Is not such a far fetched, impossible thing to realize, not for a veteran soldier, especially since tanks were seen before in battle. I bet there was no one soldier, but multiple ones figured it out, across the line of attack. Might go something like this: "I can't stop it, unless gets stuck in a ditch, I can't shoot it, bullets bounce off, what can I do then, is killing my mates. Disable it, mechanically or get to the operators inside and kill 'em. I can try to blow off the tracks with explosives, or try to find a hole to get to the machinists, lets look for a hole and get that TNT ready for the tracks."
"I was shocked and felt very sorry for those fellows in the tanks, because there was no escape for them." Insane how even after everything that happened, they could still feel compassion for the enemy. I always assumed that after the Christmas Truce, and after all the dehumanising propaganda had taken hold, the men of both sides had been reduced to simple hatred of the other side.
Feeling pity that they had a very serious flaw and could be exploited, and if so, they were doomed, wouldn't really stop them from actually exploiting that flaw
@@Robbini0 That's not the point. Obviously I would exploit a flaw in your tank if you would shoot and kill me if I didn't... What OP noted, and what is indeed remarkable, is that _despite_ **years** of killing and propaganda, there was _still_ humanity left in the front line soldiers! (arguably more than most generals had _ever_ had for their own men)
@@MrNicoJac People can do the strangest or most horrible things for the greatest of reasons and then just see something... that's nothing to everyone else, but means something to them and it just... breaks them. Examples I could think of fastest are from the Max Brooks book 'World War Z' if you're familiar with it (not like the movie). Anyway. The march across america is highly successful, but the troops are still dying, and Todd mentions a few examples of that. One of them, an amazon of sorts (behaviour and appearance mostly), just sees a turtle or a tortoise, squats down next to it and then starts talking to it. She just stays there for a while, before she's led away to... more pleasant conditions. Another, a muscle mountain who's described as using zombies as weapons to hit other zombies , catches a whiff of a perfume or sees a billboard with an ad for that perfume and breaks down into hysterics, requiring several other people to help tie him down to stop him from hurting anyone, while he's crying savagely. Mind you, this is towards the successful completion of the campaign to secure North America, they were winning. After a long time of losing, horrible events etc. they were winning. And they noticed something innocuous and just... lost it. And noone saw it coming nor how to prevent something like that. This of course has little to nothing to do with the actual content of the video or WW1 in general, but they were the examples I could remember the quickest.
I was in the WW1 museum in Belgium recently and they had a Mark I tank with display cases of drawings made by Germans when asked what exactly attacked them - whilst hilariously inaccurate they genuinely looked like drawings of a monster. I can't imagine what it was like to see a tank for the first time bearing down on you. Yet this week there were hundreds.
One of the men killed at Bourlon Wood was Brigadier General Roland Boyes Bradford VC MC. He was the youngest general in the British Army, and was killed at the age of 25, having turned down promotion to that rank when he was 24. In contrast the youngest people to achieve the equivalent rank in WWII were Brigadiers John Hackett and Enoch Powell at the age of 33. 25 and a general. So much for lions led by donkeys. Bradford was also the brother of Lt Commander George Nicholson Bradford VC RN who got a posthumous VC on the Zebrugga (spelling) raid six months later.
The stand of the cadets against the Bolsheviks sounds incredible, I hope to find more information about this. I read somewhere that any survivors were send to gulags, and that 15 years after the revolution, not a single cadet was still alive in the USSR (according to wikipedia)
Can´t we just horsecharge the enemy with machineguns in defensive positions, do that , like, 12 times and call it a surprise attack? I call it the Hötzendorf-Cadorna-Haig maneuver!
