The Bloody Battle of Hürtgen Forest 1944 | The Greatest Slaughter of the U.S. Army | Documentary
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- What did the Americans find in the Hürtgen Forest? Why did they go there? What were the different attacks they organized in Hürtgen like? Why was the German defense in the Hürtgen Forest so effective? What did the Germans want to prevent? What was the US Army's casualty rate in the Hürtgen Forest?
Next in this program, we look at the American Army's bloodiest battle in Europe in World War II.
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00:00 Advance towards Germany
03:18 9th Infantry Division Attack
08:39 28th Infantry Division Attack
16:09 Operation Queen
19:19 Casualty Report
19:35 Hürtgen Battle Analysis - Розваги
When I was younger I had a book about all of WW2, and the only mention of the Hürtgen Forest was that some of the men who would be overrun in Watch on the Rhine/Battle of the Bulge were resting after the hard fighting in the Hütrgen Forest. I began looking for books on that battle and could find none until about 1990. Reading it revealed the horrors of that battle, for instance the lines shifted back and forth so often that after a snow fall began to melt GIs found an aid station which had been wiped out and the wounded and dead that had been lined up outside were found dead there. The movie director Mel Brooks was in that battle and he wrote that there was nothing that was even the slightest bit uplifting there. The American leadership decided to show the Germans the power of American supply system decided that on Thanksgiving day they would serve warm turkey dinners to the troops on the front line. The Germans saw this and blasted those poor American. Paratroop general Ridgeway saw what had happened and after the war when his family gathered for Thanksgiving, the memories came back to him so strongly that he had to go outside and vomit and that he never participated in Thanksgiving again. That in itself should tell us how terrible the killing was there.
A good book about this, if you can find one is called "When the Odds Were Even" which explores the situation the Americans were in when they went into the Hürtgen. For one thing, the use of combined arms which had made the American advance so rapid and successful, was not possible in the Hürtgen. And it also discusses American manpower reserves. As big as America was, it was sending soldiers all over the world and there were not many fully trained replacements who went into the Hürtgen. Also, some companies suffered 150% casualties. I don't know of any other battles where this happened. The American Rangers were sent in as cannon fodder until some leader realized that they needed to let the Rangers be Rangers instead of riflemen. They had great successes when they engaged in their missions, showing that this was being badly mismanaged for the thousands of regular infantrymen.
Another wonderful military historical coverage video about Hurgen forest where American slowed advances were notable in spite of a lot of casualties of Americans. where its combative morals crumbled to deserted altitude case ..in meantime defensive strengths and counterassaults of Germans day by day increased...strengths it's furious and stubborn...even American airforces bombarded of German nearby cities was unthinkable and ultra brutality which its explosive powers was equivalent to two atomic bombs .thank you 🙏 ( war academy) channel for sharing this magnificent video.
In my humble opinion, this operation is the exact reason Court Marshalls were instituted. The forest would have been outflanked sooner or later. Then all these men could have gone home to their families.
Except...If the battle had any Court Marshalls it was enlisted who refused to advance sent to brig, not the brass that ordered this debacle. Military Justice, actually, nearly all justice historically NEVER works like that.
@@WalterWhiteFootballSharing, correct
I am not sure why people believe that fighting outside of the Huertgen Forest was somehow easier. German forces had stopped the 3rd Armored Division cold in the Stolberg Corridor the same time the 9th Infantry Division entered the Huertgen. People seem to forget--or maybe they do not know--that it took more than three months for the 1st Infantry Division, 29th Infantry Division, 30th Infantry Division, 84th Infantry Division, 104th Infantry Division, 2nd Armored Division, and the 3rd Armored Division to clear German forces from Aachen and the Roer plain west and north of the Huertgen Forest, to reach the Roer River, at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties.
Many commentators talk about how the Americans should not have fought in the Huertgen because of terrible terrain. This ignores the fact that American troops had already fought in the Ardennes to the south and continued to fight in heavily wooded areas throughout Europe. It also ignores the alternative--fighting in the open. For all of the hardships fighting in heavily wooded, uneven terrain, one thing the forest did do for the Ameridans is gave them cover and concealment during their advance. When fighting outside of the forest, American troops had to advance in the open against prepositioned machine guns and artillery that could seem them more than a mile away. Consider the 84th Infantry Division's experience around Geilenkirchen, which occurred the same time fighting took place in the Huertgen. That division's soldiers had to advance through mud across open ground in full view of German machine guns and artillery and suffered because of it. It took that division weeks to capture a handful of villages, because they had no cover or concealment. The same was true for the divisions I list above.
Next, what were the actual alternatives? The Huertgen Forest is not an isolated patch of woods. The entire region to the south is heavily wooded. Flanking the Huertgen would require fighting through other forests. Additionally, could the Allies have conducted Operation GRENADE and crossed the Roer River while leaving an unknown number of German soldiers on their right flank on the west side of the river, potentially threatening their supply lines and river crossing zones?
