Not really... The British largely used British trucks and lorries to move its men and supplies. Would you like to run through the figures?..
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DESSLOK17327 'Should have been sacked for not taking Caen as promised.' Montgomery made no promise about taking Caen. Cherbourg was a far more vital objective. With the Germans massing their armour at Caen within days of D-Day, who then actually then held the city was of little importance.
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'I remember asking an old British vet how Montgomery plans in Normandy went wrong?' Why would you ask that? Montgomery undertook to get the allies to the Seine by D+90. He got them there by D+78.
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'STill i think he is overrated and had been sackes after Market Garden ( too maby deathes even cilivians in the hongerwinter ) But Curchil l becjed him up ..' MARKET GARDEN freed a lot more people than were kiled in the 'hongerwinter'.
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@randywise5241 Britain, Canada, Poland, the USA all lost troops in Normany. Overall, 36,976 troops were killed. The losses were a lot less than had been forecast before the campaign began.
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@dulls8475 'The Allied army effectively destroyed the German Army in France in 2 and a half months.' 'Look at the time line and then compare it to say the Blitzkrieg.' Why bring the Blitzkrieg into it? Either the 'Allied army effectively destroyed the German Army in France in 2 and a half months' or it did not. Which is it?
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@dulls8475 'Either Monty took too long or he did not...Which is it?' He did not. Montgomery undertook to get the allies to the Seine by D+90. He got them there by D+90, with markedly fewer than expected casualties, and in doing so, gave the Germans a bigger defeat than Stalingrad. I still cannot see what the German Blitzkrieg has got to do with it.
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broncoteno You should sit down quietly in a cool, dark, room..
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@KrisBurns22 'Without US supplies during the early stages of WW2 Britain would have been starved into submission.' 'NORTH AMERICAN SUPPLY BY H. DUNCAN HALL LONDON: 1955 HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE AND LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO P3 In the first fifteen months of the war the United Kingdom supplied 90-7 per cent. ( in terms of value) of British Commonwealth supplies of munitions from all sources. Canada supplied 2-6 per cent., the rest of the Commonwealth 1.1 per cent., and purchases in the United States 5.6 per cent.' ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ For British Food... 1941 for example. UK crops harvest: 53.164 million tons. Cereals, Potatoes and Sugar Beet: 6.5 million tons Cattle, Calves, Sheep and Lambs: 13.109 million UK Milk production: 1,222.8 million gallons Total food imports: 14.654 million tons Lend-Lease food imports: (7.4% of total food imports),1.078 million tons Processed food production: 20,314 million tons Total food consumption (UK): 19.996 million tons Foodstuffs lost at sea enroute to Britain: 787,200 tons (5.3%) of the intended 15 million tons of food imports in 1941. We can run through the figures for any other years of the war if you wish... ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 'It was the American destroyers that guarded the convoys of American goods keeping 🇬🇧 in the fight. Not really. Guarding the sea lanes and convoys bringing supplies to Britain was overwhelmingly carried out by the Royal Navy, with good support from the RCN. WINSTON S CHURCHILL. THE SECOND WORLD WAR. CASSELL & CO LTD VOLUME II THEIR FINEST HOUR REVISED EDITION NOVEMBER 1950. P5 ‘Out of 781 German and 85 Italian U-boats destroyed in European theatre, the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 594 were accounted for by British sea and air forces, who also disposed of all of the German battleships, cruisers and destroyers, besides destroying or capturing the whole Italian Fleet.’ 'Not to mention the P-40’s, Sherman tanks, and most importantly gas sent to 🇬🇧 in Africa' The P-40 was unfit for operations in North West Europe, and was therefore sent to the Middle East. The Sherman as slightly better than British tank types in 1942, but was only just a match for the German Mark IV. The Key weapon in the desert was the anti-tank gun, and the British used British anti-tank guns. ARTHUR BRYANT THE TURN OF THE TIDE 1939-43 COLLINS, ST JAMES’S PLACE, LONDON 1957 P440 ' The relative importance of Egypt as opposed to Abadan was a subject to which I had given a great deal of thought. All the motive-power at sea, on land and in the air through-out the Middle East, Indian Ocean and India was entirely dependent on the oil from Abadan. If we lost this supply, it could not be made good from American resources owing to shortage of tankers and continuous losses of these ships through submarine action. If we lost the Persian oil, we inevitably lost Egypt, command of the Indian Ocean and endangered the whole Indian-Burma situation.' Do know about US gas supplies to Africa. What would gas have been used for?.. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If you picked up your views during your education, you should ask the college for your money back.
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'GoodWood: the British continue to lose and fail until American saves them.' Really? When did that happen?
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@KrisBurns22 'I’ve seen documents showing how many political/ royal family members were in favor of peace.' Which documents? 'WW2 Germany would have trashed Britain and Russia without the intervention of the good old USA.' Get real. How was Germany going oget across the channel? How was Germany going to be able to occupy Russia?
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@KrisBurns22 'talking about the Russians, but don’t try to act like Monty wasn’t being supplied with US Gas' I do not know what use Montgomery's forces would have made of 'US Gas'.
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@KrisBurns22 'British made tanks, planes, and trucks' ran on Petrol, and Diesel, not 'US Gas'.
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@KrisBurns22 I see. If it was petrol used in North Africa, it came from the good ole Persian Gulf. Across the board, by 1942, 80% of British fuel was coming from good ole Venezuela.
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