NoHarmony You are right. Does a tank have feelings? Does a tank have needs? Does a tank give you love? No. All 3 of these wishes can only be fulfilled by Horses. and dogs
I am happy to have discovered your series while it is still in progress. Not only is this very interesting information presented very well, it has fundementally changed my views on WWI. To an American, WWII is much more remembered. Partly because it was deadlier, partly because more video footage exists for cable channels to turn into shows, and partly because many if not most Americans have relatives who fought in WWII while WWI is so long ago that people don't remember. (FWIW, having researched my ancestry, I know I have ancestors who fought in the French and Indian wars, at least one ancestor who fought in the revolution, cousins and maybe ancestors who fought in the civil war, and my grandfather was in the Navy during WWII.) But mostly I believe Americans like to recall WWII because it was a morally justified war. We have been fighting wars or military skirmishes for almost all of our existence as a nation, but only in the civil war and in WWII were we indesputably fighting on the morrally justified side; the side which in the grand arc of history was worth dying for. All of our other wars have some ambiguity. I am in favor of the revolution, but it had nowhere near the impact on western civilization that defeating the Nazis did, nor the impact on our nation as the Civil War did. There may be other wars ww have fought which I would have supported, but in total, I am completely behind the efforts in the civil war and WWII. WWI is much more morally nebulous and I do believe we could have stayed out of it had the nation and our leaders truly wanted to. The moral lessons of WWI are complex. While WWII says "Democracy good, fascism Bad" WWI has no simple moral lesson. In fact, I believe, the real lesson of WWI is that leaders will create alliances and execute wars which kill tens of millions of people for nothing greater than a few spots of land that they want to rule. Such a war does not fit within the American mythos, so we are taught in school that WWI was a silly European conflict over mostly nothing that the Europeans couldn't settle themselves, so we went over there to settle it for them. Much of what we are taught in school is simplistic or just wrong. I still don't know if there was a morally right side in WWI or a morally wrong side, but I have a much greater understanding of the war, how it proceeded over it's duration, its scope, and how many people died as a result. You have both educated me and motivated me to do some research on my own. Thank you.
Indy, I have enjoyed this series after binge watching this summer. I have a suggestion for a two personalities of this war. 1) C.S.Lewis and 2) Corvette Captain Georg Von Trapp.
A truly great show you're making. I'm your fan since 1916 and I can't thank you enough for your great effort and even greater work, Indy and crew! I have a question for OOTT: on numerous occasions Indy mentioned German anti tank units trained exclusively for that purpose. Can you tell us about the training of those units and how exactly were they used in combat?
How awsome i follow your chanel foor 2 or 3 years now and i just figured out you started the great war show in 2014 exactly 100 years after the start of the great war and you said you will go on to the end of the war sorry for my typos i got dyslectcy but keep doing what you do! I love it
To those working at 'The Great War' channel, when you walk about tanks, armored cars, armored trains, or anything else in that area you can simply use "armor". Instead of Infantry, Aircraft, and Tanks it is actually spoken in official capacity Infantry, Aircraft, and Armor. Just a little something for you folks. Love the show, please keep up the awesome work.
I have finally caught up after 2 months of nearly non stop watching. I’d been waiting for the battle of beersheeba. Such an epic one. Thanks Indy and gang. Looking forward to watching weekly.
As I watched you cover the battle of paschendale I realized that it was way more important then the Somme. It made significant gains with *relatively* small losses. It should that the allies could advance and it is the first major allied victory on the Western front since the Marne... Why do we remember the Somme?
The Somme is remembered as a particularly striking event due to it's inefficiency. No one celebrates the Somme, on either side of the war. Passchendaele is probably one of the most famous battles of the War in the UK (in the sense if I asked people to name battles of the war, I'd expect that to be in the top 3, along with Ypres, which it technically was).
Demonde Laplace Exactly. Like Vimy Ridge is for Canada. I'm looking forward to seeing how the last 100 days are to be presented here, specifically the Canadian Corps' contribution during the final offensive.
I'm not really a fan of people who make comments referring to video games, but I just bought my first game since Duke Nukem 3D in 1996, which Is Battlefield 1..... I'm just working through Cambrai in my Mk 4 tank.
Forget WWII, I think what everyone really wants to know is if you guys going to be doing weekly coverage 120 years later of the Spanish-American War starting in 2018.
SirRageAlot VII i guess, though more important than the revolution or the Napoleonics which was arguably the actual 2nd world war especially if you include the war 1812 as part of them?
Let’s be completely honest: The Battle Of Cambria is the most important battle of the First World War, and possibly even the century. While it was a failure in terms of gains, it is the reason tanks still exist, are used effectively, and have had such a huge impact on the world. If the battle had been a complete failure (the tanks don’t reach the enemy lines at all, due to the Germans destroying them), the course of the 20th century would have been rapidly different, with ww2 looking like a repeat of WW1.
:( somehow funny and in fact very sad last words of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude : ''Carry on! '' somehow it brings about in my mind the sinister word carrion (the british pronunciation is not that much far from a fast forward pronunciation of ''carry on'' dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/English/carrion
A Mark IV or any other British tank is not doomed to failure should an enemy infantryman climb atop it. All sides of both the driver's cab and rooftop hatch/cupola have pistols ports through which a webley can be aimed and fired at anyone on top of the vehicle from the relative safety of inside. The rear upper wall of the driver's cab alone has three such ports that can view the entire roof of the hull.