Finally, the failures of the Huertgen campaign are exaggerated. The 9th Infantry Division, by itself, actually cleared around 15 square miles of the forest in three weeks. In November 1944 the 1st and 4th Infantry Divisions cleared another 15 or so square miles in about three weeks. The biggest failure was really isolated to the 28th Infantry Division's ambitious plan to send its three infantry regiments in three different directions, with the 112th Infantry Regiment trying to capture three different villages. By the time it was pulled off the line, that division had barely gained any ground. But every other American division that entered the Huertgen made gains, and some spectacularly so. It was costly, of course, and terrible for the men on the ground. However, that was true for almost every battle or campaign the Americans fought against the Germans.
@thebattlefieldhistorian8990 hell write a book UA-cam don't pay for comments
Excellent video, however this new translation bot is pretty bad. It's pronunciations of some English words are so bad that it's almost impossible to understand some sentences. Sorry. The previous bot you used was very superior to this one.
Excelente canal
Ralph Putman of Philadelphia, New York died there.
Lets face it, this battle is under reported on because the allies took a hard L in this one. The winner gets to choose what they tell you.
Bad AI voice over… Not the worst I have heard but bad enough…
I thought it would be good because nobody really covers this battle but that computer-generated voice is a crusher. Maybe I'll find one with an actual person narrating sometime later.
It is an actual person. The initial channel however is done by a creator who speaks Russian I believe. Maybe German. But for other audiences they take their transcript and have it reproduced using English.
@@tjanderson5892 i believe he speaks Spanish not Russian nor German.
Aguirra, der Zorn Gottes..
Good programme, very interesting but the English translation isn’t the best.
It’s a foreign language channel. They take their transcript and have it translated to English for English speaking viewers
The voice (whatever it is) sounds like he is saying 20th Infantry Division. That is NOT correct. It was the 28th Infantry Division (from Pennsylvania) and due to this battle and the Division’s shoulder patch, it was referred to as the “bloody bucket” division.
The German strategic error was Barbarossa. Otherwise, Britain would have been forced to sue for peace by 1941. Germany would have rebuilt the Luftwaffe with better airplanes uboats. USSR sucked theirs resources. Simple math.
Russia was becoming far more powerful with each day
@@raptorhacker599 True… Russia had 20,000 tanks, huge army. However, Stalin was too cautious to mess with Germany after what happened in the Battle of France. In a defensive situation, Germany would have local superiority. Meanwhile, Germany would be able to develop nukes, jet fighters, Elektroboots, access to Chromium, Nickel, Tungsten. Brits would have lost Suez and the Mediterranean.
I love war docs but I did stop watching rather early on due to the ai voice to text program you are using. I want to say I write this with a lot of love and hope for your future content. I would give recommendations the first being invest in a new ai voice to text program, and secondly would be to edit the text so challenging words narrated by the AI voice are said correctly. Just my opinion, but I think these two things would really elevate the quality of your videos (I do understand this takes a lot of time as one of my channels does audiobooks with AI voice to text). I wish you success and much love.
"The greatest slaughter of the US Army" is rather hyperbolic. Like, by what metric?
The Yankee Troops were deserting in droves during this battle. Their airforce was inafective, and infantry had to go in. Much close combat. The Germans were far better fighters.
Fighting in such an area was extremely difficult for the attacking troops, and Hürtgen was too dense for the airforce to make any significant effect.
Still, the Americans were conceited when they felt they could go toe to toe against the defenders in such a fashion on their home field & conditions instead of looking for alternatives.
But again, these are Americans - glory hounds in their typical materialistic considerations.
Either way, it was a quality "scrap" and quite an overlooked event that, in my opinion, alongside the Ardennes offensive, initiated the Allied revenge measures of the firebombing of Dresden, which is the "icing on the cake" of the entire Allied cause in Europe.
Showing the map every 5 secs is very annoying.
Not really..
Önce again I approved how useless that battle of Britain. Germans lost all their good pilots and aircrafts for nothing. They needed that air power at these times.
The Allies in late 1944 were unstoppable and invincible.
@@Shark-895 it's not about stop them completely. İf they had air power they make it hard to bomb targets how easily for allies and protect their troops who fighting at land. What Germans earned from battle of Britain? Nothing. But lost over a thousand aircraft and pilots as well.
@fatihorkunss After D-Day, Germany had 1 goal: Stop the Allies for as long as possible. They did that for 11 months more, and then they surrendered.
@@Shark-895 for sure... İf they did not waste of their air power battle for Britain. ally ships cannot be able to move easily for d day. Think about it ;)
@@fatihorkunss no Allied production was 6 times more than Germany. In 1944, the Eastern Front was getting closer to the Reich as the Soviets began massive offensives. The Germans would have spent much of their airforce there if there was no battle of Britain. It would have stopped the Soviet advance for a few months. Maybe the Americans and British would have reached first to Berlin.
Pathetic…
Your AI needs massive upgrades.
Sad, sad commentary on a tragic fight.
THis tube sucks.