Percy Hobart standing there in late 1940 like "Huh, if only someone had warned you about how tanks might be used _en masse_ as a rapid spearhead force. That sure would have been handy. Oh wait, I DID!!!"
A story to tie-in the internet and tanks: Back in the late 90s there was a IDF tank contingent that tested one sort of C3 system or other. My friend once got out the hatch, and shouted "this thing is like downloading frakking porn: it's slow, and it gets stuck just when you think you're getting somewhere". His CO was frantically waiving their hands at him, motioning him to stop. My friend turns around, and finds the Division's commander right behind him, having heard it all, and laughing his arse off 😂
PanzerKampf and Screaming Eagles are my favorite Sabaton Songs. I usually keep one Sabaton Song or another in my head when I'm working at my job. It really helps.
Love the T-shirt, Indy. My daughter put me on to "The Master and Margarita" several years ago - but the first read-through left me completely flummoxed, and it wasn't until the 3rd attempt that it all came into focus. Great book, though.
Hey Sabaton, i would like to see you come up with the cool idea of April Fools. Can you do an April Fools episode of Pasadena 1994 with special guest Nanowar of Steel? That would be nice.
The heavy Mark I and II Matilda tanks were infantry tanks in a separate independent armoured brigade assigned to support the infantry. The British Armoured division was landed as the Germans were breaking through the defense line guarding Paris, not during the breakthrough to the coast. The counter attack by the Matidas was made by that single brigade. The French were supposed to attack from the other side but they couldn't organize an attack in time so only the British attack went in.
Audie Murphy's story brought me to my first Sabaton concert. It was so great to see the tank on stage, with Audie's name on it, and to hear his poetry in "To Hell and Back." Thanks for this incredible song, and all your songs!
More, More, More! I love these. I could watch one a week. Yeah, that's it, you guys come up with a new song every week and them you can do a video. Oh, sorry, forgot you will need time to make the albums, play the concerts, and all the other things first. Oh well, I can dream, can't I?
When I saw sabaton live at the Danforth Music Hall, here in Toronto Canada, I was amazed that sabaton managed to get their tank in there. It's a tiny opera hall and they did an amazing job! Also I love Indie's foreshadowing Judas Priest shirt.... Sabaton, a great band, touring with one of the greats, JP, is incredibly awesome. I'm really hoping to be able to see you guys in Maine later this year! Woo! Also - TANKS!
@@SabatonHistory I cannot wait to see you all again, live in the flesh again! I can only listen to my Patreon History Editions so many times before I need to see you live! See you soon!
On a sillier note, Hobo With a Shotgun. Its not related to WWII in any way whatsoever, you just reminded me of it.. but worth a watch if you like silly b-movies. xD ill be watching Hobo tonight. Thanks for the tip. 🤙
I'll always remember that clip I saw of a American Bradley IFV crewman from some documentary(can't recall the name) had a picture of Erwin Rommel in his IFV. When asked why he said something to the effect of we still use and take lessons from his tactics.
J'ai déjà fait un tour de tank à Utah Beach à l'occasion de l'anniversaire du Débarquement en Normandie et c'était trop bien ! 😄 J'aurais dû emmener ma JBL ce jour là pour mettre du Sabaton à fond, pour rendre ce moment encore plus épique ! 😎 🔥🤘🏼🔥🤘🏼
As an amateur historian who's also stuck on writing a master thesis on Cold War politics, this channel is amazing. Wonderful way to expand on Sabaton song's topics and to get more people interested in history (which is never a bad thing). The only thing that I would love to see is a list of the sources used for each episode like books, original documents etc.
