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The dog fight did last for 10 days as forecasted by monty

THANKS FOR SHARING!!! I write in 2020. When lectures stopped due to the coronavirus crisis in my country, I shared this video with my students: It can be done and it will done became our "motto " to cope with the quarantine, the switch to teaching on line, having to study in the middle of this bizarre situation...Now the semester has finished: I don't know whether they have learnt much civil law or not....but they do know who Monty is and, as a matter of fact, the last sentence written by one of them in the last google meet session we had was: it can be done and it will be done!!!😂

Field Marshal Montgomery was a great man, exacting, precise and meticulous in every way.

Excellent General, terrible at pronouncing the letter “R”

He may have been a "Prima Donna" but he was a prima dona NAZI killer.

awesome video. Thanks heaps for sharing. :D

Love you just man speeches

My great uncle Stuart was a Major in one of Monty's tanks division. After Africa he took part in the invasion of Italy. His one regret was that the Yanks got their first, and with their connections in Italy, had all the black market trade sewn up and wouldnt cut any of the British officers in on the deals. Said an absolute packet was being made by them. A real character my uncle Stuart, and a great guy. Immaculate dresser til his dying day. Chin chin old boy!

The more I learn about Montgomery the more I am impressed, a difficult vain and eccentric man, but a professional who did care about his men, and despite the accent was not really an accepted part of the establishment.

Field Marshal Montgomery was the Finest Commander of the Western Forces. If he had been given overall command after D-Day, he would have still defeated the Wehrmacht in Western Europe. The Ardennes would never have been allowed to happen. Most importantly, Monty would have saved British, French and American lives in the process. The Mighty Red Army broke the hearts of the German Forces in the East. In the West? There were only TWO real total warriors....FM Bernard Law Montgomery and Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, GCB, OBE, AFC

My great grandfather listened to this.

Perfect upper class RP English pronounciation.

Oh my God, his voice is just exactly same as what i've imagined ...

Montgomery had a better speech that Ike..just sayin

"If we can't stay here alive then let us stay here dead." Such a great line.

I feel like the comparison of Montgomery to Rommel is like the comparison of Wellington to Napoleon. Both were amazing generals, and both did things very differently. Rommel was an aggressive, active leader, who seized upon any opportunity that presented itself (like Napoleon) while Montgomery would wait until his forces were in place, he knew his enemy and was certain of victory. @roadwarrior3 To say that Rommel was better because Montgomery had better intelligence is silly. Intelligence, reconnaissance and logistics are all part of being a commander, especially at that level. Knowing your enemies' movements and intentions and countering them does not in any way make you a sub-par general, nor does making use of the resources at your disposal. If Monty had known Rommel's intentions and failed to capitalise *that* would make him "2nd tier", and maybe if Rommel had more support from back home he could have outfoxed him, but it's just as likely that Montgomery could have won even then, after all he had made good use of inferior forces before, in France.

Such a badass

It's funny how he sounds pretty much exactly like I thought he would.

He said he would break out in 10 to 12 days,he did.He said he'd be in Paris on d day+90,he was.What more did you want from the guy?

While Montgomery may have made his mistakes(what military person of his rank level hasn't?)he didn't get to where he was by being an idiot.

a great man,he repaid Churchill,s confidence in himand turned the war round.The end of the beginning

O'Connor?

One forgotten fact, or one that anybody who thinks the Americans freed France after D-Day choose to ignore, is the fact that whilst the US Army were mopping up the Wehrmacht (regular German army) with great effect, Montgomery and his boys were facing the SS and the might of their panzers around Caen... it still disappoints me to hear them say he took his time taking the city. Also forgotten, the British offered the Americans their 'funnies' for mine clearance and 90 pounder guns to make Omaha B

Montgomery was the most successful allied commander on the western front in WW2. Nobody else even comes close really, certainly not the overrated Patton. Monty would never have taken 3 months to take Metz, like Patton did.

You would be surprised actually. Monty was a great tactician, without who, the desert war would have been lost to the Germans. Its a shame operation market garden was such a failure. God bless the poor men who died in that devastating war. PS Don't get me wrong, I agree Rommel was a strategic mastermind.

Are there any post war interviews with Monty? Thanks, in case you know.

I know. The problems with contemporary assessment of Monty is he is judged for 1) abrasive personality, 2) He's British, and 3) the movie "Patton". Montgomery was quite probably the best ground commander in WW2; he basically beat the blitzkrieg. Montgomery is more like a modern general, thorough, disciplined, leaves nothing to error, than many folks realize.

Correction to Fact No. 4:. Montgomery built up a 2-to-1 advantage in manpower and tanks, and only parity in air power. The Afrika Korps was behind miles of minefields with an open field of fire (which is a major advantage). Certainty of victory in an attack normally required at least 3:1 odds in WW2. Rommel's position was quite defensible, and Montgomery beat him soundly. Incidentally, Alam Halfa battle, preceded El Alamein, pitted approx. equal forces. Montgomery defeated Rommel soundly.

From someone who studies war. I have to totally disagree with you, Superior manpower and material is down to tactical genius. Montgomery refused to go to battle unless he had a 12:1 advantage on the enemy, which from a tactical point of view because the enemy wont be able to engage all your units because they are being over run- I bid your farewell.