Three days ago a research team dived in lake Kinneret and discoverd a WW1 steamboat which was sunk by the british sep. 1918 The boat was known to be missing for a hundred years and was found by new means of search. The team is checking rumros that the was carrying the whole Ottoman pay for the troops in gold coins.
When the war ends are you going to do a summary of the whole conflict, showing the progression of each front line, like EmperorTigerstar and Ollie Bye does in their 'Every Day' map videos?
Hey Indy and crew, could you ever do a video showing off all the WW1 era collectibles you own? That would be really cool, thanks keep up the great work!
Awesome show guys!, stumbled across this particular show while researching Cambrai battle for my upcoming presentation. The map animation is incredible and I would love to use it if possible (All credit going to you guys off course!!!)
Thirded! Huzzah! Mannerheim has deep military roots in this era and went on to lead tiny Finland to many successes against the Russian bear. It was his "Mannerheim Line" that continually slowed the Russian steamroller during the Winter War (1939-40) and the Continuation War during the latter half of World War II. He spoke many languages, but picked up Finnish later in life. An amazing historical figure.
A tiny, tiny nitpick. On the picture of the aircraft acting in support of the tank assault, the caption reads "300 supporting aircrafts". The word "aircraft" is one of those oddities, like the word "sheep" - there is no plural, therefore it's an aircraft, a squadron of aircraft or 300 aircraft, just like it's one sheep, some sheep or 300 sheep.
Wonder who was the first German soldier to see a tank and go, "I‘m gonna jump on it.”
Tee Jay mabye a tank got stuck in a trench so that you cut see the opening ?
Is not such a far fetched, impossible thing to realize, not for a veteran soldier, especially since tanks were seen before in battle. I bet there was no one soldier, but multiple ones figured it out, across the line of attack.
Might go something like this: "I can't stop it, unless gets stuck in a ditch, I can't shoot it, bullets bounce off, what can I do then, is killing my mates. Disable it, mechanically or get to the operators inside and kill 'em. I can try to blow off the tracks with explosives, or try to find a hole to get to the machinists, lets look for a hole and get that TNT ready for the tracks."
Erich Von Massivballs
Leeeeeroy von Jenkins :)
Piotr Rybiński lmao
Imagine if Indy narrated your life like he does weekly recaps on the war.
Squid King "Mister Abbadon made a bad move, watching youtube videos instead of studying for his final. Lets see if he can turn it around this week"
"As Kyle continues to lose on the physical health front, the mental front has grim news to report as well."
"last week, kreeperface spend days masturbating in front of his computer and eating chips like the fat fuck he is"
Meh, doesn't sound that good
It would be painful to watch
It would be interesting. :)
"I was shocked and felt very sorry for those fellows in the tanks, because there was no escape for them." Insane how even after everything that happened, they could still feel compassion for the enemy. I always assumed that after the Christmas Truce, and after all the dehumanising propaganda had taken hold, the men of both sides had been reduced to simple hatred of the other side.
Feeling pity that they had a very serious flaw and could be exploited, and if so, they were doomed, wouldn't really stop them from actually exploiting that flaw
@@Robbini0 This is modern war.
I assumed they would just be completely devoid of feeling. Pure apathy from their situation.
@@Robbini0
That's not the point.
Obviously I would exploit a flaw in your tank if you would shoot and kill me if I didn't...
What OP noted, and what is indeed remarkable, is that _despite_ **years** of killing and propaganda, there was _still_ humanity left in the front line soldiers!
(arguably more than most generals had _ever_ had for their own men)
@@MrNicoJac People can do the strangest or most horrible things for the greatest of reasons and then just see something... that's nothing to everyone else, but means something to them and it just... breaks them.
Examples I could think of fastest are from the Max Brooks book 'World War Z' if you're familiar with it (not like the movie).
Anyway. The march across america is highly successful, but the troops are still dying, and Todd mentions a few examples of that. One of them, an amazon of sorts (behaviour and appearance mostly), just sees a turtle or a tortoise, squats down next to it and then starts talking to it. She just stays there for a while, before she's led away to... more pleasant conditions. Another, a muscle mountain who's described as using zombies as weapons to hit other zombies , catches a whiff of a perfume or sees a billboard with an ad for that perfume and breaks down into hysterics, requiring several other people to help tie him down to stop him from hurting anyone, while he's crying savagely.