Indy in Defenders of the faith tshirt, week after release of the new album, 5 days before Jp, Saxon and Uriah Heep concert, even using ‘invincible’ word talking about tanks. Can’t get any better than that!
that talk about the foci on tanks on the one side and swedish history on the other hand made me think that a song about the at4 or gripen could be nice
Mk II tank with a gunner, loader, radio operator, driver and tank commander is going to have a problem as two of those men will be outside the tank. The actual crew was a driver, gunner, and the tank commander who also loaded the gun. The gun though, was a 20mm autocannon which used magazines (5 rounds) so the TC wasn't throwing rounds in to feed the gun one at a time. Note that Soviet tanks like the T34 with a two man turret had the tank commander fill the gunner position, not loader positionl
The Metalizer watch party just reminded me we are still waiting on an episode for Shadows. Could either do the episode about Middle Earth or Tolkien's life.
I’d personally love to see an episode on cavalry, I don’t care what time period. (I can’t really think of any cavalry songs besides winged hussars and maybe killing ground)
"Why don't you shut the hell up? If you've been reading about Rommel, you wouldn't be sitting at the back of my tank." ~A U.S. Bradley driver to an Iraqi POW when asked why he has a picture of "his greatest enemy" posted on his vehicle (after the Battle of 73 Easting)
That would be dope. With guest nanowar and veterans who were present during this bloody conflict like Baggio, Taffarel or Maldini 🤣. I have no idea how could this even be possible but that for sure would be one hell of an April's fool😅
They’ve done a few about ships too. Bismarck and Dreadnought for sure. Midway at least somewhat counts as that was a naval battle. Gotta include ships too as post sailing ships are awesome. Not that sailing ones weren’t in their own way but steam powered to modern ships are more awesome. Especially World Wars ships. Planes are cool as well. Edit: Sabaton really should do more songs about ships and planes/pilots or air battles. Things that involve ships or planes or both.
Has there been a Sabaton History episode about Naval War and Aircraft Carriers specifically? There's been a few episodes about ships and all but Aircraft Carrier history and development in active service could be an interesting topic..? Yeah I listened too much to 'Midway', how did you guess?!
19:10 Wikipedia is really good as a jumping off point, and while i cant speak for other countries i know that with American history stuff on there they list sources and sometimes these sources can bring you to real de-classified military documents. Sometimes it can be the most authentic source you can get.
One reason the British attack ran out of steam is the Germans put together an anti-tank line of 88mm gun and 105mm heavy field guns (normally listed as 10cm sFG18) which halted the British attack.
For more tank history videos, check out The Fat Electrician's videos on Percy Hobart (the real inventor of the blitzkrieg technique) and America's greatest tanker, Lafayette Pool aka "War Daddy."
Gotta love Soviet heavies 10:45, anyone hear about "tank alley" when a single KV-1 destroyed 22 PZ 3s and 35s, along with 2 anti tank guns? would really love a song about that one. German commander: why have we stopped Soldier: there is a tank Commander: So? destroy it (tank finally looks destroyed) Commander: advance (Turret rotates to look at commander) Commander: HANS BACK UP GO BACK
I heard a Story, I think from WWI, of some people that lived in the Mountains, and marched into the next town, right up to the House of the Mayor, equiped with the Arms and Armor of their Templar ancestors, apparently greeting the Mayor with the words "where's the war? We heard there is war!" The people apparently thought they were ghosts. If that Story is real, I'd love to hear a Song about them.
As the German armored column moved across the border to Czechoslovakia it expected to meet little resistance. But someone was waiting for them: it wasn’t a matching armored column but a man on horseback, in full medieval armor, carrying a sword and halberd. This created confused the Germans and caused them to pause momentarily. The man was Josef Mencik! Edit: copied from Internet article because I'm to lazy to type it out on mobile.
Here is a stage prop idea, if you can’t get a tank & you’re in Japan: a spin off of the _Strike Witches_ franchise, girls wearing the tanks (might inspire you to write another song, but men wearing such “WTF!?” military gear. Typing of which: Sabaton, please do a “WTF!?” album, starting with a song about Alexander the Great & his “WTF!?” strategies & tactics that, for its time, you’d have to be crazy & insane to not believe what everyone else believed & such. And the primary reason this should be the first/main song is to help set the tone of the following songs that’re, at best, equally “WTF!?” to the contemporary time(s) & such…
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Percy Hobart standing there in late 1940 like "Huh, if only someone had warned you about how tanks might be used _en masse_ as a rapid spearhead force. That sure would have been handy. Oh wait, I DID!!!"