Well said. The American Battle of The Hurtgen Forest was a bigger fuck up and a bigger waste of lives than Market Garden. Also, Patton's debacle in the Lorraine was a joke. He spent nearly 3 months trying to take Metz. In truth the autumn of 1944 was full of disappointments and blunders by both the British AND the Americans. The American's push towards the Rhine at Cologne in October 1944 didn't get much further than Aachen and Cologne wasn't reached for another 6 months.

sounds a bit like John Cleese

@mgaws Ja der kan man bare se. Den kendte jeg ikke til, må se om jeg ikke kan finde den et sted. Riberhus March er tilgengæld også rigtig god.

@mgaws Så sandt så sandt. Det er ikke helt styr på historiske kontekst her. Men det var oprindeligt ikke meningen, at billeder og musik skulle passe sammen. Tænkte at de fleste plejer at sætte en youtube video med musik til, og så ser de på noget andet imens, så billederne er kun sekundært. Langt de fleste billeder er fra 1930erne og 1940erne. Men noget helt andet er, at så vidt jeg ved, er Christian d. X endnu ikke blevet hædret af en honnørmarch, men jeg kan da huske forkert.

@RupertEricshin dont forget the Operation Queen which was another American defeat & cost similar casualties to the Hurtgen forest campaign..

Monty- "If we are attacked, There will be no retreat! If we cannot stay here alive, Then we shall stay here dead!". Monty was the man who broke Rommel and sent the Axis forces in N.Africa into mutiny, It was the end of the Axis campains there generals in Africa,Russia were betraying orders, El Alamein, Stalingrad the turning point of the war.

Står ret i livgarde-gallauniform og hilser stolt på vor stolte danske konge, samt vor kønne Dannebrog-fane, mens vor tapre soldater marcherer stolt forbi. Jeg smiler venlig til vor stolthed. Leve Danmark.

@roadwarrior3 Sorry but using intelligence to good effect is a sign of a good commander and not something Monty can be criticized or belittled for. Besides which, by your argument I can belittle Rommel's victories in Sonnenblume or at Gazala because he had better intelligence than the British at the time - because the Italian's were intercepting British Radio transmissions & the detailed reports an US liason officer with the 8th Army was sending to Washington were being intercepted by the Axis.

Montgomery was a 2nd tier general compared to Rommel. Montgomery knew Rommel's ENTIRE Order of Battle in every battle he engaged Rommel from British Intelligence which broke nearly all of the German's Enigma Machine Army Codes. While Rommel's Army Intelligence did often break British Army codes, Rommel's awareness of Montgomery's plans was nowhere near as thorough as Montgomery's awareness of Rommel's plans. Montgomery's "genius" is pure crap. INTELLIGENCE .. INTELLIGENCE ... INTELLIGENCE

@NobleHerold En lille smule kender jeg vel til det ;) Men går vi bare 50 år længere tilbage i historien er jeg ikke så sikker længere... Min "ekspertise" vedrører egentligt kun tiden mellem 1900-1970. Men jeg kan altid slå op i referencebøger skulle nogle spørge om våben / udrustning mellem 1800-1990.

@NobleHerold Du har ingen anelse om den mængde af forskellig kanoner og våben der har været brugt igennem tiderne, og problemet er at det er ikke specielt veldokumenteret. Men mit bedste gæt er at de er Feltkanon, 75 mm L/30 h.S.K. M.1902. (billedet er fra 1939-1940) Desuden brugte vi omkring 1940: 10½ cm 48 kaliber lang feltkanon Model 1930, 15 cm 17 kaliber lang stålhaubits Model 1917, 15 cm 17 kaliber lang stålhaubits Model 1923 og 15 cm 22 kaliber lang felthaubits Model 1929.

@NobleHerold Videoen indeholder kun billeder af danske våben, udrustning og soldater fra ca. 1920'erne til 1943.

didnt know he had a speech impediment

Fanemarchen er de første ~30 dog uden avertissementet til Chr IX

Oh dear Monty, sort your beret out chap, you're a Field Marshal. Front rim just above the brow, beret slanted up so back rim is resting on the back top of the head. Right side is pushed down over the ear. It really is just basic soldiering. A good and proper beret is the only thing that separates us from the animals and the French.

my grandad was in the 8th army in north africa but its a shame i never got to meet him he died before i was born.. R.I.P grandad and all others that fell in the world wars

This reaction came from the Netherlands (dec. 5th, 2010): Very memorable speech of a great figure in history. His typical voice, the short sentences, his optimistic views, the down-grading of the problems (and the enemy) worked as a shot of adrenalin for the soldiers. And had thundering success. Such a speech is (more than 70 years later) a fine example of how to inspire others, in getting a difficult task done successful. I like Great Britain. Good work to place this video on the internet.

@TheShorelessC the war was already over in the first world war britain had already won they arrived in the last couple of months left in the war.

Awesome :)

When I listen to his hauty upper class accent and supercilious attitude, I'm glad I wasn't one of the poor buggers whom he sent to their death. Give me Rommel any day !

@TheFlipflopguy Jeg skal se hvad jeg kan gøre... Kan være jeg har den i min samling et sted...