Mind you, this is towards the successful completion of the campaign to secure North America, they were winning. After a long time of losing, horrible events etc. they were winning. And they noticed something innocuous and just... lost it. And noone saw it coming nor how to prevent something like that.
This of course has little to nothing to do with the actual content of the video or WW1 in general, but they were the examples I could remember the quickest.
Germany has this in the bag guys trust me
yea, no way the entente can win when the Soviets make peace with the germans.
Shhhh! Spoilers!
Put me down 1000 Reichsmarks on German win! That should net a nice sum.
But those tanks are so OP though.... I'm not so sure.
How many people comment this. Come up with something new
"So he (Haig) suggested the cavalry..."
Oh dear here we go...
"dismount and fight with the infantry"
A surprise!
I laughed so hard at Clemenceau's policy: 'War, nothing but war.' You've got to hand it to him. Not a man troubled by complexity.
Tank you,tank you and tank you
Joel Garcia I think panzer
Yor Neustein. Yuou need some tiger meat
What's 5Q + 5Q? Ten Q. Your welcome.
[Imitating Elvis] Tankyoutankyouverymuch!
Tanks, for the memories ;)
Will you show the areas that the Bolsheviks have taken control of with a different colour?
If we find maps as reference, yes.
I'm not sure exactly why but those last words truly speak to me "Carry on"
Kyle Fox Carry On Tanking.
I was in the WW1 museum in Belgium recently and they had a Mark I tank with display cases of drawings made by Germans when asked what exactly attacked them - whilst hilariously inaccurate they genuinely looked like drawings of a monster. I can't imagine what it was like to see a tank for the first time bearing down on you. Yet this week there were hundreds.
Happy tanksgiving
That1GuyOnPoint HA!
Well played.
We call it Ententedankfest here in Germany
Sorry but the Mark V tank you’ve ordered may be a bit late, the tank keeps breaking down and is holding up traffic
Great effort in bringing World War One into the modern consciousness. Your hard work and dedication really show. Tanks for the memories
One of the men killed at Bourlon Wood was Brigadier General Roland Boyes Bradford VC MC. He was the youngest general in the British Army, and was killed at the age of 25, having turned down promotion to that rank when he was 24. In contrast the youngest people to achieve the equivalent rank in WWII were Brigadiers John Hackett and Enoch Powell at the age of 33.
25 and a general. So much for lions led by donkeys. Bradford was also the brother of Lt Commander George Nicholson Bradford VC RN who got a posthumous VC on the Zebrugga (spelling) raid six months later.
The stand of the cadets against the Bolsheviks sounds incredible, I hope to find more information about this. I read somewhere that any survivors were send to gulags, and that 15 years after the revolution, not a single cadet was still alive in the USSR (according to wikipedia)
Russian leaders have always had a total disregard for the lives of their people. No surprise in what the bolsheviks did.
I have my mackensocks on, going to my family thanksgiving dinner. Happy thanksgiving.
EDIT: people keep thinking its Mussolini lmao.
I missed out on the socks :(
GravesRWFiA there was another round!!! See if you can get some !!!
Nah bro Hotzensocks is where it’s at
Preston Zhukov was that a thing? Rip me
I have to wait till taxes come in to get mine and I will get all the socks!!!!!
Tanksgiving?
Celebrated by the British as the day they finally were rid of all their religious crackpots, by sending them Stateside. lol
Bmazin 13
Sorry sir only death and regret
You need better writers. ..
I love the subtle middle eastern background music starting with the section on the Brits in Palestine around 7:11. Very smart indeed
Happy thanksgiving to indy and crew. Tanks for the memories
+GravesRWFiA happy Thanksgiving
Damn you, you beat me to the "Tanks for the memories" joke ;)
Just finished watching the 3 part special about the battle of Cambria by the Tank Museum channel
Thank you sir, love comments which give suggestions for more viewing or reading.
This series makes my day every Thursday! This week is special however, as today is my twenty-ninth birthday!
Can´t we just horsecharge the enemy with machineguns in defensive positions, do that , like, 12 times and call it a surprise attack? I call it the Hötzendorf-Cadorna-Haig maneuver!
NoHarmony
You should of been an Austro-Hungarian general 100 years ago.
They could use a decent general.