Fuller: I did too! And earlier!
Hobart: Sod off, you fascist tosser.
Ahh a fellow @Fat Electrician fan, maybe.
What about General Maczek?
@@codystellmen of culture i see
Fuller: Hey, I did as well! And earlier!
Hobart: Sod off, you fascist tosser.
The internet is never wrong.
At least about Joakim's love of tanks.
The internet always tells the truth.
Just not everywhere.
The internet was never wrong as we can always change source of information on wiki pages.
Indy: you have more Songs about swedish history than Tanks. Indy 1: Internet 0
@@jannwueThe songs about tanks tend to be the best...
From the Mark 1’s introduction to the beast known as the Leopard
With our Chieftains and Centurions our frontline has been tempered
From the fields of Prokhorovka, to the shores of Overlord
@@undercover_potato9861Beginning of the victory
Sherman's rolling on to sword
Flers Courcellete showed the way
@@historygaming3765Evolution leading to El-Alamein until today, we're the first ones into the fray.
Getting notifications from Sabaton History channel is a blessing all the time. Keep bringing us history with details
16:07 I think "The Last Battle" could also be put on the list of tank songs
"Jenny at the gates" refers to a tank, even if only indirectly
A story to tie-in the internet and tanks:
Back in the late 90s there was a IDF tank contingent that tested one sort of C3 system or other. My friend once got out the hatch, and shouted "this thing is like downloading frakking porn: it's slow, and it gets stuck just when you think you're getting somewhere". His CO was frantically waiving their hands at him, motioning him to stop. My friend turns around, and finds the Division's commander right behind him, having heard it all, and laughing his arse off 😂
Joakim at 20:57: "Tank you very much!" caught me off-guard :D
An album of puppies?
I could see an album of famous animals like Wojtek, Marengo, and Cher Ami.
I am sure there is a famous puppy in war somewhere.
Sgt. Stubby
The question is can you find 13 songs as that seems to be the album length they go for.
@@Denozo88 A lot of generals had famous horses, but it would be a bit dull if half of the songs were about horses.
@johnhubczak6501 good point.
Bamse a St Bernard who was mascot to a Norwegian Navy minesweeper.
One day we'll see the episode for the SONG "Race to the Sea".
it's already out. episode 110
@@Tizzandor Just by the name, not by the content.
Smashing job interview and a new sabaton history episode. Today is a VERY good day!
Congrats
Thanks! Happy to hear that!! Here's to MORE very good days!
PanzerKampf and Screaming Eagles are my favorite Sabaton Songs. I usually keep one Sabaton Song or another in my head when I'm working at my job. It really helps.
Happy to hear that!
@@SabatonHistory---thanks
Love the T-shirt, Indy. My daughter put me on to "The Master and Margarita" several years ago - but the first read-through left me completely flummoxed, and it wasn't until the 3rd attempt that it all came into focus. Great book, though.
Tanks for the video!
You bet!
Hey Sabaton, i would like to see you come up with the cool idea of April Fools. Can you do an April Fools episode of Pasadena 1994 with special guest Nanowar of Steel? That would be nice.
What was this episode about again? LOL. A little off topic, in the funniest way possible. Keep it up, guys.
The heavy Mark I and II Matilda tanks were infantry tanks in a separate independent armoured brigade assigned to support the infantry. The British Armoured division was landed as the Germans were breaking through the defense line guarding Paris, not during the breakthrough to the coast. The counter attack by the Matidas was made by that single brigade. The French were supposed to attack from the other side but they couldn't organize an attack in time so only the British attack went in.
Sabaton strikes again with an awesome video!! Steel Commanders Rule The Battlefield!!
Thanks! And tank you for watching... :)
Audie Murphy's story brought me to my first Sabaton concert. It was so great to see the tank on stage, with Audie's name on it, and to hear his poetry in "To Hell and Back." Thanks for this incredible song, and all your songs!
