War on Wheels - WWII American Truck Convoy Rescued by U.S. Tanks 22500
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War on Wheels is a 1943 confidential industrial film bulletin created for propaganda purposes. It was principally directed by Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson to the those involved in the production of tanks and to the men and women of automotive industries to show them the combat performance of the vehicles they have built. What it took to get a mechanized convoy through in the North African campaign serves as an illustration. The film portrays an American truck convoy ambushed by German tanks and rescued by group of United States medium tanks. Compares the mechanized strengths of the Axis powers versus those of the United States.
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Two points: 1) Pre-action, the truck convoy was driving too fast for cross country - that not only increases wear and tear on the trucks, but also raises a huge dust cloud that screams _"Please shell me!"_ 2) The convoy commander should have been screaming for the tank battalion at the first German cannon shot - if you have radios, use them..............ObCit: Yes, I know this is a war bond film, and they created the scenario to be Hollywood-Dramatic -- still, think of it as a a teachable moment.
Yep
3) There should have been air cover, scout planes at least
I was stationed at Ft Irwin NTC for five years. This reenactment had to be filmed in the desert around that area
Now this could be a good movie.
This film and films like it were made to show to assemblies of workers at former auto plants now producing armored vehicles. They were to show workers their products in action and how, if they took one sick day, Hitler would win the war. This must have been made in late 1942, when our only real combat was with the Germans and Italians in North Africa. Armor wasn't anywhere near as important to fight Japan, but we had to arm Russia and part of Britain as well as build up our own forces, so these morale films were actually pretty important in encouraging maximum worker productivity.
Sar,yes indeed The maximum effort!
01:25 and further M5 light tanks
01:45 40mm Bofors
01:54 and further command vehicle of convoy - M2 halftrack
02:20 02:22 GMC CCKW 353 A2
02:25 02:31 04:35 GMC CCKW 353 A1
02:33 10:44 10:54 Dodge WC 54 (ambulance)
02:35 GMC CCKW 353 B1
02:43 05:11 10:22 10:39 10:52 37мм gun motor carriage M6
04:42 GMC CCKW 353 recovery vehicle with Set №7
08:36 and further M4 (no mod.) Sherman tanks
10:25 M1919 Browning machine gun
14:29 PzIA german light tanks
14:38 german vehicles: front - It - mittlere Einheits geländegängiger Personenkraftwagen - average standard offroad passenger car- m.gl. Einheits- Pkw.On could be released as a 901 Horch , Wanderer 901 or Opel Typ mPl; farther - PzII light tanks, left - truck Opel Blitz
14:44 PzII light tanks column
15:03 15:14 M2A2 light tanks and Ford F51 trucks
15:57 М4А1 Sherman tanks
15:55 M3 light tanks
15:56 M3A1 light tanks
15:59 Chevrolet G7100 series
16:02 М3 75mm Gun Motor Carriage
Jeeps Willis MB or Ford GPW
In the role of German tanks tanks Sherman))
Dude,u need 2 be a ww2 historian.Are u sure at one point in time you didn't work for the war Dept?
Well done, the only reason im inside watching these Old periscope films is cause its 110 degrees out too hot to be working on my old Dodge WC.
@@markpaul8178 Thanks, dude, but I'm not a military man, it was just interesting to dig into military equipment.)
@@deepbludude4697 What you got? I'm the proud gaurdian of a WC51 and WC54
The American tanks didn’t have the tank fire power to take out German tanks. Our shells would bounce right off them! That was remedied eventually, though
It's like a cowboy film on wheels!
That's probably why the Yanks picked this story up.
That must have been hard work. Bouncing around the desert in army trucks. An people shooting at you
Did you notice in the credits that this film was directed by John Ford? His best films were shot in a desert. Maybe, that officer in the Jeep was played by John Wayne. Who knows?
Looks like Ft. Irwin in California
Pretty close, but likely further south maybe around 29 Palms or Rice. The tip off was spotting some cholla cactus. Cholla doesn’t grow that far north.
It turns out I've watched this film before on another channel. I watched it again anyway. This is one of my favorites! You don't see many vintage films about convoys... Or at least truck convoys. I guess a significant part of World War 2 was about ship convoys.
me too, this is great
That Indy 500 crash was crazy. I wonder what year it was. After we joined the war they stopped holding the race due to rationing.
Convoy commander did not use his anti-tank guns!
Why did the medium tank commander waste time calling the other commanders to his tank when he could have clearly used the radio?
Not all american tanks had radios early in the war.
Wish they't take out that distracting counter, spoils a good restoration.
Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films like this one were destroyed and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like this on online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
So, in the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous UA-cam users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content. We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to deal with these kind of issues.
At least yours not smack dab in middle like a certain so called 'public restorer'. I appreciate the effort you take in preserving and cleaning these old films for us. And to allow us to watch these on youtube. Thank You. The news was stating how 1 restorer colourised and brought in professional lips interpreters who added voices to these long lost WW1 B&W films. It was amazing to 'see' what they were saying all these years ago in a age of silent movies and no sound movies. 1 thing I would like to point out if I may (my own opinion). Some B&W don't translate well to being colourised, while others bring in extra details that weren't noticed before. Thank you Periscope Film.
@@PeriscopeFilm Gosh, I hope I didn't accidentally patronize those channels before finding you guys.
Oh well.
Think these videos where made to sell Bonds... They showed them in theaters...
To sell bonds perhaps, but more importantly to encourage workers at factories to work harder. This sort of thing was shown specifically to workers at war plants and was somewhat restricted in distribution. The Buy Bonds movies were general distribution and shown in movie theaters everywhere.
John Ford directed propaganda film. U.S. doctrine dictates thorough recce from air and ground before any (fast) movement. If forward units encounter resistance then unit halts and Commander calls in appropriate counter-fire...
Tanks? - call in artillery, anti-tank and air-support if available. U.S. Tanks were for breakthrough and infantry-support - but hey - John Ford directed a good 'modern' Western, here, right? ;)
Hollywood meets the Military. Corny dialogue.😁😁