Neptune well... I am from Austria, so you see we honor the brilliant battle tactics of our ancestors XD But hey, at least we are not Cadorna!
NoHarmony
How is it in Europe?
Do you westerners still use cavalry attacks? 🔫🐎
Why, of course! I mean, all those other nations use tanks but let´s be honest, those metal devils just scare the horses.
NoHarmony
You are right. Does a tank have feelings? Does a tank have needs? Does a tank give you love? No.
All 3 of these wishes can only be fulfilled by Horses.
and dogs
please continue in 2019 with world war 2. This is channel is way too important to end
Tanks, tanks, tanks!
Tanks you too for your show, indy and crew!
Lord and Lady Karnage....from Thruxton?!? Sounds like Mark from Classic Game Room is a fan.
+Michael Connell need to check that out
has to be. Thats their handle and location.
Yeah I was really supprised to hear that name
HAPPY TANKSGIVING
So... why did this war start again?
Something to do with a bloke called Archie Duke and an ostrich .
Wait didn’t something happen in Monte Grappa this week?
Whitish Sine8 I think it was the first battle of the piave
I am happy to have discovered your series while it is still in progress. Not only is this very interesting information presented very well, it has fundementally changed my views on WWI.
To an American, WWII is much more remembered. Partly because it was deadlier, partly because more video footage exists for cable channels to turn into shows, and partly because many if not most Americans have relatives who fought in WWII while WWI is so long ago that people don't remember. (FWIW, having researched my ancestry, I know I have ancestors who fought in the French and Indian wars, at least one ancestor who fought in the revolution, cousins and maybe ancestors who fought in the civil war, and my grandfather was in the Navy during WWII.)
But mostly I believe Americans like to recall WWII because it was a morally justified war.
We have been fighting wars or military skirmishes for almost all of our existence as a nation, but only in the civil war and in WWII were we indesputably fighting on the morrally justified side; the side which in the grand arc of history was worth dying for.
All of our other wars have some ambiguity.
I am in favor of the revolution, but it had nowhere near the impact on western civilization that defeating the Nazis did, nor the impact on our nation as the Civil War did.
There may be other wars ww have fought which I would have supported, but in total, I am completely behind the efforts in the civil war and WWII.
WWI is much more morally nebulous and I do believe we could have stayed out of it had the nation and our leaders truly wanted to.
The moral lessons of WWI are complex. While WWII says "Democracy good, fascism Bad" WWI has no simple moral lesson.
In fact, I believe, the real lesson of WWI is that leaders will create alliances and execute wars which kill tens of millions of people for nothing greater than a few spots of land that they want to rule.
Such a war does not fit within the American mythos, so we are taught in school that WWI was a silly European conflict over mostly nothing that the Europeans couldn't settle themselves, so we went over there to settle it for them.
Much of what we are taught in school is simplistic or just wrong.
I still don't know if there was a morally right side in WWI or a morally wrong side, but I have a much greater understanding of the war, how it proceeded over it's duration, its scope, and how many people died as a result.
You have both educated me and motivated me to do some research on my own.
Thank you.
That arabic Falkenhayn is one of my favorite characters of the war.
Indy, I have enjoyed this series after binge watching this summer. I have a suggestion for a two personalities of this war. 1) C.S.Lewis and 2) Corvette Captain Georg Von Trapp.
My great grandpa was captured by the British on the first day of the battle of Cambrai. He was in the 19th infantry regiment of the German army.
I love that bass-heavy line of music starting at 1:00
Keep on, folks! Love what you guys do.
A truly great show you're making. I'm your fan since 1916 and I can't thank you enough for your great effort and even greater work, Indy and crew! I have a question for OOTT: on numerous occasions Indy mentioned German anti tank units trained exclusively for that purpose. Can you tell us about the training of those units and how exactly were they used in combat?
HAPPY THANKSGIVING INDIE!!!
Indy said "Sir Stanley Maude" but the graphic said "Frederick Maude"
Michael Manning his full name is Frederick Stanley Maude, but he is known commonly as Stanley
Thanks. It's not like the GW to make obvious mistakes.
It´s a neat trick to make you google it...
Yep, us British, particular the upper class, love having an obscene number of names.
But everyone just ends up calling you 'Binky'
This series cannot end in 1918! There was still war action going on in Russia and in Antolia well into the 1920s, and Europe was in political turmoil.
Thanks that YOU "Carry on!" with these reports. Excellent.