Thank you for your message indeed, it's always so cool to read your memories from our shows 🤘 Keep rockin'!
@@SabatonHistory Tusen tack for your fun reply. Yes, fallen into Sabaton music rabbit hole, no plans to climb out:) Happy History Writing ☘🌲🌔🌟🌠🌲🌲
Tanks for the video
More, More, More! I love these. I could watch one a week. Yeah, that's it, you guys come up with a new song every week and them you can do a video. Oh, sorry, forgot you will need time to make the albums, play the concerts, and all the other things first. Oh well, I can dream, can't I?
If we could, we honestly would!
I love this channel. Thank you guys!!!
Thanks for watching!
When I saw sabaton live at the Danforth Music Hall, here in Toronto Canada, I was amazed that sabaton managed to get their tank in there. It's a tiny opera hall and they did an amazing job! Also I love Indie's foreshadowing Judas Priest shirt.... Sabaton, a great band, touring with one of the greats, JP, is incredibly awesome. I'm really hoping to be able to see you guys in Maine later this year! Woo! Also - TANKS!
Thanks for your recollection of the Sabaton experience 😎 We're so happy you had a great time, here's hoping to see you again soon!
@@SabatonHistory I cannot wait to see you all again, live in the flesh again! I can only listen to my Patreon History Editions so many times before I need to see you live! See you soon!
Tanks are one of the best things, you can never hear enough about them!
Sabaton gets me hyped for my weightlifting sessions and learn more history afterwards! 💜😎
What a killer combo! 🤘 It's our privilege to contribute ;)
I was actually watching a bunch of Sabaton history last night! Good to see a new episode
I wish more people could love Sabaton's music and this awesome channel.
Aww thank you! What a lovely comment. Your support means a lot to us!
13:25
Indy: Tanks!
Joakim: Y E S
I love the tangents y’all go on in the bit after the main video.
Haha thanks for watching!!
Got your next movie.
Hobo.
The British tank commander who rommel copied his homework.
We got the desert fox, Patton, complete the trilogy.
And then throw in de Gaulle because Rommel copied him too
Complete the series!
On a sillier note, Hobo With a Shotgun.
Its not related to WWII in any way whatsoever, you just reminded me of it.. but worth a watch if you like silly b-movies. xD
ill be watching Hobo tonight. Thanks for the tip. 🤙
Tanks for the memories! 😆
I discovered Sabaton because of my love for tanks
I discovered tanks because of my love for Sabaton
@@DriftlessWarrior is that the uno reverse ? ✌️
@@eliasdh96 I suppose it could be. All I know is, it's a game where we ALL get to win!! 😎
Me too!
@@DriftlessWarrior thats for sure🤘👍
I'll always remember that clip I saw of a American Bradley IFV crewman from some documentary(can't recall the name) had a picture of Erwin Rommel in his IFV. When asked why he said something to the effect of we still use and take lessons from his tactics.
Tanks for the music, history and memories!!!
I'm so excited to see you guys in concert next month!
Happy to hear you're coming to see us!
The internet can be wrong? No, that's impossible. 😅
I know that because I read it on the internet.
I absolutely love Sabaton History. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for your message!
J'ai déjà fait un tour de tank à Utah Beach à l'occasion de l'anniversaire du Débarquement en Normandie et c'était trop bien ! 😄
J'aurais dû emmener ma JBL ce jour là pour mettre du Sabaton à fond, pour rendre ce moment encore plus épique ! 😎
🔥🤘🏼🔥🤘🏼
Tanks for the great video!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Tanks for watching! :)
As an amateur historian who's also stuck on writing a master thesis on Cold War politics, this channel is amazing. Wonderful way to expand on Sabaton song's topics and to get more people interested in history (which is never a bad thing). The only thing that I would love to see is a list of the sources used for each episode like books, original documents etc.
My son went crazy when he saw the tank and Red Baron piano on stage at Leeds. He absolutely loved it!!
Shout out to Indi for wearing a fantastic T-Shirt.