How awsome i follow your chanel foor 2 or 3 years now and i just figured out you started the great war show in 2014 exactly 100 years after the start of the great war and you said you will go on to the end of the war sorry for my typos i got dyslectcy but keep doing what you do! I love it
You can't mention combined arms without mentioning Monash...
Please do a future episode on him, he was a very interesting man.
Unfortunately, Charles Bean campaigned against Monash becoming commander of the Australian Corps because he was Jewish.
No one is probably going to read this but i hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving.
+Cisco Blue thanks you too
*Tanksgiving
Maude died in the same house as German Field Marshal von der Goltz had a year earlier I believe
To those working at 'The Great War' channel, when you walk about tanks, armored cars, armored trains, or anything else in that area you can simply use "armor". Instead of Infantry, Aircraft, and Tanks it is actually spoken in official capacity Infantry, Aircraft, and Armor. Just a little something for you folks. Love the show, please keep up the awesome work.
They can, but the term "armor", as you employed hasn't been coined yet, remember we're 100 years in the past, tanks are technically ships.
Interesting point.
I have finally caught up after 2 months of nearly non stop watching. I’d been waiting for the battle of beersheeba. Such an epic one. Thanks Indy and gang. Looking forward to watching weekly.
This is the real beginning of modern war
Tanks for the memories!
As I watched you cover the battle of paschendale I realized that it was way more important then the Somme. It made significant gains with *relatively* small losses. It should that the allies could advance and it is the first major allied victory on the Western front since the Marne... Why do we remember the Somme?
The Somme produced the most casualties of the war.
Perfect Thomas My point still stands, why do we celebrate the most costly and ineffective advance. Instead of actually sucesses
We don't celebrate the Somme. Nobody "celebrates" it more so that remember how much of a waste of lives it was.
The Somme is remembered as a particularly striking event due to it's inefficiency. No one celebrates the Somme, on either side of the war. Passchendaele is probably one of the most famous battles of the War in the UK (in the sense if I asked people to name battles of the war, I'd expect that to be in the top 3, along with Ypres, which it technically was).
Demonde Laplace Exactly. Like Vimy Ridge is for Canada.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the last 100 days are to be presented here, specifically the Canadian Corps' contribution during the final offensive.
I did it! I caught up with the week by week videos. It took me a week, and I found it very informative and depressing. Well onto the special episodes.
I'm not really a fan of people who make comments referring to video games, but I just bought my first game since Duke Nukem 3D in 1996, which Is Battlefield 1..... I'm just working through Cambrai in my Mk 4 tank.
Forget WWII, I think what everyone really wants to know is if you guys going to be doing weekly coverage 120 years later of the Spanish-American War starting in 2018.
Well, that would actually be awesome!
John C bit random. Why not do the revolution or napoleonics
Alistair Shaw It was a pretty significant war.
SirRageAlot VII i guess, though more important than the revolution or the Napoleonics which was arguably the actual 2nd world war especially if you include the war 1812 as part of them?
Nah it is a really really not important war... Even if usa didnt start the war nothing major would change, they would still become a world power
Let’s be completely honest: The Battle Of Cambria is the most important battle of the First World War, and possibly even the century. While it was a failure in terms of gains, it is the reason tanks still exist, are used effectively, and have had such a huge impact on the world. If the battle had been a complete failure (the tanks don’t reach the enemy lines at all, due to the Germans destroying them), the course of the 20th century would have been rapidly different, with ww2 looking like a repeat of WW1.
Great Britant I don't think so, Germans would have figured tanks out. Blimps were bad still until Hindenburg crashed they were widely used.
1:34
They see me rollin'
They hatin'
Question for Out of the Trenches: What was the role of the Pacific nations during the war such as Tonga,Fiji,Samoa ,etc.
+Sam McKee you will learn on Monday
:( somehow funny and in fact very sad last words of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude :
''Carry on! '' somehow it brings about in my mind the sinister word carrion (the british pronunciation is not that much far from a fast forward pronunciation of ''carry on'' dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/English/carrion
Does this make this episode your first "Tanksgiving" special of The Great War?
That's what I've been waiting for, Tank you!
"Tanks, tanks, and more tanks!"
You're welcome, Indy.
The comment section in short:
-Hey Indy you forgot about the italian front!
-Happy Thanksgiving!
-TANKS TANKS TANKS
Tanks for the video guys
yay new great war episode
Finally it's release the TANKS time! Yea! Great video Indy.