Hope he had the joy of having seen the band live.
Another great song would be about the 0 enemy kill opening tank battle of Desert Storm. The only coalition tank casualties were friendly fire.
Tank you very much 😁
Indy in Defenders of the faith tshirt, week after release of the new album, 5 days before Jp, Saxon and Uriah Heep concert, even using ‘invincible’ word talking about tanks. Can’t get any better than that!
Cool! Keep up the good work!
Someday we will get a Sabaton History of your song Endless Nights…right? Maybe around Halloween?
Edit: and Shadows
They can write about the CV90.
_"Scania V8 engine, roaring giving life to this machine of Doom you are facing on"_
or the Tiger, Abrams, Challenger, T-90 etc.
I'm detecting a distinct lack of "Steel Commanders."
Sabaton history on a Sunday morning is bliss
We couldn't agree more ;)
That "thank you very much" should've been done in your best possible impression of Elvis...
Sabaton should do a song about the Sherman Firefly!
I would love to hear a song written about the FT-17
that talk about the foci on tanks on the one side and swedish history on the other hand made me think that a song about the at4 or gripen could be nice
Mk II tank with a gunner, loader, radio operator, driver and tank commander is going to have a problem as two of those men will be outside the tank. The actual crew was a driver, gunner, and the tank commander who also loaded the gun. The gun though, was a 20mm autocannon which used magazines (5 rounds) so the TC wasn't throwing rounds in to feed the gun one at a time.
Note that Soviet tanks like the T34 with a two man turret had the tank commander fill the gunner position, not loader positionl
I need to go get model kits of these tanks now!😮
What a brilliant idea! We might do the same!
When the video says it was posted 55s ago but there’s three comments from 6 days ago
That would be the patreon privelege 😉
The Metalizer watch party just reminded me we are still waiting on an episode for Shadows. Could either do the episode about Middle Earth or Tolkien's life.
Y'all should do a miniseries on the USS Enterprise. I'm sure you can write songs about the Grey Ghost. 😁
I’d personally love to see an episode on cavalry, I don’t care what time period. (I can’t really think of any cavalry songs besides winged hussars and maybe killing ground)
19:30 - thats how I was looking for sources for my Mgr thesis :D
"Why don't you shut the hell up? If you've been reading about Rommel, you wouldn't be sitting at the back of my tank."
~A U.S. Bradley driver to an Iraqi POW when asked why he has a picture of "his greatest enemy" posted on his vehicle (after the Battle of 73 Easting)
Cue the, "You magnificent Bastard I READ YOUR B O O O O O O O K !!!" clip.
Pasadena 1994 still needs an episode...
Technically a Nano war unfortunately
April the first
That would be dope. With guest nanowar and veterans who were present during this bloody conflict like Baggio, Taffarel or Maldini 🤣. I have no idea how could this even be possible but that for sure would be one hell of an April's fool😅
Indy in WW2, soon to be Indy in Korean War, and Indy on Sabaton History. Moar Indy! :D Great stuff, y'all!
Gee tanks a lot sabaton
This is nice but when is the new album coming out
I believe an episode about Black Baron will be very good idea...
Tanks for the memories..... I'll get my coat
Haha!
They’ve done a few about ships too. Bismarck and Dreadnought for sure. Midway at least somewhat counts as that was a naval battle. Gotta include ships too as post sailing ships are awesome. Not that sailing ones weren’t in their own way but steam powered to modern ships are more awesome. Especially World Wars ships. Planes are cool as well.
Edit: Sabaton really should do more songs about ships and planes/pilots or air battles. Things that involve ships or planes or both.
The duel of the Ironclads during the American Civil War would be cool.
@@TheAlhouk57 I suppose so.
awesome stuff! Thanks, or in Finnish, kiitosta kovasti.
Has there been a Sabaton History episode about Naval War and Aircraft Carriers specifically? There's been a few episodes about ships and all but Aircraft Carrier history and development in active service could be an interesting topic..?
Yeah I listened too much to 'Midway', how did you guess?!