Damn always the high ground
As a new subscriber have you covered the Gurkhas in action? I work with them so am curious to see their history covered
Not yet, but we will.
The Great War Thanks, it looks similar to a Kukhri on the desk
Tanks for the memories
Here she is Edwards, the woman of your dreams.
We are to push through on the town of Cambrai. Where I have been told, there will be wine, women and song.
Freakin love this channel! Thank you.
A Mark IV or any other British tank is not doomed to failure should an enemy infantryman climb atop it. All sides of both the driver's cab and rooftop hatch/cupola have pistols ports through which a webley can be aimed and fired at anyone on top of the vehicle from the relative safety of inside. The rear upper wall of the driver's cab alone has three such ports that can view the entire roof of the hull.
That Kruger was a madman...
Three days ago a research team dived in lake Kinneret and discoverd a WW1 steamboat which was sunk by the british sep. 1918 The boat was known to be missing for a hundred years and was found by new means of search. The team is checking rumros that the was carrying the whole Ottoman pay for the troops in gold coins.
Carry on
"So what do we do now, driver?"
"Now, we walk"
"Aye"
When the war ends are you going to do a summary of the whole conflict, showing the progression of each front line, like EmperorTigerstar and Ollie Bye does in their 'Every Day' map videos?
Tanks for the great documentary, I mean the whole entire youtube channel! Happy Thanksgiving!
you mean Tanksgiving?
namefinder Yeah!
I have been waiting so long for the beginning of the armestice. Cant wait for german spring offensives and the 100 days offensive.
More like...
Battle of EDWAAAAARDS!!
IraqI GaMer That would be the Second Battle of Cambrai, 11 months later! Still, I get the reference
MadMatt1990
Damn it, lol.
IraqI GaMer you're a year early
For those of us who don't get it, whats the reference from?
Colin Kelly Battlefield 1
happy tanksgiving indy
Hey Indy and crew, could you ever do a video showing off all the WW1 era collectibles you own? That would be really cool, thanks keep up the great work!
Keep calm and carry on
Awesome show guys!, stumbled across this particular show while researching Cambrai battle for my upcoming presentation. The map animation is incredible and I would love to use it if possible (All credit going to you guys off course!!!)
TANKS!
Tanks for the memories.
Krüger was going for that BF1 medal.
fantastic videos! great job on the presentation!
Many tanks for this video
as a big tank nut, im sad theres only the tank tanktop, can we get something similar in a cup or hoodie?
Great episode as usual!
gr8 video m8
Yay Tanks a lot for this new Video 😆
Lord & Lady Carnage of Truxton. LOL!
What?! No mention of the first battle of the Piave? I have to say I'm a little disappointed.
+Thorgal Aegirsson in some weeks, there is only so much we can cover. but we haven't forgotten the Italian front.
The Great War thank you for the response,keep up the amazing work!
A stuffed belly, football, AND a Great War video? Today is too good.
Sehr gute Doku , danke dafür .
Will you make a video about the battle of tsingtao?? Or about battes outside of Europe? ?
Have you planned on doing or are you already making a Who did What on Ernst Jünger?
Flashbacks to Through Mud and Blood
Could you guys do a special on Gustaf Mannerheim?
Seconded!! That is a man who hasnt received much attention in the West. He led some life and urgently needs a good biography in English.
Thirded! Huzzah! Mannerheim has deep military roots in this era and went on to lead tiny Finland to many successes against the Russian bear. It was his "Mannerheim Line" that continually slowed the Russian steamroller during the Winter War (1939-40) and the Continuation War during the latter half of World War II. He spoke many languages, but picked up Finnish later in life. An amazing historical figure.
The 'Mannerheim Movement' picks up pace!
Kind of now wished that Indy began the episode by exclaiming "IT'S LOTS AND LOTS OF TANK!"
Happy thanksgiving Indy!!!!
Happy Tanksgiving
A tiny, tiny nitpick. On the picture of the aircraft acting in support of the tank assault, the caption reads "300 supporting aircrafts". The word "aircraft" is one of those oddities, like the word "sheep" - there is no plural, therefore it's an aircraft, a squadron of aircraft or 300 aircraft, just like it's one sheep, some sheep or 300 sheep.
Je viens de Cambrai!
If my year book had had quotes, mine would have been, "War, nothing but war."
The British were just welcoming the Americans to the war with an early Tanks giving day.