Good call on Pavlov.
Everyone: wow Sabaton, how did you become so knowledgeable about tanks?
Joakim: my source is that I made it the f*ck up
19:10 Wikipedia is really good as a jumping off point, and while i cant speak for other countries i know that with American history stuff on there they list sources and sometimes these sources can bring you to real de-classified military documents. Sometimes it can be the most authentic source you can get.
Do you guys think they will ever make a song about "Tank Alley" or maybe a song about the the "Tiger 2 & King Tiger".
Absolutely anything is possible!
That panzer 3 model looks really good. Indy did you make that?
Sabaton should do a song about the real war daddy and his tank 3 tanks “in the mood” 1,2, and 3
"War Ensemble" I see what you did there.
The irony of the Matilda's earlier failures being reflected in the struggles of the German tanks of the later war.
Pls do a song about the tank “in the mood” & it’s driver “War daddy”
Sabaton needs to collaborate with Potential History on a tank meme video.
One reason the British attack ran out of steam is the Germans put together an anti-tank line of 88mm gun and 105mm heavy field guns (normally listed as 10cm sFG18) which halted the British attack.
For more tank history videos, check out The Fat Electrician's videos on Percy Hobart (the real inventor of the blitzkrieg technique) and America's greatest tanker, Lafayette Pool aka "War Daddy."
Joakim making a disco band? Alright, who wants him to cover "Disco Metal" by Nanowar of Steel?
The best tanks in history - KV-1 and Tiger 1
I like the Tiger II German, KV-5, Object 705 A Russian , WZ-111 Alpine Tiger China, AE Phase I USA, Thats my tanks in WOT
I just want a album about the Napoleonic wars.
What does an American ww2 veteran say when you ask him if he wants some tea?
Sherman tanks!
I ❤ puns! 😊
Guys! We still dont have episode about "glorious land"!
Tanks are only ever as dangerous as they are supplied and maintained.
I wonder if Indy or any of Sabaton have met The Chieftain yet
The French also had a lack of radios. They sent orders via couriers. So they had serious coms issues
Tanks for this lol
Pink Puppies, driving tanks!
The internet is never wrong.😉
Gotta love Soviet heavies 10:45, anyone hear about "tank alley" when a single KV-1 destroyed 22 PZ 3s and 35s, along with 2 anti tank guns? would really love a song about that one.
German commander: why have we stopped
Soldier: there is a tank
Commander: So? destroy it
(tank finally looks destroyed)
Commander: advance
(Turret rotates to look at commander)
Commander: HANS BACK UP GO BACK
Looks like Indy is having mashed potatoes for dinner.
Pink Puppies is an ABBA tribute band.
I heard a Story, I think from WWI, of some people that lived in the Mountains, and marched into the next town, right up to the House of the Mayor, equiped with the Arms and Armor of their Templar ancestors, apparently greeting the Mayor with the words "where's the war? We heard there is war!"
The people apparently thought they were ghosts.
If that Story is real, I'd love to hear a Song about them.
As the German armored column moved across the border to Czechoslovakia it expected to meet little resistance. But someone was waiting for them: it wasn’t a matching armored column but a man on horseback, in full medieval armor, carrying a sword and halberd. This created confused the Germans and caused them to pause momentarily. The man was Josef Mencik!
Edit: copied from Internet article because I'm to lazy to type it out on mobile.
Here is a stage prop idea, if you can’t get a tank & you’re in Japan: a spin off of the _Strike Witches_ franchise, girls wearing the tanks (might inspire you to write another song, but men wearing such “WTF!?” military gear.
Typing of which: Sabaton, please do a “WTF!?” album, starting with a song about Alexander the Great & his “WTF!?” strategies & tactics that, for its time, you’d have to be crazy & insane to not believe what everyone else believed & such. And the primary reason this should be the first/main song is to help set the tone of the following songs that’re, at best, equally “WTF!?” to the contemporary time(s) & such…
Joakim writing a song about tanks: "Blah blah blah, over trench and wire, blah blah blah"